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Natalie Portman Reacts To 'Whitewashing' Casting Criticisms Of New Film 'Annihilation'
By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 February 2018
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While she admitted it was "problematic", Portman said she had no knowledge of the issue before she was cast.
Natalie Portman and her Annihilation co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh have both spoken out over the ‘whitewashing’ controversy that has engulfed their casting in the film, saying that they had no idea their characters were not white in the original books.
Annihilation, which is out on February 23rd in the United States, is a science fiction based around Portman’s character Lena, a biologist working in a secret natural disaster zone. It’s an adaptation of the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, published in 2014.
However, it’s not revealed until the second book of the series, ‘Authority’, that Lena is revealed to be of “Asian heritage”. Furthermore, Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character as the government psychologist Dr Ventress is described as being half-Native American and half-white.
Continue reading: Natalie Portman Reacts To 'Whitewashing' Casting Criticisms Of New Film 'Annihilation'
The Laws Of Nature Don't Apply In 'Annihilation'
When a biologist’s husband disappears his wife must undertake a dangerous mission into the unknown to save him. From the writer and director of ‘Ex-Machina’, Alex Garland, ‘Annihilation’ hits theatres in February.
After a group of soldiers enter an environmental disaster zone known as Area X only one makes it home alive. But his homecoming is shot-lived and soon it is up to his wife Lena (Natalie Portman) to save his life.
Natalie Portman in ‘Annihilation’
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Good Time Review
Robert Pattinson continues to distance himself from his teen heartthrob image with this scruffy B-movie. His loser character takes the audience on a deranged funhouse ride through corners of New York that are so lurid that the movie feels like it was made in the early 1980s, especially with its electronic score by Oneohtrix Point Never. And while it all feels a little too constructed to be believable, the film is superbly gripping. And even a bit moving.
Pattinson plays Connie, a low-life criminal who confidently robs a Brooklyn bank with his mentally simple brother Nick (played by Benny Safdie, who also directed the film with his brother Josh). As they flee, Connie gets away, but Nick is arrested. In need of cash to pay Nick's bail, Connie looks up his rather unstable friend Corey (Jennifer Jason Leigh), but she turns out to be a dead end. So he decides to break Nick out of jail. While working out this plan, he meets Ray (Buddy Duress), a junkie coming down from a bad trip, and 16-year-old Crystal (Taliah Webster). And both of them give Connie a new idea.
Yes, this is the kind of film that moves from one chaotic set-piece to the next with a wonderful volatility that makes it feel fresh and spontaneous. And the Safdie brothers direct it in a remarkably full-on style, mixing close-up camerawork with dramatic God's eye aerial shots. Every scene is awash in bright colour, and each actor delivers a performance that's physically kinetic and emotionally raw. None of these people are very easy to sympathise with, but they're so funny and unpredictable that we can't look away. Pattinson has never been this frantic before, and he's terrific as a smart guy with no common sense. He's the kind of guy who thinks that his next plan will finally be the one that works, even though it clearly won't.
Continue reading: Good Time Review
Good Time Trailer
He doesn't know exactly what happened, but when Constantine 'Connie' Nikas hears that his brother Nick has been arrested following a bank robbery gone terribly wrong, he is desperate to get him out of the New York jail complex that is Rikers Island before he gets killed in there. He is already battered and bruised, so it is only a matter of time before he runs out of luck. The only way Connie knows how to help him is by getting involved in yet more criminal activity that leads him on a dangerous journey with cops on his tail. With an unlikely accomplice, however, he has a good chance of reuniting with his brother - whose vulnerability only spurs him on. Connie knows that it'll be all his fault if Nick gets killed and since the pair only really have each other, that's not something he can let happen.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh - Celebrities attend 88th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood. at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, Academy Awards - Los Angeles, California, United States - Sunday 28th February 2016
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2016 held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills - Los Angeles, California, United States - Sunday 28th February 2016
Jennifer Jason Leigh - 31st Independent Spirit Awards held at Santa Monica Beach at Independent Spirit Awards - Los Angeles, California, United States - Saturday 27th February 2016
Jennifer Jason Leigh - 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards held at Santa Monica Beach at anta Monica Beach, Independent Spirit Awards - Los Angeles, California, United States - Saturday 27th February 2016
Jennifer Jason Leigh , Cathy Schulman - 9th Annual Women in Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party at Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktails - Arrivals at HYDE Sunset: Kitchen + Cocktails - West Hollywood, California, United States - Friday 26th February 2016
'No-One Writes Women Like Tarantino': Jennifer Jason Leigh Opens Up At 'The Hateful Eight' Premiere [Photos]
By Holly Williams in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11 December 2015
The question is, has Tarantino crafted another masterpiece?
This week saw both the UK and US premieres of Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Western 'The Hateful Eight', and it's safe to say it's all becoming too real for us now. The film will be in actual theaters on Christmas Day, almost three years since he announced it.
The cast of 'The Hateful Eight' unite at the premiere
It's a movie about bounty hunters, bad weather and betrayal and it sure has an all-star cast. In fact, the only female member of the main cast, Jennifer Jason Leigh, has just been announced as a nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 2016 Golden Globes, with Tarantino as the only other member of the crew to get a nod for the film as he becomes a contender for writing the Best Screenplay.
Continue reading: 'No-One Writes Women Like Tarantino': Jennifer Jason Leigh Opens Up At 'The Hateful Eight' Premiere [Photos]
Anomalisa Trailer
Anomalisa is a new film from directors Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich) also wrote the film - his first animation. Initial funding for the movie was achieved on Kickstarter, the project raised over 400,000 dollars, doubling their initial asking price.
The stop-motion film used 3-D printers to create the puppets and the story follows the day to day life of Michael Stone, a man who's struggling with going through the same processes every day. When he meets a stranger in a hotel, she might just be able to show Michael a new view point.
The lead characters are voiced by David Thewlis and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The whole film was voiced by the total of three people. The film was said to be the surprise movie of the 2015 BFI Festival.
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The Hateful Eight Trailer
John Ruth, known by his associates and like-minded peers as The Hangman on account of his fondness for hanging criminals, is a formidable bounty hunter on his way to Red Rock with a suspected murderer named Daisy Domergue. Along the way, they bump into another brutal bounty hunter named Major Marquis Warren who wastes no time in informing Daisy of her captor's uniquely vicious reputation, and they also pick up self-proclaimed new sheriff of Red Rock Chris Mannix. It's a bitter winter and soon a furious blizzard threatens to engulf them and their stagecoach. Thus, they decide to seek shelter at a small place on a mountain pass called Minnie's Haberdashery, which is currently playing host to caretaker Bob, Red Rock's own hangman Oswaldo Mobray, a ranch hand named Joe Gage and former Confederacy general Sandy Smithers. Unfortunately, the bounty hunters are not the only volatile ones at the haberdashery, and it seems some lethal mounting deception is threatening to bury them well before the storm.
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We're Shivering In Excitement For Quentin Tarantino's Winter Western 'The Hateful Eight' [Trailer + Pictures]
By Holly Williams in Movies / TV / Theatre on 01 October 2015
Quentin Tarantino Samuel L Jackson Kurt Russell Walton Goggins Tim Roth Bruce Dern Michael Madsen Jennifer Jason Leigh Demian Bichir
It's the Western every Tarantino fan has been waiting for...
Guns, violence, cool outfits and immeasurable cheese is everything that Quentin Tarantino is about, so fans have been waiting for a good old Western flick from him for a long time. Now we can rejoice because his eighth movie, 'The Hateful Eight', brings us just that, complete with shoot-outs, stetsons, suspicion - and a helluva lotta snow.
Samuel L. Jackson is as formidable as ever in 'The Hateful Eight'
Tarantino touched on the Western genre with 2012's 'Django Unchained', of course, but that was more about illicit slavery than country outlaws; there's usually humour to the Oscar winning director's work despite the shameless brutality of it, but 'Django' gave us something serious to think about. 'The Hateful Eight' is just plain enjoyable, bounty hunter, sweary (thanks to Samuel L. Jackson) fun, that everyone should be excited for come winter.
Continue reading: We're Shivering In Excitement For Quentin Tarantino's Winter Western 'The Hateful Eight' [Trailer + Pictures]
Ennio Morricone Is Composing The Score For Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’
By Elinor Cosgrave in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13 July 2015
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Quentin Tarantino, speaking at Comic-Con 2015, announced Ennio Morricone is composing the score for ‘The Hateful Eight’.
Ennio Morricone is set to write the score for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. He is best known for composing music for a number of Italian (Spaghetti) Westerns including the Dollars Trilogy, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Once Upon a Time in the West. The 86-year-old Italian composer is returning to writing film scores after eight years away but it has been more than forty years since he worked on a Western.
Quentin Tarantino at San Diego Comic-Con 2015.
Read More: Quentin Tarantino Shot The Hateful Eight on Refrigerated Set.
Continue reading: Ennio Morricone Is Composing The Score For Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’
'The Hateful Eight': This Is What A Tarantino Western Looks Like [Pictures]
By Stephen Caswell in Movies / TV / Theatre on 01 June 2015
Quentin Tarantino Samuel L Jackson Kurt Russell Jennifer Jason Leigh Walton Goggins Demian Bichir Tim Roth Michael Madsen Bruce Dern
Following a screenplay leak, cancellation and final confirmation that it would be going into production, 'The Hateful Eight' is filming, and Tarantino has released some set pictures.
In case it wasn't clear already, Quentin Tarantino loves movies. He's talked on many occasions about his love for the Spaghetti-Western genre, which has led many people to wonder what a Tarantino-directed Spaghetti-Western would look like. Sure, we had 2012's 'Django Unchained' to give us a brief glimpse at the idea, but that was racial revenge story first, and a Western second. When Tarantino announced his 8th film, 'The Hateful Eight', back in November 2013, fans worldwide jumped for joy.
Quentin Tarantino on set with the cast of 'The Hateful Eight'
A jump that may have been a little premature, as the project was cancelled in January 2014, after the script for the highly anticipated picture was leaked online. Tarantino talked about rereleasing the screenplay as a novel, before going back and deciding to give the film one last shot. Production began in January 2015, and now we have some of the first pictures from the set of the new film.
Continue reading: 'The Hateful Eight': This Is What A Tarantino Western Looks Like [Pictures]
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John Ruth earnt his nickname The Hangman for a good reason, he's one of the...
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Ag Climate Nebraska
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Nebraska Ag Climate Update - March
The temperature pattern tells two different stories during the meteorological winter (Dec.—Feb) in Nebraska. Three-month average temps in NW Nebraska were nearly 5°F below normal and temps were 5°F above normal in the eastern 1/2 of the state. After a warm fall, temperatures plummeted in mid-December and early January. Temperatures dropped to more 30°F below zero in some locations, which were some of the coldest temperatures we have had in a few years. February told a different story with extreme minimums dropping to -10°F in the NW and 12°F in the SE. Max temps in February reached near 80°F in southern Nebraska to the upper 60s and low 70s in the northwest and northeast. February ended up being the 9th warmest February on record for Nebraska and the three-month, winter-time average was the 27th warmest on record. Current 4” soil temperatures are in the mid 30s in the west to mid 40s in the east. Some locations in central and southeast NE have had soil temps range from the upper 50s/ low 60s to near freezing, just in the past seven days.
The precipitation pattern this winter also mimicked the temperature pattern. Whether we like it or not, snow is needed in Nebraska, but too much (or too little) can create challenges. Northwest NE saw plenty of snow since December 1st (50-60”) and ended up 20-30” above normal. This is beneficial to winter wheat, especially since temperatures were bitterly cold at times this winter. The southern 1/3 of Nebraska was 10-15” below normal with much of the area receiving less than 10-15” of snow. For overall precipitation, most of the state ended up within an inch above or below normal for the winter, due to the multiple rain events in December and January that offset a lack of snowfall for many areas. For soil moisture, the southwest portion of the state is much below normal and in moderate drought conditions. Most of the state has adequate rootzone moisture, but surface moisture is lacking in a number of locations due to warm temperatures and high winds. This has caused blowing dust and wildfires across Nebraska and the central plains. The dryness in southern NE needs to be monitored closely.
Spring is here (at least the meteorological spring); however, the forecast is going to look like winter for the next few days. A trough will set up over the northeast U.S., and northwest flow will dominate our region bringing in cooler air. A number of disturbances will track across the northern plains, with most of the snow from this to be outside of Nebraska, however, eastern Nebraska will likely get some of the snow. Nonetheless, cooler temperatures will dominate with a strong temperature gradient from NE to SW Nebraska. Temps will struggle to get above freezing in the northeast, while the southwest could see 40s and 50s (maybe 60s). Lows could dip down into the single digits in far northeast Nebraska and may cause some issues on early spring growth. Official snow forecasts haven't been released for the entire event, but there are potentially three precipitation events that look to track across northeast Nebraska through Tuesday. Temperatures begin to warm back up the middle of next week, however, snow covered areas will recover more slowly.
The 6-10 and 8-14 day forecasts are showing a strong warm up for the central plains as the jet stream appears to push further to the north next week. This northern push will also take most of the precipitation chances with it. If the models are right, we could see very warm temperatures next weekend before a number of disturbances make their way back into the area. The models are all over the place to end the month, so we could see a fairly turbulent last couple weeks of the month.
The long-term outlook for the spring and even into the summer is where it becomes more important, but even more challenging. The last couple years have seen early warm-ups followed by an abnormally wet April. The most recent 30 year trend has shown a significant increase in April precipitation for most of Nebraska. Mother Nature doesn’t follow an exact calendar, but we typically follow up these warm, dry spells with a bout of cool, wet weather. The question is if our cool, wet weather will come at the end of March and start of April or will it come at the end of April similar to 2016? The La Niña is dwindling, but the cold water in the N. Pacific is causing our weather to behave similar to La Niña conditions. This opens up the question of dryness later in the season. It appears we may pick up some decent moisture over the next 2-4 weeks and we may need that going forward.
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1. PAUL & BARRY RYAN-"Keep It Out Of Sight"
My favorite single by the Ryan twins will always be this amazing psych pop opus composed by Cat Stevens. It's key is the incredible orchestration (care of Alan Tew) that sounds like a cabaret supper club dosed with acid. Magic!
https://youtu.be/G3MEHYIQ6rw
2. THE TAGES-"Created By You"
From their masterpiece album "Studio" (recorded in the UK), this poppy little number by my favorite Swedes is laced with Beach Boys harmonies, freaky woodwinds, a Bee Gee's style lead vocal vibrato and quirky pop-psych orchestration.
https://youtu.be/hNWeVN1wHbs
3. WAYNE GIBSON-"Under My Thumb"
Cut originally in '66 this Stones cover sank like a slab of concrete before it was resurrected on the Northern soul scene which led to it re-entering the hit parade in 1974 where a reissue reached #17 on the UK charts. It's catchy and infectious with a groovy repetitive keyboard bit that's completely rivetting.
https://youtu.be/94t-fBz657I
4. JOHNNY "HAMMOND" SMITH-"A Portrait Of Jennie"
From his 1960 New Jazz LP "Talk That Talk" comes this moody, brooding piece of B-3 Hammond genius, perfectly mellow and slick. Sadly there's no clip on YouTube.
5. THE JAVELLS featuring NOSMO KING-"Goodbye (Nothing To Say)"
For the past three decades I've disliked this number and thought it was a dreadful Northern Soul cash in. It's still a cash in but something about it appeals to me now, not quite sure why! Curiously it sounds much like Maxine Nightingale's monster hit "Right Back Where We Started From" which came a year later.
https://youtu.be/Ra3xdAqEkf0
6. THE BEE GEES-"Such A Shame"
Hidden away on their 1968 LP "Idea", "Such A Shame" sounds like something much earlier with it's beat group harmonies and harp blowing and it's "la da de dah" chorus is pure merseybeat.
https://youtu.be/1pv4YeUyaRY
7. ENOCH LIGHT & THE GLITTERING GUITARS-"You Showed Me"
From the bizarre 1969 album "Enoch Light And The Glittering Guitars" comes this freaked out version of "You Showed Me" led by fuzz guitar. Imagine Al Caiola on L.S.D.......
https://youtu.be/PPa3vCwKBzI
8. THE CLASH-"Working For The Clampdown"
It's hard to believe "London Calling" will be 40 next year. So many of it's numbers still ring true 39 years later and none more so than this warning of fascism growing in the proletariat.
https://youtu.be/psB0cidB5bg
9. CHICO REY & THE JET BAND-"Stiletto"
This kitschy and amazing instrumental was a rare 1970 Pye 45 that was unearthed on the highly recommended 1995 CD compilation "The Sound Spectrum". Full of fuzz guitar, razor sharp brass, funky organ and an over the top production it's nothing short of brilliant.
https://youtu.be/E4OhMW2Rw6E
10. THE TOGGERY FIVE-"Goin' Away"
According to YouTube Graham Gouldman wrote this for The Hollies. They never cut it (well if they did it hasn't surfaced). The Toggery Five cut it but that too went unreleased, but somehow someone got it to YouTube for all to enjoy.
https://youtu.be/fAOsJS_7ac0
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January 23, 2016 ARRESTS RAIDS, Australia, MURDERS DEATHS, PEOPLE, POLICE No comments
Former drug squad detective Paul Dale loses mental compensation bid
Paul Dale before appearing at the independent medical panel in October. Photo: Eddie Jim
Paul Dale, the former drug squad detective implicated in the execution of a police informer and his wife during Melbourne’s gangland war, has lost a bid for taxpayer-funded compensation for trauma he claims he suffered in prison.
The Sunday Age can reveal the controversial ex-cop abandoned his lawsuit against the state government when an independent medical panel ruled Dale experienced no significant psychological damage from spending seven months in solitary confinement.
Dale claims he suffers from severe depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder after being put in near continuous lockdown in a high-security unit in Barwon Prison while awaiting trial for the murders of witness Terrence Hodson and his wife Christine.
“The Victorian government is denying my mental injuries were caused by my incarceration in Acacia [Unit]. I’m going before this panel, they’ll make a finding, and we’ll see what happens after that,” he told The Sunday Age ahead of the review in late October
Dale said he was confident the state government had a case to answer for his mental injuries because Victoria’s Court of Appeal had found his incarceration in Acacia had “severely affected his mental health”.
“Not surprisingly, the conditions in which [Dale] has been kept in gaol have caused him great suffering. So far as can be told, he was not afflicted by any ailments when he was arrested,” the court said.
Dale was granted bail, in large part, for this reason in late 2009.
But a spokeswoman for the Andrews government said Dale has “discontinued” his compensation lawsuit after the medical panel found he was “unable to meet the relevant injury threshold” under the law.
No compensation was paid to Dale to drop the case, the government said.
Dale declined to comment.
The nature of Dale’s relationship to Carl Williams and the execution of Hodson and his wife remain one of the most controversial unsolved chapters of Melbourne’s gangland war.
Dale, who has beaten a string of serious criminal charges, has been accused of conduct that would make him one of the most corrupt police officers in the state’s history despite never being convicted.
In 2003, the former drug squad detective was charged with conspiracy to commit burglary and drug trafficking over his alleged role in a plan with fellow detective David Miechel and career criminal Terrence Hodson to steal millions of dollars worth of ecstasy from a stash house.
The charges against Dale were dropped after the execution style-shooting deaths of Hodson and his wife Christine in their Kew home in 2004.
Dale was charged with their murders in 2009 after drug kingpin-turned-jailhouse informant Carl Williams told police he acted as the middle-man between Dale and hitman Rodney Collins, who was allegedly paid $150,000 to kill Hodson after he became a police informer.
But that case collapsed after Williams was bashed to death in prison by Matthew Johnson, head of anti-informer gang Prisoners of War.
In 2013, Dale was found not guilty on 12 charges of giving false and misleading evidence to the Australian Crime Commission about his links to Williams.
After a coronial inquest into the Hodson murders in 2015, Judge Ian Gray could not determine what role, if any, Dale had in the killings.
“At the very least it certainly appears, following the Dublin Street burglary, to have been a highly inappropriate relationship [with Williams] for a suspended police officer to have engaged in,” Judge Gray said.
Fairfax Media revealed in July that police were considering laying fresh corruption charges over Dale’s relationship with Williams.
Earlier this year, Carl Williams’ daughter Dhakota received a compensation payout from the state government for the trauma she allegedly suffered when he was killed in prison.
The “pragmatic call” was made by Premier Daniel Andrews after an independent medical panel found Dhakota and Carl’s former wife Roberta had experienced severe mental impairment as a result of his death.
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January 22, 2016 ASSASINATIONS, MURDERS DEATHS, Russia, SPYING No comments
Vladimir Putin ‘probably’ ordered KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko’s death by radioactive poisoning: inquiry. Story in videos & pics.
President Putin ‘probably’ approved Litvinenko murder
A British inquiry has concluded the murder of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 was “probably” approved by President Vladimir Putin. Courtesy ABC News 24.
London: Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” ordered the murder of defected KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London, an official inquiry in Britain has found.
The finding will put pressure on the British government to take fresh measures against Russia, possibly including targeted sanctions and travel bans. It may also harm potential co-operation in military action against ISIS, and upcoming peace talks on the Syrian conflict.
Litvinenko died in November 2006 after a radioactive poison was slipped into his tea at a London hotel.
Alexander Litvinenko lies in a London hospital in November 2006, dying of radiation poisoning. In 2014, the British government opened an inquiry into Moscow’s alleged involvement in the death of the former KGB agent.
There was a “strong probability” that the two killers were under the direction of the FSB, Russia’s security service.
“The FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by [then FSB head Nikolai] Patrushev and also by President Putin,” Sir Robert Owen, who led the year-long inquiry, said.
The inquiry examined expert evidence and heard testimony from forensic scientists and family members, as well as secret evidence that was not disclosed in the public report – but believed to be from Western intelligence agencies.
Russian Andrey Lugovoy, a former KGB agent, allegedly spiked the tea of Alexander Litvinenko with highly radioactive polonium 210 at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, London, on November 1, 2006. Photo: aklugovoy.ru
Sir Robert said he was “sure” that Litvinenko was deliberately poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210, which he ingested on November 1, 2006.
That afternoon Litvinenko had met two men for tea at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, London.
The men were Andrey Lugovoy and his associate Dmitri Kovtun – former Russian army officers. Lugovoy was a former KGB agent.
Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, outside a pre-inquest review in London in 2012. Photo: AP
Forensic evidence showed the Pine Bar was “heavily contaminated” with polonium 210, the inquiry found.
“The highest readings were taken from the table where Mr Litvinenko was sitting and from the inside of one of the teapots. No comparable levels of contamination were found in any of the other places that Mr Litvinenko visited that day,” the report said.
Sir Robert said he was sure that Lugovoy and Kovtun placed the polonium in the teapot at the Pine Bar. They had tried to kill him with the same poison at a meeting a few weeks earlier.
Kovtun and Lugovoy are wanted by British authorities on suspicion of the murder of Mr Litvinenko. A warrant has been issued for their arrest but Russia has not extradited them. Both have denied killing Mr Litvinenko.
Forensic scientists found “widespread radioactive contamination” at locations linked to Lugovoy, Kovtun and Mr Litvinenko in the weeks before he fell ill.
There were also high levels of radioactive contamination on the British Airways plane seats Kovtum and Lugovoy used when flying to Moscow two days after the murder, and in placed visited by Kovtun in Germany the week before he took met with Litvinenko.
The inquiry rejected a “chemical fingerprint” theory that definitively traced the polonium to a Russian factory in Sarov, though it “unquestionably” could have come from there.
Sir Robert also cast doubt on a claim by a ‘Mr Potemkin’ that the polonium came from an August 2006 shipment to the FSB in Moscow.
However, given the amount of polonium possessed and used by the assassins, it “strongly indicated” the involvement of a state, Sir Robert said.
“Ordinary criminals might have been expected to use a straightforward, less sophisticated means of killing… the polonium 210 used to kill Mr Litvinenko must have come from a reactor and such reactors are in general under state control.”
The evidence in open court was strong circumstantial evidence of Russian state involvement, and the ‘closed evidence’ made it a strong probability that the FSB directed Lugovoy to poison Mr Litvinenko.
“There were powerful motives for organisations and individuals within the Russian state to take action against Mr Litvinenko, including killing him,” Sir Robert said.
“Mr Litvinenko was … regarded as having betrayed the FSB, … was an associate of leading opponents of the Putin regime and he had repeatedly targeted President Putin himself with highly personal public criticism.”
In one article, published the year he was killed, Mr Litvinenko claimed Mr Putin was a paedophile.
Evidence suggested Russia had previously killed a number of opponents of the Putin administration, through bombings and poison including radioactive poison.
Sir Robert said he was sure that Lugovoy and Kovtun were acting on behalf of others, probably the FSB.
Though they did not know the precise nature of the poison, they knew it was deadly, Sir Robert said.
During the inquiry Mr Putin awarded Lugovoy an honour for “services to the fatherland”. He is now a member of the Russian parliament.
In a deathbed statement Mr Litvinenko accused Mr Putin of direct involvement in his murder.
The inquiry heard evidence from several of Mr Litvinenko’s associates that the assassination could not have been done without Mr Putin’s knowledge and approval.
“This is a KGB rule number one, cover your back,” said one associate, Yuri Shvets.
An independent expert, Oxford University’s Professor Robert Service, who studies Russian history, told the inquiry it was “inconceivable” that FSB head Mr Patrushev would not have had advance knowledge of the operation.
Professor Service said Mr Putin had “some oversight” of FSB operations, and Sir Robert concluded that Mr Patrushev probably would have told Mr Putin about an operation such as the murder of Mr Litvinenko, though it was at present “unprovable”.
It was widely reported – and claimed by Mr Litvinenko’s widow and associates – that Mr Litvinenko had worked for British intelligence service MI6 after his arrival in Britain.
Sir Robert said the British government had not provided any evidence on the question in the “open” part of the inquiry – but had not denied it, either.
Sir Robert said in any case it was more important whether the FSB believed he was working for British intelligence agencies, and “that is precisely what the FSB believed” according to Lugovoy.
Mr Litvinenko’s former superior at the Russian secret service, Alexander Gusak, had agreed in an interview in 2007 that Litvinenko deserved to be executed because “when (he) defected abroad, he naturally handed over the undercover experts who had been its contacts”.
Mr Litvinenko was born in December 1962 and was an officer in the KGB and then the FSB. He was dismissed in 1998 after making public allegations of illegal activity within the FSB.
He was granted asylum with his wife and son in Britain in 2001 and worked as a journalist and author and producing ‘due diligence’ reports on Russian individuals and companies.
He fell ill on the evening of November 1, 2006 and died on November 23.
Just before his death, experts realised his body was highly contaminated with radioactive polonium 201.
Sir Robert said he had made one recommendation as a result of his inquiry, but he could not reveal it publicly as it concerned the ‘closed’ evidence he had heard.
Mr Litvinenko’s widow Marina said she was “very pleased” with the inquiry’s findings.
She called for the British government to expel all Russian intelligence agents, “either FSB or other Russian agencies based in the London embassy”.
She also called for immediate, targeted economic sanctions and travel bans against the people named in the report, including Mr Putin.
“It’s unthinkable that the prime minister would do nothing in the face of (these) damning findings,” she said.
Home Secretary Theresa May revealed she had also written to her counterparts in the EU, NATO and ‘Five Eyes’ countries – which includes Australia – drawing their attention to the report and the need to take steps “to prevent such a murder being committed on their streets”.
She told parliament the report’s finding that the Russian state was probably involved in the murder was “deeply disturbing” and a “blatant and unacceptable breach of fundamental international law”.
She announced new asset freezes on the two alleged killers, saying Russia’s “continued failure to ensure they are brought to justice is unacceptable”.
The government had summoned the Russian ambassador to the Foreign Office to demand an account of the FSB’s role in this case.
Lugovoy calls accusations ‘absurd’
Andrei Lugovoy said the accusations against him were “absurd”, the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
Lugovoy, who represents the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in the Russian parliament, called the British inquiry “a pathetic attempt by London to use a skeleton in the closet for the sake of its political ambitions”.
He said the findings of the inquiry published on Thursday continued Britain’s “anti-Russian hysteria” which he said began after “the events in Ukraine in 2014”.
“The accusations brought against me are absurd,” he said.
“As we expected, there was no sensation. The results of the inquiry published today are yet more proof of London’s anti-Russian stance, its blinkered thinking and … unwillingness to establish the true cause of Litvinenko’s death.”
With Reuters
January 20, 2016 DATA ACCESS & STORAGE, LAWS, WHISTELEBLOWERS No comments
This simple game shows why metadata laws won’t protect whistleblowers
Australia has passed data retention laws that force telecommunications companies to retain some types of phone and web metadata. This data can be requested by government agencies and has been used to investigate leaks of government information to journalists.
It now takes a warrant to access a journalist’s metadata to identify a source, but this offers limited protection. Government agencies can still seek data from suspected sources without a warrant. This game shows how a whistleblower can still be identified.
Wednesday 15 April 2015 11.01 AEST
ENTER GAME HERE
January 20, 2016 Australia, DATA ACCESS & STORAGE, MEDICAL HEALTH, SEX No comments
Metadata sought by agency to investigate doctors who have sex with patients
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency one of 61 agencies seeking warrantless access to telecommunications information
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has used metadata to investigate ‘allegations of boundary violations between patients and practitioners’, according to a spokeswoman. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
Wednesday 20 January 2016 11.22 AEDT Last modified on Wednesday 20 January 2016 12.45 AEDT
The government agency overseeing doctors, dentists and chiropractors has applied to regain warrantless access to Australians’ phone and web metadata to help it investigate whether medical practitioners are sleeping with their patients.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is one of 61 agencies that have applied to the attorney general, George Brandis, to be classed as “criminal law-enforcement agencies” to gain warrantless access to telecommunications data.
They were removed from a list of agencies that could access the information from telecommunications companies with the advent of the government’s mandatory data retention laws.
While Brandis insisted data retention would only be used to gather evidence on serious crimes, a provision was created to allow other agencies to reapply for access to the information. The provision contains no requirement that these agencies must be investigating serious criminal law offences.
The data has been sought by a range of other agencies, including the National Measurement Institute, which oversees food and packaged goods, including lamb chops.
A spokeswoman for AHPRA said the agency had in the past used telecommunications data infrequently but had used it in investigations “often in relation to allegations of boundary violations between patients and practitioners”.
“While still likely to be professional misconduct, demonstrating that a sexual relationship commenced during the treatment period is an aggravating factor going to sanction,” she said.
She added: “In a current case we are asking the practitioner to explain the significant volume of calls passing between her and the patient during the treatment relationship. Her legal counsel has indicated that she is likely to concede that a personal relationship had developed at the time, however did not become sexual until after the treatment relationship ended.”
She said data had been used to track the volume of calls and texts between practitioners and patients, the location of calls and as corroborating evidence for text messages.
“In a current matter before the tribunal, we identified that a significant volume of calls made by the patient were transmitted by the tower close by the practitioner’s residential address when the patient resided on the other side of town,” she said, adding: “In one matter, the complainant provided screenshots of text messages alleged to have originated from the practitioner’s phone.
“Telephone records corroborated the allegations and allowed the board to exclude the possibility of the screenshot text messages having been fabricated or from another source.”
The spokeswoman said AHPRA took measures to protect any sensitive information it gathered in secure databases.
The list of agencies was disclosed by the Attorney General’s Department after freedom of information requests from Geordie Guy on Right to Know and ZDnet. It includes the RSPCA Victoria, Australia Post, Bankstown council and dozens of other state and territory agencies involved in the investigation of relatively minor offences.
Access Canberra – which oversees fines, drivers’ licences and liquor licences across the Australian Capital Territory – has also sought to regain access.
A spokesman said: “It is a function of the Access Canberra statutory office holders to investigate and prosecute breaches of the legislation it administers. Access Canberra investigators utilise a range of information sources and investigation tools when undertaking its investigations.”
The Attorney General’s Department has declined to comment on the status of the 61 applications.
January 19, 2016 Australia, AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, COMPUTER & PHONE ACCESS, DATA ACCESS & STORAGE, GOVERNMENT POLITICS, GROUPS CLUBS ASSOC., INFORMATION GATHERING No comments
Dozens of government agencies request access to citizen metadata without warrants
Nearly all the agencies which accessed citizens’ private information in the past have applied for continued access. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Nearly all of the government agencies which last year snooped on citizens’ phone and internet records without warrants have reapplied to access the data following the introduction of legislation which was meant to reduce the scope of access.
Sixty-one non-law enforcement federal and state agencies, including organisations such as Australia Post and Sydney’s Bankstown City Council, have applied to access citizens’ metadata for pursuing criminal activity or protecting public revenue.
The telecommunications data may include information such as phone numbers and addresses of people who called each other, or email addresses and the times messages were sent.
Attorney-General George Brandis has yet to decide which agencies may have access to telecommunications metadata.
By comparison, the latest official government report on metadata access, covering a period before new mandatory data retention legislation came into effect in October last year, showed 69 agencies accessed metadata. At that time they were automatically authorised to access this data, however following the legislation, non-law enforcement agencies must now apply directly to federal Attorney-General George Brandis for temporary approval to access metadata for up to 40 parliamentary sitting days.
No warrant is required to access the data.
A spokesperson for the Attorney-General’s department said Mr Brandis had not temporarily approved metadata access to any agencies who requested access.
The list of agencies was revealed in a Freedom of Information request filed by former Electronic Frontiers Australia vice chair Geordie Guy, and released to the public on Monday.
More agencies may have requested metadata access since Mr Guy’s FOI request was filed in November last year.
Digital rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has called on Mr Brandis to reject most of the agencies’ applications.
EFA executive director Jon Lawrence said “only two or three” agencies would have legitimate reasons to access the private information.
“If the Attorney-General is serious about the integrity of his legislation and about protecting the civil liberties of all Australians, then he must act swiftly to reject the majority of these applications,” Mr Lawrence said.
In previous years local city councils have come under fire for using information gleaned from residents’ metadata to chase small-time infringers and recoup fines.
Melbourne’s Knox City Council last year accessed call charge records, and name and address details, to prosecute people who damaged property or were guilty of cruelty against animals or illegal signage, a council spokesperson said.
Bankstown City Council in Sydney appears to be the only council so far to have reapplied for access under the new regime.
A Bankstown spokesperson previously told Fairfax media the council used data to catch residents who dumped waste illegally. The agency made 13 information requests in the year to June 2015.
EFA’s Mr Lawrence said such matters were “hardly a national security issue” which might have justified its access to private information.
Other government agencies which have reapplied to access private communication records include Australia Post — which made 625 information requests last year — state racing bodies, the RSPCA and the Tax Office.
Australia Post has previously said that it requests phone records from telecommunication companies so it can chase people who steal phones or SIM cards from its stores, or pursue people who make “serious threats” to staff or engage in corruption and fraud.
The frequency of metadata requests from non-law enforcement agencies grew 9 per cent last year.
Below is the full list of agencies that applied for access to the data, except for four that were redacted in the FOI documents as their disclosure would be “contrary to the public interest”.
1. Australian Financial Security Authority, Commonwealth
2. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Commonwealth
3. Australian Postal Corporation, Commonwealth
4. Australian Taxation Office, Commonwealth
5. Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, Commonwealth
6. Civil Aviation, Safety Authority (CASA), Commonwealth
7. Clean Energy Regulator, Commonwealth
8. Department of Agriculture, Commonwealth
9. Department of Defence (ADFIS and IGD), Commonwealth
10. Department of the Environment, Commonwealth
11. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Commonwealth
12. Department of Health, Commonwealth
13. Department of Human Services, Commonwealth
14. Department of Social Services, Commonwealth
15. Fair Work Building and Construction, Commonwealth
16. National Measurement Institute, Commonwealth
17. ACT Revenue Office, ACT
18. Access Canberra (Department of Treasury and Economic Development), ACT
19. Bankstown City Council, NSW
20. Consumer Affairs, VIC
21. Consumer, Building and Occupational Services (Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading – Department of Justice), TAS
22. Consumer and Business Services, SA
23. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, QLD
24. Department of Commerce, WA
25. Department of Corrective Services, WA
26. Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, QLD
27. Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport & Resources (Fisheries), VIC
28. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, VIC
29. Department of Environment Regulation, WA
30. Department of Fisheries, WA
31. Department of Justice and Regulation (Consumer Affairs), VIC
32. Department of Justice and Regulation (Sheriff of Victoria), VIC
33. Department of Mines and Petroleum, WA
34. Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries), NSW
35. Environment Protection Authority, SA
36. Greyhound Racing Victoria, VIC
37. Harness Racing New South Wales, NSW
38. Health Care Complaints Commission, NSW
39. Legal Services Board, VIC
40. NSW Environment Protection Authority, NSW
41. NSW Fair Trading, NSW
42. Office of Environment & Heritage, NSW
43. Office of Fair Trading (Department of Justice And Attorney-General Office of the Director General), QLD
44. Office of State Revenue, NSW
45. Office of State Revenue, QLD
46. Office of the Racing Integrity Commissioner, VIC
47. Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA), SA
48. Queensland Building and Construction Commission, QLD
49. Racing and Wagering Western Australia, WA
50. Racing NSW, NSW
51. Racing Queensland, QLD
52. Roads and Maritime Services NSW, NSW
53. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), VIC
54. State Revenue Office, VIC
55. Taxi Services Commission, VIC
56. RevenueSA, SA
57. Victorian WorkSafe Authority, VIC
January 13, 2016 England, GOVERNMENT POLITICS, LAWS, SURVEILANCE No comments
Internet Firms Warn UK Against ‘Dangerous’ Changes To Law
Major U.S. Internet companies have urged the British government to reconsider a plan to make telecommunications firms help spies hack into computers and phones.
The draft Investigatory Powers Bill would require telecoms companies to keep records of customers’ Web histories for up to a year, and to help security services gain access to suspects’ electronic devices.
In a joint submission to a committee of British lawmakers, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo said that “to the extent this could involve the introduction of risks or vulnerabilities into products or services, it would be a very dangerous precedent to set.”
They urged the government to reconsider, and warned against changes that would weaken online encryption, which they called a “fundamental security tool.”
The submission was made last month and published Thursday by the committee, which is reviewing the proposed legislation.
Apple has also objected to the British proposals, saying they could weaken online security by providing a backdoor to users’ data for “bad guys” as well as “good guys.”
The British government insists the bill won’t weaken or ban online encryption.
If approved by Parliament, the bill will let police and spies access Internet connection records — a list of websites, apps and messaging services someone has visited, though not the individual pages they looked at or the messages they sent.
Civil liberties groups have also expressed alarm at the bill. A previous version of the legislation was thrown out by lawmakers in 2013 as overly intrusive.
The government says it will set out final proposals in the spring.
January 13, 2016 CYBER ATTACKS, England, GOVERNMENT POLITICS, SECURITY No comments
Britain Seeks Greater Access To Citizens’ Online Activity
The British government plans to make telecommunication firms keep records of every website that customers visit under a new law regulating cyber-snooping.
The draft Investigatory Powers Bill is designed to regulate authorities’ access to Internet activity, replacing a patchwork of laws, some dating from the Web’s infancy.
Home Secretary Theresa May said Wednesday that the bill would let police and spies access Internet connection records – a list of websites and social media apps someone has visited, though not the individual pages they looked at or messages they sent.
May said the data was “simply the modern equivalent of an itemized phone bill,” but civil liberties groups say it marks a big expansion of snooping powers.
The bill will be reviewed by legislators before it’s submitted to Parliament for approval.
January 13, 2016 DATA ACCESS & STORAGE, GOVERNMENT POLITICS, SECURITY No comments
UN Experts Warn About British Investigatory Powers Bill
U.N. human rights experts say a legislative bill in Britain aimed at increasing powers of authorities to monitor suspects could threaten freedom of expression and association.
Three United Nations experts say the Investigatory Powers Bill would give British officials too much authority to carry out surveillance and store information on people, without enough oversight and transparency.
The office of the U.N. human rights chief said Monday the experts sent a six-page letter to a British parliamentary panel insisting that the measure could “ultimately stifle fundamental freedoms” such as by preventing individuals from ever knowing that they are under surveillance.
Civil liberties groups and Internet companies have also expressed alarm at the bill that would make telecommunications firms help spies hack into computers and phones, and store customers’ Web-surfing histories.
January 7, 2016 DEATH PENALTY & EXECUTIONS, HACKING BUGS ID THEFT, MURDERS DEATHS, Thailand No comments
Anonymous hacks Thai police websites to protest Myanmar workers’ death penalties
This image was displayed on some Thai police websites. Photo: http://technology.sochoto.police.go.th/south/
Australian scientist questions DNA evidence
Bangkok: Hackers have attacked Thai police websites in protest the trial of two Myanmar migrant workers sentenced to death last month for the murders of two British tourists.
The international hacking group Anonymous said on its Facebook page that 14 Thai police websites had been attacked. Of those it listed, nine were inaccessible on Tuesday.
January 2, 2016 DARK WEB No comments
MORE ABOUT THE DARK WEB
The dark web
1. What is the dark web?
2. Why did The Onion Router (TOR) become available to the public?
3. How does The Onion Router (TOR) work?
4. Who enables this anonymity?
5. Who’s footing the bill?
6. What is it used for?
7. Resetting the dark web’s reputation
8. Light at the end of the dark web
9. Why is online privacy important?
10. What can individuals do to protect their privacy?
What is the dark web?
If you spend most of your screen time loitering on Facebook, Snapchat and email then you’ve only ever scratched the surface of the internet. There is an additional layer known as the dark web that allows people to circumvent surveillance and move around online without traceability. The original software, The Onion Router (TOR), was developed by US Naval Research Laboratory employees Paul Syverson, Michael Reed and David Goldschlag in the mid 1990s to protect the identity of US Navy intelligenceagents.
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EURONAV 7
DIGITAL MAP GENERATOR
What is the EuroNav 7?
The EuroNav 7 is a digital moving map generator and more. It has dozens of additional features that would assist a user during flight and in navigations.
The EuroNav 7 is a product created by EuroAvionics Navigationssystem GmbH in Germany. ARM Aviation Services is an appointed representative for EuroAvionics.
Click here to learn more about the EuroNav 7.
Who uses the EuroNav?
Currently the EuroNav is being used by mostly law enforcement, military and paramedical agencies with helicopter operations all over the world.
It can been installed in Eurocopter, Sikorsky and Agusta helicopters, such as the EC-725, EC-135, AS-355, AS-365, S-92, A-109, AB-139. In Malaysia, the EuroNav has been installed in the Royal Malaysian Army's A-109LOHs, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency's AS-365s as well as a number of civilian helicopters.
Why use the EuroNav?
The EuroNav has many features that helps with the flight operations of an aircraft.
EuroNav Maps – Several different types of maps can be placed in different magnification layers and overlaid together for ease of navigation. The maps can be set to display the maps as NorthUp, HeadingUp or TrackUp.
Vector Maps – Vector data allows for lines and shapes that could represent highways, roads, buildings, rivers and coastlines. Additional information such as street level address can be extremely useful for urban law enforcement helicopters. The data can also be called by the “Direct To” feature that allows users to select a location from the database and immediately create a flight plan to it.
Digital Terrain Elevation Data Maps – DTED maps memorizes each pixel’s altitude, heading and slope angle. Features of the DTED maps include ground proximity warning, realistic sunshading, and elevation over ground calculation. DTED maps for the seabed could be uploaded into EuroNav systems for ships and submarines.
Jeppesen Data – Acquired from Jeppesen company, this navigation data would be displayed on the EuroNav as aviation information useful for flight operations.
Graphical User Interface – The EuroNav functionality is further facilitated by a menu-driven GUI. Administrators can lengthen or shorten the menu to optimize for their operations. Macro recording allows users to store and replay button push sequences for quick access of required features.
Database Access – The EuroNav database can be accessed via the “Direct To” or selecting locations for a waypoint. The data can be sorted by list, name, number, map or location closest to aircraft. Emergency landing locations (such as hospitals or schools) can also be customized and uploaded for the Emergency feature, where the nearest locations are listed and a flight plan is made to the selected place.
For more information, please visit the EuroAvionics website.
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« (6/20/14) News and Analysis
(6/22/14) News and Analysis
The multiple stabbing death of a Muslim student “has sparked threats of violent revenge on social media websites including Facebook and Twitter, which police officers are monitoring as part of the murder investigation”:
Police Urge Caution over Murder of Muslim Student in Essex (The Guardian)
“Amnesty International described the verdicts as ‘the latest example of the Egyptian judiciary’s bid to crush dissent.’ There was no immediate reaction on the ruling from the Brotherhood, whose members are either in jail or on the run” …
Egyptian Court Confirms Death Penalty for Muslim Brotherhood Defendants (Reuters / NY Times)
… while “[h]undreds of disappeared Egyptians are being tortured and held outside of judicial oversight in a secret military prison, according to Guardian interviews with former inmates, lawyers, rights activists and families of missing persons”:
Egypt’s Hidden Prison: ‘Disappeared’ Face Torture in Azouli Military Jail (Guardian)
Israel’s response to the kidnapping of three civilians is to murder a thirteen year-old:
Palestinian Teenager Killed by Israeli Troops in Arrest Raids (Christian Science Monitor)
Britain’s most prominent Muslim organization announced “a new drive to tell its followers that female genital mutilation is contrary to Islam and should be shunned to save girls from serious damage to their health” and that one of the basic principles of Islam that followers shouldn’t harm themselves or others:
The Muslim Council of Britain: Barbaric Practice of FGM is Un-Islamic (London Evening Standard)
A critic of the extremist Buddhist group behind the recent violence “has been found beaten and unconscious near Colombo…. Wataraka Vijitha Thero was found undressed and with numerous cuts on his body in the district of Panadura” :
Sri Lanka Moderate Monk Critical of Anti-Muslim Violence Beaten (BBC)
As ISIS takes more of Anbar, there are some voices worth listening to:
Iraqi Militants Claim Four Anbar Towns in Two Days (Christian Science Monitor)
People Who Are Making Sense About Iraq (Christian Science Monitor)
Local Muslims say the young Welch convert appearing in hirabist recruitment video was radicalized online to join hundreds of others recruited by ISIS:
Welsh Muslim in a Terror-recruiting Video Was Radicalised Online, Says Cardiff Mosque Leader (Wales Online)
Family Heartbroken’ After British Man Appears In Jihadist Film (BBC)
Tensions rise as thousands of Shias loyal to Muqtada Al Sadr, parade through the streets. Muqtada called for a military parade across the country, meanwhile, the ISIS militias continue to advance as more and more Shia Iraqis volunteer to fight back after a call from Sistani:
Iraq Crisis: Shia Militia Show of Force Raises Tensions (BBC)
Hamid Al- Bayati, the former Iraqi representative to the U.S. Al- Bayati explains that in the past, Iraq’s ethnic groups lived in peace and harmony.
Hamid Al-Bayati (The Daily Show)
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Elway Results on Marriage in Washington State
Faith and Freedom Network paid The Elway Poll to ask one simple question: "In your opinion, should homosexuals be allowed to legally marry?"
A majority said no.
I have included the entire report. Demographically, the results were predictable, with Seattle strongly in favor of homosexual marriage, King County favorable, but less so, with the rest of Washington State opposed.
The age demographics should be of concern to all who support traditional marriage.
Click here to view a copy of The Elway Poll.
Faith & Freedom
Oshtur Vishanti 11:34 AM, April 27, 2009
Great Gary, thats an even higher margin for marriage equality than the recent University of Washington poll - if you'd had a question about domestic partnerships in there the combination of 'yes' no doubt would be even higher than the 66% the UofW found.
Once those 65+ers move on to the ∞ column, marriage equality looks like a done deal, until then 2 identical contracts will get the job done.
Anonymous 11:41 AM, April 27, 2009
This was a relatively small sample. A more accurate poll would include about 1000 people according to statistical science.
However, pro-equality supporters should be pleased by the results. With a + or - 5 % equality is clearly trending towards the winner.
Anonymous 12:00 PM, April 27, 2009
This is a technical matter but I feel that we need to clarify what is becomming a definition problem. Homosexuals have the right to marry today. They have this right today with the same stipulations as every other citizen. Marriage is defined as a union between one man and one women, of age and not of close relation. Homosexuals though are looking for special rights. They are seeking to re-define marriage to include same gender marriage which is not what marriage is defined as. It should be re-phrased to " In your opinion, should homosexuals be allowed to re-define the word marriage to include a like union between same gender individuals. Again, homosexuals are not barred from marrying today within the context of our current laws.
Gary, as a supporter of marriage equality, I found your survey very comforting. 52% of respondents under 55 are in favor.
Given that public opinion is moving in the direction for marriage equality and that the core of the opposition appears to be seniors, the future looks very bright.
Keep in mind that telephone surveys are becoming less reliable regarding younger voters who often only have cell phones. Then factor in how heavily skewed this was toward seniors, and it's likely that we already have the majority!
Anonymous 1:15 PM, April 27, 2009
Anonymous at 12:00...
RE: Homosexuals have the right to marry today...
Your system of "fairness" gives marriage rights to gay people, but only if they give up one of the most important aspects of marriage -- love. Yes, gay people can marry, but only if they choose someone they do not or cannot love. You do not have to make such a sacrifice in order to marry.
Using your logic, a law that allowed marriage ONLY between members of the same-sex would be equally fair as current marriage laws because it would be applied "equally" to all. I don't think such a law would be fair, because you would be forced to marry someone you cannot love.
Not only do laws need to be applied equally to all citizens, but laws cannot be fashioned to put an undue burden on a group of people for whatever reason.
As a further example, we could not create a marriage law that would cause you to violate your religious faith in order to participate (for example, only rabbis can marry couples). While such a law could be applied "equally" to all, you would be forced to make an undue sacrifice in order to take advantage of the law. That would be unfair.
Is that what you really want? People attracted to the same sex marrying the opposite sex?
Here's what happens when a gay man marries a straight woman because he wants desperately to be straight (and believes that's what God wants, too): They both save themselves sexually for marriage (easy for him, he's not into women), the couple goes to pre-marriage counseling with their pastor who, when the man admits he's attracted to men, tells them it's just a phase and surely the man will be cured if he prays enough. She plans her dream wedding, her parents spend tens of thousands of dollars, hundreds of guests come from all over the country, the families are overjoyed. The man continues to hope and pray he'll be straight once they're married. The honeymoon is a disaster. No sex. Counseling, praying, trying to stay together for years. Finally, her dreams and hopes and faith crushed, she leaves the marriage. She can't spend her life with a man who can't love her. She gets an annulment. She finally meets another man 10 years later and gets married again, but by then too many years have passed and her hopes of children and a family have gone.
Is that the kind of equality you are advocating? Is that what you want people to go through so you can save your dictionary definition of civil marriage?
If you haven't guessed by now. That's my story above. Encouraging gays to try to be straight hurts not only them, but those who love them as well.
"That's my story above"
That is your story. A sad story yes . I am sorry this happened to you . But it is not everyone's story.
Good news for you as indicated by the polls and the age factors , when enough people die off with a value system different then yours , gay marriage will be accepted .
I wonder if you consider the future better because of that?
I would not want to be a kid growing up today .
Man, you are 'sick'! Sorry to be so blunt-but, you have described a very scary fairy tale! SO opposite of what is 'really going on'! Those of 'us' who choose to stay within God's principles, are happily married (41 yrs here) and no regrets--and SO concerned for our young people of today getting this 'garbage' messages from people like you! Tis garbage--and tis SAD--so sad! For your information, many of those who got caught up on this deiviant thots and behaviours, have gotten OUT of it via Exodus and other means and establish 'normal' one man/one woman relationships! Sigh--you are being prayed for--along with others being 'duped' with this dangerous life style!
If you had been born gay, I think you'd rather be growing up today than 30 years ago. And I'm confident it will only get better!
Once those 65+ers move on to the ? column, marriage equality looks like a done deal,
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
People dying I see is something the gay marriage side looks forward to . How telling.
NO ONE is 'born' gay! God does NOT make 'mistakes'---the 'enemy' is 'busy' these days within our culture, 'influencing' our young people with these deviant behaviour ideas! Again, God help us--help THEM!
Anonymous 4:09 AM, April 28, 2009
What is Love? It's unconditional!
For all of us, gay or straight.
God loves us all unconditionally, whether you believe in Him or not.
It's your choice, you make the decision, its your choice.
God doesn't like the way we are all living, too complacent.
Change is coming whether we like it or not, because God is always in charge of destiny. His Mercy endures forever, His Love is everlasting, His Love is Unconditional. He's been warning this country for a long time, our Blessings will be given to someone else who appreciates it!!!
It's SAD we as a people have gone this far, to end up loosing it all.
Yes. God is 'unconditional' Love, but, he expects us to correct where we are wrong--and gays are wrong in their distorted thinking and living! Yes, we ALL have 'issues' that God would want us to change, and yes, he deals with each of us with those issues, as we seek His will in our lives!!
Why is everyone referring to homosexual couples or gay couples all the time?
There is a significant number of bisexuals involved in same-sex relationships.
Same-sex marriage is a far better term. It is more inclusive.
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Deb Roy, Rimlee and Sil, Devika and Jana, Sunirmal and Bhandaru, Nandini and Bhadra, Shyamal Kumar and Biswas, Prasanta Kumar and Mukherjee, Rabibrata (2012) Creation of self-organized complex meso patterns in sol-gel thin films by confined capillary dynamics. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51 (28). pp. 9546-9553. ISSN 0888-5885
We report a simple and facile technique for creating complex mesoscale patterns with two-dimensional (2-D) orders on the surface of a sol gel derived silica thin films using a combination of a topographically patterned stamp and a substrate, each having a one-dimensional (1-D) grating structure (stripes). The self-organized pattern formation results as a consequence of capillary flow of the sol film in liquid state under a confining stamp. The key novel aspect of the work lies in using a topographically patterned substrate, dip coating on which results in a film with an undulating top surface. When a grating stamp is brought in conformal contact with such a film in a manner so that the direction of the stamp stripes are at right angles to the direction of the undulations on the film surface, a periodically ordered spatial variation in the extent of contact between the film and the stamp results. Subsequent capillary flow of the liquid sol along the stamp walls occurs only at the locations where the stamp surface and the film are in direct contact, resulting in an array of pillars with 2-D order. We further show that the morphology of the final patterns can be tailored by varying various parameters such as the initial film thickness, wettability of the stamp, and periodicity of the substrate. We further discuss the gradual oxidation of the sol film with progressive thermal annealing and the associated shrinkage of the structures in terms of pattern dimensions. Generation of meso patterns with 2-D order on an inorganic sol gel film surface using a stamp and a substrate, each having strictly 1-D features, is the key novel aspect of the work, as it is a rare example when patterns other than a mere negative replica of a stamp are created on a sol gel thin film by any soft lithography technique.
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The Classic Tyree Lamp is part of the Classic line.
About the Classic Line
The Classic Line was inspired by architect John Elgin Woolf and Gladys Belzer. John Woolf was one of the more affluent and verbal architects in Hollywood and is really the one who created the style that came to be known as Hollywood style. He coincidentally also designed Loretta Young’s home in Los Angeles. Gladys Belzer (Loretta Young’s mother) was also a well known interior designer that often told Charles that he needed to design more classic pieces for the Hollywood aesthetic. Gladys and John often commissioned Charles to design a lot of the pieces that later came to become the Classic Line.
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Honda Clarity Fuel Cell Vehicle : 2016
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Honda, the pioneer of hydrogen fuel cell technology has unveiled its next generation Clarity Fuel Cell today at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show.
2016 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell Vehicle.
Incorporating Honda’s most advanced technologies, the Clarity Fuel Cell is the world’s first production model of a fuel cell powered sedan to house the entire fuel cell stack and drivetrain system in the space normally occupied by the engine and transmission. The Clarity Fuel Cell will be commercially available in Japan from early 2016. Further information on the European launch of the vehicle will follow in 2016.
World-first packaging solution.
The packaging of the Clarity Fuel Cell has been inspired by Honda’s principle of man maximum, machine minimum. Through minimising the space utilised by the powertrain, Honda has been able to achieve a level of interior space that allows five adults to be comfortably accommodated as would be expected in a conventionally powered sedan. The size of the fuel cell stack and the power generation unit have been reduced through Honda’s advanced technologies to a size comparable to a V6 engine.
Despite the compact nature of the fuel cell powertrain, Honda’s advanced technologies have ensured world-leading fuel cell stack performance. Honda’s original wave flow channel separators are more advanced than ever, while the cells now feature a higher output and a more slender shape thanks to a 1 mm (20%) reduction in the thickness of each cell. These advances combine to make the fuel cell stack 33% more compact than the stack used in the original FCX Clarity. This improvement is highly impressive as it has been achieved in parallel with an increase in maximum motor output to 130 kW (177ps) and a power density increased by 60% to 3.1 kW/L.
Class-leading convenience.
The Clarity Fuel Cell is equipped with a high-pressure tank capable of storing hydrogen gas at 70 MPa, increasing the mass of hydrogen that can be stored and extending the range of the vehicle. Coupled with the efficient powertrain and reduced vehicle energy consumption, the Clarity Fuel Cell achieves a best-in-class fuel cell vehicle range per full tank of over 700 km1 (435miles).
In addition, the high-pressure tank can be quickly refilled, the process taking approximately
three minutes at 70 MPa and 20oC. These and other benefits give the Clarity Fuel Cell a day-to-day convenience customers are used to with their traditional petrol or diesel powered vehicles.
An exhilarating driving experience.
Engineered to use the high output of Honda’s fuel cell stack and the power assist of the lithium-ion battery pack, a high-output motor provides power to the driven wheels together with instant and powerful acceleration. Due to the continuously increasing torque provided by the high-output 130 kW (177 PS) motor with no need for gears, the Clarity Fuel Cell achieves perfectly smooth acceleration anywhere from zero to maximum speed.
The direct response, exhilarating drive and quiet cabin together form an appealing combination. Clarity Fuel Cell offers the driver two driving modes: the ‘Normal’ mode provides a balance between fuel economy and driving performance, while ‘Sport’ prioritises a more responsive acceleration feeling.
Outstanding design.
The exterior of Clarity Fuel Cell has been designed to give an imposing presence on the road while maintaining a strong aerodynamic profile. Full-LED headlights with a sharp, slender profile and 18-inch aluminium wheels with an aerodynamic and stylish design complete the look.
The interior of Clarity Fuel Cell combines an advanced yet refined atmosphere designed to provide the driver with a relaxing and comfortable driving environment. The advanced driver interface uses Honda’s design principles of instant recognition and intuitive control. Simple and outstandingly spacious, the interior features premium, comforting materials that make driving an experience to anticipate and enjoy.
Honda Clarity in Europe and participation in HyFIVE project.
Honda is scheduled to launch the Clarity Fuel Cell in a limited number of European markets in 2016. Honda is one of five automotive companies that make up the HyFIVE consortium, and will supply vehicles that will be part of a 110 strong European fleet to highlight and promote the development, use and viability of this new technology.
In UK, Honda has worked with suppliers to encourage the local production and consumption of energy by establishing a solar-powered hydrogen refuelling station in the grounds of Honda of the UK Manufacturing in Swindon. This station is open to the public (subject to registration) and able to refuel any fuel cell vehicle.
(source: Honda)
2016 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell Vehicle interior.
Honda Official site.
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Cardinal fears Iraq could be caught in middle of a U.S.-Iran conflict
Not the usual suspects: Cardinal wants parish teams of risk-takers
Praising God for gift of creation leads to respect for it, pope says
Pope mourns death of French patient after doctors withhold care
Diocese concludes inquiry of French priest’s martyrdom
Father Jacques Hamel is seen during a 2016 church service in this handout photo from his parish in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France. (CNS photo/Paroisse Saint-Etienne via EPA)
By Junno Arocho Esteves • Catholic News Service • Posted March 11, 2019
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Archdiocese of Rouen concluded its sainthood inquiry into the life and death of a French priest who was killed while celebrating Mass.
Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen presided over the final session of the diocesan inquiry into the life and martyrdom of Father Jacques Hamel, Vatican News reported March 9.
Father Hamel was killed July 26, 2016, when two men stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen while he celebrated Mass. After taking several hostages, the attackers slit Father Hamel’s throat and seriously injured another parishioner. Following a standoff, police killed the attackers, ending the hostage situation.
Traditionally, the formal sainthood process, which includes compiling the candidate’s writings and gathering sworn testimonies about his or her life and holiness, can begin no sooner than five years after the person’s death.
However, Pope Francis set aside the restriction and allowed for the French priest’s sainthood cause to begin in 2017.
The inquiry gathered the testimony of 66 witnesses, including five people who witnessed Father Hamel’s murder. The documentation from the diocesan inquiry will be sent to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes, which reviews the gathered information.
Pope Francis has on several occasions recognized Father Hamel’s holiness and cited him as an example of courage who gave his life for others throughout his life as priest until his brutal murder.
The pope celebrated a special requiem Mass for the slain priest several months after his death in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae. Among those present at the Mass were Archbishop Lebrun, Father Hamel’s sister, Roselyne Hamel, as well as 80 pilgrims from the diocese.
Archbishop Lebrun said he had brought a photo of Father Hamel and asked Pope Francis to sign it with a note for three religious women who had been with Father Hamel at Mass that day.
Instead of signing the photo before Mass, the pope “immediately told me to put it on the altar,” the archbishop told reporters later. “At the end of Mass, when he was greeting everyone, he signed it and said to me, ‘You can put this photo in the church because he is “blessed” now, and if anyone says you aren’t allowed, tell them the pope gave you permission.'”
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The Ron Paul Delusion
MC admired the energy and enthusiasm of the Ron Paul supporters who flooded into the Republican Party of Minnesota during the 2008 election cycle. That said, Dr. Paul is a seriously unserious man, prone to paranoia and the strangest of associations which MC can only roundly condemn. We feel, alas, him to be a latent anti-semite. But wait, as the saying goes, there's more:
"Paul isn't a traditional conservative. His obsession with long-decided monetary policy and isolationism are not his only half-baked crusades. Paul's newsletters of the '80s and '90s were filled with anti-Semitic and racist rants, proving his slumming in the ugliest corners of conspiracyland today is no mistake."
As conservatives, MC isn't willing to cede the ground to this sort of nonsense. We have no litmus test for who is a conservative; by the same token, we have no reticence in calling out a cult.
Click on the title of this post to read an excellent article in Reason magazine about the Ron Paul delusion. Click on the image above to enlarge it.
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Greece & The Welfare State In Ruins
Click on the title of this post to read Robert J. Samuelson's article of the same name. Herewith:
"Conceived as a way to unite Europe, the euro increasingly divides. No one wants Greece to default, but no one wants to pay the price of prevention. With its own currency . . . Greece would pursue depreciation to spur exports and economic revival. If other countries dump the euro, currency wars could ensue. The threat to the euro bloc ultimately stems from an overcommitted welfare state. Greece's situation is so difficult because a low birth rate and rapidly graying population automatically increase old-age assistance even as the government tries to cut its spending. At issue is the viability of its present welfare state.
Almost every advanced country -- the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Belgium and others -- faces some combination of huge budget deficits, high debts, aging populations and political paralysis. It's an unstable mix. Present deficits may aid economic recovery, but the persistence of those deficits threatens long-term prosperity. The same unpleasant choices confronting Greece await most wealthy nations, even if they pretend otherwise."
George F. Will At CPAC
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Happy 77th Birthday Yoko Ono
MC sends Yoko Ono birthday greetings; no other woman in the modern age has been as ignorantly and viciously vilified as she. At the risk of alienating our readers, most probably have very little understanding of her life and work. ("Now you'll always be Mrs. Lennon," quipped John upon their marriage; how right he was.) Click on the title of this post to read an overview of her life and work; we're certain you'll be surprised and in a good way.
Last year Ono released an album to nation and worldwide acclaim. Yes, we know, MC's readers weren't paying attention but we were so you didn't have to. She was 76 and, as it were, still kicking. Two nights ago her reconstituted "Plastic Ono Band" gave a bravura performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The reviews were superlative; read them here.
We Don't Think This Can Be Topped
A brilliant ad from the NRSC.
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Team Obama Goes For More "More Cowbell"
Good grief: Team Obama has apparently decided that the best way to respond to its myriad woes is to re-enter campaign mode (if, in fact, they ever truly left it for governing). The essential Jennifer Rubin at Commentary's blog Contentions has a short take on this decision and its consequences. Click on the title of this post to read her. MC liked the following from it:
"What is wrong with the Obama presidency is not a botched communication strategy (although the president himself has become a bore and whines too much). The core problems are Obama’s insistence on a radical domestic agenda, pursuit of dangerous and unpopular national-security policies, and the absence of a chief executive who is practiced and skilled in governance. And, honestly, acting more like a candidate and less like the president isn’t going to help matters."
France: End Of Euro Inevitable
Just two posts down below MC speculated the Germans would help Greece out of its current financial crisis. Turns out Dem Deutsche Volk are tired of being treated as Europe's ATM machine and are saying no to bailing out the feckless and reckless Greeks. Can anyone really blame them? Wasn't paying for all of Ireland's roads enough?
Leave it to a French banker to suggest the end is nigh for the euro. Click on the title of this post to read the story in the Daily Mail (UK), a downmarket paper to which we find ourselves chagrined to link. But there you have it. Whatever happens to the euro, and we wish it ill, MC hopes George Soros makes not a penny, as it were, on it.
And yes, we know, we could have blogged about Evan Bayh but MC enjoys counter-programming.
Happy Birthday President Lincoln
MC wishes to remember the best president in the history of our Republic.
Hype & What Not To Be Afraid Of
This ridiculous pamphlet, by way of France naturally, has gotten too much attention, thereby forcing MC to give it more in the hopes that it will then get less. What is it? It's a bunch of blather--think Ron Paul cultists meet slacker anarchists--about how, well, the insurrection is coming! MC has scanned the horizon for signs of said event and finds little evidence of its approach. Greece is on the edge of insolvency (trust the Germans to bail them out) but that's about as desperate as it gets. The language and approach contained in this pamphlet is embarrassing in the extreme. (The Left never could write!) That some with a loud megaphone (read Glenn Beck) are making much of it does not mean there is much to be made about it. MC is glad that Beck has good ratings even though we'd be dead before found at a "Bold Fresh" tour with Bill O'Reilly.
Click on the title of this post to read the pamphlet in English for free. Then throw it, metaphorically, onto the ash heap of history with its mind-numbing predecessors.
Two Articles Politico Won't Tell You About
Two articles appeared today that only the inside types really know about and one of which is carefully NOT being passed along or a link to it included in online coverage. This is emblematic of a new development in online journalism: what the talking heads on TV read and the apparatchiks in both parties know about but which is not passed on for anything like widespread distribution. Don't get MC wrong: we haven't become paranoid, delusional Ron Paulers. We simply note that it took some digging to bring you these two articles. But what, after all, is MC here for but to dig with the occasional backfill?
Click on the title of this post to read the first article, Edward Luce writing in the Financial Times about the core group of people surrounding President Obama. It makes for less than edifying reading. Why is it Americans increasingly must turn to British and German newspapers to learn about what's really going on in their country?
Click HERE to read The Washington Note's article on the Luce article. Really, read both for maximum effect and understanding. Together they provide fascinating insights into our government, the fourth estate and the people in both. Don't say MC didn't warn you.
Happy Birthday Mr. President
Ronald Reagan was born 99 years ago today. Happy Birthday and our best wishes to Nancy.
A Dark Day For The Enlightenment
The bravest man on the planet is on trial for speaking his mind. Will the last decent person leaving Europe please turn off the lights? One doesn't have to agree with Wilders (although MC manifestly does) in order to defend him. Where oh where are our liberal friends? Islamo-fascists will kill you as quickly as they kill us. Religion of peace and all that, yes?
Click on the title of this post to read the excellent Bruce Bawer on the threat whose name dare not speak it's name in the Obama administration.
The Source Of Demon Sheep Buzz On Twitter
MC doesn't pretend to understand everything we cover. Or don't cover. But in the last 24 hours the hashtag #demonsheep has taken the Twitterverse by storm thereby showing the, er, sheep-like nature of Twitter and all things human. The source is the ad above run by Carly Fiorina in California. MC finds it to be exceptionally bad. Who ARE her media people? The same dolts that labeled her website Carlyfornia? We want her to win but she's going to have to start acting like she wants to. In the meantime, she gives "in the know" people another metric by which to measure their in the knowingness. #fail
We Were Afraid It Looked Just Like This!
Hat Tip: Barry Casselman aka Prairie Editor
The Obama Spell Is Broken
Fouad Ajami is rather merciless in his assessment of the current state of Obamaism. But he is, after all, just telling the truth. Click on the title of this post to read his take on reality and the Obami. MC notes, and not in passing, that approximately half of the country did not fall for what has turned out to be a fraud. We expect that will be a clear majority come the off-year elections this fall.
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Sober But Unserious: The Mayor of Minneapolis
Last Friday Betsy Hodges, the Mayor of Minneapolis, a city in decline before our eyes, tweeted she was that day 26 years sober. One would think saving your own life would be reward enough but ours is a confessional society which may or may not be blamed on Joni Mitchell as the precursor, accelerated by online social media. Gawker or death.
I favorited her tweet as a way of showing support but even then I felt somewhat uneasy. Why the need to publicize what should by now be easy, or easy enough? Yes, yes, you can slip at any moment, I hear the blog harpies say. Got it. But still: maybe say this in a 12 step program for booze, narcotics, sex, work, gambling, (Twitter?), you name it.
Lars Leafblad is the public face for much of the Twin Cities confessional culture. Such a culture betrays an immaturity at bottom: praise me and we'll all feel good, group hugs, readings from cheesy diary entries, an inflated sense of an otherwise unaccomplished self and, for the professional, perhaps a State Arts Board grant so your personal dreck of a psychodrama can have added life. While we're at it, does anyone keep their disease to themselves these days? Apparently not & we're the worse for it.
I once thought of killing myself. What sane person hasn't? Should I orbit around that "didn't die" date (true, I was never on the ledge, the gun never in my mouth, the thought never became fixed, it was all drama, like a democrat) and extract compliments from strangers? How desperate, needy, and shallow is that?
I didn't want to be "that guy" on Twitter to the Mayor, a woman I've never met but whose infrequent, not recent, direct interactions have been cordial and respectful, despite our enormous political differences.
Perhaps if Susan Spiller hadn't been murdered the night before I wouldn't have had this reaction. Spiller was part and parcel of the liberal fabric of Minneapolis and apparently died a horrific death, her back door kicked in and murdered in some way the details of which have not yet been released.
Expect the liberal establishment to respond in its usual ways, depending on the killer's skin color. They see nothing wrong with this. Indeed, it's who Betsy Hodges is and, apparently, with unadorned pride. So too the bulk of Twin Cities liberals and local media.
According to reports, there have been 26 homicides in Minneapolis and 11 non-fatal shootings this year. Chaos is routinely rampant in downtown Minneapolis after the bars close, such that a hare brained scheme of having dances & making hamburgers available to the crowds was floated as a solution to the problem. Even this was too much for city council members who shot down the proposal, so to speak.
In the face of Spiller's and others' death, Mayor Romper Room said "We know that these crimes are wrong." Well gee, Betsy, that observation gets us most of the way home toward a solution. She added "Everyone deserves to be safe." Two for two, the Mayor. Possibly if she pursed her lips when bleating such banalities the cure would take, problem solved.
The day after Spiller's death the Mayor tweeted about her own sobriety anniversary as well as climate change. She also tweets about protected bike paths and her upcoming meeting with Jesuit Pope Francis about "climate change." For conservatives and libertarians living in Minnesota, it's difficult to overstate how insipid and foolish liberals have become. They, of course, are blindingly ignorant to their own folly. To live in the Twin Cities is to live The Onion.
For the most part, the liberal establishment doesn't mix with non-liberals and the local media never seriously holds them accountable because the members of the press are as liberal, if not more so. David Mamet, after his enlightenment, called his prior self a brain dead liberal. The Twin Cities is filled with them. Some people actually move here because of that, lemming like.
What did the Minneapolis Chief of Police Janeé Harteau have to say about Spiller being slaughtered in her own home? Nothing. She was off hiking the Inca trail for some charity. She couldn't really be bothered. Harteau is held in contempt by the rank and file and not because she's a publicity seeking lesbian: is that shtick supposed to be edgy?
No, she isn't respected because she's incompetent. But remember: for liberals results are never the issue, they literally do not count. Just look at Twin Cities schools, to pick but one example from a myriad.
Minneapolis is in real trouble, trouble that shows itself with depressing regularity. A lack of seriousness on the part of its Mayor & Police Chief condemns it to ever worse crime and social decay. The other day someone I follow on Twitter marveled that a man urinated in broad daylight on Nicollet Mall. I responded by congratulating Minneapolis for finally having become like New York City, always a goal of its insecure elites.
De Blasio's New York.
Hodges' Minneapolis.
American Horror Story: Tina Flint Smith, Fetal Organ Harvesting & The Silence of MN Media
Two days ago Americans with a conscience were sickened to learn that Planned Parenthood collects and then sells fetal organs and other tissues from the abortions they perform. In fact, the dismemberment of the child is done with care so that the organs can be sold intact. The story became an instant sensation throughout the country.
Throughout this time, however, local Minnesota media were silent on Twitter, neither mentioning it on their own or retweeting other reports. How odd for so called journalists.
I repeatedly wondered if the press had approached Tina Flint Smith, currently Minnesota's Lt. Governor but in reality acting governor, Mark Dayton being mentally unfit to be a full time governor. Flint previously had been Vice President for Planned Parenthood's upper midwest abattoirs, a Medea for our age.
Local media think highly of themselves, which is a laugh riot because they're exceptionally craven partisans who report--or don't-- based on their political and cultural beliefs. It's difficult to overstate their mediocrity and lack of integrity. Of course there are a few decent reporters but both hands would cover their numbers and leave some room.
Late in the day I saw that Tina tweeted her bloody support of Planned Parenthood's chief butcher by retweeting what you see below. Extreme and out of touch, Tina knows she's untouchable in this political and media environment. It makes her no less a disgusting human being, however.
Oh Look: Minnesota’s Abortion Barbie, a/k/a Lt Gov Smith, retweets lies from head of PP. What a very sick woman. pic.twitter.com/yG6FpaKiR6
— JohnGilmore (@Shabbosgoy) July 15, 2015
Mata Hari, or Who Is Sarah Walker?
I met Sarah Walker when Michael Brodkorb introduced me to her at The Bulldog in downtown St. Paul in the fall of 2012. That was another lifetime.
With her was Nancy Haas, who to this day is the only person I've met who is both an attorney and a police officer. I found that combination terrifying but she was extremely cordial and intelligent, smartly dressed and savvy.
So too was Walker. I got a brief background on her from her and we spent a couple of hours chatting about a range of things. Eventually I got it: when people overshare, especially upon first meeting, it takes you less time to know them. Indeed, you already do and at their insistence.
I exchanged cards with her and with Haas and that was the last I've seen of them. For awhile I followed Walker on Twitter @mnsecondchance until she blocked me for reasons unknown. Maybe it was after I published this?
Being blocked on Twitter never bothers me: I'm invariably polite (when I'm not I apologize) so I chalk it up to intellectual impotence and fear. And anger: endemic on the Left. Is there anything more tedious than an angry liberal? But unlike some scolds, I don't tell people how to tweet or blog (with the exception of those lost souls who think Twitter is a shortened version of Facebook).
Until recently most republican activists had never heard of Walker although they had every reason to: Walker is a professional Leftist and a good one, as far as that poisonous, dishonest, damaging trade goes. The Left in Minnesota is flush with money and it supports people like Walker who otherwise have no visible means of support. Alinsky in faux Chanel.
I say this with envy and not scorn because Minnesota republicans are naive, short sighted and without any sufficiently compelling ideology for them to create and maintain a political ecosphere that takes care of our own. It isn't only Norm Coleman who'd lobby for the Kingdom of Saud if given half a chance. Distressingly, it's the Right in Minnesota that falls over itself in order to sell itself out. How else to explain the corrosive influence of the Chamber?
Borg-like, Walker perfectly encapsulates a smarter, faster, more well funded and long term opposition in Minnesota. Meanwhile, republicans are left with an idiot donor class, incumbents at the statehouse who should be culled and activists who show no sign of not still being in high school. It's depressing.
Visit www.SarahCWalker.com and see for yourself. I was put in mind of a highly decorated USSR apparatchik but that's just the Solzhenitsyn in me. Sarah Walker is an extremist. The term will make some people laugh at me, the ones who think nothing of late term abortions.
Walker appears mostly window dressing on the public face of any far left damaging effort du jour. If she's a serious policy person I've missed it. Yet where is our Sarah Walker? We couldn't even nominate a woman to run against Al Franken. Still, republican eunuchs tut tut that we should ignore Walker. Why?
Imagine Congresswoman Betty McCollum, who instead of sleeping with one of her staff and then making an honest victim of sexual harassment on the job out of him by marrying him, sleeps with a well known, accomplished republican political operative, one whose physical traits are wildly mismatched to those of his lover?
Then, apropos of nothing, she starts voting and acting very much differently from her past, from her public positions on a number of issues. Trust me, the Deviation Thought Police of the totalitarian Left would be on her immediately, Ken Martin in charge, closely followed by the third rates minds at MPR. Her paramour would not go unscrutinized. There might be something there, there might not be. But to think they'd let that relationship go unexamined is sheer political ignorance, something of a sine qua non for Minnesota republicans lately.
You can mock those rubes in CD 6 because they wondered aloud about the influence of Sarah Walker on Tom Emmer through David FitzSimmons. You probably already have because you're oh so smart. She's just his girlfriend, say the stupidest republicans in the nation, here warehoused in Minnesota.
We're so outmatched.
Out of all the men in Minnesota, Sarah Catherine Walker fell in love with David FitzSimmons. What dumb blind fucking luck. Sheer coincidence, not at all calculated.
As Christopher Hitchens would say, having read one or another preposterous quotes from the Bible to an interlocutor,
"Well you're free to believe that."
Photo credit: Sarah Walker, Twitter.
Tom Emmer And The Politics of Betrayal
Like Norm Coleman, Tom Emmer has long been a politician whose position on any given issue of the day was available for purchase. Oddly, this is at bottom a neutral observation and is certainly applicable to any number of Minnesota democrat politicians. I'm not a democrat, however.
Since becoming a member of Congress--just this year but why does it seem longer?--Emmer has moved to ingratiate himself to the Republican House Congressional establishment with a speed that would impress Cardinal Richelieu. This caused some initial consternation amongst his supporters who, mystifyingly, thought him to be a man of principle despite ample evidence to the contrary. As a friend of mine remarked to me, look at what he said, and then at how he voted, when he was in the Minnesota House of Representatives. The past really is prologue.
Recently, however, Emmer has come under more sustained criticism for his cavalier and arrogant approach toward his constituents, whom, it must be said, he appears to hold in contempt. Why this is, frankly, is anyone's guess. My guess, my Occam's razor, is a guilty conscience. Feel free to hazard your own.
What has recently brought all of the discontent to something of a boil, however, is an unsigned editorial, for lack of a better word, from Alpha News, a recently launched conservative news outlet. Some have said that they don't like it because it might be a creation of Bob Cummins and lacks transparency. I don't know, nor particularly care, about either point. A new communications outlet on behalf of the right in Minnesota should be generally welcome. Of course, many of these same complainers will insist that ours needs to be a big tent party; the contradiction never occurs to them. This isn't to say, naturally, that Alpha News should be beyond criticism.
Its recent, attention-getting editorial constitutes a decent litany of the complaints and dissatisfactions of much of the activist base in Emmer's Sixth Congressional District. It can be, and should be, read by clicking here. Another friend pointed out to me the less than persuasive use of turnout numbers employed in the piece, and shared his opinion that Alpha News itself appears to be closely aligned with the Tea Party, which term has no meaning to me in Minnesota. On that point, however, I realize I'm in a minority.
Emmer stands accused of abandoning most of his conservative principles and rapidly. This can hardly be denied though others deflect to trivial issues in order to avoid that discussion. I've already expressed my thoughts in "Tom Emmer Goes To Washington" which can be read here. The Alpha News editorial is not substantially different although it contains more examples of Emmer's political betrayals. I'm struck by how many activists somehow don't think that his voters are entitled to feel resentment at this obvious bait and switch. Why on earth not?
On Twitter last night there was a fair amount of pearl clutching that Alpha News mentioned Emmer's chief of staff and his tiresomely liberal girlfriend. Seriously, we now have republican snowflakes? I thought we got those only amongst the repulsive social justice warriors on the left. I previously referred to this couple as Emmer's Chiefs of Staff and functionally they are. Additionally, the relationship is flaunted and traded on, so this is hardly some sort of invasion of privacy. There's absolutely nothing wrong in remarking on it, given that none of the comments I've made, or seen made by others, are ad hominem. People are looking to see who is influencing Emmer. This is called normal.
Last year I helped my friend Sheila Kihne run for the republican endorsement against Jenifer Loon, an out of touch liberal republican in the Minnesota House. Kihne and her supporters were roundly castigated for having the nerve to challenge an incumbent. I called this brain dead group think "Loonism," standing for the proposition that once a republican is elected, peon voters and pain in the ass activists had better just shut up and eat the dog food, no matter how objectionable the voting record of that incumbent. Staffers think this way because they're paid not to think but the rest of us rightly reject the premise of Loonism.
So too here with Tom Emmer the objection is made to the very act of criticism, the substance of the criticism being ignored, deflected or explained away mendaciously. No thanks, this isn't what republicans in Minnesota or anywhere in the country should countenance. Emmer was said to have lost his temper several times in his last constituent meeting, a sure sign he no longer views voters in his district as entitled to question or judge him. So much for his bullshit, well worn phrase "servant leadership."
This is all of a piece with Emmer. Remember the sanctimonious "First Principles" speech he gave in 2010 while running for the gubernatorial endorsement? The gullible and easily impressed ate it up while I could barely avoid throwing up on myself. Remember how he never congratulated Jeff Johnson after he was beaten by him for Republican National Committeeman in 2011? I do, I was there: he stormed out of the State Central Committee meeting thoroughly enraged.
Republicans in the Sixth will have to sort out amongst themselves how great their dissatisfaction with Tom Emmer truly is--what's passing and what's more permanent--and then decide what, if anything, to do about it. My own sense is that a Tea Party challenge would be a certain failure. But for others to complain that this discussion is taking place, which embodies the very nature of representative government, of the grass roots level of politics, is to mark themselves as sycophants.
Until yesterday I had no idea how great their number.
Photo credit: Amy Koch via Minn Post (clockwise from lower left to center: Amy Koch, Tom Emmer, Paul Thissen, Mayor Betsy Hodges, Franni Franken, Lt. Gov. Tina Flint Smith)
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Cornucopia has always had a section that does film and documentary production that can help educate or entertain to create interest on relevant subjects to the subject. We have for example done work for children projects, have been in planning for documentary production for health care needs for children, American Indians, as well as dramatic productions on contemporary subjects of interest.
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The President of Cornucopia Ent is Saneh Boothe, the Vice President, Ben Boothe. This organization has a "non profit" section and is considering participation in full feature film productions. Cornucopia has been in business for several years.
Saneh Boothe was the founder of the company and ownership is shared by her and her husband Ben. She says: "Working in film production as a producer has added so much depth and insight to the movie industry for me. I enjoy work that happens when we gather talented people and good creative ideas."
Saneh Boothe is a Board Member of Women in Film, a member of SAG AFTRA has participated in feature movies and also a co-producer for other charitable entities. Ben Boothe is producer for the BigSkyVoices series and through BootheGlobalPerspectives also embeds videos with an audience of several hundred thousand readers. If you need exposure, Let us do your documentary program!
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Third: Using a greenhouse. You can live on the edge of independence when powering your house with solar and/or wind energy, even in the most secluded places. You can live a stress free life producing energy and having access to natural well water and growing your fresh, organic food. We have always believed in treating our planet with respect.
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Miraculous recovery of a Comstock boy hit by an SUV
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Miraculous recovery of a Comstock boy hit by an SUV. (WWMT/File)
COMSTOCK TWP., Mich. —
An 8-year-old boy shows how a little determination and hard work can go a long way.
Xavier Gonzalez was hit by an SUV going 55 mph while he was riding his mini-bike on a road in Comstock in 2016 and had multiple critical injuries. His family feared his brain injury the most and how much it would impact his life.
His recovery since then has been nothing short of remarkable, because he is once again on the move and undeterred by special challenges he faces every day.
Anna Baker, Xavier’s grandmother, said, "It wasn't a typical brain injury. They said most brain injury people don’t look the same afterwards, he's always looked the same in his face.”
Xavier was enjoying a ride on his mini-bike two years ago, just moments before the accident that would change his life.
A teenage driver struck him with an SUV by accident as he was playing.
"We forgave him right then and there at the accident. I looked at him and I'm just like, 'It's OK. It's not your fault,'” Baker said.
Baker said Xavier had broken bones, a collapsed lung and a blood clot in his brain. Doctors put him in a medically induced coma for several weeks.
Baker said, "I couldn’t imagine doing anything else with my life right now except being here for him and watching him get better all of the time.”
There were months of therapy and eating through tubes. Xavier was left with permanent damage but hard work has him on a positive path. A trait that shines through in everything he does.
"They said at school he always wants to do the hardest thing and by himself. He's always pushing himself,” Baker said.
Looking for any opportunity to try something challenging, even getting back up on a motorbike.
"For him to have all his own motivation, I couldn't imagine trying to do it without that,” Baker said.
She said Xavier was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash and believes if he had been, he may not be dealing with brain injuries.
She hopes Xavier's story might help someone else out there have a little faith.
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Messier Marathon is a term describing the attempt to find as many Messier objects as possible in one night. Depending on the location of the observer, and season, there is a different number of them visible, as they are not evenly distributed in the celestial sphere. There are heavily crowded regions in the sky, especially the Virgo Cluster and the region around the Galactic Center, while other regions are virtually empty of them. In particular, there are no Messier objects at all at Right Ascensions 21:40 to 23:20, and only the very northern M52 is between RA 21:40 and 0:40. This chance effect leads, at considerably low northern latitudes on Earth (best around 25 degrees North), to the chance to observe all 110 Messier objects in one night! This opportunity occurs once every year, around mid- to end-March; the best time to try is of course when the Moon is near its new phase. For the upcoming years until 2100, we give best Messier Marathon dates here.
Note: Most Messier Marathoners accept NGC 5866 as M102, either in the account of historical evidence, or at least as substitute accepted for the Messier Marathon, and thus arrive at actually 110 different objects. We recommend to do so, but you decide what you want to do.
Note2: Referring to the objects M51B (NGC 5195) and M109B (NGC 3953): Virtually all observers of M51 will also see M51B. For the M109/M109B discussion, we propose to recognize as “score” either of the objects, M109 (NGC 3992) or M109B (NGC 3953), or certainly both.
Messier Marathon was invented independently by several North American (including Tom Hoffelder, Tom Reiland and Don Machholz) and perhaps one Spanish amateur astronomers and groups, in the 1970s. It was probably first on the night of March 23/24, 1985 that Gerry Rattley from Dugas, Arizona, completed the list and hunted down all 110 Messier Objects in one night; while he was the first to achieve this goal, it was only about one hour later that Rick Hull duplicated this success from Anza, California. This is, however, possible only under exceptionally good observing conditions, and at a preferred location. Anyway, some Messier Marathon tips may help to be [even] more successful with this endeavor, i.e., see one or a few objects more.
Meanwhile, a number of clubs started to hold more considerable Messier Marathon events, notably in Arizona. In 1981, the Saguaro Astronomy Club (SAC) held their first Messier Marathon with about 40 participants, the first in a row of meanwhile 27 events (as of 2015) sponsored by this club; Gerry Rattley’s first 110 objects success of 1985 happened on their fourth event. Since 1993, SAC sponsors the famous All Arizona Messier Marathons held annually near Arizona City and organized by A.J. Crayon. Other clubs throughout the world are also holding their Messier Marathon events semi-annually.
The complete Messier Marathon history can be found in Don Machholz’s booklet, The Messier Marathon Observer’s Guide (Machholz 1994), or its newer edition or successor, The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon (Machholz 2002), which moreover gives a most useful proposition for the search sequence. It also points out that less complete Messier Marathons may be run at every time in the year, the percentage depending on location and time.
Southerners may prefer other marathons. For the time around September each year, there is another 110-object marathon for mid-northern observers, the Messier Plus Marathon (compiled by Wally Brown and Bob Buckner). Experienced observers have compiled more massive lists for marathoning up to over 500 objects a night; Don Machholz reports that he hunted down 599 deep-sky splendors in one night!
Tom Polakis has investigated the observing window for finding all 110, depending on geographic latitude (Polakis 2006).
Since their invention, Messier Marathons had to face some opposition. As Don Machholz points out, the major complaint is that “rushing through a Messier [or other] list does not allow to study each” object seriously. However, as nothing prevents you from returning to them, and studying them with more time, in other nights, “such criticism can be ignored since the Messier Marathon is not designed for everyone. The critic can spend the night looking at a shorter list of wonders. A counterpoint to this resistance is that the Marathoner will see nearly all the Messier Catalogue in one night — many amateur astronomers [and even more professionals, believe me – hf :-)] never see the whole catalog in their whole lifetime. Additionally, one’s searching and locating skills, necessary in most aspects of astronomy, are sharpened during the Marathon. The benefit of seeing, in one night, the major building blocks of our Galaxy: open and globular clusters, diffuse and planetary nebulae, along with other galaxies, cannot be ignored. Finally, there is a satisfaction of working with others toward a common goal, and then finally achieving it [hopefully !].” Rumors say that there are some hardliners who feel the same satisfaction when they do it alone.
Marathons are of course enriched if other appealing celestial events can fill in the pauses which normally occur if you have hunted down everything you can at a time, and wait for the morning objects to rise. In 1997, the outstanding naked-eye comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995O1) gave an extraordinary spectacle exactly at Messier Marathon time in March and April, to celebrate the Messier Marathon’s 20th birthday, similar to 1996’s Hyakutake (C/1996B2). In 1998, there was no such bright comet, but a considerable supernova, SN 1998S in NGC 3877 (in Ursa Major), had timely occurred and brightened up to the 12th magnitude to enrich the Messier Marathon. In 2002, there occurred two remarkable add-ons just in time: the most remarkable supernova 2002ap occurred in M74 in late January, and comet C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) was discovered and brightened to naked-eye visibility in March and April! In 2006, supernova 2006X flashed up in M100 in early February, as for 2009 did SN 2008in in M61, in 2012 it was SN 2012aw in M95; these were all giving an interesting addition to the marathon. In 2013, bright comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) has delivered its show. In 2014, two supernovae have occurred in Messier galaxies: Bright SN 2014J in M82 and SN 2014L in M99. We don’t know in advance what extras will give future Messier Marathons additional value but intend to provide the relevant information here as soon as it is available. Check for more info on upcoming or current Messier Marathons: Messier Marathon 2018.
Another common extension of the Messier Marathon is to add a solar system marathon, i.e. to try to observe as many of the 8 planets besides Earth during the Messier Marathon night (e.g., 1999 to 2004 offered the opportunity to find all 8). 2006 to 2008 may have been the last opportunities to achieve the Nine-Planet goal; then Uranus and later Neptune will be too close to the Sun during Messier Marathon time for a considerable number of years, until about the 2040s, but there always remain some of them.
There have been several propositions to make the Messier Marathon more challenging for those who do it repeated times. An interesting proposition was brought to my attention by Tom Hoffelder one of the Messier Marathon inventors. He points out that he and his friend Greg Zentz, who has also completed a number of Marathons, came up with the idea of doing it completely from memory. This would mean no star charts or notes of any kind, only a list of the objects in order of search. They are thinking of trying it and calling it “M cubed” (Messier Memory Marathon). On March 29-30, 2003, Don Machholz was the first marathoner to achieve a more notable success in an “M cubed” marathon, as he hunted down as many as 108 Messier objects from memory without any further help. On March 25/26, 2004, it was again Don Machholz who successfully did the first full 110-object score in an “M cubed.” Marathoner and A.L. Master Observer Stephen Saber has also been running the M-Cubed for several years. His method adds the memorization of the entire search sequence.
Another interesting possibility is running a photographic Messier Marathon. This was, to our knowledge, first undertaken by Tim Hunter and Dan Knauss of Grasslands Observatory, Arizona in March 1988; see their report and photo album.
Messier Marathon Search Sequence
Here are the links to the Messier Marathon Search Sequence List in various formats, the sequence taken from Don Machholz’s book The Messier Marathon Observer’s Guide. Select the form you would like to view this list:
Messier Marathon Search Sequence List: with Icons, in text mode
Messier Marathon Search Sequence with Data [ascii; also available with Steven O’Meara’s data instead of ours]
Messier Marathon Search Sequence Short Sheet [ascii]
Messier Marathon Form (ASCII): Just fill in your observations/data
Slightly different sequences and other Messier Marathon related stuff have been published in recent years:
Phil Harrington’s Planning Your Messier Marathon page, containing the slightly different sequence which was printed in the March 1994 issue of Astronomy magazine.
Dawn Jenkins has made useful hints available how to hold a Messier marathon, and provided her own marathon sequence, as part of her general observing page.
David Levy, in his book The Sky: A User’s Guide (Levy 1991), also gives a slightly different sequence (which he quotes to Don Machholz and John Kerns); pp. 222-225 of his book contain this list together with his 1983 results.
Bill Ferris’ alternative observing sequence: Messier Marathon Search Sequence after Bill Ferris (extracted from archive)
Stephen Saber’s Messier Marathon from Memory (M-cubed) Search Sequence – [local copy transcript]
The best observing sequence may be particularly different for latitudes notably different from about 40deg North. We can offer an example:
Marathon Sequence for latitude 18.5 (contributed by Harshad Abhyankar, Pune, India)
More Messier Marathon Materials:
Best Messier Marathon dates to 2100 – Historic best dates since 1977
Some Messier Marathon tips
Other Messier Marathon Resources:
Tips on Participating in the Messier Marathon by John Barra
Stargazers Online Guide to the Messier Marathon, by Richard Bell
Dirk Panczyk’s German language Messier Marathon page
Bill Ferris’ Messier Marathon page (Dead Link!)
Messier Marathon Observing Window for a Perfect Score against Latitude, by Tom Polakis (Polakis 2006): Local archival copy
Stephen Tonkin offers a printable Messier Marathon Logsheet (PDF)
COAA (Algarve, Portugal) provides the Windows 3.x (up) program MESSMARA, which creates graphs and lists on which Messier objects can be seen from a particular location on a given night.
We collect actual Messier Marathon observer’s results!
All Reported Messier Marathon Results (since 1977)
Look at our All Reported Results Table!
Messier Marathon Eternal Hall of Fame – all reported Messier Marathon results with the full success of 110 observed Messier Objects!
A.J. Crayon has provided a comprehensive Analysis of Messier Marathons (derived from these results) – the 2015 update is available now!
Please notify me if you’d like to have your result/score/report/link/addition/correction to be added!
If you have observed all Messier objects, even not in one night all together, we encourage you to announce this fact on your homepage on the web. You are then granted the right to use a specific logo certifying that you have observed all 110 Messier objects.
David H. Levy, 1991. The Sky: a user’s guide. Cambridge University Press.
Don Machholz, 1994. Messier Marathon Observer’s Guide — Handbook and Atlas. PO Box 1716, Colfax, CA 95713 (USA).
Don Machholz, 2002. The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon. A Handbook and Atlas. Cambridge University Press. Second, enhanced and extended edition of Machholz (1994).
Tom Polakis, 2006. Messier Marathon Observing Window. Posted to the Yahoo group amastro on February 7, 2006.
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In our 5th year of celebrating our community's Education Champions, 24 hard-working Grand Erie residents were profiled.
Our Champions had to overcome obstacles on their journey. They had to find the confidence, mental determination, money and time to go back to school or pursue their learning goals. Like most adult learners, pursuing education for our Champions also required finding time to study while also supporting and raising a family. But they found a way.
Every Champion said the sacrifices they had to make was worth it - worth it for them and their families, since they became stronger through their experience.
The ‘Class of 2016’ demonstrate that finding the courage to try pays off.
“I made a promise that I would get my Grade 12."
“It was great to be a role model."
“I really pushed to get it done."
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“I feel a bit like a pioneer."
“It is so worth it in the end."
“I highly recommend going back to school."
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UBA Pro Basketball League Season 2 Awards Announced- Vinay Kaushik named MVP; finale action commences later today
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Gopal is an independent basketball writer based out of Bangalore whose articles have appeared in print publications such as Hindu Business Line, Fountain Ink and The Caravan. He also contributes to online platforms sportskeeda.com, tadpoles.in and The Alternative. Email: gopal@ekalavyas.com
Vinay Kaushik from Delhi Capitals named Season 2 Most Valuable Player (MVP)
All UBA Teams 1 & 2 announced
Former NBA Champion Joe Courtney also present
Game 1 of best-of-three finals between Chennai Slam (South Division) vs Delhi Capitals (North Division) will tip off from 7:00 pm onwards today at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium. This will be followed by Game 2 at 7:00 pm on 2nd April, and Game 3, the following day (if necessary).
Season 2 MVP Vinay Kaushik with former NBA Champion Joe Courtney.
Hyderabad, 1st April 2016: At a press conference earlier this afternoon at the Taj Deccan hotel in the city, the United Basketball Alliance (UBA) leadership have declared the All UBA first and second teams, and the Season MVP.
With the regular season having ended, and the first of the best-of-three finals between Chennai Slam and Delhi Capitals to be played later this evening, the UBA team took the opportunity to announce Vinay Kaushik from Delhi Capitals as Season 2 MVP.
The UBA officials at the press meet included Mr Todd Mack (Managing Director), Mr Michael Yanke (Chief Marketing Officer), Mr Jody Basye (Coaching Director), Mr Steve Graham (Executive Producer), Mr Paul Crane (Director of Broadcasting), Mr Praveen Reddy (Vice President-Operations) and former NBA champion Mr Joe Courtney. Mr Courtney, a 6ft 8 power forward from the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi State University, was a member of the legendary Michael Jordan led Chicago Bulls team when it claimed its first ‘three-peat’ in the 1992-93 NBA season.
Said Mr Courtney, “I would like to thank the UBA- all the people that made it happen, from the coaches, to the management and production teams. I give thanks to the game of basketball for allowing us the opportunity to be here today. Basketball crosses all lines- male, female, colours, generations. I would like to thank the dedication of the players and their passion and love, to be able to share their gift with us. [Now with the UBA] We are fortunate to have a good foundation and structure for basketball in India.”
Members of the Delhi Capitals (left) and Chennai Slam (right) teams before their best-of-three finale clash later this evening.
Speaking about the significance of UBA Season 2 and the journey ahead, Mr Yanke said, “We are so happy to bring Season 2 of the UBA to you. One of the accomplishments of Season 2 is that we brought live basketball for the first time in India. Where are going, the sky is truly the limit. We want to continue to improve, not just the players, but all of us behind the scenes. We want this League to be the absolute best.”
All UBA Teams 1 & 2
Mr Crane announced the All-UBA first and second team as follows:
First Team All-UBA
VINAY KAUSHIK, #30 Delhi Capitals
CHUKWUNANU AGU, #1 Chennai Slam
SIDDHANTH SHINDE, #15 Pune Peshwas
GAGANDEEP SINGH, #56 Mumbai Challengers
NARENDER GREWAL, #25 Pune Peshwas
Second Team All-UBA
MAHESH PADMANABHAN, #2 Hyderabad Sky
RAGHURAM, #21 Bengaluru Beast
AKILAN PARI, #20 Punjab Steelers
GOPAL RAM, #31 Chennai Slam
JAGDEEP BAINS, #6 Mumbai Challengers
GARRY, #1 Punjab Steelers
SOMVEER, #34 Bengaluru Beast
ASHUTOSH, #5 Chennai Slam
NIKHIL, #24 Mumbai Challengers
RANBIR, #9 Mumbai Challengers
HIMANSHU SHARMA, #17 Haryana Gold
KAIF ZIA, #46 Bengaluru Beast
VISU PALANI, #8 Bengaluru Beast
EDWIN, #27 Hyderabad Sky
AMRIT PAL SINGH, #12 Punjab Steelers
MVP award presentation
As this Season’s MVP, Kaushik was presented with the keys of a Hyosung GT 250R Sports Bike provided by Sheng Li Tel. The bike and MVP trophy will be handed over after the Championship finale.
Elated by the recognition, Kaushik said in his acceptance speech, “It’s really great. I have no words to say. Thank you to UBA for making it possible for me. I would like to thank my parents for making me reach here.”
“My favourite moment came from the playoffs against Mumbai. The second match of the playoffs was the best. My team trusts me a lot and give me a lot of confidence.”
From L to R- UBA Leadership team of Paul Crane, Praveen Reddy, Steve Graham, Joe Courtney, Michael Yanke, Todd Mack and Jody Basye.
Describing the achievements of Vinay Kaushik this season, the UBA leadership team noted:
Vinay Kaushik led the Delhi Capitals in scoring, averaging 18.7 points per game, which was the fifth highest average in all the UBA, but Vinay did so much more than just score. He led the league’s most balanced offense which clearly put “team success” above “individual statistics.” It is no coincidence the Capitals finished with the best record in the league (6-1) and have made their way to the Championship Finals.
When Delhi found itself in its tightest game, against the Haryana Gold on 23 March in Hyderabad, Vinay was not having a big scoring night. The game was tied 66-66 and with time running out it was Vinay who scored the game winning basket as the final buzzer sounded. A leader who never wilted under pressure turned what could have been an off night in to one of the most memorable moments of the season.
Then in the playoffs after losing Game 1 of the North Division series to the Mumbai Challengers, the Capitals were facing elimination each of the next two games. When Mumbai took a six-point lead to the 4th quarter of Game 2 and built that lead to ten points, it looked like the Capitals’ season might come to an end… until Vinay Kaushik willed his team to a win. Vinay scored 15 points in the 4th quarter alone, including his making six straight free throws, he had 21 points in the game, as Delhi won 72-61 to force a decisive Game 3.
With a trip to the championship finals at stake in Game 3, it was another close game in to the final quarter where Vinay not only scored seven critical points but had a game-changing blocked shot with 3:00 to play. Despite playing with four fouls, Vinay’s athletic, leaping-while-running-from-behind block shifted all the momentum to the Capitals. Vinay finished with 16 points in a 78-69 win that lifted the Delhi Capitals to the UBA Championship series.
Vinay Kaushik’s play throughout the season and in the playoffs has earned him the UBA’s Most Valuable Player Award.
UBA’s Chief Marketing Officer Michael Yanke addresses the gathering as former NBA Champion Joe Courtney looks on.
About the UBA Pro Basketball League
The UBA Pro Basketball League is structured on a league cum knockout basis. Season 2 is being held in two phases: 18 to 28 Feb in Pune (Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex) followed by 23 March to 3 April in Hyderabad (Gachibowli Stadium). There are eight teams in total divided into two divisions: Pune Peshwas, Delhi Capitals, Haryana Gold, Punjab Steelers (North division) and Chennai Slam, Mumbai Challengers, Bengaluru Beast and Hyderabad Sky (South division). Chennai Slam won the inaugural season last year with Pune Peshwas finishing second.
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About United Basketball Alliance India Pvt. Ltd.
The United Basketball Alliance (UBA India) is a next-generation sports branding company. Its main objective is to make sport brands mean something to their sport viewers. To do that, UBA helps brands connect with viewers by providing insight-driven ideas across all media platforms. With respect to its Pro Basketball League, UBA India has already secured primetime television broadcasting arrangements with the Ten Sports Network, and is securing corporate sponsorships for tournament play, and creating merchandising opportunities.
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*Report by Vishnu Ravi Shankar. Images by Anukriti Bishen. Edits & upload by Gopalakrishnan R Hyderabad, 23rd March 2016: The second and final leg of the United Basketball Alliance (UBA) Pro Basketball League 2016, tipped off at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium earlier today with Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Challengers posting wins. Popular Hindi film […]
UBA Indian Pro Basketball League Season 2 Day 3: Pune Peshwas win at home, Delhi goes 2-0
*Report by Vishnu Ravi Shankar & images by Dulon Kharsati; with inputs from Gopalakrishnan R. Pune, 20th February 2016: The second season of the United Basketball Alliance (UBA) Pro Basketball League witnessed Day 3 action at the Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in the city. Pune Peshwas (south division) and Delhi Capitals (north division) […]
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UBA Pro Basketball League Season 2, Hyderabad Leg- Day 8 Delhi Capitals & Chennai Slam set up summit clash
*Report by Vishnu Ravi Shankar. Images by Anukriti Bishen, with inputs from Gopalakrishnan R Hyderabad, 30th March 2016: Delhi Capitals and Chennai Slam have progressed to the finals of the United Basketball Alliance (UBA) Pro Basketball League Season 2 that is underway at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium. Versatile Telugu actor Taraka Ratna, known to […]
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Bengaluru, 19 September 2015: The final 12 member Indian senior men’s squad under the helm of Head Coach Sat Prakash is all set to participate in the 28th FIBA Asia Men’s Championship that will be held in Changsha, China from 23rd September to 3rd October 2015. The players, along with the coaching staff, were […]
UBA Pro Basketball League Season 2, Hyderabad Leg- Day 5 Mumbai Challengers & Pune Peshwas through to semis
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Sunday – July 13th, 2014 India 65 58 China FINAL. INDIA WINS! Video credits: FIBA Venue: Wuhan Sports Centre Gymnasium, Wuhan (China). Entry is Paid. *Box scores are updated very two minutes. Please refresh page for latest scores. FINAL India 24 33 48 65 65 China 11 31 50 58 58 Wuhan, China: Ladies and gentlemen, and […]
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How a professional basketball league could revolutionize hoops in India
Sure, there’s some power to positive thinking. If you say something enough times, it can come true, or at least, you’d start to believe that it’s true. But until the day scientists refine our genes to give all of us psychokinetic powers, no amount of thinking or talking will equate to any physical results, till […]
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10 Life Lessons Basketball Teaches You
Basketball has played a major role in shaping the person I am today. While most people generally believe that sports only teach you how to win games or be physically strong, I believe sports have a far greater impact on your life. They help you develop real-world skills that can be applied to all areas […]
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Mr BIG SHOT- Joginder Singh Saharan
An abridged version of this profile first appeared in the Tadpoles magazine. That post that be accessed here. “STAR OF THE DAY!” screamed the sports section of Times of India in an article dated January 28, 2014. The previous evening, India had played Angola in the basketball finals of the Lusofonia International Games in Goa. […]
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5th FIBA Asia Cup: Philippines survive a brave Indian comeback to win 70-66
Thursday – July 17th, 2014 India 66 70 Philippines FINAL. PHILIPPINES WINS. Video credits: FIBA Venue: Wuhan Sports Centre Gymnasium, Wuhan (China). Entry is Paid. FINAL India 17 33 47 66 66 Philippines 20 45 60 70 70 Wuhan (China): The Philippines did most of their good work in the first half – but as the […]
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Leinsters Schools Track and Field Championship Day 2
by Roisin Bell , May 21, 2018
It was the Senior and Intermediate Secondary School Athletes who were in action on day 2 of the Leinsters Schools Track and Field Championship held in Morton Stadium, Santry on Saturday 19th May 2018. For the second Athletics meet in a row we had sunshine and with no breeze this time around conditions were near perfect.
Philip Thornton was Dunboyne AC’ s first competitor in action as he entered the throwing circle in the Intermediate boys Shot Putt competition. Having bulked up over the winter Philip was able to convert his new found strength into distance as he took gold with a 13m plus throw. He was equally as entertaining when receiving his medal on the podium as he threw the spectators a few waves that would have been more suitable for the Royal Wedding. He was repeating the phrase ‘Top-dog’ to echo his success to his brother who was competing later on that day as he reckoned that he was now his parents’ favourite – but we all know only All Ireland medals get children up the pecking order with the folks- so no pressure on the 2nd of June in Tullamore at the All Irelands.
Also competing in the Intermediate age group was Kate Reilly, who was taking part in the girls Triple Jump. Kate improved on her West Leinsters Jumps and qualified for the second round of competition to earn a further two jumps. Kate finished a very respectful sixth place overall in her first year competing in this age group.
The final competitor in action in the Intermediate events was Tadhg O Muircheartaigh who wore the Maynooth Community College colours in his Javelin competition. Tadhg had a bit of competition for a change in this specialised event, being only in his first year at this age grouping. Tadhg came up with an impressive 55m plus throw to take top spot on the podium and put Dunboyne AC’S Leinster Crown tally at four
Jack Nyhan who has been going very well in training of late had a very frustrating day in the senior Shot Putt. He finished in fourth a few centimetres out of the medals, with none of his throws going the way he had technically planned. He was close to two meters short of his training throws which would have guaranteed him top spot, but it was one of those days where the body and mind we out of sync.
Next in action on the final day of the schools’ provincial meet was Thomas Thornton who was in action in the Senior Long Jump. Thomas had his smirking brother in the crowd jeering him as he competed in the sunshine, but still manage to get a few good jumps in with a best just shy of six meters – good enough to claim bronze, but not the family bragging rights this time around.
Last of the Dunboyne AC Senior athletes in action was Belvedere College’s Evan Mitchell who was in magnificent form as he had two meters to spare as he claimed his latest Leinster Title in the Hammer Competition to add to his recent 2018 Meath Junior title and his highly ranked now for the National Finals in early June. Evan’s victory brought Dunboyne AC’s overall Leinster Crown tally to 5 , it’s best in many a year at school level.
Well done to all and to their teachers and coaches.
Categories: Club News, Fit4Youth News & Reports
Roisin Bell
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East Coast Starz Kids Walk the Runway for CCandy™ in Yankee Stadium
East Coast Starz, a leading producer of fashion experiences for children, teamed with CCandy™ by Outerstuff, Ltd,™ a unique and fun fashion forward sports clothing line for kids by Amber Sabathia, to produce a one-of-a-kind fashion show at the Yankee Stadium.
The fashion show took place during the pre-game entertainment before the Yankees-Royals game on Saturday, September 6, 2014. Young models, ages 3-13, walked a “runway” of grass to showcase CCandy’s cool and spunky fashions. East Coast Starz kids modeled alongside children of Yankees players including CC Sabathia, Brett Gardner, David Robertson, Carlos Beltran, Chase Headley, Chaz Roe, Rich Hill, Josh Outman, David Phelps and Yankee’s PR man, Jason Zillo. All models were featured on the Stadiums state of the art 103 x 58 foot HD scoreboard.
CCandy’s 2015 line was previewed by the East Coast Starz kids in front of a near sold out crowd at Yankee Stadium. “We are proud and happy to have our kids walk the runway in Yankee Stadium. It’s an American dream come true for these children,” said Lauren Handler, Co-Director of East Coast Starz. “We always say that the runway builds confidence, and it was heartwarming to see these kids prove our point by walking out to the field and proudly presenting CCandy in front of thousands of people.”
“We are thrilled to team with Amber Sabathia and CCandy,” said Stacie Fitzgerald, Co-Director of East Coast Starz. “CCandy’s fashions,fun and creative attitude is a great fit with East Coast Starz. Our kids love modeling CCandy because these are the type of fashions they would choose for themselves.”
“The kids at East Coast Starz are adorable and they wear CCandy with the fun and a little bit of sass that it’s meant to be. We love teaming with them,” said Amber Sabathia, creator and designer of CCandy.
About East Coast Starz
East Coast Starz is a program created to help both parents and children become educated and involved in the fashion industry. The program holds two competitions events a year and a variety of runway shows. The show allows children between the ages of 2-16 to discover and bring out their inner star qualities so they can shine brighter on the outside. We build up the self-confidence in children and pave their road to success. We bring in top NYC agents, managers and scouts to sign new talent and start careers. We invite designers and stars to talk to the girls, inspiring them that dreams can come true. We believe that the runway builds confidence, and strengthens a child’s self-esteem in her most important formative years. Additionally, our program provides a venue for girls to share common interests and lifelong friendships.
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HKTB appoints new regional director for the Americas
2007-06-07 01:40:00 SINA English
The handout photo released by HKTB shows Bill Silvermintz, HKTB's regional director of the Americas. (Photo: SINA English/HKTB handout)
LOS ANGELES, Jun 6 -- The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) headquarters in Hong Kong recently announced the appointment of William Silvermintz as Regional Director ― The Americas, effective June 4.
In his new role, Silvermintz will formulate and direct the HKTB's marketing strategies throughout the region, contribute to the Board's overall global planning, maintain the strong trade-partner network in the region, develop high-yield business, and act as the HKTB's key regional spokesman with the media, trade and other bodies.
"Just as actors and actresses aspire to work with top directors, those of us promoting tourism hope one day to work with one of the world's pinnacle destinations," Silvermintz said. "With its incredibly varied sightseeing, unrivalled epicurean experience, a Convention Center ready for the most complex of conferences, unmatched shopping ― from open air markets
to custom tailoring to designer fashions ― and visitor satisfaction ratings unduplicated anywhere in the world, I am honored that Hong Kong has afforded me the opportunity to promote this amazing world class destination in the Americas."
Silvermintz has more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience in the hospitality and travel industries. Before joining the HKTB, he worked four years for the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA), and has had extensive experience in tourism destination marketing. As well as managing their regional marketing programs, he supervised the BTA's regional sales and
marketing teams in the United States and Canada.
The Americas, which includes the United States, Canada, South and Central America, is Hong Kong's major long haul market region. It accounted for more than 1.6 million or 6.6% of total visitor arrivals in 2006, an increase of 4.2% over the previous year. During the first four months of 2007, arrivals from the region grew by 7.3% to more than 560,000.
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Swallowed toys, coins, batteries spark rise in tot ER visits
A study published Friday, April 12, 2019 in the journal Pediatrics found a sharp increase in emergency room visits involving swallowed objects by kids under age 6.
((Bruce Lipsky/The Florida Times-Union via AP))
The number of young kids who went to U.S. emergency rooms because they swallowed toys, coins, batteries and other objects has more than doubled, a new study says.
In 2015, there were nearly 43,000 such visits among kids under 6, compared with 22,000 in 1995, according to the study published Friday in the journal Pediatrics. The rate jumped from almost 10 per 10,000 ER visits to 18 per 10,000.
HOSPITAL STAFF ERRORS WITH GOWNS AND GLOVES SPREAD ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA
The increase “rang some alarms,” said Dr. Danielle Orsagh-Yentis, the lead author and a gastrointestinal physician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Orsagh-Yentis noted that an increasing number of consumer products use potentially dangerous button-sized batteries, including TV remotes, digital thermometers and remote-controlled toys, which likely contributed to the increase.
She said her interest in studying the trend began during her training, “when we were all being called in in the middle of the night at odd hours to remove foreign bodies from either the esophagus or stomachs of children.”
Her research team analyzed a nationwide database of non-fatal emergency room visits for children younger than age 6. Almost 800,000 children were treated during the study years after swallowing foreign objects. Coins, batteries and toys accounted for most of the visits.
COUPLE SHOCKED BY SURPRISE BABY AFTER GOING TO HOSPITAL FOR ‘KIDNEY STONES’
While 90% of treated children were sent home without hospitalization, severe internal injuries and deaths have been reported. Batteries and small high-powered magnets often marketed as desk toys for adults are among the most dangerous objects.
When kids swallow more than one powerful magnet, the objects can attract each inside the intestines, boring holes into the abdomen that can lead to life-threatening blood poisoning.
In recent years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued safety warnings and orders to stop sales of some magnets, citing dozens of hospitalizations and at least one toddler death.
The agency also has warned about dangers from button-sized batteries, which when swallowed can trigger a chemical reaction that can burn holes through tissue inside the throat.
Children who swallow batteries or magnets may vomit or complain of abdominal pain. They “should be brought to the emergency room as quickly as possible,” Orsagh-Yentis said.
Morag Mackay of Safe Kids Worldwide, an injury prevention advocacy group, called for more research to understand why the incidents are on the rise. She said parents and caregivers need to be vigilant.
“Try to see the world from a child’s point of view by getting on the floor so that you are at your child’s eye level. Keep small objects such as coins, batteries, magnets, buttons or jewelry out of reach and sight,” Mackay said.
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Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1776-1783
All collectionsRevolutionary Era broadsides, 1776-1783Abraham Lincoln ManuscriptsAlbum of photographs of window and store displays, New York City, circa 1940-1959American ManuscriptsAutobiography of Luis de Carvajal the YoungerBenjamin Segan letters, 1943-1945Boys' Club of New York photographic negativesBurr McIntosh Photograph Collection, 1898-1910Caleb Smith photograph collection, 2001Cass Gilbert Presentation DrawingsCivil War CollectionsHighlights from the Drawing CollectionHighlights from the Painting CollectionHighlights from the Photograph CollectionsHighlights from the Sculpture CollectionJames Reuel Smith springs and wells photograph collection, 1893-1902Jessie Tarbox Beals photograph collection, circa 1905-1940Manuscripts Relating to SlaveryN-YHS Digital CollectionsNew-York Historical Society QuarterlyNorvin H. Green collection of elevated railroad photographs, circa 1890-1910, 1937-1941Photographs of New York City and BeyondRobert L. Bracklow photograph collection, 1882-1918 (bulk 1896-1905)Witness to the Early American Experience
Dated: July 24, 1778., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Connecticut.
Continues: whereupon it is resolved, by this assembly, that the sum of one hundred pounds be paid out of the public treasury, of this colony, to the person or persons that shall erect proper works and fats, for the making and manufacturing common salt ..., Offering bounties for the manufacture of salt. Signed: A true copy of record, examined by George Wyllys, sec'ry., Ascribed, by Evans, to the press of Timothy Green of New London; but more likely printed at Hartford. Not in Johnson, H.A. New London., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a general meeting of the Committee of Mechanicks, at Mrs. Van Dyke's, the 27th December, 1783.
Listing 15 candidates for the New York Legislature., "Signed by order of the chairman, Richard Kip, jun. sec'ry.", Names separated by vertical ornamental rule., N-YHS copy inscribed on verso: McDougall; fabric lining.
At an adjourned town meeting, holden at Norwich, in Connecticut, on the 29th day of March, 1779.
"To the freemen, and other inhabitants of the state of Connecticut. Gentlemen, We, the freemen and other inhabitants of the town of Norwich, beg leave to ask your attention to the present mode of taxation in this state, at a time which, above all others, calls for equal justice in apportioning the burden of public taxes. We also beg your attention to another mode which we shall by and by propose ...", "A true copy of record, examined by Benjamin Huntington, Jun. town clerk. the above forwarded to the Selectmen of the town of [blank] by order of the town, Samuel Tracy, Zabdiel Rogers, Thomas Hyde, Jun. Samuel Lovett, Nehemiah Waterman, jun. Selectmen"., N-YHS copy damaged along creases, with slight loss of text; ink stains; fabric lining.
By His Excellency George Clinton, Esq; governor of the state of New-York, general of the militia, and admiral of the navy of the same. A proclamation.
Overtures intended to confirm and clarify title to disputed lands originally granted by Massachusetts or New Hampshire and occupied by tenants in Albany, Charlotte (i.e. Washington), Cumberland, and Gloucester Counties in New York, the latter two counties ultimately ceasing to exist after Vermont declared itself a republic. Additionally warns that claims to properties will not be recognized by tenants acknowledging "any allegiance or subjection to the pretended state of Vermont.", N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, knight of the most honourable Order of Bath, lieutenant general of his Majesty's forces, &c. Proclamation.
Royal arms at head of title., Concerns the price of grain in New York., Dated: Given under my hand at the city of New-York, the 20th day of December, 1777, in the eighteenth year of his Majesty's reign., Signed: Henry Clinton, Lieut. Gen., Type ornament band., Watermarks: [Britannia] J Taylor., Library copy imperfect: fragments brought together and silked; some text affected., Wood-block cracked through lion., Library copy stamped on back: Tomlinson collection--Deposited by Mercantile Library Association.
By His Excellency William Tryon, Esq; captain general and governor in chief, in and over the province of New-York ... A proclamation.
Signed: Wm. Tryon. By His Excellency's command, Sam. Bayard, Jun. d. secry. God save the King., Imprint from Evans., Royal arms at head of title., Watermark: crown over "GR.", N-YHS copy: wood block split in half; fabric lining.
Carrier's address to the generous subscribers of the Independent journal.
A carriers' address for the "Independent journal, or, The general advertiser", published in New York from 1783 to 1788., Poem in 34 lines; first line: Time posting on with full career., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Catalogus recentium, in Collegio-Yalensi, MDCCLXXXI.
Imprint supplied by Evans., Text in two columns., N-YHS copy: closely trimmed; fabric lining.
Chester, the 7th day of April, 1780.
Signed: Bezaleel Seely, Jun. To Nath'l. Sacket, Esq., Followed by: From this letter it evidently appears, that there is a side, and that there are principles--what this side and these principles are, none can be at a loss to determine--the public may be assured, that that worthy disinterested patriot, Judge Yates, has publicly disavowed an intention to offer himself as a candidate for the government ..., From the typeface and sizes, the printer was probably John Holt. The only other printer outside of New York City at this time was Samuel Loudon in Fishkill., N-YHS copy: the word "evidently" in "The above letter is evidently genuine ..." is crossed out in ink.
Committee chamber, New-York, January 10, 1776.
First part signed: By order of the Committee, Corn. P. Low, chairman, p.t., Followed by: To the inhabitants of New-York. Signed: Lucius., Imprint from Evans., N-YHS copy with holograph signature of John M'Kesson; fabric lining.
Committee-chamber, New-York, April 13th 1776.
Followed by a list of twenty-one names in three columns., One of 4 different tickets issued for this election., Imprint from Evans.
Cruel murder; or A Mournful poem.
Text within mourning border; verse in two columns divided by type ornament rule., N-YHS copy imperfect: damaged along creases, with slight loss of text; fabric lining.
Few lines composed on the Dark Day, of May 19, 1780.
Verse in twenty-two numbered stanzas; first line: Let us adore, and bow before, the sovereign Lord of might., The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57., Text in two columns; printed area measures 29.5 x 15.2 cm. With printers' ornaments separating title from text and at the foot of the second column. In the present edition, the title appears in two lines, the second beginning with the word "of.", N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
From the Bristol gazette of October 10, 1782.
The resignation speech of the mayor of Bristol, England., Evans entry omits "of October 10, 1782" from title, and erroneously identifies Cruger as the mayor of New York. Shipton & Mooney erroneously identify the author as John Cruger, mayor of New York 1756-1765., Imprint from Evans., Watermarks: Britannia., N-YHS copy 2 inscribed: "Walton Livingston Oakley from his dear Grandmama Matilda C. Cruger Oakley".
In Committee of Safety for the state of New-York. Fish-kill, Jan. 6, 1777.
Signed: Extract from the minutes. Robert Benson, sec'ry., Calling for the reporting of monies collected in fines local and military officials., Samuel Loudon printed at Fishkill, N.Y. in 1777.
In Committee of Safety for the state of New-York. Kingston, March 1, 1777.
Fifteen resolves concerning local elections, debt and debtors, and the fixing of grain prices., Signed: Extract from the minutes, Robert Benson, sec'ry., Ascribed to the press of Samuel Loudon by Evans., Text in three columns., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
In Congress, April 14, 1779.
Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary., N-YHS copy inscribed on verso: "Gen. Gates"; in another hand, "Resolve of Congress, dated 14th April, 1779"; fabric lining.
In Congress, July 4, 1776.
"Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, sec'ry.", Text printed in two columns, 70 lines in first., Watermark: A Rogge., Rehoused; mylar encapsulation., Conserved; washed; dry-cleaned; resized; deacidified-aqueous.
"Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary.", Watermark: Strassburg bend and lily over "GR.", N-YHS copy presented by Lucius Wilmerding. Cf. NYHS Quarterly 32 (1948).
In Congress, May 2, 1780.
Signed on p. [2]: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary., Originally published: Philadelphia : David Claypoole, 1780., Imprint from Livingston. Probably printed about the end of April, 1781. Cf. Livingston, L.S. Franklin and his press at Passy, p. 84-86., Footnote to first article of text, at bottom of p. [1]: *This exception is taken away by an ordinance of Congress, of March the 27th, 1781, which see.
In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 20, 1776.
Four resolutions prescribing the required loyalty oath and the means of disarming those who refuse to take the oath., Signed: Extract from the minutes, Robert Benson, secretary., Imprint from Evans., Watermark: "IV".
In Provincial Congress, New-York, May 31, 1776.
Three resolutions concerning elections and the determination of a new government for the state of New York., Signed: Extract from the minutes, Robert Benson, sec'ry., Imprint from Evans., Two states noted, line 33, A: "whereas it appears of right ..."; B: "whereas it appertains of right ...", Watermark: Strasburg lily over "GR.", Library holds 2 copies. Copy 1 state A with "appears" crossed out and "appertains" written above in ink; right hand margin damaged, slight loss of text., Rehoused; mylar encapsulation., Conserved; dry cleaned; washed; resized; deacidified-aqueous.
Meditations on death.
Printed in two columns divided by wide black rule., Printed area measures: 30.5 x 12.0 cm., Poem in 36 numbered four-line stanzas., First line: The Lord Jehovah reigns on high., Imprint supplied by Evans. Recorded as a New London imprint by Trumbull and Wegelin, but not recorded by Hazel Johnson in her Checklist of New London, Connecticut, imprints, 1709-1800., N-YHS copy inscribed: Mary Tanners[?] verses given her by her Mammaa Lydia Pierson Killingworth. April the 21st 1813; fabric lining.
New-York, April 16, 1776.
Followed by list of names including Jacobus Van Zant, William Denning, Isaac Roosevelt, and eighteen others., One of 4 different tickets issued for this election. Cf. Becker.
New-York, April 16, 1776. Extract of a letter from John Jay, Esq.
Concerning the dispute over the manner of appointing delegates to the Continental Congress., Evans title puts date at end.
New-York, theatre, 1782.
Signed: H. Beaumont, E. Williams, Geo. Vallancey, Am. D'Aubant, managers., Imprint from Evans., Printed in two columns., Watermark: arms of England, script "JH"., N-YHS copy has additional sums in ms.; inscribed: "Gift of Henry Laight Esqr. 30 Nov. 1812"; right hand margin damaged, with slight loss of text.
Newport, April 17, 1783.
Southwick was the printer of the work as subsequently published., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
News carrier, to the generous customers of the New Hampshire gazette. A New Year's wish.
Verse in eight numbered stanzas; first line: Around the circling year has whirl'd.
News-carriers address, to his customers. January 1st, 1782.
Carrier's address for unspecified newspaper. Presumably printed late in 1781 for delivery on or about New Year's Day., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Oppression: a poem. Or, New-England's lamentation of the dreadful extortion and other sins of the times.
Verse in twenty-seven stanzas; first line: Come all you friends to goodness, I pray you to attend., Dated [1765] by Evans. However, the theme of extortion suggests to Ford and others that the poem was written about 1777 when this evil was a topic of common concern in the colonies. Cf. Winslow, Ola E. American broadside verse ... New-Haven, 1930, no. 89., Woodcuts are the same as those used frequently by Ezekiel Russell who was located at Salem, Mass., in 1776 and early 1777. In February or March, 1777, Russell moved his printing office to nearby Danvers, Mass., The two woodcuts show an astronomer examining the heavens with a cross staff, accompanied by an armillary sphere, compasses, etc., and a town with lightning overhead., Text in two columns divided by single rule., N-YHS copy: closely trimmed, torn, with slight loss of text; fabric lining.
Peace. Salem, February 21, 1783.
Announcing that the preliminaries of peace were signed at Versailles Dec. 2 [i.e., Nov. 30], 1782., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Plan for establishing a national bank, for the United States of North-America
Followed by the resolves of Congress, dated May 26, 1781, approving the plan, and explanations., Signed and dated: Robert Morris. Philadelphia, May 28, 1781., At foot: We, the subscribers, having read the above plan ... sign our names, and opposite thereto, affix the number of shares for which we subscribe ..., Text in three columns., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Postscript to the New-York packet, of May 14, 1778.
Extracts from proceedings of Parliament for March 1778 concerning France's treaty with America, and other news from London., Printed in three columns., N-YHS copy: closely trimmed; fabric lining.
Proclamation.
Signed: Thomas M'Kean, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary., Followed by: By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull ... A proclamation. I have thought fit ... and do hereby appoint, the thirteenth day of December next ... as a day of thanksgiving and prayer ... Given under my hand in Lebanon, this twenty-second day of November ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one ..., Evans supplies title: By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull ... A proclamation; and enters under the heading for Connecticut., Printed area measures 37.6 x 21.8 cm.
Proclamation. Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God the Father of all mercies.
Signed: Samuel Huntington, president. Attest, Charles Thomson, see'ry [sic]., Followed by: By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor, captain-general and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut, in America. ... I ... do hereby appoint Thursday the seventh day of December next, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer ... Given under my hand, in the Council chamber at Hartford, this second day of November, 1780 ... Jonathan Trumbull., Ascribed to the press of Timothy Green of New London by Evans, but not listed in H.A. Johnson's Checklist of New London imprints., N-YHS copy has manuscript note at foot of page: "My soul doth magnify the Lo[rd]"; fabric lining.
Scale of depreciation.
Table includes rates from January 1777 through February 1781., Textually and typographically similar to Bristol B5369., Printed area measures 27.3 x 16.5 cm., N-YHS copy: manuscript annotations on verso; ink stamp: "Tomlinson Collection--Deposited by the Mercantile Library Association".
Sir, By virtue of the authority vested in us by certain resolutions of the Congress of the colony of New-York, of the [blank] day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1776, reciting, that whereas there are in this colony, divers persons, who ... have been co
Bristol imprint "Fish-Kill, S. Loudon" incorrect. Printed in New York, probably by John Holt., N-YHS copy addressed in ms. "To Mr. Solomon Fowler at East Chester", summoning him to appear at the City Hall, New York, on July 4th; dated and signed in ms. at end: "Dated the Twenty Seventh day of June 1776. Leonard Gansevort. Phil. Livingston. Thomas Tredwell. Lewis Graham. Gouv. Morris. Thos. Randall".
Some observations relating to the establishment of schools.
"Signed on behalf of the committee by Anthony Benezet, Isaac Zane. 29th 9th month, 1778. The foregoing proposals are earnestly recommended to the attention and care of Friends ... agreeable to a minute of the Yearly-Meeting, dated 10 month 2d, 1778, and herewith sent. James Pemberton, clerk of said meeting this year."--p. 2., Proposals regarding the funding and establishment of schools by the Society of Friends., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Speech of William Tr--n, Esq; who was executed on Thursday the 18th of March, 1776.
Imprint from Evans., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
St. Tammany Society, no. [blank.] This is to certify, that [blank] is a member of the Society of the Sons of St. Tammany.
N-YHS copy: blank form completed in manuscript, certifying Mr. John Pintard, dated May 1, 1786; affixed embossed seal of the Society; fabric lining.
State of Connecticut, in America. To [blank] constable of [blank] and collector of the state tax for said town, for the year 1780, greeting.
Signed: Dated at Hartford, the 21st day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1780. [blank] treasurer., Title vignette., N-YHS copy filled out in manuscript to Mr. David Baldwin of Canterbury, in the amount of five hundred and seventy-six pounds, two shillings and three pence, and signed by John Lawrence; fabric lining.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 6, 1777.
Ordering the voters in the towns to renew the appointments mentioned., "In Council, February 7, 1777. Read and concurred. ...", Ascribed to the press of Benjamin Edes by Cushing., N-YHS copy: fabric lining., Online version available via the Witness to the Early American Experience website,
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5, 1777.
"In Council, May 5, 1777. Read and concurred. ...", Imprint supplied by Evans., Printed area measures 28.4 x 13.1 cm., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
State of New-York.
Concerns plans to discourage the depreciation of currency in New York via taxes and loans., Dated: Poughkeepsie, July 24th, 1779. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Bristol., N-YHS copy: left edge mutilated, not affecting text; edited in manuscript; copious manuscript annotations in the text and on verso; ink stamp: Tomlinson collection--deposited by Mercantile Library Association.
This indenture witnesseth, that [blank] hath put [blank]self, and by these presents doth voluntarily, and of h[blank] own free will and accord [blank] put and bind h[blank]self apprentice to [blank] to learn the art, trade or mistery [blank] after the man
Dated: ... the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty [blank], and the [blank] year of American independence., Indenture form., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
To the Whig mechanicks of the city and county of New-York.
In opposition to the election of men who will pardon the Tories., Signed: A battered soldier., John Holt was the state printer.
To the citizens of New-York.
Listing nine candidates for the New York Legislature., Signed: Mercator., Type ornament rule above imprint., N-YHS copy has name in manuscript: "McDougall".
To the electors of the city of New-York.
Listing 18 candidates for the New York Legislature., Signed: A citizen. New-York, Dec. 26, 1783., Type ornament rule above imprint., N-YHS copy has manuscript emendations indicating the 9 winners; on verso in manuscript: "McDougall".
To the electors of this city at large.
Concerning the upcoming election., Signed and dated: Cincinnatus. New-York, December 23, 1783., Imprint below type ornament rule., N-YHS copy has manuscript note: "McDougall"; fabric lining.
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The Human Brain: The Unsaleable Commodity
Technology has always replaced humans
“If, then, man’s principal asset and value is his brain and his ability to calculate, he will become an unsaleable commodity in an era when the mechanical operation of reasoning can be done more effectively by machines.”
The philosopher, Alan Watts, wrote the above in 1951. The idea that machines will replace humans is not new. The job of sowing seed has become easier and more productive over time with the hoe, the plough and the tractor. The textile industry has seen the same productivity improvements. The spindle, the flying shuttle, the spinning mule and the spinning jenny. Machines continue to replace human manual labour. But technology and innovation has not led to sustained mass unemployment. More productive sectors of the economy create jobs as less productive areas lose jobs. The loss of human jobs to technology has been a feature of human progress since stone tools.
This time it is different
AI tools are arriving at a time of instant global communication and digital distribution. Facebook can make a breakthrough in New York and on the same day Shanghai and Santiago researchers can test the approach. Knowledge can be shared and reviewed with experts on Twitter. Amazon Web Services allows developers to build products faster than ever. Developers can add AI capabilities from IBM Watson with a simple piece of code. The iOS app store and Google Play Store allow apps to reach over 2.6 billion people today, growing to 6.1 billion people in 2020. The Industrial Revolution took around 100 years to transform the global economy. The artificial intelligence revolution will touch almost every person on earth in less than a few decades.
What happens when the jobs run out?
As machines replace the last humans on farms and in factories, the real revolution is coming to offices. The service sector provides jobs in which humans have maintained their competitive advantage: the brain. Digital Genius provides a human-like customer service tool that can replace customer service reps. Ellipse by Thoughtly is a research tool that analyses websites, journals and articles to discover insight. One single research manager with Ellipse can do the job of a team of ten researchers. Products like Guesswork can use AI to qualify, prioritise and route leads reducing the size of the sales team. A machine can complete most data analysis tasks better than a human. Millions of jobs are at threat in every part of the organisation. Data analysis is central to many jobs in marketing, sales, HR & recruitment, customer service, and finance.
What would you do if money were no object?
Over the next 20 years, there will be millions of people around the world that can no longer trade their labour for capital. Retraining programmes may work in some cases and more flexible labour laws may boost employment for a limited time. New technologies like drones, virtual reality and autonomous cars will generate new jobs. But these jobs will be highly-skilled and will need engineering ability. This will leave millions of under-skilled, un-skilled and wrongly skilled workers. Economic growth will no longer create jobs for humans. This is a fundamental break in the engine of capitalism.
A world of worklessness will force society to adapt. One transformative theory that has dismissed before is the Universal Basic Income (UBI). The UB, first proposed by Thomas Paine in 1795, is not means tested and every citizen is eligible. High costs and the disincentives to work resulted in the idea being dismissed. The age of worklessness will demand a review. AI applied across the economy will raise productivity levels to unprecedented levels. Healthcare, public transport, and energy will cost less and generate more. The challenge for governments is to ensure AI gains do not amass to a few trillion dollar companies, as millions of citizens cannot earn money. This is already becoming a concern for many governments. UBI will be affordable for most governments if redistribution becomes a policy goal.
If all humans have enough money to meet the majority of their needs, what will people do with their time? Scientists, artists, and designers will be free to pursue their passions without the need for money. Even Thomas Hobbes who described the world as “short, nasty and brutish”, believed leisure to be the mother of Philosophy. Oscar Wilde as always said it best; “cultivated leisure is the aim of man.” All humans may finally be free to pursue leisure and happiness. What would you do if money were no object?
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June Retrospective
The History Girls
AltFiction Panel: Has Fantasy Moved Past Tolkien?
AltFiction Panel: Is There Anywhere New For Scienc...
Trust Me, I'm A Vet by Cathy Woodman
AltFiction 2011
Reasons Why Malazan Could Never Be A TV Series
Authors Beware!
Film Review - Senna
Guest Post: Matt Rees, author of Mozart's Last Ari...
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Sometimes it Happens by Pauline Barclay
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
Forthcoming from Black Library!
Kindle vs Book
Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson
DGLA Auctions for Awards Night
Sir Terry, I Salute You!
The Queen Must Die by K. A. S. Quinn
Books I Adopted This Week
Where Have all the Horses Gone?
The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas
Guest Post: Robert Wilton, author of The Emperor's...
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I'd Want on a Desert Island...
A Day Out in That London!
How to Conduct an Internet Debate
What is with ALL THE SEXISM?
Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry
The Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But...
Spec Fic Reading Challenge: June Review Link Up!
May Wrap Up!
May Retrospective
The Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now First Novel Prize
Sir Terry Pratchett and Transworld Publishers launched a new award for aspiring debut novelists in June last year, the Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now Prize. After the deadline for submissions of 31 December 2010, 500-plus entries were received for the £20,000 prize.
The six judges (including Sir Terry Pratchett and Tony Robinson) met yesterday at Waterstone’s flagship store in London’s Piccadilly to thrash out a winner. After hours of debate the conclusion was reached that it was impossible to select a single victor! The entries were so diverse that it was unanimously decided to split the prize and award it to David Logan for his book HALF SICK OF SHADOWS, and to Michael Logan (no relation!) for APOCALYPSE COW. Both writers will receive a publishing contract from Transworld.
‘It was a long deliberation and although to some it might seem a cop out to split a prize, we decided that since the existence of the prize was to find new talent then this was the happiest decision to make. Half Sick of Shadows and Apocalypse Cow both stood out in their different ways and I wish their creators the best of luck in their writing careers.’
SIR TERRY PRATCHETT
Half Sick of Shadows is a darkly atmospheric, richly written coming-of-age novel in the spirit of Ian Banks’ The Wasp Factory. David Logan, who lives in Carrickfergus, N. Ireland, commented:
“I am disappointed for the runners up. The difference between winning and losing is a hair’s breadth. I just feel very lucky.”
Apocalypse Cow follows the story of a group of social misfits thrown together after an experimental bio-weapon is accidentally unleashed by the government, with peculiar repercussions for Britain’s farm animals. The Scots-born but Kenya-based Michael Logan commented:
“Ever since I wrote my first short story at the age of eight, it has been my dream to become an author - although the idea for a novel about sex-crazed zombie cows did come a little later. The full impact of attaining a lifelong goal has yet to fully sink in. I'm sure it will hit me on the way home, when I will bemuse all around me by performing a victorious knee-slide across the concourse at Gatwick.”
Sir Terry Pratchett and Transworld Publishers would like to thank everyone who submitted an entry to the prize.
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