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Stripe debuts Radar anti-fraud AI tools for big businesses
1, 2016, 2017, 2018, ai, aim, allo, Amp, app, apple, AR, Authentication, av, Bing, Blockchain, Bus, Business, Business software, Car, CES, Company, country, Crimes, Customer, Data, E-commerce, E-commerce payment system, Economy, Ell, engineering, EV, experience, Fact, Financial services, fingerprint, Fraud, Google, Here, increasing, IP, isp, LINE, mac, Mach, Machine, Machine learning, Management, Merchant services, mobile, Money, Nature, Note, Pattern, PDA, Pin, Property crimes, proxy, Radar, RED, resting, Ring, Sales, speed, sto, Stripe, System, team, tech, The company, Tool, UPD, User experience, vpn, War, work
Hardware, Internet, Misc, Mobile, Network, Science and Technology
Meet Grasshopper, a learn-to-code app from Google’s Area 120 incubator
000, 1, 2018, ads, Advertising, ai, Alphabet Inc., Amp, android, Android (operating system), Animation, app, apple, Application software, AR, Architecture, Area, Array data structure, ASIC, av, boot, Bus, Car, Career, CES, Chief technology officer, chrome, coder, Company, Computer architecture, Computing, Concept, Conditional (computer programming), Control flow, counter, Curriculum, Design, developer, Education, Ell, ember, Emoji, English language, EV, Fee, Function (mathematics), Goal, Google, Google Chrome, Google Tag Manager, Grace Hopper, Grasshopper, Grasshopper (musician), Grasshopper (rocket), Grasshopper 3D, GUI, guide, heat, Heather Smith (curler), Here, home, HTML element, increasing, Innovation, ios, IoT, IP, IPhone, iPhone or Android, ITunes, JavaScript, KT, Language, Launchpad (macOS), Laura Holmes, lens, Library (computing), LINE, Machine learning, Management, mobile, Mobile app, Motivation, Non-breaking space, Note, Object (computer science), Operator (computer programming), Perception, Professional, programmer, programming, Project Fi, Puzzle video game, RAM, RAS, Real-time computing, RED, Ring, rog, Skill, Smartphones, software, Software engineering, Source code, Star, Startup company, Startups, sto, String (computer science), Student, super, Supersonic speed, team, tech, Technology, Test (assessment), The company, Time, TM, Tool, Variable (computer science), VR, War, Watch, Website, work, Writing, YouTube
Internet, Kids & Learn, Misc, Mobile, Network, Software
YouTube TV launches its first digital-only networks with two channels
1, 2018, Addition, ai, Amazon, Amp, AR, AT&T, Audi, av, Brand, Car, CBS, CES, Cheddar, Company, digital channels, Digital media, DirecTV Now, Ell, EU, EV, even YouTube, Facebook, financial news network, ford, FuboTV, Here, Hulu, Internet, Internet television, IP, LINE, network, Networks, Note, Philo, Port, Pricing, programming, RAM, RED, Ring, Road, rog, services, ship, Sling TV, Spotify, Star, sto, streaming, streaming service, streaming TV services, tech, television, The company, TV, Twitter, Video, Watch, work, World Wide Web, YouTube, YouTube TV, Zo
Internet, Misc, Mobile, Network
Google announces Beta of Flutter, a framework for building iOS and Android apps
000, 1, 2018, AdWords, Alphabet Inc., android, Android (operating system), Android app, Android apps, Android software development, Android Studio, app, Application programming interface, Application software, Apps, AR, Ars Technica, Arts, Bookmark (World Wide Web), Building, CES, Class (computer programming), Company, Computer architecture, Computer monitor, Computing, Cross-platform, Daeva, Dart, Dart (programming language), Data, Design, developer, DEVS, Ell, EV, Facebook, Facebook Platform, File size, Firebase, Flutter, Flutter (company), Font, frame, Free and open-source software, Gadget, gadgets, Google, Google Fuchsia, Google I/O, HTML element, Hyperlink, Image, Integrated development environment, Interface (computing), ios, isp, Language, Leading, Light, Machine code, mobile, Mobile app, Mobile application development, Mobile Apps, Mobile operating system, Mobile operating systems, Native (computing), native code, native interfaces, NEC, Note, Open-source model, Organization, Package manager, Performance, programming, push, RAM, React (JavaScript library), RED, Rendering (computer graphics), resting, Ring, rog, Sample rate conversion, Smartphones, software, Software developer, Software development kit, Software framework, Software release life cycle, Source code, Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, Style guide, tech, The company, Time, Typeface, User interface, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, War, Widget (GUI), word, Word processor, work, Xcode, YouTube
Computer, Games, Internet, Kids & Learn, Misc, Mobile, Network, Software
Touchjet Wave projector system turns your Flatscreen TV or Monitor into Touchscreen
2018, ai, allo, Amazon, Amazon.com, Amp, Ampere, android, Android (operating system), app, Apps, AR, Assistive technology, av, Button, CES, Cloud clients, Color, Computer, Computer architecture, Computer monitor, Computing, Consumer electronics, Digital distribution, Download, Dropbox, Dropbox (service), ECS, Ell, etf, EV, fingerprint, Fingerprint recognition, Fingers, Flat panel display, flatscreen TVs, ford, frame, Gamer, games, gaming, HBO, HBO Go, HDMI, home, Hulu, IFrame (video format), Image, Information appliances, Internet, ios, IP, LINE, Microsoft PowerPoint, mobile, Mobile app, Mobile device, Mobile game, Monitor, Movie projector, movies, music, NEC, Netflix, Object-oriented programming, Office, Online and offline, Pandora Radio, Presentation, Presentation program, Presentations, Price, RAM, RED, Remote control, remote controls, Ring, Sample rate conversion, Sensor, smart, smartphone, Spotify, streaming, Streaming media, Stylus, System, Technology, television, Television technology, Touchjet Wave, Touchscreen, TV, Use Your Fingers, Video, Video game, Watch, watching Netflix, Wi-Fi, work, World Wide Web, YouTube, Zo
Computer, Hardware, Internet, Misc, Mobile, Network, Science and Technology, Software
US AI firm Voicera acquires Dubai AI startup Wrappup to boost Meeting Summary
000, 1, 2018, ai, Algorithm, app, AR, artificial intelligence, attack, Battery, Battery Ventures, Business, CES, Chief executive officer, Cisco, Cisco Systems, Cloud, cloud computing, Company, Creativity, Customer, Design, Dubai, E.ventures, Economy, Ell, Entrepreneurship, EV, experience, Facilitator, Force, Fuel, Google, GoToMeeting, Here, human, Image, intel, intelligent voice, Investment, Investor, LG, LogMeIn, meeting, Meetings, microsoft, Microsoft Ventures, mobile, Mobile app, Note, Note-taking, Pain, Port, ppu, RAM, RED, Sales, speaker, speakers, Speech recognition, Star, Startup company, sto, System, team, tech, Technology, The company, Time, TM, Tool, Uber, UberConference, voice recognition, Voicera, Voicera CEO Omar Tawakol, WebEx, work, Wrappup CEO Rami Salman, Zo
Microsoft Translator app now features offline AI powered translations
1, 2018, Addition, ai, allo, android, app, app developers, App Store, Application software, Apps, AR, artificial intelligence, Artificial neural network, av, Bing, Bit, Blog, Car, CES, Chinese language, chip, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer hardware, Computing, Coprocessor, Cross-platform software, Data, Data center, developer, Download, Ell, End user, engineering, EU, EV, Free software, French language, German language, Google, Google Allo, hardware, Here, home, Huawei, human, Instant messaging clients, intel, Intelligence, Internet, IP, isp, Italian language, Japan, Language, LINE, Local area network, mac, Mach, Machine, Machine learning, microsoft, Microsoft Translator, mobile, Mobile app, Mobile phone, MSN, NEC, Online and offline, PDA, Port, Portuguese language, Price, processor, RAM, RED, resting, Ring, Russia, services, software, Software developer, Software release life cycle, space, Spanish language, Star, sto, System, team, tech, Techno, Technology, Thailand, Translation, Universal Windows Platform apps, UPD, War
Computer, Internet, Misc, Mobile, Science and Technology, Software
Amazon acquires Ring, a global home security company
1, 2018, 4G, ai, Alexa, allo, Amazon, Amazon.com, app, apple, AR, Bit, BT Home Hub, Camera, cameras, Car, CES, Cloud, Company, Computer-aided manufacturing, Computing, Consumer, Customer, Door furniture, Doorbell, Ell, EV, Fact, hardware, home, Home automation, Home Hardware, hub, Image, Mergers and acquisitions, Note, Office, push, RAS, RED, Ring, Santa Monica, Security, security company, Shark Tank, smart, Smart doorbell, smart home devices, software, sto, super, tech, The company, The Echo, Time, Ufa, Video, War, YouTube, Zo
Hardware, Misc, Mobile, Network
Touchjet Wave: Turn your Flatscreen TV or Monitor into Touchscreen
2018, android, Apps, AR, av, Button, Car, Download, Economy, etf, EV, Fingers, ford, games, HDMI, home, IP, mobile, Monitor, NEC, Netflix, RED, Remote control, Science and technology, smart, smartphone, t-mobile, Tablet computer, Touchscreen, TV, Watch, Wi-Fi, work, YouTube
Computer, Games, Hardware, Internet, Kids & Learn, Misc, Mobile, Network, Science and Technology
Uber introduces a bunch of new safety features for its app
1, 2018, 911 operator, Addition, ai, aim, AR, av, Background check, Bit, Button, Car, Carsharing, CES, Cheque, Chief executive officer, Commuting, Company, Crime, Criminal law, Dara Khosrowshahi, Denver, Design, driver, Driver's license, Emergency telephone number, Force, Hassan Khosrowshahi, Here, Image, Information, Insurance, IP, isp, Jurisdiction, Landing page, Law, Law enforcement, Law of obligations, Location, location information, Location-based software, Mobile app, Motor vehicle, National Emergency Number Association, NEC, Partnership, PDA, RED, rider safety, riders choice, Ring, Routing, rowing, Safety, ship, SOS, Star, System, tech, The company, Time, Transport, Transportation network companies, Uber, Uber (company), Uber app, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber protests and legal actions, Uberisation, UPD, Vehicle
Misc, Mobile
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Song Blogs
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Music, words, playlists
Playlists: songs about spiders
June 12, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Fiddling for arachnophobes
How do songwriters face their arachnophobia? Spotting behavioural trends expressed through musical and lyrics, and weaving a beautiful and witty web, this week’s guest swawilg creates playlists from last week’s thread of song suggestions
In avant-garde, blues, comedy, country, dance, disco, electronica, dub, experimental, folk, gospel, indie, instrumentals, jazz, metal, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, songs, ska, soul, traditional Tags songs, playlists, spiders, wildlife, biology, psychology, Slim Newton, Flanders and Swann, The Who, John Entwistle, Toy Dolls, Captain Beefheart, Dr John, The Handsome Family, Hoagy Carmichael, Tidal Waves, Ludovico Einaudi, Wilco, Joanna Newsom, Black Box Recorder, TISM, Herbie Hancock, Barenaked Ladies, Memphis Jug Band, Jean Luc Ponty, Ten Years After, Buckshot Lefonque, Fats Waller, Ike and Tina Turner, Jim Stafford, Robyn Hitchcock, Jef Neve, Pascal Schumacher, swawilg
DRINK OF THE WEEK
Hendricks & tonic with cucumber
SNACK OF THE WEEK
Doritos Nacho Cheese
New albums: Jesca Hoop, Trash Kit, Africa Express, The Soft Cavalry, Mark Mulcahy, K Flay, Olympia, Willie Nelson, Kokoko!, John Luther Adams, Beak, Jeb Loy Nichols
The latest roundup includes more collaborations via Damon Albarn’s African Express, sharp postpunk from Trash Kit, sensitive songwriting from Jesca Hoop, a classical masterpiece, and more from veteran country singer Willie Nelson
New albums: Thom Yorke, The Black Keys, The Tallest Man On Earth, Tunng, Molly, House and Land, Body Type, 75 Dollar Bill, Kim Petras
The latest roundup includes the Radiohead frontman’s collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, a return for The Black Keys, beautiful heights by The Tallest Man On Earth, plus a variety of indie, pop and mostly folk in many forms
New albums: black midi, Hot Chip, Mark Ronson, Prince, The Raconteurs, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Black Pumas, Luedji Luna, Merz, Bedouine, Hatchie, Titus Andronicus, Divino Niño, Bad Breeding
This week’s huge selection includes the buzzy experimentalists black midi, rave pop from Hot Chip, funk from Georgia Anne Mulgrow, beautiful folk by Bedouine, soul from Black Pumas, and original versions from the Prince vault
New albums: Bill Callahan, Kate Tempest, Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead, Calexico/Iron & Wine, Baroness, Jordan Rakei, Crumbs, Tusks, The Catenary Wires
A mellowness touches the landscape of this week’s releases, with various artists taking a more reflective, gentler direction, with a beauty from Bill Callahan, a more personal Kate Tempest, a lusher Bruce Springsteen and more
Song of the Day: As summer simmers on, a hot weather cracker from the new album by the Australian singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Go-Betweens, about his native Brisbane, but one that also hints heavily at global warming
Dr John – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya / I Walk On Guilded Splinters / Right Place, Wrong Time / Qualified
Song of the Day: A song-based tribute to the sadly departed New Orleans great, aka Mac Rebennack, the rich-voiced, voodoo-style Mardi Gras feather-wearing pianist, guitarist and singer who spanned genres with colour and charisma
D-day anniversary song special: Jim Radford, Iron Maiden, Joe Strummer
Song of the Day: To mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy, three songs of contrasting styles, beginning with one by Hull-born 90-year D-day veteran, old folk singer and peace campaigner
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Toady Man's Hour
Song of the Day: After worms and slugs, we turn to a toad, but this time this metaphor by Sean Lennon and Les Claypool’s band appears to lambast the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, from their 2019 album South of Reality
Shana Cleveland – Night Of The Worm Moon / Face Of The Sun
Song of the Day: After John Myrtle’s slug song, a different take on a slimy earth creature, and in a another style, an exquisite title track and first single, by the lead singer of Los Angeles psych band La Luz, from her 2019 solo album
John Myrtle – Cyril The Slug
Song of the Day: After POZI’s Diggers and Squid’s Houseplants, it’s time to dig out an actual gardening connection, from the point of view of an unwanted guest, in a delightfully eccentric offbeat number by the London singer and songwriter
POZI - Watching You Suffer / Diggers
Song of the Day: After Houseplants by Squid, what’s the connection? With the title Diggers, it could be gardening, but these short, snappy numbers by the postpunk London trio hit more on housing problems and also have a drummer lead singer
Squid – Houseplants
Song of the Day: As spring comes into full bloom, a brilliant new song and band also bursting into life, but with an energetic twist – about not being able to afford a house or garden, nor plan for your future
Word of the week: ophicleide
Word of the week: It's an obscure hybrid of tuba and saxophone and evolved from the serpent, this rich-toned keyed brass instrument has a mouthpiece that makes it part of the bugle family
Word of the week: pungi
Word of the week: Know your scales? It is also known as the murli or the been, this double-reedpipe instrument made from a gourd is primarily associated with snake charmers on the Indian subcontinent
Word of the week: quena
Word of the week: It's an instrument that brings to mind the soaring condor and mountainous Andes – a haunting, beautiful sound emanating from this simple, traditional wooden flute
Word of the week: rebec
Word of the week: Most popular in the 13th-16th centuries, then largely replaced by the viol and violin, yet this beautiful wooden gut- and nylon-stringed instrument has a distinctive sound and still appears in some music today
Word of the week: sourdine
Word of the week: It’s the name for defunct reed instrument, but primarily from the French meaning to mute, pertaining to devices that not only reduce volume, but also create new tones, especially for brass instruments
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Navigating Labels in the Green Era
Today's spas are reaping the rewards of making sustainability the foundation of their business plan
The Organic Beauty Craze—Marketers Stretching the Truth
Watch out for the organic and all natural labels on the beauty products you select for use in your spas. They are not always what they claim to be.
Lynn Shulman, owner of Elixir Organic Spa in Toronto, learned this the hard way. Over 10 years ago, Shulman suffered from a terrible allergic reaction from an "organic" beauty product she had purchased. "It was all over my neck, shoulders, and back. The rashes were raw, red, and angry-looking. It looked like raw liver was growing on my skin," Shulman recalls.
It took her months to recover. She had to consistently steam and detoxify her body to draw all of the chemicals out of her pores. It turned out the natural products she was using were not as clean and wholesome as she had originally thought.
Lack of regulations
There is very little government regulation in Canada for personal care and beauty products. The government does not mandate specific standards for what can be deemed organic or natural. Health Canada has developed a hot list—a list of chemicals that are banned or restricted in personal care products because they can pose a health risk. However, there are still many carcinogens that fail to make the list.
As long as the banned names are not included in the ingredient list, consumers can be applying a cocktail mix of unregulated chemicals onto their skin.
Over the last few years, there has been a boom in green products. Consumers have been exposed to growing numbers of labels that claim to be organic and all natural. These two terms have become significant marketing lures.
Voluntary certification
Competing companies that create their own regulations and private organic certifications set these standards. But these guidelines are voluntary.
Certech, for example, is a wholly-owned Canadian organization offering environmental, health, natural, and organic certification services. According to Certech, in order to receive a certification seal for organic personal care products, a minimum of 95 per cent of the ingredients must be of natural origin. Packaging must be recyclable and the products and their individual ingredients must not have been tested on animals. The formula must be virtually free of synthetic ingredients, and must not contain pesticides, harmful preservatives, artificial colours, and fragrances.
Even with private organizations like Certech in existence, there is still a huge void in regulating the organic industry.
There are loopholes that allow marketers to make false claims— to label products as natural, organic, eco friendly, or green, and no certification seal is required—it is optional.
"Ecocert is another certification body in Canada. I have seen products with the Ecocert label and they still contain harsh chemical ingredients. It is not mandatory for businesses to certify themselves organic. For marketing purposes, a company can choose to gain a certification and pay the price to go through whatever hoops necessary to gain the organic seal," says Shulman.
This is where it gets tricky. Companies are not necessarily lying when they say their product is natural—they just stretch the truth. There could be one or two ingredients that are organic or natural, and because of this, it is not legally false to market the product as natural or organic.
Shulman also notes that a lot of companies will use ambiguous wording in their ingredient list.
"I have seen product labels that include the name of a chemical ingredient, but in brackets next to the chemical, they will say the particular ingredient was 'derived from coconut,'" she gives as an example. "So this could mean that at one point in time this started off as a coconut, but has gone through so many chemical processes that it no longer results in anything that should be compatible with human skin."
Protect your clients
The gruesome reaction she had from the falsely labeled organic product is what started Shulman's journey to open Elixir Organic Spa, located in Toronto's trendy King West neighbourhood. Her spa caters to those with allergies, skin sensitivities, and autoimmune skin conditions. After extensive research, Shulman found small artisan companies around the globe that provides her spa with food-grade organic beauty products.
Shulman's motto is: "If you can't eat it, don't put it on your skin."
Elixir spa offers the same services as traditional spas, but uses organic alternatives for its facials, massages, and waxing.
She says many new clients complain about reactions from waxing services from conventional spas. What Shulman stresses is that, in most cases, clients do not react from the wax itself, but from the post-wax product.
She says the ingredients used in post-wax care are especially important.
"After a waxing treatment, the client's pores are completely open and vulnerable. The worse thing you can do is apply chemicals and other toxic ingredients onto their skin. It goes straight into their bloodstream," Shulman says.
The products used during post-wax services at Elixir Spa are completely dye-, fragrance-, and paraben-free. Her treatments include ingredients such as shea butter, cocoa butter, grape seed oil, and almond oil.
Shulman is a true believer in 100 per cent organic products, but knows how difficult it can be to find the real deal.
"I have seen so many organic labeled products, even some with certification seals. But when I flip the bottle around to read the ingredients, I see listed parabens, ethanol, and perfume additives."
Without proper government regulation in place, it is important to be diligent when reading labels. Discretion must be used when buying products to avoid falling for misleading marketing claims and offering your clients products that don't live up to their branding.
When navigating labels, Shulman's best advice is: "if it sounds like it was made in a lab, avoid it."
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DIAZOLIDINYL UREA
What It Is Diazolidinyl Urea is used as a safe and effective preservative in a variety of cosmetic products.
Why It's Included This ingredient is used as a preservative in a variety of Arbonne's products. Preservatives are essential in maintaining the integrity of cosmetic formulations as they help inhibit the growth of yeast, mold and bacteria. Arbonne follows all CIR (Cosmetic Ingredient Review Board) recommended usage and concentration guidelines.
The Facts Reports have suggested that Diazolidinyl Urea is a formaldehyde releaser but there is no indication that the use of Diazolidinyl Urea as used in cosmetic products would release formaldehyde at concentrations that would exceed the limits recommended for formaldehyde. On the basis of clinical data, the CIR expert panel concluded that Diazolidinyl Urea is safe as a cosmetic ingredient up to a maximum concentration of 0.5%. In fact, RIPT (Repeat Insult Patch Tests) sensitization studies using cosmetic products at concentrations up to 0.4% on normal subjects were essentially negative.
For More Information Please refer to the following: Cosmetic Ingredient Review Board @ www.cir-safety.org Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association @ www.ctfa.org U.S. Food and Drug Administration @ www.fda.gov
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Real.Good.Work.
Lead with Vision
When good companies succeed, the world becomes a better place.
The world gets better for two reasons: first, because of the business that gets done; second, because of the way it gets done.
Owners win, customers win, community wins, suppliers win, the environment wins.
Leaders of good companies are inspired by visions that are greater than themselves — visions that reflect goodness and meaning that are beyond business, but that can be created, in part, through business.
But even as strong leaders see visions beyond themselves, they also know that their place in the world is very much personal. Their best work is aligned not only with their universal values and visions, but also with their individual strengths and preferences. Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Nelson Mandela both work for justice, but in very different ways.
From an old Hasidic tale:
Rabbi Zusya said, “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me: ‘Why were you not Zusya?’”
Do you know your vision? Do your values guide the work you do and the way you lead? Do you work in ways that truly make you happy? And do you bring your strengths to work, so that you can make the biggest difference with the greatest ease? If you answer “yes” on all counts — thank you and congratulations. We are all the better for it. But if not, are you ready to change? The change is both scary and exciting. The transition is well worth it.
quoted in The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning, Kurtz and Ketcham
Humor: Spirit and Ethics
Money and Math
Spiritually Guided Business
Strategy and Direction
Sunday Into Monday
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NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Today, at the National Retail Federation’s 105th Annual Convention and Expo, Epson America, Inc., a leading supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, and TransactionTree Inc., a leading provider of digital receipt solutions for the retail industry and other transaction-oriented enterprise, announced a partnership allowing TransactionTree to source data from Epson’s OmniLink® Merchant Services (OMS) platform. The joint solution, which will deliver turnkey digital receipt solutions that help engage the customer after the purchase and provide them with personalized content, will be demonstrated at NRF, January 15- 17 at the Javits Convention Center, NYC, booth # 3343.
The partnership will allow TransactionTree customers to take advantage of the real-time, actionable data generated by Epson’s OMS, which enhances the digital receipts by giving business owners more dynamic, personalized content on their customers’ contact information and preferences. Epson’s OMS platform offers an integrated solution that will work across tablets, mobile devices, multiple locations, and with virtually any POS system that might be sitting on their counters.
“By collaborating with TransactionTree, we deliver the ability for almost unlimited customization and integration of digital receipts, helping businesses gather accurate customer information, build brand awareness, and develop targeted marketing strategies,” said Joel Doherty, global business development leader for Epson’s Business Systems Division. “Brands and marketing stakeholders will have the ability to leverage advanced analytics and drive personalized promotions in real time, sourced from the Epson OmniLink receipt printer data, independent of their POS system.”
“Our partnership with Epson provides merchants with an invaluable data resource on consumers and on consumers’ transactional information,” said Jason Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of TransactionTree. “Together we enable retailers to connect more effectively with customers and better understand shopping behavior. When retailers understand and communicate effectively with their customers, they can expect higher satisfaction and sales rates, ultimately increasing their return on investment.”
About OMS
Epson’s OMS platform addresses the fundamental market challenge of disparate POS solutions and the lack of a common data language in the industry. Epson’s intelligent receipt printers provide a data gateway which drives cloud and mobile solutions to manage inventory, staffing, loss/prevention, merchandising, logistics, analytics, loyalty, online ordering and more without having to worry about costly POS integration. To date, 13 Epson partners have adopted the OMS platform, which opens up the options and choices for brands and restaurant operators to access a global network of cloud and mobile-based tools, best practices, business data and expertise. Partners include DTT Surveillance, Expensify, Fishbowl, GuestDNA, GuestMetrics Livelenz, Mobivity, NimbleSchedule, PnP Loyalty, 7Shifts, Spendgo, Tacit Innovations and TransactionTree. To learn more about Epson OMS, please visit Epson.com/omnilinkmerchantservices.
About Transaction Tree, Inc.
TransactionTree is the leading provider of electronic receipt solutions for the retail industry and other transaction-oriented enterprises. Based in Dunwoody Georgia, TransactionTree was established in 2008 by forward-thinking, green innovators seeking technological solutions to common environmental business challenges. Today, TransactionTree’s groundbreaking e-Receipts solution improves the human experience by incorporating new eco-practices into everyday consumer activities. Our technology recognizes transaction events, validates customer information, and sends a copy of the receipt to the shopper, along with relevant content from the retailer. For more information about TransactionTree, visit www.transactiontree.com.
About Epson America, Inc.
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Long Beach, CA, Epson America, Inc. is the U.S. affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality technology products that meet customer demands for increased functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency. For over 40 years, Epson’s advanced technology has been at work in millions of POS systems around the world. Today Epson’s Business Systems Division continues to bring industry-leading, open architecture, smart technologies to the point of service. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (http://twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/EpsonAmerica).
EPSON is a registered trademark and EPSON Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark of Seiko Epson Corporation. OmniLink is a registered trademark of Epson America. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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Liberals Petition Marvel For A Homosexual Captain America
News Syndicator May 25, 2016
News Syndicator
This account syndicates news from other media outlets.
Via Breitbart:
Progressive superhero fans took to Twitter Monday to petition Marvel to change Captain America’s sexual orientation in an upcoming film.
Using the hashtag #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend, thousands of people asked the company behind the popular superhero to re-fashion him as a gay man in an upcoming installment.
Some Twitter users were quick to offer a candidate who could capture Captain America’s heart; Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, played by actor Sebastian Stan in the latest installment in the Marvel cinematic universe, Captain America: Civil War.
#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend
Options are:
1. Bucky barnes
2. James buchanan barnes
3. The winter soldier
4. Bucky
5. Sebastian stan
— charlie (@scorpiusmlafoy) May 24, 2016
#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend to everyone saying he's straight because he kissed peggy and sharon: pic.twitter.com/97XI1rCMRN
— skyler (@obiwankesnobi) May 24, 2016
#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend Let him date his Bucky💕 pic.twitter.com/okgLo93njl
— HamletMachine (@Hamlet_Machine) May 24, 2016
#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend because it looks like it's about to happen anyway: pic.twitter.com/YnSpOcPrWG
— Mike T (@majtague) May 24, 2016
what do you mean #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend he already has one and his name is James Buchanan Barnes just that marvel won't recognize it
— j (@WANDASWIDOW) May 24, 2016
Marvel fans apparently took a page out of the Frozen playbook for their hashtag campaign; earlier this month, Disney fans used the social media service to petition the studio to make that film’s protagonist, princess Elsa, a lesbian.
Twitter users in that campaign used the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend.
While the majority of tweeters used the Captain America hashtag earnestly, a vocal contingent of critics questioned why the character’s sexual orientation needed to be explored at all.
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May 25, 2016 Ehren Holt
How much longer till the war breaks out and these people are suppressed through violence?
May 25, 2016 Grant
Yup. It’s looking like heads need to roll. Literally.
May 25, 2016 Unabashed✓ᴳᵉⁿᵗˡᵉᵐᵃⁿ
What the hell is up with these people and wanting to make every character in every genre of video a fag/dyke? FFS, get over yourselves and your damn agenda of perverting everything. Does everything revolve around where men and women put their genitalia? The only dick that I’m concerned about where it is placed is my own. You SJW’s should try that philosophy sometime. Maybe then, people will start to like you….maybe.
May 25, 2016 Hipponax (μητροκοίτης)
sooooo what you are saying is that you want to know the sexual orientation of all human, super human, non human, anti human, aquatic, forest fauna, forest flora, lava based, invisible, sand based, human animal hybrid, human animal nuclear mix, ultra sensory, earthly, outerworldly and otherkin childhood cartoon — and everyone from new jersey.
I’m a pumpkin.
May 26, 2016 Elven King
#PumpkinPride
May 26, 2016 Clever Anonymous Handle
As my son said after explaining the whole trans bathroom kerfuffle: “Today I identify as an attack helicopter.”
May 25, 2016 Surgeon Of Death
It’ll be another failure. They’ll support from behind a keyboard, but if or when Cap becomes gay the numbers will show they never really cared. Marvel will take the hit if they fold.
I know for a fact that my family won’t be spending the money on tickets.
May 26, 2016 Eden
It’s the same case with that Disney movie, Frozen. Many parents won’t let their kids see it if they made the main character gay in the sequel.
May 25, 2016 DirtyHarold
Asshole connessiuers, all of them
May 25, 2016 Sigma K
Gets worse.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/05/25/marvel-comics-captain-america-equates-criticism-syrian-refugee-problem-nazism/
May 25, 2016 Charlemagne
Wait.. so is Captain America now a pro-refugee, pro-globalist traitor because he’s a gay secret-member of Hyrda?
http://screenrant.com/captain-america-steve-rogers-comic/
Yep… He now speaks with a fag-cent and likes the smarmy brownies.
May 25, 2016 Bartleby the Scrivener
He’s Captain U.N. now
May 25, 2016 onetruth
Ironically in that last movie he was fighting against the UN that wanted to regulate the Avengers. It was Ironman who cucked out to the globalists.
I actually enjoyed the underlying themes in that movie. It was a bit of a slap to the face of globalists.
May 25, 2016 djdjdj
I was really hoping Captain was going to kill Ironman. Would have made my year. Too bad, he left him alive. At least he got to watch how is parents died.
May 25, 2016 CaptainHero64
Same thing they did to G. I. Joe.
Went from, A Real American Hero to An International Strike Force.
May 25, 2016 Bourbonman
I remember the exact moment that started when they introduced the Soviet opposites in the late 80’s.
As movies continue to make the protagonists more and more progressive, I often find myself cheering for the villain. Hence why I love horror movies where everybody dies.
May 25, 2016 Chip Baskets
I hate nothing more than a neat tidy happy ending
May 25, 2016 Hoyos
After reading what red skull said…
May 25, 2016 spicynujac
#GiveKimKardashianAIDS
For our entertainment. We demand it.
May 25, 2016 Rue McClanahan
I’d settle for a permanent release of lsd and a blue collar life but, if it’s got to be a disease it’s should be the germ.
May 26, 2016 J. Hue
#GiveKimKardashianADick
#givecaptainamericadiabetes
This way we can solve 2 problems.
1) Make him more representative of the american populous
2) somehow incorporate Wilfred Brimley in his back story.
Captain Murica
May 25, 2016 ons4everAlpha
With diabeetus!
May 25, 2016 Gundog
He will also reveal that Captain America was engaged in all sorts of intimate acts, oral and what not…
not just screwin’ intimate acts! oral and whatnot!
lol…..
May 26, 2016 anon1
this film was a great one
2 ruined my plan of diabeetus gif
diabeeetus
May 25, 2016 FinnShane
3) Expose Brimley to gamma rays. Treat the American public to an elderly, diabetic and very cranky Hulk who is pissed off about his blood sugar and how his country has gone to shit.
This might prove to be too expensive cgi wise as Brimley will Hulk out every 15 minutes.
you wouldn’t like me when my blood sugar rises.
“Too late!!”
I should have made that gif a hell of alot bigger.
May 25, 2016 Bishca
That’s just Dr Reichwein from Monster with a green filter! CHARLATAN!
May 25, 2016 Twelveisdead
Ha. As long as it has the AIDS musical from Team America.
May 25, 2016 cheeseburgercheeseburger
I dunno man- I know you dont care, but, at some point, something will prompt you to care again, positive nihilism be damned
nah. makes me no never mind. I just laugh.
May 25, 2016 Honey Badger
Ha! I wish I knew how to make these. It is pretty much all I would do every day
http://memegenerator.net.
May 25, 2016 Death by metal!
Well if he goes gay he’d most likely catch AIDS, so you’re somewhat on point there!
May 25, 2016 Lucas Thomas
Why is homosexualty so virtuous?
No-one has ever explained that to me
May 25, 2016 Just a Russian hacker
Because all gay people are smarter, kinder, funnier, more wholesome, and better parents than the stupid white prole that will vote for trump.
Not to mention stylish.
And they never do hard drugs and beat the shit out of each other. Phrasing.
They are all squeaky clean perfect people.
May 25, 2016 TheHypnoToad
I can confirm. every gay person I know has always been smarter than me.
True that. I’ve thought of becoming gay for the sake of my kids. No good parent wouldn’t.
Its really the responsible thing to do, but it’s still a big decision. Just remember you can decide to be gay anytime, but never decide not to be gay, so you may want to consult your closest transsexual psychologist to make sure you aren’t really a woman trapped in a man’s body.
How can gay people be parents?
May 31, 2016 Tim
Because gay people buttfuck each other and help spread disease. Poop on your dick makes you more moral overall. And without gay people the AIDS virus would be an endangered species.
May 25, 2016 0bsoleteMan
I’d boycott but I never watched these silly comic book movies anyway.
Oddly enough I really can’t bring myself to get angry if Marvel were to do this… people would vote with their dollars and we’d find out quickly if this type of “superhero” movie is popular or not.
what about when they reissue other childhood favorites. Coming up next: Anus The Menace? Garfag? Daffy Cuck? He-Man, ok…well he was a total fag, but the rest of them.
That’s coming next… My kids won’t be seeing that shit either.
May 25, 2016 Krampus
The messed up thing about this is there IS a gay marvel character. He’s on Alpha Flight (the Canadian “Avengers”). Why don’t they just push for an Alpha Flight movie or Netflix series?
They wouldn’t be able to call it ALPHA Flight though.
Well there’s only one gay character but yeah.
They also recently retconned one of the X-men and had him come out of the closet. Maybe Iceman? I forget, because if it ain’t Batman, it’s fucking gay already.
They made a comic series where Wolverine was gay.
Terrible. Well, even less motivation to buy their stuff, personally.
Captain Sodomy and the Anal Avengers
What’s the point of that? He can’t catch AIDS.
Then they’ll decide that Captain America’s masculinity is oppressive, and reveal that he was also transgender the entire time too!
1 more reason not to see movies I think I’ll go for a hike this weekend and save $12.95
I don’t the full story but shit like this never ceases to amaze me when the one who starts a campaign like isn’t gay or a minority, but soon after gays and minorities or dragged in for more traction.
May 25, 2016 Bob Smith
We can fight back…yes we can…yes we can (click image below to expand).
May 25, 2016 A.W.E.S.O.M.-O
These movies are fucking BORING AS HELL anyways
One of the worst things the Internet has done is given radicals the ability to infiltrate and strong arm almost anything. The left always destroy things from the inside out.
It’s not surprise a lot of these SJW/Feminist movements really gained traction once everyone started regularly using the internet. Can anyone recall these sort of stupid issues before the internet?
Well this is the age of feelings, emotions, and armchair activism. The funny thing is that each time comic heroes become gay, they usually tank. There’s nothing that makes them interesting outside of being gay, and being gay isn’t interesting at all.
I think it’s about time that us like minded folk start creating our own entertainment and stop following the leftist degenerate drivle. I know it wI’ll be campy and super low budget but whatever it will be worth it.
The days of Russ Meyer, Roger Corman and Lloyd Kaufman (Troma) seem to be long gone.
I know some of the guys involved with http://www.crookedpictures.com/ who make some pretty sweet indie flicks. Check out the film Way Up North in the media section.
edit: here is the direct link: https://youtu.be/19hT-2Dkxco
How about some non screen based entertainment ? Like target shooting, craftwork, ciphers… Something, anything other an the fucking screen.
May 25, 2016 Ace FAce
Ok, then i want a REAL CAPTAIN AMERICA, the CAPTAIN CSA. Fuck off liberals!!!!
Uncle Ruckus would approve of that.
So he’s going to lose too?
I’m a southern boy, so I shouldn’t have laughed. I did though.
May 25, 2016 Lusitano
That’s for losers who listen to country music and put Browning stickers on their cars, while only being able to afford Maverick/KelTec. Mtn dew ad sweet tea need consumers though
May 25, 2016 Mark Fox
Apparently, communists don’t understand the true meaning of friendship.
They’re a lot like children, aren’t they?
“Oh you’re risking your life to save your childhood best friend? Captain and Bucky sitting in a tree…”
God forbid two guys who’ve known each other since childhood aren’t pumping each other’s rectums on the down low. Feminism is driving a lot of this nonsense, which further illustrates that women can’t grasp deeper forms of love, such as love for one’s brother. I don’t know a single woman who has anything beyond a surface level friendship with anyone else.
May 25, 2016 Last Redoubt
What is it with people who cannot see a deep love without adding sex to it?
May 25, 2016 Marshallaw
They need to pervert everything, especially male hetero friendship as it turns male bonding into a degenerate relationship.
May 25, 2016 Red Hood's Assault
This is a funny after product for a very simple unspoken fact, Western culture does not want straight men to have straight male friendships. If there is no vagina in between said males, the belief is that they are gay and should be treated as such. That means every unfortunate guy who has less than 45 encounters with women annually for sex, will be considered gay. Hang out too much with men? Gay. Have men you are mentoring under? Gay. Being raised in a house with an older brother? Unless older brother has women around you are both latent gays too.
None of these rules apply to women because they are already androgynous and treated as such. All the gender bender titles for them are just for show. With the criminalizing of male friendship and sexuality, of course the natural thing to do would be to have a stoic icon of manhood, truth, and fairness become gay, because gay men need as many lies as possible to not feel like the affronts to nature that they naturally know themselves to be.
Faggotry is a huge problem amongst us Millenials.
Sjw should go read manga. Not ragging on manga but the Japanese pretty much have everything they want and more, the only thing is that the Japanese aren’t pushing an agenda.
“Sjw should go read anime. Not ragging on anime but the Japanese pretty much have everything they want and more, the only thing is that Japanese aren’t pushing an agenda.”
this is true, there is literally an anime for everything and it is great. but SJW dont care about that. their plan was always to destroy america.
I’m still surprised at the genres of anime, manga, hentai etc that are out there.
i think we all are.
Once I came across a manga titled “My Balls” and from that point on, nothing surprised me about Japan.
May 27, 2016 joe
From what I heard manga writers do not bend over for and become sell outs. Even if it means living on mac and cheese they keep producing what they want to produce and ignore all the deals they can get for changing the direction of their work
May 26, 2016 QP
It’s not like they haven’t tried to bash Japan. But Japan told them to fuck off.
If I remember correctly, they went after Anime and the Japanese literally laughed in their face. Something along the lines of, if you don’t like it, don’t watch it.
Wish that would happen in the States.
Agreed. The only writer with balls is Frank Miller who did Sin City and The Dark Knight Returns. Then again, he’s been blacklisted from the major publishers in the past decade.
Dave Sims, creator of Cerebus, seems to have committed the sin of speaking the truth about female human nature. I remember reading about all the libtards in the comic industry trying to shame him.
Here’s an excerpt from “Tangent” where he speaks about what he’s learned about women: “a) women want to be raped by rich, muscular, handsome doctors b) women are completely self-absorbed and, thus, see themselves in everything around them and c) feminism is no different from communism in that all of its
literature is founded upon convoluted syntax, bafflegab and academic jargon
which paints a false (albeit attractive) picture of an unattainable utopia
which can be achieved – easily! – by everyone
in the world simply and simultaneously (in both feminist and communist literature
the “crux point” is invariable) changing their basic nature overnight.”
Overall it’s a pretty interesting read wherein he comes to his own conclusion, based on interviews with women and personal reflection, that feminism is bullshit. Here’s the link if anyone is interested: http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/tangents.html
The thing about manga is that in almost every case, it’s a single author (or a couple) who basically owns the story and characters. Unlike DC/Marvel who own the characters and pick writers to make stories about them. Shueisha can’t pick a writer to write a Naruto story, not without consulting its creator at least, which makes virtually impossible the use of a popular franchise to push an agenda.
May 27, 2016 Baldur Ás
I read that. What made it even better is that is was Japanese women that told them to fuck off.
Yep. When the women writers were telling them that, it made it much more sweeter.
May 26, 2016 AMD_Afficionado
Sadly, the SJW agenda has made significant inroads into the anime market as the increasingly-insular anime industry has started pandering to the “fujoshi”, gaying male characters up so that they purchase ’em.
Anime is also rife with beta male characters. The more alpha a male character is, the worse a show seems to do in the modern era.
May 26, 2016 thesteelguy
this is why berserk is still my fav manga. man there used to be some real manly shit back then.
Yaoi is really just soft gay porn with a bit of plot for women. The women who consume WAY too much of this stuff are generally shamed as outcasts and called ‘fujyoshi’ rotten girls in Japan. But yeah, no sjw agenda, nothing. Just plain horny chicks who want to see two dudes bone.
There’s a lot of ‘fujyoshi’ here in America. Then again I would be a hypocrite for saying that I haven’t seen or watch yuri/les porn.
Not a fan of yuri, too much ‘genuine’ female emotion directed at other women.
I’m a simply guy. Tits, ass, two chicks are better than one, mute button.
So, there’s a reason I never indulge in lesbian porn of any kind. Porn is fantasy wish fulfillment, in any scenario you’re putting yourself in the action in your mind. Who are you in the lesbian porn scene? The cameraman? The guy sneaking a peek through the window and beating his meat?
Keep in mind I’ve experienced it. If I do watch it, the guy having one girl ride him while eating the other out. Another thing to keep in mind, I would never trust a woman enough to eat pussy. I’ve seen too much on and offline.
The dude enjoyin’ hisself and not thinking too much into it, happy to be at the party- who are you to judge me ? So what I nutted on their faces.
Whatever rustles your jimmy’s Harold, just my 2 cents and a dude randomly running into the end of a lesbian porn shoot and blowing his load all over their faces and then promptly bailing would be fucking hilarious.
Is that the stuff south park made an episode about?
Word. There’s almost a pleasent arrogance in Japanese men towards any of the bullshit like what goes on here.
May 25, 2016 Anonuser37
Well Marvel already gave us a female Thor so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is their next step.
May 25, 2016 TheOnceAndFutureKing
its the male thor “transformed” into a female, plus he/she makes out with a guy
While I liked your comment it better not be. It worked for Thor because the concept of a God, the myth, is transferable so that is fair game. Only in the past the person imbued always became Thor, the male Norse God.
But Captain America? The bastion of honor, truth, and respectability a fag? What would the premise be? My pal Bucky and I need to express ourselves how we couldn’t in World War 2? Why is that Cap? Dodging bullets and defending the free world didn’t offer enough time to have the booty plundered. But he is the perfect target to attack; a blond hair, blue eyed, tall, fit, white guy.
May 25, 2016 Astral
Wouldn’t this also be totally inconsistent with the character as well? At the end of the first movie he was going on a date with some chick and then gets frozen for 60 years or something. I honestly don’t care if someone wants to tell a story with gay people, it does concern me when people want to adapt something purely for a SJW narrative.
It is appalling that art (and I use the term loosely for Marvel films) cannot be as the artist dictated, or true to source material that everyone has grown up with and wants to see portrayed, it needs to be infected with a political agenda. Although the bigger crime is that creators kowtow to the agenda.
This whole gay agenda is getting WAY the fuck out of hand. They are a bunch of crybullies.
May 26, 2016 Joe Shanley
I think Marvel probably won’t, because they do try to stay true to the characters and they would probably piss of more people than they would satisify, and lose money in the process
May 25, 2016 Plath
Their next step is making Captain America (Steve Rogers) a Nazi. I’m not even joking. This comic was released today. Steve Rogers has been in HYDRA this whole time apparently.
Arguably the pinnacle of honour, loyalty and what makes America (and by extension the western world) great is now a traitor.
If a character is a white, heterosexual, masculine male, prepare for them to be destroyed.
Fear not, the foreign ladies still devour that recipe gladly
May 26, 2016 SomeRandomFellow
I actually like this development
Feminists just stole your thunder
“If there is no vagina in between said males, the belief is that they are gay and should be treated as such.”
astute point
seriously….and even the red pill does this too. too much emphasis on getting pussy and not enough on building strong male relationships with one another. how many would turn down a piece of ass to hang out with the guys? i doubt few would say yes.
i cant count how many times conversations with young men devolve into sex jokes as if that is all they can converse about.
We tend to devolve into murder/suicide jokes or other dark territory.
May 26, 2016 boweja
I have only a small handful of solid male friendships. They have done more for me than any vagina. I want more male friends. As was said earlier, alone we’re pussy-begging worker bees, together we’re the patriarchy.
“I have only a small handful of solid male friendships.”
this is key….the wording SOLID MALE FRIENDSHIPS….the problem is most male friends I’ve had are unreliable beta fucktards and we circle jerk our beta mindsets chronically.
finding a quality male friend is pretty hard for reasons that are pretty apparent to any red piller.
Glad you said that. I have one male freind and we talk about everything. Another freind I’ll talk about most things. And the rest are business or everyday things.
Most guys are too Blue Pill, and by that I mean they’ve bought the whole package that society uses to keep us good consumers and domestics. Most topics can’t be serously discussed, because there’s a red light programmed in their heads to stop them from thinking rationally about anything not sanctioned by SJW though police.
and yeah that sounds about right really….you even have to be aware of the fake red piller….I’ve known a few so called conservatives for instance….”yeah government needs to be smaller, stop giving handouts to them niggers and illegals”(yes Im southern and whites here still in secret circles use the word nigger)….”Damn government won’t pay for my school and healthcare”….so you know a lot of fake red pillers too.
Thats basically where feminists want us at, alone and slaves to women
basically….cant recall who put it together….but their thesis was basically sometime starting in the 1950s and 1960s advertisements and such and as a result family and social circles began pushing the idea of “if I am about to get laid I don’t know you”…in other words ho’s before bros.
Totally. And the psychotic part is that once a man is isolated and with the woman, she torments him. While she always has groups of freinds, he is alone. And then she usually abuses him with issues stemming from her own decrepit childhood.
Same here. I have two male freinds and we discuss politics, philosophy, and personal development. Other male freinds I have are at a distance.
Women claim they want to do that with their men, but it’s a lie. When a man talks feelings and life-goals with a woman, she tucks it away in her war chest to use to manipulate the guy. The more sensitive a woman sees a man as, the more angery she becomes with him. They’re psychotic.
This started decades ago, when they used to have male only fraternities in neighborhoods. It was actually a sweet deal, as you could go have a beer and shoot the shit without your wife nagging you for whatever reason and if you had a problem you could get the proper financial advice or assistance with problems in the house. Thanks to politicians catering for the woman vote, they were all abolished in one fashion or another because no, we can’t have adult men gather without women.
May 26, 2016 Mister Alighieri
“we can’t have adult men gather without women.”
Because who would monitor us for “proper attitudes” and make sure we are only thinking of what we can to for a woman.
May 26, 2016 Gladius
Yep…Harvard shut down all male /female fraternal organizations because it promoted ________ fill in the blanks. Awful…
very true. I remember going to the movies with a friend, and a co worker of mine ran into us and made a joke implying were fags. Meanwhile, ive seen women share pics on social media of them kissing their female friends, but they never get any shame for it, people just brush it off as “girls just being girls”.
Were entering the Brave New World where androgyny is more hip than traditional gender roles. Women, for the most part, have been successfully initiated into this new world by ditching most of their feminine personality traits, and they are a lot more receptive to LGBT bullshit, even if they disagree with it, its just their nature to coddle or mother something, and they’re being emotionally manipulated to do so.
Women also don’t get shame the same way guys do, because most guys are still naturally grossed out from engaging in fag stuff, no matter how progressive they are. This is why we see this message you mentioned where any kind of natural male behaviour such as socialising with other males is deemed homosexual. Heck, even things like a man being physically fit or well dressed is considered a homosexual trait, how many times have you seen in shows or movies where the Hunky intelligent guy is a fag but all the straight guys are schlubs?
As long as youre educated, you will be immune from being shamed.
As long as you don’t give a fuck, you will be immuned from being shamed.
May 26, 2016 Ashley1414
like Leroy said I’m startled that you can earn $4935 in a few weeks on the computer . you can try this out https://www.facebook.com/Internet-jobs-for-all-1739727969607434/app/190322544333196/
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A trend started a awhile back and then stopped. . .Not giving a fuck. It’s definitely a cure-all, and would shake our economy’s foundations.
Basically, recognize that everything you’ve been brought up to uphold and live by is manufactured to keep a status quo, while the upper 25% and lower 25% of our society doesn’t play by the same rules.
Lie on job applications, get yourself a second social security number (legal, by the way!) and other stuff that’ll come to mind. Stop and look at rules that hold other people back and see what you can do without incurring real punishment or jail. And then go for it.
I see it as applying the Red Pill to life.
Don’t give a fuck.
May 26, 2016 englishbob
Indeed. No one will look at Charlie Sheen the same. He knew it, which is why he desperately fought to stop that video coming out, even though being a homo is now “acceptable”.
thats the great irony, the average blue pilled moron doesn’t see that whenever they try to shame someone into being a homo, they’re basically equating being a homo with something negative(which it is).
Do you think a guy would get offended if you said “Oh you’re not banging lots of women daily? I bet you’re probably straight and would enjoy it”, of course he wouldn’t, and bluepillers use shaming tactics because on a subconscious level they realize to an extent that they’re wrong.
Charlie Sheen is gay?
A video was released of him recently sucking dick. Gay? Don’t know. Mentally disturbed? Definitely.
Whoa. I hadn’t heard of that video. Ignorance was bliss, but thanks for mentioning hte video.
I’d like to think that Sheen contracted HIV from a “needle” that isn’t attached to a dude at the back end…
I’m pretty sure he took it in his back end…
I just assumed it was the incredible amount of street whores he was doing.
May 30, 2016 Myron
I heard it was a she-male.
!!! No freakin’ way! He was my hero!
Yes he was a lot of guys hero back in the day…
One must build an immunity to this
And imagine how many times the very same gay supporters like to try and shame men they dont like for being gay… if gay is a good thing to them then why do they use the gay label like it’s a bad thing? Deep down they know being a faggot makes you a loser but they wont admit tthat
Theyre part of the hear/say mafia, they just support any opinion that’s a trend
Women of any age can be groomed and seduced by lesbians. And it’s become the norm for women to sleep around with each other. Not so with men, and we can feel very comfortable hanging out one-on-one with each other.
What’s bullshit about men’s groups that have some women, like the Kof C and others, is that women spend all their time bashing the men who’re there. Like they need to criticize men who’re in groups.
And women use shaming as a way to control men. And it’s worked on guys for a long time. (See The Honeymooners reruns on t.v.). But you can be immune to it as soon as you stop giving a fuck about what people think of you, and accept yourself and your ideas as valid compared to what the media and females use to brainwash people with.
You are correct. Hence the tweet in the article that just shows Cap’t A and Ironman in the same clip at a normal talking distance, and they are implied to be gay lovers (“it looks like it’s about to happen anyway”).
And how all male-only spaces are shunned and removed and made illegal or forced to allow women. And why the ROK meetups were labeled pro-rape groups. There is an agenda to prevent male bonding. Males only have power when we work together. Divided, we are pussy-seeking worker bees. Together, we are patriarchy.
Someone posted a pic of Nazi officers in response to the Liz Peron HuffPo tweet- gasp, comparing them to Nazis! I wanted to respond, “No, that is what first-class efficiency & effectiveness looked like bishes.”
May 26, 2016 Colonel Gunter Brumm 2
Lets be clear.
Its simply to drag down Captain America, an archetypal white hero.
FYI- Heres a good take on Batman vs Superman
http://www.counter-currents.com/2016/05/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice/
Its going to happen anyway, despite the fact they despise each other. Maybe they think its a lovers’ tiff?
May 25, 2016 Jack - Jack
this is just one more way to destroy make spaces. the truth is this: groups of women hanging out are fucking boring. they want men around because deep down they now that they’re all vapid automatons and useless without men. so they shame us for not wanting them around.
Captain America is noble, loyal, trustworthy and doesn’t need a woman around. they want to make him gay so we don’t get any ideas.
Curious how groups of women get together, and when they know a man who they’re not able to draw in to their female gaming, and he’s not obviously beta or trying to chat them up, they call him gay. It’s like they NEED to to preserve their SMV self-image.
Always go back to when a woman tries to fuck a guy, and he’s not interested, she’ll always have psychotic anger and try to destroy him. Same thing with not being hit on by a guy; The ones that don’t must be gay. That’s how they rationalize things.
May 26, 2016 Frank Rook
Thank goodness The Shawshank Redemption was made at a time when this degeneracy wasn’t so rampant.
Hell they might as well make him gay. They’re making everyone else gay on TV. Keep doing it and watch TV viewing plummet. Maybe we need RoKTV?
May 26, 2016 skillet
Pretty profound
May 26, 2016 GoingSane
“thousands of people…” (sarcasm “Wow! That many! That’s a definite majority there!” Millenials sure suck at math).
Also, the fact that less than a percentile of the population can wield any kind of power whatsoever because apathy + nihilism + relativism + hipster = a terrible concoction of self-destructive cancer marking the other huge problem among Millenials.
May 26, 2016 consumateconsumer
I want to print this on Parchment and mail it out like wedding invitations to everyone I know. well put.
Every time my younger brother and I go out and do something, I have to constantly remind to keep his distance, because there are people who look at us, and inside I know that they are jumping to the wrong conclusion.
I hate life sometimes.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Marvel said ok. Someone in the BB comments pointed out that a Cap comic from a few years ago had him attacking Tea Party members.
Yes, and a new one has the Red Skull giving and anti-refugee speech.
Yeah maybe that was where I saw the comment. Hail Hydra, in any case.
okay I’ll agree….but only if wonder woman goes back to being a bondage star like she originally was.
Considering that Bucky was originally a high school kid, this would in turn make Captain America a pedo. Heh, good job idiots.
What’s even sadder is the fact that most movies these days are either politically correct garbage-fests full of SJW historical revision, or flat-out children’s fare – like comic book movies.
All part of the dumbing-down process, trying to keep us at curb level.
May 25, 2016 Thersites
These are not Marvel fan that are pushing for this so called ‘change’. A fan of Captain America would respect the character’s history and relationships. Bucky is the only person from his past that still alive and can relate to him as a man out of his time. This will not end well for the hashtag since anyone who watch these movies understand this character and his relationship with Bucky. There is saying that everything is political, I debate anything. Well here the end result of this saying to taken literal form. Everything must have political slant for me to enjoy it. There is no apolitical ground in which people can agree on or find piece from day to day life. The blacklash is coming, these fool are at ground zero.
Civil War grossed over $1 billion. Make Captain a queer, and the studio won’t make half that. Your move, Hollywood.
You’d think the sales of Thor would be a good indicator. But nope, they just have to keep trying to fix something that’s not broken.
Hopefully it won’t be long before they go under and real artists rise back up and give us stories that aren’t pushing an agenda.
That happened back in the 90’s actually. Image Comics was when the top artists at the time got together and collectively told Marvel and DC what to do with themselves. They still hold a share of the market and only some of it has transferred to another medium such as Witchblade and Spawn. It would be hilarious if it happened again.
See? That’s what I hate. Captain America in the new movies is this awesome God fearing throwback. He’s the best of old America. It’s amazing these movies got made, they are pretty right wing.
May 25, 2016 chill_mc
Why not just make him a woman? Not just a normal woman, but a male to female trans.
May 25, 2016 Terminus
If Marvel caves in to these morally and intellectually bankrupt morons and changes Captain America into a pole vaulting chocolate thief, I’ll never watch another Marvel comis film again, or buy any of their products ever again.
Seriously, these SJWs need to just fuck off and die already. There will never be enough Wheaties on this planet for them to shit in and be satisfied. Really wish good old natural selection would hurry the hell up and cull the shallow SJW end of the gene pool.
May 25, 2016 Anonymous
More proof liberals suck
May 25, 2016 Kane
Cock – liberals suck cock; and now they want everyone else to as well
May 25, 2016 Mineter
They need to introduce a Jenneresque type character. Only then might the physical strength of such a, ah, “female” character be semi-believable. And the Cap could claim some sort of ambiguous deniability when he starts hammering chocolate.
They need to create Captain Hermaphrodite.
May 25, 2016 Rainvainz
Where is my Gay Fish Batman?! Gay Fish Blackman?
May 25, 2016 michaelmobius1
Now if captain sweden and captain america meet and fall in love, they’ll still have to wrestle each other to decide who’s the bottom and who’s the top. Obviously they’ll both want to be the bottom. But if so when they fight, who will end up on top, given that top is bottom and bottom is top?
Arse fucking: it makes my head hurt.
May 25, 2016 Jim Johnson
Try not to think about it……unless that is your thing.
yeah, its my thing. I hang out at ROK because I’m bored of Grinder
just messin with ya
Why??? What The Hell would this do to advance and benefit the narrative and the character whatsoever??????? Twitter jockeys and clicktivists need to shower in some Zyklon-B to get their foul stench off of them and spare us all the misery!
They’ve straight-up runied comic books, video games and Star Wars to the point where they are now so insufferable I’m ashamed to admit I ever like them at all! Seems like the only “safe space” I even have anymore is heavy metal, and they even tried getting their claws into that! Thankfully most of the actual good stuff is too deeply underground amongst several cultures that they can barely even begin to scratch the surface of it!
May 25, 2016 Clark Kent
If Captain America is gay, then Michelle Obama is a man.
and if captain america is straight michelle obama is still a man.
May 25, 2016 BlueEyedDevil
Damn… so Capt America IS gay….
If Michelle Obama is a man, I have a lot of bets to collect on.
Why can’t gays make gay stuff and market it to other gays. I do not want to read about that shit. I want to read about non-queers like me.
May 25, 2016 Burning Hammer-God of Hellfire
Because they are an ideology of jealousy and destructiveness and see it fit to bastardise things to satiate their eggshell thin egos.
May 26, 2016 rockfish153
I would agree with you except for one semantic aspect. Their ideology (as all marxism is) is predicated on envy, not jealousy.
Jealousy is wanting what someone has. While jealousy can have negative consequences, they can have positive consequences. For instance, I see a guy driving a bad ass car that I dint have and I want one. I am jealous. I could go and steal it, from him or another just like it or I could work hard, save up and buy one for myself.
Envy only has negative consequences. Envy is the feeling of someone having something that another person wants, and instead of wanting it for themselves, they are only concerned with them NOT having it.
That is why the Marxist religions are so destructive. They are predicated the “have nots” DESTROYING the “haves” instead of BECOMING one of the “haves.”
Jealousy is ok, but envy is destructive.
You make a good point on a semantic level-I feel that jealousy also has a negative connotation to it and prefer to be more aspirational-so in the instance of seeing someone with a hot girl on his arm I aspire to have such instead of being jealous in begrudging them or wanting to take that away from them. I feel jealousy and envy have that inherent ugliness of wanting to take away something to but that is my perception of the words.
May 25, 2016 Norman Kluksdahl
Because their immature, juvenile, spoiled-brat minds can’t be ‘gracious winner’ after they got their gay marriage. Now they have to rub it in our face and embark on a new crusade to destroy the moral fabric and foundations (masculinity, femininity, family, religion) of our country.
Because every single thing they achieve is a surprise to them. They have never expected success and now its all they expect. They went from hopeless to entitled. Both of which requires zero couth.
May 25, 2016 Better Dead Than Red
“non-queer”? Why are you using their language? I am NORMAL, not “non-queer”.
May 25, 2016 Dolan Duk
About as great of an idea as making deadpool straight edge.
It’s just another case of the libs and SJWs being immature poor winners. They got their gay marriage by subverting the courts; did that satisfy them? No, they’re wanting REVENGE, not equality. They won’t stand still if the get a law or ruling against them – instead, they double-down and fight harder until they get their way, like a 2-year-old having a fit. They want to make anyone who has normal moral values squirm and suffer and, God help them if they do or say something about traditional values in public, be persecuted, arrested, and harassed. They want to destroy anyone with a traditional opinion, and their tools include brainwashing kids in schools and brainwashing people in pop culture and media. If one were to judge the population by TV sexuality (actors, newsreaders, entertainers, and characters), one would believe the country was about 20% gay instead of 2%. Most of us don’t give a damn what they do in private, but they insist on dragging it out in public to cry victim of something imaginary and make us uncomfortable, and when they win, to flout it in front of us as they prepare the next assault on moral values.
And people wonder why the social fabric is collapsing so quickly? Because these idiot SJWs have no clue about history or social culture or what they’re driving the Western Civ towards.
May 25, 2016 RationaliseThis
They can’t be argued against, they can only be destroyed.
They cant form a single rational thought. This shift to everything being geared towards SJWs and LGBTQ is being done from over their heads and they have no mind to compromise because they have zero ambition to have to do the work it would take to try to be reasonable. Hence their solution is to completely destroy us so they can laze around in the chaos. MEN have ambition, Females have desires. They just want to sit around and day dream. Quickest way to seemingly get to that is to “defeat” us. They have no idea what they are in for. smh
Superman was a Jewish creation, developed by Siegel and Shuster designed for propaganda to begin with. In one comic superman lifts Stalin and Hitler before the League of Nations. As a result Dr Joseph Goebels Quiped that Superman looked Jewish (he was) so Siegel and Shuster invented the gharishly US Flag be-draped. “captain America” so to show him fighting the evil Nazi even before the war began. It was to ratchet up war feelings.
Who knows what they’ll do with him next. Encouraging faggotry is pretty much Hollywood mainstream depravity, that’s probably the propaganda they want.
I wouldn’t be suprise do if the have him having man boy sex one day when Hollywood starts promoting the paedophile agenda. Faggotry and Paedophilia, wrapped in the Stars and Stripes.
May 25, 2016 Corkscrewcaptain
I’m somewhat inclined to say Who The Fuck Cares?
I somehow think if we focus on this bullshit every time we are playing into their schemes and much more important things lack the attention that would make a difference.
How about we fix the other shit fist and fix having freaks of the kind we don’t support in comics with fucking mutants and freaks anyway, Ok? That would just be great.
May 26, 2016 DFCtomm
That’s how they won to start with. Main stream society let them dig themselves into education, and entertainment, and thought they couldn’t do any harm there. The real fight has always been the culture, and not “important things” like legislation.
May 25, 2016 Michael McLaughlin
And now Cap has been ret-conned into a Nazi. 🙁
Don’t pay any attention to the comics. They lose money, it’s the movies and mechanizing that makes bank. They’ve given the comics to SJW in the hopes to incubate some usable material for the movies, but do expect every depravity under the sun to take place there, but thankfully fewer and fewer ever see it.
Plus the real money (after comic books) is t-shirts, lunchboxes, pajamas, toys, Lego licenses, etc…and these are registered trademarks, meaning Marvel loses that money if they permanently FUBAR their characters…but it still pisses me off.
but they won’t FUBAR their characters because nobody reads the comics, anymore. That’s why Capt America is black and Thor is female, and they are thinking about making Spider-man Hispanic
May 25, 2016 CK
Don’t these leftist losers have anything better to do in their miserable lives?
In a word-No.
May 25, 2016 Larsen Halleck
The ironic thing is, there already has been a Captain America story where he defends a gay man from prejudice, and that was back in the 80s.
I have no problem with that at all, but to change a character who’s been straight for 75 years is just the epitome of stupid virtue signaling.
Also, Captain America is sort of the de facto moral compass of the Marvel Universe. If you make him gay, that smacks of blatantly saying “Gay people are morally superior to straight people.”
So some quick knee-search (trademark) shows that a lot of this is probably a response to DC Comics making one of the green lanterns a fag.
It is funny because of all the different green lanterns they fagged up the original one, Allan Scott. He was the green lantern in the 40’s and so he had decades of being heterosexual as well as a fucking wife to retcon.
What makes this funny is that the green lantern’s weakness to the color yellow didn’t become a thing until the 60’s. The original thing that was green lantern’s weakness was wood. So not only did he over come decades of hetero and a wife, but also he had to get over his life long avoidance of wood.
May 25, 2016 advancedatheist
You said “wood.”
May 25, 2016 Average Guy
God, I really don’t understand this shit. I don’t understand the need for it, really. This was discussed on the RV forum yesterday in further detail: https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-56001.html The article quoted mentions the following:
“The major push for an LGBT character stems from a recent GLAAD report
that discovered Disney has the weakest historical record for
LGBT-inclusive films.
‘In 2015, Walt Disney Studios released 11 films, of which 0 included
appearances by LGBT people, amounting to 0%,’ the report read.”
Which basically implies: “Oh no guys, better start reaching your inclusion quota! We’re gonna bring out the pitchforks and the mobs! Why haven’t you totally succumbed to our agenda yet, Disney? You have 5 seconds to drop and do what I say, or else we’ll boycott you and you won’t make a profit, and we don’t want that, do we?”
There’s more pressing social issues Twitter activists could be focusing on, but I guess those just aren’t as trendy as messing around with a timeless comic book icon as they please.
Making Cap gay would ruin the ‘bucky’s my best friend’ subplot. I’m not a huge Cap fan. He’s a boyscout, he went from weed to wonderman without even lifting, His decisions are usually noble, but silly, just not my kind of dude. But the undying friendship and loyalty he has to Bucky, the platonic friendship is just something we don’t see in western entertainment that much anymore. And to turn around and be, oh wait nvm guys, cap just wanted to fudgepack that sweet cyborg ass this whole time shits all over that, fuck that.
May 25, 2016 League of Shadows
We need to create our own comic universe and reverse the cultural appropriation of straight white heroes.
We’ll call it Shitlord comics. Our first comic; The Amazing Cunt Puncher!
And his sidekick, Fag Stomper!
May 25, 2016 porcer34
I don’t know.. wouldn’t people just refer to him as ‘Fag’ for short?
Maybe if he is from France, he could be Attaquer de Gai, which shortened would be Attaquer or even Atta. Although, I don’t really speak or know much French at all, so I could have just named him ‘I enjoy being molested by gays’. Suggest this waits until one of our French friends chimes in and approves.
Got to be careful when naming
May 26, 2016 Monsieur de Charette
Le ratatineur de tapettes.
Also known as Ratatinator, or Rata, or Ratatouille.
May 25, 2016 Tooj
I have an affinity for something similar: The Cunt Punisher.
Don’t worry jimmy, I will punch that SJW right in he cunt!
You’re my hero Cunt Puncher!
May 26, 2016 Chuck Fickens
I’d definitely be up for that! I nominate “Barrence” as the name of the main character.
Frankly it would make more sense to radicalize Captain America as an Alt-Right leader who wants to restore the kind of 90 percent white and functional America he knew before he went into cryo.
As for his implied adult virginity, in the 1940’s that wouldn’t have stigmatized him. He could claim he did the MGTOW thing decades before it became necessary for men’s protection in a degenerate feminist society.
Turning Frozen into Lezzen sounds like a horrible business strategy on Disney’s part. Girls have a more plastic sexuality than boys’, and surveys show that exclusive heterosexuality among women has actually declined in recent years, whereas boys show resistance to gay propaganda.
Disney’s business model requires a society where families produce children and then have the money to spend on Disney’s products and experiences for these children. If Disney decides to promote lesbianism to girls, and more girls decide to swing that way during their most fertile years, then that will contribute to drying up the supply of Disney’s future customers.
So you wonder who gets the final say in Disney’s plans – the stockholders, or the degenerates who currently run the company? The stockholders, if they acted rationally, would flush out the degenerates and replace them with people willing to promote traditional sexual morality.
May 25, 2016 Untergang07
You forget that for the elites, money is not the end but mean to achieve their ultimate purpose…
May 27, 2016 J. Amber
It would make no sense because Elsa has a huge following based on she’s the first Disney princess without an interest in boys. The boys part isn’t important, the reason it stands out is she’s the first princess not to have a story revolving around a romantic interest.
She’s a character that lets children be children. They don’t have to relate her to adult concepts like love and sex. For older middle school girls, she’s a role model that says. “It is okay you don’t have a boyfriend yet, you don’t need one to be happy.” It’s refreshing once one thinks how girl’s television shows get them thinking about sex at a young age and places on a pedestal having a boyfriend, lover, sex partner, whatever you call it as soon as possible at the expense of bad choices.
Giving her a girlfriend or boyfriend would destroy all that.
May 25, 2016 Jack Redrum
All this is being done to validate the life choices and perverse sexual habits of mentally ill people (those who are gay/LGBT/*insert special snowflake orientation here.*)
Undoubtedly, Disney/Marvel, being a spineless bastion and champion of all that is wrong in society, will cave in a media blitz of “brave,” blatant virtue signaling.
Looking at it from a simple Screenwriting 101 perspective, it would be stupid.
Just because you can have a character make an 11th hour personality/sexual orientation change, should you?
After Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk movie, the whole series became repetitive and gimmicky, no matter how much the critics have lavished praise upon it.
However, even by the standards of ridiculousness of the Marvel movie franchise, it would strike a very sour and odd note with anyone who has followed the movies.
It would also be a slap in the face to the primarily male (and presumably straight) audience who go see the movies because they prefer them to the sappy, pussy-pedestalizing rom coms and other more blatant propaganda pieces that are being pushed.
If Disney would rather risk a large decrease in future box office receipts from this overlong, bloated franchise for the sake of a few SJW brownie points, I would not be surprised at all.
But then again, I don’t care. I almost exclusively watch movies made before 1990 anyway and I have thousands more to watch anyway…..
Have you looked closely at Stan Lee? He usually has that “just fucked the neighbors cat” look
May 26, 2016 jz95
To be fair, the man is 93 years old.
May 25, 2016 BlutoTheDelta
Can’t these Damn LBGTQ make their own superheroes?
Here’s an idea: ASSteroid Man, wears a suit made of prophylactic rubber to protect him from the arch enemy”Aids.”
Ass-Steroid man. Good one!
May 25, 2016 Luke Stranahan
Wasn’t that Howard Stern?
The wisdom of not letting women vote or drive just shines more in my thoughts daily. Stupid fucks should not have a say in matters larger than themselves.
May 25, 2016 TS
So the contempt for gays outweighs the contempt for betas who fixate on comic characters, good to know
I think so. I don’t care if you like comics, if you fixate, that’s a problem, but it’s your problem. I don’t have a problem with people being gay, but they need to be gay off by themselves and quit trying to gay up society. Society is straight; they are not; know your place.
This is the same reason Ghostbusters remake with the women is so derided. Leave our shit alone. Gay up, lez up, or women up your own shit. Can’t make any? Then shut up or get creative, but quit trying to get legitimacy by infecting our culture with your gayness.
May 26, 2016 Lapochka
At least betas are not deviants, so yes, they are less worthy of contempt than Sodomites – and those destroyers of western society who try to defend them.
May 25, 2016 Donovan Sharpe
This is laugh out loud funny……
I’d laugh if it were an article in “The Onion”, but sadly it isn’t.
May 25, 2016 TheLoneWolf
http://screenrant.com/james-bond-gillian-anderson/?utm_source=SR-FB-P
According to this recent article there’s even a widespread push to make James Bond a woman now. If it’s actually taken seriously by the company or by the Broccoli family, I think I’ll lose some faith in humanity.
Actually a female assassin, or spy movie would be amazing, if it were done correctly. I don’t mean have a female version of the Terminator. I mean an assassin or spy portrayed accurately. A woman living by her wits and cunning alone, using sex and manipulation to get her way.
May 26, 2016 NJRob
never saw it.
THIS matters?
May 25, 2016 Mark
One of the most despicable things the left has done is abolish the idea of real friendship between men.
May 26, 2016 Jios
The great Russian film director Sokurov has referred to the tendency to read ‘homoerotic’ subtext in any creative medium that depicts closeness between men as a ‘Western perversion’, and he especially hates it being read into his own films. He is completely right about that.
At its worst it’s simply a form of ridicule that alienates men from each other, which is bad of course because modern men already feel alienated enough.
May 26, 2016 Fokker TISM
Very soon, slash fiction will be made official.
I am not googling this. I assume it is really horrible
He can’t be gay now he seems to be a Nazi spy anyway. Could you imagine them portraying an evil gay?
Pink swastika all the way. He could be hitlers butt buddy.
Superheroes used to fight queer Nazis, now they blow them
May 26, 2016 R T
Gddammit! Can’t you fags leave some things alone! Go get your own Captain Rectum! Let us be!
May 26, 2016 Raptus
The faggots might be on their podium now, but their ‘freedom’ is only a blip in the continuum of an elitist agenda for the past 2000 years, they are nothing to their masters, just tools. They will get their justice and judgment for defying nature and humanity.
May 26, 2016 Neo Fascist
Liberalism is entirely a mental illness at this rate. Also;
https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/e/e3/Liberalheadsand.png
Always was brother
why does the left have to degenerate everything like that? i thought civil war was good because while purportedly it was about one party arguing for checks and balances to limit tyranny [iron man], versus one party arguing that red tape and control by the UN would stop any way of countering evil in the world [cap], it kind of CIVIL WAR SPOILERS
came down a question of loyalty between men, and do you favour your friend, a fellow veteran who had fought alongside you, grown up with you and had been brainwashed into doing some horrendous things [by communists] and now had fallen on hard times. Or do you favour your silicon valley champagne fascist, a guy with a God complex who is new money and thinks the world is more about cooperation with your enemies than fighting between right and wrong.
It’s an interesting dichotomy because there is no right answer. Some silicon billionaires know when to play the right card [peter thiel in his help to destroy gawker] and some use it to push their own agenda [zuckerberg with his embarassing efforts to own the internet in india or censor conservative content on facebook].
I think those questions made it a smart film. But then these SJWs never stop pushing, first the petition for james bond to be gillian anderson is embarassing and pathetic, and now they want to make Cap, the symbol of America, patriotism, freedom and fighting the good fight a degenerate himself? fucking despicable
Yea actually they downgraded the women to more of a supporting roll to the men in this chapter and it was good. This call for Cap to be Gay is a direct reflection of the latest installment going slightly towards the right. Yea of course if you analyze it there are progressive agendas blah blah blah, but it was pretty testosterone heavy with the women playing bit parts compared to past Marvel movies. The SJWs and Gays did NOT like that and if you read the few bad reviews of the movie they are mostly by very effeminate writers or women.
Also I must say, sidebar, that Spiderman was the most accurate to the comic he has ever been.
Indeed, a bit of an aside but you should check out Jon bernthals performance as punisher in daredevil season 2. The rest of the show was weak, but his character was just amazing. The way Matt murdochs main squeeze gets wrapped up by Frank castle is fascinating and a classic case of women wanting to tame or fix the bad boy even when he’s doing bad things. (this is not in any way a spoiler)
Such a great movie
May 26, 2016 BlindJustice
Who gives a crap
May 26, 2016 positron1
obviously, i’m opposed to this.
Disney is a leftist sewer, but they love money above all else. No worries. It’s never going to happen, but I have to admit that I would enjoy a nice helping of schadenfreude if they destroyed the shiny toys they bought.
May 26, 2016 Pre-Mortem
No one has mentioned how bad these Marvel movies are.
Everytime i (i try to) watch a new Marvel i feel like i’m being fed the same recycled superhero crap that comes out 3 times a year.
In terms of message there is no more liberal, establishment or “progressive” than this franchise.
Captain America = Killing the eternal nazis with the help of a hot dominant woman, a friendly black guy and the full support of a benevolant and moral government.
And this simplistic view of Good vs Evil. If i was in a comic book i would actually choose to fight with the bad guys against these marvel progressive justice warriors.
+ Captain America sounds as ridiculous as Colonel Canada or Commander Costa Rica.
By all means put a gay guy as the main characrter while your at it and sink this franchise once and for all. It sucks!
You want action watch TV show Vikings instead. Good writing, smart action and these guys actually existed.
May 26, 2016 Nevsky
Im aftaid only a war will cleanse the faggotry and faggots. Comfort produces weak men
May 26, 2016 Jim
I have loved every single one of these movies, and mostly don’t care about Disney/whatever changing stuff around to accommodate internet whiners.
That being said, if they make Captain America gay they’re fucking up a pretty big part of my childhood, and I will never watch a Marvel movie again.
May 26, 2016 SilverCristo
How about they create a character unique to the gay community as opposed to changing an already established one?
May 26, 2016 La'darell Luthor
No one would watch it.
Perhaps. But I don’t agree with changing established characters in any genre to fit a narrative. If it means so much to someone, create your own voice and have a go at it! If DC or Marvel see potential, they’ll print it I reckon. That’s how we evolve and create great works of art! Taking – or stealing – a character is just copying really.
I don’t agree with it either. Just stating a fact. And SJWs know it. It’s why they try to latch on to successful franchises.
May 26, 2016 Pyrolon
Maybe he is gay, he sure dresses funny. No one would know, since he is under “don’t ask don’t tell”.
I thought of Captain America as basically unwatchable. Too many comics they are dredging up the worst of the lot. I’d like to see the wonder twins though.
The vast heterosexual majority isn’t going to identify with gay characters, especially when it is grafted onto an existing story. Sort of like black Hermione Granger. If political correctness trumps entertainment you’ll have a losing movie/franchise.
May 26, 2016 ng85
The fact that most comics and movies have to resort to turning pre-established characters gay or change their race or gender proves to me that there’s actually no real demand for gay/minority/female characters. This is why the Ghostbusters movies is getting so much hate, it’s an unnecessary reboot that’s just shoehorning in diversity for the sake of diversity. Why else is it that any time they come up with a character who’s black/gay/female/trans/handicapped, etc. it usually does poorly, no matter the quality of the actual work itself? Hell, Wonder Woman, the most famous female superhero, has had her books selling below cancellation levels at various points for DECADES at DC, yet they have to pump out a certain number per year or else they lose the rights to her. The free market has spoken – No matter how much SJWs whine that there needs to be more diversity in comics, when it’s finally implemented no one wants it.
May 26, 2016 Albert Sautter
Apologies if this one has already been posted
You ever notice how many women are quick to judge two really close male friends as being gay? I’ve had this my entire life – If I couldn’t see a girl because I was hanging out with my best friend she’d wonder if he and I were gonna make out or fuck. Really weird. I can’t help but think it’s some kind of bizarre projection. Or maybe it’s because female friendships are usually very shallow and filled with drama and lacking in loyalty, so they can’t understand how 2 guys can have such a true bond without any sense of drama or bullshit.
Real Captain America fans don’t want this. Just look at all the negative comments on Facebook. Even many gay fans don’t want this. It’s the hyper-vocal, degenerate sjw Tumblr crowd screaming for it to happen. The same goes for Star Wars and Frozen.
When I was a kid watching super heros, I pretend to be like one of them. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, or the Hulk. Even my childhood friends did the same thing.
Now if they paint these heros to be gay, I hope NO boys watch these and tries to mimic these characters.
Edit: These movies should not be rated PG-13 or PG. It should also have warnings.
May 26, 2016 BEE-GOAT-TREE
You guys will love the channel “Common Filth” on youtube. He absolutely shits on degenerates and their retard enablers.
May 26, 2016 Rebel Yell
Classic liberal tactic. Destroy white male heroes and make them faggots. They’re just rubbing our noses in it.
May 26, 2016 Rumpelstiltskin
You guys are being conspiracy theorists. There is no gay agenda. Just because everything is becoming ghey a.f. doesn’t mean anything. Right? Soon enough it’ll be a world where if you’re not gay, you’re the real faggot. Brb while I jump off this flat Earth screaming.
May 28, 2016 Brad Senior Richardson
There is nothing gay about taking three cocks inside your mouth, sucking them like they were ice crean and taking a couple in your ass. As long as you say no homo everything you do afterwards isn’t homo at all.
May 26, 2016 Lambo Cala
May 27, 2016 Shmalkandik
In Ancient Greece – especially Thebes – it was simply assumed Heracles and his armor bearer Ioalas were romantically involved. There was an altar in Thebes dedicated to Heracles and Iolas, at which men would swear eternal friendship. But, of course, Heracles was not queer – he married and had children. Same was true for every member of Thebe’s Sacred Band, a military unit composed of these pairs, and it was considered to be the best in all of Greece. At Charonea, where Phillip destroyed the last of Greek democracy, they fought and died to a man defending their country.
So what is going on here is obviously some thing different. This contemporary movement is about denigrating patriotism and what used to be called “manliness”.
May 27, 2016 Tyne
These tweets are from pro-lgbtq young adults who ship two characters. It’s stupid and I’d be disappointed if Marvel went that route. Stick to your comic lore, not a bunch of teenagers who write fan fictions about two grown men together. Don’t go down that route Marvel.
Same with the Frozen thing. Not every powerful female character has to be lesbian or something like that. She doesn’t even need a partner. Little kids honestly don’t care. The only people who care are Tumblr warriors who get triggered by termites.
May 27, 2016 DukeAJuke ✓σοφός
Fake news. Nothing to see here…
This is beyond stupid. I still wonder why people ship males all the time when there is literally no romance between them. For some desperate,crazy and weirdass people ANY INTERACTIONS between two people could suddenly be sexual.
Yeah of course fucking Captain America found out HIS BEST FRIEND FROM A LONG GONE ERA is still alive, OF COURSE SUDDENLY HE’S SUPER GAY FOR HIM. What the fuck… It’s like someone lost his cat and thought the cat died but then it came back and suddenly you love him. What the fuck.
May 28, 2016 theDiscreteOne
Never underestimate the delusions of fangirls.
May 28, 2016 Neptus 9
About 2% of people are gay. Once 2% of superheroes are that should be it.
Tell them where to stick it — they’ll enjoy doing that.
Our culture doesn’t want alpha males. Vested interests run things and they don’t like competition or new concepts rocking the boat. Alpha women are accepted because they’re marketed to control all the other women.
Take business: A corporation will get sick and hire an outside consultant. But the orgainzation of the company hates those guys because they’re basically an alpha guy coming in and ordering them to do things that they don’t normally do. Entrepreneurs aren’t wanted because they change market share from the standard interests. Creators, (Microsoft and Apple for instance) are brought in for new blood when other markets are exhausted of capital-making options.
So make everybody gay. That’s the way to have a tight group of consumers who won’t come up with any ideas or rock the boat. Emasculate society.
May 30, 2016 Brazilian Slaughter
Hail Hydra!
June 1, 2016 ZzXx
And I thought the video game industry was bad… the comics industry is so filled with manginas you can smell their single mothers’ milk when they talk.
December 3, 2016 tout venant
I’m all for an arab captain america, a transgender white Black Panther, An lesbian asian Storm, a gay jewish RedSkull, and a white supremacist Luke Cage.
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Liberal Stupidly: NYU apologizes for so-called racially insensitive menu for Black History Month meal; workers fired
Every damn year somewhere in this country during Black history month this same story pops up.
And it so stupid and so unjustified. There's nothing racially insensitive about having macaroni and cheese, collard greens, watermelon flavored water, and fried chicken on the menu. It's the food we eat! And people get fired over this? It's a stupid non-issue to get attention. That's all it is.
PIX 11 reports a racially insensitive menu for a Black History Month meal at New York University has led to a company apology and workers being fired.
According to The New York Times , NYU President Andrew Hamilton says it was "inexcusably insensitive" for a food service company to feature barbecued ribs, corn bread, collard greens, and beverages with racist connotations: Kool-Aid and watermelon-flavored water.
Sophomore Nia Harris, who's black, says the head cook dismissed her objections and told her that black employees planned the menu. Aramark says it has fired two workers and is retraining its NYU employees.
It issued an apology to the entire NYU community and "communities everywhere" for the employees' "insensitive and offensive actions."
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Here’s Johnny! A Conversation With Carson Entertainment Group About Licensing Through Digital Media Hub
Carson Entertainment Group (CEG), the television licensing company established by Johnny Carson in 1981 to control the rights to “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” recently launched a Digital Media Hub to archive and license clips from the show’s 30-year history. The entire Carson Library of television has been painstakingly cataloged, transcribed, and synced to timecodes to display in an online, searchable platform. All episodes recorded from 1962 through 1992 are available for licensing through CEG.
We talked with CEG’s Jeff Sotzing (president) and Jonathan Sotzing (sales and marketing) about how Digital Media Hub will bring the company’s licensing operation into the here and now. Robin Melhuish, Veritone’s Director of Customer Solutions, worked closely with CEG on the project and joined us for the conversation.
Link to the interview: Here’s Johnny! A Conversation With Carson Entertainment Group About Licensing Through Digital Media Hub
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Robert F. McDonnell Accepts GOP Nomination for Virginia Governor
Virginia GOP Picks Nominees at Convention
Virginia's Republicans greeted Bob McDonnell as their official nominee on Saturday, and also selected Pat Mullins to run the party, officially moving past the turbulent chairmanship of Prince William County State Del. Jeff Frederick.
» LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
By Anita Kumar
Washington Post Staff Writer
RICHMOND, May 30 -- Robert F. McDonnell officially accepted the Republican nomination for governor Saturday and lodged his most aggressive attacks to date against Democrats, accusing them of opposing new energy sources that would create much-needed jobs.
"On energy, our opponents will say no to offshore drilling, no to clean coal, no to nuclear and no to the new jobs and investment that come with it," McDonnell said. "When it comes to promoting energy independence, they'll just say no, we'll just say yes!"
McDonnell, 54, a former legislator and the state's attorney general until earlier this year, was greeted with extended applause from a boisterous crowd of more than 10,000 Republicans from across the state. Despite lingering ideological divisions in their party, they came to Richmond to unite around the candidate they hope can help them reverse years of political losses.
"Go, Bob, go!" they chanted as they waved signs.
The closely watched race, one of only two statewide contests in the nation this year, is seen by some as the first sign of whether Republicans can start winning key elections again. It has attracted millions of dollars in national money and a slew of surrogates.
"His candidacy is part of a Republican renaissance that starts this year in Virginia," said Michael S. Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee. "It is going to be a tough fight, but we are well positioned for victory in November."
McDonnell and his newly selected running mates, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli II (R-Fairfax), the attorney general nominee, will embark on a six-city fly-around of the state Monday to coincide with a new TV ad blitz.
"It's okay to be disappointed about elections we've lost . . . but it's not okay to be discouraged," Bolling said. "We're more optimistic than we've ever been about our chances of winning these elections in November."
Levar Stoney, executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia, quickly proclaimed the three as "the most divisive ticket in modern Virginia history."
"The 2009 Republican ticket is a winner for far right-wing ideologues who block progress in Richmond," Stoney said.
Pat Mullins, a longtime Fairfax County GOP leader, defeated Bill Stanley, the Franklin County party chairman, to succeed ousted GOP chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick of Prince William County. The conflict over leadership has divided the party for months, but Saturday many supporters of Stanley and Frederick pledged to come together to support McDonnell.
"Let's go forward from here," said Howie Lind, a Loudoun County delegate who supported Frederick and Stanley.
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Hollow World Book 4 Chapter 17
Zach kept pulling his trigger, despite the clicking sound it was making, as he tried to clear the Others from where they encroached upon the gate. Sarah stood next to him, a pistol in either hand, firing into the crowd as well.
Zach started to brandish his rifle like a club, keeping his foes at bay as more of his companions tried to push the gate back shut. Inch by inch they pushed them outwards, until they surged forward as their reinforcements joined them out beyond the wall. He continued to swing, connecting with the head of a man in front of him who crumpled to the ground only to be replaced by another, who quickly turned his back on Zach. He took advantage of whatever the distraction was and lifted the rifle overhead, bringing it down hard atop the man’s skull, sending a bone numbing reverberation up both of his arms.
Another man, also facing the wrong direction, stepped back toward Zach as Sarah pushed in front to get a clubbing blow of her own in, knocking him down. Zach took a step backwards himself, pulling Sarah with him as the group of Others surged again, this time splitting down the center as a group of faintly glowing warriors, the lead, a man wearing a black leather jacket with a Gargoyle upon its back, pushed through. The glowing men turned and continued to attack the Others, and after he realized what was happening, Zach and then his companions joined in.
It was over. Once the defenders had realized that they were not facing a larger foe, but instead had reinforcements of their own, they had rallied and managed to put down every last one of the attackers. A few men were going through the bodies upon the battlefield and killing any of the Others they found alive, or carrying any of their fallen companions, alive or dead, to a spot within the walls. They gave the Pennyman, who was slowly making his way to the wall, body by body, a wide berth.
Zach heard the rumors, of the hundred and fifty men that had stood beside him upon the wall, only sixty remained alive. One of them was calling for the survivors to rush to the aid of the southern wall, and Zach had to agree.
He had joined the group collecting ammunition and weapons when he felt a hand upon his arm.
“You are one of the ones He has marked.” Davey Boy said, the white light hurting Zach’s eyes. “You, and her,” Davey Boy added, pointing to Sarah.
“The burning man, Graham, Tartarus. He has many names, but he shall die only one death.” Davey Boy said, brandishing a long curved blade, “And it will be at my hands,” He added.
“Who are you guys,” Sarah asked, walking up. “I mean thanks.” She smiled.
“You are welcome Sarah,” Said a man with blonde, almost white, hair down to his shoulders, who had just walked up beside them.
Davey Boy nodded and bowed his head before the new arrival.
“Be about it, I will answer their questions.”
“Yes sir,” Davey Boy said, and then nodded at both Zach and Sarah, before calling for his soldiers and rushing off to join the fighting elsewhere.
“You can call me Acmon,” Said the blonde, “And they are my army, the Warriors of the Light.”
“I’m sorry, Acmon, I’m not sure I get it, why are you helping us?” Zach asked.
“I like to think of it as more trying to stop my uncle from winning his war.”
“You’re uncle?” Sarah asked.
“Yes, as Charon,” He caught the quizzical look that Sarah shot him, “You may know him as The Pennyman, is my brother, Tartarus is my uncle.”
“Wait, I know that name,” Zach said, racking his brain for where he had heard of Charon before.
“The ferry across the river…” He almost had it, it was on the tip of his tongue when Acmon completed the sentence for him.
“Acheron.”
“You’re serious, aren’t you?” Sarah asked.
“Yes, as is the fighting,” Acmon said, “And speaking of that, I have dallied here for too long. I must move on, for my men need me, as do yours.” Acmon said, and nodded to Zach before bowing to Sarah.
Once Acmon had moved on, Zach turned to Sarah, who was reloading her gun, “That was strange.”
“Yeah, but he’s right, we need to get up to the front lines and help out there.”
Zach slammed some new rounds into a shotgun he had picked up and grabbed a clip for his rifle. Someone held out a full pistol which he took as well, tucking it into the waistband of his pants. “You ready?”
Sarah nodded and slung a shotgun of her own over her left shoulder, falling into step beside Zach. “Yep.”
They ran through the city streets, the smell of burning buildings and the sound of screaming leading them to the fighting. A small skirmish was occurring between Acmon’s Warriors of Light and the Others in the intersection of two two lane streets. Sarah tapped Zach on the shoulder and pointed to a building that stood away from the flames and then pointed upward. Zach nodded and led the way, pushing open a glass door, the bell ringing within. They found a stairwell in the back that led up and eventually a ladder that led to the roof. They took cover behind a large air conditioning unit and scoped out the scene below.
“Shoot the soldiers in the back, that way we don’t hit our men.” Zach whispered, creeping toward the roof’s edge.
Below, Zach could pick out the three distinct factions, the Others, Acmon’s Warriors, and then his companions. He took careful aim and pumped the shotgun, the shell slamming into the chest of an Other that managed to look up at him before toppling over backwards. He shifted his aim slightly and fired again, dropping another Other. Sarah was beside him her own gun raining death down upon their enemies.
He was peering along the barrel of his rifle when he caught sight of Sam down below, bleeding from a head wound, but wielding a pair of axes as he plowed through his own group of enemies.
Labels: Hollow World, Hollow World Book 4
archnemesis_goldenhair said...
Good to see Sarah in action! Hasn't been much focus on her in a while. But with so many characters, it's hard to give everyone a lot of attention.
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Is the Wii U worth a second look? Ars readers weigh in
Posted by Nintendo Project under gamepad, Mario, Metroid, Nintendo News, Opposable Thumbs, readers, tablet, Wii U, Zelda
Ben Kuchera
Tomorrow, Nintendo is set to give us the final details on what we can expect from the Wii U's launch later this year. Yesterday and today, Ars readers shared their thoughts on what they want to hear from Nintendo, and what (if anything) could convince them to purchase the system, either at launch or after.
The more than 200 comments we received ran the gamut from Nintendo haters to self-described fanboys, with plenty of people falling somewhere in between. Here are some of the most interesting, thought-provoking, or just representative comments from the Ars readership.
Fool me once, shame on me...
By far the most common sentiment among the Ars readership was to hold off on the Wii U simply because Nintendo had failed to deliver a compelling experience with the original Wii. Commenter superslav23 said the experience of the Wii taught him to expect "the same games slightly changed to use the gimmicky tablet." damarv said he loved the Wii's motion controls as a concept, but complained that "rather than improving my physical abilities, I ended up jiggling a controller around."
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Fri 15 Jun 2012
Cost concerns almost scuttled Wii U’s tablet controller
Posted by Nintendo Project under cost, fils-aime, gamepad, Gear & Gadgets, Iwata, Nintendo, Nintendo News, Opposable Thumbs, Price, reggie, Satoru Iwata, tablet, Uncategorized, Wii U
Whatever it ends up costing, don't forget you're also getting a TV remote control for your money!
Amidst all the talk of the Wii U and its unique, touchscreen-equipped GamePad at this year's E3, one of the major specifications missing from the discussion was the massive controller's price. The mystery surrounding that pricing remains a major concern for those considering a purchase of the system, and according to Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, it was also a major concern for the company while the system was still in the design phase.
"Sometime during that final discussion [of the system's design], we almost gave up on the idea of the additional screen," Iwata said in an interview with London's Telegraph newspaper. "This was due to our concern over the expected high cost; it may not have been feasible to create this and sell it at a reasonable price point for the consumers."
The Telegraph interview goes on to suggest that Nintendo eventually figured the cost situation out, suggesting that it will be able to offer the controller for that "reasonable price point" at launch (for Nintendo's definition of reasonable, at least). That price could be more important than ever, as Nintendo announced at E3 that the Wii U would be able to support games that use two GamePads at once, though no such games will be available at launch.
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Mon 4 Jun 2012
Nintendo reveals new Wii U details ahead of E3
Posted by Nintendo Project under Controller, e3, gamepad, miiverse, Nintendo, Nintendo News, Opposable Thumbs, tablet, Uncategorized, Wii U
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata holds the new Wii U controller design.
Promising that Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference on Tuesday will focus "almost entirely on games," company president Satoru Iwata used a streaming Web presentation today to announce new details about the unique tablet controller and social functions of the upcoming Wii U.
Iwata began a bit philosophically, showing a picture of a standard nuclear family sitting together in a living room, each member with their head buried in their own separate digital screens. "People are gathered together in the same room with friends and family, but they are not truly connected. They are paying more attention to their devices than each other."
Referencing Shelly Turkel's book Alone Together, he acknowledged that technology has improved our lives, but added that "we have to wonder what this will mean for the nature of human relationships moving forward."
Thu 10 Feb 2011
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
Posted by Nintendo Project under electronic, infrared, interactive, multi-touch, multitouch, Nintendo News, PC, projector, remote, tablet, technology, Videos From Youtube, whiteboard, wii, wiimote
Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The software can be downloaded at johnnylee.net
Technorati Tags: electronic, infrared, interactive, multi-touch, multitouch, pc, projector, remote, tablet, technology, whiteboard, wii, wiimote
Tags: electronic, infrared, interactive, multi-touch, multitouch, pc, projector, remote, tablet, technology, whiteboard, wii, wiimote
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2016 Audi Changes
By: Gunderson Crankshaft Category: Audi Created: 2015-09-24 Tags: 2016, Audi
Backup camera, front/rear parking sonar, heated outside mirrors and heated windshield washer nozzles are now standard.
The Prestige trim is gone, so are available adaptive cruise control, adaptive headlights, collision warning and pre sense front safety systems.
The Prestige trim is gone, so are available adaptive cruise control, adaptive headlights, collision warning and pre sense front safety systems. A red cloth roof is available on Cabriolet, but must be against some sort of law (please).
The base 2.0T model sees a big jump in power: 252-horsepower from its 2.0 turbocharged 4-cylinder, up from 220. The front-wheel-drive powertrain takes in the sluggish CVT (continuously variable transmission) for a dual clutch seven-speed. The 3.0T also gains horses: up 23 to 333. Fuel mileage improves dramatically: 20 city/30 highway on this all-wheel drive supercharged V6 luxury sedan is impressive EPA numbers. The 3.0 TDI turbocharged diesel stays the same, though a higher final drive ration improves city mileage 1 MPG to 25. Automatically dimming side mirrors and hands-free keyless entry (Audi Advanced Key) are now standard. Massaging front seats, memory passenger seat, power trunk lid and high-beam assist are available. Secondary Collision Brake Assist has been added: after a collision has been detected, the brakes are applied to prevent secondary collisions.
New front grille, bumpers and headlights. The 3.0T A7 gains horses: up 23 to 333. Fuel mileage improves dramatically to 20 city/30 highway. LED headlights are now standard. Massaging front seats, memory passenger seat and high-beam assist are now available. Secondary Collision Brake Assist has been added: after a collision has been detected, the brakes are applied to prevent secondary collisions.
The A8 short wheelbase is no longer offered, leaving only the A8 L. Buyers wanting five inches less of Audi's big aluminum luxury car will have to splurge on the S8. This means a higher starting price ($82426 with destination) and more standard equipment, such as four-zone automatic climate control, with separate temperatures for the left and right rear seats. The A8 L 4.0T gets 15 more horsepower, for a nice, round 450. New 21" wheels are optional on the A8 L 4.0T.
A mild refresh changes the grille and front fascia. A backup camera, front and rear parking sensors, voice control are now standard. Q3 Prestige models have full LED headlights, and xenon headlights are standard on all other models. A power lift gate is now standard.
20-in wheels with 255/45R20 tires are standard on Q5 Prestige; 21-inch wheels are available. Panoramic sunroof is now standard.
This all-new model is powered by a carry-over 333 horsepower supercharged 3.0-liter V6 or a new turbo diesel 3.0 V6 making an impressive 272 horsepower. Also making an appearance is a 2.0 turbo charged four-cylinder with 258 horsepower. The Q7 loses about 400 pounds.
New front grille, bumpers and headlights. Mechanically unchanged. High beam assistant is now optional. Heads-up display is now standard.
Dead.
No changes.
New Black Optic package with 19-inch or new 20-inch wheels. (Not pictured.)
The engine in the S6 is up by 30 ponies to 450, helping to keep this high-performance sedan competitive. Fuel mileage ratings are not available, yet. The entry level S6 Premium Plus starts about $5000 less than the 2015 S6. Equipment made extra cost or only available on Prestige trim: LED headlights, power trunk lid, ambient LED interior lighting, BOSE stereo, heads-up display, manual rear-side window and power rear sunshades. High beam assistant is now optional. Secondary Collision Brake Assist has been added: after a collision has been detected, the brakes are applied to prevent secondary collisions.
New front grille, bumpers and headlights. The engine in the S7 is up by 30 ponies to 450, helping to keep this high-performance sedan competitive. Fuel mileage ratings stay the same: 17 city/27 highway. LED headlights and a heads-up display are now standard. High beam assistant is now an option.
All-new sheet metal for the Audi sports car gives it a clean, machined look. The 2.0 four-cylinder turbocharged engines are upgraded for 2016: The 2.0 from the A5 2.0T for the base model, giving it 220 horsepower (up from 211). The TTS receives the engine from the S3, with 292 horsepower. Strangely, in this day of eight and nine-speed automatics and seven-speed manuals and SMGs, the TT sticks with its six-speed dual-clutch SMG. A new Quattro system (Audi speak for permanent all-wheel-drive) can now vary its torque split, emphasizing rear-wheel-drive for performance when desired. LED headlights are now standard, helping the new TT to blend in with its Audi stablemates, most of which already sport LED headlights. The interior improves on a trick from the Jaguar F-Type: the a/c controls are digital knobs; in thew TT they rest in the centers of the a/c vent dials, taking up no room on the dash; this includes the heated seat controls. Cars like the Dodge Challenger have supplemented their instruments with high-resolution screens for some time, allowing driver's to tailor the information in front of themselves. The TT replaces all of the instruments with a high-resolution 12.3-inch display called the Audi Virtual Cockpit. This allows unprecedented flexibility for the information displayed to the driver. The instruments can even be combined with navigation pictures from Google Earth. Sadly, none of the choices seem to include full gauges to monitor things such as oil pressure.
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Get Out & Walk
Great to see "Get Out & Walk" reissued. Shame they couldn't get the song titles right on the track listing. Careless mistakes, tsk.
By Simon Jenkins on 2010/06/10
Get out and walk, what a classic, on a par with soul mining (the the), swoon (everything but the girl) high land hard rain (aztec camera) great music, killer melodies great beats and magic keyboard lines...never forgotten.....
By tony brereton on 2009/11/17
Me and my mate Bob used to busk For you and The Way You Made Me Cry back in 1984. Never made any money but at least we had fun, especially when busking whilst riding round Chester on a tandem. Ah the idiocy of youth!
By Ravi on 2009/02/13
spent the last two weeks trawling the net for farmer's boys stuff ! well worth it, i now am the proud owner of BOTH albums on MP3 including the 12 inch mixes ! email me spanish_paul_safc@yahoo.co.uk if you need anything.thanks
By paul keveney on 2008/12/06
More found here. Brings back good memories.
By Rick on 2008/12/04
just unhearthrd a picture disc of the farmers boys,muck it out and funkey combine, any body want it
By julian on 2008/11/10
Is there anyone out there that has CD's or MP3's of their albums. I miss their music and would really like to get a hold of anything. My small but very special record collection was stolen a while back and I have just started to try to rebuild what I lost. It is a very painful process but one that I am trying to do slowly. If there is anyone other that can help please let me know
By Manley on 2008/10/08
thank you thank you thank you. I never thouht I would find a site for the Farmers boys! I loved this band and even had a bit of a 'pen pal' relationship with Baz. I feel so young listening to their fantastic music. So far ahead of the times. I adored them. Unfortunately i left Norwich in 1985 and no one had heard of them! all my vinyls were thrown out by a bitter ex husband. i have none of their stuff but i still look everyday to try and find them.Please emi re-release get out and walk and with these hands. we deserve satisfaction. once again thank you so much for the site. I will be back xx
By Annie Adams on 2008/10/03
I NEED all the farmers boys stuff on CD can anyone help. That would make Life Wonderful.
By Rob on 2008/09/26
The cd is top quality!!! Listening carefully, you can just about make out that it's from the vinyl album, with the extended mixes n'all...a right result, as we say down here in good ol' Brighton. Already on the ipod, and has had several listens throughout last night and this morning. Out for beers last night, so...'think I need somethin' refreshin', think I need a soft drink'. Coooooome on!!!
By Chippy on 2008/09/04
A work colleague has managed to rip onto cd, 'Get Out And Walk' from a torrent site - God knows what it sounds like, as I've not yet listened to it, and I'm in the office. Can't wait to get that baby into the cd player, and burn it for the ipod. Lucky, luck me...
Still looking for the CD or MP3 of Get out and Walk! Getting older and grayer and want to listen and smile - Happy Days in Norwich! Thanks
By Simon on 2008/07/22
There's currently one listed on ebay (the .co.uk site)
By Rach on 2008/04/10
Looking for vinyl copy of Get Out and Walk. Will pay reasonable price -- US resident -- Texas
By Tom Aiken on 2008/04/10
We are seeing quite a few vinyl copies appearing on Ebay ATM - you can register to be alerted when new items are listed.
By Greg (PD) on 2008/03/23
So, several people have asked but I haven't seen the solution: how can I get hold of Get Out and Walk for itunes... I miss the album bigtime!
By Karl on 2008/02/10
Go to Carty FM podcast through itunes, and get his latest podcast. Farmers Boys track played from 'Get Out & Walk'. Dedicated to me (Chippy)...which is nice!!!
By Darren Stuart on 2007/08/05
Have found 'One Of The Best Investments I Ever Made' on a blog site. Great to hear this one again. Whay hasn't 'Get Out And Walk' been issued on cd. Or, for that fact, more of The Farmer's Boys? Takes me back to school days at Stanley Deason...
I would also love a copy of this on CD....can anyone help? My all time favourite album!!!!
By wilma on 2007/05/03
I too would love to find this on c/d I have a very good vinyl copy and am considering buying the DAK system to download vinyl onto my pc to solve the problem. This is a great record and one that can be played from start to finish. They had zero airplay here in the states but I was fortunate enough to be exposed to the "Boys" from a friend. Forever grateful for that!!
By Rich Mac on 2006/12/31
Is there any way at all of getting this album on CD or even as MP3 files ?
By Steve Johnson on 2006/11/08
I've just put an MP3 copy CD on eBay. Quality very good. I'm including the original tape that I copied it from to comply with copyright.
By adrian on 2006/09/02
Happy to pay for this album on CD or MP3 - so many memories!
The best album unavailable on cd out there.
By Archie McVicar on 2006/08/15
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Chinese, Italian police conduct joint patrol in Shanghai, Guangzhou
发布时间：2019-06-27 来源：Xinhua 字体大小[ 大 中 小 ]
A Chinese police officer explains police equipment to Italian police officers in east China's Shanghai, June 26, 2019. Italian police officers on Monday began patrolling tourist sites in China, with their local counterparts, after a launching ceremony held in Beijing. The joint patrol, the third such exercise between Chinese and Italian police in China, will last until July 5 in four cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou. (Xinhua/Fan Jun)
Chinese and Italian police officers patrol the Lujiazui area in Pudong, east China's Shanghai, June 26, 2019. Italian police officers on Monday began patrolling tourist sites in China, with their local counterparts, after a launching ceremony held in Beijing. The joint patrol, the third such exercise between Chinese and Italian police in China, will last until July 5 in four cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou. (Xinhua/Fan Jun)
Chinese and Italian police officers patrol under the Oriental Pearl Tower in east China's Shanghai, June 26, 2019. Italian police officers on Monday began patrolling tourist sites in China, with their local counterparts, after a launching ceremony held in Beijing. The joint patrol, the third such exercise between Chinese and Italian police in China, will last until July 5 in four cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou. (Xinhua/Fan Jun)
Chinese and Italian police officers pose for a group photo during the launching ceremony of the joint patrol between Chinese and Italian police held in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, June 26, 2019. Italian police officers on Monday began patrolling tourist sites in China, with their local counterparts, after a launching ceremony held in Beijing. The joint patrol, the third such exercise between Chinese and Italian police in China, will last until July 5 in four cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)
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Sporting Mischief & Mayhem: Cowboys Nation, Dak Is The Future So Embrace It
As of Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Where do I begin this week?
So many big stories in the world of sports, and possible developments on the horizon that could change the sporting landscape across several fronts.
• Here’s a few that
caught my eye.
‘Dak the Ripper’
It’s a wrap Cowboys fans, Tony Romo officially lost his job Sunday night in overtime of the Eagles vs Cowboys game, when Cowboys QB Dak Prescott hit TE Jason Witten (Romo’s BFF and on field security blanket) for the game-winning touchdown.
I’ve been lobbying for it, and said Prescott should keep the job regardless of Romo’s status. (See previous SMM columns on the aforementioned topic).
So once and for all, you bleeding heart Romo fans, let it go!!
It’s a done deal, the posturing and stalling tactics have begun, with Jerry Jones working his usual magical spin on the whole situation.
See below the latest news from Texas:
ARLINGTON — Quarterback Dak Prescott will remain the Cowboys starter for at least another week, according to franchise owner Jerry Jones.
Jones said that he expects Prescott to start next Sunday at Cleveland with veteran Tony Romo still not in a position health-wise to be considered to dislodge Prescott and resume his starting role. Jones made the comments late Sunday following the Cowboys’ dramatic 29-23 win over the Philadelphia Eagles at AT&T Stadium, Dallas’ sixth-straight win under Prescott. Romo returned to practice last week in limited fashion for the first time since suffering a fractured bone in his back in a preseason game at Seattle.
Jones also was quoted as saying: “My opinion is that we would want him to have more strength work done,” Jones said of Romo.
“He’s really doing well. Probably as well as at any time last year as far as strength in his back is concerned. But he’s got some more work to do.”
I’ve been watching the Cowboys long enough to know Jerry Jones ‘speak’ when I hear it, decoded what Jerry is really saying is this: I will stall on making a decision until I have to, as long as it isn’t broken, no need to fix it.
Get used to it Cowboys fans, and Romo loyalists, just as Dak has ripped opposing defences apart during the Cowboys’ six-game winning streak, he has also ripped the starting job from Tony Romo and label of ‘losers’ off the franchise.
Dak is the future, sometimes change is good Cowboys nation, in this case it is, embrace it!
NBA Growing Pains
In catching the opening weekend of the NBA, it’s safe to say there will be some growing pains and high expectations for our hometown boy Buddy Hield. After opening the season as the favourite for NBA Rookie of the Year, Heild got off to a rough start scoring 4, 2 and 8 points respectively as the Pelicans start off 0-3.
Relax, it’s still a long way to go in the NBA season, and I see Buddy making the adjustments to his game that will allow him to develop into a legitimate NBA star.
It’s not just Buddy with the growing pains in the NBA. My Lakers will also have their pains but unlike last season, this season’s campaign is more like a right of passage, paying dues, all while getting valuable playing time, allowing them to grow as a unit.
Despite a 1-2 start, the young Lakers are infinitely more competitive than last season, clearly having bought into Luke Walton’s plans for the way forward.
My gut tells me that about the same time next season, we won’t be having the whole ‘growing pains’ convo about my Lakers, instead we will be talking about how young and talented they are, and how Walton has them winning. Until next week, I will leave you with this: “If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve to be successful.”
• Naughty presents ‘Mischief and Mayhem in da AM’ from 6am to 10am, Monday to Friday and ‘The Press Box’ sports talk show on Sunday from 10am to 1pm, on KISS FM 96.1. Comments and questions to naughty@tribunemedia.net
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Review of Sugar & Spice by Garett Groves
May 19, 2017 Reviewfeatured guest, Garett Groves, HEA, light read, older man, romance, Spice of Life Series, Sugar & Spice, younger loverJayne Lockwood
The spicy Garett Groves recently delighted us on our show! To hear more about Garett, listen to his interview and find links to his work, follow this link…. Episode 110: Bad Pantser: Be A Plotter!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Although part of a series (Spice of Life), it was a standalone, straightforward read, with zingy dialogue and two engaging main characters.
When I first started reading, I thought Max, the young, hot, clueless wannabe model, was a bit of a knob, to be honest (US readers, that isn’t a good thing.) He certainly didn’t endear himself to me when we were first introduced. Yes, he has the body, but he also has a self-destructive streak that I wanted to slap out of him. It was hardly surprising that Lucas, the older man who had been around the block a few times, was wary when Max made play for him in a gay bar. Encounters like that seem rarely destined to last.
But Lucas was a sweetie. I had the feeling that the author was trying for David Gandy, but I read Lucas as Henry from Cucumber. The image was thankfully shaken off when he and Max first hook up for their first pearl-clutching sexual encounter, after which, Lucas has the presence of mind to leave, rather than fall headlong into an improbable “mind-blowing sex all night” scenario.
And it is this restraint which makes the book work. Max does all the running. Lucas is the one holding back. At 45, he has doubts about his viability both as a lover and and photographer, so when Max has eyes for no-one else, he is understandably wary.
Max is also learning a sharp lesson in humility, after being fired from his job and dumped as favoured model for his photographer ex-boyfriend, but he is also wary of Lucas’s motives for wanting to hire him for his own photography purposes.
When they begin to work together, the awkwardness is almost painful, and Lucas’s attempts to make things right between Max and his former crush are excruciating, but in a good, “read it behind my fingers” way. You’re never really sure whether these two will make a successful couple. The odds seem stacked against them, for all Lucas’s wealth and Max’s worldliness, but the pay-off is worth the slow burn. (No spoilers – the author guarantees an HEA on Amazon. Also, no cheating or cliffhangers – good to know for people who hate both, like me.)
The author has paced this book very skilfully, creating an enjoyable, fun read with depth, and characters that feel real and well-rounded. And Lance, Max’s frenemy, is hilarious. I spent most of the book not trusting him, expecting him to stab Max in the back. Will he? Won’t he? Read it and find out.
After getting rejected by the only guy that he’s ever allowed himself to feel something more than lust for, Max Williams has convinced himself that the bachelor’s life is the only way for him to live. At 28, Max has everything he needs for it: a smoking body, just enough money to keep the drinks coming, and an endless supply of guys that are more than happy to keep his bed warm at night. Still, he can’t shake the feeling that something is missing.
When he loses his day job thanks to his partying and the modeling career he’d been trying to build collapses, Max isn’t sure of so sure of himself anymore, but there’s one thing he knows without a doubt: something’s got to give.
Lucas White has a reputation of his own–and he’s tired of it. The security provided by his cushy job as editor-in-chief of a legendary local photography magazine has kept him stagnant for too long both professionally and personally. He never dreamed he’d be able to retire by the age of 45 and start his own passion project, but that’s exactly where he’s found himself and it hasn’t been an easy transition.
While celebrating his last day at the office, Lucas and Max get up close and personal at a new bar and Lucas’s entire world turns into a photo negative. Max is the perfect model that he’s been looking for to bring fresh eyes to his new venture, but he looks so much like someone who once broke his heart–and Lucas isn’t sure that he can look at Max’s beautiful body every day for work without continuing to touch it.
Against his better judgment, Lucas hires Max. As they start working together, the line between employer and employee quickly blurs, and not even the pact they made to remain strictly professional seems to keep things in focus. Though they know better, neither man can resist their desire for something more–but Max is afraid of commitment, and Lucas can’t stomach the idea of being taken advantage of by another pretty face.
Will their differences bring them down, or will they come together like sugar and spice?
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Kamala Harris’ Dad Says She Humiliated Their Family, Grandparents Turning In Graves
The Jamaican dad of California Sen. Kamala Harris is furious with recent comments his daughter made on a popular radio show.
The Democrat presidential candidate spoke to “The Breakfast Club” on February 11 and extolled the virtues of smoking marijuana.
“I think it gives a lot of people joy, and we need more joy,” she said about smoking marijuana, which is against federal law.
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The hosts of the show asked her if she herself had ever smoked marijuana to which she said she did and mocked former President Bill Clinton.
“I have. And I inhaled — I did inhale. It was a long time ago. But, yes,” she said, a reference to Clinton’s famous line about not inhaling.
“They say you oppose legalizing weed,” one of the hosts said, curious how she could have smoked it and opposed legalizing it.
“That’s not true. And look I joke about it, half joking — half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me,” she said with a laugh.
“No, I do not — no, no. I have had concerns, the full record, I have had concerns, which I think — first of all, let me just make this statement very clear, I believe we need to legalize marijuana,” Harris said.
“Now, that being said — and this is not a ‘but,’ it is an ‘and’ — and we need to research, which is one of the reasons we need to legalize it,” she said.
“We need to move it on the schedule so that we can research the impact of weed on a developing brain,” she said.
You know, that part of the brain that develops judgment, actually begins its growth at age 18 through age 24,” she said.
“But I am absolutely in favor of legalizing marijuana. We’ve got to do it,” the Democrat, and thorn in Joe Biden’s side, said.
“We have incarcerated so many, and particularly young men and young men of color, in a way that we have not for the same level of use (among) other young men,” she said.
But her father did not like her use of her Jamaican heritage as a punchline to look hip, particularly after outing their family as descendants of slave owners.
“My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” Donald Harris, a Stanford economics professor said in a statement to Jamaica Global Online.
“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” he said.
That is about as brutal of a statement you could get from a candidate’s own dad about their kid and not one that will be simple to run from.
Kamala Harris’ Dad Says She Humiliated Their Family, Grandparents Turning In Graves Reviewed by Your Destination on July 01, 2019 Rating: 5
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Slipknot have just announced a signature whiskey in collaboration with Iowa-based Cedar Ridge Distillery. "No. 9 Iowa Whiskey" and "No. 9 Reserve Iowa Whiskey" are both set to arrive in every state in the U.S. on Aug. 10, one day after the release of Slipknot's new album, We Are Not Your Kind.
Each whiskey will be available at the Knotfest Roadshow North American tour this summer (seen below) in addition to retail purchase. "No. 9 Iowa Whiskey" will sell for $39.99 and is 90 proof, while "No. 9 Iowa Reserve Whiskey" will cost a bit more — $69.99 — and is 99 proof.
"Slipknot and Cedar Ridge Distillery - two groups of people born and raised in Iowa, and committed to quality and hard work," commented Shawn "Clown" Crahan. "We collaborated on 'No. 9 Whiskey,' which in addition to Iowa corn, gets some extra spice from its rye content. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Live life, and always be safe."
Critic Fred Minnick spoke about the whiskey with Clown in an interview for Forbes, and praised the spirit, boasting, "Slipknot’s No. 9 single-handily puts Iowa whiskey on the map and is the best liquid distilled there."
Owner and Founder of Cedar Ridge Distillery Jeff Quint added, "As we came to know the Slipknot guys, we realized we share a lot of the core elements of a good Iowa foundation - these guys are very down-to-earth, hard-working and care deeply about their followers. Building this whiskey with them was an easy, natural process that resulted in a strong and spicy expression, just the way they wanted it."
"Our challenge was to produce a whiskey that represents Slipknot’s style of music; something bold, something with distinguished character, something that you don’t exactly come across every day," Cedar Ridge Head Distiller Murphy Quint expressed, noting, "At the same time, it needed to be a whiskey that satisfies a true whiskey aficionado, regardless of its ties to the band. I feel that this blend of bourbon and rye hits that mark."
In celebration of the signature whiskey's release, Slipknot will be announcing special events such as bottle signings and bar takeovers in coming weeks. For more info, head here.
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FBI agent Cara Landry is sent on an undercover assignment to gather evidence on Damian Medina, a Mexican casino owner running a counterfeiting operation for the Cali drug cartel. With…
Mario Van Peebles stars as an android killing weapon designed by the military and utilized to enter into a Latin American war to destroy the rebels – natives fighting simply…
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Johnny One Hundred Pesos
A young low-class student gets involved with the wrong people and takes part in a non successful video rental robbery.
Country: Chile, Mexico
La tarea prohibida
A student needs to deliver a short film as a homework, which has to be shot in just one sequence. He writes an erotic scene and invites an older woman…
BBB flips ideas about female helplessness, as women undertake the transformational experience of learning verbal, emotional and physical empowerment based self-defense. How often can you say a movie will save…
Country: Israel, Kenya, Mexico, USA
As the SUN burns out, an American family gathers at the end of the world, their hopes for rescue slowly crumbling as they also confront long lasting divides amongst each…
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Inicuo: The Brotherhood
FEDERICO, a man who has lost everything in life, creates a new religious cult kidnaps FERNANDO, a former business partner, whom trying to leave as heir of worship amid a…
Ana y Bruno
An animated adventure about a young girl who seeks out her father in order to help save her troubled mother.
A fallen priest, a legendary demon hunter, and a modern day superhero join forces to battle evil.
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Seattle Sounders FC Releases 2019 Schedule
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Source: WW1 Covered live on Twitter.
British Home Child (Barnardo Boy) per research from Dawn Hueston and contributed through the 18th Battalion Facebook page.. Link to LAC record and Find A Grave.
Screen capture of LAC entry. Note the reference to the Canadian Branch of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, Toronto.
Record from Find A Grave Page:
Birth: Feb. 6, 1893
City of Oxford
Death: Mar. 30, 1916
Ypres (Ieper)
Arrondissement Ieper
West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
A British Home Child sent to Canada in 1904. Enlisted in Windsor, Ontario on Nov 2, 1914.
Service # 53283
18th Battalion – Canadian InfantrySon of:
William George Simson (1867-1936)
Sarah (Canning) Simson (1864-1905)
of Oxfordshire, England.Siblings:Henry Alexander Reginald Simson (1888–1937)
William Percival C Simson (1892–1946)
Samuel Francis Simson (1895–1917)
Aubrey Christian Ralph Wilkinson Simson (1896–1958)
Annie Martha Lillian Sophia Simson (1897–1975)
Arthur Gilbert Simson (1899–1950)
Bertram Edward G Simson (1902–1981)
Cyril Canning Simson (1905–1979)
paternal half siblings:
Brother Andrew R Simson (1870–1936)
Sister Ann Simson (1873–)
Westoutre British Cemetery
Plot: II. F. 1.
Created by: Dawn
Record added: Apr 01, 2016
Find A Grave Memorial# 160347332
Died of Wounds – He was with his Company in the front line trenches at ST. ELOI at about 4 o’clock on the afternoon of March 29, 1916, when the enemy suddenly bombarded the trenches and he received a shell wound in the back. He did not loose consciousness and appeared quite cheerful while being taken out of the trench to the dressing station where his wound was further attended to. He died a short time afterwards when being taken in an ambulance to No. 4 Canadian Field Ambulance.
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Ultimate Harry Potter & London Full-Day Tour by Black Cab
Explore the historic monuments of London and the Harry Potter film locations in an iconic taxi cab. Go to Platform 9 ¾, follow Harry’s broomstick flight along the River Thames, and don’t forget the palaces and churches of old London town!
Pick-up from hotels in central London
See all the Harry Potter film location sites of London
Mingle with the muggles all day
Tour London's historical sitessuch as the Albert Hall, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye
Enjoy lunch in a 350-year-old pub
Drive around the streets of London in an iconic London cab
Get fascinating Hogwarts facts from a dedicated private guide
Follow in the footsteps of Harry and Mr Weasley to the Ministry of Magic
See where Harry disappears at Kings Cross Station Platform 9 ¾
Enjoy the best of both worlds on a full-day, 8-hour sightseeing tour of London by iconic black cab, and discover all London's historic monuments and all the film locations from the Harry Potter series of blockbuster movies.
A private guide will take you past landmarks that include Westminster Abbey, where British royalty has been crowned since 1066. Stand outside Buckingham Palace and watch the traditional Changing of the Guards ceremony. See the seat of government at the Houses of Parliament, complete with Big Ben in its Clock Tower.
Pass the fabulous department store of Harrods, and the stylish shops of Kensington. Then stop for lunch in an historic pub, right on the banks of the River Thames. Continue to the Tower of London, and walk around the most impressive medieval fortress in Britain. See the old and new buildings of the City of London, the square mile that the Romans built more than 2,000 years ago.
During the course of your tour, you will visit shops that are over 300 years old and still trading, visit a pub that sells corpses, see a house with false windows, and learn the story of Winston Churchill’s cigar chair; and that's just for starters.
You will also look for all the locations of the legendary Harry Potter movies, from the Leaky Cauldron of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,” to the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” Discover the bridge destroyed by Death Eaters in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Trace the broomstick flight down the Thames that Harry took in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” And drive to King’s Cross Station to stand by Platform 9 ¾.
Private tour in an iconic London taxi
Registered guide (Blue Badge, City of London, or City of Westminster)
Commentary by your guide
Photo stops at all the major attractions
Complimentary water and crisps
Pick-up from your central London hotel
Drop-off at your Central London hotel
Any entry fees
Guide gratuity
Visit to the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studios
Please note, this tour does not visit the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studios.
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Sachsenhausen Memorial
Sachsenhausen Memorial: Tour From Berlin
Visit the Nazi Concentration Camp about one hour's drive from Berlin city centre. Be guided through the memorial with explanations about its history and about the exhibition. Feel humbled as you take in this important piece of history.
Your hotel reception or any other place in the Berlin city centre you suggest.
Visit the former concentration camp near Berlin
Learn about and understand the history of what happened here with the help of your professional guide
Travel in a comfortable vehicle while your guide gives you information on your destination
Take a private tour to the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen. In a small group of up to 8 people, learn about and understand the enormity of what happened here. All vehicles are business-class and equipped with air-conditioning and microphones so you can listen to your guide in comfort.
Sachsenhausen Memorial, situated just outside Berlin’s city limits, held over 200,000 prisoners during the Nazi reign, tens of thousands who perished inside its walls. The camp became a school of brutality, used to train SS guards for work in other camps across Europe. After its liberation, Soviet occupiers took over the camp for a further five years and used it to house their political enemies. The Sachsenhausen Memorial stands today as a reminder of the darkest days of Berlin’s history.
Private sedan or minivan and private driver/guide
Pick-up and end in the Berlin city centre
Gratuities, optional
• Please note that any change of the time and date of the booking will be considered a cancellation and new booking.
Berlin: Sachsenhausen Small Group Bus Tour
Berlin: Sachsenhausen Memorial Day Tour
Sachsenhausen Memorial: Group Tour from Berlin
6-Hour Sachsenhausen Memorial Tour from Berlin
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Kaibel & Erdmann Stadtrundfahrten OHG
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Our 2017 Grads smash their target and raise over £15,000 for The Wallich Charity!
After joining the Graduate Programme in September 2017, our grads were all keen to get involved in charity work, encouraged as part of their role. They chose to sponsor The Wallich; a charity that strives to prevent homelessness and provide support to those experiencing homelessness across Wales.
Since joining the company, we have seen our grads organise several fantastic fundraising events in aid of the Wallich including a Christmas candy cane gram, a guess the number of sweets in the jar event, a bake sale, a St. David’s Day raffle and a charity quiz night.
In total, they have raised a whopping £15,634.73, absolutely smashing their original target of £10,000!
Before bringing their fundraising activities to an end, the grads offered them to help the Wallich prepare the foundations of a garden that St. Fagan’s had given them.
Sophie, chief organiser on behalf of the grads said ‘’Our involvement has been hugely beneficial to the Wallich as the garden will provide their service users with the opportunity to learn about Welsh culture by visiting the museum, learning new skills and meeting new people. The Wallich also aim to use the indoor space at the garden to deliver accredited qualifications for those attending the garden and putting what they have learned into practice.’’
To highlight the impact of the grads’ charity work, they were recently invited to attend an event organised by The Wallich where they launched five new homelessness outreach vehicles – the ‘Street Fleet’. The Street Fleet will go out daily across Wales to those sleeping rough to offer provisions, support and advice. They can take people to The Wallich’s specialist centres to shower, use a washing machine and meet with staff in the hope of securing accommodation and further support. The vehicles can help keep people off the streets, by moving people and their possessions into hostels or their own homes. They can also take residents to training, education and work placements or on life-changing trips in an effort to break continuous cycles of homelessness.
‘’We were lucky enough to learn more about The Wallich’s mobile working, which supports people who are rough sleeping, and we had the chance to meet the teams working with people who experience homelessness every day. It was particularly rewarding for us to see how the money that we fundraised contributed to the purchase of these new vehicles.
All six vehicles in the Street Fleet have been named by staff in memory of those special to The Wallich:
Cardiff vehicle – Jeff
Swansea vehicle – Shelia May
Newport vehicle – Vladimir
Bridgend vehicle – Norman
Wrexham vehicle – Ziggy
The Welfare Vehicle – Monty
Welsh Government Housing and Regeneration Minister, Rebecca Evans AM, said “I recently joined The Wallich intervention team on a breakfast run in Swansea and was really impressed at the range of services available and the team providing them. I found it really valuable to speak to the people who receive these services and listen to their stories, as well as to hear from the people who are helping to get them off the streets. This new fleet of vehicles can ensure that support is provided more quickly, and to more people.”
Our fundraising also means that Admiral is one of The Wallich’s top 5 corporate supporters which is a fantastic achievement in such a short space of time. We’d therefore like to say a massive thank you to our grads who have made such an impact to the Wallich and to all of the staff members across the Cardiff, Newport and Swansea offices who have generously donated towards this cause – we would not have been able to raise this money without your support!
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Animation, Crime, Horror, Movie Reviews, Noir, Thriller
Perfect Blue (1999)
October 3, 2016 Kisha Leave a comment
Day 3 of 31
Director: Satoshi Kon
Writers : Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Lia Sargent
Starring: Junko Iwao Rica Matsumoto Shinpachi Tsuji Masaaki Ōkura . Japan. 1h 21m
Hitchcock meets Manga! At a time when Manga was hitting the UK in major ways it was seeming be a torrid landscapes of futuristic fighting, cybernetic hacking, blood violence and tits, a few unexpecting films managed to squeeze their way through the gaps, really defining that manga wasn’t going to be defined. Taking a leaf out of the book of Hitchcock it dabbles with a violent stalker as Mima struggles to keep her sanity.
Mima is a young and beautiful J-pop singer, who makes the life changing decision to go solo and shifts into the nerve racking world of sitcom acting, despite the anger and disappointment from her fans her loving agent stands by her side. Everything is going well for Mima despite her nerves and the alien environment, until the stalking starts, anonymous phone calls, soon turns into sinister dealing that reach a little closer to home and it’s all too much for the timid girl who’s already feeling out of her depth.
Creepy stalkers are in their hundreds as the ex pop idol was a no.1 commodity, but one in particular stands out, a deformed man who absolutely idolises Mima but is it too obvious to assume he’s the culprit. Mima herself slowly dissolves into the multiple possibilities that surround her as this Giallo action climaxes into a chase to the death.
Basically a Manga Noire really stands out from the crowd but sadly it didn’t inspire many other movies to made in this style. the astonishing factor that really stunned me was how cute and sunny the film remains despite all of the maiming starts, the breakdown of reality is also subtle and doesn’t follow those over dramatic hollywood steps so it does actually catch you off guard.Everything about the animation is perfect around the era when Manga was still blinding us with it’s brilliance and before computers took over the delicate art of animation, this really does break conjure up so many emotive scenes and with the fluid motion it’s like watching a film at times. The writing is complex and deep and the thrills build up until a slashing and dashing ending. It’s interesting how the film outlines the issues of teen idols and the pressures and dangers they have to endure also outlining various issues of how women are viewed and treated in Japan, it offers no suggestions on making things better but it does pinpoint where things are so totally fucked up.
Hitchcock may have been the influence of this intense thriller, the main character going through this hell ride not knowing what’s real or not, but the director most influenced by this film would be Darren Aronofsky, who admits that Requiem for a Dream (2000) and Black Swan (2010) both pull great influence from this pioneering and daring animation.
Flirting around with the advancements of Japanese lifestyle while repulsing anyone from actually wanting to live there with the amount of psycho’s that are roaming free in the sunny pleasant atmosphere literally drawn on the screen but the darker aspects of the film are terrifying. The terror that is built up by this unknown vicious stalker are mindblowing. The chases are exhilarating and the penultimate ending is sublime. I don’t want to go into details but it’s trippy rush..
Rating – 8/10
R – Audition (1999), Opera (1987), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Memories of Murder (2003)
L- A-Z of Manga, Selected Japanese movies, A-Z of Japanese films,
A – When I got hit in the face by Manga
And here is a clue for tomorrow’s film.. More than just a cut..
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Posts tagged Ian Dicke
A/B Duo's "commitment to widening the repertoire and to fresh, vibrant new music"
This article originally appeared in Issue 40:4 (Mar/Apr 2017) of Fanfare Magazine.
VARIETY SHOW • A/B Duo • AEROCADE 005 (61:41)
MCGOWAN Ricochet. DICKE Isla. REINKEMEYER Wrought Iron. BAKER Limb. BROWNING Sol Moon Rocker. FREDERICKSON Breathing Bridge. RANDALL-MYERS Glitch.
A previous disc by Meerenai Shim on the Aerocade label (001, Fanfare 40:2) was mesmeric and fascinating. Here, Shim is joined by percussionist Christopher G. Jones: Together they fashion a sequence of soundscapes the like of which you may not have encountered before.
First, a warning. Make sure, if you are listening on headphones, that the volume is set nice and low for the first track. I didn’t, to my cost. The disc announces itself assertively with a conversation between staccato contrabass flute (used in the manner of a percussion instrument) and percussion. This opens Ned McGowan’s Ricochet for contrabass flute, floor tom, three suspended cymbals, three woodblock, triangle, and flexatone. It is worth reproducing the scorings for each piece, as they give some idea of the sounds each one works with. The idea of ricochet evokes both the idea of game and of conversation, although if it is the latter this is a pretty full-on, wide-eyed discussion. Rhythms are fantastically (sometimes frantically) taut. The A/B Duo commissioned this work, a measure of their commitment to widening the repertoire and to fresh, vibrant new music.
A remix of Isla Ferrari’s Isla de Niños, Ian Dicke’s Isla for flute, vibraphone, and live audio processing takes a line that is itself relaxed and garlands it with a plethora of active, energy-laden lines. The tension between the two elements forms both the starting point and the basis of the piece. Effective use of audio processing in the sampling and juxtaposition of syllables at one point forms the backdrop to a vibraphone solo.
Andrea L. Reinkemeyer’s Wrought Iron for flute, vibraphone, bongos, tambourine, triangle, china cymbal, and splash cymbal is a musical response to a building, the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. In a rather neat conceit, the various shapes used in the hall itself determine the types of instruments used: triangles are the obvious instance, but circles also (cymbals, bongos, tambourine) and rectangles (vibraphone). The architect also tried to make metal look like stone, and in the spirit of referencing others, the composer invokes the ghosts of Beethoven and Chopin, both of whom are to be found within the confines of the hall itself. There is an intricacy to the players’ interactions that seems, to the present writer at least, to invoke or reflect some sort of physical design. Ensemble between the two players needs to be particularly tight in this piece, and the result is indeed magical.
Drew Baker’s Limb for flute/piccolo, vibraphone, Thai gong, wind gong, and three crotales, finds cymbal evoking the crashing waves of the ocean. It opens quietly, hesitantly. The work is a response to the “scribble line drawings” of Sol LeWitt. Both LeWitt and Baker are involved with what Baker refers to as sensuality of gesture, and through simple but effective means Baker draws up an imposing, and imaginative, soundscape. As the booklet notes, state, “this piece is exceptionally soft and loud.” And although the track has been compressed “to save your eardrums,” it is still worth pointing out that you have been warned. If you wish to serve your masochistic side, there is an uncompressed version available by request and the email address is given in the documentation. Simple but effective, the piece paints gestures over relatively large durations.
Scored just for flute and vibraphone, Sol Moon Rocker by Zack Browning is another A/B Duo commission. It has a philosophic basis, the dynamic between yin and yang, between Moon and Sun. Intriguingly, the second part of the work is generated by applying Feng Shui principles to the birth dates of both present performers. It gets deeper still: the section “Meerenai’s Moon Flight” is generated also by the Magic Square of the Moon; “Sol of Chris” has a similar basis, using the Sun Magic Square. References to relevant popular music are there, too: It’s a Man’s World (James Brown), Ladies’ Night(Kool and the Gang), and The Sun and the Moon have Come Together by The Fourth Way. It’s quite the tapestry, and it works brilliantly. There is actually a spirit of joy that suffuses the musical surface of Browning’s piece; quotations have a sort of exuberance about them. The final section offers a synthesis between male and female. The idea is wonderful: One wonders if some elements of alchemical theory could have been worked in there also?
Scored for flute with glissando headjoint, glockenspiel, and vibraphone, Brooks Frederickson’s Breathing Bridge carries an entreaty: “If you’re ever in Brooklyn, listen to or imagine this piece while walking on pedestrian bridges around Red Hook.” On this bridge, one feels viscerally the vibrations of passing vehicles; lines in Frederickson’s piece represent the bridge’s structure. There is much delicacy here; the performance is simply beautiful. If one were to make that walk (no opportunity to research that; I’m afraid as I’ve never been to even America, never mind anywhere as specific as Brooklyn), one can only imagine an altered experience, a different and enriching way of experiencing the environment.
Finally, there comes Brendon Randall-Myers’s Glitch for flute, vibraphone, and drum set. In contrast to the lulling aura of the preceding track, Glitch is colorful. Written for the A/B Duo’s “quirkiness, virtuosity, humor and groove,” it imagines a “prog-punk video game music cover that can’t decide what tunes to play or what tempo to play at” resulting in some “bizarrely hilarious musical collisions.” That promise is certainly lived up to in this rather garish ride. It does rather sound as if the players are having fun, too. The notes make a point of announcing that Christopher G. Jones plays the vibraphone with his left side and the drum set with his right side. Patting one’s head and rubbing one’s tummy at the same time? There is a slower, more shaded section that provides contrast, as if offering cool shade before re-entering the bright sunshine.
The booklet notes for this disc can be found at both abduo.net and aerocademusic.com. Colin Clarke
ReviewAerocade Music February 7, 2017 A/B Duo, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Brendon Randall-Myers, Brooks Frederickson, Christopher G. Jones, Drew Baker, Fanfare Magazine, flute, Ian Dicke, Meerenai Shim, Ned McGowan, percussion, Zack Browning
"first-rate performances" in A/B Duo's Variety Show!
With this duo release, the Aerocade label continues along its path of presenting excellent recent compositions in excellent sound. I’ll admit to unfamiliarity with the composers whose works are on offer here, but their quality and intrigue is matched by first-rate performances and a very warm but detailed recording.
One of the most satisfying pieces on this well-filled disc is Ian Dicke’s Isla, composed in 2012. Dicke follows in the footsteps of such composers as Scott Johnson and Pierre Boulez in that he integrates acoustic and electronic soundworlds quite convincingly into this widely varied piece for flute, vibraphone, and live audio processing. Like Johnson, speech is an integral component, but in this case, it is chopped up into micro-fragments that mirror and drive the instrumental rhythms and timbres forward. The A/B Duo creates an integrated yet somehow also heterogeneous sound, and this is also the case on the rhythmically dizzying Glitch, by Brendan Randall-Myers, composed in 2015 and commissioned by the Duo. There, the electronic world has a direct influence on how acoustic instruments are played, bringing those early Stockhausen visions to some kind of fruition. The electronic soundscapes on which this constantly changing piece is based recall the improvised music of trios such as Phronesis, Meerenai Shim, and Christopher Jones, and the intimate familiarity here with those sounds is like a Classical-era ensemble handling the rhetoric of contemporaneous dance forms, to site only one example.
If all of this sounds too far afield of the classical music mainstream, take heart, as there’s even some of what Frank Zappa called “a bit of nostalgia for the old folks.” Andrea Reinkemeyer composed Wrought Iron (2012, on a commission from the Albany Symphony and for the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, an acoustically marvelous space I’ve loved for many years). The piece takes on tropes like Debussy and Ravel, and possibly a little Stravinsky thrown in for good measure; it’s hauntingly melodic and fun, dancing and almost running its way forward. There may even be a little Zappa in the syncopation and in the whimsical handling of modes.
While I single out these works for discussion, every piece in this program is well worth hearing. As with the other discs on this new label, programming is superb, the instrumentation creating unity while variety is maintained by the order of pieces and of composers. I await future Aerocade releases with eager anticipation. Marc Medwin
ReviewAerocade Music January 26, 2017 A/B Duo, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Brendon Randall-Myers, Brooks Frederickson, Christopher G. Jones, Drew Baker, Fanfare Magazine, flute, Ian Dicke, Meerenai Shim, Ned McGowan, percussion, Variety Show, Zack Browning
"Variety Show" featured in Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical
A/B Duo's Variety Show was featured on Bandcamp's Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: November 2016!
"One of the highlights is “Limb,” by composer Drew Baker, who drew inspiration from the large-scale wall drawings of Sol LeWitt—which were usually completed by hired hands from the artist’s designs. They make for a fitting reflection of the composer/performer relationship—particularly in the sonic evocation of small gestures thickening into dense waves. The rest of the album is equally vibrant and wide-ranging." - Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily
Read the rest at daily.bandcamp.com.
ReviewAerocade Music November 18, 2016 A/B Duo, Bandcamp Daily, Christopher G. Jones, Drew Baker, flute, Ian Dicke, Meerenai Shim, Ned McGowan, percussion, Peter Margasak, Variety Show
Pre-order the new A/B Duo Album, "Variety Show"
A/B Duo listening to mixes with engineer Alberto Hernandez at Fantasy Studios.
You can pre-order our next release, A/B Duo's "Variety Show," via Kickstarter right now. It will feature 7 compositions for flute and percussion by Drew Baker, Brooks Frederickson, Brendon Randall-Myers, Ian Dicke, Zack Browning, Andrea Reinkemeyer, and Ned McGowan.
AnnouncementAerocade Music June 25, 2016 A/B Duo, Alberto Hernandez, Drew Baker, Brooks Frederickson, Brendon Randall-Myers, Ian Dicke, Zack Browning, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Ned McGowan, Kickstarter, pre-order, Variety Show
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Senators To Meet Thursday Over Jamal Khashoggi Killing
A bipartisan group of senators is planning to meet tomorrow to work out a response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Tennessee Senator Bob Corker said it will have teeth and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said there is a consensus to suspend arms sales and stop support for the Saudi war in Yemen. The senators hope to come to a quick agreement and get a final vote on the package on Monday. Some senators were briefed on Tuesday by the CIA on the murder and said afterward they believe Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman was involved. The move would not only punish Saudi Arabia but would be a rebuke to the President Trump, who has said often he doesn't want to stop arms sales to the Kingdom.
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Ancient Monuments
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Brixworth market cross
A Scheduled Monument in Brixworth, Northamptonshire
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Mapcode National: GBR BV3.L41
Mapcode Global: VHDRL.8MLF
Entry Name: Brixworth market cross
Scheduled Date: 11 May 1978
Last Amended: 4 February 1999
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1018860
English Heritage Legacy ID: 29734
Civil Parish: Brixworth
Built-Up Area: Brixworth
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Brixworth All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
The monument includes a standing stone cross situated on the south side of
Church Street, immediately to the east of its junction with Cross Hill.
In plan the cross base is octagonal, rising in four steps of block
construction. The treads of the lower three show considerable signs of wear,
particularly on the northern side. The base supports a square socket stone
with carved decoration to the upper corners. The north face is incised with
the date 1727, commemorating the accession of George III. Morticed into the
socket stone, the stump - approximately 70cm high - of the original shaft is
square in plan, chamfered to an octagon.
The architectural style of the cross, which is Listed Grade II, suggests a
construction date between the 14th and 16th centuries, with some resetting in
the earlier part of the 20th century.
All modern road and path surfaces where they fall within the monument's
protective margin are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground
beneath them is included.
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The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 1 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
Reasons for Scheduling
A standing cross is a free standing upright structure, usually of stone,
mostly erected during the medieval period (mid 10th to mid 16th centuries AD).
Standing crosses served a variety of functions. In churchyards they served as
stations for outdoor processions, particularly in the observance of Palm
Sunday. Elsewhere, standing crosses were used within settlements as places for
preaching, public proclamation and penance, as well as defining rights of
sanctuary. Standing crosses were also employed to mark boundaries between
parishes, property, or settlements. A few crosses were erected to commemorate
battles. Some crosses were linked to particular saints, whose support and
protection their presence would have helped to invoke. Crosses in market
places may have helped to validate transactions. After the Reformation, some
crosses continued in use as foci for municipal or borough ceremonies, for
example as places for official proclamations and announcements; some were the
scenes of games or recreational activity.
Standing crosses were distributed throughout England and are thought to have
numbered in excess of 12,000. However, their survival since the Reformation
has been variable, being much affected by local conditions, attitudes and
religious sentiment. In particular, many cross-heads were destroyed by
iconoclasts during the 16th and 17th centuries. Less than 2,000 medieval
standing crosses, with or without cross-heads, are now thought to exist. The
oldest and most basic form of standing cross is the monolith, a stone shaft
often set directly in the ground without a base. The most common form is the
stepped cross, in which the shaft is set in a socket stone and raised upon a
flight of steps; this type of cross remained current from the 11th to 12th
centuries until after the Reformation. Where the cross-head survives it may
take a variety of forms, from a lantern-like structure to a crucifix; the more
elaborate examples date from the 15th century. Much less common than stepped
crosses are spire-shaped crosses, often composed of three or four receding
stages with elaborate architectural decoration and/or sculptured figures; the
most famous of these include the Eleanor crosses, erected by Edward I at the
stopping places of the funeral cortege of his wife, who died in 1290. Also
uncommon are the preaching crosses which were built in public places from the
13th century, typically in the cemeteries of religious communities and
cathedrals, market places and wide thoroughfares; they include a stepped base,
buttresses supporting a vaulted canopy, in turn carrying either a shaft and
head or a pinnacled spire. Standing crosses contribute significantly to our
understanding of medieval customs, both secular and religious, and to our
knowledge of medieval parishes and settlement patterns. All crosses which
survive as standing monuments, especially those which stand in or near their
original location, are considered worthy of protection.
Brixworth market cross is a well preserved example of a standing cross with an
octagonal stepped base and chamfered shaft located in or near its original
position. Archaeological deposits relating to the monument's construction and
use in this location are likely to survive as buried features. Most of the
cross has survived from medieval times and it continues to function as a
public monument and amenity.
'Association of Architects Soc. Reports' in Brixworth Market Cross, , Vol. 37, (1895), 116
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London, August 23, 2018,(AltAfrica) – A U.S. delegation is heading to Ethiopia on Wednesday to talk about the country’s reform efforts since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in April.
Republican Congressman Christopher Smith, who led the congressional delegation, said he “is cautiously optimistic” about the political reforms in the country.
In an interview with VOA’s Horn of Africa, Smith says he will meet Prime Minister Abiy and Foreign Minister Affairs Minister Workineh Gebeyehu and push for continued reforms, as well as reinforcing human rights issues.
“We are going to meet with him [prime minister] and encourage him and try to get our own sense of how well the reform process is moving,” Smith said.
The congressman is the architect of H.R. 128, legislation condemning human rights abuses in Ethiopia and outlining a number of reforms that Ethiopia must take to promote peace and democracy. The resolution was passed in the House of Representatives earlier this year.
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Since Abiy took office in April, Ethiopia has instituted reforms including releasing political prisoners, diluting state control of the economy, and making peace with northern neighbor Eritrea after two decades of hostility.
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These reforms, the congressman said, will only strengthen the country, “and we stand in solidarity with the Ethiopian people in pushing to promote these rights.”
Besides top officials, the U.S. delegation will also meet with religious and civic leaders, and journalists. Their talks are to focus on human rights and democracy in Ethiopia.
Smith confirmed to VOA’s Horn of Africa service that the government of Ethiopia has begun amending the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation with input from opposition parties.
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Are We Sick of the Controversy Yet?
By Beaux Reliosis on April 2, 2017 • ( 6 )
The singular thing on my mind today is, how can a disease be controversial? Either people are sick, or they aren’t sick—right? What could possibly be controversial about sickness? People are sick; you give them comfort and healing.
Lyme disease is frequently described as a “controversial” diagnosis, as victims are accused of needing psychiatric intervention instead of real medical care. Alan Barbour wrote an entire unreferenced book on the “controversy” of Lyme disease. Gulf War veterans are caught up in a similar “controversy” over whether they are really sick. Kids are relegated to “The Spectrum” based on certain behaviors—without benefit of first ruling out organic illnesses or brain damage; the controversy being that vaccines couldn’t possibly have a role in one in 48 kids being brain damaged for life.
Think about it. Why would there be controversy surrounding any group of people who are physically suffering? And why does nobody find the controversy, itself, controversial? Doctors are supposed to heal the sick—not tell them that they are imagining their illness. There’s a controversy: doctors who only pretend to do their job.
There are two common threads here that need to be addressed. 1) We are dealing with an epidemic of acquired immune deficiency as the unifying element of “controversial” diseases, and 2) If the “powers that be” were being truthful, there would be no controversy.
The nonprofits would find cures, patients would be treated for their diseases, and we’d put our brain power into intellectual and technological pursuits to advance the well being of humankind. Instead, we’re living the dystopian nightmare. Which one? Take your pick.
As we observed decades ago from the HIV/AIDS crisis and controversy, the government is perfectly content to bury the truth along with the bodies. Now, however, it has become frighteningly clear that they have a vested interest in continuing to do so. Because to acknowledge this new AIDS crisis would expose the government’s thoroughly rotten core. If sick people are controversial, then you can bet that someone has a financial interest in keeping them that way. The rotten truth is that this cancer of our “healthcare” infrastructure is so thoroughly metastasized, that a strong wind would render the whole thing a cloud of dust. On the count of three…everybody blow.
Maybe the situation wouldn’t be so dire if the tobacco industry hadn’t been allowed to run amok for most of the 20th century. Our current situation makes “tobacco science” seem like a walk in the park. Remember how we learned the truth about the dangers of smoking, and of secondhand smoke, and how very addictive cigarettes are? It seems like a no-brainer in retrospect: Sucking the smoke of chemically-laced, burning organic matter into your lungs can’t be healthy. But the industry had gone to extraordinary lengths to manipulate data and use physicians to sell the shit out of a product that no logical human, on his worst day, would conclude to be healthy.
All the time we see new examples of the corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. Just last week the case of Merck’s killing of the elderly with thigh-bone-breaking Fosamax reemerged. Is the opioid epidemic even scandalous any more? Which bad drug is on the class action list this week? When the exposure of the vaccine industry’s abuses and failures finally happens, will we treat it with the same ho-hum indifference that we show for the ever-growing list of Pharma drug crimes? How long until the truth comes out, and we all laugh, and say, “OF COURSE it’s not healthy to inject a bunch of chemicals, along with a stew of immunogenic products, live viruses and unknown contaminants into our babies. Silly us!”
We know, intuitively, that this is not a healthy practice. But in the same way that tobacco science owned the MDs, so does the pharmaceutical industry of today. And with the vaccine schedule spinning out of control—with new vaccines and boosters being constantly added, hundreds of vaccines in the development pipeline, and even adult mandates being considered by lawmakers—the doctors, for the most part, are all-in. They have chosen the side of Corporate Pharma over the well being of the patients they are supposed to serve. They have failed to “first do no harm,” by refusing to recognize the modern parallels to tobacco science and all of its consequences. They feed into the controversies by denying illnesses that can’t be diagnosed through their limited Pharma-provided toolbox.
It was pure coincidence that this blog post by Michael J. Goldberg, MD came out today, as I was contemplating the insanity of any disease being considered controversial:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/its-autism-awareness-day-what-the-american-medical_us_58dd9dafe4b0efcf4c66a746
Oh, wait. They removed the article. No worries: Access it here until it disappears again. http://dailyhealthadvisors.com/it039s-autism-awareness-day-what-the-american-medical-association-isn039t-telling-you-huffington-post/ If that doesn’t work, just read my PDF copy.
I recommend reading the entire article, but here is a good chunk to get you started:
“Tens of thousands [sic] families now have children psychiatrically “labeled” as Autistic / PDD, ADD, ADHD, OCD and now even CDD (Childhood Disintegrative Disorder). Psychiatric and Developmental disorders like this have reached epidemic levels in children: Autism alone is now 1:48 (2.1%) and rising. Polio, at its worse [sic], was 1:1500 (.07%) children. Basic medical science teaches there cannot be an epidemic of a developmental or genetic disorder.
“The assumption that ASD behaviors and mannerisms of 2.1% of our children (and climbing) is the result of a mental condition is scientifically untenable. When analyzed from a medical perspective, the presenting dysfunctions/symptoms of most of these children can be explained far more appropriately by the concept of a ‘Phenotype’, that is part of a complex immune, complex viral disease presenting with secondary “Autistic, ADHD, OCD, Anxiety or ODD” symptoms.
“As a practicing pediatrician I have devoted the last 25 years working with ASD labeled children. I have identified through years of observation, blood tests and brain scans, an understandable Phenotype of a medical disease process (complex immune, complex viral), that logically and scientifically explains the mixed collection of symptoms manifested in ASD children including: Chronic “ill” appearance, abnormal sleep patterns, chronic allergies, fine motor issues, coordination issues, hypo/hyper profusion in the temporal and frontal lobes of the brain, and abnormally elevated viral titers including HHV6, Epstein Barr, and CMV. These and other markers, in my professional opinion, are indicative of a medically treatable disease process and not a psychological and/or developmental dysfunction.”
Remember the part about the viruses, as I now segue into some facts about the Lyme disease aspect of this new acquired immune deficiency epidemic.
“Lyme disease” was redefined in 1994 to exclude the chronic, neurologic, immune deficiency cases. Yes, this is a fact, borne out by the evidence of the perpetrators’ own research and patents.
Multiple research groups have published reports confirming that in the majority of victims the disease is not autoimmune, but rather, one that blunts the immune response. Even the Lyme Crooks now admit that late Lyme is an immunosuppression disease.
The fungal-type antigens that are shed by borrelia do the same thing other fungal-type antigens do when they are injected into a human. They cause an initial septic event, and to prevent death from sepsis, the immune system becomes “tolerized” to the types of antigens that caused the infection. That means permanent immunosuppression, and it’s why the Lyme vaccine, LYMErix, failed, causing the same disease as Lyme from a tick bite.
(As an aside: That’s also why other, similar, vaccines have failed. Tuberculosis, HIV, brucella. The organisms are bearers of fungal-type antigens. You can’t take the fungal-type (triacylated) bits and call them a vaccine, because they do the opposite of what a vaccine is supposed to do.)
Nicole Baumgarth‘s group at UC Davis showed us how Lyme causes tolerance to spread to immune receptors for other types of antigens. For the chronically ill Lyme victims, there’s almost no chance of testing positive on an antibody test for Lyme disease—particularly when the CDC-designed-and-sanctioned diagnostic standard is like playing antibody bingo. And since most of the diagnostic tests used by doctors are antibody tests, the sicker you are, the lower your chance of being diagnosed with anything. Congratulations! You are the proud owner of a Medically Unexplained Syndrome, otherwise known as post-sepsis!
Richard Hotchkiss of Washington University in St. Louis has published extensively about the phenomenon of post-sepsis. If you understand anything about HIV/AIDS, it’s easy to see the similarities (although HIV is a T cell disease and Lyme affects B cells); it’s not the causative pathogen itself that produces chronic illness, but the fallout from the immunosuppression: reactivated herpesviruses (Epstein Barr, CMV, HHV-6, etc.) and opportunistics of all kinds. Remember what Michael J. Goldberg, MD, said regarding the “autistic” kids who he treats?
“…abnormally elevated viral titers including HHV6, Epstein Barr, and CMV.”
So, kids with post-sepsis AIDS and/or brain damage from live, neurotropic vaccine viruses are controversial because they represent the harsh reality that vaccines do, indeed, cause this thing we call “autism.”
Tick bite post-sepsis victims are controversial because they represent all of the failed fungal vaccines, plus a subset of the population who should not be administered live virus vaccines.
Pharma likes to trot out the immunosuppressed cancer kids as their prime example of protecting the vulnerable from “vaccine-preventable” diseases. Let me be clear: no child should have to battle cancer, ever. But neither should kids be forced to endure the medical and psych abuse that comes with the manufactured controversy of Lyme disease. I’m offended on multiple levels by the implications of pitting one group of sick kids against another purely for the manipulation of the public perception of the value and efficacy of vaccines.
Military Veterans are controversial because they represent unwitting test subjects, adult victims of over-vaccination and chemically induced immunosuppression, with the worst cases having traumatic brain injury (also immunosuppressive) on top of it all. They are controversial because the government is obligated to pay for the medical care that’s needed to address the immunosuppression disease that the government caused, but subsequently denies.
People who question a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia, or fight for recognition of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) are controversial because, despite having been dumped into buckets that are labeled “psychiatric,” they know there is something physically, medically, terribly wrong, and they’re being lied to, instead of being properly treated. Oftentimes they are simply Lyme or Gulf War Illness victims who have been recategorized for being too controversial.
What does all of this really mean? Let me ask you.
If large groups of the population are not producing disease-fighting antibodies, for lack of a functioning immune system, how can vaccines work?
I’ll answer: They cannot.
How can “herd immunity” even be considered possible, then?
It cannot.
Furthermore, since vaccines may be contaminated with fungal-type antigens (ask the WHO), shouldn’t this fact be part of informed consent? Would people willingly put their children at risk if they knew that such contamination can cause immunosuppression and lead to their children being brain-damaged from the live, neurotropic viruses in vaccines?
Since live vaccine viruses can shed for weeks or months, shouldn’t the victims of denied immunosuppression diseases be warned to take the same precautions as cancer patients around recently vaccinated individuals? Would that be too complicated and costly for an industry that relies on everyone being prescribed the same vaccines?
Would that cut too deeply into their profits?
Since temporary immunosuppression can be caused by something as mundane as a viral infection or sun exposure, should doctors check kids’ immune status before administering vaccines?
Since newborn babies are known to have immature immune systems, should they receive any vaccines at all on day one? Should they be checked for congenital infections such as CMV, which is well known to cause hearing, vision, and developmental problems that may not be evident until much later?
What will be the tipping point for risk versus benefit? If people have to be mandated by law to inject their children with products whose manufacturers bear zero liability in the event of injury, shouldn’t we parents entertain a modicum of suspicion for the safety of our children? Are we witnessing the second coming of tobacco science? Tell me: is this not controversial?
While we languish, waiting for vaccine science to face the same scrutiny as tobacco science, the problem is compounding. We are losing our children to industry. We are losing ourselves to chronic illness that consumes our lives and distracts us from taking a stand. But we must take a stand now, and it must be rooted in this knowledge:
You can’t have a disease if it is a threat to the vaccine paradigm. Period.
You may only be immunosuppressed from HIV, or one of the Pharma trifecta of chemo, steroids, or MAB drugs such as Humira or Stelara. Any other form of immunosuppression is a direct assault on their business model and is not allowed.
You are not allowed to be immunosuppressed from a vaccine (MenB, LYMErix, measles virus), a vaccine’s contaminants, a fungal infection, Lyme or other vector-borne diseases, congenital Lyme, chronic mold exposure, chemical exposure such as DEET or anti-nerve agent, post-sepsis from any infection not leaving a massive, gaping wound, or even a transient viral infection. Merely talking about immunosuppression will cause controversy to rain down on you like a flock of geese caught in a jet turbine.
Controversy is blaming victims for their disease and not offering any kind of help whatsoever. Controversy is lying about disease mechanisms to protect corporate profits. Controversy is maiming and killing children without remorse. Controversy is the revolving door marked “Vaccine Cronies Enter Here” between Pharma and the CDC. And Controversy is one of the most prominent Lyme nonprofits being run by a vice chairman of Credit Suisse, one of the main players in the subprime lending crisis, and arguably in cahoots with the banksters behind the American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF), the propaganda and marketing arm of the Lyme Cryme.
Controversy is a sickness all its own.
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November 3, 2017 • 4:07 pm
Thank you for assembling these facts in your candid way. Most of us including medical professionals come to this information because of our own illness or someone close to us. Many times I would mention in conversation prior to actually knowing the subject of ‘growing autism numbers’ to my dismay would be shut down with statements similar to, “They were there all along just not recognized and labeled” or “The population is growing (in general) that is why it seems like a lot more.” These are medical people not associated with the pharmaceutical industry that perpetrated this belief as fact! A few years ago I forwarded information about Autism and Lyme to a friend whose granddaughter has autism and was met with resistance. Now that was a shock, since so many articles I came upon researching Lyme included something about Autism. I am hoping the “numbers of parents or anyone effected with either will cause a revolution. After all Lyme cover up controversy is not the only lie Americans or other world citizens have been told.
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April 30, 2017 • 6:07 am
Turns out they were messing with spirochetes and tolerance back in the day, and mention Eric Traub’s similar experiments in the 1930s. Didn’t Tuskegee start in 1932?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=immunosuppression+and+syphilis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082424/pdf/brjexppathol00356-0068.pdf
“Traub (1938) produced tolerance by infecting embryonic mice with lymphocytic choriomeningitits virus, and his work has been confirmed by Hotchkin (1958).
“In most experiments in which deliberate attempts to induce tolerance have been made, a single manifestation of the specific immune response such as suppression of antibody formation or hypersensitivity [the 2 kinds of Lyme, immunosuppression or bad knee – added by KMD] phenomenon of the delayed type was chosen as a criterion, in terms of which the results were interpreted… ”
Raven Strattis
Tuskegee went 40yrs before whistleblower end mid-70’s…Lyme started then, just not named till early 80’s. The intentional Epidemic is why I call this…Tuskegee 2…only logical choice for what’s been happening since 1975, we Are the Experiment
July 5, 2017 • 11:44 am
Many people think Lyme is Tuskegee III. Tuskegee II being Guatemala.
April 3, 2017 • 5:41 am
Wouldnt it be great if people with “MD” after their names knew how to read?
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Gabriel Sherman of the New York Magazine has written a short exposé on Fox News’ much-rumoured “Black Room”, a non-too subtle nickname for a dirty tricks department which operated under the control of discredited former CEO, Roger Ailes, for many years. Some of the accusations in relation to the depth and breadth of the unit’s activities are quite astonishing when one remembers that they were alledgedly taking place at the behest of major television news network in the United States. The nearest Irish equivalent would be, I suppose, the acknowledged domination of the News and Current Affairs Department of RTÉ by entryist anti-republicans during the 1970s and ’80s. Though given Fox News’ role as a cheerleader in the US’ misadventures in Iraq and the supposed War on Terror, the bloodshed on its hands is rather thicker than that of the former Workers Party renegades who contributed to the needless prolonging of the conflict in the north-east of Ireland.
“…Ailes was also able to use portions of the Fox budget to hire consultants, political operatives, and private detectives who reported only to him, according to a senior Fox source. Last week, according to the source, Fox News dismissed five consultants whom Ailes had hired to do work that was more about advancing his own agenda than Fox’s. One of the consultants, Bert Solivan, ran negative PR campaigns against Ailes’s personal and political enemies out of Fox News headquarters…
According to one highly placed source, Solivan worked out of what Fox insiders called “the Black Room,” an operation Ailes established around 2011 to conduct PR and surveillance campaigns against people he targeted, both inside and outside the company. The “Black Room” was located on the 14th floor of the News Corp building at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, a quiet part of the office that housed Fox News Latino and some marketing and promotions employees.
Targets of the campaigns included journalists John Cook and Hamilton Nolan, who have aggressively covered Ailes for Gawker. According to one source, private detectives followed Cook around his Brooklyn neighborhood, and Fox operatives prepared a report on him with information they intended to leak to blogs.
Fox operatives also targeted Joe Lindsley, the former editor of Ailes’s local newspaper, the Putnam County News and Recorder. In April 2011, Lindsley had a falling-out with Ailes and quit the paper, along with two co-workers. Ailes assigned private investigators to follow Lindsley around Putnam County. He also asked Fox host Andrea Tantaros, whom Ailes had once seated next to Lindsley at a dinner party at Ailes’s home, to contact Lindsley and report back on his whereabouts, two sources said. Meanwhile, Solivan posted negative comments about Lindsley on blogs…
I was also the target of an operation, a source told me: In 2012, while I was researching a biography of Ailes, Fox operatives set up webpages to attack my reputation, and Fox funds paid for Google search ads against my name that linked to the sites. One source also said private investigators employed by Fox contributor Bo Dietl were instructed to follow me and my wife.”
It seems that Roger Ailes was acting as the J. Edgar Hoover of American broadcasting for decades and, as with the latter authoritarian figure, very few indeed were willing to challenge him or his practices. However nefarious.
TagsBert Solivan • Fox News • Gabriel Sherman • J. Edgar Hoover • Official IRA - OIRA • Roger Ailes • The Black Room • Workers Party - WP
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Holy shit. Just…holy shit. That’s all I have to say.
Virtually all of U.S. media engages in these practises. They are all dog-eat-dog and don’t shy away from flat-out criminality to get the next “story.” Breaking into places and stealing documents, bribing “stoolies,” changing or splicing sound and video, altering photographs, and flat out lying – anything goes, A lot of their “articles” “critical” of select folks (i.e. personal enemies) would result in libel awards in our country.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1870s → 1878 → December 1878 → 17 December 1878 → Lords Sitting → HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE (PRINCESS ALICE).
ADDRESS OF CONDOLENCE.
HL Deb 17 December 1878 vol 243 cc945-8 945
§ THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD
My Lords, when last I had the honour of addressing your Lordships it was in the warm controversy of public life. I little thought then that before we dispersed I should have again to appeal to your Lordships. The subject to which I have to refer on this occasion is one on which there will be unanimity—but, alas, it is the unanimity of sorrow. My Lords, you are too well aware that a great calamity has fallen on the Royal Family of this realm. A Princess, who loved us though she left us, and who always revisited her Fatherland with delight—one of those women the brightness of whose being adorns society and inspires the circle in which she lives—has been removed from this world, to the anguish of her family, her friends, and her subjects. The Princess Alice—for I will venture to call her by that name, though she wore a Crown—afforded one of the most striking instances that I can remember of richness of culture and rare intelligence combined with the most pure and refined domestic sentiments. You, my Lords, who knew her life well, can recall those agonizing hours when she attended the dying bed of her illustrious Father, who had directed her studies and formed her tastes. You can recall, too, the moment at which she attended her Royal Brother at a time when the hopes of England seemed to depend on his life, and now you can remember too well how, when the whole of her own family were stricken by a malignant disease, she had been to them the angel in the house till at last her own vital power perhaps exhausted, she has herself fallen. My Lords, there is something wonderfully piteous in the immediate cause of her death. The physicians who permitted her to watch over her suffering family enjoined her under no circumstances whatever to be tempted 946 into an embrace. Her admirable self-restraint guarded her through the crises of this terrible complaint in safety. She remembered and observed the injunctions of her physicians. But it became her lot to break to her son, quite a youth, the death of his youngest sister, to whom he was devotedly attached. The boy was so overcome with misery that the agitated mother to console him clasped him in her arms—and thus received the kiss of death. My Lords, I hardly know an incident more pathetic. It is one by which poets might be inspired, and in which the artist in every class, whether in picture, in statue, or in gem, might find a fitting subject of commemoration. My Lords, we will not dwell at this moment on the sufferings of the husband whom she has left behind and of the children who were so devoted to her; but our immediate duty is to offer our condolence to one whose happiness and whose sorrows always excite and command the loyalty and affectionate respect of this House. Upon Her Majesty a great grief has fallen which none but the Queen can so completely and acutely feel. Seventeen years ago Her Majesty experienced the crushing sorrow of her life, and then she was particularly sustained by the Daughter whom she has now lost, who assisted her by her labours, and aided her by her presence and counsel. Her Majesty now feels that the cup of sorrow was not then exhausted. No language can express the consolation we wish to extend to our Sovereign in her sorrow—such suffering is too fresh to allow of solace; but, however exalted, there are none but must be sustained by the consciousness that they possess the sympathy of a nation. My Lords, with these feelings I beg to propose for your Lordships' acceptance the following Motion:— That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, to express the deep concern of this House at the great loss which Her Majesty has sustained by the death of Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, second daughter of Her Majesty the Queen, and to condole with Her Majesty on this melancholy occasion. To assure Her Majesty that this House will ever feel the warmest interest in whatever concerns Her Majesty's domestic relations; and to declare the ardent wishes of this House for the happiness of Her Majesty and of her family.
§ EARL GRANVILLE
My Lords, I feel your Lordships will expect, and indeed wish, me to join in the declaration which the noble Earl has made with so much feeling of the heartfelt loyalty and deep sorrow with which we all desire to approach our gracious Sovereign on the occasion of this Address. My Lords, the accidents of a political career gave me some opportunity of observing the domestic life of the Royal Family during the course of eleven years. At the beginning of that period Princess Alice was a singularly attractive child of seven years old. I doubt whether any childhood or youth was ever more joyous and bright, or ever gave a livelier promise of that which was afterwards so amply fulfilled. At the end of that time I had the honour of proposing an Address in this House on Her Royal Highness's marriage—a marriage which seemed founded upon all the best securities for wedded happiness. The child had grown into womanhood with all those personal, moral, and mental qualities which the noble Earl has so well described. The principal characteristics of the married life of the Grand Duchess appear to have been—first, absolute devotion to her husband and children; next, a course not merely of benevolence, but of unceasing thoughtful beneficence to all depending upon her; and, lastly, a remarkable talent for acquiring the sympathy and attracting the regard of some of the most gifted of the intellectual country which she had adopted, and to whose interests she was devoted without ever breaking a link in the chain of memories and associations which bound her to the country of her birth. The noble Earl has already alluded to the singular coincidence of three dates which will never pass from the pages of English history. My Lords, I trust that neither the writer nor your Lordships will think it indiscreet if, instead of trusting to my own language to impress your feelings as to the loss which has on this last 14th of December befallen the Royal Families of England and Darmstadt, I read to you a few words extracted from a letter written on the day of the sad tragedy by a brother passionately devoted to his sister, and who left England last night to pay the last sad tribute of affection and respect to her beloved memory— 948 So good, so kind, so clever. We had gone through so much together—my father's illness, then my own; and she has succumbed to the pernicious malady which laid low her husband and children, whom she nursed and watched with unceasing care and attention. … The Queen bears up bravely, but her grief is deep beyond words. My Lords, I will add nothing. I only ask to be allowed to second the Motion which has been made.
§ On Question, agreed to, nemine dissentiente.
§ Ordered, That the said Address be presented to Her Majesty by the Lords with White Staves.
§ House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, to Thursday the 13th of February next, a quarter before Five o'clock.
Back to HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE (PRINCESS ALICE).
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Baby Name of the Day: Azalea
July 26, 2011 By appellationmountain 23 Comments
It’s another botanical option from the ever-expanding list of Nature Names parents are considering for their children.
Thanks to Elizabeth for suggesting one she’s considering for her baby on the way. Our Baby Name of the Day is Azalea.
Virtually every bloom offers some possibility for a child’s name, but it helps that Azalea sounds an awful lot like Top 100 picks Amelia or Natalia – three syllables, elaborate, but not overly frilly. Depending on where you live, you might opt for the four-syllable pronunciation ah ZAY lee ah, which puts her in equally good company – think of the oh-so popular Olivia.
She’s a relatively modern option, chosen by Carl Linnaeus in the mid-eighteenth century to describe the plant. He took the name from the Greek azaleos – dry, because the lovely azalea does well in sandy soil. The Azalea Society of America describes them as “forgiving as easy to grow.” The plants can be found in Asia, Europe, and North America – so can festivals and local celebrations held in the spring when azaleas bloom.
My favorite is Mobile, Alabama’s Azalea Trail. Fifty local high school seniors don antebellum dress to welcome visitors to the section of the city known for its blooms. Never mind that the custom of planting azaleas dates only to 1929. Their dresses – hoops, pantaloons, and parasols required – are fascinating. You can also sight-see the azaleas in other US states, or head to Asia. I’m fascinated by Tatebayashi, a small town an hour from Tokyo by train, famous for its Azalea Hill Park. The US National Arboretum boasts a particularly impressive collection of hybrids, known for their vivid colors.
As a given name, Azalea has never charted in the US Top 1000. But she’s out there. I stumbled across an Azalia, the daughter of a railroad president in the nineteenth century. Dad named a tiny station stop in Michigan in her honor.
Azélie is a French variant, and takes the name in a whole other direction. Marie-Azélie Guérin was the mother of nine daughters in nineteenth century France. Five survived to adulthood; all five became nuns. The youngest, Marie-Françoise-Thérèse, is better known as Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, “The Little Flower.” Her memoir, The Story of a Soul, was published posthumously, and remains influential today.
The French version also gives us a possible short form for Azalea: Zelie. In the eighteenth century, a German immigrant to the US named a tiny Pennsylvania town after his daughter, Zelie. Around the same time that the future Saint Therese was exploring spiritual unknowns, Brooklyn-born French-American singer Zelie de Lussan was touring Europe as an opera singer of some renown.
It may be that Zelie is a short form for other names, too. She seems to gaining just a shimmer of attention. I found this birth announcement for a little girl named Zélie Queen, a little sister for Lucy, Otto, and Clementine.
But back to Azalea – she strikes me as unusual and a little bit showy, but still completely wearable. Louis Armstrong recorded a piece called “Azalea,” a lovely little piece about the flowers. There’s a vague spiritual tie available if you need one, but mostly this is an attractive nature name that will make your daughter stand out in a garden of girls called Lily and Violet.
Name of the Day: Fuchsia
Name of the Day: Bryony
Baby Name of the Day: Zinnia
Baby Name of the Day: Sequoia
I keep coming back to this name. I’m between avianna elise or azalea celeste
They’re both pretty, but Azalea Celeste seems the stronger name – I absolutely love it!
my 12 yr old’s name is Azalea Rain
I love this name. I find out the sex of my baby in about a week, and if its a girl I’m naming her Azalea Eve, Azalea Skye or Azalea Rain. I wanted to use my grandmothers middle name which is Fern but i think the names clash, anyone know a variant of fern that would sound nice?
i am naming my daughter Azalea but the “e” is silent so its pronounced A-zay-lah 🙂 love it!!
Too botanical for me, if there is such a thing. We met a Magnolia with a brother named Orion.
Lady Gwyn says
Sounds quite lovely-I have a soft spot for floral names, and Azalea isn’t one that immediately jumps to mind, but I like it. I also like Zelie and Zelia as nicknames-Love the zippy Z’s!
I was a Mobile Azalea Trail Maid! The dress still lives in a dress bag under my bed as it is against Trail Maid Rules to pass it on. So fun to see the organization get a shout out here! 🙂 Though azaleas have a sweet place in my heart, I’m not sure I’m bold enough to use this names.
*name. Oops!
dreadedjaws says
I love Azalea and now that you’ve mentioned Zelie – I love it even more! I’m a big fan of botanical and bloom names and Azalea is near the top… too bad I haven’t any intention of naming any more bitty babies!
Down here in azalea country (North Carolina, home of the Wilmington azalea festival) it’s said ah-ZAYL-yah. Could be pretty to some ears, but it’s clunky and awkward to this Southern gal.
Reminds me of my maternal grandmother’s name, Ozella. That said, Azalea would not make my list. Even if I would be likely to use a nature name, several other choices would be listed ahead of Azalea…Zinnia, Winter, Lake…
It’s a bit showy for my tastes, but on the right little girl Azalea could be very pretty. Zelia could also be sweet nickname for Cecilia.
I adore Z
Azalea doesn’t capture my attention, but I love Zelie or Zelia (rhymes with Delia).
Sarah A says
Azalea is really pretty. I like how you put it Abby: Azalea will stand out in a garden of Lilys and Violets. She also has that really “on-trend” long Ay sound, which I think would help her from sounding too obscure.
Congrats Elizabeth on your impending arrival, and good luck choosing a name 🙂
B. says
I love, love, love this name. The only thing that would keep me from using it is that an Azalea would possibly have to spell her name for people who aren’t botanically inclined.
I recently read of a baby being born named “[email protected]” I’m not impressed. I highly doubt it’s a form of Azalea, but probably more of the Haley rhyming trend (Bailey, Kaylee, Jaylie, Brayley,Mayleigh…I could go on and on).
British American says
I know a 6 year old Azalea here in the midwest. She has a younger sister called Acacia. Except they respelled Azalea as something like Azaylia. Which led to the nickname Zay. I used the 4 syllable pronunciation with her name, which was hopefully the same as they were using – haven’t seen them in several years.
I do like the name. 🙂
Azalea’s got a pretty sound but she’s too showy a flower for my liking. plus, I really don’t like the letter A. I like Zelie and Zella, but am more likely to use Zelda to get to those nicknames. I would like to see more of Azalea as a whole but it’s not the flower for me.
Elisabeth, You Can't Call It "It"! says
I seriously considered Zelie as both a first and middle name for Eulalie, but it lost out as a middle for this first name. It is still near and dear to my heart. The St. Therese connection was addressed, but I didn’t know about the Brooklyn born opera singer! That *could* have tipped the scales. Would like to see more people choose this!
Love Azalea too.
Nook of Names says
A very pretty name — and unlike some pretty names, it offers plenty of scope to be tailored by the bearer to something that suits them. Personally, I adore azaleas — their vibrant displays in the spring are always such a welcome sight after the long drab winter months (certainly, in my neck of the woods!).
waltzingmorethanmatilda says
I read that in China, the azalea symbolises womanhood, which is nice. People who love “To Kill a Mockingbird” will remember Miss Maudie’s beloved azaleas which got frozen in a rare Maycomb cold snap.
I think this name has a lot of potential. Flower names are “in”, and so are names with an AY sound in them. Zelie and Lea make cute nicknames, and there’s always Zay.
According to the Victorian “language of flowers” Azalea symbolises temperance.
Fetching Names: Elaborate As with Tomboy Nicknames | Appellation Mountain says:
[…] Azalea – A bold botanical is always a feminine choice, even the bloom is as unexpected as Tulip or Zinnia.
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Thank you for visiting our "Aquaponics STEM Classrooms In Action, Part 1 Page". Watch for Part 2 in the STEM Education Coalition Newsletter and remember to check out our "Aquaponics in The Classroom", our "Where To Get an Aquaponics Grant" and our "STEM Resourses" Pages and feel free to give us a call at 760-671-3053 or email us at urbanfarmer@aquaonicsusa.com
Part 1: Walking on to the Manzo Elementary School campus located in Tucson, Arizona's west side is like entering a full functioning hobby farm. Students can be seen picking cilantro and carrots from their outdoor school garden, herding (or often carrying) chickens back into their coop, greeting their giant desert tortoise or planting seeds into grow cubes for their next Aquaponics STEM Food Growing System crop.
Sitting right in the middle of all the hustle and bustle of this school’s amazing Ecology Program is the Manzo Greenhouse and inside is a 44 sq. ft. Aquaponics STEM Food Growing System with its accompanying 320 gallon fish tank.
This school was an early adopter of Aquaponics STEM Food Growing Systems and started their Aquaponics program in late 2011 when Aquaponics USA installed their STEM system into a Music Room during the Christmas break that year.
Aquaponics is a food growing technology that utilizes live fish to fertilize vegetables and fruits in a cross-linked ecosystem where the fish fertilize the plants and the plants clean the water for the fish.
STEM Food Growing Systems integrate Plant and Fish Biology with Chemistry, Math and Engineering. It's STEM Education that actually deals with stems.
Here is the original STEM Food Growing System that was installed in the Manzo Music Room.
There are two more Grow Beds on the other side of the 320 gallon fish tank.
Sitting on top of the tank is the Automatic Fish Feeder, which allows Teachers to leave their Aquaponics STEM Classrooms for the weekend or holidays without worrying about feeding the fish.
This System was moved to the Greenhouse.
Once their Aquaponics STEM Food Growing System was installed in the Greenhouse with all of that natural light, they could grow flowering plants along with leafy greens. Indoor systems using Fluorescent Grow Lights like the ones pictured above can only grow leafy greens. But now Schools can order our new LED Grow Lights for indoor growing that put out the kind of light spectrum that allows for the growing of both leafy greens and flowering plants like tomatoes, squash, melons, peppers and much more right inside of Classrooms, Multi-purpose rooms and even Libraries as you’ll see in Part 2.
Pictured next to this photo of the Manzo Greenhouse is a Grow Bed full of Swiss Chard and Arugula. In order to grow these incredibly healthy vegetables, students need to learn to monitor their Aquaponics STEM Food Growing System, which means maintaining the balance between the fish in the fish tank and the vegetables in the Grow Beds. Therefore, the Manzo Elementary students learn to perform water quality measurements on their STEM System and, in so doing, they learn elementary chemistry concepts along with the Nitrogen Cycle, and they practice reading water temperature thermometers.
Above are two unusual plants that are growing like weeds (there aren’t any actual weeds in Aquaponics systems) in Manzo’s STEM Food Growing System. The first one is called Portuguese Kale, and it was chosen because it grows well in hot temperatures like Tucson experiences during the summer.
The second one is called Chinese Water Spinach also known as Morning Glory. It’s used in specialty duck and shrimp dishes in Thai cooking, and it can’t be sourced anywhere locally by the Senae Thai Bistro in downtown Tucson. Pictured above is the happy face of Dee, the Thai Bistro owner, after she receives her bi-monthly delivery of Chinese Water Spinach and Thai basil from Manzo’s Stem Food Growing System.
The red pebbles you see in the Grow Beds above are expanded clay Grow Bed Media. Aquaponics does not use soil for growing food because it’s main source of nutrients comes from the water that is recycled back and forth from the fish tank to the Grow Beds.The expanded clay holds the plants in place in what are called Deep Media Grow Beds (one type of Grow Bed that is used in Aquaponics) and it functions as a place for the friendly bacteria to grow and thrive. Aquaponics actually grows three things--fish, vegetables, fruits and friendly bacteria that break down the fish waste and turn it into nitrates that the plants use as fertilizer. That’s where the Nitrogen Cycle comes into play and why it’s important for students to learn about it.
In the words of Blue Baldwin, the Manzo Ecology Program Coordinator (pictured here), “the plants are sold at the Weekly ‘Manzo Market’, a student-run farmer's market that aims to get school garden-grown produce back into the homes of the students that cultivated it.” Blue goes on to explain that, “at the most basic level, the Aquaponics System at Manzo effortlessly engages students' natural curiosity and connects them to a world of abundance and systems in balance they delight in interacting with.”
What Blue is coordinating at Manzo is quite literally a magical wonderland of plants, fish and animals all interacting with excited, engaged and amazed children. This is STEM Teaching at its best. Blue did her undergraduate studies at Colorado College and later completed her MPH (Masters in Public Health) degree at the University of Arizona.
She shares that “after working in various sustainability related fields, from natural building materials to watershed management to tree planting to roof top gardening in Manhattan, I joined Manzo Elementary in the Fall of 2014 as the Ecology Program Coordinator and count my lucky stars every day!”
Before Blue took charge of the Manzo Ecology Program in the fall of 2014, there was Moses Thompson, above and on the rightt. He was there in 2011 when the STEM Food Growing System was installed in the Music Room. This picture shows the Manzo installation crew putting the expanded clay into the Grow Beds. Moses took the bull by the horns, so to speak, and really ran with the Manzo Aquaponics STEM System. In 2013, the Greenhouse was built and in late 2014, Blue came on board and later Moses was promoted to head the entire School Gardening Program for the Tucson Unified School District.
With Coordinators and Instructors like Blue and Moses, any Aquaponics STEM Program would be a huge success turning Science into hands-on interactive learning at its best.
Then there’s the fish, which are an important part of STEM Food Growing Systems. The fish are so important that Aquaponics USA calls the fish tank “the engine of the Aquaponics System”. And what a bunch of whoppers are being grown in Manzo’s 320 gallon fish tank! Tilapia are one of the easiest fish to grow because they are very hardy and can withstand beginner water quality errors.
According to Blue, the “tilapia are harvested when they reach approximately two pounds” at which point “they are sold at the ‘Manzo Market’ ”. They “always sell out immediately, even with a one-per-customer limit!” Raising tilapia really isn’t difficult as long as their water quality is good, so students need to take frequent water quality measurements.
The fish tank may be one of the most fascinating places on the Manzo campus. Everything fish do goes on inside that fish tank. They eat, they breed, they brood their young and eventually they are caught and sold at the “Manzo Market” or are eaten at a Manzo Fish Fry.
Tilapia are so resilient they can even survive for several hours without the aerators that keep oxygen flowing in their tanks. Yes, fish need oxygen and cannot survive without it. The title of this Series, “We send Schools of Fish to Schools!” is all about the bundled STEM Food Growing Systems we send to schools, which include 25 fingerling tilapia, the Grow Bed Media, the automatic fish feeder, a Titanium Heater, a Seed Starter Kit and optional Grow Lights.
This is Joe Navelski, a Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows Program superstar, who showed up to catch and clean Tilapia for the “Manzo Market”. The fish are caught in the morning, and put on sale in the afternoon. That’s really fresh fish. No wonder they always sell out.
According to Blue, “in addition to providing food for our community and serving as a source of revenue, the Aquaponics system at Manzo is a great teaching tool, even at the Elementary level. Students learn Math, Science, Biology, Chemistry and even best Business Practices as they operate and maintain their system and host a weekly market where they sell the veggies and fish that they grow.” Not to mention, their wholesale business with the Thai restaurant.
Below, students examine the seedlings they are growing in the Greenhouse with their magnifying glasses.
Isn’t it time to turn every school campus into this joyful, exciting, engaged and interactive experience called STEM Food Growing System Learning?
If you want to learn more about what's happening at Manzo, go to the Manzo Ecology facebook page. This is living learning also known as Science in Action and things are always changing.
This is the 320 gallon fish tank that comes with the 44 sq. ft. STEM Food Growing System. Here Moses is looking for fry, which are newborn tilapia that turn into the giants you see below. Because there's so much light coming into the Greenhouse, Manzo is running what is called a Green Water Fish Tank that has a lot of algae, which tilapia love to eat and why they're growing so large.
What Is Aquaponics? Aquaponics is a food growing technolgy that utilizes live fish to fertilize vegetables and fruits in a cross-linked ecosystem where the fish fertilize the plants and the plants clean the water for the fish.
Here's what Aquaponics STEM Teachers have to share direct from the field where they are using our STEM Food Growing Systesm to teach their Aquaponics STEM Classes.
This is a 3-Part Series that's being published in the STEM Education Coalition Weekly Newsletter. The STEM Education Coalition Newsletter is an amazing resource to keep you up to date about what's happening with STEM in schools across the nation and in State and Government administrations and agencies.
And here’s an amazing sight to behold, children gleefully eating their vegetables! That’s what can happen when they grow the vegetables themselves in their STEM Food Growing System.
Click here for Aquaponics STEM in the Classroom Part Two.
Click here for Aquaponics STEM in the Classroom Part Three.
Aquaponics STEM Classrooms In Action, Part 1
To Learn More about bringing a STEM Food Growing System into your classroom, click on our "Bring Your Classroom To Life!" document below. It will tell and show you everything you need to know to create an Aquaponics STEM classroom.
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FREE SURVIVAL SHOOTER | Elite Force
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New animated cursor vulnerability affects Vista as well
A new Windows vulnerability affects Vista, but not as badly as earlier version …
Jeremy Page - Mar 30, 2007 1:15 pm UTC
With the titanic effort Microsoft put into improving security in Windows Vista, the company must be disappointed that there has been another exploit found that will affect even locked-down users. The flaw works when a malicious person creates a web page with custom animated cursors—apparently Windows does not do sufficient checking of the .ani files and a properly-crafted one could allow the website access with full privileges of the user. Until a patch is issued, there is no way to disable this feature in older versions of Windows, or at least none listed in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
Internet Explorer 7 in Protected Mode (available only in Windows Vista) mitigates this problem. Microsoft is also pushing hard for people to log into their PCs with less then administrative rights, which would help in this case.
It's telling that although this vulnerability affects all recent versions of Windows, it has a much-reduced impact under Vista. I suspect that even with the Trustworthy Computing intuitive and the fact that Vista was rewritten using managed code for many of the parts that interact with the user, Microsoft will continue to struggle with bugs and security holes related to backwards compatibility for some time to come. In the long run, I expect the adjustment to take place just like it did moving from Win16 to Win32, but it's going to take a lot more effort than the port to Win64 is requiring. Compilers will take most of the burden of switching to the new processors off developers, but learning to write secure code will take more work.
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St. Apollonia Andy Warhol
The story of the cruel martyrdom of the virgin Apollonia occurred in Alexandria in Egypt around 249 struck the imagination of the artists, as well as of the faithful, of every age. Apollonia, a Christian virgin, was surrounded by the pagans who hit her jaws until her teeth were blown away. Andy Warhol, inspired by the masterpiece of Piero della Francesca, made in 1984 a series of works on paper, in 4 different quarters, entirely dedicated to the saint, represented with tongs in his hands, symbol of martyrdom. The work is signed in the original on the front.
Nationality : United States
Date of Death : 22/02/1987
Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh in 1928 and died in New York in 1987. Painter, graphic designer, film producer and scripwriter, he is considered the greatest artist of XXth century.Main character of the Pop Art movement, the artistic trend born in the UK in the 50's grown then up in the USA at the end of the 60's, he is the greatest talent of this movement.
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Tag Archives: electronic
Gearhouse Group supplies Armin Only Intense
Big Electronic, the Electronic Music powerhouse collaboration between Big Concerts, G&G Productions and Rusco Events brought South African electronic dance music fans a mind-blowing one-night-only experience.
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Posted in Industry News | Tags: between, Big, collaboration, Concerts, electronic, music, powerhouse, Productions, Rusco |
Moogfest 2014 Features DirectOut MADI System
Billed as the “Synthesis of Technology, Art and Music,” Moogfest is a quirky celebration of electronic music, geekiness and the legacy of synthesiser legend, Bob Moog.
The original article can be found here: http://www.tpimagazine.com/News/2458385/moogfest_2014_features_directout_madi_system.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: billed, celebration, electronic, geekiness, Moogfest, music, Music&rdquo, quirky, technology |
Innovative Electronic Designs Introduces IED1581 And IED1542 Power Amplifiers
Innovative Electronic Designs (IED) has announced the IED1581NA-C/IED1581NA-D and IED1542NA-C/IED1542NA-D single- and dual-channel PoE power amplifiers, designed for use in smaller applications that require full-bandwidth audio and where low power and low cost are considerations.
IED1581 amplifiers have a single channel output that offers 8 watts of power at either 4 or 8 ohms. The model IED1581C incorporates CobraNet digital audio inputs while the IED1581D hass Dante digital audio inputs.
IED1542 amplifiers are equipped with 2-channel output at either 4 or 8 ohms with total output power of 4 watts per channel. Model IED1542C incorporates CobraNet digital audio inputs while the IED1542D ofers Dante digital audio inputs.
All models are powered by either an external 48VDC power supply or IEEE 802.3af PoE switch and have remote monitoring output available. Each model has a small footprint enclosure that can be either DIN rail or wall mounted for convenience.
“We have received a great amount of interest in this product from our dealers and other customers,” explains Jody Green, IED vice president of product & marketing development. “These units are perfect for expansion zones that require paging or background music in systems using Dante or CobraNet network audio systems.
“IED has continued to develop new products and reinvent itself from the stereotype that customers associate with IED. Our new products like these amplifiers and our GLOBALCOM system enable us to deliver the high quality paging and mass communications systems we have built our name on with accessibility for facilities of all sizes, not just large expansive installations.”
Innovative Electronic Designs (IED)
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Posted in Industry News | Tags: amplifiers, announced, Designs, dualchannel, electronic, IED1542NAC/IED1542NAD, IED1581NAC/IED1581NAD, innovative, power, single |
NSCA Summer 2014 Electronic Systems Outlook Released
The NSCA Electronic Systems Outlook has been updated for Summer 2014 and now includes information based upon actual data from Q1 and Q2 of 2014, and forecasted information for the remainder of the year.
Free to all NSCA members and available to non-members for $399, the new report provides updated indicators of fresh business opportunities by tracking new construction starts and renovations in the commercial buildings sector.
In this Summer 2014 edition, NSCA’s Electronic Systems Outlook provides an updated look at construction data by markets and systems. Overall, the construction forecast remains cautiously optimistic.
In some areas, commercial construction is on the verge of breaking out of its long slumber. For instance, healthcare, and education markets have both slowed due to political circumstances. Those issues could be solved next year, and pent-up demand may come rushing into the markets. Total construction put in place is expected to grow at the rate of 7 percent this year and for the next few years.
Despite continued uncertainty, the average CCI (consumer confidence index) is trending upward, which is a good sign, although recent events like the government shutdown in late 2013 have negatively impacted construction spending.
Markets expected to increase construction this year as compared to 2013 include office, education, healthcare, lodging, and manufacturing. Markets expected to decrease construction this year as compared to 2013 include government, houses of worship, and retail. The Summer 2014 Electronic Systems Outlook provides detailed information regarding how much these numbers are increasing or decreasing, and which factors are affecting the data.
“We work with FMI to continue to monitor commercial construction reports,” says NSCA executive director Chuck Wilson. “At the end of 2013, we expected 2014 construction put in place to total near $977 million. Now, halfway through 2014, we expect it to total $959 million.”
Integrators can use the Summer 2014 Electronic Systems Outlook to benchmark sales numbers and prepare business valuations. Growth indicators can be used to determine incentive programs, reveal new markets that may have potential, and appropriately distribute resources. This forecast data can also be shared with financial advisors and lenders to prove the stability of systems integrators in the marketplace.
This bi-annual forecast is made possible through a partnership with FMI, a management consulting, investment banking, and research firm for the engineering and construction industry.
The Summer 2014 edition of the Electronic Systems Outlook examines the current year to date, and serves as a projection for the last half of 2014. The report is released each summer and winter.
As noted, the NSCA Electronic Systems Forecast is free for NSCA members. For non-members, the forecast can be purchased for $399. Non-members can also become NSCA members for $595 and receive this report as part of their membership package, which also offers access to discounted education and training opportunities, updates on regional and national government affairs issues, free monthly industry webinars, other industry research, and savings opportunities with companies such as UPS, Office Depot, and Enterprise.
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Tiësto Gig in Copenhagen Lit with SGM Gear
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Tiësto recently headlined the EDM Copenhagen electronic festival presented by Arive on the terrace of the Stay Apartment Hotel here May 31. Production manager/show designer Christian Byriel worked with LD Christian Vigsø on the project, and they included SGM’s G-Spot to light the headliner.
More details from SGM (www.sgmlight.com):
For this nine-hour event (running from afternoon to midnight), packed with a strong lineup of DJs and live acts, production manager and show designer Christian Byriel from CeeBRIGHTER had some specific venue challenges to overcome. “Though being challenged with large window façades, an unusual location and an outdoor venue from daylight to dusk, I feel I achieved my vision and maintained the aesthetic look required by the customer,” he says. It became apparent to him that the G-Spot was to play a large role in his achievement.
Byriel approached lighting designer Christian Vigsø, with whom he has a close cooperation, and together they set up a shootout with four leading moving head models. It quickly became clear that the G-Spot’s output and performance was second to none even when compared with equivalent discharge lamp-based products.
For his design, Byriel deployed 20 G-Spot LED moving lights to produce a powerful effect, expanding the stage area to embrace the audiences. “All 20 lamps performed beyond comparison and were the perfect choice for this event. The entire production team was deeply impressed with the bright light output and so were the guests,” states Byriel, in appreciation of a fixture sufficiently bright to create a striking impact for this high-class hotel both in daylight as well as darkness.
With barely eight hours to prepare from get-in until show-start, everything needed to be programmed and reliable in operation. “I felt safe knowing that should the weather turn for the worse, I would have no problems as the G-Spot is IP65 rated. This is crucial for this kind of production. There was absolutely no space nor time for makeshift dome solutions, but I did not have to worry about this at all.”
Besides this obvious benefit, the production manager was especially astonished by the fixture’s speed of colour change and its intensity. Also, the G-Spot played a major role in driving down the total power consumption to a minimum. “I will definitely spec the G-Spot units for upcoming events – and for next year’s Arive. We had high expectations for the G-Spot, but it exceeded them in all areas,” he concluded.
Tiësto came on stage at 10pm, giving his audience of 1,800 dedicated fans a two-hour unique intimate experience of trance-electronic breaks … accompanied by the G-Spot lightshow.
The original article can be found here: http://www.plsn.com/international-news/13672-tiesto-gig-in-copenhagen-lit-with-sgm-gear.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: Arive, COPENHAGEN, Denmark, electronic, festival, presented, Tiësto, Headlined |
Moogfest Gets Switched-On to Thunder Audio
Moogfest, the annual electronic technology, art, science and music festival celebrating the creative vision of analog synth pioneer Bob Moog, expanded its festivities in downtown Asheville, North Carolina this year to five days in late April and more than 10 venues.
The original article can be found here: http://www.tpimagazine.com/News/2413287/moogfest_gets_switchedon_to_thunder_audio.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: annual, celebrating, creative, electronic, festival, Moogfest, music, science, technology, Vision |
Clear Path: Keyboards In The Electronic Realm
Electronic keyboards, the start of it all. Right from the beginning of modern concert sound, DI boxes have played an essential role in getting the sound from the stage to the PA system.
Probably the most iconic “direct” instrument of all was the Fender Rhodes. Harold Rhodes started developing the idea as far back as the 1950s, but it was in 1970 that the Rhodes Stage piano took the concert stage bringing the first “portable” keyboard to market.
The original Rhodes piano tone was created by a piano-like hammer striking a “tine” that would vibrate up and down in front of a magnet to create the tone—very much the same way an electric guitar string vibrates atop a magnetic pickup. One would adjust the tone by changing the “tine-to-magnet” relationship.
And like an electric guitar, the output from the suitcase was not amplified (or buffered) in any way. So the output from the piano was generally sent to a guitar amp where it was mic’d.
Some years later, the first active DI boxes came round. They didn’t load the Rhodes pickups, which made it practical to send the “direct” sound to the PA system and monitors.
But something happened. That something was Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, and the Moog synthesizer, which found its way out of the electronic music department to the stage. These guys no longer had one or two keyboards—they had racks of them!
An early Fender Rhodes, the one that started it all.
The Arp 2600 and String Ensemble, Oberheim, Korg, the venerable Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 – it was an analog explosion. Everyone had a Rhodes (or Wurlitzer) and a bunch of synths.
Fast forward to 1981, and Yamaha introduced the DX7, which would go on to become one of the most successful keyboards ever. It brought along something totally new: frequency modulated digital technology. Now you could get a bell-like Rhodes sound without the weight.
The world then changed again with the E-MU and the Akai S900 digital sampler. All of a sudden, we had complete orchestration, real sounding piano samples, and digitally sampled drum tracks were everywhere. There was no going back.
Relatively Powerful
Today, pretty much all keyboards and drum machines are digital, and can basically be thought of as keyboard controlled CD players. And like a CD player, the output from a digital synthesizer is relatively powerful when compared to an electric guitar or an old Rhodes piano.
Because they’re so “loud,” they needed headroom to operate, meaning that the old active DI box that may have been a boon to the low-output Rhodes piano can no longer keep up.
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Posted in Industry News | Tags: beginning, boxes, Concert, electronic, keyboards, modern, right, sound, start |
Thunder Audio Deploys L-Acoustics For Moogfest 2014
Moogfest, the annual electronic technology, art, science and music festival, expanded its downtown Asheville, North Carolina event to five days. The festival, which takes place in late April, encompassed more than 10 venues.
For audio reinforcement at the main stage located at US Cellular Center’s 2,431-seat Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Detroit-based Thunder Audio specified the use of its new L-Acoustics K2 loudspeaker system.
The loudspeaker complement for Moogfest 2014’s main stage included left and right arrays of nine K2, plus eight SB28 subs and three ARCS II out-fills per side.
Two additional K2 and two K1-SB subs per side were utilized as side fills, while six KARA enclosures were spread out across the stage lip for front-fill.
Ten LA-RAK touring racks, each loaded with three LA8 amplified controllers, delivered the power and processing.
According to Sam Fotias, director of operations at Detroit’s Paxahau, which curated the artist roster for Moogfest this year, the new rig was a very welcome addition.
“We have been working closely with Thunder Audio for over ten years, so we were extremely excited when they told us they had invested in L-Acoustics’ new K2 system and that we could deploy it at Moogfest this year,” he says.
“Over five days of programming, we had Pet Shop Boys, Kraftwerk, M.I.A. and CHIC with Nile Rogers all play through that system, so quite a broad spectrum of genres and playing styles,” Fotias continues. “Each show sounded great and all of the artists were extremely satisfied, not only with the brand new PA, but with Thunder’s impeccable crew and engineers as well.
“We’re already looking forward to putting K2 through some more paces in the near future.”
This year’s Moogfest marked the ninth annual festival and the fourth to be held in Asheville, the city where Bob Moog spent the last 30 years of his life
Thunder Audio
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Posted in Industry News | Tags: annual, Asheville, downtown, electronic, expanded, festival, Moogfest, music, science, technology |
Meyer Sound LYON & 1100-LFC Deliver EDM Immersion At Germany’s MAYDAY Festival
MAYDAY, an electronic dance music (EDM) tradition in Germany, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a sonic boost delivered by a new Meyer Sound LYON linear sound reinforcement system. The 2014 “Full Senses” edition drew 21,000 to the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund, with headline DJs Fedde Le Grand, Moguai, and Sander van Doorn playing in the main arena through an immersive surround sound configuration.
“The sound was clean, clear, crisp, and had loads of headroom,” reports Bernd Görgen, co-managing director for Wiesbaden-based schokopro, which has supplied technical production, including sound, light, video, and kinetics for the third year. “We received very good feedback from the promoter during soundcheck, and the performance throughout the night proved us right in our decision to use LYON.”
The main system comprised arrays of eight-each LYON linear line array loudspeakers in each corner of the arena, bolstered by side arrays of six-each MICA line array loudspeakers. Low-end reinforcement was supplied by an array of 24 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements, and auxiliary and fill systems comprised two hangs of 10-each M’elodie line array loudspeakers for front entry, five MICA loudspeakers for near fill, and 12 UPA-1P loudspeakers for side tiers.
Drive and optimization were supplied by a Galileo Callisto loudspeaker management system with one Galileo 616 AES and six Galileo Callisto 616 array processors and two Galileo 616 processors. Four JM-1P arrayable loudspeakers and four 600-HP subwoofers provided DJ monitoring.
LYON recommended for MAYDAY by Jörg Rapp, head of sound for schokopro, based on his recent experience using another member of the LEO family, the larger LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. Audio engineers Dirk Maron and Dennis Siebert coordinated system design for schokopro and worked as system technicians on site.
“We had the pleasure of working with a crew that could get the best out of a sound system,” says Wulf Issinger, co-managing director for schokopro. “With the effortless power and even coverage of the LYON arrays and the tremendous performance of the 1100-LFCs, the system provided an amazing experience for the crowd—from the front of the stage to the very back of the venue.”
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Posted in Industry News | Tags: anniversary, celebrated, dance, electronic, Germany, MAYDAY, music, tradition |
Pure Groove Systems Bring Space Age Audio to Lightning In A Bottle
Showcasing the biggest and best electronic music acts, Pure Groove will be providing the sound for Lightning in a Bottle’s beloved Woogie Stage. Pure Groove partnered with Danley Sound Labs, a research leader in military and industrial acoustics, to create a groundbreaking series of sound systems targeted at nightlife and music industries. A smaller power to size ratio means Pure Groove Systems offers a less intrusive system that consumes less power, while delivering an unmatched audio experience.
More details from Pure Groove (www.puregroovesystems.com)
Fresh off their successful debut in Miami for MMW, Pure Groove are proud to announce that they will be providing the sound for Lightning in a Bottle’s beloved Woogie Stage. Over the course of the festival, Woogie will play host to the likes of Claude Vonstroke, Simian Mobile Disco, Damian Lazarus, Lee Burridge and more, Pure Groove’s future sound technology was a natural choice to showcase LIB’s biggest and best electronic music acts.
“We have been fans of Lightning in a Bottle for years,” said Damian Murphy, founder of Pure Groove, “and we are excited about working with The Do LaB at one of the most creative and inspiring festivals on the planet.”
Pure Groove partnered with Danley Sound Labs, to create a groundbreaking series of sound systems targeted at nightlife and music industries. Danley holds 13 Aerospace patents including being the first to demonstrate acoustic levitation for space research. Danley also holds 17 loudspeaker patents and has been a research leader in the uses of acoustics in the military and industrial applications specifically related to active noise cancellation.
Danley’s revolutionary power to size ratio gives Pure Groove Systems an aesthetic and environmental advantage over their competitors. Requiring reduced square footage, fewer speakers and rigging means Pure Groove Systems offers a less intrusive system that consumes less power, while delivering an unmatched audio experience. Danley prides itself on being the most efficient path to superior audio quality — this efficiency carries over in every way, including energy efficiency as their products require a fraction of the power compared to the competition.
Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) is a transformational festival in the Central Coast region of California presented by The Do LaB. This year’s installment of the Do LaB-produced music and arts festival will take place May 22-26, 2014 at Monterey County’s Lake San Antonio Recreation Area, in Bradley, California. Lightning in a Bottle is an eclectic mix of music, art, and culture. In addition to music performances, the event also features guest speakers, visual and interactive art installations, yoga classes, group meditation, and other attractions.
“Never in the storied lifetime of The Woogie Stage (or since the beginning of the LIB for that matter) has any sound system been so anticipated as what Pure Groove Systems has in store for us for Lightning in a Bottle 2014” — Russell Ward, The Do LaB/Lightning in a Bottle Publicist, Owner The Confluence
Since it’s debut in 2006, The Woogie has grown to become one of the festival’s most beloved destinations. While the other main stages bring the bass, dub, breakbeat and performance art, the Woogie pulls in some of the biggest names in house and techno and mixes them with the very best up and coming, local talent, to create a full weekend of exemplary beats.
The original article can be found here: http://www.fohonline.com/news/10488-pure-groove-systems-bring-space-age-audio-to-lightning-in-a-bottle.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: best, electronic, Groove, music, providing, Pure, showcasing, the biggest |
All Eyes are on Clay Paky B-EYE Fixtures For Lotus Tour
The instrumental electronic jam band Lotus is continuing its cross-country tour this spring and summer as they debut a complement of Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 innovative, LED-based moving lights for key effects in the show.
The original article can be found here: http://www.tpimagazine.com/News/2395188/all_eyes_are_on_clay_paky_beye_fixtures_for_lotus_tour.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: band, continuing, crosscountry, electronic, Instrumental, Lotus, Spring, Tour |
Lotus Tours with a Dozen Clay Paky B-EYE Fixtures
ATLANTA — For the instrumental electronic jam band Lotus, Main Light Industries provided a dozen Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 LED fixtures to meet the specifications of LD Scott Huston. Huston positions eight B-EYEs on four truss towers and four more on the stage.
More details from Clay Paky (www.claypaky.it):
Lighting designer Scott Huston obtained a dozen B-EYEs from Main Light Industries, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware, which he counts on for “always having the latest and greatest – they let me know when they have cool stuff and have a good sense of what I can use. I’m really interested in checking out new technology.”
Huston positions eight B-EYEs on four truss towers and four more on the stage. “They have an amazing output,” he says. “That 4º fat beam is very impressive.”
Huston was looking for a moving light that offers a direct view effect. “I didn’t want to have a videowall, but I wanted to do a direct view effect. You can do the effects on the lens, which is big enough so I only need 12 of them. Plus, I also have the beams that give such a good rock ‘n roll look. The B-EYEs not only provide a beam that looks really nice cutting through the room but also a lens that you can do movement effects on.”
The B-EYEs made their debut on the Lotus tour in Atlanta and have been “working great,” according to Huston. “It’s really easy to make them all match up. The white LEDs are really nice, and the colors are all great — I can even get pastels out of them. And the eye candy effects are very nice.”
John DiEleuterio, Client Relations at Main Light, says that, “Scott and Lotus prove that you don’t need a ton of B-EYEs to get a great look. The B-EYEs are a great fixture. They really seem to be taking over with their versatility: They’re a wash, a beam – toss in the kaleidoscopic in-air effects and you have yourself a multi-use fixture and some pretty awesome eye candy.”
Main Light has stocked B-EYE fixtures since February, and DiEleuterio calls “A.C.T Lighting and Clay Paky powerhouses that offer groundbreaking, high-quality gear with amazing support to back it up. I wish every purchase in life came with the quality of support we receive from A.C.T.”
Francesco Romagnoli, Clay Paky Area Manager for North and Latin America, commented, “The B-EYEs are such versatile lights and Mr. Huston is making great use of them. Mainlight is a great collaborator and we’re thrilled they are working so hard to get our fixtures out there.”
A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive North American distributor for Clay Paky.
The original article can be found here: http://www.plsn.com/news/21-news/13307-lotus-tours-with-a-dozen-clay-paky-b-eye-fixtures.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: ATLANTA, band, dozen, electronic, industries, Instrumental, light, Lotus, Main, provided |
Posted on April 28, 2014 by ARTS
After winning Best Electronic Artist at the MTV EMA Awards, Avicii was then crowned Best Electronic Artist at the 2013 AMAs beating fellow nominees Calvin Harris, Daft Punk and Zedd. Single Hey Brother released via PRMD / Positiva, was the third single to be taken from his critically acclaimed debut album, True. TPI talked to the crew on the road in Europe to learn how the Swedish DJ / Producer embarked on a world tour with an impressive production in tow.
The original article can be found here: http://www.tpimagazine.com/production-profiles/2376196/avicii.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: after, artist, Avicii, Awards, best, crowned, electronic, then, winning |
Goldfrapp Tours with Philips Showline SL Nitro 510 Strobe/Luminaires
GATESHEAD, U.K. — For Goldfrapp’s recent U.K. and European shows in support of the electronic music duo’s latest album, Tales of Us, LD Rob Sinclair picks up on the album’s film noire imagery. He credited Philips Showline SL Nitro 510 strobe luminaires for delivering some of the looks he was after. Lighting director Louisa Smurthwaite also credited the gear, which was provided by Neg Earth.
More details from Philips Showline (www.philips.com/showline):
“Striking, stylish and slightly strange” are the words that established lighting designer Rob Sinclair uses to describe his eerie lighting design for musical duo Goldfrapp’s latest tour. Similar words could also describe the effects that he gets from the Philips Showline SL NITRO 510 strobe luminaires, which Sinclair has specified to deliver cinematic, crisp, cross stage washes alongside stark, ice white strobe effects.
Inspired by the ‘film noir’ artistry of Goldfrapp’s latest album ‘Tales of Us’, Sinclair’s high contrast lighting design uses 10 x Philips Showline SL NITRO 510’s to create unadulterated up-lit washes and acid-flash strobe effects that accompany some of the band’s most haunting tracks.
“We worked hard to create a lighting design that would complement Alison Goldfrapp’s double exposure photography, which is currently used as the artwork for the stage backdrop and also on the album cover,” explains Sinclair. “I wanted the atmosphere to come across as sinister and rural but with a slightly urban, man made edge to it.”
The SL NITRO 510s, which are supplied by lighting rental company Neg Earth, make up the bulk of Sinclair’s floor package: “We use the fixtures to deliver strobe effects at various intensities and full on cross stage washes,” explains Sinclair. “The SL NITRO 510s have a slightly narrower beam than I’m used to. The result is a longer throw that has proved really useful for lighting people from a distance. More traditional strobes often need to be very close to the subject and are then prove to be too hot. The NITROs performed brilliantly from the side of the stage, particularly during the song ‘Lovely Head’ – which has a number of entirely strobe lit sections.”
Sinclair’s overall design concept is built around an asymmetrical, dual purpose ‘forest of light’ that veers from providing subtle lighting effects to full on dramatically dynamic sets to disappearing altogether.
“Before the NITRO I’d been reluctant to use LED strobes,” continues Sinclair. “That was until I did a little shoot out at Neg Earth in December. What impresses me most about them is the sheer brightness of the strobe and the fact that it needs absolutely no recharge time.”
The tour’s lighting operator Louisa Smurthwaite is equally impressed: “What’s great about the SL NITRO 510s is that you can program them in a 4 channel Mode and pretty much get anything you want out of them quickly. I think it’s great that you can run video through them, although, due to the nature of this show, we’re using them in strobe and wash light mode only. As a strobe I am impressed, they’re great for lighting people and I really like how directional they are – it just keeps everything crisp and tight looking.”
Martin Palmer, Vari*Lite and Showline Product Manager EMEA for Philips Entertainment says: “We are delighted to see the SL NITRO 510s being used so creatively by Rob Sinclair on the Goldfrapp Tour. The array of over 1300 tightly packed, high power LEDs are giving him a maximum potential output of over 68,000 lumens and, as he says, even distribution of light across its six programmable zones. The fixtures are built for touring and are suitably robust and multi functional, potentially cutting down on the number of fixtures required. As Rob has proved they can be used as a high impact, directional strobe or a static white wash, plus of course there are the six controllable zones that can be used to pixel map effects.”
The original article can be found here: http://www.plsn.com/international-news/13241-goldfrapp-tours-with-philips-showline-sl-nitro-510-strobeluminaires.html
Posted in Industry News | Tags: duo’s, electronic, European, GATESHEAD, Goldfrapp’s, latest, music, recent, shows, support |
Robert Henke Q&A: Translating Electronic Innovation to Audience Spaces
Robert Henke is recognized as a world-leading composer, performer, and technical innovator in contemporary electronic music. In 1995, he founded the Monolake musical project with Gerhard Behles, with whom he also developed Ableton Live—music software that is now widely accepted as the premier platform for electronic music production. Henke‘s recent solo live performances such as Lumière combine his original compositions with computer-programmed laser imagery. Henke was a member of the music faculty at Berlin University of the Arts, and was selected as Mohr Visiting Artist at Stanford University in 2013.
Henke is also known for his sound installations, including the latest Ritual, commissioned by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York. The sound of Ritual was transmitted to visitors through a column of seven Meyer Sound MM-4XP self-powered loudspeakers.
Here is a Q&A with Robert Henke on his vision for Ritual, the importance of sound reinforcement and room acoustics in his work, and how a noise can provide an amazing spatial experience.
What prompted the name “Ritual” for this installation?
Henke: The original request was for something that focused on digital errors or digital glitches. My initial idea was to take a very simple melody and then deconstruct it using algorithms that step by step destroy the sound. I tried this and liked the result, but I felt it was too close to an aesthetic already established. I decided to go for something even more reduced by having just a sine wave and applying some kind of destruction. The idea was to take seven audio buffers and fill them with sine waves. It begins with static sine waves distributed to seven loudspeakers, because I wanted this piece to work spatially right from the start.
The process is very simple: Just cut out a slice and replace it with a slice from a different channel. The name “Ritual” came from the very stubborn way to take a piece, a slice and move it from one buffer to another, and then do the same with a next one. I realized that this was some type of ritual. There is no explanation. There is a rule and you simply follow it and observe the outcome.
As the installation cycles through, the pure tones become mixed and develop rhythmic patterns until they become almost blended—before cycling back to the beginning. But why did you need a separate loudspeaker for each channel?
Henke: What happens, and what I find very attractive with sound installations, is that you, the recipient, can decide how close you get to an individual speaker. If you come very close to a single speaker, you hear precisely what is happening in that channel. But if you move further away, you get a blend of what is happening in all channels. It completely shifts your perspective. It is something that I find really fascinating.
In later stages of the process, when all the buffers have changed, it seems very noisy, though there are certain aspects in it that are rhythmic. When getting closer to a single speaker you suddenly hear all the rich detail going on inside that one source.
When the material devolves into noise, does the imaging of the detail matter as much as it does for discrete tones?
Henke: Yes, it’s amazing how much more dimension you get from the seven speakers. It is a noise that is extremely satisfying; it is not like pink noise or white noise. It is more like the sound of the ocean, where there is a dimensionality to it—a width and depth. It is an amazing spatial experience. If you take a stereo field recorder, go to the beach, capture the sound of the ocean, then take it home and play it in stereo, it does not have the same sense of space. You cannot resolve it simply in stereo.
So, what you’re saying implies that a high-quality loudspeaker is needed to resolve the subtleties, correct?
Henke: This is the strangest contradiction for people who are not familiar with the concept. After all, it is such a simple signal with noise and clicks. You would think you could do that with any kind of speaker. But with a lower-quality loudspeaker you would have the sound of the speaker itself as a component of the sound. And what I wanted to achieve here is consistency.
I wanted to have a very precise translation of what is going on in the sound files into the room. If you get close to the speakers, you can hear astonishing details. For example, you have clicks that are only one sample long. These are signals with extremely precise transients. The fact that the transients are resolving so precisely adds to the overall impression of the installation. The precision of the process is transmitted by the loudspeakers, so it is preserved. In a way, the loudspeakers help me to put sounds under some kind of microscope.
Which makes the MM-4XP loudspeakers an obvious choice. How did you find out about them?
Henke: I first heard the MM-4XP as part of a 360-degree immersive AV projection at UC in San Diego. Later, when I saw them in a museum in Paris and had a chance to listen to them closely, I was completely sold. I knew these were the speakers I would use for any installations where I needed a small, high-resolution loudspeaker—something powerful, yet highly precise. In addition, the fact that they use a single driver has benefits because it comes close to an ideal point source, which makes sense for my installation.
If you draw nearer, you are moving closer to a point source, and not into the close field of a three-way system where you always lose coherence. That’s another reason why these speakers are perfect for this installation and this content.
You are careful to specify high-quality loudspeakers in tech riders for your performances. But in most interviews about electronic music performance, the focus tends to be on the software and controllers. Loudspeakers are rarely mentioned.
Henke: How true! I don’t even know where to begin here, as this is something I could discuss for hours!
In my opinion, there are actually two basic parts that are never discussed: the acoustical space and the loudspeakers. You can’t really separate the two. It seems that the notion is, “Here is my output from my sound card; you take it from here.” So the responsibility of the artist ends with an XLR connection to the mixing console. For everything else, some anonymous sound person is responsible. For me, that never really worked out.
For example, I often play at event spaces that were not meant for musical performance in the first place, such as a former factory that does not have ideal acoustic proportions. Yet somebody decided this is the right PA for it, and sometimes you have to deal with that. But I prefer to think about what I am doing in a much more integral way where I understand the room, the placement of the speakers, and the quality of the speakers themselves. I like to have the ability to choose what speakers are used for a specific situation. I’ve learned that this has a huge impact on how the final result works out.
What qualities are important in choosing a loudspeaker for your performances or installations?
Henke: I like loudspeakers that don’t have a sound of their own. There are certain brands that have a reputation for coloring the output. You can deal with that if you have to, but you are always confronted with the fact that they have a certain sound of their own. Since I do things where I like to have a lot of control over the sound, I am mainly looking for a PA that is transparent, that does not focus on certain frequencies, but rather has an overall impression of linearity. I don’t actually measure when I adjust a room, but since I know my compositions, I can tell when it sounds right.
Also, I really like to have precise transients from a system. That’s why I do not use compression, which is probably very rare, especially in electronic dance music. For example, I don’t like a sound where the kick drum is modulating the bass line because the system is compressing. For me it is exhausting to listen to.
I would rather have a sound system that is so powerful that if I have a sharp transient in the bass I can really make use of it. I would rather have a bass drum and a moment of silence, instead of the bass drum, bass line, and snare all at 0 dB constantly. For that reason I need a larger PA than artists who work with compression. I need the headroom for the clean transients.
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The Earth's terrain through the eyes of Native people
Tempe campus
ASU professor to speak about "Place, Culture, and Geoscience."
Ethnogeology seeks to include indigenous beliefs in research.
ASU professor and leading expert on ethnogeology to talk about different cultures' interactions with homelands
When people look at a landmark like a peak, they may see a few things. A mountain, first of all. Maybe some history to go with it, like a Civil War battle once being fought at its foot. Perhaps a personal aspect, like usually stopping there for a cone.
Native people see another dimension entirely. They see all those things, and more: religion, myth and beliefs, physically manifested in stone and sand.
There are places on the Navajo nation — certain mountains, dune fields, canyons, high passes between cliffs — where ancient heroes fought monsters.
Studying how different cultures understand their physical homelands is a new specialty called ethnogeology, which combines geology, geography and anthropology.
Arizona State University’s Steve Semken, an associate professor of geoscience education and geological sciences in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, will lecture about ethnogeology Thursday night in a talk called “Place, Culture, and Geoscience.”
Semken is the country’s leading expert on the topic. He became intrigued with the subject when he taught geology for 15 years at the Navajo tribal Dine College's branch in Shiprock, New Mexico. When he took students on geologic field trips, he noticed they had different names for places than what was on maps.
He began participatory research with the help of Navajo partners. He now studies human interactions with and knowledge of the Earth.
Asked if he could give specific examples of landmarks that feature prominently in Navajo mythos, he declined.
“I can’t talk about those places because I don’t know if the snow has fallen yet or not,” he said. “Those stories are only told when the snow has fallen.”
Navajo believe when the snow has fallen, the landmarks are asleep and they can’t be offended.
Examples that can be illustrated include the Oracle of Delphi in Greece. Eyewitnesses described priestesses inhaling vapors from a fault in the floor of their chamber. In the 1990s and early 2000s, researchers discovered the original fault in the chamber floor, and evidence that ethylene gas — a hallucinogenic hydrocarbon — was present in nearby springs.
In the Pacific, radiocarbon dating of scorched vegetation beneath lava sheets corresponds to historical dates of battles between the fire god Pele and other deities.
James Riding In is the interim director of American Indian Studies at ASU.
“In American Indian studies we have long reflected the views of Indian people that place is central to identity,” Riding In said. “I think what that shows is that in some instances Indian beliefs are impacting the way the research is being done.”
Semken said his field shows indigenous people that geology is part of them.
“I’m trying to help the students understand they’ve always had a place in this science,” said Semken, who holds a certificate in the Dine Philosophy of Education from Dine College. “Their culture has important knowledge, and they can bring that to the table and it will motivate them to study and learn.”
New Discoveries Lecture Series: 'Place, Culture and Geoscience'
When: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17.
Where: Marston Exploration Theater in the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV, Tempe campus.
Admission: Free, but registration is kindly requested for planning purposes.
Details: More information, including parking, can be found at ASU Events.
Top photo of Monument Valley by Carol M. Highsmith
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ASU study abroad moves up in the ranks
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Open Doors list moves ASU up seven spots to No. 18 for numbers of students studying around the world
Arizona State University leapt in the ranks of universities sending students abroad, according to a recently released survey.
Open Doors, a survey compiled by the Institute of International Education, released their annual national rankings this week (including ASU maintaining its rank as the No. 1 public research institution for international students). ASU, ranked at 25 last year, moved up to 18 in this year’s report. Rankings are determined by number of students universities send abroad per year. Tailing Northeastern University-Boston by 47 students and the University of Wisconsin-Madison by 50, the Study Abroad Office sent 2,102 Sun Devils abroad during the 2014-2015 academic year —an increase from 1,793 in a single year. Diana Chen (left, with Lissette Guerrero, Rachel Tomlinson and Derin Odunlami), a Science of Health Care Delivery major and Spanish minor, traveled to Cuba this year with ASU Study Abroad. Financial worries initially kept her away from the idea of travel, but the Planning Scholarship — a program for first-generation college students by providing them guidance and financial support specifically for study abroad — helped make it a reality for her. Photo courtesy of Diana Chen Download Full Image
The top six study abroad destinations were the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, China, France and the Czech Republic, with nearly half studying during the summer. Students from all ASU campuses are represented in this figure, including ASU Online.
“We specifically attribute this growth to the fact that we implemented a five-year strategic plan at the university that focuses on seeing more students engage globally. This includes underrepresented students within the overall study abroad enrollments nationwide, like first-generation students, as well as an increase in our graduate students who are studying abroad,” explained Adam Henry, director of the Study Abroad Office.
Henry noted, “As we continue to strive towards studying abroad being accessible to all ASU students, our continued focus through 2020 is to strategically increase the overall number of ASU students studying abroad by:
Reducing financial and academic barriers;
Increasing the number of underrepresented students going abroad;
Developing more international internship and service-learning opportunities;
Measuring the effectiveness of ASU’s study abroad programs on ASU students.”
Students are already benefitting from these efforts. Diana Chen, a Planning Scholar, was initially discouraged by her parents to fulfill a childhood dream of study abroad due to financial concerns. The Planning Scholars program is for first-generation college students by providing them guidance and financial support specifically for study abroad. Chen, a Science of Health Care Delivery major and Spanish minor, traveled to Cuba this year.
“The Planning Scholarship impacted both my personal life and academic career. As a first-generation and low-income student, studying abroad felt impossible due to the financial constraints. The Planning Scholarship lifted that financial burden and gave me the opportunity to study abroad and explore the health-care system of one of the most exclusive countries in the world — Cuba! In addition, earning the scholarship boosted my confidence and hope for the future. It reminded me that if I set my mind to something (i.e., studying abroad), I can achieve it regardless of how many obstacles there are.”
ASU is a leader in the development and promotion of study abroad opportunities for students. The Study Abroad Office offers more than 250 program options in more than 65 countries, with program lengths ranging from one week to one year. Financial aid and scholarships apply to semester and year-long programming. Learn more at mystudyabroad.asu.edu.
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Carrie Herrera Niesen
Manager, Marketing & Publicity, Study Abroad Office
480-727-9635 carrie.niesen@asu.edu
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Proper alignment of your turntable stylus ensures the most accurate reproduction of the recording and stops it from wearing down immaturely. There are various tools available for achieving this alignment.
Note: Before aligning your cartridge, make sure your turntable is set up properly and the tracking force is adjusted – How to set up your turntable.
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Stylus Overhang
At the very least, the specified stylus overhang (the distance the stylus tip extends beyond the centre spindle when the headshell is positioned directly above the spindle) should be set. A simple way to set overhang is to use an overhang gauge that has markings in millimetres (mm). Common stylus overhang distances are 15 mm (as is the case for our AT-LP1240-USB Turntable) and 16 mm (for our AT-LP120-USB turntable), but other lengths exist as well. Note that on a turntable that includes a premounted cartridge/stylus the overhang has typically been preset at the factory.
Tangency
To ensure the most accurate reproduction of the recording, low noise and least amount of wear on the record and stylus, it is important that the stylus is aligned in such a way that its tip remains as tangent to the record groove as possible as it travels across the record. With a pivoted tonearm, it is possible to achieve perfect tangency at only two points as the tonearm travels in an arc across the record. These two points are known as null points (points where there is no tracking error). A two-point cartridge alignment protractor can help achieve this tangency. You can download and print a two-point protractor from our website – just be sure to print the protractor to actual size. The LP5 comes with a printed protractor for convenience.
The two-point protractor has a dot for the stylus tip to rest on and a grid to which the stylus cantilever (the tube that extends from the cartridge body and has the stylus attached to it) aligns. If the stylus cantilever is not easily seen, align the sides of the cartridge body to the lines on the grid instead. In this case, we are assuming that the cantilever is centred and straight as it relates to the sides of the cartridge. Like all two-point protractors, ours has an outer dot/grid and an inner dot/grid. If you choose to use a different protractor, it is important to select one that is suitable for the effective length of the tonearm on your turntable. For the AT-LP120-USB turntable, the effective length is 230.5 mm. For the AT-LP1240-USB Turntable, the effective length is 230 mm. The protractor on our website is suitable for both of these turntables.
With the mounting hardware loose enough to allow forward and backward movement of the cartridge in the headshell, position the cartridge to allow the stylus tip to rest on the protractor’s outer dot (the dot farthest from the center spindle). This will set the correct stylus overhang. Next, align the stylus cantilever to the lines on the grid. If the cantilever is not easily seen, align the sides of the cartridge body to the lines on the grid instead. Provided the stylus tip has been attached properly during manufacturing, the tip will be tangent to the record groove when the cantilever is aligned to the grid. Note that you may need to twist the cartridge slightly in the headshell (when looking down on it from above) to achieve the best alignment to the grid. When done, the cartridge may not necessarily end up being parallel to the headshell.
Once you’ve aligned the cartridge to the outer dot/grid, move the tonearm to the inner dot/grid to double-check that the cartridge and stylus align there as well. They should align to the inner dot/grid without further adjustment. If they don’t, recheck that the stylus overhang has been set correctly, that the headshell is properly attached to the tonearm, and that the stylus is properly attached to the cartridge. Make any necessary adjustments, then recheck the alignment against both the outer and inner dots/grids. This might take a few tries at first but it will be worth it! Once aligned, tighten the mounting hardware until snug.
Then play your favourite record! If your cartridge wasn’t aligned, you’ll hear the difference immediately and it will also help with stabilising the arm, which means no skipping. You’ll rarely need to remove your cartridge and align it again but it’ts always good to check every year or if you move your turntable to a new location.
Tip: If you intend on getting specialised cartridges – like our VM670SP for 78 RPM records – then purchase a dedicated headhsell too for easy installation and you won’t have to re-align the cartridge again.
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Supreme Court to hear ‘hostility’ case involving church playground
Roger Drinnon
By Roger Drinnon
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Jan. 15 that it will hear a case concerning a Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod church preschool to determine if a state’s barring of the church from a government aid program is unconstitutional.
While the LCMS is not a party to the litigation, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys are representing Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Mo., in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Pauley, which came about after Trinity sought to participate in the 2012 Playground Scrap Tire Surface Material Grant Program to resurface its playgrounds with the safer, recycled tire products provided by the supposedly neutral program.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources later decided Trinity’s learning center was ineligible for the program — a determination purportedly made on an interpretation of a state-constitution provision prohibiting government aid to religion.
ADF is a non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith. Its attorneys contend the case is a question of whether states can exhibit “hostility to religion” by barring churches from state aid programs solely because they are religious organizations. They say such discrimination violates the Free Exercise and Equal Protection Clauses of the First Amendment.
“No state can define religious neutrality as treating religious organizations worse than everyone else,” said ADF senior counsel David Cortman in a press release.
“That isn’t neutrality; it’s a hostility to religion that violates the First Amendment. That’s the primary issue that the Supreme Court will address. In this case, the state should not have excluded this preschool from the recycled tire program simply because a church operates the school.”
“Children’s safety is just as important on church daycare playgrounds as it is on other daycare playgrounds,” added ADF senior counsel Erik Stanley. “Missouri and every state should understand that the U.S. Constitution prohibits religious hostility, which is what Missouri exhibited when it denied Trinity Lutheran’s scrap-tire grant application. This case has huge implications for state constitutional provisions across the nation that treat religious Americans and organizations as inferiors solely because of their religious identity.”
Last year, the LCMS participated in an amicus brief for the case. Amicus briefs provide pertinent information to the court regarding a case, alert the court to the ways in which the case may affect people outside of the two parties involved and help draw public and media attention to an important issue. The complete amicus brief is available for download at lcms.org/board/amicusbriefs.
“This case represents the tendency of some government agencies and certain advocacy groups to use expansive definitions of ‘the establishment clause,’ and state constitution versions of it, against people of faith,” said LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison. “We pray the Supreme Court will rule for the safety of children regardless of where their parents choose to send them for school.”
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Roger Drinnon (roger.drinnon@lcms.org) is manager of Editorial Services for LCMS Communications.
Posted Jan. 19, 2016
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Roger Drinnon is LCMS director of Editorial Services and Media. Master Sgt. (ret.) Drinnon is a former U.S. Air Force public affairs (PA) journalist and media relations specialist who served in a NATO Coalition Press Information Center in Pristina, Kosovo. Upon retiring from active duty, he led the Air Forces media embed program for the wars in the Middle East as Air Mobility Command's chief of media operations at Scott AFB, Ill. He has degrees in military operations, workforce education and public affairs/journalism.
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Ndaba Mandela stands up for his grandfather's legacy
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- Ndaba was shocked at the accusations against his grandfather and took to the media to set them straight
- He reminds us of the many struggles that his grandfather fought for us to live the life we live today
- Ndaba stands by his grandfather's legacy and says that calling him a 'sell-out' is just disrespectful
The accusations against the former president, Nelson Mandela, for been a sell-out, is absolute nonsense. This is according to Ndaba Mandela that has come out fighting for his grandfather’s legacy.
“Nelson Mandela was not a sell-out. People mustn’t talk without going into the history and understanding that‚ actually‚ Nelson Mandela is the first person to actually carry out attacks against white people. I’m talking about proper military tactics [targeting] white apartheid infrastructure. He was the first person to militarise and create the armed wing of the ANC‚” he said.
“So how dare you come and tell me that Nelson Mandela is a sell-out when he was the first black person to have the balls to go and bomb the apartheid system?”
Ndaba has written his first book entitled “Going to the Mountain: Lessons from my Grandfather, Nelson Mandela. Ndaba is so committed to the label that has been placed on his grandfather as total garbage, that he did not give it a second thought when he was writing the book.
Ndaba shared his feelings and disappointment with TimesLIVE. He said when his grandfather came to power after the 1994 election, Madiba faced massive challenges. But it was utterly wrong and distasteful to consider these decisions as, selling out!
“When he came out of prison and took power in 1994‚ the amount of looting the apartheid people were doing [meant] this government was bankrupt. There was no money to run the country. Certain compromises had to be done in order for this country to run‚ for the ANC‚ the organisation‚ to run this country. Briefly.co.za learnt that under the adversity‚ under the challenges that they were facing at the time‚ they had to make certain decisions.
“Yes‚ it may look like it was a sell-out‚ but it was nowhere near him selling out.
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“But if those people understood exactly that position Nelson Mandela was in‚ and ask them what they would have done differently ... trust me‚ they wouldn’t have many answers to come at you‚” he said.
Ndaba is extremely protective of “The Old Man” as he is affectionately called. This is very prevalent in Ndaba’s book where he explores his and his grandfather’s relationship.
Ndaba moved into Mandela’s Houghton home at the age of 11, and the book describes a deeply personal account of Ndaba’s adolescence with Mandela towering over him.
The story describes the close bond Ndaba and Madiba shared. Neither one is portrayed as a saint but how Ndaba cherished the relationship with his grandfather.
“His voice still rumbles through my bones‚ bumping into the old stories. It has settled into the marrow‚ like sediment in a river. As I get older‚ I hear his voice coming from my own throat. Everyone tells me I sound like him‚ and knowing that I do makes me weigh my words a little more carefully‚ particularly in a public setting‚” he writes.
When asked to summarise the lessons he had learnt from his grandfather, Ndaba replied that there are six key lessons.
“One of the most important lessons from my grandfather was to be humble. Humility is very important‚ especially if one wants to be a leader and be seen as a leader and to be respected as a leader in their community. Because‚ as a leader‚ you are not there for yourself but you are there to represent those who cannot represent themselves – the poor people‚ the marginalised‚ and so on. You must understand that you are actually a servant‚” he said.
Even though discipline was a huge lesson, in the book Ndaba admits that during his teenage years this did cause some friction between his grandfather and him.
Integrity was another lesson as well as respect and the value of public service.
Above all, given the lofty goals of Ndaba’s foundation, Africa Rising, the developing and nurturing of young Africans was the biggest lesson he learnt from his grandfather!
“It’s important in a world where we are lacking mentors. Lessons from a grandfather are important. We can all relate to a grandfather‚ or a grandfather-like figure in our lives‚” said Ndaba.
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A Close Look at the New Xcode7
One of the biggest frustrations for coders trying to come over from the PC side of things is learning to work within the Apple environment. For years, the language was virtually inaccessible if you were coming from a PC knowledge base, and even for those that were used to working in Apple’s code, the task of writing, editing, and finishing successful apps was a herculean feat.
All of this has changed with the introduction of the Xcode7 user interface. Imagine an editor for your code similar in look and feel to Dreamweaver, but specifically designed to not only work with Apple’s coding languages, but to also help you plot out, screen by screen, the flow and concept of your programs. Xcode is designed to interface with all of the latest iOS platforms, and gives users a simple and understandable user interface to help them bring their apps and programs to life.
The assistant editor splits your coding screen in two. On the left, you will see the items you have added and built. On the right, you will see your coding window, complete with a reference that highlights any parts that you have selected on the left.
If you’ve ever been lost on what the code behind an item would look like, this is a quick and easy way to tell. Simply select the code for the item that you have physically added or moved, and the coding window takes it from there. More than that, though, the coding window lets you manually adjust the code. So, as you work, you also learn more about how the code behind the iOS can work for you.
Jump Bar
Let’s face it, there’s a lot to the Apple programming language. There are tons of tools, schemas, and other items like methods that you can either use or create. In fact, when you’re working in your apps, you may find that the task of keeping things straight can be harder than the writing of your code. That’s where the Jump Bar comes in. It’s a tool bar that allows you to 100% customize it and reference not only parts of the editor you may need, but also parts of your code for quick access. In other words, it’s the ultimate shortcut tool for each project you do, allowing you to not have to worry about what screen your items are stored in. The best part is that it’s a movable and usable item, so if you’ve done a great bar for project number one, feel free to move it to project number two.
In most coding programs, you have the ability to test out your project as you go. In Xcode, you can not only do this, but you can also see a quick dashboard that will provide you with stats on your project, how often it’s run, where errors are, and so on. The testing window takes a lot of the guesswork and memory about your testing out of it and leaves you with peace of mind about what your project can and cannot do.
Along with this, Xcode includes ‘bots’ that will look at the versions of your projects and routinely test them out against your server. In other words, as you advance your project, you won’t have to worry about if its still compatible or runs well. The bots will take care of this aspect in the background for you, leaving you free to focus on your coding and not sweat the details.
Version Editor and Source Control
Keeping track of your project versions can be maddening, but the Version Editor keeps track for you. It allows for quick and easy access to prior versions of your code. Also, you can see the highlighted differences between two different versions of the same file so you know what works and what needs editing. Finally, this new software lets you keep multiple versions of the exact same file without having tons of the same file with slightly different version number clogging up your document folders.
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Is Tim Ball wanting to try the "insane" defense in his court cases, with the help of Anthony Watts?
Sou | 3:25 PM Go to the first of 20 comments. Add a comment
Global warming is real and happening, yet there will probably always be a small coterie who choose to promote the craziest, wackiest conspiracy theories rather than accept reality. Anthony Watts is one such person. Soon he'll no doubt announce that he's also joined a Flat Earth Society.
I've wondered for a while if Tim Ball is wanting to try on a defense of insanity when he goes to court. Is that the reason Anthony Watts publishes his utter nutter conspiracy theories? I know Anthony is conspiratorially-minded himself and likes to play the part of the persecuted victim/hero, but I find it hard to accept that he believes the incredible dark conspiracy theories Tim spews.
Yet he promotes Tim's wackiness - often. So another idea is that Anthony Watts holds the same immensely stupid notions that Tim Ball does. In his latest piece (archived here), Tim Ball is claiming once again that global warming is a dark conspiracy. Strangely, according to Tim, this conspiratorial plot is backed by virtually all the world's climate scientists and virtually all the professional scientific organisations in the world but he still claims it's a political plot!
So how does Tim explain that, as he admits, all the experts independently looked at all the the evidence and found it supported the same conclusion? That physics, chemistry, biology, geology, agriculture, ecology, oceanography, glaciology and more - all show that global warming is real and caused by human activity.
He doesn't.
He just says that it's a "political agenda".
And what does he offer to explain what is causing global warming, if not the huge increase in greenhouse gases?
Nothing. Tim has no explanation. He offers nothing. He just calls the science of the last 200 years a "falsely created scientific fraud".
As a reminder - this is how much the world has warmed over the past 136 years. 2016 was more than 1.4 C hotter globally, than it was in the coldest year in the record.
Annual global mean surface temperature. Anomaly from the 1881-1910 mean. Data source: GISS NASA.
I also notice that Tim makes another mistake that's been pointed out to him before by lots of people. Lord May of Oxford is not the same person as Brian May, guitarist with Queen (and astrophysicist). That's a tiny error by comparison with Tim's gigantic and unbelievable conspiracy theory. The latter involves most of the world conspiring against Tim Ball and the absolute crazies among Anthony Watts' readers.
Why does Anthony Watts push Tim's loony ideas?
There's a clue in Tim's article for why Anthony Watts continues to push Tim's mish-mash of crazy. As you know, Anthony Watts wages his war on science in part by trying to discredit the world's more prominent climate scientists. He doesn't do this by showing the science wrong because he can't. He's got no evidence. (Most climate science deniers don't do science, they rely on misrepresenting the science done by real scientists.) Anthony Watts does it by pushing pseudo-science, lies and innuendo.
The clue I'm speaking about is where Tim writes, about the Nobel Prizes awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore:
I know that these are still major arguments used to support the claims of the IPCC because they are cited in most legal documents I receive and are quoted in almost every media interview I have ever done.
Is Tim hoping that the utter nutters at WUWT will give him an argument he can use in his upcoming court cases? If so, he's out of luck. (Climate scientists don't actually rely on the decision of the Nobel committee as evidence of global warming. They don't need to. They use evidence from scientific analysis of data. It's the other way around. The Nobel committee accepts the vast array of scientific evidence.)
Global Cooling isn't much help. I'm guessing from their name that Global Cooling is willing to accept Tim's crazy notions rather than admit that global warming is real. This comment won't carry much weight in a court case.
Now we have fake science in addition to fake news.
Pat Frank hasn't yet thought to ask himself why the American Physical Society would accept science. It hasn't yet occurred to him that it might be because of the preponderance of evidence. He would rather choose Tim's crazy notion that all the world's scientists have been faking data for more than a century, amazingly producing results that all point to the same thing. And no-one's been able to figure out how they've done it. Weird doesn't cover it.
I share Hal Lewis’ amazement and anger at how the APS rolled over for AGW. I still don’t know how that happened, though. What were (are) those people thinking?
I always thought physicists were the most hard-minded of people, by far the most resistant to pseudo-science, by far the most likely to scoff at nonsense. I could rely on them to keep straight the ship of rational thought. Not any more.
Leo Smith puts on his tin foil hat to protect his head against massive pressure. He hasn't the wit to think of the alternative explanation - that the APS is correct and that the science is robust.
If you disbelieve the cliamte narrative, and believe that Al gore and chums created it for political reasons, that’s one thing. What the roll-over of all major institutions points to is massive pressure being applied at a very deep level.
It’s real tinfoil hat territory. But what other explanation is there?
Geo Rubik seems to think that humble climate scientists all want power. If that's what they wanted they wouldn't have chosen science as a career. (Geo hasn't moved on to the obvious question: how did all the scientists from different disciplines all manage to get all the different data to point to the same conclusion?)
“Focus on the bad science was necessary, but once demonstrated, demands an explanation of the motive.”
There’s only one motive. Power
Tim's conspiracy theory brought out others that are equally wacky and dark. Moa wrote how he believes not only was Mother Theresa evil, Nelson Mandela was a genocidal maniac. Huh? (I'd not come across that one before.)
April 23, 2017 at 2:46 pm (excerpt)
I’m pleased you mentioned Theresa as less than a saint as Hitchens pointed out.
Nelson Mandela was also an unrepentant Communist terrorist who ordered hundreds killed in the racist South African genocide against the white minority.
Just in case you thought Rudd Istvan is in any way respectable, despite being a climate science denier, this should put any such notion to rest. ristvan wrote how he's just another utter nutter conspiracy fruitcake as bad as Tim Ball and the rest at WUWT:
Interesting essay, but not new news. UNFCCC was from the beginning a progressive political construct. IPCC is a creature thereof. Figueres was clear about its ultimate objective, as were Wirth and Edenhofer. Actual climate science never mattered. It was only a facade to support a preordained political conclusion; those scientists who played along were (to now, times are changing) richly rewarded.
But that ship has hit the rocks of reality and is foundering. Trump’s election is but one consequence. Yesterday’s March for Science protests another. If the climate science is settled, we don’t need to spend more on it and can build a wall instead with the funds. If it isn’t, then we can fire (no more grants) all the incompetent ‘played along’ climate scientists who said it was. Either way, the marchers lose.
The paranoid conspiracy weirdos at WUWT couldn't make up their mind if climate science is an evil communist plot or an evil capitalist plot. They regard scientists all over with fear and loathing, while knowing not a thing about science, or scientists, or scientific careers, or intellectual pursuit, or how knowledge is obtained. Here's a sample, showing their different notions. mark4asp wrote:
Skeptics (especially Tim Ball) promote the idea that CAGW is a green-communist plot. No. It’s more of an elite / establishment plot. Follow the money. Billionaire foundations fund the green movement. The elites are not communists.
Chimp thinks that scientists are only in it for the money, and that there's lots of money to be made doing climate science, and that climate scientists are all capitalists. That's showing a bit of independence from most at WUWT who think that all climate scientists are commie stooges.
They want communism for the masses but capitalism for themselves.
crackers345 asked a good question:
i’m always wondering why tim ball doesn’t just disprove all the ipcc’s science via technical papers published in the scientific literature, instead of writing for blogs.
it’s my understanding that ball only published 4 scientific papers during his career, none on any of the crucial issues of anthropogenic climate change. am i wrong on that?
Tim said it's not true, and pointed to a broken link to a paper that he claimed was peer-reviewed, which he managed to get published 25 years ago, in the Canadian Water Resources Journal. The paper was pretty awful, full of wrong information and denier memes. I don't know why he claimed it was peer-reviewed. On his blog page he says it was a presentation, which wouldn't have been peer-reviewed. Maybe he meant reviewed by his own peers, none of whom are climate scientists. (Tim's peers are his fellow utter nutter conspiracy freaks.) In any case, his paper/presentation was fairly ordinary by comparison with the amazing conspiracy theories he pushes these days. Tim didn't manage to show that he's been a prolific publisher of climate science papers, however, because he's not. Most of the articles in his bio aren't in journals and he's not published any papers progressing climate science. (He was a lecturer long ago, in the geography department, not a research scientist. He's not a climate scientist.)
If Roger Knights was a real sceptic, not a fake sceptic, he'd have learnt that it was someone who turned out to be a climate science denier who led the APS committee, and called on science deniers Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen and John Christy to have their say together with more reputable scientists. It didn't work. In the end the APS couldn't bring itself to favour a conspiracy theory or science denial over scientific evidence.
I suspect that the world’s scientific societies have a standard practice of calling for volunteers when a job needs doing, such as to serve on a committee to write a report. If I’m right, then those societies asked for volunteers to serve on committees to examine the CAGW question, and those who volunteered were those who felt strongly about the matter—i.e., alarmists. That’s what I suspect happened in the AGU & the APS. If so, those societies were and are naive about zealotry (or their leaderships were machiavellian warmists).
Threats to Tomorrow's World: Anniversary Address 2005, delivered by the President of the Royal Society Lord May of Oxford OM AC Kt
Labels: conspiracy theories, deluded deniers, Tim Ball
PG April 24, 2017 at 11:29 PM
Sou I don't think that Anthony intellectually supports Tim Ball's excursions. I suspect it's about income.
Anthony recently had a separation from his wife. Any marriage break-up brings economic disruption.
I earn an OK income but my wife (of 37 years) is far more successful than I am in every imaginable way and if we were to part my privileged lifestyle would take a swan dive into the toilet.
I think Anthony has made a commercial decision to encourage the Info Wars faction for reasons to do with cash. He's hurting.
If endorsements for survival seeds start to litter his site then just take it as read.
Sou April 25, 2017 at 2:42 AM
Anthony Watts has an intellect?
Your wife must be amazingly successful, PG :)
Jp April 25, 2017 at 1:51 AM
Conspiratorial simpletons are not smart enough to notice the very obvious flaw and contradiction in the "scientists worldwide are conspiring to commit scientific fraud" nonsense: over the many decades that this so-called hoax has been perpetrated there has been many conservative, AGW denying governments in charge _ Bush, Howard, Abbott, Putin are the obvious ones. How does that fit with the denier memes about governments funding the climate science scam, or conversely not funding the "real climate science" because they have an agenda. Just in case anyone's confused about what the "Real climate science" is, it's the hidden science; the secret knowledge; the non-consensus, non-IPCC science that we're being kept in the dark about. Truly dangerous stuff if it's released; it'll blow the lid off the whole scam. Heads will roll. But I'm truly puzzled _ why would the fossil-fuel loving governments of George Bush and John Howard et al go along with the fraud? Unless...oh, no...Michael Mann is the real evil puppet master. He's controlling everything and governments of all persuasions are running scared. That explains everything.
jgnfld April 25, 2017 at 2:14 AM
You've never been privileged to travel to the secret hollow volcano to meet the masked Dr. Warm?
And, to plot world domination with your fellow scientists? I have. I still tingle at the experience.
It could have been Mann behind the mask but his voice was disguised. So I cannot be sure.
Victor Venema April 25, 2017 at 7:39 AM
Projection 101. The comments on the motivations of scientists and the organisation of science describe how they feel and what they would do. I hope the USA will survive these 4 mitigation sceptical years without too much damage to the fabric of society.
jhoptoad April 25, 2017 at 10:38 PM
Projection - precisely. I've said this many times. What they're actually saying is "I have no honor or integrity. I'd lie about my life's work for peanuts, so everyone would."
Jim Spriggs April 26, 2017 at 5:15 AM
Great to be on the same page with you guys. I use that a lot too. Somehow it seems to be always taken as an insult.
Li D April 27, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Spot on about projection.
Kiwi Griff April 25, 2017 at 8:20 AM
Just so no one misses it .
Thanks for the heads up Victor.
The Paws dies.
Global temperature evolution: recent trends and some pitfalls
Stefan Rahmstorf1, Grant Foster and Niamh Cahill
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6825/meta;jsessionid=1442C0A8000F441D65138CFB007A09B3.c3.iopscience.cld.iop.org
Informs us what Tamino has been doing in his hiatus from his blog.
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/its-the-trend-stupid-3/
Was, to me, one of Tamino's best efforts.
Last words from the paper.
"It is unfortunate that a major public and media discussion has revolved around an alleged significant and unexpected slowdown in the rate of global warming, for which there never was a statistical basis in the measured global surface temperature data."
Steve April 25, 2017 at 11:08 AM
I realise that this is off topic, but is anyone aware of the latest denier meme "NOAA Radiosonde Data Shows No Warming For 58 Years"?
A denier that I am debating with sent this link:
https://realclimatescience.com/2016/03/noaa-radiosonde-data-shows-no-warming-for-58-years/
Marco April 25, 2017 at 4:04 PM
Little you can do when people trot out Tony Heller as their source. Those people are so deep in denial, they'd dismiss anything that doesn't confirm their ideas.
For example, I am certain the following paper
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477%282002%29083%3C0891%3ACCRDCW%3E2.3.CO%3B2
will be dismissed, because it does not show the same as what Heller shows, and talks about "adjustments".
A more objective observer would note that the paper discusses the difficulties in actually creating a radiosonde-based temperature data set, with enormous differences between groups in terms of the corrections to be applied.
Millicent April 25, 2017 at 4:34 PM
Perhaps its time for a study of the nomadic habits of Tony Heller. He seems to move camp onto different data according to some strange pattern.
Harry Twinotter April 28, 2017 at 11:37 AM
You can assume that Tony Heller is dishonest. My advice is look closely to how he presents the data - you are likely to find his trick sooner or later.
Heller is showing a chart for 100mb which is probably in the stratosphere. He is not comparing apples with apples.
jgnfld April 28, 2017 at 12:31 PM
Come on now Harry...just look at his graphs for the truth. It's just "Science 101" after all!
Li D April 27, 2017 at 9:55 AM
So funny. Conspiracy dosnt even come close to scepticism.
Its just the dregs of any real discussion.
Oh i know the dregs think of themselves as Galileos, which shows just how removed from reality they are.
Conspiracy is a lazy, dishonest form of Skepticism.
Russell Seitz April 27, 2017 at 10:48 AM
Professional organizations that start out far from the national center of political gravity are the lawful prey of activists,and science enjoys no exception.
The resulting erosion of confidence is mirrored in what's become of other professions that have embraced advertising over disinterest as a Best Practice.
Ive never really thought of deniers as " activists " but, on reflection, they sort of are.
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In quest for health, Massachusetts bans the school bake sale
By Laura Weisman on May 8, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Sorry, kids. You’re going to have to come up with a healthier fundraiser. (SYA Extreme / flickr.com)
Just as a new report is released saying schools should be Ground Zero for the nation’s obesity battle, we learn that schools in Massachusetts are banning bake sales in the interest of fighting obesity.
The commonwealth of Massachusets says they will be getting healthier, however school organizations there, trying to raise money for student groups through food sales are going to have to get creative. Food deemed unhealthy — from bake sales to colas at football games — will be banned as of Aug. 1 across the state.
And that has a lot of people scrambling and upset, according to the Boston Herald:
At a minimum, the nosh clampdown targets so-called “competitive” foods — those sold or served during the school day in hallways, cafeterias, stores and vending machines outside the regular lunch program, including bake sales, holiday parties and treats dished out to reward academic achievement. But state officials are pushing schools to expand the ban 24/7 to include evening, weekend and community events such as banquets, door-to-door candy sales and football games.
The Departments of Public Health and Education contend clearing tables of even whole milk and white bread is necessary to combat an obesity epidemic affecting a third of the state’s 1.5 million students. But parents argue crudites won’t cut it when the bills come due on athletic equipment and band trips.
… Maura Dawley of Scituate said the candy bars her 15-year-old son brought to school to help pay for a youth group trip to Guatemala “sold like wildfire.” She worries the ban “would seriously affect the bottom line of the PTOs.
Most acknowledge obesity is a problem with students, as it is with the rest of the population, but they’re stuck with how to raise money.
According to the Associated Press, two-thirds of U.S. adults and almost a third of children are either overweight or obese, and progress to stop this epidemic has been too slow, the influential Institute of Medicine said in its report released Tuesday.
The report has a number of recommendations:
—Restaurants should ensure that at least half of kids’ meals comply with federal dietary guidelines, without charging more for the healthier options.
—Healthier foods should be routinely available everywhere, from shopping malls to sports arenas.
—More food companies should improve how they market to children.
—To make physical activity routine, communities should be designed with safe places to walk.
—Public and private insurers should ensure better access to obesity screening, preventive services and treatments.
—Employers should expand workplace wellness programs.
Do you think banning the school bake sale is the way to go to ensure a healthier nation? Or is that throwing the baby out with the bathwater? What is the right move?
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Testicle-eating cousin to the piranha found in Illinois lake
By Kamaria Monmouth on July 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM
The pacu fish, originally from the Amazon Basin, has recently been caught by a fisherman in Lake Lou Yaegar in Illnois, according to huffingtonpost.com
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources identified the fish as a pacu, a cousin to the piranha. Some reports also note that another pacu was seen weeks later. Biologists says the pacus might be aquarium pets and anyone found dumping the fish in the lake can be criminally charged.
The pacu can weigh up to 55 pounds and eats nuts, aquatic vegetation and snails, but is known as the “ball cutter” in Papua New Guinea said British Fisherman, Jeremy Wade. In the 1990′s, the pacu was introduced into Papua New Guinea’s rivers as a food source, for locals, after overfishing. From the Huffington Post:
In 2011, Wade said locals informed him that two fisherman had died from blood loss after something in the water had bitten off their testicles, according to the Metro.
“The locals told me that this thing was like a human in the water, biting at the testicles of fishermen,” Wade said.
Wade determined that the perpetrator was the pacu, which is known for having human-like teeth. The angler did note that such attacks are uncommon, the Daily Mail reports.
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Classification Of Animal Kingdom
The science of classifying organisms is called taxonomy. Every species discovered so far are classified into five kingdoms – one among them is Kingdom Animalia or the animal kingdom. The members of kingdom Animalia are further classified into different Phyla, Class, Order, Family, and Genus based on certain identifiable characteristic features.
One of the most fundamental forms of classification of animals is the presence or absence of the notochord. Hence, two major groups exist, namely: Chordates and Non-chordates.
Non-chordates and the Chordates
The notochord is a flexible rod made out of a material similar to cartilage. If an animal has a notochord during any stage of its life, it is classified as a chordate. Contrary to popular belief, chordates do not exclusively include vertebrates. There are invertebrates that possess a notochord during some point in their lives and hence, are classified as chordates.
Non-chordates
Non-chordates are animals without a notochord – the rod-like elastic structure that supports the body. This phylum consists of a small group of worm-like, marine species with an organ-system level of organization.
Members of phylum Porifera, Coelenterata, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Aschelminthes, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata and Hemichordata fall under Non-chordates.
The general characteristic features of Non-Chordates are:
They are cylindrical, triploblastic, coelomate, or pseudocoelomate animals.
Respiration in these animals takes place through gills, trachea or body surface.
Most of the times, sexes cannot be distinguished among the members.
Modes of reproduction involve sexual and asexual
Fertilization is external, though internal fertilization also occurs in some species.
The body includes an open type of circulatory system and front side central nervous system.
Examples of this phylum include Balanoglossus and Saccoglossus.
Chordates
Chordates are animals characterized by the presence of notochord at some stage during their development. Members possess a hollow nerve cord and pharyngeal gill slits. The other general characteristic features of Chordates are:
They are bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic, and coelomate with the organ-system level of organization.
They are often referred to as Protochordates and are exclusively marine.
They hold a post-anal tail
The body includes a closed circulatory system.
In some species of Phylum Chordata, the notochord is present only in the larval tail, and in some, it is present throughout their life from head to tail region.
Examples of this phylum include Ascidia, Salpa, Doliolum, Amphioxus or Lancelet.
Phylum Chordata is divided into three subphyla: Urochordata, Cephalochordata, and Vertebrata.
Subphylum – Urochordata – It is also referred to as Tunicata which are marine animals. The body of these animals is surrounded by a leathery covering (tunic). Larvae are free-swimming, the notochord is present only in the tail of larvae and after settling on the seashore, they get transformed into sessile adults. They are generally hermaphrodite.
Examples include – Ascidians, Doliolum, Oikopleura, etc.
Subphylum – Cephalochordata– It mainly consists of small fish-like marine animals in which the notochord are extended along the entire body and includes pharynx which is large with numerous gill- slits. These species have separate sexes.
Example include – Amphioxus or lancelet.
Subphylum – Vertebrata – In this subphylum, the vertebral column is mainly replaced by and includes a well-developed head. The brain is protected in a cranium and the endoskeleton may be cartilaginous or bony. They may be jawless or with jaws
Vertebrates classification
The subphylum Vertebrata is divided into five classes of vertebrates (animals with backbones.
The five classes of vertebrates comprise of all the species of animals have developed vertebral column and internal skeleton. Overall there are about 66,000 species of vertebrates which represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata. These vertebrates are bilaterally symmetrical, coelomic, triploblastic, and segmented, with complex differentiation of body tissues and organs. Thus all vertebrates are chordates but all chordates are not vertebrates.
Other characteristic features of vertebrates are
Presence of a true vertebral column and internal skeleton completely distributed muscle attachment points for body movement.
A front side muscular heart with two, three or four chambers.
Kidneys for excretion and osmoregulation
A paired appendages which may be fins or limbs.
Possess notochord during the embryonic stage.
Vertebrates are further grouped into five classes. They are:
Reptilia
Class Pisces (Fishes)
They are cold-blooded, aquatic animals, having a streamlined body and a pair of fins which are used for swimming. Tail fin helps in changing direction and exoskeleton is the form of scales. Endoskeleton may be cartilaginous or bony while respiration occurs through gills. They also have eyes without eyelids.
Examples of Class Pisces includes dogfish and Rohu.
Class Amphibia
They usually comprise of those organisms which are cold-blooded and are the habitat of the freshwaters or terrestrial. These organisms are mainly characterized by the two pairs of limbs, smooth and moist skin for respiration. They have protruding eyes protected by usually more than one pair of eyelids (Frogs have 3). Examples of Class Amphibia are frog, toad, and salamander.
Class Reptilia
They comprise of those organisms which are ectothermic in nature (cold-blooded). Most members have dry skin bearing scales or bony plates. They are characterized by the presence of a neck and the absence of the external ear. Digits are provided with claws.
Examples of Class Reptilia are Tortoise, Wall lizard, Snake, etc.
Class Aves (Birds)
They are warm-blooded animals having a streamlined body for lower air resistance during flight and their forelimbs are modified into wings. They are characterized by digits which are clawed and covered with scales, exoskeleton in the form of feathers and the presence of a neck and beak. Examples of Class Aves are Parrot, Pigeon, Duck, etc.
Class Mammalia
These organisms are distinguished by the presence of mammary glands, a body that is divided into Head-Neck-Trunk-Tail. Digits are provided with claws, nails, hooves. Most of the members in this species lack the external ear (also called pinna). They are warm-blooded animals.
Examples of Class Mammalia are Monkey, Man, Lion, Bat, Rat, Squirrel, etc.
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Distance between Toronto ON and Quebec QC
The distance from Toronto to Quebec is 804 kilometers by road including 763 kilometers on motorways. Road takes approximately 8 hours and 20 minutes and goes through Ajax, Oshawa, Belleville, Kingston, Brockville, Cornwall and Longueuil.
Toronto 0 km 0:00 00 min 0.0 L
Ajax 45 km 0:29 29 min 3.6 L
Oshawa 59 km 0:38 38 min 4.7 L
401 127 km, 1 h 16 min
Belleville 186 km 1:54 1 h 54 min 14.9 L
Kingston 262 km 2:42 2 h 42 min 21.0 L
Brockville 336 km 3:30 3 h 30 min 26.9 L
Cornwall 432 km 4:29 4 h 29 min 34.6 L
401 20 30 132 km, 1 h 19 min, Ontario - Quebec
Longueuil 564 km 5:49 5 h 49 min 45.1 L
Drummondville 654 km 6:46 6 h 46 min 52.3 L
Quebec 804 km 8:21 8 h 21 min 64.3 L
Pickering 37 km 0:25 25 min 3.0 L
401 8 km, 04 min
Whitby 52 km 0:34 34 min 4.2 L
Courtice 63 km 0:40 40 min 5.0 L
Bowmanville 74 km 0:47 47 min 5.9 L
Newcastle 81 km 0:51 51 min 6.5 L
Newtonville 89 km 0:56 56 min 7.1 L
Port Hope 99 km 1:02 1 h 02 min 7.9 L
Cobourg 115 km 1:11 1 h 11 min 9.2 L
Grafton 128 km 1:19 1 h 19 min 10.2 L
Trenton 166 km 1:42 1 h 42 min 13.3 L
Tyendinaga 203 km 2:04 2 h 04 min 16.2 L
Napanee 220 km 2:14 2 h 14 min 17.6 L
Odessa 239 km 2:28 2 h 28 min 19.1 L
Willowbank 281 km 2:53 2 h 53 min 22.5 L
Gananoque 286 km 2:56 2 h 56 min 22.9 L
Lansdowne 299 km 3:07 3 h 07 min 23.9 L
Maitland 345 km 3:34 3 h 34 min 27.6 L
Prescott 356 km 3:42 3 h 42 min 28.5 L
Johnstown 361 km 3:45 3 h 45 min 28.9 L
Muttonville 388 km 4:02 4 h 02 min 31.0 L
Morrisburg 390 km 4:04 4 h 04 min 31.2 L
Nudell Bush 399 km 4:09 4 h 09 min 31.9 L
Ingleside 410 km 4:16 4 h 16 min 32.8 L
Summerstown Station 444 km 4:36 4 h 36 min 35.5 L
South Lancaster 453 km 4:41 4 h 41 min 36.2 L
Lancaster 454 km 4:42 4 h 42 min 36.3 L
Bainsville 463 km 4:47 4 h 47 min 37.0 L
401 20 8 km, 04 min, Ontario - Quebec
Rivière-Beaudette 470 km 4:52 4 h 52 min 37.6 L
Saint-Zotique 477 km 4:55 4 h 55 min 38.2 L
Les Coteaux 480 km 4:58 4 h 58 min 38.4 L
Coteau-du-Lac 485 km 5:00 5 h 00 min 38.8 L
20 30 24 km, 14 min
Melocheville 509 km 5:15 5 h 15 min 40.7 L
Beauharnois 517 km 5:20 5 h 20 min 41.4 L
Châteauguay 527 km 5:26 5 h 26 min 42.2 L
Brossard 558 km 5:45 5 h 45 min 44.6 L
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 570 km 5:52 5 h 52 min 45.6 L
4 km, 03 min
Boucherville 574 km 5:55 5 h 55 min 45.9 L
Sainte-Julie 578 km 5:59 5 h 59 min 46.2 L
Sainte-Madeleine 596 km 6:10 6 h 10 min 47.7 L
Saint-Hyacinthe 606 km 6:16 6 h 16 min 48.5 L
Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin 609 km 6:18 6 h 18 min 48.7 L
Sainte-Rosalie 613 km 6:20 6 h 20 min 49.0 L
Domaine Laliberté 614 km 6:21 6 h 21 min 49.1 L
Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot 628 km 6:29 6 h 29 min 50.2 L
Saint-Germain-de-Grantham 646 km 6:40 6 h 40 min 51.7 L
Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover 662 km 6:49 6 h 49 min 53.0 L
Sainte-Eulalie 687 km 7:04 7 h 04 min 55.0 L
Villeroy 730 km 7:30 7 h 30 min 58.4 L
Saint-Janvier-de-Joly 748 km 7:41 7 h 41 min 59.8 L
Laurier-Station 755 km 7:45 7 h 45 min 60.4 L
Saint-Apollinaire 767 km 7:52 7 h 52 min 61.4 L
Saint-Nicolas (Bernières Ouest) 782 km 8:02 8 h 02 min 62.6 L
Charny 786 km 8:05 8 h 05 min 62.9 L
Saint-Nicolas (Bernières) 789 km 8:08 8 h 08 min 63.1 L
Distance from Toronto to Quebec by car
The distance between Toronto and Quebec is 804 kilometers by road including 763 kilometers on motorways. Distance from Toronto to Quebec by car takes approximately 8 hours and 20 minutes.
The distance between Toronto and Quebec is ranked 58th in the ranking popularity.
The driving time from Toronto to Quebec is approximately 8 hours and 20 minutes without intermediate stops.
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To find out how far is Toronto from Quebec, all the intermediate path segments were totalized. Precise satellite coordinates of highways were used for this calculation.
Reverse route: from Quebec to Toronto.
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Letting Your Mouth Get Your Rear End in Trouble – Under Armour’s CEO
Joining the list of the stupid, Under Armour’s CEO Keven Plank came out supporting the Chumph. The kickback was immediate, as a number of the company’s spokes people came out to reject any endorsement of Putin’s Bitch. Plank’s comments go 180 degrees against many of the athletes who use his products, as well as many of the spokespeople. Dumb move – alienating his customer base.
Looks like the company may be in the market for a new CEO shortly…Call me.
Under Armour endorsees speak out against Plank’s comments on Trump
Looks like Under Armour’s tough week is just getting tougher.
More and more athletes on the Baltimore company’s roster spoke critically on Thursday of CEO Kevin Plank’s recent comments complimenting the Trump administration. In the past 24 hours, Stephen Curry, Misty Copeland and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have all issued statements distancing themselves from the CEO’s comments.
“I have always appreciated the great support and platform that Under Armour has given me to represent my community, gender, and career on the world stage,” said Copeland in a Facebook post Thursday. “However, I strongly disagree with Kevin Plank’s recent comments in support of Trump as recently reported.”
The first African-American woman to be principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theater, Copeland said she has never backed away from openly speaking about the importance of diversity and inclusion and it’s important that her sponsors share that belief.
“I have spoken at length with Kevin privately about the matter, but as someone who takes my responsibility as a role model very seriously, it is important to me that he, and UA, take public action to clearly communicate and reflect our common values in order for us to effectively continue to work towards our shared goal of trying to motivate ALL people to be their best selves.”
Around the same time, Johnson put out a statement on his social media accounts calling Plank’s comments “divisive.”
“I appreciate and welcome the feedback from people who disagree (and agree) with Kevin Plank’s words on CNBC, but these are neither my words, nor my beliefs. His words were divisive and lacking in perspective. Inadvertently creating a situation where the personal political opinions of Under Armour’s partners and its employees were overshadowed by the comments of its CEO,” Johnson said. “I partner with brands I trust and with people who share my same values. That means a commitment to diversity, inclusion, community, open-mindedness and some serious hard work. But it doesn’t mean that I or my team will always agree with the opinion of everyone who works there, including its executives.”
It’s been a rough few days for Plank. The company’s fourth-quarter results were poor, its CFO quit and its bonds were downgraded. Then, after he told CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report” that President Trump “is a real asset for the country,” Under Armour’s prize endorsement asset, Stephen Curry, came out against that assessment of Trump.
“I agree with that description,” Curry told Mercury News, “if you remove the ‘et’ from asset.”
The NBA MVP and face of Under Armour’s basketball shoe went on to say that he has spoken with Plank regarding his comments, saying he spent “all day” on the phone with the company. Curry has an endorsement deal with Under Armour through 2024.
While Curry is standing with Under Armour, he is putting the company on notice.
“If I can say the leadership is not in line with my core values, then there is no amount of money, there is no platform I wouldn’t jump off if it wasn’t in line with who I am. So that’s a decision I will make every single day when I wake up. If something is not in line with what I’m about, then, yeah, I definitely need to take a stance in that respect.”
Posted by btx3 on February 10, 2017 in Second American Revolution
Tags: CEO, chumph, Diversity, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin plank, Misty Copeland, politics, sales drop, Stephen Curry, trump, Under Armour
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Lakes Erie, Chautauqua noted in state's 'Angler Achievement' awards
Andrew Cezarz shows off a 30-inch rainbow trout he pulled from Lake Erie last June. (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation)
By T.J. Pignataro|Published Fri, Mar 17, 2017 |Updated Fri, Mar 17, 2017
The state's top fish catches from 2016 were recognized late Thursday by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Entries came in from 39 counties statewide and Chautauqua County placed in the state's top five counties for anglers, officials said.
The others were Suffolk, Warren, Onondaga and Essex counties.
"The Angler Achievement Awards program recognizes anglers that catch any of the 43 eligible fish species that exceed minimum qualifying lengths or weights," according to a DEC statement.
The program consists of three separate categories, including catch-and-release, an annual award for a kept fish and a state record catch.
State environmental officials said two state records were set or tied in 2016, including:
a new record for a freshwater drum fish, at 29 pounds, 14 ounces, that was snagged June 4 by Amelia Whalen from Lake Champlain.
Patrick Hildenbrand's rare eight pound, four ounce smallmouth bass from the St. Lawrence River last Aug. 28, which tied a 21-year-old record catch from Lake Erie
(New York State DEC)
At least a pair of four-foot or longer muskellunge were caught by Chautauqua Lake anglers in 2016 as well as pair of three-foot long trout from Lake Erie, the DEC reported.
A 38¼- inch lake trout caught in Lake Erie off Chautauqua County by Robert Swiatek was among three other notable catches individually recognized by the DEC.
That giant fish was released back into the lake.
Locally, Rich Hartman earned a first-place annual award for his two pound, three ounce catch of a white bass from Lake Erie off Chautauqua County last Sept. 21, the DEC reported.
Besides official recognition of their catch from the state, anglers are presented with a lapel pin to commemorating the achievement, the DEC reported.
Record holders are also awarded wood plaques.
Here are some of the other anglers recognized in DEC photos for their catches in Western New York's waters:
Anglers seeking information about the program can call (518) 402-8891 or email fwfish@dec.ny.gov.
T.J. Pignataro – T.J. Pignataro has been a staff reporter for The Buffalo News for more than 20 years and the environment and weather reporter since 2013. He earned the Certificate in Weather Forecasting from The Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and holds a juris doctor degree from SUNY Buffalo Law School.
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Miller-Williams Forcing County Leg Workers to Electioneer?
I’ve deliberately been ignoring the comings and goings of the ridiculous, court-governed county legislature race because, really, it’s something that just shouldn’t be. We don’t need it, and we don’t need them – not to do its largely ministerial functions.
But this comment made in reply to this Artvoice piece stood out:
Many Erie County Legislature’s Democratic staffers are complaing that Chairwoman Miller-Williams is forcing them to canvas the 3rd Legislative District for the Independence Party Line.They are complaining because they are being made to work for Chris Collins and the other Republican Legislators who received the Independence Party’s endorsement and against endorsed Democrats. Miller-Williams was also the only Democrat endorsed by them. These workers are caught in the middle because they are being told that they will be fired if they did not do this political work. Isn’t this illegal under New York State election laws?
Yes, it’s illegal. If it isn’t, it should be. If it isn’t, it’s palpably unethical.
Barbara Miller-Williams has proven herself to be a loyal Collins Republican, and as with most Byron Brown allies, she blurs the line between government and campaigning into illegality that sometimes does – and sometimes doesn’t – get exposed, but is seldom, if ever, prosecuted. Ask Tanya Perrin-Johnson. I frankly don’t know why Ms. Miller-Williams doesn’t just switch to the party with which she is most closely aligned.
I don’t know why she continues to pretend to be a Democrat, but that’s her business. In the long term, would be great for the community if we could restructure government into something more streamlined and effective. In the short term, as with Antoine Thompson, it would be good to be rid of bad political actors like Ms. Miller-Williams.
Tags: abolish county government, Byron Brown, county legislature, Erie County New York, Miller-Williams, politics, WNY
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28 Responses to “Miller-Williams Forcing County Leg Workers to Electioneer?”
Charles September 23, 2011 at 7:55 am #
It is not illegal do ask certain political exempt/confidential appointees to do political work and/or to dismiss them for failing to support the political interests of their patron. However, the political work cannot be accomplished when one is otherwise supposed to be working. It is not illegal to ask, outside the public workplace and work hours, any other workers to help, on their own time, but it is illegal to sanction, or threaten to sanction, those employees who do not cooperate. The Hatch Act may preclude certain employees, whether exempt/confidential or not, from partisan political activities if their positions are funded by the Feds.
So who are these employees? What do they do? More facts are needed lest you get accused of simply repeating unsubstantiated rumors or waving a warning flag where none is needed. If these staffers depend on the politics of Miller-Williams for their livelihood, then they should either get on board with her or get off the payroll. Sounds to me as they may be complaining simply to play both sides of the aisle, hoping to survive no matter what the outcome of the election.
wolfpack September 23, 2011 at 8:18 am #
Mostly Ministerial Legislature. Yes it is. This is especially true for Buffalo neighborhoods where county money for construction comes from teh City. The social services are important for the poor of Buffalo, but those services are mandated by feds and NYS, not the legislators.
As for Williams, she is just doing for who does for her. The tactics are dispicable, but not uncommon. Those without civil service protection have no choice, and many are qualified folks who should only have to do their job.
buffaloobserver September 23, 2011 at 9:05 am #
Looks like the morally corrupt GRASSROOTS political organization is at it again.
RaChaCha September 23, 2011 at 10:04 am #
Aside from the legalities or illegalities (and I had some exposure to this system when I worked for the president of the Monroe County legislature), this gives yet another example of how “independent” the Independence Party is. What began as a “pox on both your houses” revulsion for the two-party system has — in NY and especially in WNY — through electoral fusion corrupted into a transactional tool for abetting and perpetuating the very worst practices and products of two-party politics. What started as a Smeagol has become a twisted, corrupt Gollum.
One can only hope that those who may still be registered “I” or vote on the “I” line get disabused of the notion that they are in any way a “cure” for the system — quite the contrary.
Kevin J. September 23, 2011 at 10:17 am #
Two years ago, when BMW had the Democratic and other lines and had no opposition, she forced us staffers to petition for several days the last week of petition collecting so she would also be on the Independence line. This was while there were several races that were contested and could have used some help.
Starbuck September 23, 2011 at 3:18 pm #
How would the D staffers in question be at risk of firing if the D majority minus BWM is still a majority? Aren’t there 9 D’s? That’s 8 not counting BMW. How could anybody be fired who an 8-7 vote doesn’t want fired?
As long as this isn’t truly illegal, it’s difficult to have sympathy if people are fired for entirely political reasons after they were hired entirely for same. I’d say it too if it was hires of Betty Jean Grant or Maria Whyte.
Laws should be followed of course, but how is it “palpably unethical” to demand 100% political obedience from people who hold a job that’s a 100% politically motivated appointment? That isn’t a rhetorical question. If it’s unethical, then I’m really ignorant about what those jobs are. If they’re for the general non-partisan good of the county, why aren’t they under the Civil Service system?
I agree the county government level should be abolished, including the legislature.
RaChaCha September 23, 2011 at 5:58 pm #
@Starbuck For good or for ill, the president of the legislature has ultimate control over the legislature staff jobs. BMW was elected president, and has never been unelected. If you’re a staffer being fired there’s not a vote — you may just get a tap on the shoulder and be told to pack your personal belongings and go immediately, as happened to some of the staffers who were terminated immediately after the coup — on her orders, I understand. The voters will have the opportunity to give her a tap on the shoulder in just over a month.
I had it better: when I was on the staff of the president of the Monroe County legislature, and we lost the majority, the president-elect of the opposite party sent us letters thanking us for our service, but telling us our services would no longer be required after January 1. It gave us time to seek alternate employment.
The legislature is not run on a non-partisan system, so staff do not fall under Civil Service for either hiring or firing — or anything in between.
Charles September 23, 2011 at 6:05 pm #
@5 – Exactly what do you by “forced?” And exactly how did you get your position and what do you do? And what do “staffers” do anyway? And why do staffers have to do it? How many staffers do the tax payers support? The last I looked the County Executive is the chief administrative officer for the county and there are plenty of departments and staffers within those departments to do whatever it is a constituent would need to be done.
Seems to me that the Erie County Legislature is has lost its way as a legislature. Why does each citizen legislator need a staff anyway? Why not, at least, a central staff to do whatever legislative research is needed to investigate and research legislative issues(OK I’d compromise and allow one staffer for the majority and one staffer for the minority as well as a staffer for the Chair).
Betty Jean Grant. September 23, 2011 at 9:45 pm #
@ Starbucks. You wanted to know how Chairwoman Miller-williams can fire the legislature’s central staff when Democrats controls the majority and the chairwoman is only one of nine Democrats who are in the majority? In the legislature, the chair of the legislature has total hiring and firing power over all staffers, Democrats and Republicans. However in 2010, Ms. Miller-Williams and the Republicans, with two rogue Democrats, passed a resolution that allowed the Minority leader, John Mills to have sole authority to hire and fire the Republican staffers but that same group of nine, Kennedy, Bove, Miller-Williams and the 6 Republicans voted to deny the Democratic Majority Leader, Maria Whyte, to exercise that same power and authority. Chairwoman Miller-Williams kept that authority, herself. The first thing she did was fire Kevin J, Jeremy Rosen and other longtime Democratic staffers. Unfortunately, the Democratic staffers who are there now will probably not complain to me or any other legislator because they run the risk of being fired before January 1, 2012 and there is not a thing the Democratic Majority can do for them. The Buffalo Council Council rules are different; Councilmember David Franczyk needs a majority of votes before he can wreak the havoc on the Common Council that Miller-Williams has fostered on the legislature’s staff.
Kevin J. September 24, 2011 at 1:49 am #
@8 I and other staffers were told that if we did not collect petitions for BMW, that if/when she became chair, as it was assumed she’d do, we would probably be terminated. Obviously, for several of us, that did not matter.
Specifically, I was the director of communications for the Democratic majority, for which I was appointed following my 18 1/2 years as a print journalist and freelance writer, as well as college broadcast experience (none of which my replacement had). I was not a committee person at the time of my appointment and had not actively worked on a campaign since serving as a Buffalo State College co-director of sorts for Students for Mondale Ferraro (you can see what a bang-up job we did).
I wish I had the specific numbers with me, but the central staff, on which I worked, was cut by more than 60 percent when the red-green budget fiasco occurred. As things went, the then-chief of staff said to me, “I don’t know what to do with you, Kevin. You’re a merit hiring; we don’t get many of those.”
The day I was fired, I was taken aside at the end of a more than 10-hour work day, given my letter of dismissal signed by BMW, and given about 5 minutes to clear out my office, which I have the foresight to start doing a few weeks before than and only had a small box and my knapsack left to take. Oh, and this was after I notified the media about and helped arrange the press conference at which the new chair, BMW, announced the personnel changes.
Staffers performed various tasks, from clerking committees to researching and writing legislation, some more than others, some better than others. My almost 6 years at the Legislature were my first and so far only government job.
Peter Hilton September 24, 2011 at 6:17 am #
Were these jobs posted? I have the quaklifications too. Where do I apply?
RaChaCha September 24, 2011 at 7:45 am #
@Betty Jean Grant The Monroe County Legislature has the system of majority and minority leaders controlling the majority and minority staffs, respectively. The president (as the chair is called in Monroe County) controls only the president’s office staff. It’s a more “rational” system, dangling less “coup” temptation in front of those with Machiavellian bent (and backing). I put “rational” in quotes, as it also led (at that time I was there, at least) to the somewhat humorous situation of the president trying to hide the real size of his staff from both the county executive and the majority leader — so our offices were hidden away in various back rooms, and we were encouraged not to talk with folks in elevators, etc. Humorous, that is, except in the sense that it’s all funded with taxpayer dollars.
@KevinJ Interesting — I was also as “merit hire” to borrow your term. Like you, when I was hired I hadn’t had anything to do with politics since college — I wasn’t even registered in the same party as the legislature president. An interesting, to say the least, first lesson in government and politics.
Day of Reckoning September 24, 2011 at 11:54 am #
@ALL – At any time a majority of legislators can take hiring/firing powers away from Miller-Williams and minority leader, see Erie County Legislature Rules of Order…
5.10 AMENDMENT OF RULES:
These rules shall not be rescinded, altered, or amended, nor shall any additional rule be
added, except by a majority vote of the total members of the Legislature, and only after at least
one day’s notice in writing, filed with the Clerk of the Legislature.
SECTION 6.00: EFFECTIVE DATE
6.01 EFFECTIVE DATE:
These rules shall be effective immediately upon adoption by a majority vote of
the total membership of the Legislature.
http://www2.erie.gov/legislature/sites/www2.erie.gov.legislature/files/uploads/pdfs/overview_rules.pdf
@ RaChaCha & Legislator Grant,
Thank you both for answering my question.
I realize you’ve both been involved in this and I haven’t – but I’m still confused about part of your answer.
If the two rogue Democrats other than BMW – Bove and Whalen, I believe – are no longer rogue, then why can’t a majority of eight (excluding BMW and the 6 R’s) simply undo that rule described in Legislator Grant’s comment about who controls D staff hiring?
If a leg majority of nine put the rule in place to give the power to BMW instead of Maria Whyte, then why can’t a less-rogue majority of eight change it back right now if they wanted to? 8 is bigger than 7, so what’s the issue now?
On my other point, I can’t tell if anyone was trying to explain what makes it palpably unethical for a patron to demand total political obedience from political patronage hires. I’m not implying that patronage hires never have merit or never do important work. But when there’s a chance to hire loyalists or fire non-loyalists or less-loyalists, isn’t it usual for all parties and all factions to go ahead and do it? Although it’s unfortunate when anyone becomes unemployed, the replacements very well might be changing from unemployed to employed.
@Starbuck I don’t know the answer, but I suspect no one wants to crack open that can of worms in the midst of re-election season.
@ Starbuck. Oops! I forgot that the two rogue Democrats have returned to the fold. We do not meet again in legislative session until October 6th. I will lobby the majority Democrats to see if they will support me putting forth a rfesolution of some kind to protect the hardworking and trying-to-be, loyal staff.. Thanks again, Starbuck.
Ooops, again. I meant to say Resolution.
@ Starbuck. To answer the second part of your question: The Chair of the legislature, in prior years, controlled the hiring with the understanding that those individuals, whether they were Republicans or Democrats, worked for all of the legislators in a particular party. This worked well under Lynn Marinell, George Holt and I am sure, other past Chairs of the Legislature. Miller-Williams, because of the political infighting, sought to hire Democrat staffers that was loyal to and worked, for the most part, for her. When a Democratic staff could threatened to slander me via a text message and was not sanctioned for it because she was the political hire of Grassroots’ Maurice Garner, shows the level of contempt Miller-Williams has for her ‘fellow ‘ Democratic collegeaues.
LeftthelegislaturebecauseofalltheBS September 25, 2011 at 7:48 am #
Kevin J why don’t you get your facts straight… BMW did not force you to go out and secure signatures for the Independence Party in 2009. Lynn Marinelli did that. BMW went to Lynn and asked for staff help at the very last minute. She had no opposition and Lynn should have simply told Barbara “no”. Instead, she made you and others run around the east side like fools for three nights to find 50 people who would actually sign the petition. I hope BMW at least bought the staff lunch.
As for you, please don’t snow everyone on this board about your sterling credentials and your “merit” hiring. Did you, and I think your wife, not run for committeeman against one of the mayors people? Did the Hoyt organization not pull a lot of strings to land you a job at the YWCA? How did that work out? Are you not a regular at most of the fund raisers having anything to do with the Niagara democrats? I suppose that’s only because the clams they serve are so delicious?
What happened to you (and others) at the EC Leg totally sucked. And a day spent with crazy Barbara is no picnic. But PLEASE don’t snow everyone that you are so above the fray with your merit hiring nonsense. You are a Hoyter and a political hack just like the rest of them.
Oh and one more thing… Alan you should have been around in the days when Chuck Swanick was the chair, that’s when I was there. During election season you pretty much had no life. Even Tanya Perin Johnson couldn’t hold a candle to what went on. Staffers were expected to “volunteer” several nights a week, AND bring family members and kids to make phone calls and pass out leaflets. We were extorted for thousands of dollars in fund raising tickets and had to send big checks to Lenny Lenihan to boot. I still got my contacts at the EC Legislature staff at County Hall, and from what I am told, BMW and her chief of staff don’t even impose a fraction of the intimidation and terror that Swanick did in his day. So give BMW at least a bit of credit for that.
Sorry, chicken shit anonymous Left…, I have my facts straight. You can believe what you want. And if you claim to have your facts straight, you’re doing a bang up job, seeing I petitioned for BMW in the Allentown/West Side portion of her district.
Let’s see; I first ran for committee several months after I was hired by the legislature, and yes, my wife Val was already a committee person; she was a member of the Good Neighbor Democrats before we started dating, but good try. My first campaign, with my wife, was against two people, neither incumbents, who I believe were associates of the Brown faction. I never met either and can’t even remember their names now. I first met Sam Hoyt in a political science class in college, so I guess I was so sneaky and clever that it took me 25-30 years, according to your accusations, to use my connections.
The then-chief of staff used the term “merit hiring,” so I guess you also are maligning the veracity of another person of whom you couldn’t know if they said something or not.
Oh, and classy move to mention a job I held for a not-for-profit that I have not and will not discuss any particulars of online. Strings pulled? I hope I can reach my knees to slap them in laughter.
I openly and proudly support progressive politicians like Sam Hoyt, Maria Whyte, David Rivera, Sean Ryan and others in the Niagara district, and I never said anything about being “above the fray,” if you mean politically active. My facts were and are accurate; I live and own a house here on the West Side, and live my ideals, not allegedly selling them for a job as you seem to suggest.
val September 25, 2011 at 4:38 pm #
@LeftthelegislaturebecauseofalltheBS, nice of you to pile on my husband (Kevin J.) without mentioning your own name. Classy.Just to get your ‘facts straight’, Kevin was not involved as a committeeman until I asked him to run with me in September 2004.I was already a committee person, and asked him to run with me, as there are some things I need assistance with. This was 7 months after he started at the leg. Before he started there, he would not attend any political functions with me, as he was a journalist and did not think it was ethical.
Chuck Renshaw September 26, 2011 at 10:20 am #
There is a place in social media blogs like this one for anonymous posts, that is as long as people respect one another, don’t use slander, bullying or intimidation. I don’t think the post by “Left” was insulting at all, or classless for that matter. Perhaps “Left” wanted to point something out to “Kevin J” that a lot of people are tired of hearing (merit hire vs. patronage hire argument), and maybe “Left” still wants to be friends with “Kevin J” even with his post. Maybe “Left” doesn’t want to be confronted for his comments, just felt it had to be mentioned. I have to admit I wanted to post something like that, but did not. If you read “Kevin J”‘s previous posts here since the day he was fired by BMW, you get the take that people who are patronage hires are somehow below him in stature, kind of lowlifes. So just because he put his name on there, it’s somehow ok to demean his former colleagues? I thought “Kevin J” was green-lighted into the position through his mother-in-law, Janice Dunn, a prominent member of the Amherst Democratic Committee, and Dennis Ward, who both endorsed “Kevin J” to Bill Benfanti, the chief of staff at the legislature at the time, who surely saw in “Kevin J” an outstanding background for the position. Does this make it patronage lite?
Alan Bedenko September 26, 2011 at 5:07 pm #
Chuck, why are you motherfucking Kevin Hosey from an erie.gov IP?
Well, “Chuck Renshaw,” (gee, quotation marks are fun) my name is Kevin J. Hosey, as I and Buffalo Pundit have previously mentioned.
I guess I find anonymous remarks and disparaging comments insulting and classless; as a journalist, blogger, freelance writer and commenter, I have always identified myself and always will. Why should I find any honor or class in someone who “doesn’t want to be confronted for his remarks?”
I was a management/confidential employee, so in other words I was a patronage hiring or whatever you want to call it. There were, always have been and always will be good, bad and mediocre patronage hirings; I explained what I was told were the reasons why I was hired, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Dennis Ward had good words to say for me, but I have never asked about it and no one told me he did.
Wow, nice attempt to put words in my mouth by implying, at the very least, that I have contempt for all patronage hirings and former colleagues without a lick of proof. I have contempt for certain patronage hirings and former colleagues and those who hired them, and respect for other patronage hirings and colleagues, but dealing with that complicating fact would apparently be too difficult and nuanced. And I’ll bet my mother-in-law would be surprised, if not shocked, that she “green-lighted” my hiring, as if she had or has any such power. Anyone who recommended me for this or any position earns my eternal gratitude and makes me want to work that much harder to justify their confidence. And cripe, try spelling her last name correct.
So, is “Left…” a male, “Chuck Renshaw?” I don’t know who this person is or their gender, so I definitely don’t know if he or she is a friend, acquaintance, former coworker or what else. If people had or have any problem with my work ethic, performance or qualifications when I worked at the Erie County Legislature, feel free to state them here. With attribution would sure be nice.
Joe Genco September 26, 2011 at 12:42 pm #
Way to stick up for yourself, Kevin. I hope there is some civil service job in your future, because the entire patronage system is distasteful to me and “merit hire” or not you seem better than that. I was never politically active during the 22 years or so I worked as a journalist. Then I signed on as a committeeman in Clarence. I walked away two years ago when I realized nearly everyone involved either owed someone, worked for someone or wanted a job. The whole pissing contest of he-said-she-said underscores how filthy it is to be in the fray. I still disagree with your politics, but rise above it. And one more thing — thanks for having the stones to sign your name,
Chuck Renshaw September 26, 2011 at 1:22 pm #
Let’s not condemn the patronage system just because you had no luck in it. Some of these people in these jobs could easily have become quite successful in the private sector had they not wanted to devote their lives to helping people, yes via government in “management confidential” employ. Sometimes leaders take people out of the private sector to become patronage hires, which happened to me. Just because some don’t do so well, doesn’t justify continuing to say people in jobs through patronage hiring are somehow less worthy of respect. And yes, Kevin J. Hosey, you implied just that countless times on here – just go back and read your posts. I have seen numerous people excel as patronage hires. Helping their fellow residents makes them shine; people with Mayor Brown, Dem Chair Lenihan, Steve Pigeon, Sam Hoyt, BMW, Chris Collins, and on and on!!! Just think, every Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Ambassador, Cabinet Secretary, Lt. Governor and so on are all patronage hires. Some of you twist the title to make it sound lowly. Heck, Kathy Hochul and Brian Higgins were patronage hires at some point in their career; no doubt Hochul and Higgins do a lot of good for WNY. Hillary Clinton is a patronage hire. Colon Powell was one, too. It’s been around since dirt, remember renowned artists Chrétien de Troyes, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo? They were patronage hires, too. How’d it work out for them?
Kevin J. September 26, 2011 at 4:19 pm #
Oh, please, Chuck Renshaw; just because you are wrongly interpreting or misunderstanding what I wrote and are apparently practicing mind reading, doesn’t mean that is what I wrote or meant.
As you can see from I actually wrote above, I do believe there are good, bad and mediocre patronage appointments. You don’t have to look for implications, I directly state that.
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#57 – Thanks For Nothing, Buddy!
Reno: “Think there will be booze tomorrow? I could be thankful for that…”
Originally Published: ?? . 29 pages
It’s Thanksgiving time at the ramble room, and Lark is making everyone say what they’re thankful for. Will Sephiroth finally be able to say what’s in his heart?
Ramble Milestones
Nothing this time.
According to my ending notes, I listened to the song “So In Love” from the musical Kiss Me, Kate a million times when writing this ramble, which explains a lot. I like this ramble, even if it kind of has more drama than laughs. Some of the funniest moments for me were when Lark kept offering to “do the looking” for the other girls when it came to Sephiroth and when Rufus admits he’s thankful for his employees and Reno responds, “But we hate you.” Irvine also lies in this ramble, claiming his favorite holiday is Valentine’s Day, when we find out later he hates it. Yeah, he lied. I never make mistakes like that. EVER.
(lark is decorating the ramble room with thanksgiving stuff. there’s a big table in the center of the room covered with a white tablecloth, and it has been set up for a fancy dinner.)
Sephiroth: *entering with rufus and irvine* “What’s all this, woman?”
Lark: *not looking at them* “Thanksgiving, duh! It’s tomorrow!”
Rufus: “Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving!?”
Irvine: “I had no idea.”
Lark: *shakes head* “Don’t you guys pay attention to what month it is or anything?”
Rufus: “Sure I do. It’s just that…Thanksgiving?” *shrugs* “Eh. Who cares? You just eat and stuff. Christmas is my favorite holiday.”
Irvine: “I like Valentines Day.” *wink*
Sephiroth: “I like–“
Lark: “I know, Sephy. You like Saint Patrick’s day.”
Sephiroth: *sighs with annoyance and then says with no enthusiasm* “Yeah. Go Saint Patrick’s day. Whoo.”
Lark: *turns and looks at the guys* “I don’t believe you guys!” *frowns* “I love Thanksgiving! It’s a nice holiday! Plus you get that kick ass parade on tv.”
Rufus: “Ooh! With Santa at the end!”
Irvine and Sephiroth: *give each other weird looks*
Lark: “Forget Santa. The stores always prepare for Christmas around *Halloween* and forget Thanksgiving even exists! Meanwhile, everyone in America celebrates it! It’s our national holiday! Not that I don’t love Christmas, but I think Thanksgiving should be given its due.”
Sephiroth: “And I think I’m bored.”
Lark: “Sephy-sama.” *disapproving look*
Rufus: “But you don’t get any presents or anything at Thanksgiving. What’s the point?”
Irvine: “Yeah, and there’s no excuse to get laid or drunk either.”
Sephiroth: “Or wear green.” *rolls eyes*
Lark: “There is a point! It ain’t called *Thanks*giving for nothing! You’re supposed to tell what you’re thankful for!”
Rufus: “Yeah, but no one ever does.”
Lark: “Well…. This year we are. This year everyone is going to say what they’re thankful for. And it has to be something serious. Or no one’s eating.”
Irvine: “Speaking of eating, who’s making our Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow?”
Lark: *laughs* “Not me! I made cookies, that’s it. Noelle, Ashley, Rinoa and Selphie said they would take care of it.”
Rufus: “They can, um, cook, right?”
Lark: “I guess so.”
Sephiroth: “The Gundam Wing jerks aren’t coming, are they?”
Lark: “You know, I invited them, but Heero said Wufei spent a week preparing their dinner.” *shrugs* “I don’t wanna mess with that freak. He said they might stop by later, but not to count on it.”
Sephiroth: “What about Twilight?”
Lark: “Of course he’s coming. Where else is he going to go? He doesn’t really have any friends–“
Sephiroth: *glares*
Lark: *sweat drops* “Besides you, Sephy. Eh heh.”
Irvine: “So what are we having tomorrow?”
Lark: “Um…turkey…”
Irvine: “Besides that!”
Lark: “You know, the Thanksgiving stuff! Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes – stuff like that.”
Rufus: “Aren’t we supposed to be nice to everyone on Thanksgiving? You aren’t inviting Hojo and them, are you?”
Lark: “Ugh! No! You’re never supposed to be nice to them!”
Rufus: “I love you, Lark.”
Lark: “I know, hon. Now, you all go spread the word that everyone had better be thankful for something tomorrow! Or no one eats!”
Irvine: “The food had better be good, or no one will want to.”
Lark: “……I’d better go check on that.”
(lark goes into the kitchen where, Noelle, Ashley, rinoa and selphie, clad in aprons, are busy cooking…)
Selphie: “Tee hee! I love cooking!”
Ashley: “Better not slip any crack into the food, crackwhore.”
Rinoa: “Like I would, even if I had some, Ashley.”
Noelle: “Stop talking and stir, Ashley.”
Lark: “Hey, girls.”
Selphie: “Tee hee! Hi, Lark!”
Rinoa: “Wanna help?”
Lark: “No… I just came to see how everything is coming.”
Ashley: “All right…except for crackwhore here.”
Rinoa: “What did I do?!”
Lark: “Now, now. Let’s be nice to each other on Thanksgiving-eve guys. By the way, I’ve decided in the true spirit of Thanksgiving, everyone has to tell what they’re thankful for before we eat tomorrow.”
Noelle: “Why? Were you visited by three ghosts last night, Lark?”
Lark: *gives her a look* “No. It’s just that no one appreciates Thanksgiving cause there’s nothing to do. Now I’m giving them something to do, so no complaining.”
Ashley: “They’ll complain anyway.”
Lark: “Probably. But about other stuff. Anyway, make sure you do a good job on the food, or no one will want to eat, and I won’t get anyone to tell what they’re thankful for.”
Ashley: “I’ll just be thankful if crackwhore doesn’t mess up the meal.”
Rinoa: “I’ll be thankful if you can keep your big mouth shut!”
Selphie: *eyes narrow* “I’ll be thankful if you two stop fighting!”
Noelle: *sigh* “I’d be thankful for some booze right now.”
Lark: *slowly backing out the door* “I’m gonna be thankful as soon as I get out of here.”
(seph, rufus and irvine have found some other guys in the tv room and are talking)
Reno: “What we’re thankful for? That requires thinking!” *pouts*
JT: “It shouldn’t be that hard. It just should be…um…you know. What you want most in your heart.”
Barret: “Say what now?”
JT: *sigh* “Never mind.”
Seifer: “What if I’m thankful for something that hasn’t happened yet?”
Squall: “That can’t work, Seifer.”
Seifer: “Shut up, Squall!”
Tseng: *nervously* “What if we’re thankful for something we can’t say…”
Reeve: “Yeah…”
Tseng: *looks at reeve* “What are you…?”
Reeve: *looks at tseng* “What are *you*…?”
Reno: *scratches head* “Why they always gotta make everything so hard?”
Vincent: “I know what I am thankful for.”
Reno: “Can I steal yours?”
Rude: “Reno, you have to think of your own. Everyone’s is different because it’s based on what’s in your heart, just like JT said.”
Reno: “JT spoke? When was this?”
Rude: *sigh*
Rufus: “I could be thankful for my new pair of shoes.”
Irvine: “I could be thankful for all the sex I’ve had.”
Reno: “Ooh! That’s a good one!”
Rude: “No! Don’t you see? You’re missing the whole point!”
Reno: *blinks in shock* “Whoa. Rude, man. You like, yelled.”
Rude: “Look, you’re not supposed to be thankful for sex, or shoes or booze on Thanksgiving. You’re supposed to be thankful for—“
JT: “Wait! Don’t tell them.”
Irvine: “Hey! Why not?!”
JT: *calmly* “You can’t tell them the true meaning of being thankful. They have to figure it our for themselves.”
Reno: “Can I have a hint?”
JT: “We already gave you like 5.”
Rufus: *frowns* “Guess the shoes are out.”
Sephiroth: *deep in thought*
Vincent: “What are you thinking about, angel?”
Sephiroth: “I don’t know, Vincent. I know what I’m thankful for, I just don’t know if I can say it without everyone making fun of me.”
Vincent: “What is it?”
Sephiroth: *whispers in vincent’s ear*
Vincent: *eyes widen* “Oh, angel. That’s beautiful. You should not be ashamed to say it.”
Sephiroth: “Really?”
Vincent: “No. I want you to say it.” *leans over and kisses him on the cheek*
Sephiroth: *blushes* “Vincent… Not in public…”
Rufus: “I’m thankful for Shinra!”
Tseng: “I’m not.”
Rufus: “Shut up, Tseng.”
Reno: “Hmm…. Thankful….”
(the next day… sephiroth is fast asleep all curled up in a ball when lark tip toes in wearing a little red dress)
Lark: *quietly goes over next to the bed and leans over whispering* “Sephy-sama…”
Sephiroth: *mutters in his sleep* “Come on, Lark. We just had sex.”
Lark: *raises an eyebrow and freezes a second but then just shrugs it off* “Sephiroth, come on.” *lightly shoves him*
Sephiroth: *mutters in his sleep* “Oh not that position again.”
Lark: *getting a little scared* “Sephiroth!” *shakes him harder*
Sephiroth: *still asleep* “Oh yes! Ri–“
Lark: *claps a hand over his mouth with lots of sweat drops* “Oh boy.”
Sephiroth: *wakes up struggling to breathe and sits up prying lark’s hand off him* “Woman! You tried to kill me!”
Lark: “I think I was trying to do something else according to your dream.”
Sephiroth: *paling with sweat drops* “Heh heh…. What dream?”
Lark: “Never mind.” *climbs in bed next to him* “Good morning, sweetie.” *smiles*
Sephiroth: *pulls the sheet tightly around himself* “Woman, I’m a little weirded out by this wake up call.”
Lark: *peers around to study his back* “Are you naked?”
Sephiroth: *turns bright red* “LARK!” *pulls sheet up more*
Lark: *giggles* “Sorry.”
Sephiroth: *sighs* “So why are you here?”
Lark: *shrugs* “Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving! And it’s not early anyway. It’s 9 o’clock! Twilight will be here soon.”
Sephiroth: “Mmhmn.” *eyes on her outfit* “Nice dress.”
Lark: “Think it’s too slutty?”
Sephiroth: *quickly* “No.”
Lark: “What are you going to wear?”
Sephiroth: *laughs* “Ha! Like you don’t know!”
Lark: *sly smile* “Or….you could just wear what you have on now…”
Sephiroth: *chuckles* “I don’t think I’d be too popular walking around naked.”
Lark: *hand on his arm* “I know I wouldn’t mind.”
(sephiroth raises an eyebrow and goes to kiss her when there’s a knock at the door)
Shell: “Lark! We need you!”
Lark: *garden snap and mutters* “Dammit.” *sighs as she gets up* “We’ll talk later.” *she leaves*
Sephiroth: *breathlessly* “Or maybe we won’t.”
(lark and shell are setting up the last minute preparations for the dinner. the tv has been moved into the ramble room and a bunch of the guys are crowded around watching)
Twilight: “Where’s Sephiroth?”
Lark: *shrugs* “I don’t know. He should be here soon.”
Reno: *watching the parade* “What’s all this Broadway crap? Where are the balloons?”
Lark: *looks up eyes flashing* “Who’s dissing Broadway?!”
Reno: *sweat drops* “I didn’t say nothin’, Lark. Honest.”
(sephiroth comes into the room dressed…normally…?? he’s wearing black dress pants and a black dress shirt. he looks really really hot)
Vincent: *blinks* “Angel?”
Sephiroth: *sweat drops as he tugs at his collar* “Hi, everyone. Happy Thanksgiving.”
(everyone looks at him and stares blankly)
Twilight: “Wow! You do have other clothes!”
Opal: *mutters* “You’re one to talk.”
Shell: *blinks* “Wow, Sephiroth! You look great! Better than Rude!”
Rude: *hangs head* “I tried to look nice…”
(lark is just staring at him open mouthed)
Sephiroth: *meets her eyes* “What do you think, Lark?”
Lark: “Uh….” *snaps out of daze* “Oh…” *blushes* “Very nice, Sephiroth. Very, very nice.” *shies away* “I better see how they are in the kitchen.” *gives him one last look and leaves*
Vincent: “You look beautiful, angel.”
Sephiroth: “Thank you.” *smiles*
Rufus: “Ooh! The Snoopy balloon!”
Irvine: *pouts* “Where’s Big Bird?”
Zell: “Yo! I wanna see Clifford! He’s cool!”
Reeve: *snort* “Rufus just wants to see Santa Claus.”
Rufus: *snaps* “And you just want to see Tseng naked, but I didn’t say anything about that.”
Reeve: *sputters* “Wha-what!?”
Tseng: *eyes widen*
Reeve: “I never said that!” *turns to tseng* “I never said that.” *turns away and mutters* “Not out loud…”
Rufus: *snickers*
Shell: “Be nice over there! Rude, tell them to be nice!”
Rude: *sigh* “Be nice.”
Reno: *laughs* “Okay, mommy. If you say so.”
Rude: *glares at him with a very scary glare*
Reno: *slides away* “Whoa, man. That’s scary.”
Irvine: “Oh yeah! Big Bird is coming up next!”
Squall: “Whatever.”
Seifer: “This parade sucks. The one I had was better.”
Squall: “You mean the one Edea had.”
Seifer: “Shut up, Squall.”
(lark goes into the kitchen fanning herself)
Noelle: “Yeah, it is hot in here, huh?”
Lark: “Huh?” *more sweat drops* “Oh. Yeah. That’s why I’m fanning myself…”
Rinoa: “Wow! Have you guys seen Sephiroth?”
Lark: *mutters* “Don’t remind me.”
Ashley: “No, why, crackwhore?”
Rinoa: *eyes narrow* “Cause he looks really hot.”
Selphie: “He does?”
(the girls all go to look but lark stops them)
Lark: “Come on. He doesn’t look that good. Go back to cooking and I’ll do the looking for all of us.” *leaves*
Ashley: “…….That was weird.”
Selphie: “She kind of, um, contradicted herself.”
Noelle: *thoughtfully* “Hmmm….”
Rinoa: “Well he did look hot.”
Ashley: “Shut up, crackwhore.”
(lark rejoins the others and keeps her eyes on sephiroth as she comes next to shell. in fact she’s concentrating so hard on seph that she bumps right into shell)
Shell: “Whoa! Watch it!”
Lark: *still staring* “Huh, what? Oh sorry.”
Shell: “Where are Katie and Lizzie?”
Lark: *still staring* “Store.”
Shell: “What store?”
Lark: *still staring* “Dunno.”
Shell: “What are you staring at?” *sticks her head in lark’s line of vision*
Lark: “Shell!” *pushes her away* “I’m not doing anything! Why don’t you keep folding these napkins?”
Shell: *whispers* “Are you staring at Sephiroth?”
Lark: “No!” *stalks away*
Shell: “Geez. Just asking.”
(meanwhile…back in the kitchen…)
Ashley: *basting the turkey* “You know, I think we actually did a good job. If I hear one complaint, I’ll cook *him* for dinner.”
Rinoa: “What makes you think only a guy would complain?”
(all the girls look at one another and laugh)
Noelle: “That was actually a good joke, Rinoa!”
Rinoa: *smiles* “Thanks.”
(just then barret and cid enter with red on a spit)
Barret: “Yo! We caught ya a turkey!”
Red: *calmly* “I am not a Turkey.”
Cid: “#$@^&#$*&!”
Barret: “Cid’s right! Only cost ya 20 gil!”
Red: “Please let me live.”
Ashley: “Aw, poor Red!” *pets him*
Noelle: “Um… Barret… Cid… Red’s not a turkey.”
Barret: “Sure is! He tol’ us himself!”
Red: “I did nothing of the kind. They are morons.”
Noelle: “We already have a turkey, guys. We don’t need yours. You can let him go.”
Barret: “Yo! If you say so!”
Cid: “@#$%#&$*#!”
Red: “Listen to the girl.”
(they leave)
Rinoa: “….That could only happen at *our* Thanksgiving.”
Selphie: “I have to agree.”
(Katie and Lizzie return from the store with quistis and yuffie)
Lizzie: “We’re back!”
Laguna: “Hey hey! What did you get?”
Katie: “Quistis did most of the shopping.”
Quistis: *arms full of cakes and stuff* “I got dessert.”
Zell: “Why aren’t they in bags, Instructor?”
Quistis: “……They ran out.”
Yuffie: *pouts* “They were out of materia.”
Katie: “They didn’t have any to begin with.”
Yuffie: *still pouting* “That too.”
Lizzie: *jaw hits the floor* “Oh my g-d.”
Katie: *frantically* “What?! What?!”
Lizzie: *in a trance* “Look at Sephiroth.”
Katie: *spots him* “Oh. My. G-d.”
(they look at one another and then go to run for him but lark steps in their path)
Lark: “Why don’t you guys go help Quistis bring that stuff to the kitchen?”
Katie: *pouts* “Aw, but Lark!”
Lark: “Go ahead. I’ll stare for you while you’re gone.”
Lizzie: “That does us no good.”
Lark: “Just go!”
(they mutter unhappily and go off. lark goes back over to shell, fanning herself)
Lark: “Is it hot in here, or is it just me?”
Shell: “Just you.” *giggles* “You like Sephiroth.” *giggles*
Lark: *pushes her* “Do not! Stop it!”
Shell: “Do to!” *giggles* “You think he’s hot!”
Lark: “Who doesn’t?” *stops and blushes* “But I don’t like him.”
Shell: “Liar.”
Lark: “Shut up! I do not! And if you lie and tell anyone I do, I’ll tell everyone you like Nida!”
Shell: *mutters* “You suck.”
Irvine: “There’s Big Bird!”
Zell: “Big deal. Where’s Clifford?”
Shell: *nudges lark*
Lark: “I don’t like him, Shell!”
Shell: “He’s looking at you.”
Lark: “He is?!” *looks*
Shell: “You just missed.”
Lark: “You’re liar.”
Shell: “No. That’s you.”
Lark: “Shut up!” *stomps off*
Shell: *thinks up devious plans*
Twilight: “That band sucks! And their uniforms suck too!”
Seifer: “Yeah! They blow!” *laughs* “Get it?! Blow?! Like horns and stuff?!”
Twilight: *gives him a weird look* “Just shut up and save yourself the humiliation.” *turns to opal* “I used a big word!”
Opal: “Yes, Twily.”
Shell: *comes over smiling fakely* “Sephiroth, Lark went off. Can you go find her for me?”
Sephiroth: “Sure!” *he leaves*
Shell: *takes his place* “Okay, who wants to back me up here. I think Lark likes Sephiroth.”
Reno: *eyes wide* “No way.”
Rufus: “She does not!”
Squall: *nods* “I think she does.”
Tseng: “So do I.”
Irvine: “No she doesn’t. You’re all crazy.”
Shell: I think she does. She hasn’t stopped staring at him since he came in.”
Vincent: “…..Angel?”
Squall: “I asked her once if she liked him, and she avoided the question.”
Tseng: “Same thing when I asked her.”
Vincent: “….Someone else actually likes my angel….?”
Shell: “I think she wants him bad.”
Rufus: *covers his ears* “I am not hearing this!”
Zell: *punching air* “You have no proof!”
Twilight: “I could probe her mind using the Force and find out.”
Opal: “You will not.”
Twilight: *frowns* “I can never have any fun.”
Shell: “True… I have no hard evidence.”
Reeve: “Maybe we should all try to get her to admit it.”
Rufus: “Don’t look at me to help!”
Zell: “Me neither.”
Irvine: *shakes head* “Count me out too.”
Reno: “I’ll help!!”
Rude: “Hm.”
Shell: “You’re helping too, Rude.”
(meanwhile…outside on the porch, lark is pacing and fanning herself)
Lark: “Oh man…”
(sephiroth comes out looking for her)
Sephiroth: “There you are. Shell was looking for you.”
Lark: *startled* “Oh! Sephiroth! You scared me.” *still fanning herself*
Sephiroth: *comes outside* “Are you all right? You’ve been acting strangely. Are you sick again?”
Lark: *not looking at him* “No. I’m fine. Just fine.”
Sephiroth: “Hm.” *leans against the wall*
Lark: *fans herself faster and there’s a long silence before she speaks* “Okay, I’m just gonna ask.”
Sephiroth: “Ask what?”
Lark: “Sephiroth, I’m sure you remember the dream you were having before I woke you up this morning.”
Sephiroth: *gulp* “Yeah… Why?”
Lark: *turns to look at him* “Let’s just say you talk in your sleep.”
Sephiroth: *eyes widen and he gets totally embarrassed and claps both hands over his mouth* “Ohmygod.”
Lark: *staring him straight in the eyes* “Sephiroth…. Do you want me?”
Sephiroth: *stares right back at her* “So bad I can’t stand it.”
Lark: *raises an eyebrow seductively* “Then come and get me.”
Sephiroth: *eyes get really wide but he comes over and grabs her and they start making out like their plane’s going down*
(meanwhile…inside…)
Ashley: *calling from the kitchen* “We’re almost ready to eat!”
Rufus: *watching parade with a happy sigh* “That Santa. He never changes.”
Other guys and Shell: *exchange weirded out looks*
Lizzie: “Where’s Sephiroth?”
Katie: “Yeah, where’s Sephiroth?”
Irvine: “Better question: where’s Lark?”
Shell: “Lark left. I sent Sephiroth to look for her.”
Everyone: “……………………………………………………………………….”
Rufus: *calmly* “Shell…”
Shell: *meekly* “Yes?”
Rufus: *yells* “I’m going to kill you!”
Shell: “Eep! Rude, save me!” *hides behind rude*
Rude: *just sits there*
Rufus: “Fine… I’ll back off for now…” *slides away* “But only cause Rude’s scary.”
Rude: *smiles*
Zell: “Yo! Someone should find them!”
Irvine: “Or both of them…. Hopefully they’re not together.”
Squall: *snort*
Irvine: *kicks him* “Shut up, Squall.”
Shell: “There is a simple explanation to this problem. We’ll all split up and look for them. It’ll take us two seconds.”
Reno: *snickers* “Better start with their rooms.” *gets jabbed by rufus* “Ow!”
Shell: “All right. Let’s go.”
(everyone leaves the ramble room. a few second later, Ashley enters)
Ashley: “Guys, we’re ready to…” *sees there’s no one there* “Guys?” *whimpers* “Guys?” *stamps foot* “We made all this food! It’s good, dammit!”
(meanwhile…sephiroth has backed lark up against the wall outside and they’re still going at it like their plane is going down. lark has both her hands under his shirt as he’s sucking on her neck)
Lark: *gasping* “Ah… Sephiroth… *shuts her eyes* “This… This isn’t right…”
Sephiroth: *breaks away and looks at her* “What?”
Lark: *gently pushes him away* “This isn’t right.”
Sephiroth: “….Why not?”
Lark: “This is stupid! We don’t….like each other that way! It’s just lust, you know?”
Sephiroth: *frowns* “Yeah.”
Lark: “It’s natural that two people who are close like us, might want to…you know… But it’s wrong. And we should forget this happened.”
Sephiroth: *sadly* “Yeah. You’re right.”
Lark: “See, if you really liked me, then it would be different.” *pleading eyes* “But you don’t, do you?”
Sephiroth: *doesn’t look at her* “No. I… I just think you’re pretty. That’s all.”
Lark: *frowns* “Oh. But see? I am right.” *goes back inside*
(2 seconds later vincent comes out)
Vincent: “Oh, angel. There you are. Everyone is looking for you and Lark. Have you seen her?”
Sephiroth: “Yeah, she was just here two seconds ago.”
Vincent: “Oh.” *pause* “Did something happen?”
Sephiroth: “Oh, Vincent!” *hugs him and cries into his shoulder*
Vincent: “My angel! What’s wrong?!”
Sephiroth: “I can’t do it!”
Vincent: “Do what?”
Sephiroth: “I can’t do it! I can’t tell her! I can’t say what I’m thankful for! And I don’t know why!”
Vincent: *strokes seph’s hair* “Hmmm…”
(meanwhile…lark goes inside and runs into reeve and tseng)
Reeve: “Oh, Lark. There you are. Everyone is looking for you and Sephiroth. Have you seen him?”
(lark grabs both their wrists and drags them into the tv room and locks the door)
Tseng: “Um… Is there some reason you’re doing this?”
Lark: *turns to them* “Look, I have to tell *someone* before I die. And I’m telling both of you because I trust both of you not to breathe a word, and I know if I don’t tell the other, he’ll find out anyway.”
Reeve: “What is it? Is something wrong?”
Lark: “Fine. I’ll admit it. I like Sephiroth, okay? I think I’m in love with him! But you can’t tell anyone! Not a soul! He doesn’t like me back, and if he found out, it would just be weird between us. Okay? Promise you won’t tell?”
Tseng: *blinks* “I promise.”
Reeve: “Me too.”
Lark: *sigh of relief* “Good. That was good to get off my chest.” *leaves*
(reeve and tseng stand in shock for a moment)
Tseng: “Well, there’s the proof. Looks like everyone’s suspicions were right after all.”
Reeve: “Well we promised we would be quiet.”
Tseng: “A Turk never breaks a promise.”
Reeve: “I think it’s weird that they both like each other and don’t know it!” *glances at tseng*
Tseng: “I know, it blows your mind, doesn’t it?” *glances at reeve*
Reeve: “If you liked someone, you’d tell me, wouldn’t you?”
Tseng: “You’d do the same, right?”
Reeve: “…….Yeah.”
Tseng: “Okay then.”
(they go to leave)
Tseng: “If I ever like anyone I’ll let you know.”
(everyone finally returns to the ramble room)
Shell: “There you are, Lark.”
Lark: “Yeah.”
Ashley: “Where did you all go?! We’re ready to eat!”
Lark: “Sorry.” *frowns* “What are you waiting for? We’re here now. Bring everything out!”
Ashley: “Tch. What a bitch!” *goes back into the kitchen*
Rufus: “Something wrong, Lark?”
Lark: “No. Everyone sit down.” *she sits at the head of the table*
(everyone takes a seat around the table. lark is at the head, like I said, and Sephiroth is at the other end. Ashley and the other girls bring all the food out and they all sit themselves. everyone is poured some red wine and then there’s silence for a moment)
Reno: *quietly* “….Are we still going to do that thankful stuff?”
Lark: “Yes. Go ahead, Reno. You start.”
Reno: *gulp* “Me? Can’t I hear some examples first?”
Lark: “No. Just go.”
Reno: *blushes* “All right… I’ve given this a lot of thought…” *looks at his plate* “And I’m most thankful for Noelle and all the times we spend together.”
Noelle: “Aw! Reno! That’s so sweet!” *hugs him* “I’m thankful for that too!”
Reno: “You are?!”
Ashley: “All right, gag me.”
Noelle: *glares* “What are *you* thankful for, Ashley?”
Ashley: “I’m thankful for all my anime guys.”
Seifer: “Even me?”
Ashley: “Yeah.”
Seifer: “I’m thankful I got a better girlfriend than Squall.”
Ashley: “I take that as a definite compliment.” *kisses seifer*
Katie: “I’m thankful I get to hang out here with all you cool people!”
Lizzie: “I’m thankful I have a nice, smart boyfriend!”
Laguna: “I’ll drink to that!” *spills his wine* “Whoops!”
Lizzie: “….Even if he is kind of klutzy.”
Laguna: “I’m thankful I have a loving girlfriend, two good friends and a son who loves me.”
Squall: *mutters* “Yeah, you wish.”
Rinoa: “I’m thankful Squall is such a great guy.”
Rinoa: “That’s not something to be thankful for, Squall.”
Squall: *sigh* “I’m thankful for you, Rinoa, of course.”
Rinoa: “Aw!” *kisses squall*
Ashley: *mutters* “Gag me.”
Shell: “I know I’m thankful for all the stuff Rude buys me!” *grins*
Rude: “….What about me?”
Shell: *turns to him* “What? Did you say something?”
Rude: “………..”
Reno: “What are you thankful for, Rude?”
Reno: “Rude?”
Rude: “I’m thinkin’.”
Shell: “Hey! He’s thankful for me, right, Rude?”
Rude: *hangs head* “Yes, Shell.”
JT: “I’m thankful that I get to hang out with all you pretty girls.”
Noelle and Ashley: “Tee hee! Aw!”
Tifa: “I’m thankful to have a friend like Cloud.”
Cloud: “Huh?”
Tifa: *shoves wine down his throat*
Cloud: “I am thankful to be here with all you fine people.”
Cid: “@#%@#^@^&&$%@#$!”
Noelle: “English, Cid.”
Cid: “I’m thankful to have a friend like Barret!”
Barret: “Right back at ya, man!”
Red: “I am thankful to still be alive through all the torture.”
Yuffie: “I’m thankful to have *some* materia, even if it isn’t a lot.”
Selphie: “Tee hee! I’m thankful to be a SeeD!”
Quistis: “I’m thankful I have such a useful skill.”
Zell: “You mean being a SeeD?”
Quistis: “Yeah… That’s what I meant…”
Zell: “Yo! I’m thankful for all my friends!”
Seifer: “What friends?”
Ashley: *jabs him* “Stop it, Seifer.”
Irvine: *grins* “I’m thankful to have so many fine ladies that like me.”
Tseng: “I’m thankful for…” *cough* “Reeve.” *cough*
Reeve: *blushes* “I’m thankful for Tseng… As my friend! Friend!”
Everyone: *sigh*
Elena: “I’m thankful to be a Turk!”
Rufus: “I’m thankful that I have a great company with great employees and great friends too! I’m a lucky guy!”
Reno: “But we hate you.”
Noelle: *nudges him* “Reno!”
Twilight: “I’m thankful that the Force is with me!” *grins* “And for Opal too, of course.”
Opal: “I’m thankful for my Twily and all my great friends!”
Vincent: “I, of course, am thankful for my angel and the ever amusing company of all of you.” *turns to seph* “Come on, angel.”
Sephiroth: *looks down* “I…. I….” *pushes away from the table and gets up* “I can’t.” *runs out*
Vincent: *frowns* “Hmn.”
Shell: “How about you, Lark?” *turns* “Lark?”
(lark’s gone…)
(she goes back to the porch where sephiroth is sitting on the swing crying again)
Lark: *shocked* “Sephiroth? Are you crying?” *goes over*
Sephiroth: *wipes away tears* “Leave me alone.”
Lark: *sits next to him and puts an arm around him* “Sephiroth, why are you crying? Don’t you have anything to be thankful for?”
Sephiroth: *not looking at her* “………………………………..Yes.”
Lark: “Well…. Why can’t you say it?”
Sephiroth: *shakes head*
Lark: *takes his hand* “Sephiroth… Look at me.”
Sephiroth: *slowly looks at her*
Lark: “Know what I’m thankful for?”
Sephiroth: *slowly shakes head no*
Lark: “I’m thankful for the ramble room and everyone in it, cause I love them all, but most of all, I’m thankful for having you as my friend.”
Sephiroth: *quietly* “….Why?”
Lark: “Because you’re always there for me. Whenever I need you. I can’t say that about anyone else. Just you. And I’m very thankful for that.”
Sephiroth: *squeezes her hand* “Lark… I… I’m thankful to have you as a friend too.” *looks down* “…I don’t have many of them. So I have to treasure the ones I have.” *looks up at her* “So thank *you*, Lark.”
Lark: *lost in his eyes* “Sephiroth…?”
Sephiroth: “Yes?”
Lark: “…Know all that crap I said before about lust and everything?”
Sephiroth: “Yes.”
Lark: “I take it all back. Every word. If we’re such good friends, I don’t see any reason why we can’t kiss one another once awhile… In a friendly way of course.”
(meanwhile there is a huge crowd of people at the window in the tv room, staring out at them)
Reno: “What are they saying?”
Seifer: “Ow! Ashley! Stop pushing! That hurts my face!”
Noelle: “Shush! Shut up and maybe we can hear!”
Shell: *chanting softly* “Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss!”
(irvine, zell and rufus are the only ones not looking)
Zell: “This is bootleg.”
Irvine: “Ghetto.”
Rufus: “Ass lancing. They’re wasting their time! She doesn’t like him!”
(back outside)
Sephiroth: “I don’t see why not.”
Lark: “So….”
Sephiroth: “Sooo….” *looks at her and then takes a deep breath* “Lark, I love–“
Lark: “Saint Patrick’s day?” *laughs* “Yeah, honey. Don’t worry. It’s only 4 months away. But Thanksgiving is pretty nice, don’t you think?”
Sephiroth: *defeated sigh* “Yeah.”
(back inside)
Almost everyone: *chanting* “Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss!”
(outside)
Lark: “So… How about a short little kiss to just ‘seal the deal’?”
Sephiroth: “Sure. Just a little one.”
(they look at one another and hesitate before kissing. it’s much more than a ‘little one’ and it goes on for awhile. muffled cheering is heard)
Sephiroth: *blushing a little* “So, Lark, is this Thanksgiving as nice as you hoped?”
Lark: *smiles* “I think it was nicer.”
Sephiroth: *gets up* “I think everyone is probably wondering where we are.”
(they go to walk back inside and the group in the tv room quickly fumble to close the curtain)
Lark: “By the way, Sephiroth, did you hear the sound of cheering a little while ago?”
Sephiroth: *shrugs* “Thanksgiving day football.”
Lark: “Yuck. Some people will cheer at anything.”
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2 Responses to #57 – Thanks For Nothing, Buddy!
Stupid Aquarius says:
Hey Lark! It’s me, your long time fan and reader! I’m really glad to hear that you’re at least storing the Rambles in another place because the truth is I still read them religiously. \o/
Anyway here’s a little art for ya. Consider it as an early birthday gift haha. Well enjoy, thanks and take care!
http://img30.imageshack.us/i/larkn.jpg/
lark2328 says:
Hi! I’m glad you still enjoy them! And thanks for the art! I love it!
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February 3, 2014 February 4, 2014 corley598
1888 Ernst Kleeschulte Kills Family
Here is another installment from Crime Beat, Murder, Mayhem and the Mundane
Crime Beat, Murder, Mayhem and the Mundane
Dateline: Cuivre Township
From the St. Charles Cosmos May 2, 1888
ONE OF THE BLOODIEST TRAGEDIES EVER ENACTED
Ernst Kleeschulte Attempts Extermination of his Family with a Deadly Bull-Dog Pistol
MURDERS HIS WIFE AND FATALLY WOUNDS HIS HELPLESS CHILDREN
The Murderer Coolly Suicides a Short Distance from the Scene of the Murder
Full Particulars of the Horrible Affair
The bloodiest and most horrible tragedy ever enacted in St. Charles County, was Friday morning about 9 o’clock, in the quiet and secluded neighborhood around the mouth of the Peruque creek about 12 miles from St. Charles. Ernst Kleeschulte shot his young wife to death with a 44 calibre ball from a British bull-dog pistol, put three balls in his little 6 year old son Ernst and fatally shot his little year old infant.
Webley British Bull Dog Pistol
Image from wikipedia.org
After doing this awful and bloody work, the murderer walked, or rather skulked, around the house, went about a quarter of a mile into the woods, and as the surroundings indicated, deliberately suicided by sending a ball through the centre of his forehead. The murderer and suicide had coolly pulled off his coat, rolled it up as a pillow and stretching out committed the deed in a very deliberate manner.
Indefinite, floating rumors of the tragedy reached St. Charles Friday evening and about 5 o’clock a Cosmos reporter was enroute to the scene. An uneventful drive, over some very good as well as very bad roads, brought the representative of the press to the humble Kleeschulte cabin about half-past 8 o’clock. Although the tragedy occurred Friday morning, strange to say, many residents in the immediate neighborhood late in the night had not heard of it, A dim light was burning in the two room cabin and entering through the back door a scene presented itself not soon to be forgotten. Stretched right in front of the door, on the bare floor of a scantily furnished room, was a sheeted form. The white covering had settled around the object of its protection, revealing the form of a human being. A sorrowful young German with tear-dimmed eyes, who said between his sobs “this is my sister”, mechanically raised the sheet at the end from the door which the reporter entered, and the white, dead face of a rather pretty woman, was 25 years old, was revealed. This dead woman had been a few hours previous the wife of Ernst Kleeschulte. Passing from the dead room into the front and only remaining room in the house, a group of men and women were crowded around a bed on which lay two very white, sleeping children. One was Ernst Kleeschulte, the other a little year old infant. A sad-faced tearless woman sat on the bedside next to Ernst. The silent watcher said nothing, but perhaps anticipating the object of the reporter’s visit, commenced unwrapping the wounds of the little boy. In the small right arm near the wrist was an ugly, gaping red bullet hole, further was another. In the right arm was another mark of the murderer’s bullet. From the right side the nurse next began to take the wrappings. Ernst moaned pitifully and twitched his pale suffering face. This wound in the side, is what baffled Dr. Talley, the surgeon. It was a great red inflamed hole that was ploughed open by the 44 calibre pistol ball on its way to the little fellow’s liver, where, according to the surgeon, it lodged. The little infant had a fearful bruise on the back, and the back of its head was injured by a bullet. Both of the children seemed to be under the influence of drugs.
Down about a quarter of a mile from the house, a smouldering fire was burning. Around this flickering blaze a number of men gathered. One of them in a very common place manner said, “well here he is d’want to see him”. Taking a lantern and crossing the road he thrust it down towards a dark object among the brush and small stumps and lifted up something that looked like a gunny sack. Giving the light another jerk the guide said “well there you are”. The lantern revealed the face of a dead man apparently but a short time ago in the prime of life, the face was clean shaven except a heavy light brown moustache. In the center of the forehead was a huge clot of dried black blood, that stood out as large as a hen egg and vicious big flies buzzed around, occasionally attacking the spectators. By the left side of the corpse lay the pit bull dog pistol, the same weapons undoubtedly that had been made to do all the murderous work. This was the dead body of Ernst Kleeschulte, wife murderer, perhaps child murderer and suicide.
The watchers had not moved the body, but said they were waiting for the coroner. Coroner Mudd and the prosecuting attorney left for the scene about 6 o’clock in the evening but were longer than anticipated in making the trip. The prosecuting attorney accompanied the coroner presumably because he had not heard of the suicide. It was difficult to get the details of the tragedy minutely. The simple, honest Germans who were oscillating between the house where the victim lay and the body of the murderer and suicide in the woods seemed to be horror stricken and dazed, which with the broken English spoken by many rendered a great deal of questioning necessary.
Max Schulte, a brother of the dead woman, who had with his family recently been living with his sister, although overwhelmed with grief, told the most intelligent history of the tragedy that had just been enacted in his humble home. Max Schulte had just one into the field to commence the day’s work when he heard pistol shots in his house, he hastened home, probably feeling that the dread moment be feared had arrived. At the gate he was met by his wife, who informed him of the murder. Going into the room he met his sister, Mrs. Kleeschulte, staggering across the floor and bleeding profusely. He caught the dying woman as she was falling and in response to a gurgling, gasping appeal for water the heart broken brother, lay his burden gently down, and passed, a dipper of water. The dying woman drank it with unnatural relish and instantly expired, the hot blood soaking her clothing and running on the floor.
It seems that the unfortunate victims were anticipating an attack and had locked the front door to prevent his entrance. Kleeschulte, however, disguised in a black, false beard broke open the door and as the results would indicate, made an almost successful attempt to exterminate his family. At this point in the history of the dire tragedy the details are difficult to ascertain. The inmates of that little room must have been insane with terror and the only intelligent witness of what occurred there is Mrs. Schulte, a sister-in-law of the dead woman. It is not strange that her memory in regard to the details is not accurate. In giving her testimony at the coroner’s inquest she broke down completely. It was at this time the hellish work was done. We know what happened by the results.
From what the reporter could learn amid the terror of the neighbors and sobs of the brother and sister-in-law of the murdered woman pencil and type cannot tell the story. As Mrs. Schulte and the honest simple-hearted rural people told the tale the inhuman husband and father drove the pleading terror-stricken family into a stairway, the wife clasped her babe to her breast and shrieked for mercy. Mercy comes from heaven; there was no mercy in that face made doubly hideous by a black, grizzly, false heard. They were in the presence of a human devil. Mrs. Schulte ran up the steps to the little attic above. The wife nerved perhaps to super-human effort by the little babe at her breast arose from her cowering position and grappled with her foe. It was an unequal struggle, for the murderer was armed with a deadly bull-dog pistol charged with forty-four calibre cartridges. The shots rang out loud and clear, echoing through the woods for a mile or more.
Mrs. Schulte looked from her hiding place in the attic through a little window and saw Ernst Kleeschulte skulk around the house and disappear down in the woods. An hour after a pistol shot and the subsequent finding of his dead body told what had become of him.
Max Schulte as stated above ran from the field to the house, and we have the bloody narrative connected.
When the Cosmos reporter left the horrible scene, Coroner Mudd had not yet arrived. He returned, however at five o’clock Saturday morning in company with Prosecuting Attorney Mudd. He held and inquest over both bodies and a verdict was rendered in accordance with the facts as published.
Said Dr. Mudd, “I have seen sad sights in my professional and official career, but a merciful God deter me from such another scene as this awful tragedy. I nearly broke down in attending to my professional duties”.
Said Mr. O. J. Mudd, “I went with the coroner to do what I conceived to be my duty; a higher power now deals with the murderer and suicide. I have nothing more to say further than I hope my eyes may never look upon another such spectacle. It will be a long time before I can get over it.”
The body of the murderer and suicide was given in charge of a resident in the vicinity, and as a rude grave was dug on the banks of the Peruque, not far from where the murder and suicide was committed, and the mortal remains were roughly thrown into an unmarked and rude grave. The murdered wife and mother was buried Saturday. Dr. Mudd says the chances are that the children will die.
In endeavoring to ascertain the cause for the bloody deed, the results of which the reporter had been an unwilling and horrified witness, much questioning was necessary. None of the neighbors would assign any other cause but that of “devilish”. Interrogated as to whether the man was jealous, no satisfactory answer could be elicited, further than that he was “devilish”. None would admit that he had recently been drinking. No one in the immediate neighborhood had a good word to say for the murderer and suicide. The murdered woman they characterized as a prepossessing, hardworking young matron. Ernst Kleeschulte was known by quite a number in St. Charles and recently offered the city marshal five dollars to locate his wife. In St. Louis, also, it seems he had a record not altogether savory. His relations there speak of him as a sullen, dogged, threatening bar room lounger, sometimes working, sometimes not. Kleeschulte and his wife quarreled last Christmas, say the neighbors, and he left; about a week before the murder he returned stopping at different houses in the neighborhood. It was thought then that he meant mischief, but nothing so serious as the extermination of his family was thought of.
From the St. Charles Cosmos Several Weeks Later in 1888
The Kleeschulte Tragedy
The public remembers, no doubt, with painful vividness the terrible tragedy enacted on Peruque creek, 12 miles from St. Charles, several weeks ago, in which Ernst Kleeschulte killed his young wife, fatally wounded his little infant and shot his little boy in a horrible manner. Dr. Talley, the surgeon who attended the children, has been in town during the past week and he says the little infant so terribly wounded in the back and shot in the back of the skull died from the effects of the shots. The little boy Ernst remarkable to state, will recover. The two balls in the arms have been taken out and the bullet in the intestines has become incysted, a marvelous provision of nature by which a life is sometimes saved. The boy will bear horrible scars as a reminder of his awful experience.
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"Climate controls are split between the touchscreen and a row of buttons and rocker switches. The layout is more logical than in some other Acura/Honda products, but it requires an extra step for certain adjustments. Performance is effective." -- Edmunds
"This year the 2018 MDX gets an improved infotainment system with more intuitive menus and a redesigned dual-screen interface with faster response. The new system supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity." -- Kelley Blue Book
The MDX Hybrid has 14.9 cubic feet of cargo space behind the third row, 38.4 cubic feet with the third row folded, and a maximum of 68.4 cubic feet with the second and third rows folded. Those are unimpressive totals for a luxury midsize SUV.
A power liftgate comes standard, and there’s additional storage space under the cargo floor. Loading items into the cargo hold is easy because the second- and third-row seats fold completely flat.
"Total cargo capacity is on par with that of other three-row midsize luxury crossovers and better than space in two-row models. The ease with which the third- and second-row seats fold flat and provide a level loading floor merits praise." -- Edmunds
"… the seats fold neat and flat; and cargo space is uncompromised." -- Car and Driver (2017)
"Folding down the 2nd- and 3rd-row seat backs creates a large, flat-floor cargo area, which is augmented by quite a bit of added storage space under the floor." -- Consumer Guide (2017)
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2012 Audi TT RS Pricing Announced
Car Buying Tips, News, and Features
By Katie LaBarre July 11, 2011
Audi announced last week that its souped-up 2012 TT RS coupe will cost $56,850, not including an $875 destination charge. Though $57,000 is a lot to pay for a two-seater, reviewers say that its impressive performance makes it a good value for the money. “Not cheap, but still a hot Audi coupe for a lot less than R8, at $115,450 to $154,350 to start,” writes USA Today.
Left Lane News agrees, saying, “Although that may seem a little pricey considering the base car lists from just $38,300, the TT RS promises enough performance to support that premium.”
This price puts the TT RS at the top of the TT model line, since the 2011 TTS Prestige starts at about $50,300. With a turbocharged five-cylinder engine making 360 horsepower, the TT RS is more powerful than the now second-in-line TTS by 95 horsepower, and can race to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds, which is faster than the TTS’s 4.9 seconds, according to Audi.
Audi says that the TT RS will feature exclusive exterior and interior design elements, like a fixed rear wing spoiler, body kit, RS-exclusive 3-spoke sport multifunction steering wheel and power sport front seats. Though the European version of the TT RS gets Audi’s lauded seven-speed, paddle-shifted DSG transmission, U.S. buyers will only be able to buy the car with a traditional six-speed manual.
Though the Audi TT and TTS are both available as coupes and convertibles, Automobile Magazine reports that the TT RS will only be available as a fixed-roof coupe for now. This is likely being done in order to preserve structural rigidity and save weight in this sporty, high-performance version. When a manufacturer removes a car’s roof and turns it into a drop-top, they generally have to add a few hundred pounds of structural reinforcements, since the roof can no longer be used to help hold everything together. In a model like the TT RS, it’s more important for it to be sturdy and lightweight than to have a convertible roof.
The TT RS’ $57,000 asking price slots it below the Porsche Cayman S by about $5,250 and the Porsche Boxster S by about $1,750. Though the TT RS will cost about $10,700 more than the BMW 1 Series M Coupe, the Audi includes all-wheel drive, out-powers the Bimmer by 25 horsepower and will beat the 1 Series M to 60 mph by 0.6 seconds, which is a significant amount in the world of performance cars.
The 2012 Audi TT RS is slated to hit dealerships later in the summer.
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Woman’s tip in Las Vegas leads police to child’s badly decomposed body in Illinois garage
Posted 8:37 am, June 7, 2017, by CBS4 Web
Jason Quate
BELLEVILLE, Ill. – Information from a woman who said her husband forced her into prostitution led investigators from Las Vegas to Illinois, where they found the decomposed body of a child inside a garage.
The woman said her husband, 34-year-old Jason Quate, was responsible for the child’s death in 2015. She told investigators the child’s remains could be found in the garage of a home on Russell Avenue in Centreville, Ill., according to KTVI. Police found the body Tuesday morning and said the remains were so badly decomposed that they couldn’t immediately determine the victim’s gender.
The woman told police that she and Quate met in Illinois but later moved to Las Vegas. She accused him of abusing her for years and told investigators that he forced her to prostitute herself.
Las Vegas police said the woman showed up at a shelter seeking assistance Monday night. She said her husband had forced her into sex trafficking for two years. She also said Quate abused her two children, who were still in the home.
“She stated that her husband was extremely abusive and had forced her to go out and solicit herself for prostitution and also was physically abusive to the children,” said Lt. Raymond Spencer with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.
“She also gave us very disturbing details that she was not allowed to communicate with the children. She was forced to stay in a bedroom. The children could not speak with her and also that the children were never allowed to leave the house.”
Quate was taken into custody Tuesday morning on sex trafficking charges and may face additional counts. Police said two children were inside the home and showed signs of neglect and abuse. They were taken into protective custody.
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Package Makes Perfect
Jerry Yang
Manufacturing Operations Management Bachelor's Degree
By Kelli Billstein
Jerry Yang was asking himself an obvious question that no one at his company seemed to be answering: What good is a lifesaving mitral valve implant if it can’t travel reliably from the lab to the patient?
Yang is an Associate Design Engineer for Caisson Interventional LLC, a medical device manufacturing company that makes mitral valve implants to replace heart valves that no longer function optimally. Think of a heart valve like a tiny door in one of the heart’s chambers, where blood is pumped and circulated throughout the body. If that door becomes too tight and won’t open properly, or too loose and won’t close properly, you’ve got big problems (infection, disease, and more). A mitral valve implant is essentially a new door that gets installed, allowing blood to come and go smoothly.
Caisson’s valve implant still has to be FDA-approved, yet it has seen high success rates in patients who have opted for it. In the meantime, Caisson’s delicate implants must continue to be shipped to hospitals, and that’s where Yang and his obvious question come in.
“There were issues with the jars and external packaging that the implants were being shipped inside of,” Yang says. “If there’s a leaky jar, you can’t put that product in a patient; you must discard the product because there’s been a sterility breach. Every time that happens, Caisson loses money.”
In every 40 jars shipped, about two or three were leaking. Yet most of Caisson’s engineers focused their attention on designing and fine-tuning the product itself, not the product packaging. When it came to packaging, a jar was simply stuffed inside a cardboard box and packed with five separate chunks of foam to stabilize it. Yang, who was finishing up his final year as a student in the Manufacturing Operations Management (MM) program, saw the packaging problem as an opportunity to earn credit for his capstone project while also fixing a red-flag issue for his employer.
Approaching the Redesign
A capstone project should do what its name implies: It should be the pinnacle of what an education has amounted to, and that’s precisely what Yang’s was. He knew from his coursework in engineering concepts and resource optimization that design decisions in manufacturing are complex. His course in medical device regulation was especially helpful in this department, as it provided a depth of knowledge about the complexity of these regulations. The designer must consider an array of risks that the product might encounter. Yang began calculating those risks and searching for packaging solutions that would withstand them.
“As I thought about the jar and the box it would go inside, I did a lot of risk analysis,” Yang says. “I asked myself, ‘If I use this jar or that jar, will it withstand pressure in an airplane? What mechanisms seal the jar? What about the packing foam that surrounds the jar inside the box?’ One question leads to another.”
What was supposed to be a six-week project turned into a year-and-a-half-long project. Yang’s research and risk-mitigation analysis paid off, though. After lots of trial and error and in-house testing, he came up with a packaging solution that Caisson and his capstone instructor at the U of M were very pleased with.
Yang’s final packaging design included a heavier jar with thicker glass, which fit neatly inside a single custom-cut styrofoam mold. This was packed tightly inside a corrugated cardboard box with a solid bleached sulfate exterior. The labels were redesigned as well, and the finished packaging looked professional and solid. Most importantly, it worked. Of the 150 jars sent using Yang’s packaging, 100 percent arrived at their destinations intact with no leaks.
Final Stages of Design
Caisson is moving forward with Yang’s packaging design. The next step is to create steel molds for fabricating the packaging materials, an expensive procedure that commits Caisson to using Yang’s design for a long time to come.
“We send out one or two mitral valve implants a month right now,” Yang says. “But once we finish all the testing required by the FDA, that number might skyrocket to 40 or 50 implants per month. We have to be ready for that.”
Thanks to Yang’s packaging remedy, they will be.
Jerry Yang is a recipient of the Osher Reentry Scholarship.
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Jefferson County teacher contract talks stall
By Nic Garcia - May 21, 2015
GOLDEN — The Jefferson County school district and its teachers union failed Thursday evening to reach an agreement about how much to pay teachers new to the district in the fall. That means the district potentially won’t be able to fill hundreds of teaching positions at the peak of its hiring season.
Representatives from the school district and union took a detour from bargaining over a new contract to discuss the matter, after a judge put on hold a portion of a compensation system that paid experienced teachers new to Jeffco more than district veterans.
District officials said a new proposal that increases compensation for new hires and gives raises to only about 25 percent of district veterans would make Jeffco Public Schools competitive for the first time in years, especially when vying for teachers early in their careers.
Representatives from the Jefferson County Education Association said it was a slap in the face to veterans who weathered the Great Recession with the suburban Denver school district.
“You’re gonna lose us. You’re gonna lose me. That’s not what is best for kids,” North Arvada Middle School teacher Barb Aswege said during Thursday’s bargaining session. “I will leave if you pay new hires more than me.”
Jeffco’s chief human resource officer Amy Weber told the bargaining team that the district has in the past hired some new teachers with comparable credentials and paid them more than district veterans.
“This is not a new problem that was created with the plan to hire new teachers,” Weber said. “That existed with the old approach.”
JCEA members stressed that the district had to find more money to pay veteran teachers.
Jeffco’s proposed budget for next year allocates about $3 million for raises. That money would be spent quickly by providing raises to district veterans who began their careers after 2010, when the district froze its salary schedule, and for those teachers who earned a master’s degree after 2012, when the district stopped compensating for advanced degrees.
District officials had proposed spending about $5 million left over from the current school year on raises for teachers next year. But the Jeffco school board’s majority decided that all savings from this school year should go toward construction needs.
Chief Financial Officer Kathleen Askelson said the district’s budget is under more than usual pressure from mandates, including $3 million going to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
“If I could find more money, I’d be thrilled,” she said during an interview.
The district’s lawyer, Jim Branum, asked union representatives repeatedly to first negotiate a salary schedule to determine how much new hires would make before moving on to how much teachers returning to the district would be paid.
“We do not have the authority to spend the money to address that bigger, broader question,” Branum said.
JCEA said it would meet with district officials after the school board holds a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the budget. The next regularly scheduled negotiating meeting is June 10.
Thursday’s meeting had the largest audience — about 100 teachers and parents — since the school district and union began negotiations in March. The current agreement expires on Aug. 31.
New outlets recently reported that the union has circulated information about what a strike might mean for teachers. A spokesman said the union is focused on negotiating in good faith with the district.
In this story: Jeffco Interrupted, Jeffco Public Schools, Jefferson County Education Association, Teacher pay
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Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker plows $100 million more into early ed — but no universal preschool this year
“Investing in early childhood is the single most important education policy decision government can make," Pritzker said Wednesday.
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Five egg myths everyone still believes
If the eggs are dirty, don't wash them before cooking. (image) iStock
From plastic wrap to porous shells, we crack the common egg myths everyone believes.
What came first? The egg myth or the pseudoscience behind it?
Whether it's our love for a yolky breakfast or simply the fact that pretty much everybody eats eggs, there's a whole of myths about our favourite unfertilised breakfast food.
(Hope that didn’t ruin your appetite, but that's essentially what eggs are – unfertilised by-products of the chicken's natural life cycle when a rooster isn't present.)
From cholesterol levels to plastic wrap conundrums, we take a look at five of the biggest to put your heart (and head) at ease next time your order two poached on toast.
1. Eggs don’t directly raise your cholesterol levels
This one comes back and forth in waves as scientific opinion shifts on whether or not high levels of saturated fat in your diet directly impact your cholesterol levels.
According to Nicole Senior, dietitian and author of the soon-to-be-released book Eat to Beat Cholesterol, for most us there's no need to worry about an eggy breakfast raising your blood pressure.
"Bad cholesterol levels are most influenced by a high proportion of saturated versus unsaturated fats in the diet, thus the advice to eat good fats rather than no fats," Senior tells ninemsn Coach.
"For those who are cholesterol sensitive and eat lots of eggs, their bad cholesterol may go up a little, but it doesn’t appear to convey any increased risk of cardiovascular disease unless the rest of the diet is pretty bad."
It's a sentiment shared by Milena Katz, accredited practising dietitian and spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia, who says eggs are okay in your diet – as long as you aren’t wolfing down six at a time a la Rocky Balboa.
"The evidence is slowly changing, but we know that there is a small and insignificant effect on cholesterol levels if eggs are eaten as part of a healthy diet," Katz tells ninemsn Coach.
"There's a consensus with the Heart Foundation that a safe amount of eggs is up to six eggs a week."
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2. It's probably not the best idea to poach your eggs in plastic wrap
Everybody loves poached eggs on toast – hell, it's practically keeping the avocado brunch scene (and consequently, the entire active wear industry) afloat. But if you're poaching them at home, many master chefs suggest first wrapping them in cling wrap to keep their shape – but is this healthy for you?
"It’s not recommended to have plastic film touch the food you’re heating due to the — relatively small — risk of leaching," says Senior.
"Use a microwave-safe plastic egg poacher instead, or poach eggs in saucepan of swirling simmering water with vinegar to help the eggs keep their shape."
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3. The "float test" to see if an egg is bad actually works
If you've got egg holders in your fridge, it's pretty easy to lose track of when you've popped fresh eggs in (or forgotten to remove those that have been sitting for weeks). Thankfully there's a five-second fix you can do at home – and it’s called the float test.
Quite simply, all you need to do is drop all of the suspicious eggs into a pot of water, and if they're good, they'll sink – but if they're bad, they'll float. But is this real science or the kitchen equivalent of the Salem Witch Trials?
"The float test is a good indicator and can be generally used to see if an egg is good or bad. This is because as eggs age their shells become more porous, which traps air and causes them to float," says Katz.
4. You shouldn’t wash eggs that look dirty
Some of us tend to forget that eggs really came from actual living hens – so when we see the odd dirty egg, perhaps with a feather stuck to it or a bit of dirt, it’s natural to have the urge to wash it. But as it turns out, this is actually one of the worst things you can do.
"Don’t wash dirty eggs as you’ll just splatter bacteria all over your kitchen," advises Senior.
"If you are lucky enough to receive eggs fresh from hens with some dirt and poo still attached, just crack them carefully to avoid contact of the yolk."
This becomes of particular importance when you're cooking for people who are biologically most at risk like the very old and the very young, because of their weakened immune systems.
"Although the risk of illness from eating dirty eggs is low, don’t serve raw egg — in mayonnaise, mousse, eggflips etc — from dirty eggs to infants, frail elderly or sick people with compromised immunity, just in case."
5. Can you tell if an egg is bad on smell alone?
After a big night out, or suddenly breaking your clean-eating diet to hoe down a family size pizza, you can find yourself releasing gas that can be only be described as "worse than rotten eggs".
Yes, when it comes to your olfactory senses, eggs tend to get a bad rap – because when they start to decompose, they take on the smell of very unpleasant sulphur.
"When the egg really bad, yes you can tell if it’s bad on smell alone," says Senior.
"Avoid this situation by storing your eggs in the fridge and eating them within a month or so."
And an added fun fact: The reason why some farts smell like rotten eggs is thanks to a gas called hydrogen sulphide. It’s produced when the sulphur in foods like eggs, dairy, legumes and red meat is broken down. As an egg ages, it too produces this gas – releasing the potent smell that can clear a room in seconds.
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Home » climate and security » COP24: Climate Security, Big Data and the Responsibility to Prepare
COP24: Climate Security, Big Data and the Responsibility to Prepare
COP24 Katowice plenary session, Photo by Doman84
On 13 December, at the COP24 in Katowice, Poland, the European External Action Service, in partnership with The Center for Climate and Security and the World Resources Institute (WRI), will hold a side event outlining new tools for anticipating climate security crises and practical institutional frameworks for using foresight to manage climate security risks.
Experts will outline examples of how big data and integrated scenario-development could help predict where (inter)national security is at risk, through an early warning system being developed within WRI’s Resource Watch Platform as part of the Water, Peace and Security Partnership, and how governments and security institutions can use this information to avert potential crises, referencing the Responsibility to Prepare framework for preventing and responding to conflicts.
Panelists include members of the security community and Ministers from Pacific small island developing states, European and African (TBC) governments:
Former Netherlands Chief of Defense Gen. Tom Middendorp, who opened the 2016 Planetary Security Conference, will discuss the nature of climate-related threats to peace and stability and how the security community can effectively assess and communicate these threats.
Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate, Isabella Lövin, will speak to efforts at the UN Security Council to create an institutional home for climate security.
David Paul, Minister-in-Assistance to the President and Environment Minister of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, will address the pace of uptake of data-driven solutions for climate preparedness.
Mr. Manish Bapna, WRI Executive Vice President and Managing Director, and Shiloh Fetzek, Senior Fellow at The Center for Climate and Security, will also present.
This interactive session will poll the audience throughout the panel discussion and invite questions and input through the Mentimeter app.
Location: EU Pavilion Vienna Room
Moderator: Camilla Born, E3G
Follow The Center for Climate and Security and World Resources Institute on Twitter for ongoing updates.
Additional Climate and Security Side Events at the COP24
PSI at COP24 Katowice: Climate, Peace and Security: Progress toward a Preventive Diplomacy
On 13 December, the European External Action Service, in partnership with adelphi and the Planetary Security Initiative, will host a side-event at COP24 aimed at tracking international progress in addressing climate-related security risks, as well as raising awareness on climate security among the COP community.
This side event will take stock of progress made at the international level in addressing climate-related security risks in light of the conclusions from the high level event ‘Climate, Peace and Security: The Time for Action’, convened by High Representative Federica Mogherini on 22 June 2018.
The sessions aims at raising awareness among the COP community on climate-related security risks and foster a debate on the respective roles of the climate, development and security communities in assessing, avoiding and addressing climate-related risks.
The following questions and developments will be in focus:
Focus on conflict prevention: beyond what level of climate change might the security community no longer be able to reasonably guarantee international peace and security?
The renewed momentum on climate-related security risks at the regional and global levels: illustrations from the EU and UN levels, including in the context of the UN Security Council
From global to local: integrated climate-fragility risk assessment and action on the ground.
Building a community of practice: tools for capacity building, experience from the Planetary Security initiative.
Christian Leffler and Dominic Porter (TBC) – European External Action Service
Michaela Späth (TBC) – German Federal Foreign Office
Arne Lietz – European Parliament
Chitra Nagarajan (TBC) – Conflict Advisor, Lake Chad Region
Asif Zaidi – UN Environment
Time: 13 December 2018 from 10:30-12:00.
Moderation: Dennis Tänzler – adelphi.
Location: EU Pavilion, Room Vienna.
Follow adelphi and Climate Diplomacy on Twitter for ongoing updates.
COP24 Side-Event: Building new alliances around climate and security: Germany’s initiative for the UN Security Council
The German Federal Foreign Office, in partnership with adelphi, will host a side-event to look into the security risks brought about by climate change, the roles that can be taken up by UN bodies and the distinct vulnerability of Small Island Developing States to climate-security risks.
German Pavilion, COP24 Venue
Climate change is a growing threat to international peace and security. The rise of extreme weather events, droughts, and water scarcity, often in areas with transboundary waters, can aggravate already fragile situations and amplify conflicts. Rising sea levels can endanger the existence of whole nations.
Yet while climate change is increasingly shaping the international security landscape, the international community is still often lacking the tools for systematically analyzing the security implications of climate change in specific regions, as well as a clear vision as to what roles different parts of the UN can and should play in building resilience against these impacts. Critical questions include:
How can we improve our early warning capacities when it comes to climate-related security risks? What information needs to reach whom to ensure that early warning results in appropriate action? What capacities are needed where to facilitate improved decision-making?
What actions can the international community undertake to help states improve their resilience against the destabilizing effects of climate change? What are promising examples to build on? What roles should different institutions play? How can the UN Security Council in particular best discharge its responsibility for international peace and security?
How can the climate-security agenda help us to strengthen existing and to forge new alliances that can support ambition in the implementation of the Paris agreement?
The panel will specifically focus on the situation of Small Island Developing States which are particularly vulnerable to climate-security risks.
Germany is committed to advancing the climate-security agenda during its membership in the UN Security Council in 2019 and 2020. With Nauru as co-chair Germany launched a Group of Friends on Climate and Security on 1 August 2018. The initiative is being supported by an international expert network.
The event will take place on 14 December 2018 from 12:00-13:30.
Light lunch and drinks will be served.
Marlene Moses – Permanent Representative of Nauru to the United Nations
Michaela Späth – Director for Energy and Climate Policy, Economic Affairs and Human Rights, International Labour Rights and Issues, Federal Foreign Office
Inger Buxton – Deputy Head of the Department of Global Agenda at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Moderation: Camilla Born – Senior Policy Advisor, E3G
Conflict and shocks: how can we build resilience in the face of increasing fragility and vulnerability to conflict in a way that promotes stability and peace?
Saturday, 8 December 11:30-13:00 Salon Room (at Hotel Diament Arsenal)
Global Resilience Partnership is co-organizing a session during the Development & Climate Days on peace and stability with Wetlands International and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. The session is titled: Conflict and shocks: how can we build resilience in the face of increasing fragility and vulnerability to conflict in a way that promotes stability and peace? The session is designed around panel discussions and will include an interactive voting element with the audience. The panel of speakers includes experts from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, WWF France, Overseas Development Institute, French Military Academy, and Wetlands International.
Florian Krampe, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Marine Braud, WWF France
Karounga Keita, Wetlands International, Mali
Katie Peters, Overseas Development Institute
Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Arnaud, Ecole de Guerre
Alima Arbudu, International Committee of the Red Cross
Moderation: Deon Nel, Global Resilience Partnership
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Mo Yan and the Politics of Language
After being questioned over his close relationship with the Chinese government, the Nobel-winning author Mo Yan is now facing another round of criticism for the quality of his writing. Anna Sun at The Kenyon Review writes that the language of Mo Yan lacks aesthetic value:
The discontent lies in Mo Yan’s language. Open any page, and one is treated to a jumble of words that juxtaposes rural vernacular, clichéd socialist rhetoric, and literary affectation. It is broken, profane, appalling, and artificial; it is shockingly banal. The language of Mo Yan is repetitive, predictable, coarse, and mostly devoid of aesthetic value. The English translations of Mo Yan’s novels, especially by the excellent Howard Goldblatt, are in fact superior to the original in their aesthetic unity and sureness. The blurb for The Republic of Wine from Washington Post says: “Goldblatt’s translation renders Mo Yan’s shimmering poetry and brutal realism as work akin to that of Gorky and Solzhenitsyn.” But in fact, only the “brutal realism” is Mo Yan’s; the “shimmering poetry” comes from a brilliant translator’s work.
[…] Mo Yan’s language is striking indeed, but it is striking because it is diseased. The disease is caused by the conscious renunciation of China’s cultural past at the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Mo Yan’s writing is in fact a product of the aesthetic ideologies of Socialist China. As Mao Zedong 毛澤東 (1893-1976), the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1934 until his death, famously said in his seminal speech “The Yan’an Talks on Literature and Art” in 1942, a few years before the Party founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949: “Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine.” As a result, Mao demanded writers in the socialist regime write for the masses: “China’s revolutionary writers and artists, writers and artists of promise, must go among the masses; they must for a long period of time unreservedly and whole-heartedly go among the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers, go into the heat of the struggle. Only then can they proceed to creative work.” Not any kind of creative work, but work that serves the “proletarian revolutionary cause.”
Charles Laughlin counters Sun’s argument at ChinaFile:
Piling up aesthetic objections to conceal ideological conflict is a familiar tactic. I had the opportunity in 2000 to discuss the Nobel Prize in Literature with members of the Chinese Writer’s Association (of which Mo Yan is now Vice Chairman) after it was awarded to the Chinese author Gao Xingjian, who was by then a French citizen. It was then I learned that the Chinese Writer’s Association’s “line” on the Gao Xingjian award was not that his works contain politically unacceptable ideas (in fact, his novels published after leaving China are very critical of the Chinese government); rather it was that Gao Xingjian is a mediocre writer, and there are many superior to him in China more deserving of the award. The writers I was talking to did not exactly say that Gao’s work lacked “aesthetic conviction,” but their criticism of Gao looked very similar to Anna Sun’s criticism of Mo Yan, even though they are supposed to be defenders of state socialism.
[…] My point is not that Mo Yan is these writers’ equal, but rather that like them, he forcefully asserts his particular vision without regard to pressures to adopt and convey a political posture. Literature like this is not apolitical—no literature can be—but it is not written to serve a political agenda. Mo Yan’s fiction satirizes the inhumanity of self-serving and hypocritical government officials while also depicting the senseless suffering of their victims; it also satirizes the style and narrative conventions of the orthodox socialist literature of the past, with its celebration of unbelievable heroes and cartoonish oversimplification of society and history. He indicts the One-Child Policy and forced abortion. The orthodox literature of socialism made politics sacred, but Mo Yan’s fiction shows orthodox politics to be profane in the face of humanity. All literature is political, but each writer figures politics in a different way.
Meanwhile, supporters and detractors alike seem to recognize the crucial role of Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan’s prestigious Chinese-English translator. Michael Orbach at Tablet gives a detailed account of Mr. Goldblatt and his cooperation with Mo Yan:
Goldblatt, 73, is the foremost Chinese-English translator in the world. Over the course of his almost 40-year career, he has translated more than 50 books, edited several anthologies of Chinese writings; received two NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim grant and nearly every other translation award. In the first four years of the Man Asian Literary Prize, three of the winners were translations by Goldblatt. John Updike, writing in The New Yorker, said that “American translators of contemporary Chinese fiction appear to be the lonely province of one man, Howard Goldblatt.”
[…] Goldblatt found one of his stories in a 1985 anthology of Chinese writers. Sitting in his French-style living room, Goldblatt was unable to recall which story it was, however the story struck him as one of the first really authentic Chinese stories he’d read after the country’s disastrous Cultural Revolution. Mo Yan’s writing harked back to earlier modes of Chinese folktales.
“They weren’t new in Chinese literature; they were new in modern Chinese literature,” Goldblatt said.
Months later, when Goldblatt visited Taipei a friend handed him a magazine with an excerpt of Mo Yan’s Garlic Ballads. The book, an unflinching chronicle of a failed insurrection in a village, was initially banned in China, according to Goldblatt. Goldblatt sent a letter to Mo Yan, addressed simply to “Mo Yan, Peking” and the two began a correspondence that culminated in a translation of both The Garlic Ballads and Red Sorghum, which became a 1987 film by renowned director Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li.
The New Yorker excerpted a piece by Mo Yan, Bull, and Deborah Treisman interviewed Goldblatt on his views of the novel as well as the writer:
“Bull,” the piece by Mo Yan in this week’s issue, was excerpted from your forthcoming translation of his novel “POW!” The book follows the story of a boy and his mother struggling to survive a father’s abandonment, in a Chinese village that has become the central slaughterhouse for cattle in the region. When did Mo Yan write the book?
An interesting question. He often “writes” his novels in his head, where they leaven until he’s ready to put brush to paper or fingers to keyboard and send a manuscript to his publisher, whomever and wherever that may be. “POW!” was published in China in 2003. The copy he sent me was signed in July of that year.
Did this year’s awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Mo Yan come as a surprise to him, or to you?
I suspect that he was surprised but hopeful when the odds-makers began floating his name; the same goes for me. That 5 A.M. phone call from NPR (I was in Colorado) made for the beginning of a very happy and very busy day. By then, I’d read and enjoyed quite a lot by the other “top candidates”—Mo Yan was, I have to say, in good company.
With all the controversy surrounding Mo Yan, the parables he told at Stockholm this Monday provide more fodder for discussions of his political standing:
Mo describes how the eight men decide that their group is cursed by the presence of one who must have committed a crime against the heavens. To determine who, they agree to throw their hats toward the open door. Whoever’s hat flies out the door is the guilty one and must spend the night in the storm. Mo continues: “So they flung their hats toward the door. Seven hats were blown back inside; one went out the door. They pressured the eighth man to go out and accept his punishment, and when he balked, they picked him up and flung him out the door. I’ll bet you all know how the story ends: They had no sooner flung him out the door than the temple collapsed around them.”
[…] Li Xingwen, a columnist for Party-owned Beijing Youth Daily, offered two plausible deconstructions that also seem to blame Chinese society, and not the ruling Communist Party, for whatever tragedy the temple collapse represents. He wrote in an editorial on Sunday: “On one hand, the survival or extinction of ‘the one and the seven’ in the damaged temple suggests that society has its own justice and evil can’t escape a final judgment; on the other hand, the story is about democracy at a crossroads: The majority’s tyrannical policies were stupid and they finally ate their own bitter fruit. Via these three stories Mo Yan showed his viewpoint: never follow the crowd, never protest for show, and never encroach on personal freedom in the name of the majority.”
Not every interpretation is quite so flattering to Mo, or to the Communist Party. Indeed, across Weibo — and in less obvious ways, in Chinese newspapers — the Chinese seem genuinely conflicted about how to interpret their new Nobelist’s tale. In a Saturday tweet by Weibo user Kai Yan, Mo is both a Communist Party pawn and a satirist whose subject-matter is China’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee: “Mo Yan’s prize was controversial and recently he supported censorship. He was also condemned by the global media for not joining those who support Xiaobo’s release. However, his acceptance speech was interesting. One story in his speech was about eight masons who took shelter from rain in a temple … this is an obvious satire of the Communist Party’s court intrigues.”
In the Guardian, Pankaj Mishra argues that Mo Yan is being judged by different standards than Western writers, who are not condemned for their often cozy relationships with the ruling powers:
His writing, however, has hardly been mentioned, let alone assessed, by his most severe western critics; it is his political choices for which he stands condemned. They are indeed deplorable, but do we ever expose the political preferences of Mo Yan’s counterparts in the west to such harsh scrutiny?
In fact, we almost never judge British and American writers on their politics alone. It would seem absurd to us if the Somali, Yemeni or Pakistani victims of Barack Obama’s drone assaults, miraculously empowered with a voice in the international arena, accused the US president’s many literary fans of trying to put a human face on his unmanned killing machines; or if they denounced Ian McEwan, who once had tea with Laura Bush and Cherie Blair at 10 Downing Street, as a patsy for the Anglo-American nexus that is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the displacement of millions more.
Nevertheless, they would not be wrong to detect an unexamined assumption lurking in the western scorn for Mo Yan’s proximity to the Chinese regime: that Anglo-American writers, naturally possessed of loftier virtue, stand along with their governments on the right side of history. Certainly, they are not expected to take a public stance against their political class for waging catastrophic – and wholly unnecessary – wars. In fact, very few of them use their untrammelled liberty to do so. Many even pride themselves on their “apolitical” attitude. Furthermore, their political opinions risk no widespread opprobrium even when these mock the same values of freedom and dignity that Mo Yan is evidently guilty of violating.
Read also In the People’s Liberation Army by Mo Yan via the New York Review of Books.
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2013 double Blu-Ray set featuring nearly five hours of music across 45 tracks, plus conversations with the artists and other behind-the-scenes footage from this all-star concert. In addition to rousing performances of Blues classics and renowned hit songs, many of the most memorable performances saw artists coming together for some stirring collaborations.
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Bernie Sanders Lost the Primaries: He Moves Towards the Sunset of the Gods
[See my 2019 Update on Bernie Sanders (he is still trying) ]
There is an update to this post as a result of the presidential elections: “Sanders: I’m Willing to Work With Trump”.
Also, as I predicted somewhere else, the pseudo-left is now accusing him of being a ‘democratic right winger’. During the elections Sanders was a demi-god, but after he helped in the coup against the people of this nation, now he is ‘trash’. Can’t say I didn’t warn you.
Bernie is, for all practical purposes, gone: he lost.
And the (rightfully) angry millennials who raised him to Sage status and put the fear in Hillary’s and the DNC’s hearts, they lost with him.
At the end of his magical mystery tour, Bernie leaves the millennials behind in the same condition in which he found them when he boarded them into his coach: disorganized, with no future and no movement.
Actually, he left them in worse situation, for now they are angrier and feeling betrayed by just about everybody. Theirs is a sense of not-belonging, of not being wanted, a sense of being alone born of a not-yet-matured sense of having been manipulated by politicians.
Sanders is 70+ years old and owns a fancy multi-million dollars home to retire to after the dust settles down. His millennials have nothing. He benefited financially from the millions of $27 donations: his wife derived a juicy salary as campaign manager paid from it. Everybody got richer at the top of his campaign HQ…the millennials got the joy and pride of becoming $27 poorer for him.
Bernie’s house.
Rachel Maddow at Bernie’s.
Sanders is going nowhere but to retirement, he will not be part of anything millennials do from now on; maybe he stays in the Democratic party, maybe not. He didn’t even support progressives down ballot because it was all about him.
But millennials are not going to complain about him (bless their hearts). Why?
Because they know that theirs was a symbiotic relationship with Sanders: they raised him and, in exchange, he paid them with a vivid-dream, a new form of Hope and Change: ‘doing the revolution’. The millennials refused to listen to anyone but beloved Bernie. Anyone who didn’t join them or who dared to ask questions about his political record was immediately cursed and publicly humiliated a la Trump.
And the American Left joined them in the dream because they are political zombies. They have nothing else to do but drawling for the millions of followers Sanders has and trying to drag the youngsters into their lairs: the Green party and any of the assorted decrepit socialist tombs passing for ‘workers party’. (I’m not too fond of the Left any more, does it show?)
Hinting Betrayal
The first missed hint that they were being had by Bernie was how quickly Sanders dropped the word “socialist” from his speeches. He made the MSM feel safe to prop him up with free coverage, and leave him unvetted so he could be their attack dog against Hillary Clinton. It was a repeat of what they did in the 2008 primaries, they propped unvetted Obama and attacked Hillary with a painful barrage of misogynistic articles. The word ‘socialist’ is now reserved by the media as an adjective – not an idea -to show how a ‘socialist’ almost defeated evil Hillary.
The second hint at betrayal was how quickly Sanders re-focused his campaign away from attacking the oligarchs towards attacking Hillary Clinton as the evil, powerful witch who has corrupted EVERYBODY; she decided every presidential decision – Obama’s and Bill’s – with her scary feminist power. Gone were the ‘substantive’ class struggle analysis. It became a campaign to destroy Hillary so Bernie could be the nominee. Instead of attacking the oligarchs, WS, the pharma, or even Trump, he attacked the DNC as the evil ‘establishment’ controlled by Hillary who has caused all the problems of the world.
First I have to win the nomination, I have to put all my energies into winning the nomination; later we can talk about how to do the political revolution.
Third hint: no talk about creating a third-party or how to ‘do the revolution’. If the DNC is such a corrupt place, the dream of ‘reforming’ it makes no sense. Better start a new workers party from scratch. But Sanders promised the DNC he wouldn’t do that; and the millennials don’t want to hear any criticism of their beloved Leader.
Sanders will talk to his millennials tonite; only then we will know how correct or incorrect my observations about his campaign are. Which way will the millennials go is yet to be seen. They may vote for Trump, but don’t expect them to join any of the American Left’s groups. Hopefully they will create something new to replace the old leftist debris.
Either way, Bernie’s campaign was a majestic run towards the sunset of the gods.
Update: In promoting his new book, Sanders promised in October to be a “thorn” in Hillary’s government. I wouldn’t count on it, it was just for promoting his book. He continues to be part and parcel of the “establishment”.
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Watching The People’s Movements Die On TV, And The Education Of Donald Trump
You have to hand it to the media; they really REALLY know how to kill a movement and leave you owning only your bowel movement.
Have you noticed how there is no more talk about the GOP’s angry voters in the mainstream or not-so-mainstream media? Shhh…wait… listen to that:…It’s the sound of no more ‘walls’ in the air. Wow, it’s actually relieving. Oh, no more nicknames for the Donald in the air either: he is more ‘respectable’ and ‘presidential’ now.
Neither Trump nor the media talk about his ‘movement’ any more. Angry voters must be ignored from now on or else he would have to address their anger and listen to their real complaints, not the ones he guessed from polls before entering the race, as he himself said.
Instead of keeping the movement ‘alive’, as Jessie Jackson would say, Trump is now parading through the hallways of the elite’s institutions and homes. He consults with Kissinger and is making behind-the- curtain deals with them, and being ‘educated’ in the art of politics by conservative think-tanks. His followers have no idea with whom he is talking because they don’t matter anymore. Now they are NOT A MOVEMENT: now they are simply VOTERS.
Remember the GOP voters’ desires to ‘own’ the party? Fait accomplished, sort of. Trump owns it now, it’s as if they own it themselves, isn’t it?
The process of pacification of the angry voters is complete, the party and the oligarchs can exhale: their personal necks were saved by no other than crazy Trumpo.
And Trump knows it, that his followers are now simply voters. There in his decision to make the presidential elections like a reality TV show. There’s no ‘movement’ anymore, only spectators who happen to vote. The anger must be managed and subdued; no better way than with ‘entertainment’. Because that’s all the man has to offer you.
He will be trained by the GOP’s advertising gurus, the ‘donors’, i.e., the owners of the party, by conservative think-tanks…he will receive a crash course on the few political facts he needs to know to keep his followers hypnotized, and con them into voting for him.
His boogeyman from now on until November will be…tah tah! Hillary Clinton, not the ‘establishment’ or the ‘dishonest globalists’. He will continue the character assassination job perfected by Sanders, who in turn benefited from the job the MSM started since she was FOTUS. The old anti-Hillary YouTube videos I mentioned in other posts here are being undust as we speak.
The only worry still keeping the oligarchs angsty is whether he will actually do, as president, all the things he promised to the angry voters. I’m pretty sure they are not worrying much about that anymore.
You just witnessed, without noticing it, how the knife of the masses’ righteous anger is manipulated, contained, dulled and rendered safe to handle by politicians and the media. You just witnessed how political movements go to the two parties to die.
We still have another moribund movement crawling towards its ‘finish’ line. The death of Sanders’ movement will be more painful to watch.
Is There Life After Death For Sanders’ Movement?
Have you noticed how BORING Sanders speeches feel when he is forced to stop attacking Hillary and he complies by attacking Trump? Also, have you noticed that the MSM NEVER reports on the particulars of his attack on Trump? That is no coincidence or mistake. Sanders is there to attack Hillary and he has been more than effective at it. Once Hillary is not there, the TWO candidates will have nothing meaningful to talk about, or anything credible to offer to the voters.
Yesterday, a day after the primaries and the barrage of public recriminations against Sanders for the Nevada debacle, Sanders had one rally in California: the media informed you that he DID NOT attack Hillary and spoke only about Trump. Did they tell you what he said about him, have you hear any soundbites of him ‘bashing’ Trump repeated over and over?…crickets….What you may have heard was to show to you that he didn’t attack her, but there was no interest in making him his attacks an effective alternative to Trump.
I have repeated over and over on this blog how the duopoly, the two-party system is the tool to kill the people’s anger. I have discussed how Sanders in particular has been effective at that. Both Trump and Sanders have expressed their pride at bringing all those angry people into their party’s fold to slaughter them with the ‘establishment’.
That’s why I keep repeating that if you want a revolution, you can’t stay on either party. And I will continue to repeat: as long as that party is not created, progressives must vote democratic, and for Hillary.
Sanders promises are utopia, no substance and no means to achieve not even a sliver of the promises because, if you REALLY vetted him, you’ll see he is like Trump. Sanders has no idea of how to run a nation, he has no support, let alone of Republicans, not even of Democrats: only ONE senator has come forward to support him. They know him, his colleagues in Congress, they want nothing to do with his ‘style’.
Sanders’ movement has a better chance at life after death. I watched last night at the Rachel Maddow’ show a discussion with one Sanders supporter explaining a ‘new idea’: creating an organization that would do the work of fundraising and advertising for 400 candidates whom the organization is going to vet and recruit to be elected to push for the issues for which they were ‘hired’ to defend. It’s an interesting idea, it may or may not work…but at least they ARE thinking ahead. Something may come out of the Sanders ‘theme park’ campaign against Hillary.
My hope is that the ‘berniebots’ is a passing phenomenon and that the real ‘revolutionaries’ have learned their lesson and move on to do something constructive and impactfull, other than ‘reform’ the Democratic party.
Until then, I will vote for the ‘least of two evils’. I have a feeling she will be better than expected for the nation, knowing that she is not as bad as the media and Sanders have portrayed her.
Tagged Angry Voters, Hillary Clinton, How political Movements Die, How the MSM Kills Political Movements, Primaries and MSM, Primaries as Entertainment, Primaries as Reality TV, The Education Of Donald Trump, Trump and Sanders Movements
When Tyrants are Entertaining and Serious Politicians are Boring
The other day I read, I think it was in the WaPo, a comment by one of its opinion writer telling us that we can expect Hillary Clinton’s campaign against Trump to be a “boring” exposition of how she will make things better for the voters.
Boring. Yes, there’s lot of that in her campaign. Trump and Sanders, however, are superbly entertaining. How is that?
Voter Anger And The Art Of Revenge
I have commented in this blog that even Trilateralist/globalist Larry Summers agrees with me in that voter anger comes from the oligarchs-globalists’ economic policies. One of the big flashing neon signs of political opportunism is when candidates join you in blasting your enemies, but offer no plans to return LIBERTY AND FREEDOM to you.
That’s what Trump’s and Sanders’ revolutions amount to: opportunism.
Trump is an entertainer by profession and by nature. He himself has said, lost in the many coverage he is receiving and his many flip-flops, that he knows people are angry and he is giving them what they want to hear. And what is that? REVENGE.
The entertaining part of Trump’s campaign is that he is verbally torturing and ridiculing both the GOP ‘establishment’ and Hillary Clinton (that’s the joy he is giving to the berniebots). What can be more entertaining and satisfying to people who feel enslaved by his ‘victims’ than seeing them publicly mocked and humiliated?
The other thing Trumps knows is that the people wants to be released from the oppression coming from the globalists oligarchs. But that he can’t give you: he can’t give you freedom nor liberty. That much he knows too.
Sanders is doing something similar, but he is not mocking, he is Hillary Clinton’s judge and his followers are the jury. He is not mocking in the literal sense of the world; there is no ‘fun’ in his angry attacks on Hillary. The satisfying part of his ‘campaign’ is in giving his followers the role of jury: ‘I herein publicly find you guilty of all the crimes raised by innuendo and unproven by our leader Sanders, and condemn you to suffer our rage all the way to the convention.’ But like with Trump, there is ‘no path’, not only to the nomination for him, there is no path to release you from the real culprits of your sense of oppression and indignation.
Sanders’ campaign promises are a pie in the sky; even his followers know this deep inside. But pouring their anger and revenge exclusively on Hillary is more satisfying than confronting the truth of Sanders empty slogan about ‘revolution and socialism’. Notice, by the way, that he doesn’t use the word socialism much any more. He wants regular Joe and Jane forget he used it.
Only the boring one, Hillary Clinton, is offering you real and achievable policies. You don’t have to be “with her” 100% of the time. There’s much that needs to be asked and fixed about her plans, but contrary to Donald and Bernie, she actually answers the media questions. She is not channeling your anger, she is not taking advantage of your anger for her personal interest. All politicians have their ego and self-interest invested, she is not the only one doing so; but she offers you something, that’s the difference as compared with the other two. Hillary Clinton is not giving you a carnival show for you to feel ‘revenged’ over the oligarchs.
That’s why she is boring, and the MSM will use her seriousness to make you like Trump better.
The MSM Tabloid
So why is the MSM giving so much air time to the Donald and portraying him as a buffoon? Because it is entertaining in the way described above. Also, because it takes the edge off the Donald. I have also been arguing in this blog that the oligarchs and the ‘paleoconservatives’ will find in Trump an outlet for the angry voters to keep that status quo intact without having to give too much in exchange for the ‘peace’ with voters.
You see, the divided oligarchs are taking sides, some with him or not. The MSM will make you like Trump when it matters the most: when he is facing Hillary. That’s their price, people, defeating Hillary. There are reasons why they don’t want her, discussed in this blog too, immaterial of the fact that they give her money (they give money to all candidates). They rather have Trump. How will they achieve that?
If and only if you stand by your expressed belief that the MSM is not only yellow but a tool of manipulating public opinion, then you must accept that, to be successful at manipulating your opinion, they must have a plan and a technique: they don’t manipulate emotions and opinion by chance. It is all choreographed. All that coverage 24/7 of all things Trump by all the MSM, it is not by coincidence.
Do yourselves a favor: when you finish reading this post, go to the WaPo and read this article: The spokesman who knows Trump best: Himself, and tell me that it was not written as gossip, as entertaining, as worthy of TMZ.
Trump’s fascination with the name “Barron” persisted for decades. When he was seeing Maples while still married to Ivana, he sometimes used the code name “the Baron” when he left messages for her. In 2004, when Trump commissioned a dramatic TV series based on the life of a New York real estate mogul like him, his only request to the writer was to name the main character “Barron.” And when Trump and his third wife, Melania, had a son, they named him Barron.
People, this is a ‘prospective’ president of the USA; this is not an audition to a TV program. The signs that this man would be a tyrant and that the elite is piling behind him are there for you to see. You can’t say later ‘oh, the MSM fooled me, I didn’t know any better’.
No matter how much ‘negative’ coverage the Donald is getting, as he himself says, ‘negative’ is better if it makes him look entertaining and “telling it as it is”. The negative coverage Hillary is getting is not the ‘good type of negative’; there’s nothing funny or endearing in been called a liar, dishonest and untrustworthy because you have been a manipulative bitch all your life. That’s how they portray her, she is giving you nothing, not even the fun and joy of ridiculing the oligarchs; she only gives you plans.
The MSM is giving you Trump the same way they gave you the invasion of Iraq: with impunity and subterfuge. Pay attention; they don’t want her. When the oligarchs don’t want you…somehow you must be a threat to them. Sanders is not even a threat, he is there to destroy Hillary.
The MSM is mainstreaming Trump for you. Enjoy.
Tagged Angry Voters Revenge, Evil Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton and MSM, Political Revenge, Primaries and MSM, Sanders Revolution, Trump and Globalism, Trump and the Art of Revenge, Trump's Revolution
Trump, Sanders, and the Myth of the Outsider
The Myth of The Outsider
The Outsider Becomes The Insider
Voters Angry At What?
I will start by noting that Trump’s unshakable appeal to the masses is, in part, the product of the success of the mainstream media (MSM) at implanting in the people’s mind the myth that the business elite and the oligarchs are apolitical and outside of partisan politics in Congress and the presidency.
This myth is one of the oligarchs’ most valuable tool that must be kept intact in these presidential primaries, no matter how many politicians or which party may be hurt in the process of protecting said myth. That’s why they can’t attack Trump directly as a heartless billionaire, as an elitist who has been controlling politics from the outside, as a vulture whose businesses include taking advantage of and promoting the mental illness called compulsive gamblers… How many times have you read any headlines like this: ‘Heartless Billionaire Wants To Deport Illegal Families‘? Even when Trump himself brags about influencing politics by buying politicians, no one in the MSM has used the opportunity to get rid of him using that headline bomb: ‘Heartless Billionaire Wants To Deport Illegal Families‘
Yes, he is an ‘outsider’, but so is our oligarchy, and yet they control us all. All the blame for the ‘corruption of the establishment’ must be cast, not on the oligarchy, but on the two parties and never outside of them. That myth of the outsider is one of the reasons why Trump is so difficult to defeat: to defeat him you must destroy the myth of the billionaires as ‘outsiders’. To defeat him means that the elite will become collateral damage. The only way to successfully attack Trump is attacking his business practices as a privileged elitist; instead, the MSM focuses on his racists tirades (never on him as a racist billionaire), as if the GOP is not as or more racist than he is.
Same with Sanders, he is no “outsider’ either. Sanders as an ‘outsider’ is like saying that because your hair is outside your skull it is not part of your body. Are you kidding me? 30+ years in politics and in Congress…and he is ‘an outsider’?
Finally, sadly, the oligarchs are squashing the intra-GOP fire of Trump vs the globalists with the fire of the angry liberal/progressive youngsters. These youngsters have been manipulated to solve the GOP’s elite problem by sending them to provoke him and his followers. The goal is to present Trump as the violent element who provokes angry reactions. Notice that the MSM, uncharacteristically, is excusing the youngsters actions as ‘righteous’ response to Trump’s racists comments and ‘policies’. It is that ‘excusing’ that evidences that the youngsters are being manipulated; compare the treatment the MSM gave to those same youngsters when they were ‘occupying’ Wall Street. They were called troublemakers then, never righteous protesters.
It should be patently clear by now that this year’s presidential election process is not party politics as usual. I suggest that this political parallel universe we are experiencing has its origin on 9/11, the date the globalists and billionaires chose to shake the world and take control of each nations’ political system out in the open.
(I’m not advocating any conspiracy theory about who brought the towers down. I’m referring to the political consequences of 9/11.)
It is no secret that, before 9/11, these elitists were controlling politics behind the curtain, as acknowledged by a writer of the elite’s think-tank Brookings Institute: Typically billionaires seek to influence politics quietly and out of public view. But now billionaires of all stripes have come out to take control of our nation’s politics because, after 9/11, they want to run the nation like they run their corporations: with a global frame of mind. The new qualification to run for president of the USA is to be a ‘successful’ corporationista.
Bloomberg was the first billionaire to run for office (mayor of NY) on the heels of 9/11, and since then we have been feeling the presence in our politics and public institutions of the billionaires of all industries, e.g. Silicon Valley’s tech giants (controlling our nation’s health research priorities) and online business moguls like Amazon’s Bezos (who influences politics and public opinion through his ownership of the WaPo).
Back to the current presidential elections
As Larry Summers explained in his blog, the crisis we are witnessing in these presidential primaries process is the result of the success of globalism. Summers( and his class members) is very much aware of voters anger and has some suggestion on how to deal with it.
That’s the question the MSM doesn’t want you to ask nor will they ask in their 24hrs news shows. Suffice it to say, according to them, that the people are angry at the “party establishment“: keep moving folks, there’s nothing else to see here. But consider the following.
Chances are you would agree in that most Americans have been complaining about the economy and the outsourcing of jobs, about the high cost of health care services, student debt…Trump is telling them that he has heard them.
Chances are you would agree that globalism is in great measure the culprit for jobs having been outsourced. Trump has been telling them that he knows globalism is the culprit. He even describes the problem of globalism to the American voters in his colorful and entertaining Trumpist fashion.
And chances are you would agree that Wall Street and the financial sector’s rapacious greed is hurting the US and the rest of the world. Trump there again.
These are some of the causes behind voters anger which the oligarchs and the MSM don’t want the public to discuss in the presidential elections process, dismissing publicly the anger as the result of ‘party establishment dishonesty’. Even when the MSM discusses the economy as behind voters anger, it almost invariably fails to mention globalism. See, for example, this Bloomberg‘s analysis “Why voters will remain angry” were anger is disrupting global politics, instead of global politics causing the anger.
The oligarchs prefer to set both parties aflame with voters anger and not open for discussion the problem of globalism in the elections. They think that, once the fire consumes its nutrient, it is bound to die.
Except that this is wild-fire.
Trump and Sanders are the ‘arsonists’, but Trump is the true ‘revolutionary’ in this process. Sanders is not a threat to the elite, he is there to ‘bern’ the anger. Sanders has aimed his attacks exclusively at Hillary and the democratic party ‘corruption’.
Trump, however, doesn’t mince words, calling the problem as he sees it by its name: the globalists and neo-conservatives in both parties are America’s problem. He has denounced the Bush administration by name, Reagan and everything the GOP considers sacrosanct. Trump’s foreign policy ‘manifesto’ was prepared for the American voter, not for the party, although in it he tells the GOP elite what he thinks of them. Trump is, at least today, more of a libertarian. He may change personality next week; we have to wait to see if this is his real self.
But Trump is not an ‘outsider’, nor is him a ‘revolutionary’. He is an exquisite con man who will destroy this nation as Comodo in Gladiator in Rome: by entertaining the mob while he was been a tyrant.
The myth of the oligarchs as outsiders keeps us blinded to the true source of our corrupt politics and misery.
Posted in 2016 Elections, Sanders, Trump
Tagged Angry Voters, Bloomberg, Larry Summers, Primaries and MSM, Provoking Trump, Sanders, Sanders and the Oligarchs, Trump, Trump and Globalism, Trump and the GOP Crisis, Trump and Violence
The Day After Hillary Wins-The MSM Kills Her, and Trump Appeals to Berniebots
I watched David Axelrod, Obama’s former campaign ad guru, at CNN doing a ‘Killing me softly” version on Hillary Clinton (HC) last night, the NY primaries day. It looked ominous because he proved in the 2008 primaries that he is an expert at killing Hillary.
He kept saying that HC, in order to not provoke Sanders’s followers, whom she may need if she wins the nomination, should not respond to his attacks against her and should not get angry. He dismissed Sanders’ dirty tactics of character assassination and lies against her. The implication was that she should be a good-girl and ignore the bully.
But that’s how he, Axelrod, ran his Obama campaign against her: he made her look ‘bitchy’ whenever she responded to Obama’s character assassination tactics. It’s no secret that Obama and Axelrod, together, and Hillary are not in ‘good terms’ with each other.
That’s how Hillary is going to lose the elections: the MSM, Obama’s representative (Axelrod) there and the GOP will shred her to smithereens with misogyny, character assassination and outright lies. Today, less than 16hrs since her NY victory, the WaPo has this headline: The Take: Clinton got what she needed, but her image is underwater. The NY Times asks Sanders to stay in the race but makes no reference to his negative campaign threatening to handle the presidency to Trump.
The MSM is part and parcel of the presidential election process. They have more power to shape opinions than the politicians themselves. If the MSM is against you, you have an uphill battle to fight.
The only good news is that Gloria Borger, CNN’s Chief Political Analyst, who have been constantly bashing HC, showed a sign that women are finally noticing the misogynistic hack job that is been done on her. Gloria actually, somehow meekly, managed to respond to Axelrod’s comment observing that, as they were discussing (that democrats should start attacking Trump)
whenever Hillary tries to focus on Trump, Bernie gets under her skin an starts accusing her and bringing the emails, and she then has to pivot back to Bernie to respond to the accusations”.
Axelrod went actually mute: he couldn’t respond. The MSM is not 100% efficient, as shown by Trump’s and Hillary’s continued staying power despite the personal attacks. But the fact that Sanders won Upstate New York prove that they have a powerful effect. The MSM has never criticized Sanders nor vetted his record; they attack Hillary if she responds to his smearing campaign. That’s how he won Upstate New York.
You can check my research on WaPo’s negative articles on HC and the positive for Sanders here.
Axelrod and Gloria Borger talking to each other. Old snapshot, clearly.
Trump Appeals to Berniebots
Trump, on the other side of the aisle, last night displayed his new tactic for recruiting ‘democratic’ voters: appealing to berniebots. He, ever so innocently, said:
I don’t like that Bernie guy, but what is going there with the super delegates is worse, worse here.
The man is not the moron we all thought he is. He is effective in his conning. The purpose of that statement he made was to lure the berniebots whom he knows are expressing the idea of supporting him and not Hillary. All he has to do is sweeten his bait and they will flock to him. The honey in this case is ‘victimhood‘: he, just like Sanders, is a victim of the ‘establishment’. He wants to commensurate with Sanders’ followers. ‘I have more in common with you than you with Hillary’, that is his message to them.
And bite they will.
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Sanders, Trump
Tagged CNN and HIllary Clinton, David Axelrod, Gloria Borger, Hillary Clinton, MSM attacks on Trump, Obama and Sanders, Primaries and MSM, Sanders, Trump
Sanders and The Two-Party System: Moving The US Towards Fascism
In this post I discuss:
How Sanders and the two-party system have destroyed the progressive movement
How his betrayal is pushing his followers from the extreme left to the extreme right of the political spectrum as they see Trump as an alternative to vilified Hillary Clinton (HC) and, finally,
That his followers’ movement towards Trump presages our nation moving towards fascism.
I also discuss why HC is the proverbial sacrificial lamb in this process of destroying the progressive movement.
First, consider these YouTube videos titles:
Hillary and the True Beast She Is.
Clinton Insider Reveals Hillary’s Lesbian Sexcapades
Hillary Clinton – A TRUE STORY OF SEX, DRUGS & MURDER
Carly Fiorina Knows All About Hillary’s Sex Life
Hillary Clinton: A Career Criminal
hillary clinton and huma
There are millions of videos like these, and worse, there.
I checked videos for Dick Cheney: they were all about him being a war criminal and making a profit out of the Iraq invasion. For President George W. Bush, the videos were even cute: there were “GWBush bloopers” and other ‘funny’ takes on “Bushisms”. In other words, their moral character and their manhood, their masculine sexual qualities are not questioned…ever. They are human beings…who do bad things.
But those videos ‘inform’ us that Hillary Clinton is not human, there is no possible redemption for her as a human being because she is an unnatural beast.
You would think that republicans made those videos. I have bad news for you: most of the videos were made by ‘democrats’ and ‘progressives’, i.e., by Sanders followers.
Hillary Clinton is not the caricature portrayed in those videos, and she is definitely not worse than the other two guys, not even if compared base on their politics, nor even as a human being. So what gives?
The Times They Are A-Changin’
If voting were to change anything, it would be illegal.
Yes, they are changing, but is not the ‘change’ you voted for when you voted for Obama.
In the 2008 elections the oligarchs learned that the voter anger that came as a consequence of the post-9/11 economical and political changes could be contained and diffused in the electoral process with the help of charismatic leaders promising to change and ‘clean’ the system.
Today they are offering you more ‘charismatic’ and popular leaders: Sanders and Trump. Is no coincidence that they both are talking the same language of “corrupt establishment”.
Keep in mind that in 2008 HC, despite having been the preferred nominee in the beginning, became the target of a brutal misogynistic campaign attack from the democratic party and the MSM that portrayed her as the evil witch of the status quo. She was unpolitely asked to cede her candidacy to the charismatic candidate paving the path to bring the angry voters into a liberating communion of hope and change. The same thing is happening to her today.
Voter anger
Today voters have more than good reasons to be angry, on both sides of the aisle. There’s no need to go into the causes of that anger here. The question here is What do they do with that anger?
Sanders, the two-party system (2ps) and the art of killing a populist movement
The modern purpose and function of the 2ps is to channel and dissipate voters anger in its electoral process, that’s why the ‘establishment’ protects it with tooth and nail.
Nothing threatens the status quo of the US oligarchs more than the prospect of having a viable third-party, not even ‘evil’ Hillary. That’s why the GOP forced the Donald into signing that pledge, remember? And that’s one of the reasons why B. Sanders has remained an “independent” in Congress: to divide and conquer; keep the power concentrated in the hands of the oligarchs.
For all his chest-beating shouts about “revolution”, “socialism” and being against “the billionaire class”, Sanders has never ventured outside of Congress to form a party to challenge the ‘establishment’. He is part and parcel of that establishment and has promised many times publicly to protect the democratic party. He doesn’t even have a record of supporting other independents running for elected positions. On the contrary.
Sanders, the great anti-establishment independent, was adamant in protecting the party from another independent by giving his unconditional support to Kerry over Nader in the 2004 presidential elections. In doing so, Sanders can receive credit for these dubious achievements:
He helped in killing the momentum to create a viable third-party.
He blamed, not only Nader, but the third-party option for Bush winning over Kerry.
The psychological impact of blaming Nader for Americans having to endure the atrocious second Bush administration has cemented the voters into the 2ps. The third-party is now further away than it was in 2004.
Independently of how democrats feel about Nader, in the eyes of the leftists and progressives Sanders betrayed the progressive movement by siding with the democratic party.
Sanders’ job in Congress all these years has been to give voters the illusion that there is third option in the electoral process in his state of Vermont against the establishment, and that he represents that option. He has done his job superbly well considering his record of voting against the interests of his supporters.
Now he is doing it again now.
And that takes us to today’s primaries.
The Primaries: The Escape Valve
Sanders is running in the “corrupt party”…because the party needs him to run in it, and he does as they tell him to do.
The DNC asked him to run as a democrat to give the appearance that the 2ps, and the democratic party in particular, offers real alternatives to the voters, not only the usual pro-establishment candidates. Appearances are important in a ‘democracy’. They roll the dice and if Sanders can repeat Obama’s feast, offering the pie in the sky to pacify the raucous voters, the party will again sacrifice Hillary in the altar of misogyny. Also, the anger resulting from ‘no change‘ and from the continued attacks on the middle class and the police-state is getting out of hand and has morphed into the Occupy and BLM movements. It needs to be diffused: ‘out of the streets and into the party’ (paraphrasing “out of the closet and into street”).
So, once again the owners of the DNC recruit Sanders to impersonate ‘change’.
Sanders’ aura as an “independent” and of being in touch with the grassroots movement is a coup. He is The Pied Piper of Vermont bringing those pesky disorganized and drifting angry youngsters who have been challenging the status quo into the abyss of the primaries to burn and dissipate their energy (feeling the bern?) in the electoral process. That’s one of the reasons the MSM has given free press to Sanders and Trump, to stir the belligerent youngsters in the party, burn them there and render them inoffensive and malleable.
With no third-party option because Sanders helped destroy it, our angry youngsters have no other option but to enter the 2ps…to see their anger manipulated and misdirected.
Trump is channeling the conservative angry voters and Sanders the “progressives”. They are the escape valve to dissipate all that righteous anger. Hillary and the other candidates represent the status quo, but Hillary in particular has been made the target of the youthful anger. The oligarchs, they own the 2ps, they win no matter who wins the primaries and the elections: each and every candidate in these elections is part of the ‘establishment’ and is there to protect it. But more important, they are there to protect the oligarchs themselves. That’s why Sanders vilifies Hillary, and seldom focus his ‘ire’ on the WS CEOs personally.
The only real alternative for the working class, the middle and poor classes, is to have a third-party not controlled by the owners of the two parties. Until that ideal condition materializes, we are stuck in the duopoly; forced to choose the lesser of two evils.
And now we enter into the danger posed by Sanders and his followers.
The Angry Bots Are On The Loose
Given that Sanders have lured the angry young voters into the electoral process with his magical ‘revolution’, they have to be given a reason to stay there. They are being made to believe that the party needs their youthful anger to change the party, and that their only obstacle is HC. That’s why Sanders continues to bash her with impunity. Every time he does it, his followers experience a bout of ecstasy.
But it is becoming clear to them that, once again, the democratic party is not willing to deliver on change; worse, is not willing to kill HC. and is not willing to let them bring the revolution to the party. Sanders committed the mistake of eliminating himself from the contest by his bullying and unsophisticated attacks on Hillary; he didn’t learn from Obama.
So, they are still looking to put their energy into a ‘political revolution’. Donald Trump is their next hope.
This is where the wheels come off the cart.
A bit closer to fascism
Even though Trump is running as a republican (he is a political weather vane, really), even though he has espouse racist and crude misogynistic feelings, even though he represents the opposite of what leftists and socialist stand for, Sanders followers find in Trump an alternative, not to the ‘corrupt establishment’, but to HC, the avatar of that system.
Sanders’ followers obsession with HC shows to us that they are not well versed with the concepts they use as their motto: revolution and socialism, and Sanders has been good at keeping them in the dark about them.
They are not fighting the oligarchs nor are they trying to change the class structure in the USA. They are fighting HC who, in their eyes, represent all that is bad with humanity. She is the Goldstein of “1984”. They have poured all their anger and hatred into that one person, anything is better than her, even Trump. Considering that Sanders is not willing to, figuratively?, kill HC, and ‘older’ voters seem determined to elect her, for his followers the next best thing is to follow the other ‘charismatic’ leader against the establishment: Trump. What is it they want from him?
They want Trump to kill her, to humiliate and ridicule her as he has done with his opponents; they want him to show no mercy for her. That’s their ‘revolution’.
Sanders followers have shown their ignorance about the ‘revolution’, and that they are easily doped by charismatic leaders to the point of moving towards the right of the political spectrum…and that they are very angry and willing to act on it. The oligarchs have taken note and have started to use them as tools to repress other sectors of the working class and cultural groups.
The GOP is resolving its internal divisions, their fight with “non-conservative” Trump, by manipulating the anger of the Sanders supporters and having them attack Trump to make him look ‘un-electable’. That they can do it so easily should worry every American.
The coordinated violent provocations at Trump’s rally smack of 1940s German fascists. “Berniebots” harassing anyone who disagrees with them is now notorious, and gets them closer to their new alternate hero, Trump. The scary part of this picture is that the oligarchs, through their MSM, have given their seal of approval for that behavior by saying that it has all been provoked by Trump’s ‘racist’ comment. Funny to see the MSM (Fox in particular) and the oligarchs complaining about racist comments from Trump.
Sanders too has done his part in creating and giving the seal of approval to this fascist behavior, and his party condones him. Now his supporters go to HC’s activities to provoke her and her followers.
Summing up, these fascist tactics and attacks are now part of our culture. Don’t expect them to go away after the elections.
Sanders helped the dem party kill the progressive movement, the anti-war movement and the third-party option. There are no options for the working and middle classes to fight the oligarchs. Americans are married to cut-throat capitalism.
Sanders effectiveness at betraying the progressive movement makes him the least qualified to be elected, and the most dangerous to us if he is.
Trump is what we all know he is. He is not an alternative either.
That leaves Hillary Clinton. She is not hiding anything. We know what she can and can’t give us. For the last 200 years we have elected men; it’s time to give a woman a chance. Hillary can’t be worse than the men who have ruled us since 9/11. Look at her record and you will find an imperfect politician who has tried to help the middle class, women and children and the poor.
Until the conditions for the third-party materializes, she is the least of all the evils, she is our only option in these elections. After the elections, the progressives and leftists should concentrate in making the Green Party a viable alternative to the next elections. Otherwise, it will be more of the same.
Posted in 2016 Elections, Hillary Clinton, Sanders, Trump
Tagged Angry Voters, Charismatic Bernie, Clinton's Crimes, Hillary Clinton, Misogyny, Primaries and MSM, Sanders, Sanders and Fascism, Trump
Unfair MSM Treatment of Sanders…
I compiled this list of headlines from the Washington Post to show how ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’ is their coverage of Sanders and Clinton.
You will see that the headlines for Sanders (45) are nearly all positive, never is there a personal attack on him, never a question about his credibility or morals, and never a check at his political record. The opposite is true of the headlines for Hillary Clinton (40).
Sanders followers have nothing to complain about the MSM; it has the hots for him.
Headlines for Sanders:45 positive
Highlights from Bernie Sanders’s campaign, in pictures
The senator from Vermont has become Hillary Clinton’s chief rival in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The idea that Bernie Sanders has been too negative to debate Hillary Clinton is ridiculous
The Latest: Wisconsin voters want to hear from Sanders
The Latest: Sanders reaches out to black voters in Milwaukee
Bernie Sanders is giving Hillary Clinton a real run for the nomination
Jane Sanders: Winning Wisconsin wouldn’t mean less because of a large white population
Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat
A meal at Denny’s finally convinced Jane Sanders that her husband should run
Now The Washington Post ran 16 positive stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours! #bias[meaning it was true!]
Sanders references the Holocaust when discussing Trump’s ‘intolerance’ toward Muslims
Bernie Sanders calls Donald Trump ‘a nutcase’ during Wisconsin rally
The key details missing from Bernie Sanders’s free college proposal
The crazy logic behind an alliance of Trump-Sanders supporters
Why did the New York Times change its mind about Bernie Sanders?
Bernie Sanders’s most vitriolic supporters really test the meaning of the word ‘progressive’
These congressional candidates got inspiration from Sanders – but little else
How an obscure socialist text from the ’80s predicted Bernie Sanders’s rise
Bernie Sanders draws more than 30,000 to stops around Washington state Sunday
What Bernie Sanders would do to America
Has The Washington Post been too hard on Bernie Sanders this week?
16 negative stories in 16 hours after Sunday’s debate? Not quite.
Awkward reality for Bernie Sanders: A strategy focused on whiter states [but he’s not a ‘racist’. For HC, it counts as ‘racism’.]
Celeb endorsement of the week: Rosario Dawson for Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders’s huge Washington win was exactly what his campaign needed
Bernie Sanders trades laughs, serious talk with Jimmy Kimmel on latest day of Democratic voting
What Bernie Sanders still doesn’t get about arguing with Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders was a trend-setter back in 1967, too
Why did Bernie Sanders dominate Saturday? Caucuses in states with smaller black populations.
Is democratic socialism the American Dream?
New York Times public editor raps newspaper for edits to story on Bernie Sanders’s record
Sanders has gotten nastier. Does it help explain his staying power?
Where once he berated the ‘billionaire class,’ senator now focuses on Hillary Clinton.
Bernie Sanders and the clash of memory
The ‘Sanders Democrat’ is paving the way for the radical left
Sanders doesn’t need much explaining in liberal Seattle
Bernie Sanders bolts interview with Arizona TV reporter
Bernie Sanders: ’30 Years of Speeches’ | Campaign 2016
Bernie Sanders tells supporters he sees a winning streak coming
How Bernie Sanders is hijacking the Democratic Party to be elected as an independent
The new Democratic Party proposal to rival Bernie Sanders’s socialism
Bernie Sanders’s praise for communist Cuba just became an issue. But do people even care anymore?
Clinton criticizes Sanders for dismissing Trump’s abortion ‘punishment’ gaffe
Stephen Colbert knows why that bird REALLY landed on Bernie Sanders’s lectern
‘Excuse me!’ Bernie Sanders doesn’t know how to talk about black people
Sanders’s ‘yuge’ Twitter moment during debate with Clinton
Bernie Sanders is right: Bill Clinton’s welfare law doubled extreme poverty
Bernie Sanders won the debate’s Google fight — in more ways than one
Maybe Bernie Sanders is right about trade negotiators
Sanders: In it to win it but building grass-roots enthusiasm for Democrats regardless
This Hillary Clinton attack on Bernie Sanders makes no sense
Bernie Sanders needs to get serious on foreign policy
Bernie Sanders’s real problem with black and Hispanic voters
Despite what his critics say, Bernie Sanders insists he is not championing a ‘radical’ agenda
Why an arm of the Koch empire is praising Bernie Sanders
HILLARY CLINTON: 40 negatives
“What if the problem with Hillary Clinton’s campaign is Hillary Clinton?
Sometimes the problem is you.”
Chelsea Clinton’s bungled answer on her mother’s college affordability plan
Clinton lashes out at Sanders for ‘lying’ about her. Here’s how to settle this.
What some men have against Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton must face the music — and the FBI
The Latest: Clinton laments GOP’s ‘implacable hostility’
A former top New York Times editor says Clinton is ‘fundamentally honest.’ So…
Clinton pushes gun control at emotional meeting in Wisconsin
Second federal judge grants legal discovery into Clinton use of private email server
Clinton faces disruptive Sanders supporters in New York
There are dozens of FBI agents involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation
Do gendered comments help or hurt Hillary Clinton?
The Miami debate was Clinton’s personal nightmare
Bernie Sanders pulls even with Hillary Clinton in a new poll. Because it’s the economy, stupid.
The Republican race serves as a useful distraction from how bad things are for Clinton
This is the closest thing we’ve ever had to a Hillary Clinton political manifesto
How can Hillary Clinton and other female politicians be ‘likable enough?’ A new study offers guidance.
What’s next for Bernie Sanders’s revolution?
Hillary Clinton will have to avoid alienating his supporters.
5 times Hillary Clinton has played fast and loose with the facts on Bernie Sanders’s record
Why Hillary Clinton is unlikely to be indicted over her private email server
Lucky for her, political idiocy is not criminal.
Why Hillary Clinton’s ‘super-predator’ concession is such a big moment for political protest
Why did Hillary Clinton lose Michigan but win Ohio? White voters.
Clinton’s Benghazi moment rules Twitter at Democratic debate
U.S. judge orders discovery to go forward over Clinton’s private email system
The Libya debacle undermines Clinton’s foreign policy credentials
Hillary Clinton’s struggles with the death penalty date back to her Senate days
Hillary Clinton draws criticism for her response to violence at Trump’s Chicago rally
Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after encounter with activist
Eight years later, Bill Clinton is causing headaches for his wife again
Team Hillary is betting big on the Obama coalition
Clinton ahead in Missouri, but race in limbo pending decision on recount
Clinton emails continue to be non-scandal, disappointing Republicans
Democrats have a lot riding on Hillary Clinton. Which is why the word ‘immunity’ should make them very nervous.
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American Gods S01 Ep02 Deep Breakdown: The Secret of Spoons
By Kelly Mintzer on May 8, 2017 Action, Drama, Sci Fi, Television
Before I attempt to parse even the most rudimentary aspects of last night’s American Gods, I feel compelled to address the spider in the room. I knew it was coming and still, when I saw those eight awful legs and disgusting mouth-fang-thingies, I was quite genuinely repulsed. The good news is that we do not spend an excessive amount of time with the actual arachnid version of Mr. Nancy (a.k.a. Anansi, your favorite African trickster god). The better news is that Mr. Nancy is played by Orlando Jones with an almost cult-like charisma. If you saw the man preaching in a revival tent, you would be tempted to drink his kool-aid. I confess that my initial response to Jones’ casting as Mr. Nancy was reserved – neither terribly critical or excessively charitable. At the risk of dating myself (these are dangerous times), I only actually knew him from the “Make 7-up yours” campaign, and my impression of Nancy in the book was of a much older gentleman. But damn, guys. Orlando Jones owns it. We meet him in the episode’s “Coming to America” segment, explaining to a ship full of slaves the fate that waits for them in the new land. It would be a bravura sequence based on the content of the speech alone, but the righteous anger and the wry edge of Jones’ delivery makes it something almost transcendent. But see how easily I could give this entire review over to nothing but those first ten minutes, and I haven’t even discussed the unconventional sartorial choices Mr. Nancy subscribes to. Let’s move on.
When we left Shadow, someone or something had messily killed his attackers. He stumbles, bloody and bruised, back to the hotel he is staying in and confronts Mr. Wednesday, who, unfortunately for Shadow, is as near a Virgil as he has through the hot mess he finds himself in. The blood’s not on Wednesday’s hands, however – he has verifiably been porking a girl who is immediately and clearly way too young.
Shadow returns to the house he had shared with Laura – the house he would have gone home to and lived a normal if slightly cuckolded life in, if things had gone completely differently. A quick glance through Laura’s phone, and an unfortunate eyeful of Robbie’s dick pic, gives Shadow some resolution, and he and Wednesday hit the road. Wednesday sends Shadow on an errand, to pick up some very bizarre bribes (the visual of the delightfully enormous and rugged Ricky Whittle holding a copy of “Come Closer Cowboy” almost killed me, and I would have been okay with it, a worthier death I cannot imagine). Shadow moves through the post-apocalyptic aisles of a big box store that feels straight out of “Night of the Comet”, picking up vodka, cigarettes, cheese, until he passes through the tv section and meets Media, a new god in a Lucy Ricardo suit. She propositions Shadow, attempts to seduce him away from Wednesday (it is a brilliant form of contrast that this new, modern god is taking the guise of Lucille Ball, an actress 28 years dead. Iconography aside, there is already a generation that would have no idea who that is – there is the blade thin suggestion here that the new gods are not so invincible as they believe), and Shadow gets the hell out of Dodge and back to Wednesday.
They go together to see the Zorya sisters and Czernobog, old, Slavic gods who are not overly enthusiastic to see Wednesday, but never the less share a meal (created by food genius, Janice Poon, who assured me on Twitter that it was, indeed, a challenge for a talented chef to make the food look unappetizing on screen) with him and Shadow, that culminates in an ill-fated checkers game between Czernobog and Shadow. End result of Shadow’s loss: Czernobog gets to beat his brains out at dawn with his cattle killing sledge hammer. Elsewhere, we see that our girl Bilquis has been regaining her strength and power by feasting pretty consistently on a variety of willing lovers. As I switch back and forth between this and The Handmaid’s Tale, Bilquis’s arc has felt particularly satisfying – almost redemptive. Seeing a woman claim her sexuality as a source of power is just so rewarding. This is where we leave our heroes. Tune in next week.
This episode was a great deal funnier than the pilot – Ian McShane is completely killing the game as Wednesday, a perfect blend of mischief and charm – a very specific word. Let us not forget that while “charm” can mean that “je ne sais quoi” some people have, a charm is also an enchantment, a spell. Remember I told you – keep your eye on the shiny, because coin tricks are for beginners, and Wednesday’s been in the business for awhile. Ricky Whittle’s Shadow continues to be an ideal audience surrogate. He reacts practically; he questions his sanity and then ultimately accepts his reality. Shadow doesn’t waste time considering whether or not what is happening is possible. He sees it, he registers it, he accepts it and moves on. And it is worth noting that the chemistry between Whittle and McShane is on point. Which is essential, as a good part of American Gods is an oddball buddy roadtrip. Their banter, and the sense that Shadow is grudgingly starting to like Wednesday is so engaging and winning, it would be enough for the show to offer us just an hour of them interacting each week.
Because I am a seasoned veteran of the Fullerverse, it is impossible for me to resist this chance to examine American Gods within the greater framework of Bryan Fuller’s oeuvre. I plead your indulgence and promise not to belabor. American Gods feels every inch a Fuller show; like a cousin to Pushing Daisies and an incestuous sibling to Hannibal. The muted color palette and vibrant blood would be right at home in Dr. Lecter’s Baltimore, and everyone’s favorite cannibal would absolutely lose his mind with envy over the plaid suit that Mr. Nancy rocked in the beginning of this episode. Gillian Anderson is welcome in literally everything, but Bryan gives her all of the best roles – from Bedelia du Maurier through her current incarnation as Media (and the way that she channels Lucille Ball is nothing short of eerie). Hannibal flipped a coin in season two to determine Bella’s fate and Shadow flipped a coin in episode one to determine his own. Listen, I’m not saying for certain they exist in the same shared universe, but wouldn’t it be amazing if they did? So stick with me for Fullerwatch ’17, and feel free to slip on into the comments to let me know if I miss anything.
Finally, it would be terribly remiss of me not to acknowledge this show’s adept handling and acknowledgement of race. It is for a much longer format and certainly more trenchant minds than mine to truly dig into that fully, but two episodes in, and American Gods has kept its gaze on immigration and race unflinchingly and fearless. They have set the bar incredibly high for themselves; let’s watch them continue to clear it.
Until next week friends, when a quick IMDB review suggests that we’ll meet Easter, Mr. World and the Jinn, pop into the comments and tell me who you worship.
Kelly Mintzer
Kelly Mintzer hates dolls but loves movies about evil ventriloquist dummies. She is working her way through the “Sandman” series slowly but surely, and has been compared more than once to that iteration of Death. Holding down South Philly with a creative writing degree and the full series of “Hannibal”, she hasn’t seen her natural hair color in years.
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May 9 BASE BUTTER is Glowing up for a Re-Launch
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She’Neil Johnson, 25, is redefining the skincare landscape for women of color with her line of all natural skincare products, BASE BUTTER. After graduating from Howard University in 2014, Johnson headed to New York to start her career as a UX Designer for IBM. In the midst of enhancing the user’s experience for products in her role as a designer, Johnson felt the need for her own creative outlet and began making all-natural lipsticks in her kitchen.
The creative outlet soon turned into She’Neil’s first business venture with Lipzology lipstick, leading her to file her first legal entity. However, Johnson lost interest due to not wearing much make-up and decided to transition out of making lipsticks. Left with a kitchen full of natural products and inventory, Johnson began exploring and experimenting with creating body butters. Shortly after, BASE BUTTER was born.
Founded in 2015, BASE BUTTER strives to inspire women of color to discover, protect, and love the beauty they were born with. After the line’s first launch in December 2015, popularity for the product quickly grew. BASE BUTTER’s products are multipurpose allowing for usage on the lips face, hair, and body as a moisturizer. Their most popular product “The Whipped Formula” is a SPF 20 lightweight moisturizing butter.
Currently, BASE BUTTER is going through a transition phase called “The Glow Up 2017” as it prepares for its August relaunch. The all natural skincare product line will be kicking off with a private event and will be introducing a new BASE BUTTER product called Shine, a sheen stick for your skin and lips.
You can stay up to date with the launch and become a BASE BUTTER member by visiting basebutter.com and on their social handles for Twitter and Instagram: @BASEBUTTER.
Discover more about the CEO/Founder of BASE BUTTER, She’Neil Johnson here.
Base Butter
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Union leader calls on L.A. teachers to boycott Times
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The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a “massive boycott” of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.
“You’re leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem like you can judge the quality of a teacher by … a test,” said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has more than 40,000 members.
Duffy said he would urge other labor groups to ask their members to cancel their subscriptions.
Full story: Union leader calls on L.A. teachers to boycott Times – latimes.com
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The wedding scene in 'The Godfather' is a masterclass in establishing a film's narrative. Here's why.
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January 4, 2015 by alexlynch695
4th & Inches: Wild Card Weekend
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4th & Inches is a weekly discussion during the NFL regular season, playoffs, and occasionally during the offseason of all things football – the good, the bad, and the Oakland Raiders. Some weeks all games will be discussed. Some games three games will be discussed. Topics will range from quarterback play to the dictatorship structure of the league to trending topics.
As a whole, the purpose of 4th and Inches will be exactly what the name suggests. As a team on the field often is in desperation mode when it decides go for it on fourth down and inches, these blog entries will be a desperate attempt to make sense of what is going on in the National Football League.
If you have any topics you wish to see discussed on 4th & Inches, or any comments at all, you can suggest/comment/rant/agree/disagree at any time on Twitter @RealDavidLynch.
A legend is born, for all the wrong reasons
Ryan Lindley etched his name into NFL lore on Saturday afternoon.
No, he didn’t throw for 600 yards. He didn’t even throw for 100. He didn’t throw for six touchdowns. He threw for one. Oh he set a big record, no doubt about that, but one which will prevent any child born in Arizona this year to be named Ryan.
https://twitter.com/si_nfl/status/551538733481480192
Lindley now has the distinction of being the quarterback – of about the 37th string variety – who led an offense to an NFL playoff history-worst 78 net yards.
That number ain’t fake.
For Pete’s sake.
Seventy-eight offensive yards. In the NFL. In 2015.
How on earth did this game finish with a score of 27-16? The same reason Arizona will win one dubious NFL distinction – Bruce Arians, head coach extraordinaire.
Arians continues to be masterful calling plays, creating schemes, and always keeping his team in it, no matter which quarterback gets injured on a given week.
Arizona’s defense, too, continued to play with the extraordinary amount of heart that they showed in the regular season when Carson Palmer went down, when Drew Stanton went down, when all hope was lost, when they had no business winning football games in the Golden Age of the Quarterback in the NFL.
Defense kept Arizona in the game. But they couldn’t overcome the tropes of modern pro football and win a game with a quarterback even Cardinals fans hadn’t heard of a month ago. Rather the opposite happened; with each drive Lindley led, Cardinals fans were most likely forced to take another drink and another drink so the miserable performance could become more bearable.
Carson Palmer would've won this game for Arizona. Drew Stanton might have. Ryan Lindley can't.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) January 4, 2015
It’s nothing against the Cardinals, really. They gave their best effort against a Panthers team that won its last four games by a combined score of 111-43, led by a rejuvenated shutdown defense oftheir own and a humbled and dynamic Cam Newton. Carolina became the second team with a sub-.500 regular season record to win a playoff game (Seahawks over Saints in 2011), and they look like an under-the-radar NFC team ready to make some noise.
Maybe defense will win a championship this year. Maybe it’ll be Carolina’s, or the Legion of Boom once again. But it couldn’t even help Ryan Lindley on Saturday, or dissuade the bitter aftertaste of the worst offensive performance in NFL playoff history.
What’s an accurate Super Bowl prediction anyway?
The Ravens over the last five or six seasons have perpetually been one of those teams that linger outside the spotlight for the majority of the season…watching…waiting…doing seemingly the bare minimum to sneak into the playoffs, where they tend to then undergo metamorphosis into a team whose lives depend on reaching the Super Bowl.
At least, that’s what happened on Saturday, where they began another potential Super Bowl run by spelling doom for three parties in different ways: the Pittsburgh Steelers, the New England Patriots, and this writer, whose Super Bowl prediction was busted on the first day of the playoffs.
My completely educated and supported theory guess that Big Ben would face off against the Seahawks in (probably, maybe) his last good shot at another championship in February seemed fairly possible, at least in my head.
Then Flacco happened. Those pesky Baltimore Ravens, who have now won the most playoff road games in NFL history (10) are a whole other team when January rolls around, as we all tend to forget and as the Steelers found out. With star running back La’Veon Bell out, Roethlisberger would have to be relied on more than usual if they were to pull out a victory against their rivals.
Roethlisberger didn’t come through, Baltimore’s front seven did, and Tom Brady might be shaking in his shoes today as a result.
For 1st time in Baltimore history, Ravens beat Steelers in the playoffs. pic.twitter.com/7etcpMxK2n
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 4, 2015
I had said that I thought the Steelers are the only team who could legitimately threaten New England on their own turf, but seeing how the Ravens played on Sunday, Brady will still have his hands full next weekend, perhaps even more so. In reality we shouldn’t be surprised, seeing as how both Pittsburgh and Baltimore reside in the AFC North, which is the boxing ring of National Football League divisions. They play an extremely similar style of physical football, a style that their rivalry is built upon, and ol’ Joe Flacco has proved he can play with the best of them in the playoffs.
Joe Flacco has been LIGHTS OUT his last five playoff games:
• Pass TD: 13
• Interceptions: 0 pic.twitter.com/MRezrbHoUd
Flacco vs. Brady or Baltimore’s gaudy, terrifying defensive line vs. Brady?
We’ve got a week to decide.
Andy Schmandy
What are we even supposed to make of Andy Dalton at this point in his career?
After a 26—10 Wild Card loss at Indianapolis, in which they scored a grand total of zero points in the second half, Dalton becomes only the second quarterback to lose his first four postseason starts. To put it mildly, his career is reaching the point of comedy. The correlation of how much he makes to his playoff success is a pain to look at.
So Andy Dalton has still never thrown a playoff pass with a lead. Unbelievable, really. #ColtsWTHR
— Bob Kravitz (@bkravitz) January 4, 2015
He was coroneted the Bengals’ Messiah in 2011 but after three seasons Cinci has yet to win their first playoff game since 1990. He’s put up pretty numbers, sure – like joining Cam Newton, Peyton Manning, and Andrew Luck as the only quarterbacks to throw for over 3,000 yards in each of their first three seasons – but those numbers are virtually transparent when his playoff success, or lack thereof, is so dismal.
It’s tough to envision Dalton holding up the Lombardi Trophy at any point in his career, no matter how hard we try, and that speaks to the bigger picture of a growing disparity between quarterbacks in the NFL.
The gap between elite quarterbacks and slingers who lack “it”, that undefinable quality which makes them winners, is growing at an alarming rate. NFL quarterbacks either have the stuff to win a Super Bowl or they don’t, and it’s becoming pretty easy for even the fan who only watches football two weeks out of the year to categorize. As far as this year’s playoff slingers go, Dalton falls into the latter category, as do (for now) Cam Newton and Matt Stafford.
The other quarterbacks – including Luck, Tony Romo, Russel Wilson, and Tom Brady – have varying levels of “it”, but make no mistake that they have it, whether they proved it in the regular season or by winning The Big One previously. They also have varying levels of postseason success, but that doesn’t matter when the subject of a player having “it” is oftentimes so clear. “It” is not an ostensible quality. You either have it or you don’t.
Quarterback parity in the NFL isn’t extinct. It probably isn’t even endangered. However we’re at a point where several quarterbacks have shown a lack of the unteachable qualities that place them on lower tiers of NFL Quarterbackdom. There is less and less of a middle tier of quarterbacks who show promise and instill hope, but have no rings to show for it, and perhaps only Philip Rivers resides on it.
Meanwhile, in the sports netherworld…
“You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.”
-Stuart Scott, ESPN anchor, reporter, and sportscasting groundbreaker
Hope heaven has a nice desk for you, Mr. Scott. RIP.
David Lynch likes to talk about and write about movies, sports, and important happenings around the world. He can be reached at alex.695@hotmail.com or on Twitter @RealDavidLynch.
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Enshrining Peer Review as Part of the Scientific Method
I have written a lot about problems with over-emphasis on peer review and problems in scientific publishing. This is from a press release by the CRU quoting the highly flawed Muir-Russel review / whitewash of the Climategate emails.
We note that much of the challenge to CRU’s work has not always followed the conventional scientific method of checking and seeking to falsify conclusions or offering alternative hypotheses for peer review and publication. We believe this is necessary if science is to move on, and we hope that all those involved on all sides of the climate science debate will adopt this approach.
Because methodological challenges to scientists work that don't appear in Climate Journals controlled by the scientists in question are not part of the scientific method.
By the way, the statement that "The raw tree-ring data used in our published work are available; anyone is free to use them in any way they wish" is absolutely hilarious for anyone who has followed this saga over the years. To the extent they are available "freely," it is only because Steve McIntyre and other challengers of CRU's work engaged in a decade long legal campaign to get this publicly-funded data (necessary to verify and/or replicate the CRU's published work) released. Here is the McIntyre post to which CRU was responding, though they bend over backwards not to actually mention him.
Tags: Climate, Climate Journals, climate science, CRU, Muir Russel, review
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As y'all know, I am not a member of either the Coke or Pepsi party, so I find all the partisan mudslinging on the political blogs to be just kind of funny. Particularly when both sides are piously accusing the other of exactly the same behavior, while maintaining that they are immune from said behavior (or only engaging in it because the other guy started it).
I really don't understand political strategy. I admit this. Take global warming. I really thought the CRU email thing was a minor distraction. After all, the there were so many fundamental flaws in the science and scientific process that a lot of the CRU stuff was old news to those who have paid attention. But I was wrong. There was something about the scandal that was more compact and easy to tell, it fit into a box or storyline familiar to both the media that had to report it and the public that had to consume it. I understood the whole scandal and its impact so poorly that I have done little blogging at my climate site lately, as I still can't get excited blogging about commissions and investigations into the scandal that seem to obsess the skeptic community currently.
So I won't say that this strategy by Kevin Drum is wrong, I will just say I don't understand it:
On Twitter, here was my insta-reaction to Obama's oil spill address from the Oval Office:
What a terrible speech.
Unfair? Maybe! I mean, compared to Sarah Palin's (literally) incomprehensible burbling on Bill O'Reilly's show afterward it was a model of straight talk and reassurance. But that's a pretty low bar.
What's the deal with Sarah Palin? I swear she gets more pub from her enemies than her supporters. How does it somehow help a sitting President -- who was supposedly elected because he was the most competent person of all time -- to be compared, however favorably, to a woman with limited political experience who holds no office? Granted the Republicans really have no one of distinction leading them right now, and Palin is about the only Republican in years with any modicum of charisma. But since when have losing VP candidates been the standard against which Presidents are measured?
Tags: blogging, CRU, global warming, kevin drum, media, oil, Oval Office, Sarah Palin, strategy, VP
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Awesome Analysis of Urban Biases on Surface Temperature Records
A kid and his dad manage to do the analysis that NASA, the EPA, the CRU, and the IPCC can't be convinced to perform. Awesome.
Tags: CRU, EPA, IPCC, NASA
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Incentives and Conspiracies
I am sort of the anti-conspiracy theorist. I have written a number of times that events people sometimes explain as orchestrated conspiracies often can be explained just as well by assuming that people with similar preferences and similar information and similar incentives will respond to these incentives in similar ways.
I think the great herd-think around climate alarmism is a good example, and the Bishop Hill blog brings us a specific illustration from the comment section of Watts Up With That. A commenter observed that it was pretty hard to believe that thousands of scientists could be participating in a conspiracy. Another commenter wrote back:
Actually not so hard.
Personal anecdote:
Last spring when I was shopping around for a new source of funding, after having my funding slashed to zero 15 days after going public with a finding about natural climate variations, I kept running into funding application instructions of the following variety:
Successful candidates will:
1) Demonstrate AGW [ed: Anthropogenic Global Warming]
2) Demonstrate the catastrophic consequences of AGW.
3) Explore policy implications stemming from 1 & 2.
Follow the money "” perhaps a conspiracy is unnecessary where a carrot will suffice.
If only alarmist results are funded, then it should not be surprising that only alarmist studies are produced.
By the way, it is probably incorrect to think of climate science really being driven by 2500 scientists. Here is an analogy: Strategy at General Motors is in some sense driven by thousands of workers - salesmen who know the market, channel managers who know their distribution partners, planners who watch econometric trends, manufacturers who know what can and can't be done with costs, engineers who see what the next technological opportunities, etc. -- you get the idea.
But realistically, there are probably 20-25 people who are really setting and driving and communicating the corporate strategy for GM. And those 20-25 people will likely say to the public that their strategy is supported by all those 200,000 workers. But in fact there are thousands, maybe even a majority, that would say that they don't support the strategy and don't think that strategy is consistent with their bit of knowlege.
I think climate science works roughly the same way. The same 20-25 people are lead authors on the IPCC, write key reports, contribute to Al Gore's movie, get quoted in the NY Times, run the Realclimate web site, and, of course, feature prominently in the CRU emails. And while these 25 may claim thousands of scientists support their conclusions based on the mere fact that these other scientists contributed to an IPCC report that had these conclusions, many of these scientists, when actually asked, will disagree.
Here is one thing that is never mentioned -- most of the scientists outside of climate science who have gone on the record somewhere as supporting catastrophic man-made global warming theory, if you really talked to them, would say they made their statement in support of science, not global warming theory. Most of these folks really haven't dug into the details, but the problem was presented to them as one of science vs. anti-science. They are told by their peers and the media that AGW skeptics are all fundamentalist super right-wing anti-science evolution deniers who think the Earth is 4000 years old.
By saying they support AGW, these scientists are really trying to make the statement that they support science. The bitter irony is that they are doing the opposite, enabling those in the core of the climate community who are trying to duck criticism and replication by demanding unquestioning respect for their authority. The fact is that nearly every time one of these outsider scientists - a physicist or a geologist or a statistician, say - digs into the science, they are appalled at what they find and how bad the science behind catastrophic AGW theory really is.
Tags: agw, Anthropogenic Global Warming, climate science, CRU, General Motors, global warming, GM, IPCC, strategy, warming
My Personal Experience with Climate Alarmist Spin
We see all kinds of alarmist spin being attempted on the CRU emails. For those who are interested, this is best layman's article I have found to discuss the now-famous Michael Mann "trick," what it is, and the obfuscation in the CRU's response.
I have at least one experience with the core alarmist community responding where I pointed out an error. The responses I got in that case are very similar to the ones today for the CRU - basically the responses either are tangential to the basic point or try to retroactively change the alarmists original assertions. They are responses that stand up only if the questioner is unwilling or unable to do the smallest amount of verification work (in other words, they work with most of the media).
The series of posts began with this image from the recent US government climate assessment. Its point was to provide electric grid outages as a proxy measurement variable for severe weather, the point being that severe weather must have increased.
I thought this chart smelled funny
This chart screams one thing at me: Basis change. Somehow, the basis for the data is changing in the period. Either reporting has been increased, or definitions have changed, or there is something about the grid that makes it more sensitive to weather, or whatever (this is a problem in tornado charts, as improving detection technologies seem to create an upward incidence trend in smaller tornadoes where one probably does not exist). But there is NO WAY the weather is changing this fast, and readers should treat this whole report as a pile of garbage if it is written by people who uncritically accept this chart.
So I called the owner of the data set at the EIA
He said that there may be an underlying upward trend out there (particularly in thunderstorms) but that most of the increase in this chart is from improvements in data gathering. In 1997, the EIA (and Makins himself) took over the compilation of this data, which had previously been haphazard, and made a big push to get all utilities to report as required. They made a second change and push for reporting in 2001, and again in 2007/2008. He told me that most of this slope is due to better reporting, and not necessarily any underlying trend. In fact, he said there still is some under-reporting by smaller utilities he wants to improve so that the graph will likely go higher in the future....
At the end of the day, this disturbance data is not a good proxy for severe weather.
The author of that section of the report, Evan Mills, responded and then I dealt with his response here. Here is just one example of the BS we have to slog through every time we criticize even a tangential analysis like this. See the links for his whole response, but he says in part:
As noted in the caption to the figure on page 58 of our report (shown above)"”which was masked in the blogger's critique [ed. actually it was not masked- the source I got the chart from had left off the caption]"”we expressly state a quite different finding than that imputed by the blogger, noting with care that we do not attribute these events to anthropogenic climate change, but do consider the grid vulnerable to extreme weather today and increasingly so as climate change progresses, i.e.:
"Although the figure does not demonstrate a cause-effect relationship between climate change and grid disruption, it does suggest that weather and climate extremes often have important effects on grid disruptions."
The associated text in the report states the following, citing a major peer-reviewed federal study on the energy sector's vulnerability to climate change:
"The electricity grid is also vulnerable to climate change effects, from temperature changes to severe weather events."
This was pretty amazing - citing his chart's caption but hoping that somehow I or other readers would miss the very first line of the caption which he fails to quote:
To Dr. Mills' point that I misinterpreted him "” if all he wanted to say was that the electrical grid could be disturbed by weather or was vulnerable to climate change, fine. I mean, duh. If there are more tornadoes knocking about, more electrical lines will come down. But if that was Dr. Mills ONLY point, then why did he write (emphasis added):
The number of incidents caused by extreme weather has increased tenfold since 1992. The portion of all events that are caused by weather-related phenomena has more than tripled from about 20 percent in the early 1990s to about 65 percent in recent years. The weather-related events are more severe"¦
He is saying flat out that the grid IS being disturbed 10x more often and more severely by weather. It doesn't even say "reported" incidents or "may have" "” it is quite definitive. So which one of us is trying to create a straw man? It is these statements that I previously claimed the data did not support, and I stand by my analysis on that.
I deconstructed a lot of the rest of his longer post, and you can follow it all, but the bottom line is that if a you are drawing a trend line between two points, and you have much more data missing from the begginning end point than the end, your trend is going to be SNAFU'd. Period. No point in arguing about it. See the chart below. It represents the situation at hand. The red is the reported data. The blue is the unreported data, which declines as a percentage of the total due to a push for better data reporting by the database owners. My point was simply that the red trend line was meaningless. Its amazing to me that even accepting the basics of this picture, Dr. Mills wants to fight that conclusion.
I am reminded by one of the now-famous quotes from the CRU emails
I really wish I could be more positive about the Kyrgyzstan material, but I swear I pulled every trick out of my sleeve trying to milk something out of that. I don't think it'd be productive to try and juggle the chronology statistics any more than I already have - they just are what they are...
Yep, sometimes the measured results from nature are what they are. Well, I actually that most of the time they are what they are, but not in climate apparently. Never give up a flawed analysis that yields the "right" answer without a fight. I concluded:
Look Dr. Mills, I don't have an axe to grind here. This is one chart out of bazillions making a minor point. But the data set you are using is garbage, so why do you stand by it with such tenacity? Can't anyone just admit "you know, on thinking about it, there are way to many problems with this data set to declare a trend exists.
Tags: Climate, climate change, CRU, EIA, electricity, Kyrgyzstan, milk, NO, temperature
Example of Climate Work That Needs to be Checked and Replicated
When someone starts to shout "but its in the peer-reviewed literature" as an argument-ender to me, I usually respond that peer review is not the finish line, meaning that the science of some particular point is settled. It is merely the starting point, where now a proposition is in the public domain and can be checked and verified and replicated and criticized and potentially disproved or modified.
The CRU scandal should, in my mind, be taken exactly the same way. Unlike what more fire-breathing skeptics have been saying, this is not the final nail in the coffin of catastrophic man-made global warming theory. It is merely a starting point, a chance to finally move government funded data and computer code into the public domain where it has always belonged, and start tearing it down or confirming it.
To this end, I would like to share a post from year ago, showing the kind of contortions that skeptics have been going through for years to demonstrate that there appear to be problems in key data models -- contortions and questions that could have been answered in hours rather than years if the climate scientists hadn't been so afraid of scrutiny and kept their inner workings secret. This post is from July, 2007. It is not one of my most core complaints with global warming alarmists, as I think the Earth has indeed warmed over the last 150 years, though perhaps by less than the current metrics say. But I think some folks are confused why simple averages of global temperatures can be subject to hijinx. The answer is that the averages are not simple:
A few posts back, I showed how nearly 85% of the reported warming in the US over the last century is actually due to adjustments and added fudge-factors by scientists rather than actual measured higher temperatures. I want to discuss some further analysis Steve McIntyre has done on these adjustments, but first I want to offer a brief analogy.
Let's say you had two compasses to help you find north, but the compasses are reading incorrectly. After some investigation, you find that one of the compasses is located next to a strong magnet, which you have good reason to believe is strongly biasing that compass's readings. In response, would you
Average the results of the two compasses and use this mean to guide you, or
Ignore the output of the poorly sited compass and rely solely on the other unbiased compass?
Most of us would quite rationally choose #2. However, Steve McIntyre shows us a situation involving two temperature stations in the USHCN network in which government researchers apparently have gone with solution #1. Here is the situation:
He compares the USHCN station at the Grand Canyon (which appears to be a good rural setting) with the Tucson USHCN station I documented here, located in a parking lot in the center of a rapidly growing million person city. Unsurprisingly, the Tucson data shows lots of warming and the Grand Canyon data shows none. So how might you correct Tucson and the Grand Canyon data, assuming they should be seeing about the same amount of warming? Would you
average them, effectively adjusting the two temperature readings
towards each other, or would you assume the Grand Canyon data is cleaner
with fewer biases and adjust Tucson only? Is there anyone who would not choose the second option, as with the compasses?
The GISS data set, created by the Goddard Center of NASA, takes the USHCN data set and somehow uses nearby stations to correct for anomalous stations. I say somehow, because, incredibly, these government scientists, whose research is funded by taxpayers and is being used to make major policy decisions, refuse to release their algorithms or methodology details publicly. They keep it all secret! Their adjustments are a big black box that none of us are allowed to look into (and remember, these adjustments account for the vast majority of reported warming in the last century).
We can, however, reverse engineer some of these adjustments, and McIntyre does. What he finds is that the GISS appears to be averaging the good and bad compass, rather than throwing out or adjusting only the biased reading. You can see this below. First, here are the USHCN data for these two stations with only the Time of Observation adjustment made (more on what these adjustments are in this article).
As I said above, no real surprise "â little warming out in undeveloped nature, lots of warming in a large and rapidly growing modern city. Now, here is the same data after the GISS has adjusted it:
You can see that Tucson has been adjusted down a degree or two, but Grand Canyon has been adjusted up a degree or two (with the earlier mid-century spike adjusted down). OK, so it makes sense that Tucson has been adjusted down, though there is a very good argument to be made that it should be been adjusted down more, say by at least 3 degrees**. But why does the Grand Canyon need to be adjusted up by about a degree and a half? What is biasing it colder by 1.5 degrees, which is a lot? The answer: Nothing. The explanation: Obviously, the GISS is doing some sort of averaging, which is bringing the Grand Canyon and Tucson from each end closer to a mean.
This is clearly wrong, like averaging the two compasses. You don't average a measurement known to be of good quality with one known to be biased. The Grand Canyon should be held about the same, and Tucson adjusted down even more toward it, or else thrown out. Lets look at two cases. In one, we will use the GISS approach to combine these two stations"â this adds 1.5 degrees to GC and subtracts 1.5 degrees from Tucson. In the second, we will take an approach that applies all the adjustment to just the biases (Tucson station) "â this would add 0 degrees to GC and subtract 3 degrees from Tucson. The first approach, used by the GISS, results in a mean warming in these two stations that is 1.5 degrees higher than the more logical second approach. No wonder the GISS produces the highest historical global warming estimates of any source! Steve McIntyre has much more.
** I got to three degrees by applying all of the adjustments for GC and Tucson to Tucson. Here is another way to get to about this amount. We know from studies that urban heat islands can add 8-10 degrees to nighttime urban temperatures over surrounding undeveloped land. Assuming no daytime effect, which is conservative, we might conclude that 8-10 degrees at night adds about 3 degrees to the entire 24-hour average.
Postscript: Steve McIntyre comments (bold added):
These adjustments are supposed to adjust for station moves "â the procedure is described in Karl and Williams 1988 [check], but, like so many climate recipes, is a complicated statistical procedure that is not based on statistical procedures known off the island. (That's not to say that the procedures are necessarily wrong, just that the properties of the procedure are not known to statistical civilization.) When I see this particular outcome of the Karl methodology, my mpression is that, net of the pea moving under the thimble, the Grand Canyon values are being blended up and the Tucson values are being blended down. So that while the methodology purports to adjust for station moves, I'm not convinced that the methodology can successfully estimate ex post the impact of numerous station moves and my guess is that it ends up constructing a kind of blended average.
LOL. McIntyre, by the way, is the same gentleman who helped call foul on the Mann hockey stick for bad statistical procedure.
Tags: Climate, CRU, GC, GISS, global warming, Grand Canyon, review, temperature, USHCN, warming
Useful Reset: What Peer Review Is and Is Not
This is from a post of mine last January, long before the Climategate scandal (though most of us who spent a lot of time with climate issues knew of the Climategate abuses long before the smoking gun emails were found). The one thing this article does not mention is what we know today -- that climate scientists were actively working to keep skeptical studies out of the literature, even to the point of getting editors fired.
Peer review is not a guarantee of accuracy or a good housekeeping seal of correctness. It is a process that insures a work is worthy of publication by a scholarly magazine. Whether a scientific question is "settled" does not end with peer review, it only begins. It becomes settled after it survives decades of criticism and replication work, a process that was stonewalled by the folks at the CRU, which is really the heart of the scandal.
Yesterday, while I was waiting for my sandwich at the deli downstairs, I was applying about 10% of my consciousness to CNN running on the TV behind the counter. I saw some woman, presumably in the Obama team, defending some action of the administration being based on "peer reviewed" science.
This may be a legacy of the climate debate. One of the rhetorical tools climate alarmists have latched onto is to inflate the meaning of peer review. Often, folks, like the person I saw on TV yesterday, use "peer review" as a synonym for "proven correct and generally accepted in its findings by all right-thinking people who are not anti-scientific wackos."
But in fact peer review has a much narrower function, and certainly is not, either in intent or practice, any real check or confirmation of the study in question. The main goals of peer review are:
Establish that the article is worthy of publication and consistent with the scope of the publication in question. They are looking to see if the results are non-trivial, if they are new (ie not duplicative of findings already well-understood), and in some way important. If you think of peer-reviewers as an ad hoc editorial board for the publication, you get closest to intent
Reviewers will check, to the extent they can, to see if the methodology and its presentation is logical and clear "” not necesarily right, but logical and clear. Their most frequent comments are for clarification of certain areas of the work or questions that they don't think the authors answered.
Peer review is not in any way shape or form a proof that a study is correct, or even likely to be correct. Enormous numbers of incorrect conclusions have been published in peer-reviewed journals over time. This is demonstrably true. For example, at any one time in medicine, for every peer-reviewed study I can usually find another peer-reviewed study with opposite or wildly different findings.
Studies are only accepted as likely correct a over time the community tries as hard as it can to poke holes in the findings. Future studies will try to replicate the findings, or disprove them. As a result of criticism of the methodology, groups will test the findings in new ways that respond to methodological criticisms. It is the accretion of this work over time that solidifies confidence (Ironically, this is exactly the process that climate alarmists want to short-circuit, and even more ironically, they call climate skeptics "anti-scientific" for wanting to follow this typical scientific dispute and replication process).
Further, the quality and sharpness of peer review depends a lot on the reviewers chosen. For example, a peer review of Rush Limbaugh by the folks at LGF, Free Republic, and Powerline might not be as compelling as a peer review by Kos or Kevin Drum.
But instead of this, peer review is used by folks, particularly in poitical settings, as a shield against criticism, usually for something they don't understand and probably haven't even read themselves. Here is an example dialog:
Politician or Activist: "Mann's hockey stick proves humans are warming the planet"
Critic: "But what about Mann's cherry-picking of proxy groups; or the divergence problem in the data; or the fact that he routinely uses proxy's as a positive correlation in one period and different correlation in another; or the fact that the results are most driven by proxies that have been manually altered; or the fact that trees really make bad proxies, as they seldom actually display the assumed linear positive relationship between growth and temperature?"
Politician or Activist, who 99% of the time has not even read the study in question and understands nothing of what critic is saying: "This is peer-reviewed science! You can't question that."
For those interested in the science of the skeptics position please see my recent movie.
Update: Mark Steyn on Climate and Peer Review
Tags: Climate, CNN, CRU, Free Republic, LGF, review, Rush Limbaugh, TV, warming
Pretty Good Climategate Summary
From Christopher Booker at the Telegraph via Anthony Watts
There are three threads in particular in the leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed observers across the world. Perhaps the most obvious, as lucidly put together by Willis Eschenbach (see McIntyre's blog Climate Audit and Anthony Watt's blog Watts Up With That), is the highly disturbing series of emails which show how Dr Jones and his colleagues have for years been discussing the devious tactics whereby they could avoid releasing their data to outsiders under freedom of information laws.
They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based.
This in itself has become a major scandal, not least Dr Jones's refusal to release the basic data from which the CRU derives its hugely influential temperature record, which culminated last summer in his startling claim that much of the data from all over the world had simply got "lost". Most incriminating of all are the emails in which scientists are advised to delete large chunks of data, which, when this is done after receipt of a freedom of information request, is a criminal offence.
But the question which inevitably arises from this systematic refusal to release their data is "“ what is it that these scientists seem so anxious to hide? The second and most shocking revelation of the leaked documents is how they show the scientists trying to manipulate data through their tortuous computer programmes, always to point in only the one desired direction "“ to lower past temperatures and to "adjust" recent temperatures upwards, in order to convey the impression of an accelerated warming. This comes up so often (not least in the documents relating to computer data in the Harry Read Me file) that it becomes the most disturbing single element of the entire story. This is what Mr McIntyre caught Dr Hansen doing with his GISS temperature record last year (after which Hansen was forced to revise his record), and two further shocking examples have now come to light from Australia and New Zealand.
In each of these countries it has been possible for local scientists to compare the official temperature record with the original data on which it was supposedly based. In each case it is clear that the same trick has been played "“ to turn an essentially flat temperature chart into a graph which shows temperatures steadily rising. And in each case this manipulation was carried out under the influence of the CRU.
What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results.
The third shocking revelation of these documents is the ruthless way in which these academics have been determined to silence any expert questioning of the findings they have arrived at by such dubious methods "“ not just by refusing to disclose their basic data but by discrediting and freezing out any scientific journal which dares to publish their critics' work. It seems they are prepared to stop at nothing to stifle scientific debate in this way, not least by ensuring that no dissenting research should find its way into the pages of IPCC reports.
Tags: Anthony Watt, Australia, CRU, Dr Hansen, Dr Jones, GISS, Harry Read, temperature, Willis Eschenbach
Why the NASA Temperture Adjustments Matter
NASA's GISS was recently forced to restate its historical temperature database for the US when Steve McIntyre (climate gadfly) found discontinuities in the data that seemed to imply a processing error. Which indeed turned out to be the case (store here).
The importance of this is NOT the actual change to the measurements, though it was substantial. The importance, which the media reporting on this has entirely missed, is it highlights why NASA and other government-funded climate scientists have got to release their detailed methodologies and software for scrutiny. The adjustments they are making to historical temperatures are often larger(!) than the measured historical warming (here, here, here) so the adjustment methodology is critical.
This post from Steve McIntyre really shows how hard government-funded climate scientists like James Hansen are working to avoid scientific scrutiny. Note the contortions and detective work McIntyre and his readers must go through to try to back into what NASA and Hansen are actually doing. Read in this context, you should be offended by this article. Here is an excerpt (don't worry if you can't follow the particular discussion, just get a sense of how hard NASA is making it to replicate their adjustment process):
If I average the data so adjusted, I get the NASA-combined version
up to rounding of 0.05 deg C. Why these particular values are chosen is
a mystery to say the least. Version 1 runs on average a little warmer
than version 0 where they diverge ( and they are identical after 1980).
So why version 0 is adjusted down more than version 1 is hard to figure
out.
Why is version 2 adjusted down prior to 1990 and not after? Again
it's hard to figure out. I'm wondering whether there isn't another
problem in splicing versions as with the USHCN data. One big version of
Hansen's data was put together for Hansen and Lebedeff 1987 and the
next publication was Hansen et al 1999 - maybe different versions got
involved. But that's just a guess. It could be almost anything....It would be interesting to check their source code and see how they get this adjustment, that's for sure.
A basic tenant of science is that you publish enough information such that others can replicate your work. Hansen and NASA are not doing this, which is all the more insane given that we as taxpayers pay for their work.
Hansen cites the fact that Phil Jones gets somewhat similar results as
evidence of the validity of his calculations. In fairness to Hansen,
while they have not archived code, they have archived enough data
versions to at least get a foothold on what they are doing. In
contrast, Phil Jones at CRU maintains lockdown anti-terrorist security
on his data versions and has even refused FOI requests for his data.
None of these sorts of analyses are possible on CRU data, which may or
may not have problems of its own.
Tags: CRU, FOI, GISS, media, NASA, Phil Jones, security, temperature, US, USHCN
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Whimsichord at the Barbican
Whimsichord comprises of wearable-sculptures that connect to the body, playfully transforming physical movement into sound
By Di Mainstone and Dave Meckin, funded by Queen Mary University of London and the Barbican
The Whimsichord is a wearable interactive musical installation that will react to the movement and touch of users (or Movicians) responding with sound. We have coined the term ‘Movician’ to describe this hybrid act of composition and choreography. Whimsichord comprises of striking spring-like modules that are connect to a series of fixed landing-pads via retractable chords. Each component can be plucked from its landing-pad and attached to the Movician in a myriad of ways. Our soft sculptures are specially designed around the body to seamlessly grip to the Movician as they traverse space and interact with the piece to produce music. As Movicians connect to the modules they will draw elegant lines from the surrounding architecture onto to the body. These strings can be twanged to produce sound, and each participant will become a human string instrument.
Barbican 4th November 2012 – 8 shows as part of the Barbican Weekender
https://www.barbican.org.uk/education/event-detail.asp?id=13969
Hydrocordion at the Science Gallery Words & Numbers at Cannes Film Festival
Artist Di Mainstone
Artist and researcher, Di Mainstone creates body-centric sculptures, designed to initiate movement and storytelling. Many of these wearable artefacts are inspired by technology. Some of them release sound when handled. Often, they can be modified to create new silhouettes, environments and functionalities. All of them tell a story.
Di’s body-centric devices have been performed at home and abroad, most notably at The V&A, The Barbican, The National Portrait Gallery, Eyebeam NYC and the Swedish National Touring Theatre. Each happening is unique, revealing openings for audience and performer encounters. Di’s work can also be seen in films, which she writes and directs.
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HEIRS OF MARIO MALABANAN vs. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES GR No.
179987 April 29, 2009 en banc FACTS: On 20 February 1998, Mario Malabanan filed an application for land registration before the RTC of Cavite-Tagaytay, covering a parcel of land situated in Silang Cavite, consisting of 71,324 square meters. Malabanan claimed that he had purchased the property from Eduardo Velazco, and that he and his predecessors-in-interest had been in open, notorious, and continuous adverse and peaceful possession of the land for more than thirty (30) years. Velazco testified that the property was originally belonged to a twenty-two hectare property owned by his great-grandfather, Lino Velazco. Lino had four sons Benedicto, Gregorio, Eduardo and Estebanthe fourth being Aristedess grandfather. Upon Linos death, his four sons inherited the property and divided it among themselves. But by 1966, Estebans wife, Magdalena, had become the administrator of all the properties inherited by the Velazco sons from their father, Lino. After the death of Esteban and Magdalena, their son Virgilio succeeded them in administering the properties, including Lot 9864-A, which originally belonged to his uncle, Eduardo Velazco. It was this property that was sold by Eduardo Velazco to Malabanan. Among the evidence presented by Malabanan during trial was a Certification dated 11 June 2001, issued by the Community Environment & Natural Resources Office, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (CENRO-DENR), which stated that the subject property was verified to be within the Alienable or Disposable land per Land Classification Map No. 3013 established under Project No. 20-A and approved as such under FAO 4-1656 on March 15, 1982. On 3 December 2002, the RTC approved the application for registration. The Republic interposed an appeal to the Court of Appeals, arguing that Malabanan had failed to prove that the property belonged to the alienable and disposable land of the public domain, and that the RTC had erred in finding that he had been in possession of the property in the manner and for the length of time required by law for confirmation of imperfect title. On 23 February 2007, the Court of Appeals reversed the RTC ruling and dismissed the appliocation of Malabanan. ISSUES: 1. In order that an alienable and disposable land of the public domain may be registered under Section 14(1) of Presidential Decree No. 1529, otherwise known as the Property Registration Decree, should the land be classified as alienable and disposable as of June 12, 1945 or is it sufficient that such classification occur at any time prior to the filing of the applicant for registration provided that it is established that the applicant has been in open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession of the land under a bona fide claim of ownership since June 12, 1945 or earlier? 2. For purposes of Section 14(2) of the Property Registration Decree may a parcel of land classified as alienable and disposable be deemed private land and therefore susceptible to acquisition by prescription in accordance with the Civil Code? 3. May a parcel of land established as agricultural in character either because of its use or because its slope is below that of forest lands be registrable under Section 14(2) of the Property Registration Decree in relation to the provisions of the Civil Code on acquisitive prescription? 4. Are petitioners entitled to the registration of the subject land in their names under Section 14(1) or Section 14(2) of the Property Registration Decree or both? HELD: The Pertition is denied. (1) In connection with Section 14(1) of the Property Registration Decree, Section 48(b) of the Public Land Act recognizes and confirms that those who by themselves or through their predecessors in interest have been in open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession and occupation of alienable and disposable lands of the public domain, under a bona fide claim of acquisition of ownership, since June 12, 1945 have acquired ownership of, and registrable title to, such lands based on the length and quality of their possession. (a) Since Section 48(b) merely requires possession since 12 June 1945 and does not require that the lands should have been alienable and disposable during the entire period of possession, the possessor is entitled to secure judicial confirmation of his title thereto as soon as it is declared alienable and disposable, subject to the timeframe imposed by Section 47 of the Public Land Act. (b) The right to register granted under Section 48(b) of the Public Land Act is further confirmed by Section 14(1) of the Property Registration Decree. (2) In complying with Section 14(2) of the Property Registration Decree, consider that under the Civil Code, prescription is recognized as a mode of acquiring ownership of patrimonial property. However, public domain lands become only patrimonial property not only with a declaration that these are alienable or disposable. There must also be an express government manifestation that the property is already patrimonial or no longer retained for public service or the development of national wealth, under Article 422 of the Civil Code. And only when the property has become patrimonial can the prescriptive period for the acquisition of property of the public dominion begin to run. (a) Patrimonial property is private property of the government. The person acquires ownership of patrimonial property by prescription under the Civil Code is entitled to secure registration thereof under Section 14(2) of the Property Registration Decree.
(b) There are two kinds of prescription by which patrimonial property may be acquired, one ordinary and other extraordinary. Under ordinary acquisitive prescription, a person acquires ownership of a patrimonial property through possession for at least ten (10) years, in good faith and with just title. Under extraordinary acquisitive prescription, a persons uninterrupted adverse possession of patrimonial property for at least thirty (30) years, regardless of good faith or just title, ripens into ownership. It is clear that the evidence of petitioners is insufficient to establish that Malabanan has acquired ownership over the subject property under Section 48(b) of the Public Land Act. There is no substantive evidence to establish that Malabanan or petitioners as his predecessors-in-interest have been in possession of the property since 12 June 1945 or earlier. The earliest that petitioners can date back their possession, according to their own evidencethe Tax Declarations they presented in particularis to the year 1948. Thus, they cannot avail themselves of registration under Section 14(1) of the Property Registration Decree. Neither can petitioners properly invoke Section 14(2) as basis for registration. While the subject property was declared as alienable or disposable in 1982, there is no competent evidence that is no longer intended for public use service or for the development of the national evidence, conformably with Article 422 of the Civil Code. The classification of the subject property as alienable and disposable land of the public domain does not change its status as property of the public dominion under Article 420(2) of the Civil Code. Thus, it is insusceptible to acquisition by prescription. Manila International Airport Authority vs CA GR No. 155650, July 20, 2006, 495 SCRA 591 Facts: Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) is the operator of the Ninoy International Airport located at Paranaque City. The Officers of Paranaque City sent notices to MIAA due to real estate tax delinquency. MIAA then settled some of the amount. When MIAA failed to settle the entire amount, the officers of Paranaque city threatened to levy and subject to auction the land and buildings of MIAA, which they did. MIAA sought for a Temporary Restraining Order from the CA but failed to do so within the 60 days reglementary period, so the petition was dismissed. MIAA then sought for the TRO with the Supreme Court a day before the public auction, MIAA was granted with the TRO but unfortunately the TRO was received by the Paranaque City officers 3 hours after the public auction. MIAA claims that although the charter provides that the title of the land and building are with MIAA still the ownership is with the Republic of the Philippines. MIAA also contends that it is an instrumentality of the government and as such exempted from real estate tax. That the land and buildings of MIAA are of public dominion therefore cannot be subjected to levy and auction sale. On the other hand, the officers of Paranaque City claim that MIAA is a government owned and controlled corporation therefore not exempted to real estate tax. Issues: Whether or not MIAA is an instrumentality of the government and not a government owned and controlled corporation and as such exempted from tax. Whether or not the land and buildings of MIAA are part of the public dominion and thus cannot be the subject of levy and auction sale. Ruling: Under the Local government code, government owned and controlled corporations are not exempted from real estate tax. MIAA is not a government owned and controlled corporation, for to become one MIAA should either be a stock or non stock corporation. MIAA is not a stock corporation for its capital is not divided into shares. It is not a non stock corporation since it has no members. MIAA is an instrumentality of the government vested with corporate powers and government functions. Under the civil code, property may either be under public dominion or private ownership. Those under public dominion are owned by the State and are utilized for public use, public service and for the development of national wealth. The ports included in the public dominion pertain either to seaports or airports. When properties under public dominion cease to be for public use and service, they form part of the patrimonial property of the State. The court held that the land and buildings of MIAA are part of the public dominion. Since the airport is devoted for public use, for the domestic and international travel and transportation. Even if MIAA charge fees, this is for support of its operation and for regulation and does not change the character of the land and buildings of MIAA as part of the public dominion. As part of the public dominion the land and buildings of MIAA are outside the commerce of man. To subject them to levy and public auction is contrary to public policy. Unless the President issues a proclamation withdrawing the airport land and buildings from public use, these properties remain to be of public dominion and are inalienable. As long as the land and buildings are for public use the ownership is with the Republic of the Philippines. G.R. No. 134209 January 24, 2006 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES vs. NAGUIAT (full case) Before the Court is this petition for review under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court seeking the reversal of the Decision 1 dated May 29, 1998 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CV No. 37001 which affirmed an earlier decision 2 of the Regional Trial Court at Iba, Zambales, Branch 69 in Land Registration Case No. N-25-1. The decision under review recites the factual backdrop, as follows: This is an application for registration of title to four (4) parcels of land located in Panan, Botolan, Zambales, more particularly described in the amended application filed by Celestina Naguiat on 29 December 1989 with the Regional Trial
Court of Zambales, Branch 69. Applicant [herein respondent] alleges, inter alia, that she is the owner of the said parcels of land having acquired them by purchase from the LID Corporation which likewise acquired the same from Demetria Calderon, Josefina Moraga and Fausto Monje and their predecessors-in-interest who have been in possession thereof for more than thirty (30) years; and that to the best of her knowledge, said lots suffer no mortgage or encumbrance of whatever kind nor is there any person having any interest, legal or equitable, or in possession thereof. On 29 June 1990, the Republic of the Philippines [herein petitioner]. . . filed an opposition to the application on the ground that neither the applicant nor her predecessors-in interest have been in open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession and occupation of the lands in question since 12 June 1945 or prior thereto; that the muniments of title and tax payment receipts of applicant do not constitute competent and sufficient evidence of a bona-fide acquisition of the lands applied for or of his open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession and occupation thereof in the concept of (an) owner; that the applicants claim of ownership in fee simple on the basis of Spanish title or grant can no longer be availed of . . .; and that the parcels of land applied for are part of the public domain belonging to the Republic of the Philippines not subject to private appropriation. On 15 October 1990, the lower court issued an order of general default as against the whole world, with the exception of the Office of the Solicitor General, and proceeded with the hearing of this registration case. After she had presented and formally offered her evidence . . . applicant rested her case. The Solicitor General, thru the Provincial Prosecutor, interposed no objection to the admission of the exhibits. Later . . . the Provincial Prosecutor manifest (sic) that the Government had no evidence to adduce. 3 In a decision4 dated September 30, 1991, the trial court rendered judgment for herein respondent Celestina Naguiat, adjudicating unto her the parcels of land in question and decreeing the registration thereof in her name, thus: WHEREFORE, premises considered, this Court hereby adjudicates the parcels of land situated in Panan, Botolan, Zambales, appearing on Plan AP-03-003447 containing an area of 3,131 square meters, appearing on Plan AP-03-003446 containing an area of 15,322 containing an area of 15,387 square meters to herein applicant Celestina T. Naguiat, of legal age, Filipino citizen, married to Rommel Naguiat and a resident of Angeles City, Pampanga together with all the improvements existing thereon and orders and decrees registration in her name in accordance with Act No. 496, Commonwealth Act No. 14, [should be 141] as amended, and Presidential Decree No. 1529. This adjudication, however, is subject to the various easements/reservations provided for under pertinent laws, presidential decrees and/or presidential letters of instructions which should be annotated/ projected on the title to be issued. And once this decision becomes final, let the corresponding decree of registration be immediately issued. (Words in bracket added) With its motion for reconsideration having been denied by the trial court, petitioner Republic went on appeal to the CA in CA-G.R. CV No. 37001. As stated at the outset hereof, the CA, in the herein assailed decision of May 29, 1998, affirmed that of the trial court, to wit: WHEREFORE, premises considered, the decision appealed from is hereby AFFIRMED. SO ORDERED. Hence, the Republics present recourse on its basic submission that the CAs decision " is not in accordance with law, jurisprudence and the evidence, since respondent has not established with the required evidence her title in fee simple or imperfect title in respect of the subject lots which would warrant their registration under (P.D. 1529 or Public Land Act (C.A.) 141." In particular, petitioner Republic faults the appellate court on its finding respecting the length of respondents occupation of the property subject of her application for registration and for not considering the fact that she has not established that the lands in question have been declassified from forest or timber zone to alienable and disposable property. Public forest lands or forest reserves, unless declassified and released by positive act of the Government so that they may form part of the disposable agricultural lands of the public domain, are not capable of private appropriation. 5 As to these assets, the rules on confirmation of imperfect title do not apply. 6 Given this postulate, the principal issue to be addressed turns on the question of whether or not the areas in question have ceased to have the status of forest or other inalienable lands of the public domain. Forests, in the context of both the Public Land Act 7 and the Constitution8 classifying lands of the public domain into "agricultural, forest or timber, mineral lands and national parks," do not necessarily refer to a large tract of wooded land or an expanse covered by dense growth of trees and underbrush. As we stated in Heirs of Amunategui 9A forested area classified as forest land of the public domain does not lose such classification simply because loggers or settlers have stripped it of its forest cover. Parcels of land classified as forest land may actually be covered with grass or planted to crops by kaingin cultivators or other farmers. "Forest lands" do not have to be on mountains or in out of the way places. xxx. The classification is merely descriptive of its legal nature or status and does not have to be descriptive of what the land actually looks like. xxx Under Section 2, Article XII of the Constitution,10 which embodies the Regalian doctrine, all lands of the public domain belong to the State the source of any asserted right to ownership of land. 11 All lands not appearing to be clearly of private dominion presumptively belong to the State.12 Accordingly, public lands not shown to have been reclassified or released as alienable agricultural land or alienated to a private person by the State remain part of the inalienable public domain.13 Under Section 6 of the Public Land Act, the prerogative of classifying or reclassifying lands of the public domain, i.e., from forest or mineral to agricultural and vice versa, belongs to the Executive Branch of the government and not the court.14 Needless to stress, the onus to overturn, by incontrovertible evidence, the presumption that the land subject of an application for registration is alienable or disposable rests with the applicant. 15 In the present case, the CA assumed that the lands in question are already alienable and disposable. Wrote the appellate court: The theory of [petitioner] that the properties in question are lands of the public domain cannot be sustained as it is directly against the above doctrine. Said doctrine is a reaffirmation of the principle established in the earlier cases . . . that open, exclusive and undisputed possession of alienable public land for period prescribed by law creates the legal fiction whereby the land, upon completion of the requisite period, ipso jure and without the need of judicial or other sanction, ceases to be public land and becomes private property . (Word in bracket and underscoring added.) The principal reason for the appellate courts disposition, finding a registerable title for respondent, is her and her predecessor-in-interests open, continuous and exclusive occupation of the subject property for more than 30 years. Prescinding from its above assumption and finding, the appellate court went on to conclude, citing Director of Lands vs.
Intermediate Appellate Court (IAC)16 and Herico vs. DAR,17 among other cases, that, upon the completion of the requisite period of possession, the lands in question cease to be public land and become private property. Director of Lands, Herico and the other cases cited by the CA are not, however, winning cards for the respondent, for the simple reason that, in said cases, the disposable and alienable nature of the land sought to be registered was established, or, at least, not put in issue. And there lies the difference. Here, respondent never presented the required certification from the proper government agency or official proclamation reclassifying the land applied for as alienable and disposable. Matters of land classification or reclassification cannot be assumed. It calls for proof.18 Aside from tax receipts, respondent submitted in evidence the survey map and technical descriptions of the lands, which, needless to state, provided no information respecting the classification of the property. As the Court has held, however, these documents are not sufficient to overcome the presumption that the land sought to be registered forms part of the public domain.19 It cannot be overemphasized that unwarranted appropriation of public lands has been a notorious practice resorted to in land registration cases.20 For this reason, the Court has made it a point to stress, when appropriate, that declassification of forest and mineral lands, as the case may be, and their conversion into alienable and disposable lands need an express and positive act from the government.21 The foregoing considered, the issue of whether or not respondent and her predecessor-in-interest have been in open, exclusive and continuous possession of the parcels of land in question is now of little moment. For, unclassified land, as here, cannot be acquired by adverse occupation or possession; occupation thereof in the concept of owner, however long, cannot ripen into private ownership and be registered as title. 22 WHEREFORE, the instant petition is GRANTED and the assailed decision dated May 29, 1998 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CV No. 37001 is REVERSED and SET ASIDE. Accordingly, respondents application for original registration of title in Land Registration Case No. N-25-1 of the Regional Trial Court at Iba, Zambales, Branch 69, is DENIED. No costs. SO ORDERED. Republic vs. Naguiat (Jan. 24, 2006) unclassified lands cannot be acquired by adverse possession/occupation; occupation in the concept of an owner however long cannot ripen into private ownership and be registered as a title. Facts: Respondent applies for registration of title to 4 parcels of land contending she is the owner of the said land which she acquired from the LID Corporation which in turn acquired the same from persons who have been in possession thereof for more than 30 years. The Republic filed in opposition that said lands belong to the public domain and not subject to private appropriation. Issue: Whether or not the land in dispute as a forest land belonging to public domain may be appropriated as private property. Ruling: For a public forest land/reserves to be subject for private appropriation, it requires an express and positive act of the government that it will become a part of alienable and disposable agricultural lands of public domain. Occupation in the concept of an owner cannot ripen into private ownership and be registered to as a title. DENR et al VS. YAP et al G.R. No. 167707 October 8, 2008 FACTS: On November 10, 1978, then President Marcos issued Proc. No. 1801 declaring Boracay Island, among other islands, caves and peninsulas in the Philippines, as tourist zones and marine reserves under the administration of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA). President Marcos later approved the issuance of PTA Circular 3-82 dated September 3, 1982, to implement Proclamation No. 1801. Claiming that Proclamation No. 1801 and PTA Circular No 3-82 precluded them from filing an application for judicial confirmation of imperfect title or survey of land for titling purposes, respondents-claimants Mayor . Yap, Jr., and others filed a petition for declaratory relief with the RTC in Kalibo, Aklan In their petition, respondents-claimants alleged that Proc. No. 1801 and PTA Circular No. 3-82 raised doubts on their right to secure titles over their occupied lands. They declared that they themselves, or through their predecessors-in-interest, had been in open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession and occupation in Boracay since June 12, 1945, or earlier since time immemorial. They declared their lands for tax purposes and paid realty taxes on them. Respondentsclaimants posited that Proclamation No. 1801 and its implementing Circular did not place Boracay beyond the commerce of man. Since the Island was classified as a tourist zone, it was susceptible of private ownership. Under Section 48(b) of the Public Land Act, they had the right to have the lots registered in their names through judicial confirmation of imperfect titles. The Republic, through the OSG, opposed the petition for declaratory relief. The OSG countered that Boracay Island was an unclassified land of the public domain. It formed part of the mass of lands classified as public forest, which was not available for disposition pursuant to Section 3(a) of the Revised Forestry Code, as amended. The OSG maintained that respondents-claimants reliance on PD No. 1801 and PTA Circular No. 3-82 was misplaced. Their right to judicial confirmation of title was governed by Public Land Act and Revised Forestry Code, as amended. Since Boracay Island had not been classified as alienable and disposable, whatever possession they had cannot ripen into ownership. On July 14, 1999, the RTC rendered a decision in favor of respondents-claimants, declaring that, PD 1810 and PTA Circular No. 3-82 Revised Forestry Code, as amended. The OSG moved for reconsideration but its motion was denied. The Republic then appealed to the CA. On In 2004, the appellate court affirmed in toto the RTC decision. Again, the OSG sought reconsideration but it was similarly denied.Hence, the present petition under Rule 45.
On May 22, 2006, during the pendency the petition in the trial court, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued Proclamation No. 1064 classifying Boracay Island partly reserved forest land (protection purposes) and partly agricultural land (alienable and disposable). On August 10, 2006, petitioners-claimants Sacay,and other landowners in Boracay filed with this Court an original petition for prohibition, mandamus, and nullification of Proclamation No. 1064. They allege that the Proclamation infringed on their prior vested rights over portions of Boracay. They have been in continued possession of their respective lots in Boracay since time immemorial. On November 21, 2006, this Court ordered the consolidation of the two petitions ISSUE: the main issue is whether private claimants have a right to secure titles over their occupied portions in Boracay. HELD: petitions DENIED. The CA decision is reversed. Except for lands already covered by existing titles, Boracay was an unclassified land of the public domain prior to Proclamation No. 1064. Such unclassified lands are considered public forest under PD No. 705 . PD No. 705 issued by President Marcos categorized all unclassified lands of the public domain as public forest. Section 3(a) of PD No. 705 defines a public forest as a mass of lands of the public domain which has not been the subject of the present system of classification for the determination of which lands are needed for forest purpose and which are not. Applying PD No. 705, all unclassified lands, including those in Boracay Island, are ipso facto considered public forests. PD No. 705, however, respects titles already existing prior to its effectivity. The 1935 Constitution classified lands of the public domain into agricultural, forest or timber, such classification modified by the 1973 Constitution. The 1987 Constitution reverted to the 1935 Constitution classification with one addition: national parks. Of these, only agricultural lands may be alienated. Prior to Proclamation No. 1064 of May 22, 2006, Boracay Island had never been expressly and administratively classified under any of these grand divisions. Boracay was an unclassified land of the public domain. A positive act declaring land as alienable and disposable is required . In keeping with the presumption of State ownership, the Court has time and again emphasized that there must be a positive act of the government, such as a presidential proclamation or an executive order; an administrative action; investigation reports of Bureau of Lands investigators; and a legislative act or a statute. The applicant may also secure a certification from the government that the land claimed to have been possessed for the required number of years is alienable and disposable. The burden of proof in overcoming such presumption is on the person applying for registration (or claiming ownership), who must prove that the land subject of the application is alienable or disposable. In the case at bar, no such proclamation, executive order, administrative action, report, statute, or certification was presented to the Court. The records are bereft of evidence showing that, prior to 2006, the portions of Boracay occupied by private claimants were subject of a government proclamation that the land is alienable and disposable. Matters of land classification or reclassification cannot be assumed. They call for proof. Proc. No. 1801 cannot be deemed the positive act needed to classify Boracay Island as alienable and disposable land. If President Marcos intended to classify the island as alienable and disposable or forest, or both, he would have identified the specific limits of each, as President Arroyo did in Proclamation No. 1064. This was not done in Proclamation No. 1801. NOTES: 1. Private claimants reliance on Ankron and De Aldecoa is misplaced. Ankron and De Aldecoa were decided at a time when the President of the Philippines had no power to classify lands of the public domain into mineral, timber, and agricultural. At that time, the courts were free to make corresponding classifications in justiciable cases, or were vested with implicit power to do so, depending upon the preponderance of the evidence. Act No. 2874, promulgated in 1919 and reproduced in Section 6 of Public Land Act, gave the Executive Department, through the President, theexclusive prerogative to classify or reclassify public lands into alienable or disposable, mineral or forest. Since then, courts no longer had the authority, whether express or implied, to determine the classification of lands of the public domain. 2. Each case must be decided upon the proof in that particular case, having regard for its present or future value for one or the other purposes. We believe, however, considering the fact that it is a matter of public knowledge that a majority of the lands in the Philippine Islands are agricultural lands that the courts have a right to presume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that in each case the lands are agricultural lands until the contrary is shown. Whatever the land involved in a particular land registration case is forestry or mineral land must, therefore, be a matter of proof. Its superior value for one purpose or the other is a question of fact to be settled by the proof in each particular case Forests, in the context of both the Public Land Act and the Constitution classifying lands of the public domain into agricultural, forest or timber, mineral lands, and national parks , do not necessarily refer to large tracts of wooded land or expanses covered by dense growths of trees and underbrushes. The discussion in Heirs of Amunategui v. Director of Forestry is particularly instructive: A forested area classified as forest land of the public domain does not lose such classification simply because loggers or settlers may have stripped it of its forest cover. Parcels of land classified as forest land may actually be covered with grass or planted to crops by kaingin cultivators or other farmers. Forest lands do not have to be on mountains or in out of the way places. Swampy areas covered by mangrove trees, nipa palms, and other trees growing in brackish or sea water may also be classified as forest land. The classification is descriptive of its legal nature or status and does not have to be descriptive of what the land actually looks like. Unless and until the land classified as forest is released in an official proclamation to that effect so that it may form part of the disposable agricultural lands of the public domain, the rules on confirmation of imperfect title do not apply. There is a big difference between forest as defined in a dictionary and forest or timber land as a classification of lands of the public domain as appearing in our statutes. One is descriptive of what appears on the land while the other is a legal status, a classification for legal purposes. At any rate, the Court is tasked to determine the legal status of Boracay Island, and not look into its physical layout. Hence, even if its forest cover has been replaced by beach resorts, restaurants and other commercial establishments, it has not been automatically converted from public forest to alienable agricultural land. 3. All is not lost, however, for private claimants. While they may not be eligible to apply for judicial confirmation of imperfect title under Section 48(b) of CA No. 141, as amended, this does not denote their automatic ouster from the residential, commercial, and other areas they possess now classified as agricultural. Neither will this mean the loss of their substantial investments on their occupied alienable lands. Lack of title does not necessarily mean lack of right to possess.
For one thing, those with lawful possession may claim good faith as builders of improvements. They can take steps to preserve or protect their possession. For another, they may look into other modes of applying for original registration of title, such as by homestead or sales patent, subject to the conditions imposed by law. More realistically, Congress may enact a law to entitle private claimants to acquire title to their occupied lots or to exempt them from certain requirements under the present land laws. There is one such bill now pending in the House of Representatives. Secretary vs. Yap (G.R. No. 167707,October 8, 2008) Several persons want to secure titles over lands in Boracay. They declared that they had been in open, continuous, exclusive, and notorious possession and occupation in Boracay since time immemorial. They also argued that they invested billions of pesos in developing their lands and building internationally renowned first class resorts on their lots. Do these give them the right to apply for a title to the land they are presently occupying? SUGGESTED ANSWER: No. Boracay Island (prior to Proclamation No. 1064 of May 22, 2006) had not been classified as alienable and disposable, whatever possession they had cannot ripen into ownership. The Regalian Doctrine dictates that all lands of the public domain belong to the State, that the State is the source of any asserted right to ownership of land and charged with the conservation of such patrimony. (visit fellester.blogspot.com) All lands not otherwise appearing to be clearly within private ownership are presumed to belong to the State. xxx A positive act declaring land as alienable and disposable is required. In keeping with the presumption of State ownership, the Court has time and again emphasized that there must be a positive act of the government, such as an official proclamation,] declassifying inalienable public land into disposable land for agricultural or other purposes. (G.R. No. 167707, Secretary of DENR v. Yap, October 8, 2008) The 1987 Constitution classified lands of the public domain into agricultural, forest or timber and National Parks. Of these, only agricultural lands may be alienated. Prior to Proclamation No. 1064 of May 22, 2006, Boracay Island had never been expressly and administratively classified under any of these grand divisions. What is then the classification of Boracay prior to Proc. No. 1064? SUGGESTED ANSWER: Forest. PD No. 705 categorized all unclassified lands of the public domain as public forest. xxx Nevertheless, that the occupants of Boracay have built multi-million peso beach resorts on the island; that the island has already been stripped of its forest cover; or that the implementation of Proclamation No. 1064 will destroy the islands tourism industry, do not negate its character as public forest. The classification is descriptive of its legal nature or status and does not have to be descriptive of what the land actually looks like. (Heirs of Amunategui v. Director of Forestry) President can classify lands of Public Domain Sometime in 2006, President Arroyo issued Proclamation No. 1064 classifying Boracay into reserved forest and agricultural land. It was such Proclamation which positively declared part of Boracay as alienable and opened the same to private ownership. Petitioners filed petition to nullify Proc. No. 1064. They argued that since Boracay is a public forest under PD No. 705, President Arroyo can no longer convert it into an agricultural land without running afoul the provisions of the CARL. Is the argument of the petitioners tenable? SUGGESTED ANSWER: No. In issuing Proclamation No. 1064, President Arroyo merely exercised the authority granted to her to classify lands of the public domain, presumably subject to existing vested rights. Classification of public lands is the exclusive prerogative of the Executive Department, through the Office of the President. Courts have no authority to do so. Absent such classification, the land remains unclassified until released and rendered open to disposition. Proclamation No. 1064 does not violate the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. Moreover, the prohibition under the CARL applies only to a reclassification of land. If the land had never been previously classified, as in the case of Boracay, there can be no prohibited reclassification under the agrarian law. (G.R. No. 173775, Sacay v. Secretary of DENR, October 8, 2008) Pasio vs. Monterroyo G.R. No. 159494. July 31, 2008. [560 SCRA 739 (2008)] Non-registration of patent with Register of Deeds, the deed as a contract between the Government and the patentee rendered it functus officious. FACTS: Petitioners filed an action for recovery of possession and damages against respondents. They alleged that the subject land was occupied, cultivated and cleared by Laureano Pasio in 1933; that after Laureano died, the Dir. of Lands issued an Order for the issuance of a homestead patent in his favor. However, the heirs of Laureano failed to receive the order. Consequently, the land was not registered. In their answer, respondents claimed that they had been in open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession of the subject lot for over 30 years. HELD: The Court ruled in favor of the respondents. In Director of Lands vs. IAC [146 SCRA 509 (1986)], the Court held that alienable public land held by a possessor, continuously or through his predecessors-in-interest, openly, continuously and
exclusively for the prescribed statutory period (30 years under the Public Land Act, as amended) is converted to private property by the mere lapse or completion of the period, ipso jure. Furthermore, the Court stated that once a homestead patent in accordance with law is registered the certificate of title issued by virtue of the patent has the force and effect of a Torrens title issued under the land registration law. In this case, the issuance of a homestead patent in 1952 in favor of Laureano was not registered. Sec. 103 of Presidential Decree No. 1529 mandates the registration of patents since it is the operative act to convey the land to the patentee. Non-registration of patent with Register of Deeds, the deed as a contract between the Government and the patentee rendered it functus officious.
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Having pleaded down from potentially spending the rest of his life behind bars for stabbing his roommate to death in 2015, former Power Rangers actor Ricardo Medina today was given just over half of the maximum sentence available.
In a hearing Thursday, LA Superior Court Judge Daviann Mitchell hit Medina with six years in state prison. That is five years less than the absolute most the Red Wild Force Ranger from the Power Rangers Super Samurai TV series could have received for his March 16 guilty plea of a single felony count of voluntary manslaughter and admitting to “an allegation of using a sword in the killing” of Josh Sutter two years ago. The actor, who first portrayed Cole Evans aka the Red Wild Force Ranger in the 2002 series Power Rangers Wild Force, has been in custody for over a year and will start his sentence promptly.
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“We also hope that everyone that looks at Ricardo from now on will never see him as a celebrity but as nothing more than a cold-blooded killer,” said Sutter’s father at the hearing this morning. Medina had nothing to do with the current Lionsgate-distributed Power Rangers movie that is on big screens around the world.
Even with its 11-year maximum, the voluntary manslaughter charge agreed to by L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s office is a lot less than the life sentence Medina would have received had he been found guilty of the murder charge on which he was arrested in January 2016. As it is, Medina could be out on parole in less than three years, law enforcement officials tell Deadline.
After playing Red Wild Force Ranger on Fox Kids and ABC Kids’ Wild Force, Medina was brought back to the brand — which creator Haim Saban had re-purchased from Disney — in 2011 for Power Rangers Samurai. That season of the Power Rangers actually was split in two, with Power Rangers Super Samurai making up the second set of 20 episodes in 2012.
The January 2016 arrest actually was the second time Medina was picked up for the killing of Sutter.
On January 31, 2015, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department arrested Medina after he and Sutter got into a fatal argument concerning the former’s girlfriend. As things unfortunately escalated, Medina got hold of a sword they had around the apartment and repeatedly stabbed Sutter, who died soon afterward.
While arrested, the Power Rangers vet was released soon after a court hearing that determined the case was rejected. At the time, Lacey’s office said the incident was still under investigation and that it would not rule out arresting Medina again – which is exactly what happened on January 14 last year, with a new murder charge and bail set at $1 million.
The voluntary manslaughter charge here in the Golden State carries a trio of potential sentences – three years, the six years Medina got or the max of 11 years.
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Box Office Wrap Up: Avengers – Infinity and Beyond!
Neil Worcester April 30, 2018 May 1, 2018 0
Avengers, Box Office News, Infinity War, Marvel, Record Breaking Movie, Top Ten Movies
Avengers: Infinity War takes the record of biggest debut of all time, both for foreign and world-wide earnings.
Well, It was nice while it lasted, Star Wars! That cushy spot atop the list of box office debuts was yours for three whole years, but now you’ll have to settle for second best. Avengers: Infinity War set the box office on fire this weekend, pulling in 250 million dollars, and that’s if you believe Marvel’s low-ball estimate! I guess we really didn’t need Hawkeye to do promo before the movie! In addition to crushing it at home, the Avengers also crushed it around the world: while the biggest foreign release is still Fate of the Furious, the worldwide crown goes to Infinity War…which hasn’t even opened in China yet! We’ll cover all of the records below as we take a look at all the debris left over from Marvel’s Juggernaut rolling its way through the box office.
No. Not that Marvel’s Juggernaut. Sheesh.
This Week in Box Office History.
So heavy…and…so…much…bling!
The box office took in a combined 301 million dollars (and between The Avengers and Black Panther, 254 million of that belonged to Marvel properties!) The overall take was up 140% from last week and 200% from last year. This haul was big enough to get Infinity War a super-team-up of records: biggest spring, biggest April, biggest 3-day earnings, and biggest PG-13 debut. It also scorched the list for fastest to 150, 200, and 250 million dollars (helps when those happen nearly simultaneously). It remains to be seen how far up the list it will go for all time earnings: it will need another 686 million at home to beat Star Wars The Force Awakens (essentially needing to gross as much as Black Panther has made in addition to what it already has made) and it will really need to shine in China to challenge Avatar’s world wide gross of 2.7 billion dollars (it currently sits at 630 million.)
Top Film Last Year: Fate of the Furious.
Top Film Last Decade: Baby Mamma.
This was the top movie? I don’t get it, where are all of the super heroes and CGI? Did they not know how to make movies in 2008?
Top Three Movies.
Avengers: Infinity War took first place, just in case you glossed over the first two paragraphs. It is the biggest debut for a Marvel Studios movie ever. It ranked the same Cinemascore as The Force Awakens, thought it lags behind it on Rotten Tomatoes. Will see if that 7% has any effect on the overall staying power.
Second place went to A Quiet Place, which had its first decline of greater than 50% thanks to Marvel’s juggernaut. The film is sitting just shy of 150 million dollars in domestic gross, not a bad return on investment for a film that cost 17 million dollars to make.
Once again, wrong Marvel Juggernaut!
Bronze went to I Feel Pretty, which also saw a 50% or deeper dip. Overall the film is just shy of making back its 32 million dollar budget in just two weeks, so things look pretty pretty for Amy Schumer.
Other Films.
There were two notable exceptions to the massive crater left by Infinity War: Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time both moved up the rankings and saw a decline of only 10% each. I think sold out shows for The Avengers left audiences looking for similar programming and these two Disney offerings reaped the lion share of those viewers.
It’s good to be the king.
Top Ten Movies.
1. Avengers: Infinity War (250.0)
2. A Quiet Place (10.6)
3. I Feel Pretty (8.1)
4. Rampage (4.3)
5. Black Panther (4.3)
6. Super Troopers 2 (3.6)
7. Truth or Dare (3.2)
8. Blockers (2.9)
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10. Traffik (1.6)
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Robert Dellar, Splitting In Two: Mad Pride & Punk Rock Oblivion (Unkant Publishing) (Book Review)
Robert Dellar,
Splitting In Two: Mad Pride & Punk Rock Oblivion
(Unkant Publishing)
Robert Dellar’s new book is part autobiography, part social history and in places morphs into fiction. It covers both Dellar’s own life via punk rock and the dehumanisation of those deemed clinically insane by the powers that be. While in academia the idea that madness might be the only sane response to capitalist society is often discussed in terms of Deleuze and Guattari’s anti-Oedipal theories, Dellar has a more hands on and activist approach to ‘bad craziness’. At the turn of this millennium, Dellar helped found the Mad Pride movement to fight against the stigmatisation of those labelled as having mental health problems.
Most of Splitting In Two consists of straight-forward accounts of Dellar’s life and his thirty odd years of involvement in the fight for the rights of psychiatric survivors. When the book occasionally blooms into what is obviously fiction, I take this to be Dellar’s way of illustrating how easy it is for anyone to go off their rocker in the sick and insane capitalist society that blights all our lives. The writing is never academic and it is much closer to a punk rock fanzine in tone than the post-modern abstractions of ‘anti-psychiatrists’. There are also quite a few pictures to break up the text. The title of the book and every chapter title is more or less a punk rock song, and the acts thus cited but not named are Alternative TV, The Damned, Sham 69, Annie Anxiety, The Flamin’ Groovies, The Adverts, The Raincoats, Johnny Moped, The Sex Pistols, The Lurkers, The Flies, Zounds, Public Image and The Saints. The musicians Dellar actually writes about because he has a personal involvement with them are generally lesser known but include The Apostles, The Astronauts and Alternative TV (and I’ll stop there although I haven’t got beyond bands whose names begin with ‘a’).
I personally know quite a few of the people Dellar writes about (as well as Dellar himself), but there is plenty in the Splitting In Two that I either didn’t know or had forgotten. For example, this description of the opening event for Hackney Anarchy Week at Chat’s Palace in 1996: ‘Stewart Home was heckled as “sexist” by some of the audience as he deadpanned a sequence from his classic novel Defiant Pose, in which a skinhead recites Abeizer Cope’s A Fiery Flying Roll while he gets a blow job in a boat floating down the Thames, London simultaneously being destroyed by anarchist rioting…’ (page 86). I got heckled a lot in the 1990s and while I remember the event at Chat’s Palace, I have no memory of having abuse hurled at me there, although I’m sure Dellar is right about this and I’ve simply forgotten it. What Robert doesn’t add was that I agreed to do this event thinking it was the launch for a fiction anthology he’d edited that included me. I didn’t know when I said I’d do it that it also counted as a part of Hackney Anarchy Week!
Just as usefully Splitting In Two draws out the relationship between drugs, death and mental health – because despite the scare stories run by the tabloid press, those stigmatised as crazy are far more likely to hurt themselves than to attack someone else. So suicides are a feature of Dellar’s book, including that of Pete Shaughnessy, who was another key figure in getting Mad Pride off the ground. Dellar deals with such matters in a personal but understated way. To cite just one instance of this (dealing with drugs rather than suicide), he writes: ‘Cat Monstersmith introduced me to Hackney artist Gini Simpson, thinking we’d get on, and a relationship began which was hard work but never dull… Gini was still traumatised following the breakdown of a disastrous affair with a guy named Miles, and although I avoided hard drugs, substance abuse was a permanent feature of the time we spent together. Nevertheless, Gini was ablaze with wild energy, creativity and blinding intelligence, and after five months of feeling as if I was in a virtual stupor, I felt enlivened’ (page 148). The understatement of Dellar’s phrase ‘hard work’ becomes clear as Simpson’s behaviour, including an attempt to kill two guys by running them down in her car, is described.
Although Splitting In Two is not written as a theoretical treatise, there is plenty of material within it with which one can think through – everything from capitalist society to the relationship between madness and punk rock. That said, it also contains many well-told stories. Dellar writes of taking the Hackney Patients Council 5-a-side football squad to play at Broadmoor. There he met Robert Hunter who was incarcerated for killing seven cops when he used dynamite to blow up Greater Manchester Police Station. Dellar quotes Hunter as saying: ‘There were ten coppers in there… and three got out alive. Luckily though, I got the one I wanted, the chief superintendent who was my dad. He’d been knocking my old dear about for a while and of course, something had to be done…’ (page 76).
Dellar knows how to deliver a punchline even if it comes out of someone else’s mouth. This and his humorous approach to what might otherwise be some very depressing subject matter makes Splitting In Two a fast and furious – not to mention deeply informative – read.
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Hickenlooper Threatens To Sue Any Town, City That Bans Fracking
DENVER (CBS4) – Gov. John Hickenlooper says he won’t tolerate cities and towns that ban oil and gas drilling within their borders and he promises to take them to court.
CBS4 Political Specialist Shaun Boyd sat down with the governor, who was blunt. He told Boyd the state will sue any local government that bans hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the drilling technique that uses high-pressure water and chemicals to extract natural gas.
“Nothing makes me less happy then to have to be in a lawsuit with a municipality,” Hickenlooper said.
If that’s true, the governor is an unhappy man these days. Four months after suing the city of Longmont for banning fracking, the state now plans to go after Fort Collins after its city council gave initial approval of a ban on fracking this week.
“The bottom line is, the way we have a split estate in this part of the world – pretty much all of the western United States — someone paid money to buy mineral rights under that land,” Hickenlooper said. “You can’t harvest the mineral rights without doing hydraulic fracturing, which I think we’ve demonstrated again and again can be done safely.”
But anti-fracking activists point to a spill near Windsor where 84,000 gallons of fracking fluid spewed out this month. State regulators say a spill that size is rare and they found no groundwater contamination.
Still, with 50,000 active wells in the state, opponents are pushing for bans statewide. The governor put them on notice by issuing a warning to any city that bans fracking.
“That’s a taking from their own citizens,” he said. “”Essentially what they’re saying is, ‘We ban anyone from getting those minerals out from what they bought, from what they paid for. It’s not fair.”
“So you’ll go around the state and sue every city and county that passes a ban?” Boyd asked Hickenlooper.
“We have to, we have no choice,” he responded.
Fort Collins Mayor Karen Weitkunat says while it’s the state’s right to sue, Fort Collins is a home-rule city and they want to make their own land-use decisions.
The city council takes a final vote on the ban next week. It passed 5-2 on its first reading.
Soooo safe that water is contaminated, and other avid fracking states are phasing out fracking dure to earthquakes caused by…. fracking.
chrisnglenn says:
My cousin is a geophysicist and says WITHOUT A DOUBT that fracking is responsible for the huge upswing in earthquakes, including some right here in Colorado. I mean, what did they think was going to happen when they lubricate the faults?
John Strohl says:
More to the point, why the constant insistence that “there’s no threat” from fracking? Of course there is a threat, when you break things the underground doesn’t behave like it should anymore. It disrupts everything, not JUST the layer where the oil/gas is! Who do they think they are kidding? Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to re-look the whole “split estate” situation that got us into this mess. There should be NO division of surface rights and subsurface rights. It’s that simple.
John Dwyer says:
Mr. Hickenlooper, if you believe fracking has been demonstrated again and again and again to be “safe,” you’re even crazier than this article’s pic makes you look. Think, man. Shut off your television and search the internet.
na says:
there are more ways to extract oil then Fracking, SAG-D, INSITU for example, the companies are just being cheep because Fracking is the cheepest way to extract oil
Wow how awful! We live in Colorado! We have the resources for natural energy. If we put more effort there fracking would be obsolete in the next 10 – possibly 20 years! Another great example of a horrible politician.
Jessica LeRoux says:
Welcome to CO-ligarchy where you can’t ban toxic fracking, but life saving cannabis needs more regulation…
Baruch Zeichner says:
The governor is actively working against democracy and the health and safety of the citizens. Alrighty then!
Richard L Grant says:
There goes his run for the Democratic nomination. He appears to be in the pocket of Big Oil.
April Pierson-Keating says:
Wonder how much the legal fees would be to the state for taking out lawsuits on every town that bans fracking. Why would you even threaten such a thing? That’s like threatening people for trying to protect their families, their water and air, and their health. What a knuckle-dragger. Does this guy EVER read ANYTHING? There are tons of reports and studies that show damage from fracking AND cover-ups. Wake up, Hick-man. You are asleep at the wheel and your constituents are going to pay for it. Hell, they should sue YOU!
Sandra Loubet says:
Who is it that thinks they have the right to buy the minerals under the ground? It’s like someone saying, “I’ve bought all the ground water, it’s mine and I can get it as much as I want and do whatever I want with it.” Mineral rights historically have been owned by the government, very few by the people themselves unless they have old claims. Is Cheney involved in this? Whoever it is, needs to be out in the open. That’s who needs to be stopped and investigated.
Citizens UnTied (@CitizensUnTied) says:
I was involved with Ft Collins fracking ballot initiative from its inception. helped to found “Citizens for a Healthy Ft Collins. I was terminally ill at the time, stage four COPD. I had trouble breathing and had near constant lung infections. I saw multiple specialists. No doctor would discuss fracking as a possible culprit. One dr told me he didn’t want to hire an attorney just to treat one patient, explaining that he would have to deal with Big Oil harassment. I managed to get a lung transplant, and with the additional energy I plan to dig deeper into activism…God Bless!
John S Mellow says:
Keep your ambulance chasing butt out of Pennsylvania.
Candace Hyde-wang says:
This guy is a disgrace to the human race. Fracking releases methane which is killing our planet. And we do not need the gas. Renewables are taking over.
♡ Malcolm Jackson (@malcolmjackson) says:
Hickenlooper is threatening ecocide, that should be a felony offense. Come on CBS hold his feet to the fire on this.
Barbara Kemper says:
This article was six years ago. Did he????
Ken Gallaher says:
Fine so let’s frack in his front yard
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Viral Video: Experts Warn Drone Put Bear Cub And Mom At Risk
Filed Under:Drone, Grizzly Bears, Viral Video
(CBS4) — A drone video of a small bear cub climbing a steep, snowy cliff to reach its mother went viral — and many thought it was an inspiring example of persistence, strength and love. But wildlife experts say the bears were actually trying to get away from the drone — and that it put the animals at risk.
“By harassing animals, drones can chase them into dangerous positions, as was the case with the bear cub. They can interrupt hunts, cause high levels of stress, chase animals over long distances, and drive them away from sources of food or parts of the landscape they depend upon,” science writer Ed Yong stated in an article published by The Atlantic.
Yong cited interviews with biologists and warned the drone “drove them into a dangerous situation that almost cost the cub its life.”
The Star described the video as “irresponsible, and possibly life-threatening to the bears.”
The paper quoted grizzly bear researcher Clayton Lamb, who said a female grizzly usually wouldn’t dare take a cub that small on such a steep slope.
“I think the drone definitely put these animals at risk. I think that cub could have been severely injured, or potentially killed if it went off that cliff,” The Star quoted Lamb as saying. “I can certainly see that the animals are agitated, and that is evidence that the female keeps looking up at the drone.”
As a #grizzlybear scientist and a drone operator, this is a hard no. This is harassment and put these bears in a real tough situation as they tried to flee. https://t.co/jobtLWZljG
— Clayton T. Lamb (@ClaytonTLamb) November 4, 2018
Dr. Sophie Gilbert, a professor at the University of Idaho, also spoke out on social media about the drone video.
Don't. Approach. Wildlife. With. Drones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. You could endanger their lives, change their behavior, cause high levels of stress, and cause them to not use important parts of the landscape anymore. https://t.co/Ak4TgtIOu6
— Dr. Sophie "Don't-bug-wildlife-with-drone" Gilbert (@SophieLGilbert) November 5, 2018
“Pro tip: when animals are running away, they DEFINITELY WANT YOU TO STOP CHASING THEM WITH THE DRONE!!! This is just about the most obvious message ever, but somehow, it still needs to be said,” Gilbert tweeted.
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13th EASA Biennial Conference
Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution
- innovation and continuity in an interconnected world
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia
31st July - 3rd August, 2014
Throughout the conference
The Laboratory stream is the first attempt in the history of EASA’s biennial gatherings to provide sites for producing and presenting ethnographic work beyond text-based conventions. The Labs will run in parallel with panels, all through the nine panel sessions. Read more here.
Publisher fair, Terra and Astra buildings
Come and browse the book titles and meet your publishers: Berghahn, Bloomsbury, Brill, Combined Academic Press (CAP), HAU, LIT Verlag Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Pluto Press, Sean Kingston Publishing, Sociologus, and Taylor & Francis.
Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China) (AMCE) Film programme, A-543
The EASA AMCE network has arranged its own film programme, which runs from Thursday to Saturday lunchtime. Read more here.
Thursday 31st July
Keynote and opening reception, Estonia Concert Hall, 18:00-19:30
The keynote will be given by Elizabeth Povinelli, entitled 'Downloading the Dreaming? All of it extinguished but none of it dead?'
Abstract: The Australian Karrabing Indigenous Corporation was founded in 2009 in the wake of most dramatic change in federal policy toward Indigenous people since the 1970s. In the wake of a sex panic pertaining to the abuse of children in Indigenous communities, the Australian federal government declared an emergency intervention in Indigenous governance that, in effect, ended the era of so-called self-determination and inaugurated a neoliberal approach to land management focused on land development and mining. The Karrabing Indigenous Corporation was founded to explore how contemporary green digital technologies might be mobilized to create a revenue stream while maintaining their understanding of a living responsive landscape. This talk explores contemporary theories of immaterial capital (Negri) and critical climate change through their endeavour, unpacking in the process the shift underway in late liberalism from a biopolitical to a geontopolitical form of power.
Welcome drinks reception, Estonia Concert Hall, 19:45-22:00
After the keynote lecture, EASA and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of EHI, TLU invite you to stay on for the drinks reception, to enjoy wine and delicious snacks while listening to a musical programme provided by the Tallinn University Chamber Choir and the jazz band Trio Comodo. The Chamber Choir of Tallinn University was founded in 1997. Initially the choir of the Department of Culture, it became one of the University's representative groups in 2002. The choir singers are students and University alumni from over ten different academic departments and the singing repertoire varies from Renaissance music to contemporary masterpieces. Trio Comodo is an Estonian ensemble formed by three brothers who all play various instruments: when performing classical pieces, they use mainly the flute, the violin and the cello. For pop and jazz, they add the tones of the guitar and keyboards.
Friday 1st August
WGF grants workshop, M-134, 13:00-14:00
The Wenner-Gren Foundation is a unique organization whose primary goal is to support the discipline of anthropology worldwide. The Foundation has a variety of grant programs aimed at funding research and building an international community of anthropologists. This workshop introduces the Foundation's basic programs, in particular its programs to fund original research (at the dissertation and Post-Ph.D. level) and give advice and tips on what the Foundation is looking for in a research project to help you write a more competitive proposal.
Network convenors' meeting, (invite only), M-328, 13:00-14:00
A chance for EASA President, Networks Liaison officer and the network convenors to meet and discuss issues arising and plans for the future.
Pluto reception, Publisher space, Astra foyer, 17:30-18:00
Come and join the editors and authors of Pluto’s Anthropology, Culture and Society book series! We are celebrating the publication of four new books: The Making of an African Working Class by Pnina Werbner, Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads by Caroline Knowles, Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India by Jamie Cross and The Anthropology of Security, edited by Mark Maguire, Catarina Frois and Nils Zurawski. Wine and nibbles provided.
Network meetings, 18:00-19:30
The following networks will hold meetings, to which all interested are welcome to attend - both those already in the network and those interested in possibly participating in their future activities.
Africanist (Room A-007)
AMCE - Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China) (AMCE) (Room S-233)
Anthropology of International Governance (Room M-328)
Anthropology and Mobility network (ANTHROMOB) (Room T-305)
Anthropology of Economy Network (Room M-224)
Anthropology of law and rights (Room M-133)
Europeanist network (Room A-018)
Media anthropology (Room S-243)
Medical Anthropology network (Room T-304)
Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (NAGS) (Room T-409)
Peace and conflict studies in anthropology (PACSA) (Room M-342)
Teaching anthropology (Room M-340)
Salsa night at Cubanita Live Café, Narva mnt 5, 20:00-
Cubanita Live Café, located a short walk towards the centre from the Tallinn University advertises itself as the “most Estonian of all Latin American restaurant-clubs in the world, and the most Latin-American of Estonian restaurant-clubs”. We have reserved the club for EASA delegates keen on dancing to Latin American rhythms. As the venue can accommodate 150 to 200 people, entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Saturday 2nd August
'Getting published: meeting the editors of SA/AS and the EASA book series, A-121, 13:00-14:00
EASA Book Series editor and Journal editors will hold a session regarding how to get your books/articles published.
Sociologus - Journal for Social Anthropology Reception, Publisher space in Terra (University Assembly Hall – T-324), 13.00-14.00
Please join the new editorial team of Sociologus - Journal for Social Anthropology for snacks and drinks to celebrate the re-launch of our journal. Sociologus is an internationally known, peer-reviewed journal for social anthropology and was founded in 1925. It is dedicated to empirical research on cultural diversity, social processes, transformations and contrasting forms of social relations. It has no fixed topical or regional focus, but concerns itself with the comparative interpretation and explanation of human behaviour. Sociologus publishes original articles, as well as reviews on books, exhibitions and ethnographic films. It also features a column dedicated to debating matters of controversy and discussing issues of general and theoretical concern. Special issues are regularly published. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all authors and reviewers for their collaboration.
Members' forum, A-002, 14:00-15:30
All members are invited to attend and discuss the items on the agenda, although only Full/Honorary/Founder members may vote.
If you are unable to attend but wish to vote via proxy you may do so, using this form (Word). You should complete this, sign it digitally, rip it to PDF and email it to easa(at)nomadit.co.uk at least 48 hours before the meeting. (Or print, sign and mail in the more traditional manner.) Your proxy may then vote on your behalf at the the meeting, having identified themselves to the EASA administrative team (who assist with the vote counting).
Brill reception, Publisher space, Astra foyer, 15:30-16:00,
Brill invites EASA members and conference delegates to gather around their book stand and partake of a glass of wine to celebrate Brill’s recent publications in anthropology:
States at Work. Dynamics of African Bureaucracies Edited by Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
Travelling Models in African Conflict Management. Translating Technologies of Social Ordering edited by Andrea Behrends, Sung-Joon Park and Richard Rottenburg .
Berghahn reception, Publisher space in Terra (University Assembly Hall – T-324), 17:30-18:00
Come, meet the editors and celebrate with a glass of wine the publication of two new collections in anthropology by Berghahn: Tourism Imaginaries, edited by Noel Salazar and Nelson Graburn and Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz, edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten and Shalini Randeria.
Anthropology of Religion (Room A-018)
Applied Anthropology network (Room S-243)
Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (Room T-304)
European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA) (Room T-409)
Anthropology of Security (Room M-342)
Mediterraneanist Network (MedNet) (Room A-007)
Visual Anthropology (VANEASA) (Room M-340)
Sport and public diplomacy: world in e-motion (hosted by the British Embassy in Tallinn), British Ambassador’s Residence, Kose tee 57, 19:35-22:15
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of TLU EHI, with the British Embassy in Tallinn are organising a 'sports and public diplomacy evening' to celebrate collaboration, revolution and intimacy in a different fashion from the goings-on in the conference venue. The event will offer 5-a-side football, table tennis, chess and a mini-cycle tour - although the activities are subject to change. For more info and to RSVP, contact Fran Martínez (fran(at)tlu.ee).
Sunday 3rd August
Lunch for representatives of other anthropological associations, A-046, 12:40-13:40, (by invitation only)
The EASA President will meet with presidents/representatives of other anthropological associations (by invitation)
The American Ethnologist crosses the Atlantic, A-002, 15:30-15:50, (starts immediately after the end of Plenary C, in the same room)
American Ethnologist, published by the American Ethnological Society of the American Anthropological Association, will be edited outside of the United States for the first time in its four-decade history. Incoming editor Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam) intends to takes this opportunity to increase the international nature and reach of this eminent journal, including the acceptance of manuscripts in languages other than English. This presentation outlines some of these plans.
Conference banquet, Seaplane Harbour, Lennusadam, Vesilennuki 10, 19:30-22:00
The Conference banquet will be held at the Maritime Museum in Seaplane Harbour (Lennusadam), a truly extraordinary, spacious and wonderful venue that combines ancient heritage with technologies of the future and connects the sea with the sky by displaying maritime history in renovated seaplane hangers. In addition to many other prizes, Lennusadam has been awarded the Europa Nostra 2013 Grand Prix for cultural heritage. The EASA2014 banquet will take place in the museum, right in the middle of the exhibits. The banquet meal will comprise 3 courses (starters, main dishes and dessert), served as a buffet, accompanied by wine. The food is of modern Estonian/Nordic cuisine, and all special dietary requirements are considered in the variety offered. There will be musical entertainment provided at the banquet: the Seto folk choir “Sõsarõ” and the folk dance group "Soveldaja" will perform and invite delegates to join in!
The Setos (Seto: setokõsõq, setoq, Estonian: setud) are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic minority in south-eastern Estonia and north-western Russia. Setos are mostly Seto-speaking Orthodox Christians; along with Orthodox Christianity, vernacular traditional folk religion is widely practiced and supported by Setos. There are approximately 15,000 Setos around the world. The bulk of Setos, however, are found in the Setomaa region, which is divided between south-eastern Estonia and north-western Russia. The singers of the folk group Sõsarõ are ethnic Setos living in Tallinn. The aim of the singing-choir is to keep the authentic leelo, the instrumentality and ethnic roots of Seto. Currently the choir consists of 12 singers and three of them also play musical instruments. Since 1973 the choir has performed in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Russia and the Ukraine.
The Tallinn University folk dance group Soveldaja was founded in the middle of the 1980s, and their first instructor was the late legendary Estonian dancer and choreographer Mait Agu. Currently Helen Reimand leads the group and has also arranged some of their dances. Estonian folk dances have elements of commonality with the folk dances of other North European nations and they are not exactly quick or acrobatic, so everyone is encouraged to try their leg at a bit of line- or circle-dancing…
Please note that the banquet is an optional extra costing €45, and can be either booked when completing/amending online conference registration or bought from the NomadIT office during the conference.
There will be shuttle transfer organised to the banquet at Lennusadam from Tallinn University and back; the buses will pick up banquet guests at 19:00 from the parking lot in front of the Mare building; and will start back for the university at 22:00.
Conference final party, Astra foyer, 21:30 onwards
The farewell party of EASA2014 will be held in the Astra building of the University. Estonian folk-fusion band Paabel will be performing; later, anthropologists of the Tallinn social and cultural anthropology department will show their well-honed DJ-ing skills.
Paabel consists of six diverse musicians who combine Estonian traditional music and their own creativity into the context of contemporary music. The band which was formed in the spring of 2007 has managed to create a unique world in their arrangements where time-honoured traditions, contemporary sounds and improvisational freedom meet. Similarly to a collage where the whole is created from fragments, the different musical languages of the members of Paabel form a unique harmony in their music. Paabel’s music consists of old instrumental tunes, runic songs and original compositions, which are all get intertwined onstage.
The entrance to the farewell party is free for ALL delegates.
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How Hobsoft software helped us with the making of Ethel and Ernest
Ethel and Ernest was made at three different locations. The lead studio was in London at Lupus Films, but we also had co-production studios working in Luxembourg and Wales.
Software called Hobsoft was used to keep all three studios co-ordinated. Without it we would have been struggling with email chains, and the production would soon have become chaotic. Hobsoft made sure procedures were streamlined and meant that decisions could be tracked and the production process monitored at all stages.
The link below explains how this was achieved:
http://www.hobsoft.net/cases/ee
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San Marino: Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson for ESC 2017
Valentina Monetta is back! San Marino's artists and song for Eurovision Song Contest 2017: Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson with a Ralph Siegel song
By Rasmus 12 March 2017
Tags:San MarinoNational SelectionsKyiv 2017SMRTVValentina MonettaJimmie WilsonRalph Siegel
The Sammarinese broadcaster, SMRTV, has revealed that Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson will represent San Marino at Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv. Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson will sing the song "Spirit Of The Night".
"Spirit Of The Night" is composed and produced by Ralph Siegel, with lyrics by Steven Barnacle and Jutta Staudenmayer. This song "Spirit Of The Night" is Siegel's 25th song participating in Eurovision Song Contest! The latest one was the 2015 Sammarinese entry "Chain of Lights" by Michele Perniola and Anita Simoncini.
Related storySerhat: "This is my last Eurovision"
It is the fourth time that Valentina Monetta represents San Marino at Eurovision Song Contest, competing in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and she is the only Sammarinese who qualified for the Grand Final. That happened in Copenhagen 2014 with the song "Maybe (Forse)", also penned by Ralph Siegel.
Jimmie Wilson is an actor and singer, staring in various musicals like "Sisterella" by Michael Jackson and in the role of Barack Obama in the Musical "Hope".
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Facebook: @valentinamonettaofficial
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San Marino: New voting rules, or we're out of Eurovision
In February 2016 the SMRTV Director Carlo Romeo protested against the new voting system that was introduced in Stockholm 2016 by EBU, saying that the new rules are unacceptable, and discriminates small countries.
Related storySan Marino: New voting system is unacceptable
The protest came just five days after the new voting system was revealed by EBU. Under the old voting system all the points from San Marino were decided by a jury in San Marino, because San Marino is too small to have a valid televote.
In the new voting system there have to be both jury and televotes. So if a country is too small to deliver valid televotes, the televotes will be made up by a mysterious "substitute result" – calculated by a pre-selected group of countries – which is kept secret!
In the protest SMRTV raised doubts whether San Marino would participate in Eurovision 2017 if the voting rules weren't changed. EBU have answered San Marino that there will be no changes in the voting rules for Eurovision 2017
San Marino in Eurovision Song Contest
San Marino 2016: Serhat - "I Didn't Know"
San Marino is one of the newest – and smallest Eurovision countries.
They have been participating seven times since their first Eurovision Song Contest in 2008. But not with great succes. In six out of seven participations they didn't manage to qualify for the Grand Final. San Marino qualified for the Grand Final for the first – and only – time in 2014. The worst result was in 2008, where they came last in their Semi-final.
San MarinoNational SelectionsKyiv 2017SMRTVValentina MonettaJimmie WilsonRalph Siegel
In 2016 Ukraine won the Grand Final with the song "1944", but only came second in their semi-final. Australia won the semi-final, but came 2nd in the Grand Final
From 1956 to 1998 all the songs were accompanied by a live orchestra. From 1999 and onwards the orchestra was dropped, so the entries could use recorded backing track during their performances
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Partnering with UNESCO
STI for a sustainable socio-economic development of Africa
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UNESCO-l’Oréal Awardee Dr. Segenet Kelemu, Director General, International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology Nairobi, Kenya
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Africa faces challenges of climate change with its adverse consequences on food and agriculture, water availability and disease and environmental disasters.
UNESCO seeks to assist governments in the creation and enhancement of enabling policy environments for Science, technology and innovation (STI) for sustainable development. Together with its partners, UNESCO will assist Member States in Africa in the creation and enhancement of enabling policy environments and in particular:
strengthen the science, policy and society interface to advance equity and social inclusion;
strengthen human and institutional capacity for education and training, research and innovation in science and engineering;
promote South-South, North-South and triangular partnerships to enhance joint education and training, research and innovation, exchange of experts, internationally peer-reviewed systems;
support career mentoring and development of innovation-hubs and networks with particular emphasis on empowering women in science and engineering and enabling the creation of an entrepreneurial culture.
UNESCO is leading the Global Alliance of STI in Africa based on its mandate and experience in science education, TVET and higher education, as well as in STI policies and capacity building. UNESCO is in a unique position for helping countries adopt a systemic and integrated approach to STI.
UNESCO has provided foresight planning to STI governance and policy and has assisted African member states in the review or formulation of their National STI Policy using UNESCO’s GOàSPIN platform, which is an STI mapping and analysis instrument. The time is now to harness the STI potential for sustainable development of African countries and to put a monitoring and evaluation system to assess the impact.
Implementing UNESCOs Earth Science Education Initiative in Africa
Production and dissemination of STI statistics
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No IM for WH Staff?
This just gets interestinger and interestinger. First there was the showdown at the BlackBerry Corral, with the President holding on for dear life while the Security Forces threated to rip the device from his hands. Pres 1, Security 1, I'd have to say, because we certainly don't want the President to be insecure in any way.
Now Politico reports that IM is banned for all White House staff. The most technologically advanced team in politics, ooops, in government, is having one of the most useful tools ever taken away. Great headline, by the way, Politico for Ben Smith's article: "Obama staff will say cu l8r 2 IM."
When we were involved in Reinventing Government 15 years ago, many people in government agencies weren't allowed to have email. So they went home and sent email to one another on their private accounts. We don't want that, obviously, and these folks are in the White House, which we want to be the most effective, fastest, most accurate (enough superlatives yet?) government on earth. Taking away IM is not a step in that direction.
Seriously: we've talked before about Tom Allen's famous finding - that if you're more than 50 feet apart, you've got a virtual communication problem to address. Everyone in the White House is more than 50 feet apart and they need to stay in very close contact.
Information policy is lagging, folks. We need some quick brain work from the folks who've really been thinking about this stuff. The desire for transparency should not be blocked by the fear of discovery.
Here are a few choice paragraphs from Ben Smith's piece:
Barack Obama may get to keep his BlackBerry, but David Axelrod is losing his IM.
The lawyers broke the bad news to Obama aides at a briefing Friday morning convened by incoming Deputy White House Counsel Cassandra Butts: Not only are they leaving the modern world to enter a White House where some of the clunky desktop computers still run Windows 2000 but — worst of all — they'll be forced to surrender a form of communication staffers have relied on for the last two years to communicate with each other, outside allies, and the press.
From Axelrod, the chief campaign strategist, down to junior staffers in the press office, Obama's campaign relied heavily on software many of them began using in high school — AOL Instant Messager and Google Chat. Instant messaging, though little mentioned, is — perhaps as much as e-mail—deeply woven into contemporary politics and media, whose fabric is the constant, quick, gossipy transmission of spin and information. But a calculus that's perhaps one part security, one part law, and two parts politics, has long barred instant messaging from the White House.
"They just told us flat out we couldn't IM in the White House," groused one senior staffer Friday.
"It sucks. It's really going to slow us down," complained another, saying that lawyers had warned that, along with instant messaging, White House software will restrict users to a range of sites roughly "like your average grade school."
The clunky technology is standard issue for government offices, but the bar on instant messaging is particular to the White House. Legal and security experts say it is dictated by the fear of embarrassment if IMs were to be disclosed.
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Home › Baghdad Post › Former French FM demands EU save Iran from mullahs' autocratic regime
Former French FM demands EU save Iran from mullahs' autocratic regime
(Hatha al-Youm | Iraq News)- Former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has hailed Ashraf 3, the headquarters of the primary democratic Iranian Opposition’
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), on their contributions to
promoting Iran’s freedom, according to the statement published by the National
Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).“This is a marvelous work of art here in Ashraf. You really
deserve to build up a real country in Iran. It is very well done. Coming to
Ashraf 3 was a real reward for the people supporting you. Now, we are facing
this new step, benchmark and era. The era of freedom in Iran,” Kouchner said.During his speech to “Free Iran” at the annual conference on
Saturday, July 13 in Albania, the former minister demanded Europe’s leaders take the advice
of the NCRI to save Iran from the mullahs' autocratic regime based. He
advocated for three things: “Elections based on the principle of universal
suffrage, including a pluralistic political system with free assembly, and the
abolition of the death penalty.” Kouchner talked about the ten-point plan presented by
NCRI President Maryam Rajavi for the future of Iran.“We are ready to relieve these people from this awful
religious system. We are not against religion. But we are against using
religion to kill people… Religion is also the liberation of the people,” he said. The ex-diplomat addressed Rajavi and described her as
“persistent and a fantastic model for the women of the world.”“We are completely with you to support such a fantastic
program,” he added. An event on July 12 preceded today’s speech, featuring an
exhibition titled "120 Years of Struggle of the Iranian People for Freedom", a
snapshot of the history of the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom, according
to the NCRI women’s committee. Rajavi was the keynote speaker at the event. Former New
York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Colombian presidential candidate Senator
Ingrid Betancourt, former US vice presidential candidate Senator Joe Lieberman,
former French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, and British MP Matthew
Offord were among those who came from across the globe to attend the annual gatherings
of the Iranian resistance event.
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Dougla
Dougla (also Dugla or Dogla) is a word used by people especially in Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname and Guyana to describe people who are of mixed African and Indian descent.
Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean
English, French, Dutch, Caribbean Hindustani
Predominantly:
Minority:
Hinduism, Islam, Atheism
Afro-Caribbeans, Indo-Caribbeans
Origins and etymologyEdit
The word originated from doogala (दुगला), which is a Caribbean Hindustani word that may mean "many", "much" or "a mix".[1] Some of the connotations of the word such as bastard, illegitimate and son of a whore are secondary and limited to sections of North India where the term may have originated.[2] Originally, in the West Indies the word was only used for Afro-Indo mixed race, despite its origin as a word used to describe inter-caste mixing.
There are sporadic records of Indo-Euro interracial relationships, both forced and unforced, before any ethnic mixing of the African and Indian variety. Women were a minority among earlier Indian migrants. Many did not take the voyage across the Atlantic for several reasons, among them the fear of exploitation and the assumption that they were unfit for labor.[3]
Socio-religious practice played a part as religious practices are paramount to the Hindu religion and preservation of the religion and culture was of extreme importance to the indentured laborers. Association with those outside the community who engaged in Adharmic practices was considered to compromise the purity of the race, religion and culture, seen as necessary for survival in the foreign land.
The second reason was socio-economic. The arrival of Indians to the British Caribbean was not meant to be permanent. For most of the Indian immigrants, the aim was to gain material wealth under contract, then return to their respective homelands. The Dougla represented the postponement and deferral of that goal if not rendering it completely impossible, being a living symbol of departure from cultural custom jatis.
The third reason was racism. Trinidad, as well as other territories in the Caribbean, had a dynamic of power based on the colour of one's skin. This reinforced the rules by which Indo society functioned in excluding the Dougla. Other Indo-based types of miscegenation (Indo-Chinese (Chindian), Indo-Carib) tended to identify as one of the older, unmixed ethnic strains on the island: Afro, Indo or Euro or passing as one of them.[4]
In Trinidad cultureEdit
One calypsonian, the Mighty Dougla (Clatis Ali), described the predicament of Douglas in the 1960s:[citation needed]
If they sending Indians to India
And Africans back to Africa
Well somebody please just tell me
Where they sending poor me?
I am neither one nor the other
Six of one, half a dozen of the other
So if they sending all these people back home for true
They got to split me in two
Throughout the CaribbeanEdit
The biggest population of Dougla peoples, second (and if not on par), with those in Trinidad and Tobago are those in Guyana. Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese make up half of the Guyanese population, and Douglas number 15% of the country's demographics.
In the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique), mixed Afro-Indian people used to be called Batazendien or Chapé-Coolie, those who have escaped the disagreeable Indian condition by becoming hybrid.
In the French West Indies they are now treated in a more positive way by other categories of the population and no longer face the cruel existential dilemma of post-slavery times. The uncommon phenomenon of mutual acceptance and cultural exchange now attained, called by some "the Guadeloupe Model", has widely contributed to the rare harmony of the multiracial French West Indian communities.
Notable DouglasEdit
Mighty Dougla (Cletus Ali), Calypsonian (Trinidad and Tobago)
Tatyana Ali, Actress (United States; Trinidadian and Tobagonian background)
Melissa Bell, Singer (Jamaica)
Alexandra Burke, Singer (Jamaica)
Super Cat, Dancehall Artist (Jamaica)[5]
Mervyn Dymally, Politician (United States; born in Trinidad and Tobago)
Kamala Harris, Politician (United States; Jamaican and South Indian background)[6]
Maya Harris, Lawyer, public policy advocate, television commentator, and political analyst (United States; Jamaican and South Indian background)
Lester Holt, News anchor and journalist (United States; Jamaican background)[7]
David Jordan, Singer (United Kingdom; Montserratian background)
Vashtie Kola, Music video director (United States; Trinidadian and Tobagonian background)
Sonnet L'Abbé, Poet, professor, editor, and critic (Canada; Guyanese background)
Rajee Narinesingh, LGBT activist (United States; Trinidadian and Tobagonian background)[8]
Furdjel Narsingh, Footballer (Netherlands; Surinamese background)
Luciano Narsingh, Footballer (Netherlands; Surinamese background)
Foxy Brown (Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand), Rapper (United States; Trinidadian and Tobagonian background)[9]
Nicki Minaj, Singer, Rapper (United States; born in Trinidad and Tobago)
Roxanne Persaud, Politician (United States; born in Guyana)[10][11][12]
Yendi Phillips, Model (Jamaica)
Abrahim Simmonds, Youth Advocate (Jamaica)
Joyce Vincent, Woman whose death went unnoticed for more than two years as her corpse lay undiscovered in her London bedsit (United Kingdom; Grenadian background)[13]
Indo-African
^ Wilk, Richard; Barbosa, Livia (2013-05-09). Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places. Berg. ISBN 9781847889058.
^ Sanksipt Hindu Shabdasagar
^ https://www.uohyd.ernet.in/sss/indian_diaspora/oc2.pdf[permanent dead link]
^ Dougla dilemma
^ Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2004) The Rough Guide to Reggae, Rough Guides, ISBN 1-84353-329-4, p. 286
^ ": The New Face of Politics… An Interview with Kamala Harris". DesiClub. Archived from the original on December 11, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
^ name=TodayShowRoots>Today Show: "Lester and Jenna trace their Jamaican roots" Aired on September 9, 2012 Archived September 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ Rajee Narinesingh
^ Calloway, Sway (2001-05-29). "Foxy Brown – Outspoken (Part 4)". MTV News. Archived from the original on 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2006-05-09.
^ https://www.indocaribbean.org/gala-2016.html
^ https://guyanesegirlsrock.com/guyanese-born-new-york-assemblywoman-roxanne-persaud-elected-new-york-state-senate/
^ "New York's immigrant lawmakers make their mark". Times Union. 2016-01-13. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
^ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/09/joyce-vincent-death-mystery-documentary
Mendes, John (1976). Cote ce Cote la. Trinidad & Tobago Dictionary. John Menzies, Arima, Trinidad. 200 pages.
"Indian presence and contribution in the Caribbean"
"150 years of Indian arrival commemorated in Guadeloupe by all citizens"
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dougla&oldid=904894020"
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So, what’s fckdup about KEELPNO – (KEEL) then…?
Posted on September 29, 2010 January 16, 2011 by Simon Alexander
Hmmm, glad you should ask as I’ve been meaning to highlight just a few of the many issues surrounding this Government Organisation for some time now.
For those of you who don’t know what KEELPNO is or (KEEL) as it is often referred to – it’s the Greek CDC. The national Centre for Corruption, Oops, my mistake… The National Centre for Disease Control – or is that the other way round, take your pick.
KEELPNO - If you see this sign, it's probably already too late...
Appropriately so too when you find out just what goes on there. It seems only fitting that half the parasites and problems dealing with serious health issues in Greece are actually part of this regime, and that several of the main problems that affect Greek’s all over are actually on the Payroll and covered up by the majority of people who I’ve dealt with there so far.
As some of you may know by now, I’ve been fighting to highlight how ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS and it’s current board of Directors have been stealing state money for nearly ten years now and how the President of this NGO – Kostadis Kaburakis and another member of the Board have illegally been pretending to be Doctors.
Another member of the Board – Chrysoula Botsi who actually works for KEELPNO covered this up with help from their Legal department – or as I like to call them, (the Illegal department), as well as with the help of several senior members of staff who all also appear guilty of all being apart of a very corrupt and dangerously problematic system.
Where do the problems begin?
Hmmm, where to start really – Currently I’d have to say from about the front door to the rear car park, with everything in between. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying all the staff that work there are corrupt and useless, just that the ones I have had the misfortune in dealing with have all sadly given the rest a really bad name.
If you are a genuine member of staff working at KEELPNO, where the hell were you? I do apologise, but rest assured those who all get a mention aren’t fit to wipe arses let alone work for the Government, and the following issues are just a few raised.
On with the problems :
Once it became apparent that we discovered several members of ACTUP providing false documentation to several Ministries, pretending to be Doctors to gain funding and gain medical records, we approached the organisation to highlight this – naively thinking that they would look into the matter and deal with the problem and maybe even be slightly grateful that we had helped save them major embarrassment and scandal.
Sadly we we’re very much mistaken.
Firstly to submit any form of request you have provide a written request and gain a protocol (issued by the respective organisation) for such matters – to which every citizen is entitled to, and yes – even me being from the UK, however fortunately they are not biased and have since openly lied and denied receiving several other requests made by Greek Nationals too, as well as many of my own.
They initially refused to give me a protocol and then provided lie after lie about the reasons why they wouldn’t issue one, allowing them to ignore our complaint and deny any problems were evident.
Eventually they informed me that my request was non relevant and that KEELPNO didn’t provide state funding for NGO’s or ACTUP in particular! Bizarre as we had already the documentation to prove that they had received several amounts from KEELPNO, and having worked there for nearly a year now and having heard the president – Kostadis Kabourakis tell us about the many organisations that HAD given them funding, it was clear there were going to be problems.
Incidentally, with regards to the Information concerning the fact that several of their staff we’re pretending to be Doctors, they refused to deal with it and still do to this day, to quote one member of their illegal team, “we haven’t the resources to pursue people here who may be braking the law”.
How true is she, otherwise she’d be sat in an empty building wondering why many of the senior members of staff are all in prison.
So, after several phone calls we discussed the matter with κ. Πιερρουτσάκος – who was currently supposedly dealing with the matter, (a senior member of KEELPNO), who not only blatantly lied along with the Legal team about access to my protocol, but who until intervention were responsible for denying me and refusing to provide me with ANY documentation to support or deny our claims.
He now faces prosecution by the authorities.
Several months later and we have exactly the same problems with κ. Παπαδημητρίου who also lies about documentation, and who for several months also refuses to grant us access to the many items which prove our claims. In reality it’s irrelevant that they do or don’t, however we have the evidence already, we just wish for them to acknowledge it and act responsibly.
Their stupid legal team need highlighting in particular, as it is they who have ill advised everyone so far upon the path to chose, and which has exposed the whole system of being one that acts with impunity. Which openly supports corruption and employs inexperienced unqualified members who have illegally claimed to be medical staff, and who willingly deceive all they may to help themselves to state funding and the arrogance to call themselves ‘civil servants’ thinking they’re something special.
K. Παπαδημητρίου claimed to know nothing about such activities made my ACTUP despite him being in meetings with them at numerous HIV/Aids conferences and working in the same building as Chrysoula Botsi, and as he was on the actual board which employed K.Kabourakis, and actually granted non existent funding for them… AND who refused to provide the relevant documentation for several Months, despite arranging a meeting with him whereby he promised to bring the documentation, only to arrive empty handed yet full of sh*t – AND (last one) who still has failed to act on all the information provided.
So what did the President and Vice president do when you contacted them and stressed how urgent the situation was?
Well, it rhymes with ‘Duck all’, and is nothing less than I expected them to do either.
I felt it my moral duty to share this next picture as it appeared on the same listings as KEELPNO did when I was looking for a picture.
KEELPNO - We talk out of our arses, and whenever you deal with us you always know we'll try our best to f*ck you real good...
All laughs aside though, it’s a Government run Health body which is doing this to the citizens, if you live in Greece, you’re paying for this yourself.
When you end up with major health issues and they send round a Plumber when you call for an Ambulance, just be thankful it wasn’t a Doctor from KEELPNO…
Why do I care you might ask.
Firstly, it’s now my home, one I love, where I live and one that has inspired me despite the many problems I have faced at the hands of the many liars and thieves I have been unfortunate to discover whilst working in this domain. I’m saddened to say that it’s through ACTUP and KEELPNO and the many people who have failed to act responsibly who fall into this category, and secondly I would feel bad not doing something knowing what they are like, knowing that they still lie and abuse their position, as the rest try and cover it up.
As for the few scumbags I have dealt with since I came here, well it’s easy – I have met so many more truly great and talented people since I arrived here in Greece, and most people are humble and welcoming, honest and genuine down to earth people who know what the system here is like, and for every Kostadis Kabourakis and Chrysoula Botsi I have dealt with, I have met real people, people like you – who like me, all try and share the same fate, one of discovery and belief in ourselves, who have hopes of one day Greece being at the very least proactive in making itself great again.
Everyone here now has to take from the same tree and while some of us try to put back much more than we take, some will always try and steal whenever they can.
So far those who seem to care about making this country a better place for us all and who have tried to help despite it being their job, in their best interests or their civil duty, you can sadly count on one hand…
Additional Info : (will be updated) subject to the story unfolding further.
They also appointed Kostadis Kabourakis Head of Trafficking within KEELPNO – despite having no experience or qualifications and after he was exposed as fraudulently providing them with illegal Documentation pretending to be a Doctor, and after we highlighted them to the fact that ACTUP was being investigated for potential financial crimes by ΥΔΑΣ (the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and as the financial Director was none other than Chrysoula Botsi – the head of HIV/Aids for KEELPNO in Greece!
As well as that, the elections during their tenure were non legal so that technically, they have been potentially embezzling the state for their duration in charge as well.
ΥΔΑΣ have since demanded nearly 180,000.00 euro’s back from ACTUP having discovered that the receipts and information provided wasn’t acceptable and was largely non valid and as they deceived them to gain the funding in the first place we expect charges to follow for that too. Since this information has been handed over to (ΣΔΟΕ) for further proof of financial crimes and is being dealt with by a number of other authorities including IKA, the Ombudsman and the European parliament for their involvement in such matters.
Is it not obvious what is happening financially here? One gains access to the cheques through KEELPNO and European projects and the other, the president has the power to sign them on behalf of ACTUP…!
Is it not of interest and highly suspicious that three of the (NGO) – NON Government Organisation ACTUP‘s board members work for KEELPNO, the same government that the organisation was set up to help fight initially for its inactivity and failure to help those who needed help the most…?
Since Kostadis Kabourakis and Chrysoula Botsi became part of ACTUP in 1999-2000, once they became part of the Board of Directors they immediately changed the organisational statute to gain access to ΥΔΑΣ funding in an area in which no one had any experience or previous history, despite all other ACTUP‘s worldwide dealing with just HIV/Aids. Coincidentally they then then both became part of the same machinery which funded themselves and which had access to other state and European funding, and deceived everyone relevant to ensure that they could fit the criteria by fabricating the appropriate documentation to enable themselves to raid the State and European pot’s of gold now available to them.
As they have been on the board in the same positions for nearly ten years, and recently having witnessed it first hand how they used names of people to elect themselves on the board again, whereby recently even a previous member of the Board of Directors came out and denied even knowing he had been involved in the Elections previously, it is ever clearer their intentions.
Why would people seek out to cover up people gaining access to medical records of people with HIV/Aids…? Kostadis Kabourakis recently gave another one of his ‘famous‘ press releases stating that they had been blackmailed by people about the HIV/Aids results, very interesting considering that it was he and another member of the board of Directors who had illegally sought to gain such records, who failed to provide the respective safety protocols we’re in place on their HIV/Aids phone line, whereby he gained access to Andreas Syggros Hospital and many projects associated with it through his affiliation with ACTUP and KEELPNO.
Who else would stand to have access to these results other than Chrysoula Botsi and the others illegally claiming to be Doctors…?
Seems like maybe the source of any Blackmailing may be closer at hand and may explain why ΥΔΑΣ and several other sources gave funding to ACTUP despite knowing that they had provided false documentation and weren’t genuinely qualified or experienced!
Why else would someone who was known to be pretending to be a Doctor, who had no experience or relative qualifications in the subject, who had recently been highlighted to being under investigation for potentially fraudulent documentation and theft have his contract made permanent…?
Why would the then Editor from SKAI Radio when we first managed to air this subject refuse to air the full story? Why since have so few people acted upon such information despite them knowing about it for many years?
Purely speculation, of course but doesn’t it make you wonder…
In a fictional world – maybe certain people would deliberately set out to gain positions whereby they could indeed Blackmail members of society, politicians, members of the press, Ministers and such like, and by pretending to be Doctors and by electing themselves into an NGO whereby they could gain access to such projects and knowledge as well as by gaining access to the main HIV/Aids hospital’s medical results, anything could be done.
In a country such as this, which lets not forget 10 years ago had a very deep stigma for such issues and even fiercer religious and family beliefs, maybe to the right people, a lot of damage could be done if the wrong people got such information…
If these people happened to be in a relationship whereby one could help themselves to the funding, and the other was say, maybe the president who could sanction such projects etc, or one who had genuine access to the medical results and the other just say, abused them…Who knows what could have happened…
I suspect these people would then stop at nothing to try and deny such possibilities, threaten staff, deny all knowledge and maybe try to attribute some of the problems as a distraction whereby they could use their own standards to slander others with actions of their own that they have employed for so long, knowing that half the system was behind them at one point to cover it up.
Thankfully that’s just a summary of what some people could have done… I’d hate people to think I was connecting that in any way to any of the reports I’ve previously mentioned…
Strange how sometimes fiction mimics life though, isn’t it?
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File Early
File Accurately
Check the NAS
The FAA uses data from flight plans in its Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) to gauge demand and make decisions about ground delay programs, airspace flow programs and other traffic management initiatives (TMIs). The more complete and accurate your flight plan data is, the more effective the FAA can be in reducing delays.
Eliminate the Guesswork in Your Flight Plans
Choose a Realistic Departure Time
Submitting flight plans with guesses about your departure time adds inaccurate information to TFMS and can create an incorrect picture of actual demand in the system. This leads to inefficiency in the system and increases overall delay.
One common practice is for operators to file their flight plans 30 minutes prior to departure as a matter of habit – without taking into account whether that time is really accurate. Here is a common scenario outlining the riskiness of this practice:
The pilot files the flight plan for a time 30 minutes before the actual planned departure.
A ground delay program is issued for their destination airport and they are assigned a Expect Departure Clearance Time (EDCT), giving them a 15-minute delay.
The passengers show up for the flight at the actual planned departure time, 15 minutes after the EDCT.
Since the flight was still waiting for the passengers and unable to depart at the EDCT (which must be honored plus or minus five minutes), they will likely lose their slot and, quite literally, be moved to the back of the line, increasing their delay.
Even if the crew successfully works with ATC tactically to negotiate a new departure time, they have increased their workload and increased the likelihood for delays. Filing an accurate flight plan means less time spent unnecessarily on the phone, at the computer or on the radio making adjustments.
File an Appropriate Route
While operators can often file direct from one location to another in more sparsely populated areas of the U.S., this is just not practical in more congested areas of the country. However, many operators simply file direct, with the mentality that ATC will just reroute them when necessary.
It is true that ATC will tactically move flights as needed, but filing a thoughtfully considered route from the start reduces the workload for both ATC and the crew.
What is an Appropriate Route?
Operators should plan to utilize appropriate standard instrument departures (SID) and standard terminal arrival route (STAR) procedures, where available, and also be aware of what routes ATC has indicated should be used, rather than just “filing blind.”
There are several types of routes that operators should be aware of and be prepared to file, depending on the circumstances:
Preferred routes are just what they sound like – these are the routes that ATC would like you to file if there are no constraints on the system.
The National Playbook routes are a set of pre-planned routes that can be quickly implemented by ATC in order to help move traffic out of a constrained area, whether its an en route or terminal constraint. These can be issued as required or recommended routes.
Coded departure routes (CDRs) are another type of route, identified by an eight-character code, to quickly and concisely issue a full route clearance that may be different than the originally requested route. These can also be issued as required or recommended routes.
There aren’t structured routes between every city pair in the NAS – in those cases, normal historical routes should be used. However, when there is a recommended or required route in place, operators should be aware of it and and file accordingly.
The following is a good rule of thumb:
Be aware of what is going on in the NAS. See Check the NAS.
Check the FAA Current Reroutes page.
Adhere to REQUIRED routes. They are, as the name implies, required.
Strongly consider RECOMMENDED routes. These are where ATC would LIKE you to be.
Be aware of FYI routes. These may be good alternatives to your preferred route.
If none of these are in use, file your preferred route.
Learn more about reroutes on the FileSmart Traffic Management Initiatives page.
The key is for operators to understand what is going on in the airspace through which they will be flying. Read more about this in the Check the NAS section of this website.
File Using the Proper ICAO Flight Plan Format
As most operators know, there have been recent changes to requirements for both domestic and international flight plans. Both are now based on the ICAO format that places significant emphasis on fields 10 (Equipment and Capabilities) and 18 (Other Information). This information provides ATC with a complete picture of the equipment and capabilities of an aircraft and crew for a particular flight.
When Should I File in ICAO Flight Plan Format?
The FAA prefers all users to file ICAO flight plans for all flights. An ICAO format flight plan must be used when:
The flight will enter international airspace, including Oceanic airspace controlled by FAA facilities.
The flight expects routing or separation based on Performance Based Navigation, (e.g. RNAV 1).
The flight will enter RVSM airspace.
The flight expects services based on ADS-B.
Operators can get more information by reviewing FAA’s ICAO Flight Planning Guidance.
Flights that remain wholly within domestic United States airspace, and do not meet any of the above criteria, may use a traditional flight plan format.
How Does the ICAO Flight Plan Format Benefit My Flights?
Proper use of fields 10 and 18 will allow air traffic controllers to know which departures or arrivals could be issued for a flight, as well as the en route capabilities of the aircraft and crew. This means that a flight could be issued a route or procedure that would reduce their flight time or ground delay.
Airports in complex metro areas that have overlapping arrival and departure corridors are beginning to use RNP approaches and departures to safely de-conflict traffic. Operators with properly trained crews and equipped aircraft can minimize their delays when using these procedures. Detailed entries in fields 10 and 18 by the operator allow ATC to assign the best procedure available, minimizing delays for their flights.
FileSmart Resources
Traffic Flow Management
Traffic Management Initiatives
Finding NAS Information Online
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Tag: jon m. chu
US director and screenwriter (1979-) (Wikipedia entry)
Step Up 3D (aka Step Up 3, 2010)
Published on 13 August 2014 29 May 2015 by Ewan MLeave a comment
NEW RELEASE FILM REVIEW || Seen at home (DVD) [2D], London, Saturday 9 July 2014 || My Rating likeable
© Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Having recently seen Step Up: All In, the latest instalment of this already numerous if relatively short-lived franchise, I thought I’d best fill out my viewing with the one considered (at least by my friends) as the weakest of the five. I’m pleased to report, though, that I find it just as well-made and enjoyable in a pulpy, generic way as the others. If it has a real weakness, it’s in the fairly bland leads — Rick Malambri as Luke, a dancer and prospective filmmaker, and the ‘mysterious’ clubgirl Natalie (played by Sharni Vinson) — though thankfully their story, which involves Luke’s ridiculously large loft apartment and high-end editing suite, is fairly unobtrusive. Taking the charismatic centre stage is series regular “Moose” (Adam Sevani), introduced in the previous film, and his are-they-aren’t-they love interest Camille (Alyson Stoner), returning from the very first film (where she played Channing Tatum’s little sister). Both are now students at NYU and studying for stuff that isn’t dancing, so their character arc is this tug-of-war between ‘respectable’ professions and the illicit thrill of the dance — and along the way there’s a very odd little hint that Camille is preparing to move on romantically from Moose to a girl in her class, something that’s treated without any fanfare whatsoever. In some respects, the plot is quite similar to the fifth and most recent outing, as the film opens with Luke interviewing street dancers about their tough lives and battle for acceptance in this competitive world, and moves on to the now familiar battle for supremacy with a black-clad macho crew etc etc… And yet, while it may all be blending into a single film by this point, it’s a colourful, frenetic and enjoyable one for all that, with a likeable ensemble dance cast.
CREDITS || Director Jon M. Chu | Writers Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer | Cinematographer Ken Seng | Starring Rick Malambri, Adam Sevani, Alyson Stoner, Sharni Vinson | Length 107 minutes
Categories Classification: 12(A), Country: USA, Rating: **½ (2.5)•Tags 2010, adam sevani, alyson stoner, dance film, film reviews, films seen at home, hollywood, jon m. chu, ken seng, new york, rick malambri, sharni vinson, step up, teen film, usa, written by a woman
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Published on 30 May 2013 29 May 2015 by Ewan MLeave a comment
I’m on holiday until the end of next week, so you won’t be seeing any reviews of new releases. However, I’ve been watching a few films at home, so there’ll still be content going up!
FILM REVIEW || Director Jon M. Chu | Writers Toni Ann Johnson and Karen Barna (based on characters by Duane Adler) | Cinematographer Max Malkin | Starring Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam Sevani | Length 95 minutes | Seen at home (DVD), Friday 24 May 2013 || My Rating good
© Touchstone Pictures
In many ways, the Step Up cycle of films isn’t so different from Fast & Furious, being a multi-part series dedicated to a niche urban subculture. Where those films deal with street racing, here we get street dance, and like the recent British film All Stars (2013), there’s a very clear generic framework involving a final showdown with the rival crew. Unlike Furious, though, this series doesn’t have a strong core of central characters/actors, which is I think its weakness in comparison; Channing Tatum shows up in one early scene to pass the baton on from the first film, as it were, but otherwise it’s heavily reliant on generic expectations (not to mention the dancing).
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Categories Classification: PG, Country: USA, Rating: *** (3)•Tags 2008, adam sevani, briana evigan, dance film, drama, film reviews, films seen at home, jon m. chu, max malkin, putting on a show, robert hoffman, romance, step up, teen film, usa, written by a woman
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SPAGHETTI WESTERN • by Kyle Hemmings
Alice White and her abductor are trudging through the Chihuahuan Desert. She’s in her Sunday blue dress and her legs are bare, thin, and shapely. The dress is missing buttons. The sun is so hot she feels it will burn her to ash. When they pass the carcass of a Mexican wolf, she wonders if death can live longer than a Creosote Bush. She wishes the sun would turn to a cold soup filled with the alphabet letters of her name. It would satisfy her thirst and she would be so full of herself.
Her abductor is named Leon, an itinerant ranch hand. Leon has two stumps for fingers. Alice believes his constant scowl means he can never get enough of anything.
He had abducted Alice from the bordello where her surrogate mother worked. She took Alice in after General Geraldo Rama’s raid left Alice’s town a pyre of burning wood and reeking blackened flesh. The woman sneaked Alice covered plates of tack, souse, and chili-flavored jerky. In a tiny room with red ants zigzagging across floorboards, Alice slept with her face snuggled against the woman’s breasts. Alice slowly regained her speech. She never lost her fear of fires even from a distance.
“We near the Pecos River, yet?” asks Alice, shading her eyes. They pass clumps of Rainbow and Fire-barrel cactus. Alice stubs her big toe against a small rock. A tarantula hovers next to its own shadow.
“Gettin’ closer.”
“How you know?”
“I just do.”
“The sun looks the same to me. Maybe you think we’re walking but we ain’t moving at all.”
“Shut up, girly.”
In town, Alice sometimes peeked through a hole in the second-floor wall and watched the men undress before the women, their bodies pot-bellied or made ugly by scars. She wondered how they could down whiskey after whiskey until their appetite for love, like their booze, oozed through their pores. Some fell asleep above the women and nothing was exchanged. Alice laughed. They’d die prisoners of their own brand of poison.
Leon’s horse stumbles to the ground, remains there. In a fit of rage, he kicks arcs of glistening sand into the air.
“Poor horse,” says Alice, “must have been dreaming of water.”
“I should ride every whore out here.”
“But you can’t shoot a gun,” Alice says, tilting her head, leaving her lips slightly parted, giving off a kind of innocent schoolgirl charm.
“I can shoot you, girly. Try me.”
Alice turns and continues to walk. She closes her eyes and imagines walking into the sun.
“Do you think the sun has yellow spots?” she yells out.
“What a stupid thing…”
Alice giggles.
“It’d be unnatural, wouldn’t it?”
“Shut up, bone-brained girl.”
“Just a joke, Mister.”
“It ain’t a joke. I’m selling you. Remember?”
Trouble started when Alice’s surrogate mother told the other “employees” that Leon could only please a woman with his tongue, that he couldn’t “shoot his gun.” It spread from one clique to another. When Leon traced the source of the gossip, he demanded money from Alice’s mother for “damaging his character.” She stammered that she did not have the amount. He kidnapped Alice, saying that he knew a barren couple near the border who wanted a child, even though Alice was now fifteen.
“They’ll pay plenty for blond hair and blue sing-song eyes. A watery dream.”
At night, Alice hums a song by the campfire. Leon snores so loud, she thinks he will attract wolves, the kind that thrive in heat.
Slowly, she leans over and tries to wake him. He doesn’t budge. She slips an unsteady hand around his gun, then finishes his canteen water. She wipes the dribble from her lips.
By sunrise, he awakes to Alice pointing his gun at him.
“I bartered your water,” she says in sing-song.
“Little bitch, ” he says, rising from the dirt.
“Don’t,” she says, backing away, “I can shoot straight.”
He tries to stare her down.
“Then why don’t you drop me here. Being this close, it’s a sure shot. And you could turn back and head home. That is, if you can find your way or if the sun doesn’t melt you to nothing.”
Her lips slowly curl.
“I want you to take off your clothes.”
His eyes widen.
“Why? You never saw a naked man before?”
“Sure. Seen plenty back in town. ”
“Then why? Don’t you think I’m a little old for you.”
She fires a bullet into the ground near his foot. The dust forms thin drifting clouds.
“I don’t want you, Mister. I want you to burn.”
He removes his clothes. They move on, this time with Alice behind him. They grow weary, thirsty, too heavy for themselves.
In the desert, Alice thinks of death. How vast. Maybe it is a whiteness that stretches everywhere, bleeds through everything. Maybe it is the color of nothing. And she cannot think or feel or remember. To be blotted-out, made numb. The way she felt after General Rama had burned her town down.
Sometime in the afternoon, with the sun strong as ever, Leon rambles on about how his father was a yellow-bellied bastard, a deserter from The Border Wars, how he left the family with barely enough money for food. His mother scraped a living, performing various chores farm to farm, bringing Leon with her. She became a mistress to a wealthy businessman. Leon disowned her.
He collapses in the sand. Crouching beside him, Alice can feel no pulse. His body is scorched. With eyes full of desert and sky, she hates herself.
She surveys mosaics of waist-high grass in the distance. She imagines water running somewhere under tall grass. A secret place.
She rises, looks into the sun, and aims the gun. She wonders that if she fires into it, will the sun rain all the water it has withheld?
The thought of this makes Alice laugh so hard that she might pee whatever water is left inside her.
Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. He has been published in Elimae, Smokelong Quarterly, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Blaze Vox, Matchbook, and elsewhere. He loves 50s Sci-Fi movies, manga comics, and pre-punk garage bands of the 60s.
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