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29 OCTOBER 2012 - MAYO, PATTANI, THAILAND: NURIAH JETEH looks out from her house at the Bukit Kong home in Mayo, Pattani. The home opened 27 years ago as a Pondo School, or traditional Islamic school, in the Mayo district of Pattani. Shortly after it opened, people asked the headmaster to look after individuals with mental illness. The headmaster took them in and soon the school was a home for the mentally ill. Thailand has limited mental health facilities and most are in Bangkok, more than 1,100 kilometers (650 miles) away. The founder died suddenly in 2006 and now his widow, Nuriah Jeteh, struggles to keep the home open. Facilities are crude by western standards but the people who live here have nowhere else to go. Some were brought here by family, others dropped off by the military or police. The home relies on donations and gets no official government support, although soldiers occasionally drop off food. Now there are only six patients, three of whom are kept chained in their rooms. Jeteh says she relies on traditional Muslim prayers, holy water and herbal medicines to treat the residents. Western style drugs are not available and they don't have a medic on staff. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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Tag Archive | Miss Sarpy County’s Outstanding Teen
Last fall, I had the honor of emceeing the Lighthouse Leader and Hall of Fame Gala for Westside Community Schools. This biannual event recognizes alumni and supporters who have demonstrated exemplary leadership, success and dedication to their careers and communities. All ten of our inductees are extraordinary, but one in particular caught my attention as I prepared my remarks.
Photo courtesy Iowa State University
Dr. Suzanne Hutchinson Verma grew up in Omaha and attended Westside High School. She’s now one of the world’s leading experts in Anaplastology; she rebuilds FACES. Patients around the world, including children, come to Suzi to reconstruct their faces after cancer, birth defects and accidents. Multiple times in her career, she’s operated for free on patients who cannot afford help.
Dr. Verma and I are about the same age. I mean, we’re basically the same person… Faux Pelini RETWEETED me once. That’s a really big deal.
WHAT?!?!?! I shook my head in disbelief as I researched this incredible woman’s accomplishments. Once in awhile, we come across people in life that have just set the bar higher, their contributions to the world are exponentially greater. It may not be their intent, but they inspire the rest of us to DO MORE, to BE BETTER. Cue 12-year old Phoenix Stanford.
Miss Sarpy County’s Outstanding Teen 2017 Phoenix Stanford
She can’t get in to a rated R movie, yet this girl has already testified before the Nebraska Legislature, been a featured guest at several high profile events and spent countless hours volunteering across Sarpy County.
(Again.. we’re basically the same person. When I was 12, I set a new Tetris record on my Nintendo.)
“My parents have raised me since I was 5 years old to always be involved in giving back to the community,” Phoenix told me recently. “I believe helping out those who are less fortunate and donating your time to an event helps people to rise.”
Phoenix has touched communities around the world, literally, due to her military upbringing.
“I was raised in England and spent most of my childhood there. That was where I first started school,” said Phoenix. “All my friends were British and all the activities I was involved in were all done with the local nationals. Having to leave my childhood friends behind devastated me. It was a difficult transition when I moved. I missed my British food, I missed living in Europe and seeing medieval buildings around me. I was terrified to start school not knowing anyone around there. After having moving here, I met more military children. I’ve learned that the many who go through things like this soon give up the will to want to make new friends because they know that they are just going to move again.”
Phoenix took her own experiences and set out to help others facing the same challenges. When she became Miss Sarpy County’s Outstanding Teen 2017, she put a name on her mission: ‘Beyond The Yellow Ribbon: Support for Military Children.’
“Because this is something I can strongly touch base with and it is an issue that kids and teens have to go through, I wanted to make a difference,” said Phoenix. “The military has blessed my family and I with incredible opportunities that most people don’t get. I am forever grateful for it. This is why I want to give back to the men and women who serve and still continue to serve. ‘Beyond the Yellow Ribbon’ is about helping kids and teens go through these difficult moves, and also spread the word to civilians to let them know that not only do their parents serve, but us as the youth serve, too.”
Phoenix is engaging her peers, her school and community members both in and outside the military. Her most recent pictures show a glimpse of all of her hard work; from the Remembering The Fallen exhibit on display at her school, to her volunteer efforts to raise money for military families.
Got to help out at Offutt Air Force Base’s Thrift Store today! The revenue that is brought in goes toward many base organizations, off base community organizations, as well as scholarships for high-school seniors and military spouses.
Proud to be a young Filipina! Performing at this year’s Santo Niño Festival was an honor! I had the pleasure of meeting our Nebraska Governor, Pete Ricketts, and Bellevue city mayor, Rita Sanders. I truly enjoyed being a part of this religious and cultural celebration!
Just last week, Phoenix did something most adults never commit the time or dedication to; she went to Lincoln to testify before members of the Nebraska Legislature.
This brave 12-year old advocated for LB88, a bill that would prompt the state to issue temporary professional licenses to military spouses during the procedural wait time it takes to secure a permanent license. State Senator Carol Blood later posted on Facebook: “Thank you to Miss Sarpy County Outstanding Teen for her outstanding testimony on LB 88 this week. This military spouses bill is important to Nebraska, especially District 3 and 45.”
“I want civilians to be aware of what goes on behind their freedom and how military families make it happen,” said Phoenix. “I also want people to know how amazing this pageant system is and how much young women can learn from an opportunity like this.”
That’s why Phoenix decided to compete for Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen this spring, to share a message and grow as a person.
“I love how this pageant is scholarship based!” she said. “School and getting a good education is everything to me. [My goal] is to make it easier for my family to pay for my education. I love music and when I found out they have a talent portion in the pageant, I thought it would be a great way to express my love for performing and music. The Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Pageant system recognizes young women’s talent, promotes healthy living, emphasizes scholastic achievements and encourages community service.”
Ironically, the friendships that are so often part of Phoenix’s message about military children have become of one of the clearest benefits of her participation in this year’s program.
“Not only have I met some amazing people, but I get to help out the community as well,” said Phoenix. “[This organization] has taught me some great skills and how to put myself out there. I have been so blessed with this opportunity and I’m so thankful.”
What’s next for Phoenix Stanford? Turning 13 in April. Graduating from middle school and starting high school.. something she could be doing as Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen. And continuing to advocate for the cause and people she believes in.
“Winning state would be a win for Sarpy County, including Offutt Air Force Base,” said Phoenix. “Winning national would be a win for Nebraska, the military community, the Filipino and German community. While it would be fantastic to win at any level, my goal is to make a difference in my community and for the people around me.”
Beyond the impressive resumes, what ultimately sticks with me about people like Suzi Verma and Phoenix Stanford are who they are beyond their titles. Those who nominated Dr. Verma for the Westside Hall of Fame didn’t focus on her extensive academia or doctoral accolades, they raved about her love for children, her kindness, and the depth of her heart. Miss Sarpy County’s Outstanding Teen Phoenix Stanford, at just 12 years old, doesn’t brag about her service or eye-opening accomplishments, she stresses the qualities she hopes to be remembered by: compassionate, perseverant and unique.
“I don’t like to give up. I believe we are all put here to help one another,” said Phoenix. “There will never, ever be a person like me and that’s what makes me special.”
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This entry was posted on February 19, 2017, in Health, Miss America, Omaha, westside and tagged Anaplastology, Bellevue, Bellevue Mayor, Beyond The Yellow Ribbon, Carol Blood, crowns and gowns, Dr. Suzanne Hutchnison Verma, Dr. Verma, England, Faux Pelini, Filipino, Governor Ricketts, Iowa state, LB88, Liberty Middle School, Lighthouse Leader, military, military children, military families, miss nebraska's outstanding teen, Miss Sarpy County's Outstanding Teen, Nebraska, Nebraska Legislature, nintendo, Offutt, Offutt air Force Base, pete ricketts, Phoenix Stanford, Remembering The Fallen, Rita Sanders, Santo Nino Festival, Sarpy county, Senator Blood, Suzi Verma, Tetris, Unicameral, westside, Westside community schools, westside high. 5 Comments
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I have a new best friend. I look forward to the time we spend together everyday. My husband knows about this new friend.. and encourages our relationship.
Meet Vytas. Vytas is really good at yoga. Vytas is helping ME get better at yoga.
Note: I’ve never met Vytas. He lives in my computer. Please halt all potential warnings to Vytus about his creepy ‘friend’ Brandi.
Like so many, I struggle with my weight and nutrition. I lose weight, then I lose interest and lose control. I’m an emotional eater. Pretty sure my body is 99% coffee instead of water. When I was 18, I could get away with eating Chex Mix and Mt. Dew for breakfast. Now, a few trips through the Runza drive-thru and the only thing that fits are my husband’s sweats (and he gets grumpy when I steal them!) But aside from how I look and my confidence, my health has started to suffer because of my less than ideal lifestyle. I feel like I’ve been sick in some form since early November.. and just after Christmas, I contracted strep throat. A trip to the ER, 2 rounds of antibiotics and a week in bed later, I promised myself I was going to start doing a better job taking care of the body God has given me.
I’ve been trying Beachbody on the advice of my friend and stunning beauty, Amanda Soltero. One of her challenges to kick off 2017 included 3-Week Yoga Retreat with Vytus. I tried it.. and became hooked. I LOVE the way yoga makes me feel. I love awakening the muscles I used to stretch in gymnastics as a kid. I love realizing I can touch the floor with my hands, or now keep my legs straight in downward dog. I love when I automatically sit up straighter at my desk because the practice has already improved my posture and carriage. Most of all, I love the RETREAT that yoga has provided me.. a chance to breathe deeply and for 30 minutes a day dissolve all of the stress and burdens that have piled on throughout the other 23 hours.
For a young woman from Omaha, this is a message of health and wellbeing she’s understood for quite some time.. one she’s now taking to children across eastern Nebraska.
Miss Omaha 2017 Wellesley Michael
“I am currently a yoga teacher and went through children’s yoga teacher training this summer,” said Wellesley. “Both of those experiences led me to mindfullness. I then continued my training on mindfullness with [my platform] ‘Mindful Schools: Peace Begins With Me’.”
A platform that skyrocketed last fall when Wellesley was crowned Miss Omaha 2017.
“I’ve always admired the women that have been in the Miss Nebraska Organization,” Wellesley told me recently. “Then, when I was old enough, I felt as if it was time for me to stand up and be a leader and role model like the women who have been in the system before have been for me.”
A title doesn’t make you a role model. A crown doesn’t make you a leader. But Wellesley used both of those tools to find new audiences in schools across Omaha.
Wellesley sharing yoga and mindfulness with students at Westside’s Oakdale Elementary and at Brownell Talbot, where she attended school!
“Mindfullness is the act of paying attention on purpose without judgement,” said Wellesley. “I’ve spent a large part of my year so far going to schools and working with students on techniques to help them breathe, focus, listen and just feel good! In a world that is so chaotic and go-go-go we have to find a way to slow down. It’s healthy! Mindfulness brings that stillness we are often missing.”
Wellesley is also a frequent visitor to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, delivering blankets over the winter holiday and bringing in Valentine’s Day crafts for patients this week. She’s also partnered with businesses like Yogurtini in Lincoln to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network, the Miss America Organization’s community partner.
“Three words to describe me are driven, organized and focused,” said Wellesley. “Goal setting is one of my favorite things. When I set a goal I dig in right away and figure out what it takes to get me to my dream.”
CLICK HERE to hear more from Wellesley during a guest appearance with Matt Tompkins on News Talk 1290!
These are the character traits Wellesley hopes stand out to both children and adults, attributes she credits in part to her participation in the Miss Nebraska Organization.
“This organization has helped me to clearly articulate my opinions and beliefs without fear,” said Wellesley. “It has given me experience in skills I will always need such as interviewing and networking. I go into a lot of situations with more confidence than ever because of this organization. The fact that I get to even put on the Miss Omaha crown and sash and meet so many amazing people around my city is unreal to me. The whole experience is a dream come true.”
Wellesley is clear: her big goal is to become Miss Nebraska. However, she is also mindful of the big picture. Wellesley is a University of Nebraska-Lincoln student majoring in advertising/public relations and journalism and has authored her own fashion/pop culture blog for several years. CLICK HERE to check it out!
“Beyond the pageant world, I hope to one day combine my loves of journalism and yoga to work for a wellness magazine or website like The Yoga Journal or mindful.org,” said Wellesley. “At the state pageant, my plan is just to do my best and get people thinking about mindfulness and all of its benefits.”
Wellesley and her fellow titleholders will be the first to tell you, just as yoga isn’t just ‘stretching’, competing for Miss Nebraska isn’t just slapping on makeup and waving your hand in parades. They spend hours in the gym every week. They dedicate countless hours to people and causes they care deeply about. They study, they work hard, they plan. But at the end of each day, Wellesley also remembers to breathe deeply and to reflect.
“Here’s a mindfulness tip before I go. I do this everyday,” said Wellesley. “Take five minutes, mute your phone and listen to your breath. Maybe you say ‘inhale, exhale’ with each breath or count how many times you breathe. Thoughts will come up and that’s ok! After five minutes sit for a minute and notice how you feel.”
On behalf of this blossoming yoga instructor, Namaste. To you, Miss Omaha Wellesley Michael, NamaSLAY.
Photo courtesy Michael Dar
CLICK HERE to follow Miss Omaha 2017 Wellesley Michael’s blog, Wellesley Lauren. You can also CLICK HERE to follow her on Facebook, or CLICK HERE to follow her on Twitter. To contact Wellesley for appearances and speaking events, email wellesleymich@gmail.com.
For more information about the Miss Omaha/Miss Douglas County Pageant or to become a contestant CLICK HERE to follow the organization on Facebook, and CLICK HERE to follow on Twitter. You can also email missomahapageant@yahoo.com, or contact Director Marianne Grubaugh at ggrubaugh@cox.net.
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NEXT.. Miss Sarpy County’s Outstanding Teen 2017 Phoenix Stanford
This entry was posted on February 14, 2017, in Fashion, Food, Friends, Health, Hobbies, Miss America, Omaha, westside and tagged 3 Week Yoga Retreat, Aislin Stanford, Alpha Xi Delta, amanda soltero, Amanda Wubbenhorst, Beachbody, Brownell Talbot, Children's Hospital & Medical Center, childrens miracle network, crowns and gowns, fashion, jenn cady photography, lincoln, marianne grubaugh, Matt Tompkins, MIchael Dar, mindful.org, Mindfullness, miss america organization, miss omaha, Miss Sarpy County's Outstanding Teen, Namaste, News Talk 1290, Oakdale Elementary, omaha, Runza, university of nebraska-lincoln, Vytas, Wellesley Lauren, Wellesley Michael, westside, yoga, Yoga Journal, Yogurtini. 5 Comments
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Mechanism of Injury in a Herniated Lumbar Disc
by Ron Rogers
Forward bending and lifting may provoke lumbar disc herniations.
1 The Physiology of a Herniated Disc
2 A Herniated Lumbar Intervertebral Disc
3 Can a Back Injury Cause Lumbar Stenosis?
4 What Happens When a Bulging Disk Goes Untreated?
Herniated lumbar discs are quite common and can be very painful and disabling. While it may not be possible to prevent all lumbar disc herniations, knowing the likely mechanisms of injury and applying that knowledge can reduce the odds of sustaining this unpleasant injury. A number of factors may contribute to lumbar disc damage. The mechanism of injury most commonly implicated in lumbar herniation involves forward bending, or flexion, of the lumbar spine.
Lumbar Discs
The discs of the lumbar spine are specialized connective tissue structures that serve as shock absorbers between the spinal bones. Discs are made springy by a moist, jelly-like center portion called the nucleus pulposus.
The nucleus pulposus is surrounded and contained by more dense, layered, fibrous tissue that makes up what is called the annulus fibrosis. Discs "herniate" when damage to the annulus fibrosis allows the nucleus pulposus material to escape its confines and protrude outward from the disc.
Although lumbar disc herniations commonly occur, they are not easily reproduced in a research setting. However, it is notable that in published studies in which disc herniations were produced in animal or human lumbar spine specimens, most required some component of spine flexion. For this reason, Stuart McGill, Ph.D., author of the book "Low Back Disorders," concludes that repeated or prolonged spine flexion is the primary mechanism leading to lumbar disc herniation.
In a laboratory setting, McGill and his colleagues found that the easiest way they could produce herniations in spine specimens was to place a load, or weight, onto to the spine while repeatedly bending it forward into flexion. These conditions are consistent with what would occur with repetitive lifting activities in which the spine is flexed forward.
A study presented in 2001 in the journal "Clinical Biomechanics" demonstrated a link between compression of the spinal joints -- technically known as vertical loading -- and disc herniation. Although the study used spine sections taken from the necks of pigs, the researchers attempted to reproduce loading patterns common to the lumbar spines of humans.
In the study, larger and more frequent disc herniations resulted when compression forces on the spinal bones were increased. However, relatively small compression forces were necessary to herniate discs that were exposed to high repetitions of forward and backward bending. The authors concluded that repeated flexion and extension motions probably play a larger role than compression alone in causing disc herniations. In other words, the spine can withstand large compression forces, like lifting, when in a neutral upright position. Adding a load while bending the spine forward and backward can quickly spell trouble.
Another study published in 2010 in "Cinical Biomechanics" examined the role of axial torque, or twisting, in disc herniation. Using an animal model, the researchers found that isolated twisting did not cause disc herniation. However, twisting did damage the annulus fibrosis.
With damage to the annulus, the discs were much more susceptible to herniation when exposed to repetitive flexion movements. This suggests that, even if the mechanism of a disc herniation is flexion, damage caused by spinal twisting may contribute to disc herniations by weakening the disc.
Occupational Factors
A study published in 1987 in the "Journal of Chronic Diseases" examined the risk of lumbar disc herniations with occupation. The researchers reported that the risk for this condition is greater among men in blue-collar jobs compared to those in white collar-jobs. This likely relates to increased bending and lifting activities among blue-collar workers compared to white-collar workers. The authors noted less variation by occupational groups among women. The risk of lumbar disc herniations, however, was higher among women who described their work as strenuous.
An additional finding that may relate to the spinal flexion mechanism is that the risk of lumbar disc herniations is high among people whose work involves driving a motor vehicle. Sitting while driving places the lumbar spine in a sustained posture of slight flexion.
Low Back Disorders; Stuart McGill, Ph.D.
Clinical Biomechanics: Intervertebral Disc Herniation--Studies on a Porcine Model Exposed to Highly Repetitive Flexion/Extension Motion With Compressive Force
Clinical Biomechanics: The Role of Axial Torque in Disc Herniation
Journal of Chronic Diseases: Occupation and Risk of Herniated Lumbar Intervertebral Disc or Sciatica Leading to Hospitalization
Ron Rogers, a Washington chiropractor, has worked with local and national regulatory bodies in his profession and has provided consultation to the national chiropractic licensing board. He is recognized by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a certified strength and conditioning specialist. Rogers' works have been published in several peer-reviewed professional journals, covering topics ranging from musculoskeletal diagnosis to research-based rehabilitation strategies.
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Canary Wharf Winter Lights 2018. Photo: Londonist
Canary Wharf Winter Lights — a free illuminations festival with more than 20 installations — returns tomorrow.
Winter Lights is now in its fifth year, bringing light art by artists from all over the world to east London. Some of the artworks are interactive or responsive, using lighting technology to change depending on what's going on around then — last year's festival involved light-up graffiti and cascading 'trending' words.
Take a look at the 2018 Winter Lights festival to get an idea of what to expect:
You'll find the artworks in parks, squares, streets and shopping centres all over the Canary Wharf Estate. That cascading writing is back this year, consisting of words appearing in a live newsfeed on The Times website (care to place a bet on how long it takes for 'Brexit' to appear?). Other highlights include psychedelic prisms designed to look like an ice palace, and a huge sculpture designed to resemble the skeletal insides of a whale.
New for this year is Winter Lights Bites, a gathering of vintage food trucks in Cabot Square. Pizzas, flatbreads, falafel, waffles and other street food options are available to see you on your way around the light festival.
You can download a map of this year's installations to help plan your route. In the past though, we've found the maps to be a bit tricky to follow, especially if you're not familiar with Canary Wharf. Stewards and volunteers are usually on hand to point you in the right direction if you're a bit disorientated.
The beauty of the festival's long-run time (11 evenings) is that you can split your visit over several nights — or even two weekends — if you don't have time to see it all in one evening.
Take a look at some of our photos from Winter Lights 2018:
Canary Wharf Winter Lights 2019 is free to visit, and is open 5pm-10pm, 15-26 January 2019.
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Catoctin Mountain: Bobs Hill, Cat Rock, and Cunningham Falls
Sunday, January 8, 2017 10:37 pm
Location: Catoctin Mountain: Bobs Hill, Cat Rock, and Cunningham Falls (14.2 miles)
It’s a new year, which means, it’s time for a new hike! My latest hike with MAHG was on the northern part of Catoctin Mountain, in Cunningham Falls State Park and Catoctin Mountain Park, near Thurmont, MD.
Cacoctin roughly parallels South Mountain (about 7 miles to the west), the mountain the Appalachian Trail follows in its course through Maryland, making this the closest hike I’ve done to the AT in Maryland (besides the AT itself).
Patapsco Valley State Park: Hilton and Glen Artney Areas
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:30 pm
Location: Patapsco Valley State Park: Hilton and Glen Artney Areas (8.0 miles)
Earlier today, I again returned to Patapsco Valley State Park for yet another hike with MAHG. This time, our hike followed several trails in the Hilton and Glen Artney areas to form two loops through the park.
Patapsco Valley State Park: Ilchester region
Location: Patapsco Valley State Park, Ilchester region (5.2 miles)
Earlier today, I returned to Patapsco Valley State park with MAHG to hike in a portion of the park near Ilchester, MD. My eighth hike with the group, it was nice to see some familiar faces from three different prior hikes.
Gorman Stream Valley
Sunday, December 4, 2016 11:30 pm
Location: Gorman Stream Valley (6.0 miles)
One of the reasons I joined MAHG was to let other people do the work of finding hiking trails and mapping out routes. This works out especially beautifully when they find a hiking spot I didn’t even know about, almost in my own backyard.
Today’s hike was along the Middle Patuxent River near Columbia, MD, in in an area MAHG calls the “Gorman Stream Valley”. Various mapping services call the area “Gorman Park”. Howard County, in which the area is located, doesn’t even appear to have a proper name for it, not listing it in its parks directory or hiking trails list, and refers to it only as “an undeveloped area called ‘the Gorman Area’” in a news release for its deer management program this winter.
Whatever the proper name for this area is, I’m still happy to discover a new place to hike, especially one that's only 15 minutes from my house. So I signed up almost last minute last night, after waiting a few hours for someone to drop out of the full RSVP list and open up an empty spot.
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Shenandoah: Little Devils Stairs
Saturday, December 3, 2016 11:18 pm
Location: Shenandoah National Park: Little Devils Stairs (13.2 miles)
Going for a new record of three hikes in a week since I returned home from the Appalachian Trail, I got up at 4:30 am (annoyingly, half an hour earlier than I had set my alarm) and set off shortly before 6 am for a “very strenuous” 12.3 mile hike in Shenandoah National Park with MAHG.
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Watching the Trudeau team try to put out the fire illustrates their political incompetence
March 14, 2019 - By John Robson
It’s surprising how little attention politicians pay to government given the profession they’re in. To be fair, one weird thing about politics is that the skills needed to get the job are disconnected from those needed to discharge it in a way unknown in, say, medicine. But politicians also seem to give remarkably little attention to politics. Take the SNC-Lavalin scandal… please.
Anyone who knows me, or reads my columns, can guess how successful I’d be in politics in front of the curtain or behind it. Certainly my brief stint with Reform in the mid-1990s was not a success, for me or them; I was not skilled at spin or nods and winks and I thought articulate principle was a good idea. And yet watching the Trudeau administration meltdown, I cannot help thinking these people have made mistakes from the get-go that had it been me would have been avoided.
Never mind the initial decision to pester the Attorney-General over a DPA for SNC. Sorry, a Deferred Prosecution Agreement for SNC-Lavalin. Among its disagreeable aspects government swarms with TLAs. (Three-Letter Acronyms.) And others; an American security official once told me a good rule of thumb was the longer the acronym, the less important, powerful and prestigious the institution. At which point the US had the DHS in charge of emergency management and we had OCIPEP. Not good.
Anyway, back to the scandal at hand. I think at some point somebody should have realized that Jody Wilson-Raybould was not going to give in or go quietly. In about the only thing he admitted to being sorry about, Justin Trudeau said he should have been aware of the breakdown of trust between his office, a.k.a. Gerry Butts, and his MoJ. Uh, Minister of Justice. Yeah, probably. Especially when it’s all about relationships and the portentous half-sentence you need to know who’s not on the same page or, in this case, in the same book. But suppose they didn’t.
Suppose, even, that they got as far as her presence in cabinet speaking for itself before realizing they were foozling the enterprise. Suppose it’s only when she quits that they go holy moly, it’s so bad we need RDC (Robson’s Damage Control). Well, what should they do? And the short answer is, almost nothing they did.
I grant for purposes of argument that there are things they could have done that they did not that would have been worse, like punch somebody out, bribe a judge, stagger naked and drunk down Wellington Street. Life, like golf, is never so bad that it can’t get worse and so I think is damage control. But within the bounds of the remotely possible, what?
Should Trudeau’s principal secretary and alter ego, if not Rasputin, have quit precipitously while declaring that nothing was wrong? Was there any possibility that doing so would not fling chum into the feeding frenzy? Surely he had either to stay, or to go taking responsibility. Weird.
Then there were various smear jobs about Wilson-Raybould being arrogant, non-francophone, her father’s puppet etc. How did they not see that these would backfire individually and en masse create the unmistakable impression of nasty incompetence? Did nobody say when people object won’t we have to back down shamefacedly?
Also, what was that about Michael Wernick warning of assassinations if people didn’t stop doubting the wonderfulness of such eminences as, well, shucks folks, me? And then petulantly waving online insults. Think the rest of us don’t get those?
Then there was Trudeau leaking that he was thinking of apologizing then appearing to express pseudo-semi-contrition before flying off to burst into tears about what someone else did to the Inuit before he was born. Not that the latter wasn’t possibly worthy of acknowledgement and regret. But the juxtaposition said clearly that this smug scion of privilege was so conceited that even in the midst of a scandal he was sanctimoniously horrified at the wrongdoing of others because he regarded himself as incapable of error.
I don’t know about Sheila Copps suddenly resurfacing to say if it had been aboriginal jobs Wilson-Raybould would care. Perhaps that was freelance reputation-shredding not part of the campaign of friendly Op Eds that Katie Telford allegedly told Wilson-Raybould’s chief of staff they could arrange. So let’s let them off the hook for it. It’s rather harder to excuse their MPs putting out almost verbatim Tweets that were meant to be spontaneous expressions of confidence in the PM and the PMO. Did they think nobody would compare them, even online?
Then there’s the awkward stonewalling of Liberal Justice Committee members refusing to hear from key witnesses. And Trudeau swanning off to an exclusive Florida resort just as the OECD started making rude noises about the whole business.
It seems to me incontrovertible that the Trudeau people did not realize that interfering in a prosecution on grounds expressly prohibited by the law they themselves drafted at the behest of SNC-Lavalin was wrong. And thus that they know little of governing. But watching them try to put out the fire it seems they are incompetent at politics as well. Bringing me back to the question what exactly they’ve spent their adult professional lives thinking about?
If anything.
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One Response to “Watching the Trudeau team try to put out the fire illustrates their political incompetence”
Eric R March 15, 2019
Hello Mr. Robson. Thanks for that fine summary of idiocy that seems to characterize the current government. I’m a mere citizen, although it’s a role I take seriously.
With this litany of questionable choices on display and the potential legal issues around section 139 of the criminal code (which I don’t see being discussed in media despite Butts’ comments about “no solution that does not involve interference”), I find it hard to believe that the Liberals can get elected again. But the general disengagement with politics that seems to dominate the public and the non-presence of Andrew Scheer seems to point to another win for the Liberals.
Perhaps they are counting on their arrogant perception of the ignorant public to hand them another term.
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Lloyd Mathias Shares His Views On the Indian Music Industry
By Ankit Chugh July 8, 2019
Lloyd Mathias is an Angel Investor and a Marketing & Business Strategist who has held Senior Leadership roles in sales, marketing & business development in Fortune 500 companies, across India & Asia-PAC in Consumer Goods, Telecoms and Technology.
Until June 2017, Lloyd was the Marketing Head of HP $2.2 billion Consumer PC business across Asia Pacific & Japan, based out of Singapore. In previous Corporate Roles, he was President & CMO at Tata Docomo and Senior Sales Director for Motorola Mobile phone business in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Lloyd had his basic grounding in consumer goods spending 12 years with PepsiCo. His last role was Executive VP Marketing and Category Director for PepsiCo’s beverages in India. He has been Chairman of MRUC, the publishers of the Indian Readership Survey IRS, Co-Chair of the Device Strategy Council of the Worldwide Mobility Development Group, and Asia Board Member of the CMO Council.
In 2007 he was named among the world’s top 15 marketers, by International list magazine – a list that celebrates those international marketers behind outstanding cross border campaigns.
After his Music Inc Panel ‘Tech, Data & Design in Music‘, we got to sit down and ask him a couple of questions.
What was your take away from Music Inc 2.0?
An exciting conclave that got together music industry leaders, brand marketers, and artists. The event also was an interesting mix of keynotes, panels and performances that made it engaging for the audiences. My big takeaway: the music industry is on the threshold of change and may be on the way to robust growth again.
What do you think is the state and scope of music in the present scenario in India?
Music in India is seeing a revival thanks to streaming with the spate of OTT brands ad the worlds’ lowest data prices. Bollywood music has always been the core driver, but now increasingly regional music is beginning to gain in popularity. As far the scope goes, the sky is the limit. However, importantly, I see structural change with independent artists now having the ability to record, publish and grow their following independent of promoters and labels.
How do you think different industries/government can contribute to the music culture?
Music is already a big part of our culture –so, minimal interventions in areas like rights protection, ensuring artists get rewarded for their creation, and provision of better venues for live entertainment. Music powers many industries like Radio, Streaming services and most celebratory occasions; but unfortunately, so what accrues to music creators – the music companies and artists are a very minuscule percentage. This needs redressing for the long-term health and prosperity of the industry.
How do you think live music can integrate into different sections of the industry?
Live music can give music and artists a whole new monetizing opportunity given advancements in technology that can make live performances more engaging and cost-effective. Also, with millennial consumers keen to take in real experiences, live performances are well poised. However, issues pertaining to organizing live performances – quality venues, fewer hurdles from local authorities need sorting.
What direction do you think the music industry is heading in, in the future?
I see the music industry headed toward a bright future with the focus shifting back to the performer. Also increased use of music by brands as they see music as a critical element to enhance brand communications and appeal in an increasingly distracted world.
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A dental surgeon by profession, Ankit changed his stream to Music Production and Audio Engineering in 2016. He has since created a Music Promotions Agency and an Artist Management/Label to contribute to India's ever-growing music industry. With a knack for Music Business and tastemaking, he intends to share knowledge and music with everyone!
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Want to supercharge your luck in 2009? Get yourself some vivid new superstitions. The more outrageous they are, the more likely it is they'll generate lots of crazy sweet karma. You might want to draw inspiration from pro football player John Henderson, for instance, who swears he can trick destiny into working in his favor if his trainer smacks him in the face before each game. Former hockey player Bruce Gardiner might also be a worthy role model. To rev up his good fortune, he always shoved his hockey stick into a toilet prior to skating out onto the ice. JUST KIDDING, Sagittarius! In fact, I hope you will make 2009 your least superstitious year ever. Let's drink a toast to lucid logic, impeccable objectivity, and cool, clean reason! Add some compassionate sarcasm and loving satire into the mix, and you will generate lots of crazy sweet karma.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The most expensive bat mitzvah in history took place at New York's Rainbow Room in November 2005. David Brooks, a billionaire defense contractor, spent $10 million on his daughter's rite of passage. Among the stars he hired to perform at the bash were Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Nelly, and 50 Cent. Promise me, Capricorn, that if you get wealthy in the coming year, you won't blow your money on ridiculous "luxuries" like that. Here's a secret: The more high-minded you are in cultivating your dreams, the greater the likelihood is that you'll get richer quicker.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Imagine you're driving down a very wide highway that's 50 lanes across even though there are no lines dividing one lane from another. Speed limit signs aren't posted, and some vehicles are zipping along in zigzag paths at over 100 mph while others crawl along like old-lady turtles. Now and then you've got to weave your way through a congested area where many on-ramps all feed into the road simultaneously. You haven't seen an off-ramp yet, and you're not sure where to get off anyway. I figure, Aquarius, that 2008 had some resemblance to the scenario I just described. Luckily, I predict that no later than your birthday, you will find an off-ramp and exit onto an uncluttered backroad with great scenery.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "How do you slay the dragon?" journalist Bill Moyers asked mythologist Joseph Campbell in an interview. By "dragon," he was referring to the dangerous beast that symbolizes the most unripe and uncontrollable part of each of our lives. In reply to Moyers, Campbell didn't suggest that you become a master warrior, nor did he recommend that you cultivate high levels of sleek, savage anger. "Follow your bliss," he said simply. Personally, I don't know if that's enough to slay the dragon -- I'm inclined to believe that you also have to take some defensive measures -- but it's definitely worth an extended experiment. Would you consider trying that in 2009?
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ALMOST three years on from setting up her business, Kylie O'Mahony has started dipping her toes in the international market.
Kaela's Patch sells fabrics and haberdashery items, on top of holding quilting and sewing classes on Darling St in Ipswich.
Mrs O'Mahony was taught to sew by her grandfather when she was six and just before he passed away, he urged her to follow her 'knack' for designing and piecing together fabrics.
It led her to leave a career in pharmacy to establish her own business.
"We've grown a massive amount in three years," she said.
An increase in social media followers in recent months has seen her attract attention from an overseas audience.
"A lot of people told me I probably should start writing patterns and expanding on that horizon," she said.
"I decided to take the plunge. I started writing patterns and now I have over 25 patterns published.
"I decided this year to do something different and do a 'block of the month' program. I had a large amount of interest from people overseas."
As well as people from across Australia, now keen quilters from Canada and the United States have signed up for the 12-month program, which seems them receive an update every 30 days.
"For us, that was a major changing point," she said.
"There is more interest coming through (internationally) every month.
"I'm in talks with one of our suppliers about taking on a product and becoming their international sale point. That may make our international sales go bang."
Mrs O'Mahony is usually joined in the shop by mum Ann and they want to grow the brand name further in Queensland and around Australia this year.
"We're aiming to grow the shop front and the classroom even more than we already are," she said.
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Spain’s Hologram Protesters are Not a Good Thing
I’ve expressed and demonstrated many times the refusal of First World people to actually engage in struggle against the bourgeois state. The hard left in the First World is near useless. Primarily this is due to its extreme sectarianism, great theoretical weakness, focus on identity politics, general delusion of revolutionary work where there is none, and most of all a lack of necessary material conditions for radical action. However, sometimes I come across things that shows a real unwillingness to even try to challenge the system. This new advancement in Spain is a prime Example.
In the course of the social unrest and social resistance that has sprung out of the global crisis of capitalism in 2008; the Spanish government has declared all protest without government permission to be illegal. Among the many aspects to the new law, photographing or recording the police carries a 600 to 30.000€ fine. Peaceful disobedience to authority is also now subject to a 600 to 30€ fine. The police state in Spain has certainly taken to cracking down on public dissent of its austerity measures and draconian security laws. It is called the Citizen Safety Law or Ley Mordaza. Opponents of it rightfully call it the “Gag Law”.
On April 10th, for the first time, a protest gathering of holograms took place. Protesters blocked by law to assemble have created holograms to take their place in public demonstration against the abuses carried out by the bourgeois state. Light projections of protesters have now been seen for the first time in the streets in response to law which prohibits peaceful protest.
What is truly disappointing to me is that Spain knows better than this. Look at the recent past actions activists have taken. They were not afraid to use violence not too long ago. Europe in general has a strong history when it comes to making demands of government. Spain and Greece are very strong when it comes to the methods of resistance; even by First World standards. What has happened?
Is this where the opposition to the bourgeoisie now stands? Or rather, have a digital representation of themselves stand in for them? Spain is at a point where protest is basically illegal. If the capitalist class’ representatives in the state don’t want you to protest something they can outright say no. Is First World protest so weak that in the face of the most blatant violation of civil rights, that people aren’t even willing to actually go out and do a non-violent meaningless liberal protest? Simple protest isn’t even radical action. It’s just protest, a mere gesture. Which is worse? The fact you’re not allowed to protest, or the fact that people are tolerating that the most very basic action is not allowed? If you’re not willing to protest and get angry about not being able to protest, what are you willing protest for? They’re not even willing protest in support of their right to protest.
In the First World there is an overwhelming desire to “nerf” everything, to take the human interaction out of as much of society as possible. To make everything as safe as possible so we don’t have to take any radical action. This mentality stems from capitalism itself. We have self-serve cashiers at retail and big box stores so that the customer doesn’t even have to interact with a wage earning person. The military is using drones so that military personnel don’t even have to see the people they’re killing. Now Spanish people don’t even have to go out and protest something they’re against. This same mentality of removing the human interaction to make life and business more efficient is making its way into the most human of expressions: outrage against injustice. Sure, it is happening for a different reason, but the problem is that it is happening.
How does this hurt us? How does this hurt the public and the potential for revolution? The answer to that was put quite well by Steven Pinker in “Language as a Window into Human Nature”:
“Well what is the psychological status of an overture that we feel to be out there or on the record that makes it feel so much more awkward than a veiled overture that is conveyed indirectly? And I think a key to this paradox is a concept that economists and logicians call ‘mutual knowledge’ which they distinguish from individual knowledge. In individual knowledge, A knows X and B knows X. In mutual knowledge A knows X, B knows X, A knows that B knows X; B knows and A knows X; A knows that B knows that A knows X ad infinitum. And this is a difference that has profound consequences.
“For example, why is freedom of assembly enshrined as a fundamental right in a democracy and why are political revolutions often triggered when a crowd gathers in a public square to challenge the president in his palace. Well it is because when people were at home everyone knew that they loathed the dictator, but no-one knew that other people knew that other people knew that they knew.
“Once you assemble in a place where everyone can see everyone else everyone knows that everyone else knows that everyone else knows that the dictator is loathed, and that gives them the collective power to challenge the authority of the dictator who otherwise could kick off dissenters one at a time.”
This is such a First World thing to do. To avoid having to actually take radical action against injustice, protesters have used First World privilege in access to resources and technology to avoid having to take radical action. They’ve come up with something to avoid having to do struggle. This ability to avoid struggle is made possible by First World plunder of the Third World. The technology, money and resources to carry this out is available to them because of their silent cooperation with imperialism. When they refuse to struggle and stop imperialism, they enforce this privilege being in their hands. As long as the First World (including the higher end of the global scale) has this privilege they won’t have the material conditions necessary for revolution.
All power to the Third World, long live Global People’s War.
First Hologram Protest in History Held Against Spain’s Gag Law, Revolution News
http://revolution-news.com/first-hologram-protest-in-history-held-against-spains-gag-law/
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker, The RSA
https://www.thersa.org/globalassets/pdfs/videos/2011/02/rsa-animate—language-as-a-window-into-human-nature/rsa-lecture-stephen-pinker-transcript.pdf
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Something’s Brewing: Wolfgang Puck’s Cucina and Crafthaus brewery pair up for dinner
Wolfgang Puck and his team have asked Henderson’s CraftHaus Brewery to help launch the new Cucina Brew dinner series on Nov. 6 at Puck’s Crystals restaurant Cucina. This is the latest incarnation of an evolving dinner series that’s been held at Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill in Downtown Summerlin for the past three years. It […]
November 7, 2018 - 10:34 am
Wolfgang Puck and his team have asked Henderson’s CraftHaus Brewery to help launch the new Cucina Brew dinner series on Nov. 6 at Puck’s Crystals restaurant Cucina. This is the latest incarnation of an evolving dinner series that’s been held at Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill in Downtown Summerlin for the past three years. It began as a wine dinner, which later morphed into the Sommelier Smackdown, then a string of beer dinners and eventually became the Grill Gathering.
“We were just trying to find fun reasons to bring people together with food and drink, where we incorporate some of our chefs from the Strip, bring them out to the neighborhood restaurant … and have a fun experience that’s kind of off the cuff,” says executive chef Dustin Lewandowski.
After two successful Grill Gathering dinners in the suburbs in September and October, the chef wanted to try a new locale.
“We decided it would be kind of fun to introduce some of our Summerlin clients to some of our Strip restaurants, and Cucina was a good one. And we had a team there that was interested in working with CraftHaus Brewery.”
The dinner by chef Daniel Stramm will be casual, with stations and passed dishes such as stout-braised agnolotti and wild mushroom pizzas on a dough made with spent brewer’s grain. $65, eventbright.com
The new dinner series will be Nov. 6 at Puck’s Crystals restaurant Cucina.
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Facebook sues China-based companies for selling fake accounts
06:29 04/03/2019 Pamela MacLean, Bloomberg
Facebook and its Instagram unit sued four companies and three people based in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes and followers that the social network giant says can be used for nefarious purposes.
The Chinese companies advertised and created the fake accounts over the last two years and marketed them for sale on six websites, selling them in bulk quantities, according to a complaint filed Friday in San Francisco federal court.
“Fake and inauthentic accounts can be used for spam and phishing campaigns, misinformation campaigns, marketing scams, advertising fraud, and other fraud schemes which are profitable at scale,” Facebook and Instagram alleged. They said fake accounts were also created on Amazon, Apple, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Facebook has came under intense scrutiny over the use of private data and the impact of harmful content on its 2.7 billion monthly users, with governments around the world questioning the company’s policies. Friday’s lawsuit, which alleges multiple violations of US trademark law, is one way the company is fighting back against commercial exploitation of its social networks.
Using artificial intelligence to detect fake accounts, Facebook and Instagram disabled 2.1 billion inauthentic accounts from January 2018 through September, “often within minutes of the accounts’ creation,” according to the complaint.
The companies named as defendants -- 9 Xiu Shenzhen, 9 Xiu Feishu, 9 Xiufei and Home Network - are based in Longyan and Shenzhen. They are affiliated manufacturers of electronics and hardware, as well as providers of software and online advertising services, according to the complaint.
The defendants couldn’t immediately be located for comment.
Facebook is seeking a court order permanently barring the Chinese companies’ alleged conduct and monetary damages.
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TOKYO (MNI) - The Bank of Japan said Tuesday it has been appointed Koji Nakamura as general manager for the Americas, to oversee U.S. economic and financial conditions from its New York branch office.
Nakamura is a former deputy director-general of the BOJ's International Department and a former manager of the Bank's Matsumoto branch.
Nakamura is also a former head of the financial system research division who compiled the Financial System Report at the BOJ Financial System and Bank Examination Department.
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By Jean Yung
WASHINGTON (MNI) - Inflation that is running below the Federal Reserve's 2% target risks dragging down inflation expectations and pushing inflation down further over the longer run, New York Fed President John Williams said Thursday.
"If inflation stays too low, people will start to expect it to stay that way, creating a vicious cycle, pushing inflation further down over the longer term, and making it harder to achieve our goals through monetary policy," he said in remarks prepared for the University at Albany - State University of New York.
He additionally warned that the slowdown abroad will dampen U.S.
By Luke Heighton
FRANKFURT (MNI) - The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed three new members to its supervisory board.
Edouard Fernandez-Bollo, Kerstin af Jochnick and Elizabeth McCaul will each serve a five-year non-renewable term, and will be responsible for planning and carrying out the ECB's banking supervision.
Fernandez-Bollo is currently Secretary General of the Autorite de controle prudentiel et de resolution, the French national competent authority.
FRANKFURT (MNI) - Household inflation expectations may be better predictors of future inflation outcomes than those of professional inflation forecasters, including those of financial markets, the European Central Bank's head of Market Operations said Thursday.
There is "tentative evidence suggesting that household inflation expectations are better predictors of future inflation outcomes," Benoit Coeure said, as euro area consumers "become less likely to expect inflation outcomes that would be inconsistent with the ECB's definition of price stability."
Here are the key points from the speech in Frankfurt:
- Developments over the past year indicate that a growing gap has emerged between the inflation expectations of market participants on one side,
BOE FPC: Sees UK Fincl System Resilient To Worst-Case Brexit
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LONDON (MNI) - The Bank of England Financial Policy Committee still sees the UK financial system as resilient to, and prepared for, the wide range of future risks it could face, including a worst-case disorderly Brexit, according to the July Financial Stability report, published Thursday.
Following are the main points from the Bank's FSR:
--Although the perceived likelihood on a 'no-deal' Brexit has increased
since the start of the year, but preparations made by UK financial institutions see them in a good position to navigate any issues.
--The FPC still sees its 2018 bank stress test of major UK banks as
sufficiently severe to co
MNI POLICY: Fed Bullard Calls for 25bp July Cut, 1 More By Dec
WASHINGTON (MNI) - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Jim Bullard on Wednesday called for a quarter-point interest rate cut at the July 31 FOMC meeting and added that one more rate cut may be warranted by the end of the year.
"I would like to make modest moves to re-center inflation and inflation expectations at our 2% target," he told reporters. Lowering rates would help the Fed "build credibility" for its commitment to its 2% inflation target and "take out some insurance" against the risk that the economy slows more than officials currently expect, he said.
MNI INTERVIEW: Fed Should Keep Plan to Shrink Balance Sheet
WASHINGTON (MNI) - The Federal Reserve should continue running down its balance sheet through September even if it cuts interest rates before then, Philadelphia Fed economist Roc Armenter said in an interview.
Adjustments to the federal funds rate remain the primary means of adjusting the monetary policy stance, so "I do not see any need to review or revise the balance sheet policy in the short term," he told MNI last week.
"I'm in favor to stay on course, finalize asset redemptions in September, and start the second stage of the program of keeping the overall size of the balance sheet constant while letting reserves decline slowly with growth in currency and other non-reserve liabilities," he said.
Powell on Wednesday reiterated that the FOMC is prepa
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-Tenreyro: Unlikely To Back Rate Hike In Next Few Months If Brexit Deal Done
LONDON (MNI) - Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Silvana Tenreyro said that in her view policy was most likely to be eased in the event of a disruptive Brexit but that this was not certain.
Even if there were to be a Brexit deal then the external MPC member said she would probably not back tightening policy.
In a speech at Birkbeck, University of London, Tenreyro said that Brexit uncertainty had increased and that markets were now factoring in a rate cut.
MNI POLICY: Fed's Powell: Worries Piling On Business Side
WASHINGTON (MNI) - Worries continue to pile up on the business side of the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell told lawmakers Wednesday as he laid out reasons for the Fed to cut rates as soon as this month.
The U.S. consumer and the job market are strong, he remarked. "The issue is really more now on the business side where we see business confidence and business investment weakening a bit."
"The bottom line for me is the uncertainties around global growth and trade continue to weigh on the outlook, and, in addition, inflation continues to be muted," Powell said.
Ahead of the June FOMC meeting and since then, economic data in Europe and Asia has "continued to disappoint," he said.
MNI POLICY: Fed Powell: Uncertainties Continue; Weak Infl Risk
By Jean Yung and Kevin Kastner
WASHINGTON (MNI) - Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell on Wednesday reinforced expectations for an interest rate cut this month in testimony to Congress by highlighting sustained uncertainties over trade policies and global growth as factors threatening the U.S. economic expansion.
"It appears that uncertainties around trade tensions and concerns about the strength of the global economy continue to weigh on the U.S. economic outlook," he told lawmakers in the House Financial Services Committee, citing incoming data and other developments since the FOMC last met in June.
At the same time, inflation is running below target and "inflation pressures remain muted," he said.
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Depression Counselling Group in March & Wisbech
Depression, let’s start talking about it.
We all will experience low mood within our lifetime which can be caused by a life event or it can be due to living with Depression. Depression affects an estimated 350 million people around the world and is the most common mental health disorder in Britain, with 9% of people meeting criteria for diagnosis and fewer than half of those affected receiving treatment.
Depression can affect people in different ways and for me the most significant way is how isolated and alone it makes people. Friends who once were there are now moving on with their lives. The popping out for coffee together slowly stops, the invites are now few and far between and out of nowhere you are on your own and in the dark. I have worked with many people who shared with me how depression can keep them in bed or in their home for days and even weeks at a time. It can be hard to keep up with friendships and relationships with Depression hanging around your head. The thoughts and feelings can be so difficult at times that suicide has also become a thought and even an option to many.
Morgan Walker Counselling has created a Depression Counselling Group for men and women who experience low mood and Depression. Members attend to share with others their experiences and life with Depression. The group takes the same structure and format as a counselling session, with each group member being able to share their experience, to help them make sense and have a better understanding of themselves. The group process will help members gain an understanding and identify behaviours which might not be helpful for their personal grow. The group environment is to help and support each other with emotional difficulties by offering feedback to each other. This feedback could be support from myself or practical tips from others in the group who have experienced a similar problem themselves. The aim is to help members learn their own coping methods so they can manage difficulties as and when they arise. The group is also about being able to reach out and to help other group members, which will make group members feel less isolated and have a feeling of achievement when they help one another.
The counselling group is confidential, with an initial assessment being completed with all new group members. The group consists of a maximum of 6 members and myself. The group will take place every fortnight on the same day and at the same time for two hours.
The Counselling Group will take place in March & Wisbech. If you would like further information or would like to attend please contact me here.
Group Counselling Postnatal Depression Counselling Group Counselling in March • Counselling in Wisbech • Group Counselling • Postnatal Depression 23rd February 2016 By Kirsty Walker 0 Comments
Postnatal Depression Counselling Group in March & Wisbech
Baby Blues or something more?
When having a baby we hear about the “Baby Blues” and come to believe that every mum will experience this for the first few weeks or so after the birth. But what if we are not able to move away from the blues? Postnatal Depression affects up to 15 per cent of new mothers, according to official figures, but health campaigners fear the figure may be twice that because of the reluctance of many women to admit their difficulties. This is due to many reasons, but mainly the symptoms in which a woman experiences and the guilt that she feels that she is not a good mother. Some of the symptoms include:
Feeling anxious and worried
Feeling low in mood
Irritable and not able to settle
Tired and low energy levels
Unable to enjoy things including sex
Negative or guilty thoughts
Thoughts of suicide or intrusive thoughts of harm to self or the baby
Some of the thoughts which a mum can experiences can be scary and distressing. She may not wish to share her experiences of motherhood due to dread of judgement and fear of her baby being taking away. Many mums suffer in silence with 49% not seeking out professional help or treatment and around 35,000 not telling anyone about their matter.
Morgan Walker Counselling is offering a Counselling Group for mums who are experiencing Postnatal Depression and for women who are pregnant and worried from past experiences of Postnatal Depression. My hope is to create a space away from the home environment for mums with Postnatal Depression to explore what they are feeling and to support them in being able to manage their low mood and other symptoms of Postnatal Depression. To offer them a non-judgemental setting around other mums with a similar story and support them in feeling okay to explore their own journey of motherhood. The group will offer support to each other and you won’t feel like the only one who is experiencing this “dark place” alone. Together, we will shine a light to help you work with these difficult feelings and look at ways to better manage low mood and intrusive thoughts.
The group itself will consist of a maximum of 6 mum’s and myself. The group will take place every fortnight on the same day and at the same time for two hours. The group will be run much like a counselling session, with clients bringing to the group what they wish to understand, explore and share with the group. If you chose to listen and not to share one week that is also fine. The group is about you and what you wish to experience and take away. The counselling group will be confidential, with an initial assessment being completed with all new group members.
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Are The Kids Alright? Brass Tacks, BBC2 (1979)
August 14, 1979 Ian 1 Comment
Radio Times,
Are The Kids Alright?
With unemployment running at twice the national average, and further redundancies in the shipyards, the age of leisure has come early for many of Sunderland’s youngsters.
Michael is 16, on the dole, and buying a £300 guitar on HP. His recently-formed group – The Rejected – is receiving encouragement from the local community theatre, which also faces redundancies as government cutbacks begin to bite.
What use is Sunderland’s £7-million leisure centre and its pedestrian precincts to Michael’s generation? Indeed, what will make things all right for these kids?
If you want to take part in the Brass Tacks debate, either phone a participating BBC radio station immediately after the programme (details on air and on Local Radio pages of RADIO TIMES) or write to Return Call, Brass Tacks, BBCtv, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SJ.
Historical references
Clips from this film have been used in several recent BBC documentaries on Punk and the 70s and in Julian Temple’s cinema film, The Filth and the Fury‘.
Style & Genre
Shot largely on the streets of Sunderland without official permission or pre-approved script. It’s an example of the kind of cinéma vérité, first made possible in the 1950s by the invention of lightweight 16mm film technology, that is no longer possible today.
The new digital technology is more lightweight than its predecessors, but shooting TV documentaries without an officially approved script was progressively ruled-out of television during the Thatcherite and Birtist pogroms of the 80s and 90s; and filming on the streets without permission has been progressively outlawed over the past decade under Anti Terrorism, Privacy and Copyright legislation.
Are The Kids Alright? – Singing In The Rain
Musical References
The opening sequence was cut to Title Music from A Clockwork Orange, an electronic transcription of Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary by Purcell, performed by Walter (now Wendy) Carlos on an early Moog Synthesiser.
This is how the director, Stanley Kubrick, described his movie version of A Clockwork Orange on the production Call Sheet:
It is a story of the dubious redemption of a teenage delinquent by condition-reflex therapy. It is at the same time a running lecture on free-will.
The story is set in a limp and listless socialist society at some future time when hardly anyone reads, although streets are named ‘Amis Avenue’ and ‘Priestly Place’. Everybody, ‘not a child, nor with child, nor ill’, must work. Criminals have to be rehabilitated because all the prison space is needed for politicals.
Deprived of his capacity for moral choice by science, the central figure of the story, Alex, appears only a ‘Clockwork Orange’, something mechanical that appears organic. Free to will, even if he wills to sin.
The rights to use the Title Music from A Clockwork Orange as part of the film were cleared by the BBC when the film was transmitted. The rights to post it on YouTube weren’t cleared at the time because the internet didn’t exist! But, because this clip is so obviously being used for the purposes of commentary, criticism, news-reporting, research, teaching, historical archiving and scholarship, if there was ever a case for Fair Use under copyright legislation then surely this has to be it.
So when it was first uploaded to YouTube in 2009 we were shocked to discover that the sound had been muted because of a music copyright claim from WMG (Warner Music Group). The sound was eventually restored many months later, with not one word of explanation from either WMG or YouTube!
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How the enzyme lipoxygenase drives heart failure after heart attacks
by Jeff Hansen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Heart failure after a heart attack is a global epidemic leading to chronic heart failure pathology. About 6 million people in the United States and 23 million worldwide suffer from this end-stage disease that involves dysfunction of the heart, a change that clinicians call cardiac remodeling. Despite medical advances, 2 to 17 percent of patients die within one year after a heart attack due to failure to resolve inflammation. More than 50 percent die within five years.
Ganesh Halade, Ph.D., is seeking ways to delay or reverse this heart failure, which comes from non-resolved chronic inflammation. Over-activated leukocytes from the spleen that rushed into the heart muscle to remove dead tissue and start repairs are not adequately calmed and do not receive a "get out" signal.
So, learning the details of metabolic signaling that controls the immune responses—both during the acute inflammation after injury and the resolution thereafter—is important. Halade, a University of Alabama at Birmingham associate professor in the UAB Department of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Disease, is working to discover which metabolic signatures are biomarkers for healthy physiology and which metabolic signatures are biomarkers for heart failure pathology.
This could permit the development of a prevention plan and precise, prognostic and personalized measures to delay heart failure.
This work follows his 2017 discovery that knocking out 12/15 lipoxygenase, or 12/15LOX, a lipid-modifying enzyme that competes with two other lipid-modifying enzymes, leads to increased survival in a mouse model of heart failure after a heart attack.
Ganesh Halade, Ph.D.
In a study now published online ahead of print in the journal Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, Halade and colleagues detail the profound lipidomic and metabolic signatures and the modified leukocyte profiling that delay heart failure progression and provide improved survival in 12/15LOX-deficient mice. Only 6 percent of the 12/15LOX-deficient mice died in the progression of chronic heart failure, 56 days after heart attack, while 38 percent of mice with normal 12/15LOX had mortality due to heart failure or rupture.
Specifically, the researchers quantified changes in the metabolome, lipidome and immune profiles during acute heart failure, one day after heart attack, and during chronic heart failure, eight weeks after heart attack.
They found that the 12/15LOX-deficient mice biosynthesized the signaling molecules epoxyeicosatrienoic acids—also known as EETs or cypoxins—in left ventricle heart tissue after heart attack to facilitate cardiac healing. The lipoxygenase-deficient mice also had reduced amounts of the diabetes risk biomarker 2-aminoadipic acid and had profound alterations of plasma metabolic signaling of hexoses, amino acids, biogenic amines, acylcarnitines, glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids during acute heart failure. These changes are accompanied by delayed heart failure and improved survival.
"Future studies are warranted to define the molecular network of the lipidome and metabolome in acute and chronic heart failure patients," Halade said, though he notes this needs to be preceded by work with other animal models. "Collectively, our studies have discovered a novel link of LOX signaling between lipidomic and metabolic signatures in acute and chronic heart failure syndrome."
Linking heart attack damage to the spleen and kidney, an integrated study of heart failure
More information: Ganesh V. Halade et al. Lipoxygenase drives lipidomic and metabolic reprogramming in ischemic heart failure, Metabolism (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2019.04.011
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Citation: How the enzyme lipoxygenase drives heart failure after heart attacks (2019, May 31) retrieved 16 July 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-enzyme-lipoxygenase-heart-failure.html
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Electrical failure cuts power to all of Argentina and Uruguay
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48652686
The Ministry of Civil Protection estimated that parts of the service could be restored in about seven or eight hours.
Edesur said that power had been restored to parts of Buenos Aires and local media reported that two airports were operating on generators in the capital.
Uruguay's energy company, UTE, said in a tweet that power had been restored to coastal areas.
The combined population of Argentina and Uruguay is about 48 million people.
Stokstert
Eskom next?
deesef
That's nothing. We sometimes do that 2 to 3 times a day for weeks on end!!! S. Africans are much tuffer than our S. American friends
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thechamp
deesef said:
We sometimes do what?
ForceFate
Among the affected provinces in Argentina were Santa Fe, San Luis, Formosa, La Rioja, Chubut, Cordoba and Mendoza, reports said. Tierra del Fuego in the far south is the only area that remains unaffected because it is not connected to the power grid.
So it wasn't all of Argentina?
thechamp said:
Someone will always find a way to turn it into a thread about SA. It's as if these things don't happen elsewhere.
You don't read so good?
MightyQuin
This wasn't scheduled and controlled load shedding, you muppet.
Whole countries lost power...
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ForceFate said:
Some people just try too hard.
3WA
Tierra del Fuego is an island so yes, it is probably on a separate grid. Also, it has a very small populace, and the locals probably wouldn't worry about electricity outages because you don't need electricity to **** a sheep.
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3WA said:
I think you confused Tierra del Fuego with New Zealand
Chris_the_Brit said:
The human yearning for sheep spans far further than New Zealand. Wales, Australia, Wyoming, Patagonia, the Karoo - look carefully and you'll realise they're just a bunch of sheep ****ers.
The man speaks with authority that only experience can provide, @Chris_the_Brit don't argue lol
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Daruk said:
You know these rural people. If they tell you they marinaded the mutton, don’t eat it.
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Sources suggest the power outage was triggered by a failure at the massive 3.1GW hydroelectric power complex shared between Argentina and Paraguay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacyretá_Dam
Edit: Slowly recovering:
Argentine President Mauricio Macri said power had been restored to over 50% of clients. Priority has been given to hospitals.
Uruguay's energy company, UTE, said power had been restored to 88% of customers.
Weeks? You are lucky. Some of us had no power for years. I sometimes have to travel 9000 kilometers to post something on mybb.
surface said:
You live on the moon?
MightyQuin said:
Nothing about eskom is controlled, you Muppet...
JimmyRott
No, the sun still worked as normal.
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High intensity exercise has been popular for decades. However people like Jane Fonda, Les Mills, bootcamps, Obstacle Course Racing and CrossFit have made high intensity exercise very popular among female exercisers. The USA Weightlifting Federation has seen a significant increase in membership largely in part to CrossFit’s use of Olympic Weightlifting in its exercise programming. With such high level physical challenges come concerns about how to manage common women’s health problems such as Incontinence, Pelvic Organ Prolapse (associated more with pelvic floor weakness) and Pelvic Pain (particularly from pelvic floor overactivity) as well as concerns about exercising during pregnancy, and postpartum issues such as divarication of rectus abdominis, exercising after a Caesarian section, and lifting while breastfeeding.
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Bob Mackie discusses Carol Burnett's walk-on clothes and costumes.
By: MeTV Staff July 2, 2019, 4:20PM
Sinking into a couch in your favorite comfy clothes can make it easy to forget that many TV shows were taped live, in front of an audience dressed to the nines. On The Carol Burnett Show, where the star famously did question-and-answer sessions with her rapt audiences, Carol Burnett didn't just interact with her suited-up crowd, she basically embodied the ideal audience member.
Glittering in sequined evening gowns, Burnett was usually the first to laugh or gasp when her guests spoke or joked. Not content to politely nod or smile despite her formal attire, Burnett was a living, breathing example of how to react to the sketches and performances on her show, throwing her head back as she laughed, twisting while pumping fists and tossing decorum out the window, all so the crowd would follow suit and do the same.
It's no wonder she became an American treasure: She was all of us onstage, showing how easy it was to let loose even when you're dressed to impress. Of course, it's easy to look so good when you have now-famous designer Bob Mackie helping you pull off your outfits, from the luxury items Carol wore when she walked out to the costumes she donned for laughs in sketch after sketch.
In an interview with the Archive of American Television, Mackie remembered meeting Burnett for the first time at a rehearsal for a Vegas show he was doing at the time. He said there was a specific reason Carol eyed him for the job of costume designer: “[She] liked what I was doing because I was doing glamour, but I was also doing a lot of comedy clothes. And a lot of designers aren't comfortable doing comedy clothes. They're not sure what that means. They don't know how to get a laugh.”
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Mackie's curtain dress certainly proves he didn't share that confusion. He went on, "I loved doing comedy clothes. I adore that. And a lot of people used to think I only did Carol Burnett's walk-out dress in the beginning to say hello to the audience. I don't know who they thought did the other stuff."
And if you're wondering if Carol was as easy to work with for a designer as it was for her costars collaborating onstage, Mackie can assure you, it was. "Carol was amazing to work with." He added, "She would do anything to get a laugh or to make the character look better." And of course, Mackie distinguishes between the looks he did for characters and the gorgeous clothes Burnett wore as a host, "Only when [a look] was for her, really, then we would want to make it look very good."
"Look very good" indeed, watch the video for proof that Carol Burnett is by far TV's most glamorous goofball.
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In terms of her Intro fashions, you do NOT see formal ware like that anymore. The amount of beading on so many of the pieces was phenomenal. Considering they had such a short turnaround time for costumes. Mackie always seemed to stay very humble about the achievement too. And appreciative of the opportunity!
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EU and non-EU migrants to get 'same status' after Brexit
Employers could face a £1,000 per head annual immigration skills surcharge for employing EU migrants after Brexit.
By Aubrey Allegretti political reporter
Tuesday 25 September 2018 13:53, UK
Image: Employers may have to pay £1,000 per-head for some EU migrant workers
EU nationals who arrive in Britain after Brexit will be treated the same as those from the rest of the world, ministers have reportedly decided.
The agreement came immediately after a presentation from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), which made the recommendation last week.
Among the suggestions were lifting the cap on high-skilled migration and limiting the number of low-skilled workers allowed into Britain post-2019.
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After the crunch meeting of ministers, a statement from Downing Street was released.
It simply said: "Once free movement is brought to an end, the government will be able to introduce a new system which works in the best interests of the UK - including by helping to boost productivity."
Multiple reports suggest the cabinet accepted the MAC's biggest recommendations.
Employers will face a £1,000 per head annual immigration skills surcharge for employing migrants from the EU after Brexit, the Guardian reported.
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The fee is already faced by employers who take on non-EU migrants.
The PM is facing calls to abandon her Chequers proposal for a more basic free trade agreement like the Canada model.
According to The Sun, Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey also fired a barb at Chancellor Philip Hammond during the meeting.
"We're told by some people that we're going to have a recession when we leave, and at the same time that we need mass immigration to keep the economy afloat," she allegedly said.
"They can't both be correct."
Image: The government's Brexit negotiations are in deadlock over Mrs May's Chequers proposal
It would be the first major decision taken on Britain's post-Brexit immigration policy, which hangs in the balance pending negotiations with Brussels.
EU migrants already living in the UK were assured by Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab last month they would not be "turfed out" even if talks fail and Britain leaves the EU without a deal.
Negotiations need to be over by November to allow enough time for EU27 countries' parliaments to pass the final deal, Brussels says.
Prime Minister Theresa May stands and delivers a message to the EU about respect and rigidity within our policies.
But deadlock with the EU over Theresa May's Chequers proposal showed few signs of being resolved, after leaders rejected it at a summit in Salzburg, Austria, last week.
The Chequers proposal would see Britain retain common European rules for goods, but not for services.
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Democratic House victory could echo from Moscow to Riyadh
Associated Press / 05:57 PM November 07, 2018
Democrat Madeleine Dean celebrates after winning Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District race, in Fort Washington, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
NEW DELHI — The Democratic victory in the U.S. House of Representatives could echo from Moscow to Beijing to Riyadh, with empowered Democrats now able to launch new investigations into President Donald Trump’s international business empire and his political dealings with the rest of the world.
Overturning control of the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections has given the Democrats a powerful weapon to wield against Trump: subpoenas whose reach could extend far beyond the White House and Washington.
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What is Dogecoin: “Woof” Cryptocurrency that Goes as High as It Never Did
Dogecoin value is increasing! Bitcoin price for today is $17,896, but DOGE is not falling behind and is currently almost $0.0056. Just a few days and it will get the top place on the chart.
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What is Dogecoin?
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Dogecoin is cryptocurrency, based on Litecoin and named after a meme, guess what? Doge. It was founded by Billy Markus and was supposed to be closer to the larger demographic group. Firstly, it was presented on December 8, 2013.
The Dogecoin community has repeatedly supported fundraising for charity. For instance, they supported Jamaica national bobsleigh team in Olympic Games 2014 and Josh Wise in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 2012.
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As of December 20, 2017, in circulation is 112B coins, the trading volume of which is $30,401,064 and the market cap is $632,537,555. The current price of Dogecoin is $0.0056.
According to CoinGecko, Dogecoin is climbing in value.The meme-based cryptocurrency was $0.0064 this Monday, December 18.
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Positioning itself as a joke, one day Dogecoin may become as popular as Bitcoin. Or not. But still, the idea is quite cute, funny and will definitely find its fans and followers.
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Home Bills AFC East Notes: Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Patriots
Bills RB LeSean McCoy said first-round QB Josh Allen is a “special” player and has set himself apart from other rookies McCoy has worked with.
“I’ve got to be honest, he’s pretty good — and I’m not a big fan of rookies,” McCoy said, via Pro Football Talk. “A lot of guys as rookies, they’re not like him. . . . He’s good. He’s smart. He has to learn, of course, he throws some passes that probably shouldn’t have been thrown, but other than that, he has a strong arm, he’s very intelligent — he’s too smart, I tell him sometimes. We have conversations and I say, ‘Easy. This is not like an exam. Just talk to me. You can say yo. You can say wassup.’ But as a talent level, he’s going to be really good for a lot of years, when he takes over eventually. We took him early in the draft so that’s just common sense, but he’s special. That’s for sure.”
New Browns WR Jarvis Landry admitted that he didn’t have a great relationship with Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill and he isn’t surprised that Tannehill hasn’t reached out to him since he was traded.
“I’m not surprised,” Landry said when asked why he had not heard from Tannehill since his departure, via NFL.com. “We didn’t really have a good relationship anyway, so I’m not surprised.
“I wasn’t trying to look back in the rearview mirror, you know. I’m focused on here and where we’re taking it here. I wasn’t trying to take a shot at him. I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position. But at the same time too… I give credit where credit is due.”
Jets OC Jeremy Bates said Wednesday that rookie QB Sam Darnold is in the running to start Week 1: “Are we giving him bits and pieces of the offense or are we throwing everything at him? We’re throwing everything at him. If he can handle it, if he can prove that he’s the starter, then that will take place when the time comes.” (Manish Mehta)
Jets CB Morris Claiborne will have a soft brace on his left wrist for 6-8 weeks in total, according to Calvin Watkins. It’s worth mentioning that Claiborne has already had the cast on for two weeks now.
Jets WR Terrelle Pryor, who had a scope on his right ankle, is no longer wearing a walking boot. (Rich Cimini)
Doug Kyed of NESN writes that the only Stephen Gilmore and second-round pick Duke Dawson are “stone-cold locks” to make the Patriots’ 53-man roster right now.
Jason McCourty and Jonathan Jones didn’t take part in the drills open to the media and Eric Rowe struggled overall and wasn’t consistently working with the first team unit.
While Kyed says that McCourty is still the most likely starter opposite Gilmore this season, it remains to be seen whether Rowe will secure a job this summer.
Kyed notes that undrafted rookie CB J.C. Jackson spent the most time of any cornerback playing across from Gilmore with the first-team defense.
Duke Dawson
Eric Rowe
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Jeremy Bates
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NFL Notes: CBA, Supplemental Draft, Jets
Dolphins Waive C Connor Hilland From Injured Reserve
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Lauterbach Case Prompts Policy Reforms for Victims of Sexual Assault in the Military (December 25, 2011)
LCpl. Maria Lauterbach, U.S. Marine Corps
The family of slain Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach is hailing recent provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act that profoundly change the way the Department of Defense will handle sexual assault charges.
The Defense STRONG Act has cleared both the House and the Senate and is awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature. Provisions include access to legal counsel for victims and the right to request a base transfer.
Lauterbach’s mother, Mary Lauterbach of Vandalia, said the new law would have made the difference in the case of her daughter, who was denied a base transfer after accusing fellow Marine Cesar Laurean of sexual assault. “Maria would be alive today if the base transfer had been available to her,” she said.
Turner concurred, “In civilian life you have complete control of your movements, and if you’re in an unsafe situation you can remove yourself. In military life, the victim needs permission to take even basic self-preservation actions.”
New provisions handed down from the Department of Defense are giving sexual assault victims in the military rights they never had before. It’s all thanks to the fight from Congressman Mike Turner and a local mother Mary Lauterbach. The provisions make certain that a victim has legal counsel throughout the whole process so they understand what their legal rights are and how to protect themselves. The provisions also remove the accused from the situation and not the victim. -WKEF/WRGT (August 15, 2013)
A major hurdle cleared for sexual assault victims in the military. Congress passed a bill that would give victims rights and protection they never had before. The push came after the tragic murder of local marine Maria Lauterbach and her unborn son. Congress approved a bill that would give military sexual assault victims legal counsel and criminalize retaliation against any victim. “If Maria had had this, she would be alive today, it’s very important.” The bill now heads to President Barack Obama for his signature. -WKEF/WRGT (December 20, 2013)
Law protecting military victims of sexual assault discussed. -WDTN-TV (May 1, 2018)
Key changes in military policy
By executive order, communication between victims and victim advocates will now be privileged. Previously conversations between victim and victim advocates can be subpoenaed in court, making victims reluctant to come forward. Pending legislation HR 1540, passed by both the House and Senate, provides for:
Legal assistance for victims of sexual assault. Previously, only defendants in the military have been guaranteed access to a lawyer.
Stricter training guidelines and greater oversight for Sexual Assault Response Coordinators and Sexual Assault Victim Advocates.
Retention of sexual assault records with lifetime access for service members.
The victim’s right to a base transfer or unit transfer. Under the new law, these requests will be expedited, with decisions being made within 72 hours and the bias should be in favor of the victim.
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✝ 4TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME✝
Heavenly Lord,
We thank You most humbly for all the people that you have brought to the DPD family and pray that you will continue to guide each of us to find our place in joyful service. Your kind blessing of many volunteers is a gift beyond measure. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory Forever. Amen.
✙ Gracious God, please pour your love upon those who have asked to be remembered in our prayers:
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You can add your prayer request at www.ministry.dpd.org
Ed Lavorgna – CARE volunteer, for patience as he heals from back surgery .
Domenica Amato – Mother of Clara, as she recovers from knee surgery
Leanne Foth - daughter-in-law of Patt Foth, may God's power and strength to lead her safely through surgery to healing.
Tara Mackin- Gruenert Center volunteer, may God watch over her during her pregnancy and bless her and her unborn child with good health.
Residents of Barnet House - as they mourn the passing of their beloved friend / family member Mabel.
JoAnn McMinn – as she grieves the loss of her husband. May she find consolation in friends and family.
Lori Burton – May you fill her heart with your comfort, fill her body with your strength and her everyday with your rest.
Ron - Cousin of volunteer Camille Aveni, was recently diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. May he find consolation in God’s loving presence and for the doctors treating him.
David Quinn – Resident of the Barnet House as he mourns the loss of his sister. May he find comfort in God’s love.
Sr. Emily McMullen - friend of Sister Joan Gercke, for her recovery from a recent stroke
Ellen Sharkey – for a quick recovery from her injury. May she be surrounded by God’s healing presence
John Mazzoni - For your tender mercy during his time of illness and suffering.
James Ondimu Ochoki – For healing for this beloved father, grandfather, father in-law, brother in-law, and uncle to many.
Jessica Brittain - 6th grader from Sparta for recovery from surgery and return to strength and health.
Gary – Cousin of Cheryl Slate, for strength in suffering and return to health
Lucy Cox- May the Lord grant consolation and recovery to health.
Jack McCarthy- Father of Debbie McCarthy from the Gruenert Center. For a return to health.
Tara McKewen – as she seeks to discern the work she is being called to
Chuck Emering – Brother of Kris Bulas , as he recovers from his injuries. For patience and endurance during his healing.
Wally Camacho - May the love of God, family and friends sustain him as he undergoes dialysis 3 days a week.
Sharon Zuckerman - For strength and comfort as she undergoes treatment for breast cancer
Patrick Powis – Father of Art Powis , for comfort, strength and courage as he faces his illness
Anthony - a young man of 23 whose lungs are not in good condition, may God draw him near as his final hours approach and for comfort for his loving family.
Rosa Bascietto – Mother of Joanne Rossi. That the love and respect of her family helps to sustain her and bring her joy.
Donald – Son of volunteer Barbara Mahler, may God watch over him during his illness
Colette – Sister of Julie Tatti for strength in suffering and improvement in health
For peace, justice and hope in our world.
May God bless our staff, residents, friends, volunteers and benefactors. May he turn his face toward you and give you peace.
Rich McGinn – Husband of Gruenert Center staff member JoAnn McGinn
✙ February 2 – Presentation of the Lord
Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord which occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus and is also known as Candlemas day, since the blessing and procession of candles is included in today's liturgy. There is an old tradition of keeping out the Nativity crèche or other Christmas decorations until this feast. The event is described in the Gospel of Luke ( Luke 2:22–40). And tells how Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth to complete Mary’s ritual purification after childbirth. Under the Mosaic Law, a woman was ritually “unclean” for 40 days after childbirth, when she was to present herself to the priests and offer sacrifice—her “purification.”
✙ February 3 – Saint Blaise: Died 319 A.D. Patron Saint of Throat Illnesses
Saint Blaise was a Bishop in Armenia and eventually martyred for his faith. Many Catholics might remember Saint Blaise's feast because of the Blessing of the Throats that may take place on this day. Two candles are blessed, held slightly open, and pressed against the throat as the blessing is said. Saint Blaise's protection of those with throat troubles apparently comes from a legend that a boy was brought to him who had a fishbone stuck in his throat. The boy was about to die when Saint Blaise healed him.
✙ Fe bruary 3 – Saint Agatha: Died ca. 250A.D. Patron Saint of breast cancer patients and nurses
Saint Agatha faced much suffering in her life. Having dedicated her virginity to God, fifteen-year-old Agatha, from a rich and noble family, rejected the amorous advances of the Roman prefect Quintianus, who then persecuted her for her Christian faith. Angered by her refusal of his amorous interest he sent Agatha to a brothel. However, her willful nature keep her refusing the demands of the Madame of the brothel returns her to Quintianus. He argues, threatens, and finally has her put in prison. Amongst the tortures she underwent was the cutting off of her breasts. After further dramatic confrontations with Quintianus, Saint Agatha was then sentenced to be burnt at the stake burnt at the stake, but an earthquake saved her from that fate; instead, she was sent to prison where St. Peter the Apostle appeared to her and healed her wounds. Saint Agatha died in prison. Agatha’s name is included in the canon of the Roman Mass. She is honored for her courage in suffering and in remaining pure for the sake of Christ.
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Heather Morris Channels Britney Spears With ‘Toxic’ ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Tango
David Livingston, Getty Images
Heather Morris resurrected her infamous Britney Spears impersonation on Dancing With the Stars Monday night (April 3).
Wearing a sheer, body-hugging champagne dress with crystals placed in homage to Spears' iconic nude bodysuit in the "Toxic" video, Morris and her partner, Alan Bersten, performed a sizzling tango set to the pop star's sexy In The Zone single.
Coincidentally, Morris is known for channeling Spears: In one of Glee's most iconic episodes, the actress (who played cheerleader Brittany on the show) experiences a dream sequence during a trip to the dentist, where she recreates a handful of the pop princess's music videos while singing "I'm a Slave 4 U."
However, speaking exclusively to PEOPLE prior to Monday's DWTS episode, Morris revealed that she was both "a little bit thrilled and a little bit disappointed" to perform once again to Spears' music.
"Haven’t I already done this? Isn’t this what my iconic character on Glee is based on? I’m here to show my fans, and the rest of the world, more about who Heather really is and, to me, this seems like a step back in time," she said.
Thankfully, it only took a family member's reassuring words to lift her spirits and excite her for the performance.
"I called my sister to share my thoughts and she quickly assured me, saying, 'Heather, so many of your fans will be so happy to see you perform this again!' Talking to her allowed me to understand that I have to set my ego aside and bring myself to this as much as I can because, without my fans, I would not be where I am today," Morris added.
Meet the DWTS Season 24 Contestants:
NEXT: NORMANI KORDEI, ERIKA JAYNE + MORE HEAT UP 'DWTS' SEASON 24
Source: Heather Morris Channels Britney Spears With ‘Toxic’ ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Tango
Filed Under: Britney Spears, dancing with the stars, dwts
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Home / Sports / Sergio Garcia pips Justin Rose to win at Masters 2017 Augusta
Sergio Garcia pips Justin Rose to win at Masters 2017 Augusta
Monday, 10 April 2017 : Spain’s Sergio Garcia ended his long wait for a first major title with a thrilling play-off win over England’s Justin Rose at the Masters.
Both players finished on nine under par after 72 holes, setting up a sudden-death play-off on the 18th.
Garcia, 37, holed a birdie putt for victory after his European Ryder Cup team-mate could only manage a bogey.
Charl Schwartzel was third on six under with England’s Paul Casey and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy in the top 10.
Jordan Spieth, one of the pre-tournament favourites, and fellow American Rickie Fowler both capitulated on the final day.
Spieth, champion in 2015, signed for a three-over-par 75, while playing partner Fowler carded a 76 to finish tied in 11th on one under.
Garcia finally won one of golf’s four majors – the Masters, the Open Championship, the US Open and the US PGA Championship – at his 74th attempt after 22 previous top-10 finishes
He became the third Spaniard to win the Masters – after Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal – on what would have been the 60th birthday of Ballesteros, who died in 2011.
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Mad Cow Disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy is an irreversible nerve tissue disorder that occurs when certain proteins in the brain go awry, folding abnormally. These twisted proteins called prions replicate, spreading throughout the animal’s brain, destroying brain function and ultimately leading to death.
Can Humans Get Mad Cow Disease?
Humans can develop a similarly devastating disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Neither of these diseases is contagious unless the brain or significant parts of the nervous system containing prions are ingested by another. For humans, this has only been a problem in parts of the world where cannibalism is practiced. For cows, contagion has thought to have occurred with the practice of feeding livestock with its own meat by-products. This forced bovine cannibalism has produced meat that when consumed, infected humans with a variant of the brain-wasting protein. Several ‘human cases’ of Mad Cow disease (officially called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or vCJD) were isolated in the United Kingdom leading to global concern. In the United States, the practice of feeding cows to cows has been banned and legislation to restrict bovine brain and spinal cord from food distribution has been enacted.
Are Prions to be Found in Today’s Beef?
Food safety advocates call for extreme caution in monitoring the disease. A point of concern is that prions are not destroyed by normal cooking temperatures. The insidious proteins have been found to survive temperatures exceeding 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Another point of contention is the fact that vCJD produces many of the same symptoms as dementia and in theory, is frequently misdiagnosed as early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
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The FDA appears to have caved to industry pressure and allows intestines potentially infected with mad cow disease prions into food products and lipstick.
Berries vs. Pesticides in Parkinson’s Disease
Berries counteract the neurotoxic effects of pesticides in vitro, potentially explaining why berry consumption is associated with lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
Dietary Theory of Alzheimer’s
A provocative theory published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition attempts to explain the dramatic rise in Alzheimer’s disease.
Mad Fish Disease
Researchers raise concerns about the feeding of cow brains to farmed fish.
Cannibalistic Feed Biomagnification
Feeding meat and bone meal to farm animals may increase the levels of industrial pollutants in animal products.
Sexually Transmitted Fish Toxin
There are neurotoxins in certain fish that can survive cooking and cause unusual symptoms.
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Excalibur, a slot designed by Net Entertainment, which has 5 reels and 20 paylines, awards prizes of up to $40,000, and among its features you will find scatter symbols, free spins, multipliers and wild symbols.
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Police Spies Out Of Lives supports people who are taking legal action against the police around undercover relationships, or who are core participants in the Public Inquiry because of relationships with undercover officers. You may be affected directly by these issues, or be one of the many other people, friends, and families, have been affected by this systemic abuse, and this may be why you have arrived at this page. We hope the following information may help.
ESTABLISHING THE FACTS
The Undercover Research Group may be able to advise you as to what courses of action to take to verify your initial suspicions. It may be helpful to read their ‘Fifteen Questions‘.
SEEKING LEGAL REDRESS
Please note, as yet the legal system offers no guarantees of justice around these particular issues; we hope that the eight women’s case will prove that undercover relationships were unlawful. The solicitors below may be able to advise whether you have a strong enough case to sue:
Birnberg Peirce Solicitors – there is an enquiry form on this page; mark your enquiry for the attention of Harriet Wistrich.
Bindmans Solicitors (Jules Carey)
Hickman and Rose Solicitors (Beth Handley)
If it turns out that a solicitor can take on your case, you might need to be prepared for the case to take a long time, for there to be a lot of difficult work involved, and that while the case is proceeding the outcome will be uncertain, so additional support may be needed (e.g. a close friend or two, a counsellor or helplines – see below). These solicitors may also advise you as to whether you could or should apply to become a core participant in the public inquiry. You can be a core participant without bringing a legal case.
AFTERCARE FUND
We work closely with the Aftercare Fund, a solidarity fund so that people who were traumatised by the actions of undercover police could receive support. It offers help with a range of legal, travel and therapeutic costs. Their website is Aftercare Fund or they can be contacted via email aftercarefund#@#gmail.com (removing # and #, which are there to prevent spam).
COUNSELLING / HELPLINES
Counselling and psychotherapy are talking therapies which may help support people to overcome difficulties, including processing unexpected events. While there is no magic therapy that will help everyone deal with unusual circumstances or abuse, here are some pointers for finding guidance and counselling:
Activist Trauma Network
plus pdf leaflet about police infiltration from Activist Trauma Network
Counselling for Social Change
Email: info#@#counsellingforsocialchange.org.uk (remove #and#, which are there to prevent spam)
Txt: 07967 588 038
Email: jo#@#samaritans.org (remove hashtags, which are there to prevent spam)
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BCAP)
see also BCAP’s website for finding a counsellor or therapist: It’s good to talk
We come from different backgrounds and have a range of political beliefs and interests, and we are united in believing that every woman, and every person, has a right to participate in the struggle for social and environmental justice, without fear of persecution, objectification, or interference in their lives.
– Where We Stand
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This week in: American Football – Week 9
November 3, 2011 September 4, 2012 ~ John Lally ~ 2 Comments
Judging by my predictions last week, the NFL this season has been somewhat unpredictable. A few highlights from my week 8 picks:
Colts +9.5 over Titans
What I said: Hard to take Indianapolis after they were crushed by the Saints
What happened: I took them, and they lost by 17
Giants -9.5 over Dolphins
What I said: Last time I took the Giants when they were heavily favoured at home, they failed to cover…
What happened: They failed to cover, I failed to learn my lesson
Saints -10.5 over Rams
The Rams sacked Saints QB Drew Brees 6 times on Sunday
What I said: I’m not sure how high they would have had to make this line for me to take the Rams – maybe -20.5.
What happened: The Rams lost their starting Quarterback, Sam Bradford for the game, but beat the Saints by 10
In other games: the Cardinals had a big lead over the Ravens in Baltimore, but failed to hold on and lost by a field goal; the Bills won for the first time in five tries playing in Toronto, keeping the injury plagued Redskins off the scoreboard in a 23-0 win; Tim Tebow had another bad game but without the fourth quarter heroics – the Lions beating the Broncos 45-10, moving Detroit to 6-2 for the season; the Steelers dominated the Patriots, whose secondary could not contain any of Pittsburgh’s receivers in a 25-17 loss for New England; and the Eagles put in the kind of performance that shows why many predicted them as Superbowl favourites before the season, as they beat their divisional rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, 34-7. On Monday night, the Chiefs won their fourth straight game, having lost their first three, and now sit atop the AFC West with the team they beat, the San Diego Chargers.
This week sees several good divisional matchups across the league: AFC East contenders the Bills and Jets meet in Buffalo; the Steelers look for revenge for their week 1 loss against the Ravens in Pittsburgh; the New Orleans Saints hope to recover from their shock loss to the Rams, at home to the Buccaneers, who had a bye last week after their trip to London the previous Sunday; and in a battle of the Bad Quarterbacks, Tim Tebow’s Broncos face off with Carson Palmer’s Raiders in Oakland. There is also a rematch of Superbowl 42, when the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots to spoil their perfect season; the Packers will look to continue their unbeaten season when they play the Chargers in San Diego – though Sports Illustrated jinxed Green Bay this week by putting them on their cover with a headline of “The Perfect Pack”; the 6-1 49ers come to the East Coast to play the Washington Redskins; and the Rams try to improve on last week’s surprise win over the Saints when they travel to Arizona to face the Cardinals.
Predictions:
Last week 6-7, somehow – having gone 1-5 in the early games; Season 61-55
Home teams in bold
Falcons -7.5 over Colts
Bills -1.5 over Jets
Texans -10.5 over Browns
Seahawks +12.5 over Cowboys
Chiefs –6.5 over Dolphins
Saints -7.5 over Buccaneers
49ers -3.5 over Redskins
Bengals +2.5 over Titans
Raiders -7.5 over Broncos
Chargers +5.5 over Packers (SI might jinx the Packers, I’m definitely not going to)
Rams +4.5 over Cardinals
Giants +8.5 over Patriots
Steelers -3.5 over Ravens
Eagles -6.5 over Bears
This week in: American and English Football – NFL heads to Wembley
October 20, 2011 September 4, 2012 ~ John Lally ~ 1 Comment
The NFL Returns to Wembley
There is a perfect crossover in footballs of both types this week, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears will play the fifth regular season NFL game at Wembley Stadium, the home of English “soccer”. This now annual event is well received by the legion of fans the NFL has attracted across the Atlantic, but there is still disdain on both sides for the other country’s “football” – which results in those who only embrace one of the sports, missing out on the other. To most Brits, American Football is nothing more than ‘rugby with pads”; alongside those in the US who consider soccer boring, due to a lack of scoring.
I first started following the NFL in the early 90s, picking the Packers as my team with their young quarterback, Brett Favre – in the days before he had a phone that could send picture messages – as an alternative to the dominant Steve Young led 49ers, or the widely loved Dallas Cowboys. While I enjoyed the sport for the game itself, it was not until I moved to New York that I discovered the culture surrounding it – watching the games in a bar with friends, drinking some beers and eating some hot wings – really adds to the experience. On the other side, those who think that English football* is dull are missing out on the tribal nature of clubs supporters, on the boisterous atmosphere at the games, the anxiety of potential relegation, the joy of winning a trophy or beating your arch-rivals. I have attended fixtures in the NFL, NHL, NBA, and dozens of baseball games, but nothing comes close to the experience of going to a football game. Those who dismiss the other code of football are usually doing it out of ignorance, I love both types and recommend either to any sports fan. Besides, they are both much better than rugby…
*I’m calling it English football, but of course I could say European, South American, everywhere else on earth – as only the US calls it soccer
To help bring these two sports together, at least for this weekend, here’s a look at how the season has gone in each league – with a comparison of teams who find themselves in similar positions:
Championship Contenders
These are the teams everyone expected to be competing for the top prizes and, thus far, have been proving people right:
Green Bay Packers, New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, San Diego Chargers (NFL)
Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea (Premiership)
Strong Starters
The clubs who have jumped out to a good opening to their seasons, but there is a doubt as to whether this success has any longevity:
San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions, New York Giants, Buffalo Bills, Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL)
Newcastle United, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur (Premiership)
Strong Teams, Indifferent Starts
Teams that have been dominant in recent years, but have not looked themselves in the first few weeks of this season, yet they cannot be written off just yet:
Pittsburgh Steelers, New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles (yep, even at 2-4) (NFL)
Arsenal, Liverpool (Premiership)
Middle of the Road Teams
The ones who will be mid-table in the Premiership, or will be on the cusp of a wild card for the playoffs but unlikely to contend for the Superbowl – essentially, they are mediocre:
Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Tennessee Titans, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs (NFL)
Aston Villa, West Brom, Fulham (Premiership)
Big Teams Down Low
In the NFL, this does not have as much impact as there is no relegation, in the Premiership, falling all the way down can be fatal:
Indianapolis Colts (NFL)
Everton (Premiership)
Luck Needed
For the Premiership clubs, they require some luck to avoid relegation, for the worst in the NFL, getting the number 1 pick in next year’s draft means acquiring ace college QB, Andrew Luck (N.B. Colts & Everton are in these races too)
Minnesota Vikings, Carolina Panthers, Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals, St. Louis Rams, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)
Bolton Wanderers, Blackburn Rovers, Wigan Athletic, Norwich City, QPR, Swansea City, Sunderland, Wolverhampton Wanderers (Premiership)
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK’S GAMES AND PREDICTIONS
This week in: American and English Football – Preview and Predictions
October 20, 2011 November 9, 2011 ~ John Lally ~ 3 Comments
If you missed Part I of the American and English Football crossover weekend preview, CLICK HERE
Manchester Derby - One For the Lovers
In the Premiership this weekend, one game stands out above all others – Manchester United versus Manchester City – a battle of the top two in the league, who meet on Sunday at Old Trafford. Having won the FA Cup last season, City at least will not have to see the banner boasting of the length of the trophy drought they had been in, which has been hung at their rival’s stadium for many years. After last week’s results (when City beat Villa, while United were held to a draw by Liverpool), Roberto Mancini’s team travel across Manchester knowing that a point would be enough to remain in pole position. There is also a south-west London derby on Sunday, as QPR host third place Chelsea; while in the Midlands, Aston Villa take on West Brom. Arsenal hope to continue their revival at home to Stoke; Norwich go to Anfield to play Liverpool; Newcastle host Wigan and Fulham and Everton meet at Craven Cottage. Tottenham, who are unbeaten in their last five, travel to Blackburn – but have a game against Rubin Kazan (who I think Bob Dylan sang about in “Hurricane“) in the Europa League on Thursday to contend with first.
Week 7 of the NFL, as well as having the London game between the Buccaneers and the Bears, includes an NFC North match-up as the Packers play the Vikings in Minnesota; the Titans host the Texans in the AFC South; the Jets meet the Chargers at the Meadowlands; and the Cowboys are home against the St. Louis Rams. There is a rematch of both Superbowl XLIII (Steelers vs Cardinals) and Superbowl XLIV (Colts vs Saints) – though both sides look very one-sided now – with the teams that triumphed in those two games (Pittsburgh & New Orleans) likely to win again this weekend. New quarterbacks will be on show for both the Redskins – who will start John Beck having benched Rex Grossman for this week’s game with the Panthers – and the Raiders, who lost Jason Campbell to injury last weekend and have traded two first-round picks for Carson Palmer – his first appearance will be against the Kansas City Chiefs. Tim Tebow will also be taking over as a starter for the Denver Broncos, and does so back in Florida, where he made his name in college, as his team travels to Miami to take on the Dolphins.
Last Week 8-5, Season 48-42
Lions -3.5 over Falcons
Buccaneers +0.5 over Bears (at Wembley Stadium, London)
Seahawks +3.5 over Browns
Broncos +3.5 over Dolphins
Titans -3.5 over Texans
Chargers -1.5 over Jets
Panthers -2.5 over Redskins
Chiefs +3.5 over Raiders
Steelers -3.5 over Cardinals
Cowboys -12.5 over Rams
Packers -8.5 over Vikings
Saints -13.5 over Colts
Ravens -7.5 over Jaguars
Wolves vs Swansea – Draw
Aston Villa vs West Brom – Home win
Bolton vs Sunderland – Draw
Newcastle vs Wigan – Home win
Liverpool vs Norwich – Home win
Arsenal vs Stoke – Home win
Fulham vs Everton – Home win
Manchester United vs Manchester City – Draw
Blackburn vs Tottenham – Away win
QPR vs Chelsea – Away win
It is never a good sign for fans when their team is being widely lauded in the media before they have won anything – or
Last week the Bills took down the highly fancied Eagles
had not even played a game. Just ask those who root for the Phillies, Red Sox, Heat or Eagles – all of whom were being predicted to go all the way prior to their respective seasons started, but failed to meet those expectations. So when I read in Peter King’s “Monday Morning Quarterback” column on SI.com this Monday that the Packers and Lions, should they both keep winning, would each be 10-0 going into their Thanksgiving day showdown in Detroit, I knew that Green Bay were cursed for this week’s game.
Then I checked the fixtures for week 6 and saw the reigning Champs are home to the woeful St. Louis Rams and my fears dissipated. Having overcome an early deficit against the Falcons in Atlanta in last Sunday night’s game, the schedule has really opened up for Green Bay. Before the Turkey Day showdown with the Lions, the only other unbeaten team left in the NFL, the Packers face the struggling Vikings twice, host the Rams and the Buccaneers, and must travel to San Diego to play the Chargers – the only one of those games they will not be heavily favoured in.
Since I’ve spent around 200 words jinxing my own team, time to move on to a recap of last week’s games. The Eagles dropped to 1-4 after their loss to the Buffalo Bills; the Vikings picked up their first win of the year by beating the Arizona Cardinals in Minnesota; and the Oakland Raiders, who lost their long time owner, Al Davis, who died on Saturday. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were routed by the 49ers, who are looking strong favourites to win the NFC West this year; their divisional rivals, the Seattle Seahawks, provided the upset of the week when they beat the New York Giants in the New Meadowlands; and the Chargers survived a Tim Tebow fueled comeback from the Broncos in Denver, holding on to win 28-24. The Patriots got a measure of revenge on the Jets for last year’s playoff loss; the Steelers routed the Titans; and the Chiefs won in Indianapolis, dropping the Colts to 0-5.
The pick of the games this week sees the Redskins, coming off a bye week, try to maintain their lead in the NFC East when they host the Eagles; Alex Smith and the 49ers travel to Detroit to face the 5-0 Lions; and the struggling Cowboys head to New England to play the Patriots. In the race for the worst record and therefore the number 1 draft pick, which this year mans landing superstar college Quarterback Andrew Luck, the 0-5 Colts are playing the Bengals; while the winless Dolphins, who had a bye last week, take on the New York Jets in New Jersey in Monday Night’s game.
Predicitions
Last week, 8-5; season 40-37
Panthers +4.5 over Falcons
Bills +3.5 over Giants
Bengals -6.5 over Colts
49ers +4.5 over Lions
Packers -14.5 over Rams
Redskins -0.5 over Eagles
Steelers -12.5 over Jaguars
Raiders -5.5 over Browns
Ravens -7.5 over Texans
Cowboys +7.5 over Patriots
Bears -3.5 over Vikings
Dolphins +7.5 over Jets
October 7, 2011 September 4, 2012 ~ John Lally ~ 3 Comments
Don't cry for me Tony Romo
Last week in the NFL, the Cowboys gave away another late lead, to lose a game they had seemed destined to win. Having lost to the Jets in week 1 after a Romo fumble and a blocked punt, this time the Cowboys literally threw away a seventeen point lead, their quarterback throwing three interceptions – two of which were returned by the Lions for touchdowns. The Eagles also were victims of a comeback, losing to the San Francisco 49ers 24-23, dropping Philadelphia to 1-3 for the season. Elsewhere, the Patriots bounced back from their defeat to the Bills in Week 3 to beat the Raiders in Oakland; the Packers were powered by four throwing touchdowns from Rodgers, who added two more with his feet, in their 49-23 demolition of the Denver Broncos; the Ravens thrashed the Jets 34-17, in a game in which neither quarterback, Sanchez nor Flacco, distinguished themselves. The Giants and the Redskins both won, leaving the two tied atop the NFC East with records of 3-1; Washington beat the St. Louis Rams, who remain winless alongside the Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins and Indianapolis Colts, who have still not been able to cope with the loss of their quarterback and leader, Peyton Manning.
Week 5 is the first to include bye weeks, so this round gives a rest to Cleveland, Dallas, St. Louis, Miami, Washington and Baltimore. For teams that are playing, NFC North rivals the Bears and Lions play each other in Monday Night Football in Detroit; the Packers travel to Atlanta to face a Falcons team they defeated in the playoffs in convincing fashion last January; . In another rematch from January’s postseason, the Jets and Patriots meet up again in Boston, Tom Brady looking to gain revenge for New England’s defeat.
Last week 8-8, season 32-32 – this week I’ll provide a reason for each pick
Bills + 2.5 over Eagles – because Buffalo is 3-1, Philadelphia 1-3 and the line is just wrong
Bengals +2.5 over Jaguars – because Cincy has a good defence and I do not think Jacksonville will win the game, let alone cover
Titans +7.5 over Steelers – because I do no see Pittsburgh covering when their QB is injured and they have been unconvincing thus far
Chiefs +2.5 over Colts – simply taking the points – Kansas City has looked much improved in the last two weeks, and Indy are still winless.
Raiders +6.5 over Texans – Houston has not played particularly well thus far and yet are 3-1, meanwhile Oakland has lost to New England and a tough one in Buffalo, but I can see them at least covering this spread.
Vikings -2.5 over Cardinals – because the coin came up tails – I could not pick between these two woeful teams.
Saints -5.5 over Panthers – New Orleans has been quietly putting together good results since their opening day loss to the Packers. They’ll continue that run here.
Giants -9.5 over Seahawks – I do not think the Giants can cover this spread, yet I do not think that Tavaris Jackson can keep Seattle this close…changed my mind several times but decided that the NFC West is so bad, I had to take New York.
49ers -1.5 over Buccaneers – because although I do not trust Alex Smith, despite him leading San Francisco to last week’s win over the Eagles, Tampa Bay played Monday night on the East Coast and have a short week before the West Coast game on Sunday.
Chargers -4.5 over Broncos – I would have taken San Diego at 9.5 let alone -4.5
Patriots -9.5 over Jets – because Brady will be out for revenge, and will doubtlessly get it, as well as the Jets looking very ropey in their last two games.
Packers -5.5 over Falcons – because Green Bay is the best team in the league, and I’m biased.
Bears +5.5 over Lions – I think this will be a close game, so taking the points.
This week in: American Football Week 4
September 29, 2011 September 4, 2012 ~ John Lally ~ 3 Comments
Brady threw four interceptions vs the Bills
Last week in the NFL, the Buffalo Bills came from 21-0 down to beat the New England Patriots 34-31, securing a win over their divisional rival for the first time in 9 years. After their comeback the week before against the Raiders, the Bills are showing that they finally have a team that can compete with the best and have won all three of their games this season. The Detroit Lions also overcame a big halftime deficit to beat the Minnesota Vikings; the New Orleans Saints won a high-scoring contest 40-33 over the Houston Texans in the Superdome; the Colts put up a good fight against the Steelers, but succumbed to a late field goal; and the Packers beat their NFC North rivals, the Chicago Bears, 27-17. On Monday night, the Cowboys edged out the Redskins despite not scoring a touchdown, all of their points coming from field goals in an 18-16 victory.
Going in to week four, three teams remain perfect – having won all of their games thus far: the aforementioned Bills, who this week travel to Cincinnati to play the Bengals; the Lions, who play the Cowboys in the Dallas; and the reigning champion Green Bay Packers, looking to improve to 4-0 at home against the Denver Broncos. Five winless teams remain, two of whom meet in Kansas City as the Chiefs play the Minnesota Vikings. The St. Louis Rams take on the Washington Redskins, the Dolphins are in San Diego for a game with the Chargers, and the Indianapolis Colts play Monday Night Football for their game against Josh Freeman’s Buccaneers in Tampa Bay. In other games, the Patriots will look to rebound from their loss to the Bills in Oakland against the Raiders; the Giants and Cardinals face off in Arizona; and two of the AFC’s playoff teams from last year meet in Baltimore as the Ravens play the Jets.
Week 4 picks
(Last week 7-9, season 24-24)
Bills -3.5 over Bengals
Bears -6.5 over Panthers
Titans +1.5 over Browns
Cowboys -3.5 over Lions
Vikings -1.5 over Chiefs
Redskins +0.5 over Rams
Saints -7.5 over Jaguars
Eagles -6.5 over 49ers
Texans -3.5 over Steelers
Falcons -4.5 over Seahawks
Giants -1.5 over Cardinals
Packers -13.5 over Broncos
Raiders +4.5 over Patriots
Dolphins +8.5 over Chargers
Ravens -3.5 over Jets
Colts +9.5 over Buccaneers
September 22, 2011 September 4, 2012 ~ John Lally ~ 1 Comment
Harvard's finest - Ryan Fitzpatrick
Although Week 2 in the NFL reinforced some of the lessons from the opening round of fixtures, some of the games showed that the season is still early and the shape of it is still to be determined. New England, Green Bay and the New York Jets have started strongly and have the look of dominant teams for this season; the Colts without Peyton Manning, the Chiefs and the Seattle Seahawks appear to be cannon fodder for their opponents. The Detroit Lions and Buffalo Bills, two franchises that have suffered barren years of late, are both 2-0 and are showing signs of promise for their fan-bases. The Bills’ Quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick, led his team to 35 second half points, scoring a touchdown on every drive they had in the third and fourth quarters, for a dramatic last-minute win. However, their opponents, the Oakland Raiders, had played the late Monday game on the West Coast prior to this game on the East Coast at 1pm on Sunday, so this comeback may have had as much to do with their fatigue as the Bills resilience.
The Ravens and the Cowboys had much different outcomes in their second games compared to their initial outings. Baltimore followed up their thrashing of the Steelers in Week 1 by themselves taking a beating from the Tennessee Titans; while Dallas QB Tony Romo, who had fumbled away a 14 point lead over the Jets in the opening fixture, was the hero this time around – throwing a 77 yard pass in Overtime to set up the winning field goal, despite having suffered a fractured rib on an earlier play. The Eagles and the Falcons are both 1-1 after Atlanta won on a night that their former Quarterback Michael Vick came back to face them for the first time as a starter for another team – though it took a concussion to Vick in the third quarter to swing the momentum in that game.
The Eagles are expecting Vick to return in time to face the New York Giants for their game in Philadelphia. Elsewhere this week, the Bills host the Patriots in a battle of 2-0 teams; the Bears and the Packers meet in a Chicago in a rematch of the NFC Championship game in January; the unbeaten Redskins face their divisional rivals, the Dallas Cowboys; and the Steelers get to beat the Indianapolis Colts.
(Last week 8-8; season 17-15)
Bills +8.5 over Patriots
Bengals -2.5 over 49ers
Dolphins +2.5 over Browns
Titans -6.5 over Broncos
Lions -3.5 over Vikings
Saints -3.5 over Texans
Eagles -7.5 over Giants
Jaguars +3.5 over Panthers
Chargers -14.5 over Chiefs
Raiders +3.5 over Jets
Rams +3.5 over Ravens
Buccaneers -1.5 over Falcons
Packers -3.5 over Bears
Cardinals -3.5 over Seahawks
Steelers -10.5 over Colts
Redskins +6.5 over Cowboys
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ReMix: Tales of Phantasia "as time goes on (you are love to me)" 5:37
By prophetik music
ballad saxophone singing vocals-male funky lyrics-original
Arranging the music of one song...
"As Time Goes On"
Primary Game: Tales of Phantasia (Namco, 1994, SNES), music by Motoi Sakuraba, Ryota Furuya, Shinji Tamura, Toshiyuki Sekiguchi
Posted 2009-12-31, evaluated by the judges panel
Some years, you reach the end of them, and everyone's saying that it was over before they knew it, that it felt more like a month than a year, that time sure does fly, etc. Well, personally, 2009 felt L-O-N-G to me. In a good way, most of the time... So much happened, so many mixes, projects, site changes, life changes... heck, even geo/socio/econo/political change was all around us. A lot of folks, myself included, are either getting ready for or already en route to MAGFest, and it really feels like it's been MORE than a year since M7. We've got nothing too specific planned for our panel - as always, we'll probably formalize things an hour beforehand - but I know we'll be talking about all the truly amazing things we accomplished in 2009, and I know Taucer and B-mut will be making the audience drool with a tantalizing preview of the DKC2 uber-project - and probably shaming me publicly for not having finished my tracks yet. Other than that, I'm planning on just chilling and having a good time.
When we talk about OC ReMix in 2009, the first album that pops into mind from a chronological perspective is the humongous (in title and content) Summoning of Spirits: An Arrangement of Music from Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia. Man did that album take a long time, but man was it worth it, starting Q1 off with a bang. This track of Brad's definitely stands out as being a unique cut, blending a funky bass with his trademark jazzy sax noodling, then adding in some really rather solid vocals. tpom can definitely rock the singing, as we heard back on Thieves of Fate, but this might be his best yet. He writes... at length & sans capitalization:
"i originally started this mix by taking the arpeggiated background synth and the melody (in the strings) and seeing what i could create out of them. i knew i wanted to do something with vocals, and i knew i wanted it to be more in the laid-back instrumental vibe i've been writing in lately. so i booted up my funk machine (also known as virtual bassist) and started writing. after i had the drums and bass laid down, the rest of the track came together pretty quick. i tried to not change the melody at all - something i prefer to do with all my remixes - and instead tried to fit my words to the music already written. it was a really different experience composing with vocals, since you have to worry about stuff like text stress, vowel placements, etc. i recorded this in my dorm room (which is why it sounds so hollow) right before the deadline, so there's some vocal irregularities that wouldn't normally be there (i was a little sick at that point). i'd fix them, but i've grown attached to the sounds i made before, and am loathe to take them out.
the sax solos were done on tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones. it should be obvious which is which. the lyrics were specifically written to be what some people call 'crossover' lyrics - meaning that they can have both a spiritual meaning as well as a general, non-religious one as well. you'll note that i tried to fit phrases from the game into the lyrics, the most notable being 'as time goes on'.
i used virtual bassist, virtual guitarist, addictive drums, guitar rig 3 for both the guitars and my voice, ueberschall's elastik and liquid instruments vsts, and NI's B4 II. great organ, that is. fantastic. i also used some of FL's vsts, notably the Love Philter for the guitar gate. i recorded in audacity and mastered in FL 7 or 8, can't remember which i had at the time. i used melodyne to make my voice sound like i wasn't a dying cat (at that point, i was hoarse enough to sound like one, too)."
Quite a bit of background, there, but it does provide a lot of insight and I think Brad's comments come through when listening to the mix. Judges did initially have significant beef with the mixing, citing vocals clashing w/ the sax, but mr. mephisto sent in this revised version where more balance has been restored, prompting OA to give him some Eli Porter props:
Before: "...once the vocals come in, they are almost indecipherable because of a lot of clashing effects added"
After: "Things sit a lot more evenly and the emphasis is where it should be. Thanks for taking a second look, Brad. You da best mayne."
I really dig the combination of elements, here - gated guitar panned right, sax all over the place, extremely funky bass, simple drums perhaps but I adore the meaty snare used, and the heavy processing on Brad's voice makes it sound appropriately timeless/ethereal.
― djpretzel
Latest 14 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
on 2012-04-25 12:39:22
Whoa, first off, that sax.....so sexy. I love the lyrics and vocals to this ReMix, and while I do enjoy the echo in it, it sounded like there was just a hair too much echo on every part except for the when the sax cut and other parts cut off and we got to the more organy parts. I think it was just a little too busy, that's all, no big deal. Honestly, besides that little nitpick, this is a very cool mix. I even liked the fading ending.
I recall this fondly from Summoning of Spirits It may not have had the most precise production, but there was something about the arrangement back then that had its charm.
Right from the bat, I sense that Brad's vocals ended up making a much more significant presence than in the original, and the call-and-response between that and the saxophone feels similarly more relaxed with the saxophone not sticking out as much this time. I've also sensed that the organ parts, particularly in the mellower second verse, feeling somewhat gentler than they were as well. These elements coupled with the more subtle drum processing work have managed to help give it a more relaxed charm than the album version, which to me can be seen as a good thing. The upgrade was worth it!
The straight-forward arrangement of the original still remains but given the structure of the song it's definitely not a bad deal at all. What DOES remain though was a slightly weak fade-out, which can pretty much be sensed when the volume is turned up really high; to hear the saxophone and beat just fizzle along slightly abruptly and finish without a climax is in my opinion a weak way to approach the ending, but thankfully isn't much of a problem now that the rest of the production concerns were addressed.
Nice going again with the upgrade Brad! And please don't vanish from OCRemix any time soon either, between this and your various other contributions you're seen as a potent figure within the community
Big fan of this track. It was one of my absolute favorites from the Tales album, and this modified version does not disappoint either. While some may pick on the occasional awkward lyrical pace, I admire this mix for the obvious infusion of emotion. Whether you like this mix or not, the listener can tell that Prophet sings these words and swings his saxes with a personal passion. Also a fan of the wide echo/reverb used here, creating a very ethereal atmosphere.
justinj212
I enjoyed the sax at the beginning of the track, but for me this track gets a little busy when the vocals kick in. When the section with the organ and vocals starts around 1:55, things clear up and an excellent, almost mystical tone is set for the rest of the mix. Great work on the vocals as well. Good mix!
jintoreedwine
I liked this one the first time around and I like it even more now . I really love the saxophone work and the processing on the vocals is really nifty, too. Great job!
Next time you don't like your vocal take- just redo it until it's right- it's not like the Tales album deadline was pressing!
Much improved over the album version, and a step up from the RD stuff too. Keep working to improve, mayne!
You know, somehow I missed this from the original project - I want to relisten to it again to catch a few other tracks that I seem to remember liking somewhat.
Brad has a surprisingly good voice, and melds it well with his sax playing.
One thing that bothers me somewhat is the background synth that plays for most of it - I think the track would have a more sexy groove to it without it although I guess that would be a different interpretation.
Otherwise, this is pretty nice.
prophetik music
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didn't we just talk about this on the phone like two days before this was posted?
thanks to the props, everyone! i don't mind critiques, either, so thanks for that as well. everything will help me improve down the line.
I really like this track, if I could say anything the echo effect is a little strong on this track but AMAZING nonetheless.
avaris
Haha porn musikz.
Vocals are a bit drowned to the back of the soundscape with the verb and fx. Cool idea for the tone and texture of the vox though. Sucks that this song has the corniest title ever if you've seen Casablanca haha. Like the style of this one though with the subtle mix of electronics.
KyleJCrb
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No offense to Prophet, but this isn't my favorite mix of his. One thing that bothered me were that the way the vocals were written. I felt like there was too much sliding through the source to fit a line in, so that the line overall just doesn't sit right. It sounds too much like it's a line written over the source vs. a line that was meant to be the source, if that makes sense. An example of this is 1:55 with "Why hast thou forsaken me" 'Hast' takes up two syllables, as well as 'for' somewhat awkwardly. I would have preferred either a change of the lyrics or a chance in the line (which I know isn't what Proph was going for).
I'm also not crazy about the effect used for most of the mix that makes the vocals very distant and fuzzy sounding. I get what he was going for in this, but the first half especially is difficult to make out because of this, and there is such a drastic difference at 1:55 that it bothers me.
Lastly, while the balance between sax and vocals is improved from the album version, I feel like there is still a ways to go to avoid the clashing between the two that makes the sax very difficult to hear and the lyrics difficult to make out. Too much treading on toes, in my opinion.
What I like about the mix is the overall vibe that Prophet went for in this, and the idea of the lyrics. They suit the mood of the original source very well. I can also hear a good improvement between this and his work on the Thieves of Fate album, and I know he will continue to improve.
Mmm, the new mixing sounds a lot better! When I first heard this on the album I had a big issue with this track because of how obscured the vocals were, but apparently it just took a bit of tweaking to get it right I'm not a huge fan of such blatant vocal effects, but in this particular case I think they work well with the mood.
The live instruments mesh well with the rest of the soundscape, and the performances are top-notch, as I've come to expect. Definitely one of the more memorable SoS mixes! Glad to see it finally posted!
Sources Arranged (1 Song)
Primary Game:
Tales of Phantasia (Namco, 1994, SNES)
Music by Motoi Sakuraba, Ryota Furuya, Shinji Tamura, Toshiyuki Sekiguchi
Saxophone, Singing, Vocals: Male
Lyrics > Lyrics: Original
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as i wait in the moonlight
my thoughts tumble without sense
i long for you in the twilight
i need your touch, i need your presence
oh, where are you
when I need you, more and more, every
day, as time goes on
you are love to me
why hast thou forsaken me
i love you with all my will
my heart cries out to be
with you all of my days
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Parallel islands
I’m writing this from Timor Leste (East Timor) where my wife Pip and I moved in April to begin a two-year stint with Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA).
We’ve settled in well but home feels a long way away, and Ireland even further. Quite a few Kiwis live here and there are enough Irish to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in the capital, Dili.
At our Tetun language classses I met two young Irish women working for the UN and, in the town of Maliana, a woman from Tipperary whose mother lives not far from where my Martin forebears hail. Many Irish are here for the same reasons as the Kiwis – to help rebuild a new, very small country.
Pat and Pip in Balibo, at the house where five journalists (three Aussies, a Kiwi and a Brit) sought shelter before being murdered by invading Indonesian forces in 1975. The house is now a memorial.
Timor Leste is the world’s first nation of the 21st century. It was a priority for Irish aid when the Celtic Tiger was roaring in 2003 but Ireland closed its aid office in Dili last October. Read the rest of this entry »
4 Comments | News | Tagged: Dili, Donegal News, East Timor, Meabh Cryan, Rosie Nic Cionnaith, Timor Leste, VSA | Permalink
The darkness of an Irish morning
John Patrick Shanley’s superb column in the New York Times about meeting his Irish relations (see below) reminded me of my grandfather, Bill Martin. A tradesman painter at Moera’s railway workshops, Bill was the son of a piano-playing Irishman from Co Tipperary, and an Irishwoman from Co Armagh.
He practised his storytelling skills in Lower Hutt’s Bellevue Hotel, a handy bike ride from the workshops. Today the pub is a smart establishment but back in the 1930s and 40s, its public bar had a sawdust floor and Bill would spin his yarns to the men standing about with their beer perched on wooden barrels.
Today is March 17 and people of Irish descent all over the world are celebrating their heritage. Shanley brilliantly captures a sense of that heritage and why we remember stories about our grandparents.
By JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
MY father came from Ireland and he had the gift of the gab. Part of the reason the Irish developed the gift of the gab was simple. They lived on an island. They had to get along. Not that they did get along. But they had to try. So a style of speaking developed that allowed them to say awful things. With charm. Read more >
Leave a Comment » | Heritage | Tagged: Bellevue Hotel, Bill Martin, John Patrick Shanley, Moera railway workshops | Permalink
Dave Gallaher: an outstanding Irishman and a great Kiwi
by Emmett Devlin
Dave Gallaher: The Original All Black Captain. Matt Elliott. HarperCollins 2012. 259pp.
Any Kiwi with an interest in rugby and connections with Ireland will enjoy this biography of one of New Zealand’s most famous sportsmen and one of the great – if not the all-time greatest – All Blacks.
The book begins with Gallaher’s birth in 1873 into a shop-owning middle class family in a tiny seaside village in Donegal called Ramelton. His father James was 62 and his mother Anna Maria Hardy McCloskie, James’ second wife, was just 29. Dave was James and Anna Maria’s seventh child, born seven years after they married. Three of their children had died in infancy. Three more were born in Ramelton after Dave. Read the rest of this entry »
Leave a Comment » | Books, Heritage, Profiles, Sport | Tagged: 1905 All Blacks, Dave Gallaher, Emmett Devlin, Letterkenny rugby club, Matt Elliott, Premier Seddon, Ramelton, William Steward Vessey | Permalink
Gathering of the clans
Throughout 2013, Ireland will call home hundreds of thousands of friends and family from all over the world to gatherings in villages, towns and cities.
Anyone with an Irish connection is being urged to visit and rediscover their history. ‘There will be clan gatherings, festivals, special sporting events, music and concerts taking place all across the country, all year long,’ says the official Gathering Ireland website.
Over 70 million people worldwide claim Irish ancestry and, for anyone who went to a Catholic school in New Zealand, reading through the list of Irish clans who are planning reunions (below) is like looking through the names on old school photos. Read the rest of this entry »
Leave a Comment » | Heritage, Visiting Ireland | Tagged: A Simpler Time, Gallagher, Gathering Ireland, McMenamin, Murphy, O'Doherty, O'Donnell, O'Neill, Peter Fitzsimons, The Gathering | Permalink
In search of a living wage
Record levels of inequality in New Zealand would shock Irish immigrants who came to this country to make a better life.
‘This is a good country for working men as some men have from ten to twelve shillings per day,’ wrote Manawatu farmer’s wife Catherine Sullivan in 1905. ‘It is not like home. The worst men here won’t come to work for less than 7/- per day, and only work from 8 to 5pm.’
Catherine, an Irish immigrant, was writing to her brother-in-law in Ballingarry, Co Limerick, describing what he might find should he decide to follow her(1).
Many Irish, Scots and English came here to create a better life and to escape the poverty of their homelands. In recent decades, Pacific migrants have been doing the same. Read the rest of this entry »
Leave a Comment » | Heritage, Politics | Tagged: Closing the Gap, Inequality, Living Wage Campaign, National standards, Samuel Duncan Parnell | Permalink
Ireland at the film festival
Three Irish movies at the film festival throw light on an Irish heritage. All are worth seeing.
Bernadette: keeping the faith
Whatever happened to Bernadette Devlin? In the early 1970s she was every Catholic rebel’s darling, a mini-skirted Northern Irish protest leader constantly in the news.
The young Bernadette Devlin
‘Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey’ reminds us what a firebrand she was. In 1972 she was a 25-year-old MP when Home Secretary Reginald Maudling claimed that British soldiers who killed 13 unarmed Catholics on Bloody Sunday had fired in self defence. Devlin stormed across the House of Commons and slapped him on the face. When a reporter later asked if she regretted using violence, she exploded: ‘Thirteen people are dead and you’re asking me about using violence!’ When the reporter persisted, Devlin replied that her only regret was she hadn’t grabbed Maudling by the throat. Read the rest of this entry »
Leave a Comment » | Movies, Politics | Tagged: Andrea Riseborough, Belfast, Bernadette Devlin, Bunmahon, Collette McVeigh, Edith Collier, Irish movies, Michael Heath, Shadow Dancer, Village by the Sea | Permalink
A flutter at the Galway Races
New Zealand and Ireland both know how to grow green grass and produce top-class racehorses, says Dunedin writer Tony Eyre. A visit to Ireland took him to the Galway Races.
At the end of July, all roads lead to Galway, an Irish county synonymous with horse-racing. The Galway Races were firmly on our agenda.
The fashion stakes at the Galway Races
This world-famous festival, dating back to 1869, is held at Galway’s Ballybrit racecourse and attracts more than 170,000 spectators over the week. The biggest crowds converge on Ladies’ Day, where glamour and fashion compete with top-class racing. Read the rest of this entry »
Leave a Comment » | Sport, Visiting Ireland | Tagged: Ballybrit racecourse, Galway Races, Guinness Galway Hurdle Handicap, Irish horse racing, Tony Eyre, visit to ireland | Permalink
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Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Research Paper Series
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Rent Extraction by Super-Priority Lenders
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3384389 (2019)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 16 May 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2019
B. Espen Eckbo, Kai Li and Wei Wang
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Smith School of Business
Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Operations Management
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3365733
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 29 Apr 2019
Tava Lennon Olsen and Brian Tomlin
University of Auckland - Business School and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Does Common Ownership Really Increase Firm Coordination?
Katharina Lewellen and Michelle Lowry
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Drexel University
Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Information and Pricing on Residential Electricity Consumption
USAEE Working Paper No. 19-389, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3336385
Jesse Burkhardt, Kenneth Gillingham and Praveen K. Kopalle
Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Colorado State University, Yale University and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
NBER Working Paper No. w25576
How Do Consumers Fare When Dealing with Debt Collectors? Evidence from Out-of-Court Settlements
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2019
Ing-Haw Cheng, Felipe Severino and Richard Townsend
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach
Andrew B. Bernard, Emmanuel Dhyne, Glenn Magerman, Kalina Manova and Andreas Moxnes
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, National Bank of Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), University College London - Department of Economics and University of Oslo - Department of Economics
CESifo Working Paper No. 7447
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13429
The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon M. Phillips and Ethan Cohen-Cole
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Econ One Research
The Impact of IP Box Regimes on the M&A Market
Sebastien Bradley, Leslie A. Robinson and Martin Ruf
Drexel University, Dartmouth College - Accounting and University of Tübingen
Externalities and Agricultural Import Bans: Evaluating Regionalization Measures in Light of the Russia – Pigs Dispute
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2018/60, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3301269
Emily J. Blanchard and Mark Wu
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Harvard Law School
Institutional Horizontal Shareholdings and Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Joseph J. Gerakos and Jin Xie
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
U.S. Innovation and Chinese Competition for Innovation Production
Gerard Hoberg, Bruce Yuan Li and Gordon M. Phillips
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Tipping in Service Systems: The Role of a Social Norm
Laurens Debo and Ran I Snitkovsky
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Tel Aviv University
Negotiated Tax Havens
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Nov 2018
Kevin Markle and Leslie A. Robinson
University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business and Dartmouth College - Accounting
Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance: The Incentive to Be Engaged
Jonathan Lewellen and Katharina Lewellen
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
California Management Review, Forthcoming, Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 18-65, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3216142
Thomas P. Lyon, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew A. King, Michael Lenox, Michael W. Toffel, David J. Vogel and Frank Wijen
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy, University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business, Paris School of Economics (PSE), Ecole Polytechnique, Paris - Laboratoire d'Econometrie, HEC Paris - Strategy & Business Policy, Cass Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Harvard Business School, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Hospital Performance and Ownership Type: A Re-Assessment of the Evidence
Robert G. Hansen and Anant K. Sundaram
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Corporate Rivalry and Return Comovement
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Eric de Bodt, B. Espen Eckbo and Richard Roll
Univ. Lille, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and California Institute of Technology
Costly Refinancing, Profitability and Leverage: New Evidence
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
B. Espen Eckbo and Michael Kisser
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Policy Implications of Research on Non-GAAP Reporting
Forthcoming, Research in Accounting Regulation, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3160778
Dirk E. Black and Theodore E. Christensen
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy and University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of Accounting
Language Style Similarity and Friendship Networks
Balazs Kovacs and Adam M. Kleinbaum
Yale SOM and Tuck School of Business
The Internet of Things and Information Fusion: Who Talks to Who?
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3124417, HKS Working Paper 18-009
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2019
Soroush Saghafian, Brian Tomlin and Stephan Biller
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and IBM Corporation
Dynamic and Integrative Capabilities for Profiting From Innovation in Digital Platform-Based Ecosystems
Constance E. Helfat and Ruth Raubitschek
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and USDOJ/ATR Economic Analysis Group
Corporate Jets and Private Meetings with Investors
Journal of Accounting & Economics, Forthcoming, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3113941
Brian J. Bushee, Joseph J. Gerakos and Lian Fen Lee
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and Boston College - Carroll School of Management
Online Reviews: Star Ratings, Position Effects and Purchase Likelihood
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 09 May 2018
Prasad Vana and Anja Lambrecht
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and London Business School
Heightened Shareholder Interest in Firm Affairs Following the Inception of Credit Default Swap Trade
Hyun A. Hong, Ji Woo Ryou and Anup Srivastava
University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (Formerly University of Texas-Pan American) and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Vojislav Maksimovic, Gordon M. Phillips and Liu Yang
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and University of Maryland
Do Public Firms Respond to Investment Opportunities More than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2019
Meso-Foundations of Interorganizational Relationships: How Team Member Power Shapes External Partner Novelty
Trevor Young-Hyman and Adam M. Kleinbaum
University of Pittsburgh and Tuck School of Business
Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity Around the World
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2018
Gordon M. Phillips and Alexei Zhdanov
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Pennsylvania State University
Quo Vadis, Dynamic Capabilities? A Content-Analytic Review of the Current State of Knowledge and Recommendations for Future Research
Academy of Management Annals, Forthcoming, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3069608
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 14 Nov 2017
Oliver Schilke, Songcui Hu and Constance E. Helfat
University of Arizona, University of Arizona - Department of Management and Organizations and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Design and Pricing of Discretionary Service Lines
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3054741, University of Connecticut School of Business Research Paper No. 17-11
Laurens Debo and Cuihong Li
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and University of Connecticut - Department of Operations & Information Management
Observational Learning in Large-Scale Congested Service Systems
Chen Jin, Laurens Debo and Seyed Iravani
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Northwestern University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Reexamining Dual-Class Stock
Business Horizons, Forthcoming, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 3023323
Vijay Govindarajan and Anup Srivastava
Good Choice, Bad Judgment: How Choice Under Uncertainty Generates Overoptimism
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2017
Jordan Tong, Daniel Feiler and Anastasia Ivantsova
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and University of Wisconsin - Madison
Scouting for Good Jobs: Gender and Networking in Job Search
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2018
Elena Obukhova and Adam M. Kleinbaum
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University and Tuck School of Business
Managerial Incentives and Changes in Corporate Investments Following the Inception of Credit Default Swap Trade
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 24 May 2017 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2018
You Blinked: The Role and Incentives of Managers in Increasing Corporate Risks Following the Inception of Credit Default Swap Trade
2017 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference
Non-GAAP Reporting: Evidence from Academia and Current Practice
Forthcoming, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2966778
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 May 2017 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2018
Dirk E. Black, Theodore E. Christensen, Jack T. Ciesielski and Benjamin C. Whipple
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of Accounting, R.G. Associates and University of Georgia - C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business
Non‐GAAP Reporting: Evidence from Academia and Current Practice
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Vol. 45, Issue 3-4, pp. 259-294, 2018
Product Integration and Merger Success
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2933283, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. 17-21
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2018
Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
The Effects of Advertised Quality Emphasis and Objective Quality on Sales
Journal of Marketing, Vol. 81(2), p. 114-26, 2017, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2929012, University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2929012
Praveen K. Kopalle, Robert Fisher, Bharat Sud and Kersi Antia
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, University of Alberta - Department of Marketing, Business Economics & Law, University of Waterloo and University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business
Production Chain Disruptions: Inventory, Preparedness, and Insurance
Lingxiu Dong, Sammi Tang and Brian Tomlin
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, University of Miami and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2903548, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-16
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2017
Eva Ascarza, Scott Neslin, Oded Netzer, Zachery Anderson, Peter Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David Neal, Foster Provost and Rom Y. Schrift
Harvard Business School, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, Columbia Business School - Marketing, Electronic Arts, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, Harvard Business School, London Business School, Tilburg University, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Adelson School of Entrepreneuship, Duke University, New York University and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Public Tax-Return Disclosure
Jeffrey L. Hoopes, Leslie A. Robinson and Joel B. Slemrod
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Accounting Area, Dartmouth College - Accounting and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
When Bigger is Better (And When It is Not): Implicit Bias in Numeric Judgments
Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2881320
Ellie Kyung, Manoj Thomas and Aradhna Krishna
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Similar Neural Responses Predict Friendship
Carolyn Parkinson, Adam M. Kleinbaum and Thalia Wheatley
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Tuck School of Business and Dartmouth College
Trust in Signals and the Origins of Disagreement
Ing-Haw Cheng and Alice Hsiaw
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Brandeis University - International Business School
Free Shipping and Product Returns
Edlira Shehu, Dominik Papies and Scott Neslin
Copenhagen Business School, University of Tuebingen - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? Geographic Concentration, Social Norms, and Knowledge Transfer
Advances in Strategic Management, Geography, Location, and Strategy, Volume 36, Forthcoming, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2767610, HEC Paris Research Paper No. SPE-2016-1175
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2019
Giada Di Stefano, Andrew A. King and Gianmario Verona
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology
Strategy When Creative Destruction Accelerates
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 09 Sep 2016
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The Demand for Forward-looking Information about Other Comprehensive Income and Special Items
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2019
Dirk E. Black and Thaddeus Neururer
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy and University of Akron - The George W. Daverio School of Accountancy
Contract Manufacturing and Quality Risk: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 22 May 2017
John Gray, Aleda Roth and Brian Tomlin
The Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Clemson University and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2814682, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2016-18
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2016
Pol Antras, Teresa Fort and Felix Tintelnot
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and University of Chicago Department of Economics
US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-14-47, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2573140
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Three Threats to Validity of Choice-Based and Matched Sample Studies in Accounting Research
54 Pages Posted: 5 Jan 2007
See all articles by Donald P. Cram
Donald P. Cram
State University of New York, Oswego
Vijay Karan
California State University, Fullerton - Department of Accounting
Iris Stuart
California State University, Fullerton; Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Date Written: January 3, 2007
We consider three technical errors in the statistical analysis of choice-based and matched sample studies in accounting research. These problems constitute threats to both internal and external validity of the research. First, we note that researchers have often failed to control for the effects of matching variables used in sample selection. Commonly, researchers believe that the selection of a matched sample already controls for the matching variables, and hence controlling for them in analyses would not be necessary, but in fact it is. Typically an unconditional analysis is performed, rather than the conditional one that is justified. Thus, failure to account for industry, size, and other matching variables may have driven incorrect findings in many research studies, or may have suppressed results waiting to be revealed. Second, where matching is by closest size or other continuous measure, the matching is imperfect, and there remains the possibility that case vs. control differences in this matching variable could be the cause of differences in outcome, so researchers must evaluate that possibility and perhaps control for it. Third, the disproportionate sampling for different population strata that is implicit in the choice-based and matched sample selection would usually necessitate weighting data in statistical analyses by the sampling rates in each strata, but reweighting or other appropriate adjustment to the analysis is often not implemented. A logit exemption to the need for reweighting has been noted in the literature, but has been used in settings where it does not apply. We provide a simulation example to demonstrate problems, and provide suggestions for more precise ways to analyze choice-based and matched samples.
Keywords: Research design, Choice-based, Matched samples, Methodology
JEL Classification: C25, M40
Cram, Donald P. and Karan, Vijay and Stuart, Iris, Three Threats to Validity of Choice-Based and Matched Sample Studies in Accounting Research (January 3, 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=955031 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.955031
Donald P. Cram (Contact Author)
State University of New York, Oswego ( email )
307 Rich Hall
Oswego, NY 13126
California State University, Fullerton - Department of Accounting ( email )
Fullerton, CA 92834-6848
California State University, Fullerton ( email )
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration ( email )
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DOES HISTORY EXIST, OR NOT?
CONVENTIONAL QUANTUM INTERPRETATIONS ARE LOST IN SPACE. TOWING BACK TO REALITY .
Warning: Although no equations are brandished, this is as advanced as theory goes. Except for the few parts mentioning TOW, most of the essay is about very serious (albeit edgy) physics, and the information therein is generally accepted by those capable of debating it.
Main Idea: The conventional interpretations of Quantum Mechanics render not just determinism, but the very concept of history non applicable. I have a more philosophically acceptable alternative, Totally Objective Wave, TOW.
Abstract: 1) Confronting the semantics of Einstein’s physics and conventional interpretations of Quantum Physics prevents history to be completely causal. Initial conditions are never completely initial. (Nota Bene: This is not a contradiction with Feynman’s “Sum Over Histories”.)
That history, as conventionally interpreted, is not fully causal anymore is standard physics (nowadays), a variation on the famous EPR paradox. It’s a different perspective on the blatant observation that Quantum Mechanics uses (implicitly) absolute time, which pierces through Einstein’s local time, thus lethally wounding the later as an absolute (!) foundation.
2) I consider conventional alternatives, trashing in passing the popular, but philosophically grotesque, multiverse hypothesis, a case of collapsing the baby with the bath. De Broglie’s hypotheses made in 1923, are the essential core of Quantum Theory (including Quantum Field Theory, QFT, and its variants: String Theory, Supersymmetry, etc.). Can’t we do better? That is: can we do better than prince De Broglie, initially a medieval historian?
3) The conventional picture given by the unhealthy mix of conventional Quantum Theory and Relativity is very confusing, as it puts in doubt all the (metaphysical) fundaments of physics: not just the very notion of beginning (even locally), but also space, time, causality, and even the very notion of vacuum.
The desperate, completely ridiculous theory, the multiverse, or Multi World Interpretation, MWI, was constructed to answer some problems posed by Quantum Mechanics by throwing reality and common sense overboard. It’s sheer madness (thus, very fashionable, since it prevents thinking!)
Instead I propose triage among the important concepts: discarding those founded mostly on wishful thinking, doing away with some of Einstein’s (meta)physics while extending the Quantum Hypothesis so as to save causality. My personal theory, Totally Objective Wave, TOW, is evoked as an extension of De Broglie’s hypotheses. If one supposes more (and one is right!), one can do more.
TOW has the advantage of reintroducing intuition to an otherwise very confusing Quantum theoretical landscape, by reorganizing the theory transparently, with a meaningful hierarchy (TOW has drastic consequences for QFT and the structure of the vacuum; for example the vacuum is mostly empty, whereas in QFT, in a feat of remarkable absurdity, it is extravagantly full, all the way down to Planck length, resulting in the most grotesque previsions in physics, ever.)
HISTORY IS ALWAYS INCOMPLETE:
At least that is what conventional Quantum Mechanics say. It is a direct consequence of the conventional structure of the “vacuum”. I insist on the adjective conventional, because my own vision of the vacuum is completely different (see Note).
That history does not really exist in conventional Quantum Theory is a straightforward consequence of confronting conventional Quantum Mechanics with conventional Special Relativity. What is meant by history of observer A? Well, according to conventional theory of Special Relativity, anything which happened within the past light cone of A.
Indeed, in Special Relativity, there is only local time, and thus all and any communication proceeds at most at the speed of light. Conventional thinkers, led by Einstein, asked themselves: if telecommunications could go faster, what would be the rationale for a speed limit? So why should there be a speed limit? And if there was no speed limit, then instantaneous telecommunications would allow to establish a global time, as found in Newton’s mechanics, demolishing Einstein’s (meta)physics that only local time is possible.
I went over this explicitly, because it is implicit in physics Special Relativity textbooks, but never made explicit, since it is outside of the theory itself, in a meta position relative to it. Thus this metalogic is not useful to teach ardent Special Relativity believers.
Now, for trouble. As the light cone advances according to proper time, it may engulf at some point a particle X which is an entangled part of a pair the other element of which, Y, is still outside the light cone. Since there are no (theoretical) reasons to prevent them, in conventional QFT, space is stuffed with such entangled pairs. Such pairs are ruled by the laws of Quantum Theory. In Quantum Theory, local time, Einstein’s great intuition, entirely fails.
Indeed Quantum Mechanics welcome time only as an evolution operator. There is NO LOCAL time in Quantum Mechanics. This means in practice that, if an entangled pair made of X and Y is created, a measurement on Y will immediately reveal the state of X that corresponds to the state of Y which was revealed. Since X and Y can be a light year away, there seems to be a number of problems related to this, and different ways to solve some of these problems (and other problems) have led to the different interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.
TO BE REVEALED, OR TO BE CREATED? THAT IS THE QUESTION.
When dealing with the state of the distant member of an entangled pair, a major problem is whether the concept “REVEAL” ought to be used, or not. There is indeed another possibility: that the state of the distant member of the pair would be CREATED. That would have made Einstein scream, or at least, depress him deeply. In a way Einstein’s deepest contribution to physics was to impose on all of physics the speed limit discovered in electro-magnetism (by Maxwell and Fresnel).
Physicists who prefer to avoid thinking about these deep problems have long argued as if “REVEAL” was the concept to be used, and then, naturally, they see no problem. Of course, there would be none, if it were what happened. But it is not.
VERILY, REALITY CAN BE CREATED AT A DISTANCE:
Let X and Y be an entangled photon pair from the Betelgeuse system, 640 light years away. Then a little green man out there, 1280 light year away, torture the photon Y somehow, and the photon X happens in some state in the solar system. So far, so good. Stuff happens: photon shows up.
The real question is whether the nature of the experiment on Y made by the sadistic little green monster has a bearing on the state in which X is. And the answer is yes. It is the famous Aspect experiment. (Alain Aspect got the Wolf Prize for it in 2010.)
The experiment showed that Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen’s reductio ad absurdum of Quantum Mechanics, trying to make fun of it with a “ghostly action at a distance” did in fact appear to be WHAT REALLY HAPPENED when two particles were separated by an arbitrarily large distance.
The polarization of Y was measured in a particular direction. This measurement on Y freezes the polarization of X along that same direction, AT A DISTANCE. A correlation between their wave functions remained, as long as the wave-function of the pair was not disturbed by the measurement of one of the child particles.
(The experiment was carried in the last two years at separation distances of 18 kilometers, while varying the polarizations haphazardly, using quantum processes to do so, thus it really behaves like the proverbial action-at-a-distance.)
This shocking result has no be digested yet. Indeed, in the EPR essay, the main argumentative line was that all along, “elements of reality” have got to have been been carried along, attached to X, and that Quantum Theory was incomplete, due to the absence therein of said elements.
However the Aspect experiment shows that ELEMENTS OF REALITY ARE NOT CARRIED ALONG, THEY ARE SENT AWAY. And, maybe very very far away. The EPR paradox gets resolved in the worst possible way, as far as Einstein would have been concerned.
Of course there is a slight problem about what polarization “direction” means between here, and out there 1280 light years away… this requires the notion of parallel transport, because everybody agrees that gravitation affects local space, and local time, and thus a sense of direction. Parallel transport was developed by Levi Civita in 1917, precisely for use in the Theory of Gravitation, aka General Relativity (in those times when Einstein knew of only two forces).
This brings the question of which kind of space polarization direction information would be carried along according to EPR (I do not know of anybody who asked that question, prior). Indeed the geometry of space-time is intrinsic in the theory of gravitation, but, if we viewed space-time just as a topology, maybe the EPR effects could parallel transport according to another, larger (so to speak) geometry (think of the geometry of S2, the 2-sphere, which is intrinsic, but S2 can also be viewed as embedded in R3, conventional three dimensional space…)
PAST FAMOUS SUGGESTIONS:
OK, let’s channel past great interpretations, and some, less great. Observing that the concept of history stops making sense is a slight change of perspective from the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen paradox (“EPR”). Whereas the EPR thought experiment uses the conventional language and formulation of Quantum Mechanics, it simply arrives to the exact same picture that TOW gives an intuitive explanation for.
Feynman’s Sum Over Histories is actually an implementation of de Broglie’s hypotheses, formulated in 1923. Feynman pushed the symbolism, way out there, hoping that it somehow makes predictions, and thus makes sense. Although Dirac famously did this with the electron, supposing a space (spinor space) to get the simplest relativistic wave equation for the electron, it is truly de Broglie who started this wild approach (although De Broglie’s hypotheses were simple and luminous, one cannot say the same all the way down the line, as now QFT is encumbered with absurdities, a bit like Medieval theology or Ptolemaic astronomy). Planck had supposed the quantum, but that was to explain a curve (the blackbody spectrum). Planck was explaining experimental reality, he was starting from, not constructing it from theoretical scratch.
Ever since physicists have been trying to hand wave through mathematics formally symbolizing the idea, as Feynman’s hieroglyph lends itself to symbol manipulation (hopefully representing something that makes some sense, it has long been hoped, and experimental particle physics has offered some confirmation that there is something there in some sense valid.) However, as Feynman himself pointed out, methods of discovery from the past do not have to work in the future, because history shows they tend to change… This is to be kept in mind, as QFT has been exploiting the same method since its inception, which was very smart initially, but may be deeply erroneous now.
THE MULTIVERSE, OR COLLAPSING THE BABY WITH THE BATH:
The notorious “Collapse Of the Wave Packet” is an unobserved, (and unobservable according to itself) crucial part of the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
The Many-Worlds Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (MWI) do away with the collapse. It also does away with reality. MWI is an interpretation highly popular nowadays, perhaps because of that very reason.
MWI is philosophically absurd, and common physicists are not friendly to philosophy, apparently because it is not stuffed with mathematical entertainment. MWI assumes that the universe splits as many times as there are eigenvectors in a Quantum Process. In other words, there are as many universes as the largest imaginable large cardinal, and then probably infinitely more than that. Thus MWI fans explain existence with ceaseless infinity (I guess it goes with the territory of a vacuum having 10 to the power 120 times the energy of the observed universe! When one is already completely crazy, what does ten thousands times more completely crazy mean?)
MWI lovers argue that their theory is simpler, because there is no collapse of the wave function. Indeed a theory which explains the same with less is sometimes superior. But not always; to explain continental drift with god is not superior to explaining it with plate tectonics.
Is it logically simpler to argue that at every split fraction of the smallest piece of time imaginable more than the more than the largest infinity of universes have been greater, all of them with zero energy? It would be simpler to say Quantum mechanics is as it is, because god made it so. Counting the angels on the head of a pin, or maybe even to celebrate the creep who wanted to cut his son’s throat because what he called god told him to, sounds less absurd.
There are other theories which do without the collapse of the wave packet, but they are also mistaken, and, typically, passéist (I will not go into it here). So it looks as if the wave packet collapse is here to stay. This has become a practical matter in building a quantum computer.
A WORLD OF MANY INTERPRETATIONS:
There is something like a dozen interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. I have my own interpretation. Penrose’s interpretation originated with some Italians. That interpretation uses gravity to collapse the wave packets. It is mired in the following difficulties: it should be inertial mass, not gravity that gives rise to the collapse. And that interpretation cannot handle so called configuration space, in which most of Quantum Mechanics unfolds. My interpretation (which is older, although not made public conventionally) circumvents both problems drastically.
My own interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is an extension of De Broglie PILOT WAVE theory. De Broglie suggested the later around 1930, but it fell on deaf ears, because the approach at the time was as said above, and it turned out spectacularly successful, at the time, as it brought the concepts of spin, anti-matter, and many other goodies.
Actually, there are two De Broglie’s models; decades later, he introduced the “Double Solution“. Meanwhile David Bohm (a great American born physicist chased out of the USA because he was a thinker) had tweaked De Broglie first model, introducing the concept of a “Quantum Potential”.
All these models tried to find out what reality was. Meanwhile the QFT theorists keep on plodding through their mathematics that they invented on the fly. Never mind if much did not make any sense; some did. At least in math. Trying to find out what was really going does not seem to have bothered them too much (as they addressed essentially high energies, whereas most of the universe is low energy).
The result could well be that, in its broadest strokes, its largest context, QFT, Quantum Field Theory, is COMPLETELY FALSE. For example, it makes the most erroneous predictions in the entire history of physics, ever since there are primates, and they think. (Hint for the outraged professionals: it has to do with the structure of the vacuum. Even a chimp in her forest understands that what is empty is empty, and infinite does not describe the vacuum well, but apparently QFT physicists do not!)
FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES ARE DELOCALIZED:
This hypothesis, that delocalization is the essence of progress, is no lousy joke in plutocratic economy, but serious physics. It is new when explicitly expressed. It is implicit, sort of, in De Broglie initial hypothesis (and certainly more so in his “Double Solution”), and so it is in QFT. Actually delocalization was clear ever since Young’s Double Slit experiment (circa 1800 CE). However, ever since Born, the waves are supposed to be probability waves, and nothing more. The probability wave interpretation does not chase reality, just tells us where and (sort of) when, it shows up.
Pushed to its logical extremity, the delocalization principle means that PROPAGATING PARTICLES ARE NOT LOCALIZED. This is one of my little additions to the three de Broglie hypotheses: an unobserved particle is not a particle. Why? There are no reason to suppose they are, besides excessive respect for long defunct Greek philosophers, with their “atomic” theory.
Greek philosophers knew nothing of waves, which is rather ironical, considering the fact Greece was a thalassocracy. As I just said “particles” behaving as waves when they propagate, it’s only natural to believe that they are waves. When they propagate. It is also known, since Bohr’s, that electron in orbit spread out in phase with themselves, as if they were snakes eating their own tails. thus it looks as if the waves were the rule, and particle effects more like particular impacts.
Since the expression “my interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”, could grow to be irritating, especially among the 10,000 living professional geniuses who have no doubt pondered, or disregarded the question, worldwide, I will use the expression TOTALLY OBJECTIVE WAVE (Mechanics): TOW.
Another hypothesis of TOW gives an explicit mechanism for the “collapse of the wave packet“. The delocalized wave packets, non linearly collapse at a finite, but immense speed (TAU), into singular effects known as particles.
The reasons for this hypothesis are multiple. One has to do with what one ought to call the philosophy of non linear differential equations and soliton. A soliton is an indefinitely propagating wave. They are a fact of the physical universe. On the seas, some are called “rogue waves” (not all rogue waves are solitons, but some are).
A soliton is a balance between dispersion, which tends to occur to all waves, and non linear self amplification. The TAU wave, somewhat analogous De Broglie’s “pilot wave”, is not a soliton, far from it: it disperses at TAU. It is also a real matter wave: and this explains the cases when it has a real effect, although in the conventional, Born-Dirac interpretation of quantum Mechanics, there is nothing there. such examples are found in experiments when one can see without photons, or in one photon at a time, two independent lasers interference experiments.
But then the TAU wave is just the leading edge of a whole, the whole being called “the particle”. The particle appears when self amplification overwhelms dispersion, after interfering with another piece of matter field. I will not bother with further details; at this point the theory is somewhat similar to the one of the gravitationally induced collapse, except that collapse can be induced by any encounter with a matter field. Also, as I mentioned before, the finiteness of TAU implies that any field will get tired over the eons… even gravitation 9and this results in the accelerated expansion of the universe apparently observed).
In this global picture, special Relativity is just an approximation related to the fact that TAU, the Quantum Collapse Speed is immensely faster than c, the speed of light. Thus the later seems independent of uniform motion.
EPR ACCORDING TO TOW:
Once an entangled pair X-Y has been created, neither X nor Y is in particle state, but, according to TOW, they are both in DELOCALIZED STATES.
According to TOW, if an interaction with another matter field happens to Y serious enough to singularize it (that is become a definite particle in a particular Quantum state according to conventional Quantum Mechanics), X will also singularize in the complementary QM state. This what the Aspect experiment shows: creating a state at Y creates in turn a state at X. And this what Einstein did not expect anymore than Napoleon expected von Blücher at Waterloo.
HISTORY IN FULL:
Something will always happen, or may be supposed to have happened, in the past light cone of the observer which originated outside of said light cone. The notion of history as defined by Special Relativity is not valid, or more exactly, not complete in the classical sense, just fragmentary. Astute observers could point out that this is exactly what is observed, as the decay of a radioactive nuclide is not predictable, although it may be so, if one controlled all entangled pairs (or if there were none, as in a long secluded part of the cosmos; preparing such states is now a flourishing part of very practical physics, and many Nobel prizes were distributed).
In my theory, TOW, non-deterministic events, such as the apparently random decay of a radioactive atom, occur because of events outside of the observable history cone. There is full determinism again. Its origin just hiding out there, may be well all the way outside of the Andromeda galaxy.
Non vacuous note on the vacuum: The indeterminacy relations of Quantum Mechanics originate from particles “as” waves, plus De Broglie’s hypothesis tying up the wave’s frequency and the momentum.
This indeterminacy shows up as an impossibility of observing high energy states which blossom for only a short time. It allows to consider that entangled pairs of particle-antiparticles can occur ephemerally, all over. Those pairs are not directly observable (except when falling in a putative black hole), but they change fields and masses, leading to different numbers in field strength, and the necessity of “renormalizing“.
Conventional QFT specialists assume that this process goes down to Planck length (a number without much signification). But TOW does not agree with this, and would give a natural limit to normalization, beyond which QFT totally breaks down. TOW would thus limit the energy of the vacuum. Another consequence is that TOW predicts the (observed, and otherwise baffling) accelerating expansion of the universe.
Note on NUCLEAR DECAY: Some hold that nuclear decay is dependent upon solar flares (the effect is not clearly demonstrated yet). This would fit TOW perfectly well.
Why would nuclear decay depends upon solar flares? Well decay, as all and any singularizing event, in my picture, depends upon a matter wave A encountering another matter wave, B. Actually there are two types of B; big time B, which is another full bodied matter wave, or little B, b, which is a loose piece torn off from a main matter wave B during matter wave collapse.
This is the second effect that would explain why nuclear decay depends upon solar flares. Solar flares would basically augment the number of torn little pieces of matter waves b, augmenting the probability that a nuclear decay singularization would happen.
Tags: Aspect, EPR experiment, Non Locality, Waves
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10 Responses to “DOES HISTORY EXIST, OR NOT?”
Enjoyed this essay. Thank you!
Alexi:
Thanks for the encouragement!
Roger Henry Says:
Interesting,complex essay. Seems to have some relationship to recent revelations regarding nuclear decay on earth being slowed by solar storm activity, an observed relationship with an, as yet, undefined reason. Many guesses from neutrino activity to unknown particles. Wave relationships such as you suggest seem more ‘logical’.
Roger: Thank you! It’s not the first time I learn from a commenter, but this time it’s really spectacular. I never heard of this variation of nuclear decay during a solar flare. And I thought I knew everything important! But I checked, and here it is!!Solar flare of 2006!!! This would fit my theory quite well. I am going to have to look into this.
I can imagine how they would like to create more creatures, I mean particles to explain this… That’s the old game.
In any case, variable nuclear decay would not fit the Italian gravitationally induced collapse at all, since the mass does not change (this is the theory that my friend Penrose grabbed for himself)…
So thanks a lot for teaching me something important. In my theory particles themselves create the space, by the way. It’s not an arena as in Einstein’s relativity. Yes, no place for time, too bad…
Andrei Vorobiev Says:
Your comment on David Brooks’s column yesterday was good, but somewhat biased toward Britain and France. The Soviet Union won the war against fashism, Britain, France, Canada, America etc. only helped. Out of ten soldiers of Germany and its war-time satellites, 8 died fighting Russians, and only two (it’s more 1,5 really) died fighting Brits, Americans, Poles and French. War losses of population in the Soviet Union were above 15%. Only 4% of Soviet men born in 1922-1924 were alive on Sept 1, 1945, the other 96% were in graves along the trail from Stalingrad to Berlin, Vienna, and Seoul, Korea (in case you forgot, the USSR defeated the largest Japanese army in China in Aug 1945, and the Japanese order to the troops to surrender mentioned that factor, not the silly bombing of Japanese cities by Americans).
My parents, who miraculously survived during that war, were very grateful to the help of the Western Allies during the war. But taking their victory away – my father fought 2 years from Kursk to Danzig – is rather unkind.
Dear Andrei:
I practice a heavy footed appraoch to a lot of subjects. Nietzsche loved to philosophize “with a hammer”, he gloated. But I prefer the philosophical equivalent of anti-matter bombs. So I present my excuses, if I offended, and it turned out that I was wrong.
I certainly did not mean offense or unkindness to your father. I have a lot of admiration for the warriors who fought for the right side.
It is true that, according to the latest staticistics, 28 million Soviet citizens died in WWII. Whereas, even counting in the most general way, the French empire lost only two millions (a lot of people died in Indochine, and the French army in 1943, and half of 1944, was a lot North African. Since personal recollections are enlightening here, my father was in it, and was nearly killed in combat (twice bombed by Nazi jets, for example).
One of my points in WWII is that Hitler was made possible by Stalin, and many Western plutocrats and their servants. That does not mean that soldiers who fought in the army of the USA and the USSR were not beyond words heroic, and well meaning, and intelligent, and saved all our skins.
That just mean that the USSR helped the German fascists for twenty-two years before 1939 (remember Lenin crossing Germany in 1917, in his special train, with his entire entourage? Well, the Soviets paid back. The USSR was crucial to the rearmement of Germany. Guderian and company knew the USSR very well, because they had worked there, secretly, for many years.
When France and Britain sent an ultimatum to Hitler, on September 1, 1939, Hitler was getting all sorts of commodities, including massive amounts of oil, from the USSR and American corporations. Hitler was de facto allied with Stalin, and the USA. Without the help of Stalin and some American corporations, the Nazi army would have come to a grinding halt in the third week of September.
This is to the eternal shame of the USA and the USSR. It caused more than 50 million killed. On the bright side it created the American empire and its century that we appreciate everyday.
Here is the comment to D. Brooks Andrei mentioned:
Britain did not decline. With France, she courageously fought to death, and defeated fascism in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. Britain was just 40 million, half the population of super excited fascizing Germany. It is not possible, apparently for Americans to understand that France and Britain lost, together more than 5% of their population killed in 1914-1945. hardly a genteel period.
Britain lost her empire, a lot of it because of the sneaky attitude of her ex-colony, which was anxious to replace her (and France, and all of Europe!).
Britain and France won the war in Europe, especially the most important ideological war, and now Europe is their house, built in their image. Hardly a decline. Rather a success.
Andrei, help me understand, please, whom are you taking issue with?
OK, the Soviets had been instrumental at defeating Hitler, just as much as Stalin was responsible for the losses. Patrice makes you aware of the Soviet-German arrangements, culminating with Ribbentrop-Molotov in 1939. I’d add how Stalin pursued the war, human-intensive commitments and purges, among his own population and generals, etc.
Then, in light of the post-1945 Soviet atrocities in central/east-Europe, is it clear to you that Stalin and his heirs built a murderous empire? Or being a winner in 1945 saves the great Russian nation from self-reflexivity?
How does it all come together? That nations, sometimes, pay the disproportionate price of empire building, just as we are soon to rediscover in the US.
multumnonmulta and Andrei: A (sort of) funny aside: at 0:30 am the Stavka alerted the Soviet army that an attack by the Nazis was imminent. At 3:15 am bombing of cities started, and the Nazi armies bursted through, passing on their way at least one enormous freight train carrying Soviet goods into the Thousand Year Reich. So the Soviet-Nazi collaboration kept on going, even as the Nazis marched in.
Far from being surprised victims the Soviets had more than 23,000 tanks in their army, including the best (T34) and most armed tanks in the world. (More than 1,800 of those.) The Nazis had only around 5,000 tanks.
The USSR did not disappear in 1941, because the Nazis attacked late in June instead of early in May (as they had initially planned). Hitler, in the typical hubristic way of the overconfident fascist was offended by the coup in Yugoslavia and worried by the Greek/British anticipated menace on his Romanian oil fields. The courageous Yugoslavs , Greeks, British and other (Western) Allies fought back. For invading Greece alone, Hitler used a 700,000 man army to fight Greeks and a 60,000 soldier Western army. Hitler’s elite paratroopers seized Crete, suffering heavy lossses. In Crete alone, the Nazis lost 7,000 soldiers, killed in action.
This circus ended June 1, 1941, and only then was Hitler capable of moving what remained of his forces to Unternehmen Barbarossa. By then one has to understand that Hitler had lost between Poland, Norway, the battles of France and Britain, and Greece, absolutely gigantic losses, including more than 5,000 planes. How do you replace the suicidal engineers who made the suicide charges against french fortifications at Sedan? Well, you don’t. Such enthusiasm for the Nazi ideal was far and fewer between, as the nazis laminated themselves.
So, if the Nazis had attacked the Soviet Union in May, they would probably have captured Moscow, and cut to USSR in two. Sever rains in Fall stopped them in their tracks. Then, just as Napoleon had experienced may be the worst winter in 10,000 years, the Nazis got the worst cold wave in may be 50 years; their aircraft could not even fly.
Last nail in the coffin of anybody who would think of singing the praises of Stalin: once in a party, an expansive Stalin joked to Churchill that Hitler had killed many millions Soviet citizens, but that he, the Man of Steel, had killed even more.
An argument I have myself used was that the Soviets had no choice, but to collaborate with German fascism, starting in 1917. OK. However, but they found that highly convenient, because, deep at heart, they were themselves fascists. Their instinct was not to support the democracies, but the dictatorships (who they claim correctly that their Sovietism was).
latte Says:
it doesn’t matter if it’s ‘causal’ or even if the /actual occasion(in whitehead’s sense)/ — history as a hamiltonian object in 4-space — lacks definite precision.
nothing ever becomes clear and enlightening until the space around the object in question is mapped out carefully. the field of possibility, which is rendered from the actual by considering the actual historical as a complex manifestation of contingencies, and doing counterfactual sims with isolated variable contingencies. that would be doing something functionally *scientific, but it wouldn’t make sense to call it ‘history’, strictly speaking, and anyway which does not displace some other modes of mental activity. art, religion/philosophy, figures and concepts, affects and percepts. History and becoming as mythopoetic craft and (contra-puntally) the psychology born of disentangling the atavisms forming the substrate of the process of the (‘rational’) inquiry itself.
*this won’t happen until vastly more sophisticated formal ontologies / semantics are developed, and of course the people fluent enough in them and with something to say (propositionally).
Hello latte:
Initial condition in the sense of Partial Differential Equations are well defined in n-space, whatever n is, with the theory of Relativity assumed. To my knowledge, Relativity, per se, is fully causal. But maybe you know something I do not!
The problem, as I said, is when Quantum Mechanics is introduced. Then because of the uncertainties, the past light cone loses definition, and not just at its margins. This effect is not nothing: it is the one which evaporates any smaller than Everest black hole pretty fast. (Making CERN safe!)
I proposed to reintroduce full causality with my theory, which, following Quantum Mechanics, slaughters some of Einstein’s Relativity. I will write follow-ups.
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Of Nukes, Dogs, North Korea, & Necessary Evil
KIM, THE HEREDITARY KING OF NORTH KOREA, MAKES A NEW NUCLEAR H BOMB EVERY SIX WEEKS. His engineers are trying to build reliable intercontinental missiles. The fear of a heat wave in Los Angeles will take a whole new meaning soon. (And what did the president do about this security problem? Less than Bill Clinton. Oops.)
Kim Jong Un killed entire “groups” of people in his own family, including his uncle, who was instrumental to get him to power: “the discovery and purge of the Jang group… made our party and revolutionary ranks purer…”[117 In 2015, the defence minister was executed by anti-aircraft fire, for “talking back”.
Certainly the uncle was arrested, humiliated, and executed. “Despicable human scum…worse than a dog” is how North Korean state media described the once-powerful uncle of leader Kim Jong-un. It was claimed that Jang Song Thaek admitted trying to “overthrow the state”.
Kim & Wife: Expensive Dior Purse. Feeding People To Dogs. Not Yet Personally On The Menu.
Speaking of dogs, four star general Jan Song Thaek, once thought to be the most powerful leader in North Korea, was stripped naked, with five colleagues, thrown into a cage, and eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs… according to a newspaper close to China’s Communist Party. The dogs had not eaten for five days, and the execution lasted an hour. In the end, the dogs cleaned the plate. (Others said that he was executed by machine gun.)
Whatever the rumors, higher-ups in North Korea, and their families, have been executed in large numbers. Differently from Stalin, Kim does not even bother with the appearances of fake trials. Yesterday’s horrors have become quaint.
Kim has gone to the furthest, darkest side. Supremely educated in Switzerland, the North Korean dictator knows all too well that any reason too removed from the law of the jungle, would be his demise. The North Korean leaders have long made Switzerland their central access point (say to the French Riviera and French medical treatments).
With North Korea, the world is confronted with the Hitler problem, not just an uneducated immigrant loser, of the most modest origin, but with someone who is immensely rich, a proven killer, close, personal, whimsical, well-educated and in command of weapons Hitler could not even dream of.
If Kim has the choice between being eaten alive by dogs and threatening, or starting, a nuclear war, he will, of course, chose the latter. Indeed, people who brought him up have explained he was definitively a brat, even as an eight year old (see the Washington Post report of May 27, 2016).
Unfortunately, the only reasonable prospect, then, is for democracies to prepare for what Kim is, namely, the worst: very clever, and very nasty. And that reasoning with him will not help. This is clearly a case where the strongest, darkest means are required.
We have to dial back to 1935, and ponder another crazed, demonic dictator, Hitler (who had just consolidated power with an accord with the German army making him Chancellor and President).
What should have been done with Hitler? What should the democracies have done? Now we know, with today’s mentality and morality: going all out against him.
(But the sordid truth is that it was in the best national interest of the USA to proceed with Nazism and the Second World War… just as it was to have Jefferson and Jackson massacre the Indians, steal their lands, and quintuple the area of the US… Agreed, the USA has changed: the collaboration of the US with Hitler could happen, and did happen, because of the mentality reigning then).
So let’s reconsider Hitler 1935 with today’s mentality: let’s do as if we wanted to avoid World War Two, the death of 5% of humanity, and serious fears, threats, hardships and problems for much of the rest.
Before I come to what to do, we have to remember that this time the stakes are much higher: Kim intents to use nuclear blackmail, with intercontinental missiles aimed at the largest cities of the West. Kim’s government said as much last year, he will do it again, and, this time, with power to back him up.
North Korea, right now is the Nazi Reich, in a potentially even worse version, but this time, we know the program ahead of its attempted implementation, through vast annihilation of uncountable multitudes. Insane? Sure. That’s the entire point, and that is why Obama could not handle it. Obama, fed on a steady diet of Financial Times and University of Chicago, believe people are rationally greedy. But of course, there is much more to humanity than that: the Will to Extermination, for example. The Will to Extermination is a gift: like playing tennis, it can be developed to a fine art, through enough practiced. Kim had plenty of practice (just as Hitler did).
So what to do? Forget the sanctions against North Korea as a plausible long-term solution: that would be about reason. Kim is not about reason (and he can leverage China, as his family long did). Get ready for war. Nuclear war. Or then target Kim and do away with him. There is a precedent for the latter.
In 1938, Hitler’s generals approached British and American diplomats and authorities, asking their governments to declare that they would stand with France in irremediable opposition to Nazi Germany. Then, they explained they would make a coup against the Nazis, arguing that Germany was in danger. Something similar done against Kim is what should be done now.
In 1938, the British and American governments not only did not do what the German generals had asked them to do, but they warned Hitler of the plot against him. (However, Germany had been a democracy just prior, and, even under the Kaiser, was a softer sort of fascism).
Let’s learn from history; let’s not repeat history. Time for a dark and dirty vaccination. To prevent incomparably worse.
The nuclear poker of Truman on August 6, 1945, worked: Japan capitulated within 6 days. The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were moral sacrifices. However, what Kim prepares for us all, until he dies, is worldwide nuclear blackmail. Kim is only 33. And North Korean geology is very wealthy. Is that how we can live? (Kim already threatened to nuke Los Angeles and New York).)
Kim’s threats with nukes call for the darkest side… to remedy the situation. Morality comes from sustainability (that’s shown both by etymology and logic). Is a world where a few rendered insane by cruelty, fear and rage are armed with nuclear weapons sustainable? No.
Obama, and countless pacifists in the last 71 years have said they wanted to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. However, we need first to get rid of those who want to mass destroy, and that means destroying the mentalities conducive to this sort of concentration of power.
Meanwhile, the only sane, let alone moral, thing to do is to acquire military technological superiority. Eight years ago, Obama said that Pakistani nukes were his number one worry. Rogue Pakistani Muslim supremacy and greed supreme scientists helped North Korean nukes. As president, Obama undermined the safety of the world, because he actually helped the North Korean dictatorship, and is still actively doing so.
How? By demolishing the US high-tech innovation system by fostering tech private tech monopolies. The latest example is his latest change in the laws directing the US Patent and Trademark Office. New laws guarantee that people and corporations who gave Obama big money will be favored. So what will suffer? Real innovation. And what will make democracy sustainable? Real innovation.
Hitler happened in a worldwide mental ecological system. So does Kim, and Islamism, and global plutocracy, of course. These are all examples of the rule of demonicity (plutocracy).
Ultimately, anything which favors plutocracy here, favors plutocracy there. Such as all the colossal, blatant advantages given to those who financed Clintons, Obama and Bushes (from the Koch brothers, to the Spy Network booking your face). The North Korean dictatorship, Putin, the Islamists, and all the powerful rotten ones around the planet feel this, know this, see this, and play it like a violin.
Those “leaders” grabbing all the levers of power are not demented, they are not crazy, they are not sick, they are opportunists. And the opportunity of power, not to say power itself, has transformed them, neurohormonally, and perhaps even epigenetically (we know this happens in fishes, so why not in humans: are we not more sophisticated than fishes?) What they call reason, sustainability calls insanity: a nuclear strike on Los Angeles, successful or attempted, would make North Korea into a radioactive desert. The “leaders”, all over, have more power than ever, are more corrupt, therefore, than ever, and have become, more than ever, monsters made to rule, by all and any ways they can access.
It is for a new moral code invented by We The People to bar this sort of access to evil. “Equality” in “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, is not just a matter of the pursuit of happiness, but of the pursuit of survival. Of humanity as a species.
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10 Responses to “Of Nukes, Dogs, North Korea, & Necessary Evil”
De Brunet D'Ambiallet Says:
It seems to me that the preceding essay resonates with the critique you made of Camus’ Stranger in recent answers you made to comments. The Stranger is not sick, there are just people like that. Kim is the Stranger, but he has more than a gun. There are no treatment, just take him out.
Camus’ Stranger is feeling weird because of too much sun and heat (something whoever has lived in most of Africa is familiar with). So he undergoes some mental transformation enough to nudge him into insanity.
Such mental transformations can be much deeper when the environment has been transformed in a much more conducive-to-aggression ambiance, for much longer.
Yes, just take him out, or prepare if he is not.
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Where did you get this crap?
Cite a RELIABLE source or be known as a typical fact-free TE blowhard spouting nonsense.
Omnnmei:
You are ignorant of an important part of history. It is important, because it changes many perspectives, and interpretations. So you are angry, because, if true, it shows you have understood, and know, nothing important on that primordial subject.
I am a philosopher not an electronic encyclopedia. Just a biological one, which makes me superior, because I concentrate on superior, most meaningful facts. For example, I know very well the entire subject of the collaboration between Hitler and plutocratic leadership… which made Hitler possible. Indeed. Quite enraging for people like you, who have been played all along.
There are hundreds of references, you can start by googling: “Patrice Ayme XYZ” where XYZ is what you want to know. Generally it works.
You can also read the following American book: “In the Garden of the Beasts“. The Tiergaten was where the French ambassador and the US anti-Nazi ambassador, Dodd, were meeting, to avoid Nazi listening: their embassies were thoroughly bugged. FDR replaced Dodd by a pro-Nazi (he did the same in London).
The book: “IBM and The Holocaust” is also a must.
Many Americans feel as you do, yet they don’t know why. So they will vote TRUMP. Make no mistake: I am a registered Democrat but HRC is a terrible choice.
Obama’s neglect of Korea is his worst failure
That neglect should turn into a treasure trove for military spending, some probably think…
The counter-argument runs as following: Stalin, Mao or Ahmadinezad was no angel either; Yet the West did not engage militarily and many will argue that the result is millions that did not die. There may be hope that Kim will not strike (this will mean his own obliteration) and at some point N.Korea will also change from within, either via an uprising, coup, or peaceful succession such as Franco, Pinoset or tsausesku. Of course the suffering of the N.Korean population will continue and the key issue is that criteria for intervention are not widely agreed upon. Why for instance intervene when Saddam annexed Kuweit, but not when Turkey invaded Cyprus? Why bomb Yugoslavia for ‘oppressing the majority in Kossovo Albanians’, who were of course super nice to the minorities and not Turkey or Syria for oppressing much more the Kurds? So when should intervention occur? When the offending side has nukes? IMHO, it is too late then, it’s much better to do so BEFORE they get them. When they have oil (as in Kuweit)? When the regime is brutal? Thacher was quite friendly to Pinochet. When we have economic interests in doing so? When we feel like it? No matter what the reason, two things need to be done: Convince the public that blood (our own troops as well as the inevitable enemy soldiers and -inevitably-civillians) are worth it (it’s always easy to make such calls when someone else’s life is at stake) and pay the price. This also means rebuilding (see for instance Iraq and Afghanistan), and having in mind that to someone who has lost his civillian family as a collateral damage, all the citizens of the countries that bombed them are no less evil or terrorists. All of which is not to say that one should never intervene(as the Hilter example illustrates), but that there should be a clear thinking and understanding or when and why (not necessarily as a checklist, but at least in general considerations). This is lacking today and as a result people are quite reluctant to support anything but -relatively cheap in OUR human lives- air strikes. The alternative, to intervene on behalf of justice and human rights is Extremely costly, as the Korean wars and lately even Iraq and Afghanistan showed and will take very large investments in lives and expenditures.
All the state to state relationships are, more or less, evil. In the case of Turkey and Cyprus, the answers, are, first, military: to stop Turkey, one had to go in all-out war against Turkey… Which is huge (80 million right now) and part of NATO.
So it’s pretty much a case by case thing.
In the case of Assad, there may not have been a plan B (who, among the Alawites, to replace him with).
In the case of Kim, one can always pray for a successful coup. There were some already. They failed. That’s exactly what I prescribe.
In the worst case, with KIM, it will be nuclear war. That’s new.
Kim, if he has the choice between being eaten by dogs, and threatening a nuke war, will chose the latter. So it has to be made clear to the leadership in Korea that, should Kim engage in nuke action, his country will know 100 Hiroshimas in minutes. And one has to be ready to deliver. Only the public knowledge of this will encourage (and excuse!) Kim’s generals and colonels to attempt a successful coup. Because the scenario is like that of Hitler and his generals in 1937, as I related… Sanders, Trump and Clinton are all tougher than Obama, so there is a good probability this more meaningful course will be followed.
5 days after this essay was published, the Obama administration announced sanctions on banks dealing with North Korea (within 60 days).
So Obama is finally moving… ;=)
Thanks Patrice for a very blunt answer. Basically the rule of thumb is ‘intervene where it’s cheap to do so’, which is basically school bully rules. With Kim, it’s no longer cheap to do so, if he does have the capability of a nuclear strike to say NY or LA. It would have been much cheaper to destroy nuclear facilities early on, as Israel did with Saddam’s program. Even this, as Iran demonstrated is not terribly effective against a determined regime. If your analysis of Kim’s personality is correct, this is much more ‘dealable’ than a regime with nukes that believes that the great Allah’s will is to exterminate all nonbelievers and if they die doing so, they go to hell and are rewarded with plenty of virgins and rice….
Dear Tom: General economics has general physics as a particular case. IMHO, what I call the Principle Of Least Axiomatic Reason flows from the Principle Of Least Action.
The Israeli strike against the Osirak French built reactor was very effective one way, but it was probably too early, considering other factors. It was part of an obscure dance of influential circles in Israel, France, the USA (the USA wanted to have its way, and it was not the French way; the French way had given Israel the Bomb… So the French, to keep influence had to be a bit nice to Iraq). It contributed to the fall of one more Arab secular pseudo-republic into ever worse decay.
The case of Iran was something else. Iran is a gigantic country with a gigantic history. A civilization onto itself, unfortunately under a theocratic, anti-Iranian, dictatorship (which it may get pacifically out of).
Striking Kim the Israeli way was not an option for a number of reasons, mostly that it would be a very bad example. However, once Kim has a credible attack capability on the US mainland, the US should certainly, first establish defense rings around the West Coast cities. Then prepare for a pre-emptive war. To avoid all of this, the US should do what the Obama administration finally did five days after my essay: start the process of preventing banks from interacting with North Korea.
It’s true that one could make a deal with Kim, where he goes back to Switzerland and swimming on the French Riviera. On the other hand, he is just one guy, so he could go any direction on the spur of the moment. This is exactly why the dirtiest means should be used to make Kim see the light, or to get out of the way.
One has to avoid situation where blackmail becomes a way of life, as it has become with Great Britain inside the EU. As for the Jihadists, witnesses, Jihadists themselves, inside the Islamist pseudo-Caliphate, all agree that the upper echelons do not believe into anything they preach (such as cutting off hands of smokers: top Jihadists smoke themselves behind closed doors). In other words, be it Kim or the top Islam fanatics, they all play a game, they know where civilization is, just they are trying to find what they can get away with… Quite a bit like the Brexiters…
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Women as political leaders have played crucial roles in the past. One, in particular, ought to be the most famous political leader, ever. I mean: more important than Justinian, Julius Caesar, Pericles, Solon or Ramesses III (who defeated the “Sea Peoples”)… Or George Washington. Washington was just a British colonel, the French could have found others to agitate terminally (Philadelphia was crawling with French agents).
It is telling that nearly no one with “culture” knows of her, this woman who was the most important political leader, ever. No, she was not Chinese, or Egyptian.
Notice that China and Egypt were with the Creto-Greco-Romano-Celtico-Frankish civilization, and India the four most important civilizational zones. I don’t know much about India, but in the case of the first three, the place of women was at the very top, or next to it. Egypt had divinized and feminized Truth, Ma’at. In contrast, Islam had one, just one female leader, out of all these places, countries, histories and centuries… that was immediately after Louis IX of France’s invasion of Egypt: not perhaps a coincidence, his mom was in charge in France…
Egypt had several female pharaohs, including the ferocious monotheist proponent Neferti, who went a few concepts too far, bringing her demise… and the famous Hatshepsut. Tang empress Wu Zetian is remembered today as one of the greatest rulers of China (Seventh Century).
Empress of the Franks, Saint Bathilde, an ex-slave… Towering above the Senate of the French Republic. Republics with slavery were tried before, and didn’t work… Bathilde outlawed slavery… Take that, Julius Caesar!
Revealingly, women tend to acquire control in history, when the going gets real tough (it’s know that famed Roman emperor Justinian didn’t not resign during the Nika riots, because of his wife). Sometimes their role has been enormous and pretty successful at defending the established order (in France, Yolande of Aragon, queen of the four kingdoms, victor of the “100 years war”, a two Medicis queens and the mother of Louis XIV, who defeated the “Fronde”, are examples…)
So what of our mystery female leader, and what did she do that was so awesome? Any guess?
She has a statue facing the French Senate, in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Latin Quarter, Paris. This is Queen Bathilde, who ruled the Imperium Francorum in the Seventh Century. She outlawed the trading of slaves who were denizens of the empire (be they Christians, Pagans, Jewish, etc.) A millennium later, slavery was reintroduced in the English colony of America. So women can have the brains where it makes a difference for civilization.
What is fascinating is that Bathilde outlawed slavery at a technological level no higher than the Greco-Roman empire. However, the outlawing of slavery forced Europe to become much more technologically advanced, by using machines instead of people for all sorts of tasks (when Europeans got to China they were surprised that men were used for many tasks where Europeans used mechanical advantage). An example is the heavy steel plough necessary to work the wet and fat soil of the European plain, productive heartland of the Franks, soon to produce lots of genetically modified, protein rich, beans. By the year 1,000 CE, Western Europe had started to become more advanced than Rome.
Empress Wu Zetian a contemporary of Bathilde, ruled for decades, at the apex of the Tang. She was demonized by later Chinese historians. Yes, I believe her baby daughter was strangled by Lady Wang…. Because later male historians had powerful sexist reasons to make us believe that the official version was wrong… Sexists can’t believe that China at its apex was ruled by a woman… Except, of course, if she was a she-devil. This being said, Wu Zetian had this in common with Bathilde that she was totally a sort of female James Bond. Just like Bathilde, she took enormous risks (Bathilde escaped as a slave; Wu Zetian took as illegal lover the son of the emperor she had become concubine of, thanks to her extreme beauty and literary skills)
When people think of a scientist, they think of Einstein (who popularized Relativity which Lorentz and Poincaré had discovered, and made a few secondary discoveries besides). However, who knows Émilie du Châtelet?
She started her fame in physics by translating Newton, and discovering that Newton had confused energy and momentum. Émilie du Châtelet corrected that by elucidating the concept of energy, tied it to heat, discovered infrared radiation, was a top philosopher… and died after childbirth at 41. Arguably, Émilie du Châtelet was greater than Newton (who put things together rather than introduced any new concept)
Bathilde was the greatest politician, greater than the doomed, erroneous Pericles (who himself was his second wife’s puppet: Aspasia did all the thinking, pericles all the bullying). Émilie du Châtelet was the greatest physicist. As great as the any of truly greatest. And who knows her name? Nobody. Even the French ignore her (… especially the post-Napoleon French? Napoleon is the name of a sexist disease, long pandemic in France…)
Women are deliberately ignored. It’s a form of masochism for humanity. It’s also a sadistic behavior of men.
That means, half of humanity is thrown away by artifices in part deployed by the present ruling half… Which wastes a lot of… energy oppressing the other half.
It’s not just a waste of half of humanity. It also makes women less motivated, less performing, less sure of themselves… And they are on the front lines of early child education… so humanity’s mental performance is hit twice by sexism
So what in practice? I don’t like California Senator Kamala Harris: she reminds me too much of Obama, a puppet, with very conservative views paying lip service to progressivism. The natural choice is whom Trump calls derisively “Pocahontas”, Elizabeth Warren, who has long espoused correct principles in finance and economy. She is not an opportunistic, young and inexperienced chick like Harris, but a veteran law professor…
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5 Responses to “KILL SEXISM, And Why. The Next US President Should Be A Woman: A Question Of Smarts And Equity”
Tulsi Gabbard US Congresswoman Hawaii is another good woman candidate- she opposes regime change wars such as Iraq invasion, supports universal health care
Yes, I’m all pro-Hawai’i, my Hawaiian spouse sings its praises all day long, they have universal healthcare there… Lots of haoli pollution in recent years, though… Warren is a heavy weight, and she can take it, and give it back… I used to be all for her, then she got elected, apparently sedated for a few years while the Donald was making fun of her because he couldn’t bed her even spiritually speaking… But now she has embraced the (Roman Republic) Absolute Wealth Limit I have been promoting, so…
Warren has many good ideas but her past performance shows she is more talk than action. She will berate bankers for their misdeeds then when it comes down to it she takes no real action to prosecute them.
I agree with you from past observations. HOWEVER, this is Quantum mechanics, so to speak. By simply suggesting what is practically an ABSOLUTE WEALTH LIMIT, she ACTED. Yes, ACTED. She has changed the debate. She has changed the perception, the conceptology. All this talk about fairness, social justice, balah blah is nothing if there in no ABS WEALTH LIM (I am going to do like French and Romans, used abbreviations)
There is this shocking video just out of Barrack called by Bill for advice… On nothing (how to treat the mystery, capricious, superficial spouse). In truth, of course, it’s the reverse: Bill gave important advice to so-called Barack on important stuff. Thatcher was made by the Murdoch family (yeah, they came from Perth, Australia, small world isn’t it? There, they controlled media…). And when it was not Bill, it was Elon, or it was Warren, or it was Jeff, or Marc… How many times did Marc go to the Elysee Palace? Can he count that far? And then, of course there are all those smart enough to stay out of the lights.
They breathed together (conspirare), or at least, phoned together… we have the proof now and they are so arrogant that they think that, by flaunting their relationship, the joke is on us….
Agreed, it is good to see someone take that position. Especially a candidate for president. Sanders has not even stated this although he is for higher taxes on wealth (merely a return to progressive taxation that was law not so long ago). The pluto establishment will attack both viciously.
Already they are propping up Biden (long time corporate tool) as “the favorite”. Meanwhile they are smearing Tulsi (when not ignoring her altogether) because she is anti military-industrial complex/endless wars. Dem establishment (Pelosi etc.) would rather loose to Trump than win with a progressive.
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Exhibition of Marcos jewellery to ‘teach new generation about corruption’
March 29, 2016 By Timothy Walker Leave a Comment
An online exhibition of jewellery owned by the Marcos family aims to educate a new generation about the corruption of that era.
The postings on Facebook and Twitter by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) come as the family tries to extend its political comeback in forthcoming elections.
“The PCGG will be posting selected jewellery items to show and remind the present generation of the excesses and extravagance of the Marcoses in their two-decade dictatorship,” the anti-corruption agency said on its website.
“The Virtual Jewelry Exhibit” began in mid-March with regular postings showcasing valuables recovered after the dictator was ousted by people power in 1986.
Aside from pictures of the jewels uploaded regularly, there are postings explaining what they cost the country. For example, a picture of a diamond tiara comes with the caption: “can fund the treatment of 12,052 cases of tuberculosis.”
The PCGG, which plans eventually to auction off the Marcos jewels, has previously said that international auction houses have appraised their total value at more than a billion pesos ($21 million).
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Marcos and his jet-setting wife Imelda were accused of massively enriching themselves during their years in power while the country sank deeper into poverty.
Imelda was known for her extravagance, amassing jewellery, fine art and a huge collection of shoes.
Although the family fled abroad during the 1986 revolt, they were allowed to return home after the former dictator died in exile in 1989.
Since then the Marcoses have made a political resurgence, with members not only evading criminal charges but winning election to prominent positions.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, previously elected to the Senate, is now running for vice-president. Widow Imelda is seeking re-election to Congress and her eldest daughter Imee is running for another term as governor of the family’s native province in north Luzon.
Despite a campaign by victims of the Marcos regime against his candidacy, surveys show Marcos Jr is second in the race for the vice-presidency.
Imelda Marcos has previously said she hopes her son will eventually become president.
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Critics say the generation that grew up after the Marcos years has no memory of the abuses, setting the stage for the family’s return to power.
Both Imelda and her son have long denied any wrongdoing.
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FILE - In this June 6, 2019 file photo, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards smiles as he describes the end of a legislative session that saw his teacher pay raise and education spending plans win final passage, in Baton Rouge, La. The governor has been traveling the state to meet with teachers and veterans, and he’s planning a statewide RV tour that begins Saturday, July 6. The Deep South's lone Democratic governor faces two major GOP challengers on the October ballot: U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham of Richland Parish and Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone.
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Louisiana governor releases first TV ad in re-election bid
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The advertising blitz in the Louisiana governor's race began Monday, as Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards released his first statewide TV ad, touting his financial stewardship of the state.
Gov. Edwards' campaign described a sizable "seven-figure ad buy" that will have the 30-second spot in heavy rotation on television and websites. The campaign told The Associated Press that it intends to stay on TV through Election Day with the launch of the ad, which also draws a contrast with the deficit-riddled years of Edwards' Republican predecessor.
Louisiana's statewide election is Oct. 12. A runoff, if needed, will be held Nov. 16.
The Deep South's only Democratic governor faces two major GOP challengers trying to keep him from a second term: U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, a doctor from Richland Parish, and Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone, a longtime donor to conservative causes and first-time candidate.
Edwards' ad starts with an image of Republican former Gov. Bobby Jindal and a narrator saying: "Four years ago, Bobby Jindal left Louisiana in crisis." Descriptions follow of budget gaps and the threat of cuts that had lawmakers and the Jindal administration scrambling through piecemeal fixes to keep government programs up and running.
The narrator contrasts that with the current budget surpluses in the most recent two years of the Edwards administration and ends by saying: "And while there's still work to do, Gov. Edwards is leading Louisiana in the right direction."
Abraham and Rispone haven't publicly released timelines for their own TV ad campaigns. Rispone has matched Edwards' $10 million campaign account by putting up his own cash. Abraham lags in cash in the bank, according to the last finance reports, raising questions about whether he can match the ad onslaught of an incumbent governor and a millionaire businessman if Rispone shows he's willing to self-finance his candidacy.
Edwards' ad doesn't describe the taxes he enacted with the majority-Republican Legislature to stabilize the state's finances, close the hefty shortfall left by the Jindal administration and end a decade of budget uncertainty.
After 10 legislative sessions, the governor and lawmakers passed a seven-year tax deal in 2018 that scaled back some tax break programs and raised the state sales tax 0.45 percent above the rate when Edwards took office.
That tax compromise, combined with earlier tax increases enacted by Edwards and lawmakers on items such as cigarettes and alcohol, helped pay for the teacher pay raise, the safety-net hospitals and the full financing of the TOPS college tuition program, which are touted in the governor's new ad.
Abraham and Rispone have slammed the tax hikes as unnecessary, and some House Republican leaders have argued the recent surpluses show that taxes were raised too much.
On Twitter, Abraham replied to his opponent's new TV ad Monday by pointing out that Edwards, when he was a candidate in 2015, said he didn't expect to directly raise taxes to solve the state's financial problems.
"Now, he has no choice but to run as a tax-and-spend liberal," Abraham posted. "Louisianians didn't want that in 2015, and they don't want it now."
But the GOP candidates and the House leaders haven't offered detailed ideas of where they would shrink state spending to match any tax cuts they're proposing.
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Art student creates ‘Cry Closet’ for stressed out college students during finals
Posted 1:15 pm, April 26, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire
SALT LAKE CITY – An art installation at the University of Utah campus is turning heads and sparking a buzz on social media during finals week.
At Marriott Library, students fill the floors with the sounds of flipping through books, reciting facts and information, and shuffling through notes. They're summing up a semester's worth of work, in preparation for their brains to be picked.
"We have two tests tomorrow and then another one on Friday, and then another one next Wednesday," U of U freshman Chidi Ahanonu told KSTU.
"They load us up with finals like you wouldn't believe," said Jayden Skinner, another freshman studying biomedical engineering.
Crying might be heard as the stress and pressure builds up.
Ahanonu said there's certainly, "the need to relieve some stress."
In the middle of a walkway at Marriott, graduating College of Fine Arts senior Nemo Miller built a space just for that: The Cry Closet.
The makeshift room features a narrow door, and inside, dark fabric lining and a plush floor filled with stuffed animals. A timer hangs on the inside of the door, and two dome lights provide low ambient light.
On the outside of the door, a framed page reads: "A Safe Place for Stressed Out Students."
"This space is meant to provide a place for students studying for finals to take a short 10-minute break," the note states.
On Wednesday evening, students stopped at The Cry Closet to take pictures and step inside. While some laughed at the novelty, others checked it out with quiet reflection.
Those who have seen it took to Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook to share pictures and talk about the small safe space.
Skinner said that's how he found out about The Cry Closet. Others, like Ahanonu, happened to wander by and noticed the curious pop-up room.
There are a few simple rules to abide by, outlined on the door. They include: Knock before entering, only one person in the room at a time and don't stay longer than 10 minutes.
"It's a great place to just come and decompress, and that's really what it's for," said Jana Cunningham with the U of U communications office.
She said the university offers counseling to students who are feeling especially overwhelmed, but that The Cry Closet is great for students who need a moment in all the stress.
While students like Ahanonu and Skinner said they themselves might not use the room, they think it's a great idea.
"I just think it's good to be able to get away for a minute," Skinner said.
The Cry Closet will stay in its spot for students to use until May 2.
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HomePress releasesInto the ‘Beast’ they went, to shine a light on its ‘treasures’
Into the ‘Beast’ they went, to shine a light on its ‘treasures’
As Sri Lanka marks World Wildlife Day, 10 cavers reveal the exotic beauty and fauna of 14 dark caves where few have ventured
Perpetual darkness and absolute stillness!
Into these big voids under the earth, never-ever speared by sunlight, has a small group ventured through very narrow openings, to bring to the more faint-hearted Sri Lankans like us, the wonders of ‘dark caves’.
“We are entering the Beast,” says one as the Sunday Times views a short video and it is not just for the thrill of a daredevil adventure or to experience the adrenaline-rush that a 10-member team from the Lanka Institute of Cave Sciences (LICAS) lowered themselves into these caverns.
It is to shine a powerful light on a treasure-trove of subterranean biodiversity that has been thriving most probably for millennia that these ‘cavers’ headed by Biologist Dr. W.S. Weliange underwent arduous stumbling-along walks or sometimes belly-crawls in moist environments, which left them soaking wet.
Hardly able to breathe they were, for lack of oxygen down there, exacerbated by the strong stench of bat guano (dung), with insects filling up all exposed cavities such as their ears and nostrils.
They were the 4th Biospeleology Expedition from September 2017 to August 2018 into 18 caves of which 14 were dark caves believed to have been formed millions of years ago, to collect photographic documentation on the faunal (animal) biodiversity within.
As the world including Sri Lanka, celebrates World Wildlife Day today (March 3), even though the theme is ‘Life below Water: for people and planet’ for 2019, it is Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL) which gently nudges the Sunday Times in the direction of this exotic study carried out by LICAS, supported by BSL’s initiating partner, Dilmah Conservation and coordinated by BSL.
BSL is a national platform of members, owned and driven by the private sector, established in 2015 as a not-for-profit organisation under the Company’s Ordinance. Currently, BSL has over 80 corporate entities as its members and they represent a wide range of industry sectors including agribusiness and plantations, banking and finance, engineering and construction, information and communications technology and manufacturing and service sectors.
The enthralling and oft scary details of the LICAS team’s biospeleology sojourns to study living organisms in the very bowels of the earth are revealed by Dr. Weliange. The other LICAS members were Archaeologist Prageeth Algiriya; Geologists Dr. Pathmakumara Jayasinghe & Prof. Osborn Armstrong; Cave Mapping – Interior Designers Saman Senanayake & Mahesh Champika; Cave Mapping – Architect A.S. Dandeniya; and Photographers Ayoma Weliange, Nayomi Sayanara & Sahan Jayasuriya.
Dr. Weliange stresses that dark caves are threatened by improper landscape management and disturbance due to unregulated cave tourism. As almost no dark caves in Sri Lanka have been surveyed and none are legally protected for their biodiversity yet, there is an urgent need to identify and safeguard key sites for cave biodiversity nationally.
Strong echoes come from the driving force behind Dilmah Conservation, Dilhan Fernando when he says that as we confront the consequences of our actions in destroying 50% of fauna over the past half century, “we have a shared and critical obligation to protect the earth’s remaining biodiversity”.
“The biodiversity in Sri Lanka is unique and intricately connects human cultural, culinary, social, economic and health dimensions. We must all – as individuals, businesses and government - integrate conservation and sustainable interaction with nature to protect biodiversity for our own survival,” says Mr. Fernando.
He stresses that “our efforts in understanding the biodiversity in caves in Sri Lanka ‘departs’ from the popular and more charismatic areas as our business is established on a unique philosophy which demands a sincere commitment to positive environmental interventions”.
The more we understand the richness of the biodiversity that surrounds us, the more we can protect that diversity and benefit from it in the form of food, medicine and quality of life and the better we can conserve it for future generations, reiterates Mr. Fernando.
And it is Charles Darwin of the Theory of Evolution fame who dubbed cave animals as “wrecks of ancient life” while others have described cave ecosystems as “natural ecological and evolutionary laboratories” because of their relative simplicity and isolation.
The ‘Beast’, the LICAS team’s pet name for the Ravana dark cave, named by villagers as the ‘Nil-diya Pokuna’ in Karandagolla, Ella, has “lots of blue water”. Containing an aquifer, this cave which is reported to be the largest in the country is surrounded by its very own myths and legends linked to King Ravana.
In contrast, the ‘Beauty’ or the ‘Cave of Images’ as the villagers call it is Roopagallena in Rathganga, Ratnapura and the team waxes eloquent about these images of speleothem formations (by the deposition of minerals from water) which include cave curtains, columns, stalagmites, stalactites, flow stones and more.
The Periyamandapai cave in Kerudavil, Jaffna, meanwhile, formed of limestone with deposits of shells and corals, has a passage with a low-slung roof. “We crossed it only by crawling and ducking,” says Dr. Weliange.
These are just three of the dark caves the team surveyed for species richness, food chains and food webs. The other ‘earthly voids – dark caves’ were: In Ratnapura – Endirilena in Pelendakanda; Malena in Siripagama; Vavulguhawa in Pelpola; & Vavullena in Kosgala.In Kuruvita – Sthreepura cave. In Pallebedda – Vavulpane cave. In Ella – Ravana tunnel.In Welimada – Sthreepura tunnels in Loonuwatta. In Meemure – Nitre cave (nitre is the mineral form of potassium nitrate).In Attanagalle – Tunnel cave in Alavala In Jaffna – Vavulpuram cave in Keeramalei.
The ‘surface caves’ were: In Kuruvita – BatadombalenaIn Kitulgala – Belilena & Belilena tunnelMaradankadawala – Rock Shelter.
Explaining that Sri Lanka has a great range of cave types, with karst and karst-like features occurring in rocks, Dr. Weliange says that some are rock shelters on the ground surface like Batadombalena and others are dark caverns under the earth.
Dark caves are what they picked and ventured into, donning helmets and headlamps and carrying powerful batteries, compasses and cameras, where the darkness swallows the beam of the torch and getting lost is so very easy.
Caves are largely unchartered and unexplored territory. It is risky and dangerous, as “anything” can happen, he says. As they crawl or climb down small openings, foremost on their minds is the possibility of rock-falls which can occur anytime, closing shut their ‘doorway’ back to civilization. The terrain, with different angles and planes is not flat and difficult to negotiate.
There is no difference between night and day and these dark caves are the quietest places. “You don’t see anything, you don’t hear anything and your basic senses of sight and hearing seem to have been shut down,” says Dr. Weliange.
As the headlamps illuminate the thick blackness, everything begins to glow and glimmer, a sight seared into their minds even as they chat to the Sunday Times in Colombo.
Taxed to their limits, it is an ‘endurance test’ few would undertake but the LICAS team has carried out with enthusiasm and is still raring to go for more.
“No days, no nights and adventure knows no boundaries,” smiles Dr. Weliange.
What they found in the dark caves
We found nearly 150 taxonomic groups of fauna from all 18 caves including the dark ones,” says Dr. W.S. Weliange, explaining that the top-most diverse group was ‘decomposers’ such as fungi and bacteria, with spiders coming in second and lepidopteran moths taking third place.
The others included bats, rats, porcupines, reptiles, birds, fish, frogs, centipedes, millipedes, snails, scorpions, bugs, beetles, crickets, cockroaches, crabs, shrimps, leeches, flatworms, earthworms, ticks and mites.
Quoting Boris Sket who had made explorations into Sri Lanka caves, Dr. Weliange says he proposed four categories of ‘cave animals’.
Troglobionts – Animals which have adapted to cave life and usually spend their full life-cycle in caves and cannot survive for a long period of time outside a cave.
Eutroglophiles – Animals which have permanent subterranean populations like millipedes, spiders, cave crickets, moths and beetles which have adapted to the dark.
Subtroglophiles – Animals which are inclined to continuously inhabit a subterranean habitat and remain associated with the underground environment for some biological function, like bats.
Trogloxenes – Animals which normally live outside caves, but can occasionally be found in subterranean habitats, where they do not reproduce and are often considered as ‘strays’ such as porcupines, rats, monitors and bears.
Among the other finds of the LICAS team were seven types of Hymenoptera mud houses (homes of the mud wasp or kumbala), traces of animals like feathers, bird-droppings, nests, bat guano, exuviate (animal skins which had been shed), larval and pupal cases and eggs.
Flora (plants) was absent inside the dark stretches of the cave, but had been found at the entrance to some caves and included algae, bryophytes and ferns, it is learnt.
The birds that they found included the Collocalia fuciphaga (the edible-nest swiftlet) and Hirundo hyperythra (the Sri Lanka swallow).
Dr. Weliange says that his team which includes woman photographer Nayomi Sayanara captured images of nearly 30 microbial mats with filaments and spores and also 29 spider species.
Bringing to light some fascinating facts about spiders, he says that they are the most diverse group of animals found in Sri Lankan caves. Of the 44,540 species known from the world within the order Araneae (true spiders), about 1,000 species show typical cave-adapted features, while many more can be found at cave entrances.
“Spiders of the twilight zone are among the first predators living within caves, intercepting organisms coming from the surface. These top predators of underground environments can reach high abundance. All spiders are carnivorous. Cave spiders prey on almost anything as big as they are including slugs, worms, flying insects and even small vertebrates,” he adds.
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Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General
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This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo.
Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear in this new project. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War Two and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all.
There have been other accounts - notably Ill Met By Moonlight by William Stanley Moss (Leigh Fermor's second in command), which was later made into a Powell and Pressburger film, starring Dirk Bogarde - but Kidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as SOE files and the accounts, letters and private papers of its operatives in London and Edinburgh.
Bloomsbury USA
Rick Stroud is the author of The Phantom Army of Alamein: The Men Who Hoodwinked Rommel and The Book of the Moon. He is also the author, with Victor Gregg, of Rifleman: A Front Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and King's Cross Kid: A London Childhood Between the Wars. He lives in Chelsea, London.
Rick Stroud is a writer and television director who has directed such actors as Pierce Brosnan, John Hurt, Ian Holme, David Suchet, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Earlier in his career he was the associate producer of Brideshead Revisited. He has won an Emmy and been nominated for a BAFTA. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel, and with Victor Gregg has written Rifleman and King's Cross Kid. He is currently working on a book about the kidnapping by the SOE of General Kreipe from his headquarters on Nazi occupied Crete. He lives in London.
A Note on Names ix
Maps x
Prologue 1
1 An Island of Heroes 5
2 Defenders of Crete 15
3 Operation Merkur 18
4 The Battle of Crete 25
5 The Next Nine Days 36
6 The Occupation Begins 46
7 Fortress Crete 52
8 Ungentlemanly Warfare 61
9 The Cretan Resistance is Born 67
10 A Terrible Tragedy 79
11 The Italians Change Sides 88
12 Operation Abduction 97
13 The Best Laid Plans … 103
14 First Base 124
15 The Waiting 142
16 The Trap Springs 152
17 Through the Checkpoints 160
18 Radio Silence 171
19 Situation Ugly 181
20 Marooned 196
21 Hide and Seek 204
22 Men of Darkness 214
23 Home Run 226
24 Returning Heroes 232
25 Moss and the Battle of Damastas Bridge 239
26 Aftermath 248
The Kidnap Team 255
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A wonderful book: charming, fascinating . . . There are few better accounts of this epic desert struggle . . . A gem of a book and a classic of its kind.” James Holland, author of The Battle of Britain and Fortress Malta on The Phantom Army of Alamein
“Told with clarity, humour and precision.” The Times on The Phantom Army of Alamein
“A fascinating study of how the most unlikely characters became heroes.” Independent on Sunday on The Phantom Army of Alamein
“A stirring adventure with an exotic setting and a thrilling cast.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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In 1944, undercover British operatives kidnapped German Gen. Heinrich Kreipe on Nazi-occupied Crete. This is the tale of that exploit.Stroud (The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel, 2012, etc.) begins with the German occupation of Crete in 1941, a paratroop invasion that caught the island's British defenders off guard. After a few days of desperate resistance, the British withdrew, leaving Cretan partisans to oppose the occupation, which they did with fierce intensity. A few remaining agents from the Special Operations Executive, a branch of British military intelligence, sought ways to sabotage the Nazis. Two SOE officers, Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor and Capt. Billy Moss, contrived the plot to kidnap the German commander in Crete. After parachute training, they were ready for their adventure. Bad weather jinxed the initial drop; Fermor arrived in Crete, but Moss was delayed. For several weeks, Fermor worked with the Cretan resistance fighters. When Moss finally arrived on the island, they set about executing the plan, with elaborate preparation and carefully arranged timing. They caught Kreipe coming home late from his office, stopped his car and took it over. The Cretans slit his driver's throat while the British, disguised as German guards, drove through numerous checkpoints to the open country, where they abandoned the car and lit out on foot to a prearranged point where they could be evacuated by boat. But the mountainous country and German pursuit slowed them down, and Kreipe was unable to keep the pace. They finally got the general away, ending the daring, audacious raid. In a final chapter, Stroud steps back to ask whether the actual results justified the loss of lives and property when the Germans retaliated against Cretan civilians—a question Moss and Fermor never really grappled with. A stirring adventure with an exotic setting and a thrilling cast.
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Palestinians Reject Invitation to Attend US Mideast Meeting in Poland
Palestinian officials have been invited to a US conference on the Middle East hosted by Poland next week, a senior US official said on Friday, but top Palestinian officials said they would not attend.
The senior administration official told reporters White House senior adviser Jared Kushner would discuss plans for peace between the Palestinians and Israelis at the event.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United States to reverse its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and cuts in aid to the Palestinians, saying these had undermined efforts to reach a two-state solution to the longstanding conflict.
Kushner, who is US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, will discuss the administration’s efforts to advance peace between Israel and the Palestinians and also take questions from the audience, the official said.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat quickly rejected the invitation, writing on Twitter:
In a separate tweet, Hussein Al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian Authority official, also rejected the invitation, saying only the Palestine Liberation Organization could speak on behalf of the Palestinian people.
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Palestinian school children tear gassed by shameful Israeli forces
in Hebron, Reports February 26, 2016
26th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine
Salaymeh checkpoint in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron) is notorious for Israeli forces using live ammunition, tear gas and stun grenades to willfully wound, frighten, intimidate and demoralize Palestinan school children on a daily basis. In one of the most grotesque examples of this inhumane Zionist occupation, this checkpoint see’s scared Palestinian kids, many aged five years old and younger, cross through under the protection of their parents and international activists. Their presence is essential to desperately attempt to ensure the sacred lives of these innocent children are kept safe from aggressive Israeli forces. All those involved are regularly exposed to brutal acts of violence with Israeli soldiers almost never being held accountable. On Thursday the 25th of February, just 11 days after Yasmin al-Zarour was gunned down at the soon to be upgraded checkpoint, for Israeli ‘security purposes’, Palestinian children and woman were attacked by multiple units of the occupying forces as they attempted to get to where all children should have a right to peacefully enter, school.
Palestinian children submissively pass through the Salaymeh checkpoint under the protection of their mothers, fathers, older siblings or international activists. Collectively, these groups of individuals are there to ensure the safety of the children and to limit the dehumazing behaviour of the Israeli soldiers towards the young kids. After being herded through like sheep, a group of young kids decide to return from their school and express their objection towards this brutal occupancy. Much to the anger of the rest of the Palestinian community, the kids throw stones at the soldiers then quickly retreat to their school. This small act of defiance is met with an extreme show of power and violence from the Israeli military. A stun grenade is immediately hurled down the school street by a soldier, scaring off confused and unaware children. At this point, the Israeli forces rush to prepare their full combat gear, putting on their armoured helmets and collecting tear gas grenades and cannisters, all in an effort to pursue the already retreating school children.
Israeli soldiers rush to their full combat gear in preparation for invading the school zone
As if the Israeli forces dominance over the stone throwing children is not already apparent by the extreme imbalance of force shown, fully armoured Israeli soldiers rush beyond the checkpoint into the busy school street. Waving guns in an attempt to scare any innocent bystanders in the process, the soldiers make their way to the Palestinian school. Carefully positioning themselves for the optimal angle, the Israeli commander of the unit teaches a fumbling soldier how to load his assualt rifle with tear gas, then proceeds to fire it towards woman and children. Tear gas soon fills the street and leaves many school children and their protective families struggling to see and breath.
Israeli commander instructs his soldier on how to fire a tear gas grenade at fleeing Palestinian children
Local Palestinian woman and children were the target of Israeli forces tear gas
“This is our third day in a row at this checkpoint and each day its gotten progressively worse. First with stun grenades, then tear gas and assault rifles with the safety pins removed. The soldiers are out of control. It’s beyond shocking. Back home we wouldn’t even have a reference point for this craziness. It’s impossible to contemplate until you actually come here and witness occupation. No one in there would ever imagine that this happens to children in this day and age.” ISM activist on the scene.
Israeli forces continue to encroach into a school zone after already tear gassing the retreating children
A second unit of Israeli forces then enters from the adjacent street, pushing deeper into the school zone as the other unit pulls back. With their safety pins removed and their assault rifles darting from one innocent child to another, soldiers assert their dominance over the unarmed Palestinian people and even begin threatening local drivers in their cars at gun point.
“At one point I thought the Palestinian driver was going to be killed for sure. The soldier was yelling at him in Hebrew whilst walking with the car back in reverse before the poor driver just eventually sped off for his life. An innocent driver… Madness.” Human rights defender.
Israeli soldier threatens to open fire on innocent Palestinian driver whilst soldiers continue to target the school children
“The children? Haha… I am a man… I am THE man.” An Israeli soldier’s response to an activist when questioned about his moral decision to throw a stun grenade at young Palestinian children.
The attrocities experienced by these young Palestinian children are not isolated. They are occurring every day. And they are occurring to Palestinian kids all over the occupied territories. Even with the presence of internationals to bring an element of desperately needed accountability to this horrific occupation, Israeli forces still show no mercy towards the Palestinian people. But with sorrow comes opportunity. An opportunity for the world to come together and bring about positive change. Regarding an issue that is unanimously regarded as sacred, the safety and wellbeing of children is something that no legitimate governing state would ever compromise. With the fragile lives of these children in the balance, it is up to the rest of the world to join together in unity and demand an end to this barbaric treatment and Israel’s apartheid regime.
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What Venture Capital Means for The Future of Recruiting.
Jan 14, 2016Phil Strazzulla2
Sourcers and recruiters have long chased after proverbial “purple squirrels,” those elusive, highly skilled candidates that represent the type of “top talent” that actually lives up to that moniker.
Their rarity, of course, has led many organizations and recruiting agencies to invest an inordinate amount of their time and energy chasing a quarry that’s nearly impossible to catch, statistically speaking.
The rich rewards, however, of overcoming these odds, much like Powerball or pyramid schemes, prove so enticingly lucrative that the promised payout can lead to even the most data driven recruiters opting for the power of possibility over probability.
Even the most blue chip retained firm or the most connected recruiter out there, however, knows the potential peril of investing a finite amount of resources into an infinitely improbable search.
This is why almost no recruiter works on only a single req at one time, effectively hedging their hiring in order to distribute risk and increase the odds of generating a successful placement (and payday).
VC: Where Myths Meet Money.
Much like recruiters and “purple squirrels,” venture capitalist firms spend their days in a similarly single minded hunt for what are commonly called “unicorns” – defined as a VC backed company with a total valuation over a billion dollars. In 2014 alone (the most recent year for which complete stats are available), venture capitalists sunk an estimated $52 billion into the technology and life sciences category alone, representing investments in nearly 50,000 early or mid-stage startups, the highest total reported since the height of the dot com bubble in 2000.
That same year, exactly nine achieved a liquidity event worth more than a billion dollars, led by the staggering $21 billion that Facebook (a former unicorn in its own right) paid for WhatsApp. This small number was actually a historical high, beating the 7 Unicorn exit events of the previous year; in the entire decade since 2005.
In fact, only 44 VC backed companies out of the literally hundreds of thousands of firms with some sort of VC funding who emerged (and mostly disappeared) achieved true “unicorn” status during these 10 years.
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As of this writing, only 138 privately held companies in the world were worth a billion dollars or more, led by Uber’s $51 billion valuation.
That you’ve even heard of Uber actually makes it something of an outlier – most unicorns, such as Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi (the second most valuable VC backed company after Uber at $46 billion) or Palantir Technologies, the biggest of big data companies with an estimated $20 billion valuation, remain as obscure to the average consumer as the funds investing beaucoup bucks into driving these staggeringly high valuations.
Few have ever heard of entities such as New Enterprise Associates or Institutional Venture Partners, two of the top 5 VC funds in the world in 2015, whose generic and mundane names undermine the fact that they’re not only responsible for investing in some of the most exciting technologies in the world, but if they were publically traded corporations would easily rank among the Fortune 200.
New Enterprise Associates, for instance, saw an $18 billion increase in portfolio value in 2014; that same year, The Walt Disney Company, by contrast, ‘only’ generated around $14 billion in total revenue, for a basis of comparison.
You don’t need a PhD in quantitative finance (which many investors actually do) to realize that the odds of finding a unicorn are pretty piss poor, to say the very least – but the potential profits prove an even less effective deterrent in the chase to find the next Facebook, Google or Genentech.
And, increasingly, more and more firms are putting their bets on the HR Technology sector, turning this vertical from a business backwater to something of the belle of the VC ball these days.
All in the Timing: When To Get Capital for Your Capital Idea.
In my most recent post, Making It Rain: A Recruiter’s Guide to Venture Capital, I discussed exactly what talent pros need to know about how venture capital firms traditionally allocate their investments, what drives their decision making and what types of risks and rewards are generally associated with raising VC money.
You can click here to read the whole post, but the moral of the story for anyone trying to transform purple squirrels into unicorns?
Only raise venture capital if you’re OK with selling your company; even if the price tag is less than you expected, it’s only a failure if you and your investors lose money. The greatest success you can have is to generate a positive return.
Hell, even WhatsApp lost $128 million the year before Facebook acquired them, proving that even for the ultimate unicorn, the formula for successfully generating a return from your investors might necessitate getting out while the getting’s good.
And while many would-be entrepreneurs have no problem stepping up to the VC plate, it’s stepping back that often proves problematic for so many founders.
Profit beats passion any day of the week. If you’re not in this to get out, then get out now.
To VC or Not to VC? 5 Questions Every HR Tech Company Should Seed.
So, let’s say you’ve read the above and aren’t phased in your quest to raise enough capital to transform your latest product or idea into the next big thing.
Or, perhaps you own or have a stake in a pretty nice HR Technology business that has seen steady revenue growth and a developed into a pretty solid business with a decent customer base after years of bootstrapping and belt-tightening.
Everything was going according to plan until some analyst at a VC Fund unexpectedly calls up one day with an invitation to meet with one of their partners on their upcoming trip to your neck of the woods.
Whatever the case, when you’re thinking about raising venture dollars for your HR or recruiting technology company, here’s how I would recommend determining whether or not it’s the right time to take on VC money – and if so, how you can make sure to make the most of any initial or early stage funding that you’re lucky (or unlucky) enough to raise.
1. Do You Have A Reason?
What’s motivating you to turn to outside investors? Is it because your competitors are gaining speed and market traction?
Is it because there’s a network effect, virality or other significant barrier to entry that any of these competitors could potentially erect to erode your business and its long term viability?
Do you have a “go bit or go home” mentality? Are you ready to be rich (without also being king)?
Whatever your rationale is, make sure it’s compelling enough to not only attract investors, but not to scare away the people who have helped your company grow to the point of even having to make this critical decision in the first place. Because without the human capital in place, there wouldn’t be a viable product in the first place.
Don’t make this decision for yourself (or by yourself). Make it for your people, for your business or for your customers. If you’re doing it just for the money, then there’s no need to ever take someone else’s.
2. Are You Ready?
Everyone has a great idea; quite few have the confidence that idea can scale into a sustainable, successful business.
This can only be done by getting past the due diligence of figuring out whether there’s a market opportunity that’s not only viable, but monetizable (the latter being far more difficult than the former, frankly).
Realistically, unless you’ve got like three degrees from Stanford, a Harvard MBA with McKinsey or Goldman on their resume or were one of the first hires over at PayPal, pedigree alone isn’t enough to attract investment.
The only background or experience that really has any equity with equity investors is that you’ve successfully exited from somewhere else in the past for somewhere north of, let’s say, fifty million bucks.
If that doesn’t describe you – and if it does, chances are you’ve got no desire to go through the associated growing pains of growing another company – then you’ll actually need some sort of proof of concept of the fact that the market you’re so confident of in fact exists.
The only way to do this is by proving traction through paid customers and a fairly robust future pipeline; the purpose of VC is to augment, rather than initiate, those efforts at gaining momentum and finding a foothold in the market.
If you’re not already booking customers, winning deals and booking revenue (the more recurring, the better) then you should go back to the drawing board, not out to VC investors.
If your company isn’t pointed in the right direction, and the infrastructure isn’t there to support hockey stick style growth in the future, then it’s going to be damned near impossible to change the course of your rocket once you hit the light speed of scaling a startup.
Make sure you’re aiming in the right direction before you fire away.
3. Are You Really Ready?
VC firms generally back up their investments with deep insights and expertise on how to build companies, but what they’re really looking for when making those decisions is whether or not there’s some sort of pre-defined, proven formula to which they can add capital. This is where the concept of what’s known as “unit economics” comes into play.
Here’s what that means. Let’s say you have a SaaS company who is buying qualified leads at $100 a pop, but your average deal size is only $100 per converted lead.
That means while you can pay for your customer base upfront and break even, but let’s say that those initial $100 customers subscribe to an additional service or product tier, which commits them to paying $50 a month, every month, ad infinitum.
Sweet, right? You’re totally kicking ass, and should have no time raking in the VC cash with that type of business model.
Of course, there are obviously a lot of subtleties and uncertainties in every sure thing – even looking at the above example – from the view of those potential investors. What’s the gross margin involved, for instance? If you sell a product for $100, but it costs $75 to bring that product to market and keep it there, this might not be as interesting.
Is your lead generation strategy scaleable? If you’re buying AdWords for $100 a month and suddenly that same word’s price spikes for some reason, then there won’t be enough cash to keep the sales funnel and deal pipeline growing…as you can see, there are a ton of complexities, and they add up quickly.
The bottom line here is your bottom line.
4. How Good Do These “Unit Economics” Have To Be?
A VC will try to grow their invested capital at a rate of 30% return every year; that’s more or less the standard success benchmark every fund measures itself by, and it’s an aggressive target. Of course, many of the companies in their portfolio will return 0%; the key is having enough that will return at 1000% to offset those losses and hit that 30% for the year, every year.
As a rule of thumb, if you’re a founder, you’ll want to double your enterprise value each year; this is especially true of earlier stage companies. The closer you are to zero, after all, the easier this is to do.
If you can’t double your revenues in the first three years, then good luck when you’re expected to start generating that sort of cash every quarter. At a later stage company – one with a cash flow of $10 million or more – then the risk profile is decreased, as is the required return for the investor.
It’s kind of like if you gave your buddy who just got out of jail some cash until he got on his feet – you’d expect the money back, of course, but since you’re obviously taking a high risk that you’ll ever see it again, you want an extra 15 or 20 bucks if he does come through as promised. On the other hand, if you gave your other buddy a bridge loan so he could relocate to a job in Silicon Valley he accepted after graduating from MIT, you’d probably only want a couple bucks thrown your way as a ‘thank you.’
An early stage company is your buddy, the parolee. For startups, you need to have demonstrative proof to credibly convince investors you’ll return 100% per year, with the ability to return a few hundred percent if a few things go your way. Once they do, you’ll start looking a little less like an ex-con and a little more like your other blue chip buddy.
5. What Does This VC Investment Mean for My HR or Recruiting Business?
If you’re in HR or Talent Technology, there are a few specific implications to consider when considering venturing after venture capital, as should be fairly obvious after going through the above.
You have to have a business that can be really big.
Huge, even. I mean, you’ve got to kick serious ass.
If a great business typically captures even 20% of a market, but that market’s only worth $10 million, then the most money I’ll ever be worth is $2 million a year in revenues, max.
At a 15% cash flow margin and an 8x exit multiple, I can only be worth 2.4 million in enterprise value ($2 million * 15 * 8) in that scenario. That’s chump change. Typically, the defined market (think: ATS, payroll, performance management) has to be worth a billion dollars or more, at a minimum.
You have to have a business that can be really scaleable.
If you’re in a SaaS business where you can support an unlimited number of subscribers, you’re going to have far more success at scaling and far fewer growing pains than if you’re doing one off consulting or ad-hoc projects.
Now, if you can combine that product with the kinds of services people are willing to pay extra for, that’s even better. The key here is finding enough reasonably smart people to sell it, which is more easily done at scale than finding enough consultants to scale a services offering (although anything but easy).
You have to have a business that has really attractive gross margins.
I’m talking, really sexy. Because VCs, as a rule, are used to investing in software companies with 85% gross margins. Go tell that to a retailer and see what they say – it’s a pretty ridiculous threshold to try to meet.
These companies, based on these margins, are able to eventually generate large bottom line profits as their base of recurring revenue increases, while their fixed costs are able to be spread across even more customers, who ideally cost almost nothing to acquire and support. Gross margin is also a great litmus test for finding barriers to entry.
If something has a 90% gross margin but is super easy to replicate, that means others will inevitably enter the market and compete with you directly until your margins are significantly decreased. If, on the other hand, that 90% margin can be maintained, you’ll have VCs lining up at the door waiting to write you a check. Doesn’t happen very often, though.
The Exit Event: What Happens Next.
Wow. You really made it through all that? All those numbers, and all those boring finance terms and math and stuff?
You, my friend, just might have what it takes to be a VC backed entrepreneur, after all. You clearly have a high enough threshold for self-inflicted pain to create a killer product.
To you, then, the biggest piece of advice I can offer to anyone out there with a great product is to find a great mentor – someone who’s been there before, and can help you navigate through the inevitable unexpected bullshit, market turbulence and cyclical stressors you’re going to have to deal with.
There’s no better way to follow a roadmap than to have someone who’s already been there helping show you the way. There’s just too much to learn and too little time to learn it well, much less execute.
But if you’re really smart, have a good business and a great mentor, then you’ll succeed – with or without VC investment.
About The Author: Phil Strazzulla is the founder/CEO of LifeGuides, a recruiting and HR technology startup which builds software to help make it easy for employers to create the content that explains why their company is a compelling place to work – and effectively attract top talent.
Before LifeGuides, he was a venture capital investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, the oldest VC in the world which has made investments in companies such as LinkedIn, Cornerstone On Demand, Skype, Yelp, Pinterest and many others.
Phil started investing at the age of 11 when he opened his first brokerage account and hasn’t stopped since.
Follow Phil on Twitter @PhilStrazzulla or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Phil Strazzulla is the founder of SelectSoftware, a site dedicated to helping HR professionals buy the right software and tools through free online guides. Phil started his career working in venture capital at Bessemer before attending Harvard Business School for his MBA. He originally got into the People space by starting NextWave Hire, a recruitment marketing software company. Follow Phil on Twitter @PhilStrazzulla or connect with him on LinkedIn
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2 responses to “What Venture Capital Means for The Future of Recruiting.”
Jacob Sten Madsen says:
Phil Not sure about your list of valuations, Look at this A16z company, I do not see them on your overview, but they are a s e r i o u s player.http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/tanium-value-3-5-billion/
TechHiring.com says:
that was a fantastic post. Thanks and Happy New Year. Litmus test passed
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England’s Stolen Children – Controversial New Documentary On Forced Adoption
Posted by Natasha in forced adoption, Researching Reform
The French media have been fascinated for some time by England’s use of Forced Adoption, as a country very much in the minority in how they apply this controversial approach to vulnerable families. The latest documentary from France on this topic has been produced by France 5 and is called “England’s Stolen Children”. It airs tomorrow evening, 7.40pm UK time.
The documentary makes several claims which portray Britain’s child protection sector as unethical, lawless and profiteering. Information about the documentary includes contentious language, which we’ve translated below:
“This documentary tells the story of the thousands of children unjustly removed from their families. It chronicles families’ terrifying experiences of children taken at birth, the promise of future removal whilst mothers are pregnant and the threat of removal directed at women who have not yet had children, solely on a suspicion of future harm to the child.
The setting for this documentary is not a lawless, tyrannical country where child rights do not exist – these tragedies are unfolding in a State which is bound by European legislation and is one of France’s neighbours: The United Kingdom.
The film reveals an unthinkable practice: every year, Great Britain sets quotas for the number of children it must remove from parents in order to facilitate adoptions. If these quotas are not met, the local authorities have to pay financial penalties and their budget is revised and ultimately decreased.
Private sector companies, sometimes listed on the stock exchange, are often tasked with placing children with adoptive parents. Children are “advertised” by these agencies, their details completely exposed and publicly available, with descriptions which include ‘sellable’ qualities such as positive personality traits.
Last year, 7,740 children were waiting to be adopted by couples who trawled the internet searching for their ideal child. Sometimes, these children are placed in well-to-do households. Most of the time, these children are sent to live in unstable family settings.
Maltreatment in the context of Great Britain’s Forced Adoption practices does not need to be evidenced. A suspicion of future maltreatment raised by social services is all that’s needed for a child to be taken away from their parents forever. In Great Britain, child protection has become skewed by a broadbrush perspective which presumes that struggling families and single mothers can never provide stable homes or make good parents.
This Human Rights scandal in the heart of Europe stays hidden inside Britain’s borders. The law prevents parents and journalists from telling these stories, with the threat of jail if they break their silence. They don’t even have the right to mention the name of the child that’s been stolen.
In an attempt to save English families from this terrible tragedy, a former businessman and millionaire helps families unjustly threatened with the removal of their children to escape Britain, and resettle in other countries like France.
More than two million children are trapped inside social services across England and Wales, their parents locked inside an administrative machine gone mad. Created in 1989 during a liberal government overseen by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which aimed to liberate the ‘working classes’, The Children Act gives child protection services the power to remove children from parents on a mere suspicion of maltreatment, present or future. “
A debate will also take place after the documentary is aired, and features Ian Josephs who runs the site Forced Adoption (and who we assume is the businessman mentioned in the description), Florence Bellone, an award winning journalist and Marie Claire Sparrow, a barrister based in London.
The documentary has been produced in French, but there may be English subtitles for non French speakers wanting to watch it.
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ladyportia27 said:
. A suspicion of future maltreatment raised by social services is all that’s needed for a child to be taken away from their parents forever. ”
Social workers have crystals balls you know. lol
They ” know” all about witches too and hunt them as they did in the dark ages.
I am wondering if the case is featured- where the mother was deemed a witch for having the strength of 10,000 men- lol…the baby was taken despite the being a refusal of ICO from RCJ.
110 solicitors turned down business in the appeal- why?
One day soon truth will emerge.
The system lost the child in a paper trail- but has been found- by a witch….lol
keith said:
“It airs tomorrow evening, 7.40pm UK time.”
i take it this wont be aired on UK tv at all ?
and if not where can we see it tomorrow ?
Natasha said:
I think online via the link I attached, or else on the featured channel.
ok thanks Natasha,
this is the FB page but i cant read French lol.
wenevergiveup2015 said:
We did have the English version and shared the password. PTSD,it seems to have disappeared. As many still not seen it.
Roger Crawford said:
There will be many who will agree with the view of this programme, including me, but I cannot see that it is a ‘terrifying experience’ for a baby to be taken at birth, but for the mother and often the father, certainly so.
All that really matters is that the programme forces debate, and brings change. I am hoping that Britain will be shamed into doing so. For far too long children have been taken to satisfy targets and the long-term damage to our children, to the parents, and to our society as a whole, has been ignored. Our whole system needs to be taken to the European Court of Human Rights, and I say this as a Brexiteer! There will then be needed a type of ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ process, just as much as there was in South Africa and in Northern Ireland. it cannot come soon enough.
Hi Roger, it’s intended to mean terrifying for both, and yes, babies do sense when they’re removed from a mother straight after birth.
mccourt559 said:
Hi Roger I was born in N. Ireland and live here and trust me your wrong about their being ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ process, many called for it but it never happened just cover up after cover up for victims especially from the MOD MI5 police government etc etc the victims have/are being treated in an appalling manner by the political class a disgrace but to a large extent I believe that the so called peace process has made campaigners for social justice for stolen children despair as media stance is to ‘not rock the boat’ especially when police involved and bags of political interference.
Hello. Sorry to be so tardy in replying. I thought I saw Archbishop Tutu on T.V. helping to reconciliate those who had lost family through loved ones and those who perpetrated the atrocities. Whether I did or not, most certainly with this adoption scandal, we will need a truth and reconciliation procedure, with no cover-ups. The media can be a powerful ally, but also a powerful foe if they are leaned on by more powerful forces.
When a child is removed a birth research shows also the trauma the babies suffer themselves and in later life. I suppose those those with no children seeking to remove wouldn’t know this,and very sadly adopters should know this also. It’s a very good program,may I also suggest Traffic 1&2, very disturbing for any mother/father/family to got through but most of all the newborn babies themselves and any other child.
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Forced Adoption said:
Taking children from law abiding citizens is always wrong ,but giving them away like little Xmas présents to be forcibly adopted by strangers is doubly wrong,;plus taking away kids purely because of vague prophecies by social workers of possible future risks that may never happen triples the wrong .
It was a great privilege to be invited by french tv channel 5 to take part in this programme ;;Both the film and the debate.show clearly how our UK social services and our UK family courts are regarded by neighbours………
is the program filmed in english or french ?
and if only in french is it over dubbed with english voices.?
It is fimed in french with the English speakers dubbed into French.The debate after the film is entirely in french but I think both will shortly be available in English.
THE TV BROADCAST BROKE ALL RECORDS FOR CHANNEL 5 by hundreds of outraged french viewers protesting about the barbarity of UK social services.
The children Act 1989 first gave authority for the permanent removal of children who had suffered significant harm or who WERE LIKELY TO DO SO !!
The film “minority report” starred Tom Cruise in Washington 1n the year 2054 under a regime where 3 gifted humans foretold the future so accurately that citizens were arrested and confined BEFORE they could commit the crimes foretold ! This incredibly is what happens when babies are taken at birth from mothers by social workers (supported by judges) who claim also to be able to foretell the future !
French dr Manhattan but there is a English link.
Mike Howard said:
Ian , please don’t forget also the thousands of stolen children in long term foster prisons.
Absolutely. thats just as bad as the Adoption racket if not worse.
Easy pickings all the way to the bank for many so-called professionals involved in it.
daveyone1 said:
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Much of the world already knows this, but the powers that be in the UK just bury their heads in the sand, unable or more probably unwilling to put a halt to this multi million pound juggernaut. It seems that too many of them are on a nice little earner and have joined all the other pigs feeding at the trough of our hopelessly inept and uncaring child CARE?? system.
Hopefully this documentary will add a little more pressure for reform, but I doubt it.
“multi million pound juggernaut”
we need to cut off its fuel supply and blow out its tyres.then we will see some real justice.
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Dana said:
Forced adoption is so wrong on so many levels! So are SGO’s!
Now about all those children who are freed for adoption by the courts. Very often the ties with the family are cut in preparation for adoption and then if it falls through the local authorities don’t go back to court to revoke the orders as they should, to allow the child to resume contact with their families. They remain in a limbo. They are in foster care and pressures are put on foster carers to take out Special Guardianship Orders for “permanency.”. It’s nothing less than a makeshift adoption by the back door!
The foster carers, now Special Guardians, are in effect paid to “adopt” giving “permanency” without the permanent responsibilities of adoption. The biological family ties are severed until the child becomes 18 years old.
By the time the child reaches 18 the biological family ties are nonexistent as contact, usually sparse and indirect if at all and the child when aging out does not have a family. The biological family ties are cut and the SG’s are unlikely to want them unless they are being paid.
The child also loses out in the long term as they don’t have inheritance rights when under a SGO.
I am writing about foster carers who take out SGO’s, not kinship carers that these orders were originally intended for.
Love your posts Dana,
you speak from the heart and only the truth.
its people like you who should be in charge of childrens services.
how nice that would be.
are you a campaigner ?
Dana you said
“children who are freed for adoption by the courts. Very often the ties with the family are cut in preparation for adoption and then if it falls through the local authorities don’t go back to court to revoke the orders as they should, to allow the child to resume contact with their families. They remain in a limbo”.
this is exactly what happened to us. we believe they took our 3 children for trivial reasons because they wanted our 10 mth old baby for adoption. but because our 6yr old son was so close to his baby brother the guardian would not agree to them being split up so they had to try for a sibling placement. at this point they knew the 6yr old would not be so easy to deal with so they isolated him away from us while the adoption plan was in progress. they used the excuse that he no longer wishes to see us. we know this is lies. when the adoption plan failed they let the foster carer keep the two boys on a SGO and now she has totally cut us off from any contact and the LA are happy to let her do it. we have not seen the 6yr old for 21 mths and the baby since the court ended in april. the LA are still keeping the lie going saying the children dont want contact and they cant force them to come. its just awful.
Sadly the LA telling the children that the parents don’t wish to see them anymore,and telling the parents the children don’t want to see them. Continuingthere web of lies to how they really took the children on fabricated evidence. This then causing trauma to the children thinking they were unloved and never wanted. All in the interest of there bank balances,it’s not about the children. I hope one day we can bring peace but most of all the children will finally be heard and free from speaking out.
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Keith, I speak from experience unfortunately.
Your story is a carbon copy of mine and I have heard the same from others. One wonders just how many families are told their children no longer want to see them? The trouble is you have no actual proof and you will not be allowed to see your child to obtain it. I would hazard a guess that cards are not exchanged! Certainly the social workers tell you your children don’t want to speak over the phone so that form of contact will break down first. If you are still having contact you cannot ask your child about why they don’t want to speak with you as you are told not to ask and if you do the contact will cease. Even if you manage to ask, your child will look confused.
This flies in the face of what the Children’s Act states as contact is known to be beneficial for the mental health of the child, short & long term but local authorities stop Contact as a matter of course when “permanency” is arranged, either by adoption or SGO’s.
The families cannot keep going back to court and even if they did the Judge will agree with the revised Care Plans set by the social workers. If you are ever in court, you will see the Judge never looks you in the eye! He/She is complicit. I repeat, the Judge knows what is going on and is complicit! Your case is not the first he/she has heard where social workers state the child doesn’t want to see the family. He/she will not do their own checks and see your child but will send in another social worker under the guise of Cafcass, who now works for the court. Brain washing is taking place but if you say that out loud you are a conspirator!
There really needs to be an independent organisation to check on what is happening to the kids when in care. Ofsted do checks but complaints are ignored and not recorded. The local authorities fudge the truth. Brainwashing is abuse and ironically if parents were accused their children would be taken off them but when it’s the corporate parent nothing is done! It’s shameful!
Dana what you say is all so very familiar to us and our case. yes the phone calls were stopped first after the Social worker claimed the foster carer told them that we were upsetting our 6 yr old son on the phone and it was not in his best interests so the calls were stopped.
Childrens services are without dobt at least within some Local Authorites running organized crime in the theft of children for Adoption. there absolutely no doubt in my mind.
what is needed is a Coalition of Truth movement across the country.
or something that can get this criminal network busted once and for all.
Some of the social workers at sunderland are driving £30,000 executive cars. not many working class people can afford one of those. how are they doing it i wonder.
Did you go through the 3 stage complaints procedure ?
We are now at stage 2. just waiting for the independent investigator to come in.
The social services operate differently to how the Children’s Act says it should with regard to contact. Their (social services) modus operandi is to stop Contact with a child in care. It’s nationwide. It follows the same pattern. The trouble is many families feel that it is only their family that is affected but of course it’s not.
A calculated steady withdrawal of the family from the child lessens the childs expectations of seeing their loved ones. Think Stockholm Syndrome. That Trauma Attachment happens to kids in care with their carers. The younger the child the better it works. Stockholm Syndrome had the victims knowing what they should do after only 3 days to survive. So they sided with their captors and even after being freed would not have a bad word said about them. The same happens with kids in care but for those kids who resist, they end up having mental conflicts that result in mental illness.
When I was first told that social workers were systematically stopping contact I didn’t believe it but I now know it to be true. I could not comprehend why the social services would do such a thing. My complaints were given the run around, from dept to dept, then ignored. You cannot write to anyone outside of the local authorities (I tried every single organisation I could think of) to complain because the social services are mandated to carry out government policies but there are no checks to see if they are carrying them out lawfully.
An independent body needs to be set up to make those checks. Complaints need to be investigated but the government doesn’t care about the kids in care welfare or one would have been set up long ago.
Go to any family organisation/government dept and they will tell you contact should be happening, all the reasons why it’s beneficial for the child, how you should approach social services and you do all what you should do but it makes no difference because by the time all that has happened the child is already in survival mode and will echo the voice/behaviour of the carer. Social workers then arrive to hear the child voice his/her wishes that they longer want to see the biological family. That is then relayed back to the family and the cycle is complete.
Many sceptics would say this is all just speculation and conspiracy theories but having gone through this ourselves we know its true.
But how can this evil cycle be smashed.
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lola said:
I have watched this documentary. Says a lot about the poor families’ rights in the land of her Majesty… Shame on Britain
hi Lola
was the language in french or english, and do you have a link to the program ?
Manu said:
until now, the language is only in french and sadly without subtitles.
You can watch it on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmWMLqNdtM
Thank you for sharing this link, Manu.
The documentary is also in English.
i was kindly sent a copy by Eric Colomer the Producer. he sent it via WeTransfer in a email. after seeing what injustices have taken place with the parents featured in the program it does make you very Angry.
in fact i was foaming at the mouth by the end. John Hemming is also featured and makes some good comments.
The English version needs to be uploaded to youtube.
And why does nobody (almost) talk of the obvious solution? “No punishment without crime !!”
A law should be passed that no children should be removed from a parent unless that parent has been convicted of a crime against children or at least charged with such a crime (and the child returned if the parent is found not guilty)
That is NOT to say that every crime should result in removal OR that witnessing a crime and doing nothing about it (baby p’s mother) a crime in itself of neglect should not be punished
Emotional abuse is in extreme cases a crime but “risk of it ” is certainly not and no child should ever ever be removed not for crimes but for mere risks that may never happen.
Yes you put a young child at risk leaving it near a main road or alone in the house all day but those are already crimes and should be punished but notalways by removal.
By and large children are being taken from LAW ABIDING CITIZENS in the UK and I defy anyone to justify this State sponsored child abuse !
Re- “And why does nobody (almost) talk of the obvious solution ?
“No punishment without crime !!”
i totally agree with you Ian. nobody wants to talk about these crucial factors.
Also the big money being made from the Adoption of babies and toddlers.
and the clandestine secret deals between Judges and Social workers.
why are these areas being avoided like the plague!.
Pernin said:
I am french (sorry for my english) and I was adopting in France 3 years ago. France does not do that.
How can we explain 10 times less adopted children in France compared to England? => France = 66 millions of inhabitants, England = 53 millions..BIG PROBLEM… Obviously social services in England are making something wrong…
it could be that France have little or no cash incentives for Adopted children.
the removal of children in the uk is a huge money making industry.
Joan said:
http://pluzz.francetv.fr/videos/les_enfants_voles_d_angleterre_,148653060.html
Carol said:
I am English and live in France. I watched this documentary on 14th November and felt sick with anger at the end. I would never have believed that this is happening in 2016. It’s more like an extract from the days of Charles Dickens ! Where are the Children’s Rights activists in England ? Or perhaps the children don’t have any rights. What a scandal, and shame on England and the Social Services !
Thank you for your comment Carol. As you may know, Researching Reform works to reform policy and legislation relating to children.
“Where are the Children’s Rights activists in England ?”
yes Carol, ive been wondering that myself for the past 2 years. there doesnt seem to be anybody putting up a battle for these stolen children against the organized crime that took them.
That’s not quite right, keith. There are a few of us working all the time to highlight these issues.
[Name Withheld] said:
We have been fighting to get our children back home but with no joy as the whole system is corrupt they treat my kids like shit they didn’t have a pool till they saw on fb we had a huge one for us and our other 2 kids
i didnt mean to be disrespectful Natasha,
i know you are working towards reform from a legislation stand point.
i was referring to hard line Activists who can stir up some real controversy over serious wrong doing that can sometimes spark an investigation.
Thanks Keith, kind of you. Let’s just say that a lot goes on behind the scenes.
The film “Minority Report” starred Tom Cruise in Washington In the year 2054 under a regime where 3 gifted humans foretold the future so accurately that citizens were arrested and confined BEFORE they could commit the crimes foretold ! This incredibly is what happens when babies are taken at birth from sane and law abiding mothers by social workers (supported by judges) who claim also to be able to foretell the future !
Rachel Boulter said:
Is there anyway I can contact the man who could help me please ring 07724128188
Stephen Green of the christian Voice Uk is very interested in this subject and is quite active within it.
this is a talk he did at a Maggie Tuttle event in April 2016.
he makes some interesting points. its worth a listen.
Francis said:
This is happening to me now today. Is there anything or one that can help!
drmanhattan62 said:
There are many places who offer help and advice. best to contact as many as possible.
Family rights group.
Families in care.
Justice For Families, John Hemming.
Facebook also has many group pages.related to Social services or children’s services.
James McCracken said:
Take your children and get the fuck outta England, the system is beyond corrupt and you can’t win! They will steal your entire world and act like it’s thier right….
dr. manhattan62 said:
“the system is beyond corrupt and you can’t win!”
yes James you are right again. You cant win with the current Rigged system.
many pregnant women have fled the country with the help of Millionaire Ian Josephs who runs the website “Forced adoption.com”.
When we hear rumors of Social workers, LA staff, child guardians and even childrens minister Edward Timpson Allegedly having financial interests in Fostering and Adoption Agencies you know things are bad.
if this was shown to be true these people need to be jailed and assets stripped under the POCA.
This is nothing new, England has been stealing children for decades! 15 years ago, they took my boys…. judge said, I’m a great father, just I was in the wrong place at the wrong time…..I still don’t understand it…… And yet, even from my home back in the state’s I see many children abused and even killed by Social services mistakes……why do these children suffer when mine were removed from a loving home?? There is no justice in the world…
“judge said, I’m a great father, just I was in the wrong place at the wrong time”.
you are absolutely right yet despite MPs and many other professionals flagging this up to the Govt they have done nothing. even the president of the family high court Sir James Munby has condemned this corrupt activity after it was exposed by appeal judge Justice Pauffley in 2014.
so we have to ask why. could it be because the govt are also involved in it.
the SS are without doubt using a textbook Formula to damage parents and stop them getting their children back. especially when they are seeking Adoption orders. their tactics are designed in such a way that the parents just cant challenge it and cant get any other outside dept to look into it while the court proceedings are ongoing. the whole system is Rigged against the parents. absolutely no doubt about it.
Ian Josephs said:
What is wrong and what needs to happen …. A brief explanation………..
STOP social workers acting like police and leave crime detection to the real police !!
STOP these bullies snatching thousands of children at birth for “risk of emotional abuse”(predictions of future disasters that probably will never happen:) and STOP the family court judges giving away every year thousands of these babies to strangers for “forced adoption”; We must stop the snatching of kids from law abiding parents;Why do we have laws if we punish those who keep the law?There should be”.No punishment without crime !”
If we must have social workers they should be there to help and support problem families and never never appear as adversaries in a courtroom .That is the function of the police who are there to detect crimes such as abuse or neglect of children and should never be any part of the duties of genuine social workers whose real job should be to help parents and not to snatch their children. IGNORE social workers ;Never obey them ,talk to them,or let them in your house, as they have no authority .They rely on bluff and bluster to get the evidence from you to help them take your children.They make their living that way…….They will even tell you that you will go to prison if you discuss your case with anyone! That is in fact a lie as the law says that you can talk with individuals but not reveal children’s names or your own name to “sections of the public” (public mmeetings,tv,radio,facebook etc) until all court proceedings have finished and then you can reveal all !!
Ignore also legal aid lawyers ,known in the trade as “Professional losers” because they work with the social workers ,gagging parents (and children in care) to make sure the”SS” win in court Yes “free speech” goes out of the window for parents and children both in and out of our UK family courts ! .Represent yourself by sacking these lawyer/enemies who are only there to betray you.Also never go to a psychiatrist or worse still a psychologist chosen by the “SS” or the court (legally they should be chosen jointly).They are known as “hired guns” who diagnose “difficult” parents who resist the “SS” with personality disorders and so unfit to care for babies…
If we must have these biased judges (who believe predictions from absent experts over live testimony from parents) and prejudiced family courts (L.J.Thorpe) I CHALLENGE any judge to name just one situation that could justify the vile practice of authorising the taking of babies at birth from sane law abiding mothers for “RISK” of emotional abuse and then giving these babies and young children up for adoption by complete strangers .I maintain that.in NO circumstances can such horrors.be justified….
Very well said Ian.
you make a lot of sense with many of your views.
“Punishment without crime” its astonishing that the SS can in fact get away with inflicting this on good law abiding parents and then go on to inflict Parent Alienation and PTSD on the children and no one is policing it. how can this be happening!.
in the UK its supposed to be innocent till proven guilty isnt it ?
should we be calling for Family court Judges to be prosecuted for conspiring with Social workers and others ?
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Hi I can’t mention names as we have been gagged by English courts we have 4 children in total in 2004 our oldest girls were freed for adoption in court the local authorities had no grounds to take 2nd child apparently they were adopted in 2004 but we have no proof of this never ever attended a court hearing for the adoption and the local authorities refused to show us proof we applied for 2nd child’s birth certificate it came back normal a month later we applied for 1st child’s birth certificate it came back with adopted on it can any one point me in the direction of a solicitor who can help me 2nd child wants to come home the local authorities refused to start direct contact between siblings 6 months after final hearing we got to keep our 3rd child then
John Malloch-Caldwell said:
It is way past time that this draconian corruption of the UK Secret Family Courts was exposed for the sham it is. It is fueled by a system of fair ground Justice backed by a corrupt and uncaring judiciary, by social workers who live in a world of lies, perjury and an adherence to a theatrical deception manufactured in the dark corners of a deranged mind. Children are abused in care, in many cases refused medical attention and examination. Mothers are accused on only the thoughts of those deranged minds, factual evidence is ignored by judges. When perjury by the authorities can be proven it is either ignored or hidden and banned from court. Police also refuse to investigate Appeal courts just rubber stamp lower court decisions without further investigation.
There is no JUSTICE, only the life long sentence of many innocent parents. Those supporting the regime are social workers, the Cafcass organisstion, court officials, paid medical consultants, corrupt expert witnesses, solicitors, barristers, adoption agencies, foster carers and the eventual adopters themselves. They all form part of the problem and are fully responsible for the continuence of the rampant abuse of honest JUSTICE.
Most children taken from parents who desperately want to keep them are removed for so called “risk” of abuse in the future;Not for anything the parents have done but for what they might do in the future! More like a science fiction situation than democratic UK !!
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Kayla Atkins said:
Is there a video link anywhere? the most I could find was a 2 minute trailer on youtube
Google “ les enfants vole’s d’angleterre“ and you will find several links to this excellent film
Dr. Manhattan. said:
just got this from the family rights group. they have asked to pass on the link to anyone who would like to take part. its well worth having your say.
The survey is for family members whose children are or have been involved with children’s social care service or subject to care proceedings.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/survey-taken/?sm=rP_2F_2BB818XtZy_2FnTjgspog6duxnVAALnfN9FiZY_2FqXae4NWjhRpcuIJFiD_2FwVKwIHjcxbOHHUyQfajzUQPlUUg_2BOIearGMhmdr3TKtw4xdgA_3D
Thanks DM. I think I shared this when it was first published. I also filled it in.
i remember the other one you published on here a while ago. i think this is a new one. i only got it today from the FRG.
I can see I filled it out a while ago….
if it is the same one its strange why they are allowing the same people to fill out the same survey twice.
Cliff miller said:
I had heard that childrens futures had been decided behind closed dooors but did not realise the extent of the evils that this country has put in place
I dont think Evil has anything to do with it. its just plain old Lies and Corruption which undoubtedly involves Money being stolen from the Tax payer. its that simple.
Absolutely right !
Malloch said:
I am not a parent who has been targeted by the Children’s Social Services and Family Courts. However, I do have full knowledge of the system and can honestly say it is likely the most corrupt system I have ever come across. Factual evidence is never presented by the local authorities, their jerjury is rampant and when exposed it is ignored by the courts and the police. Expert witnesses employed by the local authorities lie on oath, DNA evidence that proves innocence is ignored by judges and IPCC evidence proving innocence is also ignored, both in county and Appeal Courts.
have you worked in this arena ?
Hi yes I can’t say much has have been gagged by the courts all I can say is this apparently my oldest 2 where freed for adoption in 2003 the judge asked our manager social how long this couple to get our act together she said years suppose to months but six months later we got to keep our 3rd child then and apparently they were adopted in Dec 13th 2003 but never ever attended a court hearing for the adoption and the local authorities refused to show us proof.we applied for a birth certificate it came back normal a month later we applied for 2nd child’s birth certificate it came back with adopted on
Secrecy, Lies and Deceit is the name of their game.
Our 2 children was stolen from us the manager lied under oath saying it would take years suppose to months but six months later we got to keep our 3rd child during this court hearing it was proven they had no grounds to take 2nd child all because we split up they said if we got back together they would give 2nd child back but never did apparently they were adopted in Dec 13th 2004 but we have no proof of this never ever attended a court hearing for the adoption and the local authorities refused to show us proof are human rights have been breached as we was not given the chance to put a STOP to the adoption they even refused sibling contact even the guardian lied to the court my youngest if the 2 keeps saying she wants to come home but that has all been ignored the oldest one was neglected in foster care her head was full of puss and scapy from headline our contact supervisor even saw this and even celotaped them as proof but this was ignored bless her we have been fighting to get them back but the courts are curoubt as well we had a unfair hearing in 2016 our barrister wanted to ask our girls social worker questions but she was given permission to leave and we was not allowed to go on the stand this country stinks I can understand why we have them but for innocent people it is just wrong they even didn’t go round our family to see if they could have them something needs to be done but I don’t know how it is a business to them they take our children and give them to strangers how is that best for a child
What you have said here is genuine as many thousands of other parents have gone through the same Lies and Corruption.
if i had the power to Run the country the way i wanted i would arrest thousands of Social workers and family court judges along with many others and all those found guilty would be Jailed then their property and assets seized to pay compensation to all the Victims.the children and their parents would then be offered free holidays on board massive Cruise ships to go and see the world all paid for by the Elite powers.
and that would be just the beginning.
Paul hughes said:
Please tell me where i can view this documentary with english subtitles.
I have also been a victim of ss, however my eldest was targeted as I was due to give birth and they had their goals set. It took 7 months for them to finally take her… a year on and now I’m fighting for her back n publicly making a stand to raise awareness.
K-J
Families Destroyed by the State
I appeared in this film a few years ago (not so very new in fact !) and canconfirm the gulf between France and the UK on “child protection”
The French are horrified because in the UK the State removes not only children who have suffered significant harm through parental lack of care (as they also do in France ) but also remove children LIKELY TO SUFFER HARM ;
This has opened the door to thousands of children being taken not for anything parents have done but simply because someone else thinks that the parents are not fit and that is by french standards horrific !
Iv faced same problem my kids took a year ago I see once a month no one will help or take my story I was a victim of dv moved in own house he ki ked my. Door in torched me rang cops every time he still walking. Streets now he gets cousdordy older child fro. Previous but he’s reason I lost my kids one of which was his help me plz
Thank you for your comment and I’m so sorry to hear about what you’ve been through. If you’d like some assistance you are welcome to email me at Sobk13 at gmail dot com. I’m the founder of the website and offer free support for families.
Terri said:
Both my children have never been home me and my partner are currently pregnant with our 3rd son in witch they
Want to give us a chance with but won’t give us a chance with the older 2 due to future risk of physical harm the system is corrupt guilty until proven innocent in the child care services and I can say we are innocent
I feel you mate they don’t care about are kids they the say they steal are kids they should be prosecuted for child trafficking coz thats what they are doing my youngest of the 2 kept saying she wants to come home i had stacks of evidence to the fact but yet again we got fxcked by the system its all corrupt mate hope you get 2 keep your son or of I was you I would contact Ian and run mate trust me I know it’s a big change but this country stinks crime without punishment that’s why I would run we have a strong case against them but can’t find anyone who is willing to take our case I wish you all the best mate
tummum said:
They’re doing another one before too long 😉 It’s just a shame they need your children’s testimony, because then parents are missing out telling their stories when the evidence should speak for itself. I met them both and they seemed really nice and wanted me to take part xx
Are anymore documentaries coming up. My children are stolen. The system is so corrupt. Lies. Any excuse to take a child. Where are the ones that offered millions to councils which set off this rage to numbers of kids taken now?
I believe the despicable Tony Blair started the cash incentives for Council Adoption targets.
Former Childrens minister Edward Timpson and Michael Gove have both called for more Adoptions and to make the process quicker to fast track children into Adoption.
These Adoption figures are from the Govt website.
Inter-agency adoption fee: grant for local authorities.
£27,000 for placing 1 child
£43,000 for placing 2 siblings in 1 adoptive family
£80,000 for placing 5 or more siblings in 1 adoptive family
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/inter-agency-adoption-fee-grant-for-local-authorities?fbclid=IwAR1oAQgVxuPa7M35m0X7CySH2mtdvAYcel16fDRX-UAZR24-kNyHr3siPxM
Now you know why so many parents are losing their Children when you see the Cash incentives being offered. what we dont know is who else gets a slice of the pie.
What is needed are whistle blowers to come forward if they know that Social workers, child guardians and others are getting a cut of these so-called refunds.
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18 Day England, Scotland & Ireland
3 London, 1 Bath, 1 Liverpool, 2 Edinburgh, 1 Leeds, 3 Dublin or Dublin Area, 2 Galway, 2 Killarney, 1 Waterford
Round trip airfare, first class accommodations, most transfers and sightseeing
Flights New York-London, Dublin-New York
Intra-flight London-Dublin
16 nights accommodations
3 nights London
1 night Bath
1 night Liverpool
2 nights Edinburgh
1 night Leeds
3 nights Dublin or Dublin Area
2 nights Galway
2 nights Killarney
1 night Waterford
All transfers included only with airfare purchase on package arrival & departure dates†♦
24 meals: 16 breakfasts, 8 dinners with wine
Services of English-speaking tour managers throughout
Tour Stonehenge, the best-known prehistoric monument in England and a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Visit the 2000 year old Roman Baths and Georgian pump room with its natural mineral water
Tour Edinburgh Castle, where you can see the Crown Room, Royal Palace and St. Margaret’s Chapel
Visit the Gothic style York Minster, a world renowned masterpiece of architecture and design
Visit Trinity College, home to the Book of Kells
Tour Kylemore Abbey, in the heart of the Connemara National Park
View the mighty Cliffs of Moher, an impressive wall of rock
Visit Bunratty Castle & Folk Park, offering a unique insight into Irish life
View the Ring of Kerry, the mythical & unspoiled region in Ireland
Visit the 15th century Blarney Castle with a chance to kiss the Blarney Stone
Enjoy a tour of the world-famous Waterford Crystal Factory
Farewell Dinner with traditional Irish Entertainment
♦ London Gatwick Airport transfers available at an additional cost
Saturday - Depart for England
DAY 1, Saturday - Depart for England
Depart for England
DAY 2, Sunday - Arrive in London
Arrive and transfer to your hotel. Most flights arrive in the early morning and your room may not be ready for you. In this case, leave your luggage with the concierge and your Tour Manager will provide suggestions for you to begin to explore the city on your own. This evening, your tour will begin with an orientation meeting with your Tour Manager at approximately 6 pm followed by a Welcome Dinner. We recommend that you select flights which arrive in your destination no later than 4 pm if possible
Overnight: London
DAY 3, Monday - London City Tour
Discover the history, pageantry and sights of the city with a half day tour of London's West End. Begin with a drive through fashionable Kensington with its elegant squares and parks. Pass Harrods store and continue to view Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament and the famous Big Ben. Go on to view Buckingham Palace, the London residence of Her Majesty the Queen. Your tour ends in the heart of the city to explore the afternoon at leisure. Perhaps join the in-depth optional tour of Tower of London and St. Paul's Cathedral
Optional: Tower of London & St. Paul's Cathedral (PM)
DAY 4, Tuesday - Stonehenge, Bath
Today, depart London and head to the circles of Stonehenge. Located in the middle of Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge is unique among stone circles and its construction still defies belief. The first stone was placed here 5000 years ago and the structure was finally completed 1400 years later. Continue to Bath's Georgian Crescents to find elegant stone buildings with terraces, crescents, and graceful squares. Visit the original 2000-year-old Roman Baths and Georgian Pump Room with its natural mineral water. Later in the afternoon join the optional tour to the Village of Lacock. You will have time to explore the village before enjoying a delicious dinner at a historic local Inn
Optional: Village of Lacock with dinner (PM)
Overnight: Bath
DAY 5, Wednesday - Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon, Liverpool
Drive north today into the Heart of England through the villages of the Cotswolds, with its stone and thatch cottages, to the birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, a charming market town. View Anne Hathaway's cottage, the school that William Shakespeare attended, and Shakespeare's birthplace. Enjoy time at leisure in this historic town, where the Bard's plays are still performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Then travel to lively Liverpool for a change of pace, where The Beatles were born and rose to fame. With your guide, explore the notable sights made famous in song by the Beatles - Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. View the legendary Cavern Club where the Beatles began their journey to fame and Liverpool's stunning Albert Dock complex, a reminder of Liverpool's history as a great and prosperous port. Dinner tonight is at your hotel in Liverpool
Overnight: Liverpool
DAY 6, Thursday - Local Farmhouse Visit in the Lake District, Moffat, Edinburgh
Today, travel along the shores of Windermere, the largest lake in England at the heart of the rolling hills of the picturesque Lake District, stopping for tea and fresh-baked scones at a local farmhouse. Continue towards the charming village of Grasmere, the 19th century home of the poet William Wordsworth. Next, cross into Scotland at the border town of Gretna Green, famous for its "runaway" weddings, and past Moffat, known for its high-quality wool products. Arrive in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, with its exquisite Georgian and Victorian architecture and winding medieval streets. During your stay, discover the city's rich heritage and historic buildings. Both Edinburgh's Old and New Town are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Overnight: Edinburgh
DAY 7, Friday - Edinburgh City Tour
This morning, join a local guide for a city tour of historic Edinburgh. The route will take you past the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Palace, the Museum of Scotland, the Royal Mile, and Princes Street. Also included is a visit to Edinburgh Castle, where you can see The Crown Room, Royal Palace, St. Margaret's Chapel, and much more! The balance of the day is at leisure. Tonight, don’t miss the optional evening of traditional Scottish entertainment that includes dinner
Optional: Scottish Dinner & Show (PM)
DAY 8, Saturday - York City Tour, Leeds
After breakfast, depart Edinburgh and drive through the Borderlands, past the ruins of Jedburgh Abbey, and on to the Viking city of York, one of northern England's most compelling cities. Enjoy an orientation tour through the narrow medieval streets surrounded by the 13th century York Walls. Also included is a visit to the magnificent York Minster, with its breathtaking architecture and spectacular gardens. After the tour, continue on to Leeds
Overnight: Leeds
DAY 9, Sunday - Cambridge, Travel to London
This morning, travel south, passing Robin Hood country and Sherwood Forest to the University City of Cambridge. Admire Kings College and its beautiful chapels before continuing to London. On your last evening in London, get together with your fellow travelers for dinner at a local restaurant
DAY 10, Monday - Depart for Ireland
Transfer to the airport for your departure flight to Ireland. Arrive and transfer to your hotel. The balance of the day is at leisure. This evening, enjoy a Welcome Drink and orientation meeting with your new Tour Manager and fellow travelers at approximately 5 PM, followed by a Welcome Dinner
Overnight: Dublin
DAY 11, Tuesday - Dublin City Tour, Travel to Galway
This morning's sightseeing includes a panoramic tour of Dublin including a visit to Trinity College, home to the Book of Kells. View St. Stephen's Green, Phoenix Park and St. Patrick's Cathedral. After time for lunch, continue westward to Galway, a seafaring town steeped in tradition and a cultural center for the west of Ireland. Stop at Galway Cathedral and then continue to see the medieval city walls and colorful streets between the River Corrib and Eyre Square. Enjoy free time for a stroll in this bohemian town
Overnight: Galway
DAY 12, Wednesday - Connemara Excursion
Today, take a full day excursion into the Irish countryside. Travel west for a visit to neo-Gothic Kylemore Abbey in the heart of Connemara National Park. There, admire the lakes, mountains, and calm shades of green for which Ireland is renowned
DAY 13, Thursday - Cliffs of Moher, Bunratty Castle, Killarney
Begin with a drive south from Galway Bay through the rugged plateau known as the Burren and view the mighty Cliffs of Moher, an impressive wall of rock that towers some 700 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. Next, visit Bunratty Castle and the Folk Park, offering a unique insight into Irish life around the turn of the century. A drive through the pretty town of Adare brings you at last to scenic Killarney
Overnight: Killarney
DAY 14, Friday - Ring of Kerry Tour
Today's sightseeing begins with a tour through Killarney National Park and the world-famous "Ring of Kerry," perhaps the most picturesque locale in all of Ireland. Pass by the remote villages of Cahirciveen and Sneem, which are full of traditional colorful houses. Return to Killarney in the late afternoon. Perhaps, try the optional Jaunting Car (pony & open carriage) excursion through the peaceful green countryside. Tonight, experience the optional Gaelic Roots Live Show,* an exciting Irish show which brings together all that is great about the culture and traditions of Ireland
*Available for mid Apr-mid Oct 2019 departures only
Optional: Jaunting Cars (PM)
Optional: Gaelic Roots Live Show (PM)
DAY 15, Saturday - Blarney Castle, Waterford Crystal Showroom
This morning drive through the scenic south of Ireland to visit the 15th-century Blarney Castle, where you will have the opportunity to kiss the famous Blarney Stone. Enjoy some free time for shopping at the Blarney Woollen Mills before stopping at the world-famous Waterford Crystal showroom* for a factory tour to see the collection of exquisite glassware in its city of origin
*For Oct 17 departure, the Waterford Crystal Factory tour will be substituted with Waterford walking tour.
Overnight: Waterford
DAY 16, Sunday - Kilkenny En Route to Dublin
Today, head for Kilkenny, a small city located on the banks of the River Nore. Enjoy the sights of this historic town, and view the 12th-century Kilkenny Castle. This afternoon, return to Dublin for a Farewell Dinner and lively traditional entertainment
DAY 17, Monday - Full Day in Dublin
Enjoy a full day at leisure to explore Dublin independently. Spend time visiting famous sites throughout the city, including Dublin Castle and the National Gallery, where both Irish and European pieces of art are beautifully displayed. Perhaps purchase some souvenirs on Grafton Street, the city's stylish and popular shopping area. In the evening, stop by one of the lively pubs in the Temple Bar district beside the River Liffey
DAY 18, Tuesday - Depart Ireland
Additional Information: London Gatwick Airport transfers available at an additional cost.
Accommodation Details: Triple Rooms are not available for this package.
Entry Requirements: Passengers traveling abroad require a passport valid for six months beyond their travel dates. All travelers are responsible to check if a visa is required for all countries on their itinerary. For visa information, check our Visas page.
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“Each record I make is more of an amalgamation of who I truly am,” says John Grant. “The more I do this, the more I trust in myself, and the further along I go.”
Even when the Michigan-born man released his debut solo album Queen Of Denmark in 2010, Grant laced sumptuous soft-rock ballads with an array of spacey, wistful synthesiser sounds, increasingly adding taut, fizzing sequencers, nu-synth-disco settings and icy soundscapes to the mix on 2013’s Pale Green Ghosts and 2015’s Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, the latter The Guardian described as, “variously agonising, hilarious, uplifting and moving: another bravura display from a unique songwriting talent.”
Now, with his fourth solo album, Love Is Magic, Grant has continued evolving, creating his most electronic record yet, in collaboration with Benge (Ben Edwards), analogue synth expert/collector and a member of electronic trio Wrangler, Grant’s collaborators earlier this year under the collective name of Creep Show on the album Mr Dynamite.
Produced by Grant, and engineered by Benge at his Cornish studio, the diamond-hard, diamond-gleaming Love Is Magic, “is how I’ve always wanted my records to sound, but I didn’t know how until now,” Grant says. He also called on Paul Alexander of Denton, Texas maestros Midlake, renewing a working relationship that began on Queen Of Denmark. “Paul’s trained in theory and harmonies and was responsible for a lot of the backing vocals,” Grant enthuses. “He comes up with interesting angles rather than the obvious and plays some of the best bass lines I’ve ever heard.”
Besides the quest for sound, “the lyrics are exactly as I want them to be,” says John. “They’re not just the doom and gloom of the past, they’re a snapshot of everyday life – the ridiculousness, the pain, the deep longing.”
Anyone familiar with Grant’s story will recognise his battles – with addiction and health, with trusting love and relationships. From this turbulence he’s forged another riveting collection of often brutal diatribes and confessionals, where humour, fear, anxiety and anger overlap as Grant, with trademark candour, figuratively exposes the machinations of his saturated brain. It’s epitomised by the album’s brilliant opener ‘Metamorphosis’, almost as if his warring psyches are facing up to one another, as impervious synth-pop and brain-on-fire imagery (“Tiki bar, rat soufflé, Buik regal, Marvin Gaye”) melts into dream-ballad introspection (“Questions left unanswered, spiritual extortion”) and back to synth-backed mania.
“Metamorphosis is about going down the road of insanity because of the inability to process feelings, and properly grieve for someone, and getting bogged down by mental illness and addiction,” Grant explains. “There’s the randomness at the beginning and the end, and the truth in the middle. It’s the mess of the human mind.”
The human mind is further discombobulated by the concept of love – we crave it, obsess over it, and are invariably traumatised by it, as the album’s title track explores. “Love’s a shitshow that requires work, it’s not all lollipops and rainbows. But nothing can distract from the fact that, in spite of it all, love is still magic.”
The magic of love also pervades two gorgeous, magisterial ballads toward the end of the album, ‘Is He Strange’ and ‘The Common Snipe’ – referring to the wader bird that makes a unique ‘bleating’ sound by rubbing its tailfeathers together: “it’s about truly seeing another human being and not projecting onto them what you want them to be” says Grant.
In the same elegant, eloquent fashion, the album’s heartbreaking finale ‘Touch & Go’ is another kind of love story, centred around Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier turned WikiLeaks activist who transitioned to a woman while in prison. “I was very touched by her incredible story,” says Grant. “What kind of strength does it takes to survive like that, hated by people who say she’s a pervert who doesn’t deserve to live?”
Grant closely identifies with that scenario as he experienced prejudice himself, growing up in conservative, religious Michigan, and then Colorado, where he came to terms with being gay while being subjected to a deeply ingrained hatred of anyone perceived as homosexual at school and further alienated at home. Music, especially the new and gratifyingly gay/androgynous-leaning synth-pop sound imported from Britain, was a life-saver, while Grant also escaped, “the nasty world we grew up in,” through video games, as the gorgeous ‘Tempest’ recalls. But hormonal anxiety would rise up, which Grant recalls in the irresistibly danceable ‘Preppy Boy’, a paean to, “those cunts at school, who I hated, but a lot were very sexy. It’s a fantasy about getting what I wanted with one of them.”
The 80s-synth-pop-perfect ‘He’s Got His Mother’s Hips’ is a similar backhanded depiction, a #MeToo-related saga of “a cheeseball doing all he can to get into a woman’s pants, making a total ass of himself. It’s a fun song built on disgust.” ‘Smug Cunt’, however, is pure disgust, where a gorgeous beatific arrangement clashes with a vitriolic lyric about, “maladapted narcissists…the political system in America is built to produce the kind of buffoon we now have in charge.”
In Grant’s most hysterical (in both senses of the word) assassination yet, the narrator of Italo-disco strut ‘Diet Gum’ is simultaneously revolted by and attracted to a lover referred to as Dr. Turd-Face and Stupidzilla, and their time together, “a cross between Cannibal Apocalypse and Lassie 9”. “It’s the absurd extreme of a relationship,” he explains. “I’m exaggerating aspects of my own personality. It’s a lot of fun, but there’s a lot of truth in there too, about how people treat each other.”
There’s much else to tell about Grant: how the demise of his first band The Czars led him to abandon music for five years before an instantly acclaimed solo career, chart success (Grey Tickles… went Top Five in the UK) and a Best International Male Solo Artist nomination at the 2014 BRITS alongside Eminem and Justin Timberlake. Sinead O’Connor and Tracey Thorn have guested on Grant’s records, he’s sung live with Alison Goldfrapp and Kylie Minogue, performed at the 2017 Songs Of Scott Walker (1967-70) BBC Prom, and co-written/sung on Hercules And Love Affair and Robbie Williams albums. Last Autumn he recorded the “Kindling” duet with Elbow then went on to tour with them this Spring. His music has been used in films such as Andrew Haigh’s drama Weekend and Daisy Asquith’s Queerama. In 2016, he fronted BBC Radio 4’s Reimagining The City, taking listeners around Reykjavik, where Grant has lived since 2012; in April 2017 he curated North Atlantic Flux: Sounds from Smoky Bay in Hull, showcasing thrilling and innovative musicians from Scandinavia and Iceland. But that is the past, just as Grant’s autobiography, for publishers Little, Brown, is the future. The present is Love Is Magic, the latest instalment in Grant’s astonishing story.
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2 Love Is Magic
3 Tempest
4 Preppy Boy
5 Smug Cunt
6 He’s Got His Mother’s Hips
7 Diet Gum
8 Is He Strange
9 The Common Snipe
10 Touch and Go
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Keane – Cause And Effect //Island Records// (Released 20th September)
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Keane are back with their fifth studio album, Cause And Effect featuring the powerful first single ‘The Way I Feel’. Written by Keane and produced by David Kosten and the band themselves, Cause And Effect features 11 new songs recorded in London and Sussex.
The birth of this new album came as something of a surprise even to the band. Singer Tom Chaplin had released two successful solo albums but missed his old sparring partner Tim Rice-Oxley. “I found myself wondering how I had come to let this very enigmatic and important relationship in my life drift” Tom says.
Meanwhile Tim found his life falling apart and from the ashes had written an album’s worth of incredibly personal songs fuelled by humour as well as pain. When Tom, bassist Jesse Quin and drummer Richard Hughes heard the songs, they were immediately drawn to them both sonically and lyrically.
“Hopes And Fears (2007) was a break-up album too, but it was about a break-up when I was 19” Tim explains. “It’s a bit different when you’re older and you’ve got kids – your whole little world shifts on its axis”.
‘The Way I Feel’, like the other ten tracks on Cause And Effect, is an emotional and remarkable slice of life, and reminiscent of the very best of Keane. It’s an exciting period for one of the country’s best bands and a very welcome return.
As Tim Rice-Oxley says, “We’re not some heritage act. We’ve got a lot of great music in us”.
Cause And Effect is just that.
You’re Not Home
Love Too Much
The Way I Feel
Put The Radio On
Strange Room
Stupid Things
I’m Not Leaving
Chase The Night Away
Deluxe Boxset Bonus Tracks:
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The Way I Feel (Sea Fog Acoustic Session)
Stupid Things (Sea Fog Acoustic Session)
I’m Not Leaving (Sea Fog Acoustic Session)
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MSNBC and The Big Narrative Lie
Klavan On The Culture
By Andrew Klavan 2012-08-29T14:26:39
Most of the time, I have no problem with MSNBC. Why shouldn't Communist fatheads have something to watch on TV? Conversely, the well-dressed, well-spoken, sophisticated anchors who front the network news and lie by omission and distortion every night while pretending to report objectively — they seem corrupt and wicked to me. They need to be exposed, ridiculed, undermined, defeated and ultimately replaced by people who understand the importance of fair and balanced reporting in a free nation. But MSNBC leftists speaking as leftists — that seems honest enough, no matter what I may think of their philosophy... which is that it's a recipe for disaster papered over with a facade of false virtue.
But during yesterday's Republican convention coverage, The Daily Caller reports (h/t Instapundit), the MSNBC goofs cut away during every speech made by a minority. They didn't want anyone to see that men and women of color were a cherished and honored part of the Republican party. That's not their narrative so, by gum, they weren't going to show it. Which raises — not a complaint — but a question: What good is a philosophy that can't withstand even the sight of the simple facts? If, for instance, you are pro-abortion, why protest when pro-lifers show films of an abortion taking place? If you're afraid reality will prejudice people against your point of view, shouldn't you consider changing your point of view? Am I missing something?
Taking another, more honest tack on the issue of minorities speaking at the convention, David Horsey wrote at The Los Angeles Times that this put "a brown face on a white party." Hey, fair enough. I would have said the GOP was using brown faces to show minorities they're welcome and to overcome the ceaseless media portrayal of the party as racist. Black conservative speakers demonstrate that there's another, better, prouder way to live than being dependent on the federal dime. But Horsey has the right to note the facts and speak his left-wing mind about them. Why not?
https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2012/8/29/msnbc-and-the-big-narrative-lie/
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On February 26, LA-based Run River North released Drinking From A Salt Pond, the follow up LP to their 2014 self-titled debut. Working with producer Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids, Deap Vally, HEALTH, Matt and Kim), the band leave behind its familiar folksy roots to craft an ambitious rock album. During the writing of Drinking From A Salt Pond, the band admits to flaring tempers and tense operations as they worked to redefine their sound, goals and relationships. Embracing their natural growth, Run River North lean on each other and learn to trust themselves along the way in order to make something brutally honest, lasting and truly beautiful. Produced by Phil Ek (Built To Spill, The Shins, Father John Misty), the debut album landed at #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. With heaps of praise from fans and critics alike, NPR writes, “Run River North stays the course – and finds success,” and Esquire hails, “because modern...
On February 26, LA-based Run River North released Drinking From A Salt Pond, the follow up LP to their 2014 self-titled debut. Working with producer Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids, Deap Vally, HEALTH, Matt and Kim), the band leave behind its familiar folksy roots to craft an ambitious rock album. During the writing of Drinking From A Salt Pond, the band admits to flaring tempers and tense operations as they worked to redefine their sound, goals and relationships. Embracing their natural growth, Run River North lean on each other and learn to trust themselves along the way in order to make something brutally honest, lasting and truly beautiful. Produced by Phil Ek (Built To Spill, The Shins, Father John Misty), the debut album landed at #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. With heaps of praise from fans and critics alike, NPR writes, “Run River North stays the course – and finds success,” and Esquire hails, “because modern folk this richly layered has a high degree of difficulty…and [Run River North] nail the landing.” With a nearly sold-out debut North American headline tour, the band has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, VH-1 “Big Morning Buzz,” CMT “Concrete Country,” Last Call With Carson Daly, and Emmy-winning PBS series Artbound. All this follows features with The Wall Street Journal, NPR Weekend Edition, NPR Here & Now, Entertainment Weekly, American Songwriter, Daytrotter, American Way, KPCC 89.3 and TeamCoco, the official website of Conan. Run River North is Alex Hwang (lead vocals, guitars), Daniel Chae (vocals, strings), Jennifer Rim (strings), Joe Chun (bass, vocals), John Chong (drums, vocals) and Sally Kang (vocals, keyboards).
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Balkovetz, Daniel
Professor of Medicine
balkovet@uab.edu
LHRB 668
Lyons-Harrison Research Bldg
Professor (P), Medicine - Nephrology , Department of Medicine Chair Office 2002 -
Professor (S), Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology (CDIB) , Academic Joint Departments 2012 -
Scientist (C), Nephrology Research & Training Center , General Clinical Research Center 2014 -
Senior Scientist (C), Global Center for Craniofacial, Oral and Dental Disorders (GC-CODED) , School of Dentistry 2017 -
2013 Risk of vancomycin-induced nephrotoxicity in the population with chronic kidney disease. American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 345:396-399. 2013
2009 Downregulation of claudin-2 expression in renal epithelial cells by metabolic acidosis. AJP - Renal Physiology. 297. 2009
2009 Tight junction claudins and the kidney in sickness and in health. BBA - Biomembranes. 1788:858-863. 2009
2007 Opening Pandora's box in the tight junction. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 18:1624-1625. 2007
2006 Epithelial cell polarity and hypoxia influence heme oxygenase-1 expression by heme in renal epithelial cells. AJP - Renal Physiology. 291. 2006
2006 Claudins at the gate: Determinants of renal epithelial tight junction paracellular permeability. AJP - Renal Physiology. 290. 2006
2005 Activated extracellular signal-regulated kinases are necessary and sufficient to initiate tubulogenesis in renal tubular MDCK strain I cell cysts. AJP - Renal Physiology. 289. 2005
2005 Effectiveness of the B subunit of cholera toxin in potentiating immune responses to the recombinant hemagglutinin/adhesin domain of the gingipain Kgp from Porphyromonas gingivalis. Vaccine. 23:4734-4744. 2005
2005 Extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1/2 control claudin-2 expression in Madin-Darby canine kidney strain I and II cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280:3780-3788. 2005
2004 Evidence for ERK1/2 phosphorylation controlling contact inhibition of proliferation in Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 287. 2004
2004 Hepatocyte growth factor stimulates adenoviral-mediated gene transfer across the apical membrane of epithelial cells. Journal of Gene Medicine. 6:624-630. 2004
2004 Gene expression alterations during HGF-induced dedifferentiation of a renal tubular epithelial cell line (MDCK) using a novel canine DNA microarray. AJP - Renal Physiology. 286. 2004
2004 Hepatocyte growth factor inhibits intrinsic antibacterial activity of Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. Microbes and Infection. 6:51-57. 2004
2003 Bacterial invasion by a paracellular route: Divide and conquer. Microbes and Infection. 5:613-619. 2003
2003 Erratum: Bacterial invasion by a paracellular route: Divide and conquer (Microbes and Infections (2003) 5 (613-619)). Microbes and Infection. 5:1415. 2003
2002 Microbial/host interactions: Mechanisms involved in host responses to microbial antigens. Immunologic Research. 26:223-234. 2002
2002 Polaris, a protein disrupted in orpk mutant mice, is required for assembly of renal cilium. AJP - Renal Physiology. 282. 2002
2002 Hydrolysis of epithelial junctional proteins by Porphyromonas gingivalis gingipains. Infection and Immunity. 70:2512-2518. 2002
2001 Hepatocyte growth factor alters renal epithelial cell susceptibility to uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 12:2543-2553. 2001
2001 Polaris, a protein involved in left-right axis patterning, localizes to basal bodies and cilia. Cell regulation. 12:589-599. 2001
2000 Characterization of Porphyromonas gingivalis-induced degradation of epithelial cell junctional complexes. Infection and Immunity. 68:1441-1449. 2000
1999 Hepatocyte growth factor and the kidney: It is not just for the liver. International Review of Cytology. 186:225-260. 1999
1999 Evidence that hepatocyte growth factor abrogates contact inhibition of mitosis in Madin-Darby canine kidney cell monolayers. Life Sciences. 64:1393-1401. 1999
1999 Dynamics of E-cadherin and γ-catenin complexes during dedifferentiation of polarized MDCK cells. Kidney International. 56:910-921. 1999
1998 Hepatocyte growth factor and Madin-Darby canine kidney cells: In vitro models of epithelial cell movement and morphogenesis. Microscopy Research and Technique. 43:456-463. 1998
1998 Hepatocyte growth factor and Madin-Darby canine kidney cells: in vitro models of epithelial cell movement and morphogenesis.. Microscopy Research and Technique. 43:456-463. 1998
1998 Crossover comparison of intravenous and subcutaneous recombinant human erythropoietin in a small haemodialysis unit [6]. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 13:2979-2980. 1998
1998 Susceptibility of epithelial cells to Pseudomonas aeruginosa invasion and cytotoxicity is upregulated by hepatocyte growth factor. Infection and Immunity. 66:3443-3446. 1998
1997 HGF (hepatocyte growth factor) increases susceptibility of epithelial cells to pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence mechanisms. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 38. 1997
1997 Hepatocyte growth factor alters the polarity of Madin-Darby canine kidney cell monolayers. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272:3471-3477. 1997
1996 Renal Na+/H+ exchanger isoforms and their regulation by thyroid hormone. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 270. 1996
1995 Mutational analysis of transmembrane histidines in the amiloride-sensitive Na+/H+exchanger. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 269. 1995
1993 Cytosolic pH sensitivity of an expressed human NHE-1 Na + -H + exchanger. American Journal of Physiology. 264. 1993
1989 Evidence for an imipramine-sensitive serotonin transporter in human placental brush-border membrane. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264:2195-2198. 1989
1988 Na+ + Cl--gradient-driven, high-affinity, uphill transport of taurine in human placental brush-border membrane vesicles. FEBS Letters. 231:263-267. 1988
1988 A proton gradient is the driving force for uphill transport of lactate in human placental brush-border membrane vesicles. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 263:13823-13830. 1988
1988 A proton gradient, not a sodium gradient, is the driving force for active transport of lactate in rabbit intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles. Biochemical Journal. 256:219-223. 1988
1988 Effects of phenothiazines on the Na+-H+ exchanger of the brush-border membrane from the proximal small intestine of the rabbit. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 245:823-828. 1988
1987 Evidence for histidyl and carboxy groups at the active site of the human placental Na+-H+ exchanger.. Biochemical Journal. 245:473-477. 1987
1987 Inhibition of brush-border membrane Na+-H+ exchanger by loperamide. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 243:150-154. 1987
1986 Inhibition of human placental Na+-H+ exchanger by cimetidine. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 239:192-197. 1986
1986 Na+-H+ exchanger of human placental brush-border membrane: Identification and characterization. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 251. 1986
2003 Recent Advances in the Cell Biology of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Ed. 231. 2003
Role of Claudin-2 in Chronic Metabolic Acidosis awarded by American Heart Association (Southeast Affiliate) 2009 - 2011
Private Grant awarded by Sanofi US Services Inc 2017 - 2018
28-460 - CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY CONSULT SERVICE (Fall Term 2012) 2012
Doctor of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia 1990
Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, Medical College of Georgia 1988
Daniel Balkovetz
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Influence of Freezing on Some Phytotoxins and Micronutrients in the Leaves of Telfairia occidentalis (Fluted Pumpkin)
Amanabo Musa and Emmanuel O. Ogbadoyi
Cold storage is one of the methods that is used to safeguard the quality of fresh foods (especially vegetables and fruits) and prevent food spoilage as the method reduces the activities of some microorganisms and enzymes that are involved in the sequence of some biochemical invents leading to deterioration reactions. Therefore, it is common practice to store fresh foods in refrigerator and freezer for some period of time. This study investigates the effect of freezing duration as it affects the concentrations of some inherent phytotoxins (cyanide, nitrate, soluble and total oxalates) and micronutrients which include vitamins (vitamin C and β-carotene; provitamin A) and mineral elements (Fe, Cu, Mg, Na and K) in the leaves of Telfairia occidentalis. The washed leaves of Telfairia occidentalis were stored in a deep freezer at-4°C for the period of four weeks and chemical analyses were done at weekly intervals. The result obtained showed that the concentrations of cyanide and Fe decreased significantly (p<0.05) with freezing time in the first and second weeks and their values remained significantly unchanged in the third and fourth week of storage. The nitrate, soluble and total oxalates and vitamin C contents in the leaves of Telfairia occidentalis decreased significantly (p<0.05) in the first week of freezing and remained significantly the same in the subsequent second, third and fourth weeks of storage. Similarly, the concentrations of β-carotene and Na in the vegetable were significantly (p<0.05) reduced in the second weeks of storage and their values obtained in the third and fourth weeks also indicated reduction which was not significantly different from the second weeks of freezing. While freezing had no significant effect on the Cu content in Telfairia occidentalis, the concentrations of Mg and K decreased significantly (p<0.05) in the third weeks and changed insignificantly in the fourth weeks of freezing. The result concludes that short period of freezing (especially one week of freezing) significantly reduced the plant toxins in Telfairia occidentalis and safeguard most of the micronutrients.
Amanabo Musa and Emmanuel O. Ogbadoyi, 2013. Influence of Freezing on Some Phytotoxins and Micronutrients in the Leaves of Telfairia occidentalis (Fluted Pumpkin). Journal of Biological Sciences, 13: 217-225.
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2013.217.225
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jbs.2013.217.225
Received: March 12, 2013; Accepted: March 25, 2013; Published: July 10, 2013
Telfairia occidentalis (Fluted pumpkin) is one of the leafy vegetables that are grown across the low land humid tropic in West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone being the major producers). Fluted pumpkin is a creeping vegetative shrub that spread low across the ground with large lobed leave and long twisting tendrils (Syndenham, 1985; Horsfall and Spiff, 2005; Agatemor, 2006; Ojiako and Igwe, 2008). Telfairia occidentalis prefers a loose, friable ample humus and shaded position. Nitrogen is vital for sufficient vegetation and should ideally be given in the form of manure (Schippers, 2000). Harvesting of fluted pumpkin takes place 120-150 days after planting (Horsfall and Spiff, 2005). The vegetable is of commercial importance in West African because of the high nutrient contents abound in it (Nkang et al., 2003).
The leaves and seeds are widely eaten as they are good sources of micronutrient such as mineral elements (Fe, Mg, Cu, Ca, Zn K, Na and P), vitamins (such as vitamin C, β-carotene), fibres, fats (Schippers, 2000; Nkang et al., 2003; Agatemor, 2006; Ogbadoyi et al., 2011; Musa et al., 2011; Musa and Ogbadoyi, 2012a). Telfairia occidentalis also accumulates various antinutrients and toxic substances such as oxalate, phytate, cyanide and nitrate. These plant secondary metabolites have been known to have deleterious effect on human and animals health at high concentrations (Ogbadoyi et al., 2011; Musa et al., 2011; Musa and Ogbadoyi, 2012a). In order to maintain the quality of fresh foods and avert food spoilage, it is a common practice to store the fresh foods in refrigerator and freezer as this practice is known to reduce the activities of microorganisms and enzymes that are associated with biochemical reactions leading to deterioration of food substances. Thus this research was conducted to evaluate the influence of freezing duration on the concentrations of some plant toxins and micronutrients in the leaves of Telfairia occidentalis with a view to determine the suitability of the storage conditions for the vegetable.
Source of Telfairia occidentalis: The fresh samples of Telfairia occidentalis was bought in three sets at different time from Maikunkele, Bosso and Chanchanga markets in Minna town, Nigeria.
Chemicals: Except otherwise stated, all the chemicals used were of analytical grade and were purchased from Sigma and BDH chemical companies, both of England.
Freezing: The leaves of Telfairia occidentalis were washed with distilled water and kept in a well labelled polythene bag and stored in a freezer at the temperature of-4°C for a period of 4 weeks. The concentrations of the nutrients, antinutrients and toxic substances were determined at weekly intervals over the four-weeks period.
Sample analysis: The nitrate concentration in the samples was determined by the colourimetric method as described by Sjoberg and Alanko (1994). While the alkaline picrate method of Ikediobi et al. (1980) was used to analyse the cyanide content in the leaves of Telfairia occidentalis. Both soluble and total oxalates in the samples were determined by titrimetric method of Oke (1966). The mineral elements (Fe, Cu, Mg, Na and K) in samples were determined according to the method of Ezeonu et al. (2002). The ascorbic acid concentration in the samples was determined by 2, 6-dichlorophenol indophenols method of Jones and Hughes (1983). While β-carotene concentration was determined by ethanol and petroleum ether extraction method as described by Musa et al. (2010).
Statistical analysis: Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was carried out using statistical package Minitab to determine variation between different freezing time on the concentration of nutrients, antinutrients and toxic substances in the leaves of Telfairia occidentralis. The Duncans Multiple Range Test (DMRT) was used for comparison of means.
Cyanide concentration: Cyanide concentration was found to decrease with freezing in Telfairia occidentalis. Significant (p<0.05) reduction of cyanide content from 170.83-99.45 mg kg-1 was observed in the first week of freezing. Value obtained in the second weeks (84.51 mg kg-1) also indicated significant reduction of cyanide content which was not significantly different from the mean values obtained for the third (70.66 mg kg-1) and fourth weeks (69.04 mg kg-1) (Fig. 1).
Nitrate concentration: Significant (p<0.05) decreased in nitrate content in Telfairia occidentalis from 2799.04 mg kg-1 in fresh sample to 1514.83 mg kg-1 was observed during two weeks of freezing. The mean values obtained for the second (1339.83 mg kg-1), third (1072.22 mg kg-1) and fourth weeks (1035.17 mg kg-1) also indicated reduction in concentration of nitrate which was not significantly (p>0.05) different from the value obtained from the first week (Fig. 2).
Soluble oxalate concentration: The soluble oxalate concentration in Telfairia occidentalis also decreased with freezing storage. Significant reduction (p<0.05) in the parameter from 2.85 g kg-1 in fresh sample to 2.40 g kg-1 was recorded in one week of freezing. The mean values obtained in second weeks (2.29 g kg-1), third weeks (2.07 g kg-1) and fourth weeks (1.84 g kg-1) frozen leaves of Telfairia occidentalis were significantly the same with that of the first week (Fig. 3).
Total oxalate concentration: Analysis of total oxalate content in fresh samples of Telfairia occidentalis showed that the oxalate concentration decreased significantly (p<0.05) in one week of cold storage from 4.39 to 3.12 g kg-1.
Fig. 1: Effect of freezing on cyanide content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
Fig. 2: Effect of freezing on nitrate content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
Fig. 3: Effect of freezing on soluble oxalate content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
In the subsequent second, third and fourth weeks, the oxalate content remained significantly unchanged and the values obtained were 3.12, 3.0 8 and 2.86 g kg-1, respectively (Fig. 4).
β-carotene concentration: The β-carotene content in the fresh sample (18859.00 μg/100 g) of Telfairia occidentalis decreased significantly (p<0.05) in the second weeks of freezing to 16072.00 μg/100 g. The decreased in the first week (17427.00 μg/100 g) was however, not significant. The values obtained for the third (14941.70 μg/100 g) and fourth weeks (14690 μg/100 g) also indicated reduction in the concentration of β-carotene which was not significantly different from those of the first and second weeks (Fig. 5).
Fig. 4: Effect of freezing on total oxalate content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
Fig. 5: Effect of freezing β-carotene content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
Vitamin C concentration: The concentration of vitamin C in fresh sample of Telfairia occidentalis decreased significantly (p<0.05) during one week of freezing from 192.28 to 19.15 mg/100 g. The concentrations obtained in the second, third and fourth weeks of freezing also indicate decreased in the vitamin content which were insignificantly different from the first week and the values obtained were 14.24, 12.60 and 11.50 mg/100 g, respectively (Fig. 6).
Iron concentration: The results obtained from the analysis of Fe content in Telfairia occidentalis showed that its decreased significantly (p<0.05) from 23.43 mg kg-1 in fresh sample to 19.55 mg kg-1 in one week of freezing.
Fig. 6: Effect of freezing on vitamin C content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
Fig. 7: Effect of freezing on iron content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
The mean value obtained in the second weeks (16.41 mg kg-1) was significantly the same with the third weeks (15.42 mg kg-1) and fourth weeks (15.29 mg kg-1) of freezing, however, these values were significantly (p<0.05) lower than the first weeks of freezing (Fig. 7).
Copper concentration: Freezing had no significant effect on Cu concentration in Telfairia occidentalis during the storage period. The mean values obtained in fresh and those frozen samples for one, two, three and four weeks were 18.70, 18.48, 18.35, 16.59 and 15.7 6 mg kg-1, respectively (Fig. 8).
Magnesium concentration: The Mg concentration in Telfairia occidentalis also decreased with freezing duration. Significant reduction (p<0.05) in the mineral concentration from 48.81 mg kg-1 in fresh sample to 39.26 mg kg-1 was observed in the third weeks of storage in deep freezer.
Fig. 8: Effect of freezing on copper content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
Fig. 9: Effect of freezing on magnesium content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
The mean value obtained in the fourth weeks (37.57 mg kg-1) indicated reduction in Mg content which was not significantly different from second weeks (41.05 mg kg-1). The mineral concentration in first week (47.19 mg kg-1) was however significantly higher compared to those in the third and fourth weeks (Fig. 9).
Sodium concentration: Significant reduction (p<0.05) of Na concentration in Telfairia occidentalis during freezing from 11.48 mg kg-1 in fresh sample to 8.76 mg kg-1 was observed in second weeks of storage. The decreased in the first week (9.86 mg kg-1) was however, not significant.
Fig. 10: Effect of freezing on sodium content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
Fig. 11: Effect of freezing on potassium content in Telfairia occidentalis. Bars carrying the same letter are not significantly different (p>0.05)
The mean values obtained for the third (8.48 mg kg-1) and fourth (8.10 mg kg-1) weeks also indicated reduction in concentration which was not significantly different from those of the first and second weeks (Fig. 10).
Potassium concentration: The concentration of K in Telfairia occidentalis also decreases with freezing time. Significant decreased (p<0.05) in the mineral concentration from 183.92 mg kg-1 in fresh sample to 150.00 mg kg-1 was recorded in three weeks of storage in the deep freezer. The mean value obtained in the fourth weeks (135.63 mg kg-1) indicated reduction in mineral content which was not significantly different from second weeks (161.25 mg kg-1). The K content in the first week (168.75 mg kg-1) of storage was however, significantly higher (p<0.05) than those in the third and fourth weeks (Fig. 11).
The decreasing effect of freezing on cyanide content in Telfairia occidentalis agreed with the reported of Richard (1991) and McDonald et al. (2006) to the effect that freezing ruptures the plant cells which resulted in the release of cell contents including cyanide. The solubility of cyanide in water was also responsible for the decreased of its concentration during freezing (Budavari et al., 1989). Thus cyanide may be trapped in the ice and released during thawing. The cyanide concentration of 170.83 mg kg-1 in the fresh sample of Telfairia occidentalis is very close to the maximum permissible level of 200 mg kg-1 of cyanide in fresh weight (Everist, 1981; Richard, 1991) were reduced more than half of this value after one and subsequent weeks of freezing. The result obtained indicates that the cyanide content in the vegetable could be reduced to safe level by freezing.
The results in this study which show that there was a lower concentration of nitrate in frozen samples than in the fresh sample of Telfairia occidentalis is in line with the findings of Bakr and Gawish (1997), who showed that freezing reduced the nitrate content in the vegetables. The authors ascribed the decrease to the leaching of the cell content caused by freezing and defrosting. The general weekly decline of nitrate content in the vegetable during freezing is also in agreement with the submission of Bakr and Gawish (1997), who reported that losses of nitrate during freezing storage increase with freezing time. The nitrate concentration in fresh sample of Telfairia occidentalis, was higher than the Acceptable Daily Intake of 220 mg (Macrae et al., 1997) and 219 mg (Anjana et al., 2007) for a 60 kg person (if 100 g day-1 is consumed). Thus consumption of raw samples of the vegetable could lead to nitrate overload and could subject the body to disease conditions associated with nitrate toxicities such as metheamoglobinaemia and cancer (Galler, 1997; Macrae et al., 1997; Mevissen, 1997; Mozolewski and Smoczynski, 2004; Anjana et al., 2007). However, one week of freezing is required to reduce the nitrate concentration in Telfairia occidentalis to the recommended Acceptable Daily Intake.
The decreased in soluble and total oxalates concentration in the frozen leaves compared to fresh leaves of Telfairia occidentalis recorded in this work corroborates with the report of Ogbadoyi et al. (2006). The authors observed that freezing of tissues at high moisture content results in the formation of ice crystals within the cells. The sharp edges of the crystals so formed are capable of shredding the cell membranes resulting in cell leakage. This finding is in conformity with the report of Richard (1991), Fellow (2000) and McDonald et al. (2006) that freezing imparts physical injury to the cell, alters the pigments which are sources of bioactive The soluble and total oxalates concentration in fresh leaves of Telfairia occidentalis are more than the permissible level of 250 mg kg-1 fresh weight as reported by Oguchi et al. (1996). Thus regular consumption of fresh leaves of the vegetable can cause oxalate toxicosis with attendant health problems of kidney stone, reduction of bioavailability of elements, electrolyte imbalance and irritation of digestive system (Antia et al., 2006; Prohp et al., 2006; Musa et al., 2011; Ogbadoyi et al., 2011; Musa and Ogbadoyi, 2012a, b).Fortunately one and two weeks of freezing reduced the soluble and total oxalates content in Telfairia occidentalis to tolerable level, respectively.
The reduction of β-carotene content in Telfairia occidentalis during freezing has been attributed to the physical injury and alteration of the plant pigments (Fellow, 2000; McDonald et al., 2006). Booth et al. (1992) stated that the observed decrease in the β-carotene concentration in the vegetable during storage in the freezer may be as a result of enzymatic activity coupled with oxidation associated with conjugated double bond in the compound. Dutta et al. (2005) observed that the loss of β-carotene in frozen vegetables could be due to non-oxidative changes (cis-trans isomerisation, epoxide formation) or oxidative changes on exposure light and oxygen. The insignificant difference recorded in the β-carotene concentration in second to fourth weeks of cold storage could be seen as a result of decrease in endogenous enzymatic activity and reduction of oxidation of the provitamin A as freezing storage progresses. The β-carotene concentration in the fresh and frozen leaves of Telfairia occidentalis contained over and above the recommended adult daily allowance of 900 μg of vitamin A (George, 1999; Akanya, 2004). The implication of this is that because β-carotene is abundant in Telfairia occidentalis and non-hydrosoluble, its residual concentration in the frozen samples are high enough to meet the normal adult recommended daily allowance. The results obtained therefore imply that freezing the leaves of Telfairia occidentalis within the studied periods may not require any pharmaceutical supplements of β-carotene.
The significant higher vitamin C concentration in the fresh sample of Telfairia occidentalis than its frozen leaves is in agreement with findings of Olaofe (1992), Yadav and Sehgal (1995), Yadav and Sehgal (1997), Lisiewska and Kmiecik (2000), Ejoh et al. (2005), Bergquist et al. (2006), McDonald et al. (2006) and Gebczynski (2006). The observation made in this study and those of the above researchers contradicts the observations of Mathew and Hall (1987), who found that total vitamin C concentration remained relatively constant throughout the frozen storage period for all samples (pepper, strawberries, green beans, etc). Olaofe (1992) attributed the reduction of the vitamin concentration to be partly due to the enzymatic activities of vitamin C oxidase, cytochrome oxidase and vitamin C peroxidase that were endogenously present. The results agreed with the report of Bergquist et al. (2006) that during freezing of vegetables the ascorbic acid concentration decreased considerably and the dehydroascorbic acid/vitamin C ratio increased. This finding could suggest that during cold storage, ascorbic acid may undergo oxidation to dehydroascorbic acid by some of the endogenous enzymes. Tosun and Yucecan (2007) added that the chemical, biochemical and physical reactions that occurred in vegetables after harvesting do not completely stop during frozen storage and this may lead to the oxidation of susceptible molecules like ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while McDonald et al. (2006) stressed that the observed decrease in the vitamin C content during freezing is as a result of thawing. The insignificant difference in the vitamin C content in first to fourth week of storage may be that during the first week of freezing, the physical injury and alteration of pigments reported by Fellow (2000) and McDonald et al. (2006) and the enzymatic oxidation of ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid (Olaofe, 1992; Bergquist et al., 2006) may be at the peak within one week of storage. However, these processes might have declined considerably as freezing storage progresses. The fresh leaves of Telfairia occidentalis could supply enough of vitamin C to meet the recommended daily allowance of 60 mg (Olaofe, 1992; George, 1999) if 100 g of the samples are consumed. However, Telfairia occidentalis contained some plant toxins that could be reduced to tolerable level through freezing. Although, the residual vitamin C concentration in the frozen leaves of the vegetable was lower than the recommended daily allowance. Since vitamin C play important roles in human health and diseases associated from its deficiency, pharmaceutical supplementation of the vitamin will be necessary to augment its losses during freezing storage. This will enable the body to meet the dietary requirement of this water soluble vitamin.
The reduction in mineral element (Fe, Cu, Mg, Na and K) concentrations in Telfairia occidentalis with freezing time in the current study may be as results of infliction of physical injuries to the cell wall of the leaves of the vegetable by ice crystals that were formed during freezing which eventually leads to cell leakage (Polo et al., 1992; Pruthi, 1999; Fellow (2000); Hui et al., 2004; McDonald et al. (2006). Freezer burn which also occurs during cold storage of vegetables and other soft plant materials at the temperature of -4°C is known to decrease the bioactive compounds including the mineral elements. The significant reduction in the mineral elements content in some of the vegetables during freezing agrees with the report of Hui et al. (2004), who reported that significant amount of macro and micro mineral elements concentration in vegetables are lost following freezing. Similarly the insignificant effect of freezing on Cu concentration in the vegetable throughout the freezing duration also support the finding of Polo et al. (1992) and Hui et al. (2004). The authors stressed that, even though there was a decreased in the mineral element in vegetables during freezing, it is not significant. These two factions of the results obtained may suggest that the retention of mineral elements in frozen samples or reductions of mineral in vegetables during freezing storage depend to a great extend on the plant species/cultivars and the form in which the mineral exist (Hui et al., 2004). It is believed that mineral elements that exist as free ions can easily be leached out during freezing when compared with those that are chemically bond or form complexes with other compounds.
The results of this present study revealed that freezing the leaves of Telfairia occidentalis at -4°C in a deep freezer for one week significantly reduced the concentrations of the plant toxins to tolerable levels and safeguard the micronutrients content in the vegetable. This finding thus imply that short time freezing do not only maintaining the quality of fresh vegetable, but it also reduces the phytotoxins content in the vegetable and thereby reduce the incidence of disease conditions associated with ingestion of high concentration of the phytotoxins.
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Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Jungle Gyms
Movie theaters are in an arms race of amenities. Better chairs, more legroom, better food options, alcoholic beverages, meals served right at your seat; in the last few years, exhibitors have done whatever they can think of to drag people away from their computers and televisions. The latest gimmick, according to the Los Angeles Times: A freaking jungle gym in the actual auditorium.
This innovation, from Mexican theater chain Cinepolis, tricks out theaters with “a colorful play area near the screen in front of the seats, a jungle gym, and cushy beanbag chairs.” Admission to the so-called “Cinepolis Junior” costs $3 more than a regular ticket, but with that upcharge comes the freedom to arrive early and stay late, where kids ages 3 to 12 can play with “plastic hippos and alligators in the faux-turf, fenced-in play space” and to ride a slide and an obstacle course on one of the aisles. Plus, they can occasionally glance in the vague direction of the screen where the movie is playing.
Here’s a picture of one of Cinepolis’ Junior theaters in Spain:
Announcing the first ever dedicated children’s movie theater in the U.S., #CinepolisJunior! Featuring a play structure with slides, play area with tire-climbers, unique seating like bean bags and lounge chairs, and much more, Cinépolis Junior is making its debut at Cinépolis Pico Rivera and Cinépolis Vista on March 16. Click our profile link to learn more about Cinépolis Junior from the @LATimes. (Cinépolis Junior in Spain pictured)
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A Cinepolis executive told the Times the concept was designed to “make kids feel welcome and comfortable.” And I think putting up jungle gyms or playgrounds for kids in movie theater lobbies makes a lot of sense; that concept has certainly worked well for fast food restaurants for decades. But a jungle gym inside the actual auditorium? That seems like a recipe for disaster, or at least for completely distracted viewing. Why should parents pay extra for a movie ticket when their kid isn’t even going to watch the movie, particularly when they could just go to a playground for free?
As the parent of a young girl who’s not quite ready to go to the movie theater, this idea doesn’t exactly get me excited for our first father-daughter trip to the multiplex. In fact, I’d go pretty much anywhere else before I took her to a theater with a playground in it. But if you disagree, and you live in the Southern California area, you can take your little ones to Cinepolis Junior when it opens on March 16 at two of the chain’s locations.
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British PM Theresa May “Irritated” By Leadership Speculation
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London, United Kingdom:
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday she was “irritated” by speculation about a leadership contest as she slammed former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, seen as her most likely challenger.
The centre-right Conservative Party’s leader said she was focused on securing a Brexit deal rather than her own future, in a BBC television interview marking the six-month countdown to Britain’s departure from the European Union.
May blasted Johnson for using “completely inappropriate” language when he described her Brexit blueprint as putting Britain in a “suicide vest”.
Asked about her plans to stay in the job, she said: “I get a little bit irritated but this debate is not about my future — this debate is about the future of the people of the UK and the future of the United Kingdom.
“That’s what I’m focused on and that’s what we should all be focused on.”
The leader added it was important to ensure “we get that good deal from the European Union which is good for people in the UK, wherever they live in the UK”.
Johnson, who quit the cabinet over May’s proposals to keep Britain close to the EU on trade, is the bookmakers’ favourite to succeed May, ahead of interior minister Sajid Javid, eurosceptic backbench leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, environment minister Michael Gove and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
May’s Conservative minority government contains a sizeable bloc of hardcore Brexiteers headed by Rees-Mogg and would likely need the support of the left-wing main opposition Labour Party, or a chunk of their MPs, to get her Brexit proposals through parliament.
Keir Starmer, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, said any EU deal must meet Labour’s key Brexit tests, which include delivering the “exact same benefits” as Britain currently has inside the single market and customs union, to win their support.
In a letter published by The Sunday Times, he said they also could not back a loosely worded agreement: “A vague political declaration would not meet those tests. Labour will not — and cannot — vote for a blind Brexit.”
Meanwhile London Mayor Sadiq Khan added his weight to calls for a second Brexit referendum on the outcome of Britain’s EU departure negotiations.
Writing in The Observer newspaper, he said Britain faces either a bad Brexit deal or no deal.
“They are both incredibly risky and I don’t believe Theresa May has the mandate to gamble so flagrantly with the British economy and people’s livelihoods,” he wrote.
The Labour politician said voters need to be given a new referendum.
“This means a public vote on any Brexit deal obtained by the government, or a vote on a no-deal Brexit if one is not secured, alongside the option of staying in the EU,” he wrote.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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Home Gossip Report: Man United in talks with Chinese club over Fellaini
Report: Man United in talks with Chinese club over Fellaini
Andrew Smyth
4:48 pm - January 29, 2019
An unnamed Chinese club have been reportedly in negotiations with Manchester United over signing Marouane Fellaini.
The 31-year-old midfielder has been at Old Trafford since the summer of 2013 after his former Everton boss David Moyes signed him for £27.5m on deadline day.
Fellaini has been an ever-present figure in the United squad under Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho.
The Belgium international has only managed 31 minutes of action under interim coach Ole Gunner Solskjaer since replaced Mourinho on December 18.
This is due to a calf injury Fellaini sustained in training with Solskjaer revealing on January 18 that the midfielder will likely be out for a “few weeks”.
But Sky Sports reports that Fellaini’s time at United may be coming to a quicker an anticipated end after an approach from an unnamed Chinese club.
Apparently, United and this club are locked in negotiations right now over Fellaini’s transfer to the Far East.
This comes as a big surprise given that he only signed a new two-year deal last summer after allowing his original contract to run out at the end of last season.
Solskjaer admits United need a player like Bryan Robson
The Red Devils manager believes the former midfielder had a lot of class and this is exactly what the team needs.
Despite the English transfer window closing on Thursday, neither United or this unnamed club will be in a hurry to conclude a deal with the Chinese Super League deadline set until February 28.
Speaking in a press conference on Monday, Solskjaer had suggested that there would be no departures from Old Trafford come Thursday.
“At the moment, I can see everyone staying at the club because no deal has been done with anyone I think, but then again there is still a few more days,” said Solskjaer.
“But I am not too involved in the negotiations so whatever happens, happens. It will be good to get the window closed so we can just focus on the squad and just improving the ones that stay here.”
Fellaini has managed 22 goals and 12 assists in 177 appearances for United across all competitions.
The Belgian has won the FA Cup, EFL Cup, Europa League and Community Shield in his five and a half years at the Red Devils.
Should a move to China go ahead, Fellaini will join his Belgium team-mate Mousa Dembele after he left Tottenham for Guangzhou R&F earlier this month.
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Thrilling Video of Ted Cruz Apologizing to Filipino Veterans Over the “Bataan Death March” Joke
At the tail end of Ted Cruz’s 21-hour* filibuster, the senator from Texas offered thanks to the staffers who had been forced to keep at their stations all day and all of the night. According to Cruz, they’d suffered through “this Bataan death march” and deserved thanks.
It was only the second wince-inducing World War II reference of the speech. The winner remained Cruz’s comparison of Republican moderates to Neville Chamberlain, which he apologized for quickly. But it was enough to spur a filmed meeting with Filipino veterans, who got the full Cruz treatment as he apologized profusely for accidentally making light of the death march.
I call this the “full Cruz” because the senator pivots quickly to some anecdotes that anyone who’s seen him speak will be familiar with. He can understand their suffering, because his father suffered in Cuba. He fights for veterans, as he did when fought for the right to display crosses for soldiers on public land. Not really sure that the lobbyists made the sale on their legislation.
*I just keep asterisk-ing because other senators helped fill some time.
Read the rest of Slate’s coverage of the government shutdown.
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Amazon Prime has been grabbing all the attention now when it comes to the New Gen Indian audience. While at one point, Indian viewers had no other alternatives rather than to rely on Netflix for some great original content, Amazon Prime has gradually grabbed all the limelight. With some successful series of lined up contents like Breathless, Mirzapur, Four More Shots etc. the Indian section of audience, not relying on the Saas Bahu daily soaps has finally achieved something truly satisfying their modern appetites for entertainment. And recently out of this Entertainment Pandora’s Box, released one of the most anticipated series by Zoya Akhtar “Made in Heaven”.
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The “Gully Boy” fame director has been winning all the applause for her incredible direction in various films and “Made in Heaven” definitely adds a feather to her success crown. While most of the audience has accepted this recently released web series with a broad outlook considering how it mirrors the real turbulences in marriages, many of them have also criticised it for its explicit & wild depiction of sex, use of raunchy dialogues and definitely unusually abusive vocabulary. However for me, ‘Made in Heaven’ stands out to be another realistic sketches by Zoya Akhtar of the so-called polished and successful marriages that seem to be made in heaven but are actually grounded on harsh human reality.
The story has a setting of South Delhi where Tara and Karan are running a successful wedding planning organization, “Made In Heaven”. Karan belongs to an ordinary middle-class family while Tara Khanna is married to one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, Mr. Adil Khanna. However, both of them are trying to invest on their own dreams and curate a successful business with their venture of Made in Heaven. This 9 episode web series deals with several subplots with the main plot of Tara, Karan, Adil and Faiza{ Tara’s best friend and Adil’s secret extra-marital alliance} running parallel with full force.
The best part of this entire web series is how beautifully Zoya Akhtar pronounces the nuances of the apparently perfect marriages that are established in the urban strata of the South Delhi society. Every episode deals with a particular negative tone that are usually present in all the metropolitan based weddings, but take a backseat amidst the glitz, glamour and wealth spent on the ceremony.
Elaborating much on the plot might deviate you from the main subject. For me, “Made in Heaven” is more than an ordinary web series as helps you to contemplate on several issues in real life. I would love to take this as a story that leaves you behind with a number of lessons to consider.
Karma Never Lets Anyone Escape
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The foremost and perhaps the most important lesson that Zoya wants to portray is how Karma takes its course. Whoever you are, whatever you might have achieved in life, Karma won’t let you go from its vicious circle. So when Tara’s husband cheats upon her, we cannot let go off the fact that how Tara had earlier seduced Adil into a marriage by breaking his prospective engagement. Similarly Karan gets back his results of embarrassing his gay partner Nawab years later when he himself gets arrested for his homosexual relationships and atrociously abashed by the public, media and surely the police. The bottom line remains nobody gets exempted from Karma’s rules.
Your Soulmate Might Not Necessarily Be Your Romancing Partner
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While we always tend to identify our husband or wife as our real soulmate, sometimes true friendship might lie outside romance, as portrayed by the beautiful equation shared by Tara and Karan. While they are business partners, professionally involved in “Made in Heaven”, simultaneously they stand out to be each other’s’ soulmates without pronouncing the strong bonding shared between them explicitly. Karan rushes to Tara’s help when her husband Adil meets with an accident and his extra-marital involvement gets revealed and Tara hurries to Karan’s assistance when he gets arrested. In fact, these two have remained together through every thick and thin. Their chemistry is not limited to the fine barriers of a love relationship or just a professional alliance. They count on each other blindly for every sort of support, financially, psychologically or even physically. The mere presence of each other for each other validates their solid chemistry.
Never Forget Your Roots
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Zoya Akhtar maintains the fine art of subtlety while addressing some of the major realities of life. Taara might be married to one of the best blue-blooded families in Delhi and initially she gets lost in the polished tones of the urban society where she wins all the fame and success with her husband’s wealth but unfortunately there isn’t any happiness. However as the series moves on, Taara’s lost happiness is discovered in the teenage lanes of Purani Dilli where she used to enjoy her delicious, unhygienic golgappas, get herself groomed in the grooming classes and finally her sister’s home where there might be little wealth but there is never-ending happiness in the petty things of life.
Never Be Guilty of Your Identity
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This might seem to be quite an unrealistic lesson but the truth lies in the fact that that if you do not respect your choices, nobody will. Karan could have easily surrendered to the injustice and unethical invasion of privacy by his landlord. However he returned to the same house abiding by the terms of the legal agreement and confronted the situation with complete honesty. He had realised the intensity of the mistake he had committed in his childhood. He accepted that he was a gay not only in front of his family and the entire media but also started spreading the word about gay rights among his fellow listeners. Had he obliged to the wrong that the society has done to him, the same conditions would have followed that happened with his landlord.
Nothing is Above and Beyond Wealth
One of the best ways of Zoya Akhtar’s attack against this shallow society is the fine art of irony she executes throughout. While Taara’s husband claims to love her blindly{which definitely isn’t true considering the kind of extra-marital relationship he shares}, he remains extremely professional and materialistic when it comes to the monetary profits and loss ratios of “Made in Heaven” where he had invested. You might call it core professionalism, but at the same time, it’s quite hard to accept a man who wildly makes love to his wife at night, puzzling her the next morning with his series of questionnaires regarding “Made in Heaven’s performance charts.
Apart from these lessons, every episode is an endeavor of Zoya to chart out the vicissitudes of Indian marriage where there is glitz and glamour along with unending chains of hypocrisy and greed. There resides a fine juxtaposition of contradictory traits throughout every episode. Where there is love, there is greed, where there is trust, there’s betrayal and the chain goes on. While Made in Heaven remains to be one of our best web series, we are eagerly waiting for the genius Akhtar to bring on the sequel to the masterpiece soon.
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22 Oct 2007 : Column 162Wcontinued
Stop and Search: Greater London
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions police used stop and search powers contained in section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each London constituency in each of the last five years. [158785]
Mr. McNulty: Information held by the Ministry of Justice on the number of stops and searches, under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, is available at police force area level only.
The latest annual HOSB Arrests for Recorded Crime (Notifiable Offences) and the Operation of Certain Police Powers under PACE, England and Wales, 2004/05 can be found on the Home Office website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb2105.pdf
The Metropolitan police has, however, published on 25 September 2007 a borough breakdown of S44 stop and searches, covering the period April to August 2007. These figures are available on the Metropolitan police website on the following link:
http://www.met.police.uk/foi/pdfs/how_are_we_doing/corporate/mps_stops_and_searches_under_the_terrorism_act_april-august_2007.pdf
Departments: Correspondence
Bob Spink: To ask the Prime Minister what guidance his Office follows on the maximum time taken to respond to hon. Members' correspondence; and what performance against that target was in the most recent period for which figures are available. [158587]
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The Prime Minister: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Ed Miliband) today.
Departments: Secondment
Norman Baker: To ask the Prime Minister how many staff are seconded to his Department from outside Government; from which outside body each has been seconded; and what the length is of each secondment. [157912]
The Prime Minister: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary at the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons (Helen Goodman) on 18 October 2007, Official Report, column 1182W.
Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to his answer of 15th October 2007, Official Report,
column 820W, on Iraq: peacekeeping operations, for what reason he has not identified any of the factors he took into account in deciding when to inform the Secretary of State for Defence of his decision to announce troop withdrawals from Iraq. [160079]
The Prime Minister: I have nothing further to add to the answer I gave the hon. Member on 15 October 2007, Official Report, column 820W.
Members: Honours
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Prime Minister how many (a) hon. and right hon. Members and (b) Government Ministers have received honours while in post in the last 10 years. [159461]
The Prime Minister: This is a matter of public record. The Honours Lists are published in The London Gazette on the occasion of The Queens birthday in June and at new year.
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Attention: All aspiring HR Managers, Directors or VPs:
Here’s ideal weekend reading or entertainment for those long, boring
plane rides…as you discover how to make promotional opportunities FIND YOU!
“Everyone in HR gets rejected for a job
at some point in their career.”
However, the key to reducing the chances
of that happening to YOU is to embrace
and act on the NUMBER ONE thing!
What is that NUMBER ONE thing?
Well, in She Stole My HR Promotion, you’ll discover what it is. Sit back, relax, grab your favorite beverage and enjoy this totally entertaining story that will grip you from start to finish.
This unforgettable novel will take you on a fictional journey into the world of Drake Williams, an HR director who gets passed over for a promotion…and absolutely does NOT see it coming…and loses this job to a person that shocks him beyond belief!
Drake has every right to believe he will promoted to be the new Vice President of Human Resources at the NuStyle Foods & Snacks Corporation.
He’s practically a shoo-in for the job.
He has everything going for him.
He knows his stuff in HR.
He’s a workaholic.
His boss is his biggest advocate.
Everybody knows and respects him.
And, besides, the firm desperately wants an African-American on the firm’s top leadership team. And he’d be the first one.
Drake is blindsided and shocked beyond belief when the CEO screws him over and instead names an unknown outsider to the job, a mysterious and savvy white female — who now becomes his boss!
He is further blown away when their relationship quickly takes an unexpected turn, spirals out of control and now threatens his job.
They both become engaged in a roller-coaster, winner-take-all corporate power struggle featuring romance, racial tension, lying, deception, betrayal, snitching, discrimination, potential sexual harassment, workplace gossip and corporate politics that risks blowing up in Drake’s face, tearing his world apart and ruining his career in HR forever, if he doesn’t do something about it.
But what does he do?
What lessons does he learn in the process?
What would YOU do if this happened to you?
How does all this apply to you?
Well, I guess you’ll have to dive into these pages to find out. One hint: The powerful secret he learned about advancing his career in HR is revealed at the very end of this story.
Here’s what you’ll gain from this book:
You’ll discover THE NUMBER ONE SUCCESS SECRET that you can apply in your own HR career to minimize your chances of getting overlooked for future promotions…whether they arise within or outside of your current organization.
You’ll be able to sit back, grab your favorite beverage and enjoy this engrossing, totally entertaining story that will grip you from start to finish — and is unlike any other HR book you’ve ever read. It’s ideal as weekend reading or as entertainment for those long, boring plane rides!
You’ll uncover the eye-opening, brutal truth about how to make HR promotional opportunities practically find YOU…and how to increase your chances of advancing your Human Resources career in today’s volatile, unpredictable business environment.
This entertaining novel addresses one of the BIGGEST FRUSTRATIONS that you’ll ever face in your career in Human Resources…
And that’s getting passed over for that
HR promotion that you worked hard for
and thought you richly deserved!
If you aspire to become a Human Resources Manager, Director or VP and you’ve ever experienced getting overlooked yourself, you know how frustrating, painful and devastating this can be.
Whether you truly believed you deserved the job or were promised it by your boss or the higher ups, no one likes being denied that next move up the ladder of success. It can keep you up at night for weeks struggling to figure out what went wrong.
However, this isn’t a unique situation.
Let’s face it, advancing your career in HR is freaking hard. You give it everything you have, but sometimes, it feels like it’s just not enough. When that happens though, you need a strategy for dealing with it. Do you have one?
If not, what are you waiting on? Buckle up, dive into these pages and enjoy the ride towards discovering what you can do to begin enhancing your career in HR!
But before you do, please heed this warning:
THIS BOOK IS FICTION, PG-18, FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
This novel, much like the business world, contains profanity and portrays adult situations. If you are not offended watching PG-18 or R-rated movies on cable TV, then this story should NOT offend you either. That said, there’s no guarantee that you won’t be stunned or taken aback at times. But consider that all part of the journey. But it also an engrossing and entertaining QUICK read for those in HR, who are career-minded and success oriented, but much too busy to read those same old boring HR books.
Very powerful message
Very powerful message. I wish I would have known about it years ago when I began in HR. It would have saved me lots of time trying to figure things out on my own. However, I believe if you know this now, it will put you in a great position to take advantage of new promotional opportunities.”
Sheila Prentice, SPHR
Senior Manager – Talent Acquisiton, Celgene
A true to life suspense filled story for HR folks
Collins & Quinn tell a true to life suspense filled story that unfolds an important success secret for HR folks. The novel covers it all: corporate politics, betrayal and surprises at every turn. This book could very well make or break your career promotions. The narrative is a must read with surprises at the end …but don’t cheat.
Michael L. Cohen,
Former VP Human Resources Development, Quaker Oats
Could not put this book down
Loved it! A real page turner that I could not put down. An unexpected, but inspiring surprise at the end. I’m doing some of the things suggested, but it gave me some practical, brand new ideas that I hadn’t thought about to use to prepare for my next HR move.
Mallie Ross-Hernandez
Director – HR Operations, JetBlue Airlines
ALAN L. COLLINS is Founder of Success in HR and helps human resources pros around the globe accelerate their career success. He is the author of ten books including the Amazon best sellers Unwritten HR Rules, HR Interview Secrets and The New HR Leader’s First 100 Days. He was formerly vice president of HR at PepsiCo where he led talent and human resources initiatives for the Quaker Oats, Gatorade and Tropicana businesses.
ALLISON P. QUINN is a novelist and fiction writer of entertaining stories about finding success and meaning in the workplace. All of her stories are quick reads which help professionals in today’s organizations succeed. She specializes in infusing her stories with workplace romance, mystery and intrigue to carry the reader on a journey of discovery towards realizing that ONE, single golden nugget of wisdom she has waiting at the end.
ANSWERED BY CO-AUTHOR, ALAN COLLINS
Q: I don’t like novels. Why a novel instead of just a straightforward non-fiction, HR book that deals with this topic?
A: We didn’t want this to be another boring, theoretical HR book. And frankly, a novel is the best way of conveying the important message in this book in a way both entertaining as well as educational.
As a lifelong HR pro, I’ve had this story rolling around in my head for over ten years, but I didn’t have the writing ability to be able to tell the story by myself as a novel. So I needed someone with experience to partner with me in order to tell it in a fun and engaging way.
Enter: Allison Quinn. She’s been a great collaborator and co-author. She helped bring the story in my head to life. She’s an awesomely gifted up and coming novelist and fiction writer who has a knack for creating realistic, relatable characters and intriguing stories. This book would not have been possible without her prodigious story-telling talent.
The book will expose you to one of her roller-coaster tales that will grip you from start to finish. So buckle up, dive in and enjoy the ride.
So even if you don’t like novels, you’ll LOVE this one!
Q: I hear that there’s sex described in this book. Is that true?
A: You’ll find some heated romance here, profanity and yes, a little sex. But let’s be clear, you’re NOT going to find porn, erotica, explicit smut or kinky situations. This is NOT that kind of book!
But make no mistake about it — this is a juicy tale for ADULTS only.
Here’s the deal: if you’re not offended watching PG-18 movies or some R-rated movies on Netflix or cable TV, then this book should not offend you either. Consider this a highly entertaining, romantic business story with a surprising, yet powerful message for all HR folks at the end. With all that said, I can’t guarantee that you won’t be surprised, shocked or even taken aback at times. But consider that part of the ride.
You’ll also find racial tension, lying, deception, betrayal, snitching, discrimination, potential sexual harassment, workplace gossip and corporate politics in this book. All realistically depicted just like you’ll find in today’s workplace.
Q: Tell us more about this mysterious NUMBER ONE HR CAREER SUCCESS SECRET?
Nice try. But you’ll need to get the book find out what it is.
However, know this – just about all extraordinarily successful HR folks who move ahead in their careers already employ this NUMBER ONE thing – even though they may be doing it unconsciously.
So, is this really new? Frankly, no. I’ve written about it very subtly before, but you’d have to read five of my books to get it — and you’d have to know exactly where and what to look for. In this book, there’s no mystery about it. Allison and I cut through the crap. You’ll find it here in ONE spot and you’ll be entertained in the process.
So, is there really, really a NUMBER ONE thing? Yes, there is. Definitely. And there are a number of ways you can apply it — all of which you’ll find actionable and doable and will allow you to create that breakthrough you might need in your HR career. In fact, I’ll share five different ways to apply this NUMBER ONE SUCCESS SECRET at the end of the book. And once you know it, you’ll come up with others yourself.
That’s all I’ll say.
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Superior Gold Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2019 Production Results
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STOPE GRADE CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
CASH BALANCE INCREASED
(In US Dollars unless otherwise stated)
TORONTO, July 10, 2019 - Superior Gold Inc. ("Superior Gold" or the "Company") (TSXV:SGI) announces detailed production results for the second quarter from the Company's 100%-owned Plutonic Gold operations, located in Western Australia.
SECOND QUARTER PRODUCTION DETAILS
Production details are summarized in the table below:
Operating Parameters1
Three month
period ended
YTD Six month
Stope material mined (Tonnes)
Stope grade mined (g Au/t)
Development material mined (Tonnes)
Development grade mined (g Au/t)
Hermes material mined (g Au/t/)
Hermes grade mined (Tonnes)
Hermes waste mined (Tonnes)
Surface material milled (Tonnes)2
Surface material grade (g Au/t)2
Total material milled (Tonnes)
Grade milled (g Au/t)
Gold recovery (%)
Gold Produced (ounces)
Gold Sold (ounces)
Cash Balance ($ Million)
1 Numbers may not add due to rounding.
2 Surface material milled in Q119 and Q219 is primarily from Hermes but includes additional material totalling 6,786 tonnes (at 0.36 g Au/t) and 4,918 tonnes (at 0.39 g Au/t), respectively.
Chris Bradbrook, President and CEO of Superior Gold stated: "We are pleased with our second quarter production results where the underground operational improvements, which commenced in the first quarter of the year, resulted in a 21% increase in stoping tonnage and a 20% higher stoping grade relative to the first quarter. As previously articulated, the focus continues to be on underground operations as mining at Hermes concluded during the quarter, with surface stockpile material being processed for the remainder of the year.
Total quarterly production increased 6% relative to the prior quarter. The cash balance increased relative to the first quarter to $17.3 million. We remain focused on increasing stope grade, quarterly production and cash balance for the remainder of the year.
Our production guidance for the full year remains unchanged at between 92,000 ounces to 105,000 ounces of gold from the Plutonic Gold operations."
The Company will be releasing complete financial and operating results for the second quarter before market open on August 14, 2019.
Scientific and technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Pascal Blampain, who is a member of the AusIMM and the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and a "qualified person" within the meaning of NI 43-101. Mr. Blampain is an employee of the Company and serves as Chief Geologist.
About Superior Gold
Superior Gold is a Canadian based gold producer that owns 100% of the Plutonic Gold operations located in Western Australia. The Plutonic Gold operations include the Plutonic Gold mine and central mill, the Hermes open pit gold project and an interest in the Bryah Basin joint venture. Superior Gold is focused on expanding production at the Plutonic Gold operations and building an intermediate gold producer with superior returns for shareholders.
Superior Gold Inc.
Brian Szeto, Vice President Communications and Strategy
investor@superior-gold.com
Forward Looking Information
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws that is intended to be covered by the safe harbours created by those laws. "Forward-looking information" includes statements that use forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "potential" or the negative thereof or other variations thereof or comparable terminology. Forward looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, the Company's objectives, goals or future plans, and statements regarding exploration results and exploration plans.
Forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions of management at the date the statements are made. Furthermore, such forward-looking information involves a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual plans, intentions, activities, results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future plans, intentions, activities, results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. See "Risk Factors" in the Company's prospectus dated February 15, 2017 filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com for a discussion of these risks.
The Company cautions that there can be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Except as required by law, the Company does not assume any obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking information contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Experimental therapy restores nerve insulation damaged by autoimmune disease
Experimental molecular therapy restores insulation around peripheral nerves in mice, improves limb function, and results in less observable discomfort.
Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre report an experimental molecular therapy that restores insulation around peripheral nerves in mice, improves limb function, and results in less observable discomfort. These results were initially described in Nature Medicine in February 2018.
When the body attacks its own healthy tissues in an autoimmune disease, peripheral nerve damage handicaps sufferers, and causes persistent neuropathic pain when insulation around healing nerves does not fully regenerate.
To identify possible therapies, the international team of investigators performed small-molecule epigenetic screening for compounds that inhibit enzymes involved in epigenetic changes on chromosomes. These changes alter how gene activity is regulated within cells. The authors identified small molecular inhibitors already used to treat certain cancers and tested them in experimental treatments on mice with injured sciatic nerves.
The molecular compounds target the enzyme histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3). Study data show that HDAC3 inhibits regenerating insulation on recovering peripheral nerves.
The study’s principal investigator, Q. Richard Lu (Department of pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA), director of the Cincinnati Children’s Brain Tumor Center, says of the findings: “Remarkably, temporary inhibition of HDAC3 robustly accelerated the formation of myelin that helps insulate peripheral nerves. This promoted functional recovery in the animals after peripheral nerve injury.”
Restoring signal relays
The peripheral nervous system relays signals from the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system) to limbs and organs. HDAC3 is an enzyme found in humans and mice. Its usual job in peripheral nerve formation is to act as a molecular brake on the production of the myelin coating by Schwann cells.
After peripheral nerve injury, HDAC3 initiates epigenetic changes to chromosomes and gene regulation that excessively restrict myelin regeneration. This results in nerve insulation that is too thin or not totally formed, blocking or slowing signals between the spinal cord, extremities and organs.
Timing is crucial
Researchers carefully timed their targeted treatments when inhibiting HDAC3, treating the mouse models of nerve injury only during a critical phase of nerve regeneration. This resulted in the right amount of re-myelination to restore normal function in the animals.
Getting the timing right on transient treatment is critical, Lu says. Researchers show that blocking HDAC3 for too long allows myelin to overgrow and cause excessively thick insulation. This also can lead to functional problems in extremities, according to study data.
From science to medicine
Translating data in the current study to clinical application in human patients will require extensive additional research, Lu says. Now that the prospective therapy has been successfully tested in mice, researchers are exploring additional research in animal models that more closely mimic the repair of injured peripheral nerves in humans. This includes looking specifically at some demyelinating diseases that affect the central nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis.
This work will allow scientists to replicate and verify their findings in mice and other laboratory models. They also will be able to test possible dosing levels. If results are positive, Lu explains that researchers could pursue possible Phase I clinical trials in patients having deficient myelin in their peripheral and central nervous systems.
Other collaborating institutions on the study include co-authors from the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University (Shanghai, China), the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, the Department Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology at the Ohio State University (Columbus, USA), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), the Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, USA), and the Department of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine (Göttingen, Germany).
Funding support came in part from grants by the National Institutes of Health and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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Analysts Explain Who Prevents Trump From Pulling All US Troops Out of Syria
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US military policymakers and their political allies continue to block President Donald Trump’s repeatedly expressed desire to withdraw all US troops currently operating in Syria, analysts told Sputnik.
Last week, Trump revealed that the United States would soon withdraw from Syria, however, there was no confirmation from the president's administration or the Pentagon.
On Tuesday, Trump reiterated his stance, adding that these plans will be discussed with coalitions' allies and countries of the region.
Syria's Envoy to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari stated that Damascus had not received any official information on Trump's plans to pull out US forces from the country.
TRUMP LACKS CLOUT TO OVERRULE PENTAGON ON SYRIA
The deadlock in Washington confirms that Trump still lacks the power to override ongoing Defense Department policies on Syria, University of Pittsburgh Professor of International Relations Michael Brenner said.
"US policy on Syria is made and implemented by the Pentagon. That has been so since 2011," Brenner said.
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Then-President Barack Obama opposed any US military involvement in Syria, but he then acquiesced in it as an assist to a humanitarian mission at Singar and then Kobane, Brenner recalled. Moreover, Obama also used the US military to block the Islamic State* terror group’s direct threat to the Kurds in northeast Iraq, Brenner added.
"Escalation soon occurred as Obama was pressured by his generals, the Israelis, the Saudis — who along with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were backing the Islamic State and al-Qaeda/Nusra Front — and the Israeli lobby in the United States," Brenner said.
The emphasis in US policy on Syria has been on toppling President Bashar Assad throughout, Brenner noted.
"That became linked to thwarting Iranian influence, to inflicting a defeat on Russia post-2015; and establishing a permanent American military presence in Iraq and Syria both. (The former has been a clear US objective since 2003)," Brenner said.
TRUMP FAILS TO RECOGNIZE CONTRADICTIONS IN HIS OWN POLICIES
Trump still does not appear to realize that his own commitments as US president to Saudi Arabia and continued rhetoric against Iran have boxed him in and prevent him from implementing a pullout of the US military from Syria, Brenner pointed out.
"Trump is too… ignorant to realize that his pact with Saudi Arabia and Mohammed bin Salman personally, along with his rhetoric about Iran, makes it impossible to resist the pressures to stay in Syria indefinitely," he said.
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'They Continue to Make Lots of Money': Expert Explains Washington's Retreat From Syria
Trump also remains committed to support the remnants of the Islamic State and Nusra Front terror groups in an effort to undermine Assad and — in the fanciful thinking of US policymakers — to eliminate Russian and Iranian influence, Brenner noted.
"Those goals are impossible to achieve, but the enterprise serves to keep the pot boiling, to lay the ground for the desired confrontation with Iran, and to keep alive their dream of ‘full spectrum dominance' across the globe," he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to work constructively with Trump and explain to him the contradictions in his Middle East policies, Brenner commented.
"Putin would dearly love to explain all this to Trump personally; and the nuclear craziness as well. He rightly thinks that there is a chance of succeeding since Trump has no strategic vision," he said.
However, the prevailing forces in Washington, and the anti-Russian hysteria possessing the United States would prevent that from happening, Brenner concluded.
TRUMP AT ODDS WITH ESTABLISHED US SECURITY BUREAUCRACIES
Independent Institute Center for Peace and Freedom Director Ivan Eland agreed that Trump was at odds with his own national security bureaucracy in wanting to evacuate the US military from Syria.
"As in other issues, especially in foreign policy, Trump’s pronouncements differ from the bureaucracies’ actual policy on the ground," Eland said.
Trump’s goal was to vanquish Daesh and then leave Syria, Eland explained.
"In contrast, the security bureaucracies want to hold Syrian territory captured from the Islamic State, use it as a bargaining chip in any peace negotiations, and train Syrian groups to ‘stabilize’ it," he said.
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The Washington national security bureaucracies had gotten Trump to agree to delay US withdrawal until pockets of Islamic State-held territory could be mopped up and forces could be trained to stabilize the captured Syrian territory, Eland cautioned.
"These goals could take some time and allow the security bureaucracies an excuse to keep US forces in Syria," Eland said.
Some 2,000 US servicemen are currently deployed in Syria, but their presence is without mandate from the UN Security Council or permission from the Syrian government.
*Islamic State terror group is also known as IS, ISIL, ISIS or Daesh; it is banned in Russia, the United States and many other countries.
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Over 5,000 People Participate in Anti-Government Rally in Beirut on Sunday
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BEIRUT (Sputnik) – More than 5,000 people took to the streets of the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Sunday to participate in an anti-government demonstration.
Protesters reproached the government and lawmakers over the "failed" economic policy, slamming alleged transfers of budget funds to private banks, and the ongoing energy crisis.
Hundreds fill #Beirut in protest against political stalemate pic.twitter.com/r6ECcunb5u
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The activists also announced the beginning of a series of rallies against the "policy of impoverishment."
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The political crisis in Lebanon has continued since May. The country's ruling parties cannot form a government, accusing each other of pursuing their own interests against the interests of the state. In addition, the economic situation continues to deteriorate. There is a strong rise in unemployment and prices against the backdrop of an increase in foreign debt. The situation is aggravated by the presence of over one million registered refugees from Syria in the country.
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Let's Have A Party!! Sorry guys, JennieMarie No longer travels for readings, but Group Readings done at her office are just as fun! From as little as 3 to as many as 11 guests, JennieMarie gives group readings. These readings are done with everyone together in the same room and are $125 per person. This allows you and your family/friends to share in the experience at the same time, and is a total blast when a convocation of spirits pop in and out in real time.
The company that hired me boasted they only hire two out of 100 potential psychics. I felt excited, nervous, and mostly terrified I'd be exposed as a fraud. I was confident enough dealing with strangers at parties whom I'd probably never see again, but now I had an entire corporation to report to. They let me pick my psychic name and I did my best to choose something less stripper, more gypsy (which I'd love to reveal but cannot due to an ironclad NDA).
Whatever guidance you might be looking for, our gifted and experienced psychic readers are here to talk to you about your future. Our psychic readers are sensitive, honest people who can offer you a warm, sincere welcome and are able to support you through your relationship worries, career concerns, or family issues with their spiritual advice and guidance. Our psychic readers are gifted in clairvoyance, mediumship, past life readings, tarot, astrology and dream interpretations, so you can be sure that you will find the answers you are looking for.
Emily wanted me to be happy and wanted to get some rest too. It's important to remember her and even talk to her but it isn't healthy to dwell on her death, Psychic Four said, and for the first time that day, I began to understand how some people can find going to a psychic comforting. She hugged me a few times as I was getting ready to leave and the last thing she said as I stepped out the door was, "Life is a gift."
The word clairvoyance means “to see clearly.” This does not refer to the sense of sight, but rather to seeing with what some call the “inner eye” or “third eye.” Others may refer to this ability as a “sixth sense.” What’s common to all of these terms and definitions is that they refer to an ability to perceive hidden truths. Clairvoyant psychics have the ability to tap into energies that the average person is not able to perceive. For this reason, many people turn to clairvoyants for guidance in various areas of their lives.
"Mental mediumship" is communication of spirits with a medium by telepathy. The medium mentally "hears" (clairaudience), "sees" (clairvoyance), and/or feels (clairsentience) messages from spirits. Directly or with the help of a spirit guide, the medium passes the information on to the message's recipient(s). When a medium is doing a "reading" for a particular person, that person is known as the "sitter".
It’s asking a lot for a psychic reader to blow someone away within the first five minutes of a psychic reading, but I knew it was possible, and I knew mine could do it. That means, within the first five minutes, they should say something that convinces you that they aren’t just guessing or keeping you stringing along – that they’ve linked in with you and your situation using genuine psychic skills and giving you detailed psychic information not boring generalities. Because of that we have gone from strength to strength and most of the people who have a psychic reading here everyday are people that are returning and have had a reading with us before.
A series of mediumistic séances known as the Scole Experiment took place between 1993 and 1998 in the presence of the researchers David Fontana, Arthur Ellison and Montague Keen. This has produced photographs, audio recordings and physical objects which appeared in the dark séance room (known as apports).[185] A criticism of the experiment was that it was flawed because it did not rule out the possibility of fraud. The skeptical investigator Brian Dunning wrote the Scole experiments fail in many ways. The séances were held in the basement of two of the mediums, only total darkness was allowed with no night vision apparatus as it might "frighten the spirits away". The box containing the film was not examined and could easily have been accessible to fraud. And finally, even though many years have passed, there has been no follow-up, no further research by any credible agency or published accounts.[185]
Having a real-time reading done over the phone allows you to get as comfortable as you need or want. You can relax in your favourite room at home wearing pyjamas if you like. You might even choose to experience your psychic phone reading while surrounded by nature in your backyard or at a park. If you are someone who gets nervous or has anxiety going to in-person appointments, then scheduling a phone reading is an excellent alternative for you.
If you've maxed out the memory on your camera, action cam, or smartphone, then there's a good chance you've invested in a memory card. Just one catch -- your laptop might not have a compatible port to speak with your memory card. That's where a card reader comes in. These handy go-between devices transmit data between a memory card and your computer. Let's answer some common questions about memory card readers.
The physicist Kristian Birkeland exposed the fraud of the direct voice medium Etta Wriedt. Birkeland turned on the lights during a séance, snatched her trumpets and discovered that the "spirit" noises were caused by chemical explosions induced by potassium and water and in other cases by lycopodium powder.[160] The British medium Isa Northage claimed to materialize the spirit of a surgeon known as Dr. Reynolds. When photographs taken of Reynolds were analyzed by researchers they discovered that Northage looked like Reynolds with a glued stage beard.[161]
In 1876, William Eglinton was exposed as a fraud when the psychical researcher Thomas Colley seized a "spirit" materialization in his séance and cut off a portion of its cloak. It was discovered that the cut piece matched a cloth found in Eglinton's suitcase.[79] Colley also pulled the beard off the materialization and it was revealed to be a fake, the same as another one found in the suitcase of Eglinton.[80] In 1880 in a séance a spirit named "Yohlande" materialized, a sitter grabbed it and was revealed to be the medium Mme. d'Esperance herself.[81]
Apart from the networks above, AskNow is also a place delivering top quality readings at a very affordable price. All clients will receive the 100% money back guarantee if feeling unpleased with the psychic connection. Simply contact the customer service and you’ll instantly get the credit for another reading. If you are new to this site, you will receive many best deals there once signed up – for example, a 30 minute reading for only $30 plus 5 free minutes.
There are two types of smart cards: contact and contactless. Both have an embedded microprocessor and memory. The smart card differs from the proximity card in that the microchip in the proximity card has only one function: to provide the reader with the card's identification number. The processor on the smart card has an embedded operating system and can handle multiple applications such as a cash card, a pre-paid membership card, or an access control card.
Today "demonstration of mediumship" is part of the church service at all churches affiliated with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC) and the Spiritualists' National Union (SNU). Demonstration links to NSAC's Declaration of Principal #9. "We affirm that the precepts of Prophecy and Healing are Divine attributes proven through Mediumship."
The advantage of using barcode technology is that it is cheap and easy to generate the credential and it can easily be applied to cards or other items. However the same affordability and simplicity makes the technology susceptible to fraud, because fake barcodes can also be created cheaply and easily, for example by photocopying real ones. One attempt to reduce fraud is to print the barcode using carbon-based ink, and then cover the bar code with a dark red overlay. The barcode can then be read with an optical reader tuned to the infrared spectrum, but can not easily be copied by a copy machine. This does not address the ease with which barcode numbers can be generated from a computer using almost any printer.
In 1910 at a séance in Grenoble, France the apport medium Charles Bailey produced two live birds in the séance room. Bailey was unaware that the dealer he had bought the birds from was present in the séance and he was exposed as a fraud.[111] The psychical researcher Eric Dingwall observed the medium Bert Reese in New York and claimed to have discovered his billet reading tricks.[112] The most detailed account at exposing his tricks (with diagrams) was by the magician Theodore Annemann.[113]
1- age of consent in canada is 16 unless you are in an authoritarian position such as a cop or teacher. a supervisor doesn’t count. 2- if she didn’t like what was happening she was free to find a new job. how much could he have been paying her that she couldn’t find another place to work? 3- hasnanything been proven in court? no.... this is a case of high school level he said/she said a d everythhing should be taken with a gra of salt. 4- did he force them to take drugs? no.... you can always say no. we are taught this at a very young age. 5- should he have been exposing himself at his home to her? yes and no..... yes it’s his house and should be free to do what he wants... no because you are not intimate with this person so why show them your junk?6- “he gave shoulder rubs and would talk sexually explicit” who cares. could she have said as an excuse “can you not rub my shoulders? it kind of hurts when people do it”. when he would make sexual comments say “thanks (in a sarcastic tone)” or “i have a boyfriend” at the end of the day, these people let this happen to themselves. he didnt rape anyone and he didnt force drugs down anyones throats. just because you have regrets 10 years later doesn’t mean he is fully to blame. have some accountability for your actions, him included.
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In 1960, psychic investigator Andrija Puharich and Tom O'Neill, publisher of the Spiritualist magazine Psychic Observer, arranged to film two seances at Camp Chesterfield, Indiana using infrared film, intending to procure scientific proof of spirit materializations. The medium was shown the camera beforehand, and was aware that she was being filmed. However, the film revealed obvious fraud on the part of the medium and her cabinet assistant. The exposé was published in the 10 July 1960 issue of the Psychic Observer.[168]:96–97
Cold reading also explains why psychics have consistently failed scientific tests of their powers. By isolating them from their clients, psychics are unable to pick up information from the way those clients dress or behave. By presenting all of the volunteers involved in the test with all of the readings, they are prevented from attributing meaning to their own reading, and therefore can't identify it from readings made for others. As a result, the type of highly successful hit rate that psychics enjoy on a daily basis comes crashing down and the truth emerges – their success depends on a fascinating application of psychology and not the existence of paranormal abilities.[50]
There are several forms of biometric identification employed in access control: fingerprint, hand geometry, iris, Voice Recognition, and facial recognition. Biometric technology has been promoted for its ability to significantly increase the security level of systems. Proponents claim that the technology eliminates such problems as lost, stolen or loaned ID cards and forgotten PINs.[citation needed]
^ John Casey. (2009). After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. Oxford. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-19-997503-7 "The poet attended one of Home's seances where a face was materialized, which, Home's spirit guide announced, was that of Browning's dead son. Browning seized the supposed materialized head, and it turned out to be the bare foot of Home. The deception was not helped by the fact that Browning never had lost a son in infancy."
If you’re reading this because you’re thinking of having a psychic reading and you aren’t sure which way to go, it can seem strange that someone giving a psychic reading over the phone can be as accurate as someone sitting right in front of you. Especially if you’re a fan of Tarot and thinking, well, hang on. Don’t I need to shuffle the cards as it’s my reading?
In the later half of the 20th century, Western mediumship developed in two different ways. One type involved clairaudience or sensitives who hear spirit, and then relay what they hear to their clients.[29] The other incarnation of non-physical mediumship is a form of channeling in which the channeler goes into a trance, or "leaves their body", allowing a spirit entity to borrow their body, who then speaks through them.[30] When in a trance the medium appears to come under the control of the spirit of a departed soul, sometimes entering into a cataleptic state,[31] although modern channelers may not.[citation needed] Some channelers open the eyes when channeling, and remain able to walk and behave normally. The rhythm and the intonation of the voice may also change completely.
We have a community of experienced online phone psychics who are ready to guide you through your most important life decisions. And with so many phone psychics who specialize in specific areas, you're sure to get the right psychic phone reading for your needs. We're confident you'll find the right fit and that's why your satisfaction is guaranteed!
A widely known channeler of this variety is J. Z. Knight, who claims to channel the spirit of Ramtha, a 30 thousand-year-old man. Others purport to channel spirits from "future dimensions", ascended masters,[32] or, in the case of the trance mediums of the Brahma Kumaris, God.[33] Other notable channels are Jane Roberts for Seth, Esther Hicks for Abraham,[34] and Carla L. Rueckert for Ra.[35][36]
^ Paul Kurtz. (1985). A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology. Prometheus Books. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-87975-300-9 "Florence Cook was caught cheating not only before her séances with Crookes but also afterward. Furthermore, she learned her trade from the mediums Frank Herne and Charles Williams, who were notorious for their cheating." Also see M. Lamar Keene. (1997). The Psychic Mafia. Prometheus Books. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-57392-161-9 "The most famous of materialization mediums, Florence Cook – though she managed to convince a scientist, Sir William Crookes, that she was genuine – was repeatedly exposed in fraud. Florence had been trained in the arts of the séance by Frank Herne, a well-known physical medium whose materializations were grabbed on more than one occasion and found to be the medium himself."
Then I got a call from “Denise,” wanting to know if she is going to get enough money from the insurance company for being rear-ended because she needs the money desperately. I wanted to say, “In that case, hang up the phone!” as well as explain to her that I was an expert on love, not claims adjustment. I laid out the cards anyway. I realized I really didn’t want to give this woman advice, so I hemmed and hawed, and she let her time run out at five minutes.
When doing the reading over the phone, it is easy to end at any time. Whatever the reason, whether you are feeling uncomfortable or something else comes up, if you need to end the session early you can simply hang up. This puts a lot less pressure on you as compared to getting up and walking out during a face-to-face reading. Plus, during a live reading, you are only charged for the minutes spent speaking to the clairvoyant. Once you hang up, the charges stop.
Feel free to select one free sample phone reading online if generalities are what you really aim for. If craving a more detailed reading, then make sure to choose a pre-paid reading, and it’s needed to make the online payment via the Paypal. It has to be made to secure your ordering time, and then the online psychic will be in charge of ringing you at one accepted time on the preferred contact number.
Accurate Psychic Readings Are Now Available in a Wide Variety of Methods: If you’ve ever desired insight into what your future may hold, our psychics can help. Throughout life, all of us experience monumental and sometimes confusing events on the horizon. More and more, people choose to connect with a psychic advisor for guidance. Today, with modern technology it is easier and more convenient than ever! Meet Your Psychic offers several ways to communicate with ethical, professional and caring psychics intuitives.
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In September 1878 the British medium Charles Williams and his fellow-medium at the time, A. Rita, were detected in trickery at Amsterdam. During the séance a materialized spirit was seized and found to be Rita and a bottle of phosphorus oil, muslin and a false beard were found amongst the two mediums.[82] In 1882 C. E. Wood was exposed in a séance in Peterborough. Her Indian spirit control "Pocka" was found to be the medium on her knees, covered in muslin.[83]
In the 1-to-many mode a user presents biometric data such as a fingerprint or retina scan and the reader then compares the live scan to all the templates stored in the memory. This method is preferred by most end-users, because it eliminates the need to carry ID cards or use PINs. On the other hand, this method is slower, because the reader may have to perform thousands of comparison operations until it finds the match. An important technical characteristic of a 1-to-many reader is the number of comparisons that can be performed in one second, which is considered the maximum time that users can wait at a door without noticing a delay. Currently most 1-to-many readers are capable of performing 2,000–3,000 matching operations per second.
Every month I give Intuition Circles which are an excellent chance for you to meet like minded souls and learn to open your intuitive abilities in a safe environment. We meditate, share, and do exercises to show you just how intuitive you already are. Many people become friends out of these circles and it is my intention to create a community of intuitives !
What is Akashic Data? Akashic data is like the DNA of the universe. They may be the soul's journey through time. Each thought, action, word, and feeling is registered inside Akasha data. Every soul has its' individual Akashic record. The way we gather information in the Akashic Records is in encoded light vocabulary that is like a sacred geometry of words encoded in fire. Mastering tips on how to interpret the information is crucial. We start understanding the usage of our inner senses to offer text and interpretation from what we collect; we also get in touch with this new energy.
Psychologists and researchers who studied Pearl Curran's automatic writings in the 1930s came to the conclusion Patience Worth was a fictitious creation of Curran.[152][153] In 1931 George Valiantine was exposed as a fraud in the séance room as it was discovered that he produced fraudulent "spirit" fingerprints in wax. The "spirit" thumbprint that Valiantine claimed belonged to Arthur Conan Doyle was revealed to be the print of his big toe on his right foot. It was also revealed that Valiantine made some of the prints with his elbow.[154]
Most people turn to a clairvoyant medium, spiritual life coach, tarot reader or astrologer when they feel they have exhausted every possibility they can think of themselves. It is often when we are needing to make important choices regarding our love life, career direction, buying a home, trying to have children, going through a breakup , a divorce, a job loss, or a spiritual crisis - a crisis of meaning.
No doubt a great importance in the paranormal field is the problem of fraud. The field of psychic research and spiritualism has been so notoriously full of charlatans, such as the Fox sisters and Eusapia Palladino–individuals who claim to have special power and gifts but who are actually conjurers who have hoodwinked scientists and the public as well–that we have to be especially cautious about claims made on their behalf.[58]
Whether you're looking for advice from an empath, or a tarot card reading from a skilled card reader, any and every type of reading can be done accurately over the phone. You don’t have to spend hours with a telephone psychic to get important insights and answers to your questions. If you feel you are not connecting well with an Advisor, it’s OK to say so and continue browsing until you find someone with whom you truly connect.
To understand how psychics operate, it helps to understand how psychics acquire their important information. Some, like clairvoyants, get their information in the form of visions. Others, such as empaths, are so acutely receptive to emotional vibration, that they pick up the feelings of others intuitively. A number of psychics, including love and employment psychics, understand that they are particularly adept at reading the energy of romantic and interpersonal relationships.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s there were around one quarter of a million practising Spiritualists and some two thousand Spiritualist societies in the UK in addition to flourishing microcultures of platform mediumship and 'home circles'.[18] Spiritualism continues to be practiced, primarily through various denominational spiritualist churches in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, over 340 spiritualist churches and centres open their doors to the public and free demonstrations of mediumship are regularly performed.[19]
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The spiritualists Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead were duped into believing Julius and Agnes Zancig had genuine psychic powers. Both Doyle and Stead wrote that the Zancigs performed telepathy. In 1924 Julius and Agnes Zancig confessed that their mind reading act was a trick and published the secret code and all the details of the trick method they had used under the title of Our Secrets!! in a London Newspaper.[141]
I'd heard about the job through a friend of mine, who worked in Human Resources for one of the most prominent phone psychic companies in the world. She knew that I'd learned to read tarot in college and that I often booked events and comedy clubs. Sometimes I was accurate, but mostly, I was entertaining. Once, at a New York Fashion Week party in SoHo, I read the cards for a nonbeliever who edited what many fancy fashion folk refer to as "the Bible." He was making fun of me when I leaned in and whispered, "Don't cheat on your wife."
In 1936, the psychical researcher Nandor Fodor tested the Hungarian apport medium Lajos Pap in London and during the séance a dead snake appeared. Pap was searched and was found to be wearing a device under his robe, where he had hidden the snake.[157] A photograph taken at a séance in 1937 in London shows the medium Colin Evans "levitating" in mid air. He claimed that spirits had lifted him. Evans was later discovered to be a fraud as a cord leading from a device in his hand has indicated that it was himself who triggered the flash-photograph and that all he had done was jump from his chair into the air and pretend he had levitated.[158]
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Women & NB Creators at Marvel Comics Watch, May 2019 Solicits: 33 Creators on 35 Books
Marvel’s solid 2019 is set to continue in May as the publisher’s female and non-binary creator representation remains high. It’s a stability we’re not used to seeing at Marvel, but it’s a welcome change. There’s been a strong core of creators with regular gigs thus far this year, as well as a rotating group of creators who bounce from specials to minis to random ongoing issues and help keep the numbers high. And they’re even higher now. Let’s take a look at who’s doing what at Marvel in May:
Alti Firmansyah: The Unstoppable Wasp #7 (interior art), The Unstoppable Wasp #8 (interior art)
Amanda Conner: Captain Marvel #5 (cover)
Ashley Witter: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #32 (cover), X-23 #12 (cover)
Audrey Mok: Marvel Rising #3 (cover)
Carmen Carnero: Captain Marvel #5 (interior art)
Devin Grayson: War of the Realms: War Scrolls #2 (co-writer)
Erica Henderson: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #33 (cover)
Eve L. Ewing: Ironheart #6 (writer), Marvel Team-Up #2 (writer)
Gail Simone: Domino: Hotshots #3 (writer), Tony Stark: Iron Man #12 (writer)
Jen Bartel: Black Panther #12 (interior art), Marvel Tales: Avengers #1 (cover), Marvel Tales: Iron Man #1 (cover), Thanos #2 (variant cover)
Jen Soska: Black Widow #5 (co-writer)
Jody Houser: Star Wars: Tie Fighter #2 (writer)
Kate Niemczyk: Age of Conan: Belit #3 (interior art)
Kelly Thompson: Captain Marvel #5 (writer), Mr. and Mrs. X #11 (writer)
Kirbi Fagan: Shuri #8 (cover)
Leah Williams: Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #4 (writer), Giant-Man #1 (writer), Giant-Man #2 (writer)
Mariko Tamaki: X-23 #12 (writer)
Michelle Delecki: Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler #4 (cover)
Natacha Bustos: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #43 (cover)
Nilah Magruder: Marvel Rising #3 (writer)
Nnedi Okorafor: Shuri #8 (writer)
Rachael Stott: Shuri #8 (interior art)
Rachel Dodson: Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Boba Fett #1 (cover), Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Han Solo #1 (cover), Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Jabba the Hutt #1 (cover), Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Lando Calrissian #1 (cover)
Rainbow Rowell: Runaways #21 (writer)
Sana Takeda: Age of Conan: Belit #3 (cover)
Seanan McGuire: Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler #4 (writer), Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #8 (writer)
Stacey Lee: The Unstoppable Wasp #7 (cover), The Unstoppable Wasp #8 (cover)
Stephanie Hans: Age of Conan: Belit #3 (variant cover), Marvels Annotated #4 (variant cover), Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #32 (variant cover)
Sujin Jo: Amazing Spider-Man #21 (variant cover), Magnificent Ms. Marvel #3 (variant cover), Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #43 (variant cover), The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #33 (variant cover), The Unstoppable Wasp #7 (variant cover)
Sylvia Soska: Black Widow #5 (co-writer)
Tini Howard: Age of Conan: Belit #3 (writer), Thanos #2 (writer)
Vita Ayala: Age of X-Man: Prisoner X #3 (writer)
Yasmine Putri: Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Han Solo #1 (variant cover)
All together, there are 33 female and non-binary creators set to work on 35 different books at Marvel in May, two more creators than in April across five more books. The lengthy list above is an amazing compilation of talented creators, and the publisher had done a solid job keeping a solid portion of them employed across the line for several months running now. They’re working throughout the books as well. A lot of covers, as always, but a lot of writers, too, and a growing number of interior artists.
We’re also now keeping track of the number of books as well, what with DC cutting back their line and Marvel appearing to expand theirs. They’re set to publish 99 books in May, a massive numbers of titles. With female and non-binary creators working on 35 different books, that accounts for representation on a smidge over 35% of the books, which is a drop of 4% from April. Marvel is set to publish twenty additional issues in May, and they haven’t hired women or non-binary creators at a proportional rate for all of these new books, which is somewhat disappointing to see.
For new names, we’ve got Sujin Jo on several variant covers. I should also point out that there are a slew of Asian artists working on other variant covers across the line and, while I’ve been able to track down some of them, a few remain mysteries to me and I can’t determine their gender. Most of them are based in Asia, with websites in their native languages, and I can’t glean the information I need. So there may be even more new female and non-binary creators in the mix. I’m going to keep searching, and hopefully I can track everyone down in time for my more detailed full stats count.
May isn’t a big month for new female creators, apart from team books. Elektra is in Savage Avengers, while a range of War of the Realms tie-ins have Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Freyja, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Silk, and a handful more superheroines in the mix.
Overall, while Marvel’s numbers for female and non-binary creators aren’t exactly keepin up with May’s big jump in titles, representation remains high at the publisher. And across a wide range of books as well, not just ones headlined by female characters. It’s been a relatively impressive run for Marvel, and we’ll be back next month to see if it continues.
Tags:Alti Firmansyah, Amanda Conner, Ashley Witter, Audrey Mok, Carmen Carnero, DC Comics, Devin Grayson, Erica Henderson, Eve L. Ewing, Gail Simone, Jen Bartel, Jen Soska, Jody Houser, Kate Niemczyk, Kelly Thompson, Kirbi Fagan, Leah Williams, Mariko Tamaki, Michelle Delecki, Natacha Bustos, Nilah Magruder, Nnedi Okorafor, Rachael Stott, Rachel Dodson, Rainbow Rowell, Sana Takeda, Seanan McGuire, Solicits, Stacey Lee, Stephanie Hans, Sujin Jo, Sylvia Soska, Tini Howard, Vita Ayala, Women at DC Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri
Women & NB Creators at Marvel Comics Watch, April 2019: 32 Creators on 31 Books
Thus far, 2019 has been a strong year for female and non-binary creators at Marvel Comics. And the streak goes back further than that, too. Marvel came out of the summer with some solid gains and by November they were pretty near the level they remain at today. That’s six months of decent representation now. Are there still WAY more dudes? Of course. It’s superhero comics. Change is slow. But this kind of consistency is rare, and encouraging to see. Let’s take a look at who’s doing what at Marvel this April:
Alti Firmansyah: The Unstoppable Wasp #6 (interior art)
Amanda Conner: Captain Marvel #4 (cover), War of the Realms #1 (variant cover)
Amy Reeder: Ironheart #5 (cover)
Ashley Witter: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1 (cover), X-23 #11 (cover)
Gail Simone: Hotshots #2 (writer)
Jen Bartel: Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Special #1 (variant cover)
Kamome Shirahama: Hotshots #2 (variant cover)
Kate Niemczyk: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (interior art)
Kelly Thompson: Captain Marvel #4 (writer), Mr. and Mrs. X #10 (writer), West Coast Avengers #10 (writer)
Leah Williams: Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #3 (writer)
Rachel Dodson: Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Grand Moff Tarkin #1 (cover), Star Wars: Age of Rebellion – Princess Leia #1 (cover)
Rebekah Isaacs: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (variant cover)
Sana Takeda: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (cover), War of the Realms #1 (variant cover)
Savanna Ganucheau: Marvel Rising #2 (varaint cover)
Stacey Lee: The Unstoppable Wasp #6 (cover)
Tini Howard: Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast #2 (writer), Thanos #1 (writer)
Vita Ayala: Age of X-Man: Prisoner X #2 (writer), Shuri #7 (writer)
Yasmime Putri: Avengers: No Road Home #8 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #9 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #10 (cover), Star Wars: Vader – Dark Visions #2 (variant cover), Uncanny X-Men #16 (variant cover)
That is a lot of names to spell correctly and books to italicize! All together there are 32 different female and non-binary creators set to work on 31 different books this April, the same number of creators as in March across four more titles. I’m not used to seeing steady numbers from Marvel in any form, much less at a relatively high level. This year has been solid for the publisher so far.
Also, we’re introducing a new element to these posts, where we look at the number of titles being released. DC’s trimmed back their line noticeably, and so an apples to apples comparison doesn’t really work so well anymore. This April, Marvel has 79 new books on their schedule, which means there are female and/or non-binary creators working on 39% of their titles. We’ll use that as a baseline for comparisons moving forward.
In terms of new names, April looks to be pretty quiet. For as far back as I’ve been keeping track, we’ve not seen Rebekah Isaacs at Marvel before. She’s got a variant cover on the new Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast spinoff. Savanna Ganucheau looks to be new as well, with another variant, this time on Marvel Rising. The rest of the list are regulars, I think.
It’s also a low key month for new female-led titles at the publisher, which is unfortunate because there certainly are a lot of new books. War of the Realms is kicking off, with all sorts of tie-in mini-series and the like. Few have any female or non-binary creators in the mix, and while there are a handful of female characters in a couple of the team books, it all looks a bit dude forward. I miss Lady Thor. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is going to tie into the event, so there’s that, I suppose. And Ms. Marvel is starring alongside Spider-Man in a new Marvel Team-Up.
Overall, the numbers are steady at Marvel and female and non-binary creator representation is holding relatively strong. There remains, as always, a lot of room to grow, but this has been a decent streak for Marvel. I’m curious to see if they can keep it up or even hit higher levels in the months to come.
Tags:Alti Firmansyah, Amanda Conner, Amy Reeder, Ashley Witter, Audrey Mok, Carmen Carnero, Erica Henderson, Eve L. Ewing, Gail Simone, Jen Bartel, Jen Soska, Jody Houser, Kamome Shirahama, Kate Niemczyk, Kelly Thompson, Kirbi Fagan, Leah Williams, Mariko Tamaki, Marvel Comics, Michelle Delecki, Natacha Bustos, Nilah Magruder, Rachel Dodson, Rainbow Rowell, Rebekah Isaacs, Sana Takeda, Savanna Ganucheau, Seanan McGuire, Solicits, Stacey Lee, Sylvia Soska, Tini Howard, Vita Ayala, Women at Marvel Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri
Women & NB Creators at Marvel Comics Watch, March 2019 Solicits: 32 Creators on 27 Books
When I write up these posts, I have to go through all the entries below, italicizing the titles and consolidating the different entries for each creator. With DC, it’s a pretty quick job these days. I’m done before I know it. With Marvel, it’s much more involved. There are a lot of female and non-binary creators working on a lot of books at Marvel right now, and getting this list looking right is a big job! And I’m glad for it. Let’s take a look at who’s doing what at Marvel this March:
Babs Tarr: Magnificent Ms. Marvel #1 (variant cover)
Elsa Charretier: Magnificent Ms. Marvel #1 (variant cover)
Erica Henderson: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #42 (interior art, cover)
Eve L. Ewing: Ironheart #4 (writer)
Gail Simone: Domino: Hotshots #1 (writer)
Jen Bartel: Black Panther #10 (variant cover), Marvel Tales: Thor #1 (cover)
Jenny Frison: Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #2 (variant cover)
Jody Houser: Star Wars: Age of Republic – General Grievous #1 (writer), Star Wars: Age of Republic – Padme Amidala #1 (writer)
Kelly Thompson: Captain Marvel #3 (writer),Mr. and Mrs. X #9 (writer), West Coast Avengers #9 (writer)
Naomi Franquiz: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #42 (interior art)
Natacha Bustos: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #41 (interior art, cover)
Peach Momoko: Marvel Rising #1 (variant cover)
Sara Pichelli: Age of Conan: Belit #1 (variant cover)
Tini Howard: Age of Conan: Belit #1 (writer)
Yasmine Putri: Avengers: No Road Home #4 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #5 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #6 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #7 (cover)
All together, there are 32 different female and non-binary creators set to work on 27 different comic books at Marvel in March 2019, 1 more creator than in February though 2 fewer books. These are very solid numbers, and Marvel’s been consistently in this range for several months now. Whatever was plaguing them a year ago when they dipped into the low teens has been sorted, and now we’ve got women and non-binary creators working across the board at Marvel.
In terms of brand new names, it’s not a big month. I think that Peach Momoko is the only creator I haven’t seen before, at either publisher, and it looks like Audrey Mok might be making her Marvel debut. We also have a host of returning favourites! I feel like it’s been a little while since we’ve seen Kate Niemczyk, Nilah Magruder, and Sana Takeda at Marvel, so it’s nice to have them back in the mix as well.
March is a big month for female characters at Marvel. Kamala Khan is back after little to no absence with Magnificent Ms. Marvel #1. It’s odd to not have G. Willow Wilson in the mix above, and I’m a little bit sad at the lack of female creators inside the book, but I’m sure it will be excellent. We’ve also got Age of Conan: Belit, which stars a female character I know nothing about. Marvel’s really going all in on this Conan license, eh? And finally, Domino is back again with Domino: Hotshots after her original series went over so well with readers.
So yeah, solid month all around at Marvel. There are lots of female and non-binary creators in the mix, female characters are headlining some big new titles, and the publisher is maintaining a level of consistency we don’t usually see from them. There’s always room to grow, of course, but this level of representation is certainly putting the distinguished competition to shame.
Tags:Amanda Conner, Amy Reeder, Ashley Witter, Audrey Mok, Babs Tarr, Carmen Carnero, Elsa Charretier, Erica Henderson, Eve L. Ewing, Gail Simone, Jen Bartel, Jen Soska, Jenny Frison, Jody Houser, Kate Niemczyk, Kelly Thompson, Kirbi Fagan, Leah Williams, Mariko Tamaki, Marvel Comics, Michelle Delecki, Naomi Franquiz, Natacha Bustos, Nilah Magruder, Peach Momoko, Rainbow Rowell, Sana Takeda, Sara Pichelli, Seanan McGuire, Solicits, Sylvia Soska, Tini Howard, Vita Ayala, Women at Marvel Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri
Women & NB Creators at Marvel Comics Watch, February 2019 Solicits – 31 Creators on 29 Books
Marvel’s starting the New Year right. After coming in just shy of thirty different female creators for the past few rounds of solicits, they’ve crossed that line with their February offerings. Now the publisher is in the ballpark of their past highs for the first time in a long time. It’s been an interesting road back up. Just a year ago, Marvel had only 11 female creators in the mix, but things have improved considerably since then. Let’s take a look at who’s doing what this February at Marvel:
Annie Wu: Love Romances #1 (variant cover)
Ashley Witter: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #29 (cover), X-23 #9 (cover)
Carmen Carnero: Captain Marvel #2 (interior art, variant cover)
Emanuela Lupacchino: Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #1 (variant cover), X-23 #9 (variant cover)
G. Willow Wilson: Ms. Marvel #38 (writer)
Gail Simone: Love Romances #1 (co-writer)
Gurihiru: The Unstoppable Wasp #5 (interior art)
Jen Bartel: Marvel Tales: Black Widow #1 (cover)
Jody Houser: Captain Marvel: Braver & Mightier #1 (writer), Star Wars: Age of Republic – Anakin Skywalker #1 (writer), Star Wars: Age of Republic – Count Dooku #1 (writer)
Kelly Thompson: Avengers West Coast #8 (writer), Captain Marvel #2 (writer), Mr. and Mrs. X #8 (writer)
Leah Williams: Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #1 (writer)
Maria Lapham: Marvel Comics Presents #2 (co-writer), The Gunhawks #1 (co-writer)
Mariko Tamaki: X-23 #9 (writer)
Rachel Dodson: Mr. and Mrs. X #8 (cover)
Sana Takeda: Miles Morales: Spider-Man #3 (variant cover)
Sara Pichelli: Ms. Marvel #38 (cover), Star Wars #61 (variant cover)
Yasmine Putri: Avengers: No Road Home #1 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #2 (cover), Avengers: No Road Home #3 (cover), Shatterstar #5 (cover)
All together, there are 31 different female creators set to work on 29 different books in February, 2 more creators than in January and the same number of books. As far as I can tell, there are no non-binary creators in this round of solicits. While a jump of two additional creators isn’t particularly big, it does cross a significant threshold and takes Marvel over the thirty line for the first time in ages. That’s an achievement, as are the steady numbers the publisher has been posting lately. It’s good to see some stability at Marvel.
As well as some new names! This month, we’ve got Maria Lapham co-writing a couple of one-shots with her husband, David. They’re temporary gigs, and the Laphams are certainly busy with their own books elsewhere, but perhaps they’ll be back for more Marvel fun in the future. We’ve also got Naomi Franquiz doing interior art on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, which is a book that’s always deliberate in its choice of creators. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of her going forward, whether it’s back with Squirrel Girl or elsewhere.
It’s a very quiet month for female characters, however. Most of the new books are centered on dudes, including titles for Conan, Daredevil, Peter Quill, Wolverine, and more. But we do have a couple team books with some ladies in the mix. Avengers: No Road Home features the Scarlet Witch, Spectrum (I think that’s the current handle for Monica Rambeau?), and Voyager. There are also a bunch of “Age of X-Man” mini-series starting, most of which have some female characters. It looks like Jean Grey, Nature Girl, Storm, and X-23 are in The Marvelous X-Men, a few teen gal mutants I don’t recognize are in Nextgen, and we’ve got Psylocke and Jubilee in The X-Tremists.
Overall, 2019 has been a very solid year for female creators at Marvel thus far. It would be nice to see this growth extend to non-binary creators as well, however. There is always room to grow further, in a whole host of ways. But on the whole, Marvel has more than 30 women working on their books right now, and that’s an impressive comeback after some dismal lows in 2018. Here’s hoping that the upward trajectory continues.
Tags:Amanda Conner, Amy Reeder, Annie Wu, Ashley Witter, Carmen Carnero, Emanuela Lupacchino, Erica Henderson, Eve L. Ewing, G. Willow Wilson, Gail Simone, Gurihiru, Jen Bartel, Jen Soska, Jody Houser, Kelly Thompson, Leah Williams, Maria Lapham, Mariko Tamaki, Marvel Comics, Michelle Delecki, Naomi Franquiz, Natacha Bustos, Nnedi Okorafor, Rachel Dodson, Rainbow Rowell, Sana Takeda, Sara Pichelli, Seanan McGuire, Solicits, Stacey Lee, Sylvia Soska, Women at Marvel Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri
Women & NB Creators at Marvel Comics Watch, January 2019 Solicits: 29 Creators on 29 Books
Marvel closed out 2018 with solid gains in terms of female and non-binary creator representation, bouncing back well after some terribly low numbers last winter to plateau at a relatively decent level. The numbers aren’t great by any means, but they’re now consistently not bad, and that’s what counts for progress when it comes to representation in superhero comic books. Now we’ve got numbers from the new year, and this consistency is set to continue. Marvel is rolling into 2019 at about the same level they ended 2018, which is nice to see. Let’s take a look at who is doing what at Marvel this January:
Ann Nocenti: Marvel Comics Presents #1 (co-writer)
Emanuela Lupacchino: Conan the Barbarian #2 (variant cover), X-Force #2 (variant cover)
Gail Simone: Domino #10 (writer)
Jen Bartel: Marvel Tales: Fantastic Four #1 (cover), Marvel Tales: Venom #1 (cover)
Jody Houser: Star Wars: Age of Republic – Jango Fett #1 (writer), Star Wars: Age of Republic – Obi-Wan Kenobi #1 (writer), Star Wars: Age of Republic Special #1 (co-writer)
Kelly Thompson: Captain Marvel #1 (writer), Mr. and Mrs. X #7 (writer), Uncanny X-Men #8 (co-writer), Uncanny X-Men #9 (co-writer), Uncanny X-Men #10 (co-writer), West Coast Avengers #7 (writer)
Kirbi Fagan: Conan the Barbarian #1 (variant cover)
Lauren Tsai: Captain Marvel #1 (variant cover)
Mirka Andolfo: Black Widow #1 (variant cover)
Rosi Kampe: Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #4 (interior art)
Seanan McGuire: Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #4 (writer)
Stephanie Hans: Asgardians of the Galaxy #5 (interior art)
Yasmine Putri: Shatterstar #4 (cover), Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation #4 (variant cover)
All together, there are 29 different female creators set to work on 29 different comic books at Marvel in January, the same number of creators as in December though spread across 6 fewer books. As best I can tell, there are no non-binary creators listed in this round of solicits. So the number of female creators remains steady for the third straight month, which is good. Even though Marvel’s still below their past highs, 29 isn’t a terrible number. The drop in books is steep, though. Some event tie-ins have wrapped, which explains part of the decline, and while Marvel usually has a bevy of different one-shots each month, December’s had more female creators in the mix than January’s offerings do. Still, decent numbers all around.
We’ve got some new names in the mix as well. Laruen Tsai is doing a variant cover for the new Captain Marvel, and I don’t think we’ve seen her at Marvel before. We’ve also got the Soska Sisters, Jen and Sylvia, writing a new Black Widow series. We’ve seen them before briefly, in one of those aforementioned one-shots, and now they’ve jumped to an ongoing book. That’s the benefit of including female and non-binary creators in these one-shots: It’s a great way to find talent that you can promote to a bigger role.
Marvel’s one-shots this month just aren’t doing that. They’ve got a series of specials lined up to celebrate the publisher’s 80th anniversary, and it’s a dude-centric affair. The vast majority of the books star male characters, and the vast majority of the creators involved are men. Ann Nocenti’s got a story in the special Marvel Comics Presents, and that’s about it. It’s not a great look.
We’ve got a couple big new books with female leads, though. Captain Marvel is relaunching yet again, with Kelly Thompson and Carmen Carnero on board. I’m very excited for this one; Kelly’s been killing it on so many books lately, and Carmen Carnero is always good. We’ve got a new Black Widow series too, and I’m looking forward to seeing what the Soska Sisters bring to it. Elsewhere, there are a few teams books with some ladies in the mix as well, including relaunches of Guardians of the Galaxy and Champions.
Overall, it looks like Marvel is starting the year on a good foot. Their numbers are consistent, some of their biggest female characters are launching new titles, and their embarrassingly poor start to 2018 is becoming a distant memory. As much as there’s lots of room to grow, as always, steady representation at Marvel is rare. Hopefully it continues as the year goes on, and even grows.
Tags:Amanda Conner, Amy Reeder, Ann Nocenti, Ashley Witter, Carmen Carnero, Emanuela Lupacchino, Erica Henderson, Eve L. Ewing, Gail Simone, Gurihiru, Jen Bartel, Jen Soska, Jody Houser, Kelly Thompson, Kirbi Fagan, Lauren Tsai, Mariko Tamaki, Marvel Comics, Mirka Andolfo, Natacha Bustos, Nnedi Okorafor, Rachel Dodson, Rainbow Rowell, Rosi Kampe, Seanan McGuire, Solicits, Stacey Lee, Stephanie Hans, Sylvia Soska, Women at Marvel Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics, Yasmine Putri
Women At Marvel Comics Watch – September 2015 Solicits: 13 Different Female Creators On 11 Different Comics
I’m not entirely sure why, but a lot of books are missing in Marvel’s September solicits. I’m guessing it’s partly due to Secret Wars running a little bit late and pushing tie-ins back, and partly due to regular series wrapping up in advance of Marvel’s big upcoming revamp. Whatever the case, the lack of several series has resulted in one of Marvel’s poorest months of the year for female representation, with women appearing in the lowest number of books since January. Let’s see who’s doing what in September:
Chelsea Cain: Mockingbird: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary #1 (writer)
G. Willow Wilson: A-Force #5 (co-writer)
Jen Soska: Secret Wars Journal #5 (co-writer)
Jody Houser: The Cavalry: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary #1 (writer)
Joelle Jones: Mockingbird: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary #1 (interior art)
Kathryn Immonen: Agent Carter: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary #1 (writer)
Kelly Sue DeConnick: Captain Marvel & the Carol Corps #4 (writer)
Marguerite Bennett: A-Force #5 (co-writer), Years of Future Past #5 (writer)
Noelle Stevenson: Runaways #4 (writer)
Robin Furth: Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three – The Lady of Shadows #1 (co-writer)
Stacey Lee: Ghost Racers #4 (variant cover), Secret Wars #7 (variant cover)
Sylvia Soska: Secret Wars Journal #5 (co-writer)
Vanesa Del Rey: Secret Wars Journal #5 (cover)
All together there are 13 different female creators set to work on 11 different books in September, a big drop from August’s 18 and 15, respectively. It’s a very poor showing, even with a few series not coming out. These days, with so many talented female creators doing great work, huge publishers like Marvel and DC should be able to have at least 20 different women writing and drawing their comics with ease, but that’s not the case for either publisher in September.
Moreover, the numbers are bolstered by a series of S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th anniversary one-shots. They sound great, focusing on characters like Agent Carter, Melinda May, Mockingbird, and Quake, and it’s nice to see female characters getting the spotlight. Plus there are four different women working on these books, which is cool. But at the same time, these special one-shots added FOUR new female creators to Marvel’s ranks and their number of female creators still fell substantially. That’s not great.
It is nice to see some new names, though. I think this is Chelsea Cain’s first time working at Marvel, and it may be the first time for the Soska sisters as well. It’s also good to see people returning, like Jody Houser, Kathryn Immonen, and one of my favourite artists in the world, Joelle Jones.
On another positive note, September’s “True Believers” comics, a line that reprints key issues for $1 to bring in new fans, is dedicated to female characters. Thor, Spider-Gwen, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Silk, Princess Leia, Spider-Woman, and Squirrel Girl are all having the first issue of their latest runs reprinted as part of this line, which is very cool. It’s well timed, too; you might want to stock up this September and pass them out to trick or treaters on Halloween.
SIDENOTE: I don’t count reprints when I do up these numbers each month, so that’s why the “True Believers” books aren’t listed above. Also, if I did count them, Marvel would still be down from last month. Oh, Marvel.
Overall, September is a pretty good month for female characters. While a lot of books are benched, the women of S.H.I.E.L.D. are getting a fun showcase, and you can catch up on all of your favourite female characters for a buck each. It’s a bad scene for female creators, though, with a big drop from last month in terms of the number of different female creators working on Marvel’s comics, as well as there being only a handful of Marvel’s books in which female creators appear. Marvel’s been very up and down with female creators this year, and it’s frustrating to watch them continually drop the ball like this. Hiring more women can’t be that hard.
Tags:Chelsea Cain, G. Willow Wilson, Jen Soska, Jody Houser, Joelle Jones, Kathryn Immonen, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Marguerite Bennett, Marvel, Noelle Stevenson, Robin Furth, Solicits, Stacey Lee, Sylvia Soska, Vanesa Del Rey, Women at Marvel Comics, Women In Comics, Women In Comics Statistics
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(EDITORIAL) It has become predictable that real estate agents will discourage the next generation – here’s why it happens and how we can collectively stop this ignorant behavior.
Lani Rosales
There is a timeless conversation that happens in the real estate industry every day of every year regarding new agents. It has become annoyingly predictable.
Someone says something along the lines of, “I’m taking my real estate exam this week, do you have any advice?” If it’s on social media (where everyone’s opinion matters), there will be a few helpful tips, but the inevitable agents who say, “keep your day job.”
That’s your advice? Keep your day job?
They say it either in humor, with a sense of superiority, or with a deep cynicism, none of which are helpful to a future agent, a person who may soon be on the other side of the transaction from you, a human who may sit next to you at your brokerage.
But why does this attitude persist in the industry?
Some discourage as a joke, perhaps of an imposition of their own lack of self confidence, but yet a handful mean it in earnest. They’ve been across the table from a new agent that was poorly prepared before, and from that point on, they believe all agents are awful. How ignorant.
A friend of mine recently got his real estate license, and he asked in a Facebook Group if anyone had any tips for the exam. Most of them just said to be confident, but several told him not to bother. Again, not helpful because he’s already taken the classes and is already at the exam stage.
But even less helpful because this is someone with their MBA from Stanford. I’m pretty sure real estate will be a cake walk for him, but thanks for the “helpful” snarky advice.
Stop being a jerk and discouraging the next generation of agents. Whether they have their MBA from Stanford or went to the school of hard knocks matter not. Everyone is equal on Day One after the exam, starting from scratch, and hoping for the best. Sure, studies indicate a high failure rate, but why carry such a terrible attitude around? And why impose it on others?
As an industry, when we see people cynically push new agents away, we must each speak up.
We must encourage others and offer to help. Do better. If they’re not in your market, offer to mentor them (it stands to be much more personal than a broker-agent relationship and they’re not your competitor if they’re in another city).
Share useful resources with them. Offer meaningful encouragement, like how you felt in your first year – your insecurities, your failures, and your wins.
No one is saying to gloss over the fact that some agents suck and really should find another profession.
But enough of the blanket discouragements, they make you look like the weak person in the equation, not the person striving to improve their career and enter a new profession.
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Lani is the Chief Operating Officer at The American Genius and has been named in the Inman 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders several times, co-authored a book, co-founded BASHH and Austin Digital Jobs, and is a seasoned business writer and editorialist with a penchant for the irreverent.
(EDITORIAL) A sh*tstorm has been brewing regarding why men are supposedly referred to as “creators” while women are called “influencers,” and it gets complicated before it simplicity is revealed…
Lauren Flanigan
According to a recent WIRED editorial, a woman is more likely to call herself influencer, while a man is more likely to call himself a creator, because, “Generally speaking, women consider themselves part of the product, while men separate their notion of self from their labor, considering themselves its “creator.”
Besides being no more founded than “generally speaking” though, this sort of notion first assumes creators and influencers encompass the same job description, with the only delineating factor being gender.
In fact, one of the earliest assertions made in the editorial notes, “Really, the only way to guarantee that people will think of your online celebrity as ‘influence’ is to be a woman.”
When ”really,” there is a world of women who identify as creators and men influencers; the differences can be seen in their varying job descriptions, history, and business needs that each fulfill. Therefore, the issue at hand should not be “why men are called creators and women are called influencers,” but “why we should call influencers ‘influencers,’ and creators ‘creators’.”
And that is what we will explore today.
First, let’s understand what an “influencer” is and what a “creator” is.
Before getting into explanations, and differences, it is important to note that influencer and creator are most always a term people use to identify themselves, so the true meaning of the word is specific to each individual.
Generally speaking though, today’s influencer is someone who has educated themselves enough to be considered an authority in their niche (or can at least present themselves as informed). They use this authority, along with their personal brand,to persuade and inspire their following for gain, which can be monetary, or in the form of free products, and/or free publicity.
Influencers often make their gains by partnering with brands to promote their product, or from creating a product themselves, and selling it to their following directly.
For an influencer, a larger audience or following is linear with gains, so a large amount of their focus is on the numbers – followers, website visitors, comments, and likes. The rest of their focus is in making sure those followers are influenced enough to consume whatever is being promoted.
Why businesses tap into influencers’ networks today.
The sole reason businesses hire influencers is for exposure. We’ve all heard “what good is your product/service if no one knows it exists?” or something similar, and for brands, that is exactly what influencers are hired to help with. They act as distribution channels by bringing more eyeballs which, if done properly, translates into more money.
A creator, on the other hand, is more concerned with the finished product of their work and the creation process it took to get there.
So, what is a creator?
Depending on what they are working on, a creator is an artist, producer, maker, writer, or composer who gets paid for captivating work. This person is usually more passionate about design, brand collateral, video creation etc. than persuading the people who will consume their work.
More followers, higher monthly reach, and increased engagement rates don’t excite the devout creator like strategy, composition, and contrast does. For them, one superior piece of work (think one overall cohesive brand package) is more satisfying than producing a mass of mediocre work.
Promoting themselves like an influencer isn’t as important as showing their work. Take my close friend, Chad as an example; he produces a podcast that boasts over a million listeners, and averages 20k views on each Instagram video, which you’d never know by looking at his personal profile. There, he has 2.5k followers, posts every four months, and gets most of his comments from old college friends – all of whom work for him. His virtue, like a lot of creators, is in the quality of his work.
Why businesses hire creators.
Creators do for businesses what a boutique ad agency would do, typically for a fraction of the cost. They use their art to build brand assets, establish brand identity, and create campaigns. While influencers are used as “the face,” a creator could be used as a “face” or the behind the scenes person who you never see. In a sneaker campaign for example, a creator might be tasked with taking cool pictures of other people’s street style, while an influencer would promote themselves in the shoes.
Creators and influencers are different and fulfill different business needs, but they are not mutually exclusive.
A creator can do influencer work, and there are influencers who create magnificent work without them in it. It’s a matter of self identity.
Influencers are also inherently tied to monetizing their content or, “…building a platform with he intention of being used by brands for marketing purposes,” according to Natasha Hunes, a Youtuber who self-identifies as a creator. Hunes adds that a creator is in for the self-expression, not money, adding “I don’t think the claim that most women don’t identify as creators is factual.”
Let’s dissect the history of the two terms.
The biggest factor in establishing the difference between creator and influencer is the history of the two. In a response to the WIRED piece, Taylor Lorenz gives an in-depth history of how “creator” predated “influencer.”
It all started in 2011, when YouTube wanted to replace the boring term “YouTube Stars” for a more inclusive way to describe their multi-talented content creators.
“These people were more than onscreen tales,“ said Tim Shey, a former employer of YouTube, “They could write, edit, produce, do community management, and were entrepreneurs.”
During the search, YouTube forged a partnership with Next New Networks, a multi-channel network specializing in viral content, and started a program called the “Next New Creators” program. This program was designed to help independent YouTube stars grow their audience to the point of monetization. The program became such a hit, the word “creator” stuck at YouTube and began to be the phrasing of choice for their press releases, and future programs.
They went on to open a number of “creator hubs” and studios for YouTube creators to collaborate with one another.
From 2011 to 2016, the video platform continued to promote their new world of creators and hit the sweet spot in 2015 after launching a massive creator ad campaign. This campaign plastered different creators’ faces on billboards, taxis, buses, and subway stops all over New York and L.A., as well as in magazines and commercials. All of the language referred to the people in the ads as creators, and that’s when the term became mainstream.
Not long after, other platforms caught on – in 2015, Tumblr also began referring to their power users as creators and launched a division called “Tumblr Creators Network.”
Influencers went mainstream in 2017, two years after creator did, and according to Lorenz, was the response to the rise of Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and sponsored posts.
As the “new kids on the block” influencers were initially stereotyped as less worthy than traditional YouTube creators, who had spent years establishing their base on an older platform, and a larger platform than IG, Twitter, and Pinterest. Therefore, Lorenz believes the distinction between creators and influencers are not gender related, but more so “platform-agnostic.” This means you’re more likely to find YouTubers identifying themselves as creators, while IG, Twitter, and Pinterest users typically identify is influencers.
And while I do understand Lorenz’s “platform-agnostic” argument more than WIRED’s position that it is a gender-based distinction, I believe that the differentiation as self-assigned terms are a lot simpler than we think.
Man or woman, YouTube or Instagram, people just want to be called what they identify with.
Creators want to be called creators because they relate more with creating, and influencers want to be called influencers because they enjoy interacting with and influencing their following.
Remember my friend Chat, the podcast producer? I asked why he identifies with creator and not influencer, despite some of his work being influencer-based.
His answer?
“I feel more like a creator.”
And I felt THAT.
(EDITORIAL) House hunters start searching a year in advance, and a roulette search option would keep them engaged during the early phases of their search, so why isn’t it a common feature!?
It’s no secret that our attention spans have gotten shorter in the last few decades, and some forms of marketing are still scrambling to keep up—one of them being real estate. While looking through photo after photo of specific homes provides the necessary level of focus for devoted home-hunters, having the option to randomize your search on a photo-to-photo basis might prove more interesting for casual lurkers.
Theoretically, having a “roulette” or “randomize” option could lead to some interesting finds: you could plug in your ZIP code, click a button, and start viewing specific shots from homes in your area. You might even expand your search to contain houses from the whole country or look at entire property pages in a random order; either way, by taking the specific search parameters out of the equation, users would have significantly fewer limitations on the content they see.
Once a potential customer found an interesting property, they could open the property’s full page and view its listing info. Sites could even implement a “swipe” feature so that users could add their favorite properties to a list for concentrated viewing later, making the roulette feature akin to house-themed speed dating.
Think of it as Tinder for houses.
What is so appealing about this notion is that it would give everyone from casual real estate enthusiasts to third-time homeowners the chance to step outside of the structures imposed by their search preferences (and browser cookies) in order to view properties at which they might never look in any other context. It can be liberating to have choice specificity removed from the equation, and the real estate market is no exception.
There’s a simple reason that sites like Chat Roulette and apps like Tinder are so popular: they capitalize on our newfound need to be exposed to new information whenever we feel like a change. Real estate sites – especially those with large amounts of traffic – could see a huge upswing in both on-site traffic and conversions by fulfilling this need. Given that most home buyers start casually searching up to a year in advance, this could be a pretty interesting conversion tool in that process.
It has been tried before (and failed) at smaller startups, but house roulette still isn’t a feature on sites like Realtor.com, Zillow, or Trulia as of now, but they should be, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for more dynamic, fast-paced solutions in the future.
This editorial was first published in May 2018.
(EDITORIAL) Procrastination is almost inevitable, but what if that procrastination could increase your productivity?
Matt Salter
Let us speak together of the Zeigarnik Effect. But only after I’ve made a cup of tea. See, that’s the nature of the Zeigarnik Effect.
In addition to having a rad name – seriously, I feel like I’m revealing mysterious secrets from the Eastern Bloc, which I technically am – the Zeigarnik Effect tracks a quirk of human cognition that can, once properly hacked, increase productivity by making procrastination work for you.
Bluma Zeigarnik’s original study, which has had its results repeatedly replicated, states that an interrupted task, or a task the subject knows is not yet complete, stays in the back of the mind while they do other things.
The original subjects were waiters.
Bluma Zeigarnik found that service professionals remembered details of a given order when that order was still open, even if they were busy working on something else, but once it had been completed, the details vanished.
What might seem like a procedural consequence of waiting tables – not like you have to remember the doneness of the cheeseburger you gave somebody who left the restaurant an hour ago – has since been demonstrated in tasks from jigsaw puzzles and flatpack furniture to WoW and SimCity.
It’s not a job thing. It’s a brain thing.
When you leave something undone, and you know it’s undone, there’s still a little mental RAM whirring away, working at it.
That’s awesome.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say some of you do not spring out of bed Monday morning singing like a Disney protagonist and throw yourself into every task set before you with motivational poster vigor. I mean, I didn’t, and I like my job.
Hence my cup of tea. I literally wrote those two sentences, then went and made a cup of tea.
Field test. It works.
That’s the Zeigarnik hack – do what needs doing for 5 or 10 or 15 minutes, then stop. Aquire your legal stimulant of choice, or talk to coworkers, or do anything else your workplace allows that isn’t the particular task you’re aching to procrastinate on.
The Zeigarnik Effect won’t do the work for you, but when you set yourself to that job again, you’ll have more ideas and more energy than you did when you started.
Your brain doesn’t like incomplete tasks any more than your boss does.
When a task seems past you or you just don’t wanna, set a time period – 15 minutes is good, but experiment – and let your mental firmware work on it for a bit while the rest of you does something else.
Zeigarnik is procrastination with purpose, a way to get something done without overtaxing either your time limit or your will to live.
Give it a shot. I did, and I got a solid article and a hot cup of Darjeeling out of the equation. Top that for a Thursday morning.
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The Town of Mulgrave was first settled in 1800 by European Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution. Mulgrave was at that time known as McNair's Cove and became a part of the lumber trade with the English government.
When the lumber trade ended in 1818, the fishing industry began to take hold, and by 1830 it was the major source of employment for the residents of Mulgrave. Ferry services were also established in Mulgrave in 1833, carrying passengers from Mulgrave to Port Hawkesbury. This service provided rail and road gateways for traffic from mainland Nova Scotia and the rest of Canada to Cape Breton and Newfoundland. Steam ferries were introduced to the area in 1863, boosting the amount of traffic ferried in a day. However, in 1870, all trade agreements in the fishing industry were cancelled to protect the American fish market, and the industry collapsed. Depression set in the area, and by 1880 over 1/3 of the population had migrated to the New England area in search of employment.
By the 1900's the economy was in a state of improvement as the government railway was hiring local people, a new lobster factory was built, and a new rail ferry had arrived in the area. The railroad industry was now the industry of the times, and Mulgrave was quickly becoming a bustling terminal, equipped with freight sheds, marshalling yards, and all the necessary auxiliary services of an efficient railway centre. By 1915, Mulgrave was considered a prosperous town and in 1923, the town became incorporated.
Mulgrave's prosperity grew from the late 1920's until the early 1950's. During this time, the town saw the formation of a branch of the Canadian Legion of British Empire Services (later known as Branch 37 of the Royal Canadian Legion) and the fire brigade (now the volunteer fire department), employment of over 400 people at the Acadia Fisheries plant and the opening of the Mulgrave Memorial school. However, with the opening of the Canso Causeway in 1955, the ferry services between Mulgrave and Port Hawkesbury were no longer needed. This loss in traffic through Mulgrave resulted in another economic depression for the town, but the residents remained optimistic about their future. This optimism continues to grow today.
History of Mulgrave's Incorporation
In 1907, the citizens of Mulgrave held a meeting to pass a motion in favour of incorporation. They felt that the economic times in Mulgrave demanded better and more adequate services than what the Guysborough Administration was providing.
After a few false starts and protests from a couple of citizens that felt who Mulgrave was too few in numbers to survive on its own, a vote was held on November 5, 1923. The results of the 148 votersm found that 121 votes were in favour of incorporating the town & 26 were opposed, and 1 poor ballot was spoiled.
On December 1, 1923, Mulgrave was officially incorporated as an independent body, and the first town council took the helm on January 15, 1924.
Early Names of Mulgrave and Surrounding Areas
Early Native People referred to Mulgrave as Wolumkwakaguncek (The Lobster Ground)
1677Harve de Fronsac, found on a map of Nicholas Denys.
1800McNair's Cove
1859Mulgrave, named after Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave
Venus Cove
1733 Whalemen's Cove
1820 McNair's Cove
1860 St. George's Cove
1960 Venus Cove
Pirate Harbour
1750 Pirate Cove
1859 Pirate Harbour
McNair's Point
1860's was known as St. George's Point, but was changed back to avoid confusion with Cape George,Antigonish Co.
Time Line of Significant Events in Mulgrave's History
1800 First record of settlers in the area Given the name McNair's Cove
Lumber trade with England begins; ends 1818
1820 First record of employmentfishing for US vessels
1833 Ferry system established between Mulgrave and Port Hawkesbury
1838 First church built
1847 School being taught in private buildings and churches
1856 First telegraph office established (Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph)
1859 Name changed from McNair's Cove to Mulgrave
1863 Steam ferries start being used
1880 Over 1/3 of population migrates to New England area to seek employment
Rail line reaches Mulgrave; first railway ferry arrives
1890 First trains ferried across the Strait
1914 Scotia II ferry added to service
1923 Town of Mulgrave is incorporated
Great fire of '23 destroys a few local establishments
1924 First town council elected
1926 HydroElectric Plant built Government ferry service starts, ending privatized ferry services
1939 New paved road built to ferry wharf
1952 Acadia Fisheries purchased Old Loggie Fish Plant, employing 400
1955 Official opening of the Canso Causeway; causes economic turmoil for Mulgrave.
Disclaimerall dates are approximate and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Further information about mulgrave's history can be found at the mulgrave branch library & the town's churches.
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Montana Tractors
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J.B. Hunt, Charlie Goforth and Dan Downing
Springdale, Arkansas, USA
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www.montanatractors.com
Montana Tractors was founded in 2004 by J.B. Hunt, Charlie Goforth and Dan Downing in Springdale, Arkansas, USA. J.B. Hunt founded JB Hunt Trucking and was stuck with unpaid freight bills from the bankrupt Agracat Tractors, leaving JB Hunt Trucking with 500 tractors.[1] The company was originally named LG Montana Tractors, to show the link to LG as the producer of the tractors. Montana added to its supplier base, and dropped the LG from the name.
Montana supplier LG tractor division changed its name to LS Tractors, and tractors were also sourced for Montana from Universal in Romania, TYM and Kukje in South Korea and Sonalika in India.
In 2008, Farmtrac North America filed bankruptcy, and Montana bought out their inventory, which included tractors from LG/LS and from Farmtrac's parent company, Escorts Group in India. The Farmtrac tractors were re-badged as Montana Limited and retained their Farmtrac-blue color.[2][3]
In 2009, LS announced they would be entering the USA with their own branded-tractors, and Montana would be loosing them as a supplier. Montana began discussions in 2009 with Branson Tractors, a division of Kukje to merge the USA operations of the two. The merger was called off, but Kukje was added as a supplier. Some Branson tractors were rebadged as Montana and marketed as Montana Special Edition.[4]
By the end of 2010, Montana Tractors was no longer selling tractors since their former supplier, LS, began selling tractors in the USA, but just marketing parts for their products.
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Montana Tractor Models
Montana 2100 2010 21 hp (16 kW) built in South Korea by Kukje;
originally a Branson
Montana 2740 2006- 27 hp (20 kW) Daedong built in South Korea by LS
Montana 2800 2010 28 hp (21 kW) Cummins built in South Korea by Kukje;
Montana 2840 2006- 28 hp (21 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS
Montana 3110i 2010 31 hp (23 kW) built in South Korea by Kukje;
Montana 3440 HST 2006- 34 hp (25 kW) Daedong built in South Korea by LS
Montana 3510h 2010 35 hp (26 kW) built in South Korea by Kukje;
Montana 3940 HST 2006- 39 hp (29 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS
Montana 4320C 2006- 43 hp (32 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS
Montana C4862 2006–2009 47 hp (35 kW) built in Romania by Universal UTB
Montana I4794 2008–2009 47 hp (35 kW) ITL/Sonalika built in India by Sonalika
Montana J2384 HST 2009–2010 23 hp (17 kW) MHI built in South Korea by LS
Montana P7084C 2009–2010 72 hp (54 kW) Iveco built in South Korea by LS
Montana R2844 2007–2010 28 hp (21 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS
Montana R2844HST 2007–2010 28 hp (21 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS
Montana T2334 2007–2010 23 hp (17 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by TYM
Montana T7074 2006–2009 70 hp (52 kW) John Deere built in South Korea by TYM
Montana U4384 2008–2010 43 hp (32 kW) LS built in South Korea by LS
Montana U4384C 2008–2010 43 hp (32 kW) LS built in South Korea by LS
Montana U5784 2008–2010 57 hp (43 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS
Montana U5784C 2008–2010 57 hp (43 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS
Montana Limited Tractor Models
Montana Limited 270 DTC 2008 27 hp (20 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS;
originally a Farmtrac 270 DTC
Montana Limited 435 2008 35 hp (26 kW) Escorts built in India by Escorts;
originally a Farmtrac 435
Montana Limited 545 DTC 2008 42 hp (31 kW) Escorts built in India by Escorts;
originally a Farmtrac 555 (India)
Montana Limited 3130 DT 2008 28 hp (21 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS;
originally a Farmtrac 3130 DT
Montana Limited 3130 DTH 2008 28 hp (21 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS;
originally a Farmtrac 3130 DTH
Montana Limited 3140 DT 2008 38.5 hp (28.7 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LS;
LG Montana Tractor Models
LG Montana 2740 2004–2006 27 hp (20 kW) Daedong built in South Korea by LG
LG Montana 3040 2004–2006 30 hp (22 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LG
LG Montana 3440 HST 2004–2006 34 hp (25 kW) Daedong built in South Korea by LG
LG Montana LG3840 2005–2006 38 hp (28 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LG
LG Montana 3940 HST 2005–2006 39 hp (29 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LG
LG Montana 4320 2006 43 hp (32 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LG
LG Montana 4320C 2006 43 hp (32 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LG
LG Montana 4340C 2004–2006 43 hp (32 kW) Mitsubishi built in South Korea by LG
↑ http://www.montanatractors.com/custompage.asp?pg=news020507
↑ http://psndealer.com/dealersite/images/montanatractors/pressreleasemontanatractors_2008-03-06.pdf
↑ http://www.psndealer.com/dealersite/images/MONTANATRACTORS/PressRelease_120108.htm
↑ http://www.montanatractors.com/default.asp
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Montana Limited Models
270 DTC • 300 DTC • 320 DTC • 360 DTC • 435 • 535 • 545 • 545 DTC • 555 • 555 DTC • 665 • 665 DTC • 675 • 675 DTC • 3130 DT • 3130 DTH • 3140 DT • 3145 DT • 3145 DTH
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2740 • 3040 • 3240 • 3440 HST • 3840 • LG3840 • 3940 HST • 4320 • 4320C • 4340 • 4340C • 4540 • 4920 • 4920C • 4940 • 4940C • 5720 • 5720C • 5740 • 5740C
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Rant: Why David Bowie is an inspiration and shouldn’t come out of retirement.
November 8, 2012 by tunewaffle
A little while ago I read an article about David Bowie being photographed going to get his lunch. This isn’t usually something that would make the news. Perhaps it would make the news if Lady Gaga were to buy a sandwich and find a way to wear it, slapping some ham on her bosom and wiping mustard in her hair. Or Rihanna would buy a baguette only to simulate a lewd act with it. Both of them would surely follow this attention-grabbing behaviour by then taking a poor quality snap of it on their phones and posting it on Twitter, where they would then be called inspirational. However, David put his lunch (I can’t be sure it’s a sandwich and there’s no need to speculate) in a little bag and took it away to be eaten in privacy.
The reason Bowie made the news was simply for being spotted in public. NME called it a ‘rare public appearance’. To me, public appearance would mean some kind of performance or signing, at least wanting to be seen, not wearing sun glasses, a flat cap and a hoodie and minding your own business. Are they suggesting that since he had heart surgery eight years ago, he hasn’t left the house? I’m sure that isn’t the case; a man of David’s wealth is unlikely to spend all his time at home wearing a onesie and watching E4.
David Bowie should be applauded for stepping out of the limelight. He has achieved the dream that all of us earthlings have: earn enough money to last a life time, then retire and live off it. He occasionally turns up to do a one-off gig, such as that with Arcade Fire, or some backing vocals, but aside from that, he’s having a well-deserved rest.
Yet there are some people who want Bowie to reappear and deliver another album of pure gold. Every time a large-scale national event is coming up, rumours begin to circulate that Bowie will make a huge comeback and perform one of his classics, presumably in a catsuit and platform shoes while little people dressed as spacemen and goblins dance around him. The jubilee concert was a no-show. Did people expect to see Bowie performing alongside JLS and Cheryl Cole, or singing a duet with Ed Sheeran?
Next came the Olympics opening and a tribute to Bowie was performed, with dancers wearing Ziggy Stardust masks while some of his mashed up hits were played in the background. It was a bit odd that a tribute was performed for someone living, but it was nice for the UK to show off David to everyone watching abroad. Then a couple of weeks later in the closing ceremony, ‘Fashion’ started playing and my ears pricked up, only for Kate Moss to be towed into the stadium by a tractor.
It later emerged in the press that Bowie was, of course, asked to do it but turned it down. And rightly so. He’s a 65 year old man. Even true king of pop, George Michael, at a spritely 49 years old, looked depressingly old when he got on stage and did his funny little dance (although 7th best pop song ever ‘Freedom’ injected some 80’s piano joy into the proceedings).
David Bowie released a hugely important and influential back catalogue during his career and has one of the best Greatest Hits albums in pop and rock history but he thankfully retired from the scene before he destroyed his own legacy (despite a few blips towards the end). Nobody wanted to see a fat Elvis and it’s nice for someone in the music industry to be conscious of this.
As much as I love Debbie Harry and Blondie, when I saw her performing live, even though the music was great, it shattered the illusion of the saucy blonde minx who still pouts at me from my iPod. More obviously highlighting his need for retirement was Paul McCartney at the Olympics. Seeing him stumble through ‘Hey Jude’ was a terribly sad sight, yet he still turns up at any event to finish everyone off when they were already edging towards slumber. Finally, and perhaps most needing of a quiet life in New York eating sandwiches in silence, is dear old Brian May, always happy at any opportunity to pimp out the name Queen, whether it’s playing guest guitar on the singles of the youth of today (even Dappy!), selling Freddie Mercury’s soul in hologram form, or allowing absolutely anybody to turn a Queen classic into a slut anthem.
For those who demand new material from Bowie and want him to make non-lunch related ‘public appearances’, nobody in their right mind would try to work under that amount of pressure, and just think of what has been done to the legacies of Queen and the Beatles. Click that last link if you’re brave enough and you’ll see what I mean. I salute Bowie, he’s grown old, married a supermodel and retained dignity, and is now, I can only assume, living the life he wasted when he was taking all those nasty drugs at his prime. Finally, for those who think he is in ill health, see the picture below and compare him now to then, then try telling me he looks fragile now.
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Traveling Through Time to Trace Your Ancestors
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Sometimes finding individuals who died 150 years ago can be easier than finding those who died recently, or are still alive, but this is exactly what Time Detectives™ are sometimes asked to do.
We were recently approached by a client we have worked with before, a member of the Redknapp Family (yes Harry’s relations) to help track down an Uncle who was believed to have died, but contact with him and his children had been lost over the years.
Finding such records for very recent deaths when you have no details can be problematic, and takes careful research, in this case a trawl of all the Redknap and Redknapp death records up until fairly recently failed to show any positive hits. This meant that we had to step back into the history of the individual concerned, and then carefully moving forward through marriages and children’s births to pin point the geography of the Family. In this particular case, we hit upon census, polling, and Merchant Navy records to confirm addresses and relationships over time.
Along the way a picture builds up of a man who travelled the world serving in the Merchant Marine, running the gauntlet of German U-Boats, this allowed us to find him on a ship in New York. We also found him on the Thames as a Lighterman, that had been a Redknapp Family trade for 200 years (you can read more about the Redknapps on the River Thames here – The Redknapp Family History Part 1; Origins, Redheaded Merchants on the Thames). So he had a full life, and eventually retired to Essex, his life was fascinating in itself.
The last area we searched turned up a hit on a funeral service that seemed to fit the identity of the man concerned, but contained very few details of anything other than the funeral service itself, but gave us a rough date to go by.
Once the trail started to dry up, it was necessary to come down to the man’s children, this was made harder as he had daughters, meaning that when they married, there was a name change bringing an extra layer of complexity to the search. If they disappeared from the records, was it because they married, or because they died? In this case, one daughter died, and two married.
At this point research has to centre more on old telephone directories, lists of voters, and sometime social media. The search is helped if the people concerned have middle names, and also if their married names are less common. Our search took us back to Essex, and to a number of streets across a fifteen year period, gradually narrowing the number of likely people, until we were confident that we had found our client’s relations, and could pass on the information for them to make contact direct, although there is the option of Time Detectives™ making first contact if there is the worry of what the reaction will be, fortunately that wasn’t the case in this instance, the Family had just drifted apart over the years, as is often the case.
Lastly we investigated local Newspapers, and Emergency Service Records, to see if we could find more information concerning our client’s Uncle, and sadly we did. He had tragically died in an accidental house fire. This information was passed on to our client.
So a Family reunited and a mystery solved.
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Repairing Rifts: Relationship Experts Discuss Rebuilding Post-Election Friendships
Heidi Toth
Jaclyn Cravens and Jason Whiting share ideas on the dangers of communication through social media and how to repair personal relationships.
During the presidential election of 2016, it was easy to avoid misinterpretation, escalation, damaged relationships and offending Facebook friends with differing opinions. Just never be on Facebook.
Only about half a dozen Americans heeded that advice. The rest of the country is left on the day after the contentious election wondering how awkward Thanksgiving will be knowing exactly how Grandma felt about Hillary Clinton, Aunt Jane's thoughts on Donald Trump and 18-year-old Susie's impression of the entire electoral process.
Jaclyn Cravens, assistant professor of addictive disorders and recovery studies who studies the role Facebook plays in relationships, and Jason Whiting, a professor of marriage and family therapy who studies abusive and controlling relationships, studied Facebook reactions to revelations about domestic violence between actor Johnny Depp and his now ex-wife Amber Heard. On the surface it's unrelated to politics and how the 2016 election played out on social media, but people's actions on social media and the general tendency to post whatever they want with no thought of how others will be affected remains the same.
They discussed how social media can damage relationships, what can be done on Facebook and in real life to repair those relationships and how the country can move forward, knowing social media will continue to play a major role, without it destroying relationships every time such an event occurs.
“Politics is such a team sport,” Whiting said. “People become really passionate, and they read things that support what they already feel. They forget politics, like a lot of things, is super subjective, it's very complicated, and there are intelligent people on all kinds of different issues who disagree. They just say my team's right, your team's wrong.”
Social media amplifies that. It encourages people to only engage with people and information who reinforce their beliefs. It also creates a distance, removing body language, context and the responsibility that comes with saying a comment out loud to a real person sitting across the table whose face the speaker could see flinch, cringe, tear up, get angry or otherwise react.
“It's easy to rationalize what you say and do because there's a distance there,” he said. “People would say something in an online comment that they would never say to someone's face.”
Cravens agreed, adding she sees this in her research and when she has fingers on the keyboard about to write a comment in a moment of high emotion.
“There are times when I realize I need to take a step back, I need to be aware of why am I feeling reactive to this. What is it that has me so emotional about what we are talking about?” Cravens said. “How can I express that in a way that allows room for somebody else to have an opinion? I think the Internet prevents people from seeing that play out. If you were having these really heated debates with someone you would feel the intensity of the conversation in the room, you would see nonverbally that people were upset, and you may back off it a bit or say we need to call a time out.”
They did offer one best practice to avoid misinterpretation, feeling criticized, unintentionally offending loved ones or being offended by a passionate post from a friend you never would have expected to feel that way: have these conversations in person or don't have them at all.
For everyone else, they offered advice on when and how to engage on the Internet.
Think, then post.
“I've caught myself getting ready to comment and even doing so in an appropriate manner that leaves room for other people to have an opinion, but catching myself and saying, ‘Do I want to have this conversation and is online in a Facebook comment or social media comment the appropriate medium to even have a conversation?'” Craven said.
When in doubt, don't hit enter.
“Be thoughtful when you engage on social media, knowing this is permanent, knowing it might be interpreted in different ways,” Whiting said. “Really reflect on your motivation for posting. Are you trying to prove a point or are you trying to genuinely do something useful? Is this something you would like to receive in your comments? Is this being done in a way that you won't regret the next day when you look at what you posted?”
“Or the second you hit enter,” Cravens said.
Remember that social media is real life.
Cravens and Whiting found in their research that many people, when considering domestic violence, downplayed anything that happened virtually, saying things like chatting with an old lover for hours every day on Facebook isn't infidelity. Even Trump uses that excuse, arguing words in a tweet matter less than words in a more formal setting.
“It's just very easy to put on this different self or the worst self or the excusing, rationalizing self online,” he said.
Unfollowing is OK. Think hard before unfriending and blocking.
People who know a friend or family member feels differently and will post about it may find unfollowing that person makes maintaining that relationship easier, Cravens said. It allows users to filter out the comments on topics they would never bring up while out to dinner.
Unfriending or blocking someone, however, is a little more nuclear. Those actions raise questions about the nature of the relationship.
“Unfollowing is the kinder, more caring way to go about it on social media,” she said. “Blocking and unfriending oftentimes seem like reactive responses.”
Unfollowing may especially be beneficial with family members. If people need to preserve these intimate relationships, unfollowing allows for that source of disagreement to go unspoken. It remains a gray area, Cravens said, since 15 years ago no one had these conversations: “Do I follow them on social media? Do I be friends on social media? Do I have to block them on social media?”
“Can I express an opinion on social media without it going nuclear?” Whiting added.
Consider why you're reacting.
At every point in this process, Whiting suggested taking a moment to consider the action.
“Anytime you react at all on social media or online, you have to ask yourself, ‘What's my goal in this?” he said. “If you block somebody just because you think, ‘That's the stupidest political comment I've ever heard,' what's your long-term goal? Is that going to make it worse? Even if you say something and you try to be thoughtful, will that help, really? Is that going to change somebody's mind?”
Don't try to change people's minds.
Whiting recently read a study that showed occasionally posting contrary opinions to social media will change a person's mind. That remains the exception.
“Studies show people become more and more convinced, even in the face of contrary evidence, when you challenge their beliefs,” he said. “The brain lights up in different ways about emotional issues than it does logical issues, and these are almost always emotional, not logical.”
Remember Netiquette and the golden rule.
“We've forgotten about the golden rule,” Cravens said. “It's a big start in learning to be empathetic to one another again, learning to listen to one another and not making blanket statements about how being with one political affiliation over another means something about your personality or your morals.”
“Remember you're part of a team,” Whiting added. “This is all our country. On some level we all want roughly the same things. Focus on that instead of rubbing it in someone's face.”
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Between the Pipes: Canucks blank Sabres
October 17, 2013 Chris Ostrander
The Sabres mailed in yet another listless effort on home ice, allowing 28 shots through two periods and watching the Canucks skate away with a 3-0 win.
A pair of storylines have dominated the Sabres season thus far and they have been the stellar play of both Ryan Miller and Jhonas Enroth to go along with flat efforts from the ranks of the Sabres skaters. Thursday was yet another prime example of both. While Miller weathered the storm, the Sabres struggled to generate zone time.
Chris Higgins’ one-timer off Cody McCormick’s feed – yes you read that properly – was all that was going to be needed by Vancouver. Brad Richardson scored on a shorthanded deflection and Ryan Stanton scored his first career goal in the third.
That was the long and the short of it as the Canucks were operating on serious cruise control in the third and that’s likely the only reason they didn’t break 40 shots. A 28-14 edge in shots through two periods was a continuation of what has occurred in each and every game so far in this young season.
Miller chose not to speak to the media after the game and I can’t blame him. He’s been hung out each game, has been phenomenal in each performance and has a 1-5-0 record to show for it. Even if he was playing at an average level, no goaltender deserves that type of treatment. There are few players in the league, let alone the Sabres roster, who are more passionate and outspoken than Miller. I can only imagine his comments would have created some sort of firestorm with the media and fans alike. Besides, he stood tall all game, it was about time he was granted a reprieve.
What he did well
This will read quite similar to Tuesday’s round up as Miller was phenomenal for the entire game. He saw a game’s worth of pucks in the first 40 minutes and held his team within striking distance all night. You hear a lot about his inability to steal games for his team, if he was playing behind goal support I’m fully confident he would have stolen a whole lot more than he’s given credit for.
Where he struggled
Miller was deep in the net on Vancouver’s first goal. He was forced to make a quick adjustment on the original turnover and likely wasn’t expecting the one timer to come once the puck reached Cody McCormick. Still, he was on the goal line and didn’t have much of a shot at a save.
Save of the game
Miller had a number of dandies but the breakaway stop in the second period was indeed the best. It was a strong move on top of the paint and a well timed poke. He got some help from Ristolainen on the way through, but it was a nice stop.
Roberto Luongo
Lu tweets with the best of them, I can tell you that much. As for the game, Luongo was able to kick back and relax for three periods as the Sabres barely tested him for most of the contest. Still, he controlled his space and earned his shutout.
He looked out to lunch on his turnover behind the net in the third, but when you get a shutout you typically don’t have many shortcomings.
There were a few net-front battles that I really was impressed with throughout the night. Luongo covers the bottom of the net well, especially when he gets his butterfly wide.
Once again Mikhail Grigorenko played a miniscule role for the Sabres. While it’s obvious that he still needs to mature in many facets of his game, the roles he’s been given are far from what you’d expect for a highly touted prospect the organization hopes to develop as a cornerstone of the franchise. Or at least that’s what you’d expect.
Support in the defensive zone from their forwards may be the biggest issue for the Sabres currently. While there has been some inconsistencies from the blueliners but support from the forwards has been abysmal at times. The Stanton goal is a great example as Brian Flynn was sucked all the way down to the crease along with Johan Larsson and the defensemen. That needs to be improved.
Some of the biggest issues that seem to be coming up – power play, defensive coverage etc. – certainly seems like it may be tied to coaching, not just talent, no? Something to think about.
The Miller and Vanek trade rumors are going to keep rolling along. They’re going to command plenty of attention up until the deadline, I hope you’re ready.
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AHI Information
AHI A.B.
AHI M.A.
AHI Minor
AHI Courses
Department Office. 101 Art Building 530-752-0105; http://arthistory.ucdavis.edu
Faculty. http://arts.ucdavis.edu/art-history-people
The Major Program
Art History studies the changing visual expression of values, beliefs and experiences across diverse cultures and over time. It provides training in historical, social and aesthetic understanding, critical thinking, scholarly research, and lucid, thoughtful analysis and writing. More than any other discipline art history sharpens its students’ visual acuity and deepens their visual literacy. In so doing, it prepares them to face the increasingly complex visual world we find ourselves in today.
The Program. The major begins with a series of courses that surveys major landmarks in the history of visual culture, art and architecture in Asia, Europe, and the United States. More advanced lecture courses and seminars focus on particularly important periods and issues. Students are encouraged to personalize their training with internships, independent study, and focused upper-division study. Top students considering graduate study are encouraged to engage in more advance study by pursuing a senior honors thesis.
Career Options. A major in Art History develops critical thinking and the integration of research, interpretation and understanding. It provides an excellent liberal arts basis for professions as far ranging as advertising, law, medicine, politics and business. The major prepares students for advanced study in Art History, Architecture, Museum Studies and Cultural Studies. It also serves as the foundation for careers in teaching, arts, administration, museums, galleries, historic preservation, art libraries, publishing, journalism, advertising, art conservation, and art investment. As the world becomes increasingly flooded with images, the critical visual literacy gained through the study of art history becomes more important for a wide variety of careers.
Honors Program. The Honors Program in Art History is encouraged for Art History majors who are considering attending graduate school. To be eligible for the program, a student must have a grade point average of 3.600 in the major or consent of both the prospective thesis advisor, who must be a member of the Art History faculty and the major advisor. In addition to meeting the standard major requirements, the honors student completes one additional undergraduate seminar (course 100 or 190A-L), researches and writes an honors thesis (courses 194HA and 194HB), supervised by the prospective thesis advisor. Students participating in this Program are candidates for Departmental recommendation for graduation with High or Highest Honors. See the Academic Information chapter, Letters and Science honors section, of this catalog and consult the department website for more information.
Teaching Credential Subject Representative. Department Chairperson; see the Teacher Education program.
Graduate Study. The Program in Art History offers studies leading to the Master of Arts degree in History of Art as preparation for further graduate study or professional work. For more information, contact the Graduate Staff Advisor at 530-752-8710, or see http://arthistory.ucdavis.edu.
Preparatory Subject Matter
Choose four:
AHI 001A
Ancient Mediterranean Art (Active)
AHI 001B
Medieval & Renaissance Art (Active)
AHI 001C
Baroque to Modern Art (Active)
AHI 001D
Arts of Asia (Active)
AHI 001DY
AHI 001E
Islamic Art & Architecture (Active)
AHI 005
Understanding Visual Culture (Active)
Understanding Architecture (Active)
Any lower division Art Studio (ART) course except ART 010 or ART 030.
Depth Subject Matter
Units: 40
Distribution Areas: Choose one course in each of the following six areas:
(1) The Ancient World
Arts of Oceania & Prehistoric Europe (Active)
Early Greek Art & Architecture (Active)
Later Greek Art & Architecture (Active)
Roman Art & Architecture (Active)
Architecture & Urbanism in Mediterranean Antiquity (Active)
(2) Asia
The Hindu Temple (Active)
AHI 157 (Pending Approval)
Early Chinese Art (Active)
Chinese Painting (Active)
Early Modern Chinese Painting (Active)
Art from China 1900 to the Present (Active)
The Arts of Japan (Active)
(3) The Middle Ages to 1700
The Islamic City (Active)
Arts of the Islamic Book (Active)
AHI 176D (Pending Approval)
Early Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture (Active)
High & Late Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture (Active)
Baroque Art (Active)
(4) Western Art 1700 to 1900
Landscape, Nature, & Art (Active)
Great Cities (Active)
British Art & Culture (1750-1900) (Active)
Art in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (Active)
Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: Manet to 1900 (Active)
American Art to 1910 (Active)
(5) World Art 20th Century to the Present
Sex & Space (Active)
Modernism in France, 1880-1940 (Active)
Avant-Gardism & its Aftermath, 1917-1960 (Active)
Contemporary Art 1960-Present (Active)
Photography in History (Active)
(6) Art & Issues Across Chronologies
Cultural History of Museums (Active)
Art, Architecture, & Human Rights (Active)
Politics of Public Art (Active)
The Museum in the Age of Spectacle (Active)
Latin American Art & Architecture (Active)
The American Home (Active)
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History, (AHI 190A-L); choose one:
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Mediterranean Antiquity (Active)
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Medieval (Active)
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Renaissance (Active)
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: American (Active)
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Gendering of Culture (Active)
AHI 190F
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Chinese (Active)
AHI 190G
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Japanese (Active)
AHI 190H
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Modern-Contemporary (Active)
AHI 190I
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: 17th-18th Century (Active)
AHI 190J
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Islamic (Active)
AHI 190K
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: 19th Century (Active)
AHI 190L
Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Architecture & Heritage (Active)
Choose any three additional AHI upper-division courses or seminars.
Emphasis in Architectural History
Emphasis in Architectural History follows the same requirements as for the Art History major above, applying at least six of the following to their respective required areas or as electives:
Art of the Middle Ages: Early Christian & Byzantine Art (Active)
Art of the Middle Ages: Early Medieval & Romanesque Art (Active)
Art of the Middle Ages: Gothic (Active)
Twentieth Century Architecture (Active)
Contemporary Architecture (Active)
Architecture of the United States (Active)
Fulfilling the undergraduate seminar requirement (AHI 190A-L) through an architectural topic is highly recommended.
The Program in Art History offers studies leading to the Master of Arts degree in History of Art as preparation for further graduate study or professional work. For more information, contact the Graduate Staff Advisor at 530-752-8710, or see http://arthistory.ucdavis.edu.
Art History Minor
Five upper-division courses. Choose one course from four of the following areas:
Elective: Choose any additional upper-division Art History course or seminar
Courses in AHI:
AHI 001A—Ancient Mediterranean Art (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2002 Fall Quarter.
AHI 001B—Medieval & Renaissance Art (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Christian, Barbarian, Moslem, and Classical traditions in European Art from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 001C—Baroque to Modern Art (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Introduction to visual analysis through study of western art 1600-present, examining major artists and movements from Europe to North America. Study of the relationship of art and artists to political, religious, social change, and to changes in ideology, patronage, audience. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.
AHI 001D—Arts of Asia (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Introduction to major forms and trends in the arts, architecture, and material culture of Asia from the Neolithic to the contemporary emphasizing the visual manifestation of secular and religious ideas and ideals. Not open for credit to students who have completed AHI 1DV. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 001DY—Arts of Asia (5) Active
Web Virtual Lecture—2.5 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Lecture/Discussion—1.5 hour(s). Introduction to major forms and trends in the arts and material culture of Asia from the Neolithic to the contemporary, emphasizing the visual manifestation of secular and religious ideas and ideals. Not open for credit to students who have completed AHI 1D. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2014 Spring Quarter.
AHI 001E—Islamic Art & Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Introduction to the art and architecture of the Islamic world including the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South Asia, from the 7th century CE to the 20th century. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2006 Fall Quarter.
AHI 005—Understanding Visual Culture (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Development of visual literacy for an increasingly visual world; critical analyses focusing on the widest variety of visual imagery: the fine arts across media and eras of world culture, television, film, and advertising. Intended for a diverse spectrum of audiences. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 025—Understanding Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Development of architecture and urban design; how form, space, order are conceived and used across eras and cultures. Examines the function and organization of space, technological problems of construction, visual qualities of architecture, and social issues connected to architecture. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, DD, VL, WC. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 098—Directed Group Study (1-5) Active
Discussion—1-5 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Restricted to lower division students. Directed Group Study (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 099—Special Study for Undergraduates (1-5) Active
Discussion—1-5 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 100—Methods of Art History (4) Active
Extensive Writing/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of two upper-division Art History courses recommended. Methods of art historical research and analysis, and general issues in critical thought. Writing skills appropriate to a range of art-historical exposition. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.
AHI 110—Cultural History of Museums (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Evolution of museums in the western world from the "cabinet of curiosities" of sixteenth-century Europe to the modern "art center." The changing motives behind collecting, exhibiting, and interpretation of objects. Attention to museums' historical legacies and continuing philosophical dilemmas. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 120A—Art, Architecture, & Human Rights (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Study of human rights as they relate to art, architecture, and cultural heritage. Examines museums, art collections, and cultural-heritage management, their relation to the cultural prerogatives of communities and indigenous groups, and protection of cultural heritage during war and conflict. (Same course as HMR 120A.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, DD, SS, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 121—Politics of Public Art (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Politics of public art. Role of contemporary artists, public monuments, urban spaces, the movie industry, photography, propaganda art, and comics in construction of political ideologies and collective identities. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2018 Winter Quarter.
AHI 122—Sex & Space (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Relationship between space and sexuality. Sexual metaphors in art and architecture, gender identity formation via images and space. Diverse intersections of sexuality and art history. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, DD, VL, WE. Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.
AHI 123—The Museum in the Age of Spectacle (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). The institution of the museum in the context of modernity, nationalism, (post)colonialism, and the society of spectacle. Designed to bring art objects of the Manetti Shrem collection, global art history, and foundational critical theory together in a meaningful and experimental way. (Letter.) GE credit: AH. Effective: 2019 Spring Quarter.
AHI 130—Landscape, Nature, & Art (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Interpretation of the natural world in the western world 1600-1900, with perspectives on the present; landscape painting, ideology of picturesque and sublime, landscape art and travel, reshaping the land as art; dialogues between art and science; nature as national identity. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 148—Theory & Criticism: Painting & Sculpture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): ART 005 or 007 recommended. Study of forms and symbols in historic and contemporary masterpieces. (Same course as ART 148.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2017 Winter Quarter.
AHI 150—Arts of Subsaharan Africa (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Traditional arts and crafts of subsaharan Africa from prehistoric times to the present; the relationships among art, nature, cycles of life, and religion; art as expression of power; sculpture and culture in West and Central Africa; Colonialism and collecting. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 151—Arts of the Indians of the Americas (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Development of art in North America, emphasizing ancient Mexico. South American relationships and parallels. Recent and contemporary Indian arts and crafts from Alaska to Chile. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2015 Spring Quarter.
AHI 152—Arts of Oceania & Prehistoric Europe (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Traditional arts of aboriginal Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, as seen in their cultural contexts. Prehistoric art of Europe and the Near East. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 154—The Hindu Temple (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Comparative history of architecture and symbolism of the Hindu Temple in India, Southeast Asia and the United States. Attention to the temple as expression of religious knowledge, political authority, and cultural heritage through the lens of colonialism and postcolonialism. (Same course as REL 154.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, SS, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2015 Fall Quarter.
AHI 155—The Islamic City (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): AHI 001E recommended. Introduction to the urban history of the Islamic world. Critical study of the historiography of the Islamic city, development of urban form, institutions and rituals, and analysis of selected themes. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, SS, VL, WC. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 156—Arts of the Islamic Book (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 001E recommended. Critical study of the arts of the luxury book in the pre-modern Islamic world. Representation in Islam, the relationship of word and image, the discipline of calligraphy, aesthetics and representation in Persianate painting. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 158—Popular Religious Art in India (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Survey of Indian popular religious art in prints, trade labels, comics and photographs. (Same course as RST 180.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2020 Spring Quarter.
AHI 163A—Early Chinese Art (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Thematic and chronological examination of 3000 years of Chinese art and culture from Neolithic through Tang Dynasty (10th c. CE). Study of ceremonial and secular objects manifesting folk beliefs and belief systems of ancestor worship, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 163B—Chinese Painting (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Thematic and chronological examination of Chinese painting and culture from the Tang Dynasty (7th c. CE) through the early 20th century. Issues considered include political art (made to support or protest regimes), art and the market, art and individual expression. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 163C—Early Modern Chinese Painting (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Topics in Chinese Art History, 13th-19th century. Study of issues pertaining to self and society; gender and gendering; religion and philosophy; political engagement and protest; economy and the market; the effects created by periods of transition on visual expression. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 163D—Art from China 1900 to the Present (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Forms of modern and avant-garde expression from China's industrialization to the 21st century. Interactions of art and politics, individual and state, art for the free market versus art for the state, expressions of modernity; China on the world stage. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2017 Spring Quarter.
AHI 164—The Arts of Japan (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Japan’s painting, architecture, decorative arts, and print heritage, ancient times to the 20th century in literary, political, intellectual, and spiritual contexts; impact of Japanese art on the West and the West’s transformative impact upon Japan’s opening in the 19th century. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.
AHI 168—Great Cities (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Transformation in architecture and urban form in Paris, London, and Vienna in the context of varying social, political, and economic systems as well as very different cultural traditions, concentrating on the years 1830-1914. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 172A—Early Greek Art & Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Examination of the origin and development of the major monuments of Greek art and architecture from the eighth century to the mid-fifth century B.C. (Same course as CLA 172A.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2015 Fall Quarter.
AHI 172B—Later Greek Art & Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Study of the art and architecture of later Classical and Hellenistic Greece, from the mid-fifth century to the first century B.C. (Same course as CLA 172B.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2015 Fall Quarter.
AHI 173—Roman Art & Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Art and architecture of Rome and the Roman Empire, from the founding of Rome through the fourth century C.E. (Same course as CLA 173.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 175—Architecture & Urbanism in Mediterranean Antiquity (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing. Architecture and urban development in the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Special emphasis on the social structure of the ancient city as expressed in its architecture, and on the interaction between local traditions and the impact of Greco-Roman urbanism. (Same course as CLA 175.) (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2017 Spring Quarter.
AHI 176A—Art of the Middle Ages: Early Christian & Byzantine Art (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s). Term paper or gallery studies and review. Painting, sculpture and architecture of the early Christian era and Byzantine Empire: through the later Roman Empire in the West and to the final capture of Constantinople in the East. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 176B—Art of the Middle Ages: Early Medieval & Romanesque Art (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s). Term paper or gallery studies and review. Painting, sculpture and architecture of western Europe in the early medieval era: from the rise of the barbarian kingdoms through the twelfth century. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 176C—Art of the Middle Ages: Gothic (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s). Term paper or gallery studies and review. Painting, sculpture and architecture in northern Europe from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 177—Northern Renaissance Art (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Artistic culture of Western and Central Europe c. 1350-1600. Topics include the development of "realism" in portraiture and landscape, prints and print culture, urbanism, science and the exotic, anti-religious artworks, religious attacks on art, contacts with Renaissance Italy. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2015 Spring Quarter.
AHI 178B—Early Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Fifteenth-century artists, with a focus on Florence; Donatello and Masaccio through Botticelli, in their artistic, architectural, and cultural setting; the impact of Humanism and the rebirth of classical learning. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 178C—High & Late Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. High Renaissance and Mannerism in 16th-century Italy: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian in their artistic and cultural settings—Florence, Rome, and Venice; the architecture of Bramante, Michelangelo, and Palladio. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 179B—Baroque Art (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Seventeenth-century painting, sculpture and graphic arts, including such artists as Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velázquez in their political and social context. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 181—Latin American Art and Architecture (4) Review all entries Historical
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Pass One restricted to Art History Majors. Art and architecture of Latin America since Spanish arrival in the New World to the present. Visual, spatial, and material practices (painting, sculpture, urban form, cartography, and film, among others) from North and South America. How art and architecture shape and define colonial encounters and negotiations, religious and cultural exchange, conceptions of race and gender, and notions of nationalism and globalism. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2019 Spring Quarter.
AHI 181—Latin American Art & Architecture (4) Review all entries Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Art and architecture of Latin America since Spanish arrival in the New World to the present. Visual, spatial, and material practices (painting, sculpture, urban form, cartography, and film, among others) from North and South America. How art and architecture shape and define colonial encounters and negotiations, religious and cultural exchange, conceptions of race and gender, and notions of nationalism and globalism. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2020 Spring Quarter.
AHI 182—British Art & Culture (1750-1900) (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. British painting in relation to the position of women in society and the rise of the middle-class art market. Topics covered Hogarth and popular culture, Queen Victoria and the female gaze, and Pre-Raphaelite artists and collectors. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 183A—Art in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 001C recommended. Emergence of modernism in Europe from the late l8th century to the middle of the l9th century. Major artistic events viewed against a revolutionary backdrop of changing attitudes toward identity, race, and gender. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 183B—Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: Manet to 1900 (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 001C recommended. Innovations of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Symbolists in relation to social changes. Assessment of role of dealers and critics, myth of the artist-genius, and gender relations in French art and culture of the late 1800s. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 183C—Modernism in France, 1880-1940 (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Development of modern art in France, its social context, and its transnational aspects. Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism are considered in relation to secessionist movements, the formation of other artistic groups, new forms of patronage, and new audiences. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 184—Twentieth Century Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 025 recommended. Major movements in architecture of the twentieth century in Europe and America. Formal innovations are examined within the social, political, and economic circumstances in which they emerged. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 185—Avant-Gardism & its Aftermath, 1917-1960 (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Social, cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical development for artists and their audiences in the context of larger issues like the Mexican, Russian and German revolutions, WWI, the Depression, WWII, etc., and a critical-theoretical inquiry into questions of modernism, modernity, and avant-gardism. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 186—Contemporary Art 1960-Present (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s); Term Paper. Development of new media and aesthetics in the context of such cultural and political phenomena as the New Left, feminism, and globalization; investigation of the critical-theoretical questions of neo avant-gardism, postmodernism, and postmodernity. (Letter.) GE credit: ACGH, AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 187—Contemporary Architecture (4) Active
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Introduction to world architecture and urban design since circa 1966. Relation of influential styles, buildings, and architects to postmodern debates and to cultural, economic, technological and environmental change. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2017 Spring Quarter.
AHI 188A—The American Home (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). American domestic architecture and its responsiveness to changes in daily life from Colonial times to the 1960s. Vernacular developments, effects of different socioeconomic conditions, and women's role in shaping the home receive special attention. (Letter.) GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, VL. Effective: 2019 Spring Quarter.
AHI 188B—Architecture of the United States (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Major movements from colonial times to the present. The role of buildings in a changing American society, the interplay of styles with technologies of construction, relationship between American and European developments and evolution of the architectural and planning professions. (Letter.) GE credit: ACGH, AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 188C—American Art to 1910 (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s); Term Paper. Major movements in American art from the 17th-century English-speaking colonies to the onset of World War I. (Letter.) GE credit: ACGH, AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 189—Photography in History (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s). Social, cultural, aesthetic and technical developments in the history of photography including patronage and reception, commercial, scientific, political and artistic applications, and a critical-theoretical inquiry into photography's impact on the social category "art" and the history of subjectivity. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.
AHI 190A—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Mediterranean Antiquity (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended. Class size limited to 25 students; for majors, minors, other advanced students. Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing. May be repeated up to 2 Time(s) when topic differs. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, OL, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 190B—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Medieval (4) Active
AHI 190C—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Renaissance (4) Active
AHI 190D—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: American (4) Active
AHI 190E—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Gendering of Culture (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended. Class size limited to 25 students; for majors, minors, other advanced students. Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing. May be repeated up to 2 Time(s) when topic differs. (Letter.) GE credit: OL, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 190F—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Chinese (4) Active
AHI 190G—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Japanese (4) Active
AHI 190H—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Modern-Contemporary (4) Active
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Art History major, minor or other significant training recommended. Class size limited to 25 students; for majors, minors, other advanced students. Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing. May be repeated up to 2 Time(s) when topic differs. (Letter.) GE credit: AH, OL, VL, WE. Effective: 2014 Fall Quarter.
AHI 190I—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: 17th-18th Century (4) Active
AHI 190J—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Islamic (4) Active
AHI 190K—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: 19th Century (4) Active
AHI 190L—Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Architecture & Heritage (4) Active
AHI 192—Internship (1-6) Active
Internship. Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Supervised program of internships at professional art institutions such as museums, galleries, and art archives including collections of slides and photographs. May be repeated up to 12 Unit(s). (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 2019 Spring Quarter.
AHI 194H—Special Study for Honor Students (4) Review all entries Historical
Independent Study—12 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): AHI 190; Or the equivalent, as determined by the major advisor. Open only to students in the Art History Honors Program. Independent study of an art historical problem culminating in the writing of an honors thesis under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 194H—Special Study for Honor Students (4) Review all entries Discontinued
Independent Study—12 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): AHI 190; Or the equivalent, as determined by the major advisor. Open only to students in the Art History Honors Program. Independent study of an art historical problem culminating in the writing of an honors thesis under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee. (Letter.) Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.
AHI 194HA—Honors Thesis Research (4) Active
Independent Study. Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. A minimum GPA of 3.7 and completion of one undergraduate seminar in Art History (AHI 190A-L). Only open to Art History majors with a minimum 135 units toward graduation. Research and initial drafting of a senior thesis paper in a scholarly area of Art History, under supervision of Art History faculty advisor. (Letter.) Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.
AHI 194HB—Honors Thesis Writing (4) Active
Independent Study. Prerequisite(s): AHI 194HA A- or better; Consent of Instructor. Only open to majors in the Art History Honors Program with upper division standing. Final writing of a senior thesis paper in a scholarly area of Art History, under supervision of Art History faculty advisor. (Letter.) Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.
Variable. (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 199—Special Study for Advanced Undergraduates (1-5) Active
AHI 200A—Visual Theory & Interpretive Methods (4) Active
Discussion—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing—1 hour(s). Close study of selected recent developments in interpretive methodology used by art historians and other analysts of visual culture and the place of those developments within art history's history and in the larger field of social, cultural and historical analysis. May be repeated up to 1 Time(s). (Letter.) Effective: 2000 Fall Quarter.
AHI 200B—Research & Writing Methods in Art History (4) Active
Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Restricted to graduate students in Art History. Development of the research, writing, and editing skills necessary for producing publishable work. Focus on reference tools used by art historians and the mechanics of scholarship, from question framing and organization of ideas to writing clear, effective prose. (Letter.) Effective: 2001 Winter Quarter.
AHI 200C—Thesis Writing Colloquium (1) Active
Discussion—1.5 hour(s); Auto Tutorial. Prerequisite(s): AHI 200B; Taken by all Art History M.A. students in their first year. Restricted to graduate students in Art History. Meeting concurrently with course 200B, the colloquium provides a structured, supportive environment for second-year Art History graduate students drafting masters' theses. Offers a forum for technical discussions, discussion of writing/editing procedures, and peer review of writing in progress. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.
AHI 210—Museums, Art Exhibitions & Culture (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing/Discussion; Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate status in art history or an allied field. Class size limited to 20 students. Issues accompanying the evolution and function of museums from cabinets of curiosities in sixteenth-century Europe to modern art centers. Examination of divergent motives behind collecting, exhibiting, and interpretation of objects. Investigation of museums' historical legacies and continuing philosophical dilemmas. (Letter.) Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.
AHI 250—Problems in Art Historical Research (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Major topics in art historical research, emphasizing special methods of investigation, and of historical and critical analysis. May be repeated for credit. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 254—Seminar in Classical Art (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Selected areas of special study in classical art of the Greek and Roman tradition. Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit / with consent of instructor. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 263—Seminar in Chinese Art (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Selected areas of special study in Chinese Art. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit /with consent of instructor. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 276—Seminar in Medieval Art (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Selected areas of special study in medieval art from Early Christian to late Gothic. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit /with consent of instructor. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 278—Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Selected areas of special study in Italian art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 283—Seminar in Visual Culture & Gender (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Selected areas of special study in the relationship between visual culture and gender in Europe and America from 1750 to present. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. (Letter.) Effective: 2000 Fall Quarter.
AHI 288—Seminar in European & American Architecture (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Exploration of selected topics in European and American architectural history with concentration on the Modern Period. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 290—Special topics in Art History (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Special research seminar in the theory or methods of Art History, or in a period of Art History. Topic will vary depending on the interests of the instructor or students. May be repeated for credit topic differs and with consent of instructor. (Letter.) Effective: 2002 Fall Quarter.
Internship—3-12 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Graduate student. Restricted to graduate students in Art History only. Supervised internship at professional art or cultural institution including museum, galleries, archives, government offices, visual resources libraries, etc. May be repeated up to 8 Unit(s). (S/U grading only.) Effective: 2007 Fall Quarter.
Seminar. May be repeated for credit. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 2002 Winter Quarter.
AHI 299—Individual Study (1-6) Active
Variable. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 390—Introduction to Teaching Art History for Teaching Assistants (1) Active
Discussion—1 hour(s). Designed for teaching assistants with emphasis on problems and procedures encountered by teachers of undergraduate art history. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 396—Teaching Assistant Training Practicum (1-4) Active
Seminar; Practice. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. May be repeated for credit. (S/U grading only.) Effective: 2008 Summer Session 1.
AHI 401—Museum Training: Curatorial Principles (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s). Approved for graduate degree credit. Study of private and public collections. Museum personalities. Appraisal of works of art; appraisal ethics. Auction and sales: methods and catalogues. Registration. Museum technical problems. Connoisseurship. Collateral reading. Visits to museums. Seminar with assigned papers. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
AHI 402—Museum Training: Exhibition Methods (4) Active
Seminar—3 hour(s). Approved for graduate degree credit. History of exhibition methods in private and public collections. Comparisons of different types of museums and their exhibition problems. Lighting and techniques of display with emphasis on actual design. Experimentation with unusual presentation forms. (Letter.) Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
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Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Files Cloture for Kavanaugh Nomination….
Posted on October 3, 2018 by sundance
The FBI report on Judge Kavanaugh is being reported as delivered tonight. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has filed cloture tonight for the supreme court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The cloture vote will likely take place Friday ending debate on the nomination.
WASHINGTON DC – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell late Wednesday night filed for cloture to end debate on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, setting up a key procedural vote for Friday — and a possible confirmation vote as early as Saturday.
McConnell also revealed that the Senate would receive the FBI’s supplemental background investigation into Kavanaugh Wednesday night.
Two senators, both of whom are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Fox News that they’ve been instructed to plan for a vote on Sunday.
Sources previously told Fox News that Senators and some aides would be able to start looking at the FBI’s background investigation on Thursday morning and that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would be given the first chance to look at the report.
The bureau’s investigation, ordered last week by President Trump, was designed to look into allegations of sexual misconduct leveled at Kavanaugh, who has been accused by three women of separate alleged incidents. Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to come foward, testified before the Senate Judiciary last week about her claims. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations against him.
Amid McConnell’s remarks Wednesday night, Trump tweeted that there was “such enthusiasm and energy for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.” (read more)
Wow, such enthusiasm and energy for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Look at the Energy, look at the Polls. Something very big is happening. He is a fine man and great intellect. The country is with him all the way!
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440 Responses to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Files Cloture for Kavanaugh Nomination….
The American people looked what Ford served them in the dish, considered it carefully, identified it as dog food, and they’re not eating it.
treehouseron says:
^^^^^^ yes this^^^^^
Lol. My dog wouldn’t even eat that! 😆
wildsailor2018 says:
“Tell the chef this is low grade dog food.”
“Steak? You can still see the marks where the jockey was whipping it!”
Ad lib lines from Mr. Dangerfield in the movie “Caddyshack.”
Or worse… as an instructor in the Army once told us: A sugar-coated turd is still just a turd coated with sugar.
That’s great way of putting it, trapper.
What the President says above about the support for Kavanaugh is true.
Normal people either aren’t following this or are disgusted by the spectacle.
People need to remember, millions of Americans have been disgusted by politicians of any party, for decades now.
THR – I think you mean dog sh***t. Fixed it for ya!
Genie says:
Woohoo! Party Saturday at Squi’s house! Everyone’s invited. No dudes.
Hmm. I know it’s meant in jest but the “dudes” are all saying no women because it’s too dangerous. What a shame. I’m in technology. I have been for decades. Early mentors of mine were all “dudes”. I think of how many women are not going to get that opportunity and cringe. The Dems have set back the women in the workforce at least 30 years. Now every single hiring manager is going to ask “is it worth it to hire a woman when we can hire a man and not have to deal with the accompanying risk”. Like I said, what a shame.
stg58animalmother says:
Nope. They should all be home baking cookies and raising the kiddos anyway.
Tell that to KellyAnne Conway. I dare you.
wolfmoon1776 says:
Yeah, but she’s a Joisey goil! 😉
Here’s an interesting twist on this.
I’m starting to understand the MARXIST DEMOCRAT playbook on women. They HAVE to set women back, just like they had to set BLACKS back. They NEED them set back – continuously – so that they can “rally the masses”. They have to KEEP EM DOWN so that they can claim to want to RAISE EM UP.
And I have a GREAT example from “left-tech” of how they do this stuff.
Remote access tech enabled parents of young kids, and PARTICULARLY women, to work at home during and after pregnancy, saving careers, keeping women in executive and professional positions, and really ACCOMPLISHING something. I was a huge advocate of this stuff.
And then – ODDLY – at the point where we should have started changing workplaces strongly to adapt to the new paradigm, what happens?
Marissa Mayer of Yahoo – AFTER she meets Obama and gets all simpatico with top Democrats – and gets Yahoo involved in all their scandals – and before she is fired – RENEGES on work-at-home for women at Yahoo, saying it’s not good for teams. But what she’s really doing is the exact reason we call these people REGRESSIVES.
The FAKE NEWS media came in like CLOCKWORK carrying her message, and makes a big deal out of it, too. And because a WOMAN rolls it out, we’re supposed to believe this is the feminist position.
No – it’s the ANTI-FAMILY position. And that’s the point. The left is not about empowering women to do what they want. It’s about empowering women to empower government to do what THEY want.
And after that – it SPREADS throughout tech, as all kinds of SWAMP BOSSES follow suit.
Democrats are not for what women want. They DEFINE feminist goals and TELL women what they want. It’s a CON JOB.
teajr ✓كافر 🇺🇸 says:
Can’t have class struggle without the struggle and division of “classes”. Leftists feed off of hate, discontent, misery, and victimhood – so much so, they actively create it. They need it to survive.
The plain truth is, when you see a story about Conservatives spraypainting “hate” messages against a particular group, you can take it to the bank that it was the “particular group” who was the actual offender. Like clockwork.
jederman54@yahoo.com says:
In the “whats old is new again” category: Netflix (I believe) had a series about American culture and society describing events in a particular decade, The 60s, The 70s… .
Long story short, out of curiosity and for grins (yes it was a CNN effort) I watched the segment on the 70s. I was stunned to hear the same talking points (almost verbatim) form some of the 70s feminist nut jobs. What we have now is almost an exact replay of what went on 50 yrs ago.
The 70s were particularly violent with domestic and international terrorism out of control, and it was interesting to get the retrospective view. We had hundreds of bombings in this country during that period. To date, antifa et al can’t hold a candle to the terrorist orgs wandering around during the 70s but what we see otherwise today is almost an exact mirror image of what went on 50 yrs ago. It’s worth watching and begs the question: who are the unseen hands in the Left? Couldn’t help but wonder what role our previous immature, ill mannered scheisse stick prezzy is now playing.
Nothing has changed. The same tired, empty, divorced from reality slogans designed, in my opinion, to divide and create chaos. The Left won’t stop until they’re stopped.
YUP. Hoaxing Alinsky Democrats.
skeinster says:
This is so true. I’m an old lady now, so I was a young skull full of mush when Feminism made a resurgence in the mid 1960s. Then, it was all of a piece with the general upheaval of societal norms- in fact, the story was that young women got tired of making coffee and running mimoegraphs for the guys in the radical movements, so feminism.
It would be hard for someone who wasn’t there to understand the intense pressure that was put on young women then to be “more than just a housewife”. Sisterhood was powerful (though as Nora Ephron wrote, the factions in the Feminist Movement made the Communist Party of the 1930’s look like a monolith). And if you didn’t go along with the sisters, then you were a traitor to your sex, a parasite and if you were married “committing prostitution with just one man”.
Back then, we were pressured to be, in effect, sub-standard men. Now, it has gone so far, men are considered defective women.
Great perspective on those times! Thanks for that!
James_teh_2nd says:
Of what use are solutions, when we have perfectly good problems.
That sounds very Mark Twainian, hilarious!
L. Gee says:
I agree with what you said, but let’s look at the real culprit here. Behind this is Satan himself, who loves to destroy families!
I’m glad you said that, wolf.
I’m getting a little sick of people blaming this sorry Uniparty Globalist spectacle on women, for being women.
It wasn’t women in charge when we’ve been seeing the rollout of globalism taking hold unimpeded, for a generation.
One Sarah Palin is worth ALL the male politicians.
I leave our VSGPDJT out of that, because he is not a politician.
Obama’s crazy college rape policies are another factor in the con job. When everything is rape, rape becomes nothing.
Matamoros says:
OK. Kellyanne you should be home baking cookies and raising the kiddos!
Women in politics is a disaster and a half. Revoke the 19th Amendment, back to Cooking, Children and Church! MAGA!
Snow White says:
If the evil Federal Reserve wouldn’t have screwed up the people with their funny money business and people could live well on one income, believe me most women would probably choose to be home with their kids. But most families have to have both parents working just to make ends meet and the poor kids end up being raised in indoctrination centers.
Snow White, part of what you say is real, but I now know many mothers homeschooling and working! Women are able to handle a lot of things all at once which is a gift in our favor.
If families didn’t buy the biggest cars and homes, this would be less of a problem. Its all about priorities.
Bingo!!!
Cuppa Covfefe says:
Yep. Back in the late 50s/early 60s it was called “keeping up with the Joneses”. Look up “The Wastemakers” (and other books) by Vance Packard. He wrote a lot about that type of thing, and how our society is being manipulated…
PoCoNoMo says:
Vance Packard made a big impression on me as a high school girl when I read The Status Seekers. All of a sudden I understood what was going on, and decided to buy none of it. Freed me up for a good life.
All of this talk about 1984’ish surveillance, total invasion into peoples’ private lives, continual monitoring and control (e.g. that by Amazon, Farcebørk, Gargle, DorkeyPark (aka Twitter), the various TLAs and others) was covered by Packard in his book “The Naked Society”, which was written about 1960… we’ve been warned, as it were.
Indeed, as Solomon said, “there is nothing new under the sun”…
(Or maybe, new tools, same fools…).
No, I know working families who are barely able to afford the rent on an apartment.
If you can prioritize and have one parent at home, you are fortunate.
It’s that ole plantation again.
laurelmarycecilia says:
Given, I’m probably a million years older than you …. I have a longer memory of what ‘make-ends-meet’ has been ……… I heard people saying this who have (1) a home (albeit mortgage), (2) two cars, (3) iPhone for many (all) members of the family, (4) vacations and/or eating out and/or lessons of various kinds (4) furniture in the living room (5) appliances of ALL sorts, (6) and etc, etc etc ………….. what should be said is not “…make ends meet…” but rather “…to keep up with the consumerist/consumption goals of everyone else.” That’s the choice that’s being made. Don’t be a lemming !
There is so much wealth in creating and teaching the next Patriots of this miracle…The United States of America.
Both are miracles.
Maybe our country needs a bit of realignment. I guess we will see.
stg58, no way, Jose! I was working years before I married, and my spouse wanted me to be independent, we share cooking and housecleaning as well. Perhaps you wanted someone dependent on you. Well, I grew up in that era and definitely decided to be independent and make my own way and decisions.
dagnyshrug says:
I did a little of both. Took a few years off after my 2nd child was born, then had a 3rd so spent about 9 years at home. It set my career back a bit but I wouldn’t trade that time for anything. Besides caring for my children, I learned to do some things I never would have tried otherwise. We all find our own ways to arrange our lives and I was happy to have options.
My 86 year old Dad helped cook, do dishes and the laundry. He also shared in raising 5 kids. He worked 2nd shift and my mom worked 1st. Us kids baked the cookies!
stg58 – Some women aren’t that lucky. I WANTED to be home raising the littles and baking the cookies. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have the choice.
P.S. – Not ALL women make good mothers. Sometimes the Dad is the better stay at home parent.
You’re absolutely correct.
I haven’t heard it mentioned yet how once Ford is totally discredited as a liar that lawyers nationwide are going to try to get retrials for their /rapist/molester clients on the grounds of “If the accuser of a supreme court nominee was lying, surely we need to take another look at my client that doesn’t have a judges influence or assets”.
Many good convictions could be overturned. It will lead to the “Ford” defense strategy.
The Dems don’t care who they destroy.
If only some leadership would have come forth among women before we got to this point that could have kept them from falling into the Dems “we’re on your side” trap.
Maybe now.
“It will lead to the “Ford” defense strategy.”
“Is this a true accusation or one o’ them Blasey-Ford kinda accusations?”
Annie Ok says:
Kavanaugh, and other men, should start suing women for false allegations, defamation of character — suing them for millions. A civil lawsuit would give their attorney almost unlimited “discovery” and they would be able to find out exactly who was behind it all in terms of funding, coaching, etc.
Mrs Danvers says:
Totally agree. If there’s no repercussions for false accusations by these deluded females it will only encourage more of the same.
Annie – why don’t they? Do you know? It would seem to be the first line of defense against these loons. Make them wish they had never mentioned my name.
Kintbury says:
What, you mean accusations with no witnesses, no police report, no parental knowledge, no date, time, place. She told no one for 30+ years, that kind of case. Even Democrats do not believe her story, they just pretend to because it suits their purpose but even they are not that stupid.
Eastender says:
You’v nailed it, my friend. These are the people who supposedly have the wishes of their constituents at heart? I sincerely doubt it. Thanks Senator Feinstein. I think it’s time you were put out to pasture.
Jennifer Verner says:
#resignfeinstein
The same could be said of women who are truly sexually harassed in the workplace. The only problem is most managers are men.
dd_sc says:
But then they’ll get charged with being sexist and not hiring women.
truthseeker39525 says:
As a guy, as a mechanical engineer, I worked for several managers (both men and women) in my 30+ year career. I got along very well with every one of them, except ONE,
who was an UGLY woman.
She was always miserable, and it appeared that she was only happy when she made someone ELSE miserable.
First thing she did was to create, and the second thing she did was to maintain, what is now called a ‘hostile work environment’ for everyone but a couple of people who she considered her ‘friends’.
This woman proved, to me, the old saying:
“Beauty is only Skin Deep, but UGLY goes Straight to the BONE!”
I agree completely. The infantile behavior of millennial females has put us all back a generation or two. These girls (I cannot call them women since I do not regard them as adults) have ruined our universities with their hypersensitive inability to cope with any intellectual challenge, their “triggers” and “safe spaces” and mattresses. Then they march around like idiots wearing silly sexual pink costumes, screaming like harpies. Then they started the #metoo hysteria, which wound up trivializing real violence. And now they are shrieking hysterically at Republicans and chasing them from restaurants. I am shamed, I am deeply embarrassed by these volatile, imbecilic, immature crybabies. And these frenzied females want to grow up and become pilots? Surgeons? CEOs? Would you want them in a foxhole or on a police beat with your son? They are a disgrace to strong, rational women who have worked for generations to be taken seriously, and who want and appreciate male companionship. I don’t blame men for preferring to be with each other. Or frankly, for patronizing the robot brothels. We’re in sad shape when men prefer robots to women.
gustafus21 says:
Comedian Bill Burr had a whole bit on robots vs women … we saw him in Denver last week end. Burr is merciless on women… and the audience loves him…
His usual routine castes the fairer sex as harpies, harlots and parasites… and THAT’s before he asks ….. “Do we really want to believe ALL women?”….. the audience howled.
Remember… Denver is mushy middle left … now huffing the good stuff for fun and profit.
When a comedian like Burr can play an audience like a cheap ukulele in that city… he’s onto something.
According to Burr’
Women are not petite flowers.
Women are not a sisterhood.
Women are not a voting block
Suburban women don’t give a rat’s ass about how ms Ford was treated… they may like the method of stalling because they are Democrats. They may believe BK isn’t a rapist, but they don’t want a conservative. But make no mistake…. women KNOW women.
Women use words and sex like men use bombs and guns.
sherryoftexas says:
worriedmom, I have forwarded you comment to the following people: Senators Cruz, Cornyn, McConnell, Graham & Representative Gohmert, TX Gov Greg Abbott and of course to our Lion. Your post could be one of the things that will help curb the Dems tounges or could be used in ads to get R’s elected. That is one of the best posts I have seen in a long time. Thanks, great call.
All I have to say is why did it take so long for the GOP to grow spines? I’m sick and tired of the GOP members backing down from the Dems scurrilous and baseless comments on everything.
True, but Tom now they have real leadership to show them how it’s done and they are catching on.
dallasdan says:
I believe they were shamed into fighting for BK. Only because the public outcry grew to a deafening roar did the Repub senators decide they had to act or risk heretofore unseen and unheard wrath from their constituents. That’s what it took, and it is disgraceful.
Moreover, the President’s unswerving loyalty to BK and BK’s courage and determination to carry-on the fight were absolutely essential elements enabling us to now be on the cusp of confirmation.
I agree dallas,
The ground swell of support for Brett “The Ice Man” Kavanaugh reminded me of
“The Monster Vote” for our President.
We burned up the phone lines, e mails, and twitter accounts of all the Congress critters.
They felt the heat and knew if they screwed this up, they were toast.
Either now or later: “Payback is a bitch”
“The Ice Man.” I like it! 🙂
“The Iceman Cometh!” [hat tip, Eugene O’Neill and Jerry Butler]
Flashman says:
We did , and we still need to keep the pressure on, till the vote is taken. Politics trumps all, and we are the majority.
Trump removed their chains
That was then this is now…be happy today.
Because I bet Potus is breaking the stranglehold of blackmail over some republicans. Look how sick Brennan is, can there be any doubt that the left were up to their eyeballs in spying on their “enemy”?
JonMaxwell says:
Because they had to let this play out for everyone to see, they suck at messaging let the Democrats expose themselves, which they have, their enthusiasm is in the toilet, the news media, can not spin it’s way out of this fubar.
silentmajority4life says:
Agree 100%. They will always be spineless, including Pence. When Trump leaves we are still screwed to a large degree. These next 6 years will be the best years of my life, politically. I’m going to take the moment in and enjoy them while I can.
gnome says:
Only little, flimsy, short-lived spines though,
If they had real spines they’d be pushing for Ford (and a few others) to be prosecuted and that won’t happen.
That’s easy, Tom – they were waiting for President Trump.
pam2246 says:
The Clintons never forget. Never!
BRETT KAVANAUGH SUGGESTED ASKING BILL CLIINTON SEXUALLY GRAPHIC QUESTIONS ABOUT MONICA LEWINSKI IN A 1998 MEMO ]
“The Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested a list of sexually graphic questions to ask President Bill Clinton in Clinton’s grand-jury testimony about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a newly released memo shows.
“At the time, Kavanaugh was an associate counsel to the independent counsel Ken Starr on the investigation into whether Clinton committed perjury or obstruction of justice surrounding the affair.
“Kavanaugh wrote that he was strongly opposed to giving the president “any break” in the questioning given Clinton’s past attempts to cover up the affair.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaugh-monica-lewinsky-bill-clinton-memo-2018-8
That qualifies for bonus points from me.
TMonroe says:
Wow, looks as though he was following the law and upholding the rights of someone under the power of the most powerful person in the country by asking questions related to sexual misconduct.
Meanwhile, I’ll never forget the media then so often removing the power element, acting like this was like a couple of kids on date night rather than tha chief executive and an intern under his charge. The spin of this to a personal matter not affecting the execution of duties from which we were told to ‘move on’ eventually spawned the org of that name, one that now ironically adds to the sanctimony of advocating for the rights of Ford etc. while working against the Kavanaug nomination.
Truthfilter says:
Here is Kavenaugh’s memo. I’m impressed that he cared about the way the Clintons destroyed Lewinski. After y’all read this-you’ll know that Kavenaugh has always been the real deal!
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4777126-Read-the-memo-from-Brett-Kavanaugh-to-Judge-Starr.html
dawg says:
Wow, that is fascinating. That first page is great. The second page, yikes.
WE WANT KAVANAUGH!
Jeez–That means President Trump trolled Bill Clinton with his SCOTUS pick! I had no doubt the Clintons were behind this but I missed the entire scope until now.
I don’t think BK was Trump’s man… BK is not a rapist – but the Bush/Graham/McWormfood man- and his crucifixion brought the RINO’s out of the everglades – to defend their own.
An Ambrose Evans Pritchard hit piece says BK and IC Starr were complicit in the Vince Foster cover up. Yowser…. That could be why Dems chose to die on this hill.
[find it on Yahoo news – it was behind a paywall yesterday\
Now before you all sharpen your knives on me…. in the 90’s, proof that the 1st family murdered Vince Foster was powerful stuff… and best used for blackmail or leverage by an impotent GOP…. think Control File rather than perp walk.
Evans-Pritchard is very clear that he believes Kavanaugh made a careerist decision, when he performed an about-face in order to aide and abet an FBI cover-up regarding the details of Vince Foster’s death.
Short version; AEP says Foster was shot in the neck and Kavanaugh knew
it, but helped propagate the suicide, gunshot wound inside the mouth story.
Seems participating in a cover-up or committing a heinous crime in pursuit of elite solidarity is the singular resume item that qualifies one for high office and power in this country. It appears to be an initiation ritual that serves to prove allegiance to the ruling class above all.
Maybe that’s why Kavanaugh was so pissed. He really wanted to blurt out: “I did my part to save the Clinton Presidency and only let the Republicans score political points when I was part of the Starr investigation!
You f*%king Democrats owe me damn it!!!” Nothing would surprise me….
Sorry if I’m out of lockstep on BK, but I suspect he’s not a rapist, but a threat. The hearings prompted George The Younger to slither out of the everglades, if only to belch and fart.
If BK was complicit in Starr’s NON investigation of Clinton Crimes and the Body Count – my earlier suspicions are correct – BK knows… the Dems and Clinton’s know he knows.
Kavanaugh is no choir boy – at best he’s OUR Creature from the Black Lagoon
and absolutely has gills.
SouthernTrumpette says:
Knowing that he worked in the Bush White House initially gave me qualms about Kavanaugh as well. But when I saw how viciously the Dems fought his nomination i became more confident about his appointment…. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
He may have started the confirmation process as a wishy-washy Republican, but after his crucifixtion by the Dems I am predicting that he turns out to be the the staunchest Conservative on the SC.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/409817-russia-collusion-bombshell-dnc-lawyers-met-with-fbi-on-dossier-before
Looks like other reporters are starting to figure things out about spygate.
LBB says:
Sounds like Baker’s testimony may have been fruitful.
pgroup says:
Solomon has been on this for quite some time. He’s probably almost caught up to sundance.
Confirm Kavanaugh Now! says:
Going to be a very busy Thursday. Busy is good.
It’s been a really bad year for the left has it not?
Doreen Scott says:
I hope it gets worse and they lose big time in November.
Texian says:
The only thing that determined McConnell was the harassment incident.. The bubble congressmen live in has burst.. They have come face to face with the ugly Frankenstein they created..
FYI Congress.. Your Frankenstein has no civility towards the rule of law, walls, or borders..
It’s time to bring some cloture to this maddening process.
LANGUAGE WARNING
Lindsey Graham, too. 🙂
I’m lovin’ our new gangsters.
feralcatsblog says:
What we have here is lynch mob interruptes.
My first instinct was to laugh. Pathetic.
This July – the same month Ford sent a letter to Feinstein accusing Kavanaugh of attacking her — Ford applied for permits to build a front porch and new decks at her beach home in Santa Cruz. There is no application for a second front door, howeverhttps://t.co/0qKY2LQqte
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 4, 2018
G. Combs says:
SOOOoooo
Ford had already pland how she was going to spend her bribe money HMMmmm?
Does anyone really think that the same people who called Judge Kavanaugh “evil” long before they heard one word of testimony will be satisfied? It’s time to put this embarrassing spectacle behind us, and vote on this impressive, stunningly qualified Supreme Court nominee.
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) October 3, 2018
I just filed cloture on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. There will be plenty of time for Members to review and be briefed on this supplemental material before a Friday cloture vote.
Looks like McConnell has been sipping some of Lindsey “Rambo” Graham’s elixir..
Dragon energy?
conservalicious says:
Did you see the reveal of the boots he wore to the Kavanaugh/Ford hearings? Check it out!
Lindsey Graham’s boots that is!
Huma may have given him a smooch…..worked for Lindsey
GRAHAMBO!
Fox reports that his record re: Trump’s judicial nominees confirmations is spotless so far: 26/26. He will do his best to confirm Kavanaugh.
TRUMP EFFECT.
Payday says:
Not exactly true. He had one appointent to the 9th pulled because of his college writings. Scott and Rubio dissented.
teeheeman says:
GO MITCH GO!! I don’t care what you might think of McConnell……GET BEHIND THIS PEOPLE!!
Serena says:
We need to flood his phone,e-mail,twitter etc, to tell him we are proud of him and to keep fighting for Kavanaugh.I am praying for him to stay strong.
cthulhu says:
Odd……sundance hasn’t put up the new presidential or open threads…..are we actually going to get MOAR??????
OK, we got the open……
jrapdx says:
The President and open threads are up now.
I am so glad the Democrats have fought so dirty and lied so shamelessly. It makes each step closer to victory that much sweeter.
tucker7518 says:
Thanks to the Democrats’ dirty fighting, the Republicans will keep the Senate.
Oldretiredguy says:
Of all the 3 weak rinos playing games with the Kav vote, Murkowski has the most to lose. All President Trump has to do is have Mitch remind her that Anwar can close really suddenly
Anwar is out of Congress so PDJT can do an EO.
Cliff says:
100% this. Mom being home for the kids is the best thing for mankind. I will never understand how some women were convinced, that the task of taking care of the most important part of society, was oppressive.
Not oppressive, but it does take a certain skill set that not every woman excels in. There is a reason why wealthy women and women who could afford it hired wetnurses and nannies. Working mothers are not bad mothers, just ask KAC and Sarah Sanders.
My mom worked when I was growing up but not until us kids were older. My dad passed away when I was nine years old and she needed to work with six kids.I don’t think it made any of us feel neglected or deprived and we all turned out great. I worked and had my mom,mom in law or sister to help care for my kids. It was hard but I knew they were being taken good care of. I believe if there is any way that a woman can be home with her children through their early years it is better for the child and the mother but we each one have to do what we have to and should not be judged on it.
A.D. Everard says:
There should be freedom and choice. In the home or in the workplace, people have different talents. What I object to is the “modern” era where ALL women (and men) are forced out into the workforce and two-income families are a necessity. That’s what’s evil. It is frowned upon to want to stay home and raise the kids, and has been for some decades.
I will agree with you there. I never thought I would spend my entire adulthood in the work force and never have children.
I know a lot of young mothers that would dearly love to be home with their children. It is really heartbreaking to watch some of my family members have to leave a tiny baby with a day care or sitter. I try to help with my grandchildren as much as I can so at least they can stay with a loving grandma.
Serena – I have done the same and loved every minute of it. And, the grandkids love me back!!! Best reward evah!
I love it too Olderwiser21. I think they keep me young..lol
Sunshinesam says:
I am a stay-at-home mother to two young children, and I am so thankful I made the decision to leave my career to do so. My mom is a nurse, and worked nights my entire childhood. My dad owned his own business, and they were able to make schedules work. I always knew my mom was doing what she had to do to make our home life run as smoothly as possible.
I believe the distinction is living within your means. My husband and I are both millennials and saved our money. We bought our home with cash (within our means.). We only have one car payment. My husband owns his own business, and we live a modest life. We make smart decisions financially to do so.
I know for a fact most women my age would rather be home with their children but cannot because of financial reasons. This is where my husband and I differ from other people in our cohort. We live within our means. My husband works hard. We are not victims from the financial crisis that hit when we were in high school. Instead, we made and continue to make smart choices. We try to stay as debt free as possible which means we do not live lavishly, and I know our friends do the opposite. We are very happy with our life especially because we get be with our children rather then them spending most of their time with daycare teachers.
I am not trying to knock other families that must put their children in daycare. I was one of those children. I am just laying out my families decisions which led me to being able to stay at home with my children.
I think from my own experience, I would have been better off to stay home rather than work for a pittance and pay a babysitter, gas and clothes etc. Unless you have a very good paying job, it simply is not worth it.
Brian Baker says:
Ford attorneys slam FBI investigators for failing to interview REO Speedwagon and ignoring key witness corroboration from the 1980’s that they “Heard it from a friend who Heard it from a friend who Heard it from another you been messin’ around.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409824-fords-lawyers-profoundly-disappointed-in-fbis-kavanaugh-investigation
Jeez they sure had a ton of evidence to work with didn’t they? /s
jbowen82 says:
They were a great rock and roll band before they went commercial with the “High Infidelity” album. But you can’t blame them, because that album was huge.
GO MITCH GO!!! Confirm this GOOD MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jsteele9 says:
Gateway Headline (Their Caps etc)
“SOMETHING’S GOING DOWN=> DOJ National Security Division Announces Thursday Morning Press Conference.”….The Department of Justice led by Rod Rosenstein will hold a press conference on Thursday morning at 9:30 AM Eastern.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/somethings-going-down-doj-national-security-division-announces-thursday-morning-press-conference/
TimesUp says:
Dems need to change the topic of discussion again so presto, queue Mueller to announce another spurious indictment? So predictable.
2 more Russian indictments – they will never be extradited, so what’s the point? She had nothing to do with it, he forced her to go along.
Boris and Natasha
Moose and Squirrel will be along later with a polygraph to test them 🙂
7 Russian military officers charged
I say release the FIB report the Dems were screaming for. Shove it up their caboose.
I don’t think there is anything to it.
Basically, “We looked into this allegation and this one and interviewed this person and this person, and we couldnt corroborate any of the allegations. No new evidence, or anything different from what was testified.”
There will be no conclusions. Its simply an updated, supplemental background check.
I tend to agree with you there’s nothing behind this other than what we already know but still I want this release so that these idiot liberals can see that there is nothing behind this and nobody is hiding anything. They scream for an FBI report and then they scream that it’s it BS FBI report.
Retired IG says:
Lord knows, Feinstein, Soros, Obama, and the Clinton’s and maybe even Flake are all sitting on their gold plated bidets and the shitting themselves just won’t stop. Texting each other about HOW THEIR PLOT HAS FAILED. Hey. ENJOY the rest of your week. And KMA. All of you ignoramous’s.
So weary of all of your plots and scheming.
Pedro Morales says:
I still don’t trust flake Collins and murkowski.
Doug Amos says:
It is difficult to believe that we are paying people like this while Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are on the sidelines.
Or maybe, they will all be constipated. Some say that’s a worse fate.
We need to keep praying and keep fighting.
Everyday😃👍👍👍🙏🏻
strateshooter says:
I will be glad when BK voted in and I will be especially glad when the false accusers are jailed.(all of them).
What BK and his family have had to endure here is a national disgrace.
What makes me sad here though is that I was a strong supporter of the MeToo thing.
I have always had love and respect for women…mom. wife, friends…. just love ’em all.
Let’s not forget ..all of us…that pigs like Harvey Weinstein do exist and do abuse women…and they should be locked up for a long long time.
MeToo movement should not suffer I hope because of this BK smear farce.
I really fear it might though.
kallibella says:
The MeToo movement was the way HRC got to punish Weinstein. After her colossal defeat didn’t he dare to comment on it in a negative way making it seem that she was the one to blame for the defeat. He was a major Clinton donor. Well, the Crooked One didn’t like her demons talking back to her and Voila the MeToo movement is born,
Holiwood knew Weinstein was a pig all those years and never did anything about it.
Homesteader says:
Saturday breakfast. With beer.
Or maybe liberal tears.
Wayne Robinson says:
As far as leftist go / there is no money or future in solving problems for blacks , eomen , or anyone else . Their money train is dependent upon “ grieviznce “ / look atthe life of Al Sharpton / Jessie Jackson or Oboma / all these activist like all activist “ make” victims out of pepple and saddel them with mentality for failure . I read a quote from eitherBooker T Washington , or Mr Peanut man , Mr Carver that informed me of this fact and that is most likely before thirties .
This ought to be spectacularly stupid and sad at the same time:
https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/10/03/lena-dunham-amy-schumer-promote-brett-kavanaugh-protest-where-alicia-keys-will-perform/
Alicia Keyes’ mother is an Italian lady (Italian American), she went to Julliard, and she goes around with a phony drawl being all “look how black I am”.
I hate fakes.
She’s not all that talented either.
lena dumbass – bwhahahahah – what a maroon! Does anyone take her seriously? Amy Schmuker can’t get a job so I protest now – another maroon. Alicia – what are you thinking, girl? Nobody Cares What You People Think!!!!
Ausonius says:
CALL YOUR SENATORS!
I even called Dem Stooge Sherrod Brown, even though I suspect he will join in the goose-stepping opposition to Judge Kavanaugh. I expressed my displeasure as an American Catholic with the anti-Catholic, anti-male agenda of the Dems.
Nevertheless, we know that the senators often do a running count of the telephone calls pro and con.
So CALL YOUR SENATORS!
Too funny. According to Fox and Friends there is one copy of the FBI Supplemental Report. Each Senator one by one goes into a secure room to view report.
BTW now it is well known why WH held back some of Kavanaugh’s documents. They contain work on Clinton Impeachment investigation and other incriminating information.
Probably a SCIF if the reports reference classified or sealed docs or proceedings…
Yep. Eats up lots of debate time too. I wonder if the evidence against ChiFi, Da Nang Dick and others are in the report.
Just got my 2nd cuppa covfefe.
It occurs to me the allegation that Barack Obama was born in Kenya (and hence was not even a US citizen, let alone a natural born one) was far more credible and had more evidence to than anything alleged against Kavanaugh.
If the Left were consistent they would have demanded Barack Obama resign. But of course they wouldn’t do that: If it weren’t for double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
TwoLaine says:
I had the very same tho’t last night. Perhaps that is what they are most afraid we will find out.
vfm#7634 says:
The Left does have one consistent standard: “if it’s bad for civilization it’s good and must be supported”
IF anyone cares.
Nope. But thanks for posting for those who do. Watching Pence speaking about China.
Guffman says:
Someone on /the_donald posted this close-up video of Feinstein after speaking at this presser.
The face of a loser losing – set to appropriate music….
This is Feinstein just after she read the new Kavanaugh report. Something went very, very wrong…… from The_Donald
Democrats always assume people are as guilty as they are.
dr. D says:
Ha ha. At around 1:00 mark, it looked like she threw up a little in her mouth.
Good news? Collins said latest FBI supplimental investigation is very thorough.
New: GOP swing vote Sen Susan Collins tells CNN: "It appears to be a very thorough investigation” @jeremyherb reporting.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 4, 2018
“Kavanaugh Hearing Highlights Dangerous Marxist / Jihadist Counter-State Operations”
This is a recent article from John Guandolo and his team at Understanding the Threat.
http://www.understandingthethreat.com/Kavanaugh-hearing-highlights-danger
Ospreyzone says:
Time for us to lend our voice by calling the offices of Murkowski, Collins, and Flake today. 🔥Burn their Twitter feeds as well and demand they support Judge Kavanaugh. Our voices should drown out the left.
Now sasse maybe flaking out. C’mon Mitch. Lock this damn vote down. This is what happens when you take 3 months!!! Never trust these spineless jellyfish. Coons is meeting with flake again. I have a bad feeling about this. The media is losing their minds and flake murkowski and Collins are looking to vote no. Something Will drop tomorrow.
If somehow BK does get voted down, I would feel bad for him in the short term, but think it could help us in the long run.
I think GOP turnout in Nov would be maximized and dem turnout diminished. It might only be a difference of 1-3% each way, but significant enough to make a difference in control. Then POTUS could re-nominate BK as LG suggested and we be back to WINNING.
When Kav gets confirmed to SC, he’s gonna celebrate …
don’t forget the “red solo cups”
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The Tale of Two Mountains-Pt.21
January 22, 2017 luthientkennedy 7 Comments
River, Winding
The inner-workings of the door clattered and thundered, groaned and shrieked.
Noel clenched his fists and his teeth, trying to hold back the wave of desperation that roiled inside him as he waited.
“Go with him,” he heard the Mardraim say, as the door inched open and Noel dug his fingers into the ancient wood, pulling with all of his strength until there was a wide enough gap for him to slide through. He did not look back to see who followed, but hurried up the passage toward the dim light of the atrium, and only realized it was Harvey Frank when he heard the man’s measured steps as he paused to hiss a vicious curse at the blackness waving a temporary farewell from the archway where Moag lie in wait.
He needed space, air. He needed to think, to mourn and spit out the salt in his mouth. He did not need to talk of Moag, to tell his tale, or to worry about the man behind him, struggling to keep up. When he reached the exit, he flung the door open, causing it to strike the outer wall.
A woman, who had been waiting outside, stepped forward urgently, mouth already forming words as she moved, until her eyes met Noel. He half expected her to turn and run in fear, but she did not recoil from the monstrous Ohamet, wanderer, unwriter of destinies. She did not cringe in embarrassment at having found him so unexpectedly or glare at him in anger for the havoc he wreaked on their peaceful home, cursing the destruction left in his wake. She had not even startled at his temperamental slamming open of the door.
Noel shuddered at her passivity, as though in her silence she had reached out with two strong hands, grasping him by the shoulders, and given him a swift shake that broke the fury loose of him, so all he had left was a solemn, abiding despair and his personal reckoning– fifty-seven.
“Pardon me, Mum,” he muttered, ducking his head as he stepped aside, turning toward the path that led back to the bridge, pausing there for Harvey.
“What do these words mean, ‘Pardon me, Mum?’” the man asked as they stepped out into the light together, Noel moving slowly now, for Harvey’s sake, slightly ashamed of himself for forgetting, so soon, all of the things the Felimi had warned him about their people.
Noel did not know the translation in Elfish, neither ancient nor the broken language cobbled together over the last ten thousand years, so that it was little more than the distant bastard half-cousin of the dialect known there in the mountain. Phileas would have known. Phileas would have thought they were astonishing, these creatures who dwelt deep beneath the surface of the earth, with their foresight and empathy, and their strange ability to hold a person still on the insides. “Apology,” he answered simply, shrugging at the inadequacy of the term as he glanced back at the woman, still waiting by the entrance to the cloister, though the door remained open.
“You regret,” Harvey said, his tone matter-of-fact.
“Much,” Noel admitted, sighing against the pain that held fast in his chest, making it difficult to breathe that next breath, as though all of the air in the universe was more than ten thousand years away and to breathe it required a great, gasping hope he was unable to muster. He had never quite been able.
“Dear God,” he whispered, his mouth slipping into English again as they cut away from the path and he led them off through the trees, in a direct line for the river. He did not know what he would do when they reached it, perhaps he would jump in and let it carry him away, but he could not risk running into anyone else, since they might suffer his remorse along with him.
Over the years, Noel had come to have his doubts about their Last Hope, doubts that shamed him, as they should have done. As a Noble, his faith in the prophecy of The Last Hope of the Elves was part of the job. Like all nobles, he was born stronger, born with greater ability than most, so of course, it reasoned the nobles must be prepared to defend their Hope against all those who would see the elfin race finished once and for all. For a noble, faith was as necessary to the cause as the cause was necessary to the faith, so as he felt it faltering, Noel knew he had to find the truth, for the benefit of everyone, yes, but truly, at the core of it all, to find out whether or not his own life had been wasted, waiting on a Hope that had always been meant to be their Last, something out of reach, an intangible romance that was never meant to play out as anything more than a tragedy. He had come to the mountain with a broken spirit, desperate for confirmation that the girl would be born and their race would be reborn, as their elders had promised.
Or so he thought before he came to that damnable mountain.
“Did I ever truly believe?” he pleaded quietly with Harvey Frank, who answered the only way possible—by imitating Noel’s own wide eyes and coarsely upturned brow, not understanding a word he was speaking.
But Noel had already been given the answer. The daft silence that followed Master Frank’s revelation that Noel had prophecies of his own had exposed to him a terrible truth, a truth more terrible than the prospect of fifty-seven unfinished prophecies, more terrible even than the idea that perhaps in coming there, in unwriting those fifty-seven prophecies, he may have undermined their Last Hope altogether.
The truth was Noel had done his duty. He had learned everything the elder Foote and Bergfalk had to teach him. He had bonded with a band of brothers, who had sworn blood oaths to Hope, the same as him, in answer to Hope’s ten thousand year old prophecy inscribed in the Book of Ages like it were holy scripture. The nobles were the Born Legion of Hope, as Bergfalk had come to call them. And as Bergfalk said, “Her destiny was their destiny.”
Noel had never considered that he might have had prophecies of his own to complete, that his duty may have been born of them, not out of a pointed ear, a slightly greater aptitude for manipulating particles than the rest, or even out of their need of salvation, with the blood of their people so thinned over the years that they were hardly as good as the halfling spawn of nymphs and demigods and could barely call themselves elves anymore. He had never once thought that the years of lessons and exploration and testing and honing of himself in that blood oath was his own destiny.
As they reached the riverbank, Noel stumbled to his knees, leaning over the water, scrubbing cold handfuls over his face several times, to wash away his guilt. When he had half drowned himself, he looked up to find Harvey was staring off into the distance, as though he watched the stain of Noel’s sin, carried away on the current.
If only it were so easy.
“I never believed. My faith was not shaken, Harvey; I never once truly believed.” The words came, but barely above the rush of the water. “I have lived my life fraudulently and never knew it, proclaiming faith, as though somehow faith, without belief, was hope enough, when hope was something I never had. Prophecy or no prophecy, I was the lie. You understand me? I know now, I was the lie.”
Harvey nodded, and Noel swallowed, wondering if he possibly could understand, if empathy allowed for that depth of commiseration. If it did, he felt terrible for Harvey Frank.
Noel sighed and sat down in the grass, hugging his knees for a moment before continuing. “My father thought I was a fool for my faith,” he gave a hollow chuckle. “I was so angry with him, because he would not listen to me, so angry because he would not hear the falsehoods I repeated in my own fear, so often that I, myself, actually mistook my depraved need for belonging as devotion. I was furious with him, for speaking out loud the beliefs I, myself, had forced down at the very depths of my soul, because I wanted to be a part of something greater and wasn’t ready to be miserable like him, but I knew. I knew there was no hope, but I was a noble, and I could either choose that or choose my father’s way, and in my father I saw something worse than believing the lie one wanted to be true—in him, I saw there could never be hope, because he believed in nothing at all, not even himself.
“So I pretended to believe in her. In my lie, at least I had something in which to the feign belief, to satisfy my need for some moral objectification, to pacify the misery I inherited. I thought I had possibility. I turned my back on my true brothers and joined a family of orphans called nobles, and God only knows how many of them don’t believe either, cannot believe, but want desperately for it to all be true, so they can feel something, so they carry on, doing what they think is right, before we lose ourselves completely, resign ourselves and our sons to being powerless.
“Don’t you see, Harvey? This is why my people are divided and my elders are in disarray, why Phileas searched and searched, and why I disappeared, why I stopped contacting Fendhaim months ago, allowed myself to be fostered by the Yolngu and entered the Dreaming, even though at the heart of me, I was certain there was no hope to be found there either, because in truth, I understood that following their faith was just as mad as following my own. I worried it was all lies, but I was the lie, I know now, because in my nobility, in my honor, in my duty, I never once considered that I might have a single prophecy of my own to fulfill—not one, and certainly not eighty. In all of it, I never considered that those prophecies might have been my own true hope, that they were what little I had to offer this world. Twenty-three complete, and I never knew it. Fifty-seven unwritten and undone. Lost, forever, because I’m here. If she is real, her faith in me, her hope in me, is grievously misplaced, I’m afraid, for in my disloyalty, I may have done her in for good. Perhaps I can muster the courage to hope I haven’t done her too much wrong.”
At last, all that was left was the rambling of the river, winding off into the distance. Harvey placed a patient hand on Noel’s shoulder and smiled sadly, the way one smiles when a friend has lost someone important to them, and there is nothing to be done to help, no real consolation to offer, so one does his best to force up the corners of his mouth, as if somehow that was better than nothing at all. Noel, managing a grimacing smile of his own, reached up to place his hand on top of Harvey’s, glad that he was there, even if he could not understand him, but just as their hands met, a jolt of static arced between them, and Harvey pulled his hand quickly away.
Isabella had stirred in Noel’s fingertips.
She was frightened.
Noel jumped to his feet and started up the riverbank toward the bridge. He had to get to her, he had to save her, but when he looked back to Harvey, to urge him to run, if he could, the man had already fallen several meters behind. “Come on,” he yelled, continuing on more slowly, but as the distance between them still grew, Noel worried that they both might find trouble if he was caught wandering wild through the mountain, his escort chasing after him. Squeezing his fist, as though the phantom of Isabella might slip away for good if he did not hold her tightly, he hurried back to help the man along. Harvey shook his head and waved him onward, saying only, “Issa.”
Noel ran as fast as he could without magic. When he crossed the river, he did not stick to the paths scored into the mountain by centuries of use, instead cutting through the field of thistles, knowing it would be faster than taking the walkway, though how he knew, when he did not know where he was going, he could not say. The plants scratched at his legs as he ran, tearing at the tail of his ridiculous borrowed tunic, but all that mattered in that moment was reaching Isabella in time, as though her life depended on him once again. His skin stung and he could feel rivulets of blood wetting his calves, but he continued running, across the fallow field, up the hill, darting through a thick stand of trees, to the edge of a small village, where he finally stopped to catch his breath, staring at the door of the tiny hut where Isabella lived. The shutters were closed, but he could hear her crying, her strange words fast and panicked as Noel’s breath.
His hand reached out, as though she tugged him along by it, but he pulled it back to his side, rubbing the tips of his fingers together.
She was alive and awake, and though he could not understand what she was saying, he knew she was begging to be returned to the darkness.
“Why?” he whispered, stepping out of the tree line, hurrying across the path to the garden gate, pushing it open.
But he already knew why. She was begging to go back to Moag, so that it could finish her, because the pain was too much for her to bear—the pain of losing Harvey Frank.
“How?” he asked softly, his hand already on the door. “How is it possible I know this?”
But he knew that answer as well.
She was alive and awake. She was safe but in pain. Hurt, confused, betrayed, angry, alone—terribly alone.
She was still inside him.
“I do not belong here,” Isabella wept. “Please, Mardraim, you must take me back. I cannot be here now. I do not belong to this world.”
Edward Frank looked at her as though she had lost her mind, as though she was still speaking in some language he could never comprehend, as though she was just a shard of her shattered self, and there were so many pieces of her lying scattered before him, he could hardly bear to look upon the fragile mess of her, too broken to repair.
They all looked at her this way. As though she was lost.
Truly, she was.
“You are weary from all you have been through. In time—”
“Time?” she moaned. “I should not be here. The nameless one did not belong. You sent him back. I heard him wailing as he went, crying for a soul. Please, take me back.”
“I will not return you to Moag,” the Mardraim said softly, resting a hand on her forehead. “You will get better, Young Isabella. You have no choice.”
“I do not wish to get better,” she sobbed. “It hurts so badly. The world was made to hurt. I know that now. I do not belong here. I know too much, and it hurts, all of it, hurts so much, and I am so alone.”
Her Omdra drew in a painful breath, as though he would speak, but the Mardraim held out a hand to stay him. “I know you hurt, child. I know you feel alone. I must keep you deeply enveloped in order to protect the others. I know you understand this. Perhaps, as you get better—”
“I will not get better, and you cannot protect them,” she whispered. “Nothing can protect them now. Please, Mardraim, I serve no purpose here, I have no place in the world of Fate. There was too much power, so they divided it again and again, and always, the people, those poor, terrible people, filled with hatred and pain—it is too much to bear.”
“Her mind is fractured,” Omdra Wallace said in a hush. “Are we certain it does not still hold her?”
“There is no way to be certain,” the Mardraim smiled sadly. “All we can do is wait and hope.”
The door opened and the wanderer stepped quietly inside. No one else seemed to noticed he was there, so Issa was not certain if he was real or just a figment, or if, perhaps, Omdra Wallace was right, and Moag still had her in its grasp, and this wandering apparition was sent to torment her.
Perhaps Moag still had him as well.
A dozen purple thistles clung to the tattered tail of his garment.
“I wonder what she means by it all, what she saw in there,” Omdra Vega offered.
“I do not,” her father answered, looking pained at the prospect.
Noel raised his hand by his side in a half wave, a pathetic, cringing smile on his lips. Issa forced down the venom that rose in her throat, rolled on her side and squeezed her eyes shut, willing him to disappear.
The wanderer was to blame for all of it. The baby, Harvey, Issa’s Fatelessness. He had changed everything.
“Schripat. Echteri amu schripat,” she hissed against her hands, clasped prayerfully.
“What do these words mean?” the Mardraim sighed, even as Noel gasped, and everyone turned, surprised to find him there.
As much as she despised him, Isabella was at least glad she was not the only one who could see him.
“What are you doing here?” her father spoke in the language of the elves, his voice thick with anger. Never, in all of her life, had she heard her Omdra speak crossly to anyone. Anger was something Issa knew deeply now, having found within Moag a thousand passions she did not know existed before. She should weep for a million years, for all of the agony in the world, and for a million more, knowing her father had learned to suffer because of Noel.
“I come for Isabella. She is…fear… alone. I come to help her,” the man answered.
“You have no cause here,” her father spat. “Leave, this instant, and do not ever return.”
Omdra Yang stepped forward and took Issa’s father by the hand, speaking quietly, “Zo, you are weary from these days of uncertainty. The Llendir is so deeply enveloped we did not notice him here. He cannot possibly harm her more than he has already done. Perhaps he can help.”
“He understood her,” the Mardraim said, looking to Noel. “She said these words before. Is this the language your people speak today?”
“No,” Noel answered, clearly stunned he had understood. “Apology. I do not know this language, but I know the words. She said, ‘He lives. The wanderer lives.’ How do I know this? Why did she say it?”
“More questions,” the Mardraim smiled. “I expect there will always be more than we can possibly answer, young one.”
“Make him go. Please, make him go,” Isabella cried, her voice hoarse from all the tears she had shed. The others might speak in elfish, but she would not accommodate the intruder. “He has changed everything, even you, just as Harvey said he would. Now I am free, and Harvey is gone, but this was not how it was meant to be. Take me back to Moag. Put me back. I do not belong here.”
“She wants you to leave,” her Omdra said to the wanderer. “You upset her.”
Noel frowned, stepping toward her, but Yang blocked the way, giving him a cautioning look. “Apology,” Noel said again, stepping back. “Issa, do not… cry for Moag. Do not cry for Harvey.”
“Do you not understand there is no place for you here, Llendir?” her father shouted. “Get out, now!”
“Zo,” Omdra Yang whispered, placing himself between them.
“But I understand her,” Noel said. “I do not know how. I mean no harm.”
“Then leave!”
“Stay, Young Noel,” the Mardraim said softly, and Isabella’s father caught his breath, betrayed. But their elder got to his feet and went to Zo Asan, took him in his arms, like a nurturer should, and spoke in the gentlest voice, “Zo, I know this has been very difficult for you, first believing you lost your child, then believing she returned to you miraculously, only to have her stolen from you once again, wishing you could help, powerless to do anything, powerless even to ease the pain she experienced in her ordeal. Noel Loveridge saved her life. Against all of our doctrines, we allowed him to save her, as she saved him, and against all of our doctrines, we have worked to heal the damage done her by Moag—the damage done to her body, the damage we could see. I do not know how long it will take to repair her broken soul, however, against our doctrines, I will continue this course of healing, the course Young Noel set in place as soon as he escaped Moag. Do not treat him as our enemy, when he may yet have life to give her. Issa will never be the same, that is certain, but perhaps, if we give her the time and patience she needs, she will be better than before. Ohamet understands her. Let him help us understand her as well.”
By the time the Mardraim had finished speaking, Zo Asan was weeping.
“Father, it is too much to bear,” Issa cried, and he broke loose from the Mardraim’s embrace and fell to his knees on the floor beside her, taking her up in his arms, holding her head to his chest as he rocked her, like a child. “The nameless infant died,” she whispered.
“He did,” her father answered, lips pressed to the top of her head. “But you did not.”
“Harvey… H-harvey died,” Isabella said, the words falling off into heaving sobs.
Her father held her tighter still, answering, “No. Shh. No.”
“I saw him in Moag. He took my place.”
“No, Issa, Harvey lives. Ohamet brought him out of the blackness. Ohamet saved him.”
Isabella did not see how this was possible, when she saw her friend unfurled. His demise in the depths of Moag was as clear to her as the beginning and ending of the universe. He was relinquished to Moag in the blink of an eye, swift as a billion billion suns are born to give life and die, giving death. “He is gone,” she said certainly.
Then the door opened, and there Harvey stood on the stoop, looking worn and weak and beautiful.
“Harvey,” she shuddered as he hurried across the room.
He scooped her up out of her father’s arms, hugging her tightly. “Here I am. Here I am, Issa,” he said. His voice was the sweetest sound she had ever known.
Of all the thousands of passions she learned from Ohamet and her encounter with Moag, the greatest, most treacherous was what she felt in that moment.
Disbelief. Awe. Fear. Wonder. Relief.
Love, Noel thought, rubbing his fingers together as he stepped outside, shutting the door behind him.
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It is beyond the comprehension of the people as to why the government invites trouble after trouble. A large number of SST teachers gave a sit-in in front of Provincial Assembly and estranged PTI workers held a protest rally in front of Peshawar Press Club. Doctors, paramedics, nurses, lady health visitors and clerical staff of…
Shrinking trade deficit
Relatively strict imports curtailing measures have brought down the deficit in merchandise account of foreign trade by 15.3 percent. The overall current account deficit dropped to $31.8billion in the last fiscal year as compared with the deficit of $37.8 billion in FY 18. The imports showed a decrease of 10 percent in FY 19 to…
Curbing gas pilferage
The management of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited has claimed to have carried out a successful drive against gas pilferers all over the province in general and gas producing districts in particular. The raids and disconnections campaign is largely focused on domestic consumers and small business and industrial enterprises whereas the owners of medium and…
Ignore Pakistan at your own peril
By The Frontier Post | May 30, 2019
With cricket’s greatest carnival underway in England, the 10 best teams are raring to go. With the quality of cricket played by all contenders over the last few years, this edition of the Cricket World Cup is expected to produce some of the most exciting, nail-biting thrillers to-date. Pakistan enters the World Cup as the…
Police high handedness and aggrieved people
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Through the lines of your esteemed news paper, i would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities towards the sorry state of affairs of the people at the hands of police. Despite the tall claims made (still making) by previous government of reforming police department, no improvement whatsoever is seen in our area…
Stop child labour
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What is behind the devaluation of Pakistani currency? What are its effects on our economy? The Pakistani currency has experienced a worst fall against the US dollar ever in the history of Rs 143 per Dollar. The rupee has lost about 35 percent since the first devaluation in Dec 2017. PM Imran Khan on the…
Rumors about abolishing of tax – free status of Malakand
It has been reportedly learnt that the Chief minister of KP Mahmood Khan has issued directives to all the ministries/ departments and quarters concerned to fulfill all the legal formalities before tabling any bill or law in the house for legislation. They have been further directed to share and discuss the theme of the bill…
Working women issues
In the past few years, the role of a woman has changed drastically in Pakistan. Women are now stepping out of their houses to earn and break free from all stereotypes that confine women to live inside home. Women can now be seen working as fire fighters, pilots,air traffic Controllers, bankers, company executives, labourers, farmers…
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Top 10 Pub Specials in Sydney on Mondays
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Trump: Republicans 'have no choice' but to vote for me
By Jesse Byrnes - 07/28/16 10:07 PM EDT
Donald Trump Donald John TrumpCNN's Camerota clashes with Trump's immigration head over president's tweet LA Times editorial board labels Trump 'Bigot-in-Chief' Trump complains of 'fake polls' after surveys show him trailing multiple Democratic candidates MORE said Thursday that Republicans wary of his campaign have little choice but to vote for him anyway.
"If you really like Donald Trump, that's great, but if you don't, you have to vote for me anyway. You know why? Supreme Court judges, Supreme Court judges," Trump said at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
"Have no choice, sorry, sorry, sorry. You have no choice," Trump continued, calling the late Justice Antonin Scalia a "great guy" and acknowledging tied decisions at the Supreme Court after his death.
Trump said the next president "will probably have three, could be four, could even be five" appointments to make to the Supreme Court, alluding to the ages of senior justices.
Trump dismissed critics who speculate he may appoint liberal judges and said if Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump complains of 'fake polls' after surveys show him trailing multiple Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton responds to Trump tweets telling Dem lawmakers to 'go back' to their countries The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur: Here's how to choose a president MORE appoints judges: "You're going to end up with another Venezuela. You're going to be Venezuela."
Senate Republicans have denied hearings and a vote on President Obama's Supreme Court pick to fill the seat vacated by the death of Scalia in February, arguing the next president should make the pick.
Trump scheduled his rally Thursday night to counteract speeches in the final night of the Democratic National Convention, where Clinton will officially accept her party's nomination.
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Daily #F1 News and Comment: Tuesday 1st April 2014
April 1, 2014 · by thejudge13 · in Daily F1 News and Comment. ·
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Castrol #F1 GP Predictor Summary – Sepang 2013
#F1 Features: Sunday showdown fan view #MalaysianGP
Sauber Salsa Sessions
Mclaren’s new Technical Director revealed
No diet as Hulkenberg admits eating McDonald’s (GMM)
Red Bull denies dropping Ricciardo appeal (GMM)
Longing Lewis
Frijns blazing a trail
PDVSA sponsor ends badly
Lewis v Nico
Red Bull giant steps across a universe wide gulf
Stirling Moss backs Massa’s team-order rebuttal
The news broke yesterday of Sauber’s intentions to produce a dance video as the team look to rebrand themselves towards different markets. Currently languishing towards the back of the grid, it is hoped this will bring the team some more attention from media outlets all around the world.
Using team archives as well as dance sessions to be recorded over the course of the season, the video is expected to be released following the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi in November. It will include dance routines from around the world, reportedly including never before seen footage from Christmas parties in years gone by. Here at TJ13 we are hoping this does not include any from Johnny Herbert, who drove for the team from 1996-1998.
A statement on the team’s website read, “With accessibility being a key aspect in interacting with fans in the modern era the video will give a platform for all at Hinwil to relate to our fans, all around the world.” All proceeds from the video will go towards the team’s newly elected charity Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation. Having announced the partnership with the cancer research charity in February, the money raised will have a great effect on the junior scientific investigations conducting research in the fields of leukaemia, lymphoma and related cancers.
When asked about the release of the light-hearted video Adrian Sutil responded in nonchalant manner saying, “While I understand the importance of off-track promotional activities I would rather the team’s focus is solely on improving the speed of our car.” Clearly concerned following the double retirement out in Malaysia, the 31 year old continued, “We know we have to improve and we know what we have to do.”
Some have speculated as to the negative reaction from the German being a fear of being shown up compared to his Mexican teammate. Esteban Gutierrez is quoted as saying, “I’m delighted to be releasing a dance video for such a good cause. My cultural heritage involves so much dancing so I’m delighted to be able to share my passions with my fans.”
Monisha Kaltenborn who was unavailable for comment, will surely feature heavily in the video which is set to be released straight to DVD. However, in bad news for those in English speaking countries the feature length will not be released with an English voice over version. Either way, the comedy element will not be lost of seeing those within the team’s setup making a fool of themselves for a good cause.
In a move that will shake Formula One to the core, Mclaren have announced the signing of their new technical director.
Rumours towards the end of last year suggested that Ross Brawn was being courted by the Woking based Grand Prix team in their planned return to the pinnacle of Formula One. Brawn, however, has since confirmed his retirement from Formula One. There has been significant speculation as to his reasons why but Ross has always been too much of a gentleman to disclose the reasons to the media.
Was the return of Honda – a team that Brawn has worked with extensively – the reasoning behind his desire to continue with his passion for fishing? Or was the return of Ron Dennis – a man who’s OCD’s would make Lauda’s meddling seem casual – enough motivation to consolidate his fortune and enjoy his retirement with his family?
The recruitment of Eric Boullier as the racing director left an opening within the Mclaren team’s hierarchy. The vacant position of Technical Director has now been confirmed as former Mclaren TD – Gordon Murray.
Gordon Murray is, perhaps, best known as the chief designer for the Brabham team between 1972-1987. A South African who came to England to work with Lotus, became design leader for the Brabham team and designed the iconic Brabham BT44, the fan-car and the BT 49 with which Nelson Piquet won his first world title.
He continued pushing the boundaries with inventions such as the 1981 car which would lower itself by simply flicking a switch – removing the 6cm gap as the FIA rules set down. The defence that ‘when the car was stationary it was legal’ forced the competition to adopt this method too. In 1982 he re-introduced mid-race refuelling and in 1985 designed the brilliantly conceived but ultimately unsuccessful ‘flat’ Brabham BT55. Sadly as the eighties drew to a close it became obvious Brabham was winding down.
When Ron Dennis approached him about taking on the mantel of Technical Director he accepted and his previous work with the BT55 guided him to its natural conclusion – the legendary MP4/4 as raced throughout the 1988 season with Prost and Senna. His designs won further titles before he grew tired of Formula One’s restrictive design culture and turned his attention to designing the Mclaren F1 roadcar.
After leaving Mclaren he embarked on projects that will change the motor industry forever but it appears that not only has the new F1 era enticed Honda back to the fold, but it’s technical challenges and hybrid technology has encouraged the maverick to return to his first love once again.
“when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” – Sherlock Holmes
Nico Hulkenberg has denied being one of the drivers obsessed with extreme weight loss. Amid rumours of deliberate dehydration, when it emerged that a driver had passed out last week in Malaysia, eyes turned to racers like Nico Hulkenberg, who standing at over six foot is one of the very tallest on the grid.
But the German has revealed he actually ate McDonald’s in Kuala Lumpur! “This was the exception rather than the rule,” Hulkenberg smiled to Germany’s Sky, “but this was an emergency — I was really hungry and needed to have something. There’s a McDonald’s on almost every corner,” he grinned.
Hulkenberg said he is not obsessed with his weight in 2014 because, as a tall driver, he has worked hard throughout his career to be as light as possible. “I think some of the other guys had some more weight in reserve that they had to lose now, but for me I’m more or less what I was at the end of last year. I couldn’t lose any more,” said the Force India driver.
One of the drivers who has lost weight is Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg, despite the fact he is at least 6 centimetres shorter than Hulkenberg. “I had to make the sacrifice if I want to balance the car perfectly, the diet alone is easy, but training with little food is hell,” Rosberg told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag. “I have eaten no sugar since early December — for my dream I’m living like a monk,” he smiled.
Red Bull denies dropping Ricciardo appeal
Red Bull has denied rumours it is preparing to drop its appeal against Daniel Ricciardo’s Melbourne disqualification.
The story goes that FIA president Jean Todt, angry with world champion Sebastian Vettel’s crass dismissal of the new turbo V6 engine rules as “shit”, was offering to drop a disrepute charge if Red Bull agrees to drop the appeal.
“Utter nonsense,” Dr Helmut Marko is quoted by Germany’s Sky. “I have no idea where that came from. We are preparing for the appeal hearing,” he insisted. Team boss Christian Horner on Monday denied that the FIA had even contacted Red Bull about Vettel’s swearing.
But when asked about the incident, Todt said: “It is something we will deal with internally. Unfortunately we have a tendancy to forget the beauty of motor racing and formula one and concentrate on behaviours that are not my priority,” he is quoted by French television BFMTV.
Even with the appeal hearing looming, arguably Red Bull’s bigger priority is the performance of its Renault-powered RB10, and the deficit to dominant Mercedes. Horner is expecting a tough weekend in Bahrain. “Their (Mercedes’) advantage will be bigger than it was (in Malaysia) because it’s quite a power dominated circuit,” he said.
Mercedes, however, is not resting on its laurels.
“We saw one of our competitors here (in Malaysia) receiving 50 boxes of new parts on morning and evening flights,” Toto Wolff told Austrian television ORF. “We need to do the same.”
Whilst chatting with a senior Red Bull member of the team, I suggested back in January the year, 2014, would be marked by the emergence of the new generation of F1 drivers.
Daniel Kvyat, Kevin Magnussen and Valterri Bottas all look well set to progress well and upset their team mates on a regular basis, though Marcus Ericsson has a lot to do if he is to survive beyond the year. One thing is worthy of note though, is that it’s difficult to make judgements on the beautiful Max C and Jules Bianchi, because they are running in the a class which is not really F1 – particularly this year – and particularly at the present time.
However, one driver who has yet been able to make his mark properly in F1, is Dutchman Robin Frijns (FRIJNS, FRIJNS, FRIJNS!!! – yes I can’t wait you mad orange folk). Speaking to another individual who has a lot of driver development experience, it was suggested to me, this lad could be top class star and a genuine contender for at least 1 WDC. Red Bull Racing attempted twice to sign him to their young driver programme, though Frijns declined.
Well Frijns gets to join fellow countryman Giedo van der Garde and drive in FP1 this Friday. He tweeted today, “As part of my contract with @CaterhamF1 my car will be wrapped in orange foil each time I drive in FP1, like in Bahrain. Oranje!!! :))”
Followed by this picture.
It seems this young man intends to blaze a trail wherever he goes.
I wonder why?
Some erroneous reporting by careless journalists led to headlines on Monday in certain publications suggesting Lewis said of Nico “I blew him away”. In fact Lewis had said, “I was pulling away” which both the Englishman and Mercedes went to great lengths to correct.
Lewis and Nico have made a lot of their ‘togetherness’ and ‘long standing friendship’ and repeatedly reminded us they go back as far as their karting days. The impression is that there will be no division between the drivers within this team.
If this were to be the case, this could be the biggest miracle F1 has ever seen. Particularly, when so early in the season it is highly probable that either Hamilton or Rosberg will be the 2014 F1 drivers’ champion.
Despite the press reports that Red Bull are making giant strides forward, the gulf between them and Mercedes, it appears at present that this will be a bridge too far – but that’s another story.
So, as the two drivers, realise begin to realise it will in fact be one of them claiming a rare and most coveted championship, the tension will inevitably grow between them. Toto Wolff claims the team have anticipated this scenario and are doing all they can to keep the waters untroubled from the left to the right hand side of the garage.
“We are spending quite some time discussing those things, discussing scenarios and discussing situations,” Wolff said. “It’s Mercedes and it’s the team that comes first, but one day it will be rubbish. It’s all academic and we will run into situations where we have to manage [the drivers] – they are still very competitive creatures.
The intra-team rivalry has been there since the beginning. It’s been there since last January. What makes a difference is that these guys have known each other for such a long time and they have a fair relationship with each other, but it doesn’t mean that they are not extremely competitive and that they will try to use every advantage they can.
What is important is that we try to make it very clear from the beginning that the team has come from very far off, we have been fifth [in 2012], and you saw it last year in Malaysia that we ran into a situation that we didn’t manage in the way we should have managed because we were surprised how competitive we were, compared to our own feeling.”
The British Press on Monday were cocka-hoop, pretty much declaring that Lewis had struck a near fatal blow to his team mate by beating him in such a fashion in Malaysia. Yet as always this kind of Lewis’ fever is likely to be an over-reaction.
The Daily Mail wrote, “What looked like a piffling one-pipe triumph for a driver of Hamilton’s brilliance was a massive statement of intent in what, at this early stage of the season at least, is a private championship duel between the two Mercedes’ men, Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.”
The Daily Mirror dramatically declared, “Few victories have been as significant as this,” and the usual circumspect Jenson Button appeared to join the euphoria stating this was, “Strike one to Lewis.” W’ll forgive Jenson for forgetting that in fact strike one was Nico’s in Australia.
Further, the win for Nico in Australia together with Lewis’ DNF has set the Englishman a huge task in the first part of the season. Reliability aside, the Mercedes cars are set to record 1-2’s in the next 2-3 races and should Lewis triumph in each of these duels, he will leave Barcelona with a mere 3 point lead over his team mate.
There’s been little from Mercedes on whether Rosberg had some kind of problem with his car in Malaysia, but should anyone think over a race distance Lewis is nigh on 20 seconds quicker than Nico in the same car – then they need to take a long lie down in a cool dark place.
There is a view that Red Bull are taking huge strides towards Mercedes since Sebastian Vettel commented following the race, “we’re making bigger steps than them” and “it’s only a matter of time”.
We’ll cut Seb some slack today, but it would be fascinating to know what he basis this comparison on. Ok, both cars would have probably completed the race distance had Ricciardo not fallen so far behind and been retired. Yet this is hardly a step forward in terms of relative reliability when we consider the number of MGU-K shafts used by Red Bull already, From this perspective, Red Bull and all the Renault runners are quickly falling behind Mercedes.
However, the vision of Red Bull taking giant strides towards Mercedes is a relative one. Marching across the ‘milky way’ would require the biggest of giant strides. However, if at the same time your competitor needs only to take baby steps to arrive at the same destination – at the same time – then the size of the galactic stomping step width is irrelevant.
10 weeks has lapsed since TJ13 reported the night before the Jerez test that the Renault engine would be only able to run 250km over the next 4 days. The prognosis given was that the fixes would take 15-20 weeks.
Mark Hughes writes, “Renault will have the first of their hardware fixes ready for Barcelona”. Looking at the gulf between the Mercedes and Renault it may take a whole season for the French engine manufacturer to catch up.
Yet if the following is true, “success breeds complacency, complacency breeds failure, only the paranoid survive,” then Toto and his troops need to be on their guard.
It could be suggested that it is a slightly paranoid Toto Wolff who observes, “You cannot be complacent because we have seen a Red Bull right up our arse here. If you consider they have missed out on two thirds of the testing it was a necessary wake-up call for us.
In this digital world it is so easy to forget so quickly what happened yesterday. We are still speaking about four-time world champions and here is us winning two races. We have a package that seems to be very good this season, but it is not consolidated yet and not sustainable yet”.
Of course by the end of this weekend, 15% of the points available this year will be in the bank, and another Mercedes 1-2 appears inevitable subject to reliability.
The facts are Nico Rosberg won in Melbourne by a light year and was running well within himself for most of the race. Lewis delivered a similar result in Sepang, and whilst Vettel was hassling Rosberg, it is most unlikely Nico was flat out with a car working 100%.
Toto momentarily drops his guard, and the gulf he believes exists between themselves and the team from Milton Keynes becomes apparent. “Nevertheless, I don’t want to diminish the work that has been done back in Stuttgart, Brackley, Brixworth and Kuala Lumpur for our fuels. But let’s keep quiet because they are bouncing back from what looked to be horrific testing.”
If it takes x to achieve y, then you can’t achieve y until you’ve delivered the equivalent of x. How far Renault and Red Bull were in actuality behind Mercedes we cannot know, but it is ridiculous to believe they can deliver in a week or 2, what the team from Brackley took 4 weeks to complete.
If anything the gap between Mercedes and Red Bull will be far bigger in Bahrain, as the circuit is power dominated. Red Bull were slaughtered by the Mercedes in sector 1 in Sepang and there is no equivalent sector 2 where the Red Bull can fight back using its superior aero design.
Further, it is unlikely to rain in Bahrain, which will see both RB10’s starting from much further back on the grid, in the malaise where all things are possible.
Ferrari too may struggle in Bahrain as they have little time to improve their outright pace, so a return to the front is likely for Williams and Massa and Bottas should be challenging for a podium.
In what proved the most talked about incident of the Malaysian Grand Prix – fans have been divided across the world in regards Massa’s refusal to follow team-orders.
Irrespective of the reasons behind the instruction – public opinion differs on the correct protocol that should have been observed. Many people believe that Massa should have obeyed the team because it may have proved beneficial to the teams points haul. Others feel – that as it was only the second race of the season – Massa was justified in his actions.
Karl Wendlinger told Austrian television Servus TV: “As a team boss I would not be pleased with him. The reason was not just they wanted Bottas ahead of Massa if he’d have passed Button it would have given them more points, which can be extremely important at the end of the season.”
Hans Stuck also echoed these sentiments: “In my long career, I have been on both sides – benefitting from team orders, or being the one who has to go behind the other. But I always followed, he is an employee of the team and, quite simply, he needs to follow instructions.”
Despite what many people believe was a clear number 1 and number 2 policy at Ferrari – there were many occasions that Massa disobeyed similar orders from the Maranello concern.
One such incident occurred in the 2010 Australian Grand Prix when he robustly defended against Fernando Alonso. After the race the Spaniard called a meeting at Maranello because he believed he had had the possibility of winning the race as opposed to finishing fourth behind his feisty team-mate.
When advised that it was too early in the season for such instructions he made his point clearly in China when he passed Massa as they entered the pit-lane.
Journalist Andrew Frankl falls into the ‘obey the team’ camp and spoke to Sir Stirling Moss to confirm his thoughts.
“Not a chance boy.” came his unequivocal reply, “If it’s not written in your contract that you must let your team-mate through, you’re racing him as much as anyone else on the track – and if it were in the contract I wouldn’t sign it. I only made an exception for one person and that was for Fangio and out of respect”
“There might be other grounds later in the season if only one of you has a shot at the title but this was race two! in his shoes I’d have done exactly the same as Massa”
It would appear that people who have never won a Grand Prix think somewhat differently to people who have won races and it seems we can still rely on one octogenarian for a balanced view…
Tags: Mclarens new Technical Director - Gordon Murray, Sauber Salsa Video
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65 responses to “Daily #F1 News and Comment: Tuesday 1st April 2014”
McLaren78 April 1, 2014 at 09:09 · · Reply →
Dennis back, Honda back, Murray back. I’m obviously a big McLaren fun, but all this back to the 80s move might not work in the end, I’m a bit sceptical. Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong.
There are several examples of reunifications that didn’t work, the most recent being Schuey and Brawn at Merc and Renault as Williams’ engine partner, although admittedly not as the works team.
Silly man, April Fool’s day, I’ve fallen for it!
Will April 1, 2014 at 11:44 · · Reply →
And that picture…LOL
BlackJackFan April 1, 2014 at 18:37 · · Reply →
It was, for a few seconds, the best news I’d heard in years… 🙂
Clear View April 1, 2014 at 09:43 · · Reply →
OMG, Gordon freaking Murry! That is proper cool. They guy is a chuffin’ genius, he designed the McLaren F1 and the Fan Car, not to mention many more in between. Last I saw he was launching an electric car range. This could be Newey’s Kryptonite, great technical brains slogging it out on the world stage.
I tell you now, McLaren will have a title by the end of 2016, at the latest. There will be no gardening leave as he’s not working for a rival, I can’t imagine this is spur of the moment stuff, I expect Murry has been brushing up on the finer points of the new regs for some time to step onto the breach.
Tommo April 1, 2014 at 10:34 · · Reply →
Your honour,
Ha f#!@ing ha!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Mr A April 1, 2014 at 09:52 · · Reply →
Hmmm at least one of these stories I suspect is very “seasonal” in nature… Happy April Judge 🙂
landroni April 1, 2014 at 10:08 · · Reply →
But which one? The Salsa, or the Murray?
Jennie Mowbray April 1, 2014 at 10:34 · · Reply →
All of them of course:) By the time I got to the third story I had to stop reading because I was laughing so much I was disturbing all my family who were trying to watch Top Gear! Classic:)
i only read about McLaren cos the rest looked like a pile of steaming hippo poo and not worth waisting time on. Perhaps I would have clicked on earlier had i read the lot. Lol.
Jennie Mowbray April 1, 2014 at 10:46 · ·
By the time I got to Nico eating McDonald’s it was really obvious- lol:) It was a GMM story so I can see why you skipped it…
verstappen April 1, 2014 at 10:36 · · Reply →
I like how you keep on with the Vettel-shit-saga, today’s a good day for rubbing it in and having a laugh about it.
Shit-gate anyone?
Pure Gold! But shouldn’t it be Shizer-gate, with him being German and all that?
CTP April 1, 2014 at 20:58 · · Reply →
Nah, sounds too much like Scherzinger, and that could get confusing…
I was so hoping to see an orange McLaren this year…
An orange Caterham would be the next best thing:)
Too bad it will revert back to green at midnight tonight when the clock strikes 12…lol:)
Fortis96 April 1, 2014 at 11:52 · · Reply →
Hey judge, any follow up to what Ron Dennis said last week, that the Mclaren would improve by 0.5 sec for the Malaysian gp? Did they find that time or not?
carlo carluccio April 1, 2014 at 12:04 · · Reply →
Yeh, but everyone else found a second! 😉
thejudge13 April 1, 2014 at 13:33 · · Reply →
…. they found some time apparently…. how much they’ve not disclosed – Bahrain will be a better judge of the MP4-29 – but they feel China and Barcelona will be tough for them
Iestyn Davies April 1, 2014 at 14:34 · · Reply →
Looks like they prefer the slow corners.. Melbourne, Monaco and Canada.. and not the high speed, so that’s China, Barcelona out. Bahrain is a little in the middle, so perhaps they can hang on to Williams’ coat tails. Massa always goes well in Bahrain… he must be the favourite for a 3rd place finish.
Makes a difference from the porpoising McLaren.. maybe they have sorted the mechanical side once more, now for the aero?
Scuderia McLaren April 1, 2014 at 12:16 · · Reply →
I miss Hippo already…
Fat Hippoooo!
Fat HIPPOOOOOO!
Can you hear me?!
Faaaaaat HIIIIPPOOOoooooooooo….
***Scud crouches back down, rocking back and forth***
mattpt55 April 1, 2014 at 12:19 · · Reply →
Best to avoid the internet altogether on April 1 😉 Though in actual Sauber news Giedo is in for Gutierrez FP1.
…. tut tut, we had that yesterday 😉
LOL Monday’s are my long day, yesterday was particularly unfortunate. I probably read it here and forgot where I saw it. 😀
cassius42 April 1, 2014 at 12:59 · · Reply →
If this is what they call a slow news day – give us more:-)
The Usher 13 April 1, 2014 at 13:51 · · Reply →
As it’s a silly, I mean slow news day, a light hearted gif animation set from the ledger…..
http://f1-theusher13.tumblr.com/post/81287969446/felipe-is-very-short-we-have-proof
viezefrans April 1, 2014 at 14:02 · · Reply →
OOh Yeah… Orange Frijns F1 car ….
Everybody knows the “F” in F1 is for “Frijns” right?
Adam Parsons April 1, 2014 at 14:09 · · Reply →
“Jenson Button appeared to join the euphoria stating this was, “Strike one to Lewis.” W’ll forgive Jenson for forgetting that in fact strike one was Nico’s in Australia.”
Well, yes, a strike in terms of the championship at Melbourne, but then Lewis had an issue which meant it was not a ‘mental’ strike if you see what I mean. Indeed, the only ‘mental strike’, a blow to your opponent has to be delivered in a ‘fair’ setting where you cannot write it off as ‘bad luck’. On that basis, the Melbourne qualy was the only like-for-like comparison, and Lewis won there. So I’d agree with Button, Malaysia was the first true head to head, and Lewis won it, big time.
I don’t think he’ll have it all his own way at all as you suggest, indeed I have fears for his championship, especially as being a Lewis fan is a bit like being a Damon Hill fan; you know they have it in them to achieve great results, but they have a tendency for something on or off the track to get in the way. Set them against Alonso, Vettel, or Schumacher, who seem to be unphased, indeed more determined, by adversity of any kind, and its a tough call. I have yet to see how Nico will respond to this, does he carry the calm headedness, or will the temper flare? It’ll be fascinating to see!
….I hear where you’re coming from, but if Nico had a problem with his car in Malaysia – how will he be mentally affected by Lewis winning?
My point was Lewis has to win 4 of the first 5 races to get 3 points ahead of Nico, should we see them finishing 1-2 for the next 3 races.
I’d be pretty relaxed if I was Nico and that was the situation… and if his car breaks… there’s nothing he can do about that… then again, Lewis’ car may break next
Nico has the upper hand in points and psychology I suggest….
Indeed the title could be decided by failures rather than success on track. I’m sure they’ll both understand if it comes down to failures and be happy for the other. But if it comes down to a straight fight on the track, then that’s another issue.
Abu Double also makes this more likely to happen, including ‘the biggest steal ever’ should someone win from almost 50 points back going into the race (almost 2 race wins). Think Lewis’ China and Brazil all rolled into one race!
I see what you did there Abu Davies.
Yeah, I don’t disagree to be honest. I think Lewis laid down the ‘performance’ card here, but I suspect whilst that might be a slap to Nico, he’s probably smart enough to realize he has got a long game advantage.
Every little failure is going to count big time for these two, and I suspect Nico is probably aware that all he needs to do is keep ahead of the rest, and take the opportunities when they arise, and use his pace when he has it. If Nico breaks next and Lewis wins, it levels a bit more, if Lewis breaks and Nico wins, its all but over, on race three, so Nicos in a strategically good place, but if Lewis is back on form this year, then we could be in for a great fight.
I think the point I didn’t make properly here, is that I think that what goes on in Lewis’ head, is more important than what goes on in Nicos. I suspect Nico can play the strategy game better, but Lewis rides emotions, so whilst he’s winning it will perpetuate itself, and Nico can probably take a step back, but IF Nico lands such a blow on Lewis, it could go badly wrong quickly!
taperoo2k April 1, 2014 at 15:56 · · Reply →
Well tbh the way Lewis performed on Sunday showed shades of his top form. If that is the case, then Nico may not have much of an advantage at all.
Nigel April 1, 2014 at 20:43 · · Reply →
“If Nico had a problem…”
Did he really ?
He burned his rear tyres on the first lap, an therefore had to hustle yo stay ahead of the Bulls.
I suspect the Pirellis are still fragile enough that over-stressing them carries a significant penalty – whereas running at the front still carries a significant benefit.
The efficiency of the charge/discharge cycle for the energy store is also, I suspect, sensitive to how it’s operated, and leading the race without challenge also lends an advantage.
Of course, Lewis might just be downright faster.
So what about the second set….
Nigel April 1, 2014 at 21:42 · ·
What about them ?
Vortex Motio April 2, 2014 at 05:56 · ·
Nigel – You said Nico “burned his rear tyres on the first lap, an therefore had to hustle yo stay ahead of the Bulls.”
Nico’s car was rear limited for the whole race, through 4 different sets of tires.
The Judge’s point is given that Nico’s team-mate didn’t suffer from that same problem, an issue may have afflicted Nico’s car.
Vortex – that may well be the case, but one might attribute that to a less than optimum setup, something which arguably call into question one of Nico’s vaunted abilities…
I also think you underestimate the benefit of running in the clear at the front with a sufficient lead to be able to determine your own pace from lap to lap.
The number of stops made during the race indicates the lack of tyre durability, and I suspect having to manage both his tyres and the gap to Vettel from lap to lap put Rosberg at a race long disadvantage to Hamilton.
It’s always been an advantage to run in the clear at the front, and with a powertrain which can discharge much more energy than it can store over one lap, having that advantage makes it much simpler to optimise energy management.
Adam Parsons April 2, 2014 at 09:31 · ·
I’m with you Nigel, I think it was set up and not managing his race too well. The Judges points are just as speculative as ours, unless he is trying to insinuate he has insider info (its never clear what is opinion and what is ‘whispers’), and this race, especially given the silence from the team, is probably just a case of being out set up, out raced, out performed. He even admitted in an interview he had tried to catch Lewis but couldn’t.
I think it’s still up in the air a little… Rosberg would have had pole in Melbourne if he didn’t go off and lose his last Q lap, while Ham won here but Rosberg’s car was suspiciously slow all race since Q2. We need to see a full battle, Q and race – Bahrain could be very interesting for that.
I agree on the Hill/Hamilton similarity.. I can see Rosberg being quite cool headed but we’ll have to see what happens when it comes to the crunch!
I wonder if anyone is reading Hamilton’s column at the BBC? I found it very informative over the 2014 driving style, and also he mentioned that he was using John Button’s engine for his first karting championship win (aged 10). So it puts it in to perspective from how young these guys have been together, but that didn’t stop Button getting the upper hand at McLaren over Lewis who had been there for so long already. It’s a similar situation here at Mercedes…
To be honest, Nico not getting the final Q lap was ‘his’ fault, it wasn’t the car as in a tyre exploding or something, when you make a mistake or bad judgement call, that is all part of the mental pressure game. I dunno what was with Nico, but to be fair, he had a few races like that last year, where I wondered what was wrong with him just ‘slower’, as distinct from Lewis’ bad races where he was shredding tyres and such. I think you are right in that we may see more of a match in Bahrain.
I’m not sure if Button ever got the ‘upper hand’, at least performance wise, 2010 and 2012 Lewis was clearly better, but evidently lost his head entirely in 2011, though I still think Canada was Buttons fault. Politically Button is more astute than Hamilton though, but then again I think Button and Webber are/were smart cookies that way, those ‘down to earth us mate’ types always are.
True.. 2011 is what I had in mind, in that in 2010 it was ‘Lewis’ team’, yet by 2012 he was leaving them to join Mercedes, and Button became the number one driver, a la late 2011. In 2012 they also lost ground trying to adapt the car for Button down a blind alley, while Lewis was having a title shot. But Lewis could still have won more 2011 races, such as Hungary 2011, without a penalty for spinning back around etc. and Canada I would agree with as well. Button’s only defence is that he’s sticking to the drier line in the wet.
We saw him trying to ‘calm down’ Checo on the radio.. not heard any messages for Kevin yet.. but Kevin is ahead on the road, not coming up from the rear! I think he would have beaten Button on the road in Malaysia as well, so Jenson really needs to start finishing ahead of Kevin on pace..
Too right, but I think we’ll see Hulk and Magnussen at McLaren in 2015, Ron likes a racer, and otherwise there is no justice in the world. If Alonso goes there (though I am still suspicious myself, and was pre-Ron return too), then surely Ferrari will finally bite the bullet and hire the Hulk?
Merc need to develop the shit out of the W04 or face loosing out at the end of the season with the double points fiasco! This team has started well the last 2 previous seasons then fallen by the wayside on the development race. Hopefully with Paddy Lowe there now, the board in Stuttgart will hopefully understand that simply producing a quick for season opening is not enough if they ate serious about a title challenge. I would guess it was RedBull who had around 50 boxes of new parts, that should be all Merc need to keep their heads down and asses up with car development.
Last 2 years they have also been developing this year’s car. AFAIK they should be able to focus much more on development than they have the previous 2 seasons. But we shall see.
It would be nice to see them remain heavily competitive till the last race, as far as I know we can expect very little change to regs for next season, maybe a tweek to the noses and the weight limit, but I doubt there will be much else, so ALL development this year will follow on next year, which means they aren’t flogging a near dead horse (as per RedBull after summer break last year) and it’s all part of the development curve for this gen of car. I would like to see unlimited ERS, still only store 4Mj but you can charge that ES as much as you like during a lap so the driver can use more K and H. Especially when the fuel allocation drops over the coming seasons (i can’t remember the exact figures but it is due to drop to I think 95kg in 2016 and 90kg not long after, correct me if I’m wrong please guys) and if the enigine manufacturers can’t sqeeze extra out of the PU the cars will just get even slower during races, so more ERS would negate that loss IMO.
Judge, James Allen reports that there are some rumours in the paddock about Merc wanting Rosberg to win the title. Allen does clarify that he doesn’t buy that, and it’s just hogwash. Any substantiality on these rumours from your side?
From my perspective, a German winning in a German car is good for Merc, but Lewis is definitely the more marketable asset/driver there.
I think that’s a bit of a lame duck, I believe that Merc want the constructors and if one of their drivers wins the title (which is pretty much on the cards so far) will be the icing on the cake, o can’t see how it could be engineered to favor Nico over Lewis with putting the constructors in jeopardy. Unless they sew up the WCC with races in hand, then it would be interesting to see who gets the mechanical gremlins in the final couple of races. Let’s face it Seb Vettle scored enough points single handedly to wing the WCC for RedBull
I’m sure Stuttgart would prefer a German winner….
anijs April 1, 2014 at 18:28 · · Reply →
Then why waste all of this money on hamilton? Rosberg was already signed, they could have gotten him a much cheaper teammate.
Getting Hulk would allow you to spend at least £10m more on the car each year!
Surely they would have picked up Hulkenberg then if they wanted to guarantee a German won the title, rather than Hamilton!
Lauda clearly likes Hamilton a lot, FWIW.
The interesting thing is that if Massa had let Alonso by (Alonso was 7 tenths faster in qualifying), he would have gained 3 points more – yet only lost the title by 4 points. But in this instance, Kubica only finished the race 4 seconds in front.. so Alonso would have had the race-long chance for 3 more points at least, which could have given him the title.
Iain:R8 April 1, 2014 at 19:50 · · Reply →
re: dennis brawn murray.
No smoke without fire. The real reason Brawn will not join McLaren is the re-emergence of Ron as boss of everything. The last time Ron was in charge of the colour scheme for a car, and look at the result.
http://tinyurl.com/q5pca2c
You had to see the mechanics overalls to believe it. Especially after a hot wash. Yellow, so practical. No wonder the McLaren Technology centre is all black and white. Ross was quoted as saying: “Ron can offer me the moon, but I won’t dress like big bird for anyone.”
As for Gordon Murray, he is too busy helping the FIA with their plans for the resource restriction rules for next year. This is a design exercise showing next years car. http://tinyurl.com/ppjwkap. Note the improved nose, and the lighting that was requested by Mr Ecclestone for the night races.
OK. wet kipper, face, slap!
Maybe Moss could replace Ecclestone.
Peter Scandlyn April 2, 2014 at 19:31 · · Reply →
Be able to reminisce about things like Connaughts together.
Jamie April 1, 2014 at 21:03 · · Reply →
Maybe the answer to Massa’s problem is simply drive faster.
Vortex Motio April 2, 2014 at 05:50 · · Reply →
And the answer to Bottas’ problem is to simply qualify better.
Jamie Norman April 2, 2014 at 08:13 · · Reply →
A bit harsh, when he had a gearbox grid penalty, so still to of caught Massa was good going.
Harsh? I’m not sure I understand your point…
Sooner or later, Bottas will not suffer from a starting grid penalty.
In their first two races, Massa is faster in qualifying than Bottas by a tenth. At Sepang, if Bottas had cleared Massa he could have engaged with those in front of him. Instead, Bottas expended his tires and fuel fighting a similar car with a driver nearly as fast.
To earn a podium, Bottas must qualify better (and not have a grid penalty). I’d say qualifying should become a primary area of focus for Bottas and Williams, if is not already.
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