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You can do a 360 video call chat via Skype with Insta360 Air!
Insta360 confirmed that you can use the Insta360 Air for a 360 video chat via Skype!
Insta360 Air is a 360 camera accessory for Android phones, which enables your Android phone to take 360 photos and videos, and even livestream wirelessly in 360 (soon via Twitter / Periscope, YouTube, or Facebook). Besides being used as a smartphone accessory, the Insta360 Air can also be used as a 360 webcam. See this video. (Note: the package includes the special USB connector that doubles as a stand.)
Meanwhile, Insta360 confirmed that the Insta360 Air can be used for 360 video call chats on Skype on your smartphone!
I don’t know if the feature is immediately available on launch or a feature that will be released later through updates. I’m also still trying to find out if you can do a 360 video chat on Skype for PC as well.
Although other cameras such as the Ricoh Theta have been used for 360 video conferencing, Insta360 Air could be the first to do so wirelessly.
WHERE TO GET INSTA360 AIR
Insta360 Air is one of the most affordable fully spherical 360 cameras, at $119 MSRP. However, until January 26, it is still possible to get it with a 20% discount through its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, which it has been funded more than 1,200%. Unlike other crowdfunding campaigns which have often suffered from delays, sometimes for years, the Insta360 Air is actually shipping earlier than promised, with the first batch being shipped out in the first week of February 2017.
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Neil Havermale says:
All these features and in-camera stich capability at an unbelievable price by February three weeks away? Give me a ring and let me know how that that may go? Based on our interest in 360 immersion, this might be the sweet-spot?
Mic Ty says:
Hi Neil! Sure, I can let you know how it goes. I ordered one as well. But tomorrow is the last day to order it through Indiegogo to get a 20% discount. If you wait for my review, you will miss the discount…
Benjamin von Schmuck says:
Hi, for sure interesting!
Did some of you get the camera to work in a a android based-skype call?
I have tried to connect standard USB cameras to smartphones but have not succeed in changing to that USB-cameras within the Skype app, i do believe this is since Skype is “using” a allocated shortcut to the builtin camera-locations.
Would appreciate all help!
Hi Benjamin. I haven’t done a Skype call in 360 but you could contact the Giroptic team on their Facebook page and i think they can show you whether it’s possible. best regards, mic
Perl Post says:
Did you find out if we can do a 360 video chat on Skype for PC as well, please? I am just wondering where can I get that USB connector that doubles as a stand? What PC application do they use on a laptop PC where they had insta360 Air camera connected through USB stand for demo purposes in your video from CES 2017? Thanks.
Hi Perl Post. Sorry I haven’t been able to use Air for Skype. I recommend posting to Facebook’s Insta360 Community to see if they can post instructions. But fyi, they are on a long Chinese New Year holiday.
Hi Perl, did you already find out how to use the insta360 air for skype?
I think Oculus Go is a good product. In the future 8K 3D 360 video may become more common. If that happens, Oculus Go probably won’t be able to play those. But there will always be 4K and 5.7K consumer cameras and the Go should be able to view videos from those cameras.
Vivitar introduces two new 360 cameras, including a waterproof 360 camera
Cool mixed reality video of The Unspoken spellcasting dueling game
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February 2016, 9(1): iii-ix. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016.9.1iii
The research of Paolo Secchi
Hugo Beirão da Veiga 1, , Alessandro Morando 2, and Paola Trebeschi 3,
Department of Mathematics, Pisa University, Via F.Buonarroti, 1, 56127-Pisa, Italy
DICATAM, Sezione di Matematica, Università di Brescia, Via Valotti, 9, 25133 Brescia
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Brescia, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Via Valotti 9, 25133 Brescia
The research of Professor Paolo Secchi concerns the theory of partial differential equations, especially from fluid dynamics.
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Citation: Hugo Beirão da Veiga, Alessandro Morando, Paola Trebeschi. The research of Paolo Secchi. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2016, 9 (1) : iii-ix. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016.9.1iii
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P. Secchi, Pointwise decay for solutions of the 2D Neumann exterior problem for the wave equation,, Boll. UMI B (8), 7 (2004), 189. Google Scholar
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E. Casella, P. Secchi and P. Trebeschi, Non-homogeneous linear symmetric hyperbolic systems with characteristic boundary,, Differential Integral Equations, 19 (2006), 51. Google Scholar
P. Secchi, 2D slightly compressible ideal flow in an exterior domain,, J. Math. Fluid Mech., 8 (2006), 564. doi: 10.1007/s00021-005-0188-0. Google Scholar
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D. Catania and P. Secchi, Global existence and finite dimensional global attractor for a 3D double viscous MHD-alpha model,, Commun. Math. Sci., 8 (2010), 1021. doi: 10.4310/CMS.2010.v8.n4.a12. Google Scholar
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D. Catania and P. Secchi, Global existence for two regularized MHD models in three space-dimension,, Portugaliae Mathematica, 68 (2011), 41. doi: 10.4171/PM/1880. Google Scholar
A. Morando and P. Secchi, Regularity of weakly well posed hyperbolic mixed problems with characteristic boundary,, J. Hyperbolic Differ. Equ., 8 (2011), 37. doi: 10.1142/S021989161100238X. Google Scholar
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J.-F. Coulombel, A. Morando, P. Secchi and P. Trebeschi, A priori estimates for 3D incompressible current-vortex sheets,, Commun. Math. Phys., 311 (2012), 247. doi: 10.1007/s00220-011-1340-8. Google Scholar
A. Morando and P. Secchi, Weakly well posed characteristic hyperbolic problems,, Riv. Mat. Univ. Parma, 3 (2012), 147. Google Scholar
P. Secchi, A higher-order Hardy-type inequality in anisotropic Sobolev spaces,, Int. J. Differ. Equ., (2012). Google Scholar
P. Secchi and Y. Trakhinin, Well-posedness of the linearized plasma-vacuum interface problem,, Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 15 (2013), 323. doi: 10.4171/IFB/305. Google Scholar
D. Catania, M. D'Abbicco and P. Secchi, Stability of the linearized MHD-Maxwell free interface problem,, Comm. Pure Appl. Anal., 13 (2014), 2407. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.2407. Google Scholar
A. Morando, P. Secchi and P. Trebeschi, On a priori energy estimates for characteristic boundary value problems,, J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 20 (2014), 816. doi: 10.1007/s00041-014-9335-4. Google Scholar
P. Secchi and Y. Trakhinin, Well-posedness of the plasma-vacuum interface problem,, Nonlinearity, 27 (2014), 105. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/27/1/105. Google Scholar
P. Secchi, Nonlinear surface waves on the plasma-vacuum interface,, Quart. Appl. Math., (2015). doi: 10.1090/qam/1405. Google Scholar
P. Secchi, On the Nash-Moser iteration technique,, in Recent Developments of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, (). Google Scholar
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Daniel Genin. Research announcement: Boundedness of orbits for trapezoidal outer billiards. Electronic Research Announcements, 2008, 15: 71-78. doi: 10.3934/era.2008.15.71
Liu Hui, Lin Zhi, Waqas Ahmad. Network(graph) data research in the coordinate system. Mathematical Foundations of Computing, 2018, 1 (1) : 1-10. doi: 10.3934/mfc.2018001
Leonid A. Bunimovich. Dynamical systems and operations research: A basic model. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2001, 1 (2) : 209-218. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2001.1.209
Richard Evan Schwartz. Research announcement: unbounded orbits for outer billiards. Electronic Research Announcements, 2007, 14: 1-6. doi: 10.3934/era.2007.14.1
Daniel T. Wise. Research announcement: The structure of groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy. Electronic Research Announcements, 2009, 16: 44-55. doi: 10.3934/era.2009.16.44
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Home Croatia Accommodation Activities Destinations Sailing Charter Dubrovnik City of Split Zagreb City
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Enchanting Croatian Coast places well worth visiting
The most mesmerizing sights of Croatia can be found along its spectacular coast. The Croatian coastline is where the warm sunshine sinks into the golden sand and the waves gently brush the shores to create a surreal environment. The marvelous beaches are surrounded by the sapphire blue Adriatic Sea on one end, and by dense forests and intriguing towns on the other. The national parks of this region display phenomenal natural beauty, while the towns are replete with historical wonders. The landscape is crisscrossed by shimmering streams and lofty mountain ranges. Architectural masterpieces from the medieval ages further add to the grandeur of the scenery. Following are some of the most beautiful places on the coast of Croatia that are incredibly enchanting and worth of visiting.
The historical city of Trogir is located on a small island near the city of Split and it's one of the most picturesque old cities on the Croatian coast. (Image by Pixabay.com)
The City Of Dubrovnik
The stone walls of the city of Dubrovnik pay homage to the fortified town that stood here in the olden times. Several relics of the ancient city can be spotted in the Dubrovnik of the present day. The magnificent Lovrijenac Fort stands guard near the coast, while the opulent Sponza Palace has preserved its striking interiors. The red-roofed houses glow in the sunshine and create a pleasing contrast with the sandy seashores, while the cobbled streets are adding a rustic charm to the city. Be it the lively atmosphere of the main street of Stradun, or the old-world elegance of the Franciscan Monastery, the city of Dubrovnik never ceases to impress with its innumerable treasures.
Universally known and popular city of Dubrovnik was originally a city state,
at the time of Venice Republic, now a major Croatian destination. (Pixabay.com)
The Krka National Park is home to a plethora of fascinating waterfalls, with the Skradinski Buk falls being the most popular. This series of frothy waterfalls pours into a turquoise blue pool of water, creating scenery with colors so vivid that it resembles a painting. Equally stunning are the cascades of Roski Slap and the tranquil waters of the Krka River. The island of Visovac, a tiny speck on the Krka River, holds a Franciscan Monastery that has been converted into a museum. The Krka Monastery is yet another place worth visiting, to admire its grandeur of Byzantine and Mediterranean architecture. This national park is a fine example of the harmonious coexistence of nature and culture.
Named after the river Krka, which is part of this National Park, Krka is a vast area
of natural scenic beauty with seven waterfalls. (Image by Pixabay.com)
Brac Island
The island of Brac is famous for its horn-shaped beach of Zlatni Rat, that protrudes into the Adriatic Sea like a sword made of white pebbles. This beach is ideal for sunbathing and also for a round of windsurfing. To explore the local culture, head over to the oldest settlement of the island at Skrip. This town holds some quaint churches as well as the Museum of Olive Oil that narrates the tale of olive cultivation on Brac Island. The town of Supetar is more modern in nature and is known for its breathtaking beach and the wonderful sculptures at the local mausoleum. The port of Supetar is always filled with sailing yacht charter from all around the world. The entire island is livened up by the shine of the limestone houses, thanks to the renowned stone quarries of this region.
Located on the west side of the island of Brac is a small town of Milna,
popular with divers and nautical activities. (Image by Pixabay.com)
The City Of Makarska
The city of Makarska is an excellent location, both for a laid back vacation, as well as an adventurous holiday. You can relax at the horseshoe shaped bay or can take a stroll on the promenade that is lined with coconut trees. Visiting the colorful flower and fruit markets in the main square, and the unique Sea Shell Museum, is also a good option. The city lies at the foot of the Biokovo Mountain and therefore holds several opportunities for adventure sports. To add a bit of thrill to your day, sign up for a hike, or pedal your way to the summit. The glorious view of the town from the top is worth all the effort.
Best known for its Makarska Riviera, the city of Makarska has been one of the most famous holiday destinations on the Croatian coast. (Image by Freeimages.com)
Hvar Island
The island of Hvar is often referred to as the best party destination in Croatia, and with the good reason. This island is blessed with some alluring beaches that come to life at night, with great music and a cheerful environment. There are also several interesting activities for the daytime. You can wander through the fragrant lavender fields or can enjoy a sunny afternoon at St. Stephen's Square. The medieval palace of Fortica offers a panoramic view of the island, due to its elevated position atop a hill, while the simplicity of the Benedictine Monastery will transport you back in time. Hvar is an amazing blend of traditional heritage and modern culture that displays the true spirit of Croatia.
One of the best known Croatian islands, Hvar island is also home to the ancient town of Hvar, one of the oldest in Croatia and the Mediterranean. (Image by Pixabay.com)
These gems of the Croatian coast exhibit the most spellbinding features of the country. The enthralling art and architecture, as well as the pristine greenery, make for a dreamlike experience. A visit to these stunning destinations is a must, to revel in the splendor of Croatia.
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How to install microsoft office 2010 without product key
How to install microsoft office 2010 without product key. how can reinstall microsoft office without a product key 2019-02-13
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:27:47 PM Manuel
Installing Office 2010 without product key
Dealing With Lost Keys No one likes losing keys, whether it's your apartment fob, car keys or your Excel 2015 product key. Is it recommending to active account first? If you come up dry, try contacting the retailer from which you originally purchased the software or, if Office was included on your computer, the hardware manufacturer. That way I have no problem moving the license to a new machine. Wondering how you can get a new product key for a Microsoft Office suite? I was able to do this with the previous version of Office. Now you need an activator to active the account. Assuming Office 2010 or earlier.
How To Recover Office 2010 Product Key
Download and run the utility to view your product key. Office 365 is much easier to deal with in that respect. That way you don't blow up the license. Almost all of computer users use it to work or write something, or do with data. Unzip the file you received.
How to Find Your Microsoft Office 2010 or 2007 Product Key
I did not use Pro for mine. I then deployed the image to a new computer, and when I opened Office I was given the option to enter a purchased key. When the image boots on the new computer for the first time when you open office it will prompt for a new key. Chamele0n wrote: I actually just got done creating some images. If you were to use the trial on your image instead of the preinstall kit, I would be curious to know what happens after the 60 days are up for your trial.
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I am building up a standard image which will be used to deploy all new computers initially 9 - but hopefully a regular amount over the coming months. You will have to install the key after the install. I think it's 10 or 30 times, not positive. The following procedure works equally well to find the product key for any Microsoft Office 2010 or 2007 suite, like Office Professional 2010, Office Professional Plus 2010, Office Ultimate 2007, etc. Its office suite of software that will deliver product or services. Then, write down the product key for Office or another app , and keep it somewhere. Thanks 1,000,000 and please carry on the gratifying work.
I purchased 2010 several years ago but it came without disc, just a piece of card with the number but I cannot find it. In most cases, the Product Activation Sorcerer will help you through the online activation procedure. Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. You absolutely have to have your product key. To create this article, volunteer authors worked to edit and improve it over time. Whatever the reason, you just cannot find the number.
Activate MS Office Without Product Key: How to Activate MS Office Without Product Key & Microsoft Office Product Key Activation
However this would work somewhat like windows does. But then again, maybe it will just automatically ask for a key after the trial is over. It cannot be moved to another computer. I assume you would have to activate it prior to imaging otherwise you wouldnt be able to activate it that many times! Clicking Install Now will install all of the Office products included in the version that you purchased. Is there any chance you have an image copy backup that has Office installed on it. At the bottom, there is an option call account. In the Office 365 era, product keys have largely been usurped by account systems because you definitely need to remember your 2,000th unique password so go ahead and dive into your new Microsoft Office software sans product key — the word-processing water is just fine.
While you can't just copy an installed program and move it from one computer to another, there's a way to get the product key and installer for Office, and several other programs. Granted, I haven't tried it myself, but it works for system builders, why wouldn't it work the same for you? Just download ind install LibreOffce. Feel free to breathe that sigh of relief now. It said it had added the entries to the registry, then took a long time to reboot. Let me know if you need anything else. To get the product key, , and run it. I don't know if a non-volume license product key will work in this scenario since I have been entering a legal and valid volume license product key for these installs.
how can reinstall microsoft office without a product key
Whether you're dealing with Microsoft Office 2019, Office 365 or Microsoft Office 2016, product keys have largely become a thing of the past — so activating Office without a product key is actually the standard way to do it. But if you used a volume license, wouldn't that have been for Office 2010 Professional? How to Activate Office 2013? Hello Juan, Which Office version are you trying to reinstall? Then following my previous instructions for removing the Registration Key from the Registry. But unfortunately, we always encounter some problems when we prepare to. If you bought your copy of Office as a digital download, search your email's inbox; the product key for pre-Windows 10 software would have been emailed to you in a purchase confirmation message. You would need at least 1 volume license as Justin said. Note: — If the activator shows that you need a. That way you don't blow up the license.
However, it seems I cannot install Office 2010 onto the reference machine without providing a product key. Look how much time and money you just wasted. If you explain the situation to them, they should give you a new key to activate Office on your new computer. Whenever I setup systems for customers I now always put in the actual key for the system. Would I be able to sign up for this, or is this limited to certain types of companies? Then Just go to the following official site and download the. You could try a silent install by modifying Config.
How to recover guide might also interest you. These steps will also work even if you just have one member of the suite installed. It is only with the product key that one can register their product and receive updates and patches for the same. If you purchased your software separate from your computer — the most common use-case scenario for product keys — check the label or card inside the box, assuming you still have it. The only installation that'll remain will be the final install when I get my machine back. However, I have never seen on an audit them tracking the number of installs, but the number of active copies.
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Sri Dalada Perahara in the unforgettable days gone by
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Esala Perahara, 2010 Kandy Sri Lanka
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A contemporary poem ‘Dalada Alankaraya’ describe the order of the procession and how the banners were marshalled.
After the fall of Kandy on March 2nd, 1815 General Sir Robert Brownrigg Bert held a Perahara a mile long on May 3rd, 1815 which wellnigh rivalled the processions of the Kandyan monarchs.
A new feature added to the procession was the personnel of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment with their drums being played on western notations. In this mile long procession, the place of the King was taken by ex-Prime Minister Ehelepola. The event is commemorated in the ‘Dalada Pujavaliya’ and ‘Dalada Siritha’, a compendium of the former.
Again on May 28th, 1828 Governor Sir Edward Barnes organised a Perahera in Kandy to transfer the Sacred Tooth Relic from the British government to that of the Kandyan Chiefs. The celebration was elaborately arranged according to ancient customs and magnificently carried out.
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Buddhists from all parts of the island attended and by the command of the Governor low country chiefs for the first time too participated in the pageant along with the Kandyan Chiefs.
From the earliest times banners were carried in religious and royal processions in ancient Sri Lanka. This was especially the case in Perahara escorting the Sacred Tooth and Bowl Relics and those connected with the worship of the devales. These Perahara or religious pageants held at the capital were great national institutions patronised by the kings to display their power and magnificence to their subjects as much as to honour the Relics and worship the Gods.
Thus in the festivals as well as in war there is little doubt that in addition to the standards of the God-kings the banners of the princes, provinces and departments of the realm were carried.
Kandy Esala Perahera
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The banners and standards borne before the procession were: The Buddhist flag, Sinhala Rajakeeya Dajaya (Sinhalese Royal Flag) having the figure of a lion holding a sword. In the mile long procession the place of the Sinhalese king was taken by the ex-Prime Minister Ehelepola.
The Perahara was headed by eighty gaily caparisoned huge tuskers attended by a number of personnel. Immediately following the tuskers were the Mahanayaha Theras of Malwatte and Asgiriya accompanied by two young monks. Following them were one hundred and fifty monks according to their seniority of ordination moving in a single file. Behind them an Image of Lord Buddha was carried under a canopy followed by sixty men carrying sixty banners of different hue and colour. The dancing girls, conch-shell blowers and drummers had their places in the procession.
The first Adigar Molligoda and Chiefs of the Kandyan nobility in full, ceremonial attire were headed by whip-crackers making an unbroken ear-splitting cracking. They were followed by two hundred principal Headmen in full state attire. Next came men marching with guns and cannons hauled along.
A new feature added to the procession was the personnel of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment with their drums being played on western notations. Just behind the soldiers was a huge tusker gaily decorated moving majestically with a ‘ranhiligey’ or ‘karanduwa’ where it was deposited the Sacred Tooth Relic with two other tuskers on either side.
Following other chieftains in Kandyan attire was John D’Oyley, Chief Commissioner of the Kandyan Provinces, who was Governor’s representative. They were following by six more elephants on whose back were mounted Sacred images.
Carrier of the Relic Casket
Ehelepola, ex-Prime Minister took the place of the King. He rode on horse back last in the procession clad in a beautifully ornamented Kandyan dress. The Perahara arrived at the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic at 4.00 p.m. and as the time was inauspicious to enter the Temple and therefore, had to move again around the Grand Square till the time considered propitious. Then the guns fired a salute by the Royal Artillery of the Garrison.
After the Sacred Tooth Relic was taken into the Temple the Governor’s representative D’Oyley declared before the Maha Nayake Theras that he was making an offering of a beautifully finished musical clock on the orders of the Governor Robert Brownrigg.
Since the British occupied Kandy, a Board of Commissioners were appointed as custodians of the Sacred Tooth Relic because the last King of Kandy Sri Wickrema Rajasinha abandoned the capital in the face of the British attack. The Relic Chamber of the Temple of the Tooth was carefully and jealously guarded by a British sentry at all times.
The keys of the Chamber as well as the caskets were added to the official property of the Government Agent of Kandy.
Thirteen years after the first Perahara by the Britishers, the second Perahara was held on May 28th, 1828 to transfer the Sacred Tooth Relic from the custody of the British government to that of the Kandyan chiefs. The celebrations was elaborately arranged according to ancient customs and magnificently carried out. In the Perahera the then Governor Sir Edward and Lady Barnes participated in the Perahara and went in the procession in a palanquin.
‘The Times of Ceylon’ of April 15th, 1901 gives the following account:-
The Perahara was a magnificent spectacle. It is described as best ever seen in Ceylon. This festival, as one of the principal features of the days programme, evoked the keenest interest and it is impossible to describe the scene which the town and the precincts of the Maligava and the pavilion presented. From an early hour in the evening the streets were packed and every coign of advantage held dense throngs.
The record number of sixty three elephants took part in the procession, which also included two hundred and ninety torch bearers and 300 dancers, in addition to about fifty chiefs dressed in full Kandyan costumes and led by W. Dunuwilla and the ‘Dewa Nilames’. In all about two thousands people took part in the Perahera, which was about half a mile long. The Perahara which had been announced as a private one, left the Temple at 9.30 p.m. and entering the pavilion grounds afforded a gorgeous spectacle. No one was allowed to enter the grounds except the few people invited.
Their Royal Highnesses viewed the procession from the balcony, being supported by the Governor, and on arriving in front, the portion of the Perahara formed up on the lawn. The Maligava elephants took up the central position, with the devale elephants on either side; the chiefs ranging themselves at both ends.
The dancers were then brought in front and their Royal Highnesses were treated to a few minutes dancing. The Duke of Cornwall then intimated his desire to meet the Chiefs; and later, when they were drawn up in front in a semi-circle with Mr. Dunuwille in the centre. His Royal Highness came down the stairs with the Governor on his right and Mr. Wace on his left; and Mr. Dunuwille was presented.
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The origin of Sri Dalada Perahera tradition
Knox’s impressions of the Kandy Perahara
Esala festival and the Dalada Perahara
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City’s Sea View CRU a landmark of progress
Published 15th June 2016
STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE
Today I visited the City of Cape Town’s Sea View development in Hangberg, which is now home to 71 families. The first 26 beneficiaries moved in just before Christmas and the final 45 have made the development their home in the last week, just as winter is commencing.
Sea View is a milestone of one of the goals we set out to achieve at the beginning of this administration in 2011. The Hangberg area was then identified as an area in great need of development and redress in our Integrated Development Plan.
Today we have delivered on that commitment and the promise we made to the people of Hangberg. Continue reading →
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Six changes for DHL WP for City Park clash
DHL Western Province coach John Dobson has made six changes to his starting XV for their clash with the Down Touch Griffons at City Park on Saturday.
The match was originally scheduled for Faure Street in Paarl, but has been moved due to weather and pitch concerns, whilst the kick-off time has also changed to an hour earlier to 15h00 on Saturday with entry R20 at the gate.
Following their bye last week, Dobson has made three changes to the backline and three changes to the forward pack that did duty in their 43-34 victory over the Leopards in Potchefstroom.
Sibahle Maxwane gets an opportunity out on the left wing, and there is an all-new halfback pairing in Robert du Preez and Godlen Masimla who have both recovered from their respective injury concerns.
Up front there are two new flanks in Jurie van Vuuren and Eital Bredenkamp, with Luke Stringer and Beyers de Villiers moving to the replacements bench, and in the front row hooker Chad Solomon makes his return after a spell on the sidelines due to injury.
Dobson said that after a deserved break his team are determined to build on the strong foundation they have established and finish the campaign strong. Continue reading →
Posted in Cape Town Stuff!, Sports stuff
Road to Gold Cup: Springbok-inspired champions send out warning
Springbok squad members Ruan Combrinck, Franco Mostert and Jaco Kriel enjoy the atmosphere last weekend at the Gold Cup qualifying match at Durbanville-Bellville Rugby Club between champions Durbell and contenders Hamiltons. The trio surprised both teams in their changerooms before the match. Photo: Peter Heeger/Gallo Images
Reigning Gold Cup champions Durbanville-Bellville sent out a strong warning that they won’t be giving up their title without a fight, after a sensational comeback inspired by a surprise visit by members of the Springbok squad.
As part of SA Rugby’s #LoveRugby story, the uncapped trio of Ruan Combrinck, Jaco Kriel and Franco Mostert paid a surprise visit to the changerooms of both Durbell and visitors Hamiltons ahead of their much-anticipated Western Province Super League clash in Cape Town last Friday.
The players’ stirring motivational talks to the two sides – ranked one and three among the country’s non-university clubs – inspired one of the finest club matches of the season, with Durbell sensationally overturning a 25-3 deficit after 30 minutes to score 52 points in the final hour for a 55-32 victory.
“The players had no idea the Springbok squad players were coming and they were just awestruck,” said Durbell head coach and former Griquas fullback Bobby Joubert.
“It was a massive honour not only for ourselves but also for Hamiltons to have our national heroes decide to spend the Friday night before a Test match at our club. Continue reading →
DHL WP v Griffons moved to City Park
The clash between DHL Western Province and the Downtouch Griffons on Saturday has been moved from Faure Street in Paarl to City Park in Athlone due to weather and pitch concerns.
The match kick-off has also changed to an hour earlier to 15h00 on Saturday, with entry R20 at the gate.
DHL Western Province will be looking to add to their seven victories thus far this season, and close the gap on the table-topping ORC Griquas who have a bye.
City’s holiday programmes will help to beat boredom
School holidays signal a stressful period for many parents whose main concern is how to keep children occupied. Help is at hand in the form of a jam-packed holiday programme at the City’s recreational hubs, libraries, community centres/halls, nature reserves, sports fields and parks. Read more below:
The City of Cape Town’s various departments have pulled out all the stops to ensure that the holiday programme for the mid-year break will keep young and old well occupied. The programme caters for a broad range of tastes: those who prefer being indoors or outdoors, both physical and non-physical activities, and something for nature lovers.
The programme at the City’s nature reserves is sure to keep the young ones fascinated and well engaged. Among others, then can enjoy winter hikes, story-telling sessions and learning about animals, insects and birds. Continue reading →
Posted in Cape Town Stuff!
LOYISO BALA TO PERFORM AT THE V&A WATERFRONT Opening act: The Voice’s Eden Myrrh
Dates: Wednesday, 29 June
Times: Doors open at 19h00
Performances start at 19h30
Venue: Chavonnes Battery Museum, Silo District
Bookings: www.quicket.co.za
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Contact: V&A Info Centre on 021 408 7600 or info@waterfront.co.za
Cape Town, June 2016 — Fans of talented South African singer and songwriter Loyiso Bala can experience his incredible vocal range up close in an intimate, acoustic performance at the V&A Waterfront’s Chavonnes Battery Museum in the Silo District on Wednesday, 29 June.
The popular R&B artist’s voice was honed by classical training received at the prestigious Drakensburg Boys Choir, and at age 19 he was appointed as the youngest conductor of the National Youth Choir. Continue reading →
Orlando shooting: Gunman Omar Mateen was a closet homosexual, say friends – as wife faces charges after ‘helping him scope out attack’
This from telegraph.co.uk:
Was Omar Mateen secretly gay?
The man who murdered 49 people at a gay club in Orlando was a closet homosexual who used gay dating apps and frequented gay bars, according to friends and locals in the city.
On Tuesday police were considering pressing charges against Omar Mateen’s second wife, Nour Salman, 30, who told the FBI she went with him to scope out possible targets, and that she had tried to stop him from carrying out the attack.
Ms Salman lived in a suburb of Chicago before moving to Fort Pierce with Mateen in November 2012. In December 2015 she is believed to have left Florida and moved in with relatives in Rodeo, California. She has not spoken publicly and has scrubbed her social media accounts since the attack. Her few remaining pictures show her smiling and posing with Mateen and a child believed to be their son. A photo from Instagram Salman shows Mateen kissing a child, with the caption: “Daddy’s boy.”
Yet others who knew the New York-born killer have painted a picture of a gay man who could not come to terms with his sexuality.
“I recognise his face,” said Justin Datz, 33, who works at Parliament – a hotel and resort which has been home to the city’s gay community since 1975.
“I’m not on gay dating apps or anything anymore, but he certainly looks familiar. So when I heard he frequented gay bars around here, it all made sense.”
Full story here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/orlando-gunman-was-a-regular-at-lgbt-nightclub-pulse-before-atta/
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Informal Economy Summit highlights the value of informal trading
If Cape Town’s informal economy was shut down, it would lead to an additional 170 000 individuals joining the queues of unemployed who desperately seek some form of employment. These were some of the insights from the Informal Economy Summit, taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre this week. Read more below:
These numbers should be quite sobering, especially for many residents and some in the formal business sector who are against any informal trading in their areas. Informal traders eke out a living by plying their trade in areas where there is high foot traffic to ensure they can capitalise on the economic opportunities.
‘While Cape Town’s informal sector may be relatively small, especially by emerging country standards, its penetration into the most vulnerable households in the city and its impact in terms of poverty reduction are disproportionately large,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Tourism, Events and Economic Development, Councillor Garreth Bloor, during his opening address at the fourth annual Informal Economy Summit yesterday, 13 June 2016. Continue reading →
Theron makes eight changes for France clash
Junior Springbok coach Dawie Theron made eight changes to his team to face France in their final pool match in the World Rugby Under-20 Championship at the Academy Stadium in Manchester on Wednesday.
The changes, which the coach described as being a case of horses for courses, included two positional switches, with Curwin Bosch and Manie Libbok switching between fullback and flyhalf.
The other three changes in the backline were at centre where JT Jackson replaces Franco Naude, while wing Edwill van der Merwe and scrumhalf Embrose Papier earn their first starts as replacements for Mosolwa Mafuma and James Hall respectively.
Among the forwards, hooker Jan-Henning Campher and lock Ruben de Villiers were also handed their first starts in place of Tango Balekile and Eduard Zandberg respectively, while Cobus Wiese replaces Ersnt van Rhyn at flank.
Only two players retained their places on the bench from the clash against Argentina, namely props Nicolaas Oosthuizen and Jaco Holtzhausen. They will be joined by Balekile, Hall, Naude, looseforward Denzel Hill, fullback Keanu Vers and Van Rhyn, who will provide cover at lock. Continue reading →
Valhalla Park youth get a kick out of skateboarding
About 30 young people between the ages of four and 16 who are part of the City’s skateboarding programme are getting a kick out of life and skateboarding in their new VANS kicks. Read more below:
This group of youngsters are part of a skateboarding programme that takes place at the City of Cape Town’s Valhalla Skate Park. It forms part of the afterschool and Early Childhood Development programmes at the recreational hub. The City’s Sport, Recreation and Amenities (SRA) Department and the Indigo Youth Movement recently concluded a partnership agreement that allows Indigo to provide training in life skills and skateboarding to the youth of Valhalla Park and surrounding areas. Continue reading →
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About the Staff Member: Cheryl Brusgulis
Before joining the ACMI staff as Administrative/Programming Assistant, Cheryl volunteered during more than a decade at Arlington's local access television studio. Her series production credits during that time included Golden Opportunities, The Front Page, Cable Cuisine and Cable Spotlight as well as several individual programs. She subsequently videotaped several meetings for the Arlington Historical Society . Cheryl was a producer and editor of the program series Inside Arlington and The Family Food Show. She was a member of the board of the Arlington Cable Access (ACA) group where she held the positions of Secretary and Clerk. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, mixed media arts and is an avid photographer. An Arlington resident for more than thirty years, Cheryl has come to appreciate the' unique charms of Arlington. Now that the studio at which she first volunteered has stepped so boldly into the technology of twenty-first century cablecasting, she looks forward to seeing more of her fellow Arlingtonians make use of the ACMi studio facility. You can contact Cheryl at cheryl@acmi.tv
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[FL] After mom-of-4 Kyishi Dowdell's murder, Chief stands by Sgt. Flynt
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[FL] Wondering if Sgt. Flynt's grandchildren really had to lose their mother, Kyishi?
The video and the accompanying news story today didn't say the same things on this Fox 35 report so I've transcribed the text of the video below. In the video Chief "Mike" Chitwood says there's been a call for Sgt. Jimmie Flynt's resignation. So far that's not showing up on the internet anywhere besides in this video, so I don't know what's up... but I do know that over the last few days that almost everything heard from the Chief has been focused on clearing Sgt. Flynt of any suspicions that Flynt's son /Kyishi Dowdell's killer - Craig Flynt - could have been apprehended before this murder happened.
I also find it interesting in the video that the Chief apparently relayed that THERE IS NO NEED for an internal affairs investigation. In the face of speculations and calls for Sgt. Flynt's resignation? It's up to the citizens of Daytona to insist if they want answers or assurances - to wave signs in the street, fill the city council chambers, and PRAY for help from the media. Otherwise Daytona will get the leadership, and the police department that any complacent community deserves.
What stands out to me in the article that isn't in the video - is the Chief pointing out that Kyishi moved Craig Flynt's shooting away from her children by stepping out of the house and away from the door that the first shot had passed through - to save her babies,
that the Chief says that there's nothing that could have been done.
I never like hearing that. Seems like lessons for the police department that have been paid for with blood are lost - leaving the death completely in vain, and no promise of better operations in the future.
That's really sad.
Anchor 1, Corrina Sullivan:
A woman is dead. The suspect the son of a Daytona Police Sgt. Tonight the case is in the hands of the judicial system. And Daytona Police Chief Mike Chitwood says their case is airtight.
Anchor 2, Cale Remaker:
Tonight he tells us he's concerned for HIS employee, and his grandchildren. First on Fox Shay Harris spent the day in Daytona talking to the chief, and what did Chief Chitwood have to say?
Reporter Shay Harris:
Well Cal, Chief Chitwood says Sgt. Jimmie Flynt is having a very hard time with this - quite naturally because it involves his son. Plus he says Sgt. Flynt had really worked hard to try to help bring in his son in before something like this happened.
Chief Chitwood says the case against 37 year old Craig Flynt is pretty solid. He says four of his officers watched Flynt fire the final shots into 31 year old Kyishi Dowdell. He said for months Flynt had evaded them after he issued a warrant to bring him in because he violated probation for a domestic violence conviction.
Chief Chitwood says Sgt. Jimmie Flynt played a major role in his son's arrest back in November in which Flynt spent 57 days in jail. He says he'd also tried on numerous occasions to try to get him to surrender.
Now Chief Chitwood says there's been rumors of Flynt's resignation. - something he won't stand for.
Daytona Police Chief "Mike" Chitwood:
Know that when he did call his father he called from a blocked number because he knew that he'd track him through the phone number.
[Section is edited out as Chief picks up talking about Flynt resignation. Why?]
And that would be a loss to the City of Daytona Beach. My insistance I would insist that he stay because he is a huge part of this department, he is a huge part of this community.
Now Chief Chitwood says they've turned their investigaton over to the state so he says there has been no need for an internal affairs investigation.
We're live in Daytona Beach, Shay Harris, Fox 35 News.
Alright Shay, now the chief says it's a very strong case. Did he share with you what evidence he has to make him think that?
Shay Harris:
Yeah Cal, he actually said that eyewitness accounts from neighbors, the police, and the children are stacked very heavily against Flynt. Plus he said Flynt had the gun in his hand - he had the murder weapon in his hand, is what he said.
Alright, Shay Harris in Daytona Beach tonight. Thanks.
The Article:
CHIEF SAYS MURDERER HAD WRITTEN HIS OWN ENDING
By Shay Harris
FOX 35 NEWS
Wednesday, 06 Aug 2008
[Excerpts] VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- While the final moments of thirty one year old Kyishi Dowdell’s life were being decided 911 calls were pouring in. Frantic neighbors were watching from their windows as police say thirty-seven year old Craig Flynt fired several bullets into Dowdell, ending her life... Daytona Police Chief Mike Chitwood said Flynt had written this ending months ago. “If you read that May (report), it was foreboding what was going to happen,” Chitwood said. “If you read the (report) in November where he was arrested and sentenced to 57 days for domestic violence, unfortunately the system fails when it comes to domestic violence.” For years police records indicate a history of repeated violence against Dowdell at the hands of Flynt. Then finally on March 14th Dowdell had enough. Chief Chitwood said she filed for an injunction for protection after Flynt put a gun to her head [CLOUD NOTE; AND GUN IN HER MOUTH] while one of their children watched. “No there isn’t anything she could’ve done,” he said. “In hindsight, 20-20, I feel horrible that we couldn’t make that arrest knowing I put a two day bounty on his head knowing I formed a posse consistently looking for the guy...
The fact that he fires a shot through the door... And she goes outside to confront him and walks away from the front door before she meets her demise was the sole purpose of that was to get him away from those children, not knowing what he was capable of doing in her act she was truly a hero.”
[Full article here]
Cloud_Writer August 09, 2008
MOTHER OF FOUR KILLED BY CHILDREN’S FATHER
Daytona Times
Andreas Butler And Karsceal Turner
...Flynt came to the house with a gun and fired one shot into the house before firing on Dowdell when she came to the door... The couple’s children are doing okay, but have lost both parents. Police Chief Chitwood believes that Dowdell was heroic in her last moments... “I think that she was a true hero. He came to the door shooting and her kids were inside. I am not sure, but maybe her coming outside prevented him from shooting inside the house and killing the kids. She closed the door knowing that she had kids in the house”...
http://www.daytonatimes.com/index.php?categoryid=1&p2_articleid=23
Behind The Blue Wall November 11, 2011
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL PAYS TRIBUTE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Eileen Zaffiro
[Excerpts] ...Something incredibly ugly turned into something beautiful Sunday night, as dozens of people decked out in dresses and suits and clutching flickering candles stood outside an aging red brick church, sending prayers into the overcast sky as it changed from gray to black. Their songs and petitions echoed down Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard as they gathered beside New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church to remember a woman killed two weeks ago, and all of those who have suffered similar abuse. Let women know they're better than a piece of meat to beat on," one local pastor told the crowd. "We can meet here all night long, but if our minds are not changed, nothing will happen." The only reason this continues is because we're silent," another pastor said. The violence needs to stop," the crowd chanted loudly, over and over and over. The candlelight vigil was motivated by the slaying of Kyishi Dowdell, who police say was shot to death Aug. 4 by her ex-boyfriend, Craig Flynt... The vigil was organized by the Daytona Beach Black Clergy Alliance... Rev. John Long, said he hoped the event raised awareness among those of every race and in every walk of life... "Ask the Lord to intervene, interrupt, to stop the violence, protect the weak, to speak to whatever excuse we give," Long said as he urged the group to lift their candles toward the stars. "Love does not batter, hit, cut, burn or pinch."
9-1-1 TAPES PAINT IMAGE OF SHOOTING SCENE
Lyda Longa
[Excerpts] ...Dowdell and Flynt had a tumultuous history. They were together for 12 years... Dowdell called police many times because Flynt had beaten her and threatened her with a gun. Police Chief Mike Chitwood said officers had been searching for Flynt since mid-May when a judge signed a warrant for his arrest for violation of probation for domestic battery. But some of Dowdell's family members have expressed doubts about how aggressive the search actually was, saying they had seen Flynt more than once driving a white car around town. That same car was parked in the front yard at 820 Maley where the shooting occurred, according to the transmissions. A report shows that as four officers closed in on the scene, they saw Flynt shoot Dowdell one last time in the head. There is no mention of that, however, in the radio transmissions. As Flynt ran to the front porch at 820 Maley and pointed the gun to his temple, officers angrily yelled, "Put the gun down!" Police said Flynt repeatedly pulled the trigger, but the gun was empty. Meanwhile, the victim's children -- ages 5 through 12 -- were alone in the house at 828 Maley across the street. Two of the youngsters had already called 9-1-1 to report that someone -- they did not know who -- was shooting their mother. There are signal 39s (children) in the house," a dispatcher told police. "If somebody can be aware, they're looking out the window."
MURDERER PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE FLYNT APOLOGIZES TO VICTIM'S FAMILY FOR KILLING MOTHER OF HIS 4 CHILDREN
Jay Stapleton
[Excerpts] The man [Craig Leron Flynt] who gunned down the mother of his four children [Kyishi Dowdell] in front of several witnesses apologized to the slain woman's family - and his own - Monday before he was sentenced to life in prison for the killing... Flynt pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder charge before Circuit Judge Patrick G. Kennedy. "Kyishi was - and forever will be to me - a young, beautiful, vibrant, talented, friendly, courageous human being," her mother, Carol James, wrote in a letter to the judge. "She loved life, she loved God, she loved and lived her life for her children and daily showed them her love ... even in her final act to protect and shield them from the fatal assault"... Flynt, 38, who is the son of Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmie Flynt, said he wished he could go back and change the outcome... Among the most heart-wrenching of calls made to 9-1-1 that night was the recorded voice of their 11-year-old son. "Somebody's trying to shoot my momma," the boy said. In the background, a younger child was heard screaming, "Mommy!"... Instead of facing the death penalty, Flynt will spend the rest of his life locked away, without the possibility of parole. Prosecutor Matt Foxman said that the plea deal was agreed upon after numerous meetings with Dowdell's family.
MAN WHO KILLED EX-GIRLFRIEND GETS LIFE TERM
Orlando Sentinel
Lelis, Ludmilla
14 Oct 2008.
[Excerpts] Kyishi Dowdell had been warned of her own murder just a few months before she was gunned down... "Craig told me that this time I wasn't getting out of this because the gun was loaded with six bullets, and he had three in his pocket," the woman, 31, wrote in court documents in May when she filed for an injunction against Craig Flynt, her former boyfriend and the father of her four children... Court records show a history of violence and past death threats. Dowdell had gotten a protective order against Flynt in 2006, and he was convicted of domestic-violence abuse against her. The 2006 protective order had expired earlier this year, and Dowdell asked for a new injunction in May, after Flynt pistol-whipped her... Her mother, Carol James, wrote in a letter to the judge that Dowdell's death was her final act to protect the children from their father. "They bore witness to the defendant's violent outbursts, his physical assaults upon their mother and ultimately his deliberate and cowardly disregard for her and for her life itself," James wrote... In court, Flynt hung his head as Circuit Judge Patrick Kennedy accepted his plea and handed down the life sentence. "I wish I could do something to change it," Flynt said, apologizing to Dowdell's family. Then he faced his own family, saying: "I'm sorry. I love y'all."
KILLER: VOICES PROMPTED SHOOTING JUDGE DENIES REQUEST TO TAKE BACK PLEA
[Excerpts] A man serving life in prison for killing his longtime girlfriend wants to take back his guilty plea and sentence, claiming in court Monday that he was hearing voices when he gunned her down. Craig Leron Flynt, 40, pleaded no contest to the August 2008 killing of Kyishi Dowdell... Flynt claimed in his Monday hearing that he was forced into the plea that led to his life sentence and that an insanity defense was not explored. He said in court for the first time that he "heard voices" when he shot Dowdell, prosecutors said. Circuit Judge Patrick Kennedy listened but denied Flynt's request... Representing himself in court during the two-hour hearing Monday, prosecutors said Flynt - the son of Daytona Beach police investigator and spokesman Jimmie Flynt - argued he was denied his right to go to trial because Assistant Public Defender Matt Phillips "coerced and threatened him" to plead to the charge...
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An international team of scientists has produced the world’s first global database of vegetation plots, which contains over 1.1 million complete lists of plant species abundances from field surveys across all terrestrial ecosystems.
The research is published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. It was led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, with scientists from the University of Nottingham’s School of Geography being the leading UK scientists on the project.
The key area of the work, according to Dr Richard Field from the University of Nottingham, is that the team has produced the first global view of plant communities. He said: “Until now, our understanding of plant strategies and their fit to environment has come from comparing individual species, or from particular parts of the world.”
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All plants face the same basic challenges, whether they are small grasses, shrubs or trees. “For example, they have to find an efficient way to conduct photosynthesis in order to obtain the energy they need. At the same time, they compete with neighbouring plants for limited resources in the soil, like water and nutrients,” explains Professor Helge Bruelheide from the Institute of Biology / Geobotany at MLU and co-director of iDiv.
Currently around 390,000 plant species are known to science. Over time, species have developed different traits and trait combinations in reaction to the living and non-living environments at their locations. These include plant size and the thickness and chemical make-up of leaves. These properties are also known as functional plant traits.
Until now, researchers have primarily investigated different combinations of these functional traits from the perspective of individual plant species. “In reality, however, plant species rarely occur alone; plants live in communities,” says Bruelheide. Therefore, vegetation plot databases are needed that contain data on all of the plants growing at specific locations.
Up until now there has been no database of databases, to compile and harmonise all the different datasets that exist. As a result, the "sPlot" initiative was launched at the iDiv research centre to develop and set up the first global vegetation plot database, unifying and merging the existing datasets.
"sPlot" currently contains 23.6 million records of 55,000 plant species’ occurrences in 1.1 million vegetation plots from every continent, information that has been collected over decades by thousands of researchers from all over the world. The database, which is described in a separate paper accepted in the last week for publication in the Journal of Vegetation Science, could help better predict the consequences of global climate change.
The scientists in the research group combined this massive dataset with the world's largest database of plant traits, which is called “TRY” and is also an iDiv database platform. They tested, for instance, to what extent global factors influence the functional traits of plant communities.
Contrary to current opinion, they found that temperature and precipitation play a relatively limited role. “Surprisingly, these two macro-factors are not so important. Our analysis shows, for example, that plant communities are not consistently characterised by thinner leaves as the temperature increases - from the Arctic to the tropical rainforest,” says Bruelheide. Instead, the researchers found a close tie between climate variables and the phosphorus supply in the leaves, reflected in the ratio between nitrogen and phosphorus content in the leaf, which is an indicator of plant nutritional status. For example, the longer the growing season, the lower the phosphorus supply - this also affects leaf thickness.
Local land use and the interaction of the different plants at a specific location have a much greater impact on the functional traits of plant communities. These findings caution against forecasting future plant production on the basis only of simplistic temperature-precipitation models.
The study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution is the first in a series of upcoming papers by the "sPlot" consortium. Being available on request to other scientists, the “sPlot” database offers unprecedented opportunities to tackle numerous biodiversity questions at the global scale, including issues pertaining to the distribution of non-native plant species and the similarities and differences of plant communities across world regions.
Dr Franziska Schrodt from the University of Nottingham sums up the excitement: “Having this global database of plant abundance and functional traits gives us better insights into how plants relate to their environment than ever before. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how and why certain species of plants grow together and where their growth is limited by environmental conditions, such as soil nutrients. It will also help us to understand how plant communities might change with climate change in the future. It is great to see the global patterns emerging from the data for the first time.”
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In Her Head: Psychological Criticism and Dickinson
Posted on October 7, 2011 by korbm
A photo of Emily Dickinson taken in 1848.
Psychological Analysis, in its simplest form, is the dissection of an author’s works and theuse of these parts to understand their subconscious (Or, sometimes, conscious) intentions. As subjects for psychological analysis go, Emily Dickinson is as good a candidate as any. For much of her fifty-six years of life the poet remained at home and out of the public life. She shared her works mostly through letters with friends and family and, for the most part, rarely communicated with others. The poet kept council with friends or those in her family and her talents as a poet weren’t appreciated during her lifetime.
Now, we don’t want to go too much into the writer’s life. This is a post about psychological criticism, after all, not biographical. But this pension for isolationism can’t be ignored in the analysis and, in a way, forms the main point of Dickinson’s life and subconscious drives. Many of Dickinson’s works focus on loneliness and inward reflection, a habit that can be described as a subconscious, or unintentional, drive towards expressing her own isolationism.
Now, to start, it’s wise to delve into the root of this isolationism in Dickinson. Using bibliographic evidence it is hard to say why Dickinson had such a deep-seated desire to remain at home. Even at a young age she preferred to remain around her family, evident when she left Mount Holyoke Female Seminary when the homesickness became too much. It’s very probable that the desire to not leave home is an unconscious desire born from some past trauma, a topic Cathy Caruth dedicates some attention to in her work. Yet Dickinson’s past is so incomplete and any sign of trauma so buried that it is unlikely to find any source on the topic.
With biographical evidence lacking the written word is the next step. In the title-less “I had been hungry all the years” the speaker details how she, starving for so long, is given a chance to eat but, ultimately, refuses. Now, with psychological criticism you can look at the poem’s subject matter two ways: The food is literal and it is a poem written by someone who is suffering from anorexia or the food is a metaphor, the meal representing the things that the rest of the world enjoys (Everyone eats, after all) and that her presence as one of the “persons outside windows” means that the speaker is an outsider, only ever observing the action of “eating” and never partaking herself.
Social interaction has never looked so delicious.
Now, it could be that Dickinson suffered from Anorexia. The ailment was certainly around at Dickinson’s time and, while there is no evidence to support it, neither is their evidence to deny it. More likely, however, is this idea of the poem tapping into Dickinson’s own feelings of being isolated from society. She is the one outside the window, always watching other people indulging themselves on the pleasures of life. When given the chance to indulge herself in this meal, however, she is tempted but ultimately refuses, finding that she has no appetite for the food.
Using psychological criticism alone we can tell that Dickinson, through whatever early trauma or twist of subconscious imprinting, has lost her ‘appetite’ for social interaction. She is content with her place and is content with her life at home. She surrounds herself with family members who she has already formed bonds with, and for the writer that seems to be enough. And in a way she is fine with that: In the last stanza of the poem she accepts that she has no need for what others think they need to survive and accepts her psychological state, for good or ill.
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The EcoSport will be built at Ford’s plant in Chennai, from where it will also be exported to few other markets in Africa and Middle East. This probably the reason why the India launch has been delayed - Ford is trying to localize maximum components to keep prices in check.
The compact SUV segment is gaining popularity in India – the ride height of SUV, riding and handling of a sedan make them an apt choice on Indian roads. The Renault Duster has already demonstrated the opportunities in the steadily growing segment and there are few more lined-up from manufacturers like Honda (with their new Earth Dreams diesel engine), Hyundai and even Chevrolet. The Ford EcoSport has another advantage on this front – it is less than four meters in length and hence will be extremely maneuverable in city conditions.
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The Ford EcoSport is based on the Amercian car maker’s new Kinetic design philosophy. The hexagonal front grille is the new signature styling already seen on the Ford figo facelift and the recently launched D-segment sedan Mondeo. Unlike the jazzy projector units seen on the concept, the production version gets conventional bulb and reflector units. Fortunately the design remains same and the sleek angular headlamp console looks really neat. The crossover appears really big when looked at from the front, thanks to the fared wheel arches; the roof-rails give the EcoSport a rugged feel. But it looks compact from the side, due to the sub-4 meter length.
The hind side of the EcoSport holds the integrity of the design. The taillamp design is also sharp that gels with the overall flow. Also the door-handle for the tailgate is integrated into the chrome elements of console (look closely at the right-side taillamps, the chrome unit is the door handle). The spare tyre adds to the bulk of the car making it look marginally bigger and has also helped Ford cut the length for tax subsidies.
Ford Ecosport has been spotted testing in India in numerous colours and we expect few of them to be on sale. The flagship bold orange colour will certainly be a part of the list the concept version was unveiled in this colour in India. The Ecosport was also spotted in the new Kinetic Blue and Bright Yellow colours - we hope these are part of the final offering. The colours look superb on the new Figo facelift and go well with the Ford’s new design philosophy.
Ride & Handling:
Just like all Ford cars the EcoSport is expected to be a good handler. The benchmarks set by the Renault Duster are quite high, but the EcoSport with similar monocoque construction and front-wheel-drive setup should be able to match them. Ford might offer an all-wheel-drive version in the global market, but it won’t be made available in India anytime soon. Then again the EcoSport is mainly an urban crossover, not expected to do too much of off-roading.
The compact-SUV will be a five-seater only; also there won’t be an option of adding jumper seats to the rear. This also means that the EcoSport will be solely for personal use and won’t interest fleet car markets. The boot space of the Indian version should be somewhere around 350-litre – putting it at par with space in the C-segment sedans; rear seats can be folded 60:40 to increase space to 560-litre. The tall-boy riding position means that ingress & egress from the EcoSport will be relatively easy, though we suspect that the headroom in the second row might just be an issue for really tall passengers
The dashboard will most probably be black, with silver inserts for the top-end variants. Although, beige has always been the preferred by Indian customers, Ford has generally offered dark interiors giving a sporty touch. There are 20 storage places in the EcoSport including side drawer for the front co-passenger seat and a cooled glovebox. There is also a dedicated place to stow-away your umbrella. The other key features include hill launch start, keyless entry & drive, Bluetooth enabled music system, ABS-EBD with traction control.
Expected pricing:
The size and engine specs of the Ecosport are that of a small car as per the Indian regulations. This means it will get maximum tax benefits and will be positioned very competitively. The compact-SUV will have 80 per cent localized parts and the starting price of petrol variant is expected to be around Rs 6.5 lakh – notch below that of the Renault Duster. The diesel variants should start around Rs 7.5 lakh, while the top-end titanium diesel version is expected to cost Rs12.5 lakh.
Ford is still mum about the rollout date, but has now started building for the launch with the new Ecosport Urban Discovery contest and by displaying the new Ecosport at few prominent locations across metro cities. We did spend some time with the Ecosport at one of these outing and have put together a small first look video of the compact SUV. We suspect that the Ecosport will be launched by the end of May with deliveries starting June. Check the link below for more details of exteriors and interiors of the much awaited car.
jacob jones says:
Ford Ecosport is the first compact SUV of Indian market which has off-beat looks and chiseled exterior.Its incredible interior and luxury quotient makes it a better option than newly successful sensation Renault Duster.
Ford Ecosport is a close rival of Duster which is going to break its ongoing success in a big way.Its a perfect combination of looks and power.
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Boeing, Xerox Join 185 Groups Objecting to House Health Plan - Bloomberg.com
My employer says Obamacare would cause obstacles to providing health care for its employees. Bloomberg.com:
Boeing Co., Xerox Corp. and Caterpillar Inc. are among 185 companies and business groups objecting to health-care legislation in the U.S. House that they say would hurt their ability to cover employees. The legislation may require companies to offer different coverage for workers depending on their location and limit changes to retiree benefits, the business coalition said in a letter being sent to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio. “These provisions will raise costs for both employers and employees without improving quality or efficiency,” the businesses said. The letter takes companies’ involvement in the health-care debate “up a level” after they previously had stuck with broad statements of support for an overhaul or let trade associations speak for them, said Julius Hobson, a senior policy adviser at Bryan Cave LLP in Washington. “There was a realization that in all likelihood, Congress is going to pass something,” Hobson said in an interview yesterday. “Businesses are trying to make sure it doesn’t harm them.” The letter to the House leaders is to be sent today, said Martin Reiser, chairman of the National Coalition on Benefits, a Washington group that gathered the signatures. Reiser is also a manager of government policy for Norwalk, Connecticut-based Xerox. Among those signing are organizations such as the National Retail Federation, the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and companies including AT&T Inc., Eastman Kodak Co., Deere & Co. , and Dow Chemical Co.
This has a lot of "may require" wording because the 3 House bills and I don't know how many Senate bills are all moving targets.
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PM Narendra Modi biopic: Twitter attacks Vivek Oberoi, gets trolled
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It's Vivek Oberoi. The poster has "Deshbhakti Hi Meri Shakti Hai (Patriotism is my power)" written on it. The first look poster of the ambitious venture will be unveiled on January 7, 2019.
The first look poster was launched in 23 languages by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. While most of these attempts at recreating a person's life story have proved to be commercially successful, but, what caught our attention is the news of Indian PM Narendra Modi getting his own biopic directed by Omung Kumar. "I truly believe that at the end of the journey I shall become a better actor and human being". He also called PM Modi as a world leader.
Fadnavis said it is great that a film on this scale is being made on Modi "under whose leadership India is not only touching new heights but the hopes and expectations of every citizen of India are being fulfilled". I am feeling the same kind of excitement and hunger because this is a role of a lifetime for any actor. "Vivek is very hardworking and I am sure all of them will make an evergreen film".
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Directed by Omung Kumar, PM Narendra Modi is being produced by and produced by Suresh Oberoi and Sandip Singh.
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Driver arrested in Milan after allegedly setting school bus on fire
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Photos showed the burnt-out shell of the bus and the vehicle, which were travelling on a road near Milan.
Police named the driver as Ousseynou Sy, a 47-year-old Italian citizen of Senegalese origin.
Authorities said that an adult called an emergency operator, while one of the students called a parent, and they alerted authorities, who set up roadblocks. Fourteen people were brought to the hospital due to smoke inhalation.
The man's motives are unclear, and prosecutors are not ruling out terrorism.
Alberto Nobili, head of counter-terrorism at the Milan public prosecutor's offices, said the suspect had not linked himself to any banned groups or movements.
"No one is getting out of here alive", he said, according to several of the students.
He posted a video on YouTube to explain his actions and call on relatives and friends in Crema and Senegal to take action, saying: "Africa - arise". "He handcuffed us and threatened us".
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"He threatened us, said that if we moved he would pour the petrol and set it alight".
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Matteo Salvini, Italy's far-right deputy prime minister, said: "At this moment the police are searching his home".
The Italian government has closed its ports to charity rescue ships that pick up migrants off the Libyan coast. "Then the carabinieri [police] saved us". Prosecutor Greco said the man kept two of the children close to him, brandishing the lighter.
All the children managed to escape before the bus burnt down.
The children, some of them tied up, were rescued through smashed windows at the back of the bus and no-one was badly hurt. "During the descent of the children from the vehicle, he set the bus on fire", said a tweet by the Carabinieri. Thousands of migrants have crossed from North Africa to Italy, many of them losing their lives on the unsafe journey.
In an apparent reference to the hundreds of migrants who have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya, the driver told the children, "Stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre", police reported.
Colleagues told Italian media that Sy's separation from his Italian wife, with whom he has two teenage children, was "when his problems started".
The driver was also known to have a conviction for sexual assault - which resulted in a year-long prison sentence - and a drunk driving conviction, Mr Nobili said. It gave no dates for the alleged offences.
Another 12-year-old student mentioned that the driver said three of his children had died on their way to Italy from Africa, so they deserved to die too.
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10 Paragraphs of Music Criticism
By Chronic on December 8, 2018 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration
Kodwo Eshun discusses selected paragraphs of music criticism, taking in Kim Gordon’s Art Forum essays, Philip Brophy’s 100 Modern Soundtracks, writing by Dave Tompkins and more, from Off The Page 2011 at the Playhouse Theatre in Whitstable. Talk: Kodwo Eshun discusses ten paragraphs of music criticism from Sound and Music on Vimeo.
Frantz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs
By Chronic on December 7, 2018 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
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Vietnamese is sino-tibetan Part 2
Discussions on the Cantonese language.
AlexNg
Post by AlexNg » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:35 pm
Since the original thread takes too long to download
viewtopic.php?t=660
We continue in this thread.
qrasy101
Re: Vietnamese is sino-tibetan Part 2
Post by qrasy101 » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:01 pm
I have found that there are tone marks in Hangul.
〮U+302E "Hangul Single Dot Tone Mark"
〯U+302F "Hangul Double Dot Tone Mark"
There is a possibility that one fixes high and low to countours and become "tones", may be this was how the African languages got their tones (only 2 usually).
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_dialect it's written:
"Shanghainese is rich in consonants and pure vowels [i y ɿ ɥ e E ə ɵ a ɒ ɔ ɤ o u]. Like other northern Wu dialects, the Shanghai dialect has voiced initials [b d g z v dʑ ʑ]. Neither Mandarin nor Cantonese have voiced initials."
>Voiced initials existed in Middle Chinese, so the difference with Mandarin makes nothing. Are there any voiced initials in Cantonese?
"Shanghainese is a register language, with only two live tonal constrasts (high and low). Compare this with 4 in Mandarin, and 6 in Cantonese. The Shanghainese tonal system is instead similar to African languages; different from other Chinese languages, Thai and Vietnamese. For more information on the tonal system, visit.."
<what I call tone is not "high", "low", but "rising", "falling"
"If the Ru tone and tones automatically related to the voiced initials (b d g z v dʑ ʑ) are not considered (as they are fixed into the syllabic structure), then the Shanghai dialect has only 2 live tonal contrasts (/53/ and /34/). This makes it especially unique amongst Chinese dialects."
<We know that Yang tones are automatically related to voiced initials, but we still call Middle Chinese as an 8-tone language (and not a 4-tone language), since Yang and Yin has different tonal value. SO there should be 3 tones in Shanghainese instead. May be RU tones may be abandoned since they are the same as qu, but YangShu is not the same as any Yin tone.
About this page, http://www.zanhe.com/pitch.html
I think even though it is High-Low-Low or anything they are still distinguishing "rising" and "falling"
Dylan Sung
Post by Dylan Sung » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:47 am
For two tone marks, there are three possible tone notations, two tone marks making two tones, and one without a tone marking giving a third tone.
>> <Voiced initials existed in Middle Chinese, so the
>> difference with Mandarin makes nothing. Are there
>> any voiced initials in Cantonese?
I'm not sure what the first statement means here. Voiced initials exist in Shanghaihua, and Middle Chinese, but in Mandarin, there are no voiced initials. The difference is quite an important phonological change between MC and Mandarin. Most historical Chinese phonology books deal with the difference between Mandarin and MC, so I won't go into it here. WANG Li wrote plenty of books on the subject, for instance.
Cantonese voicing means your vocal cords move during the pronunciation of a sound. All vowels are voiced, however, sounds such as laterals, and nasals involve some measure of voicing. The concern about voiced initials general revolves around the set which is found in Shanghaihua and MC. In Cantonese and Mandarin these survive as voiceless unaspirated set [p t k] and voiceless aspirated set [p<sup>h</sup> t<sup>h</sup> k<sup>h</sup>].
Dyl,
Viet_in_Mad_Wis
Post by Viet_in_Mad_Wis » Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:31 am
Just wanted to say that trying to prove that Vietnamese is a Sino-Tibetan language by examining the origins of the Vietnamese could prove fruitless since it is NOT true that: "genes = language"
1. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/5/1312 --brand new anthropology article; Feb 1, 2005.
"Gene flow across linguistic boundaries in Native North American populations"
Keith Hunley * and Jeffrey C. Long
"Cultural and linguistic groups are often expected to represent genetic populations. In this article, we tested the hypothesis that the hierarchical classification of languages proposed by J. Greenberg [(1987) Language in the Americas (Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA)] also represents the genetic structure of Native North American populations. The genetic data are mtDNA sequences for 17 populations gleaned from literature sources and public databases. The hypothesis was rejected. Further analysis showed that departure of the genetic structure from the linguistic classification was pervasive and not due to an outlier population or a problematic language group. Therefore, Greenberg's language groups are at best an imperfect approximation to the genetic structure of these populations. Moreover, we show that the genetic structure among these Native North American populations departs significantly from the best-fitting hierarchical models. Analysis of median joining networks for mtDNA haplotypes provides strong evidence for gene flow across linguistic boundaries. In principle, the language of a population can be replaced more rapidly than its genes because language can be transmitted both vertically from parents to children and horizontally between unrelated people. However, languages are part of a cultural complex, and there may be strong pressure to maintain a language in place whereas genes are free to flow. "
2. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/6/3325 --- many languages at first, then few---all from one set of genes, Native Ams, i.e. Few Genes vs Many Languages,
"Linguistic diversity of the Americas can be reconciled with a recent colonization"
Daniel Nettle, Merton College, Oxford
"The Americas harbor a very great diversity of indigenous language stocks, many more than are found in any other continent. J. Nichols [(1990) Language 66, 475-521] has argued that this diversity indicates a great time depth of in situ evolution. She thus infers that the colonization of the Americas must have begun around 35,000 years ago. This estimate is much earlier than the date for which there is strong archaeological support, which does not much exceed 12,000 years. Nichols' assumption is that the diversity of linguistic stocks increases linearly with time. This paper compares the major continents of the world to show that this assumption is not correct. In fact, stock diversity is highest in the Americas, which are by consensus the youngest continents, intermediate in Australia and New Guinea, and lowest in Africa and Eurasia where the time depth is greatest. If anything, then, after an initial radiation, stock diversity decreases with time. A simple model is outlined that predicts these dynamics. It assumes that early in the peopling of continents, there are many unfilled niches for communities to live in, and so fissioning into new lineages is frequent. As the habitat is filled up, the rate of fissioning declines and lineage extinction becomes the dominant evolutionary force."
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... s=10739760 ---on genetic disparity of Khoisan speaking Kung & Khwe
"mtDNA variation in the South African Kung and Khwe-and their genetic relationships to other African populations."
Chen YS, Olckers A, Schurr TG, Kogelnik AM, Huoponen K, Wallace DC.
"The mtDNA variation of 74 Khoisan-speaking individuals (Kung and Khwe) from Schmidtsdrift, in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, was examined by high-resolution RFLP analysis and control region (CR) sequencing... the Kung exhibited a set of related haplotypes that were positioned closest to the root of the human mtDNA phylogeny, suggesting that they, too, represent one of the most ancient African populations. Comparison of Kung and Khwe CR sequences with those from other African populations confirmed the genetic association of the Kung with other Khoisan-speaking peoples, whereas the Khwe were more closely linked to non-Khoisan-speaking (Bantu) populations. "
----So, Kung and Khwe both speak Khoisan, but Khwe are quite genetically dissimilar to Kung. Kung are light skinned Africans but Khwe are dark skinned Africans.
Genetically, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Fujianese, and even those from Zhejiang, etc. are very close for they are all descendants of the Yueh. This is especially true of the Vietnamese and Cantonese, because the more nothern Fujianese and particualarly the Zhejiangnese have more Northern Han genes due simply to proximity, southward immigration, and so on. However, according to the 3 cited papers above, same genes does necessarily not translate to same language. This is NOT to say that Vietnamese is not Sino-Tibetan, just that genes can only indicate linguistic origin, but can not provide definitive proof either way.
Post by AlexNg » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:41 am
If your descendents all come from the same root, it is not illogical to think that their language is not the same.
Take for example, sino and tibetan-burmese.
Both groups originally came from the same group (this has been proven via DNA testing), one group migrated east to form the han people, another group migrated south to form the tibetan-burmese group.
The basic characteristics of both languages remain the same.
Similarly, I would think that the "bai yue" people in kwangtung province and that in vietnam originally are from the same ancestors.
Han and bai yue intermarriages would have resulted in the present cantonese in kwangtung province. Similarly, the one thousand years of control under china would also have resulted in intermarriage between the bai yue in vietnam and the han people.
Until the end of the vietnam war in 1970s which saw a large outflow of ethnic han from vietnam, there were still a large chinese population there.
Post by Dylan Sung » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:33 am
My mother's great uncle went to Vietnam before the turn of the twentieth century, during the Qing dynasty. She said that they sent money back to her grandmother periodically. But after the Sino-Japanese war, little was heard from them. We understand that quite a number of Chinese travelled to Annam/On-Nam as it used to be called to set up a new life.
If Chinese and Vietnamese intermarried during the French Colonial days, or earlier, and became naturalised as Vietnamese it may be lost in the midst of history, and so by DNA analysis, the current Vietnamese population may have part of their ancestry from ancestors who lately arrived from China.
That plenty of ethnic Chinese left after the Vietnam War of the 1960's and 1970's does not mean that this is evidence of Vietnamese language being related to Chinese. This is a straw man argument, Alex Ng.
This is why linguists though noting the possible ethnic mix of a people, they generally do not allow it to affect their classification of languages, since they base it upon the spoken language data itself.
Allow this thought experiment for a moment. Imagine an land of speakers of language X of ethnicity A. They are brought into contact with the peoples with ethnicity B who speak a language Y, but there are only a few arrivals. If they intermarry and the late comers adopt the language X after some generations, these late comers assimilate into the body of ethnicity A and language X speakers. Imagine over time that there are more and more people of language Y intermarrying and taking language X as their home language, such that over time, the population of ethnicity A dwindles, but their language is used by all people in their land. Soon those with pure ethnicity A are all gone, being a population of mix AB. Over time, B ethnicity increase their arrivals in the land originally of ethnicity A and the balance of their DNA derives mainly from ethnicity B, but speaking language X.
Now let English = X and African dialects = Y, and you get an example of how this has real life possibilities, though for African americans, they were forced to adopt a language. Ethnicity has little to do with language, and the categorisation of language should be based upon the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of the language and nothing else.
Dyl.
qrasy
Is that related?
Post by qrasy » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:13 am
How was this "Chinese outflow" related to this topic?
Ethnic Chinese are called "Hoa" in Vietnam.
In Ming there were 500000 Chinese trevelled there. I once wondered why there are only about 1 million Hoa in Vietnam Was this due to the large outward flow?
"Africans were forced to speak English and thus lost their original language" was reasonable, but if you say "Vietnamese originally spoke Sino-Tibetan but were forced to speak Mon-Khmer" it's not very logical.
There were no reason to do that. (Were there Khmer empire ruling over North Vietnam for quite long a time?)
Post by Guest » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:55 pm
My sentiments exactly, which is why I have disagreed with Alex Ng's reasoning from the outset.
Language and culture may be linked, but ethnicity is not indicator of a language's origins. This is why languages must be assessed only on the merits of its linguistic attributes, the grammar, the syntax, the vocabulary.
My suggestion is to analyse everyday spoken Vietnamese. You'll find Vietic words are used in the most everyday speech. If you're at loss for something to analyse, try one of those phrasebooks for holiday makers, Alex. SV vocab doens't appear so often in everyday speech if you look carefully.
Post by AlexNg » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:37 am
I found this url which compares the similarity between cantonese and vietnamese.
makes for some interesting reading.
http://www.travelogues.net/Vietnam/inde ... nguage.htm
Post by qrasy » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:44 pm
New Year draws close...
AlexNg:
Let's discuss things about the page you gave.
"This tells so little of the story that it's positively misleading. The Vietnamese language may have started that way, but its current form is the product of 1,000 years of Chinese rule..."If "proto-Viet" were really Mon-Khmer, then would still be Mon-Khmer unless all its aspects are replaced with Chinese.
"One book says that Vietnamese was originally non-tonal, but now it has six tones."
So long we have discussed the possibility of "tonogenesis".
"It also turns out that a shocking 60 percent of the vocabulary comes from Chinese as well. The situation is similar to English, which the books say is a Germanic language. With its extensive French influence, that too is hard to believe."The first inkling came when I started to recognize words in Vietnamese. I've never studied Vietnamese and I don't know any, so to recognize words in a language I don't know struck me as extremely strange. Nor do I have any recollections of a prior life. The only explanation was that the words were similar to Chinese, even though I had read that the two languages were unrelated. Political correctness told me not to compare Vietnam with China, but the more Vietnamese I heard the harder it was not to."
Well, anyone could be fooled of loanwords, all he listed is Sino-Vietnamese.
"Big" Viet to, lớn
"Perfume" Viet thơm
"Study" Viet. (Replaced with Sino-Viet)
"Prosper" (I don't have the knowledge of this word)
"White" Viet trắng
"telephone"điện thoại (most abstract things uses Sino-Viet, like Japanese likes to use Sino-Jap)
If that were really the words, then we could say that "Korean is also Chinese", and we know that it's not true.
"Unrelated" is also untrue, there are words claimed as non-Chinese but could have a source in Sino-Tibetan.
By coincidence, Cantonese is an older form of Chinese than Mandarin, and more similar to the medieval, southern Chinese that left its mark on Vietnam.>
Cantonese is not an older form of Chinese, only "a language that preserves many aspects of the Older form of Chinese" or "a language more similar to it"
No verb conjugations. A joy to students of both languages. Is there any languages outside Sino-Tibetan (and Tai-Kadai, Miao-Yao, Viet if you think that they are not Sino-Tibetan) that does this?A separate word to change the tense of a verb. Indonesian also do the same, they only add "already" to make past words , and "will" to make future words.
Where the adjectives in Chinese come before the noun (like English), in Vietnamese they come after the noun (like French).
This point does not make a language be outside of a family.
In Chinese, there's overlap between adjectives and verbs, but Vietnamese definitely has a verb for "to be", which is "là".
Don't Chinese have a word equivalent to this? I think Shì in Mandarin is one example. Mandarin do not say "Subject-Adjective" for "Subject-be-Adjective", nor Vietnamese use "be-Verb" like English.
Vietnamese also has some complex forms of address. The word for "you" changes according to age, gender and social differences. When someone in Vietnam meets you and asks your age right away, it's not to be rude. Rather, it's to be polite, so they can address you in the right way.
Tibetan has polite/impolite pronouns but I don't know the details. More: they use family relationships like "elder brother", "elder sister". Chinese/southeast Asians often use "family relationship" or "Proper Name" as "I, you".
Mandarin has 4 tones, Cantonese has 8, and Vietnamese has 6.
Cantonese has 9, doesn't it?
By the way, Vietnamese popular songs will rhyme phonetically, but songwriters don't feel the need to match the tones.
when we sing tonal languages we abandon tones, so of course we don't need to match the tones.The one that does sounds like Chinese sounds like southern Chinese, to the point where people mistake the letter "n" and the letter "l"
not all South Chinese languages confuse "n" and "l"
When we were in Huế, we saw a concert of Vietnamese court music. The leader of the group spoke in a way that sounded like Mandarin (lots of "shh" sounds of different depth).
"Shh" are written as "S" but in some dialects of Vietnamese it has been lost and merged into "X" (pronounced as English "normal S").
The other system has some more nasal consonants, like an implosive-sounding "b" with an "m" in front of it. This "b" sounds like it goes from the outside in, rather than the normal way you pronounce a "b" from the inside out. There's also a bouncy cadence that happens when these letters are present.
When I try to pronounce an implosive consonants, it's like "voiced plosive/stops" mixed with "nasals". I don't know whether it's the right way or not (I haven't ever heard anyone use them). I don't understand what "bouncy cadence" means.
There are five tones rather than the usual six.
The South/Central Viet has 5 tones rather than 6 tones.
Other oddities: the initial letter "c" is voiced like "g", and the letters "tr" sound like "ch". What this means is that Vietnamese for "thank you", "cám ơn", is pronounced, "gam oon". The name for China, which the Chinese call "Chung Kuo", is pronounced very similarly in Vietnamese, but written as "Trung Quốc", and the "q" is also a "g". "c/q" sounds like " k " but not " k' ". I don't know what "g" is he telling us, maybe it's "Korean/Mandarin g". I am not sure about whether "voiced" here means "pronounced" or "uttered with voice". There is "g" pronounced as real "g" (but g is pronounced "z" if we have i/e, so we use "gh" for them).
"tr" was "retroflex t" (while we have "retroflex S" as chinese "Sh"). I don't know how is it pronounced now but it seems that it is now "retroflex ts"
(Chinese "Ch")
Dylan Sung:
There are some kind of "language replacement without mixing". Many (NOT ALL) Indonesian Chinese abandoned their first language. So we have pure Chinese not speaking Chinese language.
Also, there are some instances of "Cina-Benteng" here, who are mix of Indonesian and Chinese (but I am not talking about them). They don't look like Chinese/half-Chinese at all. They rather look EXACTLY like Indonesian. (This is the reason that I don't believe that all Vietnamese come from Khmer-Chinese intermarriage)
Grasy,
If you don't count the "ru" tone, then cantonese has only 6, the same as
north vietnamese ! If you count the "ru" tone then cantonese has 9 and vietnamese has 8.
I am just amazed that the number of vietnamese tones is so similar to the southern chinese dialects such as min and yue which is part of "bai yue" in the past.
http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/tones/viet.htm
If vietnamese tones developed separately, they wouldnt be so similar , it could have been less or equal to 4.
Post by qrasy » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:01 pm
恭賀新禧
It is said that Vietnamese tones also came from "registers", so there would be many tones in it.
There were 4 ("clear", "creaky", "fricative" and "stop") multiplied by 2("voiced", "voiceless").
Post by Dylan Sung » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:24 pm
The Chaozhou dialect has eight tones, or six if you merge the Ru tones with the others.
The Baiyue are not one people, but a general term to indicate the many tribes living in southern China during the Zhou dynasty. Amongst them, the Jing are said to be the ethnic Vietnamese group related to some of these so called Baiyue. There are Jing words in Cantonese, but this may be due to borrowing, just as SinoViet vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese.
Post by Guest » Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:41 pm
Or it could be construed as more conservative, in that the language was not susceptible to as much change as other related languages. For example Icelandic spelling today is slightly different from the Old Norse written during the days of Snorri Stulusson and his Eddas, or the venacular Icelandic bible of Bishop Gudmundson three hundred years later in the sixteenth century. But it's related languages like Norwegian and Swedish have changed greatly to that of Icelandic, even though the Vikings which took Old Norse originally came from Norway.
Cantonese in respect to tones and the preservation of -p -t -k endings is more conservative than Beijing dialect upon which modern standard mandarin's sounds are based.
Similarly, Min dialects and some Wu dialects preserve a richer consonantal onset array than Cantonese, so it is more conservative in that respect, since its voiced initials, apirated initials and unaspirated initials are all found in Middle Chinese.
But Mandarin is much more conservative in the preservation of dipthong vowels than Cantonese.
I think it was Wang Li the eminent sinologist who once coined a system of transliterating Chinese, by using the initials of Wu, the vowels rimes of Mandarin and the endings and tone of Cantonese. It was said to approximate MC transliterations quite well, apparently.
Post by AlexNg » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:43 pm
We are going to side track a bit here.
Which chinese language - min, mandarin, cantonese, wu, xiang, hakka
resembles the chinese spoken in ancient china (shang, chou dynasty)
and which resembles middle chinese (chin, han, tang dynasty) ?
I heard that min branch off from ancient chinese and the others branch off from middle chinese ? What does it mean ?
Which language has the richest sounds. Personally, I think that mandarin is a very weak language due to its lack of p, t, k endings. Of course, it has the r sound at the beginning which other chinese language doesn't have.
What about vietnamese sounds ?
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Armenia – In the wake of a colour revolution? Domestic and international context
Chiara Loda
By Chiara Loda (@ChiaraLoda) This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here April 2018 in Armenia was marked by massive grassroots protests, the resignation of the newly-nominated prime minister, and complex political negotiations. Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, who formerly served as President for a decade, resigned on April 23, after 11 days of massive…
Threats to Stability in Central Asia: What Role for the EU?
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Climateer Line of the Day Runner-up: Heartfelt Prayer Edition
If it hadn't been for the Bulwer-Lytton-esque* quality of today's winner, the obvious sincerity of Small Dead Animals would have taken the trophy.
[we have a trophy? -ed]
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
(when the Saint's moniker is also a geographical feature it's jake-by-me to double up on the sanctity)
*The winner of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:
"Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories."
About which the judges write:
...At 26 words, Prof. Fondrie’s submission is the shortest grand prize winner in Contest history, proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy.
"...Epitaph For Solyndra"
From Greentech:
Solar pioneer, Barry Cinnamon, weighs in on the tragedy of Solyndra.
The epitaph for Solyndra is significant because of what was not a factor in their demise. It was certainly not for a lack of trying. But more importantly, it was not because of Chinese competition or a lack of U.S. government support.
Chinese solar panels are 10 to 20 percent less expensive than U.S.-made panels; but by some estimates, Solyndra’s panels were 100 percent more. It’s a mistake to blame Solyndra’s problems on our lack of manufacturing commitment or relatively higher labor costs compared to China. Solar panels are commodities being sold on the worldwide market on a $/watt basis — much as aluminum is sold on a $/kg basis. It is crystal clear that cheap and easy to install solar panels are exactly what the U.S. needs to reduce our energy costs and create installation jobs.
For five years or more, the U.S. government was providing support for solar manufacturing in the U.S. The DOE Loan Guarantee program provided critical funding for Solyndra’s manufacturing growth, supported by over $1 billion in private capital. Unfortunately, both these private investors and the DOE made a couple of bets on Solyndra that didn’t pan out.
The first bad bet was that refined silicon, the feedstock for the solar panel industry, would stay expensive. Solyndra invented a solar panel that didn’t use expensive silicon. Unfortunately for Solyndra, and fortunately for all the silicon solar panel manufacturers and customers, silicon has gotten very cheap over the past few years. So the problem that Solyndra solved — expensive silicon — disappeared....MORE
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Goldman-backed "Solyndra shutters manufacturing, lays off workforce; plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy" (GS)
Solyndra: I Forgot to Mention the Company was Also Backed by One of President Obama's Largest Campaign 'Bundlers' (GS; WMT)
Climateer Line of the Day: Meta-metaphor Edition
Mark Gongloff at MarketBeat takes the prestigious CLoD with a walk off home run (4:25 P.M. EDT timestamp):
Well, folks, that was August. Good riddance. From a US credit-rating downgrade to an horrific hurricane, there wasn’t much good about August.
The last day of the month ended in appropriately irritating fashion, with a big early stock-market rally losing air and sputtering around the room like an untied balloon at the world’s saddest children’s party....
-August Ends, Appropriately, With a Giant Raspberry Sound
Added bonus: we have a runner-up!
Following up on "Your Tax Dollars at Work: Goldman-backed "Solyndra shutters manufacturing, lays off workforce; plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy" (GS)".
Besides Goldman and the Estate of John Walton I forgot to mention Argonaut.
Digging deep into the link-vault we have this description from Barron's, July 10, 2010
...One of Solyndra's biggest stakeholders is Argonaut Ventures I. Its majority owner is Oklahoma oil billionaire George Kaiser, who was a "bundler"of campaign funds for the Obama-Biden campaign. This means he collected contributions and sent them en masse to the candidates....
ABC News said on May 24 of this year (page 3 of 3):
Did Obama Administration Cut Corners For a Green Energy Company?
...Obama Bundler George Kaiser
Kaiser's Argonaut Private Equity and its affiliates were the largest shareholder of Solyndra as it pushed for the IPO. Kaiser's firm remains a "significant financial backer of Solyndra," Solyndra spokesman David Miller confirmed. The Oklahoma oil magnate hosted a 2007 Tulsa fundraiser for Obama and regularly visits White House staff, visitor logs show.
Kaiser did not respond to interview requests made through Solyndra, and his Kaiser-Francis Oil Company in Tulsa said he declined comment. Solyndra's Miller said political ties had no bearing.
"We do not believe there was any connection at all," said Miller. "We have created a substantial number of jobs with Solyndra and we're very proud of that. I think people are missing a lot of the story getting into the politics."...MORE
The President did a photo op at the company in May of 2010. He said some things he'd probably like to take back.
Maybe some of the photos too.
Despite being backed by the Wal*ton clan and Goldman Sachs (or maybe because of it?) Solyndra was awarded the first Department of Energy loan guarantees, $535 million.
So much for the government picking winners.
From PV Tech:
Cylindrical CIGS thin-film manufacturer Solyndra has announced that it has suspended its manufacturing operations, immediately laid off its 1100 full-time and temporary employees, and intends to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Fremont, CA-based company cited "the negative impacts of global economic and solar industry market conditions" as the reason for the actions. The firm also said it is evaluating its options, which could include "a sale of the business and licensing of its advanced CIGS technology and manufacturing expertise."
Despite what the company characterized as "strong growth in the first half of 2011 and traction in North America with a number of orders for very large commercial rooftops," Solyndra said it "could not achieve full-scale operations rapidly enough to compete in the near term with the resources of larger foreign manufacturers."
"This competitive challenge was exacerbated by a global oversupply of solar panels and a severe compression of prices that in part resulted from uncertainty in governmental incentive programs in Europe and the decline in credit markets that finance solar systems," the company added....MORE
Some of our earlier posts on Solyndra:
Solyndra’s Solar Loan From DOE Under Investigation
"Solyndra Spells Disaster for DOE Loan Guarantee Program"
Solar upstart Solyndra mothballs IPO plans (Funny what a 'Going Concern" Letter will Do) GS
"The Daily Start-Up: Auditor Questions Solyndra’s Viability" (Going Concern Warning) GS; FSLR
What is Solyndra’s Cost Per Watt? (SOLY; FSLR; TSL)
Goldman Sachs and the Solar Land Rush (FSLR; GS)
"Bank of America, Now More of a Robot Plaything Than Ever" (BAC)
The stock is up 1.42% at $8.23.
A relatively lengthy post from MarketBeat:
High-frequency trading firms have found a new favorite stock: Bank of America.
A tumultuous month for the banking group, peppered with troublesome rumors, asset sales and an investment from Berkshire Hathaway, have made its shares a more attractive target for trading algorithms designed to capture profits from the tiniest price movements.
Computer-powered traders’ focus on Bank of America has contributed to an explosion in its popularity. Since late July–when its price fell below $10 per share–turnover in the stock has more than doubled, often making it the most-traded security in the U.S.
“We’ve definitely noticed an increase,” said George Hessler, chief executive of Stock USA Execution Services Inc., an electronic brokerage catering to high-frequency clientele....MORE
Drudge on the Markets
STREET TURNS UP FOR YEAR!
"A Fannie Mae for 'infrastructure.'" (GE)
That is one of the more evocative headlines I've seen in a while.
Bank of Political Works
Here's a novel idea: Have Congress create a "bank" that could borrow huge sums with only a small federal outlay and would be independent of any political interference. If you believe in this miracle, you probably thought Fannie Mae was a private company that wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime.
We're referring to Washington's latest marketing tool to sell spending to a skeptical public, a new federal "infrastructure bank." For the low, low price of $30 billion or so, President Obama says Congress can conjure hundreds of billions in new "grants and loans" to rebuild "roads, bridges, and ports and broadband lines and smart grids."
He says the bank would put "all those construction workers" back to work and "be good for the economy not just for next year or the year after that, but for the next 20 or 30 years." In a cats and dogs living together moment, the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO are both in favor. Since both unions and construction companies would be beneficiaries, this alone ought to give taxpayers pause.
This is the Fannie Mae model applied to public works. The new bank would be a government-sponsored enterprise, or GSE, whether or not anyone admits it. The bank would have an implicit subsidy for its debt because it is backed by the government. And the debt it issued would be "off-budget," which means it wouldn't show up in annual outlays. When she first proposed the concept in 2008, Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro explicitly described the bank as a "public private partnership like Fannie Mae."
Such an outfit will inevitably be politicized, as similar examples have been all over the world. Japan's postal bank has been used for decades to finance public works. Japan's roads and bridges are grand but its economy has grown little in 20 years. Agribanks, regional development banks, Brazil's BNDES national bank have all become vehicles for the political allocation of credit.
Ms. DeLauro's bill admits as much, stating that the bank must take into account the "economic, environmental, social benefits and costs" of the projects seeking financial assistance. Among the considerations: responsible employment practices, use of renewable energy, reduction in carbon emissions, poverty and inequality reduction, training for low-income workers and public health benefits.
No one disputes that American public works need improving, and government has been spending huge sums to do so. As the nearby table shows, between 2001 and 2011 federal "public physical capital investment outlays" more than doubled to $330 billion from $142 billion. Every major area of infrastructure—transportation, Army Corps of Engineers, energy—is up by at least 75% in a decade....MORE
General Electric's Jeff Immelt proposes a tax holiday with the maximum 5% tax on rapatriated profits devoted to an infrastructure bank to fund projects by companies such as, well, General Electric.
General Electric's Immelt Calls for Tax Holiday on Overseas Funds, Hows About we Just let Them Leave the Money in China? (GE)
Economic Policy Journal Doesn't Much Care for the National Infrastructure Bank
"The Next Tech Patent Powerhouses" (CREE; SNDK; PANL; MSI)
Between the recent auction of Nortel patents and Google’s announced acquisition of Motorola Mobility, technology patents have been much in the news. For months, the same names have been cropping up, including InterDigital, a Pennsylvania-based wireless technology developer and licenser that is believed to be going up for sale in September.
The tangle of current tech patent lawsuits
Analyst Hendi Susanto says several other tech companies, including flash memory maker SanDisk, panel materials supplier Universal Display, LED light maker CREE and government and corporate device maker Motorola Solutions could also be added to the list. Susanto, who analyzes technology stocks for New York’s Gabelli & Co., believes these companies have strong patent portfolios, which could be appealing acquisitions – or partners in cross-licensing agreements – for giants like Intel, LG, Samsung and Sony.
Susanto’s suggestions, which were outlined in an August 24th research note, come as tech firms’ battles over patents, in and outside the courtroom, appear to be reaching a bloody pitch. “We see an increasing emphasis on intellectual property and high interest in building out defensive and competitive patent portfolios through patent acquisitions,” wrote Susanto in his note.
In these circumstances, strong IP portfolios, Susanto added, can “command a premium on market valuation, serve as a barrier to entry and leverage in cross licensing negotiations, and generate interest for acquisitions.”
What companies appear to wield such advantages? Beyond InterDigital, Susanto counts four. SanDisk is a leader in its field of producing flash memory chips. Because these chips incorporate “multi-level cell technology” as well as “3D memory” technology, the company also has valuable IP, writes Susanto. He says California-based SanDisk has 1,700 (issued) U.S. patents, more than 1,100 foreign patents and 1,100 patents pending in the U.S. (As comparison, Motorola Mobility has 17,000 patents, Nortel had 6,000 and InterDigital has 18,500.) SanDisk’s patents could be of interest to the companies that already license or cross-license its technology, such as Hynix, Intel, Micron, Renesas, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba, says Susanto....MORE
Annual Inflation Hits 4%, Bring on the QE3
Professor Krugman, in a valiant attempt to deny that the only effect of QE2 was to raise the price of equities, and more importantly, commodities, advocated the use of "core" inflation measures rather than the headline number.
When headline bled through to core he switched this metric to the Atlanta Fed's "sticky" price CPI (i.e. prices that don't change). I'm not sure how he's going to spin this latest, from ZeroHedge:
There is the CPI... and then there is the MIT's billion price project which, as the name implies, tracks the prices of a billion products in real time. And according to the latter, annual inflation has hit a multi year high of about 4%. Perhaps someone can advise the talented Mr Evans that the 3% inflation he would so love to achieve... has in fact been eclipsed. At least, according to the real world. So take 4% inflation, add $2.5 trillion in "much more" easing, and what you get is only an economic Ph.D.'s guess. Alas, we are unqualified to have an opinion on the matter.
The QE3 crowd is vehement in their denial that they intend to destroy the middle class, that's just a side effect.
Mining: "Sex with Playboy model in bribe allegation"
From our "now for something completely different" file via the Toronto Sun:
Chicomuselo mayor Julio Calderon allegedly demanded that Blackfire Exploration Ltd.
arrange a sexual encounter for him with former Playboy model Niurka Marcos (seen here).
(Luigi Novi/Wikimedia Commons/HO)
CALGARY - Mounties are investigating allegations a Calgary company bribed a Mexican mayor, only stopping payments when the official demanded a date with a Playboy model as compensation.
Court records show the RCMP obtained a warrant last month to search the Calgary offices of Blackfire Exploration Ltd. for evidence in a bribery investigation.
A sworn "information to obtain a search warrant" from Const. Terrie Lynn Batycki, alleges Blackfire, through its Mexican subsidiary, paid Chicomuselo mayor Julio Calderon more than $19,000.
Batycki's statement also says Blackfire paid for airline tickets for Calderon, his wife and children, as well as other unknown officials, and only stopped payments when his demands became outrageous.
During the course of her investigation, Batycki obtained a document she believes to be a summary of a complaint filed with the president of the Congress of the State of Chiapas by a Blackfire official.
Among the allegations listed was that "Calderon also requested that Blackfire arrange to have (former Playboy model) Niurka Marcos act in Chicomuselos and spend a sexual night with him."
Batycki said the payments were made to Calderon in order for the mayor to ensure community members wouldn't disrupt Blackfire's mining in the region....MORE
Now back to Federal Reserve news.
Climateer Line of the Day: "Babe Ruth of the CBOT" Edition
I usually do a snip and source for the prestigious CLoD but this time it's an extended exerpt.
From Futures Magazine, May 1, 1999:
When a typical trader retires or loses his fortune and never returns to the pits, it is doubtful his name will be remembered among the thousands who have walked through the exchange doors.
But there are always exceptions. Everett Klipp, former owner of Alpha Futures and 50-year veteran of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), recently stepped down from day-to-day trading, preferring to spend his days golfing under the hot Florida sun. But the mention of his name still evokes smiles and praise from the traders he befriended and mentored over the years.
"Everett's the Babe Ruth of the Chicago Board of Trade," says James Zavesky, president of Chicago-based Eclipse Futures. "He's an icon in the Chicago business scene."
Klipp was born in Manteno, a farming town in central Illinois. A self-proclaimed "farm boy," he began working as a runner at the CBOT in 1946 for a firm that eventually became Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Bean. What began as a part-time job to fill his days while he attended Chicago Technical College in the evenings developed quickly into a passion and a career.
Following the traditional course of progression, Klipp clerked with John Morris & Co. for 8 years until a friend in Morris' office loaned him $4,200 to buy a seat in the wheat pit. Before he bid on his first bushel of wheat, though, Klipp sought out some advice from John Morris that later became the foundation of his simple but disciplined trading style.
"Mr. Morris told me anytime you can take a loss, do it. and you'll always be at the [CBOT]," Klipp says, "I lost money that first day and kept losing until I retired in 1998."
The Chicago Tribune reported Mr. Klipp's death:
Everett Klipp, 1926-2011
"The cost of a crowded volatility trade" (VXX; XIV; TVIX)
From FT Alphaville (now with new comment policy!):
FT Alphaville just had a very interesting conversation with Ari Bergmann, managing principal at Penso Advisors, with respect to what’s been happening in the world of volatility hedging this year.
And specifically how things have changed since July.
Two points stand out:
1) There’s not been much of a risk/reward in equity-related volatility hedging strategies at any point this year (or post-2008 for that matter).
2) The volatility hedges that made a lot of sense pre-July 2011 were mainly in interest rate, CDS and money market instruments. All of these, however, have since lost their allure due to a major re-pricing of risk in the market this summer.
With respect to the first point, Bergmann is essentially saying that any “black swan” hedging strategy focused on equity options or Vix futures would have proved hugely expensive and thus unsuccessful:
Unless you got the timing right and the levels right it would have been far too expensive. The risk/reward hasn’t made sense. Once the risk is priced in you’re not getting anything for it. It becomes like a trade. You are sure to lose money unless you get your timing right.
The point here is that the “giveup” in terms of the pricing of the insurance proves more expensive than the potential insurance you receive in return.
Currently, says Bergmann, December put options are priced in such a way that you would need a move of 17.4 per cent or more to the downside to break-even on the trade. That’s hardly worth anyone’s while, he argues.
The Vix curve, meanwhile, is a good example of just how crowded and expensive the Vix trade itself has become. For most of the year, the steep contango was reflecting the fact that insurance sellers could command unreasonably high risk premiums in return for the insurance they were offering...MORE
Erratum: In the sentence below I had originally said Roubini instead of Taleb until a pair of younger eyes caught the mistake and supplied the links. Sorry about that.
And that, boys and girls is the problem with Black swan funds and why Taleb lost (risk adjusted) money running his fund.
As Falkenblog put it:
...So after the fund starting grinding out losses, Nassim started calling his fund a 'hedge', not a fund, later, a 'laboratory'. Now he says about the fund:
`Our aim was not to make money,'' Taleb says. ``I make no claims of being able to beat markets.'
But he makes sure any article that mentions his fund notes he made 60% in 2000. The only record of his total fund was a WSJ article on him in 2007, which notes he lost money in 2001 and 2002, made single digits in 2003 and 2004. That averages out to around 12%, and as the risk free rate was about 4% over that period, and the volatility was probably around 17% on a monthly basis, thats a Sharpe of 0.47. Not so good. And that's with his unaudited returns, so it's probably biased high (people have a tendency to round unaudited results upward significantly).
Taleb Makes Hyperinflation Bet and Why You Might Want to Be Skeptical
More on Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb as a Money Manager
"Intel Forms Subsidiary To Tap Public Sector Dollars" (INTC)
But of course.
From Tech Trader Daily:
Intel (INTC) appears to be zigging while others zag, if you will.
The company this morning said it will form a new subsidiary, “Intel Federal LLC,” to “better address new opportunities working with the U.S. government.”
Huh? The rest of the world seems to be doing anything they can to get away from relying on public sector budgets, but here’s Intel upping the ante.
In any event, Intel says it wants to focus on high performance computing needs of the U.S. Department of Energy and other agencies....MORE
The stock has gone nowhere over the last decade, although not matching fellow federal teat-sucker DJIA component General Electric in shareholder wealth destruction:
More On Monsanto's Creation of "Superbugs" (MON; SYT)
Following up on yesterday's "Major , Major Problem: "Monsanto Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance" (MON; SYT)" here's MotherJones:
Attack of the Monsanto Superinsects
Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers.
The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We've engineered plants that can survive our very own herbicide. Just pay up for our patented, premium-priced seeds, spray your fields with our Roundup herbicide whenever the fancy strikes, and—voilà!—no more weeds.
The second involved crop-eating insects. We've isolated the toxic gene of a commonly used bacterial pesticide called Bt, Monsanto announced, and spliced it directly into crops. Along with corn and soy, you will literally be growing the pesticide that protects them. Plant our seeds, and watch your crops thrive while their pests shrivel and die.
Monsanto focused its technology on three widely planted, highly subsidized crops: corn, soy, and cotton. Large-scale farmers of these commodities, always operating on razor-thin profit margins, lunged at the chance to streamline their operations by essentially outsourcing their pest management to Monsanto. And so Monsanto's high-tech crops essentially took over the corn/soy- and cotton-growing regions of the country.
But now the pitches are wearing thin. Dumping a single herbicide onto millions of acres of farmland has, predictably enough, given rise to weeds resistant to that herbicide. Such "superweeds" are now galloping through cotton and corn country, forcing farmers to resort to highly toxic herbicide cocktails and even hand-weeding. More than 11 million acres are infested with Roundup-resistant weeds, up from 2.4 million acres in 2007, reckons Penn State University weed expert David Mortensen.
And now insects are developing resistance to Monsanto's insecticide-infused crops, reports the Wall Street Journal. Fields planted in Monsanto's Bt corn in some areas of the Midwest are showing damage from the corn rootworm—the very species targeted by Monsanto's engineered trait. An Iowa State University scientist has conclusively identified Bt-resistant root worms in four Iowa fields, the Journal reports.
The findings are not likely isolated to those fields—just like spotting a cockroach on your kitchen floor probably signals an infestation, not that a lone cockroach randomly stumbled in for a visit. Sure enough, farmers in Illinois are also seeing severe rootworm damage in fields planted in Monsanto's Bt corn. And it's not just in the United States: In 2010, Monsanto itself acknowledged that in industrial-agriculture regions of India, where Monsanto's Bt cotton is a dominant crop, a cotton-attacking pest called the bollworm had developed resistance....MORE
This is insanity.
Former Berkshire Hathaway Bigwig David Sokol Continues Buying Middleburg Financial (MBRG)
The speculation is that this is going to be a "mini-Berkshire".
I don't know about that, Dave isn't Warren, but he is a good operator.
Via GuruFocus:
David Sokol Keeps Buying Middleburg Financial
If you didn’t lose your respect for David Sokol during the Lubrizol (LZ) scandal then you have a chance to invest alongside him in his latest venture.
Sokol keeps gobbling up shares of Middleburg Financial (MBRG) and according to the filing below, now owns 22% of the small financial institution:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/914138/000114036111043444/xslF345X03/doc1.xml
Sokol has a family connection to Middleburg:
“While it’s good to have friends in high places, it’s even better to have family there.
CEO Gary Shook has found both in David Sokol, one of famed investor Warren Buffett’s top lieutenants at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and a long-rumored candidate to lead Berkshire after Buffett.
Sokol owns some $19.3 million in Middleburg stock, making him the bank’s biggest shareholder. And his holdings may be getting a lot bigger. The company authorized him to increase his ownership stake by 50 percent. ...MORE
TheStreet wasn't as charitable with their headline:
Berkshire Outcast Loads Up on Bank Stock
David Sokol has backed up the truck to load up on shares of Middleburg Financial (MBRG), continuing to add to a position the investor was holding when he resigned from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) in March....
...Middleburg Financial's shares closed at $14.76 Tuesday, up 2% so far in August and up 4.5% year-to-date, bucking the trend for the largest U.S. banks. This performance compares quite favorable to the KBW Bank Index (I:BKX_), which was down 21% month-to-date and down a whopping 30% year-to-date....
...Middleburg Financial had $1.1 billion in total assets as of June 30, and reported second-quarter net income of $1.2 million, or 17 cents a share, compared to $724 thousand, or 10 cents a share, a year earlier.
The company's provision for loan losses declined to $1.1 million during the second quarter, from $1.3 million a year earlier, however, this improvement was more than offset by an increase in expenses on foreclosed properties to $606 thousand in the second quarter, from $295 thousand a year earlier.
The bank's net interest margin -- the difference between its average yield on loans and investments and its average cost of funds -- was 3.78% during the second quarter, expanding from 3.67% a year earlier. Its second-quarter return on average assets was 0.39%, which is way below the combined U.S. bank and thrift industry's 0.85%, reported Tuesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp....MORE
We had a flurry of posts on Middleburg last March, here are a couple:
Middleburg Financial Approaching Escape Velocity on Word Sokol Was Buying Within the Last Two Weeks (MBRG; BRK.A)
UPDATED: "Sokol: Off to Middleburg Financial? (Its Shares Are Soaring)" MBRG; BRK.B
Here's what the stock has done, from BigCharts:
Big-time Repub Bruce Bartlett Makes Case Against Payroll Tax Cut (and inadvertantly any other tax cut)
From the New York Times' Economix blog:
The Case Against a Payroll Tax Cut
It’s rare for Republicans to find a tax cut they don’t support, but last week The New York Times reported on just such an exotic creature. Many leading Republicans, it seems, are extremely cool to the idea of extending the temporary cut in the Social Security tax that took effect on Jan. 1 and expires on Dec. 31. It has lowered employees’ share of the payroll tax to 4.2 percent, from 6.2 percent.
In theory, the payroll tax cut has positive economic effects on both the demand side and the supply side. By increasing workers’ cash flow, it should encourage additional spending in the economy – something that the economy desperately needs.
It also reduces the tax wedge between what it costs employers to hire a worker and the worker’s after-tax reward. Thus, a cut in the payroll tax should increase economic activity and reduce unemployment.
However, there is no evidence that the lower payroll tax has done much of anything to stimulate either spending or hiring. There are a number of reasons for this.
First, the tax cut only helps those with jobs. While many have low wages and undoubtedly are spending all their additional cash flow, those with the greatest need and most likely to spend any additional income are the unemployed.
Second, the payroll tax cut helps many workers who have no need for it and will only pocket the tax savings.
Third, economic theory and the experience with tax rebates in 2001 and 2008 tell us that people are strongly inclined to save temporary increases in income. People only increase their spending when they perceive an increase in their permanent income.
Fourth, even if one assumes that the cost of employment has declined and employers can somehow capture some of the payroll tax cut, there’s little sign that labor costs are the principal factor holding back hiring....MORE
HT: Real Time Economics
Just as a payroll tax cut "only helps those with jobs" a cut in the top marginal rate "only helps those above that income threshhold".
"Second, the payroll tax cut helps many workers who have no need for it and will only pocket the tax savings." really needs no comment.
For "Third, economic theory and the experience with tax rebates in 2001 and 2008 tell us that people are strongly inclined to save temporary increases in income." look at the cash hoards being accumulated by any company that is profitable, including privately held corporations.
Finally "Fourth, even if one assumes that the cost of employment has declined and employers can somehow capture some of the payroll tax cut, there’s little sign that labor costs are the principal factor holding back hiring" seems pretty damning to any corporate tax cut/jobs arguement.
Wo where's the truth? Beats me.
MIT: "Why Were Irene's Intensity Predictions So Off?"
During yesterday's press conference the folks at the National Hurricane Center sounded a bit defensive.
As well they should.
From MIT's Technology Review blog:
While forecasters have improved path predictions, they still have difficulty predicting a storm's intensity.
Hurricane path prediction has enormously improved. Forecasters knew days before it made landfall that Irene would hit the Carolinas and move up the East Coast, reaching New York and New England.
"There have been tremendous improvements in hurricane track forecasts over the past 20 years," says Gerald Heymsfield, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Information from aircrafts flown by NOAA and the Air Force provided data, as well as NOAA radars on the ground along the East Coast. "This was an ideal situation compared to storms forming over the ocean or around the islands," he adds.
The Associated Press points out that better computer models and better data for the models have led to drastically improved predictions of hurricanes' paths:
By Monday night, five days before Irene first hit the East Coast, the hurricane center figured the storm would come ashore around the North Carolina-South Carolina border. By Tuesday night, they predicted it would rake the coast. And on Friday morning—24 hours before landfall—they had the storm's next day location to within 10 miles or so.
Twenty years ago, 24-hour forecasts were lucky if they got it right within 100 miles and the average 36-hour forecast within 146 miles. With Irene, that was about the accuracy of the five-day forecast.
While path prediction has steadily improved over the decades, forecasting the intensity of storms still proves tricky. Irene's expected monster intensity—much to the nation's relief—was far less as she weakened a day or so after reaching land. "What made Irene especially difficult for the forecasting models was that she had three landfalls and followed the coastline," says Heymsfield. "We need a lot more research to understand how to better model this land interaction."
Others point to the unusual way Irene's "eye wall"—the inner core of storms surrounding the hurricane's eye—behaved. New York Times reports....MORE
We were fortunate to catch a Wunderblog post and get "Irene's eyewall collapses; further intensification UNLIKELY (ALL; TRV; CB; BRK.b)" in front of our readers early Friday morning, allowing plenty of time to adjust bets.
It worked out well.
Later that morning the NYT's Dot Earth blog posted a partial confirmation that the coastal damage wouldn't be as bad as some were forcasting: MIT: "New York Surge From Irene Looks Bad, But Not Off Charts"
"The Sun Shines on Mosaic" (MOS; SOIL)
I'm getting to this a bit late, it was published on Friday, and the stock is up $3.16 (4.55%) at $72.54.
From Barron's Weekday Trader column:
The producer of key crop nutrients stands to benefit from a growing global population and limited arable land.
Looking for a tasty growth story? Here's some food for thought.
Mosaic (ticker: MOS), with a market capitalization of nearly $31 billion, is the world's largest producer of phosphate and the third-largest seller of potash – both vital crop nutrients. With the global population growing, especially in emerging markets, demand for Mosaic's products should only increase.
"We think Mosaic is a cheap stock now. We have finite land resources in the world, and we need to increase crop production, and Mosaic's phosphate and potash increase yield for grains," says Russell Croft, a portfolio manager at Croft Leominster Investment Management in Baltimore.
Last month, Mosaic announced better-than-expected fiscal-fourth-quarter earnings and a 54% rise in revenue from a year earlier as higher fertilizer prices and increased demand for food boosted results.
Despite the likelihood of continued pricing strength, the stock has been punished by the threat of global economic weakness in recent months.
However, we think it now looks attractive at $69.38, which is 22% below its 52-week high reached in February. In the same span, the Standard & Poor's 500 index has declined 12%. A few hedge funds agree, including Paulson & Co., which invested millions in Mosaic in the second quarter.
Another bull is Ticonderoga Securities analyst Mark Gulley who upgraded Mosaic shares to Buy from Neutral earlier this month and raised his earnings estimates, too. He sees higher-gross margin for potash, which accounts for more than half of earnings. In the U.S., he expects strong profits in 2012 on the back of record commodity prices....MORE
The article concludes with:
•Hedge funds that added Mosaic shares in the period ending June 30 include TPG-Axon Capital Management (2,845,000 shares), Viking Global Investors (2,492,500), Third Point (2,400,000), Appaloosa Management (2,390,027) and Paulson & Co. (2,250,000), according to StreetSight.net.
Major , Major Problem: "Monsanto Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance" (MON; SYT)
The only reason for allowing Monsanto to screw with the food chain is their assurance that they know what they are doing.
This is proof that they don't. It's time to shut down their open field GMO experiments.
This is a very negative development.
Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has developed resistance to a genetically modified crop.
The discovery raises concerns that the way some farmers are using biotech crops could spawn superbugs.
Iowa State University entomologist Aaron Gassmann's discovery that western corn rootworms in four northeast Iowa fields have evolved to resist the natural pesticide made by Monsanto's corn plant could encourage some farmers to switch to insect-proof seeds sold by competitors of the St. Louis crop biotechnology giant, and to return to spraying harsher synthetic insecticides on their fields.
"These are isolated cases, and it isn't clear how widespread the problem will become," said Dr. Gassmann in an interview. "But it is an early warning that management practices need to change."
The finding adds fuel to the race among crop biotechnology rivals to locate the next generation of genes that can protect plants from insects. Scientists at Monsanto and Syngenta AG of Basel, Switzerland, are already researching how to use a medical breakthrough called RNA interference to, among other things, make crops deadly for insects to eat. If this works, a bug munching on such a plant could ingest genetic code that turns off one of its essential genes.
Monsanto said its rootworm-resistant corn seed lines are working as it expected "on more than 99% of the acres planted with this technology" and that it is too early to know what the Iowa State University study means for farmers.
The discovery comes amid a debate about whether the genetically modified crops that now saturate the Farm Belt are changing how some farmers operate in undesirable ways.
These insect-proof and herbicide-resistant crops make farming so much easier that many growers rely heavily on the technology, violating a basic tenet of pest management, which warns that using one method year after year gives more opportunity for pests to adapt.
Monsanto is already at the center of this issue because of its success since the 1990s marketing seeds that grow into crops that can survive exposure to its Roundup herbicide, a glyphosate-based chemical known for its ability to kill almost anything green.
These seeds made it so convenient for farmers to spray Roundup that many farmers stopped using other weedkillers. As a result, say many scientists, superweeds immune to Roundup have spread to millions of acres in more than 20 states in the South and Midwest....MORE
I was never one to call the stuff that Monsanto creates "Frankenfoods" but I'm getting close.
Disappointed by Irene? "Are Category 6 Hurricanes Coming Soon?"
The formerly staid Scientific American has become something of a hypester.*
From SA:
Tropical cyclones like Irene are predicted to be more powerful this year, thanks to natural conditions, but researchers disagree on how to rate that intensity
Atmospheric researchers tend to agree that tropical cyclones of unusual ferocity are coming this century, but the strange fact is that there is no consensus to date on the five-point scale used to classify the power of these anticipated storms. In what may sound like a page from the script of the rock-band spoof Spinal Tap with its reference to a beyond-loud electric guitar amplifier volume 11, there is actually talk of adding a sixth level to the current Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, on which category 5 intensity means sustained winds higher than 155 miles per hour (250 kilometers per hour) for at least one minute, with no speed cap.
The lack of an upper limit on the scale results in all of the most intense tropical cyclones getting lumped together, despite their wide range of power. Category 5 becomes less descriptive when it includes 2005's Emily, which reached peak wind speeds of 257.5 kph (160 mph) and six hours in category 5; the same year's Katrina which held peak wind velocity of 280 kph (175 mph) for 18 hours in the category; and 1980's Allen, churning with peak winds at 305 kph (190 mph) maintained for 72 hours in the highest category.
And now the ferocity forecast for the century adds to this classification problem. "The severe hurricanes might actually become worse. We may have to invent a category 6," says David Enfield, a senior scientist at the University of Miami and former physical oceanographer at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This new level wouldn't be an arbitrary relabeling. Global satellite data from the past 40 years indicate that the net destructive potential of hurricanes has increased, and the strongest hurricanes are becoming more common—especially in the Atlantic. This trend could be related to warmer seas or it could simply be history repeating itself. Data gathered earlier than the 1970s, although unreliable, show cycles of quiet decades followed by active ones. The quiet '60s, '70s and '80s ended in 1995, the year that brought Felix and Opal, among others, and resulted in $13 billion in damages and more than 100 deaths in the U.S.
The pros and cons of categories: Five or six?
The average difference between the current categories equals nearly 20 mph, so a category 6 label would likely be applied to hurricanes with sustained winds over (280 kph) 175 mph. The speed and destruction of hypothetical "category 6" storms is speculative, despite the hurricanes with winds at that level.
After all, meteorologists and climate researchers may not even choose a category 5 storm from the record books if asked to identify the most powerful tropical cyclone in history, because the Saffir–Simpson scale fixates on maximum wind speed lasting for at least one minute and disregards the many other large-scale components that factor into a storm's level of devastation. The whole index should be thrown out the hurricane-proof window, some say....MORE
*That first paragraph is flat out wrong.
No one knows what impact the currently observed warming will have on either the frequency or intensity of hurricanes. The third grade answer is that "Because hurricanes are heat engines they will be stronger".
A bit more sophisticated fourth grade answer might look at the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
Fifth grade would include the effects of wind shear. Moving on to sixth grade, you might look at whether less humid air coming off the Sahara would hinder development of any hurricanes.
There will be folks with agendas arguing every point.
Just so you know, cyclones can get very large. Here's [Super] Typhoon Tip from October 1979:
The relative sizes of the United States, Typhoon Tip and Cyclone Tracy (the largest and one of the smallest tropical cyclones recorded, respectively)
87 Worst Predictions of All Time
A re-post from November '07. A surprising number of them came via the pages of Scientific American.
[and Lord Kelvin seems a bit of a twit -ed]
Here are twenty. Prediction is hard.
From 2Spare.com:
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
Irving Fisher, economics professor at Yale University, 1929.
"In all likelihood world inflation is over."
International Monetary Fund Ceo, 1959.
"Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES."
George Bush, 1988.
"Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of nature, its own negation."
Karl Marx.
"The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain."
Martin Luther, German Reformation leader, Table Talk, 1530s(?).
"... too far-fetched to be considered."
Editor of Scientific American, in a letter to Robert Goddard about Goddard's idea of a rocket-accelerated airplane bomb, 1940 (German V2 missiles came down on London 3 years later).
"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced."
Scientific American, Jan. 2 edition, 1909.
"It will be gone by June."
Variety, passing judgement on rock 'n roll in 1955....
More on 1998 as the Template for 2011's Market Action (DIA; SPX; QQQ)
A mental map.
At least until it gets folded so much that you can't see what's in the creases, it starts to tear, one of the kids tries to make hat out of it, etc.
See links below.*
From Macrofugue:
The Fat Pitch
On August 17th, 1998, the Russian government, decimated by falling oil revenue resulting from the Asian financial crisis, devalued the ruble, defaulted on its domestic debt, and declared a moratorium on payment to foreign creditors. The S&P 500 was almost in familiar territory -- 1062, and had already fallen more than 10% in anticipation.
By early October, the stock market had declined another 14%, and the 10-year US Treasury yield had declined by 152 basis points in the span of 6 months. The VIX hit an astounding 45.74 -- eclipsing the implied volatility from the crash of 1987.
Economic conditions in Russia did not begin to recover until 2000, and were not at the previous nominal GDP peak until 2003, 5 years later.
Fast forward 13 years: in the 3rd straight decade (1990s, 2000s, 2010s), we are flirting with 1120 S&P 500, the 10-year US Treasury yield has declined by 148 basis points in the span of 6 months, and the VIX is at an astounding 42.99.
The restructuring of European periphery debt -- to which its neighbours are intimately connected to, much like a dozen years ago -- hasn't happened, but it's difficult to say that the market hasn't already clearly priced that as likely already.
This is all really bad news, right?
After the market had its watershed moment, it finished the year 33% higher. The market, seeking resolution even in bad news, was able to quickly eclipse its previous highs and rally strongly for several more years....MORE
*See also:
1998 As a Template For 2011's Market Action (DIA; SPY; VIX)
Equities 2011: More Like 1987 than 2008 (or is it 1903? 1998? 1873 was pretty bad...)
LTCM Co-Founder, Nobel Laureate, Scholes Says the Fund Was Doomed From the Start (we are still using 1998 as a mental map for 2011):
Here's what the DJIA did in that that long ago summer of 1998:
Volatility: A Double Top in the VIX (VXX; XIV; TVIX)
"How do diamonds the size of potatoes shoot up at 40 miles per hour from their birthplace 100 miles below Earth's surface?"
From PhysOrg:
Tackling mysteries about carbon, possible oil formation and more deep inside Earth
How do diamonds the size of potatoes shoot up at 40 miles per hour from their birthplace 100 miles below Earth's surface? Does a secret realm of life exist inside the Earth? Is there more oil and natural gas than anyone dreams, with oil forming not from the remains of ancient fossilized plants and animals near the surface, but naturally deep, deep down there? Can the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, be transformed into a pure solid mineral?
Those are among the mysteries being tackled in a real-life version of the science fiction classic, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, that was among the topics of a presentation here today at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Russell Hemley, Ph.D., said that hundreds of scientists will work together on an international project, called the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), to probe the chemical element that's in the news more often than perhaps any other. That's carbon as in carbon dioxide.
"Concerns about climate change have made millions of people aware of carbon's role on the surface of the Earth, in the atmosphere and in the oceans," Hemley said. "The Deep Carbon Observatory will uncover critical information about the movement and fate of carbon hundreds and thousands of miles below Earth's surface. We call that the deep carbon cycle."
Hemley said this basic research could have practical implications in the future. Using laboratory equipment that reproduces pressures deep within the Earth, which are thousands to millions of times higher than on the surface, scientists in these labs have discovered a way to convert carbon dioxide into a rock-like material called polymeric carbon dioxide. With further refinements, scientists could enhance its stability closer to the Earth's surface.
The findings also may lead to new materials for commercial and industrial products. Hemley's laboratory, for instance, has developed a way to produce "super" diamonds, or high-quality diamonds that are bigger and better than existing ones. Natural diamonds form slowly under the high-pressure, high-temperature conditions that exist deep within the Earth, while today's synthetic diamonds form under similar conditions in the laboratory. Using a process called chemical vapor deposition, Hemley's research group made diamonds rapidly and at low pressure. The new diamonds have superior qualities, including extreme hardness, improved transparency and better electrical and temperature properties. The diamonds could lead to improved computer chips that run faster and generate less heat than existing silicon chips, Hemley said. They also show promise for use in advanced cutting-tools, more durable and heat-resistant windows for spacecraft and other applications, he noted....MORE
UPDATED: Insurance Companies Already Considering Premium Increases (ALL; ACE; TRV; XL) and tomorrow we tie a hurricane record
Update: Morgan Stanley agrees. In a note on Sunday they especially liked the reinsurers.
The best buys are probably the reinsurers Ace and XL but they aren't trading pre-market.
The Travelers and Allstate both look set to open up 2% or more.
Remember when Allstate wanted to raise premiums in Florida by 42% (later amended to a 47% increase) because of global warming?
That was just before the start of the almost 1100 day period when the U.S. suffered not a single landfalling hurricane, the streak that was broken by Irene on Saturday.*
As I said in March 2010's ""No Surprise: Chile Leads to Reinsurance Rate Increase Debate" BRK-A; BRK-B", just after the monster earthquake in:
No kidding.
A brisk breeze gets the boys in Omaha, Zurich, Munich and London (Lloyds) talking about premium increases.
Not to mention the herverzekering crowd in Amsterdam, they're tough bastards.
Here's how Reuters put it, five days ago:
Hurricane Irene, threatening to become the first hurricane to hit the United States in three years, could be the catalyst the insurance industry has been seeking in its quest for across-the-board premium increases after years of weakness.
Like speculators in the futures market who applaud the effects of drought on wheat prices, another disaster could ultimately cheer investors in insurance and reinsurance stocks. Major storms in 2004 and 2005 triggered a surge in insurance stocks after the fact....MUCH MORE
*The number of days in between intense hurricane landfalls (S/S Category 3-4-5) is still running as Irene landed as a Cat2.
Tomorrow we will tie the 2,136 days between landfalls of October 11,1909 and August 17,1915 as the second longest streak in the historical record.
I bet you haven't seen that little factoid anywhere else today.
A Double Bottom in the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) Also GLD; BAC
I'm linking to his main page, scroll down for more (simple, clean) chart analyses.
From Alpha Global Investors:
PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) weekly chart analysis ;
1) When you often see "fake moves" above/below a certain price level, you know that you are facing a key support/resistance level
2) Focus on that blue arrow scenario, expecting another break out in about two months....
So You're MAD About Something on the Internet?
See Not Quite Wrong for the whole thing:
NQW says:
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for sharing the chart! You can vote for it on Reddit here (please do!), I would LOVE to see it again on BoingBoing, if someone sends me a Submitterator post I’ll add it here as well. If there’s anywhere else you share it to, please let me know!
After months of discussion and planning, Caldwell and myself, creators of the “So you found something cool on the Internet…” chart on giving credit where credit is due, are proud to present this followup, all about Internet arguments.
I think we’ve all seen it before, the argument online that gets out of hand. Our message is simple, the minute you engage you probably should have walked away. So don’t get angry, just chill the fuck out and eat a sandwich. I mean look at Professor Internet. He seems like a smart cat. Better listen to him....MORE
HT: Reason's Hit and Run blog
The Subjunctive and Short Selling European Financials
From Ibex Salad:
Used primarily in modern times to provide the emotional underpinnings of boleros and Johnny Hartman ballads, the subjunctive mood fell into near total disuse in the English language over the course of the twentieth century. One of the regrettable results of this loss of communicative precision is that it has become seductively and irresistibly easy to present purely hypothetical proofs as if they were factual. Had it never taken place the human race might have ended up not being subjected to an unending barrage of contrafactual non-events posing as evidence supporting various indisputable tenets of finance and economics.
The uproar raised by the folks pictured above when, on August 12th, a number of eurozone countries temporarily banned the short sale of financial stocks and derivatives provides a pertinent example. The Millionth Monkey puts it best:
There are those who say the upcoming short selling ban in all stocks in Italy and France, which according to CNBC will take place as soon as after the close today, or in one hour, will be beneficial to stocks. Then there are facts. To those who may have forgotten, on September 18 (ed. 2008), the SEC banned the shorting of all financials here in the US. Below is a chart of the carnage that ensued... The same chart is coming to Europe first. End result: 48% drop in under a month.
Lacking the grammatical tools necessary for the task, what the intellectually challenged (and incredibly confused about the temporal order in which arguments are presented) writer of that piece is attempting to claim is that if the SEC were not to have banned short sales on financials three years ago that the outcome with respect to US banking stocks would not have been materially different. It’s that simple – the SEC kicked out the hyperthyroidic short specs and the market crashed anyway. Kindly, for its part, nature has recently provided us with a second opinion on that relationship – the Europe to which their chart is ‘coming to’.
Assuming, correctly we believe, that the effect of the directive can be measured from the moment that the rumour mill declared it a done deal and the shorts started covering in earnest – the lows of August 11th – the following lists the performance of various Eurostoxx banks affected by the ban through this Friday’s close.
Santander - +8.5%
BBVA - +6.9%
BNP Paribas - +2%
Credit Agricole - +10%
Intesa - +5%
Societe Generale - +6%
Unicredit - +1%
German Banks, however, were not subjected to the indignity of a prohibition....MORE
A Tree Falls in Brooklyn
It's looking as if the insurers and reinsurers both dodged a bullet and have a catalyst for premium increases.
We will more on the insurance companies, for now expect a pop on Monday, and especially among the reinsurers ACE and XL.
From New York Magazine's Daily Intel blog:
Photo: Andy Mirer
It appears that the worst-case scenarios for the potential damage Hurricane Irene could cause in New York will not be realized. But local, small-scale damage has been done: In one instance, a huge and beautiful 80-year-old American Elm tree that had been controversial for years in Brooklyn Heights came down this morning at about 5am, knocking down a tony co-op building's garden wall, crashing across Hicks Street, and coming to rest in the front yard of an early-1800s wooden house across the street. It appears to have knocked down the iron fence in front of that house, and may have crashed through the facade...MORE
"Historic Hurricanes from New Jersey to New England: 1634-2011"
More than you may care to know, all in one place.
From Weather Underground's Weather History:
Historic Hurricanes from New Jersey to New England: 1634-2011
A very large though not intense hurricane is bearing down on the mid-Atlantic coastline as I write this Saturday morning August 27, 2011. This blog is a review of significant hurricanes that have in the past affected the New Jersey, New York City, Long Island, and Northeastern portions of the United States. I arrange this review in a chronological order beginning with the first European settlement of the northeastern United States in 1620.
August 1635: The Great Colonial Hurricane
David Ludlum, America’s greatest weather historian, notes that Rev. Increase Mather reported in his treatise ‘Remarkable Providences’ (1684) that he had heard “of no other storm more dismal than the great hurricane which was in August 1635”. Ludlum writes “this was the greatest meteorological event of the colonial period in New England, coming only 15 years after the settlement of Plymouth Plantation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony”. John Winthrop and William Bedford witnessed the storm. It struck on August 16, 1635 and leveled the forests of the region. The native population agreed no such storm in their lore had been so powerful.
September 1675: A hurricane said to be almost as powerful as the 1635 strikes New London, Connecticut and Boston. Ludlum notes that this storm was equal to the hurricanes to strike Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1635, 1815, 1938, and 1944.
No significant hurricanes in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic are on record aside from the tropical storm that struck Philadelphia on October 22, 1743; Benjamin Franklin measured it accurately using scientific weather measurements for the first time in United States history. The storm was not that significant otherwise. The most significant hurricane of in the 18th century would be the hurricane of September 1775. It “exacted a toll on human lives higher than any pervious American mainland hurricane” according to weather historian David M. Ludlum. 163 lives were lost on the North Carolina Capes and at sea off New England. The path of the storm followed one similar to Hurricane Hazel in 1954; inland over eastern Pennsylvania. Philadelphia harbor reported its highest tide on record.
Chronological list of known 17-18th Century New Jersey to New England Tropical Storms
August 21-24, 1806: The hurricane of August 1806 was very similar to Irene. It made a short transit over Cape Hatteras and then slowly marched northeastward affecting only coastal regions (not even noticed 100 miles inland). New York City was “soundly lashed” and at least 21 sailors were lost off the New Jersey coast. Much damaged occurred on Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and Cape Cod.
September 23, 1815: ‘The Great Gale’ This hurricane ranked foremost in the minds of the population in New York and New England at the time. The storm passed east of New York City but hit Long Island soundly. The storm was similar to the 1938 hurricane in that it had a forward motion of 50mph as it plowed on to Long Island. The eye moved over eastern Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. Like the great hurricane of 1938, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Isalnd was most affected. The area was sparsely populated at this time unlike 1938 and only two deaths were reported.
The Great Gale of 1815 inundates Providence, Rhode Island as depicted in this painting by John Russell Bartlett. Rhode Island Historical Society.
September 3, 1821: Last Time a Hurricane Passed Directly over New York City On September 3, 1821 the eye of a hurricane passed directly over New York City. The center crossed Long Island (where JKF Airport is now). Records indicate that this is the only MAJOR hurricane to have passed directly over the city in at least 250 years. The New York Post published this report on September 4th:...MORE
Swap Intel for Con Ed (INTC; ED)
Intel has a higher dividend and a lower hurricane risk.
From Ticker Sense via Abnormal Returns:
Intel ($INTC) has a higher dividend yield than Consolidated Edison ($ED)
Hurricane Irene: "New York City Orders Partial Evacuation"
This gal is turning out to be a real bitch.
From the WSJ's Metropolis blog:
EVACUATION MAP: Click on the map to launch a larger version.
MIT: "New York Surge From Irene Looks Bad, But Not Off Charts"
From the New York Times' Dot Earth blog:
A simulation of the storm surge from Hurricane Irene (using the Slosh model) shows severe flooding in New Haven and New London, Conn., (the scale is in feet) and parts of New Jersey, with extra sea height of around four feet (on top of the tide) in New York City.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on coastal impacts from hurricanes have run fresh simulations of the possible storm surge as Hurricane Irene hits the New York metropolitan region. Simulations using two surge models (known by their acronyms, SLOSH and ADCIRC) found 1.22 and 1.05 meters of surge (4 and 3.44 feet) of surge at the Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan.
This would pose serious risks to low installations and the subways but is nowhere near a worst case (think 13 feet, as in 1821)....MORE
1957 Ferrari Sets Record Price for an Automobile Sold at Auction
Not the most valuable (yet). We went with a more precise headline than TIME.
From Time Magazine's Moneyland column:
$16.4 Million Ferrari Sets New Record For Most Expensive Car
Bloomberg / Getty Images
A 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa
California auctioneer Goodings & Co., sold a 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa for $16.4 million on Saturday, the highest price ever paid for a car at auction. The previous record was $12 million, also for a 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa.
The car is the first of Testa Rossa built and was used as a prototype for the many others that came during the 1950s and 1960s. The car has 300-horsepower, a 3.0-liter V-12 engine, a four-speed manual transmission and was used in races in both the U.S. and Europe....MORE
The Most Valuable Automobile in the World
Energy: Costs Matter-- Fusion Edition
Following up on a point raised in "The Columbia Jounalism Review on Green Jobs",
Lifted in toto from Marginal Revolution:
Is fusion power going to work out?
Chris F. Masse sends me many links on this topic, and I am willing to give it a hearing. Here is a new summary article:
“We could produce net electricity right now, but the costs would be huge,” says Cowley. “The barrier is finding a material than can withstand the neutron bombardment inside the tokamak. We could also just say damn to the cost of the electricity required to demonstrate this. But we don’t want to do something that cannot be shown to be commercially viable. What’s the point?”
…on Earth, scientists have to try and replicate a star’s intense gravitational pressure with an artificial magnetic field that requires huge amounts of electricity to create – so much that the National Grid must tell Culham when it is OK for them to run a shot. (Namely, not in the middle of Coronation Street or a big football match.)
HT: Alphaville
The Columbia Jounalism Review on Green Jobs
Is it just me or does this arguement seem soooo last decade?
The essence of the green jobs debate is government subsidies. If the energy produced was cost competitive there would be no reason for utilities to delay implementation.
We see this scenario each time a BTU from natural gas trades for less than a BTU from coal. The electricity producers switch to natural gas.
(with some slippage)
The question with the subsidies is not whether or not they work but whether they are the highest use for finite financial resources.
If the U.S. decided it was in the country's interest to have a nation of whittlers you could, with enough subsidy, put all the unemployed to work. Is that the way to go?
[what if you count the value of the wood chips as biomass to create electricity? -ed]
This is getting to be a long introduction, I'll come back to the policy, fiscal and financial issues next month. In the meantime here's the CJR's The Observatory blog on recent reporting and commentary:
Gamey Green Jobs Coverage
On Tuesday, climate blogger Joseph Romm blasted a New York Times article about green jobs for ignoring “explosive” growth in that sector. It was valid criticism even though Romm, in turn, had some distortions of his own.
The Times’s piece argues that President Obama’s pledge to create 5 million green jobs over ten years, and California Governor Jerry Brown’s promise to create five-hundred thousand clean-technology jobs in the state by the end of the decade, look like “a pipe dream.” Produced by the San Francisco-based Bay Citizen, which provides coverage of the Bay Area to the Times, the article is pegged, in part, to a July report by the Brookings Institute and Battelle’s Technology Partnership Practice, which assessed green jobs nationally and regionally.
“[The study] found clean-technology jobs accounted for just 2 percent of employment nationwide and only slightly more — 2.2 percent — in Silicon Valley,” according to the article, which was published on August 19. “Rather than adding jobs, the study found, the sector actually lost 492 positions from 2003 to 2010 in the South Bay, where the unemployment rate in June was 10.5 percent.”
It’s a selective quotation from the report that supports the thesis presented in the article’s headline: “Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises”—although it’s likely the Times wrote the headline to suit the Bay Citizen’s reporting. The Brookings report repeatedly acknowledges than such jobs are, for now, a “modest slice” of the US total, it is actually quite sanguine about progress in the “clean economy” and prospects for future growth.
“The clean economy increasingly looks like a promising location for the emergence of significant new technologies, processes, and industries that will shape the next economy and generate new jobs…” the report says, “Though modest in size, the clean economy employs more workers than the fossil fuel industry…”
Romm, who runs the blog Climate Progress for the liberal Center for American Progress, correctly charged that the article misled readers by ignoring many details of the report, as well as its overall message. Unfortunately, he too overplayed his hand. At one point, he quotes a contributor to his blog who had earlier reported that the Brookings report showed that, “From 2003 to 2010, the clean economy grew 8.3% — almost double what the overall economy grew during those years.”
In fact, between 2003 and 2010, the clean economy expanded at an annual rate of 3.4 percent, compared to the national economy’s 4.2 percent. It was only during the middle of the recession, from 2008 to 2009, that the clean economy grew faster, at a rate of 8.3 percent, than the rest of the economy. And that was “likely due, in part, to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which channeled large sums of public spending towards clean energy projects,” the report noted.
Between 2003 and 2010, it was only the youngest and smallest sectors of the clean economy—thirteen of the thirty-nine sectors assessed in the report—that grew 8.3 percent annually. This was the “explosive” growth that Romm accused the Times and the Bay Citizen of ignoring. It pertains to the energy-related sectors (wind, solar, smart grid, etc.) that most reporters and the public associate with green jobs. Brookings chose the word “explosive” to describe the pace of job growth in those sectors. It also used the word “torrid.”...MORE
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The Good, The Bad, and The Incredible: My Zeiss Biogon 35mm f2 Review
One of my favorite cameras to use is the Zeiss Ikon Contaflex, a beast of an SLR produced in the 1950s and 60s. The Contaflex featured a design that was almost entirely made of metal, a non-interchangeable 50mm lens, and a firm but smooth focusing ring that I could always depend on to work hassle free. The thing is a tank, something you can lug around on your shoulder
Skip ahead to a more modern Zeiss however, and it becomes funny to me how when, for the briefest of periods, I had access to a Zeiss Biogon 35mm f2 (MFR # 1365-659 for those who care), I found myself feeling perpetually frustrated with it. And yet now that it's gone and I haven't even touched a Zeiss in a few years, I'm left with a lingering doubt, a feeling that maybe I made a should have hung on to the more modern Zeiss. And so with that introduction out of the way, let's begin my extremely quick and dirty review of the Biogon T* 35mm lens from Zeiss!
Quick Rating:
Value for Money 4/5
Image Quality: 4.2/5
Build Quality: 3/5
Ergonomics: 3/5
The Positive
Most people who shell out for a Biogon 35 do it for two reasons, the name brand, and the (relative) affordability. Zeiss is one of the most recognizable names in photography and optics, for (mostly) better and for worse, so it can feel like a safe investment. (It's important to note however that the Zeiss of 2017 is a far cry from the Zeis of 1957) But does that make the Biogon 35 any less of a value compared to, say, a Leica 35mm Summarit? Well, in my opinion, no it does not. In a war of Biogon v Summarit, it's hard to say who would come out on top. Each lens has its unique place in a photographer's bag. However in my opinion, the overall differences in optical quality are far from substantial, and either lens would be perfectly suitable for just about any situation that the other could handle. If your goal is to take quality photos, there's nothing preventing you from getting excellent shots with the Biogon 35.
I got annoyed at the Biogon 35 when using it pretty regularly. There were a lot of quirks which, over a short period of time, diminished my impression of the Zeiss brand. While I only tested one lens and individual lenses may differ, mine had some pretty noticeable issues with build quality. First off, to do with one of the inner elements of the lens. From day one, the one I had was somehow loosened on the inside. What this meant in real world performance was that if I pushed in one direction, I would inadvertently push the lens slightly out of focus. Thankfully though, through regular focusing and horizontal use, things didn't seem to get out of alignment on their own. But I was always worried that the problem might get worse.
Another annoyance I had was with the construction materials and size. The Biogon 35 is a surprisingly large lens, one that protrudes further on the front than the Summarit. This doesn't sound like much, but when I was packing camera bags, this lens often had an uncanny way of just fitting badly. Also, the lens is just heavy. While it wasn't so heavy as to make a neck strap unreasonable, it certainly did take away much of the fun I'd normally get from traveling around with a camera on my shoulder.
The other big issue I had was with the focus ring. I wouldn't say that it was made with cheap plastic, but the thing certainly didn't feel like high quality plastic. Focusing was slow and felt clunky, imprecise. Unlike other lenses both budget priced and high end of the price spectrum, I often felt like I was having to fight against the Biogon 35 in order to get the shot I wanted.
The thing that I miss the most about the Biogon 35 is the image quality. Some people hate how this lens renders images, but for my prefered types of photography (mostly candid portraits at night), I haven't found anything quite like it. I think it's been documented that stepped down, the Biogon out performs the nearest Leica alternative in terms of resolution. But resolution aside, open wide at f2, particularly at night, is where I think the Biogon really shows its true colors. Subjects come into view with razor-sharp precision and excellent contrast, while backgrounds become psychedelic explosion of light on black. There's a mild vignetting to this lens, in my opinion that only adds to the value.
It's a little bit funny to me, a little bit sad, that while at the time I was using this lens it gave me constant frustration. But looking back, I can see it also gave me some of my favorite photographs to date.
The final question really should be, would I/will I get this lens again? In a world where money grew on trees and I had my own money orchard off somewhere, sure I would! But back here in reality, the story's a bit different. As much as I miss the Zeiss Biogon 35mm, I don't think it's worth it for me. There are quite a few other excellent options in the 35mm arena, each with their own quirks and treasures. For me, a lens I hold on to has to be one that I actually enjoy holding on to. A good manual lens will work so smoothly and effortlessly that you'll forget you're the one turning the focus and adjusting the aperture. This lens, despite it's incredible sharpness and psychedelic night rendering, just isn't that type of lens.
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Trump Elevates Coal Lobbyist To Lead EPA
EWG: ‘A coal lobbyist and the head of the EPA should be two different people’
WASHINGTON – After a career as a coal lobbyist and five months as acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler has been tapped by President Trump to be the agency’s next administrator. It’s a move that could only come from a president hell-bent on rolling back public health and environmental regulations, said EWG President Ken Cook.
“In normal times, a zealous fossil fuel apologist and the top official in charge of protecting children’s health from pollution would be two separate people with conflicting agendas,” said Cook. “But this is the Trump administration, where a former top coal lobbyist could become administrator of the EPA.”
“One thing is for certain. Whether or not he’s confirmed by the Senate to be the next administrator, when Wheeler’s time at EPA ends, more children will have been exposed to dangerous pollutants.”
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OEF: a lingering Afghan small war for the West (catch all)
Thread: OEF: a lingering Afghan small war for the West (catch all)
This is the third of five new threads on Afghanistan 2015 onwards, its focus is on the new The NATO Mission: concerned watchers and trainers. The mission is called Operation Resolute Support, with twelve contributors (down from fifty with ISAF) and with a declared non-combat mission.
For a brief outline see:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30616380 and from NATO:http://www.nato.int/cps/da/natohq/topics_113694.htm
I do appreciate that there can be cross-over between the five threads, notably how this NATO mission interacts with the ANSF and Afghan politics.
There are a large number of now closed, relevant threads on the ISAF experience and amongst the most recent are:
1) Green on Blue (causes and responses): http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=14506
2) Afghan Exit:why, how and more in country and beyond: http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=16907
There are a good number of threads on particular national contributions before 2015, notably by Australia, Canada, France, Holland, the UK and the USA.
Just how the relationship works is currently IMHO unclear, will the relatively new Afghan national government survive without external "boots on the ground" - even if some of them are in the air above.
Afghanistan is probably worse off today than when foreign forces intervened in 2001
Ahmed Rashid once more is forthright on Afghanistan's dire future, let alone the implications for the region and beyond. The article from 'The Spectator' is now two weeks old, so predates the Taliban's reported success @ Sangin, Helmand Province on another Afghan thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...t=21566&page=2
He opens with, with my emphasis:
Amid all the chaos in the Middle East, the breakdown of borders and states, a new threat is fast emerging. The key strategic bulwark to stabilise the region is a strong Afghanistan. But after 15 years of occupation by western troops and a trillion dollars spent, it now appears to be going the way of the Levant.
A weak government in Kabul has proved unable to forge a political consensus. The Taleban is resurgent, while other similar groups control much of the Afghan country-side. And this — with the potential spread factor of Isis — means that Afghanistan is probably worse off today than when foreign forces intervened in 2001. You will read very little about this problem, because Afghanistan is now regarded by most western leaders as an old problem, one that dogged their predecessors, one that they don’t want to confront. But expect to hear more about Afghanistan over the next year, because a bad situation is turning much worse.
Link:http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/12/w...n-afghanistan/
For those who seek detail try the summary on the latest CSIS report, even more depressing on a quick read 'losing, not lost':http://csis.org/publication/afghanis...ar-every-level
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Do We Know What We Are Doing in Afghanistan This Year?
Hat to tip to WoTR for this challenging, short article 'Do We Know What We Are Doing in Afghanistan This Year? by MG Eric T. Olson and he asks:
So those who are looking for some understanding of how things are going and exactly what we are now doing in Afghanistan must search elsewhere. And to make sense of the critical decisions that will be made in 2016, such an understanding is essential.
Link:http://warontherocks.com/2016/01/do-...an-this-year/?
Personally I cannot see any US President - given the legacy of 9/11, the ejection of AQ from Afghanistan and simply still being there - in whatever format and number - leaving.
170yrs later a General Nicholson takes command
Hamid Hussain, an occasional SWJ contributor, has a short piece 'Present Through the Prism of the Past' linking the US General John W. Nicholson Jnr, who is now the US commander in Afghanistan and his Imperial era relative Brigadier General Nicholson:
...though separated by a span of 170 years, both share some interesting characteristics and association with Afghanistan and Pushtuns. Both are men of two different eras.
Hamid adds: Facts are sometimes stranger than fiction. Enjoy.
General John W. Nicholson Jr. took command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan on 02 March 2016. His father General John Nicholson also served as general officer of United States army. John’s career in U.S. army followed the usual path of other fellow general officers. However, he has some qualities which put him above his peers. On September 11, 2001 his office at Pentagon was destroyed when Flight 77 crashed into Pentagon. John was not in his office that day as he was moving to a new house. Later, a significant portion of his military career was linked with Afghanistan. His first tour of the country was command of 3rd Brigade Combat Team in eastern Afghanistan. His second tour was Deputy Commander of Regional Command South and third tour as Deputy Chief of Staff of commander of US forces in Afghanistan. In between, he also served as Director of Afghanistan-Pakistan Coordination Cell at Pentagon.
In 2007, then Colonel John Nicholson was commanding 3rd Brigade Combat Team of 10th Mountain Division and deployed in eastern Afghanistan. 3rd Brigade Combat Team was headquartered in Jalalabad and responsible for four provinces; Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman. On March 2007, a Marine Special Operations platoon was hit by a suicide bomber near the village of Spinpul on the main highway near Jalalabad. Only one soldier had a minor wound but soldiers opened indiscriminate fire while driving down the road killing several civilians. John was commanding Task Force Spartan and the incident happened in his area of operations. He offered apology to local elders and in a statement to the local media, John apologized stating that "We are filled with grief and sadness at the death of any Afghan, but the death and wounding of innocent Afghans at the hand of Americans is a stain on our honor and on the memory of the many Americans who have died defending Afghanistan and the Afghan people." Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway, many other officers and Congressman Walter Jones criticized John for offering apology. In March 2016, when he landed in Afghanistan as commander of US forces, his first visit was to Kunduz where he apologized to local Afghans for the tragic mistake of last October when a hospital was hit by an air strike killing innocent civilians. These acts show the moral courage of the officer to stand up and admit mistakes publicly.
According to Carlotta Gall, General John W. Nicholson Jr. is a distant relative of a legendary figure of the Raj Brigadier General John Nicholson. Though separated by a span of 170 years, both share some interesting characteristics and association with Afghanistan and Pushtuns. Both are men of two different eras.
John Nicholson; a sixteen year old Irishman set sail for India in 1839 to join 41st Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) in Benares. In December of that year he was transferred to the 27th Bengal Native Infantry and he joined his regiment in March 1840 then stationed at the border town of Ferozpur. In early 1841, 27th BNI was ordered to Afghanistan to relieve 16th BNI. Nicholson arrived in Jalalabad with his regiment; a town where his distant relative with same name would base his headquarters one hundred and seventy years later. He then moved on to Ghazni to relieve 16th BNI. In March 1841, Nicholson drew his sword in the most disadvantageous circumstances against Afghans in Ghazni. After the fall of Ghazni, he was captured by Afghans.
He marched back with his regiment from Afghanistan to Meerut. He was a commissariat officer during Anglo-Sikh wars and he was present at Mudki, Ferozshah and Sobraon. After annexation of Punjab in 1849, many young officers serving under Henry Lawrence were dispatched to administer newly acquired territories of East India Company.
Four Nicholson brothers served and died in India. Alexander Nicholson was killed during retreat from Kabul and buried by his brother John. William Maxwell Nicholson joined Bombay Native Infantry regiment and died at Sukkhar at the age of twenty in June 1849. Charles Nicholson was commissioned in 31st Bengal Native Infantry. He was with his brother John during siege of Delhi in 1857 and both brothers were lying next to each other in a hospital tent. John with a mortal wound and Charles with right arm amputated. Charles died in 1862 when he was going to take command of a Gurkha battalion.
Nicholson of the nineteenth century had the advantage that other young men destined to become legends were his companions in the arduous task while Nicholson of twenty first century doesn’t have that advantage. When Nicholson took charge of Rawalpindi district, George Lawrence became deputy commissioner in Peshawar, James Abbott in Hazara, and Reynell Taylor in Bannu; while Herbert Edwards came a little while later to take charge of Peshawar. Later, Nicholson served as Deputy Commissioner of Bannu and Peshawar.
In the dark early days of 1857 mutiny, when Nicholson reached the Delhi ridge, some of the best soldiers of the Company were encamped there. The list included Alexander Taylor (later General) Neville Chamberlain (later Field Marshall), William Hodson (father of famous Hodson Horse regiment still on ORBAT of Indian army), John Coke (later Major General and father of Coke’s Rifles; now 7 Frontier Force Regiment of Pakistan army), Henry Daly (later General and father of 1 Punjab Cavalry that after many re-organizations now 11 PAVO Cavalry of Pakistan army) and Frederick Roberts (later Field Marshal).
In 1849, a small group of Hindu devotees declared Nicholson a new incarnation of God and start worshipping him. The sect was called Nikalsainis. Nicholson was puritan and had his followers flogged and imprisoned for the blasphemous act. However, they took the punishment like martyrs, and the more they suffered at his hands, the louder would they chant their hymns in honor of the mighty Nikalsain. Not many colonial masters can claim to be worshipped by natives.
John Nicholson resented all plundering of the people by an army in the field. After the battle of Chillianwallah, he flogged many soldiers for plundering. He wrote to his master Sir Henry Lawrence asking for powers of Provost Marshall and declaring that ‘If I get them, rely on my bringing the army to its senses in two days’. In 1854, chief commissioner John Lawrence was touring the Trans-Indus frontier. Captain Young husband commanded the body of frontier police which formed his escort. Suddenly, a very angry Nicholson appeared. Behind him came his orderly, leading a gold-laced, scarlet-coated jamadar of chuprassies (native assistants). He told Lawrence that the scoundrel was taking commission for the supplies brought into this camp. Nicholson then announced that “I am going to flog him. You have no objection, have you?” The jamadar was publicly flogged and the people of that district knew that the new Sherrif in town was just who will not tolerate the greed and tyranny of even his own. This was the reason that John Nicholson was not popular with his brother officers. Same is true to some extent about the John Nicholson of twenty first century.
John Nicholson recruited local Sikhs, Punjabi Muslims and Pathans for military and police duties. He earned their respect and admiration and was not averse to taking risks. When present day John Nicholson was commanding 3rd Brigade Combat Team of 10th Mountain Division in eastern Afghanistan, he was not very risk averse. He established several Forward Operation Bases (FOBs) and Combat Out Posts (COPs) and coordinated with locals. Muhammad Hayat Khan was orderly of John Nicholson. His father Fateh Khan had served Nicholson and died on the side of his master during attack on Margalla tower in 1848. Hayat was serving with Peshawar police when mutiny broke out and throughout the campaigns he remained with Nicholson. He was with Nicholson at the time of latter’s death. In nineteenth century India, loyalty was personal. Hayat family produced many army officers. Lieutenant General ® Ahsan Azhar Hayat of Pakistan army belongs to that family. Present day John Nicholson doesn’t have the luxury of having such loyal natives. In twenty first century, the nature of loyalty is changed. Many patriotic Afghans left the life of comfort in North America and Europe to make a difference and many died in Afghanistan.
John Nicholson of twenty first century is appointed in a war theatre at a challenging time. In one generation, United States saw defeat of two field armies and there are many reasons for that. Army marches and retreat on the orders of political masters. American public was tired of two prolonged wars and the bill was put on credit card. In view of economic recession and negative public opinion, no political leader could sell the war, therefore President Obama pulled back military from both theatres.
All kinds of passengers climb on when the war train leaves the station. Passenger list usually includes patriots, true believers, idealists, opportunists, thieves, carpet baggers, charlatans, jugglers and fortune tellers. John’s job is now essentially to keep a lid on violence to an extent that it does not disrupt routine function of Afghanistan government. The role of soldiers in this exercise is limited to training, logistical and air support and intelligence. The most difficult task which John will share with his diplomatic colleagues is to mediate between rival Afghan ruling elite. He will need patience of Job to perform this task. He may ponder over the advice of T. E. Lawrence that “It is their war and you are to help them not to win it for them”. In dealing with local Afghans, he may ponder over the statement of John Nicholson of nineteenth century, "Never remove a native official unless you know that you can replace him by a better one, otherwise you will get an equally stupid or corrupt man, minus the experience of his predecessor.
Stay calm, don't panic - all is calm, B52's overhead
Sometimes news from Afghanistan is reported, mainly about Kabul and sometimes Helmand Province - which is rarely IMHO good news.
Now Professor Paul Rogers latest review of the Afghan security situation includes one surprise and one long expected:https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/afghanistan-war-dynamic?
So it was this week with a report at the bottom of an inside page of a leading military journal: “B-52 bombers rejoin US campaign in Afghanistan”. .....but has now been absent from the scene for a decade as other bombers, including the B-1B, took its place. Now the B-52, with its heavy payload of ordnance, is back at the centre of the United States's air campaign. Since April, deployed from the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, B-52s have conducted more than 325 strikes in almost 270 sorties, using over 1,300 weapons.
The cited journal article is partly available:http://www.janes.com/article/63067/b...in-afghanistan
The second is more complicated and very political in the region, not that India's role has not been silent and there is an old, closed thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=3166
Now he reports:
The Afghans also have equipment problems, made worse by a shortage of spares for their Russian-made equipment, which US sanctions against Russia make it hard to replace. The US has turned to India, formerly a major importer of Russian military hardware, to help meet the gap. That may make sense to the Pentagon, but in turn it feeds suspicion in Pakistan that closer Indian-Afghan ties will threaten Islamabad's position in the country.
The cited journal article:http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/land/weapons/2016/08/11/india-afghanistan-nicholson-russia-us-sanctions/88556746/?
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OEF: a lingering small war for the West (catch all)
After the end of ISAF and for many a change of role (to advise & assist) we now have the request for 3more troops, from NATO & USA, as indicated by General Nicholson.
I was struck by this Afghan veteran's article, with this sentence:
But one can virtually guarantee that by repeating the military strategies we’ve used since 9/11, our efforts will fail.
Link:https://warisboring.com/how-to-lose-...f95#.fseu4opt9
Or does this call mean more contractors?
The vast majority of those troops have returned home; there are 8,400 troops in country now (plus 26,000 military contractors, 9,474 of whom are U.S. citizens).
Link:http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/bei...in-afghanistan
Can there be a 'victory' or is a 'stalemate' enough - for the USA? As another observer remarked in 2015 are we 'losing' or 'lost'. Horribly fitting is Ahmed Rashid's remark:Afghanistan is probably worse off today than when foreign forces intervened in 2001
There are 300 threads in this arena and some IIRC have debated the issues involved. Perhaps President Trump and his advisers have better answer.
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Is more force wise?
Hat tip to WoTR for this article, which rightly asks:
a more fundamental question deserves serious scrutiny: Could a renewed U.S. commitment of additional troops help turn a corner in Afghanistan?
Link:https://warontherocks.com/2017/02/am...f-afghanistan/
More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul, Afghan officials say.
Militants armed with guns and grenades gained entry after one detonated explosives at a hospital gate and then opened fire on staff and patients.
Commandos who landed on the Sardar Daud hospital roof killed all four attackers after several hours of fighting.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39202525
OUTLAW 09
This CENTCOM spokesman's comments are insane and so is the fact that he was granted anonymity to make them http://thehill.com/policy/defense/32...nistan#…
THIS is exactly just how naïve this CENTCOM is...in VN the NVA/VC had underground bunkers that resisted shelling's and direct bombing that were destroyed by B52 strikes. of 15tons on three oases that virtually killed most inside those bunkers by blast waves...the same thing is just as easily done in AFG against caves..actually in the end far more effective than a single bomb...
This shows me that you have a leadership generation that tends to agree with Trumpo's thinking and that is dangerous....there must be a true civilian control of the military not vice versa....
ALSO explains just how they can overlook the simple facts that they have been arming and training and providing CAs and SOF support to multiple US named terrorist groups inside Syria..the Communist Kurdish PKK...Iranian Hezbollah and Iraqi Shia Hezbollah....
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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Not exactly sure just what/who a single 11 ton bomb is suppose to impress.....
From 2003, worth noting MOAB has been seen as a PSYOPS tool.
Twitter needs to Stop being weird about the 11-ton MOAB. For some perspective, here is a B-52 starting to drop 81 1,000 pound bombs.
Now a three B52 flight "arch light strike" gets everyone's attention.......and that for miles.......even the North Vietnamese Army had a high respect of an "arch light strike".....as did the Iraqi Army in Kuwait....
Was caught once inside the danger close range of an arch light drop and the ground had three foot high waves rippling for minutes much like a major earthquake...now that get's your attention....
WOW...a whole 36 killed.....and that works out to be exactly 611.11 pounds of explosive per killed IS fighter.....NOW if we look at the cost factor THEN Trump used roughly 104M USDs per killed IS fighter....
Sounds like a great "win" for Trump's show.....
I am counting 36 as the report says AT least...well it could have been far fewer actually....
US military's largest non-nuclear bomb killed at least 36 militants of the Islamic State group, Afghan officials say
http://u.afp.com/4Q9V
Not so sure that figure is even correct unless one did immediate BDA on the ground afterwards.....
US President Donald Trump had earlier called the mission "very, very successful."
AFG Sources "We don't know anything about the casualties so far, but since it is a Daesh (IS) stronghold we think a lot of Daesh fighters may have been killed."
Moderator at work
The threads in this arena have been reviewed and seven threads, several with high views, have been merged here and the title changed to reflect the continuing debate over a US and allied role in Afghanistan.
The catalyst was the big bomb being used on an ISIS outpost; so several posts elsewhere will appear here soon.
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Are you going to merge my thread/post on Afghnistan in 2017 and RE: Russian-Taliban relations?
Originally Posted by Azor
Azor,
No, as I have moved it to this thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=21569 which covers non-NATO and other neighbours role in Afghanistan.
Taliban Fighters Infiltrate Afghan Army Base, Kill More Than 100
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Dress Like Allies, Kill Like Enemies: An Analysis of ‘Insider Attacks’ in Afghanistan
By Javid Ahmad for the Modern War Institute at WestPoint: https://mwi.usma.edu/wp-content/uplo...ke-Enemies.pdf
Insider attacks—attacks by insurgents posing as Afghan police or military personnel against local or international forces—have become an important threat to the American and NATO personnel in Afghanistan. “We’re willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign. But we are not willing to be murdered for it,” as Gen. John R. Allen, then commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, put it in 2012. Since 2007, insider attacks have resulted in the death of at least 157 NATO personnel and 557 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). The attacks have affected the public narrative of
the Afghan war in the United States and partner countries and have sown a degree of distrust between NATO troops and ANDSF as they struggle to fight a common enemy. Despite the last sixteen years of engagement in Afghanistan, the United States and its NATO partners still fumble when trying to communicate with Afghans.
This report makes two claims:
• First, it argues that insider attacks are an outcome of cultural friction. Often attacks are the product of a perceived insult, a cultural gaffe, or a small misstep that in the minds of certain Afghan forces take on much greater significance.
• Second, the report claims that increasingly after 2011, insider attacks became the preferred warfighting tactic of the Taliban, an organization that understood well how to apply limited resources for maximum effect. In fact, despite a reputation for cultural myopia, the Taliban’s use of insider attacks reveals that the group understood US military and political culture and domestic sensitivities far better than some imagined. Using ANDSF personnel to attack American and NATO personnel was in effect a “cultural weapon” that targeted two weakness in the US civil-military apparatus: a deep aversion to casualties and the need to believe in benevolent narratives about why Americans fight.
This report explains the scope of the insider threat and its underlying causes, conceptualizes the cultural context of the insider attacks, and examines their impact on the Afghan mission strategy and its implications for future US engagement in Afghanistan.
Moderator adds: the main thread on this theme has been closed, it is:Green on Blue: causes and responses (merged thread)
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Pakistan's Anxieties are Incurable so Stop Trying to Cure Them
By Christine Fair at War On The Rocks: https://warontherocks.com/2017/06/pa...-to-cure-them/
For the last 16 years, the Washington policy community has debated how the United States should deal with its problematic partner in its war in Afghanistan: Pakistan. During the Obama administration, there was a growing consensus that Pakistan was the problem, even if there was no agreement on how to manage it. Despite disagreements, at the end of the Obama administration, there was a grudging acknowledgment that the Washington needed to show some real stick while pulling back on the carrots. In apparent protest to this growing conviction that a more coercive suite of policies is needed, on June 16, Steve Hadley and Moeed Yusuf argued in The New York Times that any successful U.S. strategy in Afghanistan requires the “United States must understand and address Pakistan’s strategic anxieties,” which center around India and its neuralgic fantasies about India’s imagined pernicious role in Afghanistan. Both men should know better. This argument is not only flawed — it is deadly. Not only can the United States not address Pakistani anxieties, but U.S. efforts to do so have undermined vital U.S. interests in the region.
Pakistan created its own anxieties with India by invading Kashmir and refusing to abide by UNSCR 47
Bush (George W.) tried to appease Musharraf in order to secure stability in Afghanistan, yet the Pakistanis increased their support for the Taliban during this period
Afghanistan’s opposition to Pakistan’s inclusion in the UNGA and claims on Pashtun and Balochi areas of northern Pakistan helped spur the latter to use Islamist terrorists to stage cross-border subversion and guerrilla warfare against Afghanistan
Pakistan only received a slap on the wrist when $300 million of $1 billion in military funding was withheld by the U.S.
Pakistan needs to be held accountable for its support of the Taliban and other Islamist terrorists, which have attacked India, the U.S. and American interests
Logistics and overflying still are problems
WoTR have rightly asked how can the USA and allies campaign in Afghanistan when all the best routes to supply the war pass through less than friendly nations: Iran, Pakistan and the 'stans.
Link:https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/th...ons-of-supply/
There is a closed thread on the issues (closed in 2013):Supply routes to Afghanistan
Oddly I cannot recall any public commentary on the requirement for overflying Pakistan, for combat missions; whether from bases in the region (Diego Garcia and Qatar for starters) or from aircraft carriers.
Afghanistan: despair...then imagine
Another commentary by Professor Paul Rogers, which after a week of violence and takes an optimistic outlook, if goodwill and more prevails:
The main conclusion of In Afghanistan: more is not the answer (5 July 2017) is that the stalemate may hold, providing Nato states continue to maintain support. But there is little evidence that inserting several thousand more troops, as Trump may do, will have any substantive effect. A potentially much more effective strategy would be an effort by multiple parties, including Nato states, Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan, India, and of course Afghanistan itself. The required focus would be an integrated commitment to working together, with the aim of negotiating towards de-escalation.
Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-r...rthen-imagine?
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Aviation in COIN (merged thread)
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UK election surprise adds to Japanese Brexit worries
Author: Leroy Wright Июн 12, 2017,
The UK elections on "Super Thursday", June 8, appear to have been the only major event that day that wound up having a real impact on financial markets.
Earlier, she announced she would form a majority government with the Democratic Unionist Party to keep the Tories in power. May expected to increase the number of her Conservative Party's seats in the parliament in order to avoid additional problems during the talks.
On the one hand, a weakened Conservative prime minister might not have the power to resist calls from some within the party who want that clean break, even if that means losing privileged access to the European Union single market.
European Council President Donald Tusk on Friday congratulated British Prime Minister Theresa May on her reappointment, underscoring that Brussels and London should press ahead with the Brexit talks.
Morawiecki, who is also Poland's finance minister, said: "It's hard to say I'm happy - because it's not for us to judge the results of the elections in this way".
Mr Willis said: "There is a lot of good news priced into equities whilst bond markets continue to price in a somewhat bleaker outlook, though government bonds clearly remain supported by central bank policies".
May, who had campaigned against Brexit a year ago but took over the Conservative party after David Cameron lost last June's Brexit referendum, delivered her terms for withdrawal in March.
Article 50 is clear that there is a two-year window to compete exit negotiations.
Mr Oettinger told German radio station Deutschlandfunk that in negotiations "a weaker partner weakens the whole thing", while if both sides were strong "you get results more quickly".
Considerably less sympathetic to May's self-inflicted gunshot wound was Guy Verhofstadt, the European parliament's Brexit representative, who called the result "yet another own goal - after Cameron now May".
"As far as the commission is concerned we can open negotiations tomorrow morning at half past nine", Juncker told reporters in Prague.
The firm's chief sovereign analyst Moritz Kraemer told Reuters earlier this week that the shape of the post-Brexit deal with the European Union remained the main factor for the UK's rating.
There was clear frustration with the European Union at the failure of the election to deliver a decisive result.
"One year after their referendum, we still don't know the British position in the negotiations on Brexit and it seems hard to predict when we will, because democracy often requires time", she said. Bohuslav Sobotka said that too much time had already been wasted.
Any new coalition government could also take a softer Brexit stance in the scheduled talks, even possibly seeking to remain within the single market, which trigger further problems. "So that we will fulfil the promise of Brexit together and over the next five years build a country in which no one, and no community, is left behind".
Mrs May left no doubt when it came to clarifying the way she expected United Kingdom to leave the single market.
"I think the Conservative party as a whole is reluctant to get rid of Theresa May now because it would mean a leadership election, it would mean stalling on Brexit talks", Menon said.
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Crimson Gardenia
Denise Cox - proprietor
Denise first discovered the vintage clothing world in the mid-1970s, but this was definitely not a case of love at first sight. Dragged into secondhand stores by her mother, her distaste for polyester and paisley made the visits a chore to be endured rather than an exciting treasure hunt. It was a decade later that she started to see the beauty in the thrift stores – admittedly, her taste was a little suspect as it was the discovery of a silk dressing gown that could (and would) be worn as a coat that had her pouncing with delight (Boy George, you had a big influence there...).
Fast forward another couple of years though and the real beauties of previous years started to catch her attention and so her true love affair with vintage began.
It wasn't just clothing and shoes that got her attention though... movies, architecture, furniture, jewellery, bakelite, music and dancing... if it was from the 1920s to the late-1950s it was definitely up for inspection. Previous jobs that have made an appearance in Denise's life include a stint at a weekly music newspaper in Sydney where she got to make full use of her dislike for incorrectly placed apostrophes, and also a long tenure at a record company where, as well as feeding her music addiction, she also met and worked with some lovely people – yes really!
In her spare time, Denise teaches a dance called Balboa, which originated on the west coast of the USA in the 1920s. Enjoying a worldwide resurgence, Balboa is danced pretty much all over the world – many major cities have “dance camps” or exchanges for Balboa dancers – and Denise is excited to be involved with teaching a dance that can lead to travel and new friendships. Her love of the dance has also seen her and her dance partner named Australian Balboa Champions three years running.
Crimson Gardenia is the culmination of many years of work and hope and excitement and Denise is ecstatic to see it finally off the ground!
Seamus – shop dog and overlord
Known in a former life as Kiltanon Seamus, Crimson Gardenia's shop dog and general overlord had a mildly (very mildly) successful racing career before becoming part of the Greyhound Adoption Program in Victoria. At the time, Denise was fostering greyhounds for GAP which involves taking these racing machines into your home for 3 weeks and teaching them how to become pets... you know, standard things like showing them stairs, carpet, windows, TVs, hair dryers – things they may never have met when they were racing dogs.
To cut a long story short, Seamus was foster dog number 10 and he decided he was staying permanently... Denise really didn't have much of a say in the matter.
Contrary to what you might think, Greyhounds are pretty much couch potatoes so it would be a lie to say he likes long walks. More accurately he enjoys being inside the office, flat on his side, watching the world go by with a squeaky toy under his head. His only tricks are sitting – actually a major achievement for a greyhound, as most of them can't do it – shaking hands, barking when prompted and giving a pretty good high five.
Twin Cherries necklace
Frenchie Halter dress
Belle jeans
The Henrietta coat-dress
Cherry brooch
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Sri Lanka again blocks social media amid communal unrest
FILE- In this March 7, 2018 file photo, a blocked Facebook window is seen on a smart phone screen in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's government has temporarily blocked social media and messaging apps following a flare-up of communal violence, the third time it has taken such a step since last month's Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, an official said Monday. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's government has temporarily blocked social media and messaging apps following a flare-up of communal violence, the third time it has taken such a step since last month's Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, an official said Monday.
The government acted after an exchange of accusations between two people on Facebook led a mob to attack a Muslim-owned shop Sunday in the Catholic-majority town of Chilaw, said Nalaka Kaluwewa, the chief of the Information Department. Police imposed a curfew in the town, located about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Colombo, the capital, following the violence but lifted it Monday morning.
Kaluwewa said the government temporarily blocked social media in order "to prevent misinformation from being circulated and also to prevent spreading of information that would harm communal harmony."
Previous blocks on social media and messaging apps imposed following the April 21 suicide attacks on churches and hotels were lifted after several days.
Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said police have arrested a 38-year-old Muslim businessman, Abdul Hameed Mohamed Hasmar, for allegedly writing the Facebook comments that sparked the violence.
Local media reported that residents in the area angered by the comments stoned Hasmar's shop.
Tensions have been running high in the Buddhist-majority Indian Ocean island nation since the attacks by seven suicide bombers who struck two Catholic and one Protestant church and three luxury hotels. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks, carried out by a local radicalized Muslim group.
Since then, the government has intensified security across the country, with armed policemen and troops being deployed to protect schools, churches and key government offices.
On Sunday, the Catholic Church held the first regular Sunday Mass since the attacks amid tight security. Sunday services had been canceled the two previous weekends for fear of more attacks, leaving the faithful to hear Mass via live TV transmission from the residence of Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo.
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Samsung Ventures’ first investment in Southeast Asia is HR startup Swingvy
Samsung Ventures, the VC arm of the Korean electronics giant, has made its first investment in Southeast Asia after it backed HR startup Swingvy.
Singapore-based Swingy’s service provides HR services, payroll and insurance for SMEs on a freemium basis. The company announced this week that it raised $7 million that was led by the Samsung arm with participation from Aviva Ventures — from insurance firm Aviva — and Bass Investment. Existing investors Walden International and Big Basin Capital, which financed a previous $1.6 million round, also took part.
Founded in 2016, Swingvy claims to work with over 5,100 companies across Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. Those customers, some of which do not pay, have a cumulative user base of over 100,000 employees.
“Our target customer is SMEs not enterprise,” Jin Choeh, who is CEO and one of three Swingvy co-founders, told TechCrunch in an interview. “There are some local players, some legacy players and some startup competitors, but generally we saw that there’s no market leader for HR tech in Southeast Asia.”
The service itself covers areas such as an employee directory, processes for leave, performance management, company calendar, HR reporting, payroll and benefits. On the latter, Swingvy offers health insurance through partnerships with third-parties — Choeh said it is a licensed insurance agent. He said that new features coming soon include claims (for expenses and payments) while further down the line will be monthly insurance and corporate cards.
It is quite common for HR and other ‘base-level’ SME services to develop marketplaces that match their customers with third-party providers — we’ve seen that in Japan among very mature players, for example — but Swingvy isn’t going down that route. Choeh explained that it will consider offering its own services in areas where it believes it can give value to customers and control the quality and experience directly.
More broadly, the startup is aiming to triple its customer base to 15,000 this year thanks to this new injection of capital.
The initial focus is on hiring — Swingy plans to grow its headcount of 23 to over 60 this year — and more “aggressive” sales growth. That’ll mean bringing in a dedicated sales team, increasingly online advertising spend to reach new customers and being more visible around event marketing.
“Sales and marketing has been less than 10 percent of our spend,” said Choeh. “We’ve proved our model is quite cost efficient and we believe it is time to raise sales and marketing efforts.”
There’s no immediate plan to expand to new markets, but the Swingvy CEO said his company is eyeing potential expansions in 2020. Potential countries include Thailand, Vietnam and Japan, he said. Indonesia — Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s fourth most populous country — is also under review, but Choeh said his team is aware that it is hyper-competitive while the market for paid SME products is particularly challenging.
What of the relationship with Samsung? For now, the relationship is financial rather than strategic, but Choeh admitted that there could be opportunities to work closely together in the future.
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Danville, Indiana: Historic, Quaint, and Growing
National Powwow Takes Local Stage This Weekend
Game On Brings Giant Fun to Downtown Danville
A Stylish Resale Shop: Jane's On The Square
Glassblowing: An Ancient Art Form Found In Hendricks County
ArtsGo: An Art Lover's Play Day
Danville, Indiana, the County Seat of Hendricks County, is located 25 miles west of downtown Indianapolis. The county was established in 1824, with the first non-Indian settlers moving to Danville in the 1820’s . Danville, a small town of just over six square miles, has blossomed into a community of more than 8,000 residents, with significant population growth occurring in the 1990s.
While not a bustling metropolis, Danville is conveniently located near State Road 39 and U.S. Highway 36, also serving as Main Street in Danville. Danville is about 20 miles from Interstates 70 and 465, where access to all of Indianapolis becomes easily available.
Danville Arts
Danville has a thriving arts community where theater, music, fine arts and crafts are well represented. The Danville arts scene is respectable, though no competition for the thriving Indianapolis art community. The Hendricks County Civic Theatre offers several performances throughout the year in Danville, Danville High School puts on many drama productions, ArtsGo! is a Danville event that allows local artists to show off their best work, and residents get to enjoy the Hendricks Symphonic Orchestra and the Hendricks Symphonic Choir.
Danville Attractions
One of the most popular Danville attractions is the Hendricks County Museum. Founded in 1975 by the Hendricks County Historical Society, this former county jail is dedicated to preserving the rich history of this central Indiana county. Twin Bridges Golf Club is an Indiana golf course in Danville that offers 18 holes of luxurious greens. A historic Danville attraction is the Royal Theater, built in 1914 and recently renovated and restructured into a 600 seat monument to Danville performing arts and music.
Danville Bars
When residents of Danville are looking to blow of steam on a Friday or Saturday night, there are few options for them in the Danville community. One is Cross’s Corner in the downtown sector of Danville, where you can find some good bar food, dancing and live music. Some of the best bars elsewhere in the area include Frank and Mary’s Tavern, a locally owned bar that specializes in seafood; Jug Heads Pub and Grub in Avon; and Legends Pub and Grill, another nearby bar, this one offering poker and other fun games.
Danville Business
Danville business mostly lives in the downtown area. Locally owned Danville restaurants like Wiggles, The Mayberry Cafe, and Cross’s Corner are all located downtown, so they’re perfect places to sate your hunger after an afternoon of Danville attractions. Downtown Danville is also home to some other great Danville businesses, like Carla’s Creations and Gifts, The Locker Room, and Game Swap Inc. With all these different places to spend money, it’s no wonder downtown Danville is the lynchpin in this town’s business.
Danville Children
Danville is a great place to raise children; the Danville education system is top notch, the community is small and cozy, and Danville parks are everywhere for kids to run around in. The Gill Family Aquatic Center has plenty of fun aquatic adventures for kids, Ellis Park lets kids exhaust themselves on the playground, the Haunted Train Station is a perfect family friendly Halloween activity, and the community puts on the Winterland Light Show every Christmas.
Downtown Danville
Downtown Danville would not be the vibrant area that it is without the assistance of the Downtown Danville Partnership, a local organization that seeks to promote and enrich the town’s courthouse square. They’ve restored the historic Hendricks County Courthouse and several other historic homes around downtown Danville.
Danville is home to the Danville Community School Corporation, an entity that encompasses four different Indiana schools: Danville Community High School, Danville Community Middle School, South Elementary School, and North Elementary School. The corporation also hosts Opportunity House, an institution where students can earn college credit.
Danville Events
Danville events are centered around the family, and are an excellent way to reconnect with your Danville children and put a smile on their faces. Summer Sounds on the Square is a community concert series; the Danville Farmers Market brings in fresh produce from local farms; Ellis Park holds concerts in its amphitheater; and the Winterland Light Show delights the community during the Christmas season with a massive light display and a visit from Santa.
Danville Health
Danville’s sick and out of shape like to take advantage of the Danville health facilities close to home. There’s a Danville branch of Hendricks Regional Health, a state of the art facility that’s home to some of the most accomplished physicians and diagnosticians in Central Indiana; and Danville health clubs like Snap Fitness and Curves keep residents fit and trim.
Danville Hotels
Danville, which isn’t quite close enough to Indy to be a jumping off point for tourists, has no standard Danville hotels within the town limits. However, visitors coming in to experience one of several fun Danville events can stay at nearby Plainfield hotels and Brownsburg hotels; both towns are within an easy drive and have a variety of affordable or luxurious options. Danville does have one slightly unorthodox lodging option within the town proper: the Hendricks County 4-H Fairgrounds.
Danville Media
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Title: Last Days of the Rebellion - The Second New York Cavalry (Harris' Light) at Appomattox - Station and Appomattox Court House, April 8 and 9, 1865
Author: Randol, Alanson M.
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LAST DAYS OF THE REBELLION.
THE SECOND NEW YORK CAVALRY
(HARRIS' LIGHT)
AT APPOMATTOX STATION AND APPOMATTOX COURT
HOUSE, APRIL 8 and 9, 1865.
ALANSON M. RANDOL
_Major First U. S. Artillery (late Colonel Second New York
Cavalry), Bvt. Brig-General, U. S. Vols._
ALCATRAZ ISLAND, CAL.,
During the winter of 1864-5 the Second New York (Harris' Light) Cavalry
was in winter quarters near Winchester, Va., on the Romney pike. Alanson
M. Randol, Captain First United States Artillery, was colonel of the
regiment, which, with the First Connecticut, Second Ohio, and Third New
Jersey, constituted the first brigade, third division, cavalry corps. The
division was commanded by General George A. Custer; the brigade by A. C.
M. Pennington, Captain Second United States Artillery, Colonel Third New
Jersey Cavalry. On the 27th of February, 1865, the divisions of Merritt
and Custer, with the batteries of Miller (Fourth United States Artillery)
and Woodruff (Second United States Artillery), all under command of
General Sheridan, left their winter quarters in and around Winchester,
and, after a series of splendid victories, and unsurpassed marches and
fortunes, joined the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg on the
27th of March. The Second New York Cavalry shared largely in the glories
and miseries of this great and successful raid. At Five Forks, Deep Creek,
and Sailors Creek, it not only maintained its gallant and meritorious
record, but added to its great renown. At the gentle and joyous passage
of arms at Appomattox Station, on the 8th of April, it reached the climax
of its glory, and, by its deeds of daring, touched the pinnacle of fame.
On that day it performed prodigies of valor, and achieved successes as
pregnant with good results as any single action of the war. By forcing a
passage through the rebel lines and heading off Lee's army, it contributed
largely to the result that followed the next day--the surrender of the
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
* * * * *
On the night of the 7th of April we camped on Buffalo River. Moving at an
early hour on the 8th, we crossed the Lynchburg Railroad at Prospect
Station, and headed for Appomattox Station, where it was expected we would
strike, if not intercept, Lee's retreating, disintegrating army. The trail
was fresh and the chase hot. Joy beamed in every eye, for all felt that
the end was drawing near, and we earnestly hoped that ours might be the
glorious opportunity of striking the final blow. About noon the regiment
was detached to capture a force of the enemy said to be at one of the
crossings of the Appomattox. Some few hundreds, unarmed, half-starved,
stragglers, with no fight in them, were found, and turned over to the
Provost Marshall. Resuming its place in the column, I received orders to
report with the regiment to General Custer, who was at its head. Reporting
in compliance with this order, General Custer informed me that his scouts
had reported three large trains of cars at Appomattox Station, loaded with
supplies for the rebel army; that he expected to have made a junction
with Merritt's division near this point; that his orders were to wait here
till Merritt joined him; that he had not heard from him since morning, and
had sent an officer to communicate with him, but if he did not hear from
him in half an hour, he wished me to take my regiment and capture the
trains of cars, and, if possible, reach and hold the pike to Lynchburg.
While talking, the whistle of the locomotive was distinctly but faintly
heard, and the column was at once moved forward, the Second New York in
advance. As we neared the station the whistles became more and more
distinct, and a scout reported the trains rapidly unloading, and that the
advance of the rebel army was passing through Appomattox Court House.
Although Custer's orders were to make a junction with Merritt before
coming in contact with the enemy, here was a chance to strike a decisive
blow, which, if successful, would add to his renown and glory, and if not,
Merritt would soon be up to help him out of the scrape. Our excitement was
intense, but subdued. All saw the vital importance of heading off the
enemy. Another whistle, nearer and clearer, and another scout decided the
question. I was ordered to move rapidly to Appomattox Station, seize the
trains there, and, if possible, get possession of the Lynchburg pike.
General Custer rode up alongside of me and, laying his hand on my
shoulder, said, "Go in, old fellow, don't let anything stop you; now is
the chance for your stars. Whoop 'em up; I'll be after you." The regiment
left the column at a slow trot, which became faster and faster until we
caught sight of the cars, which were preparing to move away, when, with a
cheer, we charged down on the station, capturing in an instant the three
trains of cars, with the force guarding them. I called for engineers and
firemen to take charge of the trains, when at least a dozen of my men
around me offered their services. I chose the number required, and ordered
the trains to be run to the rear, where I afterwards learned they were
claimed as captures by General Ord's corps. The cars were loaded with
commissary stores, a portion of which had been unloaded, on which the
rebel advance were regaling themselves when we pounced so unexpectedly
down on them.
While the regiment was rallying after the charge, the enemy opened on it a
fierce fire from all kinds of guns--field and siege--which, however, did
but little damage, as the regiment was screened from the enemy's sight by
a dense woods. I at once sent notification to General Custer and Colonel
Pennington of my success, moved forward--my advance busily
skirmishing--and followed with the regiment in line of battle, mounted.
The advance was soon checked by the enemy formed behind hastily
constructed intrenchments in a dense wood of the second growth of pine.
Flushed with success and eager to gain the Lynchburg pike, along which
immense wagon and siege trains were rapidly moving, the regiment was
ordered to charge. Three times did it try to break through the enemy's
lines, but failed. Colonel Pennington arrived on the field with the rest
of the brigade, when, altogether, a rush was made, but it failed. Then
Custer, with the whole division, tried it, but he, too, failed. Charge and
charge again, was now the order, but it was done in driblets, without
organization and in great disorder. General Custer was here, there, and
everywhere, urging the men forward with cheers and oaths. The great prize
was so nearly in his grasp that it seemed a pity to lose it; but the rebel
infantry held on hard and fast, while his artillery belched out death and
destruction on every side of us. Merritt and night were fast coming on, so
as soon as a force, however small, was organized, it was hurled forward,
only to recoil in confusion and loss. Confident that this mode of fighting
would not bring us success, and fearful lest the enemy should assume the
offensive, which, in our disorganized state, must result in disaster, I
went to General Custer soon after dark, and said to him that if he would
let me get my regiment together, I could break through the rebel line. He
excitedly replied, "Never mind your regiment; take anything and everything
you can find, horse-holders and all, and break through: we must get hold
of the pike to-night." Acting on this order, a force was soon organized by
me, composed chiefly of the Second New York, but in part of other
regiments, undistinguishable in the darkness. With this I made a charge
down a narrow lane, which led to an open field where the rebel artillery
was posted. As the charging column debouched from the woods, six bright
lights suddenly flashed directly before us. A toronado of canister-shot
swept over our heads, and the next instant we were in the battery. The
line was broken, and the enemy routed. Custer, with the whole division,
now pressed through the gap pell-mell, in hot pursuit, halting for neither
prisoners nor guns, until the road to Lynchburg, crowded with wagons and
artillery, was in our possession. We then turned short to the right and
headed for the Appomattox Court House; but just before reaching it we
discovered the thousands of camp fires of the rebel army, and the pursuit
was checked. The enemy had gone into camp, in fancied security that his
route to Lynchburg was still open before him; and he little dreamed that
our cavalry had planted itself directly across his path, until some of our
men dashed into Appomattox Court House, where, unfortunately, Lieutenant
Colonel Root, of the Fifteenth New York Cavalry, was instantly killed by a
picket guard. After we had seized the road, we were joined by other
divisions of the cavalry corps which came to our assistance, but too late
to take part in the fight.
Owing to the night attack, our regiments were so mixed up that it took
hours to reorganize them. When this was effected, we marched near to the
railroad station and bivouacked.
That night was passed in great anxiety. We threw ourselves on the ground
to rest, but not to sleep. We knew that the infantry was hastening to our
assistance, but unless they joined us before sunrise, our cavalry line
would be brushed away, and the rebels would escape after all our hard work
to head them off from Lynchburg. About daybreak I was aroused by loud
hurrahs, and was told that Ord's corps was coming up rapidly, and forming
in rear of our cavalry. Soon after we were in the saddle and moving
towards the Appomattox Court House road, where the firing was growing
lively; but suddenly our direction was changed, and the whole cavalry
corps rode at a gallop to the right of our line, passing between the
position of the rebels and the rapidly forming masses of our infantry, who
greeted us with cheers and shouts of joy as we galloped along their front.
At several places we had to "run the gauntlet" of fire from the enemy's
guns posted around the Court House, but this only added to the interest
of the scene, for we felt it to be the last expiring effort of the enemy
to put on a bold front; we knew that we had them this time, and that at
last Lee's proud army of Northern Virginia was at our mercy. While moving
at almost a charging gait we were suddenly brought to a halt by reports of
a surrender. General Sheridan and his staff rode up, and left in hot haste
for the Court House; but just after leaving us, they were fired into by a
party of rebel cavalry, who also opened fire on us, to which we promptly
replied, and soon put them to flight. Our lines were then formed for a
charge on the rebel infantry; but while the bugles were sounding the
charge, an officer with a white flag rode out from the rebel lines, and we
halted. It was fortunate for us that we halted when we did, for had we
charged we would have been swept into eternity, as directly in our front
was a creek, on the other side of which was a rebel brigade, entrenched,
with batteries in position, the guns double shotted with canister. To have
charged this formidable array, mounted, would have resulted in almost
total annihilation. After we had halted, we were informed that
preliminaries were being arranged for the surrender of Lee's whole army.
At this news, cheer after cheer rent the air for a few moments, when soon
all became as quiet as if nothing unusual had occurred. I rode forward
between the lines with Custer and Pennington, and met several old friends
among the rebels, who came out to see us. Among them, I remember Lee
(Gimlet), of Virginia, and Cowan, of North Carolina. I saw General Cadmus
Wilcox just across the creek, walking to and fro with his eyes on the
ground, just as was his wont when he was instructor at West Point. I
called to him, but he paid no attention, except to glance at me in a
hostile manner.
While we were thus discussing the probable terms of the surrender, General
Lee, in full uniform, accompanied by one of his staff, and General
Babcock, of General Grant's staff, rode from the Court House towards our
lines. As he passed us, we all raised our caps in salute, which he
gracefully returned.
Later in the day loud and continuous cheering was heard among the rebels,
which was taken up and echoed by our lines until the air was rent with
cheers, when all as suddenly subsided. The surrender was a fixed fact, and
the rebels were overjoyed at the very liberal terms they had received. Our
men, without arms, approached the rebel lines, and divided their rations
with the half-starved foe, and engaged in quiet, friendly conversation.
There was no bluster nor braggadocia,--nothing but quiet contentment that
the rebellion was crushed, and the war ended. In fact, many of the rebels
seemed as much pleased as we were. Now and then one would meet a surly,
dissatisfied look; but, as a general thing, we met smiling faces and hands
eager and ready to grasp our own, especially if they contained anything to
eat or drink. After the surrender, I rode over to the Court House with
Colonel Pennington and others and visited the house in which the surrender
had taken place, in search of some memento of the occasion. We found that
everything had been appropriated before our arrival. Mr. Wilmer McLean, in
whose house the surrender took place, informed us that on his farm at
Manassas the first battle of Bull Run was fought. I asked him to write his
name in my diary, for which, much to his surprise. I gave him a dollar.
Others did the same, and I was told that he thus received quite a golden
harvest.
While all of the regiments of the division shared largely in the glories
of these two days, none excelled the Second New York Cavalry in its record
of great and glorious deeds. Well might its officers and men carry their
heads high, and feel elated with pride as they received the
congratulations and commendations showered on them from all sides. They
felt they had done their duty, and given the "tottering giant" a blow that
laid him prostrate at their feet, never, it is to be hoped, to rise again.
Transcriber's Note:
The following misprints have been corrected:
"crowed" corrected to "crowded" (page 7)
"on on" corrected to "on" (page 9)
"unusal" corrected to "unusual" (page 9)
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Directional boring is a trenchless method of installing underground electrical lines along a predetermined bore path. The directional drilling system allows for the placement of underground pipes with minimal disturbance or disruption along the ground surface. With electric line directional boring, obstacles like sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, roads and landscaping are easily bypassed reducing the direct and indirect costs of trenching conduit.
Delaware Directional Drilling Electric | Electrical Power Transmission
Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation. The interconnected lines, which facilitate this movement, are known as a transmission network. This is distinct from the local wiring between high-voltage substations and customers, which is typically referred to as electric power distribution.
Electric power can also be transmitted by underground power cables instead of overhead power lines. Underground cables take up less right-of-way than overhead lines, have lower visibility, and are less affected by bad weather. However, costs of insulated cable and excavation are much higher than overhead construction. Faults in buried transmission lines take longer to locate and repair. Underground lines are strictly limited by their thermal capacity, which permits less overload or re-rating than overhead lines. Long underground AC cables have significant capacitance, which may reduce their ability to provide useful power to loads beyond 50 miles (80 kilometers). DC cables are not limited in length by their capacitance.
From electric power plants, to substations, and even light poles on the streets, we bore electrical transmission and distribution lines underground in the safest and most cost effective ways possible.
Delaware Directional Drilling Electric | Electrical Power Distribution
Electric power distribution is the final stage in the delivery of electric power; it carries electricity from the transmission system to individual consumers. Distribution substations connect to the transmission system and lower the transmission voltage to medium voltage with the use of transformers.
Primary distribution lines carry this medium voltage power to distribution transformers located near the customers premises. Distribution transformers again lower the voltage to the utilization voltage used by lighting, industrial equipment or household appliances. Often several customers are supplied from one transformer through secondary distribution lines.
Commercial and residential customers are connected to the secondary distribution lines through service drops. Customers demanding a much larger amount of power may be connected directly to the primary distribution level or the subtransmission level.
From remote rural locations to busy downtown streets, our crews deliver underground electrical transmission and distribution conduit installation services in even the most challenging terrains and circumstances.
We have bored for investor owned utilities, cooperatives, and municipalities in their smart grid, electrical substation, switchyard and electricity distribution systems in addition to boring for the renewable energy industry including, geothermal systems, solar ranches and wind farms.
Delaware Directional Drilling Electric | Electrical Power Maintenance
Water, dust, temperature extremes, high humidity, and vibration are just some of the items that jeopardize the electrical system. Dust combined with moisture or other airborne pollutants will coat conductor insulation, contact surfaces and enclosures. This coating acts as a blanket, reducing heat dissipation into the surroundings. Premature degradation of conductor insulation and nuisance tripping of thermal protective devices is the result. This coating also provides a conduction path for tracking and flashovers. Dirt can find its way into the operating mechanisms of the equipment, causing excessive wear and impeding its ability to operate.
The grounding system is vital to the safe operation of your facility. The best way to quantify the ground resistance of your facility is to do a ground resistance test. To obtain accurate results, you must isolate the electrical system from the utility by physically disconnecting the grounded conductor at the service. This is typically not something you can do at most facilities. An alternate method is to use a clamp-on ground resistance meter. Be sure you are measuring the ground resistance and not the resistance of ground loops. You should inspect and tighten ground connections at every location on an annual basis.
We provide electrical line maintenance directional drilling services on an individual or system-wide basis for Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Florida Power & Light, Consolidated Edison, Georgia Power, Virginia Electric & Power, DTE Energy, Public Service Electric & Gas, Duke Energy Carolinas, Consumers Energy and American Electric Power (AEP) among others.
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The EG Private Equity team looks to invest in small and mid-cap companies, anywhere in the world, which are exploiting new technologies (or new applications of existing technologies), and who have the potential to establish leadership positions in emerging sectors. The EGCA Group is open to multiple forms of investment, whether as a direct investor acting in partnership with leading global Private Equity, Venture Capital funds and Investment Banks, or through joint investment initiatives, participating via funds and secondary opportunities, or as principals in our own right. The EGCA Group invests in companies of all sizes,from $100m up to $2bn, for investment periods of up to three years, and where projected IRRs are expected to exceed 30%, and a cash-on-cash ratio of at least two times. The EGCA Group's focus is on industries which, in the EGCA Group’s view, offer the most promise. Presently, this translates into sectors such as Fintech, Biotech, as well as new businesses built around Big Data, businesses offering Software-As-Service (SaaS) models or Marketplaces.
EG Capital Advisors, Cayman Islands manages the Group’s private equity strategies.
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RetroSense Therapeutics
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Digital Ocean is an IaaS company that delivers the fastest and easiest way for developers and businesses to deploy and scale any application in the cloud.
Presto, developers of the PrestoPrime™ EMV Terminal and Presto EMV System, leads the table-top dining revolution with its guest-facing, pay-at-the-table, e-commerce system.
JetStream Software Inc. is an innovator in cloud software development, delivers the JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform for next-generation cloud data management.
MEL Science
MEL Science provides chemistry kits by subscription model and develops VR software for learning chemistry, physics and other science subjects at schools and home
Yieldify
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ChargePoint is the world's largest charging network for electric vehicles in the US, Europe and Australia with over 45,000 charging stations
NFWare
NFWare was formed by a team from the ARCCN Research Center in 2014 creating new products in virtualization technologies and the science of computer networking.
Medisafe
Medisafe is the leading cloud-synced platform helping patients stay on top of all their medications.
Valens is the inventor and the world leader in HDBaseT technology and a top provider of semiconductor products for the distribution of ultra-high-definition multimedia content, through a single cable, according to the needs of its target markets: AV, automotive, industrial, and consumer electronics.
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Care of the Athlete With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Clinical Review
William B. Horton 1 , * and Jose S. Subauste 1 , 2 , 3
1 Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi, United States
2 Division of Endocrinology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi, United States
3 Department of Medicine, G.V. Montgomery VA Medical Center, Mississippi, Jackson, United States
* Corresponding author: William B. Horton, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, United States. Tel: +1-6019845601, Fax: +1-6019846665, E-mail: wbhorton@umc.edu
International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism: April 01, 2016, 14 (2); e36091
Accepted: March 1, 2016
To Cite: Horton W B, Subauste J S. Care of the Athlete With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Clinical Review, Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2016 ; 14(2):e36091. doi: 10.5812/ijem.36091.
Context: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) results from a highly specific immune-mediated destruction of pancreatic β cells, resulting in chronic hyperglycemia. For many years, one of the mainstays of therapy for patients with T1DM has been exercise balanced with appropriate medications and medical nutrition. Compared to healthy peers, athletes with T1DM experience nearly all the same health-related benefits from exercise. Despite these benefits, effective management of the T1DM athlete is a constant challenge due to various concerns such as the increased risk of hypoglycemia. This review seeks to summarize the available literature and aid clinicians in clinical decision-making for this patient population.
Evidence Acquisition: PubMed searches were conducted for “type 1 diabetes mellitus AND athlete” along with “type 1 diabetes mellitus AND exercise” from database inception through November 2015. All articles identified by this search were reviewed if the article text was available in English and related to management of athletes with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Subsequent reference searches of retrieved articles yielded additional literature included in this review.
Results: The majority of current literature available exists as recommendations, review articles, or proposed societal guidelines, with less prospective or higher-order treatment studies available. The available literature is presented objectively with an attempt to describe clinically relevant trends and findings in the management of athletes living with T1DM.
Conclusions: Managing T1DM in the context of exercise or athletic competition is a challenging but important skill for athletes living with this disease. A proper understanding of the hormonal milieu during exercise, special nutritional needs, glycemic control, necessary insulin dosing adjustments, and prevention/management strategies for exercise-related complications can lead to successful care plans for these patients. Individualized management strategies should be created with close cooperation between the T1DM athlete and their healthcare team (including a physician and dietitian).
Keywords: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus; Exercise; Hypoglycemia; Hyperglycemia
1. Context
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) results from a highly specific immune-mediated destruction of pancreatic β cells, resulting in chronic hyperglycemia (1). Individuals living with T1DM require chronic injection of exogenous insulin for survival (2). Today, with the advent of many advances in insulin therapy and delivery, along with improvements in blood glucose (BG) monitoring, individuals with T1DM are seeing improvements in life expectancy (3) and participating at the highest levels of competitive athletics (4-6).
For many years, one of the mainstays of therapy for patients with T1DM has been exercise balanced with appropriate medications and medical nutrition (7). Compared to healthy peers, athletes with T1DM experience nearly all the same health-related benefits from exercise (8). These include improvements in health-related quality of life, reduction in blood pressure, improvement in lipid abnormalities (9), increased insulin sensitivity, decreased insulin requirements, lower hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels (10), improved endothelial function (11), and improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness (12). Despite these benefits, effective management of the T1DM athlete is a constant challenge due to various concerns such as the increased risk of hypoglycemia. Recent data demonstrates that the incidence of T1DM is increasing (13). As the number and life expectancy of T1DM patients increases, it is important for clinicians to understand appropriate management strategies for patients participating in athletic pursuits. This review seeks to summarize the available literature and aid clinicians in clinical decision-making for this patient population.
2. Evidence Acquisition
2.1. Methods
PubMed searches were conducted for “type 1 diabetes mellitus AND athlete” along with “type 1 diabetes mellitus AND exercise” from database inception through November 2015. All articles identified by this search were reviewed if the article text was available in English and related to management of athletes with type 1 diabetes mellitus. All titles and abstracts of papers identified by the searches were assessed for inclusion by one reviewer. Subsequent reference searches of retrieved articles yielded additional literature included in this review.
3.1. Exercise and Glucoregulation
Exercise is a metabolic challenge with a synchronized endocrine response (14). Metabolic responses to exercise are determined primarily by the intensity, duration, and environmental conditions (i.e. temperature, humidity, time of day) (1). Skeletal muscle plays a critical role in glycemic control and metabolic homeostasis and is the predominant site of glucose disposal under insulin-stimulated conditions (15, 16). Skeletal muscle is also the largest glycogen storage organ, having an approximate 4-fold greater glycogen storage capacity than the liver (15). AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a serine/threonine kinase that serves as a sensor of cellular energy status (15, 17). AMPK modulates cellular metabolism via phosphorylation of metabolic enzymes (18) and transcriptional regulation (19, 20). AMPK activation is chiefly regulated by cellular energy deficits, which are reflected by increases in the adenosine monophosphate (AMP)/adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and creatine (Cr)/phosphocreatine (PCr) ratios (21). Given the high rate of ATP turnover during muscle contraction, exercise increases AMPK phosphorylation and enzymatic activity in an intensity-dependent manner (22, 23). AMPK activation acts to conserve ATP by inhibiting biosynthetic and anabolic pathways, while simultaneously stimulating catabolic pathways to restore cellular energy stores (21). In skeletal muscle, acute AMPK activation suppresses glycogen (18) and protein synthesis (24), but promotes glucose transport (25) and lipid metabolism (26).
Muscles use glucose as their primary source of fuel in the initial stages of exercise (14). During moderate-intensity exercise (40% - 59% of maximal oxygen consumption [VO2 max] or 55% - 69% of maximal heart rate), the fuel for muscular contraction is gained almost exclusively from aerobic metabolism- by using a mixture of carbohydrate (CHO) from muscle glycogen stores and circulating free fatty acids (FFA) as fuel (1). Most endurance sports are performed within the moderate-intensity range (i.e. long-distance running and cycling) (1). As muscle glycogen stores are depleted, a balance develops between glucose production (primarily via hepatic glycogenolysis (27)) and glucose uptake by exercising muscle (14). Insulin secretion concurrently falls (28, 29) as muscle glucose uptake increases due to exercise stimulating the translocation of GLUT-4 receptors to the cell surface (30). A slight increase in catecholamines combined with the decrease of insulin promotes lipolysis in exercise, permitting the use of FFA as fuel (14), and later gluconeogenesis (31, 32).
High-intensity exercise (85 to 100% VO2 max or greater than 90% maximal heart rate), sustained for 10 to 30 minutes or intermittent bouts of 3 to 5 minutes, is common in team-oriented sports, such as lacrosse, football, hockey, soccer, track and field, and swimming (1). Exercise to VO2 max is primarily sustained by aerobic metabolism, including oxidative phosphorylation and, to a lesser extent, beta oxidation (1). High-intensity, supramaximal-effort (> VO2 max) activities sustained for only 3 to 30 seconds, such as sprinting, utilize the anaerobic energy system. In either scenario, high-intensity exercise is highly dependent on glucose as fuel, derived from either hepatic or muscle glycogenolysis (1). Additionally, exercise at high-intensity is characterized by marked lactate accumulation and a substantial increase in catecholamine concentrations, approximately 14- to 18-folds above basal levels (33).
Once exercise stops, insulin levels rapidly increase both in response to high BG levels and removal of circulating catecholamines (1). As a result, hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia combine postexercise to provide ideal homeostatic metabolic conditions for the replenishment of muscle glycogen (14). This promotes rapid recovery and primes the athlete for repeated bouts of high-intensity exercise.
3.2. Nutritional Recommendations for Peak Performance
3.2.1. Daily Macronutrient Needs for Exercise
Diabetic athletes have unique nutritional requirements that should be met to aid in peak performance. Proper understanding of current recommendations for caloric and fluid intake before, during, and after exercise is necessary for successful BG management and prevention of hypo- and hyperglycemia. Energy and macronutrient needs, especially CHO and fat, must be met to maximize training effects and maintain health (14). The recommended balance of these nutrients for athletes does not differ significantly from recommendations for the general population, though additional calories and fluids may be required for diabetic athletes and varies based on circumstances (exercise intensity, total energy expenditure, type of exercise/training program, duration of exercise, gender, and environmental factors) (1). Current guidelines recommend 5 - 12 g of CHO per kilogram of body mass per day (14, 34). Table 1 details daily CHO recommendations for athletes by training load (14, 35).
Table 1. Guidelines for Daily CHO Intake for Fuel and Recovery in Type 1 Diabetic Athletesa
Training Load
CHO Recommendation (g/kg/day)
Very light training (low intensity exercise or skill-based exercise) 3 - 5
Moderate intensity exercise for 1 hour/day 5 - 7
Moderate-to-high intensity exercise for 1 - 3 hours/day 7 - 10
Moderate-to-high intensity exercise for 4 - 5 hours/day ≥ 10 - 12
Abbreviation: CHO, carbohydrate.
aAdapted with permission from references (14) and (35).
A joint position statement by the American Dietetic Association, Dietitians for Canada, and the American College of Sports Medicine recommends the following general energy requirements for competitive athletes (36):
1. CHO consumption range of 6 - 10 g/kg body weight per day.
2. Protein consumption range for endurance and strength-trained athletes of 1.2 - 1.7 g/kg body weight per day. This recommendation can generally be met through diet alone, without the use of dietary supplements.
3. Fat consumption range of 20% - 35% of total energy intake. Consuming ≤ 20% of energy from fat intake does not benefit performance.
CHO consumption is necessary to maintain BG levels during exercise and replace muscle glycogen (1). Protein is needed for tissue repair and muscle growth while fat provides needed calories as well as fat-soluble vitamins and essential fatty acids (36). Box 1 summarizes recommendations for CHO and fluid intake during exercise (14, 35).
Box 1. Recommendations for CHO and Fluid Intake During Exercise in Type 1 Diabetic Athletesa
Duration of Event
Primary goal is fluid replacement
Begin exercise well-hydrated
Drink at a rate that is comfortable and practical to replace fluid lost by sweating
CHO intake is beneficial for the performance of high-intensity exercise of about 1 hour duration (37)
Primary goal is fluid replacement + CHO intake
30 grams CHO per hour of exercise
≥ 3 hours
Primary goal is fluid replacement + CHO + sodium intake
30 - 60 grams CHO per hour of exercise; when greater than 70 g CHO per hour are required, use a mixture of CHO sources (i.e. 2:1 ratio of glucose and fructose)
3.2.2. Timing of Nutrient and Fluid Intake
The primary goals for nutrient intake during training and competition are to replace fluid losses and provide CHO for maintenance of BG levels (14). Food and fluid choices to be utilized before, during, and after exercise are influenced by various factors, including intensity and duration of training, environmental conditions, and individual characteristics of the athlete.
3.2.3. Special Considerations for the Diabetic Athlete
Uncomplicated T1DM does not reduce physical performance (38, 39) and exercise capacity is equivalent to that of healthy individuals (40, 41). However, several complications can be seen with exercise in this patient population. T1DM athletes frequently experience hypoglycemia during endurance exercise due to augmented insulin absorption, impaired glucagon secretion, and reduced catecholamine responses (42-45). Exercise also specifically increases the risk of hypoglycemia 6 - 15 hours after exercise is completed (46) due to increased insulin sensitivity resulting from a prolonged increase in GLUT-4 transporter translocation to the cell surface (47-49). It should also be noted that not all forms of exercise lead to hypoglycemia, as some forms of intense exercise have been identified as potential causes of hyperglycemia (50). With these factors in mind, it is important for T1DM athletes to consume appropriate amounts of carbohydrates and coordinate food intake with timing of exercise and insulin dosing. This approach is critical for optimizing glycemic control and exercise performance, maintenance of muscle and liver glycogen stores, and prevention of fatigue and complications (1).
3.2.4. Carbohydrate Intake Recommendations for the Diabetic Athlete
Intense exercise at the time of peak insulin activity is associated with glucose disposal into muscle of approximately 1 g glucose/kg/h of exercise (14, 51). As demonstrated in Box 1, general recommendations for CHO intake during exercise are 30 - 60 g CHO per hour of exercise. A recent study by Francescato et al. confirmed the utility of a recently proposed customizable algorithm (Ecres) for estimating the amount of carbohydrates necessary to prevent glycemic imbalances during moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity (52). Box 2 summarizes recommendations for CHO intake before, during, and after exercise in T1DM athletes (1).
Box 2. CHO Intake Recommendations Before, During, and After Exercise in the Athlete With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitusa
Pre-Exercise
Athletes with diabetes who “CHO load” (200 - 350 g per meal) to increase glycogen stores before athletic events should monitor BG levels regularly and adjust insulin doses accordingly.
Recommended pre-event CHO intake is approximately 1 g CHO/kg body weight one hour before exercise. Low-fat CHO foods, such as crackers, toast, fruit, and/or yogurt instead of sugary sweets are ideal choices.
If the exercise is of short duration (< 45 mins), a pre-exercise snack of ~ 15 g CHO eaten 15 to 30 minutes before the event is adequate.
During prolonged (> 45 - 60 minutes) or intense exercise (> 80% maximal heart rate), an intake of 30 g CHO for every 60 minutes of activity is a safe starting guideline.
Solid or liquid forms of CHO may be consumed. Each form has distinct advantages. Liquids provide fluid for hydration whereas solids may reduce or prevent hunger. For exercise lasting > 60 - 90 minutes, a liquid CHO form is most recommended since it is more practical and contributes to adequate hydration.
Post-Exercise
Consuming CHO immediately after exercise as opposed to waiting for a period of time has been shown to replace CHO stores more efficiently.
Intake of 1.5 g CHO/kg body weight within 30 minutes after an extended exercise session (> 90 minutes in duration) and intake of an additional 1.5 g CHO/kg body weight one to two hours later will replete glycogen to pre-exercise levels and reduce risk of post-exercise hypoglycemia.
BG levels should be monitored at 1- or 2-hour intervals to assess response to exercise and make any necessary adjustments in insulin dosing and/or food intake.
Abbreviations: CHO, carbohydrate; BG, blood glucose.
aCreated from recommendations found in reference (1).
While the above recommendations serve as a useful guide for determining CHO needs, many other factors should be considered and advice tailored to individual needs of the diabetic patient, including:
1. Form of treatment: Insulin pump therapy, or continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII), provides the athlete a greater degree of flexibility for making basal rate adjustments before, during, and after exercise. This differs from multiple daily injection (MDI) and twice daily insulin regimens, which provide little room for on-the-fly basal rate adjustments, therefore needs during exercise are likely to differ (14).
2. Timing of exercise relative to insulin bolus: If exercise is within 90 - 120 minutes of an insulin bolus, the athlete should be able to adjust the meal insulin bolus and consequently CHO needs during exercise will be reduced, otherwise exercising within 2 hours of a bolus may require taking more CHO than the recommended 30 - 60 g/h (14, 51).
3. BG when initiating exercise: If the BG level is below 126 mg/dL (7 mmol/L), a 15 - 30 g CHO snack may be required. When the BG level is 180 mg/dL (10 mmol/L) or above, CHO intake during exercise should be delayed (14).
4. Antecedent hypoglycemia and prolonged moderate exercise: Both of these factors have been shown to cause similar blunting effects of the counter-regulatory responses during subsequent exercise, thereby making the athlete more susceptible to hypoglycemia. Davis et al. (53) demonstrated that nearly three-fold greater exogenous glucose infusion rates were needed to preserve euglycemia during exercise following a day of antecedent hypoglycemia when compared to a day without hypoglycemia (14).
5. Type of exercise: High intensity (i.e. sprinting) and intermittent high intensity (i.e. football) exercise may result in hyperglycemia during and/or after the exercise; therefore, CHO intake during these forms of exercise is likely to be problematic. General CHO intake recommendations for athletes should be adapted during these activities (14). Refer to Table 1, Boxes 1 and 2 for further details.
3.3. Management Strategies for the Athlete with Type 1 Diabetes
3.3.1. Education
Glycemic control in the diabetic athlete is dependent upon both the athlete and healthcare provider having an appropriate understanding of the pathophysiology of diabetes and its nuances with respect to athletic activity. The cornerstone of management for T1DM athletes is prevention of glycemic excursions (both hypo- and hyperglycemia) while maintaining adequate energy balance for exercise performance (1). All diabetic athletes should be counseled on the importance of establishing a daily pattern of consistency for all aspects of diabetes management. This pattern of consistency would ideally include a routine of insulin administration, consistent caloric intake, regimented exercise program, and frequent monitoring of BG levels (1). Each athlete is unique and will likely require personalized adjustments until an optimal routine can be established (1). Education of those working with these athletes is just as important as educating the athletes themselves. For those T1DM athletes who participate in scholastic competition or team sports, it is vital to ensure that parents, coaches, teammates, teachers, and other adults understand the importance of timed meals, snacks, and adequate fluid intake, as well as recognizing the features and management of hypoglycemia (54, 55).
3.3.2. Glycemic Control and Target Values in Athletics
General recommendations suggest that T1DM athletes exhibiting poor glycemic control (Hemoglobin A1c > 9%) should refrain from moderate-to-high intensity exercise until adequate glycemic control has been obtained (1). This is advisable because it helps decrease the risk of exacerbating hyperglycemia and minimizes the risk of progression to frank diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) (56).
In athletes with T1DM, glucose production from the liver, regardless of prior CHO intake, does not match the elevated rates of glucose disposal into muscle during exercise and in recovery (57). This leads to an increased fluctuation in BG levels (58). Adjustments in both dietary intake and insulin dosing are necessary for prevention of these BG fluctuations. Waiting 60 to 90 minutes after a meal before exercising and monitoring BG levels both during and after exercise/athletic competition are important baseline management measures (1). CHO-rich, low-glycemic index meals should be consumed 1 to 3 hours prior to exercise (59, 60). Immediately before and during athletic activity, consumption of additional CHO (17 g at initiation and 17 g every 15 minutes for 60 minutes of exercise at 65% VO2 max) has proven beneficial in maintaining BG levels both during and after exercise in patients with T1DM (61).
Consumption of low-glycemic index diets has been shown to improve metabolic regulation (62) as these foods require less insulin for optimal glucose utilization (1). These foods give a “low and slow” elevation in glucose when consumed and include non-starchy vegetables, fruits, nuts, milk, fructose, and lactated sugars (63). Examples of high-glycemic index foods that lead to rapid increases in BG include white bread and glucose sugars (63). It should also be noted that as long as the diet contains adequate CHO to maintain normal glycogen levels, low-calorie diets can be used in this patient population without affecting exercise tolerance (64).
The general guidelines for glycemic targets during exercise are 120 to 180 mg/dL (6.7 to 10 mmol/L), though BG goals should always be individualized to meet the specific patient’s needs (58). If pre-exercise BG is 100 - 250 mg/dL, it is generally safe to begin exercising (65). The American Diabetes Association has published guidelines (54) for regulating the glycemic response to exercise which include the following recommendations: avoid exercise if fasting BG > 250 mg/dL and ketosis is present, use caution if BG > 300 mg/dL without ketosis present, and ingest extra CHO if BG < 100 mg/dL. Monitoring BG levels using a glucometer or continuous glucose monitor (CGM) frequently during exercise is essential (1). It is also imperative that athletes keep detailed BG records during athletic activity, so they may understand their glycemic response to exercise, learn to make appropriate exercise-related management decisions, and evaluate the effectiveness of these decisions over time (58).
3.3.3. Insulin Dosing Adjustments for Athletic Activity
The development of highly specialized insulin has allowed more physiologic regimens to be used in the treatment of patients with T1DM (7). Insulin dosing adjustments for exercise are largely dependent upon the insulin regimen used by the athlete. MDI is a type of intensive insulin therapy which uses a long-acting insulin (such as insulin glargine [Lantus] or insulin detemir [Levemir]), injected once or twice daily, to provide fairly constant, low-levels of circulating insulin for basal control (7). The other component of MDI therapy includes a mealtime short-acting insulin (such as insulin analogs lispro [Humalog], aspart [Novolog], and glulisine [Apidra]) injected as a bolus immediately before eating, preferably matched to the number of calories or carbohydrates to be consumed (7). It is advisable for all T1DM athletes to avoid exercise during peak insulin activity times, if possible (1). For athletes utilizing MDI regimens, the dose of short-acting insulin should generally be decreased by 30% to 50% at the meal preceding exercise (54). For example, if a morning workout or athletic competition is expected, the short-acting insulin at breakfast should be reduced as above (1). One study has demonstrated that near euglycemia is obtainable in T1DM athletes during exercise with short-acting insulin dose reductions as high as 70% to 90% (66). It should also be noted that further insulin dose adjustments of 10% to 30% may be needed as the athlete becomes more fit (67). Insulin injection sites are also an important factor to be considered. The abdomen is regarded as the preferred site for athletes due to ease of access at mealtimes and more predictable absorption time (68).
CSII (insulin pump) therapy affords greater flexibility of insulin delivery than is currently available to those athletes using MDI regimens (14). A recent study among individuals performing regular moderate-to-heavy intensity aerobic exercise demonstrated that use of CSII helped to limit post-exercise hyperglycemia compared to MDI therapy and was not associated with increased risk for post-exercise late-onset hypoglycemia (69). T1DM athletes utilizing CSII therapy should reduce the action of the pump by 50% approximately one hour before high-intensity exercise is initiated (70). Mealtime bolus doses should also be decreased by 50% if a meal is eaten prior to competition. For low-intensity exercise, the standard basal rate may be maintained with a small reduction in the mealtime bolus (1). If the athlete participates in a sport with contact or collision, it should be removed approximately 30 minutes prior to exercise to compensate for the persistent insulin effect after pump removal (1). For activity lasting > 1 hour, small boluses may be needed to prevent a hypoinsulinemic state (1). Boluses should be given every hour and the amount of insulin given should represent about 50% of the usual hourly basal rate (71).
3.4. Glycemic Complications in Athletes: Prevention and Management
3.4.1. Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia is a feared complication for T1DM athletes and can arise for many reasons in this population. Common causes include too high a daily dose of insulin, errors in dosage, increased activity duration or intensity, insufficient or delayed food intake, and alcohol intake during or immediately after exercise (1). As glycogen is used for fuel during athletic competition or exercise, the reductions in hepatic and intramuscular glycogen concentrations lead to increased insulin action (1). While the rate of CHO utilization depends upon the duration and intensity of exercise, training status, and prior diet, as glycogen stores in active muscle and liver are depleted, the risk for hypoglycemia correspondingly increases (1, 72). There are known conditions that affect the counter-regulatory response to hypoglycemia that may be encountered in athletes with T1DM: antecedent exercise (73), antecedent hypoglycemia (74), and autonomic neuropathy (75). This failed counter-regulatory mechanism is hypothesized to be the result of cortisol stimulation that occurs during a stress (such as hypoglycemia) and the effect it exerts on the central nervous system (74). These individuals maintain a higher susceptibility to hypoglycemic episodes in the future (1).
3.4.2. Pre-Exercise Hypoglycemia Prevention Strategies
Adjustments in insulin dosing are necessary prior to exercise initiation (and have been covered above), but appropriate CHO replacement during and after exercise appears to have the most positive effect on preventing hypoglycemia (76). If the insulin dosing is not altered prior to exercise, a CHO snack must be ingested to minimize the likelihood of hypoglycemia (77). Individualization of insulin dosing, timing, and caloric intake before, during, and after exercise is critical to hypoglycemia prevention (1). Repeated experience with glycemic control during athletic activity by the T1DM athlete should help individualize any necessary adaptations to help prevent hypoglycemia (7). Table 2 provides a general summary for prevention of exercise-associated hypoglycemia in T1DM athletes.
Table 2. Strategies for Prevention of Exercise-Associated Hypoglycemia in the T1DM Athlete a
Reducing pre-exercise bolus (preferably when exercise is within 90 - 120 minutes of a bolus) Reduces CHO requirement; Reduced hypoglycemia during exercise; beneficial for weight management Requires proper planning; not helpful for spontaneous or late postprandial exercise; may result in starting exercise with increased BG
Adjusting pre-exercise and during exercise basal insulin rate (for patients on CSII therapy) As above Requires proper planning, as basal rate adjustments should be made at least 60 minutes prior to exercise
Reducing basal insulin post-exercise (possible with CSII and MDI therapy) Reduces nocturnal hypoglycemia May cause increase in fasting BG
CHO feeding during exercise Useful for unplanned or prolonged exercise Counterproductive if purpose of exercise is weight reduction/control; not practical with all sports; potential gastrointestinal discomfort
Pre-exercise or post-exercise sprint Reduces immediate post-exercise hypoglycemia Effect limited to shorter or less intense exercise; no effect on hypoglycemia during exercise
Caffeine intake prior to exercise Reduced hypoglycemia during and after exercise; reduced CHO requirements Possible impairments or alterations of fine motor control and technique; possible interference with recovery and sleep patterns
Abbreviations: BG, blood glucose; CHO, carbohydrate; CSII, continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion; MDI, multiple daily injections.
aAdapted with permission from Reference (14).
3.4.3. Management of Acute Hypoglycemia During Exercise
T1DM athletes who participate in athletic activity should be able to recognize the symptoms of hypoglycemia (BG < 70 mg/dL): dizziness, weakness, sweating, headache, hunger, pallor, blurred vision, slurred speech, confusion, irritability, and poor coordination (1). If hypoglycemia occurs, exercise should be stopped immediately and BG monitored every 15 minutes until it rises above 80 mg/dL (1). Acute hypoglycemia is best treated immediately with 15 g CHO (examples include 1/2 cup fruit juice, 4 glucose tablets, 6 oz sweetened carbonated beverage, or 8 oz low-fat or skim milk) (78). Severe hypoglycemia should be treated with glucagon 1 mg subcutaneously or intramuscularly to produce a rapid release of liver glycogen (1). It should also be noted that this therapy is ineffective if liver glycogen stores have been depleted by prolonged, intense exercise (1).
3.4.4. Post-Exercise Hypoglycemia
The risk of hypoglycemia in T1DM athletes persists even after athletic competition or exercise is completed. Late-onset post-exercise hypoglycemia (LOPEH) has been seen in T1DM patients as long as 6 to 24 hours after activity (79). The mechanism of LOPEH contains two main components: after exercise is completed, muscle and hepatic glycogen stores are filled by utilizing circulating plasma glucose. This coupled with increased insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake by peripheral tissues and a blunting of the glucoregulatory response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia is believed to cause LOPEH, which is often nocturnal (56). LOPEH most commonly occurs with increases in training level or during “two-a-day” preseason practices (commonly seen in football), although it may occur at any time (1).
One study has shown that regardless of post-exercise supplementation, glucose concentrations fell after 22 hours, and pre-bedtime snacks were an important component of prevention or correction of nocturnal LOPEH (77). Consumption of nearly any commercially-available sports drink has proven to be effective in prevention and/or treatment of LOPEH; however, sports drinks with a mix of CHO, fat, and protein were associated with sustained hyperglycemia (and lack of hypoglycemia) during the post-exercise period (77). Whole milk (77) and slowly absorbed snacks (such as chips, chocolate, and fruit) (1) have also demonstrated effectiveness in preventing LOPEH.
3.4.5. Hyperglycemia
Hyperglycemia in T1DM athletes (BG > 250 mg/dL) generally occurs as a result of low circulating insulin levels (commonly secondary to inadequate insulin administration), excessive food intake, physical inactivity, illness, stress, or injury (1). If pre-exercise BG is > 250 mg/dL, athletes should check for urinary ketones (54). If ketonuria is moderate-to-high, exercise should be avoided until BG improves and ketosis resolves (1, 42) Aggressive BG lowering is important, as it may prevent progression to frank DKA (1, 56). It should also be noted that T1DM athletes with BG 250 - 300 mg/dL and without ketosis may exercise or participate in athletic competition provided they monitor their BG every 15 minutes and demonstrate that BG values are falling appropriately (65).
3.5. Future Investigation
Recent technological advancements have provided new ways for patients with T1DM to monitor their BG levels. CGM is now available through several different devices (80), and many investigators are working to optimize a “closed-loop” artificial pancreas that links CGM with insulin administration through CSII pumps (81). Future studies should seek to investigate how these devices function during exercise in T1DM patients.
Recent studies have also explored the effects of endurance (45) and ultra-endurance (82) athletic competition on T1DM athletes, and results suggest individualized adaptation of therapy during training and competition is most effective. Future studies could examine these topics further and help create effective management strategies for these scenarios.
Managing T1DM in the context of exercise or athletic competition is a challenging but important skill for athletes living with this disease. While regular exercise is an important aspect of T1DM management, the demands of athletic activity can predispose T1DM athletes to dangerous complications such as hypo- and hyperglycemia. A proper understanding of the hormonal milieu during exercise, special nutritional needs, glycemic control, necessary insulin dosing adjustments, and prevention/management strategies for exercise-related complications can lead to successful care plans for these patients. Individualized management strategies should be created with close cooperation between the T1DM athlete and their healthcare team (including a physician and dietitian).
Authors’ Contribution: William B. Horton contributed the study design, acquisition and analysis/interpretation of data, drafting and critical revision of the manuscript. Jose S. Subauste contributed the drafting and critical revision of the manuscript along with study supervision.
Financial Disclosure: Neither William B. Horton nor Jose S. Subauste have any financial disclosures to list.
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Steamchicken @ The Bury Met – 11 Mar – Album Launch
8th April 2017 8th April 2017 blueestaiFolk Music, Gigs
Steamchicken is a universally fun and energetic band boasting shamelessly soulful vocals and a catchy, booming brass-line.
Chocks away!
Somewhere between a smoky jazz outfit and a blues brass extravaganza, “Steamchicken” are a group who set out to entertain, and do so in spades. Much like the wise, old traveller from a Western or the steely glare of a a wizened sensei in a martial arts movie, it feels very much like the band has seen and experienced a lot; their music reflects a fusion of life experiences, musical history and stage presence. As a result it’s very hard to dislike the work they are doing here and there is a lot of widespread appeal. Comprised of a huge roster (or is that rooster?) Ted Crum (Harmonica, Bass, Melodeon), Andrew Sharpe (Piano), Joe Crum (Percussion), Mandy Sutton (Tenor Sax), Becky Eden-Green (Alto Sax, Bass), Katy Oliver (Trumpet), Matt Crum (Soprano Sax, Melodeon) and Amy Kakoura (Vocals) it is clear there is a large brass influence to the mix, (which I love to bits). It also means that there should a bit of instrumentation for everyone (though maybe not shruti box enthusiasts). The addition of Amy Kakoura’s voice is like the aroma of flowers in a beautiful display collection that draws the crowd in and fitting along the steely harmonica and chasing piano quite nicely.
It is always a pleasure to see the chickens in action, and on this day they certainly were poultry with a purpose. “Steamchicken” come to the Bury Met to perform in the smaller space at the venue; not quite the scene from a New Orleans club basement (the seats are too comfy for example) but certainly an event and show with energy, pizzazz and a rather enviable lineup of songs to influence and entertain. It is an intimate space and like the friend you knew at school that smoked menthol cigarettes in the rain, it is rather a cool companion to the larger concert room upstairs; it felt like hanging out in the world’s best basement conversion with friends as you set the worlds to rights. On this day it was the album launch for their latest collection called, “Look Both Ways”, sensible advice for chickens and humans alike.
One of the joys with the group is that they tread not too softly upon a number of genres and gladly share in the fun with the audience. On entry to the gig, Steamchicken gave out a number of stickers (some were left pointing, others right pointing). This was not obviously apparent but whichever way you pointed (ooh err) had a bearing on how you participated in one of the songs, either as the train klaxon or some wheels rollin’ on down the track. Lets say I rolled alongside a lot of others, fun was had all round and we certainly were getting somewhere. From their years doing ceilidh and previous band reforging with Amy Kakoura, they are definitely ploughing ahead. It was a fun show, it really doesn’t take an over imagination to work out that they would fit well at a number of folk festivals. What of the music they played on the evening?
Their songs ranged from folkier numbers to full blown blues and jazz, an instrumental number and doses of the musical influences for ska. Whilst showcasing some tracks from the new album there were some numbers drawn from the band’s previous works too. Of the folkier stuff they tackle there is the folk classic “The Oak and the Ash” with some wonderfully sad piano with a voice like an expressive vine wrapped around a tree, a tightening and heart tugging presentation. From the new album, “Big Tin Horn” is a further example of them working with a sound that crosses genres. Somewhat a folk shanty, somewhat swing and also ska/jazz backing it reminds just how fun music can be. Like the friend who is centre of attention at a gathering who also drags up the mood, the energy; it is breathless, the gentle breeze and sun of Spring. The brass takes on a life of it’s own and the nautical interludes are truly exquisite, “dance to the rhythm of the marching band, dance to the coming of the dawn” (probably my favourite track from the new album). “Mary and the Soldier” was another track from the new album, one of most expressively old-world numbers sounding like it is running through a forest of expressive accordion and deep, longing song (a song Dylan and others had recorded in the past). The most committed song to the idea of folk on the album, it is folky jazz at it’s best; if they were children stealing biscuits from the biscuit barrel they would leave no trace, likewise here folk is combined with their jazz instrument leanings in a seamless way.
Another track “Jericho” is something else altogether though exactly as you would imagine with a hallowed call, soulful wall shattering melody from the brass and Old Testament name dropping, “Joshua”, “King Saul” and all the other big names from the time and place. War-like in tempo it is the heavy cavalry within a medieval army, especially so as other artists with songs that call upon this event from the Bible (K.D. Lang, Hilary Duff, Kelly Oliver just for starters) take either a more oblique, saccharine or personal narrative approach to the imagery (in that order). Steamchicken’s take was kind of “in your face”, a confident cousin telling you to take the risk to swing across a stream on a rope or the artillery firing in a Napoleonic regiment. “Western Approaches” remains a favourite, transplanting you from the certainty of things to a storm brewing on the open sea and the quickening of pace. Starting in a swing fashion, the drums call out the certainty and ebbing of the sea; then as it progresses the band blows left and the band blows right, as it takes off and picks up pace. It certainly brings the adventure of sailing forward and revels in the joys and fears of this ancient pastime and trade.
The band have put in a scattering of covers to their new album, they all fit remarkably well though and their spin on things are always interesting and add something to the track. “When I get Low, I get High” is a streetwise, urban rumble of a song, a mindful cover to include on the new album. Though a cover of a 30’s track, it does do it’s own thing and their performance showed a smoldering Amy Kakoura. It is high kicking, it growls and pounds the burning sidewalks with it’s presence, and whilst it isn’t Ella Fitzgerald’s signature bite, Kakoura’s voice reaches around and brings a class of it’s own, “My man walked out, now you know that ain’t right, well he’d better watch out if I meet him tonight.” If you wanted a snapshot of Kakoura’s versatility in soulful voice, this might be the track that you go to first. Quite possibly a monumental influence for the band name, “Ain’t Nobody here but us Chickens” is one their finishers, a swing mainstay of a song and an indicator of their vintage soul their cover is up there with the best (and their chicken impression is one of the best I’ve ever heard).
A fun evening for all really. There are always several head nods to yesteryear but the band themselves carry a fresh, vibrant strength of voice and backing. There is a lot of variety here, a very good fit in musicians and throughout the set several “spotlight” moments where an “old time” glamour is presented on stage and you lose a little sense of the present. A great venue, a great band, a great night (for everyone).
Steamchicken’s new album “Look Both Ways” (released on 10th Feb 2017) can be bought here and they are doing a few dates later in the year (check here)
Tagged 2017, Blues, bury, folk, gig, jazz, live music, met, Review, steamchicken, vintage
Harp and a Monkey @ Village Folk – 25th February
Andy Whitehouse & Guests at The Heeley Institute, Sheffield – Album Launch 24th March 2017
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Sealing Concrete-Protect and Enhance
Sealing Concrete
Sealing concrete can be one of the most important aspects to improve new and existing concrete patios, walkways and driveways. Homeowners with new or existing concrete, grey or decorative, should seal the surface every 2-3 years. On a regular schedule, this will maintain the integrity of the product.
With the ever changing climate of Boise and the surrounding area, it is important to protect outdoor concrete surfaces. Concrete is a very permeable surface and falls victim to neglect and is far to often forgotten. Driveways, more often than not, are a basic grey surface, that most homeowners don’t think of protecting. Sealing concrete driveways is the most important aspect to add to longevity. Along with sealing concrete, there are options to add stain with sealer as a very economic option to enhance curb appeal and value.
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Aside from the colored and decorative options, sealing concrete driveways at the most basic level will protect for years to come. Grey concrete is structurally identical to decorative. This means that it is equally important to protect and seal grey concrete the same. The best time to do this would be summer and fall, ideally before the upcoming winter.
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To many homeowners do not understand why their concrete is chipping and spalling. This is especially true when looking at driveways and walkways. With the harsh winters and the high use of deicing salt, our driveways and walkways are exposed to the most wear of all concrete surfaces. Sealing concrete on a regular basis can protect from the harsh winters while enhancing the beauty of the surface.
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NAB CEO in investigation over luxury resort holiday
By Nick McKenzie, Sarah Danckert & Richard Baker
Contributed by: Eric_H ( 4 articles in 2018 )
Laucala Island Resort in Fiji where rooms costs as much as $24,000 a night.
National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Thorburn took a luxury Fiji holiday and a Thermomix arranged through a company under police investigation over accusations it bribed his chief of staff to win contracts from the bank.
Fairfax Media can reveal that the NSW police have uncovered information that Mr Thorburn’s former chief of staff, Rosemary Rogers, organised the trip and a Thermomix kitchen appliance using executive events firm, the Human Group.
Asked about the allegations, NAB on Thursday night confirmed a small number of "inadvertent" breaches of the company's policies by Mr Thorburn and that he had been cleared of wrongdoing by the bank's board.
Sources familiar with the case say the firm is suspected of issuing invoices to the NAB to make the bank cover the costs of Mr Thorburn's trip to a resort where the rooms cost between $6000 and $45,000 per night, and a Thermomix worth about $2000.
Detectives are seeking information from NAB about if and when Mr Thorburn reimbursed the Human Group, and the circumstances of the company's decision to pay for the holiday and kitchen appliance and whether there was any discount. It is possible Mr Thorburn was not aware of the Human Group’s involvement because he may have been misled by someone involved in the transactions.
Law enforcement sources said the investigation was ongoing and is focussing on the conduct of Ms Rogers and the Human Group. NSW police declined to comment.
The revelations come as the financial services royal commission continues to exposes damning conduct in the lending sector, with NAB accused in August of criminal breaches of the Corporations Act over its treatment of superannuation customers. Mr Thorburn, along with other major bank chiefs, is expected to be grilled over the bank's alleged failings at the royal commission in two weeks time.
Three sources, including a banking insider, who were interviewed on condition of anonymity said the royal commission had sought information about the Human Group's dealings with NAB and is likely to inquire into what benefits the events company may have tried to provide to bank staff, and whether these benefits were disclosed. This means the alleged conduct of Mr Thorburn and the application of the bank's governance standards may come under scrutiny.
There is no suggestion that Mr Thorburn has done anything wrong and in April he expressed anger and disappointment at the alleged corruption of his former chief of staff, Ms Rogers, and the Human Group.
NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn was appointed to the top job at the bank in August 2014.
NAB's conflict of interest policy which was tendered to the royal commission says: "You must exercise care in the giving and receiving of business related benefits, gifts or entertainment to/from potential and existing customers and product providers and obtain approval from your people leader above specified threshold values."
The policy adds: "You are responsible for identifying personal or business circumstances that may give rise to potential, actual or perceived Conflicts of Interest and for recording those details in the relevant Conflicts of Interest Register."
NAB was set to address the issues in a remuneration report to be released on Friday before it was contacted by Fairfax Media.
In a statement from the report released on Thursday night the bank said "certain matters" had emerged as part of the alleged fraud investigation.
“These included certain control failings and breaches of policy in the office of the CEO, and a small number of unintended breaches of policy by the group CEO. These matters have been resolved and closed to the board’s satisfaction," it said.
Laucala Island Resort has its own submarine that guests can use.
NAB said it was cooperating fully with the police who had asked it to make no further comment.
The Human Group's NSW offices were raided by NSW detectives in April for allegedly paying secret commissions to Ms Rogers in return for her help directing it millions of dollars of contracts from NAB. Police have been assessing if the NAB contracts awarded to the Human Group were grossly inflated or for non-existent services, allowing the company to defraud the bank of tens of millions of dollars.
It has been via these inquiries that fraud taskforce detectives have also uncovered the Human Group's role in arranging a Fiji trip to the private island resort of Laucala and the kitchen appliance for Mr Thorburn. Mr Thorburn's pay packet could stretch to as much as $7.94 million this year if he meets all of his targets
The private island resort is owned by Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz and is only accessible by private jet. It has enticed the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Miranda Kerr and billionaire husband Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel to visit. Facilities include a fleet of boats for guests and a $2 million submarine for underwater jaunts.
A basic one bedroom apartment at the 1400-hectare Laucala resort and full board costs $6000 per night, larger villas will set you back up to $45,000 per night.
One line of inquiry being pursued by police in respect of Human Group’s conduct is whether it was using bank funds it was paid via inflated service contracts to fund benefits it gave to Ms Rogers. That same line of inquiry appears certain to also be applied to Mr Thorburn’s trip and the Thermomix.
There is no suggestion that Mr Thorburn knew that the Human Group was allegedly seeking to gain business benefits from the NAB in its dealings with his chief of staff or himself.
The police probe was triggered in late 2017, after NAB received a whistleblower complaint and notified authorities. Victoria Police declined to comment.
At the time of the police raids in April, it was also revealed that Ms Rogers, a long time NAB employee and chief-of-staff to Mr Thorburn since 2014, had left the bank and was being probed.
When the raids occurred, Mr Thorburn told staff: “If these allegations are proved to be true it is a very serious breach of trust and banking is based on trust. And I, like you, are very proud of our company and what banking stands for and these sort of allegations really hurt our reputation.”
Mr Thorburn said at the time that if the Human Group had acted corruptly then “the bank is the victim.”
The senior police officer leading the probe, Detective Superintendent Linda Howlett, also said in April that her team would work with NAB to conduct an exhaustive forensic inquiry.
Ms Rogers held the position of chief-of-staff for nine years, including under former chief executive Cameron Clyne, before her resignation in December last year.
Source: https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/nab-ceo-in-investigation-over-luxury-resort-holiday-20181115-p50g96.html
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Today is AnimeJapan, the largest convention for animation in Japan. This year, one hundred and twenty thousand cartoon enthusiasts are expected to visit the event. Luckily, a friend of mine has saved me the effort of having to pay and has managed to get me a free ticket; a saving of ¥2,000. Three giant stages, 132 exhibits from the large Anime companies, plus a mix of lesser know stands hosted by various Japanese universities.
It is unsurprising really, but each of the individuals exhibits heavily features women dressed in Cosplay, otherwise known as Booth Babes. These often attractive young women are here to lure in men. Almost entirely female, controversial promotional models are often considered to be sexually objectifying to women, and it is a practice that has since been stopped in all other countries. In Japan, however, this style of promotion is still considered to be okay, and at AnimeJapan, these women are everywhere.
I wander through the exhibition halls and make a stop off at the Hi-Animation stage to witness some virtual reality. The people here, who have been queueing for three hours, are trying out the latest product from Sony, the HMZ-T3W; a direct competitor to Oculus Rift. This wireless headset allows participants to watch a live concert performed by characters from Cinderella Girls, a simulation-based game where the player takes on the role of a music producer. Sony offers the live concert in full surround sound, with total immersion, and three-dimensional imagery. Despite this being AnimeJapan, it seems that video games are the most popular attraction today.
The next stand is another video game, Girl Friend Beta. Originally a dating based smartphone game, it is now being adapted into an animated television series. Rather than showcase the game or show previews for the series, a special dance based game has been set up here, and a huge crowd has been drawn in to watch as two women dressed in school uniform demonstrate the game on a giant video screen.
I skip the chance to get on stage and play the game and instead continue my mindless wandering. At some stands, original drawings can be viewed, at others, previews and trailers are displayed showing new releases for the Anime season which is due to start next month. At almost every area, a chance to interact by playing video games is on offer. The event seems to heavily feature interactive content, to give visitors a more hands-on feel. Perhaps this approach is a clever way to make people more interested, or perhaps, a lot of places are short of ideas to keep people engaged.
Despite the flashing lights, multiple television screens, video games, Cosplaying girls, and promotional models, it would be a fair assessment to say that unlike other events I have been to at Tokyo Big Sight, AnimeJapan is most definitely the loudest. I have walked around for only twenty minutes, but already feel myself getting a headache. What certainly doesn’t help matters, is the multiple people pushing promotional flyers into my face as I walk, or the men that have no concept of distance, and will happily shout through a megaphone whilst it is inches away from my ears.
I take a look at the charity auction. Anime originals and various signed products can be bid on here, and all the money will be used for charities pertaining to earthquakes and disasters. ¥14,000,000 was raised from the auction last year, and a similar amount is expected to be raised again today. The winning bidders will cross over to another dimension, or so the sign misleading states. What it really means though, is that the winning persons will be illustrated and added as side characters in various popular Anime.
I check out some of the more amateur booths and those run by the various universities. These stalls are a lot smaller than the mainstream booths, and often feature an array of original frame drawings to browse through. Hand drawn and excellent. One such stall is the Yoyogi Animation School, the largest school for animation in Japan, and perhaps the best. Here, a presentation is being watched by five people. Standing guard over the speakers is a man dressed as a giant blue chicken.
My overall impression of this event differs from my expectations. Surprisingly, there are a lot more women here than I expected, thanks to a rise in animation depicting male characters performing sports. The most popular of such shows is a new cycling Anime featuring men and bicycles. Productions of other popular animation depicting sport include those with themes based around Mahjong, golf, figure skating, and fishing.
I wander around, passing queues that seemingly lead to nowhere, demonstration booths where I can watch people create plastic figures, paint, and draw original frames by hand. I see cakes in the theme of characters, saké depicting Anime characters, all sold out, and various other shops selling toys and figurines. On one of the stages, a loud announcement is made, much to the delight of the thousands of spectators. An eerie ripple of clapping fills the halls for a brief moment, before stopping suddenly, as if someone was messing around with an applaud switch.
After exploring the exhibition at great length, I discover that there really isn’t a lot here that excites me. Having never really bothered watching Anime, I suppose it would obviously be hard for me to enjoy the event. For the thousands of fanatics here though, they all seem quite happy to queue for hours to speak to a voice actress for thirty seconds, or spend huge amounts of money on a signed frame from their favourite show. For me, these things don’t really interest me, and I become disappointed through no fault of the event.
As I push through hoards of excited zombies, flittering from booth to booth like bees to flowers, I decide that enough is enough. On my way out, my headache intensifies, and I realise that AnimeJapan might have been a bit too much for me. Bright lights and loud megaphones, each booth with huge flashing screens blaring out trailers and noise. Far too much noise.
It appears I am not the only one suffering though. The exit is blocked by passed out people and sleeping Otaku, drained from a long day of all things Anime. I actually have to step over people to reach the outside of the venue. I breathe a final sigh of relief when clean fresh air returns to my lungs, before heading for the train, and getting as far away from Tokyo Big Sight as possible.
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Causes and human health consequences of the evolution of retroelements and host restriction factors
McLaughlin, Richard Noel
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Primates and their endogenous retroelements have coevolved for so long that almost half the human genome is derived from retroelements sequences. However, the replication of retroelements has the potential to inflict substantial harm by jumping into essential genes or activating the immune system to drive autoimmunity. To combat these deleterious effects on their genome, hosts have evolved a battery of restriction factors to block the replication of retroelements. Despite their importance to host fitness, I have found that many of these retroelements restriction factors have evolved rapidly during primate evolution, suggesting they have been recurrently selected for functional innovation. I hypothesize that primates and their endogenous retroelements are engaged in an `evolutionary arms race', or a recurrent cycle of evasion and restriction - retroelement adaptation to evade host restriction followed by host adaptation to restrict the newly evasive retroelement. In addition, my preliminary findings suggest that some restriction factors like APOBEC3A may also have been co- opted to restrict infectious viruses in addition to endogenous retroelements.
In Aim 1, I propose to characterize the causes and consequences of the rapid evolution of the APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B restriction factors, including how these factors may be evolving to chase L1 retroelements and how co-option of APOBEC3A to restrict infectious viruses has affected its ability to restrict endogenous retroelements.
In Aim 2, I propose to test the hypothesis that L1TD1 (a rapidly evolving, stem cell-specific gene that was domesticated from a portion of L1) functions as a retroelements restriction factor.
In Aim 3, I propose to use evolutionary analyses, as well as engineer an in vitro evolution system to test whether variation can indeed increase retroelement replication and exert selective pressure on the host. While my past training has enabled me to generate these intriguing hypotheses, my immediate goals are to gain the additional training in virology, molecular evolution, and retroelement biology that are absolutely necessary for me to experimentally test these ideas. I have assembled an accomplished and highly skilled group of mentors/collaborators to provide me with this additional training. During the two year mentored phase, I will train with Dr. Michael Emerman to learn virology. My mentor, Dr. Harmit Malik will provide additional training in the computational analysis of repetitive elements, and Dr. John Moran will provide collaboration and training on my development of new reagents and techniques to study retroelements. This future training combined with my graduate and postdoctoral experience will enable me to pursue a multifaceted approach to understanding the biology and evolution of retroelements and their hosts. These experiments will also establish novel mechanisms by which this evolution may drive human disease.
Almost half of the human genome derives from the sequence of endogenous retroelements, and as a result, humans have an array of control mechanisms to block the deleterious effects of element replication. While loss of these restriction factors causes disease, we propose to investigate the hypothesis that variation in elements themselves may represent an unappreciated form of genetic variation in humans that could result in autoimmunity or cancer. We also have evidence that selection to restrict infectious viruses could result in a loss of control of retroelements, which could cause genetic disease.
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McLaughlin Jr, Richard N (2018) Reading the tea leaves: Dead transposon copies reveal novel host and transposon biology. PLoS Biol 16:e2005470
McLaughlin Jr, Richard N; Malik, Harmit S (2017) Genetic conflicts: the usual suspects and beyond. J Exp Biol 220:6-17
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First Flattop � Part 5 by htflatnc
As I was rubbing my hand up the side of Jason's head, I was thinking it was uneven between stubble and being smooth. I said I would get mine lathered and shaved next time, but I wasn't so sure. I could tell Jason was having a reaction he hadn't expected as he squirmed slightly in the chair.
I turned to Mark and Dave telling them I was really glad they came and was about to ask what they thought about the flattops Jason and I had just gotten. Jason was getting out of the chair and Mark said, "I'm next.� So I guess that's what Mark thought about the flattop. It turns out both Mark and Dave had asked Jason about his flattop and that both were thinking about one as well. So two of the guys who were ribbing Jason were now getting a flattop. Jason told them about what was happening today with my flattop. The two of them decided to join the party. Flattops all around�except for my uncle, Tom. There was no way Tom could pull off a flattop any more. I'd have to see what developed.
Mark was in the chair in a flash. Of all of us, Mark had the longest hair of any of us, about six inches on top, parted in the middle, flopping down past his eyes to the sides, covering his ears and touching the collar. Prince Valiant was getting a flattop.
Mr. Roberts asked, "Well, son, what's it to be?�
Mark said, "I want a flattop just like you gave Jason. I've been thinking about this for a week and I'm more than ready.� And with that Mr. Roberts clicked on the red Oster 76 clippers, gripped the top of Mark's head and pushed it over to his left letting the clippers plow right up his sideburn. Hair was tumbling down in a fine spray of light blond hair. It was a sight to behold. I wondered whether mine had looked like that. Mark's hair was longer and finer than mine. No point in thinking about it, I just wanted to enjoy the spectacle of Mark getting his flattop cut. Very swiftly and deftly, Mr. Roberts peeled away Mark's locks leaving behind pinkish flesh. No sunlight had ever hit that noggin before.
I began talking to Mr. Roberts about whether we should be using suntan lotion to prevent sunburn or worse. He said he would definitely recommend it especially for the next couple of weeks. "You mean until all four of us are ready for our next haircut?� I asked half joking. Mr. Roberts just said, "Exactly,� obviously concentrating on the incarnation of Mark's flattop rather than my wisecracks. I had seen Mr. Roberts perform his Michelangelo routine with Jason's uncle's flattop dozens of times, but I was watching a virgin flattop take shape for the first time. I had not seen much of my own. There were mirrors everywhere in Mr. Robert's barbershop, but I think I was in a mild state of shock while I was getting mine. Part of the state of shock was because of something I had never experienced getting a haircut before. I had an erection. I was experiencing another erection watching Mark getting his flattop cut de novo. It wasn't my first time getting an erection watching a flattop being cut. That happened every time I had watched Jason's uncle get a flattop. But I didn't get an erection getting my own hair cut until today.
Mr. Roberts was taking a comb, lifting the bulk of Mark's hair and cutting straight across leaving about two inches still attached. He started at the front and went back for five strokes and got to the crown where he tied it in to the stubble in the back. Mark's hair was not very even, but at this stage it didn't really matter other than he looked funny. Same kind of look I had when I got to this stage of the flattop. That and the final product were the only visual memories I had of my haircut that had taken place only twenty or thirty minutes earlier. My memories were mainly tactile � clippers up the back and over the sides; clippers going down the center of my landing strip; comb lifting my hair; hair dryer and brush pushing my hair back; flattop wax in a small tube being spread on the front of my flattop and a small round red brush with a small handle through which Mr. Robert's put his middle finger and brushed back my flattop and spread the flattop wax; warm shaving cream spread on the back of my neck, around my ears, and on my sideburns; straight razor scraping where the shaving cream had been spread; hot towel being spread and held on the back of my neck and ears; the white brush with fine hairs Mr. Roberts used to spread the talcum powder; and the aftershave applied as a final step to indicate the haircut was at an end. Was it any wonder I had an erection? Because I'd never had this as part of my haircut before, I hadn't had an erection.
This then led to my next thought � was I the only one who had this reaction? Or did the others as well? And how could I bring it up to discuss? That was trickiest of all. 18- and 19-year old guys just didn't talk to one another saying what gave them erections, at least in my experience. We didn't talk to one another about feelings at all. We did talk to one another about what we did, were doing, or were going to do, but what we felt like when we did something just wasn't on. And admitting that another guy getting a flattop would result in major wood wasn't something I would feel comfortable talking to these guys about. None of them gave off the kind of vibe that would indicate this would arouse them. I thought Jason might be experiencing an erection when I rubbed my hand up the side of his head, but I couldn't be sure.
Mr. Roberts was running the hair dryer now, brushing back Mark's hair. I remembered how soothing this step had been. Mark had a huge smile on his face while Mr. Roberts was doing this so was obviously enjoying this. It seemed to take Mr. Roberts much longer with the hair dryer and brush with Mark than with me. Lucky Mark. Mr. Roberts went over to the counter, put down the brush and the hair dryer and opened up a jar of crew comb. He stuck a finger into the jar, pulling out some wax, rubbing it into the palm of his left hand, rubbing his two hands together and went back and began massaging the wax into Mark's hair. Mr. Roberts said, "Your hair is really fine. It's going to take more work to make it stand erect to get a good flattop.� Mark said, "Whatever it takes. Besides, I'm really enjoying this. Maybe too much.� Maybe too much? What did Mark mean?
Mr. Roberts washed his hands, and picked up the hair dryer and brush once again and went back to work brushing Mark's hair back. Mark had his eyes closed and a big smile on his face once again. I couldn't help but wonder at this point whether Mark was as hard as I had been.
After what seemed like an eternity of the din of the hair dryer, all went quiet until the distinctive hum of Oster 76s presaged the flattop that was to come. It took another five minutes for Mr. Roberts to make Mark's flattop looking like the flight deck atop Jason's head. Then it was hot towels wrapped around Mark's head becoming the sultan of flattops. Again, Mark closed his eyes and was smiling. Rather than dispensing the shaving cream from the machine, this time Mr. Roberts picks up a shaving mug, some soap and a brush. He put some hot water into the mug and began stirring the brush around making a rich lather. From where I was sitting I can smell it and it smells good. Leather and Old Spice waft my way.
Mr. Roberts ran the brush up the back side of Mark's head on the left side. He then picked up the razor and peeled it of the shaving cream beginning at the crown. He repeated the process of lathering and shaving on the right side on the back of Mark's head. It was great how Mr. Robert's was doing this in quarters, so there was no chance of the lather drying out. The left and right sides of Mark's head were done, and then Mr. Roberts did something unexpected: he lathered the top of Mark's head. He ran the razor down the center of Mark's flattop taking the landing strip as close as possible and carving out a path two inches wide. At one point though, Mark bucked and stretched out, and then went back to closing his eyes and smiling. A hot towel was applied just as the first one had been, but then a second towel was applied and that brought Mark back to life. Mark then rubbed the back of his head followed by the top of his head while leaning forward in the chair taking a closer look in the mirror. Mark then said, "I'm surprised. After you shaved it, I thought it would be completely smooth.� Mr. Roberts then told him that he had only shaved with the grain and then order to have it completely smooth, he would have to shave against the grain. He said he wouldn't recommend shaving against the grain as it might lead to in-grown hairs. Mark asked him if he would do it anyway. Mr. Roberts said Mark was the customer and proceeded to shave his head once again, but this time against the grain. Five to ten minutes later, and Mark was finished.
Mark got up from the chair and came over and sat down beside me. I could smell the leather, Old Spice, and something else � more pungent. And then it hit me, I could smell sperm. We were separated from everyone else by the cash register. Mark said softly to me, "That was unbelievable. I actually creamed myself.� I looked over and saw a couple of stains on Mark's khakis. "I see. I thought I was going to do the same watching you. When did it happen?� I asked. "While he was dragging the razor down the top of my head, he put me over the top.� I laughed and asked if he'd like to continue later. I reached over and ran my head up the back of Mark's head. It was much smoother than Jason's had been. And then Mark said, "You can run your hand up the back of my head any time you want. It was like electricity shooting down my spine and then coming out the other side.�
We both watched David get a flattop that was closer to the flattop Jason's uncle had. Compared to Mark, David was a hippy even though his flattop was still very short.
Mark ran his hand up the back of his head and then reached over and ran his hand up the back of mine. It was like electricity shooting down my spine and running out the other end at the tip of my very stiff erection. I'd never experienced this before. I didn't pay much attention to David's flattop. I was too preoccupied with what I had just experienced.
David's flattop came to an end. We all settled up with Mr. Roberts and left the shop. David and Jason were going to spend the night in town, but Mark and I needed to get back. Mark and I had a pleasant trip back discussing our reactions to our sexual arousal and the flattop. Mark ran his hand up the back of my head feeling my stubble several times, but I had to ask him to stop as it was really making the drive dangerous. We got back to his apartment and then took our exploration to another level.
How did I miss these excellent adventures. Thanks for all you have done in the flattop world.
by flattoppp on 19 Jan 2017
Okay, was a good story the first four parts hut weird on this one
by Qwertyuiopasdfg on 04 Oct 2014
Real horny story. Do straight guys really think these thoughts. Would love to experience that......
by Barber 1 on 23 Sep 2014
Makes me want more. Your story has entered a more interesting level. Wish I were there.
by Coflat on 22 Sep 2014
Wonderful description of the smells and tactile sensations.
by JB on 22 Sep 2014
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The best path to total wellness . . .
About the Autism Protocol
Formation of Energy Bodies
Where does personality and mind exist? That non-material entity that has influence on the physical has often been called the “soul.” Science may still argue whether the soul exists, but how would anyone dispute the existence of something spirit-like being present in an individual, whether it be called a soul of something of another name?
In my philosophy, based on life experience and study, the soul is an entity of pure energy. Sometime during gestation, that entity enters a developing fetus. In order to create influence and animation within the developing child, energy bodies form.
Energy Bodies 1-4
The first four energy bodies are present at birth and are responsible for our automatic physical functions —such as heartbeat, digestion, elimination and such.
Energy Body 5
The fifth energy body begins to form soon after birth and is the first to cross the skin barrier. It carries information we inherit from our genetic line and the expression of genetic material. That is why inherited characteristics often show up as chronic skin problems.
Energy Bodies 6-10
The sixth through the tenth energy bodies separate us from other animals. All animals have the first four or five energy bodies, depending on the species. Domesticated animals have learned to pattern their energy bodies after us and intertwine their auric fields with ours. This intertwining has become more pronounced over the last few decades to the point where our pets have become family members. A wild animal cannot and will not ever become tame—no matter how they are treated or raised. A wild animal does not have the ability to pattern their energy bodies to mesh with human energy bodies.
Energy Body Development
What follows is a general guideline for the development of energy bodies. Individual experiences, cultural influences and societal norms may influence the age at which these structures form.
The sixth energy body forms between the second and third year and directs us in becoming independent from our parents and guides us to discover our place in society.
The seventh energy body normally develops between the fourth and fifth year. This body governs our ability to acquire knowledge.
The eighth energy body, forming between the sixth and seventh years, is responsible for perceptual comprehension and the development of thought patterns that influence learning such as complex calculation.
The ninth energy body is in place by our tenth year. This structure helps us to socialize and “read” other people. We become aware of a larger world and how society may affect our life.
The tenth energy body, in place by our twelfth year, governs the development of independent thought and extra-sensory-perception.
Everyone has all ten energy bodies, but how they develop is influenced by the experiences and the training we receive during our lifetime.
In addition, each generation learns through the experiences of the previous generation. In other words, information is passed on through energy bodies that individual souls model after the parents, particularly the birth mother. This information sharing may create evolutionary progress.
On the other hand, sharing of information garnered from birth parents can also create concretized ideas that do not change through many generations.
This also means that the energy-body model I outline here will not remain static. Humans change and progress through knowledge acquired from previous generations—or not.
One example of evolutionary progress can be seen in educational curriculum. At the time I was in high school in the 1960’s, calculus was not taught before the 12th grade. Now it is begun in middle school in some districts. My granddaughters are a good example. When I was in the first grade, I barely knew the alphabet and reading was only beginning to be taught with simple three letter words. My granddaughters could read complex sentences by the time they reached the first grade. I was astonished that this much change had taken place in only two generations.
An example of concretized ideas can be seen in prejudicial thinking, where values and prejudices remain static through many generations.
Dimensions of Consciousness
Are there further unseen structures of resonance connected to our physical body? Is it possible structures that vibrate at a frequency beyond detection are actually responsible for the dynamic functions that define consciousness?
There is an energy field that influences the function of consciousness, but there is also a chemical component to brain function that is dependent on the physical presence of basic nutrients.
The single-molecule-thick layers of metals that make up the brain of a computer-processing chip must be properly placed for it to function correctly. In the same way, the human brain must be able to absorb certain nutrients efficiently to perform specific functions.
If a computer chip is made incorrectly, the computer cannot “think.” If a brain is not functioning correctly, the personality and mind can be flawed—even though these are part of the soul entity. There is an interdependence in a complex system of energy and information exchange.
The proper function of the mind is dependent on the proper formation of energy levels.
The Energy Levels
Positively charged electromagnetic energy, “energy levels”, touch on and coordinate with levels of quantum information fields resonant in various dimensions beyond the three known physical dimensions.
These energy levels are essential to our ability to function within our environment by touching upon pockets of information residing in higher, non-physical dimensions.
These energy levels extend beyond the physical parameters of the body.
The Levels
All ten energy bodies that animate our physical body lie within the first level—the physical level. Energy bodies are connected to all the levels at all times through Chakra points that emanate from the endocrine glands. This point is hard for modern science to prove, but for centuries Hindu Yogic traditions, Sufi Mystics and Greek Philosophers have described exactly the same concept.
The First Level— Physical
This connects the dynamic spirit of the soul to the physical body through the functions of the ten energy bodies that lie within it.
The physical level governs primal fears and survival instincts. This energy level develops with the first four energy bodies during the fetal gestation period.
The Second Level—Mental
The second level—the mental—connects to time and allows recognition of the self in the sequence of time. This level develops along with the 5th and 6th energy bodies beginning soon after birth, but may not be fully functional until much later.
If this level does not function properly, we may have difficulty understanding the sequencing of events—making the individual appear impatient, selfish, or self-centered. Think of the “are we there yet” refrain of small children who do not yet understand the restraints of time and space.
The Third Level—Emotional
This level connects us to the racial and ethnic consciousness of our physical inheritance and governs feelings of patriotism and race membership. This level develops with the 7th and 8th energy bodies that emerge between the ages of three and seven.
If we become stuck at this level, we may find difficulty in seeing the larger picture or interconnectedness of all humanity, leading to prejudicial thinking.
The Fourth Level—Psychological
The fourth level—psychological level—connects to the collective consciousness allowing us to experience an understanding of what is right or wrong in dealing with others. This level would begin to develop with the 9th energy body after age six or seven and should be in place by age ten.
This level governs the development of compassion for others on the planet. Although most people have this level present by the time they reach the age of ten years, it may not be fully functional until after the age of sixty. Many people remain self-centered and think only of what is good for them as an individual until they mature into the fully functional ability of the fourth level.
The Fifth Level—Intuitive
This connects us to the unseen world where inspiration and intuition reside. This is the level that helps us experience a consciousness greater than ourselves.
The Sixth Level—Spiritual
This last level connects us to the highest vibrational frequency of Universal Consciousness. This is the level that takes us from citizen of a particular country and a member of the human race to identifying ourselves as a citizen of the universe. This level should be in place by age twelve. However, the full potential of this level remains undeveloped in most of humanity.
All Six Levels
Every living human has all six levels, yet each of us may develop the structures within the levels at different stages during our lifetime. Also, not all structures within these levels may become fully developed in everyone.
If, for example, you were a victim of child abuse or raised in an environment void of nurturing adults, you may have problems developing many energy-level functions. Certain inherited aspects imbedded in DNA patterns may also inhibit the activation process. Individuals diagnosed with the Autism Spectrum Disorder display deficiencies in energy-level development.
Many of us can be stifled in complete development—or not—depending on the training we receive in childhood. Full activation in all components of the levels can be described as “enlightenment.”
Knowledge of these energy bodies and levels can be a guide to using energy-based-medicine.
Pharmaceutical, herbal, vitamin, and mineral medicines are material doses of chemicals. Although herbs and vitamins may not be as chemically active as pharmaceutical medicines, they are nevertheless, chemically and physically based substances.
There is only one form of medicine that is truly energy-based and chemical free—and that is potentized homeopathic remedies.
Homeopathic remedies are energy-based and chemical free because of the dilution process. Known as “potentizing,” the process converts the molecule from a chemical to a form of quantum energy. Because of this, homeopathy has been maligned and attacked by conventional medical disciplines throughout much of its two-hundred-year history.
If scientists and allopathic medical professionals were correct in their belief that the human body is wholly mechanistic in nature and that only chemical substances can impact it, then diluted substances could not have an impact on our health. Therefore, this assumption of only a chemical active human body is totally wrong.
How Homeopathy Works
Potentizing
Potentizing is the process of rendering natural substances harmless and more effective as remedies. It transforms a substance from the physical molecular state into energy.
The process begins with any natural substance dissolved into a medium and diluted to a ratio of 10% of its original substance to 90% of the dissolving medium.
The medium consists of whichever the remedy substance dissolves into best, such as alcohol, water and alcohol, or lactose.
This first dilution is placed in a small vial then shaken or “succussed” vigorously until completely blended. The result is a 1X potency, also referred as a mother tincture.
Ten percent of the newly succussed and blended mother tincture is placed in a new vial and blended again with a mixture of 10% of the already succussed substance to a 90% ratio of new medium and again succussed vigorously. This is a 2X potency.
Ten percent of this 2X succussed substance is diluted again with another 90% ratio of medium in a third vial and again succussed. The resulting mixture is a 3X potency.
This process of mixing the newest resulting potency to the same ratio of new medium with further succussion is continued to greater and greater dilutions.
At the twenty-fourth vial of blended and succussed mixtures, there are no measurable molecules of the original substance. However, the energy inherent in the original substance molecule has been expanded by the succession and is present in the medium.
Each dilution in the succussion process has expanded and enhanced the presence of energy to a level greater than existed in each previous dilution.
The further a remedy has been diluted and succussed away from the original substance, the more powerful it is for healing.
More is Not Always Better
The idea that more is better applies only in the physical realm—and only in specific and limited instances. Although a small amount of a vitamin may be useful, excessive amounts of this same vitamin may be fatal because the amount of vital force energy needed to store and convert it to a useful form may deplete the body’s vital force reserves.
Our physical body must convert a material substance into energy in order for it to be used as a nutrient. Sometimes the energy necessary for the conversion is more than our body has available. Energy medicine does not over-tax our body because the conversion to the energetic level has already taken place.
A potentized remedy is already reduced to energy, using none of the body’s vital force to convert it. The potentized remedy is not only readily available for our body to use, it serves to reinforce and enhance our vital force.
More Powerful with Each Dilution
Molecules are composed of atoms in specific arrangements and concentrations. As scientists know, atoms—the basic building blocks of all matter—are actually particles of solidified energy arranged in specific energy fields that have unique energetic signatures. These molecules can combine with other molecules to form various substances known as compounds—each with its unique energetic signature. It is the uniqueness of this energy signature that accounts for the ability of the substance to interact in energy fields and bring about specific changes in those fields.
When energy is enhanced in a molecule or compound by vigorous shaking, the energy field of that molecule or compound is expanded while keeping its unique arrangement and energy signature.
In order for this expansion to take place, a neutral medium, such as alcohol or lactose, which can be absorbed into the molecular energy pattern, must surround the molecule to allow the original molecule’s signature to expand without hindrance. This is the basic concept behind the potentizing process.
Energy Expands
When a substance, even an inert one like sand (pure silica sand is ground with lactose until it is soluble in liquid) is placed in a bottle at a dilution of 10% to 90% of the neutral medium—alcohol or lactose—and succussed, the energy signature inherent to the substance is released and expands as it absorbs the medium.
After all the medium has been absorbed by the expanding energy, further succussion will have no additional effect on the strength of the remedy as it cannot expand further until new medium is added.
This first product is a 1X potency. Each time the material is prepared in this way, it is known as a potentized substance, commonly called a “potency.”
Through succession (shaking) the energy expands into the medium, no matter how many molecules there were to begin with.
In the illustration above, the empty circles represent the alcohol medium. The solid blue circles represent the molecules of the original remedy substance.
In the second dilution, 10% of the first bottle is placed in a bottle with 90% more alcohol. The mixture is succussed twenty times.
As the new medium is added and absorbed, the energy signature of the original molecule continues to expand until all of the newly added medium has been absorbed.
As this process is repeated in the next bottle, the same thing occurs. The energy signature from the previous bottle expands by absorbing the new medium when succussed. The second product is known as a 2X potency.
This process can be repeated again and again. Each time new medium is added, the energy signature expands even more. As the energy signature expands, it becomes larger and more powerful than it was in any of the previous potencies. Each time the material is potentized, the number before the X is increased by one, indicating the number of times the material has been processed. The X in this case represents the dilution of 10% to 90% on the decimal scale.
It is important to understand that it is not the process of diluting the material, nor is it simply the action of shaking the material that increases its strength. The strength of the potentized material is enhanced by the interaction between these two events.
A substance is placed in a neutral medium that can be absorbed into the original energy signature, thereby, allowing that signature to expand. The process of shaking the material causes this absorption to take place.
Neither of these actions in and of itself, performed alone, has any effect on the strength of the potentized remedy.
The expansion of molecules not only makes the remedy more powerful for healing, but also governs which energy structure that surrounds and controls the physical body the potency will impact most.
It is important to note that the body can utilize a substance converted to energy when the physical form of the same substance cannot be of use—as is the case with poisons. This occurs because the amount of vital force needed to convert a material substance to an energetic form exceeds our body’s vital energy capacity or capability (the poisonous substance exhausts our vital force).
Because a potentized substance is not in its chemical form, it cannot affect us on a chemical level. You cannot be poisoned by a potentized substance even if that substance is chemically poisonous in a material form—as long as the potency is greater than a 6C or 9X potency.
Chemically inert substances or those unavailable for use by our body in their original material form will work in a potentized form. An example is sand. Pure silica, the main component of sand, is the substance that allows a plant to hold up against the wind. If you are low in silica, you will have trouble standing up to the pressures and winds of life’s changes.
By taking potentized silica, Silicea in Latin, the problem is corrected. Silica would do nothing if you ingested sand in its physical form.
Caution: Homeopathic Silicea cannot be used by anyone with replacement hardware in the body. Silicea will expel any foreign object.
Potentized Energy Becomes a Remedy
The molecular pattern of a substance becomes an energy pattern that can be used to adjust and modify our energy fields. Based on the rule of “like cures like,” a substance that will cause certain symptoms will cure the same symptoms —matching energy for energy, the energy of a potentized remedy to the energy body and level of the illness.
The Difference Between X’s and C’s
The X and C distinction of homeopathic remedies often confuse users. There are two common forms of homeopathic potentized remedies: X potencies and C potencies.
In the potentizing process, if the first bottle is 10% of the substance and 90% of the medium, the potency is an X, indicating the Roman Numeral 10.
If the first bottle contains 1% of the substance and 99% of the medium, the potency is a C, indicating the Roman Numeral 100.
Proving vs Testing
In the homeopathic system, remedies are not tested as pharmaceutical drugs are—they are “proved.”
Proving is a process in which a potentized-remedy-substance is given to a person with no particular symptoms. Symptoms that develop during the use of the substance are recorded.
This follows the “like cures like” principle of homeopathy. The symptoms recorded during a proving are used as a guide. The remedy that caused symptoms in a proving is expected to cure a person who is sick with the same symptoms.
Remedies that have been proven in this manner, and are known to be safe and free of side effects, are listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States. As long as the remedies used in a combination remedy are listed in the Pharmacopeia, they are considered safe and will not cause side effects.
These provings have taken place in conjunction with numerous practitioners over a two-hundred-year period.
A homeopathic remedy may aggravate existing symptoms but have no side effects. Aggravations are a sign that healing is taking place. They will always subside when healing is complete or when the remedy is discontinued.
Michele Iqbal's book on homeopathy available on Amazon.com
Copyright© 2016 Hermetic Homeopathy
micheleiqbal@gmail.com
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Read the exciting information below about what's happening at the corner of Broadway and Old Huntsville Road!
Click on the links above to find out specific information about upcoming events, services, and schedules.
Our press release about Broadway Fellowship:
65 years later, Highland Baptist and
Broadway Baptist together again
FLORENCE – A relationship that began 65 years ago will come full circle in East Florence on Easter Sunday at a new church campus called Highland Baptist Church Broadway Fellowship.
The church, formerly known as Broadway Baptist Church, at 3215 Huntsville Road, rejoins Highland Baptist Church on Simpson Street with the East Florence congregation. Highland Baptist started Broadway as part of its local mission work in 1947, only Broadway was then called Weeden Heights Baptist Church. It was officially constituted as a church in 1948.
But Highland pastor, Dr. John Brock, was unaware of this bit of interesting church history in 2012 when he wanted to find more ways to work with local residents. Highland already had an active congregation that nourished people not just spiritually but physically through events including “block parties” that offered free food and clothing to residents in need.
“But there was no long-term investment in their lives,” Brock said.
So he prayed, and had the staff at Highland pray with him for God to open an opportunity to invest more in the lives of local residents. Then one day, a year later, while out driving, he saw Broadway Baptist Church and was compelled to stop.
Meanwhile, a Broadway member was seeking advice from Eddy Garner, director of missions at the Colbert Lauderdale Baptist Association. Broadway’s faithful members saw their attendance numbers decrease over the years and were worried about whether their church would continue.
At about the same time, Sammy Gilbreath, director of the Office of Evangelism for the Alabama Baptist Convention in Montgomery and a former Highland Baptist pastor, was given the job to help revitalize churches and came to meet with Broadway members to help find a way to once again grown their congregation.
“It’s been a God thing,” Brock said about the timing of his prayers, Broadway’s need and Gilbreath’s involvement. “God worked this out in ways we couldn’t have.”
It was only later, as Highland and Broadway members repainted, unrolled new carpet and constructed a children’s area for the anticipated growth, that Brock learned there is a history between the two churches. Having Broadway as a branch campus of Highland brings the two churches full circle in order to expand yet again and answer Brock’s and his staff’s prayers that Highland would establish yet another tangible investment in the city’s spiritual future.
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INTERVIEW: Rat Attack
Posted on June 22, 2014 by admin.IKE
Pop punk band, Rat Attack from Exeter sat down with us the other month at Hit The Deck Festival in Bristol where they told us which bands they were looking forward to seeing, a story from one of their European tours about how they nearly died once and they confirmed they will be releasing an album sometime this year.
The line up at Hit The Deck Festival this year is pretty impressive, so you must be excited to be part of that! Are there any bands who you’re going to make sure you catch?
There’s loads of good bands playing today but only a couple I actually wanna see. Kids In Glass Houses & The Blackout.
How did your set go earlier on today?
It was really good despite not having an actual singer and our mate here, Alan standing in. But it was really good, there was loads of people watching us which was surprising. We were just worried that everyone would have like fucked off and gone somewhere else.
Nottingham tomorrow, looking forward to doing it again?
Yeah! I’m feeling positive because whenever we’ve played there before it’s always been really good, so hopefully tomorrow will be.
Do you prefer festivals or your own gigs?
This is too much hassle (laughs), nah this is good. They’re all good, it’s a good variation.
Do you have any funny or strange stories from tour?
How long have you got? (laughs) most of our weirdest stories are from Europe. What about the cliff drive? It was crazy man, yeah we nearly died one time, our sat nav is like the 5th member of our band, without the sat nav we would not be a band 100%. So, one day when we were driving from northern Spain to France, we didn’t want to pay the tolls, so we tried to avoid those roads and went up into the mountains, we pretty much didn’t have traction on the van at all, so it was just sliding around. We were all stressing out but our driver was fine, he’s used to those conditions cause he’s a driving instructor.
Do you guys ever get annoyed at each other or do you all get along?
Personally, I think back in the day we used to get annoyed with each other quite a lot but I think like the last few years we’ve been okay, obviously there’s the odd argument but I think it was worse before. It wouldn’t be healthy with the odd argument, it’s like a relationship. You live in each others pockets for so long there’s bound to be some tension but I think it’s gotten a lot better.
What makes you guys different to other bands that are around at the moment?
We’re not doing anything completely original, we’re just doing what we wanna do. A lot of people catch on and get a label or scene sound, they’re like “Right, we need to be part of that label or that scene”. We’ve admittedly at times in our career, we were like “Oh maybe we need to be a bit more like this or a bit more like this” but every time we try to write in a style that’s not natural, it goes back.
What can people look forward to from Rat Attack this year?
An album. The album is pretty much done, we’re just waiting for a singer to be like “Yeah i’ll sing it”.
Is there anything you want to say to your fans?
If you know someone who can sing, send them our way and be patient, don’t forget about us!
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Europe: EU Under Pressure to Consider Women For Top Jobs
Pressure is growing on European Union leaders to appoint a woman as the bloc's president or foreign affairs chief and break the male grip on its top jobs.EU leaders hope to decide who will fill the post at a summit in Brussels on Thursday but although several women are widely thought to be on the long list of candidates, none is seen as a frontrunner.Failure to name a women to a top job could undermine the EU's efforts to present itself as dynamic and modern and to win over sceptical Europeans who, opinion polls show, widely regard it as out of touch with their daily lives.
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Bell's Beer and Gump's Ribs Pairing at REO Town Pub
The first pairing event of the year will take place February 26th at REO Town Pub where we will sample smoked ribs made from Gump's BBQ and paired with beers from Bell's Brewery.
Laura Bell Promoted To CEO Of Bell’s Brewery
Bell's Brewery, Inc. is proud to announce that effective Feb. 1, Laura Bell, co-owner, has assumed the role of CEO.
Bell’s 2017 release calendar includes Mars, Hell Hath No Fury and more; Oberon returns March 27
Bell’s Brewery’s 2017 release calendar features archive favorites, a new bottled beer and quite a few specialties.
Roundhouse India Red Ale Cans The Latest Addition To Bell’s Fall Specialty Lineup
Bell’s Brewery is proud to announce another addition to its specialty packaging lineup.
Bell’s Brewery unveils first look at refreshed logo, packaging to come later this year
For more than 30 years, Bell’s Brewery has focused on brewing beer that follows the vision of its President and Founder, Larry Bell.
Bell's Oarsman Ale To Debut In Cans In 2016
Beginning in March, Bell’s Oarsman Ale will be available exclusively in 12 oz. cans, packaged in six-packs, and on draught.
Winners of Bell’s 6th Annual Homebrew Competition announced
Winners of the 6th Annual Bell’s Homebrew Competition were announced Nov. 1st during the 7th Annual All Stouts Day at Bell’s Eccentric Café, 355 E. Kalamazoo Ave., in downtown Kalamazoo.
Bell’s Brewery collaborates with Kalamazoo Coffee Co. on a new specialty stout
Bell’s Brewery, Inc. and the Kalamazoo Coffee Co. have come together to create a brand new specialty stout.
Hopslam Will Only Be Available In Cans And On Draught In 2016
One of Bell’s Brewery, Inc.’s most sought after beers, Hopslam Ale, will be packaged solely in six-packs of 12 oz. cans and kegs when it returns in January for its annual release.
2015 Bell’s Homebrew Competition kicks-off Sept. 19; winner heads to Great American Beer Festival in Denver
The 6th Annual Bell’s Homebrew Competition Kick-off and Expo will be held this year on Sept. 19 at Bell’s Eccentric Café in downtown Kalamazoo.
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Mudskippers Defy Darwinian Dogma of Transition from Water to Land
Mudskippers will dry out if they’ll adopt a terrestrial lifestyle. Image courtesy of H. Krisp, Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0).
New research proposes that sea animals might have “evolved the ability to live on land many times,” as a report posted on Science Daily puts it.
This challenges “the perception that this extreme lifestyle shift was likely to have been a rare occurrence in ancient times. New research shows 33 different families of fish have at least one species that demonstrates some terrestrial activity and, in many cases, these behaviors are likely to have evolved independently in the different families.”
This Darwinian optimism might be uncalled for, however:
Convergent evolution has for ages been the standard Darwinian method for explaining away features shared by unrelated species, such as echolocation in bats and dolphins.
However, the transition from land to sea – another Darwinian dogma associated with the jump from sea to land – is likewise fraught with difficulties. Mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski calculates that a cow-like creature living on dry land would have needed at least 50, 000 morphological changes for such a move. From skin to the breathing apparatus, almost everything has to be changed if the cow wants to stay alive in its new watery environment. Like transforming a car into a submarine, it needs an enormous amount of changes.
Moreover, Tiktaalik, once assumed to be the earliest terrestrial creature, has lost its iconic status, as land animals predate it by several million years according to the evolutionary timescale.
Now, evolutionary ecologist Dr Terry Ord, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of New South Wales and a co-author of a new paper published in the journal Evolution, acknowledges that the real threat for sea animals trying to settle on land is drying out:
"The real difficulty in developing a fully-fledged terrestrial lifestyle may be in preventing drying out. This has direct consequences for them breathing on land because they still require their gills, which need to stay moist to function properly."
Mudskippers can jump onto land but if they won’t return to the sea, they will eventually dry out. They are not designed to be terrestrial creatures.
Darwinian stories tend to be entertaining but often a bit fishy.
University of New South Wales. 2016. Fish out of water are more common than thought. Science Daily. (22 June).
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Journal of Doubt
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." – Voltaire
Author Archives: matscheck
About matscheck
Matthew C. Scheck is an automation engineer, freelance writer, and former US Army Medic. Mr. Scheck resides in Philadelphia and travels extensively for work and pleasure.
Summer Songs 2019
Posted on July 9, 2019 by matscheck
Tame Impala – Borderline
This breezy, stoner-friendly tune was released in April but is a perfect tune for chilling one’s self in the summer beach heat. There’s a feeling of floating through a chilly mist as this song happily prances along with a simple, bass-and-synth roll over a steady 2-step beat as singer Kevin Parker’s groovy falsetto mellows the mood even further. Whether chilling while blazed on a couch or cuddling naked with your loved one on a sweat-covered bed as the ceiling fan cools everything down, this is a great little tune for 2019’s summer heat.
Jai Wolf (Featuring Mr. Gabriel) – Lose My Mind
Here we have the first Indie pop star of Bangladeshi origin, Sajeeb Saha, who goes by Jai Wolfe, and on this sweet, catchy little tune our fine Bengali brother shows an incredible dream pop sense, with a superb bass line, an utterly enjoyable groove, and a chorus that gave me chills the first few runs through the song. Another great way to chill in the summer heat with this blasting through your bluetooth headset. Pure cool, sweet, utterly enjoyable pop magic.
MorMor – Outside
Holy fuck is this a gorgeous piece of modern pop, sweet and haunting, creating a lovely, yet sad dreamscape with Seth Nyquist’s dreamy vocal delivery carried along the heavens by swaths of otherworldly synth orchestral maneuvers and a feather-lightly-strummed acoustic guitar. This is truly beautiful pop music at its very best. I hope tens of thousands of lovers embrace to this absolutely perfect piece of romantic and heartfelt awesomeness. I’m seeing my own summer 2019 accompanied by a gorgeous lover or two cuddled next to me as this plays. Goddamn, life is best lived when you live it right: good music, love, sex, romance, with fans blowing across two entwined bodies in the sweltering heat. Come join me if you dare.
Jowell & Randy X Manuel Turizo – Dile Le Verdad
A medida que vivo más y más de mi vida en el mundo de habla hispana, mi gusto musical también requiere música en español, y aquí tengo una súper canción de Puerto Rico para mantener mis habilidades en español perfeccionadas. ¡Celebra el lenguaje y la cultura!
Inhaler – There’s No Other Place
Eli Hewson has one major advantage over his superstar father in that he possesses none of Bono’s annoyingly preening pretension, the one quality we all kind of hated about U2’s otherwise brilliant frontman. Bono was easily the greatest rock star of my generation, sure, but he always came across as a little insincere. Eli seems to have had that pretentious gene recessed, as there’s a genuine warmth to his persona that gives him a vulnerability and sensitivity that his old man never really had. Nepotism gives this kid a huge leg up, sure, but one still has to deliver the goods even when the door is opened wide and the climb upwards is given a huge boost. This kid has the goods.
Clairo – Bags
She’s like Cheryl Crow but on better drugs and with a lovelier, ultra-feminine side that exudes breathless sensuality and the desire to make you want to love her madly; I’m sickly fucking jealous of whoever gets to kiss this lovely girl. Great pop shouldn’t be difficult or complex or even virtuoso; it should just be good, catchy, and stir emotions deep within one’s heart, soul, and libido. Clairo’s tune does all three with an amazing ease that’s a major turn-on for this pop music fanatic.
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Hewson Family Rockers
Bono, aka Paul Hewson, and his band U2 crashed the party with this kick-ass debut hit song that showed these four lads from Dublin had listened to Punk but were going to forge a new sound for the new decade, the 1980s, which of course U2 pretty much owned as a band. This video is a reminder of just how fucking great U2 was back in the day. And this song can’t touch New Year’s Day or anything from Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby, two of rock’s greatest albums. But it was an amazing debut.
Fast forward nearly 40 years and Bono’s son Eli Hewson and his band Inhaler have made a huge splash of their own. You can hear echoes of U2, Echo & The Bunnymen, and Duran Duran from the 80s, along with The Killers, Bloc Party, and The Kooks from a decade ago. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree in the Hewson family. Plus Eli’s beautiful face will moisten the panties of girls worldwide. Good stuff all around. Rock isn’t dead yet.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
U2 – I Will Follow (1980)
Inhaler – My Honest Face (2019)
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Fear of Trump? Ah, No…
Cleopatra’s dumpy sister with the $1 million boob jobs, ass-plasty, and countless facelifts and labia reconstructions. It’s all creepy but she’s richer and more famous, ergo she MUST be the better person than little old Mat the loser.
The USA is a goofy, fucked-up country.
Exhibit A: There’s a massive gaggle of chicks who worship that awful Kardashian monstrosity, she of the 10,000 plastic surgeries for I don’t even know what the fuck for, and after all of them she’s still a gargantuan-assed poop sack who wears fifty layers of grotesque makeup, the most expensive clothes on this planet, and yet she remains a horrible-looking circus freak, more silicon than human tissue, moreover she’s creepily icky to boot—and of course half-witted and vapid. Having said that, she and her siblings are also gazillionaires with a huge legion of worshipers. Bravo for her family’s massive success and fame, sure, but WHAT THE FUCK?
Like I said, this country of ours is fucking nuts. I have no idea why that family is famous, nor do I spend any time pondering it, but it’s there and obvious even for those, like me, who try to avoid knowing anything about it all. All I can say is, what rampant fever damaged the brains of so many millions? Why don’t I get it? Am I the crazy one for not understanding this madness? She looks like a blowup doll of Elizabeth Taylor during her fat phase with some of the air taken out and the plastic shorn and shaped to make her look thinner. It’s fucking weird and hideous.
And here I am the anonymous loser lamenting it all with my reason intact and my senses keen, a canary in the coal mine, so to speak, asking a simple question: What the fuck, America, WHAT THE FUCK?
In the “Red State” parts of the country, where the creepy, redneck Jesus-freak morons are the majority, and where I don’t know why any rational human being would want to live, they have created a nutso-wacko culture where science is denied over leaps of idiotic faith in religions so stupid and irrational that even your average dog or cat or sewer rat would reject them as silly. I think all religions are stupid, but in the USA we’ve created some real doozies that defy even the lowest common denominator of stupid in a country where we’ve been illuminated by the brilliant light of the Age of Enlightenment for over 300 years, in fact we were the first nation-state to embrace its most fundamental tenets, you know, freedom and liberty for its citizenry, free speech, due process, freedom from religious domination, we elect our leaders instead of letting some king or duke or pope or dictator rule us, et al. And yet, despite this and later the brilliant leap forward in the 20th Century in science, education, and progressive thinking, tens of millions of Americans wallow in superstition, religious ignorance, and willful stupidity. Not only that, but they are mean, cruel, and intolerant fanatics who do cling to their guns and nutty religion appallingly. Lovely people other than that. Sure. My fellow Americans. E pluribus unum and all. Maybe not.
I sure sound like a snob, right? I would be the first person to openly state that, in the USA, our citizens can live and think and worship and fuck others (consenting adults only) however they see fit. Of course I do! I believe we all have the right to be whatever the fuck we want, and fuck anyone who says otherwise. But—and let me be clear about this—it doesn’t mean people are above criticism for being morons who leave a wake of destruction in their path, or that anyone is above castigation for their actions and behavior when it treads on my personal space or tries to force a religious belief into my life by law to which I don’t subscribe. So if I call people bad names and mock their stupidity and freaky value system, that too is my right as a citizen of the USA.
I respect your right to worship how or who you want, but not for a moment do I have to respect your religion or faith. Fuck no. And I will not. Nor am I required to give you a free pass if you’re a loudmouth fucking idiot expressing your nonsense publicly. I will use logic, reason, and facts to bury your stupid expressions and arguments, and gladly. Moreover I am not required to be nice or polite about it. I relish the idea of offending idiots. I feel the USA is overrun with them any more.
Trump is nothing more than the gigantic, puss-filled ass boil that was created in this poisonous, illiterate, and bafflingly stupid era. Fear him? Hell no, he’s the biggest source of comedy in the modern history of the world. Fat, stupid, and vaingloriously pompous, Trump is what you get when 40% of the USA’s citizens have lost their fucking minds and helped elect a twit as their “champion.” Look at his ridiculous political rallies, filled with tubby and half-witted white morons who couldn’t name five elements on the Periodic Chart, and whose grasp of history is that Caesar is an inferior salad dressing to ranch and Napoleon was that weird and squirrelly kid in that stupid movie. Dude, you know people have lost their minds when they adore Trump as their savior and champion, this flabby spoiled child who is an even bigger dumbass and fuckwit than his worshipers. But only by a little. He’s used his inherited wealth and fame to convince his fellow travelers of stupidity and nitwittedness that he’s a great man. And people bought it because they are, in fact, stupid nitwits. Madness. Sheer madness! I am not mean for saying this, I am just 100% honest. The emperor has no clothes and his followers have lost their minds.
As long as science is ignored and even the simplest facts that a pinhead could understand clearly are seen as “fake news,” and millions of dingbats with childish and irrational value systems elect such a creep like Trump, the only fear is that we’ve become a nation of the saddest, stupidest, and most pathetically self-immolating dunderheads in the supposedly “enlightened” West—although Brexit Britain is not far behind! People seem to want to destroy their democracy along with themselves because, why, exactly? They hate Liberals? Mexicans? Homos and dykes? Fair wages and social safety nets? Do they really hate all the social change from the last 150 years that uplifted hundreds of millions of Americans and created the prosperous, fair, and benevolent society we enjoyed in the 20th Century, not perfect but better than now in so many ways? Apparently so, and they cannot dismantle it fast enough even if they themselves sink even lower than they’ve already sunk since the dismantling began under Reagan some 37 years ago.
Sure, idiots, destroy democracy and allow dictators and fat, stupid bullies like Trump to rule over you. Or chinless, hyper-creepy douchebags like Mitch McConnell, who makes Cardinal Richelieu look like a saint, and who cannot wait to fellate the ultra-rich and dismantle democracy in their favor like the servile dog he is. Or the even creepier Pastor Fred Triplechins who wish to turn us into a zombie Christian theocratic cult. That will fix things in Fartsicle, Alabama, yessiree, Joe Bob and Myrtle Nitwit. Oy vey. I don’t fear the dictators and feudal lords who will rise from this madness, I fear the madness where people would even consider this as an alternative. It’s democratic iconoclasm for idiots. Make America Great Again by destroying America and handing all power to the rich. Brilliant.
Yeah, Joe Bob, once you’ve watched the republic dismantled, that old Colt .45 on your waistband will protect you for about 5 seconds when the alternative assumes power of which you have no purchase or choice. When Pastor Warlord Fred Triplechin decrees that maybe all Christian weirdo cults are not, in fact, equal, especially your cult compared to his, so yours has to go and he’s a got a well-armed army of fanatics to heed to his will and nothing to check his power, which may mean not only does your cult have to go, but you and Myrtle and that queer who lives down the road will be burned as heretics. Or El Creepo Corporation decides your little chicken farm belongs to them and just takes it, no due process, and have Myrtle close the barn door as you head to tent city with all the other refugees. And don’t drink the water, Joe Bob, it’s all poisoned because no one will give a fuck if water is potable in Fartsicle County any more.
Read some history, Joe Bob, where human societies before our Constitution were often run by the powerful and rich while everyone else kneeled obsequiously and obediently before their Lords and Ladies and Bishops, ate dogshit, and had no rights. I know you don’t think that’s why you voted for a shitstain like Trump or your Republican representatives who cannot wait to give power away to the filthy rich. I am sure you just hate blacks and Mexicans and white liberal hipsters and people who don’t bow to Jesus. Heck, I am not fond of a lot of people in this country myself, but I don’t want to damn them all to hell, I fight for them and their rights even if they won’t fight for themselves and blindly hand whatever purchase they have left in this democracy, maybe out of spite or just plain ignorance, to the rich and powerful. But it’s true, buddy, that you’re destroying yourself voting for Trump and those vile Republican assholes. I wouldn’t leave Mitch McConnell alone with my dogs or houseplants, let alone vote for him.
So I’m worried about Trump? He’s so far down on the list of my grievances against the utter irrational lunacy and abject stupidity in which my country is mired, hell, way down that list, that he doesn’t even make my top 100 of that list. Rejection of science, religious fanaticism, environmental destruction, white supremacy ideology, denigration and subjugation of women, rampant cruelty and intolerance, insanely fascist political correctness by my so-called “allies” on the left, and, of course, the worship at the altar of fat-assed, vapid, and reconstructed-vaginaed shit sacks like the hideous Kardashians; my friends, the list is endless and horrifying in its entirety. The canary in the coal mine watching our culture and society emit all this poisonous filth is choking to death.
The Roman Empire fell because its people became lazy, stupid, apathetic, and incapable of recognizing Rome’s cultural slide into wanton and self-destructive peril. They became easy pickings for the half-witted but determined barbarians who overran the great empire like cutting through melting butter. And then there was a thousand years of darkness, chaos, and misery if one wasn’t an earl, baron, or bishop. All because a great people failed to see how fucked up and effete they had become.
So please with this fear of Trump bullshit. He can be President and do great harm, sure, but we’re really as a country just harming ourselves so badly that he’s only adding a small rash on a much bigger, crippling disease that began long before he was elected; he’s not the problem at all. Nor are spineless weasel politicians like Mitch McConnell who gladly hand all power and wealth to the already powerful and wealthy. Or the Pastor Fred Triplechins who wish to turn America into a creepy Christian theocracy. No, they are not the problem. We are the problem for allowing these lunatics to take everything away from us that matters. We, the citizens. E pluribus unum. From many, one. One gigantic shit pile, sure, and every day we add more and more to the shit pile while deluding ourselves it’s all okie-dokie, that we’re okie dokie. It’s not, you fucking idiots, okie dokie right now.
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Cool Ladies of the 80s
Posted on June 15, 2019 by matscheck
As an ardent feminist raised by my widowed mother and six older sisters, I learned almost from birth the vast superiority of women over men in nearly every human quality that matters most, such as compassion, empathy, altruism, wisdom, and, most importantly, love. My mother, Tess Bernat Scheck, was simply the smartest, wisest, and most capable human being I’ve ever known, moreover her capacity to love was the single greatest gift she bestowed on her nine children. I was her last baby and she spoiled me rotten. Plus my sisters doted on me, and in fact still do well into my 57th year of life. I think one of the reasons I have eschewed monogamy is because I cannot love just one woman, which sounds like a sleazy cop-out, but I swear it’s true. I not only prefer the company of women, I pretty much loathe most men around me.
In the 1980s women began to take over Rock & Roll thanks to brilliant pioneers like Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Joni Mitchell, Suzi Quatro, Stevie Nicks, Heart’s Wilson sisters Ann & Nancy, Pat Benatar, and of course the amazing Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin. I could name many more.
In the 1980s women stepped out front to lead so many great bands, or stood alone as solo artists of great power, depth, and feeling. In my opinion some of the best music of that era was female dominated, and here are a few examples to back my rather bold argument.
Missing Persons – Mental Hopscotch (1982)
Pretenders – Back on the Chain Gang (1982)
Eurythmics – Who’s That Girl? (1983)
The Motels – Only the Lonely (1982)
Quarterflash – Take Me to Heart (1983)
Kim Wilde – Kids in America (1982)
Madonna – Physical Attraction (1983)
Bananarama – Cruel Summer (1984)
Janet Jackson – Control (1986)
Throwing Muses – Call Me (1986)
Book of Love – Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes) (1986)
Tracy Chapman – Fast Car (1987)
Sonic Youth – The Sprawl (1987)
Sinead O’Connor – Mandinka (1987)
I’m 56 and I Like It
Posted on May 14, 2019 by matscheck
My life has followed my own unique path that began when I was 19 when I dropped out of college to enlist in the Army, the first step to living “my way” instead of what was expected of my generation. I threw the rulebook out the window and thumbed my nose at convention. Since then I’ve never wavered in my dedication to following my own path and fulfilling my own vision of how life should unfold. At 56 I feel as young as ever and I strive every day, mightily, to keep educated and wise, fit, healthy, and strong. I am not ready to get old.
I’ve neither married nor fathered children and don’t feel my lack of either has affected me negatively. I live well below my means by design, hell, I don’t even own a car and my income can afford me whatever I want should I desire one. But I don’t. I am happy riding my bicycle and walking everywhere. I live downtown in a huge city, with everything I need close to me, so I keep things simple and easy.
As I grow older I feel I’ve lost a great deal of the radical liberal idealism of my younger years, but I’m still a strong advocate of a European-styled social democracy, which, in these strange times in America, seems a distant dream as Middle America becomes more and more radicalized to right-wing, white supremacist madness and ultra-religious intolerance.
I have never believed in god nor do I think the white race holds any great advantage over any other, which probably puts me at odds with a large majority of white people in my country these days. I’ve quite often found far too many people to be irrational and petty—call me an intellectual elitist if that helps—but it certainly doesn’t make me wrong. Those who reject science due to religious or political beliefs that are contrary to scientific fact irritate the fuck out of me. And in the USA, far too many citizens reject science due to their nutty and irrational belief system.
Having said all this, I spend little time worrying about the state of global, national, and local politics or American culture. Nor do I think we live in times that are better or worse than any other era in my lifetime. The good old days were often bad, and the current times are often good but also bad. What I seek is a balance in my personal life but also with the world around me. It’s a difficult process to feel balanced in a world that is in constant turmoil, but at a personal level I can control my own life despite what’s going on around me, which is actually the best I can do. I can control my health and fitness and how I interact with my fellow citizens and the rest of humanity. That’s about it.
Old age brings wisdom but no more certainty than when I was younger. I still have grave doubts about everything around me. I remain skeptical of human intentions and the ambitions of others who wish to tread on my personal space. I remain an eternally optimistic person with a joy for living, my strongest quality and most cherished basis for all else about me. I still read voraciously and have a great curiosity to learn more today than what I knew yesterday. I work hard at keeping healthy and feeling younger than my years, indeed, I am 56 going on much younger.
INCEL Knights™ of the World, Unite!
Posted on April 30, 2019 by matscheck
The Involuntary Celibate Knight™
All rise to hail a new generation of brave warriors, the lords of abject stupidity and pathetic hate and malice, the Involuntary Celibate (INCEL) Knights™!
Whether strapping on a suicide vest and blowing himself up in a crowd of innocents, or brandishing a military-grade assault rifle while mowing down lovely and vital folks in churches, synagogues, mosques, schools, or public squares, the key attribute of this cowardly, homicidal ass clown is his sad and furiously frustrating inability to put his penis into the vaginas of the women for whom he lusts after.
Oh, the humiliating agony of being categorically rejected by the fairer sex due to the fact all of these raging psychopathic assholes have zero skills at wooing the women they desire, moreover most are as ugly and physically misshapen as an anal wart. I am sure even bestiality is denied to INCEL Knights as cats and dogs and ferrets reject them with the same gusto as women. No, my dear, crazy, virgin INCEL Knight, even a copious dabbing of peanut butter on your cock won’t entice Mr. Whiskers or Rover to lick it. Getting rejected by women is humiliating enough; getting rejected by your cat must invoke a rage-filled insanity in your pathetic, low-IQ brains of an unimaginable magnitude. The horror!
Whether your name is John, Mohammed, Mortimer, Adolf or whatever, and regardless of your race, religion, national origin, or even your political ideology, what sets you apart, INCEL Knight, is the fact you’re a vicious, anti-social creep who can’t get laid. This leads, apparently, to a madness that somehow compels you, with your ineptly puerile and misguided minds, to lash out at humanity with malevolently murderous violence. Jacking off to Internet porn cannot even for a moment suppress the rage inside you. No shrink can guide you to the light. No pill alleviates the self-hatred. Moreover, apparently, hiring a hooker is beneath your lordly, lofty, and ridiculously holy self-image; in your sick fucking mind, women reject you because they are evil and not that you’re a toxic little vermin of a man, which you are.
Your urge to kill innocents randomly is what sets you apart from the peaceful gaggle of dorks who can’t get laid either. They just attend Marvel superhero movies and comic book conventions, or play online computer games, or engage in goofy cosplay, to ease all those endlessly sleepless, sexless nights. Only a select few psychopaths like you decide to take out your rage on others.
I appeal to every fucked-up shitheel like you, INCEL Knight, to consider something before you lock-and-load your AR-15 or strap on your suicide vest: JUST KILL YOURSELF if you get the urge to harm others because your dick can’t get sucked or fucked. Kill yourself with extreme prejudice, you pathetic can’t-get-laid fucknuts of a human being. Not a single soul deserves the fate you decide for them when you act out your self-hating malice with such wanton and mindless violence. Only you do. So off yourself, you creepy piece of shit. Leave the rest of humanity alone.
That’s all I have to say on this subject.
Ten Great Post-Punk Songs (Revised, April 2019)
After the demise of Britain’s Punk explosion in 1976-77, bands who were influenced by Punk, or had started out as Punk bands, began making music that was more intelligent, experimental, and musically sophisticated than Punk. They successfully incorporated traditional rock music structures with a wide variety of underground sounds that were emerging in the British music scene of that era, creating music that was atmospheric, darker than “classic” rock, and highly introspective and introverted, but without sounding too experimental or obscure. Most Post-Punk bands experimented with sounds and lyrical structures but never lost their pop sense, so their music is extremely listenable, but at the same time there’s a veritable feast of amazingly new and cool elements to their music that set them apart from the rock & roll that came before them.
It was an exciting era for rock music, and while most of the best Post-Punk bands did not enjoy wide appeal or huge commercial success, their music was massively influential for what would be later known as “Alternative” rock.
Update 4-26-2019: Some record companies block embedding YouTube videos of their product, so fuck them, no free promotion here, as if obscure bands didn’t need more promotion, especially free promotion. Idiots. So a couple of links I had here were changed, goodbye The Cure and Echo & The Bunnymen, hello Bauhuas and Pink Turns Blue, two bands who certainly deserve recognition as Post-Punk legends while the other two are still controlled by retarded record companies who have no idea how these here “Internets” work some 25 years into its creation.
1. The Chameleons – Up the Down Escalator (1983)
A really hot Army girl stationed with me in ’84, who had just returned from a tour in Germany, used to play the album Script of the Bridge while we fucked. It was majestic music, anthemic and bold, what U2 tried make be but didn’t have the brains and verve that these lads from Manchester clearly presented across the entire record. I borrowed her album and burned it to a cassette that I played the fuck out of for many years afterwards. When I hear this I still think of her lying naked on my barracks room floor, a shit ton of lit candles surrounding her like an ancient religious fertility rite, and Script of the Bridge blaring out my speakers. A good fucking memory of a great girl. The song Second Skin is also brilliant, but I can only chose one on this list from each band.
2. The Sound – Skeletons (1983)
The best band of the 1980s that no one has ever heard. Fuck me as to why this happened. Front man Adrian Borland was the Jim Morrison of his generation, a brilliant songwriter and post-modern poet, and his sparse but hugely danceable arrangements became mainstays at “Goth” clubs all over Europe. You wanted a dark, creepy mood along with great dance chops? Play The Sound. This song in particular is about as fucking great as any song from that dark, exciting, beautiful era. Only The Mission and Sisters of Mercy came close to this dark wave greatness, and they both fell short although they sold a shitload more records than this brilliant band. Like Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Borland took his own life at far too young an age.
3. Joy Division – Shadowplay (1979)
Dark, sparse, moody, cool, utterly brilliant. Punk was working-class stupidness at times, especially American Hardcore, but what emerged after Punk died in the UK in 1978 was amazing. I loved The Clash, who got better when they transitioned from Punk to more diverse rock sounds on London Calling and beyond, but I think, in retrospect, Joy Division was the greatest band to emerge from the ashes of Punk, even if we only have two albums by the band to measure its greatness. Ian Curtis was Rimbaud to Joe Strummer’s Lord Byron, when you think about it. Joe was a hopeless romantic with many socio-political axes to grind, and we loved him because he gave a fuck so passionately, with anger and rebellion in his heart like any romantic. Ian, on the other hand, was a massively depressed nihilist who veered too close to the dark side and fell victim to his own worst tendencies, and his music reflected this abjectly morose excursion into madness and gloomy introspection. Plus, holy fuck, Peter Hook was an amazing bassist who could carry a song by his sheer athleticism on the instrument. When Ian died the remaining members created a whole new band, New Order, with a completely different sound, and that band too was great, but just not this great.
4. Comsat Angels – Independence Day (1981)
Another amazing but sadly obscure band from an exciting era in musical experimentalism and “dare to be different” Post-Punk cool. Joy Division opened the door for all these young bands to express their darker thoughts and feelings, and while only The Cure and Bauhaus are well remembered today, there were other fine bands from that period who made great music. This is one of them. Like all great Post-Punk bands, the C-S Angels delved into the darker regions of consciousness, with pounding beats and a minimalist sound that was equally beautiful and sad, and of course one could dance to the band’s songs with great gusto.
5. Killing Joke – Wardance (1980)
These motherfuckers were crazy, I mean batshit crazy, but in a good way. Nihilists, sure, and doomsday believers of the nuttiest sort, but they put down on record all these insane thoughts and ideas with some powerful and crushing music, foot-stomping hard rock without the silly macho posing of the Heavy Metal boys in Metallica or Iron Maiden, who explored the same dark themes, the only difference being that Killing Joke was essentially a Punk band and not Metal. But they rocked like one. Wardance is, to me, a scary, superbly powerful, driving anthem of unequaled greatness. Doomsday never had a better theme song. Fed Astaire cheerfully dancing on the casualties of nuclear Armageddon? Best cover art ever, if you ask me. Fuck yeah, this is rock & roll at its darkest, creepiest, nihilistic best. Put on your Doc Martens and stomp dance as we blow ourselves to smithereens, motherfuckers.
6. PiL – Public Image (1979)
John Lydon left the Pistols and had a little Punk left in him with this kick-ass song and its Jah Wobble killer bass line and Keith Levene’s simple yet powerful guitar licks. Meanwhile Mr. Rotten gets to purge all his angst and anger with his usual sneeringly accusatory excellence, deriding his old band and all his detractors with a barrage of fuck you, spittle-spewing eloquence as only Johnny can muster. This is, simply put, a great fucking Punk tune. Johnny was a villainous cunt, sure, but we loved joining the bad guys when their message was right. He would cease being this cool in the years to follow, but from ’76-’80 Rotten was a goddamn sage. No one today is rebelling with such beautiful bile and cogently precise articulation. Anarchy indeed.
7. Bauhaus – The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1981)
Stylish Brit boys who combined Punk sensibilities with their fascination with Creature Feature horror films. Goth was born here, for better or worse. Peter Murphy was Ziggy Stardust meets Dracula, and it was kind of cool in the brief moments Bauhaus made great music, though I think they underperformed mostly, and yet their influence was immense.
8. Pink Turns Blue – Your Master is Calling (1986)
“Dark Wave” bands like The Mission and Sisters of Mercy churned out tunes like this in droves, but this obscure German band may have created the best of the lot here, obviously influenced by Joy Division and The Mission, and yet, damn, it’s just a great song. I heard it in a club in Germany in 1988 and sprinted to the DJ to find out who it was, and to my surprise it was a German band, not an English one.
9. Sad Lovers & Giants – Imagination (1981)
Another sadly obscure band that made vital and cool music, only to be buried beneath the deluge of more pop-influenced New Wave and Synth Pop that engulfed England in the early 80s. Sure, Gary Numan, Spandau Ballet, Japan and the like were fun and cool, but so was this. Oh well. Just enjoy.
10. The Damned – Life Goes On (1983)
These old original Punks reformed and kept making good music, and despite Captain Sensible’s strange run as a UK pop star in the early 80s, with his old Punk band he still had a few great tunes left in him, such as here, a song with a bass line and chord progression that’s been copied not once, but TWICE, first in Killing Joke’s song Eighties, and then Nirvana’s epic Come as You Are. The Captain was in form here, no doubt about it, writing a truly sad and brilliant song about how to live life after losing a loved one. Hard to imagine this was the same band that made New Rose, a nihilistically joyful Punk anthem if ever there was one, and yet, here they are, still fucking great, going all “Goth” in their later years. All hail the real Punks of old. This is, in my humble opinion, one of the finest songs from the 1980s, obscure, yes, but so sublime and touching, so goddamn good I wish everyone gave it one listen to find out why I champion it with such gusto. Of course I have weird and shitty taste in this strange mélange of borrowed and stolen styles, but that’s me, Mr. Pastiche, lover of goofy, often obscure shit that apparently only appealed to me.
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How Fucking Weird is America?
Game of Thrones is one of the most violent television shows ever aired, with insanely macabre and hyper-violent depictions of murder, torture, rape, and mutilation. The blood and guts and body parts fly around on this show in such great amounts that its audience has become desensitized to all this horrific and inhuman carnage.
But many in America have expressed extreme outrage when the 22-year-old English actress Maisie Williams, who plays the character Arya Stark, got a little naked in a love scene in the latest episode. Williams was originally cast when she was 11 but has literally grown up on the show. She’s no child and freely allowed herself to be filmed in the buff. Apparently the outraged fans considered this to be borderline pedophilia, as her character should be around 17 years old or so in the show’s timeline. It’s called acting, folks. Maisie is an adult in real life.
You’re fine with heads and extremities getting chopped off with almost flippant abandon, but a young woman’s titts being exposed is too much to bear.
What a fucking weird country we are, truly. Violence is okie dokie, yet a little flash of nudity is a cause for hysterical overreaction. Get it?
Bloody hell.
On the Mueller Report and Trump
A brilliant anti-Trump effigy on display during the 2019 Las Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain, March 16, 2019. The artist was a little to generous on the genital size, but oh well. Photo ©2019 Matthew C. Scheck
Was there a criminal conspiracy? Probably, but more like a clown car being driven by someone too drunk to drive.
Was there collusion—a term that actually has little or no specific legal context—between the Trump campaign and Russia? Sure, but apparently there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove it in a way that could bring treason charges against Trump and this idiotic minions.
My take on all this is simply that we have an insane, overgrown child as our POTUS, a raging idiot of a narcissist who proves the danger of inherited wealth, that even a complete moron like this man, backed by the money he inherited from his daddy, can rise to spectacular heights without being particularly successful at anything but self-promotion, of course facilitated by the pile of wealth daddy left in his trust fund.
Trump is a gigantic shit stain on our democracy. That is a given. The millions of morons who voted for this festering ass boil of a human being are as reprehensible as the man they champion.
Stupidity is obviously in abundance in the good old USA. Nothing shocking there, right?
But that’s America, folks. As rich, powerful and amazing as our great nation has been, we’re also peopled with tens of millions of idiotic, half-literate dingbats who seem to wander around destructively and stupidly, destroying not only the self-interest of those they hate, but their own too. It’s a self-immolating madness that I suspect every successful civilization suffers from in the history of humankind. We just cannot behave with too much reason and common sense, we humans. We’re the agents of our own destruction. No one can destroy us but ourselves.
Some day in the future we’ll look back on this era and maybe have a laugh. Despite the fact we’ve got this bloated, bloviating, bigoted psychopathic turd of a man as our POTUS, America is just fine, thank you very much. Tens of millions of Americans show up for work every day, tend to their families, and work hard to make their communities amazing places to live. We’ll survive just fine.
Take a deep breath and vote this idiot out of office in 2020. That, my friends, is what makes democracy so great. We the people can right a horrible wrong, even if some 46% of us have lost their fucking minds.
RIP Ranking Roger
Posted on March 27, 2019 by matscheck
Anyone who knew me from 1982-85 knows how much I loved the English 2-Tone Ska band The (English) Beat. I played their records relentlessly and found so much joy from their wildly danceable and peppy tunes. Roger was just a couple months older than I am when he passed yesterday, and losing one of my favorite music stars from my youth is of course hard to take, but especially for this eternally-positive frontman for one of my all-time favorite bands. The Beat brought me so much pure fun in my youth. Sad to see you pass, dear Roger, you were such an icon of style and unpretentious cool in the early 80s. I bought my first porkpie hat and wraparound Ray-bans after seeing Roger on MTV. Ranking Full Stop indeed, mate. Rest in peace.
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Season 20 Final Jeopardy! Round clues (230 clues archived)
#4595, aired 2004-07-23 SHAKESPEARE: 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth & Richard III
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: The 2 U.S. presidents whose middle names are also the last names of 2 other presidents Ronald Wilson Reagan & William Jefferson Clinton
#4593, aired 2004-07-21 SINGERS: Her recording career lasted just 8 years, starting in 1955 with "A Church, A Courtroom And Then Good-Bye" Patsy Cline
#4592, aired 2004-07-20 ON THE MAP: In area it's the largest African country through which the Greenwich meridian passes Algeria
#4591, aired 2004-07-19 OPERA: The libretto for "William Tell" was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject French
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 FOOD: Experts believe that 16th C. Dutch growers, through breeding, gave this vegetable its color to honor their ruling house the carrot
#4589, aired 2004-07-15 U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 HISTORIC AMERICANS: For his role in writing this 1861 document, Thomas Cobb of Georgia has been compared to James Madison the Confederate Constitution
#4587, aired 2004-07-13 HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel
#4585, aired 2004-07-09 INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Of the 8 members of the G-8 industrial nations, the one with the smallest population Canada
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 FICTIONAL PEOPLE: After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720 Lois Lane
#4583, aired 2004-07-07 WRITERS: Born in 1564, he was employed by Elizabeth I's Secretary of State to uncover Catholic plots against her reign Christopher Marlowe
#4582, aired 2004-07-06 HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN: Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim Captain Cook
#4581, aired 2004-07-05 MASS COMMUNICATION: Its 1st broadcast, February 24, 1942, said, "The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth" Voice of America
#4580, aired 2004-07-02 SPORTS HEROES: Born in January 1919, the month Teddy Roosevelt died, he was given the middle name Roosevelt Jackie Robinson
#4579, aired 2004-07-01 FRUIT: This fruit of North America shares its name with a literary character who debuted in an 1876 novel the huckleberry
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 HISTORIC NAMES: In 1899 he was released from Devil's Island & pardoned for "treason under extenuating circumstances" Captain Alfred Dreyfus
#4577, aired 2004-06-29 CHILDREN'S LIT: This title character's full name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs the Wizard of Oz
#4576, aired 2004-06-28 BOOK TITLES: "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this Song of Solomon
#4575, aired 2004-06-25 MEDICINE: In 1901 U.S. Surgeon General Walter Wyman helped establish a hospital in Hawaii for this disease leprosy
#4574, aired 2004-06-24 FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist
#4573, aired 2004-06-23 FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1826 Daniel Webster eulogized these 2 men, saying, "They took their flight together to the world of spirits" Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
#4572, aired 2004-06-22 HISTORIC PARTNERSHIPS: The almost 4-decade collaboration of these 2 Germans began in Paris in 1844 Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
#4571, aired 2004-06-21 INVENTIONS: Josephine Cochrane's 1886 version of this consisted of a copper boiler, wire baskets & a pump a dishwasher
#4570, aired 2004-06-18 THE 16th CENTURY: In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni proclaimed this solar dating system still used today the Gregorian calendar
#4569, aired 2004-06-17 COMMUNICATIONS: In the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, etc.), the 2 that are title Shakespearean characters Romeo & Juliet
#4568, aired 2004-06-16 FAMOUS PRODUCTS: First designed as a surgical disinfectant, in 1895 it was available to dentists & by 1914 was sold OTC Listerine
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#4566, aired 2004-06-14 ON EXHIBIT: The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old giant pandas
#4565, aired 2004-06-11 UNITED NATIONS HISTORY: In 1960 this new national leader made the longest speech in United Nations history, 4 hours & 29 minutes Fidel Castro
#4564, aired 2004-06-10 ENTERTAINMENT: This title character who debuted in 1999 was created by former marine biology educator Steve Hillenburg SpongeBob SquarePants
#4563, aired 2004-06-09 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In a last-minute change in his manuscript, Charles Dickens renamed Little Fred this Tiny Tim
#4562, aired 2004-06-08 EUROPEAN ISLANDS: Gavdos, an islet administratively part of this larger island, is Europe's southernmost point Crete
#4561, aired 2004-06-07 WORDS & PHRASES: Once slang for brain, this 2-word phrase now means the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution a think tank
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 RECORD HOLDERS: Phoebe Snetsinger, she of the apropos first name, set a record for this activity, about 8,400 species birdwatching
#4559, aired 2004-06-03 WORD ORIGINS: This somewhat negative term arose because twisting fibers into thread was mainly a woman's job spinster
#4558, aired 2004-06-02 THE 2000 OLYMPICS: She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics Marion Jones
#4557, aired 2004-06-01 AMERICAN LITERATURE: The title object of this 1850 novel is described as "so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom" The Scarlet Letter
#4556, aired 2004-05-31 THE MIDWEST: To journey through 3 adjacent states that start with the same letter, you have to go through these 3 Iowa, Illinois & Indiana
#4555, aired 2004-05-28 THE INTERNET: Among 2-letter country codes in Internet addresses, "de" is Germany, "kh" is Cambodia & "es" is this country Spain (Espa�a)
#4554, aired 2004-05-27 LONGFELLOW: In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", "The Landlord's Tale" concerns this man & begins with the word "Listen" Paul Revere
#4553, aired 2004-05-26 NFL TEAM NAMES: 2 of the 4 teams in the NFL with completely alliterative names (2 of) the Seattle Seahawks, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Buffalo Bills, & the Tennessee Titans
#4552, aired 2004-05-25 MYTHS & LEGENDS: At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread Damocles
#4551, aired 2004-05-24 STATE CAPITALS: This Southern capital was named for an ancestor of a 20th century poet known for his clever rhymes Nashville, Tennessee
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 EXPLORATION: He wrote in his diary, "The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended" Robert Falcon Scott
#4549, aired 2004-05-20 OSCAR NOMINEES: The last 2 sisters nominated against each other for the Best Actress Oscar; it was for 1966 Lynn & Vanessa Redgrave
#4548, aired 2004-05-19 TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: It occupies the 78 acres of land where Met Stadium, former home of the Vikings & Twins, once stood the Mall of America
#4547, aired 2004-05-18 THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: A part of this marine mammal was prized by medieval folk, who thought it belonged to a unicorn the narwhal
#4546, aired 2004-05-17 THE 50 STATES: The USA's most-climbed mountain, Monadnock, is in this state associated with rock New Hampshire
#4545, aired 2004-05-14 THE U.S. SENATE: In the year 1958, the U.S. Senate was made up of this many members 96
#4544, aired 2004-05-13 AMERICANA: Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia & her new husband honeymooned here Niagara Falls
#4543, aired 2004-05-12 POP CULTURE: In 2004 a spokesman announced the "break-up" of this "couple" who had "dated" for 43 years Ken & Barbie
#4542, aired 2004-05-11 METALS: Element No. 79, it's estimated that all of it ever mined would only make a cube about 50 feet across gold
#4541, aired 2004-05-10 THE PRESIDENCY: If a president is impeached, this official presides over the trial in the Senate the Chief Justice of the United States
#4540, aired 2004-05-07 THE 50 STATES: 2 of the 4 states whose names start & end with the same letter (2 of) Alaska, Arizona, Alabama & Ohio
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 INVENTIONS: 11-year-old Frank Epperson invented this by accident when his fruit drink froze after being left outside overnight the popsicle
#4538, aired 2004-05-05 CLASSIC MOVIES: A 35-foot-long muslin stocking was used to create the cyclone for this 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
#4537, aired 2004-05-04 GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: Florida is one of these, Michigan is made up of several & Alaska is the biggest one in the Americas peninsula
#4536, aired 2004-05-03 THE WESTERN U.S.: 2 popular places for swimming in this national park are in Firehole Canyon & at Boiling River Yellowstone
#4535, aired 2004-04-30 18th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap" Robinson Crusoe
#4534, aired 2004-04-29 MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES: His name means "The Glory of" a certain goddess, & he built shrines to that goddess Hercules
#4533, aired 2004-04-28 '80s FILMS: The first film rated PG-13, its colorful title was used as the code name for a 2003 capture mission in Iraq Red Dawn
#4532, aired 2004-04-27 STATE CAPITALS: In 2003 a famous marker on the steps of this city's capitol got an altitude adjustment, being lowered by 3 feet Denver, Colorado
#4531, aired 2004-04-26 PHRASES: It's the original meaning of the word "checkmate", or what many newspaper headlines said on August 17, 1977 "The King Is Dead"
#4530, aired 2004-04-23 CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: The first movement of his 1868 first symphony is subtitled "Dreams of a Winter Journey" Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#4529, aired 2004-04-22 TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The cover story about this 1930 Man of the Year described him as a "little half-naked brown man" Mohandas Gandhi
#4528, aired 2004-04-21 19th CENTURY ART & HISTORY: The red sky in Munch's "The Scream" may be from the debris in the Oslo air from this volcano half a world away Krakatoa
#4527, aired 2004-04-20 CANADIAN LITERATURE: This 1908 work that was followed by several sequels is the bestselling book ever written by a Canadian Anne of Green Gables
#4526, aired 2004-04-19 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: From 1894 to 1896 this committee was headed by Dimitrios Vikelas the International Olympic Committee
#4525, aired 2004-04-16 AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS: "Evita"'s "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was inspired by a 1969 concert of hers in London; she left the stage after 15 minutes Judy Garland
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 20th CENTURY BESTSELLERS: First published in 1967, it tells the story of 7 generations of a Colombian family One Hundred Years of Solitude
#4523, aired 2004-04-14 BIBLICAL JOURNEYS: 2 names: A man journeying & his country of destination in both Genesis 39 & Matthew 2 Joseph & Egypt
#4522, aired 2004-04-13 WORD HISTORY: Circa 1860 Robert FitzRoy of Britain's meteorological office rejected prediction & prophecy in favor of this word forecast
#4521, aired 2004-04-12 LABOR UNION PRESIDENTS: This current union president was the youngest person ever to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Melissa Gilbert
#4520, aired 2004-04-09 BRITISH ROYALTY: The only British monarch of the 20th century not to produce an heir Edward VIII
#4519, aired 2004-04-08 ISLANDS: 1200 miles from the nearest continent, it entered history because of its isolation (here's a map that shows you where it is) St. Helena
#4518, aired 2004-04-07 NOVELS: First published in 1897, this novel wasn't translated into Romanian until 1992 Dracula
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES: Mythological name sometimes given to Mount Acha & Gibraltar the Pillars of Hercules
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 ROCK GROUPS: This rock group took its name from a Johnny Cash album, whose title came from a Winston Churchill speech Blood, Sweat and Tears
#4515, aired 2004-04-02 GEORGE WASHINGTON: In 1798 George wrote to John Greenwood, a man in this profession, "I am...ready to pay what ever you may charge me" dentist
#4514, aired 2004-04-01 GOLF: It's the only one of golf's 4 major pro events in which amateurs are not permitted to play the PGA Championship
#4513, aired 2004-03-31 HISTORIC NAMES: As a teenager in 1653, he played the sun in a court performance of the "Ballet de la Nuit" Louis XIV
#4512, aired 2004-03-30 AMERICAN LITERATURE: It contains the line "There stood the Kaatskill Mountains... there was every hill and dale... as it had always been" "Rip Van Winkle"
#4511, aired 2004-03-29 U.S. GOVERNMENT: In 1924 he succeeded William J. Burns who had resigned; he remained in his position for the next 48 years J. Edgar Hoover
#4510, aired 2004-03-26 MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY: A circumorbital hematoma is more commonly known as this a black eye
#4509, aired 2004-03-25 INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Yale Repertory Theatre) During apartheid, this man chose to premiere several of his plays, including "A Place with the Pigs", here at Yale Athol Fugard
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS: This term was first used in an ice cream trade journal in 1937; it began to appear in the nuclear power industry in the '60s meltdown
#4507, aired 2004-03-23 POSTAGE STAMPS: "Oh, The Places He'll Go!" was USA Today's headline announcing the 2004 stamp honoring this artist & author Dr. Seuss
#4506, aired 2004-03-22 FAMOUS FELINES: He made his debut in the 1945 short film "Life with Feathers" Sylvester
#4505, aired 2004-03-19 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: He wrote a "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842" John C. Fremont
#4504, aired 2004-03-18 THE 12th CENTURY: This king covered his eyes with his shield so that he would not see the holy city he could not conquer Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted)
#4503, aired 2004-03-17 STATE FACTS: Among the inventions to come from this state are Bisquick, Rollerblades & Post-It Notes Minnesota
#4502, aired 2004-03-16 MUSICAL THEATRE: When this Off-Broadway show closed in 2002, its lyricist said, "You can't be sad for a show that has run 42 years" The Fantasticks
#4501, aired 2004-03-15 THE 1960s: Used most infamously in 1963, a .38-caliber Colt Cobra handgun belonging to this man sold in 1991 for $220,000 Jack Ruby
#4500, aired 2004-03-12 MYTHOLOGY: The current medals for the Summer Olympics feature this goddess on them Nike
#4499, aired 2004-03-11 BRAND NAMES: Benjamin Green's work with cocoa butter led to this brand that, ironically, may be used to prevent what's in its name Coppertone
#4498, aired 2004-03-10 20th CENTURY WRITERS: In the '50s, she taught English at Smith College, then worked as a secretary at a Boston psychiatric clinic Sylvia Plath
#4497, aired 2004-03-09 HEALTH & MEDICINE: Named for the region in Uganda where it was discovered in 1937, it was first detected in the U.S. in 1999 West Nile Virus (or West Nile Fever)
#4496, aired 2004-03-08 BODIES OF WATER: The Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 between the U.S. & Great Britain limited naval power on these bodies of water the Great Lakes or Lake Champlain
#4495, aired 2004-03-05 BOOKS: This book says, "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner...that's our official slogan" Fahrenheit 451
#4494, aired 2004-03-04 FAMOUS LASTS: In July 2003 the last old-style one of these rolled off an assembly line in Mexico, headed for a museum in Germany the Volkswagen Beetle
#4493, aired 2004-03-03 RECENT MOVIES: Chita Rivera made a cameo appearance as a prison inmate in this 2002 film Chicago
#4492, aired 2004-03-02 U.S. CURRENCY: It's the only building to appear on 2 current U.S. bills; one is an interior view, the other an exterior view Independence Hall
#4491, aired 2004-03-01 SPORTS SUPERLATIVES: This oldest tennis player ever to win a Grand Slam title did so at the Australian Open mixed doubles in 2003 Martina Navratilova
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 AMERICAN SLANG: This term for a small, out-of-the-way town is also the name of a long-gone Algonquian Indian tribe Podunk
#4489, aired 2004-02-26 PSYCHOLOGY: The concept of the "Oedipus Complex" was introduced in this 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 ASTRONOMY: The name of Mintaka, a star in this constellation, is from the Arabic for "belt" Orion
#4487, aired 2004-02-24 FAMOUS NAMES: A grandson of Man O' War, he defeated his uncle in a famous matchup November 1, 1938 Seabiscuit
#4486, aired 2004-02-23 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Since 1820, 1 of 3 men to lose a presidential election but win the rematch with the same individual 4 years later (1 of 3) Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison or Grover Cleveland
#4485, aired 2004-02-20 ITALIAN TOWNS: This small town in Tuscany was the birthplace of the man who painted the Mona Lisa Vinci
#4484, aired 2004-02-19 THE UNITED NATIONS: Of the 6 official languages used by the U.N., the one that's the native tongue of the most number of people Mandarin Chinese
#4483, aired 2004-02-18 U.S. POLITICS: On July 16, 1790 Congress created this area & some of its residents think that by now it should be a state Washington, D.C.
#4482, aired 2004-02-17 OLYMPIC CITIES: It's the only national capital city of the Americas to have hosted the Olympic Games Mexico City
#4481, aired 2004-02-16 JOBS: In this job, after the Senate confirms you, you sign your name at least 5 times, then pick one to be engraved U.S. Treasurer or U.S. Treasury Secretary
#4480, aired 2004-02-13 GEOGRAPHIC SUPERLATIVES: Among the world's rivers, the Nile is the longest & the Jordan holds this geographic distinction the lowest in elevation
#4479, aired 2004-02-12 SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner"
#4478, aired 2004-02-11 ART BOOKS: The 2003 book "Disarmed" tells the story of this sculptural masterpiece Venus de Milo
#4477, aired 2004-02-10 POPULAR FICTION: This series of over 200 books began with "Kristy's Great Idea" in 1986 The Babysitter's Club
#4476, aired 2004-02-09 PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He's the U.S. president whose great-grandson seen here taking part in a special celebration Teddy Roosevelt
#4475, aired 2004-02-06 19th CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: This 3-word quote, originally in German, comes soon after "We have killed him--you and I, all of us are his murderers" "God is dead"
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES: A November 2003 report said better tree trimming may have prevented this event that affected 50 million people in August the power blackout
#4473, aired 2004-02-04 TV PERSONALITIES: In 1994 his alma mater, Sam Houston State University, named its journalism & communications building in his honor Dan Rather
#4472, aired 2004-02-03 ARBOREAL MAMMALS: Of the genus Phascolarctos, it's 23-33" tall with a stout gray or brown body, a big round nose & strong claws a koala
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 BASEBALL HISTORY: On August 10th, 2003, Rafael Furcal of the Braves became only the 12th man in MLB history to perform this single-handedly a triple play
#4470, aired 2004-01-30 PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES: The Time Almanac lists only the children from his 1772 marriage, but says there's DNA evidence of more Thomas Jefferson
#4469, aired 2004-01-29 MYTHOLOGY: They were the 2 parents of a son who ended up half man, half woman Hermes & Aphrodite
#4468, aired 2004-01-28 LATIN LINGO: This 3-word phrase familiar in the U.S. originated in an ancient poem & described assembling foods to make salad E pluribus unum
#4467, aired 2004-01-27 THE BUSINESS BOOKSHELF: F. Paul Pacult's "American Still Life" is the history of this over 200-year-old Kentucky company Jim Beam
#4466, aired 2004-01-26 THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: Tolkien helped the editors define "hobbit"; Murray Gell-Mann, the term "quark", & this man, "dymaxion" Buckminster Fuller
#4465, aired 2004-01-23 LITERARY FEMALES: She's the only female character in all the A.A. Milne "Winnie The Pooh" stories Kanga
#4464, aired 2004-01-22 TECHNOLOGY FIRSTS: In 1923 the Zeiss unit seen here was placed under a dome to create the first modern one of these a planetarium
#4463, aired 2004-01-21 SPORTS: On USA Today's list of magical numbers in sports, each had an explanation except 61, which only had this symbol an asterisk
#4462, aired 2004-01-20 THE THIRD CENTURY: Challenging the election of Calixtus in 217, Hippolytus declared himself the first one of these an antipope
#4461, aired 2004-01-19 RANKS & TITLES: Queen Victoria & Indira Gandhi each held this title, though only one was official Empress of India
#4460, aired 2004-01-16 THE MOVIES: They're the 2 2-letter abbreviations in the titles of movies directed by Steven Spielberg E.T. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) & A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
#4459, aired 2004-01-15 POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: This man's successful 2001 campaign was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in history Michael Bloomberg
#4458, aired 2004-01-14 WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country's coastline, on the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean, is the longest on the African continent Somalia
#4457, aired 2004-01-13 DEADLY FIRSTS: The first man to die as the result of one of these accidents was Lt. Thomas Selfridge on Sept. 17, 1908 an airplane crash
#4456, aired 2004-01-12 AMERICAN WRITERS: In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers John Steinbeck
#4455, aired 2004-01-09 CURRENT WORLD LEADERS: He's believed to be grooming his son Gamal to succeed him Hosni Mubarak
#4454, aired 2004-01-08 FILM TITLES: This Charlie Chaplin film lent its name to a famous bookstore that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary City Lights
#4453, aired 2004-01-07 SPORTS & BUSINESS: The watch Timex introduced in 1986 for this event in Hawaii quickly became the best-selling watch in America the Ironman Triathlon
#4452, aired 2004-01-06 ANIMALS: Camelus, the genus name of camels, is also the species name of these birds ostriches
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 INVENTIONS: On April 25, 1792 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person in history to have a bad encounter with this the guillotine
#4450, aired 2004-01-02 NAMED FOR: The "Scruggs Style" is a technique of doing this with only the thumb & first 2 fingers banjo picking (or playing)
#4449, aired 2004-01-01 U.S. CITIES: While serving in the '60s & '70s as this city's last "censor", Richard J. Sinnott banned fewer than 10 things Boston
#4448, aired 2003-12-31 STATE CAPITALS: In 2000, 1 of only 3 state capitals that had a population of less than 20,000 (1 of) Augusta, Pierre or Montpelier
#4447, aired 2003-12-30 CHARACTERS IN CLASSIC LIT: The first person mentioned by name in "The Man in the Iron Mask" is this hero of a previous book by the same author D'Artagnan
#4446, aired 2003-12-29 FOODSTUFFS: A plant called this accompanies sushi & also the Passover seder horseradish
#4445, aired 2003-12-26 SEASONAL CHARACTERS: In late 1939 Chicago adman Robert May considered Rollo & Reginald before settling on this name Rudolph
#4444, aired 2003-12-25 CLASSIC SONGS: This song begins, "The sun is shining, the grass is green. But it's December 24th and I am longing to be up north" "White Christmas"
#4443, aired 2003-12-24 THE WORLD OF DISNEY: In 2003 Disney released this film, its first ever movie under the Disney banner rated PG-13 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
#4442, aired 2003-12-23 THE SUPREME COURT: Of the 9 current members, the one who had the greatest amount of time elapse between nomination & oath Clarence Thomas
#4441, aired 2003-12-22 FRUIT: Its name is from the Portuguese for "goblin", referring to the facelike appearance of its 3 depressions the coconut
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 TELEVISION: In Spring 2003 episodes of these 2 dramas invoked the little-used 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution The West Wing & 24
#4439, aired 2003-12-18 SCIENCE: Some refractive index numbers for you now: diamond, 2.42; air, 1.0003, this, 1.0000 a vacuum
#4438, aired 2003-12-17 INTERNATIONAL LAW: Drawn up at Pres. Lincoln's request, the first formal code for them said they get humane treatment & wholesome food Prisoners of War
#4437, aired 2003-12-16 THE OLYMPICS: This city that Napoleon gave to Bavaria in 1806 has hosted the Winter Olympics twice Innsbruck, Austria
#4436, aired 2003-12-15 REFERENCE BOOKS: When it was completed in 1928, Britain's P.M. said, "Our histories, our novels, our poems... are all in this one book" the Oxford English Dictionary
#4435, aired 2003-12-12 19th CENTURY BUSINESS: Frederic Tudor became wealthy marketing this, which he took from a pond called Fresh Pond in Massachusetts ice
#4434, aired 2003-12-11 SCULPTURE: In 1504 a statue of this man over 13 feet tall was unveiled in Piazza Della Signoria David
#4433, aired 2003-12-10 THE PLANETS: In 1978 astronomer James Christy named its moon in honor of his wife Charlene Pluto
#4432, aired 2003-12-09 MAGAZINES: Aimed largely at women, this magazine that has its own institute took 110 years to make a woman its editor Good Housekeeping
#4431, aired 2003-12-08 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: The last major party Presidential candidate to lose twice to the same individual Adlai Stevenson
#4430, aired 2003-12-05 THE U.S. NAVY: It's the only U.S. battleship ever to have a one-syllable name the Maine
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 AMERICAN AUTHORS: He called himself a "Cubano Sato", a phrase from the Cuban dialect meaning both "flirt" & "half-breed" Ernest Hemingway
#4428, aired 2003-12-03 NOTABLE NAMES: In 1908 he turned the techniques he used to train army troops into a manual for training small groups of boys Lord Baden-Powell
#4427, aired 2003-12-02 GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: These 2 words are anagrams of each other & for our location now one is about 34, the other about 74 latitude & altitude
#4426, aired 2003-12-01 BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: 2 of the 4 Best Picture winners with nationalities in the title (2 of) The English Patient, An American in Paris, The French Connection & American Beauty
#4425, aired 2003-11-28 TONY-WINNING MUSICALS: 2 of the 3 Tony winners for Best Musical with titles just 4 letters long (2 of) Cats, Rent & Nine
#4424, aired 2003-11-27 LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS: The final words uttered on this TV show after 11 seasons on the air were "Sorry, we're closed" Cheers
#4423, aired 2003-11-26 COUNTRIES: At the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, a giant Rubik's Cube stood outside this country's pavilion Hungary
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 RELIGION: The 2 main religions on this island nation are Greek Orthodox & Islam Cyprus
#4421, aired 2003-11-24 WOMEN IN BUSINESS: In 1963 she founded her company with a sales force of 9; today that number is over 950,000 Mary Kay
#4420, aired 2003-11-21 TIME MAGAZINE COVERS: The 2 years the following covers hit the stands 1945 and 2003
#4419, aired 2003-11-20 PEOPLE ON THE MAP: A European city founded in 1703 has at different times been named for these 2 people born 1,800 years apart St. Peter and Lenin
#4418, aired 2003-11-19 VOYAGERS: In 1497 the 4 ships under his command included the Berrio & the Sao Rafael Vasco da Gama
#4417, aired 2003-11-18 REFERENCE BOOKS: The name of this type of reference book comes from the Greek for "circle of instruction" encyclopedia
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 OLYMPIC SPORTS: Officially added as a medal event in 1996, it's one of the few team events where shoes are not worn beach volleyball
#4415, aired 2003-11-14 STATE CAPITALS: 2 of the 3 state capitals with 5-letter names (2 of) Boise, Salem & Dover
#4414, aired 2003-11-13 ISLANDS: In 1898 the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment did most of its fighting on this island Cuba
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 18th CENTURY AMERICA: These 2 British astronomers were sent to America in 1763 to settle a land dispute Mason & Dixon
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 BIG IN THE USA: This state is home to the USA's largest portrait busts South Dakota
#4411, aired 2003-11-10 NEW ORLEANS: At the end of the American Revolution, this country controlled New Orleans Spain
#4410, aired 2003-11-07 THE BIBLE: It's the first city mentioned in the first of Paul's epistles to appear in the New Testament Rome
#4409, aired 2003-11-06 SCIENCE HISTORY: It's the simple 6-letter name of the journal that published the 1953 paper revealing the structure of DNA Nature
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 POSTAGE STAMPS: In honor of the 400th anniv. of his birth, in 1964 he became the first English commoner to appear on a British stamp William Shakespeare
#4407, aired 2003-11-04 FILMS OF THE '50s: This film featuring Glenn Ford & Sidney Poitier was the first major film to use rock & roll music on the soundtrack Blackboard Jungle
#4406, aired 2003-11-03 CANDY: This person after whom a candy bar may have been named was part of a family on an 1892 Election Day souvenir medal Ruth Cleveland
#4405, aired 2003-10-31 19th CENTURY NOVELS: In Chapter 1 of this novel, we find "a vast, ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light" Dracula
#4404, aired 2003-10-30 LATIN LINGO: From the Latin for "how much", it's an indivisible physical amount quantum
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 THE WORLD'S PEOPLE: The 1st recorded use of this word now applying to 1.1 billion people was by St. Ignatius of Antioch around 100 A.D. Catholic
#4402, aired 2003-10-28 LEGENDARY RULERS: He's been written about by Aneirin in "The Gododdin" around 600 A.D. & by Fay Sampson in the "Daughter of Tintagel" series King Arthur
#4401, aired 2003-10-27 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: The Boston Tea Party was planned at the house of Sarah Bradlee Fulton, a member of this splinter group Daughters of Liberty
#4400, aired 2003-10-24 BALLET: In a 1935 ballet based on this mythical person, a dancer leaps toward the sun, then crashes to the stage Icarus
#4399, aired 2003-10-23 THE INTERNET: It is named in honor of a Monty Python sketch that used the word more than 100 times in 2 1/2 minutes spam
#4398, aired 2003-10-22 20th CENTURY NOTABLES: Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood" Mohandas Gandhi
#4397, aired 2003-10-21 IN THE MEDICINE CABINET: This product's website features chemistry experiments like "The Effect of Temperature on Rate of Reaction" Alka-Seltzer
#4396, aired 2003-10-20 ACTORS & HISTORICAL ROLES: In the 2002 film "Frida", Geoffrey Rush portrayed this European firebrand during his final days Leon Trotsky
#4395, aired 2003-10-17 HISTORIC ROYALTY: These two men seen here, allies during World War I, were sometimes mistaken for each other Czar Nicholas II & King George V
#4394, aired 2003-10-16 NAME'S THE SAME: This sports superstar of 1973 bears the name of one of the 6 major organs of the United Nations Secretariat
#4393, aired 2003-10-15 OPERA SETTINGS: Verdi's Nabucco, who's also known by a longer form of his name, is the king of this ancient place Babylon
#4392, aired 2003-10-14 ANCIENT TEXTS: Archaeologist Richard Lepsius gave this name to a collection of spells, hymns & prayers to deities like Ra The Book of the Dead
#4391, aired 2003-10-13 MOVIES: A catering hall called Aphrodite's Palace is featured in this 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding
#4390, aired 2003-10-10 PEOPLE IN HISTORY: The spear that killed him in 1779 sold at auction in 2003 for over $400,000 Captain James Cook
#4389, aired 2003-10-09 MOVIE CHARACTERS: On the AFI's 2003 lists of favorite movie heroes & villains of all time, this character appears on both lists the Terminator
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 SURVEY SAYS: In 1981 this man's company issued its first syndicated CSI, Customer Satisfaction Index J.D. Power (and Associates)
#4387, aired 2003-10-07 FAMOUS LASTS: It's where Sergei Zalyotin switched off the lights on June 15, 2000 Mir Space Station
#4386, aired 2003-10-06 AUTHORS: He chose a quotation by Scott Joplin as the epigraph for a 1975 novel E.L. Doctorow
#4385, aired 2003-10-03 MOVIE HEROES: Hiram Bingham, who rediscovered "the lost city of the Incas", Machu Picchu, was a model for this movie hero Indiana Jones
#4384, aired 2003-10-02 U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS: He served 2 terms as Vice President & was the first Vice President who had been born in the 20th century Richard Nixon
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 PHRASE ORIGINS: The sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in February 1852 gave rise to this gallant 4-word naval tradition women and children first
#4382, aired 2003-09-30 SPORTS SPONSORSHIP: In 2002 the Houston Astros bought back the naming rights to their ballpark from this company Enron
#4381, aired 2003-09-29 AWARDS: Created as a Pulitzer Prize for broadcasting, it was named for a Georgia philanthropist the Peabody Award
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 THE TOY BOX: Spud & Yam are 2 of the offspring of this toy introduced in 1952 Mr. Potato Head
#4379, aired 2003-09-25 SPORTS STARS: His given name is Eldrick; his more famous nickname honors his father's Vietnam War buddy Tiger Woods
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 CLASSIC STORIES: The opening to this classic story includes the line "Once upon a time there was a piece of wood" Pinocchio
#4377, aired 2003-09-23 ASTRONOMY: This planet has the shortest year, 88 days Mercury
#4376, aired 2003-09-22 U.S. CITIES: John Singleton Copley's portrait of Paul Revere hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in this city Boston
#4375, aired 2003-09-19 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title character was based on a man who bravely served the Guides regiment at the 1857 Siege of Delhi Gunga Din
#4374, aired 2003-09-18 ADVENTURERS: On his deathbed in 1324, he reportedly said, "I have not told half of what I saw" Marco Polo
#4373, aired 2003-09-17 ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: "Chicago" was the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar since this film won for 1968 Oliver!
#4372, aired 2003-09-16 PEOPLE IN HISTORY: About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior" Christopher Columbus
#4371, aired 2003-09-15 U.S. STATE QUARTERS: The Alabama coin bears this person's name in English, & for the first time on a circulating U.S. coin, in Braille Helen Keller
#4370, aired 2003-09-12 ALPHANUMERICS: When this American company incorporated in 1902, its first products were grinding abrasives & sandpaper 3M
#4369, aired 2003-09-11 OPERETTAS: The subject of this 1879 work may have been inspired by unauthorized productions of the creators' original works The Pirates of Penzance
#4368, aired 2003-09-10 CHARLES LINDBERGH: After landing in Paris in 1927 Lindbergh filed an exclusive report to newspapers in 2 cities, New York & this St. Louis
#4367, aired 2003-09-09 TV & STAMPS: When this program shows its address to write for audience tickets, its graphic has used one of the stamps seen here The Price Is Right
#4366, aired 2003-09-08 TOYS & GAMES: 12-year-old David Mullany gave this toy its name, a euphemism for striking out in baseball Wiffleball
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Janice March LMHC-S RPT-S
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Registered Play Therapist - Supervisor
Qualified Clinical Supervisor
Approach to Healing
Therapy with children
Parent and Child
Relationship Therapy
Filial Therapy
Personal Background
Fee for Services
Ritalin and other stimulants have been prescribed for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder since the ‘60s. In 1999 attention was focused (pardon the pun) on patterns of stimulant prescriptions (Ritalin, et al.) for students of different races and socioeconomic groups in public health. A public health study reported that white students and schools in districts with higher SES had double the rate of AD/HD medication. This is interesting in light of a New York Times article earlier this month describing an increase in prescribing stimulant medication for children on Medicaid to “level the playing field” in school achievement. Is this progress?
My fascination with Interpersonal Neurobiology continues. IPNB emerged out of the explosion of brain science over the last ten years to study the interdependence of brain, relationships and mind. Have a look at www.mindgains.org or mindsightinstitute.com or brainwisetherapist.com or just Goggle IPNB. Dr. Bonnie Badenoch explains in IPNB-terms the powerful therapeutic processes of Sandplay, Art and Play Therapy in separate chapters of her book Being a Brain-Wise Therapist. These methods stimulate the right-brain limbic processes; healing emerges from the integration of the brain/ mind/ relationships system. She describes Sandplay as “utilizing ‘an elegant language when words fail”, and nondirective Play Therapy and doing art as “an excellent match for what we are learning from neuroscientists about how children’s brains and minds get hurt and heal.” (Badenoch, 2008). Call me if you’re interested in a study group.
I’ve admired for years the work of Drs. Allan Schore and Daniel Siegel in developing our understanding of the neurological bases of infant attachment. Now, research has expanded this into the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology, which has to be the most exciting development in psychotherapy ever. Recently I’ve come across the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, founded by Schore and Siegel and by a practicing psychotherapist, Bonnie Badenoch. Dr. Badenoch is the author of Being a Brain-Wise Therapist and will be the featured presenter for the next conference of the Florida Association for Play Therapy in March 2011. I’ve just barely dipped into her book, but I want to share my enthusiasm. As repeated studies have documented, the quality of the relationship between therapist and client is a better predictor of outcomes than any particular theoretical orientation, and now we know how that works. “Right hemisphere to right hemisphere contingent contact is the golden road to neural change.” Exploring what that means, and how we might utilize it in therapy, fascinates me. If you would be interested in a study group on Interpersonal Neurobiology, please contact me.
Monday night I heard Stuart Brown, M.D., speak, thanks to Forty Carrots’ annual speaker program. Dr. Brown is the author of Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul. It’s worth a read. How about the notion that play is an old, deep reflex in human brains, right there with fight, flight, and freeze, as suggested by studies of “de-corticated” rats in which playful behavior persists. Or the findings of his “play histories” of over 6000 adults, associating homicide with a history of play deprivation in childhood. Dr. Brown documents that the opposite of Play is not Work, but depression and physical illness. So come play tomorrow night: engage in some “mindless” activity as a preventative measure.
Recently I’ve come across discussions of the importance of imaginative or representational play in fields as varied as American History (Howard Chudacoff, Brown University) and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Adele Diamond, University of British Columbia). I was led to both of these following links on Stuart Brown’s website www.stuartbrownmd.com. Dr. Brown will be speaking in Sarasota next month, Monday, October 11, 2010 courtesy of Forty Carrots Family Center (see www.fortycarrots.org). You may have seen his article “Animals at Play” in the 1994 National Geographic with the cover photo of a monkey carrying an enormous snowball.
I recently came across an interesting study from Duke University, 2008, documenting the reality of the “digital divide” (homes with/without computers) between racial and socioeconomic groups, then testing the idea that access to home computers with high-speed internet service would result in improved math and reading achievement. On the contrary, they found “introduction of home computer technology is associated with modest but statistically significant and persistent negative impacts on student math and reading scores” (irrespective of race or SES). Hypothesized reasons for this effect, from another study, include “the displacement of social activities and attendant loneliness and depression, exposure to inappropriate violent, sexual or commercial content, and physical problems including increased obesity, and injuries to eyes, back and wrist.” Whoa! See the research article at www.hks.harvard.edu
I’ve just returned from the Sandplay Therapists of America national conference in Boulder, Colorado with head and heart filled with the power of Sandplay Therapy with children’s attachment disruption, sexual abuse, extreme separation anxiety or autism, as well as with Alzheimer’s patients and adults seeking inner direction in mid-life or resolution of old wounds. And too, refreshed by the experience of being in the Rockies. Sandplay therapists and trainees attended from South Korea, Brazil, The Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Canada, as well as all over the United States, including Hawaii. Being among them was an experience in itself. And of course I brought back new miniatures to use in the sand.
I was introduced to Billy Collins’ poetry earlier this month by Dr. Peter Gorski, in his presentation at Forty Carrots for Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. The poem he read, The Lanyard, was nominally for Mother’s Day, and so poignant, insightful and charming I set out to read more of this poet’s work and found Child Development. I’ve reprinted both for you below. Both poems provide some valuable insight into the area of parent-child relationships, I think. If only more parents were in touch with a child’s sense of fair, or could see themselves as silly as their children!
As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs
and sauntered off the beaches into forests
working up some irregular verbs for their
first conversation, so three-year-old children
enter the phase of name-calling.
Every day a new one arrives and is added
to the repertoire. You Dumb Goopyhead.
You Big Sewerface, You Poop-on-the-Floor
(a kind of Navaho ring to that one)
they yell from knee level, their little mugs
flushed with challenge.
Nothing Samuel Johnson would bother tossing out
in a pub, but then the toddlers are not trying
to devastate some fatuous Enlightenment hack.
They are just tormenting their fellow squirts
or going after the attention of the giants
way up there with their cocktails and bad breath
talking baritone nonsense to other giants,
waiting to call them names after thanking
them for the lovely party and hearing the door close.
The mature save their hothead invective
for things: an errant hammer, tire chains,
or receding trains missed by seconds,
though they know in their adult hearts,
even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed
for his appalling behavior,
that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,
their wives are Dopey Dopeheads
and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.
The Lanyard
The other day I was ricocheting slowly
off the blue walls of this room,
moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.
No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one into the past more suddenly —
a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp
by a deep Adirondack lake
learning how to braid long thin plastic strips
into a lanyard, a gift for my mother.
I had never seen anyone use a lanyard
or wear one, if that’s what you did with them,
but that did not keep me from crossing
strand over strand again and again
until I had made a boxy
red and white lanyard for my mother.
She gave me life and milk from her breasts,
and I gave her a lanyard.
She nursed me in many a sick room,
lifted spoons of medicine to my lips,
laid cold face-cloths on my forehead,
and then led me out into the airy light
and taught me to walk and swim,
and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard.
Here are thousands of meals, she said,
and here is clothing and a good education.
And here is your lanyard, I replied,
which I made with a little help from a counselor.
Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is the lanyard I made at camp.
And here, I wish to say to her now,
is a smaller gift — not the worn truth
that you can never repay your mother,
but the rueful admission that when she took
the two-tone lanyard from my hand,
I was as sure as a boy could be
that this useless, worthless thing I wove
out of boredom would be enough to make us even.
I would like to talk about the new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-V released by the American Psychiatric Association. This is of great interest to psychiatrists, drug manufacturers and insurance companies, and a source of amusement, annoyance or anger for others. Several of the proposed changes affect diagnoses applied to children: Pediatric Bipolar Disorder becomes Temper Dysregulation Disorder; Asperger’s Syndrome becomes a disorder formally on the Autism Spectrum; cutting, formerly just a symptom, becomes Non-suicidal Self-injury Disorder, and more. The number of diagnoses in the DSM over its 50-year history has increased from 106 to 365 discreet mental illnesses. Who does this help? My discomfort with the idea of applying illness labels to children struggling with emotional or neurodevelopmental challenges is sorely aggravated by this event. But, for the first time, the public is invited to comment on the proposed changes to the DSM: you can read about the changes and respond on the website www.dsm5.org.
A few weeks ago, Charlie Brown’s little sister Sally was TERRIFIED at the idea of going to kindergarten. But when she came back from the first day she reported ecstatically that they sang songs and painted pictures and listened to stories and colored with crayons and rested and had a snack and played games and “Oh, we had a WONDERFUL time!” School has been in session in Sarasota less than a month, and some kindergarteners I know are already feeling ashamed, disappointed, confused, angry, sad – or bored. Their parents are feeling a similar range of emotions. The teacher’s notes home detail their offenses: “Can’t keep hands to self,” “threw markers,” “talks constantly,” “off task,” “incomplete work” and the most common consequence: “No recess.” It’s not easy getting on a school bus in the dark, adjusting to an artificial schedule (lunch at 10:45), staying in a certain chair with a paper and pencil task, especially if you’ve been deprived of physical exercise, and then going home to do homework… when you’re five years old. But that’s what our kindergarteners are expected to do. By the way, that Peanuts strip was originally published in September 1962.
I mentioned last month the myth that children outgrow AD/HD in adulthood. In fact a recent NIMH study found a genetic variation among a small percentage of children with AD/HD which seems to influence development of the cortex. Children with this genetic “risk” had the most severe symptoms of AD/HD when they were younger, but, surprisingly, had the most complete cortical development, with corresponding normalization of executive functioning by the age of 18. Interesting, huh? The small group of children with the most severe, the most obvious symptoms of AD/HD, had the most complete reduction in symptoms, naturally, due to a genetic variation in the dopamine receptors. For them, it’s not a myth: they did outgrow AD/HD. This research leads to the possibility that MRI and genetic testing may soon help determine the best treatment for an individual child. I hope I live long enough to see the diagnosis “formerly known as AD/HD” completed sorted out.
A recent case study reported the positive outcome of educating parents of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder about the executive functions of the pre-frontal cortex, the area of the brain involved in controlling behaviors summarized as impulsivity, distractibility and hyperactivity. Understanding the brain science meshes with the growing awareness that there are “different AD/HDs” reflecting difficulties in specific mental processes such as working memory, shifting between tasks, initiating goal directed actions, or regulating one’s motivation. The intervention is then focused on helping the child develop external controls for particular executive functions which become life-long habits or coping mechanisms, if you will: the source of the myth that children outgrow AD/HD.
I brought back several new miniatures from the play therapy conference last month and I have ordered some new Playmobil toys. What is it with play therapists and their toys anyway? Are they just big kids? Dr. Gary Landreth, an influential figure in play therapy, has said “Play is the child’s language, and toys are their words.” For that reason, the selection of toys available can encourage or limit a child’s expression in play therapy; provide or prevent healing. Licensed toys, from television or a movie, may not encourage children to express their own feelings, instead promoting imitation, not imagination. When young children either cannot or will not put their feelings into words, therapeutic play may help them to express and work through painful or conflicted emotions. This kind of play is a right brain, non-verbal activity that springs from their deepest thoughts and feelings. Children engaged in imaginary play may be intensely focused, in the same state of “flow” as with any creative process, and this in itself may be healing. The right toys and materials can promote a therapeutic experience.
This month’s big news is to announce the completion of The Bike Map, a project of the Alliance for Responsible Transportation, a completely volunteer organization. As a member, I offer a discount for each session in which clients arrive on foot or by bicycle or bus. Of course there are bike racks available at Towles Court. The Bike Map shows Good, Fair and Use Extreme Caution! routes for navigating Sarasota on a bicycle. You can see the current version, and support the effort, at www.bikewalklive.org. 10,000 Bike Maps will be printed and distributed for free, starting with a Map Release Party on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at noon in Arlington Park, 2650 Waldemere Street, off South Tuttle. Arlington Park is a mere 2 miles south of my office. Biking: think of it. Getting where you want to go with zero pollution and simultaneously getting that exercise you never have time for — and having fun besides. Can you make it work for your family?
The Vernal Equinox
The mockingbirds are starting to sing, the fragrance of orange blossoms is in the air, the gulf temperature is almost 75° and it’s light until 7:30. The sun comes up, the clouds drift by, the sun sets over the Gulf, the stars come out. Life is good. And these natural things are a wonderful antidote to the generalized anxiety of economic hard times, for grown-ups and for the children who respond to the emotional states of the adults around them. Kids are watching us, of course, but they’re also often acutely aware of the feelings of their parents, and can easily assume that they are somehow responsible. So take a walk; watch the mocker’s nest-building; go to the beach and test the water. We’ll all feel better.
My approach to treating a young child whose parents fear early emergence of a major psychiatric disorder would be to consider alternative explanations first. Explore the basics: get the child a thorough physical examination; promote healthy patterns of sleep, nutrition and exercise; rule out sensory processing difficulties and learning disabilities. And look to the relationships between parents and child: consider family therapy or mother and child relationship work. I’d be happy to help. There is wisdom is the wise crack “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody gonna be happy.”
Sometimes parents bring their young child to the therapist convinced the child “is bipolar.” Some behavior or other has triggered a deep fear that the child is carrying a flawed gene because someone in the family has had a bipolar diagnosis. “Uncle Will was hospitalized – everybody said he was bipolar.” “My cousin is bipolar.” Or “His father is bipolar.” First off, the emergence of bipolar disorder before the age of ten is considered questionable. Further, the chance of “inheriting” bipolar disorder varies with the number of affected individuals in the family and the degree of relatedness. If a first cousin has bipolar disorder, the risk is the same as in the general population: 2 to 3%. If a grandparent has a bipolar diagnosis, the risk of developing bipolar disorder is 5%. If a parent has a bipolar diagnosis their child’s risk is 15%. Even if both parents have bipolar disorder, the risk a child will develop bipolar disorder is still only 50%, and there is no evidence this might influence earlier onset. So before diagnosing bipolar disorder in a young child, many other issues must be considered.
Dr. Dorothy G. Singer, play researcher at Yale and primary editor of the book I mentioned last month, Play = Learning, has suggested an RDA (recommended daily allowance) of play “to aid a child’s school readiness and elementary school success.” Similarly, in the field of children’s therapy, research has documented the positive effects on a child’s behavior and on the child-parent relationship of a special form of play, which is set up at home once a week by the parent. Known as filial therapy, this work has been found effective with a wide variety of presenting problems. The role of the therapist is to model for the parent a special way in which to observe the child’s play, and then to coach the parent to assume the practice at home, one half hour per week. Sometimes the home sessions are videotaped for review with the therapist — sometimes a group of parents share their experiences with the method and coach each other. Reports are consistently positive.
I’ve recently come across a book entitled Play = Learning, a collection of research on the value of “make believe” or representational play in all areas of development: from cognition to social-emotional growth. It includes a study on the value of play in the treatment of autism, an intervention that is often overlooked when the focus is on modifying specific behaviors. And most interesting, a study on the role of play in the development of self-regulation. What’s interesting about that? More than half of the young children brought for mental health treatment end up with a diagnosis of AD/HD, that is, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. This brain-based behavior, with various causes, is better understood as a problem regulating cognitive processing and behavior. So it’s great to have this research on the value of play as one component of an effective treatment for such a common difficulty.
Have you read The Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv? I see so many children whose emotional balance suffers from a limited and often antagonistic relationship to the natural world; not to mention the impact on children’s health from lack of exercise and constant exposure to “conditioned” indoor air. Children who know the birds and animals and trees and plants with which they share the neighborhood, who learn the stars and the cycles of the seasons from experience instead of from a school book, may experience fewer fears and phobias and develop a sense of connection and belonging, a sense of their place in the universe, that is a component of self confidence. For these reasons, you will find rocks and shells and sand and water available for therapeutic encounters in my small office — a slim tie to the natural world for those deprived of the richer experience of The Great Outdoors.
I also work with mothers and children from birth to three to assess and treat difficulties in that most important early relationship. This is a resource for mothers who feel “there’s something wrong” between them and their young children. Mothers may say “This one’s different” or “He treats me just like his father used to” or “Even during the pregnancy she was a pain” — words reflecting a relationship issue best addressed with dyadic work: with mother and child together in the session. Sometimes in this type of work the need for referrals for evaluation by developmental therapists is identified: a cause of behavior problems often overlooked in pediatric practice.
What brings a young child to therapy? Behavior problems after adoption. Aggression in preschool or at home. Withdrawal or anger over a divorce. Experiencing abuse. Under-performance in school. Difficulty making friends. Oppositional behavior at home. Self-esteem issues associated with differences or disabilities. Fears or anxieties. Toileting issues. Parental separation or loss. A new baby in the family. Witnessing domestic violence. Many things can make children feel mad, sad or afraid beyond their ability to cope effectively. Children are resilient, but the number and intensity of various stressors occurring at one time may be overwhelming. That’s when I can help.
In June I completed the year-long Infant Mental Health training from the Harris Center at FSU, and I’d love to tell you about that. As you may know, my private practice is primarily working with children, usually, but not always, with a parent or primary caregiver, to address circumstances as diverse as divorce, separation from military family members, abuse or problems secondary to developmental delays. I believe that children can experience the same range of social and emotional upsets as adults; that they don’t “get over it” but live through it, as we do, with more — or less — scarring, depending upon the support and understanding they are given at the time. I also work with mothers and children from birth to three to assess and treat difficulties in that most important early relationship.
Last month I took the train (yes!) to Savannah to the Sandplay Therapists of America annual conference and came home with some wonderful new miniatures for clients’ use. Adults who are interested in Jungian Sandplay Therapy are invited to call and discuss their interest and my qualifications in this powerful form of deep work.
Thank you all for your interest and support in my new endeavor! My private practice is up and running at my new office in Towles Court, 1945 A Morrill Street, Sarasota FL 34236.
For those of you who might not be familiar with the area, Towles Court is a designated “artist’s colony” zoned for residential and retail, just two blocks south of Main Street. It is a collection of colorfully painted 1920s houses under old oaks, with pathways between. It is not all artists anymore: there are two restaurants, consultants of various stripes, a dentist, and now a play therapist! The website, www.towlescourt.com, has pictures, if you want to get an impression of what it’s like.
I chose this spot for several reasons, not the least of which is the good energy left in the space by its former tenants: Kathleen Horne and Victoria Domenicello-Anderson’s Inner Visions Gallery. They have added two partners, Tamara Knapp and Elizabeth Bornstein, moved down the path, and transformed into Expressive Arts Florida
I give discounts for each session in which clients arrive on foot or by bicycle or bus. It’s better for everybody. Towles Court is situated between three bus routes: the #4, the #11 and the #17. You can check out the routes and schedules for the bus at www.scat.scgov.net. Of course there are bike racks available at Towles Court and off-street parking just a few steps from my office.
I hope, too, that my clients may find the informal paths, quaint houses and shaded gardens refreshing before they even get to their appointments. Those of you who know how I work will understand my desire for the therapy experience to be a pleasure especially for the youngest ones and their caregivers: a time of discovery, joy and healing. I hope this setting will encourage such an experience.
A New Year! I wish for you a year of peace, happiness and personal fulfillment. This is a special time for me, thanks to the support and encouragement of so many of you. A dream I have had for many years is coming true: I have opened a private practice in play therapy.
Janice March LMHC RPT-S
Mother/Child, Young Children, Adult Psychotherapy
Play Therapy Supervisor & Qualified Clinical Supervisor
1945 A Morrill Street in Towles Court ∗ Sarasota ∗ Florida 34236
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(Amendment No. 5)*
Common Stock, no par value
31447P100
James E. Besser
c/o Manchester Management PR, LLC
53 Palmeras Street
Caribe Plaza Building, 6th Floor
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00901
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive
Notices and Communications)
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of ss.240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box [_].
* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
CUSIP No 31447P100
1. NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS
I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)
Manchester Management PR, LLC
2. CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
(a) [_]
(b) [X]
4. SOURCE OF FUNDS
5. CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) OR 2(e) [_]
6. CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH
10. SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
11. AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
12. CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (9) EXCLUDES CERTAIN
SHARES (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
[_]
13. PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (9)
TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON (SEE INSTRUCTIONS)
Manchester Management Company, LLC
Manchester Explorer, L.P.
Morgan C. Frank
CUSIP No. 31447P100
This Schedule 13D is a fifth amendment with respect to Manchester Management Company, LLC, Manchester Explorer, L.P., James E. Besser and Morgan C. Frank.
This Schedule 13D is a third amendment with respect to Manchester Management PR, LLC.
Item 1. Security and Issuer.
The name of the issuer is Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. (formerly known as Adherex Technologies Inc.), a Canadian corporation (the "Issuer"). The address of the Issuer's principal executive offices is P.O. Box 13628, 68 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709. This Schedule 13D relates to the Issuer's Common Stock, no par value (the "Shares").
Item 2. Identity and Background.
(a), (f) The persons filing this statement are Manchester Management PR, LLC, a Puerto Rico limited liability company ("Manchester Management"), Manchester Management Company, LLC ("Manchester Company"), a Delaware limited liability company, Manchester Explorer, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("Manchester Explorer"), James E. Besser, a citizen of the United States of America ("Mr. Besser"), and Morgan C. Frank, a citizen of the United States of America ("Mr. Frank" and, together with Manchester Management, Manchester Company, Manchester Explorer, and Mr. Besser, the "Reporting Persons").
(b) The principal business address for Manchester Management is 53 Palmeras Street, Caribe Plaza Building, 6th Floor, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00901, and the principal business address for Manchester Company, Manchester Explorer, Mr. Besser and Mr. Frank is 3 West Hill Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.
(c) Manchester Management provides investment management services to private individuals and institutions, including Manchester Explorer. Manchester Company is the general partner of Manchester Explorer. Mr. Besser serves as the Managing Member of Manchester Management. Mr. Besser and Donald Besser serve as the Managing Members of Manchester Company. Mr. Frank serves as a portfolio manager and a consultant of Manchester Company.
(d) None of the Reporting Persons have, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).
(e) None of the Reporting Persons have, during the last five years, been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.
The funds for the purchase of the 759,584Shares beneficially owned by Manchester Management and Manchester Company came from the working capital of Manchester Explorer and another pooled investment vehicle managed by Manchester Management. No borrowed funds were used to purchase the Shares, other than any borrowed funds used for working capital purposes in the ordinary course of business.
The funds for the purchase of the 759,584 Shares directly owned by Manchester Explorer came from the working capital of Manchester Explorer. The net investment costs (including commissions, if any) of the Shares directly owned by Manchester Explorer is approximately $750,000. No borrowed funds were used to purchase the Shares, other than any borrowed funds used for working capital purposes in the ordinary course of business.
The funds for the purchase of the 163,666 Shares directly owned by Mr. Frank came from Mr. Frank's personal funds. The net investment costs (including commissions, if any) of the Shares directly owned by Mr. Frank is approximately $100,000. No borrowed funds were used to purchase the Shares.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.
The Reporting Persons are filing this Schedule 13D/A to report a change in their beneficial ownership percentage of the Shares, as indicated in Item 5 below.
Except as otherwise set forth herein, the Reporting Persons do not have any present plans or proposals which would relate to, or result in, the matters set forth in subparagraphs (a) – (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D. However, subject to market conditions and in compliance with applicable securities laws, the Reporting Persons reserve the right, at a later date, to effect one or more of such changes or transactions in the number of Shares they may be deemed to beneficially own in open-market transactions or privately negotiated transactions. The Reporting Persons may also communicate with the Issuer's management, the Board and other holders of Shares from time to time.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.
(a) - (e)
As of the date hereof, Manchester Management and Manchester Company may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 759,584Shares (including warrants), constituting 4.0% of the Shares, based on 18,933,242 Shares outstanding as adjusted for warrants beneficially owned by Manchester Management. Manchester Management and Manchester Company has the sole power to vote or direct the vote of 0 Shares and the shared power to vote or direct the vote of 759,584Shares. Manchester Management and Manchester Company has the sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of 0 Shares and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of 759,584 Shares.
As of the date hereof, Manchester Explorer may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 759,584 Shares (including warrants), constituting 4.0% of the Shares, based on 18,933,242 Shares outstanding as adjusted for warrants beneficially owned by Manchester Explorer. Manchester Explorer has the sole power to vote or direct the vote of 0 Shares and the shared power to vote or direct the vote of 759,584 Shares. Manchester Explorer has the sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of 0 Shares and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of 759,584 Shares.
As of the date hereof, Mr. Besser may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 759,584 Shares (including warrants), constituting 4.0% of the Shares, based on 18,933,242 Shares outstanding as adjusted for warrants beneficially owned by Mr. Besser. Mr. Besser has the sole power to vote or direct the vote of 0 Shares and the shared power to vote or direct the vote of 759,584Shares. Mr. Besser has the sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of 0 Shares and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of 759,584 Shares.
As of the date hereof, Mr. Frank may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 923,250 Shares (including warrants), constituting 4.9% of the Shares, based on 18,933,242 Shares outstanding as adjusted for warrants beneficially owned by Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank has the sole power to vote or direct the vote of 163,666 Shares and the shared power to vote or direct the vote of 759,584 Shares. Mr. Frank has the sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of 163,666 Shares and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of 759,584Shares.
The transactions by the Reporting Persons in the securities of the Issuer since the last Schedule 13D filing filed on August 17, 2018 are set forth in Exhibit B.
As of September 4, 2018, each Reporting Person ceased to be the beneficial owner of 5% of the Issuer’s securities. Accordingly, this is the final Schedule 13D filing.
Item 6. Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer.
The Reporting Persons do not have any contract, arrangement, understanding or relationship with any person with respect to securities of the Issuer.
Item 7. Material to be Filed as Exhibits.
Exhibit A: Joint Filing Agreement
Exhibit B: Schedule of Transactions in Shares
By: /s/ James E. Besser
Name: James E. Besser
Title: Managing Member
Title: Managing Member of the General Partner
/s/ James E. Besser
/s/ Morgan C. Frank
* Each of the Reporting Persons disclaims beneficial ownership of the reported securities except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein.
Attention: Intentional misstatements or omissions of fact constitute Federal criminal violations (see 18 U.S.C. 1001).
The undersigned agree that this Schedule 13D, dated September 7, 2018, relating to the Common Stock, no par value of Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. shall be filed on behalf of the undersigned.
SCHEDULE OF TRANSACTIONS IN SHARES BY THE REPORTING PERSONS
Schedule of Transactions in Units by accounts managed by Manchester Management PR, LLC
Date Class Sale Price
08/20/2018 Common Stock, no par value 3,347 $9.65
08/21/2018 Common Stock, no par value 23,400 $9.62
09/06/2018 Common Stock, no par value 100 $9.00
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That New Ballpark Smell
In the summer after my eighth birthday, my parents brought me to Yankee Stadium for the first time and gingerly explained that the building in which we sat had been built way back in 1923. “That was before either of you were born!,” I exclaimed with remarkably adult grammatical structure.
Weeks later, a Hastings-On-Hudson village program of some sort sent a busload of us kids to the upper deck at Shea Stadium. I looked around in the greenish lighting, at the cracked cement, and the rusty bolts, and the overhead fixtures that looked like our back porch light at home, and the building that vibrated in the wake of the jets overhead, and told the adult that if Yankee Stadium had been built in 1923 as my parents said, Shea Stadium must’ve been built in 1886.
Shea was three years old at the time.
It is in that context in which the Mets’ new home must be judged. The first 100 most important facts about CitiField are identical: it ain’t Shea. While the now-leveled stadium was a genuinely praiseworthy attempt to mix civic expenditure with private business, and use modern technology to build a facility suited to both football and baseball, it was a dump from day one.
Thus, yes, apart from the marvelous “Ebbets Field Wrapper” that reduced to tears a friend of mine who once had season tickets to the original, and apart from the Rotunda that Bud Selig said he came to this game to see (and he saw the original), it is Coors Field plus Jacobs Field plus Citizens Bank with a few echoes of the Polo Grounds and Tiger Stadium in the overhanging rightfield porch. But it ain’t Shea.
Also, that Rotunda looks very retro at night — especially with Rickey and Robinson on the wall there.
Also, if CitiField averages even half the oddities of this opening night, it will be a place of weirdness not unlike Ebbets Field was.�
In ascending order of fulfilling The McCarver Rule (“At every game you will see something, or at least a combination of things, you have never seen before”), here are the top unique or unlikely events from the park’s opening:
8. The Mets’ first game in their field featured a hold by Duaner Sanchez (released by the Mets last month), and a save by Heath Bell (traded by the Mets in 2006).
7. Somebody decided that the best way to christen a ballpark replacing a stadium notorious for 45 deafening seasons in the flight paths of LaGuardia was to have a military jet flyover complete with near-sonic boom.
6. The home team’s starting pitcher fell off the mound with two out in the second, laughed it off, and proceeded to give up four straight hits, including the opposing starting pitcher’s first in the big leagues.
5. That other pitcher to christen the ballpark, Walter Silva, was not listed in the Padres’ Media Guide and his biography had to be disseminated to the media via a photocopied sheet.
4. In an almost literal case of opening night jitters, the game was decided when the eminently reliable Ryan Church dropped Luis Rodriguez’s fly for a three-base error, and then Rodriguez scored on a flinch of a balk by Pedro Feliciano.
3. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg got a foul ball off the bat of Fernando Tatis in the 9th Inning, even though he was sitting behind the home plate screen.
2. Six innings earlier, a stray cat desperately trying to exit the field leaped onto the low fence directly in front of New York Governor David Paterson.
1. The first batter in the first inning in the first game in CitiField, Jody Gerut, homered – the first time in baseball history a new stadium has been so christened.
Tags: Citifield, Duaner Sanchez, Ebbets Field, Fernando Tatis, Governor David Paterson, Heath Bell, Jody Gerut., Luis Rodriguez, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, McCarver Rule, Pedro Feliciano, Ryan Church, Shea Stadium, Walter Silva
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Facing Fears (Kiss of Leather #7) Morticia Knight
REVIEWED BY Patricia
TITLE: Facing Fears
SERIES: Kiss of Leather Book 7
AUTHOR: Morticia Knight
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
BLURB: As the men at Kiss of Leather celebrate the resolution of the case of Corey’s kidnappers,Master Hunter worries that he’ll never see Tobey again.
Chuck isn’t about to let one of the key figures behind Corey’s kidnapping get away from him again.
Everything he and Stone have discovered through their months-long investigation is about to come together. However, when Chuck follows the suspect to a shipyard, it’s not only his own life that’s in danger.
Master Hunter is officially part-owner of Kiss of Leather, so he’s thrilled to raise a toast in celebration now that the mystery of Corey’s kidnapping has been solved. However, he can’t help but feel left out. Everyone is paired up except for him. He’s never believed in
monogamy before, but after Tobey unexpectedly left Kiss of
Leather and no one knows where he’s gone, did Hunter make a horrible mistake by not sharing his true feelings?
Tobey has been miserable ever since leaving West Hollywood and going back to Idaho. After breaking his own promise to himself by falling in love with his trainer, Tobey impulsively left Kiss of Leather because of something awful Master Hunter said. But things at home are worse than ever and he’s come to realize that those who are related to him by blood aren’t necessarily hid true family. The only place he’s ever felt he truly belonged was at Kiss of Leather.
Tobey has to face Hunter if he goes back to Kiss of Leather and Hunter has to figure out what he really wants from life and love. It takes a charity slave auction to show them what they’ve both been too stubborn to
REVIEW: This great book is the 7th entry in Morticia Knight’s sensuous and sexy series Kiss of Leather. The ongoing drama and danger of Corey’s kidnapping comes to a completely unexpected ending that caught me by complete surprise. I really enjoyed seeing the whole gang make an appearance in this story, getting a quick glimpse into how each of the couples are doing. Tobey is a real sweetheart, but tends to be impulsive, running whenever he gets hurt. Ah Hunter!! He’s one of those silent loner alphas who make me want to scream with frustration!! He knows what he wants but it almost takes an act of Congress (pardon the pun) and someone lighting a fire underneath him to get him to go after it. Reading this series has been a fantastic
journey, and I would definitely recommend starting from the beginning.
RATING: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
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A Matchless Man (Dreamspun Desires #19) Ariel Tachna
Reviewed by Kiwi
TITLE: A Matchless Man
SERIES: Dreamspun Desires #19
AUTHOR: Ariel Tachna
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
RELEASE DATE: October 1 , 2016
BLURB: None of the matches caught his eye as much as the matchmaker himself.
Growing up poorer than poor didn’t leave Navashen Bhattathiri many options for life outside of school. All of his concentration was on keeping his scholarships. Sixteen years later, he’s fulfilled his dream and become a doctor. Now he’s returning home to Lexington and is ready to prove himself to the world. In doing so, he reconnects with Brent Carpenter—high school classmate, real estate agent, all-around great guy… and closet matchmaker.
Brent makes it his mission to help Navashen develop a social life and meet available, interesting men. Unfortunately Navashen’s schedule is unpredictable, and few of those available, interesting men value his dedication like Brent does. Brent’s unfailing friendship and support convince Navashen he’s the one, but can he capture Brent’s heart when the matchmaker is focused on finding Navashen another man?
REVIEW: This story is a very sweet friends to lovers story set in Lexington, Ky. This is the second of the Lexington Lovers books and nineteenth within the Dreamspun Desires series. This story gives us Navashen a neonatologist and Brent a real estate agent.
Nav grew up poor and decided to return home after fulfilling his dreams of becoming a doctor. Determined to settle down he looks up Brent, a childhood acquaintance of his. The two reconnect while Brent helped him find his home.
The two become reacquainted with each other and become close but as friends only. Brent opts to play matchmaker to help Nav meet new people. Neither man realized that the very thing that was being sought was already in their faces.
I absolutely loved the relationship that Nav had with his brother. Akshat was my favorite character and the love and support he received from Nav, Brent and his neighbors was heartwarming. I truly enjoy these characters; they were very well written.
With that said, the story did have a bit of a drawback. The storyline, although lovely, was quite bland in the way of passion. There was absolutely no sexual chemistry between Brent and Nav’s characters and I think that’s what made the relationship between the two men less believable. This made the one and only sex scene at the end seemed forced; like it had to be written in because it was expected instead of it being a natural progression of the relationship. I think that it should have been left out completely; I was okay with the book not having sex as I think that a sexual relationship between the two would’ve taken away from the story.it’s this reason that I feel that the sex should’ve been left completely out of the story instead of written in.
In all, I truly enjoyed this book. There a sweet Hallmark-esque vibe that I loved and it worked well..
RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Positional Preview 2018- Second Base
January 22, 2018 Scott Andes
Back in November the Dodgers exercised Logan Forsythe’s 8.5 million dollar club option. He can become a free agent after the 2018 season, and it is fair to wonder if this is his last in Dodger blue. The club acquired him from the Tampa Bay Rays in a deal that sent top pitching prospect Jose De Leon to Tampa in exchange for Forsythe. The 31-year old keystone veteran had a mostly atrocious opening campaign with the bat in 2017, but made up for that with a productive postseason.
The Dodgers are preparing to open the 2018 season with Forsythe as their starting second baseman. Last season Forsythe appeared in 119 games and slashed ./224/.351/.327 in 439 plate appearances. The steady veteran’s batting and power numbers were so low that we often questioned why the Dodgers continued to play him. Of course an early season foot injury seemed to hamper him, and maybe he never recovered. Forsythe hit just 6 home runs and drove in only 36 runs. That gave him one of the lowest isolated power marks (.102) contributing to posting a below average OPS+ of 90.
This made us all raise an eyebrow. If you look deeply you’ll see Forsythe’s pitiful power and batting skills were eerily similar to the numbers he put up in San Diego earlier in his career. Actually if we take a look we notice….
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2011 – .213/.281/.287 –OPS+ 62
2012 – .273/.343/.390 –OPS+ 107
2013 – .214/.281/.332 –OPS+77
While Forsythe regressed with the bat, there was one thing he did well and that was getting on base and seeing a lot of pitches. Forsythe walked 69 times and struck out just 109 times last season. His BB% was 15.7% which was the highest of his career. He also saw the most pitches of any other second baseman in the league.
Reverse Splits
Unfortunately Forsythe had a massive reverse split during the 2017 season. He hit only .190 against right handed pitching but crushed lefties with .290/.418/.452 line in 153 plate appearances. You would think that made him a great platoon candidate, and the Dodgers mostly obliged by playing Chase Utley at second base against right handers in some games down the stretch.
The strange thing about Forsythe’s season was that April was his best month. He batted .295/.407/.341 (13 or 44) in April and then plummeted to .160 in May. He was awful down the stretch as September was one of his worst months. Forsythe batted just .197 (14 for 71) in the final month with a .640 OPS. He hit just .244 with runners in scoring position.
On the defensive side, Forsythe was steady as a rock posting plus metrics at second base and third. He spent most of his time at second base (80 games), but also saw considerable amounts of playing time (42 games) at third. Forsythe posted a +1 runs above average rating at second base while saving 5 runs. He posted a +5 defensive rating at third base while registering 4 defensive runs saved there as well. Forsythe generally makes all the routine plays, committing only 3 errors apiece at second and third. He also notched 3 games in left field, 2 at shortstop, and one at first base.
Forsythe was very productive in the postseason. He stuck to his brand of game. He didn’t hit any home runs, but batted well, got on-base and scored a lot of runs. He saw a lot of pitches and played good defense. His plat discipline was excellent as he slashed .297/.435/.351 with 9 walks and 7 strikeouts in 46 postseason plate appearances. Forsythe batted .444 (4 for 9) with 4 runs scored in the NLDS against Arizona. He then went on to hit .278 (5 for 18) with 3 runs scored, 4 walks, and 3 RBIs in 22 trips to the plate in the World Series.
There aren’t many alternatives at second base for the Dodgers. Enrique Hernandez can spell Forsythe on occasion, Chris Taylor can play there as well, but he should be manning center field on most days. Chase Utley is a free agent and probably not coming back. Maybe Rob Segedin or Austin Barnes can fill some games as well? Otherwise Forsythe is it at second base. That’s not a bad thing either as he does a lot of things well. Excellent plate discipline, a steady glove and good on-base skills are there. The Dodgers are hoping for a return to his Tampa Bay form in which he blasted 17 and 20 home runs respectively. If he can’t then the Dodgers may have to start looking outside the organization for a replacement.
Logan Forsythe Los Angeles Dodgers
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70 thoughts on “Positional Preview 2018- Second Base”
Yueh_Fei says:
With so many options at second base, I think we are pretty much set a second base. We need Forsythe to spell Turner at third too. So it is basically four guys sharing time at second base and third: Forsythe, Turner, Kike and Barnes. We need to give Barnes as many at bats as possible.
That said, I have all but given up on the hope of the FBZ moving Grandal at this point. The only way to salvage his value is to play him and hope he goes on a long hot streak in the playoffs. Barnes playing more at second also allows Grandal to retain some value so we can trade him at the deadline (please FBZ just do this).
I do not think Segedin will do much for us, but you never know. He may show up to spring training on a mission and hit his way onto the roster. If Segedin steps up, he enables us to trade Kike. Depending on who is the starting left fielder, a bench combination of I think Toles/Pederson, Segedin, Barnes and Farmer makes us better than Toles/Pederson, Kike, Barnes and Farmer. Toles/Pederson are better hitters than Kike, and Segedin can back up third, which Kike cannot. I recall Farmer plays first and second, as well as catcher (and he was a shortstop in college).
I find Forsythe a bottom of our order uninspiring presence. He projects as a plus defender .240-.250 hitter with 97 wRC+, low .700’s OPS, 1.3 WAR and the last pick in your fantasy draft. He will earn his salary, so, that’s a plus I suppose. Can’t have potential All Stars at every position.
I have no opinion on Toles. The sample is too small, and coming off injury who really knows. I do expect improvement from Joc, but I still offer him up in a Miami deal. Kiké and Segedin? Yeah, sure, why not. Barnes and Farmer? I don’t see room for Farmer as long as there is a Grandal.
The most Joc has hit consistently each season, in the last three years, is about only 100 at bats, so his sample size for hitting consistently, isn’t bigger then Toles sample, and Joc was given many more at bats, to try to get better.
I would very much like a contact bat in the 7th, who can also run, and continue to bat Puig in the 8th, ahead of the pitcher. Forsythe will not be that guy, however. I think we are pretty much set in every position except LF. What’s the lineup people like? I guess it’s going to be lineups, because we will see two, vs RHP and vs LHP.
Michael N Norris says:
Personally, I would have let him walk. I would have put Taylor at 2nd base full time. Taylor is a much better fielder in my mind and young enough to man the position for years otherwise we are going to go through this same two step every year. With the number of free agent outfielders out there, and a few are CF’s, I would have gone that route to fill the CF job. If Pederson could not handle the job, trade his butt and give Verdugo a shot in spring. Cain is still out there. Jackson signed today with the Giants for two years. I know Taylor did a good job in CF, BUT he is a natural infielder. The Dodgers are loaded with middle infielders. Forsythe for all the good he did in the post season for the most part stunk. Now in his defense he did miss some time with that broken toe he got in April, but I am not a huge fan of his at all. As far as giving Turner some time off, both Hernandez and Farmer can play 3rd also. Farmer also can spell Bellinger at first. Segedin is not even going to make the roster. Dodger Blue reports that Utley is working out with his team mates at Dodger Stadium and the team still might bring him back. Darvish has a 5 year offer on the table, probably from the Brewers. Farmer is a lot younger than Segedin who will be 30 this year. His time is past…..trade fodder…..Actually we can solve all of this by trading Grandal and Pederson to the Marlins for Yelich.
Johnny Rock says:
I have a hard time with all the confidence in Farmer. He will be 28 this year and only had 20 at bats with the Team last year. I saw the opposite field hit just like everyone else, But, I also watched him go 0’fer
when I was expecting more.
I think that Forsythe is a pro, maybe a Mark Ellis type with more power and durability.
I think he will adjust mentally and improve offensively.
Even If we can get a great deal for Grandal, I think we’ll be weak at catcher. I think the kids are too young and Farmer isn’t equal to Barnes by any stretch. I like him, but.
I also feel that the wild card is Toles. If he is as good as he looked to me, he will solve a lot of issues
The guy has hit everywhere he played. He is a multipositional player. I do not think Forsythe is all that. Never did and never will. He was pretty bad his first time in the NL West and he did not show all that much last year. I think Taylor is a much better option than Forsythe anyday and he solves the position problem there for years. And if they can send Grandal to Miami and get Realmuto and Yelich I would definitely view that as an upgrade over Grandal and anyone else they put in CF.
I think the only brilliant part of the Forsythe deal was that FAZ gave up only one minor leaguer for him. Hopefully season two will be better.
Hope in one hand, crap in the other and see which one fills up first. I think he will be just as inept as last year. Never should have picked up his option. If he proves me wring great. But I am not holding my breath.
Grandal to the Marlins only makes sense if they move Realmuto, right?
Well Realmuto wants out, so does Yelich. I think the Dodgers could send Joc, Grandal, Kike and Segedin and make it work……Salaries would pretty much offset. And the Dodgers would be set at 2nd and CF for a few years,,,,Taylor, Yelich. Realmuto could be the #1 backstop with Barnes and Farmer in the wings Barnes steps into Kike’s utility role.
Boy do I dislike the inactivity in baseball right now. It is so boring to go on the Dodger site and see the same post on there for a week or so. Come on guys…lets have some action…..hell re-sign Darvish…
Miami can be very selective in trading Realmuto and Yelich. They can get 2+ real prospects for each. They would be interested in Verdugo and White, maybe Joc and Grandal but they might be too expensive for them. I keep saying they could flip them but maybe they are too lazy to go through the work on something like that – which brings in the 3 way. Who knows, maybe FAZ is content with the logjam/competition in left. Trades can come after they decide who they want from the current group. Trading for stars ain’t exactly their métier. (Got that word from thesaurus- pronounced may-t-á, means specialty. Yeah, I coulda just said specialty, but that would have been boring, and it’s been boring enough for quite a while now. I’m rambling now aren’t I.)
Nice pic Bear – for what the Dodgers paid for Forsythe, $9 million, I might have also let him walk and gone with Taylor and pick up a decent defensive center fielder. Dyson is my pick. He’s fast, cheaper, and if playing everyday could possibly score a lot of runs on this team. And more importantly, his addition puts Taylor back at second and makes this team stronger up the middle. He projects better than Jackson and I thought for sure SF would nab him. Now I read Baltimore is interested.
I’ve got a dental appointment this morning. Perfect.
Scott Andes says:
SF did grab Jackson. Actually wouldn’t mind getting Dyson and moving Taylor back to second base. No way they do it though.
Yeah Scott, we already talked about SF signing Jackson. What I said was I thought SF would grab Dyson because he projects better than Jackson. I agree FAZ probably won’t get a real center fielder. They’ll make their own. Hopefully Taylor repeats what he did last year, though projections say he comes back to earth. Many believe he belongs at second base. Guess we’ll see how it plays out. Maybe in ‘19?
Interesting thoughts. Forsythe seemed to be pulling out of his slump towards the end of the season and into the playoffs. Look what happened to Reddick after he went to Houston. He found his bat again. Strange the way these things happen. Forsythe is not known for being a lousy hitter. Let’s hope it was a fluke that he was as bad as he was. Guy hit 20 HR’s before he came here. No need to move Taylor to 2B or platoon Forsythe. If it ain’t broke, which it isn’t, don’t fix it. Too soon to draw any conclusion on Forsythe.
Barnes wasn’t all that behind the plate. Decent enough because of his bat, not because of his defense. Dodgers are weak at catcher. They need a platoon with Grandal. Trading for a proven catcher would really cement them. Not much of a good opinion on Farmer, so far.
Are we looking for Puig to improve on last year, or has he hit his peak? Was Taylor’s year indicative of the kind of production that he could deliver consistently? He played way above his pay grade and caught everyone by surprise. This year will be the decisive one for his Dodger career.
Turner is still the man, imo, not Seager. I like Seager and he’s young, but he hasn’t shown any major star power and clutchness. Those accolades are going to Bellinger. Seager is steady but we lose him at points during the year. He’s a bit of a slumper, not as bad as Grandal and Joc, who I think could have his best year if he has gotten over the mental problems he has had at the plate. A year like Puig had would be a good start for him, although I had much higher expectations for Puig than he has shown so far. I would have to say I’m disappointed in his performance to date.
Didn’t see this before I posted my response to Scott.
Solid post Jeff. Taylor projects a substantial falloff from last year – from 4.7 to 2.3. I’m inclined to agree with that, which is part of the reason I would have put him at second, saved the $9 million and put Dyson and his 1.7 dWAR and speed on the base paths in center. He doesn’t hit that well but what he offers for what he would get paid makes him, in my opinion, a better fit in the 7 hole. He will get on base at a similar rate Forsythe will, and his speed is something this team needs, though I know FAZ doesn’t value that asset as highly as I do.
I think Turner begins his fade. 130 games for an infielder isn’t much. He will hit of course but at 33, with a history of owies, I just have a feeling. And maybe so does FAZ and that’s why Forsythe. This could be a transition year at a few positions in this organization.
How can anyone root for a player who’s nickname is Logie Bear? Sounds like a booger of some sort.
I don’t see the Dodgers adding another outfielder, especially Dyson, who is not as good offensive player.
The Dodgers have to many better options, to play center, that do provide much more offense, then Dyson.
But I agree with Badger, that the Giants should have signed Dyson over Jackson, because I believe Dyson is younger, and Dyson is a better defensive centerfielder.
And centerfielders don’t get better on defense as they age, because speed is one of the first things to go, as players age.
And I do think it is worth it to the Giants, to get the best defensive centerfielder that they can get, with the size of their outfield.
I was wrong about the age of Jackson and Dyson, and Badger is right, Jackson did have a very nice season.
Reddick numbers looked better, because he has been playing in the American League West for quite a while, so he knows the pitchers in that division, very well.
It is harder for players that are not especially good hitters, to hit when they are moved from the American League to the National League, like both Reddick and Forsythe were, although Forsythe did hit lefties well, last year..
Forsythe has only had two really good offensive seasons, and that was right before he was traded to the Dodgers.
He didn’t hit much at all, when he was with the Padres.
He did hit better in the post season, but his value to this team, is his steady defense at second, and filling in, for Turner at third.
Because his defensive metrics were good enough, to make up for his offensive short comings last year, according to War.
I don’t think the sample size in the post season is big enough, to say Forsythe will hit righties better this year, because he didn’t even hit 200 against righties last year, and he provided no real power either.
And he struck out way to much, as low, as his slugging percentage, was.
MJ making no sense again. In this era of instant access to video of pitchers and pitch data, there’s ZERO chance that “knowing” pitchers is still a variable.
Perhaps, you could change it to comfort with players or, much more likely, just playing better.
I am not impressed with career 235 hitters or below, either.
I hope the Dodgers do what the Astros did with their line up, and get rid of all of their, all, or nothing hitters.
These type of hitters, stall a team’s offensive production, and they have trouble making contact, when contact, is important.
And I don’t think it is to much to ask, for a player, to be able to put the ball in play, when it is needed.
The Dodgers ranked 21 in batting average, and I think our players can do better.
We have been pretty good, at getting on base for some time, but those runners are not getting home, like they should.
Because we have had trouble getting hits in the clutch, to get those runs in.
And a combination of being more productive on offense, and hitting for a better average, will help more of those runners on base, get home.
I think our guys are very capable of improving on this, in 2018.
The Astros, like the Dodgers, don’t value BA nearly as much as OPS.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting/split/39/sort/OPS/order/true
Dodgers could improve, but aren’t awful.
I know they have videos of these pitchers, but that is not the same, as standing in the batters box, and watching pitches come in, year after year, from the same pitchers.
And we see average hitters that come from the American League, to the National League, all the time.
And these players often have trouble, with the transition from one league to another league, especially when it comes to hitting, just like Reddick and Forsythe.
And you don’t see that happen with good hitters, like JD Martinez, who hit like a fiend for the Dbacks, last year.
You are very aware that even the third time a hitter sees a pitcher, they usually do better.
Why is it such a stretch for you to see, that this same type familiarity with pitchers, makes it easier for a hitter, to be more successful.
Especially if a hitter, is seeing the same pitchers pitch, year after year.
And it is a known fact in Baseball, that a pitcher has the advantage on a hitter, if the hitter, has never seen the pitcher before.
The Astros hit for the top average, in all of baseball.
They hit the most HRs in baseball, and they had the less strike outs, in baseball, too.
That is because the Astros emphasized, that they didn’t want their hitters, to swing at balls, out of the strike zone.
Because they know strikes outs, are not productive, for an offense.
And even sabers would value a hitters OBP more, if a hitter’s OBP, was based more on hits, then walks.
But I also bet the Astros were better then us, when it came to getting hits, when runners were in scoring position, too.
I know teams value OPS, and in general, it can be a good measure, for offensive production.
But even though numbers are pretty predictable, some of these equations sabers use, are not always a good measure, by itself.
Bluto, Turner Ward made the same point about Forsythe, about switching leagues.
My simple answer is that both Reddick and Forsythe have poor bat speed and are just streaky.
Thanks, for your take, and your info, on these two hitters, bat speed.
I believe you, but it still makes zero sense to me.
I can add it to the list!
Pretty spot on Jeff, but I think you are under estimating Puig. He had a lot of growing up to do and he did that some last year. He has bonded with Turner Ward and it has been very good for him. I see continued improvement this year and he has become a workout demon. Also there is not a better defensive RF in the game. He also has the best arm of any Dodger outfielder.
I looked up how many years Reddick has been in that same division, and he has been playing in the West, for six years.
And in his first couple years, in the West, he wasn’t hitting much more then 200.
I know you don’t think much about a batting average, but really good hitters, do hit for a good batting average, along with the other stuff you value more.
Norris, I’ve always supported Puig so I hope what you say comes true. His defense is stellar. Speed in the outfield is an important element. I’ll always remember Willie and that breadbasket catch, but watching him get after those blasts that most outfielders had no chance getting, was so exciting and satisfying. Willie Mays was probably the best outfielder I’ve ever seen. Puig reminds me of him on occasion.
Corey hurt his elbow in August, so his numbers went down from August on, but before August, Corey was the steadiest hitter on the Dodgers, take a look at Corey’s splits, before August.
I do agree with you, about Turner, being our best bat, in the clutch.
But Corey has been the steadiest bat, in our line up, in the last couple years.
He hit a little over 300 in 2016, and he was on his way to another 300 season, before he got hurt.
And Puig has not hit close to 300, since his second season, and Cody, has not hit close to 300 yet, at the majors.
Another year of that slug Grandal behind the plate? Please. Barnes is not as bad a defensive catcher as some might think. Considering how few games he did catch, he still threw out 25 percent of the attempted steals. He did not come close to having as many passed balls as Grandal who has mastered the art of the missed pitch. Personally I think he and Farmer could more than adequately handle the job. Realmuto would be nice, but Ruiz is maybe 1 1/2 years away, and Smith is right there with him. Joc’s fate will most likely be sealed by what he does in spring…again. He has a great spring and he will be a starter, at least until he shows he cannot handle the job. He, Toles, Thompson and Verdugo are going to be slugging it out for playing time and I would not be surprised to see some combination of the 4 manning the outfield in spring training games. DJ Peters, he who hit 2 dingers off Bumgarner in a game, will be at AA this year. I find little use for career .235 hitters no matter where they play, but FAZ has different idea’s. But I do not think Segedin will make the 25 man roster, and most likely, barring a spring miracle, will Thompson. I think he would be better served being traded elsewhere. I did not like the trade when they got Forsythe. He is nothing more than a stop gap option until someone comes along who can play there every day. They have also signed a handful of infielders to minor league deals. Including Solano, who has MLB experience. He is a exe Yankee…
Is throwing out 25% of base stealers considered good? I wouldn’t think so. Either the arm is not strong enough or his timing needs work. Grandal improved on this last year and was a much better defensive presence behind the plate. We all know about the batting, though. The slumper would not be missed if traded.
Darvish seems to have the physicality to be a great pitcher, but his mental makeup is not on the same level as his body. Something is not in synch with him. I would watch him very closely last year and see how he would cave in with no apparent difference in his mechanics. It was all in his head. His eyes show it. He loses focus. No, I would not gamble on him. Let the Cubs have him. I’ll take Arietta any time. He’s a tough pitcher.
Totally agree Jeff. The eyes have it!
I’d take either one. Both will throw more innings than anyone we have (after Kershaw). Both will also get us dangerously close to to $197mm and then $206mm, which is why I have my doubts. I do expect them to find another high spin rate 30+ 3 year $14mm McKaz somewhere on the periphery. It is their model.
Turner wants the Dodgers to re-sign Darvish..it would be protection if Kersh leaves, but doubt it will happen. Darvish in serious negotiations with the Cubs. Question, Cubs get Darvish, are they automatically the favorite in the NL?
I think it is a long shot, but I do believe the Dodgers are still in on Darvish, like we read, unlike other stuff, we read.
That is because Darvish loved pitching for the Dodgers, and he is not a guy that would necessarily take more money, over happiness.
And there won’t be many good starting pitchers being available, in the next three years.
That would not only help if Kershaw goes, it would also give us a pitcher to lean on, until one of our young starting pitchers are mature and ready, to pitch at a top level, in the majors.
But Darvish has not really pitched a lot of innings in the last few years, so you never know, and Kershaw hasn’t either, because of his back.
There is no way they sign Darvish. The FBZ just won huge brownie points with the Guggenheim ownership by getting under the cap. They are going to ride it and save their dry powder for the trade deadline.
The FBZ missed their chance on Cole.
I still wish we got Ohtani, but he probably made the right choice, with the Angels.
I was thinking the other day, if we would have got JD Martinez, we may have won that series, much like if we got Verlander.
And everyone said the Dbacks got a really good deal, on JD.
But I can’t blame that on the front office, because Joc was still hitting ,at the trade deadline.
But having JD Martinez in our line up, against the Astros, would have helped quite a bit, especially with his familiarity with the American League, and with the Astros.
They have a good article in Dodger Insider, with Turner Ward, talking about what he thought about certain hitters, and what he expects from them, in the coming year.
Yes, I read that article too. It was excellent.
I re read the article and realized that is where you got Wards take, on Forsythe about changing leagues, my bad.
Well said YF.
Here are my exit reviews on some of our utility players: Logan Forsythe, Chris Taylor and Kike Hernandez. Again I am aware of a lot SABR stats on these guys, but I don’t want to dwell on them since a majority of blogs out there already put out a lot of SABR stats. I am just stating my own observations and recollections of these players over the course of the year, with more focus on their performance during the playoffs (where applicable), and lastly how they could help the team in 2018.
Logan Forsythe. As I have commented on earlier here, I agree with Michael that his option should not have been picked up. I think his bat is too slow and it may be getting even slower. A slower bat means that you have to anticipate very well what kind of pitch is coming, and that could be difficult when facing very good pitchers and unfamiliar pitchers. To my eyes, this was clearly the case because he was taking so many pitches and studying pitchers earlier in the season. Turner Ward seems to think Forsythe will improve and be more aggressive. I have my doubts – Forsythe is not young anymore and his bat will continue to slow down. And even if he gets more aggressive, I don’t think his power numbers will improve – he is at best a 8-11 HR guy in the NL I think. On defense, I guess he is somewhat needed to stabilize the third base, and this is where I think he provides his value (to keep Turner fresh). I think there is a substantial risk, however, that both Turner and Forsythe slump in 2018, and we will need to spell both of them.
Chris Taylor. I may be in the minority in thinking that Chris’s production is mostly sustainable (at least in 2018). I have a great deal of faith in this guy – maybe it is misplaced. During 2017 he went through several mini-slumps, but in each case he managed to adjust. I just think he really owns his swing and he can continue to make adjustments based on his mental approach and better pitch recognition. Kind of similar to Justin Turner – when he revamped his swing 3 years ago, everyone thought his hitting would come back to earth, but it never did (except for stretches where Turner was not healthy). Granted it is never easy to hit consistently and to keep making adjustments, but I think it is easier for guys who have a great swing that has good coverage. While I don’t think Chris Taylor will put up another 4.7WAR, I do think he will easily put up 3WAR. With Kike and Toles able to cover both LF and CF, and me being down on Forsythe, I am hoping Taylor spends some time at second, where I expect his defense to shine. One weakness I do see with Chris Taylor is his strikeout rate – but if he manages to lower his SOs significantly this year, look out – we will have an all-star on our hands.
Kike Hernandez. I think it will be more of the same with Kike. His .300 batting average in 2015 is now a distant memory, and he is what he is. A serviceable IN-OF utility and platoon player with some streaky power (and MadBum ownage) is a very good bench piece as well as a trade piece. I hope he learns to be more patient at the plate and see more pitches, but that is probably asking too much. On defense, he will look a bit awkward at times at every position, but he’s a good enough natural athlete and his flexible, easy going approach tends to win out most of the time.
I see both Puig and Taylor as 3 WAR players this year and if I had to pick one to be better I would choose Puig. Left field production is hard to predict since we don’t know who the left fielder will be.
Forsythe might hit .250 but I doubt it. Turner will be good, but for how many games? 130. We hope Seager can play injury free and we hope there will be no sophomore slump for Bellinger. Grandal? Who knows but fangraphs doesn’t think much of him. Feels like we are holding that spot available for ‘19, so just trade the guy already.
Pitching? Kershaw and Ambiguans. I see nobody in that group pitching more than 145 so the bullpen will again be busy. I do still believe Buehler will step up. He has #2 stuff and when Kershaw leaves he will be our ace. You will see that character revealed this year.
Petriello over/under is 94. As the team is constructed, considering other teams in the league have taken steps to get better, and we haven’t, right now I think 94 is accurate.
Good review of our players at second!
I agree with you about Forsythe.
And if he is going to work the count again this year, and get behind with two strikes so often, I don’t see him improving, because it is hard for very good hitters, to hit when they are down with two strikes, that often.
I hope Buehler can step up this year, but I know they will or probably keep him at AAA at first.
I hope he is not at AAA to long, because those innings on his arm are the same at AAA, and he has to learn what a strike is at the bigs, and pay for the pitches he misses at the bigs, to learn how to pitch in the bigs.
Some said his fastball looked to straight in the majors last year, but I guess his fastball isn’t like that in AAA, so he may have been over throwing, when he was in the majors last year.
Which is understandable, for a young pitcher, that was getting his first taste of the bigs.
Badger,
Quite an optimistic take on Buehler! Wish I felt the same way. I wasn’t too impressed with what I saw last season from him. Maybe I’m jumping the gun and need to see him out there with regularity. Blazing speed is definitely a plus. But, Kershaw is a special guy. No reason to believe he will not pitch well again this season and I’m looking for a repeat performance from Wood. I’ve always supported Wood and felt he was a much better pitcher than anyone thought. Then last year, voila. If he comes anywhere near this mark, the Dodgers will be well on their way to a repeat of last year. I’m hopeful.
Hopeful is a good thing Jeff. Obviously I am hopeful too. But I see drop offs for Wood and Taylor. Wood might reach 150 innings, and that would be great. He will be a 2 WAR pitcher, but I see him as a valuable back of rotation pitcher. In my estimation everyone we have after Kershaw is a back of rotation pitcher. I am looking for that Greinke-like #2. Big ask, I know, but other teams have that. Heck, the Astros have 3!
This year the Dodgers are celebrating 60 years in LA. Here is the opening day lineup….not in order but these guys started the game. 1B, Hodges 2B, Neal, 3B Dick Gray SS Reese, LF Gilliam, CF Snider, RF Cimoli, C Roseboro, P Erskine. It should be noted that no player had more starts at any position than Charlie Neal who started 132 games at 2nd. Zimmer started the bulk of the games at SS since 1958 was Pee Wee’s last season. Roseboro started the bulk of the games at C backed up by Walker first and then Joe Pignatano. Some names who passed through LA were guys like Jim Gentile, later traded to the Orioles, Steve Bilko, Don Demeter, Elmer Valo. Gilliam was the regular LF and Cimoli kind of rotated around the outfield. Furillo got the most starts in RF. This was a veteran team with most of the Brooklyn stars on the down side of their careers. Snider had injured his elbow trying to throw a ball out of the coliseum and his string of 5 straight seasons with 40 or more homers was broken. By the way, no Dodger hitter before or since has matched that. Top salary on the team was the Duke, who was making 44,000 a year. He was the only player making more than 40,000 dollars. Koufax was getting 10,000 and Drysdale 17,500. Frank Howard, Ron Fairly, Norm Larker, Don Demeter, Larry Sherry, Ed Roebuck, Roger Craig, all would have a cup of coffee with the big team….all of them except Howard would contribute the next season to the Championship run. Newcombe was traded to the Reds, Erskine would retire, Reese retired, Hodges stayed with the team until the expansion draft and he went to the Mets, Snider was traded after the 1962 season, also to the Mets. Furillo was released after the 1959 season, sued the team and never played another game of baseball. They went with 4 starters and 5 pitchers in the pen to open the season. Koufax, Podres, Drysdale, and Williams were the starters with Erskine, Kipp, Klippstein, Roebuck and Labine in the pen.
I met Geno Cimoli in S.F. in 1976, IIRC. He was driving a delivery truck for UPS. I was the manager of a pizzeria at that time and somehow, I recognized him. Fortune is a fleeting friend.
Sold Lopes some clothes when I managed a boutique in S.F. in 78 or 79.
Met Hodges when I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8 years old at a batting range in Brooklyn. Talked to him and got a signed ball.
Things have really changed.
Good review Bear. Brought back some memories. I was a pitcher/catcher in Little League, ‘58-‘60, so my favorite player early was Roseboro. For a while I also really liked Doug Camilli. The reason for that was I was at a game at the Coliseum and saw him hit a ball at his shoe tops and drive it over the screen halfway up into the seats in left field. It was a rocket. The left fielder just barely had time to turn and look. My favorite Dodger changed a few times from ‘59 to ‘66.
A “straight” fastball is an easy fix. Just change the grip and throw it exactly the same. 97 and a straight is actually a great pitch if it’s placed properly. You never want to tube one to a Major League hitter. The way Morrow used it, up, is a good example of what I mean. I was taught high and tight low and away. Buehler has two other plus pitches to go with the heater. Even if he doesn’t change the grip, (2 seamer) he can stay out of trouble by commanding the 4 seamer. I think he knows that. I don’t believe he spends much time in the minors.
Snider was my favorite until they traded him. Then it was Sandy until he retired. Same with Big D until he retired with a bad rotator cuff. I have been lucky enough to meet a few of those guys. I lived a couple of houses from Larry and Norm Sherry in the early 60’s. We kids would shag balls for them when they would work out at Arroyo Seco Park. Met Duke at a baseball card show, and Tommy Davis came to the home for kids I was living at. I saw Norm Sherry while I was in the Army at Ft. Bliss. He was the manager of the El Paso Diablos, an Angel farm team. I loved that 59 team, what a bunch of scrappers. Mix of the old and the new. Snider and Hodges hit over 20 homers, but mid season addition SS Maury Wills was the catalyst. Craig came up and won 7 games down the stretch, and Larry Sherry became the closer, replacing Labine. They had gotten Wally Moon over the winter for Gino Cimoli and he started hitting his Moon shots over the LF screen. They picked up Chuck Essegian and he became the primary PH. He hit two PH homers in the Series. Zimmer was traded, Furillo got the game winning hit in the deciding playoff game against the Braves and Hodges scored the winning run. White Sox crushed them in game 1 11-0. But they came back and won it in 6. Koufax lost his only start 1-0. And in their second year in LA the Dodgers matched their entire total of series wins in their entire history in Brooklyn…….what a feeling that was.
package206, says:
Mr. Norris
What I most remember about those Dodgers was that no matter where you went the ballgame was on someones transistor radio. I remember the crowd chanting GO GO GO every time Maury got on base. What a great time to live in Southern California. I think Duke lived over in Whittier and owned a bowling alley?
Yes he did, and later after he retired he bought a avocado farm in Fallbrook and lived there with his wife. Vin’s voice was everywhere, even in the ballpark. That started mainly because it was so hard to watch a game at the coliseum if you were in the CF bleachers or high up in the stadium….They needed Vin to let them know what was going on. I always disliked listening to the 3rd and 7th innings because Jerry Doggett would take over for Scully. Jerry was an ok announcer, but he made a lot of mistakes. Vin was smooth as glass.
Duke bought an avacado ranch in Fallbrook and also owned a restaurant/bar there. I lived in Fallbrook for a few months and ran into him a lot. Nice enough guy. Tommy Davis gave a couple hitting clinics I attended. It was from him I learned the technique of rolling the top hand to create top spin on your line drive. Back then the goal was to hit line drives. Not anymore obviously. Of course, players are a lot bigger now. It’s pretty easy for those guys to hit the ball 400’. Living in Canoga Park then Los Alamitos growing up we never saw any Dodgers out on the town.
If Davis had not broken his ankle in 65, I think he would have been one of the best hitters to ever wear a Dodger uni. Last Dodger to win a batting title, 62&63. Lou Johnson saved their bacon in 65. He came up and was a breath of fresh air, and did a decent job with the bat and the glove. Was probably one of the most bubbly players I have ever seen. If memory serves he hit the game winning 2 run homer in the 4th inning. Koufax shut the Twins out for the 2nd time in the series and LA was a World Champion.
Ken Rosenthal on the lack of action regarding Yelich:
Here’s the problem with making Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna, Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. or any other top prospect the centerpiece of a Yelich trade: While a team would be acquiring certainty over uncertainty, the depressed state of the free agent market enables clubs to sign players at below-market rates and still keep their best youngsters.
And then when you have a FO that hates top tier Free Agents. You get nothing. Right?
I guess so, thankfully We don’t have to worry.
I find the first sentence of Rosenthal’s premise misleading. “Here’s the reason……”.
I think the reason few teams trade Top 10 prospects (in the two he references, Top 5 prospects) for a guy like Yelich is he is not Manny Machado. It’s the same reason the Dodgers didn’t trade Seager for Hamels. And as for “most teams” I think most teams know they aren’t championship caliber so remaining as competitive as possible is their goal. They also aren’t wealthy enough to risk, possibly fail, then reload 5 minutes later. If they have a Top 10 talent, they are keeping them.
I don’t blame the Braves or Jays if they decide not to trade either of those guys. Neither of those teams are that close to a World Series and those two are considered can’t miss prospects. The teams that need an everyday left fielder to close the gap on the team keeping them from the playoffs are the teams to analyze here. For our team, what is Yelich worth to the Dodgers? Well, who does Miami want. And if the conversation starts and stops with a Top 10 talent, then their phone is probably going to stop ringing. Yelich and Realmuto both want out. Get a handful of A or B+ prospects for them and let everyone move on.
Machado is probably leaving Baltimore. Will the Orioles hang on to him, make the QO or move him for multiple prospects? There is a player who would warrant a Top 10 pick. The Yankees have one. Machado would look good in pin stripes.
We also had a top prospect in our “untouchable” Yadier Alvarez, who’s since gone from untouchable to falling out of the Baseball America top 100 in less than 1 year. Now Alvarez and Urias are going to be viewed as risky projects. The reporters sure aren’t reporting on these non-moves, are they?
Mitchel White is higher now.
Dodgers top 10 prospects as of today…..Buehler, Verdugo, Alvarez, Kendall, Diaz, Ruiz, White, Smith, Lux, Sheffield. That is the list according to the Dodger web site.
Rosenthal goes on a bit, but it’s a pay article and I don’t think it’s right to repost it in its entirety.
In my opinion, signing up for the Athletic has proven to be an OK value.
Package, they don’t hate FAs. They just have a different agenda than the rest of us, no matter what they say about winning, etc. Here is how their meetings go:
Young exec: Hey, the market has just about bottomed. I think we can sign any of the remaining FAs to a 30% discount. Maybe 32% even. To a shorter contract – at least 1 year shorter in most cases.
FBZ: No thanks.
YE: Why not? Based on projections and how much cap space teams are going to have 12 months from now, we are going get these guys a lot cheaper now.
FBZ: We have already improved our team. Mission accomplished.
YE: Say what?
FBZ: The projections say several of our younger players will play better next year. And we have unloaded some of the guys who would have weighed us down like A-Gon.
YE: But we lost guys like Morrow.
FBZ: Dont’ worry about that. We have more cap space and owners love us. No need to sign anyone.
YE: Ok. Here are a couple of trades where we don’t take on more money but it will make us better, and make the team cheaper going forward.
FBZ: No need. The projections say we are favorites for the division.
YE: But other teams have improved. We had a big lead in projections to make it into the WS again but now we are in a dead heat.
FBZ: It’s all a crap shoot after winning the division. Leave winning the WS to the other teams.
YE: (shock) I don’t get it. I’ve already done the work. Actually this is a crazy year with so many young players in their prime and available via “firesales”. Other teams are really picking up these players for cheap.
FBZ: Ownership loves us. No need to rock the boat.
YE: The Yankees and Astros FOs are loved just as much as we are. They are still making moves. And Epstein is probably loved as much by the Cubs as the Red Sox fans.
FBZ: Just trust me on this. It’s a lot of work. That is why we only do trades with Tampa and A’s with players we already know. No need to do the extra work. In our office, there is no “if not now, when?”. All we have to do is to keep repeating the mantra “everything is a crapshoot after you get in the postseason”.
YE: Don’t we want to win? Even in football, the Patriots have gone year after year to the superbowl. No one who follows any other professional sport believes postseason is just a crapshoot. And baseball has the softest cap/luxury tax there is.
FBZ: No. Just repeat after me. “Everything is a crapshoot after you get in the postseason.” It’s taken awhile but we have gotten all of the reporters and writers to believe this.
YE: Why is that?
FBZ: By and large, baseball fans and writers don’t follow other sports. It’s amazing. There’s nothing like it. Even most hockey fans follow another sport. Just repeat the mantra. It’s the best thing to happen to baseball executives ever and we are going to milk it for all its worth. We inherited a division winning team and it’s too much work to build a WS team. Just repeat the mantra.
YE: I don’t think I am on board with all this.
FBZ: (raises eyebrow) Just repeat the mantra. And remember that when you were hired, your contract forbids to disclose what we just talked about, including the mantra, to any blog or sports writer. And do not encourage them to follow any other sport either. That is in your contract too.
Excellent! The best satire I have read in ages….
Thanks! I actually wanted to add a couple more lines (but this was probably too over the top):
Young Exec: (not buying the schtick) Sir, why did you hire me then? I’ve put in weekends and holidays on this work. I have all the mantras I need from my yoga class.
FBZ: I dunno. You came down from Guggenheim. Something about a $13 million mansion needing a new tenant. Lordly I wish I could be Walter for a day!
MLB.com saying that Darvish will likely be signed by the weekend. No word on who. Chipper, Thome, Vlad and surprise Trevor Hoffman make the hall…..called that one….Bonds and Clemens still down around 50 percent of the vote. Andruw Jones got enough votes to stay on the ballot and so did Manny.
True Blue, Thru and Thru (as you know) on Smart & Final Dodgers/Yankees Ticket Package Giveaway Contest
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Chicago 9 5 5 0 19
LosAngeles 0 0 1 0 1
Chicago 1 1 1 0 3
1. CHICAGO, DALAY 1 (KEITH, GARBUTT)(PP), 16:59
PENALTIES: K. VERSTEEG (HOOKING, Minor), 09:25, J. NORDSTROM (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor), 11:51, J. CARTER (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor), 15:11, J. SCHULTZ (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor), 19:13, K. VERSTEEG (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor), 19:47
2. CHICAGO, KANE 3 (GARBUTT, HOSSA)(PP), 06:48
PENALTIES: J. SCHULTZ (HIGHSTICKING, Minor), 01:29, B. MCNABB (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor), 04:32, J. CARTER (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor), 06:39, T. LEWIS (ROUGHING, Minor), 07:08, D. KEITH (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor, Misconduct), 17:01, K. VERSTEEG (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor), 17:27
3. LOSANGELES, CARTER 3 (BROWN, LUCIC), 13:17
4. CHICAGO, HOSSA 4 (KANE, TOEWS)(PP), 15:12
PENALTIES: A. ANISIMOV (ELBOWING, Minor), 07:56, T. PEARSON (ELBOWING, Minor), 08:02, B. SEABROOK (ELBOWING, Minor), 08:29, D. DOUGHTY (HIGHSTICKING, Minor), 14:42
Jonathan Quick (LOS), 16 saves out of 19 shots, L, 1-6-1
Corey Crawford (CHI), 33 saves out of 34 shots, W, 7-1-0
LosAngeles 0 for 7
Chicago 3 for 8
1 - Corey Crawford (CHI)
2 - Milan Lucic (LOS)
3 - Ryan Garbutt (CHI)
LosAngeles
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A. MARTINEZ 0 0 0 Even 0 0 8
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Fix Rath Park
Town officials meet with Franklin Square residents to work on fixes
Posted Monday, April 8, 2019 11:54 am
Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen and her chief of staff, Jim LaCarrubba, addressed concerns about the condition of Rath Park, and said they would push for improvements in security and maintenance.
Ronny Reyes/Herald
Franklin Square residents often say they are worried about the Rath Park field, which has long been in poor condition for Little League and football teams.
Christina Daly/Herald
Progress at Franklin Square district
•Total investment in 2019: $28,964
•Park benches are being renovated with pressure-treated lumber: $1,964
•Concrete work on the kiddy-pool deck is being performed this spring: $2,000
•The two parking lots by the ball field are being renovated and repaved, and a path for handicapped access to the fields is being created: $22,000
•An additional skirt is being installed: $2,000
•Concrete curbing is being added to the paths: $1,000
Source: Town of Hempstead
What’s a parks district?
New York’s towns have used special districts for about 50 years to address the needs of residents living in specific neighborhoods. The Franklin Square Special Parks District includes Rath Park, Garden City South Park, Cornwell Pocket Park and Cherry Valley Ball Fields.
District residents pay a tax that goes toward operation of the parks within the district. The district budget funds facilities, staffing, maintenance and debt services incurred to bond for or acquire parkland. Only district residents and their guests can use the parks’ facilities and services.
Other special districts include neighborhood sanitation departments and fire districts.
By Ronny Reyes
Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen appeared at the Franklin Square Public Library on March 27 to hear residents’ concerns about Rath Park, which has fallen into disrepair in recent years. The meeting followed two years of intense lobbying by Franklin Square residents Marisa Filardo and Joel DiGillio, who have called for a complete make-over of the park.
Dozens of residents attended and expressed frustration over the lackluster condition of Rath Park and what they said was the “poor service” provided by some park employees. Gillen, whose administration sent out surveys to gauge the community’s concerns about their parks, said renovations at Rath Park were a long time coming.
“I have seen the steady decline of our parks over the years,” Gillen said. “We want to address this concern. That’s why we sent out the survey, and we want you to get the most bang for your buck.”
Subhed: Security concerns
The survey, which 382 residents responded to, revealed that two of the biggest concerns people have about Rath Park are safety and use of the park by non-residents. Carl Gerrato, a long-time Franklin Square resident, described a time in the past when guards used to check visitors’ IDs at the gates. Now, residents said, the guards appear apathetic, allowing too many non-residents to wander in.
Hempstead Deputy Commissioner Raymond Rhoden explained that many non-residents have been found playing on Rath Park’s tennis and basketball courts, but because they were accompanied by residents, security could do nothing.
“We can’t evict a guest when they’re with a Franklin Square resident,” Rhoden said.
On safety, residents said they felt frustrated by the lack of security at Rath. Parents said teenagers and squatters gather at the handball court and empty lots, smoking marijuana and experimenting with other drugs. Filardo said needles have been found on the ground at the park.
Officer Jorge Diaz, a former Problem Oriented Police officer with the Nassau County Police Department’s 5th Precinct, said during a Franklin Square Civic Association meeting last year that police often make arrests for marijuana possession at Rath.
Residents also said that children have been assaulted or approached by strangers at the park.
Gillen agreed that park security needs to be upgraded. Her chief of staff, Jim LaCarrubba, said the town would seek to install additional security cameras and implement better patrol practices at the park. Town officials added that they would make sure the lights at Rath Park, which are normally turned off at night, would remain on, as they were intended to be.
“We have protocols in place, and if they’re not being followed, it’s a problem with the staff and supervision,” Rhoden said.
The park’s supervisor, Denise Micheletti, did not return the Herald’s calls.
Subhed: What’s in the budget?
For the Town of Hempstead to address residents’ concerns about safety and maintenance at Rath Parth, the Franklin Square Special Parks District budget must be increased, officials said. Franklin Square residents pay about $200 a year in taxes for their special parks district, which amounts to $4 million for the district’s four parks.
Rebecca Sinclair, Gillen’s deputy chief of staff, said that nearly the entire budget goes to pay operating expenses, including employees’ salaries and benefits, as well as maintenance, leaving about $300,000 in the spending plan for improvements at Rath Park.
Residents said they did not know that the parks district includes Cherry Valley Ball Fields. The park was acquired during a special district meeting in 2014 for more than $3 million from Garden City, with little notice given to the community, one resident said. Several people also said they believed the fields were for use by Garden City’s little leagues only. Residents are still paying off more than $400,000 in debt for Cherry Valley.
“If you’re paying for the acquisition of the park, then you should be allowed to use it,” Gillen said. She vowed to have her administration look into the use of the Cherry Valley fields.
By phone, Councilman Bruce Blakeman said the town is awaiting $100,000 from the state Dormitory Authority to put toward a turf field at Rath Park.
Gillen said she is creating a list of improvements based on residents’ requests, along with their costs. The town will present its findings in late May or early June, and decide from there which improvements to start with
The Hempstead Town Board must approve any renovation work.
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I know a guy who steadfastly claims he received a FREE 1959 Ferrari and Jaguar from Cuban Communists.
Through work, I know this older British gentleman who drinks way too many gin and tonics, complains about nearly everything, and tells 10 amazing stories per hour. Like nearly every Brit I've met, he is truly eccentric. No need to belabor the details, but, for example, he does not drink water and eats only one meal a day.
I now know him well enough that I don't let his extraordinary stories pass without a challenge -- and nearly every freaking story, by that standard, is challengeable.
For example, I gave him HELL when he insisted that he once visited a bar in Dublin next door to the Guinness plant that had a secret pipe that pumped fresh beer into the bar direct from the brewery. And now he's told me the granddaddy of whoppers: he once received a FREE 1959 Ferrari Testa Rossa and XKSS Jaguar from the Cuban government, then later sold them for four million dollars. And the funny part is not the claim itself, but the fact that he's actually claiming it -- and also, that it might be true!
Ok, some background. This British gent did live in Cuba for three years in the 1980s working for a massive chemical company making sure that Castro paid them what he owed. He has told tens of believable stories about living there. But after pressing him on this free Ferrari story for several days, I think he may have it straight.
So here's the gist of what apparently happened. After Castro took power, all the gangsters fled and left behind their cars. We all know that. But the Cuban government confiscated the REALLY fancy cars and impounded them. This Brit was pretty rich in the 80s, so he decided to buy these old sports cars from the government for $250,000. He went through the Ministry of Culture, but because the Communist government is so thoroughly inept, that department had zero communication with the Ministry of Finance. So after he ran a letter of credit, and the vehicles were shipped to England via East Germany, the payment collection just fell through the cracks and he got them for free -- shipping cost and all.
I've been pressing him and waiting for a slip-up in the details but haven't caught him yet. This shit may have actually happened, but I'm still skeptical. I mean, the Cuban government is notoriously inept so it's not so crazy that an error like this occurred. I'll be razzing him for a while on this one though.
Trader Vic's in Atlanta, Georgia: Fucking Awesome.
It may surprise you, but last night was my first experience at the tiki restaurant, Trader Vic's. The thrill and pleasure sensations that pulsed through my body while there were completely unexpected. I nearly came in my pants from happiness -- like stepping into an exotic kitsch country full of neato stuff 12-year-old boys like.
It was like 1956 San Francisco or something. Everything was exactly as I could have hoped or better. All the waiters were American-Chinese, the cocktails were over-the-top -- sometimes on fire, perfectly balanced in flavor -- real turtles and blowfish adorned the walls and ceilings, and everywhere you could see were tiki totems, bamboo, or exotic designs. You probably already know those things exist at tiki restaurants, but you really have to eat mahi mahi and drink rum around all this weird stuff to understand.
I convinced our table to start off with a scorpion bowl -- a big bowl of rum, fruit juice and crushed ice that five people drink through two-foot colorful straws. YES YES. My second cocktail was a Black Stripe: dark Jamaican rum, a crushed cherry, cinnamon stick, honey and cloves -- lit on fucking FIRE, and served from a giant mug that looked like a human skull (and nearly the same size). Third was a Mai Tai. And God, I thought I mixed them best. I am humbled. Humbled.
I am not joking when I say these two things: 1) Trader Vic's in Atlanta was the funnest restaurant I've been to in a long time, and; 2) while there, I had a jittery feeling that I'd quit my job and open one up in DC for tourists and locals. Dare me?
Posted by: Lonnie Bruner / 10:00 PM 5 comments
The Three A's of Animal Rights
I'm not getting into a Peter Singer-type moral discussion of animal rights, but here are what I call the Three A's of the animal rights movement -- the reasons why vegetarianism and veganism appeal to human emotions (beyond the basic moral plea that "killing animals is fundamentally wrong") and the reasons why they're mostly not useful in addressing the real problems faced by the meat industry.
Anthropomorphizing. It is flawed to make a judgement about the living conditions of an animal based on how humans would feel in the same conditions. I'll use chickens as an example. A chicken house may appear like a wartime concentration camp if humans were put there, but for a chicken it may be perfectly comfortable in most ways. Rather than making a subjective judgement, a better way would be to measure stress hormones between house-raised chickens vs. chickens raised outdoors -- and in fact, those studies show no differences.
People have no idea what pleases an animal for its whole life. Sure, certain things are obvious, like the fact that no animal wants to be beaten or tortured, but that's not the reality of a production animal's life. The overwhelming majority of time -- chickens, for example -- is spent living a boring existence inside a 500' x 40' house close to other animals of their own species. I admit, it is a legitimate critique to talk of the disease problems caused by animals standing and eating in their own feces, but these are problems that the meat industry confronts on a daily basis and can control with large success mostly with minimal harm to animals or consumers.
Aesthetics. Many people are dismayed by the “industrial” part of modern farming. They have an idyllic image of what a farm should be: orange sun rising on the horizon, happy cows grazing in rolling green fields, a cute little red barn, a noble farmer with kind eyes and worn overalls. This rural aesthetic mainly exists in the minds of people in urban areas. People object to the visually unappealing nature of “factory farming” but you think an animal gives a fuck about living on a pretty farm that’s visually appealing to humans? Come on.
Unless city dwellers are willing to pay $50 per chicken, industrial farming will continue, and even in its current state it's barely profitable (in fact, the largest chicken producer in the USA, Pilgrim's Pride, is currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy). The meat industry would give daily blow jobs to the animals if consumers were willing to pay the price, but meat is a business, people -- not spa treatment.
Absence of knowledge of the problems actually faced by the meat industry. A perfect example of this is the movement to make chickens "free range" -- which in reality means a small opening in the chicken house where the animal has the option of walking into a small, 4' X 12' strip of grass. In reality, the chicken -- an animal naturally afraid of wolves and other predators -- never chooses to go outside. The animal would rather stay near the food inside the house, gathered tightly and warmly with hundreds of other chickens.
My father started in the poultry industry in 1955 doing catch-and-haul in northeast Texas. He’s seen the problems and struggles in this industry for over 50 years and it relates not one iota to what a Morrissey-listening vegan considers “problems”. Rather than pressing for non-issues like "free range", it would be a tremendous help if people cared, for example, about litterless affordable flooring systems. That's a technology that would reduce disease, profitability, and improve animal welfare by leaps and bounds but it's not as sexy as "free range" which appeals more to human emotions than the actual needs of meat animals as they're currently raised.
My point is that an abolitionist stance toward the meat industry may advance animal welfare in small ways (for example, KFC and McDonald's are at the forefront of animal welfare issues due to public pressure generated by groups like PETA) but there are a huge number of problems to be solved that will only get done by people rolling up their sleeves and working on the real issues meat animals face, absent emotion and moral condemnation.
Posted by: Lonnie Bruner / 11:06 AM 18 comments
Oysters Shucked This Month: One 5-Gallon Bucketful
They say that eating a raw oyster is like French-kissing the sea. I agree with them. This food has been eaten since the dawn of time and many people (like me) wax philosophically about them in the same way they would about a subject like sailing, love, music, or nature.
A few months ago I discovered that Cameron's Seafood up the street sells big raw Chesapeake oysters for $8.99 a dozen and I've gone nuts. They're supposed to taste best during the coldest months, and proof that this is true is the picture at right -- my collection of empty shells filling an entire 5-gallon bucket.
Shucking your own is no easy task -- and dangerous. Despite having shucked all those in this picture, I'm still not perfect and screw up a fourth of them. The oyster knife is more like a miniature crowbar that you wedge into the crustacean's hinge and wiggle until it's tight. This action takes a bit of muscle and patience, and it's easy to slip and jab it into your left hand. Once you have a tight fit, you bend the knife back and forth until you hear a nice "pop" -- a sound as solid and satisfying as a baseball hitting a catcher's mitt in the spring.
There have been some big ones that gave me a fight. Thank god the knife point is dull, otherwise I'd surely have stitches all over my left palm. Last night I fought one monster for a good five minutes and actually broke a sweat before he popped open.
Oyster-eaters must truly love life. Occasionally I've heard of people getting sick from eating raw ones, but this is no excuse for stopping altogether. Even if I got sick to the point of puking out my spleen, I'd still eat them.
(Youtube: How to shuck an oyster).
I Appreciate a Good Jeweler.
For the first 30 years of my life, I didn't give a single thought to the jewelry profession. But now that I have a wife that I love so god damn much, the experience of picking out the occasional earring or necklace is one of life's small pleasures.
For Christmas I decided Katie needed some pearl earrings, so while in Michigan I asked her dad for a recommendation of a good place. The whole time Katie's dad and I drove to the shop, he was going off about how great a person the owner was -- that he loved dogs, had a place up north, etc.
I walked into a small storefront near a strip mall in suburban Detroit to be greeted by a 50-something man with mid-western friendliness and a strong Michigan accent. Perfect. The experience was short and pleasant. I found the earrings I wanted, with the perfect amount of salesmanship from the owner, and he gave me a sweet discount.
I like people who have a genuine understanding of customer service and pride in their work. This is something you don't find as much outside the USA.
Today, the Obamas Attended Church Two Blocks from My Home
What a nice benefit of living in the District.
This morning, while nursing our hangovers from the previous night's celebration, I noticed that yellow police tape was blocking off my entire street. I walked outside and saw that 100 people had gathered on the corner.
We threw on our coats, grabbed cameras and fresh coffee, and walked toward the crowd waiting to see the Obamas come out of the nearby Baptist church two blocks from my house. A few of the women in the crowd had church-chorus-honed singing voices and had gotten everyone to sing songs like Amazing Grace and This Little Light of Mine. This might sound cheesy, but being there was a feeling of camaraderie you rarely experience.
We waited 35 minutes and saw the Obamas come out, get in the limo and speed away. I wonder if this will be his regular church? Man, the feeling in the city this weekend is something special. I am lucky.
(The church is the white building in the picture with the green dome. The Obamas exited that red door right behind the bus stop. The Washington Post article about it is here).
"Sweatshops" Are Good. Thank God the NY Times Had the Balls to Say It.
I love the Times. Especially because of the occasional article like this one that, in pursuit of truth, isn't afraid to risk making First World liberals whine and shout with outrage.
The author, Nichloas Kristoff, has done excellent work documenting sex slavery in the brothels of Cambodia lately. This is the kind of journalism that makes a difference. I went to Cambodia in 2003 and have seen how rampant the prostitution of underage girls is, but as a passing tourist, you don't really see it. In fact, here's a photo of me after a few drinks walking through the back streets of Cambodia with a few hookers grabbing at my arm:
It all seems relatively harmless and silly when you're there -- all these women clinging and grabbing for a potential john -- until a journalist does the dirty work of finding the true situation. Then regulators and police get embarrassed and hopefully take notice and crack down.
And now, after Kristoff spent time watching the poor gather plastic in a smoking garbage dump in Phnom Penh, the truth is easily accessible:
Talk to these families in the dump, and a job in a sweatshop is a cherished dream, an escalator out of poverty, the kind of gauzy if probably unrealistic ambition that parents everywhere often have for their children.
“I’d love to get a job in a factory,” said Pim Srey Rath, a 19-year-old woman scavenging for plastic. “At least that work is in the shade. Here is where it’s hot.”
I’m glad that many Americans are repulsed by the idea of importing products made by barely paid, barely legal workers in dangerous factories. Yet sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty, not a cause, and banning them closes off one route out of poverty. At a time of tremendous economic distress and protectionist pressures, there’s a special danger that tighter labor standards will be used as an excuse to curb trade.
I figured this out the first time I visited the Third World in Peru. It's one of those things that you can't understand unless you experience it. The depth of the poverty weighs on you, even if you stay only two weeks. The whole time I was in Peru, I couldn't believe such widespread poverty and unemployment could exist without violent revolt. But it did.
Many First World liberals have this perception of the Third World as run by top-hat-wearing, cackling capitalist caricatures, cracking whips for factories that make clothes for Wal-Mart. Mostly, this is not the case. People in poor countries do shitty-ass jobs that don't exist in the rich countries. I remember when I was in Myanmar watching people break big rocks with sledgehammers on the side of a scorching, dusty highway. That was their job: just breaking massive boulders all day long in 110 degree heat.
The day I came back from Peru was the day I started my drift toward the political center. Thank god the Times agrees with me. And make sure you watch the video that goes with the article, you milk-fed liberal. DO IT.
NYT: "Where Sweatshops are a Dream"
36 Days Sailing in 2008: My Record
Today I grabbed my logbook off the sailboat and after doing the math, figured out that I sailed 36 days in 2008 -- an average of one daysail every 1.4 weeks.
I was shooting for once every 1.5 weeks, so I beat my goal. For 2009, I hope I get in at least once every 1.2 weeks. That would be nice.
In 2008, I didn't sail at all during January and February and only once in March. My biggest sailing month was June with eight sailing days. For April through November -- the normal sailing season for most boaters -- I sailed an average of once every 0.97 weeks, which makes me VERY happy.
So the short calculation is that for the official sailing season, I sailed more than once a week, and for the whole year, once every week and a half. Not bad.
Bourdain slipping?
The new season of No Reservations is here. But Tony seems less snarky than before. Anyone else think he's getting soft? I'm 3/4 into the Venice episode and he hasn't complained ONCE. This is disappointing. Well, at least he still drinks.
Googling Exes: Yup, She Hasn't Changed in 12 Years
I googled my ex-girlfriend from 12 years ago and found a detailed blog she's been keeping. Sure enough, she's the EXACT same as when I dated her -- a hardcore vegan animal rights activist who wears all black clothes all the time and feels guilty about everything, including her own existence.
The relationship was a one-year fight fest that was never meant to be -- which is what all my friends had been telling me the whole time.
My wife had a similar experience recently when she came across her ex's blog. She discovered the same angry, unhappy, straight-edge vegan that she no longer is. (Not to generalize about vegans, but are they ALL unhappy and guilt-ridden?)
So many people never change. My politics are nowhere near the Marxist-Vegetarian-Leftie business of my life a decade back. This is to my credit.
Let's make a nautical analogy to explain how and why I've changed. My ideology and outlook on life are like a wooden sailboat circumnavigating the globe. As conditions change and time goes on, parts of the ship become worn out and need replacement; the weakest parts usually fail first. If neglected, the ship risks sinking. If you don't scrape the barnacles off the hull, the boat will stagnate -- barely moving, foundering about. A ship's working parts often need change or the boat won't move forward properly. Sometimes, when the wear and tear is really bad, you have to stop in port for assistance from someone who has more experience to make the boat better. I imagine it takes constant work to keep a wooden boat sturdy and seaworthy enough to continue through the shit the ocean throws at it. Ships that don't make alterations from time to time often end up in a pretty unhappy state.
This is the way a person's political ideology and worldview should be. Yea, that's right: if more people were like me, things would be better (just kidding).
UPDATE: Today my dad reminded me that one time back in 1997 when I invited this vegan girlfriend over to my parent's house, she noticed that the dogs were playing with a stuffed (fake) rabbit toy and it made her upset. About a synthetic toy!
I'm Addicted to Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay is this British asshole chef who says fuck in every sentence. His show Kitchen Nightmares brings him into restaurants on the verge of bankruptcy and he turns them around through a combination of shouting, cursing, drastic menu changes and sometimes physical fights. It's awesome.
Tonight's episode had Gordon calling this arrogant French chef a "French pig." Oh man, it was great. Here's the best scene (NSFW for language):
You are wasting your TV watching time if you're not watching this program.
Listening to a Redneck Fake a Black Dialect is Torture
I'm sitting in a coffee shop trying to get some work done. To my right is a big fat redneck in a black football jersey chatting to four black guys about boring football crap. It's like a different language to me. The only thing more torturous than listening to grown men talk so seriously about something so trivial is the fact that the white redneck is going on and on with a pseudo-black dialect. I suppose it's to gain some street cred with all these old black guys, but god damn, it is torture to listen to.
This 'neck naturally has a rural Maryland accent but he's faking, for example, the way he says "Redskins" -- pronouncing it, "Rayed-skins."
UGG.
I'm not sure which is worse: overhearing dudes have serious conversations about football as if it's actually an important topic, or overhearing teenaged girls over-use the word "like".
Posted by: Lonnie Bruner / 12:58 PM 11 comments
Luckily, Conspiranoid People Make Plenty of (Failed) Predictions
I get a skip in my step when predictions of doom and gloom turn out to be horribly incorrect. I have a dear friend who converted to cultish conspiranoia nearly two years ago and I've been making fun of him since. The good thing about conspiracy theorists is that they make plenty of predictions that are nearly always WRONG.
Below is a short list of the predictions my conspiranoid friend made for 2008:
- It will be revealed in 2008 that the 7/7 London bombings were done by MI5.
- It will be revealed in 2008 that the Oklahoma City bombing was done by the US government.
- Something sinister will be revealed about George H.W. Bush.
- Ron Paul will win the presidency.
- Obama will not win a single primary.
- Bush will nuke an American city.
- Bush will declare martial law.
- Bush will cancel the elections to remain in power.
- The US will experience hyperinflation.
- Lonnie Bruner will believe in 9/11 kookery by the end of 2008.
- The USA will experience a new Great Depression, worse than the 1930s.
HUGE CONSPIRANOIA FAIL.
The only one that was slightly close was the last point, but considering that the Great Depression lasted a decade with peak unemployment of 25% and deflation at -10%, we are currently leagues away, with our current unemployment under 7% and inflation running at a cool 1%. Bwaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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'AMIGAS WITH BENEFITS' STREAMING AT THE PBS ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
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The LPB funded digital short ‘Amigas with Benefits’ will be streaming in competition at the 2017 PBS Online Film Festival. Set within the backdrop of a nursing home, ‘Amigas’ tells the heartwarming, funny, and timely story of two elderly lesbians who nearly have their wedding day ruined by an uninvited guest.
Credit: AdeRisa Productions
Writer / director Adelina Anthony is no stranger to telling stories about love and LGBTQ issues. Last year she produced and starred in ‘Goldstar,’ which won the People’s Choice award at the 2016 PBS Online Film Festival. ‘Goldstar’ follows the tribulations of a young daughter who dedicates a love song to her female teacher, and a mother who must face her biases as she comes to terms with reality. Along with Marisa Becerra, Adelina runs AderisaProductions (a mix of both their names), where they produce “bold, entertaining and high caliber queer and trans people of color films, with an emphasis on X/Chicana stories.” LPB is proud to once again be partnering with AderisaProductions to bring “Amigas with Benefits” to the PBS Online Film Festival and beyond.
Since its start in 2012, the PBS Online Film Festival has attracted more than 4.5 million viewers, showcasing powerful and engaging stories from filmmakers from across the country. Beginning July 17, the festival will be available via PBS and station digital platforms, including PBS.org, YouTube and PBS social media channels. The films will also be available via the PBS app on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku and FireTV devices. Viewers are encouraged to watch, vote and share their favorite film by going to festival page. The film with most votes will receive the “Most Popular” award. Additionally, a distinguished panel of eight jury members will select their favorite film of the festival for the “Juried Prize.” For updates on the festival, follow #PBSFilmFest on Twitter. Stay tuned for another blog post where we will interview Adelina where we’ll talk about her inspiration behind ‘Amigas.’ For more information on the 2017 PBS Online Film Festival, and to watch this year’s festival trailer, please click here. To watch the trailer for ‘Amigas with Benefits,’ click here.2884 Views
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9,585 people per square mile, among the highest densities for the San Gabriel Valley but about average for the county
The percentage of black people is high for the county.
$67,592 median household income (2008 dollars), about average for the San Gabriel Valley and about average for the county
In Los Angeles County, Beverly Grove, Palmdale and Pico-Robertson have the most similar household incomes.
In Los Angeles County, Mid-City, Elizabeth Lake and Gardena have the nearest percentage of residents 25 and older with a four-year degree.
The percentage of residents 25 and older with a high school diploma is high for the county.
The median age is 32, about average for the San Gabriel Valley and about average for the county
In Los Angeles County, Alondra Park, Charter Oak and Northridge have similar median ages.
Check where Mayflower Village falls in a county ranking.
Average household size of 3.3 people, about average for the San Gabriel Valley and about average for the county
West Compton, West Whittier-Los Nietos and Sylmar have the most similar percentage of homeowners in Los Angeles County.
The percentages of widowed males and married males are among the county's highest.
3,827 (32.8%) of residents are foreign born, about average for the San Gabriel Valley and about average for the county. Mexico (59.1%) and El Salvador (5.6%) are the most common foreign places of birth.
The neighboring communities are Arcadia, Duarte, Irwindale, Monrovia and North El Monte.
Mayflower Village is one of the 272 neighborhoods in Mapping L.A., The Times’ resource for crime, neighborhoods, demographics and schools.
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many manufacturers, with the likes of Hasegawa, Monogram and Revell for example, all offering the type in 1:48 scale. One of the more recent 1:48 Mustang kits, however, is Tamiya’s P-51D. The kit consists of 54 grey plastic parts and four clear plastic parts, all of excellent quality. The surface is moulded with fine recessed panel lines. Before building my P-51D I collected together the references I would need and obtained the relevant detail set from Aires.
Aires detail set
The Aires set provides items for the cockpit, wheel bays and guns and includes a complete engine compartment with covers.
I began my work with modifications to the surface of the model, adding rivet detail by reference to drawings. My next step was to complete the cockpit. Here I added some additional small details to the completed resin assembly. The cockpit was finished overall in Aeromaster’s Interior Green acrylic, with weathering provided by drybrushing and washing with raw umber oil colour. The instrument glasses were simulated with clear varnish. I made a new canopy by vacforming, using the kit canopy as a mould.
Rear fuselage and engine
Open access covers were made for the rear fuselage and complete interior structure was built for the tail wheel bay and the rear fuselage, from plastic and brass wire.
Next, attention turned to the engine compartment, paying careful attention to the exact geometry of the engine. The Aires engine was detailed with wires and other details. A black-grey colour was used on the engine, while the engine firewall was painted Zinc Chromate Yellow and the engine bearers and other structure were painted natural metal.
The wings were modified by the addition of the Aires wheel wells, which are very accurate and fit perfectly into the Tamiya wings. The wheel and gun bays were painted Zinc Chromate Yellow, but the undercarriage legs and doors were finished in aluminium. New covers need to be made for the gun bays, those supplied in the detail set being for a Korean War-era F-51D Mustang. The final construction work to be completed was on the tail section, where all of the control surfaces were deflected.
The model was finished as a P-51D used by Robin Olds with the 434th FS. I used markings from Aeromaster sheet 48-479, Mustangs Forever Pt 4. The model was airbrushed with Testor’s metalizer aluminium and after buffing a protective coat of varnish was applied. I then sprayed the black identification stripes on the wings and horizontal tail surfaces, using Tamiya masking tape for masking. An Eduard Express Mask was used for masking the canopy, its application being simple and the result perfect. After painting, the Aeromaster decals were applied with the aid of Micro Set and Micro Sol. After an airbrushing with clear varnish, the model was washed with raw umber oil colour. This final wash must be applied very gently, since the metalizer surface is prone to damage.
I have no complaints about this project, having chosen a good quality kit and supplemented it with an excellent aftermarket resin set. I enjoyed it entirely.
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Five Aerospatiale SA 365F Dauphin 2s (Nos 244-248) were delivered to the Irish Air Corps throughout 1986. These twin-engined helicopters, which were equipped with the latest navigation, radar and flight-control systems, were to be used for short-range maritime search-and-rescue missions in adverse weather conditions, by day and night, up to 100 miles from the Irish coastline. Two of the Dauphin 2s (Nos 244 and 245) were also equipped for shipborne operations from the vessel L. E. Eithne of the Irish Naval Service.
The Dauphin 2s entered service with No. 3 Support Wing and were operated by the Search and Rescue Squadron and the Naval Squadron, which were combined and re-designated as No. 301 Squadron, No. 3 Operations Wing, in 2002. Commencing in 1987, the Dauphin 2s were deployed to Casement Aerodrome, Shannon International Airport and Air Station Finner, Co. Donegal, on search-and-rescue duties, until replaced between 1991 and 1998 by the Sikorsky S-61N under contract to the Irish Marine Emergency Service. On 1 July 1999, No. 248 was deployed to Waterford Regional Airport to provide 24 hour search-and-rescue service for south-east Ireland. On the following night this helicopter crashed during a search-and-rescue mission, killing all the crew.
The Dauphin 2s are also used for air ambulance missions, with stretcher cases inserted into the helicopter through the central door. The helicopters also fly VIP sorties, transporting the President, Cabinet Ministers and visiting dignitaries. Padded seats covered with blue material, with blue carpet on the floor, are installed in the aircraft for these missions.
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Minnie Louisa Lawrance
1867 - 1922 (Age: 55) Has 28 ancestors but no descendants in our family tree.
Emma Lawrance
1857 - 1859 (Age: 1)
Birth 16 Aug 1857 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Died 15 Feb 1859 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Father David Lawrance
b. 1829, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Mother Eliza Wooster
b. 18 Feb 1838, Stanmore, Middlesex, England
Married 16 Feb 1857 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Emily Lawrance
1860 - 1934 (Age: 74)
Birth 1860 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Died 18 Jan 1934 Nelson, New Zealand
Elizabeth Lawrance
Died 23 May 1933 Blenheim, New Zealand
Family George Frederick Saunders
Caroline Anne Lawrance
Died 6 Jun 1948 Masterton, New Zealand
David Lawrance
Died 6 Nov 1914 Blenheim, New Zealand
Family Eliza Wooster
1. Emma Lawrance
b. 16 Aug 1857, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
2. Emily Lawrance
3. Elizabeth Lawrance
4. Minnie Louisa Lawrance
b. 1867, Watford, Hertfordshire, England
5. Caroline Anne Lawrance
Eliza Wooster
Birth 18 Feb 1838 Stanmore, Middlesex, England
Christened 18 Feb 1838 Stanmore, Middlesex, England
Died 28 Sep 1910 Blenheim, New Zealand
Father Joseph Wooster
b. 1812, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England
Mother Rebecca Hite
b. Cal 1816, Colmworth, Bedfordshire, England
Married 23 Oct 1835 Paddington, London, England
Family David Lawrance
Birth 1867 Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Died 16 Feb 1922 Blenheim, New Zealand
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Name Minnie Louisa Lawrance
Born 1867 Watford, Hertfordshire, England [1]
Census 2 Apr 1871 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England [1]
Age: 3y
Sch 162, Aldenham Road
Emigration 8 Aug 1875 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England [2]
Minnie, her siblings and her parents David and Eliza, sailed from Gravesend, nr London aboard the "Mataura" on 8 August 1875. She arrived in Marlborough, New Zealand on 11 November 1875.
Into Place: Blenheim, New Zealand
An account of the arrival of the "SS MATAURA" in New Zealand on 10 November 1875.
Published in Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 298, 11 November 1875, Page 2.(Links to an external site. Use browser's "back" button to return here).
SS Mataura (seen here in dry dock in Auckland in the 1880s)
The Lawrence family arrived in New Zealand on 11 November 1875 following a voyage of 96 days from England.
Died 16 Feb 1922 Blenheim, New Zealand [3]
Siblings 4 siblings
d. 15 Feb 1859, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England (Age 1)
d. 18 Jan 1934, Nelson, New Zealand (Age 74)
d. 23 May 1933, Blenheim, New Zealand (Age 71)
d. 6 Jun 1948, Masterton, New Zealand (Age 73)
Person ID I3464 Mitchell Families
Father David Lawrance (ID:I3461)
d. 6 Nov 1914, Blenheim, New Zealand (Age 85)
Mother Eliza Wooster (ID:I3451)
d. 28 Sep 1910, Blenheim, New Zealand (Age 72)
4. Minnie Louisa Lawrance (Current Person)
d. 16 Feb 1922, Blenheim, New Zealand (Age 55)
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Born - 1867 - Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Census - Age: 3y - 2 Apr 1871 - Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Emigration - 8 Aug 1875 - Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Died - 16 Feb 1922 - Blenheim, New Zealand
Pin Legend : Exact Location : Area, Suburb, Parish or Registration District : City, Town or Village : County or Shire : State or Province : Country or Continent : Site of (No longer exists) : Not Defined
[S3235] Census 1871 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England RG10/1380 (Eliza Wooster).
[S8352] New Zealand, Immigration Passenger Lists, 1855-1973.
[S8351] John Saunders, Wellington, New Zealand, Wooster Descendants in New Zealand.
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Words Oct 26
A Love Letter to Dribbble
And Advice On How to Let It Change Your Life
Disclaimer: If you’re not into personal stories, you’ll probably want to find another blog post to read today. However, if you love Dribbble half as much as I do and like hearing real stories from actual people — please read on and who knows, maybe you’ll relate.
From my earliest recollections of childhood scribbles to the high school art studio, I’ve always felt a nagging hunger to do something meaningful with my passion for art and design.
As a fine arts major in college, I had a hunch that, like a Milton Bradley board game, life offered secret doors that opened to reveal rich pathways to personal fulfillment or success. I had no idea where to find them. I could sooner direct you to One-Eyed Willy’s loot in Goonies than to a purposeful professional life in design. Sure, college set me up with a decent old-school black leather portfolio and practical job-hunting advice that I struggle to remember — but where does one actually BEGIN to find a platform for his design craft?
Dribbble has been the single most influential source of inspiration for me in my adult professional life. My (ongoing) journey to and through Dribbble has evoked a few insights that I’d like to share with this community. At the least, it’s an expression of gratitude. At the most, maybe it will help motivate one or two of you to move from wherever you are now to your next chapter.
Start Somewhere … Else.
Growing up in Upstate New York was wonderfully stable — but my town wasn’t exactly the hub of artistic revolutions. Friends and family had no idea what it meant for a young man to make a living in art and design. Some still don’t. After school, I was eager to end the era of waiting tables and grooming golf courses in favor of web design territory.
I landed a job with the University of Rochester and they were willing to take a risk on an unproven but ambitious kid. There I discovered an influential mentor, but also started settling into that all-too-familiar routine … grateful to be employed in my field, but cranking out work not especially relevant to me. Been there? Looking back, I’m almost scared to think that 10 years of doing the same thing could’ve passed in a blink. Yikes. I needed a jumpstart — a radical change. It came. My best friend and I packed up our things and headed to New York City.
I know what you’re thinking. Cue ye old ‘coming of age’ tale where boy with humble beginnings from a small town moves to sexy big city. Sounds like the plot of every 80’s movie right? Bright lights! Big city! Jobs! Ladies! Diversity! A “potpourri of freaks!” to quote the television writers of Parenthood completely out of context. Big moves are known for big identity shifts. And the move to the city WAS a defining moment on my path to Dribbble. With no job and mentally armed with nothing but the thrill of a change and that old cliche, “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere,” the U-Haul made it’s way down the New York State Thruway.
Flash forward through four Brooklyn and one Manhattan apartments. (Now cue the montage of me jogging in Prospect Park, walking bright-eyed through Times Square, rescuing my dog from an Upper West Side vet, getting sauced with buddies at Lower East Side bars, and eventually meeting the love of my life.) By day, I toiled away first at an amazing mission-driven non-profit and then later that was followed by a profitable private company. By night, I blurred out over complex freelance projects. I had the cinematic highs and lows that your 20s and 30s bring. I worked. I played. I explored. I married. I became a father. Twice.
With no love lost, in fact with deep appreciation for this journey that resulted in my three most precious accomplishments (wife, daughter, son), I couldn’t ignore the personal loss that was creeping in. I had settled into a lackluster professional routine and suppressed all creative design off-roading. Life challenges centered around navigating the city, finances, marriage and parenthood. Aside from creative assets that I personally illustrated for my wedding, art and design sat waaaay in the back of a very long bus full of other responsibilities. With barely enough energy at the end of the day to keep pace with freelance work, I was dry of inspiration and motivation — feeling my artistic aptitude and penchant for creative design slipping away. My identity was slipping away. Time for a reboot.
Reboot. Refresh Regularly. Take Risks.
I stumbled upon Dribbble while trying to find some inspiration for a freelance project. I was transfixed by what I saw. I blinked and two hours passed. I marveled at the astonishing quality of work from so many different artists and designers. A curated, invite-only community of designers? BAM. A secret door! Like the Goonies with the pirate ship in sight, the voices inside my head went berserk — I wanted in! Waiting to be drafted after seeking the nod, I refreshed like I was trying to buy tickets for the last Sublime concert. Nothing. I waited. Months went by. Nothing. I started to question my worthiness. Top designers from all over the world called this site home. Creativity poured out of every pixel. Seemingly out of the blue one day, at last, the fateful email came — Dribbble itself drafted me. YES!… and gulp.
It took a while to post my first shot. I felt insecure. A cocktail of excitement, fear, obligation, and hope drove my first contribution. I don’t know what I expected; confetti and balloons weren’t dropping from the sky. In fact nothing much instantly happened except that de-pressurizing relief that maybe you feel when you beat a deadline on a project or your favorite character makes it through another episode of Game of Thrones. But a renaissance was indeed beginning. The reboot was working. Someone, maybe even the Dribbble godfathers themselves, Dan Cederholm or Rich Thornett, had taken a chance on me. And now I would get multiple chances, of every shape, color, and size (well at least in a 800x600px canvas anyway), every day if I wanted. And so do all of you reading this.
Slowly, my strength, confidence, and design impulses started moving up to the front of the bus. Peeking in on Dribbble became an instant refresher, a sort of virtual Red Bull in between work life and home life. More intoxicating than any night on Smith Street in Brooklyn or reinforcing than those pep talks from well-meaning friends who seemed to have hit their stride in other industries (know the ones?) What I had been lacking all along was the proper community — to source inspiration, motivation and provide a stunning artistic platform. Ironically, my former day job was doing web design for an incredibly mission-driven community center. I should’ve known all along about the power of community.
Find Your Calling. Find Your Community. Cultivate Courage.
Does design consume you? Does it keep you up at night? Does it drive your nearest and dearest crazy because of the amount of time you spend staring at a screen? Do you feel addicted? Do you want to share it with others? Maybe you should stop thinking of it as your ‘career’ and start thinking of it as your ‘calling.’
Sounds cheesy, right? Yeah, I once thought that term was reserved for rabbis, priests, Joan of Arc, and peace corps enlistees before my wife started describing her everyday relationship to her work (not so coincidentally, community-building at the JCC Manhattan) as a calling. Something you feel compelled to do. Something you feel driven to do. Dribbble helped me realize design is mine.
A calling is best served with a heaping portion of community. Enter the Dribbble cohort. No doubt Dribbble can be intimidating, but in a good way. I mean, the talent on display is undeniable. From the concepts to the iterations and finished products, there is so. much. talent. My early Dribbble shots were nothing to write home about, but cultivating the courage to post them was growth. What was Dribbble providing to me that past professors, employers, tweets, or Facebook posts couldn’t? I feel it’s that mix of recognition, validation, the inclusion in a world-class design community … the fraternity I never had in college. And moreover — inspiration, sounding boards, and new sets of tools at every turn. I poured over thousands of designs, downloaded and studied everything I could get my hands on, and I even started giving back to the community with resources of my own.
One informal criticism of Dribbble is that it tends to be a mutual admiration society, but the fact that real people with tremendous abilities look at my stuff (sometimes rely on it for their own progress) … well, that’s surely motivating. And worth its weight in gold.
Dribbble also helped me cultivate courage. Courage begets risks, and risks (hopefully) beget opportunities. I started to get noticed a bit. I started having conversations with people that I might never have met otherwise. Unique freelance projects seemed to emerge from the fog. Networking panned out into requests for my resources. Collaborations arose. My portfolio evolved. An Apple blog called to write a feature on my video game throwback concepts. Personal projects and Twitter activity emerged. My work was becoming a representation of me and what I loved. I started feeling like I could hold my own at design conferences and meetups. Without replacing in-person community, Dribbble has become an enormous, almost epic, extension of it.
I started understanding that doors don’t open by themselves — they open when you are ready for them to open. If you really get me going on this over a scotch, I’ll start sounding like Neo from the Matrix … when you are ready to believe, that is when you can truly realize your potential. (Translation: I drank the Dribbble-Aid.) I finally feel a body of work developing that has personal meaning. I started designing out of passion and instinct — not on deadline. Doors flew open.
Show Gratitude and Give Back.
Present day, many things remain constant. I am still in New York City with my wife, two kids, and dog. I still occasionally work through the night with crazy intensity. I still feel like a Goonies kid more than an established professional some days of the week. (You know that feeling like someday they are gonna just find you out?) I’ve drafted a handful of other talented people to Dribbble, welcome as many new members as I can, and pour over other people’s hard-fought design battles and solutions. Most importantly, I am still just as motivated to learn from others, find inspiration, and engage in meaningful design dialogue. Anyone can call themselves a designer, but for once in my life, I know authentically what it means to be one.
I am still only a fraction of the way to feeling totally holistic and accomplished in my craft, navigating the design world, and most importantly, balancing it all out with the real world demands of family and parenting. (Please give me a shout if you can mentor me in “Daddy vs. Design”!) Design and all that surrounds it is a life-long pursuit — one that is different for every person and one that will keep me on my toes until my very last day. However, Dribbble helped me find my calling. Dribbble helped me find a community. I feel a brotherhood (the gender-neutral kind) with all of you who also feel a passion for design deeply-rooted in heart and mind. Dribbble didn’t give me that but it certainly helped give it a voice. I am grateful for all the support of my family, friends, and especially my wife, in my journey to this place. I am especially grateful to Dribbble and all those who maintain it, contribute to it, and provide designers with an opportunity to find their voice – or their calling. I rank this community’s influence on my life right up there with the start of my career, my move to NYC and starting a family. I can’t wait for what lies ahead.
Thank you Dribbble, on behalf of many grateful artists who started “somewhere else” for providing a community which pushes us to be innovative, happier, more confident, more inspired designers. See you on the court.
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Home News Interview Buhari should allow skillful people to make economy better — Utomi
Buhari should allow skillful people to make economy better — Utomi
Professor Pat Utomi, proprietor of Lagos Business School, including CVL, in this interview laments that Nigeria has produced so little since the dominance of oil took root in the 1970’s and 1980’s. he advocates that Nigeria must produce or die.
ABOUT a year of the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, the economy has gone into recession; how did the country get here; Was this unavoidable?
First of all, to be fair to everybody, there is a thesis in economics that is familiar with in the area of business cycles; what goes up tends to come down and goes back up again. However, one of the skills everyone tries to acquire today is that you aren’t worse when the business cycle heads south. Meaning it is able to manage the trajectory of travel such that even when things are turning southwards you minimise the period of turf and reduce the negative consequences of people’s quality of life. At the heart of what determines the performance of economies or outputs, I operate around a basic mantra, Nigeria must produce or die. Unfortunately for us, Nigeria has produced so little since the dominance of oil took root in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Before this period Nigeria operated a federal structure that allowed sub-national governments to drive expansion of outputs. Regions were engaged in fierce competition about who would most boost outputs in their territories. If you look at industrialization, that competitiveness is referred to as competitive communalism.
In the 1990’s the structure of Nigeria’s industrialization had technically become unitary in the military regime and output had come to matter so little. What began to define Nigeria was a prebendal culture, a phenomenon that was most clearly identified by Richard Joseph, an American scientist in his book on Prebendal politics in Nigeria. This culture reached its worst in post-1990 when governors were no longer people who contributed to the economy but became leaders in plundering. They go to collect their prebends and squandered it.
This further compounded when basic economics suggests to anyone who dares to think that oil prices will stay high forever; it will not be. So, the first thing to think of when commodity prices are high is savings.
Next is diversifying the base of our economy. Though, this was included in virtually all budget speeches in the past years, nothing was done about it. That is why in the 1980s I was one of those so-called analysts who media houses run to once the budget is announced. Then, in Novemebr people would come back and lament on how it was poorly implemented. I would get angry because a good policy would always include proper implementation. I made this argument for several years. Then, it became clear to me that the people that make this budget either do not care or just carry it out because it’s a public process. Because the same man who makes this budget proceeds on a project that wasn’t included in the budget.
As oil prices reached its highest, we failed to save; the budget policy and implementation was reckless. So, that was what was going on. I wrote several years ago that we should have a policy that devices three pots for our saving. One, the fake account. The distributable pool fund. This is the fund where all the fiscal transfers from the centre to the sub national governments take place. We should not take into that pot more than $40 of the crude oil barrels we sell.
The next pot is the one where we put in every dollar between 40 and 60. This pot is for us to turn to it if oil drops, as we are experiencing now. This is the stabilization account. It should be fundable as quickly as possible. We use it to bridge the difference between what oil prices are selling for and what allocated price is on the budget. This would ensure we have a constant economy instead of the volatility of oil hitting our budget process the way it was in those days that we those we kept abandoning projects
Three, the sovereign wealth fund or a future fund. These are monies invested elsewhere and it can be used later as in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
This speech was given in the presence of the then Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela. To her credit, she said I was right but the politicians aren’t allowing us to do it. The elite has done us a lot of problems which is why we are essentially in this type of problem now.
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This was why Nigerians voted for change because they wanted this downward trend reversed. Is there a plan to make the change happen in positive direction?
One of the scandalous remarks I make is that the partner we are looking up to is Venezuela and it seats on the world’s greatest crude oil reserve and it has no power like Nigeria and before oil prices went anywhere their economy had gone south and if we aren’t carefully we would be next in line.
As for the question of what the plan is, I don’t know the game or where it is. But I believe there is a plan, one that was well articulated and which I participated in. Like the Vice President said on my 60th birthday in February, the APC and I developed a manifesto or roadmap. I gave more of my time to it and this went on for weeks. The principals in the process that function out of my house taking inputs from Abuja were my friend, Wale Edun, and the Voice President and one or two people. So, there was a plan but from my perspective I don’t think those plans are being followed.
So, what is the way forward for Nigeria?
Nigeria must turn to a more inclusive process of decision making. Presently, it’s too narrow and one or two people do not understand the dynamics of economies as well as can become available to make inputs. The presidency needs to also learn a thing or two from Cardoso who was a leader of the dependency theory. All his life he makes policies of regretting international policies. He is a Brazilian. He became the finance minister and enlisted the help of financial experts to help redeem their economy. Even though the plans were different from his academic views, he implemented them and the Brazilian economy was revived from the throes of inflation.
So, President Buhari has to forget those things he believes in and allow people who know better to come forward with suggestions on how to make the economy better.
But CVL has been doing a lot with devalued leadership
One of the things that led to starting CVL was certain recognitions that people don’t know what it means to lead. Most times you see people tot of as leaders scrambling to advance their self-interest. When you see that you know such isn’t a leader as leadership is us- centered not self-centered. Thinking of others and acting in their best interest and eventually you as an individual would profit. So we thought of mentoring young people and produce books on economic leadership and entrepreneurship and a sense of leadership and through a variety of programs for 12 years we have achieved this.
We have a number of flagship programs, one of which we just finished graduating a 100 of them. This spanned through months taking them through a number of entrepreneurial skills and then giving them start up kits to pursue their interests. We have programs that come up once every other month. Used to be monthly but we have changed that. We have had 34 LWT calipers of which Dr Ekwueme was part of them. We try to avoid inviting politicians but people who have successfully held leadership positions. We showcase them as examples to know is to lead
What has the feedback been like? In terms of participation, what has the success rate been?
Fantastic. It requires a lot of work. The number of young people who come to this thing cannot be enough to project to those in needs hence we are coming up with a television series and putting it online like on youtube.
In another programs we have, we bring young CEO’s who share on how they have climbed up the ladder and the challenges they faced on their way up so young people can learn. Just like LWT has a magazine, the leadership series has its. In addition to this, we run boot camps and other training programs and advocacy for values because we need to encourage society the importance of promoting certain values that define us
Still on leadership, the current leadership challenges from the National Assembly to other government bodies, are you doing anything to establish these institutions in the right path?
As much as we can, we get involved in programs they have but to be honest, most of them are lost which is why we focus more on tomorrow. To tell you the truth of the matter most of these present leaders are beyond salvation. So you can only deal with them from the view of discipline or punishment for those caught but those coming can be prepared to have a better attitude to leadership.
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Young Nigerians crave for role models, is CVL in partnership with agencies, universities or collaborating with them for better leadership training?
We are trying but we aren’t perfect and it’s not always easy as it looks i.e the collaboration. However we partner with the private sector to deliver these packages and we engage from time to time some individual government agency leader who experience CVL and call to help but we haven’t spent a lot of time building former relationships with government officials.
On diversifying the economy, you are doing a lot with agriculture, what are the opportunities in Nigeria?
Leadership also encompasses the civil service, our environment, in our families. A few years ago we started showing how things affect us. Because agriculture is very central to where Nigeria is going hence we are doing a special focus in agriculture this August. So, we are doing something practical about it hence we have acquired 200 hectares of land in Edo so this very month we shall have an integrated produce city which is a hub for farmers everywhere to bring their produces and adequate storage has been provided while hotels and commodity experts come and move the purchased items to their complex and within these complexes, further manufacturing goes on. Farming is a major concept and farmers have challenges with funds especially with the present economic situation, so, what have been put in place to ensure a laudable project that can be accessible to farmers to receive funds?
There’s a window with CVL and we are also working with foreign equity firms to raise the funds needed for this project but we have gotten traction and we are moving forward so there are sources we can get revenue from.
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‘Gotham’ Serves Up Press Pic of Alfred Pennyworth
03-24-14 • Comics, TV Posted by Adam A. Donaldson
The jury’s still out on whether fans should get excited about this new Batman project or ready themselves for a disappointment on par with “Batdance,” but when it comes to the Caped Crusader, it’s pretty hard to screw up Alfred. Really, just cast an older British dude and your job’s half done. So on that level, congratulations Gotham producers, you’ve won this round. Scan below to see the first publicity picture of actor Sean Pertwee as (future) Batman’s most trusted ally.
What do you think? At least they got the uniform right. Pertwee is an accomplished character actor, and has recently been see on American TV as Inspector Lestrade on CBS’ Elementary, so I have not doubt he can at least adequately play the young Alfred on a weekly basis on Gotham. “Alfred Pennyworth is a tough-as-nails ex-marine from East London who has loyally served the Waynes,” according to the official character description, “Now, in the wake of their tragic deaths, he’s fiercely protective of the young Bruce Wayne.”
Fun fact: did you know that Alfred was a character in the last attempt to turn the Batman mythos into a weekly TV series, The former WB’s Birds of Prey. He was played by Ian Abercrombie, who may be otherwise best known for playing Mr. Pitt on Seinfeld, or for voicing Chancellor Palpatine in the Clone Wars animated series. Clearly, you just can’t do anything Batman related without Alfred.
The Gotham pilot is filming now in New York City, and already has a confirmed place in Fox’s prime time schedule, we’ll find out in May when exactly it will debut. The pilot is being written by Bruno Heller (Rome, The Mentalist) and directed by Danny Cannon (CSI, Nikita).
More news as it develops.
Source: Coming Soon
Category: Comics, TV
Tags: alfred pennyworth, Batman, Bruno Heller, danny cannon, Gotham, Sean Pertwee
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November 2, 2018 Arvin Santiago
Go beyond gaming with HyperX Cloud Mix headset: Review
HyperX is known for making some premium headsets for gamers. They have a long history and a long line of products that have been built for gamers of any skill level, but yet their headsets stop at gaming. Their headsets are built and optimized for video games, but with the introduction of the “Cloud Mix,” HyperX is looking to take their headsets out of the video game space and into real, everyday use.
Headphones come with a variety of options for our everyday needs. Whether that’s for video games, music listening, movie watching, physical fitness, or sound recording, there’s a pair of headphones out there that will optimize what you’re listening to. The HyperX Cloud Mix is designed to be a headset that gamers can use to switch between gaming and music listening without ever having to take off the headphones. But will this mix be evenly balanced or will it end up favoring one over the other?
The Cloud Mix lends its design from studio headphones such as Beyerdynamic. Its simplistic, clean, and straightforward. The headphones are constructed from an aluminum frame which is supported with dense memory foam and soft leatherette material. Even after long hours of gaming and music listening, I didn’t suffer from any discomfort.
The ear cups are over-the-ear and have a nice depth to it to fully encapsulate your ear which helps to block out any unwanted noise. On the outside of each ear cup, you’ll be greeted with large HyperX logos which stand out against the black matte color of the headphones. You’ll also find a logo on top of the headband. On the left ear cup, you’ll find auxiliary ports to connect the gaming microphone and that included 3.5mm cable. On the right ear cup, you’ll find control buttons such as the power and volume controls, as well as the USB charging port. The buttons are easy to find when using the headset and have a nice responsive feel to them.
The headphones are durable and lightweight, and the pair never felt like it was squeezing my head. The detachable microphone has some flexibility to it that makes it easy to adjust while gaming. And the included cable comes with a volume control and mute button that comes in handy while your playing games and chatting with your team.
During video game sessions, the Cloud Mix had a good sound level. Though it was nothing impressive as far as feeling immersed in the games audio, it did present an impressive loudness that still gave me the ability to hear the smaller sounds. This came in handy when I played battle royale games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – Blackout, I was able to hear footsteps that were close to me, giving me an advantage over the enemies.
The detachable microphone performed really well. My voice came in clear, sharp, and had no echoing or muffling. The included cable made it easy for me to stay connected in the in-game chat without having to worry about charging up the headset or connection dropouts. The microphone does allow for any background or outside noise to be picked up easily, so that is one thing I had to be wary about while I was chatting with people online.
Where the Cloud Mix really impressed me was when I used them to listen to music. The 40mm dual-chamber drivers process the audio in a balanced and even level. The lows were pleasant and sat in the background as they were intended, while the highs came in clear and undistorted. It wasn’t often that I heard the highs come in having a high pinging or clipping sound. The sweet spot was in the mids as vocals came through sounding full, lively, and very clear.
Battery level on the headphones is decent. On a full charge, I was able to squeeze out somewhere between 18-20 hours of use, which is on the lower end compared to some other wireless headphones I use. But with the included cable, running out of power won’t stop you from continuing to listen to your music, as you can just plug in the cable and go. Bluetooth connection works really well, as I didn’t experience any connection problems unless I moved out of a 30-foot range.
Final Reaction
For its first foray into a dual-use headset, HyperX has engineered a quality product with the Cloud Mix that does a great job of seamlessly switching between gaming and everyday use. With a headset without the frills in its design, the shining light is in its audio presence. While video games will have a sense of loudness, the real champion comes when listening to music. The hi-res audio combined with the 40mm dual-chamber pumps out audio in a magnetic and powerful balance that makes any musical genre pleasant to hear. For a price tag of $199.99, the Cloud Mix is a great pair of headphones that can eliminate the need for multiple headsets.
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Downtown San Luis Obispo bars asked to stop two-for-one drink specials
Quinn Fish
Update Feb. 2:
San Luis Obispo Downtown Association Executive Director Dominic Tartaglia wanted to make it clear that this agreement did not come from an ordinance or piece of legislation, but rather from a unanimous decision amongst bar owners.
Bar owners agreed to end two-for-one drink specials because of high intoxication levels in the downtown area.
“The responsibility is on [the students] to be respectful of the community and enjoy downtown consciously,” Tartaglia wrote in an email to Mustang News. “The disappearance of 2-for-1 specials is a direct [effect] of people being disrespectful, obnoxious, offensive or dangerous as a result of their poor judgment and it has ruined that promotion for the rest of you.”
Some San Luis Obispo students have expressed their doubts in the agreement.
“In general, the public intoxication seemed like its normal level last weekend … People are going to get to the level of intoxication they desire no matter the cost, and if it’s about a financial standpoint, [students] will find their way around it,” agricultural business senior Roman Killgore said. “I think this may do the opposite of what cancelling two-for-ones was trying to accomplish.”
Software engineering senior and Uber driver Jason Ismail said he feels this agreement has affected his sales.
“I’ve received less rides, less surge, and less business in general,” Ismail said. “I think downtown has been quieter. This will slow down the craziness of downtown for sure.”
San Luis Obispo Downtown Association and the San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) asked downtown bars and restaurants to stop serving two-for-one drink specials effective Jan. 22.
Bars affected by this include Mother’s Tavern, Creeky Tiki, Frog & Peach Pub, Marston’s Bar & Grill and SLO Brew, among others.
The purpose of this ban is to reduce the high intoxication levels in the downtown area, according to San Luis Obispo Downtown Association Executive Director Dominic Tartaglia.
Some of the downtown establishments said they were understanding of the new rule.
Mother’s Tavern will continue to offer a number of similar specials, but none that offer discounts on pairs of drinks, according to Mother’s Tavern manager Nick Guggisberg.
“We hope that students will understand that this change will ultimately benefit the community as a whole and allow everyone to have a safer and more enjoyable experience when partaking in downtown festivities,” Guggisberg said.
While some bars and restaurants did not feel the new rule would negatively affect their business, not all students are pleased with the decision.
“I don’t really think it’s fair of the city to do that,” sociology junior Maggie Curran-Levett said. “We’re broke college students that can’t afford to not have deals like that when going downtown.”
Along with safety enhancement zones during impacted times of year, this rule is another example of the SLOPD and the City of San Luis Obispo cracking down on binge drinking in an effort to make the city safer for students and residents alike.
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Redevelopment begins in eastern transportation corridor area
Project to include removal of decaying willows on Saunderson
April 17, 2018 —
Enhancements to the Saunderson Street and Dysart Road area will begin this spring 2018. Area improvements will be phased in over five years and will include road renewal, tree planting, native prairie revegetation, a multi-use path, seating, signage and wayfinding. Saunderson Street is on the eastern edge of Fort Garry campus, adjacent to the Point Lands. Saunderson Street and Dysart Road form part of the Fort Garry campus ring road network along with University Crescent and Freedman Crescent.
The significant redevelopment, which will take place over the next few years, will include the arborist-recommended removal of the rows of post-mature golden willow (Salix alba ‘Vitellina’) along the transportation corridor. The trees are in late-life decay and have been exhibiting these signs for over a decade.
The willows are expected to be removed at the end of April. According to University of Manitoba Arborist, the willows on Saunderson Street “all, without exception, display the common patterns of decline associated with this species. The species typically exhibits fast growth, but a short life.”
The trees no longer possess structural integrity or stability and continue to pose a hazard to the campus community.
Willows on Sanderson Street, Fort Garry campus ring road.
Willows detail.
Willow detail.
“The willows are filled with dead and dying limbs, split branches and large cavities, as well as decayed and leaning trunks,” he explains. Regular maintenance can no longer keep up with the rates of decline and remediation efforts have ceased. Due to their condition and for safety reasons, they have been recommended for removal.
Other species of trees in the area include, among others, green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), basswood (Tilia americana), little-leaf linden (Tilia cordata), and amur maple (Acer ginnala). A number of these trees will also be removed because of continued decline resulting from disease, and the harsh growing conditions posed by steep slopes and poor soil conditions. All tree removals will commence at the end of April.
‘Green Corridor’
The Saunderson Street transformation is an opportunity to create a unique landscape at the Fort Garry campus. As identified in the Visionary (re)Generation Master Plan’s open space framework, Saunderson/Dysart is envisioned as a “Green Corridor.”
Dysart-Saunderson Redevelopment conceptual plan.
Purple prairie clover is a common forb planted in native grass mixes.
The area improvement, which will take place over five years, will integrate an enhanced public space with a “complete streets” approach that is safe, convenient, and comfortable travel for all users and transportation modes. Elements will be phased in over time, such as active transportation infrastructure and features of our native Manitoba landscape. The scenic character of this iconic corridor will include a future multi-use path lined with a variety of trees, rooted in native forbs (herbaceous flowering plants) and grasses, and punctuated with feature plantings and site furnishings.
Redevelopment implements Indigenous planning and design principles, sustainable biodiversity
The Saunderson/Dysart landscape will feature a native revegetation project, to start this spring/summer with site preparation and weed control work over the first two years and final native planting in the spring of 2020. Future enhancement will be phased in through the coming years. The redevelopment project will implement the University’s Indigenous Planning and Design Principles, which includes a ceremonial component.
A native grass planting in Winnipeg roughly 8 years after planting.
Native prairie plantings, when planned and implemented properly, require significantly less ongoing maintenance and are considered a more sustainable alternative to conventional plantings. The revegetation will complement adjacent natural areas on campus and contribute to local native biodiversity.
The enhancement of the eastern transportation corridor will create a new “working landscape” as part of the long-term plan for the campus. This gateway to the riverbottom forest and future learning landscape of the Point Lands will transform over time, providing education and engagement for numerous faculties as well as a new recreation destination for pedestrians and cyclists alike.
Should you have any questions or concerns please contact: Vanessa Jukes, MALA, CSLA, PMP, project manager and landscape architect, Architectural & Engineering Services, Physical Plant, at Vanessa [dot] Jukes [at] umanitoba [dot] ca
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'Springsteen on Broadway’ soundtrack coming in December
Columbia Records will release the 'Springsteen on Broadway’ soundtrack album on December 14th, featuring the songs and stories from Tony Award winner Bruce Springsteen's historic 236-show run at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
Consisting of the complete audio from the upcoming 'Springsteen on Broadway' Netflix release, the soundtrack album will be available on 4 LPs or 2 CDs as well as a digital download and on streaming services.
Listen to "Land of Hope and Dreams" from the 'Springsteen on Broadway’ soundtrack album: http://smarturl.it/springsteenbway
Based on his worldwide best-selling autobiography 'Born to Run,’ 'Springsteen on Broadway' is a unique evening with Bruce, his guitar, a piano, and his very personal stories. On the 'Springsteen on Broadway’ soundtrack album, each of these stories appears as its own track, labeled as an "introduction" to the song it precedes. The audio for ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ was mixed by the legendary Bob Clearmountain and mastered by the acclaimed Bob Ludwig.
Watch a 30 second teaser video for the album by Emmy Award-winner Thom Zimny: http://smarturl.it/lohadtz
'Springsteen on Broadway' began previews on Oct. 3, 2017 and the completely sold-out series of performances officially opened Oct. 12. The show was extended three times after its initial eight-week run, and will close on Broadway on Dec. 15. 'Springsteen on Broadway' will launch on Netflix globally on Dec. 16 at 12:01 AM PT / 3:01 AM ET.
'Springsteen on Broadway' is available for preorder:
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'Springsteen on Broadway' Track List:
Growin' Up (introduction & song)
My Hometown (introduction & song)
My Father's House (introduction & song)
The Wish (introduction & song)
Thunder Road (introduction & song)
The Promised Land (introduction & song)
Born In The U.S.A. (introduction & song)
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Brilliant Disguise (introduction & song) with Patti Scialfa
Long Time Comin' (introduction & song)
The Ghost Of Tom Joad (introduction & song)
The Rising (song)
Dancing In The Dark (introduction & song)
Land Of Hope And Dreams (song)
Born To Run (introduction & song)
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3,790 Killed Across Iraq in September
by Margaret Griffis Posted on September 30, 2014 September 30, 2014
Updated at 7:58 p.m., Sept. 30, 2014
Antiwar.com has determined that at least 3,790 people were killed across Iraq during September. These numbers include militants, even foreign ones, killed in Iraq. Another 1,949 were wounded. The violence also left 126 dead and 184 wounded across Iraq on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, freshly equipped Peshmerga forces have apparently made a complete turnaround since losing Sinjar (Shingal in Kurdish) last month and are retaking towns and villages at a quickening pace. Further south, bombs targeting civilians in Baghdad and several Shi’ite cities left a significant number of casualties. Also, British forces conducted their first airstrikes, as the U.S. continued theirs, making this the busiest day for airstrikes across Iraq and Syria yet.
September Casualty Figures:
The number of people killed in Iraq, since the Islamic State invaded in June, is impossible to accurately pin down. Various organizations have reported casualties as they occur, but the Iraqi government has largely avoided reporting all but a few, obvious military deaths. Only today, Kurdish Peshmerga forces revealed about 200 dead and 1,000 injured during battles in Kurdish territory since early August. Most of those casualties were previously unreported, and are not included in our figures for September. Militant deaths are just as difficult, especially those deep within ISIS/DAASH territory.
During September, Antiwar.com compiled at least 1,158 civilian and security member deaths. Another 1,661 were reported wounded. These should be considered the minimum available numbers. The figures will rise as more details are received from rural areas of Iraq and those under militant control. For example, a clearer, if not final, total of the number of dead in a massacre at Camp Speicher was released early in September even though the attack occurred in June. Those deaths were not included in this month’s tally.
Militant casualties reached 2,632 dead and 288 wounded, while Iraq’s military announced that they alone conducted 2,116 sorties in September. It is difficult to gauge how accurate these casualtiy figures are. They could be wild estimates by the Iraqi government, which has been known to downplay or exaggerate figures to suit political purposes. However, many of the battles and airstrikes have been characterized with vague phrases, such as "heavy fighting" and "many killed." Those were not added to the above counts but must have produced some casualties. This suggests that even the militant deaths may have been undercounted. Certainly, the wounded figure is very low compared to the reality; wounded militants would be transported to militant care centers and out of reach of Iraqi casualty counters.
In August, Antiwar.com found that 4,800 were killed and 2,839 were wounded. Although the numbers seem to indicate fewer casualties, it should not be read as such, because accurate numbers simply are not available.
Peshmerga Gains in Northern Iraq:
Peshmerga forces said they were able to take control of Rabeaa, a strategic town near the Syrian border. If Peshmerga forces retain control of the city, they will have cut off a major roadway between Syria and northern Iraq and put a stranglehold on a travel by Islamic State militants between the two countries. Rabeaa was one of the first cities captured in June. Fighting there and elsewhere during the last several weeks has cost the Peshmerga forces 200 lives. Another 1,000 Peshmerga were wounded, according to Peshmerga Spokesman Hikmet Mela Ali. The number of casualties on Tuesday was not given.
ISIS/DAASH militants destroyed their own headquarters and checkpoints as they fled from there and Sinjar. Fighters from the Shammar Tribe helped, and the troops may have had air cover from U.S. fighter planes during the operation. British planes also bombed northwestern Iraq. Kurdish Y.P.G. forces in Syria claimed to have contributed to the operation as well. Heavy fighting also took place in Zumer, near the Mosul dam. Several villages surrounding Rabeaa have also been liberated.
Closer to Kirkuk, the towns of Khaled, Sa’ad, Taza and Wahda were freed. Two Peshmerga were killed and 18 were wounded in the fighting.
Casualties elsewhere in Iraq:
In Baghdad, 20 people were killed and 35 were wounded when two car bombs exploded in the Hurriya district. Five people were killed and 15 were wounded in a mortar attack in Sabaa al-Bour. A bomb in Zaafaraniya killed seven people and wounded 21 others. Mortars left three dead and 12 wounded in Shula.
Eight people were killed and 12 were wounded in Karbala.
Shelling in Falluja left two dead and seven wounded. Clashes left five bystanders dead and 11 wounded.
A blast in Khanaqin killed four Peshmerga and wounded 12 more.
A bomb exploded in an Iskandariya parking lot and killed five people and wounded 13 more.
Another in Kefil killed two people and wounded eight more.
In Duluiya, mortars wounded six people. At least eight fighters or civilians were wounded as well. At the very least 17 militants were killed in battles.
A roadside bomb in Daquq wounded six Peshmerga fighters, where heavy fighting is reported.
Four people were killed and seven were wounded during shelling in Tikrit.
Two policemen were shot dead in Hit.
Two people were wounded in a bombing in Basra.
Fifteen militants were killed while trying to attack checkpoints in the recently cleared town of Amiriyat al-Falluja. Airstrikes killed another seven.
Six militants were killed and more were wounded in an airstrike in Saidiya.
Security forces killed five militants in Tarmiya.
Five militants were killed near Baquba.
Tribal forces in Mansouriya killed a militant leader and a companion. Militants damaged levees to prevent security forces from approaching them through now-flooded areas.
Heavy fighting is taking place in Rashad.
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Author: Margaret Griffis
Margaret Griffis is a journalist from Miami Beach, Florida and has been covering Iraqi casualties for Antiwar.com since 2006. View all posts by Margaret Griffis
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A Democratic political action committee has released a new Spanish-language TV commercial reminding Puerto Ricans of many of their disappointments in President Donald Trump‘s response to Hurricane Maria and pointing out that Florida Gov. Rick Scott has refused to criticize the federal response.
“The Trump administration’s lack of response to Hurricane Maria was woefully inadequate, and Rick Scott’s inability to acknowledge the government’s failures is proof that he does not care about the people of Puerto Rico,” Hannah Hurley, spokesperson for the Senate Majority Political Action Committee, stated in a news release about the new commercial.
Scott’s U.S. Senate campaign already has countered, with a TV commercial of its own, “Fight for You” that specifically rebuts the claims in the Senate Majority PAC ad, and which details some of Scott’s efforts, including his eight trips to Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria destroyed much of the island in September, 2017.
So what’s on the air on Spanish television now are dueling commercials about Scott’s role to help Puerto Rico, both launched Monday.
The Senate Majority PAC, which is supporting the re-election of Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson,with more than $11 million in outside advertising, focuses not on Scott’s efforts, but on Trump’s response, which was widely disparaged by Puerto Ricans, a situation Trump exacerbated in September when he declared in a tweet that the estimated death toll of nearly 3,000 people was fake news promulgated by his political enemies.
The 30-second SMP commercial “Differente” features sorrowful music and black-and-white images of the growing storm, of homeless Puerto Ricans (with text declaring 70,000 families were made homeless), of grieving people (with text declaring 2,975 deaths), and of Trump throwing a roll of paper towels into a crowd during his visit to the island. It then runs footage of Scott saying, “I don’t know what I would do differently.”
The commercial ends with a picture of Nelson, and the message, “Vote for Bill Nelson.”
Scott’s counter, besides citing some of his own efforts, is the statement that “Rick Scott has confronted President Trump when he disagrees with him,” which Scott did following the president’s tweet on the death toll.
Scott’s ad also blames Nelson for the SMP ad, though legally Nelson and the Senate Majority PAC must remain completely independent.
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Rising to the coffee challenge: high yields, high quality and environmental sustainability
“It’s not easy to grow in a sustainable way”, says Wilson Olivera, President of Peruvian coffee cooperative Central Fronteriza del Norte de Cafetaleros (Cenfrocafe).
Yet, this Oikocredit partner cooperative’s members have managed to significantly increase their coffee yield, while also ensuring the sustainable use of land.
High yields and sustainable practices
Widely recognised as one of the top organic fair-trade certified coffee cooperatives in Peru, Cenfrocafe was founded in 1999 and is based in the Cajamarca region. It represents more than 100 grassroots organisations, with more than 2,600 members producing around 210,000 quintales of coffee (around 9.6 million kg) per year.
“Growing in an environmentally sustainable way is a challenge as we have been affected by coffee rust, insect plagues and heavy rains in the last few years,” says Wilson Olivera.
Despite these challenges, Cenfrocafe members managed to produce around 1,200 kg per hectare in 2017, almost double the average in Peru (650 kg per hectare).
Supporting smallholder farmers
“Cenfrocafe creates opportunities for its members at commercial, social and financial levels. We search for the best markets to sell coffee at a good price and provide post-harvesting support for export,” says CEO Ronny García.
The cooperative supports smallholder farmers:
Through micro loans to cover pre-harvesting costs, maintain farms, buy land and machines, and cover health and education expenses. We also offer disaster relief funds, and education scholarships.
Through capacity building: Five agronomists and ten promoters (linked to smaller associations) provide technical support on sustainable farming practices. They also emphasise women’s inclusion and participation in the process.
Through encouraging fair trade and organic production and paying out premiums.
Stronger together: the role of associations
The cooperative is made up of smaller associations of 25-30 members so they can support one another and be represented in decision-making for the wider cooperative.
“We distinguish ourselves, not by having the most members but by carefully selecting our members. While other cooperatives admit new members immediately after paying an entrance fee, our members have to pass demanding criteria to join an association and are evaluated after one year before becoming a permanent member,” says Wilson Olivera.
Working with Oikocredit for a better future
Oikocredit’s partner since 2010, the most recent investment in 2016 was a loan of US$ 2 million for seven years, to be used for working capital and the construction of a new processing plant.
In future, Cenfrocafe will greatly benefit from having its own processing plant instead of using an external one:
Saving on transportation costs and travel time as the plant will be geographically closer to the farmers.
Increasing income with the production of higher volumes of high quality organic fair trade coffee suitable for export.
Enhancing environmentally sustainable practices as the coffee shell ‘waste’ from the plant can be used as biofuel.
Cenfrocafe has also participated in Oikocredit’s price risk management programme to help farmers mitigate the effects of fluctuations in coffee prices on international markets. Read more on that here.
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St. Stephens Missionary Baptist Church (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
Shepard-Pruden Library (Edenton, N.C.)
Albemarle Improvement Association (Albemarle, N.C.)
Bertie County, N.C.
Elizabeth City, N.C.
SAVFC-WHi
Social Action Vertical File, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Address delivered at Mass Meeting, St. Paul AME Church, Birmingham, Ala.
Alexander, Lord
Sparkman, John J.
Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz)
Hill, Lister
Ezekiel (Biblical prophet)
Moses (Biblical leader)
Morris Brown College
Atlanta University
Georgia State Capitol
Ezekiel 2:1
SAAPC-AlBiCRI
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Collection, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
CD 4, side 2
7/16/2008 20:3:24
Draft, ''Chapter III, Bull Connor's Birmingham,'' Why We Can't Wait
Popper, Hermine I.
Pitts, Lucius H. [Miles College]
Gaston, A.G. (Arthur George)
Gardner, Edward Hall [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]
Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand)
Drew, John
King, Tom
Why We Can't Wait
Box 89, folder 9 (4 of 5)
Interview by Alex Haley
Playboy 12 (January 1965): 65-68, 70-74, 76-78.
Nixon, Edgar Daniel [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)]
Haley, Alex
Thomas, Rex [Associated Press ]
Hayling, Robert Bagner
Pearson, Drew
Lewis, John [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)]
Lelyveld, Arthur J.
Griffin, Marvin C.
Playboy Magazine
John Birch Society
United Negro College Fund
Mobile, Ala.
Lucyville, Miss.
Hattiesburg, MIss.
Atlanta Move, 1960
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Go Down, Moses
U.S. Constititution
Draft, Annual Report delivered at the Ninth Annual Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
[Birmingham, Ala.]
Williams, Hosea
Green, Robert Lee
Boyte, Harry G.
Revere, Paul
Conant, James Bryant
Johnson, James Weldon
S.C.L.C. Operation Breadbasket
KLMDA-NNCorI
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
HCBP-NcD, Harry C. Boyte Family Papers, Duke University, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Maunscript Library, Durham, N.C.
Subject Files, SCLC, 3 of 5
CRP-NNU-T, Cleveland Robinson Papers, Tamiment Library, New York University, New York, N.Y.
Box 24, folder 617
12/14/2009 jmkunz
Annual Report delivered at the Ninth Annual Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
''Annual Report,'' delivered on 8/11/1965
8/9/1965-8/13/1965
SCLC: Summary of Ninth Annual Convention, 9-13 August 1965, pp. 4-14
Bevel, James L. (James Luther) [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Williams, Hosea [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Clark, Septima Poinsette [Citizenship Education Program]
Young, Andrew [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Green, Robert Lee [Citizenship Education Program]
Bennette, Fred C. [S.C.L.C. Operation Breadbasket]
Boyte, Harry G. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Vivian, C. T. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
Office of Economic Opportunity
Marion, Ala.
Camden, Mass.
Demopolis, Ala.
Eutaw, Ala.
Union Town, Pa.
Crawfordville, Ga.
Americus, Ga.
Dallas County, Ala.
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Fundraising pamphlet, Annual Report delivered at Ninth Annual National Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on 8/11/1965 in Birmingham, Ala.
CULC-ICIU
Chicago Urban League Collection, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
FrHP-MBNU, Freedom House Papers, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
Box 59, folder 2597
Address at Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff retreat
Frogmore, S.C.
Hankerson, J. Lester (Joseph Lester)
Evers, Charles
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph
Davis, Pat
Ho, Chi Minh
Ford, Henry
Grenada, Miss.
Perry County, Ohio
Art of Loving
Address by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff retreat
Audio Speech
MLK/OH-GAMK
Martin Luther King, Jr., Oral History Collection, 1950-1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
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Belafonte, Harry 47
APRP-DLC, A. Philip Randolph Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 18
WTWP-INP, Wyatt Tee Walker Papers, In Private Hands 8
BWOF-AB, Birmingham World Office Files, Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library, Birmingham, Ala. 7
EJBC-NN-Sc, Ella J. Baker Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. 6
WTWC-NN-Sc, Wyatt Tee Walker Collection, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. 6
UERR-PPiU-IS, United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) Records, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 5
Personal notecards on ''N'' topics
Schuyler, George Samuel
Bowles, Chester
Sumner, Charles
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
Drummond, Roscoe
Fine, Benjamin
Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
The Nature and Destiny of Man
The U.S. Negro, 1953
The Negro's Road to Equality
We're Ready to Guzzle It, But We Ain't Ready to Make It!
South Spurs Gain for Negro Peoples
The Negro - Progress and Challenge
How Much Truth Is There in Nieszche?
Program, ''Salute to Martin Luther King, Jr.''
Westchester Salute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Berner, Joan
Horton, John T.
Kunstler, Lotte
Banks, William A.
Treadwell, George
Patterson, Lawrence
F. & M. Schaefer Breweries, Inc.
The William Morris Agency
Alfred Duckett Associates
Macon, Ga.
Rye, N.Y.
New Rochelle, N.Y.
Yonkers, N.Y.
Box 123A
WGAC-GAMK, William G. Anderson Collection, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Vault Box
Letter to Little Friends of Freedom
Includes enclosure.
Wetherill, Alice H.
Horsham Friends Meeting (Horsham, Pa.)
Warrington, Pa.
Letter to Eartha Kitt
Kitt, Eartha [Eartha Kitt Productions, Inc.]
Eartha Kitt Productions, Inc.
Beverly Hills, Calif.
1.1.0.26250
O'Dell, Jack H.
Memo regarding appeal mailing
Initialed
12/1962-2/1963
Draft, Letter to Lotte Kunstler
''An Analysis of the Ethical Demands of Integration,'' Address delivered at the Nashville Consultation
[Nashville, Tenn.]
Jones, Charles M.
Gandhi, Lakshmi
Nehru, Jawaharlal [India. Prime Minister]
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Atlanta, Ga.)
India. Prime Minister
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Olivia Batto
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Book Review: Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron
Author Olivia BattoPublished on June 4, 2018 May 18, 2018
Review - Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron - 3 stars
I really wanted to like Nice Dragons Finish Last more than I did.
There's an interesting and complex world. Rachel Aaron sets her scene on near-future earth. Magic has returned and woken up all the magical creatures who were just resting their eyes a bit. I loved the magic elements to this story. They were well explained without a ton of exposition.
The supporting characters were also fantastic. The dynamic interactions between the characters made them feel lifelike, and the intrigue added enough mystery to keep them interesting. Best of all, they were remarkably distinct from one another. I had no trouble recalling a character who appeared briefly at the beginning of the book, even when I was near the end.
The storyline has some great twists and turns, and the setting and supporting characters create a great mix of assumed backstory and ambience.
Unfortunately, the main character annoyed me.
Spoilers Below!
It's important to note, the main character Julian has a lot to recommend him. He's wicked smart. He has a gift with words. And - oh yeah - he just happens to be superhumanly swift and strong. He also sticks with Marci, the most interesting character in the story, so he has good taste.
Don't get me wrong, he wasn't written as an annoying person. That wouldn't be nearly as frustrating. Instead, he is maddeningly self-assured in his sugar-sweet, "if we all just held hands the world would be so perfect, but alas no one knows how to be really nice but me" mentality.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the message this author wants to send. Time after time, the story contorts to prove him right.
Sometimes characters go completely against what they're characterized to be in order to aid that desired result. Julian, a twenty-four year old and incredibly sheltered dragon, drops his "just be nice and it'll all work out" mentality in among a bunch of centuries and even millennia-old dragons, and somehow they don't die of laughter. They even agree with him after the end of the story, albeit after some dangerous hijinks ensue.
Other people aren't as easily convinced about his rightness. Somehow, that never poses much of a problem for a literal apex predator like Julian. I suppose it's easier to be nice to someone when you know you can do just about anything to them and get away with it.
He has plenty of allies to call to his side when he's overpowered. Sometimes they show up even when he doesn't want them, which prompts some great scenes.
All of this means that Julius spends the entire story not growing or changing an awful lot. He goes from knowing that the world would be better if people would just listen, to knowing the world will be better because people listened. Not a lot of character growth there. Not to mention, his inherent rightness seems odd. He's a young man who spent most of his life in his mom's house, unwilling to venture outside. Why is he so savvy?
Another issue I found annoying was his constant stonewalling of the secondary character, Marci. If she says or does something he doesn't like, Julian just stops speaking to her. After the third time this happens, I find myself wondering why such a cool chick still has any interest in him at all.
He explains those silent brooding moments, but only in his head. Not to Marci. Even then it seems odd.
Okay, spoilers over.
Despite my frustrations with the main character, this was still a good book, and worth the read. The author champions Julius' worldview heavily in this book, but the other characters make some strong cases for their own points of view. This makes me hopeful for the author's future work.
Many other elements are strong in this story, so I'm at least hooked until the next part in the series.
If you are a sucker for YA paranormal fantasy with romantic elements and a trickster hero, this is the book to try. Especially if you think a broody dragon dude is super hot.
As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don’t cause trouble, and stay out of the way of bigger dragons. But this meek behavior doesn't fly in a family of ambitious magical predators, and his mother, Bethesda the Heartstriker, has finally reached the end of her patience.
Now, sealed in human form and banished to the DFZ--a vertical metropolis built on the ruins of Old Detroit--Julius has one month to prove he can be a ruthless dragon or kiss his true shape goodbye forever. But in a city of modern mages and vengeful spirits where dragons are considered monsters to be exterminated, he’s going to need some serious help to survive this test.
He only hopes humans are more trustworthy than dragons...
Published on June 4, 2018 May 18, 2018 Author Olivia BattoCategories Fantasy, My Bookshelf, Reviews, Young Adult
Book Review: Snare by Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae
Author Olivia BattoPublished on May 28, 2018 May 18, 2018
Review: Snare by Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae - 5 stars
Vampires! Paperwork! Romance!
This one is easy to love. The worldbuilding is fantastic, the characters are complex, and the pacing is believable. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes low-key paranormal elements/magical realism, meet-cute romances where the protagonists have a lot to work out after the inital attraction, and POV characters who *don't* immediately try to change a world they don't understand.
I loved Eli's emotional journey, and his exploration of the warrens avoided the pitfalls of many paranormal romances. The warren isn't some underground cave where people dress in capes and drink strangely soupy red wine; it's a community where beings of both species live together and care about each other. Eli doesn't become the chosen one who has to save a weird, wild world from eeeevil; he's just a guy who is new at this stuff and makes mistakes because he's not quite sure what the rules are.
The POV was more distant than I usually like, but it seemed appropriate for the presentation and subject matter. After a few pages, I found the distant POV helped to draw my attention to details I would otherwise have missed.
This whole story is so cozy and wonderful, and I look forward to reading more by these authors.
When Elliot Iverson, a municipal employee responsible for paperwork pertaining to New York City's vampire population, knocks on the door of the Gramercy warren, he wants only to resolve a clerical error. But a sudden snowstorm, a new friendship, and an ill-advised threesome force Elliot to make some big choices about his own life and death.
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Published on May 28, 2018 May 18, 2018 Author Olivia BattoCategories Fantasy, Gay Romance, LGBTQ+, My Bookshelf, Reviews, Romance
Book Review: Gays of Our Lives by Kris Ripper
Review: Gays of Our Lives by Kris Ripper - 4.5 stars
I was captivated from the moment I opened Gays of Our Lives. It's written in first person, and the author Kris Ripper uses the perspective with a mastery few can boast. From the first line, we are given the flavor of Emerson's personality: a man who wants very badly to be in control, but can't.
His struggles with both MS and his feelings of hopelessness take center stage in the narrative until he meets Obie, a handsome hipster who almost pries his way into Emerson's life.
This leads to some awkwardness. Sometimes the awkward moments were far too cute to handle. Then again, the best love stories are.
Spoilers Below.
What struck me the most was how low-key the book was when the relationship got rocky. While there are plenty of tense moments and conflicts in the book, it was absent the normal yanks on your emotions authors use frequently to get you to pay attention.
This lack of an emotional yank back and forth worked well for me as a reader. It also seemed to channel Emerson's own discomfort with his feelings.
The pain Emerson felt over their breakup felt more immediate and somehow even more important because he kept living his life. Even during Emerson's darkest moments he got up, went to work, went home, repeat, almost on autopilot. It felt somehow gently heartbreaking.
I also loved the interactions between the characters. They called each other on their bullshit in a way which felt loving, but still weren't all-knowing.
Blurb.
Emerson Robinette only leaves his apartment to get laid and go to work. Having MS—and trying to pretend he doesn’t—makes everything more complicated, especially his fantasies of coming on strong and holding a guy down. Finding a partner who’ll explore that with him isn’t Emerson’s idea of a realistic goal.
Until a chance meeting with a hipster on a bus makes him reconsider. Obie is happy, open-hearted, and warm; what’s more, he gets his kicks being physically dominated, spanked, and teased until he’s begging. It would be perfect, except for one thing: Emerson isn’t made for happiness, and he doesn’t see how a guy like Obie would settle for a cynic like him.
But as far as Obie’s concerned, the only thing keeping them apart is Emerson. Can Emerson handle a boyfriend who’s more invested in his future than he is? Emerson’s barely convinced he has a future. But when Obie’s smiling at him, anything seems possible.
Published on May 25, 2018 May 18, 2018 Author Olivia BattoCategories BDSM, Gay Romance, LGBTQ+, My Bookshelf, Recommended Books, Reviews, Romance
Book Review: Heartless by Marissa Meyer
Author Olivia BattoPublished on January 24, 2018 January 24, 2018
Review: Heartless by Marissa Meyer - 5 stars
Marissa Meyer is no stranger to my bookshelf, and her elegantly crafted fractured fairy tales are a joy to behold. Heartless is no different, as it tackles Lewis Carrol's Wonderland from an entirely new perspective: the POV of the Queen of Hearts.
She's not the dreaded Queen yet, though - she's just Catherine, a young girl with dreams and a formidable skill with tarts. The strong will we have come to expect is heavily tamped down by a desire to please those around her, but Catherine is determined to find her own way to persevere through annoying croquet games and strange tea parties.
When she meets Jest, the court joker, her plans become flexible enough to include him as well. Unfortunately, no one else is flexing.
What struck me above all the cleverness and playful nods to the original story was the accessibility of the tale. Readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and (to a lesser extent) Through the Looking Glass will enjoy the references to the timeless classics, but those who haven't read either story will love Heartless just the same.
The tale is poignant and thoughtful while retaining the Wonderland zaniness. So many connections between characters almost seamlessly fit with their originals that it seems eerie at times, in a good way. Once again, Marissa Meyer has married classic stories to powerful emotions, and the result is well worth the read.
Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.
Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen.
Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.
Published on January 24, 2018 January 24, 2018 Author Olivia BattoCategories My Bookshelf, Recommended Books, Reviews, Young Adult
Book Review: Yeager’s Law by Scott Bell
Author Olivia BattoPublished on September 6, 2017 January 25, 2018
Book Review: Yeager's Law - 4.5 stars
Normally I'm not much of a thriller fan, but Yeager's Law by Scott Bell is well worth the detour. This book doesn't rely on cheap jump-scare tactics and eerie feelings to communicate a sense of danger, which is nice. It's fast-paced and action-heavy. If you're looking for a bit of modern-day swash and buckle, this one is for you.
Bell flips back and forth between multiple viewpoints to give us all angles of the story. That can get confusing, but I never had to check back and figure out who was whom. For a batty reader like me, that's an impressive feat. Even with all the viewpoint switching, there were still a few surprises saved up at the end, which made it fun as well as interesting.
There's a low-key romance element there too, which helps a lot - especially since the love interest in question is an impressive lady herself. Fainting damsel in distress she is not.
My only complaint is that the "bad guys" were at times a little too definitively "bad," but only a little. I never felt it was outside the bounds of reason, but once or twice I wrinkled my nose a bit. Still, Abel Yeager and his cast of co-stars were plenty awesome enough to make up for it.
This book is part one of a series, and I definitely plan to check out the next installment!
Abel Yeager is dead broke, down on his luck, and suffering from a serious case of what-the-hell-does-it-matter. His transition from active Marine to stateside long-haul trucker hit a wicked speed bump when his rig was involved in a wreck that claimed the life of a pregnant woman and laid him up for several months.
Back at work but deeply in debt, Yeager meets bookstore owner Charlie Buchanan in St. Louis and jumps at the chance to haul a load of remainder books to Austin for her. On the way south, a crew of truck thieves tracks his every move. But none of them know what Charlie’s ex has smuggled inside the book pallets, who he stole it from, or how far the owner will go to get it back. Charlie’s the first person Yeager has cared about in a long time, but as their bond deepens, so does the danger they’re in.
With enemy forces closing in, Yeager battles greed, corruption, and his own fatalism in a bid to hold true to Yeager’s First Law: come home at the end of the day.
Published on September 6, 2017 January 25, 2018 Author Olivia BattoCategories Mixed Genres, My Bookshelf, Recommended Books, Reviews, Scribophile Authors, Thrillers
Review: Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
Author Olivia BattoPublished on September 16, 2016 January 24, 2018
Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell: 4 stars
I've read, watched and agonized over a ton of twisted/fractured/rebooted/whatever fairy tales lately. My favorite in the last several weeks is Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell. It has nothing to do with the story I'm writing, unfortunately. Still, you may find some of it has crept into my mind.
The main character, Nicolette, is an inventor and an analogue for Cinderella. She lives a life of constant servitude to her stepmother and evil stepsisters, but without all the sweetness and kindness of the Charles Perrault version. Nicolette (named Mechanica by her stepsisters) has a plan to get herself out of this mess, and it relies on her brilliant abilities as an inventor.
This YA novel explores themes of independence, morality and the nature of love without seeming like a lecture. Nicolette is heroic and admirable, but she is also flawed. She hurts others in her struggle to break free, and she finds herself in a state of deep regret many times. Despite or perhaps because of her flaws, it is easy to cheer her victories and mourn her defeats alongside her.
Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell is a story worth reading, even without the Cinderella twist. The world is believable and complex. The main character is interesting and likable without being saccharine. The magic is well set up with obvious rules without retreating to overly simplistic cliche. All in all, it's fun to read.
Nicolette’s awful stepsisters call her “Mechanica” to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother’s knee. Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have pushed her into a life of dreary servitude. When she discovers a secret workshop in the cellar on her sixteenth birthday—and befriends Jules, a tiny magical metal horse—Nicolette starts to imagine a new life for herself. And the timing may be perfect: There’s a technological exposition and a royal ball on the horizon. Determined to invent her own happily-ever-after, Mechanica seeks to wow the prince and eager entrepreneurs alike.
Published on September 16, 2016 January 24, 2018 Author Olivia BattoCategories My Bookshelf, Recommended Books, Reviews, Young AdultTags Cinderella, Recommended, Twisted
Book Review: Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare
Author Olivia BattoPublished on September 22, 2015 January 25, 2018 Leave a comment on Book Review: Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare
Book Review: Say Yes to the Marquess - 5 Stars
I've decided that when I find a particularly good book, I'll mention it here on the site. After all, what good is having a blog if you can't gush about things you like? I'll add some Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience, but really I just want to talk about the great books I get to read. Let's talk about Say Yes to the Marquess.
Say Yes to the Marquess: Castles Ever After is an example of what happens when a good story meets a wonderfully weird person. It's got a mix of amusing happenstance and deliberate planning, and it's hard not to love. Between an aged bulldog who never budges until the most inconvenient time and a buddy to the MMC who thinks all he needs to break into high society is a monocle, Tessa Dare has wedged a gorgeous love story.
There's nothing to dislike here, which is pretty normal for a book by Tessa Dare. The sex scenes were hot, the characters were well-rounded and I even learned a bit about beer. If you're in the mood for a happy-go-lucky romance with a strong female lead and a lot of clever wordplay, read this book.
Your presence is requested at romantic Twill Castle for the wedding of Miss Clio Whitmore and ... and ...?
After eight years of waiting for Piers Brandon, the wandering Marquess of Granville, to set a wedding date, Clio Whitmore has had enough. She's inherited a castle, scraped together some pride, and made plans to break her engagement.
Not if Rafe Brandon can help it. A ruthless prizefighter and notorious rake, Rafe is determined that Clio will marry his brother--even if he has to plan the dratted wedding himself.
So how does a hardened fighter cure a reluctant bride's cold feet?
He starts with flowers. A wedding can't have too many flowers. Or harps. Or cakes.
He lets her know she'll make a beautiful, desirable bride--and tries not to picture her as his.
He doesn't kiss her.
If he kisses her, he definitely doesn't kiss her again.
When all else fails, he puts her in a stunning gown. And vows not to be nearby when the gown comes off.
And no matter what--he doesn't fall in disastrous, hopeless love with the one woman he can never call his own.
Published on September 22, 2015 January 25, 2018 Author Olivia BattoCategories My Bookshelf, Recommended Books, Reviews, RomanceTags Olivia's Reading ListLeave a comment on Book Review: Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare
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a greeting. Synonymous with "Hey!", "What's up?", etc.
A-yo, Jessie what's going on?
See more words with the same meaning: hello and other greetings.
Last edited on Jun 27 2018. Submitted by Daisy from Lebanon, PA, USA on Mar 10 1997.
kick it
a low-key gathering.
Person A: Want to go to a rave tonight?
Person B: Nah. I'm going to a kick-it at my neighbor's place.
Last edited on Dec 02 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 02 2011.
to engage in coitus.
She said she wanted to kick it with him!
See more words with the same meaning: sex, sexual intercourse.
Last edited on Mar 10 1997. Submitted by Daisy from Lebanon, PA, USA on Mar 10 1997.
to relax; "hang out".
I'm just kicking it.
See more words with the same meaning: to hang out, relax.
Last edited on Dec 16 2010. Submitted by Demetrius Scruggs from FL, USA on Dec 22 1997.
to get started doing something.
Let's kick it!
So when are we going to kick it?
See more words with the same meaning: to start, prepare to, be about to.
Last edited on Apr 10 2013. Submitted by Patrick B. from River Ridge, LA, USA on Nov 27 1999.
to spend time in a particular manner.
We're gonna kick it old-school.
Last edited on Jan 11 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 11 2011.
to spend time being alive.
We're still kicking it, haven't stopped kicking yet.
Last edited on Jun 06 2011. Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 06 2011.
See also kick.
Last edited on Jun 06 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 06 2011.
very good, excellent; "cool".
That's a phat bike.
Citation from "Let's Go to the Hop", Family Guy (TV), Season 2 Episode 14 (2000) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Last edited on Jan 12 2012. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 16 1997.
attractive. Note: an acronym, "pretty hot and tempting," has been invented for the word. The acronym came after the original coining of the term.
See more words with the same meaning: acronyms (list of).
See more words with the same meaning: attractive.
Last edited on Mar 10 1997. Submitted by Jessica from VA, USA on Mar 10 1997.
having large buttocks.
Dawg did you see the ass on her? Damn she is phat to death!
Last edited on Sep 01 2011. Submitted by The Last Don on Aug 30 2011.
what's the dilly?
a greeting; "what's the deal?"; "what's going on?". Also what's the dills.
Hey, what's the dilly?
Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by Daisy from Lebanon, PA, USA on Mar 10 1997.
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Wang Chong Thunderstorm 2.0 North America Premiere at “Under the Radar” Festival, NYC
First Chinese theater director and company invited to perform at “Under the Radar” Festival
Published by ppastaging-admin at February 7, 2018
DateFebruary 7, 2018
Thunderstorm 2.0 North America Premiere
Invited by The Public Theater, renowned experimental theatre maker Wang Chong and his company Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental is going to perform their signature theatre piece Thunderstorm 2.0 in The Public's "Under the Radar" Festival, on Jan. 6-7th 2018. It will be the first Chinese theater director and company to perform at "Under the Radar" Festival. NYC, U.S.
Photo credit: Edward T. Morris/PPP
One of the best 10 small theatre works in China during the last 30 years.
–Beijing News
Aspiring and ambitious, theater director Wang Chong is on a mission to overthrow the dated stage techniques that dominate Chinese theater today.
Watch a video about Thunderstorm 2.0
About Thunderstorm 2.0
Cao Yu's early 20th-century drama Thunderstorm, regarded as a masterpiece in Chinese theater, is dismantled and reassembled in this new interpretation helmed by internationally acclaimed director Wang Chong.
Using real-time video editing and sound mixing from action occurring on stage, a hypnotic, near-silent movie unfolds to tell the explicit story of two female characters discovering that they have been cheated on by the same womanizing playboy.
About "Under the Radar" Festival
Over the last 14 years, The Public's "UNDER THE RADAR" FESTIVAL (UTR) has presented over 210 companies from 41 countries.
It has grown into a landmark of the New York City theater season and is a vital part of The Public's mission, providing a high-visibility platform to support artists from diverse backgrounds who are redefining the act of making theater.
Widely recognized as a premier launching pad for new and innovative performance from the U.S. and abroad, UTR has presented works by such respected artists as Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Gob Squad, Guillermo Calderón, and Young Jean Lee. These artists provide a snapshot of contemporary theater: richly distinct in terms of perspectives, aesthetics, and practice, and pointing to the future of the art form.
Click here to know more about "Under the Radar" Festival
Watch a 1-minute video about "Under the Radar"
About WANG CHONG
Wang Chong is a renowned experimental theatre maker, known for his exploration of politically subversive ideas in China and abroad. Founder of the world-renowned Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental, Chong’s work is characterized by radical interpretations of classic Western plays and the use of cutting-edge digital technology. Works include Thunderstorm 2.0, listed by Beijing News as “one of the best 10 small theatre works in China during the last 30 years;” Ibsen in One Take, noted by Literary Life Weekly as “Top 10 performances of 2012 in China;” and The Flowers on the Sea 2.0, the first theatre production to be commissioned by China’s prestigious government-run Shanghai International Arts Festival.
About Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental:
Founded in 2008, Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental has become a leading force of Chinese experimental theatre. It is dedicated to refresh the stagnant theatre scene in Beijing. The group of artists intends to develop experimental theatre in several different directions, such as political, physical, documentary, multi-media, and cross-cultural theatre. In 2012 Wang Chong launched the Chinese New Wave Theater Movement by presenting a series of new performances with innovative use of live video and sound creation and live editing.
Tour History:
2012-Trojan House, Beijing
2013-Taipei Arts Festival (First theatre performances from mainland in Taipei Arts Festival)
2016-Israel Festival (First Chinese theatre performances in Israel Festival’s 55-year history)
SAT, JAN 6 @ 7:30PM
SUN, JAN 7 @ 4:00PM with Post-Show Discussions
More about Thunderstorm 2.0 on the festival official website:
https://www.publictheater.org/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/UTR-2018/Thunderstorm-2/?SiteTheme=UnderTheRadar
"with support from China Institute, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program, which is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Theater Mania: Under the Radar 2018: Margarete and Thuderstorm 2.0
Exeuntnyc: Review: Thunderstorm 2.0 at Skirball Center (Under the Radar)
Stage Buddy: Review: ‘Thunderstorm 2.0’ at the Public’s Under the Radar Festival 2018
Contemporary Performance: In Performance: Thunderstorm 2.0 (Under the Radar)
Theater Mania: 7 Under the Radar Shows You Need to Know About in 2018
Chelsea Now: Head Over Heels for ‘Under the Radar’
The Lo-Down: Downtown Arts Festivals Kick Off in January
Broadway World: Under the Radar Works, Dance Premieres and More Set for NYU Skirball's 2018 Winter/Spring Season
The Villager: Head Over Heels for ‘Under the Radar’
Backstage: How The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival Helps Emerging Artists Get Seen
Interludes: VIEWPOINTS – UNDER THE RADAR 2018: A Festival Recap, Part 1
IDK Tonight: THUNDERSTORM 2.0 X &PIZZA
Thanks To Our Generous Supporters
Co-presented by The Public Theater’s "Under the Radar" Festival and NYU Skirball.
This tour is supported by Beijing Culture and Arts Fund.
Cynthia Sayer & Her Joyride Band 2018 China Tour
After 2015 China debut, Cynthia Sayer and Her Joyride Band has come back to China with “The American Music Revue” brought the authentic flavours of American music to thousands of audience in 6 cities across China.
Polyglot Theatre 2018 China Workshops Tour
Find your creativity in “Draw it Out!” and “Paper and Tape”
Pulitzer-Winning Drama “Disgraced” Back to China 2018!
2018 Inaugural Season of The Great Theater of China
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Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
We propose a Bayesian framework for representing and recognizing local image motion in terms of two basic models: translational motion and motion boundaries. Motion boundaries are represented using a non-linear generative model that explicitly encodes the orientation of the boundary, the velocities on either side, the motion of the occluding edge over time, and the appearance/disappearance of pixels at the boundary. We represent the posterior probability distribution over the model parameters given the image data using discrete samples. This distribution is propagated over time using a particle filtering algorithm. To efficiently represent such a high-dimensional space we initialize samples using the responses of a low-level motion discontinuity detector. The formulation and computational model provide a general probabilistic framework for motion estimation with multiple, non-linear, models.
pdf pdf from publisher Video [BibTex]
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J. Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
Stochastic tracking of 3D human figures using 2D image motion
(Winner of the 2010 Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision)
Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Fleet, D.
In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 702-718, LNCS 1843, Springer Verlag, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000 (inproceedings)
A probabilistic method for tracking 3D articulated human figures in monocular image sequences is presented. Within a Bayesian framework, we define a generative model of image appearance, a robust likelihood function based on image gray level differences, and a prior probability distribution over pose and joint angles that models how humans move. The posterior probability distribution over model parameters is represented using a discrete set of samples and is propagated over time using particle filtering. The approach extends previous work on parameterized optical flow estimation to exploit a complex 3D articulated motion model. It also extends previous work on human motion tracking by including a perspective camera model, by modeling limb self occlusion, and by recovering 3D motion from a monocular sequence. The explicit posterior probability distribution represents ambiguities due to image matching, model singularities, and perspective projection. The method relies only on a frame-to-frame assumption of brightness constancy and hence is able to track people under changing viewpoints, in grayscale image sequences, and with complex unknown backgrounds.
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Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Fleet, D. Stochastic tracking of 3D human figures using 2D image motion In European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, pages: 702-718, LNCS 1843, Springer Verlag, Dublin, Ireland, June 2000 (inproceedings)
Functional analysis of human motion data
Ormoneit, D., Hastie, T., Black, M. J.
In In Proc. 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 2000 (inproceedings)
Ormoneit, D., Hastie, T., Black, M. J. Functional analysis of human motion data In In Proc. 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 2000 (inproceedings)
Stochastic modeling and tracking of human motion
Ormoneit, D., Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Hastie, T.
Learning 2000, Snowbird, UT, April 2000 (conference)
Ormoneit, D., Sidenbladh, H., Black, M. J., Hastie, T. Stochastic modeling and tracking of human motion Learning 2000, Snowbird, UT, April 2000 (conference)
A framework for modeling the appearance of 3D articulated figures
Sidenbladh, H., De la Torre, F., Black, M. J.
In Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages: 368-375, Grenoble, France, March 2000 (inproceedings)
Sidenbladh, H., De la Torre, F., Black, M. J. A framework for modeling the appearance of 3D articulated figures In Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages: 368-375, Grenoble, France, March 2000 (inproceedings)
Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Linear parameterized models of optical flow, particularly affine models, have become widespread in image motion analysis. The linear model coefficients are straightforward to estimate, and they provide reliable estimates of the optical flow of smooth surfaces. Here we explore the use of parameterized motion models that represent much more varied and complex motions. Our goals are threefold: to construct linear bases for complex motion phenomena; to estimate the coefficients of these linear models; and to recognize or classify image motions from the estimated coefficients. We consider two broad classes of motions: i) generic “motion features” such as motion discontinuities and moving bars; and ii) non-rigid, object-specific, motions such as the motion of human mouths. For motion features we construct a basis of steerable flow fields that approximate the motion features. For object-specific motions we construct basis flow fields from example motions using principal component analysis. In both cases, the model coefficients can be estimated directly from spatiotemporal image derivatives with a robust, multi-resolution scheme. Finally, we show how these model coefficients can be use to detect and recognize specific motions such as occlusion boundaries and facial expressions.
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D. Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Robustly estimating changes in image appearance
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
We propose a generalized model of image “appearance change” in which brightness variation over time is represented as a probabilistic mixture of different causes. We define four generative models of appearance change due to (1) object or camera motion; (2) illumination phenomena; (3) specular reflections; and (4) “iconic changes” which are specific to the objects being viewed. These iconic changes include complex occlusion events and changes in the material properties of the objects. We develop a robust statistical framework for recovering these appearance changes in image sequences. This approach generalizes previous work on optical flow to provide a richer description of image events and more reliable estimates of image motion in the presence of shadows and specular reflections.
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y. Robustly estimating changes in image appearance Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
Cardboard people: A parameterized model of articulated motion
Ju, S. X., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y.
In 2nd Int. Conf. on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, pages: 38-44, Killington, Vermont, October 1996 (inproceedings)
We extend the work of Black and Yacoob on the tracking and recognition of human facial expressions using parameterized models of optical flow to deal with the articulated motion of human limbs. We define a "cardboard person model" in which a person's limbs are represented by a set of connected planar patches. The parameterized image motion of these patches is constrained to enforce articulated motion and is solved for directly using a robust estimation technique. The recovered motion parameters provide a rich and concise description of the activity that can be used for recognition. We propose a method for performing view-based recognition of human activities from the optical flow parameters that extends previous methods to cope with the cyclical nature of human motion. We illustrate the method with examples of tracking human legs over long image sequences.
Ju, S. X., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y. Cardboard people: A parameterized model of articulated motion In 2nd Int. Conf. on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, pages: 38-44, Killington, Vermont, October 1996 (inproceedings)
Skin and Bones: Multi-layer, locally affine, optical flow and regularization with transparency
(Nominated: Best paper)
Ju, S., Black, M. J., Jepson, A. D.
In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR’96, pages: 307-314, San Francisco, CA, June 1996 (inproceedings)
Ju, S., Black, M. J., Jepson, A. D. Skin and Bones: Multi-layer, locally affine, optical flow and regularization with transparency In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR’96, pages: 307-314, San Francisco, CA, June 1996 (inproceedings)
EigenTracking: Robust matching and tracking of articulated objects using a view-based representation
In Proc. Fourth European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV’96, pages: 329-342, LNCS 1064, Springer Verlag, Cambridge, England, April 1996 (inproceedings)
Black, M. J., Jepson, A. EigenTracking: Robust matching and tracking of articulated objects using a view-based representation In Proc. Fourth European Conf. on Computer Vision, ECCV’96, pages: 329-342, LNCS 1064, Springer Verlag, Cambridge, England, April 1996 (inproceedings)
Apparatus and method for tracking facial motion through a sequence of images
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y.
US Pat. 5,802,220, December 1995 (patent)
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y. Apparatus and method for tracking facial motion through a sequence of images US Pat. 5,802,220, December 1995 (patent)
Apparatus and method for recognizing facial expressions and facial gestures in a sequence of images
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y. Apparatus and method for recognizing facial expressions and facial gestures in a sequence of images US Pat. 5,774,591, December 1995 (patent)
Robust estimation of multiple surface shapes from occluded textures
Black, M. J., Rosenholtz, R.
In International Symposium on Computer Vision, pages: 485-490, Miami, FL, November 1995 (inproceedings)
Black, M. J., Rosenholtz, R. Robust estimation of multiple surface shapes from occluded textures In International Symposium on Computer Vision, pages: 485-490, Miami, FL, November 1995 (inproceedings)
The PLAYBOT Project
Tsotsos, J. K., Dickinson, S., Jenkin, M., Milios, E., Jepson, A., Down, B., Amdur, E., Stevenson, S., Black, M., Metaxas, D., Cooperstock, J., Culhane, S., Nuflo, F., Verghese, G., Wai, W., Wilkes, D., Ye, Y.
In Proc. IJCAI Workshop on AI Applications for Disabled People, Montreal, August 1995 (inproceedings)
Tsotsos, J. K., Dickinson, S., Jenkin, M., Milios, E., Jepson, A., Down, B., Amdur, E., Stevenson, S., Black, M., Metaxas, D., Cooperstock, J., Culhane, S., Nuflo, F., Verghese, G., Wai, W., Wilkes, D., Ye, Y. The PLAYBOT Project In Proc. IJCAI Workshop on AI Applications for Disabled People, Montreal, August 1995 (inproceedings)
Recognizing facial expressions under rigid and non-rigid facial motions using local parametric models of image motion
In International Workshop on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, July 1995 (inproceedings)
video abstract [BibTex]
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y. Recognizing facial expressions under rigid and non-rigid facial motions using local parametric models of image motion In International Workshop on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, July 1995 (inproceedings)
Image segmentation using robust mixture models
Black, M. J., Jepson, A. D.
US Pat. 5,802,203, June 1995 (patent)
Black, M. J., Jepson, A. D. Image segmentation using robust mixture models US Pat. 5,802,203, June 1995 (patent)
Tracking and recognizing rigid and non-rigid facial motions using local parametric models of image motion
In Fifth International Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV’95, pages: 347-381, Boston, MA, June 1995 (inproceedings)
This paper explores the use of local parametrized models of image motion for recovering and recognizing the non-rigid and articulated motion of human faces. Parametric flow models (for example affine) are popular for estimating motion in rigid scenes. We observe that within local regions in space and time, such models not only accurately model non-rigid facial motions but also provide a concise description of the motion in terms of a small number of parameters. These parameters are intuitively related to the motion of facial features during facial expressions and we show how expressions such as anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust and sadness can be recognized from the local parametric motions in the presence of significant head motion. The motion tracking and expression recognition approach performs with high accuracy in extensive laboratory experiments involving 40 subjects as well as in television and movie sequences.
pdf video publisher site [BibTex]
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y. Tracking and recognizing rigid and non-rigid facial motions using local parametric models of image motion In Fifth International Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV’95, pages: 347-381, Boston, MA, June 1995 (inproceedings)
A computational model for shape from texture for multiple textures
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science Supplement, Vol. 36, No. 4, pages: 2202, March 1995 (conference)
Black, M. J., Rosenholtz, R. A computational model for shape from texture for multiple textures Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science Supplement, Vol. 36, No. 4, pages: 2202, March 1995 (conference)
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Team Romney 'good' heading into first debate
CNN White House Correspondent Dan Lothian
Denver (CNN) - Going into the first presidential debate in Denver, a senior Romney campaign aide said they are feeling "good" about where they are in the campaign.
"It's a close one like we expected and we see it tightening and undecided voters as a better opportunity for us than for them," the official said.
Tune to CNN for Wednesday's presidential debate coverage starting at 7 p.m. ET on CNN TV, CNN.com and via CNN's apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. Web users can become video editors with a new clip-and-share feature that allows them to share favorite debate moments on Facebook and Twitter.
They view the debate as an opportunity to "cut through the clutter and talk directly to voters."
And while they admit that many voters have been influenced by negative ads or soundbites, they also believe that Governor Romney has a chance to "dispel those attacks" and give voters "a better sense of exactly what he would do to fix the economy."
"If we get that clear choice between status quo and a new direction we will have succeeded," the official said.
Filed under: 2012 • Mitt Romney • Presidential Debate
This is do or die for Mr. Romney- either he gives policy and regulatory specifics about his plans tonight or he is done.
October 3, 2012 10:59 am at 10:59 am |
Namejkane sfl a vote for the gop will cut your moms medicare and soc sec .can you afford to pay for them???
Romney the tax cheat and lyin Ryan are done and time to kick Ryan the sponge of taxpayers money out of his house seat , seven terms of sponging of the taxpayers is enough ,Ryan ,go get a real job!!!!!
But which debate will be the one where is asked to Romney explain his belief in the "White Horse Phrophesy". Come on Mitt, either you believe in your "religion" or you don't, what is it? And if you do, how far into your presdency will you be implementing the plan? GOOGLE IT!
Four and The Door
Romney the tax cheat ...
The Obama/ Biden 2012 strategy of trying to attack Mitt Romney on his taxes is already debunked. In fact, Mitt Romney paid $500,000 more in taxes last year than he was legally required to do. I know that it is impossible for Obama to wage a winning reelection campaign based on his own 3 1/2 year record or on his non-existent plan forward, but when you cough up old personal attacks, it is at best annoying. Get current, will you?
My question–sir, what is 47% of middle class Americans you don't give darn hoot??? Why you hate us???
Four-
Mr. Romney is highly damaged goods: He can't tell the truth from one minute to the next; today's news is again focusing on monies he hid in foreign countries for tax benefits; he insulted half th country (including sooldiers, senoir and the middle class); Mr. Ryan doubled down on that by claiming "30% of Americans are against the American Dream".
Yes, Mr. Obama's record is incomplete- but largely because the GOP spent 4 years on anti-birth control, anti-abortion and fake voter fraud bills (well I guess voter fraud is real- they did it according to news this week!).
The GOP has lost its mojo.
SaintM
Romney in the debates will not be a case of meeting his match. He will be outdone by President Obama at every turn. President Obama might not have debated in a while, but negotiations, decisions and high-level discussions on many subjects will make him a force to be reckoned with. Rick Perry, Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann were easy to debate because they are clueless on so many levels. In the presidential debates, it is Romney that will be clueless on so many levels. One thing to watch out for tonight is how Romney greets the president, and whether or not he patronizes him like a "boy".
One more good thing for the president–the last debated is on foreign policy–what a squeaker for Romney that will be.
Malory Archer
I wonder how many people will make tonight's debate a drinking game? Gotta start looking for "buzz" words (pun intended) 😀
Calif Conservative
Hussein Obama has stated that republicans are EMENIES of hispanics. Hussein Obama alienated half the country right there.
Are they feeling good! really!! OR they are just pretending. The risk Romney is going to take tonight is the major one in his entire presidential bid.
mactsr
Tonight should be the end of the Romney run for president. Willard really doesn't have a plan for America. Other than giving more and more tax breaks to the rich.
We can also take a drink everytime mittens loses his cool. Wait a minute, bad idea – after twenty minutes of President Obama playing rope-a-dope, mittens' head will have exploded and we'll all end up in the ER being treated for alcohol poisoning!
It don`t matter what Mitt do tonight he is done in Ohio and the polls all show, the turn out was heavy heavy turn out yesterday in early voting, that`s why the SOS Jon Husted was trying to shut down early voteing and the courts said no.
I want to know 2 things:
Why were Bush/Cheney never tried for war crimes, and
Will SaC (voter fraud by republicans) be brought up for Congressional hearings like ACORN was.
Beverly - NYC
33 days to go, early voting started and the CEO is pining his entire campaign on the undecided voter. Mitt have your people should review the SNL skit on undecided voters, enough said.
I know we have only been practicing Obamanaomics for 3 1/2 years now, but it is still a stretch to call EVERY WORKING AMERICAN rich. Granted, people who still have a job are either lucky or very good at what they do, but rich?
Not Worried
Am not worried about Pres. Obama's performance tonight. He is the man who ordered to kill bin Laden, which could have ended his presidency if things could have gone wrong, but he gathered the courage and acted. Facing Romney in debating is just quite simple thing to him.
October 3, 2012 12:05 pm at 12:05 pm |
Why don't we ask Seal Team Six who wins the debate tonight? They are not Obama's biggest fans. Imagine that.
Wire Palladin, S. F.
Mittens has attacked the 47%, women's rights, college students, veterans, seniors, hispanics, blacks, the middle class, the poor, etc. Altogether, he has alienated 87% of all voters, and still he is polling around 46%. Go figure.
rs - This is do or die for Mr. Romney- either he gives policy and regulatory specifics about his plans tonight or he is done.
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And just what "specifics" were in "Hope & Change" and now with "Forward"???
Forward to bankruptcy?
Forward and over the fiscal cliff?
Forward to 75% tax rates while 60% pay no federal income taxes?
Forward to 100 million people on food stamps?
Forward to 10% unemployment?
Forward to $22 TRILLION in debt?
Ind.
Why is it the White House talks about a war on women when they pay women less than men in the White House?
Hypocrisy is the demcorats middle name.
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newswire article reporting united states 28.Nov.2005 09:01
government | human & civil rights
The U.S. Military sees you as a threat
author: Man on the street e-mail: promandan@hotmail.com
The Bush administration and US military have been actively lobbying for the right to use military personnel to spy on U.S. citizens and share information with other intelligence agencies. The Military does not have to comply with the same legal oversight as other domestic agencies.
The Department of Defense is seeking additional legal authority to spy inside the US. They want to expand personnel and funding for an agency called Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) created three years ago. The White House tried to push a proposal through the Senate Intelligence Committee and several other unspecified fronts. The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform the CIFA from an office that coordinates efforts within military branches into one that instigates, investigates and prosecutes crimes within US borders including US citizens. Crimes investigated include economic espionage, ecological espionage, treason, terrorism or sabotage.
The Pentagon has also pushed legislation that would create an exception to the Privacy Act. They want free flowing data access between the FBI, CIA, NSA and other intelligence services. Backers to these measures say this would help find terror threats such as Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Civil liberties advocates as well as a few members of congress are complaining these and similar proposals are proceeding with little comment from congress or knowledge by the public at large.
Senator Ron Wyden has requested Defense Intelligence Agency officers should not be allowed to hide the fact that they work for the government when seeking intelligence information. He believes more hearings should be held. Advocates are concerned information would be shared between intelligence agencies about people who have committed no crimes and have no previous connection to terrorism or espionage.
This removes one of the few privacy protections against sharing of secret dossiers on Americans by government intelligence agencies. A Pentagon Spokesman said senior Defense Department intelligence officials are aware of the sensitivities related to their expanded domestic activities. At the same time, he said, the Pentagon has to have the intelligence necessary to protect its facilities and personnel at home and abroad.
Currently the CIFA has 290 intelligence analysts in the North Command or "Northcom". They coordinate reports from the FBI, CIA and other US agencies. In addition each branch of the military has already started domestic intelligence programs reportedly aimed at gathering information. The Air force has a group called Eagle Eye, the Marine Corps has specific policies regarding techniques of "collection, retention and dissemination of information concerning U.S. persons," according to a Marine Corps order approved on April 30, 2004.
The order recognizes that in the post-9/11 era, the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity will be "increasingly required to perform domestic missions," and as a result, "there will be increased instances whereby Marine intelligence activities may come across information regarding U.S. persons." Among domestic targets listed are people in the United States who it "is reasonably believed threaten the physical security of Defense Department employees, installations, operations or official visitors."
Perhaps the prime illustration of the Pentagon's intelligence growth is CIFA, which remains one of its least publicized intelligence agencies. Neither the size of its staff, said to be more than 1,000, nor its budget is public, said the Pentagon spokesman. The CIFA brochure says the agency's mission is to "transform" the way counterintelligence is done "fully utilizing 21st century tools and resources."
One CIFA activity, threat assessments, involves using "leading edge information technologies and data harvesting," according to a February 2004 Pentagon budget document. This involves "exploiting commercial data" with the help of outside contractors including White Oak Technologies Inc. of Silver Spring, and MZM
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DIRE CTIVE NUMBER 5105.67 28.Nov.2005 09:54
Repost in case the DoD takes these documents down... link
NUMBER 5105.67
Certified Current as of November 21, 2003
DA&M
SUBJECT: Department of Defense Counterintelligence
Field Activity (DoD CIFA)
References: (a) Title 10, United States Code
(b) Presidential Decision Directive/National Security
Council-75, "U.S. Counterintelligence Effectiveness,
Counterintelligence for the 21st Century," December
(c) Executive Order 12958, "Classified National Security
Information," April 17, 1995
(d) DoD Directive O-5205.7, "Special Access Program
(SAP) Policy," January 13, 1997
(e) through (p), see enclosure 1
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of
Defense by reference (a), this Directive establishes
the Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field
Activity with the mission, responsibilities, functions,
relationships, and authorities, as prescribed herein.
2. APPLICABILITY
This Directive applies to the Office of the Secretary
of Defense (OSD), the Military Departments, the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands,
the Office of the Inspector General of the Department
of Defense, the Defense Agencies, and the DoD Field
Activities, as well as all other organizational entities
within the Department of Defense (hereafter referred
to collectively as "the DoD Components").
3. MISSION
The mission of the DoD CIFA is to develop and manage
DoD Counterintelligence (CI) programs and functions
that support the protection of the Department, including
CI support to protect DoD personnel, resources, critical
information, research and development programs, technology,
critical infrastructure, economic security, and U.S.
interests, against foreign influence and manipulation,
as well as to detect and neutralize espionage against
the Department.
4. POLICY
It is DoD policy that:
4.1. The Department shall fully support the National
Counterintelligence Program, as embodied in Presidential
Decision Directive/National Security Council-75 (PDD/NSC-75)
(reference (b)), and the National Counterintelligence
Executive (NCIX).
4.2. The Department will make full use of advanced
technology to create and maintain a collaborative CI
analytic environment to protect critical DoD and national
assets.
4.3. There is a single coordination focal point for
DoD CI policy implementation, Defense-wide CI resource
and budget planning, and for DoD CI implementation liaison
with the NCIX staff in accordance with reference (b).
4.4. All DoD CI matters and activities that affect
or are related to DoD Special Access Programs (SAPs)
shall comply with the security procedures of Executive
Order 12958 (reference (c)), DoD Directive O-5205.7
(reference (d)), and the DoD Overprint to the National
Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Supplement
(reference (e)).
The DoD CIFA is hereby established as a Field Activity
within the Department of Defense, under the authority,
direction, and control of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence)
(ASD(C3I)). For certain functions as specified in
this Directive or separately by the Secretary of Defense,
the DoD CIFA shall be treated as a Combat Support Agency.
It shall consist of:
5.1. A Director appointed by, and reporting to, the
ASD(C3I).
5.2. The Joint Counterintelligence Evaluation Office
(JCEO), the Joint CI Analysis Group (JCAG), the Defense
CI Information System (DCIIS) Program Office, the Joint
CI Training Academy (JCITA), and the Defense CI Force
Protection Response Group (FPRG). In carrying out
the mission of these elements, the Director of the DoD
CIFA may employ law enforcement personnel, in whole
or in part, as appropriate, to carry out the DoD CIFA's
law enforcement functions as stated in subparagraph
6.2.17. of this Directive.
5.3. Such additional subordinate organizational elements
as are established by the Director, DoD CIFA, within
authorized resources.
6. RESPONSIBILITIES AND FUNCTIONS
6.1. The Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control,
Communications, and Intelligence), pursuant to PDD/NSC-75
(reference (a)) and in accordance with Executive Order
12333, DoD Directive 5137.1, DoD Directive 5240.2, DoD
Directive 5240.1, DoD 5240.1-R, Appendix 3 of title
5, United States Code, and DoD Directive 5200.27 (references
(f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), and (l)), shall:
6.1.1. Exercise authority, direction, and control over
the Director, DoD CIFA.
6.1.2. Serve as the Principal Staff Assistant and advisor
to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense regarding
all CI policies and related matters.
6.1.3. Represent the Secretary of Defense in all matters
with the NCIX.
6.1.4. Oversee the Defense CI Program.
6.2. The Director of the Department of Defense Counterintelligence
Field Activity, under the authority, direction, and
control of the ASD(C3I), shall:
6.2.1. Organize, direct, and manage the DoD CIFA and
all assigned resources.
6.2.2. Serve as the principal advisor on DoD CI operational
matters and policy-implementation activities to the
OSD Principal Staff Assistants and other DoD Component
officials and manage the execution of DoD CI policy
issued by the ASD(C3I), pursuant to DoD Directive 5137.1
(reference (g)).
6.2.3. Develop a DoD CI implementation strategy and
an implementation plan consistent with the national
CI strategy, national guidance, and DoD CI strategy;
the implementation plan shall include appropriate performance-measurement
standards and resource metrics consistent with these
aforementioned strategies.
6.2.4. Represent the Department with other Government
and non-government agencies, including the NCIX staff,
regarding the implementation of all DoD CI matters,
and shall:
6.2.4.1. Oversee DoD implementation support to the
NCIX organization.
6.2.4.2. Serve as the single coordination focal point
within the Department for DoD CI program implementation,
DoD CI resource planning, and DoD CI implementation
liaison with the NCIX staff, to include coordination
regarding NCIX decisions and functions regarding national
CI resource allocations.
6.2.5. Regarding budgetary matters:
6.2.5.1. Prepare and provide, together with, and pursuant
to, the policy guidance of the ASD(C3I) and submissions
from the Secretaries of the Military Departments, submissions
for the Department's Planning, Programming, and Budgeting
System (PPBS).
from the Secretaries of the Military Departments, the
Department's submissions to the Office of the Director
of Central Intelligence for the Director of Central
Intelligence Capabilities, Programming and Budgeting
System (CPBS) to provide resources for the Foreign Counterintelligence
Program in the National Foreign Intelligence Program,
the Defense Joint Counterintelligence Program in the
Joint Military Intelligence Program, and all other assigned
DoD CI programs and activities.
6.2.5.3. Support the ASD(C3I)'s presentation and justification
of DoD CI programs and budget throughout the PPBS process,
including representations before the Congress, for all
responsibilities and functions prescribed herein.
6.2.6. Develop, implement, and oversee DoD CI programs,
as assigned herein, using state-of-the-art Information
Technology (IT) whenever practicable, consistent with
mission requirements, and consulting with the CI offices
of the DoD Components to ensure the integrity of all
CI IT systems.
6.2.7. Develop and manage an integrated Defense CI
6.2.8. Develop and integrate the Defense CI Information
System (DCIIS) Program, including, but not limited to,
the architecture, software development, training, implementation,
and sustainment of the DCIIS while ensuring the architectural
integrity of the system.
6.2.9. Oversee Defense-wide CI investigations, operations,
and CI functional services, and:
6.2.9.1. Perform programmatic evaluations of the Department's
CI activities to determine the extent to which CI policies
and resources adequately protect the Department of Defense
against the threats of espionage, terrorism, sabotage,
assassination, and other covert or clandestine activities,
including those of foreign intelligence services.
6.2.9.2. Provide appropriate and timely access to all
relevant CI investigative and operational information
to designated senior DoD officials with CI responsibilities.
6.2.9.3. Provide timely advice and recommendations
to the ASD(C3I) and other senior DoD officials concerning
potential damage to DoD or national security that could
result from the compromise of classified or sensitive
information. Apprise appropriate policy makers of
such damage and notify them about any CI investigations
that have had, or could have, a significant impact on
6.2.9.4. Facilitate the dissemination of relevant CI
and CI-related information to appropriate DoD personnel
who have a need-to-know.
6.2.9.5. Review and report to the ASD(C3I) any significant
developments regarding both initial and on-going CI
investigations and operations that affect DoD personnel
and resources, with particular emphasis on those investigations
and operations that have the potential to seriously
compromise critical Defense technologies, the Defense
Information Infrastructure, and current or near-term
military operations. Such reports shall address, where
appropriate, the steps that can be taken to minimize
the damage caused by the associated CI threat.
6.2.9.6. Recommend DoD policies and procedures that
maximize the integrity of on-going CI investigations
and operations within the Department.
6.2.10. Oversee the DoD CI Research and Technology
Protection (RTP) Program.
6.2.11. Conduct risk assessments in support of CI RTP,
DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection, DoD Force Protection,
6.2.11.1. Provide course-of-action analyses, situational
awareness, and tailored product support to Heads of
the DoD Components and other senior officials, as appropriate.
6.2.11.2. Provide CI threat assessments and advisories,
risk assessments, and multimedia dissemination to the
Heads of the DoD Components.
6.2.11.3. Coordinate and integrate applicable RTP efforts
with Special Access Programs, through the OSD Special
Access Program Coordination Office (SAPCO).
6.2.11.4. Provide tailored analytical and data-mining
support to DoD CI field elements and activities of the
DoD Components, as appropriate, but, in particular,
to the Directors of the Defense Intelligence Agency,
the Defense Security Service, the Defense Threat Reduction
Agency, and the National Security Agency, as well as
the Secretaries of the Military Departments.
6.2.11.5. Work within the larger DoD Intelligence Production
Program in coordination with the Director, Defense Intelligence
Agency, regarding the DoD CI Production Management Program.
6.2.11.6. Conduct Domestic Threat Analyses and Risk
Assessments in support of DoD Force Protection and DoD
Critical Infrastructure Protection efforts.
6.2.11.7. Conduct operational analysis in support of
DoD CI investigations and operations.
6.2.12. Identify and track technologies requiring protection.
6.2.13. Oversee the DoD CI Technology Horizontal Risk
Assessment and JCAG Threat Mapping processes and prepare
Technology and Target Profiles and Technology Risk Assessments.
6.2.14. Oversee and conduct advanced joint CI training
within the Department, and:
6.2.14.1. Exercise authority, direction, and control
over the DoD Joint CI Training Academy.
6.2.14.2. Develop and provide to the ASD(C3I) procedural
recommendations for CI training and professional development
within the Department.
6.2.15. Supervise and conduct the activities of the
DoD FPRG and in activities in support of the Combatant
Commanders, coordinate FPRG plans and operations with
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), as
6.2.16. Oversee and conduct an advanced technology
development program in support of the Defense Counterintelligence
6.2.17. Carry out assigned functions and responsibilities
in subparagraphs 6.2.2. through 6.2.16. of this Directive
with the DoD CIFA operating as a law enforcement activity
within the Department of Defense pursuant to the authorities
vested in the Secretary of Defense in reference (a).
Unless otherwise directed by the Secretary or Deputy
Secretary of Defense, the law enforcement responsibilities
assigned by this Directive do not replace or supersede
those responsibilities currently assigned to the Defense
Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the Army Criminal
Investigative Division, the Naval Criminal Investigative
Service, or the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
as Defense Criminal Investigative Organizations (DCIOs).
Accordingly, the DoD CIFA shall not engage in the
investigation, apprehension, or detention of individuals
suspected or convicted of criminal offenses against
the laws of the United States. For SAPs and SAP-related
investigations, the DCIS or the other DCIOs dedicated
to SAPs have investigative jurisdiction.
6.2.18. Handle all assigned functions and responsibilities
that affect DoD SAPs or SAP-related matters through
approved SAP offices, such as the OSD SAP Coordination
Office or the SAP Central Offices of the Military Departments.
6.3. The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology,
and Logistics) shall support the ASD(C3I) and the Director,
DoD CIFA, in taking necessary measures to require that
DoD Components with acquisition, technology, and logistics
responsibilities support the implementation of CI policies,
including those set forth in PDD/NSC-75 (reference (b))
and those intended to support the protection of DoD
research and technology as referenced in DoD Directive
5200.39 (reference (m)) and other related Departmental
issuances.
6.4. The Secretaries of the Military Departments shall:
6.4.1. Support the DoD CIFA in implementing PDD/NSC-75
(reference (b)) and integrating the Defense CI Program
DoD-wide and overseeing the appropriate functional aspects
of the program.
6.4.2. Report all significant CI activities, including
investigations and operations, to the Director, DoD
CIFA.
6.5. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall
provide combat-support guidance to the Director, DoD
CIFA, in coordination with the ASD(C3I), regarding the
FPRG.
6.6. The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, shall
provide for the seamless integration of CI collection,
production, and joint-operations requirements management
with the activities managed and directed by the Director,
DoD CIFA. The Joint Staff/J2/CI shall coordinate all
joint-CI activities/requirements with the Director,
DoD CIFA, and shall coordinate all DoD CIFA-related
issues with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and the Combatant Commanders.
6.7. The Heads of the DoD Components shall:
6.7.1. Support the DoD CIFA on CI operational and implementation
matters and shall provide for the conduct, direction,
management, coordination, and control of CI activities
within their respective components, pursuant to DoD
Directive 5240.2 (reference (h)):
6.7.2. Report all significant CI activities regarding
the respective DoD Component, including investigations
and operations, to the DoD CIFA.
7. RELATIONSHIPS
7.1. In the performance of assigned duties, the Director,
DoD CIFA, shall:
7.1.1. Keep the DoD Components fully informed concerning
DoD CIFA activities with which they have collateral
or related functions.
7.1.2. Exchange information and advice as well as coordinate
actions with the DoD Components, as required, to carry
out assigned responsibilities and functions.
7.1.3. Use established facilities and services in the
Department of Defense and other Government Agencies,
whenever practicable, to avoid duplication and achieve
maximum efficiency and economy of operations.
7.1.4. Represent the Department of Defense and maintain
appropriate liaison, consultation, and coordination
with other governmental and non-governmental agencies
and CI organizations, as required, to exchange information
and advice on programs and activities in the fields
of assigned responsibility.
7.2. The Heads of the DoD Components shall coordinate
and consult with the Director, DoD CIFA, on matters
relating to DoD CIFA operations, functions, and responsibilities.
7.3. The OSD Special Access Program Coordination Office,
in coordination with the ASD(C3I) and the SAP Central
Offices of the Military Departments, shall be the point
of contact for all CI-related SAP issues.
8. AUTHORITIES
The Director, DoD CIFA, is specifically delegated the
authority to:
8.1. Obtain reports and information consistent with
DoD Directive 8910.1 (reference (n)), as necessary,
to carry out assigned functions.
8.2. Communicate directly with appropriate representatives
of the DoD Components, as necessary to carry out assigned
functions, including the transmission of requests for
advice and assistance. Communications to the Military
Departments shall be transmitted through the Secretaries
of the Military Departments, their designees, or as
otherwise provided in law or directed by the Secretary
of Defense in other DoD issuances. Communications
to the Commanders of the Combatant Commands shall be
transmitted by the ASD(C3I) through the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
8.3. Communicate with other Government officials, representatives
of the legislative branch, members of the public, and
representatives of foreign governments, as appropriate,
in carrying out assigned functions.
8.4. This Directive does not supersede any of the provisions
of DoD Directive O-5205.7 or DoD Overprint to the NISPOMSUP
(references (d) and (e)).
8.5. Exercise the administrative authorities in enclosure
9. ADMINISTRATION
9.1. The Secretaries of the Military Departments shall
assign military personnel to the DoD CIFA in accordance
with approved authorizations and established procedures
for assignment to joint duty.
9.2. Administrative support for the DoD CIFA shall
be provided by appropriate DoD Components through inter-Service
support agreements in accordance with DoD Instruction
4000.19 and DoD Directive 1400.16 (references (o) and
(p)).
This Directive is effective immediately.
Enclosures - 2
E1. References, continued
E2. Delegations of Authority
E1. ENCLOSURE 1
REFERENCES, continued
(e) Department of Defense Overprint to the National
Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Supplement,
(f) Executive Order 12333, "United States Intelligence
Activities," December 4, 1981
(g) DoD Directive 5137.1, "Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence)
(ASD(C3I))," February 12, 1992
(h) DoD Directive 5240.2, "DoD Counterintelligence,"
(i) DoD Directive 5240.1, "DoD Intelligence Activities,"
(j) DoD 5240.1-R, "Procedures Governing the Activities
of DoD Intelligence Components that Affect United States
Persons," December 1982
(k) Appendix 3 of title 5, United States Code, "Inspector
General Act of 1978," as amended
(l) DoD Directive 5200.27, "Acquisition of Information
Concerning Persons and Organizations not Affiliated
with the Department of Defense," January 7, 1980
(m) DoD Directive 5200.39, "Security, Intelligence,
and Counterintelligence Support to Acquisition Program
Protection," September 10, 1997
(n) DoD Directive 8910.1, "Management and Control of
Information Requirements," June 11, 1993
(o) DoD Instruction 4000.19, "Interservice and Intragovernmental
Support," August 9, 1995
(p) DoD Directive 1400.16, "Inter-departmental Civilian
Personnel Administration Support," October 30, 1970
E2.1.1. Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary
of Defense, and subject to the authority, direction,
and control of the Secretary of Defense, the ASD(C3I),
and in accordance with DoD policies, Directives, and
Instructions, the Director, DoD CIFA, or in the absence
of the Director, the person acting for the Director,
is delegated authority, as required, in the administration
and operation of the DoD CIFA to:
E2.1.1.1. Perform the following functions in accordance
with Executive Order 10450, Executive Order 12333, Executive
Order 12968, and DoD Directive 5200.2, as appropriate,
E2.1.1.1.1. Designate any position in DoD CIFA as a
"sensitive" position.
E2.1.1.1.2. Authorize, in case of emergency, the appointment
of a person to a sensitive position in the DoD CIFA
for a limited period of time and for whom a full field
investigation or other appropriate investigation, including
National Agency Check, has not been completed.
E2.1.1.1.3. Authorize the suspension, but not terminate
the services of, a DoD CIFA employee in the interest
of national security.
E2.1.1.2. Authorize and approve:
E2.1.1.2.1. Temporary duty travel for military personnel
assigned or detailed to the DoD CIFA in accordance with
Joint Federal Travel Regulations, Volume 1.
E2.1.1.2.2. Travel for DoD CIFA civilian employees
in accordance with Joint Travel Regulations, Volume
E2.1.1.2.3. Invitational travel to non-DoD employees
whose consultative, advisory, or other highly specialized
technical service are required in a capacity that is
directly related to, or in connection with, DoD CIFA
activities, in accordance with Volume 2, Joint Travel
Regulations.
E2.1.1.2.4. Overtime work for DoD CIFA civilian employees
in accordance with 5 U.S.C. Chapter 55, Subpart V, and
applicable Office of Personnel Management (OPM) regulations.
E2.1.1.2.5. Approve the expenditure of funds available
for travel by military personnel assigned or detailed
to the DoD CIFA for expenses incident to attendance
at meetings of technical, scientific, professional,
or other similar organizations in such instances where
the approval of the Secretary of Defense, or designee,
is required by 37 U.S.C. 412, and 5 U.S.C. 4110 and
E2.1.1.2.6. Develop, establish, and maintain an active
and continuing Records Management Program, pursuant
to 44 U.S.C. 3102 and DoD Directive 5015.2.
E.2.1.1.2.7. Authorize the publication of advertisements,
notices, proposals, or other public periodicals, as
required for the effective administration of DoD CIFA,
consistent with 33 U.S.C. 3702.
E2.1.1.2.8. Establish and maintain, for the functions
assigned, an appropriate publications system for the
promulgation of Directives, Instructions, Publications,
and reference documents, and changes thereto, pursuant
to the policies and procedures prescribed in DoD 5025.1-M.
E2.1.1.2.9. Enter into support and services agreements
with the Military Departments, other DoD Components,
or other Government Agencies, as required, for the effective
and efficient performance of DoD CIFA responsibilities
and functions.
E2.1.1.2.10. Enter into and administer contracts directly
or through a Military Department, a DoD contract administration
services component, or other Government Department or
Agency, as appropriate, for supplies, equipment, and
services required to accomplish the mission of DoD CIFA.
To the extent that any law or Executive order specifically
limits the exercise of such authority to persons at
the Secretarial level of a Military Department, such
authority will be exercised by the appropriate Under
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of Defense.
E2.1.1.3. The Director, DoD CIFA, may redelegate these
authorities, as appropriate and in writing, except as
otherwise specifically indicated above or as otherwise
provided by law or regulation.
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/text/d510567p.txt
Military Intelligence use coercive tactics 28.Nov.2005 10:02
Army Vet. link
The military uses tactics which disregard legal rights. In the 1980's a Military Intelligence officer or spy was assigned to my unit in Texas. His job was to find out who was using drugs. The military was trying to clean up thier image and get out the pot smokers. The last name the M.I. officer went by was Friend, not his real name. He encouraged fellow soldgiers to come to parties at his apartment off base. He suppled plenty of alcohol and when most everyone was drunk he brought out his stash of pot and aggressively tried to get people to smoke it with him. Some soldiers did. I didn't because I didn't want an Article 15 for having a dirty U.A.. We had a number of people in our unit with security clearances and these were the people he targeted.
If the military considers something a matter of national security they will infiltrate groups and try to get the groups involved with something illegal. Then they will turn around and prosocute members of that group for crimes they set up.
When the crimes becomes blurry things like espionage simply repeating a comment heard can be used to blackmail people into creating false allegations against people they know.
Where are we going in this hand basket? 28.Nov.2005 10:57
afraid to say link
Just when you think they have already taken all your rights you find out we have more to loose. Well I guess we shouldn't worry too much the U.S. Army has done a wonderful job of protecting Iraq from abuse of power and stopping terrorism right?
How long will this country pretend we are a nation of laws?
When will the slide toward facism stop?
Does anyone know how to properly goose step?
Deployed in the U.S.A.:The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front 28.Nov.2005 11:26
Gene Healy link
The U.S. military is the most effective fighting force in human history. It is so effective, in fact, that many government officials are now anxious for the military to assume a more active policing role here at home.
Deploying troops on the home front is very different from waging war abroad. Soldiers are trained to kill, whereas civilian peace officers are trained to respect constitutional rights and to use force only as a last resort. That fundamental distinction explains why Americans have long resisted the use of standing armies to keep the domestic peace.
Unfortunately, plans are afoot to change that time-honored policy. There have already been temporary troop deployments in the airports and on the Canadian and Mexican borders and calls to make border militarization permanent. The Pentagon has also shown a disturbing interest in high-tech surveillance of American citizens. And key figures in the Bush administration and Congress have considered weakening the Posse Comitatus Act, the federal statute that limits the government's ability to use the military for domestic police work.
The historical record of military involvement in domestic affairs cautions against a more active military presence in the American homeland. If Congress weakens the legal barriers to using soldiers as cops, substantial collateral damage to civilian life and liberty will likely ensue.
The plan is simple... 28.Nov.2005 11:52
Pravda or Consequences link
Take the work of other tryants (delude yourself into thinking that you would use the power for "good") and relable it as 'security with safeguards'.
The amount of fear generated by Washington DC and the acquience by the loyal opposition means that short of a revolution, we are on our way to a life of control just for the perception of 'freedom'.
I think this would be a good time to start getting focused on what we can build to deflect the coming dark ages.
.. 28.Nov.2005 12:01
anti-imperialist link
When are we going to face the fact that these laws are coming on the heels of the anti-corporate/anti-globalization movement. None of these encroaching laws against privacy were heard of before we came to power. We have to assume that the Patriot Act, et al are occuring due to our existance.
Defense Security Service accepting bids 28.Nov.2005 12:04
web rat link
Many Defense contractors are chomping at the bit to get at prospective CIFA dollars if the contract is expanded. The Defense Security Service already has processes in place to apply for various counterintelligence, espionage, law-enforcement and security training opportunities.
"The Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) is a transformation initiative created to lead the development of a "to-the-edge" counterintelligence system for the Department of Defense. Its mission is to produce a common Defense Department counterintelligence operational picture, and deliver unique and actionable information to key decision makers in federal, state and local governments.
This common counterintelligence system will serve the Defense Department's senior leaders; the Joint Staff; the war fighters; the research, development and acquisition community; agents in the field; and various federal agencies responsible for intelligence gathering, counterintelligence, counterespionage, anti-terrorism, law enforcement and security.
Worldwide, more than 400 civilian and military employees work for CIFA with the ultimate goal of detecting and neutralizing the many different forms of espionage regularly conducted against the United States by terrorists, foreign intelligence services and other covert and clandestine groups.
The threats posed by these adversaries include actions to kill or harm U.S. citizens; to steal critical information or assets (military or civilian); or destroy critical infrastructures.
As part of its comprehensive counterintelligence system, CIFA also holds advanced training and education for counterintelligence, counterespionage and anti-terrorism professionals throughout the federal government."
Maybe a plan to take power from FBI and CIA (seems to be black budget) 28.Nov.2005 12:24
Many Defense contractors are chomping at the bit to get at prospective CIFA dollars if the contract is expanded. The Defense Security Service already has processes in place to apply for various counterintelligence, espionage, law-enforcement and security training.
CIFA apparently has no publicly accessible website, but that doesn't mean there is no information. While I can't find a direct link, I suspect that CIFA operates out of the Defense Security Service under its Counterintelligence Unit - but I could be wrong. According to a September 2003Report to Congress on The Role of the Department of Defense in Supporting Homeland Security, one of the restructurings of the Department of Defense was to add an Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. According to the report:
Key to the mission of DoD's Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) is identification and tracking of terrorists and production of CI threat assessments and advisories and risk assessments in support of DoD force protection and critical infrastructure protection efforts, and tailored analytical and data-mining support to DoD CI field elements and agencies and the Service secretaries. These "knowledge products" provide a foundation for actions that can be taken to mitigate risks and enhance the security of U.S. persons, and critical operations, resources, and technologies. Central to CIFA operations is close collaboration and partnering with other organizations in the national intelligence and investigative community. CIFA is now furnishing a counterintelligence support team to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-led Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force and is orchestrating the permanent assignment of DoD law enforcement and counterintelligence agents and analysts to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces throughout the United States. These personnel will collect and analyze terrorist threat and criminal information and participate in the investigation of international terrorist incidents having a DoD link.
The report goes on to state: "CIFA has a significant role to play, given its unique tools, technology, data exploitation capabilities, and experience in identifying previously unknown or suspected terrorists." Further, that there will be twenty CIFA detachments located around the world.
This scope if the mission of CIFA seems to indicate a budgetary need in excess of the 2003 reporting of $470,000. It is suspicious that there is no budget for 2004 and 2005. Has CIFA gone "dark?" It seems likely to me. According to this this defense budget link which lists the 2002 budget at $654,000; 2003 at $470,000 and nothing for 2004 and 2005 (DEFENSE SECURITY SERVICE Fiscal Year (FY) 2004/2005 Biennial Budget Estimates Exhibit R-1, RDT&E Programs).
As is noted from the Defense Security Polygraph Page:
Counterintelligence to the Edge
The Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) is a transformation initiative created to lead the development of a "to-the-edge" counterintelligence system for the Department of Defense. Its mission is to produce a common Defense Department counterintelligence operational picture, and deliver unique and actionable information to key decision makers in federal, state and local governments.
As part of its comprehensive counterintelligence system, CIFA also holds advanced training and education for counterintelligence, counterespionage and anti-terrorism professionals throughout the federal government.
As has been noted by others writing about CIFA (Wall Street Journal 3/9/04 Is Military Creeping Into Domestic Law Enforcement?; Secrecy News - "DRASTIC" CHANGES SEEN IN DOMESTIC MILITARY OPERATIONS; LA Times 9/23/03 Mission Creep Hits Home) this move into domestic areas is not only questionable, but alarming. It does however fit with more recent moves by Rumsfeld to steal intelligence functions from the FBI and CIA. Maybe the creation of CIFA was among the first moves in that longer term plan.
More info about CIFA 28.Nov.2005 13:49
Man on the street link
DOD oversight of CIFA
USD(I)
SUBJECT: DoD Counterintelligence Functional Services
References: (a) DoD Directive 5240.2, "DoD Counterintelligence (CI)," May 22, 1997
(b) DoD Directive 5105.67, "Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field
Activity," February 19, 2002
(c) DoD Instruction 5240.4, "Reporting of Counterintelligence and Criminal
Violations," September 22, 1992
(d) DoD Instruction 5240.6, "Counterintelligence (CI) Awareness, Briefing and
Reporting Programs," August 7, 2004
This Instruction assigns responsibilities and prescribes procedures pursuant to reference (a) for
the conduct of Counterintelligence (CI) Functional Services within the Department of Defense.
2. APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE
This Instruction applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Military
Departments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands, the DoD
Inspector General Office, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other
organizational entities in the Department of Defense (hereafter referred to collectively as "the
DoD Components").
Terms used in this Instruction are defined in enclosure 1.
DoDI 5240.16, May 21, 2005
This Instruction implements policy established in reference (a).
5. RESPONSIBILITIES
5.1. The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD(I)) shall approve policy
implementation guidance and procedures pursuant to reference (a).
5.1.1. The Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Counterintelligence and Security
(DUSD(CI&S)), under the authority, direction, and control of the USD(I), shall:
5.1.1.1. Serve as the principal advisor to the USD(I) on DoD CI Functional Services
and related matters.
5.1.1.2. Oversee and sustain activities that comprise DoD CI Functional Services.
5.1.2. The Director, Counterintelligence, under the DUSD(CI&S), shall:
5.1.2.1. Develop and recommend policy for CI Functional Services.
5.1.2.2. Provide OSD-level oversight for CI Functional Services.
5.1.2.3. Participate and represent OSD in DoD and national-level policy boards,
working groups, and committees related to CI Functional Services.
5.1.3. The Director, Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity (DoD
CIFA), under the authority, direction, and control of the USD(I), shall:
5.1.3.1. Serve as CI program manager pursuant to DoD Directive 5105.67 (reference
(b)).
5.1.3.2. Provide specialized Functional Services training to Component CI personnel.
5.1.3.3. Develop and recommend processes, procedures and tools to enhance the
standardization and quality of CI Functional Services activities.
5.2.1. Establish, resource, and manage CI Functional Services, pursuant to the CI
authorities assigned in reference (a).
5.2.2. Manage and oversee the use of CI resources funded for CI Functional Services.
5.2.3. Integrate the CI support provided under CI Functional Services into Component
planning and mission activities.
5.2.4. Ensure CI personnel attend basic and advanced CI training courses related to CI
Functional Services.
5.2.5. Provide CI Functional Services performance measures and other data requested by
the Director, Counterintelligence, and DoD CIFA.
5.2.6. Ensure that all significant CI activity is reported to DoD CIFA pursuant to DoD
Instruction 5240.4 (reference (c)).
6. PROCEDURES
6.1. The DoD Component CI organizations are authorized to conduct CI Functional
Services, consistent with the DoD Component's assigned CI mission and authorities.
6.2. CI Functional Services are applicable to one or more of the CI missions and shall
6.2.1. CI briefing and debriefing programs focused on the CI program, counterespionage
and antiterrorism in accordance with DoD Instruction 5240.6 (reference (d)).
6.2.2. Debriefings of DoD personnel who are reporting information concerning potential
treason, spying, espionage, sabotage, terrorism, subversion, sedition, related foreign intelligence
activities, and other suspicious matters of possible CI interest in accordance with reference (d).
6.2.3. CI activities conducted in support of Service, Joint, and combined military
operations and training exercises.
6.2.4. CI activities conducted pursuant to the CI missions to support Critical
Infrastructure Protection and Research and Technology Protection, which are not covered by the
other CI functions (CI investigations, CI operations, CI collection, and CI analysis).
6.2.5. CI support to counter-proliferation and countering weapons of mass destruction
6.2.6. CI activities in support of force protection, to include participation in CI surveys
and vulnerability assessments and surveillance detection. Activities covered by the other CI
functions, and protective service operations, are excluded from this category.
6.2.7. Defensive CI programs and initiatives, aimed at identifying potential espionage or
terrorist activity.
6.2.8. CI activities conducted in support of Arms Control Treaties.
6.2.9. CI resources assigned to CI Staff Officer positions and offices at Combatant
Commands and other major Joint organizations.
6.2.10. CI activities conducted in support of Human Intelligence.
6.2.11. Specialized CI activities not covered by the other CI functions, including:
6.2.11.1. Polygraph/Credibility Assessment services.
6.2.11.2. Technical Surveillance Countermeasures and related technical services.
6.2.11.3. Behavioral sciences.
6.2.11.4. Cyber services, including but not limited to, digital forensics and cyber
vulnerability assessments.
7. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Instruction is effective immediately.
E1. Definitions
E1.1. DEFINED TERMS
E1.1.1. CI Missions. DoD CI responsibilities to support force protection, DoD research and technology protection, infrastructure protection, and information and capabilities protection.
E1.1.2. Counter-proliferation. DoD activities to combat proliferation, including diplomacy, arms control, export controls, and intelligence collection and analysis, with particular responsibility for assuring U.S. forces and interests can be protected should they confront an adversary armed with missiles or weapons of mass destruction.
E1.1.3. Functional Services. CI activities that support other intelligence or DoD operational activities, providing specialized defensive CI services to identity and counter terrorism, espionage, sabotage and related activities of foreign intelligence services.
E1.1.4. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors; a disease organism; or radiation or radioactivity.
DCIFA 01
System name:
CIFA Operational and Analytical Records (February 25, 2005, 70 FR 9281).
System location:
Counterintelligence Field Activity, 251 18th Street, Suite 1200, Arlington, VA, 22202-3537.
Categories of individuals covered by the system:
Individuals involved in, or of interest to, DoD counterintelligence or law enforcement investigations, operations, or analytical projects.
Categories of records in the system:
Records relating to the management of the DoD counterintelligence system and the coordination of DoD counterintelligence activities. Records relating to analytical or operational support for DoD counterintelligence, force protection, critical infrastructure protection, research and technology protection, threat analysis, and risk assessments. Records relating to the architecture and operation of DoD counterintelligence information systems. Reports of investigation, collection reports, statements of individuals, affidavits, correspondence, and other documentation pertaining to investigative or analytical efforts by DoD and other U.S. government agencies to identify or counter foreign intelligence and terrorist threats to the DoD and the United States. The system of records includes ad hoc or temporary databases established to support particular investigations, task forces, or analytical projects.
Authority for maintenance of the system:
10 U.S.C. 113, Secretary of Defense; 5 U.S.C. 301, Departmental Regulations; Executive OrderE.O. 12,333, United States Intelligence Activities,() as amended by E.O. 13284 and E.O. 13355, Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other Actions, in Connection With the Establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and; DoD Directive 5105.67, Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity (DoD CIFA)(; and E.O. 9397 (SSN)).
Purpose(s):
Compiled for use by the Counterintelligence Field Activity in the development and management of DoD counterintelligence programs and functions that support the protection of DoD, including counterintelligence support to protect DoD personnel, resources, critical information, research and development programs, technology, critical infrastructure, and U.S. interests against the activities of foreign powers and terrorist groups.
Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories of users and the purposes of such uses:
In addition to those disclosures generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 552a(b) of the Privacy Act, these records or information contained therein may specifically be disclosed outside the DoD as a routine use pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows:
To the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other Executive Branch intelligence, counterintelligence, law enforcement, or security agencies to assist them in matters within their jurisdiction pertaining to hostile foreign intelligence or terrorist activities.
The DoD 'Blanket Routine Uses' set forth at the beginning of OSD's compilation of systems of records notices apply to this system.
Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining, and disposing of records in the system:
Maintained in paper files and on electronic media.
Retrievability:
Retrieved by name, Social Security Number, and or other personal identifiers.
Safeguards:
Records are maintained in a controlled facility. Physical entry is restricted by the use of locks, guards, and is accessible only to authorized personnel. Access to records is limited to person(s) responsible for servicing the record in performance of their official duties and who are properly screened and cleared for need to know. Access to computerized data is restricted by passwords, which are changed periodically.
Retention and disposal:
Disposition pending (until the National Archives and Records Administration approves the retention and disposition of these records, treat as permanent).
System manager(s) and address:
Chief Information Officer, Counterintelligence Field Activity, 251 18th Street, Suite 1200, Arlington, VA, 22202-3537.
Notification procedure:
Individuals seeking to determine whether information about themselves is contained in this system of records should address written inquiries to the Privacy and Freedom of Information Coordinator, Counterintelligence Field Activity, 251 18th Street, Suite 1200, Arlington, VA, 22202-3537.
Requests should contain the individual's name, date of birth, sufficient information to determine the type of records being sought, and the approximate date the records might have been created.
Record access procedures:
Individuals seeking access to information about themselves contained in this system of records should address written inquiries to the Privacy and Freedom of Information Coordinator, Counterintelligence Field Activity, 251 18th Street, Suite 1200, Arlington, VA, 22202-3537.
Contesting record procedures:
The OSD rules for accessing records, for contesting contents and appealing initial agency determinations are published in OSD Administrative Instruction 81; 32 CFR part 311; or may be obtained from the system manager.
Record source categories:
Investigative, operational, and/or analytical files of DoD and other federal agencies with counterintelligence, intelligence, law enforcement, security, protective, or related responsibilities. Information collected by CIFA from public or commercial sources in compliance with DoD authorities.
Exemptions claimed for the system:
This system of records is a compilation of information from other Department of Defense and U.S. Government systems of records. To the extent that copies of exempt records from those 'other' systems of records are entered into DCIFA 01, OSD hereby claims the same exemptions for the records from those 'other' systems that are entered into this system, as claimed for the original primary system of which they are a part.
An exemption rule for this system has been promulgated in accordance with requirements of 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(1), (2), and (3), (c) and (e) and published in 32 CFR part 311. For additional information contact the system manager.
Planning the future of a fascist regime 28.Nov.2005 14:28
* link
http://www.freewebs.com/lincolncounty/PlanningTheFuture.htm
I Wanna Be A Spy 29.Nov.2005 08:02
anon link
(Haven't we been here before?)
http://www.folkmusic.com/record/r_chief.htm
(and other short shelf-life classics)
Ashcroft's Army (2002)
words and music by John McCutcheon
Operation TIPS! Sign me up! I wanna be a spy!
I saw him on TV last night
In a suit of somber blue
He said it was time for all Americans
To do what we must do
Take out your x-ray glasses
And your decoder rings
We need ordinary people
To keep an eye on things
I wanna be in Ashcroft's Army
I wanna be a spy
I wanna watch my neighbor's doings
Kiss your rights goodbye
In this legal devolution
A perfect chance for retribution
Let's just can the Constitution
I wanna be a fed
I might look like the meter man
But I'm a spook instead
Delivering pizza or the mail
Buddy, you can never tell
I'll haul your sorry ass to jail
I wanna be a sleuth
I wanna catch some terrorists
Don't worry 'bout the truth
If I see you hanging 'round
Wearin' a turban and your skin is brown
You're gonna take a ride downtown
I'm gonna be a mole
It's time to show the rest or my neighbors
Just who's in control
The Vice-President said, "Shame on you!"
The Attorney General said it too
"Don't you question what we do!"
I wanna a G-Man
He used to be a Senator
But now he is a free man
He's a Attorney General instead
'Cause the people of Missouri said
"We'd rather vote for a guy who's dead!"
But still I've gotta wonder
Where was all this spying
When Adelphia went under
When Enron ran off with the loot
And Worldcom went right down the chute
Some terrorists wear pin-striped suits
Charlottesville, VA August, 2002
©2002 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)
One World, One Currency, One Government = No Liberty 30.Nov.2005 16:55
John Ledford tracey12_12_12@yahoo.com link
As the glove tightens around you neck, you may be wondering just why this is taking place.
The greatest coup in history has begun.
Europeans bought the plan when they became the EU. Americans will soon follow the borderless concept. Asia is all that remains after the America's unite under one flag, one currency and one central government. Pax America, Pan America, The Plan, and other names are given to this massive power grab brought about by government/corporations/media giants.
We in America will soon be told that immigration control is no longer functional. It must then be replaced by a new concept: the free flow of documented people over borders. Hence, President Bush's new "worker program" that unites the non-American looking for a job in the USA with an employer. Yet this is all smoke and mirrors deception. The goal is to begin a slow process of border removal by allowing the an increasing amount of people and business over the border to cross the border until enforcing and protecting our border is impossible. NAFTA, CAFTA, and the coming south american agreement are all designed to disolve borders through trade just as the MASTRICHT Treaty did in Europe. It was the tool used by globalists to begin the breakdown of borders between member nations. So it will go in the America's and then in Asia.
Tri-Lateral
Three continents aligned under the control of a small group of so called leaders who have in their minds and hearts a true conviction that they've been given, by some force in the universe, the moral authority to rule over the earth. This is not made up. Bill Clinton made similar remarks as have others who believe that they are the men of this era who will finally end all wars, all famine through forced wealth redistribution. This coup has already begun. It is well under way, and few Americans even realize that their ship of liberty has been boarded and hijacked by pirates, and its course changed.
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David Mitchell 22.07.2003 08:16
Growing World Poverty and the Barbarity of Capitalism
Capitalism is not the answer
By Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service 22.07.2003 07:52
A Lone Woman Testifies To Iraq's Order of Terror
This Washington Post story will be hard to read for the majority of Portland Indy Media readers who did not want to liberate Iraq by force It shows how barbaric the previous government was and why I am proud to be from the country that is helping restore human rights in Iraq. It also helps me understand why we may need to remain in the country for some time..
quill reposting 22.07.2003 07:36
Sisters of the Road Cafe holding a training this saturday morning
Sisters of the Road Cafe will be holding a training this coming Saturday 9 a.m. to noon, called "Introduction to Community Organizing. There will also be a benefit September 12-14th for this awesome group that deserves all our support. Below is an email that has been circulated to folks who supported their last benefit. With funding being cut for all social services, the groups who support the homeless and other marginalized groups need help more than ever. Show up, donate online, come up with stuff for their silent auction on Friday.... help 'em out!
Common Dreams 22.07.2003 07:06
Funding for Trails and Greenways Under Attack in U.S. House, Says Rails-to-Trails Conserva
WASHINGTON - July 21 - The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations will soon vote on legislation that threatens trail-building efforts across the country. The nonprofit Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) is conducting a nationwide campaign to combat what could be a potentially devastating loss for local communities seeking federal funding for trails and greenways.
RENANA BROOKS 22.07.2003 07:05
Bu$h - master of emotional language
George W. Bush is generally regarded as a mangler of the English language.
Bush Administration Withholds Toxic Cleanup Information
http://commondreams.org/news2003/0717-09.htm
My Lai Massacre 22.07.2003 02:31
American Troops are Showing Their Love for the Iraqi People!
"Up yours, asshole," mutters Sergeant Ronald Black to an Iraqi youth who waves from the back of a passing motor scooter. The tedium is palpable as the sun beats down on Fallujah, a sweltering city of 200,000 mostly Sunni Muslim inhabitants 35 miles west of Baghdad which has become a flashpoint of local resistance to the coalition's occupation of Iraq. "God, I hate these people," he says.
(Isn't it funny how US troops in Iraq behave much like the police behave with respect to protestors here at home, and in Portland in particular?)
Karyn Strickler 22.07.2003 01:58
The Do Nothing Strategy: an Expose of Progressive Politics
Behind the seeming disarray of progressive politics in the US today lies a carefully crafted strategy for guaranteed failure: the Do-Nothing Strategy.
MC 22.07.2003 00:06
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (#118)
Drip... drip... drip... ker-sploosh! Things are starting to look decidedly leaky for the Bush administration, who top the list this week with further revelations that, well, they told a few fibs about Iraq. But hey everyone, don't worry about it.
V! 22.07.2003 00:03
RedRed is a latina womyn from Portland facing a 5yr sentence on trumped up charges that she broke a window that was not broken until 2 days after her arrest during the Sacramento WTO/USDA protests. She needs our help to fight this outrageous charge! This Bike is a Pipe Bomb show will have ACBC cooking with all proceeds going to Red Red and Brew Bloc is giving out beer with all donations going to Red Red.
question 22.07.2003 00:03
How Come Nobody Mentions Lyndon Larouche as one of the Democratic Presidential candidates?
Yes, I know Larouche as been maligned as "anti-semitic," as a conspiracy theorist, and even as an "extreme right winger", but...
jennifer 21.07.2003 23:39
WTO Solidary Actions Planning Meeting
Want to get involved with planning for WTO Solidarity Actions in Portland? Come to the IWW Hall, 616 E. Burnside, Tuesday, July 22 at 7 p.m. We are planning a week of actions, from September 9th to the 13th, to coincide with the WTO Ministerial in Cancun, Mexico. If you or your organization would like to plan something during that time, come on Tuesday and share your ideas, and when you would like to see it happen! We would like to get a calendar of anti-WTO events solidified very soon, so bring yourself and your ideas.
Code Pink at Creston Park Thursday 5:30pm
Jobs With Justice 21.07.2003 21:07
Stop Harmful Trade Deals with Chile and Singapore!
The week of July 21, the House and Senate will vote on legislation to implement two harmful trade deals -- one with Chile, the other with Singapore. The vote could be as early as Tuesday, July 22nd. Representatives Blumenauer and Wu favor these agreements, especially the agreement with Chile. Rep. Blumenauer said that the Chilean agreement would be good for the timber industry.
Daraka Larimore Hall --posted by tsalagi red 21.07.2003 20:54
A Democratic Socialist Appeal to Anarchists
The struggle for a democratic alternative to capitalism has seen many conflicting traditions. Communism, Anarchism, Socialism and countless variations and combinations have emerged. Today, when the call for a new world has been revived by the explosive protest movements surrounding corporate globalization, most of these differences seem to be archaic and almost theological. Such divisions, many argue, are grist merely for café debates. Who cares which revolutionary messiah we wear on our T-shirts? There is work to be done.
yanqui 21.07.2003 20:21
Ok, the last poll i did went over very well, so here's another one...
Peter Ulber 21.07.2003 19:36
George Orwell" "1984"
"Whoever controls the past controls the future. Whoever controls the present controls the past..The starting point of the novel is Orwell's fear that English intellectuals could succumb to the temptations of totalitarian power thinking given the uncritical attitude toward Stalin at the end of the thirties..A democratic society depends on its citizens recognizing these tendencies on time and seizing counter-measures."
J Anderson 21.07.2003 18:29
GREAT L.A. PROTEST PHOTOS!!: WE'RE COMIN' BACK!!
The intersection of Hollywood & Highland was glowing with the light of candles and the voices of the people. CHECK OUT SOME GREAT L.A. PROTEST PHOTOS!!
Working Class U.S. Perspectives 2003-2004
repost from Houston Chronical 21.07.2003 16:02
U.S. tallied up Iraqi assets well before war
The energy task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney was examining maps of Iraq's oil assets in March 2001, two years before the United States led an invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, newly released documents show.
* 21.07.2003 15:11
The Hybrid-Anarchist Listserv
PDX Anti-Capitalist Action's New Website
Portland Anti-Capitalist Action's website is now up and running. There are a few sections still needing to be added, but we have most of our information about what ACA has done and is doing and what we can offer others. We hope this website will spread mutual aid, solidarity, communication, and revolution. Check it out, send us an email if you find something we can do of use to you and your group(s).
See you in the schools, workplaces, community, and on the barricades!!!
the redcoat 21.07.2003 12:23
Let us all now travel
Alterity | awl-TAIR-uh-tee | noun
: otherness; specifically : the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation
George Monbiot 21.07.2003 11:54
Shadow of Extinction
It is old news, I admit. Two hundred and fifty-one million years old, to be precise. But the story of what happened then, which has now been told for the first time, demands our urgent attention. Its implications are more profound than anything taking place in Iraq, or Washington, or even (and I am sorry to burst your bubble) Wimbledon. Unless we understand what happened, and act upon that intelligence, pre-history may very soon repeat itself, not as tragedy, but as catastrophe.
The New York Times - July 21, 2003. 21.07.2003 11:50
Report on USA Patriot Act Alleges Civil Rights Violations
'The report said that in the six-month period that ended on June 15, the inspector general's office had received 34 complaints of civil rights and civil liberties violations by department employees that it considered credible, including accusations that Muslim and Arab immigrants in federal detention centers had been beaten.'
GoBiodiesel Cooperative 21.07.2003 11:40
Break your petroleum addiction and make your own biofuel
You can make your own fuel for as little as fifty cents a gallon using cheap or free materials in your garage or backyard. This fuel is called biodiesel, and the recipe is simpler than baking chocolate chip cookies.
This Tuesday at 6:30pm the GoBiodiesel Cooperative is giving a free seminar on making your own biodiesel.
Johnny Wizard 21.07.2003 11:37
God Honest
When bush told Americans, americans didn't need any proof against Laden, bush really said, cowardly Americans no longer wish to protect Freedom by following the crime scene leads offered by the Justice departments. No Justice for Laden means, no documented arrest of actual criminal perpetrators. (Laden completely by himself was he?) Which incidentally, America's bush and rumsfeld had completely planned SECRETLY to NOT arrest for 9/11 before hand, with the official antichrist's, "invade Afghanistan without any evidence plan".
Patriot Act Part II "Secret" Draft Released
Patriot Act Part II "Secret" Draft Released by the The Center for Public Integrity
We the People 21.07.2003 11:08
Mesage for Bush and his Gang of criminals!
The criminals in the white house will have to answer the call of justice and account for their crimes against we the people!!!
Aymee 21.07.2003 10:40
Jessica Kate Williams
The murder of 22 year old Jessica Williams has been totally screwed up by the corporate media! The truth of the matter is is that not all street kids are violent!
Tom Teepen 21.07.2003 10:29
The Great Bush Train Wreck?
Reagan, whose combination of tax cuts and record military spending plowed the government deeply into debt. Now Bush has repeated this costly error to the delight of some conservative who want to eliminate many social programs and privatize others.
freddie 21.07.2003 09:06
Somebody mentioned Officer Rowley was absent. from the ashcroft welcoming committie Many conservatives fear/dislike Ashcroft, and perhaps some of the PPD felt that personal feelings would prevent them from doing thier duty...
danhshubin 21.07.2003 08:44
FREE BOOK ON CHRISTIAN OBJECTION TO WAR AND MILITARY SERVICE
Videista 21.07.2003 07:57
Videos From the Resistance Tonite at It'sa Beautiful Pizza
Who: You What: Videos from the Resistance Where: It'sa Beautiful Pizza When: 7pm Why: Because it's there
Looking for something to do on a Monday night? Come down to It's a Beautiful Pizza for tonite's showing of Videos of the Resistance. Have a short edited piece you want to show? Bring it! If we have time, we'll show it.
mobrien 21.07.2003 07:30
Join Free Press Mission: US Journalist William Nessen Put on Trial in Aceh, Indonesia
US freelance journalist William (Billy) Nessen will go on trial on July 23 in Aceh, Indonesia. Nessen's crime: losing his visa and passport while trying to escape a combatant zone under heavy fire, and reporting from both sides of the conflict. Join the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists, Inter-Americas Press Association, the International Federation of Journalists, and others calling for Nessen's release and an end to human rights abuses in Indonesia.
Paul Harris 21.07.2003 05:23
Congo War Officially Over
Most observers are still calling for a massive United Nations peacekeeping force to help propel this nation forward but the U.N. has so far been reluctant to get involved in more than just a small way, perhaps remembering a Congo crisis that nearly capsized the U.N. in 1960.
Victor 21.07.2003 01:49
NOT NEWS, JUST A POEM
A picture is worth a thousand words... this poem sparks more.
sigh 20.07.2003 23:04
One more local band down: Exploding Hearts explodes on I-5
Another local band (in this case retro pop punk band Exploding Hearts, who opened last month for the Buzzcocks in PDX and apparently was getting all kinds of press) goes down.
radioguy 20.07.2003 22:33
KUCINICH IN PORTLAND
Dennis Kucinich Spoke to an overflowing crowd today. Photos and MP3s of the event are here...
andrea pdx (repost from MSMBC) 20.07.2003 21:30
151 and counting....No Blood for Lies.... Don't Bring 'em on....Bring 'em home... now
151 and counting....
Editorial cartoon is by Danzinger and published in the July 11, 2003 Oregonian.
AUDIO FILE: Saturday's Town Hall Meeting On Free Trade
On Saturday, July 19, 2003, citizens of Oregon and Washington gathered at the First Unitarian Church in downtown Portland to discuss and decide what kind of trade policy will work best for the Northwest. This was a well organized and attended event, lasting from 1:00-4:00, with a one hour break out session afterwards, featuring 5 workshops on various related subjects, from preparing for the next WTO protest to the "connection between globalized trade and what is at our dinner table." [ Read More ] [ www.PhilosopherSeed.org ]
Blank 20.07.2003 19:00
HELP SUPPORT PORTLAND PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS!
On Tuesday July 18th, 2003 at 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Superintendent Jim Scherzinger will be holding a public "outreach and comment" forum concerning Vocational Village High School. It is well known by now that the school district here in Portland will stop at nothing to line the pockets of administrational staff employees at the expense of our children. This meeting will discussing weather or not to sell off Vocational Village High school by declaring it "surplus property" and in doing so the school district would be able "except bids" on the property, selling it off to the highest bidder (which they already have lined up to most likely replace the current site of the school with condos).
Welcome 20.07.2003 18:27
Kucinich Visit to Portland
Presidential hopeful, and US Congressman, Dennis Kucinich visited Portland, Oregon today. Here is my impression. Dennis Kucinich was clearly pumped up and pleasantly surprised, when he appeared before an overflowing crowd today. Just after 11 AM, around 100 people lined the walls in a stuffy, narrow hallway of the Oregon Pioneer Building, as an animated Dennis Kucinich squeezed thru the crowd, shaking hands, and receiving a warm Portland welcome. [ Read More ] [ Audio: KUCINICH IN PORTLAND ]
Barb's report: Dennis Kucinich arrived to a packed conference room and a packed hallway at 11 am this morning. He spoke to the crowd from the perch of a chair about his platform for about half an hour and then answered questions. After about 45 minutes, he suggested that the crowd relocate outside, and he stood on a newspaper box and answered questions for another 25 minutes or so. The crowd was estimated at about 350 people, and Kucinich energized the crowd and challenged each person to be active in his campaign and to make the grass roots difference to put him into the Presidency. There was a lot of optimism and enthusiasm and energy in his address and he gave that same energy to the crowd. The good news is that a Kucinich campaign office will be opening here soon. The web site is www.kucinich.us.
Man's report: I went to meet Mr Kucinich this morning and was NOT dissapointed in the least. It was wonderful to hear a politician talking about the things that are important to me.
Call to Protest Kucinich's visit Why should we support Kucinich? Because he is anti-war? Bullshit. He may not have supported the war on Iraq, but he would still support the wars in Palestine, Colombia, and the economic warfare of global capitalism decimating the world's population. He still supports the systematic racism in this country which keeps people of color oppressed every second of every day. He is a capitalist. He will not solve any of our problems.
Alan Woods 20.07.2003 17:45
The Death of Dr.Kelly-Britain rocked by Political crisis
Irag-Blair
Messages from the Illuminati
Hip Hop track featuring none other than GWB on Iraq, nine-elleven, and the future of the new world order. Download and distribute!
anti-HLS 20.07.2003 16:17
HLS Customer of the Week: Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals
Last week <A HREF=" http://www.shacusa.net" TARGET="_blank">SHAC USA</A> sent the below letter to Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals. We informed them that Ortho-McNeil had been leaked to activists as a recent customer/supplier of HLS and asked that, if they had since relinquished that position, they inform us by Friday, July 18th. This is the second letter Ortho-McNeil has received since May. They did not reply.
vt 20.07.2003 15:58
Call for Regional Anti-G8 Protests
From June 8-10 of 2004, a G-8 summit will be held in Sea Island, Georgia, a remote, gated island of resorts and million-dollar houses with two military bases nearby. Maybe we should start thinking about changing our tactics to local or regional convergences?
Impeachment is for Liars 20.07.2003 15:40
Still More Lies and Counting: The 45 minute WMD Claim
The raw material behind the 45-minute claim in the Government's Iraq dossier applied not to the time it would take for weapons of mass destruction to be deployed but to how long the Iraqis would need to communicate with each other about them. Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Tom Mangold - a veteran BBC Panorama reporter and friend of the late David Kelly - disclosed that intelligence sources had told him the original information had come from an MI6 agent in Baghdad.
Glen Rangwala 20.07.2003 15:31
36 LIES that launched a war
The thirty-six lies that launched a war
US government to annihilate Kurds, finally.
The United States government has now pledged to attack the Kurds of Northern Iraq in order to bribe the Turks into the iraq occupation, and to get rid of one of the last ethnic peoples on earth.
Andrei 20.07.2003 13:54
Iraq: From Conquest to Quagmire
Geoffrey Lean Independent /UK 20.07.2003 13:50
Bush Ready to Wreck Ozone Layer Treaty - US Slips in Demand to Drop Ban on Harmful Pestici
President George Bush is targeting the international treaty to save the ozone layer which protects all life on earth from deadly radiation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
grr 20.07.2003 13:20
Protest Kucinich's visit
The Democrats are no less evil than Republicans. They simply hide behind smiling faces.
sorry 20.07.2003 11:15
Asscroft pictures - very late
There were probably about 250 people present on Friday, at the Asscroft protest across from the Mark Hatfield bldg on SW 3rd & Main (or Jefferson). There were about as many cops, though the riot cops were only brought out to "give the other cops potty breaks."
Horst-Eberhard Richter 20.07.2003 10:18
Obsession and Peace
"We live in a world of mutuality from which no one and no nation can steal away without damaging the whole and oneself. The tragedies in Israel/Palestine and September 11 made this clear..Is it normal when a president publically decares he is executing a divine will with the war against Iraq? Is it normal when he believes himself chosen with America to represent the good in the world and combat the evil with bombs and missiles? This obsession is a dangerous illusion that can only create discord." Translated from the German
"cleaning up" for Bush in Senegal
portland isn't the only city that craps on its citizens when GW comes to town.... a resident's account of preparations for Bush's visit to Dakar.
John Carpenter 20.07.2003 03:40
"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass . . . and I'm all out of bubble gum."
juan 20.07.2003 02:53
Ashcroft in Seattle Press Release
we need u up in seattle. carpool, ride your bikes up I-5!
santa's little helper 20.07.2003 01:56
Ashcroft in Seattle this Tuesday/ flyers to print and distribute
this tuesday, july 22nd 8:30am at the US Coast guard integrated support command (pier 36) in Seattle cascadia
Annabelle Stonewall; photos by Jed 20.07.2003 01:29
Ashcroft Protest: words from participants and observers
I took my tape recorder onto the streets to get a feel for the people, and here's what the people had to say.
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== Debtism ==
The term [[Capitalism|capitalism]] is used to define an economic system. The first truth to accept is that there has been almost no true capitalism in America since 1933,<Ref>Understanding “American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.” Grover Cleveland Annual Message Dec., 1885. We should take a look at our own part in the covetous events of 1933. See Employ vs Enslave,
http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog4eve.php Audio http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-04.mp3 SS Video Series 7-10 7:28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuz-hFKM_Ts</Ref> if not 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve banking.<Ref>Chapter 11. of the book The Covenants of the gods, Money vs Mammon
http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog11movma.php
Mammon, NN Video Series:3-10 4:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5sp5bCpSc</Ref> Once America went down that road we were dealing with debt-ism not capitalism.
[[Mammon]], NN Video Series:3-10 4:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5sp5bCpSc</Ref> Once America went down that road we were dealing with debt-ism not capitalism.
Of course debtism<Ref>“Debtism is the formal name given to debt-driven capitalism, also known as false capitalism--a system in operation since 1933 until 2010.” http://one-spirit-tribe.org/covenant/one_spirit_1160.htm</Ref> leads to despotism<Ref>Proverbs 22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.</Ref> which is not the result of capitalism but rather Capitolism<Ref>"Capitolism is an ironic reference to an economy in which market forces are subsumed to political interests in Washington. The term is derived from Karl Marx's term for a private enterprise-based economy, [[Capitalism]], and the name of the building in which the U.S. Congress meets, the Capitol." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capitolism</Ref> if I may coin some new terms.
The act of multiplying and making fruitful use of your labor is capitalism but debtism merely produces more and more debt and bondage in the world.<Ref>Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
The act of multiplying and making fruitful use of your labor is capitalism but debtism merely produces more and more [[debt]] and [[bondage]] in the world.<Ref>Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Elements of the kingdom http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/elements.php
Why are you not sowing the seeds of righteousness, setting the table of the Lord of Love<Ref>Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
: 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.</Ref> instead of the lords of the world.<Ref>Not of the World? What did Jesus really say, to whom, and why about his kingdom?
: 1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.</Ref> instead of the lords of the world.<Ref>Not of the World? What did Jesus really say, to whom, and why about his kingdom? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php</Ref>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php</Ref>
If you want to attend to what Christ called the “weightier matters” start seeking to gather with others who are seeking the "way" not of the world and found outside of the box.<Ref>http://www.hisholychurch.org/network/maplocator.php</Ref>
1 Debtism
2 The Ugly Capitalist
3 Occupying the Chessboard of the Dialectic
4 Money as Debt Quotations
5 On Sourcing Quotes
6 More Presidential Quotes
Debtism
The term capitalism is used to define an economic system. The first truth to accept is that there has been almost no true capitalism in America since 1933,[1] if not 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve banking.[2] Once America went down that road we were dealing with debt-ism not capitalism.
Of course debtism[3] leads to despotism[4] which is not the result of capitalism but rather Capitolism[5] if I may coin some new terms.
The act of multiplying and making fruitful use of your labor is capitalism but debtism merely produces more and more debt and bondage in the world.[6]
The solution is not on Capitol Hill but in the hearts of every man who seeks righteousness in its virtuous and pure state before it becomes an “ism”.
This realization of the presence and power of the Spirit of the Creator to guide us could be called being born again. Unfortunately many who think they are born again have accepted a dialectic approach to being born again and simply have entered another state of conflict and superiority rather than equality and love. How do we tell the difference?
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden.”
“Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” Galatians 5...6
Instead of occupying someone else's right or way you should come together and be diligently busy in love as doers. Why do you seek their blessings, banks and benefits?
Why are you not sowing the seeds of righteousness, setting the table of the Lord of Love[7] instead of the lords of the world.[8]
If you want to attend to what Christ called the “weightier matters” start seeking to gather with others who are seeking the "way" not of the world and found outside of the box.[9]
The Ugly Capitalist
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/capitalist.php
Occupying the Chessboard of the Dialectic
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/dialectic.php
Money as Debt Quotations
http://paulgrignon.netfirms.com/MoneyasDebt/references.htm
Quotation Sources
in order of appearance in the movie, Money as Debt
'Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.'
-- Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14811
"Each and every time a bank makes a loan (or purchases securities), new bank credit is created — new deposits — brand new money."
Graham F. Towers, Director, Bank of Canada
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/bios/tower.html
http://www.michaeljournal.org/appenE.htm
"The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled." John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
http://www.johnkennethgalbraith.com/index.php?page=homepage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_kenneth_galbraith.html
http://aurora.icaap.org/talks/galbraith.htm
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, International Banker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Rothschilds
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=ridiculous
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mayeramsch170274.html
"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that banks can and do create money ...And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people"
Reginald McKenna,
past Chairman of the Board, Midlands Bank of England
http://www.answers.com/topic/reginald-mckenna
“Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess.”
Irving Fisher, economist and author
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Fisher.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_1_64/ai_n13798782
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/fisher.htm
“That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.”
Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman and Governor of the Federal Reserve Board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriner_Stoddard_Eccles
http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/region/99-06/martin.cfm
"Everyone sub-consciously knows banks do not lend money. When you draw on your savings account, the bank doesn't tell you you can't do this because it has lent the money to somebody else."
Mark Mansfield
http://dkd.net/davekidd/politics/manmoney.html
"If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible -- but there it is."
Robert Hemphill. Credit Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
http://www.federal-reserve.net/healthemoneysystem.htm
http://www.worldnewsstand.net/today/articles/fedprivatelyowned.htm
http://www.the7thfire.com/SR/mandrake_mechanism.htm
“One thing to realize about our fractional reserve banking system is that, like a child’s game of musical chairs, as long as the music is playing, there are no losers.”
Andrew Gause, Monetary Historian
http://www.andygause.com
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Albert A. Bartlett, physicist
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/bartlett/
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
Kenneth Boulding, economist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Boulding
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/boulding.htm
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Boulding/kboulding-con0.html
“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money... I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with the Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.”
Congressman Wright Patman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Patman
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/PP/fpa62.html
http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2000/young.htm
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal, that there is no human relation between master and slave.” Leo (Lev)Tolstoy
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tolstoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
“None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johannwolf134023.html
“’The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again...
Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit’.” Sir Josiah Stamp Director, Bank of England 1928-1941
(reputed to be the 2nd richest man in Britain at the time)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Stamp,_1st_Baron_Stamp
http://members.shaw.ca/theultimatescam/index.htm
On Sourcing Quotes
Presidential Quotes on Banking
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world, no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson
Producer's Comment
This quote attributed to Woodrow Wilson is widely used in the monetary reform community and is found in several reputable works, including Wikipedia. I used the quote in Money as Debt without finding an original source.
The research below indicates that this quote is cobbled together from quotes found in Wilson's book "the New Freedom", which itself is cobbled together from speeches Wilson made in 1911, before the Federal Reserve was established. However, if this is what Wilson thought before the Federal Reserve, how could further establishing the power of a "small group of dominant men" make Wilson happy?
The unhappiness of Woodrow Wilson
Did the president lament the day he "unwittingly ruined" his country by creating the Federal Reserve? Andrew Leonard [2007-12-21]
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/12/21/woodrow_wilson_federal_reserve/
Friday, Dec. 21, 2007 11:23 PST
Did Woodrow Wilson bitterly regret his role in creating the Federal Reserve? Some readers of my post yesterday on Ron Paul and the Federal Reserve believe so. Two of them proffered an identical quote as evidence.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. : : We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world -- no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
On the hundreds of Web sites on which this quote appears, it is typically taken as proof of Wilson's remorse at handing over control of the nation's money supply to a cabal of Wall Street money men.
A common framing: "Woodrow Wilson signed into effect the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913. And said the following just six years later." Even the Wikipedia page for Woodrow Wilson includes the quote, as proof that "Historians generally agree that Wilson hated the Federal reserve, and it made him, by his own word, "a most unhappy man..."
Frequency of repetition doesn't make for reliable sourcing, however, and convincing documentary evidence that Wilson uttered such words, in reference to his role creating the Federal Reserve, is hard to come by. In fact, the available evidence suggests that the quote is an after-the-fact fabrication made by splicing together passages of different Wilson statements that have nothing at all to do with the Federal Reserve.
Two separate portions of the quote appear in The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People," published in 1913. "The New Freedom" is a distillation of campaign speeches Wilson made while running for President in 1911.
On page 185 there is the following section:
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.
And on page 201:
We are at the parting of the ways. We have, not one or two or three, but many, established and formidable monopolies in the United States. We have, not one or two, but many, fields of endeavor into which it is difficult, if not impossible, for the independent man to enter. We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world -- no longer a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
Now, this is all good rabble-rousing stuff, but its relevance to the creation of the Federal Reserve is nonexistent. The speeches these quotes were adapted from were delivered before the Federal Reserve was created. And as for the melodramatic utterance: * "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country," well, so far, the sourcing well is coming up dry.
“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”
More Presidential Quotes
John Adams, Founding Father of the American Constitution “Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
James A. Garfield, assassinated president of the United States The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity.”
Abraham Lincoln, assassinated president of the United States
http://www.themoneymasters.com/presiden.htm
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/2/bankquotes.htm
"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognised as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
William Lyon Mackenzie King
http://chatna.com/author/kingmackenzie.htm
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/primeministers/h4-3250-e.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries"
David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991
http://www.freedomdomain.com/nwoquote.htm
Producer's Comment: More sources attribute this quote as occurring at a at Bilderberger meeting in Baden-Baden Germany in 1991
“Only the small secrets need to be protected.
The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.”
Alternately quoted as:
"Only puny secrets need protection.
Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."
Marshall McLuhan, media “guru”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/MediaLiteracy/McLuhan.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mcluhan.htm
Not in the Movie
Misc Quotes on Banking
http://www.freedomdomain.com/bankquot.html
http://www.barefootsworld.net/banking-fed-quotes.html
More Relevant Quotations from
http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html
'The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.'
Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England, in a novel he published in 1844 called Coningsby, the New Generation
'The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments plans. '
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876
"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press....They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."
U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
'The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.'
New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922
'From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.'
Winston Churchill, stated to the London Press, in 1922
'The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.'
British military historian Major General J.F.C. Fuller, 1941
"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations -- One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.
"The UN is but a long--range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One--World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.
"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."
Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law
'A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.'
'And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.'
Aldous Huxley, 1959
'I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I want him to. Just let me control television.... You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV set images.....'
Hal Becker, media 'expert' and management consultant, the Futures Group, in an interview in 1981
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." Richard Salant, former President of CBS News
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups."
Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966)
Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University, highly esteemed by his former student, former US President, Bill Clinton
"There is a small circle of men who control the world's finance. "Each member, before initiation, knows its religion to be reward for friends and extermination of enemies. Once a man is within the magic circle...punishment for disloyalty is sure and terrible, and in no corner of the Earth can he escape it, nor can any power on Earth protect him from it.
" The magic circle is "at the receiving end of the greatest information bureau in the world.""
Thomas Lawson, Everybody's Magazine "Frenzied Finance" 1904
"Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
Walter Bernays Propaganda 1928
" I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology....Various results will soon be arrived at: that the influence of home is obstructive....although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen....Educational propaganda, with government help, could achieve this result in a generation. There are, however, two powerful forces opposed to such a policy: one is religion; the other is nationalism....A scientific world society cannot be stable unless there is a world government."
Bertrand Russell 1958
Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus and the early Church advocated a Daily ministration that was dependent on Charity only and it was not like the system of Corban of the Pharisees and Rome.
Where do you find the Daily ministration of the early Church, the Pure Religion of James and the Corban of Jesus?
Are you following The Blessed Strategy of Christ like the Early Christians?
Are you following The Way through Love of one another or the way of the world and the Fathers of the earth?
Do you seek the benefits of bankrupt nations, or do you forgive and seek the benefits of Christ's appointed Kingdom?
Do you only gather for the comfort it gives you, or do you gather to benefit others?
Christ came to serve, not be served. Do you desire to be served or are you coming in His name and according to His character to serve others?
If we desire His Grace but we only love those who love us then there is no Grace because it is clear we do not really believe in Him.
If we do not Repent of our Covetous Practices and are not diligently gathering together in Free Assemblies of Love for all to provide for one another in Charity according to the Perfect law of liberty then we have nothing according to Paul. According to Luke 6:32 if we only love those who love us there is no "Grace". Christ also said if you do not Forgive neither will the Father forgive you.[10]
It is not enough to hate the deeds of the workers of iniquity, but we must return to Thy first love and thy first work. To break the yoke we need to return to the ways of righteousness spoken of in Isaiah 58 which are the ways of Christ and the early Church. And His yoke is light for it is carried by our love of one another.
Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Christ all created Networks of charity to care for the true needy of society without force which is how they were able to help set people free. Do you gather with His Church to attend to the Weightier matters as Christ said?
Are you gathering in a Network of righteousness?
Do you come to love others or just be loved?
Are your Congregations' gatherings fruitful enough so that no one has to pray to Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other?
Does anyone in your Free Assemblies have to apply to the Fathers of the earth, or seek their many benefits?
Early Christians found themselves in conflict with these systems of social welfare because they made the word of God to none effect. Christians had repented of their covetous nature when they received the Baptism of Christ. They heard and became Doers of the word not hearers only.
Remember Proverbs 12:24, "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the Slothful shall be under Tribute."
We know that liberty under God is not for the covetous who are Biting one another but it is also not for the slothful. If we are not congregating together in free assemblies bound together in a broad network by faith, hope, and charity alone according to the perfect law of liberty then we are not truly seeking the Kingdom of God nor His righteousness.
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↑ Understanding “American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.” Grover Cleveland Annual Message Dec., 1885. We should take a look at our own part in the covetous events of 1933. See Employ vs Enslave, http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog4eve.php Audio http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-04.mp3 SS Video Series 7-10 7:28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuz-hFKM_Ts
↑ Chapter 11. of the book The Covenants of the gods, Money vs Mammon http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog11movma.php Mammon, NN Video Series:3-10 4:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG5sp5bCpSc
↑ “Debtism is the formal name given to debt-driven capitalism, also known as false capitalism--a system in operation since 1933 until 2010.” http://one-spirit-tribe.org/covenant/one_spirit_1160.htm
↑ Proverbs 22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
↑ "Capitolism is an ironic reference to an economy in which market forces are subsumed to political interests in Washington. The term is derived from Karl Marx's term for a private enterprise-based economy, Capitalism, and the name of the building in which the U.S. Congress meets, the Capitol." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capitolism
↑ Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: Elements of the kingdom http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/elements.php Elements of the World and the Kingdom, From the book The Higher Liberty, Sec. 38 http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/elements.php
↑ Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
↑ Not of the World? What did Jesus really say, to whom, and why about his kingdom? http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php
↑ http://www.hisholychurch.org/network/maplocator.php
↑ Matthew 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
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FIFA to consider extra host nations for expanded 2022 World Cup
By Rob Lancaster 16 March 2019 3697
FIFA has confirmed it will work with Qatar on an expanded 48-team World Cup in 2022 that will involve at least one more country hosting games.
Football's governing body has already approved the increase for the 2026 tournament and is investigating the possibility of instituting the change four years ahead of schedule.
The FIFA Council met in Miami on Friday and accepted a feasibility study that recommended the need for neighbouring nations to provide hosting support to Qatar.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino said: "We came to the conclusion that, yes, it is feasible to move the World Cup in 2022 from 32 to 48 teams provided, of course, that certain conditions are met.
"To be very clear, today we have a World Cup in Qatar of 32 teams and it is great like this. However... we are looking into the matter and seeing whether it is possible to anticipate this [change] already in 2022.
"If it is feasible, if it is possible, great. If it is not feasible, if it is not possible, great. But I think as FIFA we have a duty to look into that."
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FIFA and Qatar will undertake further analysis on the potential for joint hosts before determining whether a proposal is submitted to FIFA Congress in June.
Infantino also confirmed FIFA's intention to forge ahead with expanding and rescheduling a revamped 24-team Club World Cup in 2021.
The tournament - whichis presently limited to seven participants - will be moved from its usual December window to the months of June and July.
The plans have been met with strong opposition from the European Club Association, which represents powers like Barcelona, Manchester United and Real Madrid.
"We want to have an exciting competition, a presitigous competition, an inclusive competition for clubs, and we will have this for the new Club World Cup," Infantino said.
"Of course there are different points view on some topics but we have the responsibility to make the decision for FIFA and I'm sure in the next few weeks even the discussions with UEFA will bear positive fruits."
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A Preliminary Evaluation of Metacognitive Beliefs in High Functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Campbell, Breeanna | Curran, M | Inkpen, Raymond | Katsikitis, M | Kannis-Dymand, L
Purpose: Metacognitive beliefs and processes have been found to perpetuate anxiety and depression in youth and adults. However, the presence of metacognitive beliefs in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is somewhat unclear and has received limited research attention to date. The aim of the current research was to explore metacognitive beliefs in children with autism and associations with anxiety and depression.
Design/methodology/approach: Twenty-three high functioning participants (17 male and 6 female) between the ages of eight and 12 (M = 10.38) diagnosed on the autism spectrum completed the study. Participants completed the Revised Children’s Scale of Anxiety and Depression and the Metacognitions Questionnaire for Children. Findings: Correlation analyses revealed that positive and negative metacognitive beliefs were found, as hypothesised, to be prevalent in this sample. Originality/value: Despite methodological limitations, this is one of the first research evaluations to provide evidence for metacognitive beliefs in high functioning children with autism and comorbid anxiety or low mood.
Advances in Autism / Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.73-84
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Dancing Room Only welcomes Def Mix’s Quentin Harris & Strictly Rhythm/Defected Records artist Joeski!
Quentin Harris
Growing up in Detroit before moving to New York, Quentin Harris burst onto the international scene in 2002 and has remained at the very top of the tree ever since. Long before that however, he was making a name for himself as a technically brilliant resident DJ at seminal New York club The Shelter. Of course, he has also played around the world including at Stereo in Montreal, Balux and Home in Athens, Cheers in Paris, Roxy Blue in Toronto, Ministry Of Sound in the UK and many other such hotpots.
Quentin has also, naturally, dived head-first into production, releasing a collection of high-quality 12″ cuts on labels including Space Kat Records, 157 Shelter and NRK. Drawing inspiration from producers like Martin Solveig, Charles Webster, and Carl Craig, Quentin has received praise from Danny Krivit, Joe Claussell and Francois K among others released on 157 Shelter Recordings and has remixed Junior Vasquez, Jill Scott and Patti LaBelle. Some of his biggest tracks include The Shelter Anthem on Restricted Access, Got 2 Love on Space Kat and Let’s Be Young on Unrestricted Access. In his time Quentin has also compiled and mixed disc 3 of the Southport Weekender Volume 3 compilation alongside Dimitri and Jazzie B. 2010 saw the releases of the highly anticipated album Sacrifice on top US label Strictly Rhythm and it showcased impressive collaborations as diverse as Jason Walker, Ultra Nate, Georgia Cee, Koffee, Denise Henderson and Drew Vision. While these days he considers himself first and foremost a producer, Quentin’s DJ skills are still in high demand.
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“As a Brooklyn-born/Queens-raised New Yorker, Joe Flores got in on the ground floor during the glory days of the New York House scene, playing his first gig as the artist we’ve all come to know as “Joeski” way back in 1991. With the opportunity to break in as a DJ at infamous dance institutions such as The Limelight, Palladium, The Tunnel, and NASA, those legendary venues served as the classrooms in which Flores earned his masters in the science and art of controlling a dancefloor. Plenty of DJs from that era have long-since vanished into obscurity, but Joeski has remained active for the long-haul, despite dealing with the struggles that the emergence of the digital era placed upon essentially every DJ and producer who was active and successful during the days when analog gear and vinyl were the only tools of the trade.
Joeski’s direction took an upward shift in recent years, following a stint that lasted several years in which he was forced to take a step back. During this period, he predominantly only released music on his label, Maya Recordings. Taking those steps back meant a slow fade from the spotlight, as the dance music industry, in the U.S. especially, was undergoing a period of great change, shifting toward a focus on EDM and simultaneously moving toward the digitally-driven industry we are in today.
The sudden incline in output from Joeski has brought us an onslaught of powerhouse EPs and remixes, growing his already staggeringly large discography. In 2016, Joeski’s name graced the catalogs of labels such as Defected, Get Physical, Crosstown Rebels, Poker Flat, and more. This sudden move toward ramping up his production output and returning to releasing on prominent labels has effectively put the name Joeski back on the map as a force to be reckoned with.
Not only one of the most diverse producers of House Music in the world, Joe is also one of the most capable and experienced DJs still around since those aforementioned and wildly revered days – back when “Sound Factory was like church,” as he put it when 5 Mag had a chance to link up with him as he prepped for a busy gig-filled schedule during Miami Music Week.
Being a man of many words and an equal number of passionate views led to our touching on what led to his ups and downs, as he reminisced about his early influences, explained his re-emergence on the international scene, and delivered his strong opinions on the state of today’s music industry.”- 5 Magazine
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Down to Dushanbe
Got to Dushanbe yesterday after 6 days of pretty heavy riding, despite the altitude drop from 2100m to 700m. Plenty of ups and downs and the roads were worse than I'd expected. At least the last 100km were perfect tarmac and a pleasant cruise down into the heat of the lowlands.
I had a dip in the last hot spring (in Obigarm) before heading down.
Touchwood, my bike frame weld has been very well behaved so far...
Dushanbe is very Soviet, with broad leafy boulevards = excellent shade! It's much quieter and more pleasant, if more boring, than Almaty.
Last night I stayed with an 81 year old Russian babushka who came here from Siberia 54 years ago. It was in fact her son (a truck driver) who had invited me, but he hadn't turned up yet. She insisted that I stay anyway. She is amazingly healthy and robust but feels her way around the house - she's blind from glaucoma and whatever else.
My Iran visa invitation letter hasn't turned up at the embassy. It was closed yesterday (Wednesday) due to a public holiday in Iran. Now I hear that Thursday and Friday are the WEEKEND in Iran (??? what is that all about? first time I've heard that) though apparently the Iranian visa/travel agency and the embassy work on Saturday.
The agency I went through in Almaty (Stantours) tells me now that 1 in 5 invitations go missing, and that they can't contact Key2Persia (the Iranian agency that issued the visa) until Saturday. Great.
In a park I tried some draft beer and met an Iranian tourist, who said that the agency should be open today anyway. That's a thought - why not ring them? Sure enough, I got onto the manager, who had the reassuring news that they never actually get hold of the invitations - that they are sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Iranian embassies, which commonly lose them.
My Tajik visa finishes on Sunday, and theoretically I can extend it, but it sounds like a real hassle. I'll try to avoid this at all costs.
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The Pamirs - to Khorog
Heading out of Osh and gradually uphill towards the Irkeshtam Pass and China, the highway was being rebuilt - everything was trucks, cars, dust and fist sized rocks. Hot, dry, late afternoon. Not the very worst, but relatively awful. Xavier's voice back in Osh (he had just ridden in the opposite direction) was ringing in my ears: 'Over zose last 80 kilometres I was askeeng myself: Why do I bozer?'
Next thing I knew, I was riding past a Kamaz truck with a Kyrgyz standing in the back of the open container beckoning to me to put my bike inside. 50 metres on I stopped and thought, 'That's GOT to be a good idea.' Sure enough, they were going to Irkeshtam to China and were very happy to give me a lift across the worst of the highway repairs to Sary Tash.
The workings of the Kyrgyz GAI (traffic police) were soon revealed. Our 3 truck convoy was stopped and my driver pulled out roadworthy (out of date), driver's licence (valid) and permission from truck owner to drive this particular truck (in somebody else's name).
As it happened, each of the 3 drivers was missing at least one of these three.
Soon I was watching one of the other drivers trying to force 20 som ($0.60) into the cop's hand, with him pushing it away. There was a brief detente and my driver told me a bit anxiously, 'He won't take the bribe.' 20 som is the going rate, which you pay 3-4 times before Irkeshtam.
I couldn't believe it. Surely not an honourable traffic cop?
In the end it turned out he wanted 200 som for each truck but the guys bargained him down to 150! The cop hadn't noticed the owner's permit for my driver being in the wrong name - would it have made any difference?
We stopped frequently for the driver to do his regular Kamaz brake checks (no complaints there) and tinkerings, and from 11pm-1am stopped in a roadhouse for a relaxed feast of mutton, noodles, tea and flat bread. I dozed propped up on the wall. Then we headed on till 2.30am, when the driver decided on a nap. I rolled my sleeping bag out in the back. At 5.30am he woke me and we headed on (they prefer driving at night as the engines overheat less.) By 9 we were over a second pass and in Sary Tash. I jumped out.
From Sary Tash I went south across a sparsely grassed plateau towards Tajikistan. Virtually zero traffic. Yurts were dotted across the landscape still, with plenty of kymyz. Up over a barren, rocky pass, and down past the Tajik border post with lots of young Tajik boys strutting around in cammo gear, sun hats or balaclavas, and AK 47s. They delighted in making me wait at three separate checkpoints and didn't even look at my GBAO permit.
Down in the first valley, the only visible human life was a Swiss cyclist, Martin, who had just camped, so I joined him. He was going the other way.
Up onto the vast arid high Pamiri plateau, over the 4500m Ak-Baital Pass, and a long - 70 km - descent to Murghab, the very low key regional centre of Eastern Pamir, with a mixed Kyrgyz/Tajik population. By now there were no more horses - and no more kymyz. Not enough pasture, I was told. Damn. I went to OVIR to register (compulsory within 72 hours of arrival) and was sent to the bank to pay $15 plus 20 somoni. The friendly Pamiri boys at the bank immediately invited me back to their place.
It was fascinating running into the first Pamiris. Physically, you'd think you were somewhere in southeastern Europe. They are often fair, with blue eyes, generally dark haired but sometimes red/blonde. Sometimes they have strikingly aquiline (or just huge!) noses. They're also extremely warm and friendly, and tend to greet you with a hand on the heart, indicating respect.
Along with this, Pamiri people are generally the most hospitable I've ever moved amongst, despite being very poor. They'd share their last crust with you. On most days I am offered tea and a place to stay about 3-4 times from mid afternoon. Their staple is bread, which they bake themselves in little electric ovens, or in fuel- stoked ovens, if there's fuel. In the mornings everybody drinks 'shir chai', slightly salted milk tea, into which you break bread. This is good for old stale bread, none of which gets thrown out. They like meat, but eat very little, as it's too expensive. People have little garden plots but can't grow enough to be completely self sufficient.
Looking south into Afghanistan.
See the foot (or goat?) tracks on the Afghan side?
I also found out that Pamiris are proud of their individuality and keen to distinguish themselves from Tajiks. I found out that they are very poor. And I found out that they universally revere 'their Aga Khan', the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, whom I didn't know much about. This was soon to be corrected. The Aga Khan Foundation is very active in Tajikistan and does all kinds of good deeds, from building basic hydroelectric setups to bigger projects - which might be why they love him so much.
From Murghab I headed south. I met my last (the southernmost) Kyrgyz in Alichur, and got to try airan (tasty yak kefir). Off the Pamir highway and over a pass to the Wakhan valley, where the Pamir, and then the Pyanj rivers form the border with Afghanistan. Over a few hundred km, through Langar and Ishkashim, I was looking across 20-30m of grey glacial river at Afghanistan. Everything seems very peaceful over there.
Amongst other things there were two excellent hot springs to bathe in and also lots of good roadside mineral water springs, including the famous Narzan spring. Delicious apricots were just ripening in the Wakhan so I got to gorge on them in most villages! You can also split the seeds open to get to the delicious kernels.
You can't catch vitiligo or psoriasis, can you? This spring is famous over the former Soviet union for its curative properties...
Here in Khorog I'm staying with a Pamiri friend my age whom I met in Murghab. He makes a living - amongst other things - from smuggling rubies to Afghanistan (which, of course, is illegal.)
I went over my bike and found a snapped steel bracket which attaches to my front pack rack - luckily my host had a reasonable replacement. Everything else seemed fine. But looking again I found a crack 2cm long at the bottom of my seat tube (the near vertical one in which the seat post sits), across a dent caused by kids in Alice Springs who stole my bike and damaged the frame. BUGGER. (I only got to keep the bike cos they'd wrecked the rear wheel and weren't able to ride off on it.) It seemed to be holding up fine, so I had decided to just keep an eye on it. Clever Rob. If only I had got through the hassle of replacing the frame.
The ideal repair would be to replace the tube but it's the hardest one to get at - it'd have to be a professional job, and amongst other things I'd have to get the right diameter so that the seat post fits.
After quite a bit of hanging around I got my frame electric arc welded at the Pamir hydroelectric power station but it's one of the more primitive, dodgy jobs you can imagine - just have to pray that it holds up. No TIG welding (or whatever is best) here. I'm not sure that I'd find much better in Dushanbe or Tashkent. Bikes here tend to be very disposable Chinese or extremely rough Soviet single speeds, nothing any Western bike mechanic would want to go near. The nearest 'professional' bike mechanic? I might be looking at heading back to Sasha's in Almaty!
Anyway, rather a crack in the frame than a schmack in the cranium. Plus, 3700km so far touch wood and NO PUNCTURE!
Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all... where will I find another frame? India maybe?
Above the friendly Pamiri welder ('best in town') who refused payment and gifts for the repair.
525km left to Dushanbe.
Pamirs - the roof of the world
From Osh up into the Pamirs
If I get my passport back today I'll leave with Michael, a nutty 21 year old bike tourer, towards Sary Tash. He has a Chinese visa (having promised to FLY in) - funnily enough he is the only person I've met who has managed this. He should still get over the Irkeshtam pass as his visa doesn't specify that he must fly...
Unfortunately I can't download any of the best photos so far - very slow connections, plus the anti virus programs create havoc for USB's. So they will have to wait.
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The Tajik visa story (see earlier, in Almaty) finished up today. I didn't get my Pamir permit by email on Friday but the big boss at Munduz Travel here in Osh made a big fuss and then told me that due to his excellent connections with the Tajik Embassy in Bishkek, he could get it to me by Monday night (last night).
His travel agency was classic Central Asian. Lots of young people hanging around the office (they said they were work experience students from the International Relations faculty, with about 10-15 hanging around in an office on one side and the big boss in an office the same size, just opposite. One female manager who did mostly admin work had to consult him for everything. Everything required his approval and in the meantime people just stood/sat around.
Big Boss was big, expansive, well dressed in lemon shirt and white linen pants, loud, and smelt of cigarettes. His modus operandi was classically Soviet. When the grand theatre of his explanation of how he would get the permit finished, I asked how much it would cost. The answer - $70 - $50 for the permit and $20 admin. When I questioned this he went into semi attack mode: 'Fine, if you don't want it I won't do it, you won't get it any other way, nobody has the connections I have, and I wouldn't send my worst enemy to the Pamir without a permit.' I could smell vodka on his breath now. I backpedalled and played contrite Rob.
On Monday I rang and said I wanted a receipt from the embassy in Bishkek. Big Boss refused and told me straight out that this money was a 'tip'. He then again threatened to cancel the whole thing. Again I backpedalled.
Meanwhile, one of the Tajik agencies had sent me a scan of the permit after all, out of the blue! So all I needed now was my passport.
Throughout the afternoon I had to call to see what was happening. If I got onto the female manager I always had to call back because she never knew anything, or had no licence to talk to me. 6pm last night - Big Boss told me they'd refused the permit and rambled something about 'bandits' and 'contraband'.
I wonder whether he got the jitters when I talked about going to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dushanbe to complain - that could disrupt a neat little arrangement for him and the Tajiks in Bishkek. Yes, I'm a troublemaker.
I only got my passport - and money - back on Tuesday at midday after waiting at his office for almost 2 hours. At long last Big Boss received me -completely unapologetically, as you expect - leaned back in his chair, flipped open a white packet and proffered a cigarette. Is this a movie?? No thanks. I accepted the cup of tea instead. He rambled a bit more and then I had my hands on what I wanted.
I'm out of here. Michael from UK has the runs and is resting up.
The Pamirs promise to be hard. Next internet is two or so weeks away in Khorog.
About 3000km by bike so far.
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Karakol to Osh
I left Karakol and headed along the southern coast of Lake Issyk-Kol. The shore is quiet, with pebbly beaches, azure-clear waters and rugged spurs shrouded in cloud to the south. Much better than the resort dominated northern shore. I passed a girl running in Russian colours and slowed for a chat. She was a marathon runner from Omsk, training at altitude for the Omsk marathon. At a little village called Tosor I picked up supplies and headed into the mountains. At the top of the first gorge a herder family (2100m up) invited me to stay in a spare room and fed me with home made bread, jam, cheese, kymyz (sour horse milk, like kefir) and joghurt. The next morning Mum fed me up again, I bought cheese from her, then I was on my way.
Up a gravel/4WD road round constant switchbacks more kymyz was on offer in another 2 yurts. Further up into foul weather, then over a spectacular 3800m pass. Horses and cattle were grazing right up to 3700m or so, until the country was just rocky scree.
Half way up this pass I noticed my first theft - two bolts from the right side of my rear pack rack were missing. Very lucky I noticed. I check them regularly -though not as often as I did when I had crappier racks - and they have never come loose over 4 years, so I'm 99% sure they were nicked. Maybe the thief was one of the people I was telling about my big list of spares?
Over the next 2 days I wound down the lush Naryn valley, green meadows lined with jagged snowy peaks, to the south west, with occasional river crossings and detours over escarpments. Even high up they're not quite Heidi meadows - they are pretty heavily grazed. I soon passed my first chabani (herdsmen), these ones living in white old style tents, like our ancient canvas Scout tents. There had once been bridges on this road, but they were virtually all washed out. The road was rubble, gravel, not good. Even descending you can't go more than 15 km/h. Much more kymyz was around, and in one yurt I swear I had 8 cups. They kept insisting, swearing that it's extremely healthy and completely fat free. More home made bread and jam. Also more promises to send photos from home (making more of these than I should, I have a very bad track record.) For the first time my emergency shelter (a tarp) got a bit of a test in a stormy and rainy night. The sky was crystal clear before I went to bed - very rapid weather changes here.
By Naryn I was pretty tired and found a 'CBT' (community based tourism) flat with a well educated Kyrgyz hostess who spoke very good Russian. So I decided to have a rest day.
We had a good talk over dinner - she belongs to the generation that owes everything to the Soviet Union. Unfortunately things degenerated the next day after they all stayed up and watched Russia lose in the Euro football semis. She was very disappointed but I said I was glad because I was sick of rabid Russian nationalism. She got very angry and we had a big argument. I made her late for work. As she left I was thinking of saying, 'By the way, do you know how many Kyrgyz I hear skinheads kill in Moscow every year?' - but thought better of it.
From Naryn a good asphalt road led 100 km further west, running between two east-west ridges, uncannily like the Larapinta west of Alice Springs in places. The country dried out dramatically, and started to resemble huge rolling sandy hills of mine tailings.
The road wound up over two more big passes before reaching the Ferghana valley: the first 2800m, the second 2900m high. On the first I was invited to stay the night with a chabani family in their yurt. They were very happy to tell me all about how they live.
Generally they rent the high country meadows from the local government, and it seems that certain families have a long standing claim on certain areas. They take their yurts up high in May and stay there until September. If the kids go to school or Mum works, they come up for the long summer holidays. The husband/older sons stay the whole time.
Chabani often have a mix of their own and other peoples' stock, who pay them. The family I was with had about 50 horses, 5 cows, and 150 sheep and goats. I noticed many families lower down didn't have horses. I would stop and ask if I could buy kymyz and they would often say, 'No, you see, we're poor, we don't have horses.'
Mares are valued most of all as they produce milk for kymyz (only in summer though) which they sell for $US 0.70 per litre to passersby or at markets, a good earner. A good mare sells for $1500. They milk the mares every 2 hours from 6am to 8pm! This family said they got about 35 litres of kymyz per day.
There is a special process for kymyz production: you line a wooden barrel with a coat of cream, then smoke the barrel with pine cone smoke (or other if not available). Then you just stir the milk and within an hour or two you have kymyz.
The cows are milked twice a day and every family has a 'separator' (same word in Russian) to make cream. Some make cheese too. Many families now have small Chinese solar panels to run a light and a radio at night - not sure if they can power a separator!
Sheep are only sold for meat, at maybe $150 each. The fattier the rump, the better. They use the wool to cover the yurts but otherwise they can't really sell it - no market. Shashliks in towns are mostly mutton, with less beef.
The families make their own bread often using flour which they grind using their own wheat from the valley below. The dough goes into a deep pizza pan and bakes like a fat pizza/heavy Turkish style bread. Then the bread is eaten with green tea (+ cream), cream, and home made jam (there is a berry called 'oblipikha' which is like a powerful apricot which everybody gathers in the forests for jam.)
The little stove (inside/outside the yurt) runs on dried manure gathered after the winter from the sarais (stables) down in the village. Water is boiled in a samovar (which has a hollow core for fuel).
Child labour isn't much of an issue here!
On the second pass I found a NZ and Scottish cyclist coming the other way, up from the Ferghana Valley - golden fields way below to the west. They had come from Europe and the Kiwi wins the prize for cheapest bike to travel across Central Asia so far... but these roads will test it.
Down towards Jalalabad into the heat of the valley and I spent my last night before Osh with a retired Kyrgyz Russian language teacher.
From Jalalabad it was a hilly 100km loop on good roads around a bit of Uzbekistan to Osh.
In Osh I found that my GBAO (Pamir) permit hadn't come by email and desperate measures were needed...
The bazaar in Osh was a real treat, though, with lovely friendly people, no haggling needed, and no massive hordes to negotiate. I spent most of the weekend with Xavier (a French bike tourer, down from the Pamir) and also met up with 3 Swiss riders - then 1 British.
Most of the people working the bazaar are Uzbek rather that Kyrgyz; the woman often conservatively dressed in Uzbek patterns with a monobrow painted on, and henna stained hands.
I bought a whole stack of supplies here for the Pamirs: 1kg sultanas, 1 kg peanuts, 5oog dried apricots, 500g lollies for gifts, excellent mountain honey...
Odile and Olivier, French bike tourers I met in Kyrgyzstan, took some great pics in this area. Sadly, I lost most of mine (memory card died).
Out of Almaty to the Kyrgyz border
Escape from Almaty to the east, sticking close to the mountains on local roads to evade traffic – almost impossible on a Saturday. Lots of booming restaurants and wedding reception centres, shashlik mixed with diesel fumes, blaring Turkic pop. How many weddings can there be? First night - slept in the garden of a florist who I had got café advice from on the way through. On the next day I found some company in a young Kazakh tobacco picker who had just brought himself a new ‘Ukraina’ single speed roadster the week before and was getting into riding. Made in Kharkov, exactly the same as the ancient Soviet ones, most likely in the same ancient Soviet factories. Funny that in some areas they stick to these, and in others they’re importing rubbish Chinese bikes. After 25km one of his pedals was clunking. I had a look and found a loose crank AND pedal. For that effort I got the nickname ‘diamond–eyes’. We had a feed in a market chaikhana (teahouse) and then a local Russian invited me back to his place to try his home made kvas and meet his Korean wife, who he rescued from Kyzyl-Orda (godforsaken town in the northern wastelands of KZ, on the Moscow-Central Asia train route – dust, crumbling buildings, camels). I asked him about the scars on his arms. He said, ‘I told you, I had to spend almost a year in Kyzyl-Orda’. He also had some shocking army service stories. The modern day Kazakh army gets mixed review from the local men – about half say that the old Russian practices of ‘dedovshina’ (officers constantly beating, humiliating and robbing new recruits) still persist. I’ve been reading Anna Politovskaya’s ‘My country’s army’ which has damning accounts of the army’s utter legal immunity, and indifference to soldiers’ lives. The second Chechen war from 2000-2002 was especially horrible. It’s hard to imagine a more inhumane culture. Even worse is the fact that many of the commanders seem to have built themselves political careers on the basis of their supposed hero status. That’s all about Russia, but the cultural influence is extremely strong in Kazakhstan.
The road swung around to the south up a dry rocky canyon and up onto a series of plateaus. Late in the evening, at a roadhouse, I caught up with a pair of lovely truck drivers who I had passed while they were fixing their Kamaz. The elder – Russian, blonde, the younger – Uighur, neighbours from Zharkent, near the Chinese border. The Russian one had a charming old fashioned way of apologizing when he used a mild expletive, not wanting to offend the guest. We said goodbye and straight away I was bailed up by some Russian long haul truckies from Bishkek, 2 men and one 21 year old son, who were just as friendly but stereotypically ‘rude’ – I can’t find the words – they swore in the most crude Russian ‘mat’ virtually every second word. (‘Mat’ is the extremely crude slang of prisons and army.) Funnily enough the son didn’t swear at all, although his dad was going for it.
Heading further south across dry plains, across the Charyn River canyon, and up another long valley to Kegen, the country got dryer and the traffic sparser. I found my first wayside kymyz (fermented horse milk) salesmen. Past Karkara the valley became lush and fertile again, but the road towards Kyrgyzstan petered out into a gravel track.
At the border I was prepared to speak only English, as I hadn’t registered (though you don’t need to.) The Kazakh guards were funny and completely un-hostile. One was a ruddy, jolly redhead called Max who told me what a dog specialist he was, said he wanted to come and work in Australia, but was then confused when I told him we have no land borders. His offsider, an earnest young Kazakh, told him, ‘it’s a separate continent, silly!’ Duh. Max proudly told me that they had internet, satellite TV and earnt $US 500 per month. Then he asked, ‘So how much do you earn?’ I came up with, ‘More than $US 1000 a month.’ (I’ve decided this isn’t bad- they normally don’t probe further.) Then he added, ‘Even the commander over there’- pointing at the Kyrgyz side – only earns half of that.’
Over at the Kyrgyz side the very young guards tried to be stern and strict. They said, ‘Wait there!’ while one went into a decrepit shack with a Soviet radio set visible. Then ‘Enter!’ after a bit. The young guy mucked around and eventually found a key for a safe in which there was nothing but a stamp with a date. I got my stamp and he painstakingly wrote my details in a book, struggling with English letters. I asked, ‘Can I go?’ He said, ‘Yes.’
Just beyond was a rather more grand house. I heard, ‘Stop!’ The Kyrgyz commander came out. I said, ‘But the soldier said I could go.’ Answer, ‘He was drunk. You haven’t been through Customs yet.’
He took me into the house. Paper shuffling. Lit a candle. Questions about what I was doing. Then he produced a customs declaration, A4 size. ‘Fill this out.’ I said, ‘Why?’ (‘Zachem’ in Russian can express a bit of disdain, more like ‘Why bother?’) ‘Hmm, OK.’ He put it away and got out another, smaller form which he gave to me. 'Fill it out.'
I looked at it. The title read 'Quick questionnaire for foreign tourists who enter Kyrgyzstan'.
I started filling it out. After a bit he got bored and said, 'Give it here'.
'Why did you tick "Tourism on Great Silk Road" AND "ecological tourism"?
'Well, I'm kind of doing both.'
'Where are you going on the Silk Road?'
'Osh.'
'That's not on the Silk Road.'
'Umm, yes it is.'
'Hmm.'
'So, do you want the form?'
'No, you keep it.'
'Can I go now?'
'Mmm.'
And I was free to go.
My favourite bit: ‘He was drunk’. (He wasn’t!)
Around Almaty
A few hundred km’s before Almaty the headset on my bike (the steering) started playing up and catching. This was a worry as it’s one thing I can’t fix. I found the biggest/best bike shop in Almaty, but the mechanics didn’t have many clues. Luckily I found out about Sasha, a bike mechanic who due to clashes with bosses had gone his own way and had a tiny workshop hidden behind an apartment block in a basement. He had the right bearings and got me sorted.
If anybody needs him:
Sasha (Aleksandr)
strela7171(at)mail.ru
Head east along ul. Gogolya past Panfilov Park, towards Central Park
Just past Interfoods supermarket on the north side there’s an arch – behind arch on right.
In Sasha’s workshop there’s this good collegial atmosphere you get in this part of the world where everybody who comes in shakes hands, with strangers especially. People turn up with beers and snacks for everybody. It feels more like a friendly club than a workshop.
While waiting for visas I headed up to Taldy Kurgan, where the relatives of my friend Mika live in a small village. They are originally from Azerbaijan and were deported here in 1936. Some returned to Baku after 1991, some are in Russia, but most have stayed. Only Mika’s mum (a mathematician) made it as far as Australia – via Petersburg, Baku and Israel. Mika’s grandma had 11 children and here I stayed with one of his aunts, who lives with her family right next door to another aunt. It’s a very closely knit setup and people wander to and forth between homes. Out the back of each house is a big vegetable patch with spring onions, tomatoes, potatoes, red peppers, eggplant, dill, coriander, radishes and lettuce, fertilized with manure from the sarai (stable), which has cattle and chooks. Food on the table is mostly home produce: milk, yoghourt, cottage cheese, lavash, dolmi and salad. Delicious.
Back in Almaty headed off into the mountains towards the south for a 2 day walk. Walking through town with my pack an older Russian man greeted me enthusiastically. ‘Great, you’re heading for the mountains!’ Funnily enough bushwalkers/hikers are still almost a secret society, and you still have, again, this special collegial atmosphere when somebody on your wavelength sees you. The Russians say, ‘Rybak rybaka uznayot izdaleka.’ (A fisherman can tell a fisherman from a long way off).
As it turned out, there was nobody in the mountains beyond a rugged 4WD track up to Bolshoe Almatinskoe lake at about 2000m up. I wandered up and camped in a beautiful alpine valley, then up over a 3600m pass the next day next to the Kyrgyz border (south of the Almaty-Alatiri mountains) and back down, down, down towards the city to the north. All the way there was minimal evidence of humans and the path was often patchy. If this was Switzerland there would be hundreds of people up there even on weekdays.
Towards the bottom I came to a barricaded old sanatorium – ‘Alma-Arashan’ with signs ‘Closed for renovations until 2010’. This place was famous in Soviet times, served as a military hospital in WWII, and is famous for curative sulphur waters. The canyon was very steep with little room to move so I found a gap and snuck through, only to be ‘arrested’ by shocked security guards. They told me, ‘This is private property.’ I asked, ‘Whose?’ They said, ‘It doesn’t matter.’
Further down an understandably bitter local Uyghur taxi driver told me that a Nazarbaev relative or crony owned it now and was making it into a luxury resort. He was one of the few who expressed their anger and complete despair very openly. Sad. Most people avoid getting emotionally entangled – they know it’s just not worth it. Much better off staying deliberately disengaged.
I went to the Tajik consulate for the 3rd time (mid afternoon) to get my visa. The secretary said, ‘No, you can only pick documents up in the mornings.’ Annoying enough – but next morning I turned up at 10.15 am. Nobody there. The builders reckoned somebody should turn up by 12.00 at the latest. I settled in, then after an hour went for a little walk. I found a luxury estate with Uighur guards at the gates. They said, ‘You can’t go in.’ I put on my old socialist hat and said, ‘well where did they get their money from? Why don’t we break in and steal it all back?’ As an unexpected reward I was then allowed to wander around the estate at my leisure and was then offered tea and biscuits on my return. Ha ha. Back at the consulate people drifted in, waited for a bit, had a sleep, then drifted off. 2pm – still nobody. A young Czech hippy who wanted to travel through Afghanistan turned up. I wasn’t in the mood. At 4.30pm the secretary turned up, completely unapologetic. He gave me the visa but not the border zone (Pamir) permit I needed, saying I should get it from a travel agent.
(Postscript:)
By the time I got to Osh, 3 day’s ride from the Tajik border and 3-4 weeks after my first email contact with Tajik agencies about this bloody permit, having sent scans a few times, nothing had happened. I went to a local agency and they said I was the 5th this month and that they couldn’t arrange the permit for a KZ-issued visa. After hours of mucking around I was told I could pay $US 70 to send the passport to Bishkek and get the permit, which would take till Monday night (3 days). It also turned out that people getting their Tajik visas in Bishkek were getting the permit included for $US50.
If I have the energy when I get to Dushanbe I’ll go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to (vainly)demand my money back. I know what they’ll say, ‘Take it up with the consulate in Almaty, it’s got nothing to do with us.’ They will most likely be shameless and even amused. It’s always your problem. The complete lack of accountability is all pervasive. There are few or no rules you have to follow, everything depends on contacts, and people in positions of power can make personal exceptions whenever they see fit. For a while, when I realized that as a Russian speaking foreigner I could make things work for me, I liked the arbitrary thing in some ways. Now, I just see it as evidence that there is no functional system – especially when I see that there is no way out (or around) for locals without connections. I must be becoming more German.
Ak-Baital Pass, Pamirs, Tajikistan. July 2008.
Rob - troglodyte
A couple of bike tours: China to Turkey, May to December 2008. Czech Republic and Austria, June 2013.
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Racialized Mass Imprisonment: Counterinsurgency and Genocide
Posted on November 14, 2015 by sdonline
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
[Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Defense Minister of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter (not to be confused with the “New Black Panther Party”). After 20 years in Virginia prisons, he was “interstate compacted” because of his activism, first to Oregon and then to Texas. He is the author of Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art, Featuring Exchanges with an Outlaw (2010), as well as articles in Socialism and Democracy (nos. 38, 43, and 61 at http://sdonline.org) and many other works which can be found (along with his current address) at http://rashidmod.com. His recent web-postings include expose´s of homicidal practices of guards at his Texas prison. His theoretical writings are being collected for a forthcoming volume, Panther Vision.]
Mass imprisonment and the growth and concentration of increasingly militarized police in the oppressed communities are, like the slave patrols and racial terror of the old plantation slave system, weapons of counterinsurgency aimed at containing potentially rebellious social groups, in order to preserve and protect the political-economic ascendancy of the ruling class.
The distinction is that whereas yesterday the principal targeted group – namely New Afrikans/Blacks – were the driving labor force of the plantation system and therefore vital to the ruling class’s wealth and power, today their profit value is marginal at best, while the desperation and insecurity of their collective social-economic condition makes them potentially the most rebellious internal group and thus most threatening to the status quo.
So containment today has a genocidal dimension much like the planters’ and subsequent systems’ policies toward the First Nations.
The racialization of slavery
As a counterinsurgency strategy the racialization of slavery was deliberate. It began in the late 17th century in response to frequent slave revolts that rocked the English colonial slave system here in Amerika, in which Afrikans, Europeans and Natives were equally enslaved and united in resisting. One such revolt (Bacon’s rebellion) overthrew the colonial government of Virginia in 1676 and burned down the capitol.
After putting down the revolt, the colonial rulers passed laws – beginning in 1682 – which created the racialized classifications of ‘white’ and ‘Negro,’ and began phasing out the enslavement of ‘whites’ while making ‘Negroes’ permanent hereditary slaves. The ‘Negro’ was defined as anyone having a single drop of Afrikan blood, with the slave status passing from mother to child. The slave patrol system was created to enforce and reinforce this social order.
As slave patrols, all whites were induced to serve as a collective policing force of the plantation system, to enforce the racial order and curb slave rebellions through imposing exceptionally brutal public terror by beatings, maimings and lynchings of slaves. Such public brutality was the norm of plantation social life and served as a pressure release for the frustrations of poor whites that might otherwise have been directed at the ruling class that was the actual cause of their misery and insecurity.
The Civil War only reformed this system. The 13th Amendment legalized slavery as punishment for crime rather than as an explicitly race-based condition. However, racial stratification as an element of social control was not to end. Immediately upon passage of the 13th Amendment, criminal laws were enacted across the South called “Black Codes,” with the purpose of preserving the enslavement of New Afrikans/Blacks and the racialized status quo.
The Union came to the aid of New Afrikans/Blacks by occupying the South and backing initiatives to invalidate the Black Codes. But this was done with the ulterior motive of creating an electoral base through which to develop US political ascendancy in the South. This gave rise to Reconstruction, with results very different from what the Union had aimed for, including economic, political, and educational ascension of New Afrikans and a class-based unity developing between them and many poor whites, creating the social base for a united struggle for power exercised from below.1
Southern backlash incited by the old plantation elite was swift and widespread, taking the form of white terroristic violence against New Afrikans and their white allies – especially against those New Afrikans seen as making political and economic gains – and enacting laws to disenfranchise New Afrikans and strip them of basic citizen rights. The Union soon joined the Southern backlash in undermining and ultimately betraying Reconstruction, and restoring racial reaction and the old status quo with the Southern plantation elite back in power.
Racially targeted criminal laws were again asserted as the basis to justify imposing slave-like conditions and segregation (Jim Crow) on New Afrikans/Blacks. Use of the name Jim Crow symbolized the underlying racial purpose of the Southern social practices while disguising them as racially neutral. The name was that of a character in a minstrel show. Minstrel shows were stage-productions popular among Southern whites of that era, where performers (primarily whites), made up in ‘blackface,’ acted out caricatures of New Afrikans/Blacks.
Texas – model of racialized prisons
During the Jim Crow era, chained-together groups of New Afrikan/Black prisoners, working on plantations and roadsides (chain gangs) and contract convict labor became a common scene in the South. Indeed, chain gangs – now called “hoe squads” – are still widely used alongside other unpaid forced labor in the Texas prison system, where I’m imprisoned.
It was especially in Texas that the racialized Southern prison model – now common across Amerika – developed out of the slave plantation. Also, it was Texas that set the model of “convict leasing” which saw prisoners rented out to US corporations under conditions akin to German Nazi labor camps. As Robert Perkinson reported in Texas Tough,
Recorded mortality rates in excess of 20 percent, in some instances, put U.S. Steel on par with German and Japanese companies that profited from slave labor in World War II. But while these corporations have been held to account, U.S. Steel has escaped unscathed. Although the Wall Street Journal recently probed the company’s shameful history, no reparations movement has emerged among former convicts or their descendants.2
The brutality that marked the old slave system has always plagued the US prison system, and especially Texas, of which I’ve written a bit.3 So the punishment industry in Amerika from its very beginning was devised not as a means of addressing or correcting crime, but rather as a system through which to exploit, and contain, select racialized social groups, with Texas still leading the pack:
Texas reigns supreme in the punishment business. With 173,000 inmates and more than twice as many paid employees as Google, Texas’s prison system is the largest in the United States, outstripping even California, which has an overall population 50 percent larger. By almost any measure, Texas stands out. The state’s per capita imprisonment rate (691 per 100,000 residents) is second only to Louisiana’s and three times higher than the Islamic Republic of Iran’s. Although Texas ranks fiftieth among states in the amount of money it spends on indigent criminal defense, it ranks first in prison growth, first in for-profit imprisonment, first in supermax lockdown, first in total number of adults under criminal justice supervision, and a resounding first in executions.4
Mass imprisonment as counterinsurgency
The US mass imprisonment model developed as yet another disguised system of racialized social control and counterinsurgency in specific response to the New Afrikan/Black Liberation movement of the 1950s-60s, that both challenged and discredited the old Jim Crow system of social control, and catalyzed the various rebellious social movements of that day (including the women’s, anti-Vietnam War, Native American, Gay-Lesbian, etc. movements). But this time the policy of containment included more explicitly genocidal dimensions, especially since New Afrikans, like the Natives of the slavery era, have proven to be not only the most persistently rebellious internal group, but a proven catalyst of more systemwide revolt. Plus they are no longer a needed labor force and thus offer little profit value to the ruling class.
Just as the old Jim Crow was devised to carry out a racialist program under pretence of racial neutrality, so too was the post-1960s New Jim Crow of mass imprisonment. This new stage of racialized social control again mobilized white society behind criminalizing the targeted group, this time under cover of a “tough on crime” policy.
This program began with President Richard Nixon’s bid to win white Southern voters over by using racist appeals. As his special counsel John Ehrlichman admitted of Nixon’s 1968 campaign strategy, “the subliminal appeal to the anti-black voter was always present in Nixon’s statements and speeches.”5 Nixon’s principal adviser, H.R. Haldeman, revealed much the same disguised racialist agenda, that Nixon “emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.”6 And here we have the hidden agenda that has colored the US “criminal justice” (sic) and political agenda since, and has been applied by both Republicans and Democrats. The racialist appeals and criminal stigma used by US politicians have been disguised with racially charged code words and stereotypes.
We see this game played from Ronald Reagan’s opening his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers had been lynched (everyone knew this was a cloaked appeal to those who opposed integration), to George Bush, Sr.’s using the Willie Horton ad in 1988 to rile up racist white opinion against his campaign opponent Michael Dukakis (the ad portrayed Dukakis as having released a convicted Black rapist on a furlough, leading to a young white woman being raped). Bill Clinton did it in portraying welfare recipients as Black women who refused to find work while driving Cadillacs, freeloading off taxpayers; he also created more police jobs than any prior administration and sponsored a number of new criminal laws targeted at the multitudes of poor New Afrikans whom his policies would deprive of ‘legal’ means of survival. Bush Jr. and also Barack Obama continued in this vein, playing to racist white anti-migrant hysteria, etc.
Each of these administrations backed the racially targeted selective drug laws and “Drug War” that saw the US prison population grow eight-fold since the 1970s, especially on account of imprisoning New Afrikans/Blacks, until the matter became the object of recent public and international scandal. This exposure and scandal came in large part from civil rights attorney and law professor Michelle Alexander’s 2010 exposé on the Drug War and mass imprisonment.7 During each of these administrations the government at all levels and media have joined together in criminalizing the image of New Afrikans, playing up criminalized racial stereotypes and concentrating increasingly militarized police forces in their communities, where, like the old slave patrols and white terrorist groups, they use routine murder and violent impunity to terrorize the populations into submission.8 And since the 1970s the government and media have stoked racialist fears to win society-wide white political support for these policies and consequent mass imprisonment targeted especially at New Afrikans.
These and similar practices have played out against Brown people and lower-class whites as well, but I focus here on New Afrikans/Blacks due to the genocidal implications presented in their case.
Poor whites are manipulated as the main shock troops of this process, as the vast majority of newly constructed prisons – especially the harshest and highest security-level prisons – have been located in rural white communities.
The genocide factor
The genocidal dimensions of mass imprisonment and criminalization of New Afrikans are evident in many regards. Foremost there is the systematic depopulation of their communities, destroying of families, removal of mothers and principal caregivers from their homes – which in turn causes great numbers of New Afrikan children to be transferred to government custody or state-sponsored foster-care (as was done to Native children); imprisoning one third of all young New Afrikan males during their most productive years and thereby forcibly preventing procreation or meaningful intimate relationships; allowing deadly diseases to fester and run rampant within US prisons and denying prisoners standard levels of medical care and often any medical care at all; inflicting mental torture on prisoners with widely used solitary confinement, typically targeted at those who hold on to their culture or critical political beliefs (portrayed by prison officials as “gang” activity); confining prisoners at extreme distances from their families and communities, thereby denying them avenues for maintaining healthy family and community ties (again, repeating practices carried out against Native youth); returning prisoners to society under such conditions as to ensure their return to prison (denying them access to public housing and public benefits/services, thus pushing them to resort to ‘crime’ or to live under conditions that violate parole or probation); removal of male role models and independent leaders from New Afrikan communities so that the youth have no positive examples nor respected interventionists, and thus look to their peers, neighborhood gangs and the entertainment media for social examples and influence; again, police targeting of New Afrikan youth with routine brutality and summary murder to inflict terror and passive submission to a system and social order that denies them their basic needs and is violently destroying them and their communities; government-facilitated narcotics infestations of their communities and incitement of “gang” wars (much as was done to Natives with alcohol and inciting inter-tribal wars to destabilize their societies, weaken their resistance, and wipe them out); suppressing, coopting and replacing New Afrikan culture and history with an imported consumerist, hedonistic, degenerate Amerikanized subculture, which is blatant cultural genocide;9 persecuting, subverting, destroying, and actively angling to prevent the development of political groups – like the Black Panther Party – that seek to organize New Afrikans to defend themselves, meet their own needs, and gain a political voice.
Taken in whole and part, these measures and others meet the definitions of genocide as elaborated in international law. The International Convention on Genocide defines genocide as inflicting “any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group such as”:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.10
The profit factor is secondary
So, although mass imprisonment is a profitable (multi-billion-dollar) enterprise, comparable to the Nazi concentration labor camp system and to the US government’s bounty-payments in the 19th century for the scalps of Native men, women and children (in its drive to seize their land and be rid of their insurgent threat), prison profit is not the driving force of mass imprisonment. Nor is rehabilitation or ‘correction’ of criminal behavior, which is why no one is rehabilitated (except by their own efforts) and recidivism is the scandalous norm. The purpose is containment. And unless we collectively recognize the genocidal as well as the political dimensions of this and act accordingly, we acquiesce not only in the perpetuation of an old scheme of racial divide-and-rule and the systematic destruction of a people, but also in the continued ascendancy of an anti-human imperialist system whose policies cannot but end in exterminating us all, along with the very environment that we need in order to survive.
Dare to struggle, Dare to win!
All Power to the People!
1. New Afrikans had by this point coalesced and evolved into a distinct nationality of people (culturally, psychologically, linguistically, economically, and in their corresponding internal class relations). With their acquisition of land under Reconstruction (land reform) and racial exclusion, both the objective conditions and the subjective strivings for their own identity and territorial independence were organically developing.
2. Robert Perkinson, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire (New York: Henry Holt, 2010), 105.
3. See e.g. Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, “U.S. Prison Practices Would Disgrace a Nation of Savages: Texas – A Case on Record” at www.rashidmod.com and in Socialist Viewpoint, vol. 14, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2014); and “Razor Wire Plantations: Amerika’s Ongoing Addiction to Slavery, Cruelty and Genocide” at www.rashidmod.com.
4. Perkinson, Texas Tough, 4.
5. John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power: The Nixon Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970), 233.
6. H.R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994), 53.
7. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010/2012).
8. See Steve Martinot, “Probing the Epidemic of Police Murders,” Socialism and Democracy, vol. 27, no. 1 (March 2013).
9. In “National Liberation and Culture,” Amilcar Cabral analyzed the use of attempts to subvert a people’s culture and supplant it with one crafted by an imperialist power as a method of subduing a people.
10. http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
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The NBA Rookie of the Year Award In a Box
September 3, 2013 In a Box, NBAJustin Kubatko
My favorite contemporary writer, the incomparable Bill James, has used the “In a Box” concept in several of his books. Basically what James does is choose a topic (e.g., a baseball manager) and then makes an idiosyncratic list of the topic’s defining features. I think the format works well for a blog post, so today I would like to put the NBA Rookie of the Year award winners “In a Box”.
Continue reading The NBA Rookie of the Year Award In a Box →
The Bellamy Bunch
August 29, 2013 Analysis, NBAJustin Kubatko
The other day I was doing some research for a future piece on the greatest rookie seasons of all time and I ended up getting sidetracked by Walt Bellamy. Walt Bellamy? Yes, Walt Bellamy. You see, Bellamy had his finest season in the NBA as a rookie, a feat that I thought had to be highly unusual given the Hall of Famer’s 14-year, 1043-game career. And just like that, I had my next blog post: How many players with careers of significant length peaked in their rookie season?
Continue reading The Bellamy Bunch →
Is Tracy McGrady a Hall of Famer?
August 26, 2013 Hall of Fame, Keltner List, NBAJustin Kubatko
The Keltner List is a series of subjective questions formulated by famed sabermetrician Bill James used to help assess whether or not a player deserves to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Although the system was designed to evaluate baseball players, with a few minor tweaks it can also be used to assess the Hall-worthiness of basketball players. Today I will assess the Hall of Fame chances of Tracy McGrady, who announced his retirement from the NBA earlier today.
Continue reading Is Tracy McGrady a Hall of Famer? →
The NBA MVP Award In a Box
August 21, 2013 In a Box, NBAJustin Kubatko
My favorite contemporary writer, the incomparable Bill James, has used the “In a Box” concept in several of his books. Basically what James does is choose a topic (e.g., a baseball manager) and then makes an idiosyncratic list of the topic’s defining features. I think the format works well for a blog post, so today I would like to put the NBA MVP award winners “In a Box”.
Continue reading The NBA MVP Award In a Box →
Is Chris Webber a Hall of Famer?
Although the system was designed to evaluate baseball players, with a few minor tweaks it can also be used to assess the Hall-worthiness of basketball players. Today — in what I hope will become a regular feature on Statitudes — I will assess the Hall of Fame chances of Chris Webber, who will appear on the ballot for the first time in 2014.
Continue reading Is Chris Webber a Hall of Famer? →
August 20, 2013 PersonalJustin Kubatko
I don’t know why you say goodbye
I say hello.
Goodbyes are hard. They suggest a certain finality, a signal that something good has come to an end. Unfortunately, life is full of goodbyes, and today I must say mine. After six years, five websites, and hundreds of thousands of lines of code, my tenure at Sports Reference will come to an end this week.
Continue reading Hello, Goodbye →
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Slay the Sicilian!
Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents a repertoire for White against the most popular opening in chess – the Sicilian Defence. Taylor's repertoire is based first and foremost on the Open Sicilian, which is regarded as White's most ambitious and challenging response to the Sicilian.
EBOOK - Slay the Sicilian!
Catalog Code: E-B0347EM
How to Play the Fischer-Sozin Attack in the Najdorf Sicilian in Chess
This edition is updated in April 2012 and provides complete analysis and the most recent games in this important line.
EBOOK - Slay the Spanish
Weapons Against the Ruy Lopez
Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents weapons for Black against the hugely popular Spanish Opening, with a repertoire based on the Modern Steinitz Defence. This has justifiably earned a reputation as an important alternative to the main lines, and it's easy to see its appeal. The Modern Steinitz can lead to razor-sharp positions, such as in the Siesta Variation, where one slip by either player could prove to be fatal. But a major attraction of the Modern Steinitz is its flexibility, and Black can also choose to play in a more positional manner.
EBOOK - The Budapest Gambit
The Budapest Gambit is an ambitious and adventurous opening for Black, who offers a pawn as early as the second move in return for active and rapid development. It has always been a particular favorite at club level, where it still provides a surprise weapon, but it has also been utilized with success by top-class Grandmasters.
EBOOK - Beating the King's Indian and Grunfeld
Dealing with the English, Reti, King's Indian Attack and other annoying systems? The King's Indian and the Grunfeld are two of Black's most popular answers to 1 d4; unsurprising given that they were long-time favourites of chess legends Garry Kasparov and, before him, Bobby Fischer. Brimming with complexity and dynamism, these two openings often leave those playing White scratching their heads wondering how to squeeze even the slightest of advantages out of the opening and, just as crucially, how to avoid becoming swamped in a morass of complicated theory.
CLEARANCE - New York, 1985: The Manhattan Chess Club International
The deeply annotated games feature discussion of opening theory, middlegame, and endgame strategies, and the happenings in a modern tournament as the players vie for prizes, honors, and FIDE titles.
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The Art of the Tarrasch Defence
Strategies, Techniques and Surprising Ideas
Catalog Code: B0201NIC
The Tarrasch Defence is one of the most ambitious ways to play against 1.d4. Former Russian Champion Alexey Bezgodov has more than 30 years of experience with the Tarrasch and is one of the world’s greatest experts. The Art of the Tarrasch Defence is a deeply researched journey into the positional structures, the key moments in the fight for the initiative, the players and the variations.
The Modern Openings in Theory and Practice
This major work of the famous Russian chess openings theorist Alexei Sokolsky is distinguished by its original approach to the subject. Whereas other standard books deal with openings mainly in the form of lines and variations, Sokolsky's is a distinctive and analytical treatment. The effect of the openings on the game as it proceeds is explained and developed.
SHOPWORN - The Double Queen's Gambit
A Surprise Weapon for Black
Catalog Code: SWB0162NIC
Alexey Bezgodov provides a complete chess opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4. After replying with 1…d5, the former Russian Chess Champion advises you to take up the Double Queen’s Gambit and play 2…c5! against both 2. c4 and 2. Nf3. In The Double Queen’s Gambit Black’s attitude is as active and ambitious as that of White in the Queen’s Gambit. This ambition may seem premature at first sight, but many strong grandmasters have already successfully played this system.
SHOPWORN - The Liberated Bishop Defence
A Surprising and Complete Black Repertoire Against 1. d4
In many 1.d4 openings, Black has trouble getting his bishop on c8 into play. Former Russian Chess Champion Alexey Bezgodov presents a radical solution to this nagging problem; liberate your bishop right away and put it on f5 on the second move! Play 2...Bf5! against either 2.c4 or 2.Nf3 will surprise your opponent and is also a great way to support your development, because the bishop takes control of the important square e4.
The Modern Tiger
Catalog Code: B0097QT
The Modern Tiger offers a complete repertoire against 1.e4, as well as against 1.d4 when White continues with c4 and e4. For added flexibility, both a Modern line and a Pirc line are given against the critical Austrian Attack.
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V’techezena eineinu: Reflections from the heart of an Olah Chadasha
Chantal is a wife, mother, grandmother, Educational Psychologist and writer who is overjoyed about her recent aliyah and excited to share her experiences of our magnificent homeland.
Israeli Author Signs TV Series Start‐up Deal with US Producer
Based-on-fact novel about a journalist’s search for truth, freedom, and revenge, through the dark days of apartheid and the First Intifada in Israel, grab producer’s attention.
My first week of work
I began work on the 1st of May 1978. After 5 months in the mercaz klita I was bored and ready to work and confident that the Hebrew I had learned was enough to get me through any situation. I found a job at a small engineering company in Jerusalem that had just been awarded the management of a new construction project running to hundreds of apartment buildings. I was a 46 year old site supervisor. The two partners in the firm were nice enough guys, slightly older than I and between them could raise twenty or so words in English. So when we spoke to each other they did a lot of nodding at my English and I nodded at their Hebrew, meaning no one understood anything.
The Zionist Connoisseur: The story of Gloria Rootshtain
People make Aliyah for many different reasons, and it is not uncommon for people to emigrate due to difficulties in their homeland. On the other hand, not many people would be willing to give up and sell a very successful hotel and catering business, pack their bags and move their family to Israel. This is the story of Gloria and of her late husband Isaac Rootshtain.
Blog N.02 by Egon Roth
For the first time, I had some idea of how desperate those early immigrants who came from Europe to Southern Africa in search of a better life on the gold and diamond fields must have been. How brave and courageous. How astounding their women were, having to cope with conditions they could never even have imagined.
Jewelry - Building a Bridge between Israel and Africa
Beverly Price is a contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited globally and worn by people such as Nelson Mandela. Her latest venture involves taking the drawings made by Israeli-Ethiopian children and getting them crafted by local South Africans artisans into unique adornment pieces.
*Jerusalem Post
Parshah in Just Two Minutes! Concise Summaries of the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Eliyahu Shear
"I went through each verse of the Torah and considered its value for inclusion and then adjusted what I felt would be best to turn the parshah into a present tense version of the topic being discussed. This made it a living happening for anyone choosing to read it."
Shoshanah Shear Discusses the Story Behind Her Children's Book 'Tuvia Finds His Freedom'
"I was brought up in Rhodesia and South Africa with strong values of being kind and caring towards all animals as well as nature and the environment."
Rosemary Kahn (R.A. Kahn) Describes Various Relationships in the Life of a Teenage Girl in Her Novel "Relationships"
"There was something about this book that was very different though. It is just so well written that it kept me riveted and absorbed from beginning to end even when reading the book for the 10th time."
"The Journey Starts" by Egonne Roth
As I read these words and the rest of the poem to Yehudit in the car, I was deeply moved. Until a few hours before I had not known Olga had written in English and then I suddenly wondered, had she written more work in English? Maybe also in Hebrew? What other surprises awaited me? Many, I would discover.
To read the full blog, Click HERE.
Shoshanah Shear Shares Her Story About Writing 'Healing Your Life Through Activity'
"Most people I have met have no idea what occupational therapy actually is, or if they do, their perception of the profession is usually limited. It was my grandfather, who opened the door for me to a world of the importance of empowering others to succeed to the optimum no matter what their limitation."
Gili Cohen wins Bronze in Abu Dhabi
“I’m an athlete and my focus is on my success on the mat, but I’m proud to represent my country all over the world, and even happier to do so when I’m successful,” Gili said following her medal-winning performance in Abu Dhabi.
A Modern Aliyah - straight from the plane into a new business and private dental practice
Abbe Kellner-Kutno made aliyah in July 2017, her private dental practice, founded with her two dental partners, opens its doors in Raanana in November 2017. Read about how she did it.
Remembering Dr. Clive Leslie Carpel
Tribute to a former madrich of Bnei Akiva, who passed away in November 2016 and is fondly remembered by those who knew him.
In loving Memory of Avraham Itzhak (aka "Coffee") Hoffman z"l
"We were the 120th pioneer family to come to Arad after making aliyah in 1963."
The Golden Wedding replay
Over a musical career spanning more than 53 years, Rand musical virtuoso Benny Michel has played at more than 30,000 functions as band-leader and keyboard artist.
To read the formidable life story of this bigger than life character, click HERE.
PRAS - a parent's view
“Telfed’s PRAS Programme has truly been a gift to our family. I did Sherut Leumi (national service) many years ago at Tehilla, an organization that helped new Olim with Aliyah related issues. Twenty years later, when the idea of someone else assisting my family arose, I was initially skeptical. I didn't realize how much my volunteering impacted on others, until we decided to join PRAS. "
Making our country proud
Recently Gili and Gadi Haimovitz (middle sons of Ron and Stephanie, grandchildren of Freda and Gabi Haimovitz, Bella and Micky (z"l) Alswang ) returned from Moldova where they won the silver and bronze medal in the Moldova Open Taekwondo 2017.
Memories of the 6 day war in Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem
"We understood that it was now time to prepare for an eminent war, as Abdul Nasser's closure of the Straits of Tiran, was casus belli."
Click HERE to read the full article written by Mickey Blumberg.
Remembering Herman Hirschmann z'l (1/1/1938 - 18/3/2017)
Herman was the son of Sadie and Jack Hirschmann of Pietersburg.
He came to Israel at the age of nineteen in 1957 with the Machal group from South Africa as a volunteer to the IDF and served in Nachal. During his training he suffered a severe head injury as a result of a shooting accident.
All you need to know about South Africa - Israel Relations
The ‘romance’ between the pioneering Jews in Southern Africa and the State of Israel, goes back long before Israel’s independence in 1948...
Learn all you need to know about the Amazing histpry between the two countries...
Aliyah- the Good, the Bad and the Meshuga by Benita Levin
"If you'd told me six months ago I'd be writting this column from Israel as a new immigrant, I'd have said you must have the wrong person"...
The Jewish Country Communities of Limpopo/Northern Transvaal by Charlotte Wiener
"Let us recall, thanks to this book, the history of the Jewish country communities in the northern part of South Africa from the first pioneers, who came from England and Germany, then from Lithuania and Latvia, at the end of the 18th Century until their demise at the end of the 20th Century."
An Oleh's Journey...
"I am truly happy, and after all this time I have done so much."
These are Byron's own inspirational words to describe his incredible Journey as an Oleh.
"Goodbye Kruger National Park" by Yishai Silber
"We were first introduced when I was but a young child - not yet old enough to appreciate all your intricacies, but just young enough to be utterly enchanted by your mysteriousness."
Musical Welcome To the New Year - Jerusalem
"Both choirs performed a number of liturgical pieces with emphasis on texts for the upcoming Yamim Noraim (e.g. Zacharti Lach and Yaaleh Tahanuneinu by Lewandovsky and Avinu Malkeinu by Yanovsky) and Israeli songs."
Stories and pictures of the Machal / Nachal 1956-1966
"We have got our 2nd Lieutenant". The first time I saw him, he was standing at the side of the road where we had fallen in line"...
To read more about Stories and Pictures of Machal / Nachal from 1956 till 1966 kindly provided by Joe Woolf, read this fascinating Blog Post.
"We'll do it our way"... by Pamela Peled
"When I was growing up in South Africa, our Jewish Day School had a draconian dress code"...
Dennis Senator- Lipman receives a medal from the State of Israel
"On the fourth night of Chanukah, in the company of representatives of his children, grandchildren, and grandchildren, my father, Dennis Senator- Lipman, received a medal on behalf of the State of Israel awarded to, and in recognition of the 1,500,000 Jewish soldiers who fought against Nazi Germany in the World War 2."
Kelly Odes - 1st year student at the IDC
To discover this smart young lady with a great personality from South Africa who is currently studying in Israel at the IDC, make sure to read the article (in Hebrew) from Mako.
"Honouring one of our Greatest"
"Today Israel is in mourning. We bow our heads for our beloved Shimon Peres z”l, who has passed away at 93. He was the last of our original founding fathers and a true icon."
Servicing International Families
"The Ins and Outs of Real Estate in Israel" by Attorney Yaacov Epstein
Attorney Yaacov Epstein has written a series of fascinating and useful articles by the name of: "The Ins and Outs of Real Estate in Israel". These articles focus on what to know before buying an apartment in Israel, how can a none-Israeli resident save tax payment when buying an apartment in Israel and so much more.
Don't wait any longer and make sure to read the selection of articles offered below:
"Letter of Intent" is it a good idea? (Click Here)
Nine Things to know before purchasing an Apartment on the Open Market (Click Here)
Seven points you should consider before you sell an apartment (Click Here)
How can foreign Residents Buy or Sell Real Estate in Israel without paying Israeli Real Estate Taxes? (Click Here)
That's Zionism...
It’s taken nearly 30 years but finally, Paul Charney is back in Africa. And it’s safe to say that the 15-year-old who left Johannesburg for Israel with his parents in the early 1990s never imagined he’d be honored by the president of Gambia for his humanitarian work.
Esther’s Story: From the Heart of Africa to Israel
"Just before Rosh Hashanah last year I returned from East Africa having spent almost two weeks with a team of medical personal and climbers from Israel’s “Save a Child’s Heart”(SACH) young leadership team (www.saveachildsheart.org). I was honoured to witness first-hand the ability of Israel to affect the world for good. "
"Following in my Mother's footsteps..."
This Year's Rosh Chodesh Elul is the third since my Beloved Mother Z"L Devorah (Dawn) Nates passed away. She was an incredibly vibrant and generous woman, a true Aishet Chayil. Though her time with us was cut short, she did leave us with many treasures and is in so many ways still here with us, giving. She started and was involved in numerous community projects and through these actions lives on today.
By Yael Tessler
A letter to the Editor...
"A letter to the Editor"... A reply to the Alena Lourie Tribute by Stephen Darori
"Sol’s Stories Factual and Apocryphal Anecdotes" By Sol Liebgott
Sol Liebgott was a popular and influential figure in the South African Jewish community. Successful businessman, Zionist leader and devoted family man, he was the ultimate raconteur. Nobody could tell a story like him. His wry sense of humor infused every tale. He knew many people, witnessed many historic events and lived a long and productive life. This rich background is woven into the stories that make up this book.
Sol was born in Dagda, Latvia in 1915 and immigrated to South Africa with his parents in 1922. At every stage of his life he was active in community work and served as Chairman of the South African Zionist Federation from 1969 to 1972.
Most of these anecdotes relate to Sol's own experiences; others are stories he heard and adopted into his repertoire. They are timeless, warm and often extremely funny.
Sol moved to Israel in 1972 and there too he was active in public and charitable causes. He died in 2011 at the age of 96 after a long and meaningful life.
How to Obtain the Book:
Download the Kindle version from Amazon.com (Enter “Sol Liebgott” into the search box). Price: $0.99
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Order the print version by sending an email to: bernard.lerer@gmail.com.
Estimated cost NIS50 including postage (in Israel).
Written by Bernard Lerer.
The Jewish Community of Pilgrim's Rest Eastern Transvaal
by Batya Jaspan, March 2002
The first place where gold was discovered in South Africa was in the Eastern Transvaal in 1868 and in Pilgrim's Rest in 1873. A few years after the end of the Second Anglo-Boer war in 1910, my father Baruch Dredzen came from Latvia to Johannesburg and after a few years started a store in Pilgrim's Rest, serving the local mine workers and the small village that was developing. Traveling salesmen would become one of the main links with the outer world. The Jewish salesmen would be the connection with the other Jewish communities of Sabie, Lydenberg, Nelspruit, Graskop and other small isolated stores and families in the area. In the early thirties it was decided to build a synagogue in Pilgrim's Rest, to serve also nearby Graskop and the small outlying families of the area. There were 10 Jewish families living in the area at that time.When looking through a list of Synagogues in Southern Africa in the S.A.-SIG website, I recalled the Synagogue of the Pilgrim's Rest Jewish Community of the Eastern Transvaal. There is no synagogue there now, but I, Batya Jaspan, née Celia Dredzen, and my cousin Ronnie Dredzen were born in Pilgrims Rest and know some of the story of this community. My Aliyah was in 1949 to Kibbutz Tzora together with my husband, Zvi. Ronnie, son of Lazer and Lily Dredzen, came to Israel with his wife June (Shefts) in 1998, to Bet Shemesh, which is adjacent to Tzora...
Garin Alon Etzion were honored at the Yom Ha’Atzmaut ceremony of Alon Shvut
"The families of Garin Alon Etzion who made Aliyah from South Africa to Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion 43 years ago, were honored at the Yom Haatzmaut ceremony of the Yishuv Alon Shvut."
The Sounds of Jerusalem by Sarah Sassoon
"Every city has its sounds, rhythms and pace that you either get used to or don’t. Jerusalem’s hullabaloo is radically different from the highway traffic of Johannesburg, or the fresh sea breezes of Sydney. Sounds don’t lie. Jerusalem is the orchestra pit of Judaism, Christianity and Islam."
To read the full blog post, Click HERE.
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By "Home" I mean...
"Today, I drove down my old street in Johannesburg blasting Derech Hashalom with the windows wide open. It was not because I have a particular affinity to Peer Tasi, nor was it because I think that the Glenhazel roads would greatly benefit from my rowdy behavior."
To read Yaffa's full article published in The Times of Israel, click HERE.
"A letter to my father, the late Joe Green" by Rena Teeger
"I was living in Israel expecting my third child thirty years ago when I heard the news that you had left us. It was on Shabbat Nachamu – the Shabbat of comfort."
Hillie's War Fom Rommel To Patton.: My Pow Memoirs by Hillel Feldman
An insight into Hebrew U Mechina...
Walking into university to face a long day of studies in the early hours of the morning is a nightmare for most people, but for me, it is an experience I look forward to daily.
Your Blogs: Gina Jacobson - The Wheels on the Bus
Gina Jacobson muses about public transport in Israel. See Gina Jacobson's full online blog at http://gnatj.com
Fugitive Rabbi Accused of Sex Crimes Issues Death Threat Against South Africa's Chief Rabbi
Article first appeared in Sunday’s edition of the Johannesburg Sunday Times.
Eliezer Berland, who has been on the run since 2012, evaded arrest near Johannesburg this month. A fugitive rabbi on the run from Interpol has issued a death threat against the chief rabbi of South Africa, Warren Goldstein. The threat, made by followers of the Jewish sect’s leader in his name and on his website, has rattled the South African Jewish community.
Your Blogs: Rolene Marks - Dear Golda
Telfed Media Committee Chairperson, Rolene Marks', latest blog post, a beautiful tribute to the great Golda Meir entitled, "Dear Golda."
Presenting a musical comedy about Aliyah: "Together against the Odds"
Desert Rose Productions present "Together against the Odds" - a musical comedy about Aliyah by Grant Crankshaw and Daniella Roman. When a naïve, South African, Methodist boy meets a sassy, Israeli,Jew-“ish” girl and they move to Israel, fun is sure to follow. See dates of performances here.
Your Blogs: Martine Alperstein - 18 Thoughts for 18 Years
Martine Alperstein offers 18 thoughts, one for each of her 18 years in Israel!
Morris and Ettie Silber: Following their children, their grandchildren and their dreams
Morris and Ettie Silber of Johannesburg are making Aliya to join their children and grandchildren in Israel. Morris (89) and Ettie (85) are fulfilling their lifetime dream of living in the Holy land. They will be staying with their children, Alan and Diane Silber and grandchildren, Yishai, Danit, Batsheva and Michal.
Israel Transport Tariff reform
Outline of new Israel Transport Tariff reform.
Zac Hilon Brings Breast Cancer Awareness to “Women Who Work” in Hollywood
Former Pretorian, singer-songwriter Zac Hilon is Unforgettable, the musical powerhouse behind the sold out, 90-minute 1960s and 1970s inspired tour de force show that’s made global headlines. Zac is also devoted to charity work and traveled to South Africa in October to perform at a breast cancer awareness fundraiser, Dress 4 Life hosted by Blue Note Events, which featured a documentary and fashion show endorsed by cancer survivor and breast cancer awareness advocate Addi Lang.
Maurice Fluxman recalls the Bnei Zion of days gone by...
Published author, Maurice Fluxman, recalls his early days with the Bnei Zion Movement and provides some fascinating historical insights whilst doing so.
Your blogs: Gina Jacobson -#OperationIsrael - 1 year on
Gina Jacobson reflects on her first year of living in Israel. "This last year has been amazing. I’ve learned so many new things. In particular how strong our family is. Moving to a new country is stressful and our family could have been torn apart but we have only become stronger and closer."
New website to learn Hebrew - special offer available!
You are welcome to the new website to learn Hebrew, developed by two student volunteers: Isaac Pinchasov, (26) fourth-year student of Dental Medicine at Tel Aviv University from Nes Ziona and Gai Ben Moshe (26) from Gan Yavne, fourth-year student of Software Engineering at Ben Gurion in Be'er Sheba. The website is free for the first 5000 students.
Israel Doubles Its Rent Assistance for New Immigrants
Israel is doubling its rent assistance to new immigrants starting next month, its first increase in 15 years. The increase is vital as rental prices soar.
YOUR BLOGS: “Aromas and Flavors” – The Real Thing by Jonathan Danilowitz
Jonathan Danilowitz talks "food" in Israel and invites you to try out a wonderful new "market" Restaurant in Ramat Hasharon, “Reichot Ve’Ta’amim”.
A helping hand for the elderly!
Candace Rudolph, an Olah from Cape Town is offering a unique and potentially life-altering service to elderly or disabled people who may find it difficult to get around and complete essential daily tasks such as shopping, going to the bank and performing other errands.
Celebrity Foot-reader arrives in Israel
UK Celebrity Foot-reader, Jane Sheehan, arrives in Israel and will be offering workshops here in the near future. Tickets for the Israel seminars in November 2016 are available from www.footreading.com.
SAZF Tribute to Maurice Ostroff
SAZF Tribute to Maurice Ostroff.
A tribute to Russell Gaddin z"l by Nicci Diamond Levenstein
Nicci Diamond-Levenstein's beautiful tribute to much-missed, Russell Gaddin z"l.
Farewell to a Giant: a tribute to Maurice Ostroff
David E.Kaplan offers his tribute to a "giant" of a man, Maurice Ostroff Z"L.
Your Blogs: Rolene Marks - Tribute to Maurice Ostroff
Rolene Marks, Head of the Telfed media committee offers her tribute to Maurice Ostroff z"l who passed away today (30 November 2015): "today Israel lost a true gentleman, mensch and warrior for our country."
Your Blogs: Jonathan Danilowitz - The USA: Leading the way to gender equality
“When the United States Declaration of Independence stated that ‘All men are created equal’, that did not include people of color, it did not include women, and it did not include the LGBTI community. The USA has dared to redefine ‘equal’ and the change has been extraordinary.” Randy W. Berry, Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons.
Read more in this blog...
Your Blogs: Yarin Weltsman - Mindfulness, Shabbos Project Reflections
Yarin Weltsman, a young Olah from South Africa, shares her feelings following the Shabbat project and an inspiring Telfed Youth Weekend in Tzfat.
Your Blogs: Sarah Sassoon - The hardest thing about Aliyah
BLOGGER Sarah Sassoon is a freelance writer, Jewish thinker and wandering Jew, emigrating from Sydney, Australia to Johannesburg, South Africa and finally making Aliyah to Jerusalem with her family this summer, in 2015.
In this blog entitled "The hardest thing about Aliyah" Sarah humourously states that the hardest thing about Aliyah is the laundry!
Your Blogs: Michael Ordman's Good news from Israel
Israel's Good News Newsletter to 8th Nov 2015
In the 8th Nov 2015 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· An Israeli method for early-detection of secondary cancer can save many lives.
· Israeli doctors are in Romania, treating victims of a huge nightclub fire.
· The joint China-Israel “water city” project has been launched.
· Israel has both the best hotel and the best bar in the Middle East.
· Simply Red are to perform in Tel Aviv.
· A fortress from 2nd Temple times has been excavated in Jerusalem.
Your Blogs: Jonathan Danilowitz - The Bitter Irony
Jonathan Danilowitz shares his reactions to Islamic terror.
Story of Sinai Rome
The fascinating life story of Sinai Rome.
Remebering David "Migdal" Teperson
Remembering David "Migdal" Teperson, a giant of a man in every sense of the world.
Jewish Leadership comments on Hamas visit to SA
Blog: Lies, hate, blood and lust
From the blog of Telfed Media Committee Chairperson, Rolene Marks. A powerful blog sharing her views on the current situation.
Letter from SAJBD and SAZF in response to ANC directive against travel to Israel
An open letter to the community from represesntative of SAJBD and SAZF in response to the ANC directive advising against travel to Israel.
Photographic exhibition: Richard Shavei-Tzion
Richard Shavei-Tzion, a volunteer at Telfed, invites you to a solo exhibition of his photography "Light from the Depths" (Dead Sea Series) at the Jerusalem Municipal Gallery (see below). The exhibition is in partnership with The Malki Foundation (an invaluable source of support to Israeli families who choose to care for their special-needs child in the family home) and all income from sales will go to them.
Bloodied but Unbowed
Richard Shavei-Tzion pours out hearflet words about the current situation in Israel.
Herzliya Thursday English Lecture Series 2015 Schedule
A series of 27 stand alone English lectures (plus one Field Trip on 8th October) of no more than one & a quarter hours each covering biblical, historical, cultural & contemporary topics.
All the lectures are on Thursdays starting 15 October at the 7 Stars Retirement Home, 138 Hanassi Street Herzliya Pituach at 11am.
8 ways to calm children during the wave of violence
8 ways to calm children during the wave of violence. Advice from Ynet.
Contact Numbers in case of Emergency
Contact numbers to call in the case of emergenices.
How to Attend to a Stab Wound
Advice on how to attend to a stab wound should you G-d forbid be in the situation.
Job seekers seminar with Ron Bowman
A couple of weeks before the chaggim, South African job seekers were treated to a workshop given by Mr. Ron Bowman, President of the Dale Carnegie College in Israel.
BLOG: Good news from Israel
Tired of only hearing bad news from Israel? This blog compiled by Michael Ordman will open your eyes to all the good things going on in Israel at the moment - and thankfully there are many!
Memorandum on Dual Citizenship SA
There has been much controversy surrounding the unsolicited and unwarranted statement by an ANC official Obed Bapela in the Sunday Times of the 6th September 2015 that South Africa would be “prohibiting” dual citizenship. The connotation in this newspaper article was that Israel and specifically South African young men who are serving in the IDF could be prosecuted. Attorney Julian Pokroy helps to clear up some of the confusion in this helpful memorandum.
New book of cantorial music composed by Avraham Mordechai (Monye) Himelstein
Avraham Mordechai (Monye) Himelstein earned an outstanding reputation in the fields of conducting, composition and arrangement of music for cantor and choir. He also taught Bar Mitzvah to many young men in Johannesburg in the 1950’s, ‘60’s and 70’s. His compositions have been compiled in two new books: Shirei Tefillah LaChazan and Shirei Tefillah LaMenatzeach and were edited and arranged by his son, Lior Himelstein.
These books are both available for purchase on Amazon.com
YOUR BLOGS: Sarah Sassoon
Blogger and former Australian, Sarah Sassoon, grew up in Sydney Australia and married a South African. She recently immigrated from Johannesurg with her husband and four boys to Jerusalem. In this blog, first published in Times of Israel, she speaks about getting "ready" for Rosh Hashana in every sense of the word! If you are interested in having your views and thoughts featured on our website, please email debbie@telfed.org.il.
Evening of reminiscence for Rabbi NM Bernhard Z"L
You are cordially invited to attend an evening of reminiscence for all those who’s lives were touched by the late Rabbi NM Bernhard, on his yahrzeit, ח' תשרי – Sunday, September 20th.
YOUR BLOGS: Sarah Sasoon
Blogger and former Australian, Sarah Sassoon, grew up in Sydney Australia and married a South African.She recently immigrated from Johannesurg with her husband and four boys to Jerusalem. Her blog is about making Aliyah. Sharing the highs and the lows of a journey that’s a shared dream. Of not really knowing what’s going to happen along the way. On the blog post shown here she speaks eloquently about the trials and tribulations of "going back to school".
DAVID GOLDING: A personal recollection by Hanan Baradon
Hanan Baradon offers a personal recollection of the late David Golding z"l.
In memory of a very special man - Morris Borsuk z"l
Remembering with affection the late Morris Borsuk z"l
Mosenson Youth Village Seeks host families
The Mosenson Youth Village in Hod Hasharon is looking for families who would be willing to open their homes and their hearts to the 100 students from South Africa, the United States, Canada and Europe that will be attending the school this year.
Ronny Golding fondly remembers his late brother, David Golding ז"ל
Fondly remebering the late David Golding ז"ל.
Ronny Golding`s obituary to his dear brother.
Your successful Aliyah Stories: Jeff Geffen wins award for service to Israeli badminton
Ex-Southern African, Jeff Geffen devoted 48 years of his life to promoting and fostering the Israeli badminton industry in Israel in general, and in Ashdod in particular. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award "Yakir Maccabi" from the “Maccabi” Sport organization for his contribution to Israeli badminton.
Re-Specs Frames for the Needy
As the sole collector of recyclable frames for Israelis, RE-SPECS Frames for the Needy steps in to address the problem of lack of access by Israel's underprivileged population to correct eye-wear. Re-specs both collects and uses surplus glasses frames from Israel and abroad for distribution to needy people in Israel.
SAZF Response to Deputy Minister Obed Bapela’s attack on student visitors to Israel
Read the SAZF Official statement in response to Deputy Minister Obed Bapela’s attack on student visitors to Israel here.
Fondly remembering Zelma Epstein – 1923 – 2014.
Fondly remebering Zelma Epstein. A sad loss for all who knew her- one of her core values was that of ‘family’ and she believed in the power and strength in unity. She will be sorely missed.
A personal story of life after Aliyah
It is always such a pleasure to hear your successful Aliyah stories which inspire all of us! If you have a story to tell please email debbie@telfed.org.il.
In the meantime, you can read about Danny and Jill Herczeg here. The Herczeg's came to Israel from South Africa with two small children in February 1973, and a few months later found themselves in the middle of the Yom Kippur War. In the 40 years that followed they have enjoyed many adventures, suffered some hardships and experienced quite a few more wars. Read on..
History of the SA Jewish community - You Tube presentation
A fascinating 5-part YouTube presentation detailing the history of the SA Jewish Community. Worth watching if you have time.
BDS Movement is ‘Extremely Painful’ for South African Jewish Community, Says Leader
An interview with Wendy Kahn from SAJBOD
Special Offer from Haaretz Newspaper for Southern African and Australian Olim!
Haaretz offers Southern African and Australian Olim discounted rates for subscriptions to the newspaper. Don't miss this great offer!
Proud of our Southern African Soldiers!
One family, three kids all currently serving in the army. Kol hakavod - we, the Southern African Community in Israel, join your parents in feeling so very proud of your service to our beautiful country! May G-d bless you and Keep you safe.
Three Days and Dreading
Howard Feldman's humourous Times of Israel blog. Howard Feldman is a lawyer, a physical commodity trader by industry and a writer by obsession. He is very activein the Jewish community and passionate about our world.
Braam Malherbe coming to Israel
South African motivational speaker, Braam Malherbe and author of the acclaimed book "The Great Run" will be speaking in Israel for the first time on 31 May at Airport City. Dont miss this!
A call to help the people of Nepal!
Can you help the people of Nepal?
Following the devastating eathquake in Nepal last week, Teddy Saitowitz contacted Roshan Khanal of the Nepalese Embassy in Tel Aviv to see how we can help. She has responded that tents, New blankets, dry foods and small mattresses are currently in high need in Nepal. Collection boxes for these items will be placed in the storeroom of the Telfed building (ground floor) 19 Schwartz Street, Raanana from Sunday 10th May. Anything you can bring from the list above will be a help - Teddy is arranging for the shipment to go to Nepal.Thank You!
Le'Dor Va'dor: Concert with Colin Schachat and Sons
Colin Schachat concert
"We were Dreamers" - Habonim 5 day Seminar in Isael
"What days those were. Filled with dreams, with passion, with the desire to change the world and be changed ourselves; the "Movement" days.
Each one of us was changed. The world, well, that is another question".
Join us for an extraordinary five days in Israel where we will revisit our dreams and look at the dreams and realities of today. (See full program below).
ברוכים הבאים New Olim!
A group of ten Olim from South Africa arrived in Israel this Month and were warmly greeted and assisted at the airport by Telfed chairman, Dave Bloom. We wish them all בהצלחה in whatever path they choose and they do know that Telfed will be there to assist them along the way.
Income Tax Amnesty National Radio Interview: The Gelt Show, with Jeff Broide of Broide & Co
Transcript of a question and answer session with Jeff Broide (CPA) of Broide and co. for the radio show "The Gelt Show" with Douglas Golstein, on the highly pertinent subject of the new Income Tax Amnesty.
Attention Pensioners: Don’t miss “Tuesday in Suspenders”
“Tuesday in Suspenders” or “Shlishi B’Shlaykes” or “שלישי בשל''יקס” is an initiative of the Ministry for Senior Citizens and the “Style Consumers Club Operators”. The programme offers special discounts to senior citizens on Tuesdays throughout the country. Any senior citizen with a Senior Citizen’s ID card (granted to women aged 62 and up and men aged 67 and up), can take part.
Assuming the brace position
Howard Feldman's Blog post for Times of Israel about Israel's refusal to offer South African Minister of Higher Education, Blade Nzimande, a visa to enter "Palestine".
Why Israel refused Blade Nzimande
Ben Levitas, Chairman of the SA ZONIST FEDERATION (Cape Council) writes a very erudite article about why Israel refused entry to South African Cabinet Minister Blade Nzimande.
From Hebrew-School Pupil in Joburg to Hebrew-Language Teacher in Israel
Ulpan classes available at the Telfed Building in Raanana taught by expert, South-African born tutor, Lani Margolis. Several levels available.
For more details or to register for a class visit the website at : http://ulpan.com/raanana-courses/ or call +972-73-796-2228.
Students distressed by swastikas on South Africa campus
Students at the Universtiy of Cape Town awoke Wednesday to images of Adolf Hitler and swastikas plastered over buildings on campus.
Article Curtesy of Times of Israel.
The community mourns the tragic and untimely death of Minister Collins Chabane.
The SAJBD joins with the rest of South Africa in mourning the tragic and untimely death of one of our great young leaders, Minister Collins Chabane.
BDS disrupts Human Rights speaker at UJ
This week, UJ students experienced at first hand the bullying, intolerant tactics of the BDS movement when a lecture by Palestinian human rights activist Bassim Eid had to be discontinued.
Could South Africa go the French route?
Well worth reading this thought-provoking article by Geoff Sifrin from the South African Jewish Report.
Uri Orbach z'l
Telfed, togther with the Southern African community in Israel, was saddended to learn of the passing of Senior Citizens Minister Uri Orbach (haBayit Hayehudi) on Monday. May his Memory be for a blessing.
Advisory for Demonstration against the visit of Leila Khaled
The SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) wishes to advise the Media that the Jewish community, together with like-minded South Africans who abhor the importing of hate and the glorification of terrorism into this country, will be demonstrating against BDS-South Africa for inviting convicted terrorist, Leila Khaled to South Africa
The demonstration will take place on 13 February, 8.30am, 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, CBD
Need some help understanding the correct procedure for voting in the 17th March 2015 Elections in Israel? Click through to the following link, kindly provided by our expert Aliyah and Klita Advisor, Susan Sharon, to access a very clear guide to the election process IN ENGLISH
Rank and File (Haaretz Online)
"Rank and File" article from Haaretz Online, compiled by Steven Klein, includes a piece about the Telfed Student Volunteer awards.
The life and times of Isaac Ochberg
Of special interest to all present and former Southern Africans!
The following book, newly published:
The legendary saga of the life and times of one of South Africa's greatest, but relatively unknown, Jewish sons, Isaac Ochberg (1878-1937).
They served us and now we serve them!
Daniella Tannenwald of Modi'in shares her heartwearming story of what some of the residents of Modiin did to show their gratitude to the Soldiers fighting on our behalf in the summer war of 2014, Operation Protective Edge.
Candid Israeli Diplomat, by Tova Herzl
Tova Herzl draws on her twenty-one year career and shares her unique experiences as a single, Orthodox Jewish woman serving as Israel’s Ambassador to paint a vivid, entertaining picture of the lives and work of contemporary diplomats.
As published in The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/madame-ambassador-behind-the-scenes-with-a-...
The community remembers Bella Nick
Bella's sister, Sybil Shapiro, offers this moving tribute to her sister. Several of Bella's friends and family have written fondly about their loved one.
A response to Ronnie Feldman's personal reflections on the Telfed trip to the South
Roy Susman responds to Ronnie Feldman's personal reflections on the Telfed trip to the South, offering some factual corrections.
Testimony of Leon Schwartz
The Testimony of Mr. Leon Schwartz (of Modiin, Israel, and formerly of Johannesburg, South Africa). Having recently passed the yartzheit date of Leon, his widow, Shirley Schwartz, thought it would be fitting to publish his Testimony of how he survived the Second World War.
Eli Rabinowitz Blog
Eli Rabinowitz's personal blog about Jewish life and travel. Includes links to 23 Kehilot - many of which are of South African towns such as Cape Town, Muizenberg, Stellenbosch, Oudtshoorn, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Germiston, Pietersburg and Witbank. Take a look.
The Existential Necessity of Zionism After Paris: An Editorial from COMMENTARY Magazine
A fascinating Editorial from well-respected online Magazine "Commentary" about the need for Zionism after the recent Paris attacks.
A Biophysicist traces his Geneolology
Book Review “The Rolnick Chromosomes – The Global Dispersion of the Rolnicks of Lithuania” by Professor Wilfred Stein
The Truth be Told (TbT) Committee met with inspring Cape Town-based Lawyer and Head of the South African Lawyers for Israel group at Beit Protea this week. David presented a fascinating overview of the SA Jewish Lawyers for SA and the current legal issues occupying their focus.
The contribution of South Africans to rugby in Israel.
It’s time to give peace a chance
Labelling Israel as an apartheid state and heeding the call to boycott it only hurts the cause of peace in the Middle East, writes Steve Linde
Singing South Africans
At 51, local folk singer debuts original songs
Nearly 40 years after first picking up a guitar, singer/songwriter Liane Shalev releases her first album entitled "Free"
The release of her first album at 51 years old is the culmination of a long-time dream for Liane Shalev, an ex-South African now living in the Western Galilee, Israel.
LEARNING TO BE SECULAR JEWS
For original article CLICK HERE
Finishing high school in another country without your parents takes courage, and not many 14- and 15-year-olds are willing to do so. Yet, every year hundreds of teens – including many siblings – move to Israel to participate in the exclusive Naale Elite Academy program
For ONLINE version CLICK HERE
The Shabbos Project
The Shabbos Project: Jews Worldwide Keeping This Shabbos Together
This Friday, millions of Jews in 340 cities around the world will be 'keeping it together.' The 7th day. Shabbat.
Published: October 23rd, 2014
Dissenting voices in the SA Jewish Community
Source : http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/146906/jewish-s-african-activist-grou...
"Many Jews in our country are deeply troubled by the actions of Israel and the human rights abuses which are inflicted on Palestinians," Leonard Shapiro, spokesman for the South African Jewish Voices for a Just Peace, said
Political anti-Semitism threatens SA Jewry
A Jews under attack by use of political anti-Semitism (a-S) as Alliance exploit wave of tensions. ANC WC head’s ‘nose-picking’ Jews; ‘Shoot the Jew’ at Wits; Ehrenreich invites Jews supporting Israel to leave SA; ANCYL picket SAJBD conference; Mantashe calls Israel’s founding a ‘crime against humanity’; Noo Gov’t condemnation; Jewry gets private assurance “a-S will not be tolerated”; Not since Nazis has SA Jewry felt more threatened; Strong parallels of political a-S or ‘politics against the Jews’ as when Nazis came close to annihilation of Jewry. מה לעשות?
by CHUCK VOLPE | Oct 08, 2014
Harrowing" flight to Israel in 1948
Aliya – August 1948
As remembered by Sydney Lossin (nee Brunow/Yudelman)
Jewish Women’s National Day of Prayer
This summer has been my most difficult. I lost the person who brought me into this world, the one who guided me unwaveringly on my present path even though at times it was with some kicking and screaming.
FIRE AND WATER in GUSH ETZION
Am Yisrael Chai
In Memoriam - Bella Jellin
IN HAR HEVRON….LIFE GOES ON
It’s that time of the year again: The children of Har Hevron are in the throws of the long summer holiday and all it has to offer. Living in a yishuv, that means loads of fun and organized activities such as participating in excursions, arts and crafts projects, sports events and the all round favorite of course, an “al ha-esh/BBQ” event whenever possible.
Ancient Sussya: It goes back 1500 years…
Ancient Sussya awaits your visit! The ruins of the “old” are being given a new lease on life, so to speak, by the Visitor Centre’s bustling activities in the midst of all the newly established communities in this region
L'chaim to Viticulture in Har Hevron
A cave in the southern Judean Hills’ region of Har Hevron….that’s where it all began! In 2006 Elad and Naava Movshovitz set out in true pioneering spirit to start producing wine.
Baruch Dayan Haemet - Adv Shai Newstead has passed away
There was a deep sadness in Eilat - Adv. Shai Newstead has passed away
Meeting Har Hevron’s Avigail
“She (Avigail) was riding on the ass and going down a trail,
when David and his men appeared, coming down toward her;
and she met with them.” (1 Samuel 25:20)
The call Of Africa is heard in Brooklyn
"The Call Of Africa is Heard in Brooklyn" is on sale at Telfed for 85 Shekels per book.
Postage within Israel: an additional 15 Shekels per book
South-African-born Andi Saitowitz calls on the public to ‘Rise and Shine’
GLIL YAM, ISRAEL – Kotarim International Publishing, Ltd. is proud to announce the release of their latest title, Rise&Shine: A personal development journal toward awakening self-discovery and inspired living, by Andi Saitowitz. The book is targeted toward people of all walks of life from business, family, or personal spheres.
Gveret Hatchuel has passed away
Baruch Dayan Haemet - “Gveret Hatchuel has passed away”
Tu B’Shvat in Har Hevron
A warm welcome to family Konig
Tu B’Shvat 5774 … and what a privilege it is for us living in the Land to observe this “minor” festival with its profound twofold message.
A Tale of two Kiddush Cups
My Father, Eric Katz, was born in Frankfort Germany in1906. As part of the family tradition he was presented with 2 Kiddush Cups by his grandparents (on both sides of the family!) both suitably inscribed. These cups, as well as a Menorah and an Etrog box were smuggled out of Germany by my grandparents inside specially baked cakes in 1936 when they left Germany for South Africa.
The Israel App
Welcome to The Israel App, your personal tour guide, digital guidebook and friendly travel companion.
The Spies and Har Hevron
When Moshe sent the spies to scout the Land of Canaan they were specifically instructed to “Go up there into the Negev and on into the hill country…” as recorded for us in Numbers 13:17.
Hertzel Katz
Hertzel Katz, aged 81, from Ramat Hasharon/Herzlia, was born in Benoni and attended school where the motto emblazoned on the badge was “We Consider Others”. This he internalized and it became his passion and philosophy.
Apocalypse soon?
Are the White people in South Africa facing an apocalypse in the near future?
There is a group of Afrikaans-speaking White South Africans who believe that they are …and sooner than we think! They call them selves ‘Die Suidlanders” literally ‘The South People’ although the name, they claim, comes from The Bible, Book of Chronicles.
IDC Combined Degree in Law and Business
The world is not only getting smaller – it’s getting hungrier, too!
We are no longer placated by empty assurances
As loyal South Africans, who have made a disproportionate contribution to the well-being of South Africa, I and my colleagues at the Cape Board of the Zionist Federation, wish to voice our dissatisfaction with the consistent attacks on Israel’s internal policies, and on it alone being singled out for failure to reach an accord with the Arabs
SA Jewish Board of Deputies respond to SA Minister
The South African Jewish community is surprised and disappointed by International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane’s comments regarding South Africa’s relationship with Israel. According to media reports, Minister Mashabane stated on Friday that her government’s policy is not to engage with Israel at the ministerial level until progress has been made in advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and addressing Palestinian grievances.
Sleepless in Gonwandaland (Gone Wonderland)
On Sunday, November 3, 2013 12:55 AM, South Africa Israel Public Affairs Committee <saipac.ct@gmail.com> wrote:
Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane can't sleep because of what is happening in Israel? What utter nonsense and dramatic infantile over-expression of utter pretentious emotive bullshit! Who does she think she is impressing? Certainly not intelligent people, but then, maybe they are not her target market.
Free Barghouthi….. With every box of Rice Krispies
On 31 באוק 2013, at 21:14, South Africa Israel Public Affairs Committee <saipac.ct@gmail.com> wrote:
In his propagandistic message to South Africa on the 29th October 2013, timed to coincide with Ahmed Katrada’s inventive and spurious, but hardly original campaign to have him released, Marwan Barghouthi writes,” Freedom is not negotiable”, referring to his imprisoned self and fellow terrorists, but the murder of Israelis and Jews obviously is. To be sentenced to five life sentences plus forty years is hardly something to be easily dismissed and forgotten.
Leonard Katz z'l
ANNETTE MILLINER-GILADI (member of Telfed Directorate and Executive Council) is sitting Shiva for her Brother LEONARD KATZ WHO PASSED AWAY VERY SUDDENLY ON 24TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 at his home in Ottawa, Canada.
“Open Hearts” Memoirs of a Cardiac Surgeon
New realease by Prof. Joe Borman
Joe Borman publishes 'Open Hearts' Memoirs of a Cardiac Surgeon
Adding to the Krugersdorp history saga; Joe Borman has just published a book of his life and the life in Krugersdorp.
Israel's Gordon Bloch wins 2nd place in the Maccabiah Triathlon
Read the riveting, personal story of our very own triathlon Champion: Gordon Bloch!
South Africa's Jews, Once Apathetic, Reflect
The leader's interactions with his country's tiny Jewish minority ranged from supportive to hostile.
Tzvi Hirsch Schewach Glaser
December 20th 2013, according to the Hebrew calendar, will mark 88 years since Tzvi Hirsch Schewach Glaser died in Jerusalem and was buried on the Mount of Olives. When Hirsch came to Jerusalem in 1924 to spend his last years in Jerusalem, with the intention of being buried on the Mount of Olives, he couldn’t have dreamt that 88 years later his descendants would be gathering at the Mount of Olives by his gravestone and honoring his memory.
Database Project receives 'Excel for Beginners' Course (join us!)
Updating Telfed Database –boring, would you say?
Well for us this task is of vital importance...
Diary of an Awakening
Ben Gurion once declared that, for Israel to survive, we have to go South... !
We would therefore like to invite you to come and travel with us, once a week, due south from Jerusalem...
65 reasons why Israel is so fabulous... by Rolene Marks
Happy 65th Birthday Israel and may we just say that you have never looked so fabulous! You are becoming more attractive as you age and this year as we celebrate a milestone year; let us look at some of the things that make you as special as you are.
South African Jews and the Holocaust in Lithuania Memory, Commemoration and Restoration
Dr Rose Lerer Cohen reccounts the detailed research she'd done to bring to light the history of the South African Jews of Lithuania
Telfed facilitates Aliyah for Australians
South African organisation facilitates Aliyah for Australians
The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has signed an arrangement with Telfed, the South African Zionist Federation’s Israeli arm, to facilitate immigration for Australian olim.
BDS – Belligerent, Disruptive and Silly
‘Tis the season to cause folly? Hot off the trail of Israel Apartheid Week, a global festival of anti-Israel invective that appears on University campuses around the world that extols the “virtues” of boycotts, has come a flurry of anti-Israel activity, compliments of the BDS movement.
Sammy Berger awarded Certificate of Merit by the Chairman of LIBI
As the Israeli-born daughter of parents who left Cape Town and came on Aliya in September 1961, I am aware of the very positive contribution made by so many ex South Africans to Israeli society – in the fields of medicine, education, the Israeli Air-force, etc, and in particular in "volunteering ", setting an outstanding example to others.
Comfortably Dumb?
Calling all Pink Floyd fans! It is time we demand that the band reunites. It is clear that
Roger Waters needs a hobby besides letter writing and Israel bashing.
From truth denied to truth be told: At the 9th annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW)
While the anti-Semites pitched their usual lies, distortions during IAW, an inspiring new leadership in Cape Town pitched a tent, preached peace.
Zimbabwe Jewish Community Reunion held in Cape Town
Over 100 former members of the Zimbabwe Jewish Community (ZJC) gathered for a reunion in Cape Town recently and cries of “hello howzit - haven’t seen you for ages, hey” and “geepiz creepiz – where have you been for the last 40 years” were heard.
No, Rabbi Boteach, the Jews of South Africa have NOT been muted…
Feb. 25, 2013 - Rabbi Boteach’s blog “Getting the Apartheid-Israel Equation Right” covers a number of interesting if contentious points. He certainly does dispel some of the Apartheid accusations leveled against Israel and raises important issues like the conditions of dhimmitude that Jews lived under in Arab land which were tantamount to Apartheid, but he also makes some unfounded accusations against the South African Jewish community.
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supercinema November 3, 2018 RAHUL PURI2018-11-04T16:46:09+05:30 Interviews
Interview By: TEAM SUPER CINEMA
Rahul Puri joined Mukta Arts Limited in 2003 as Vice President — Finance and Business Strategy and has been involved in the development of the company and the release of over 15 commercial films. In 2014, he was promoted to Managing Director of Mukta Arts, responsible for the overall day-to-day operations of the company and all its group holdings as well as the future strategy and expansion for all businesses. His current project is the set up and expansion of Mukta A2 Cinemas. He is also actively involved in producing the company’s new slate of films. We caught up with him to talk about content, films, star power and more. Excerpts:
What are your thoughts on film content/scripts these days?
It’s an interesting time, I think, for content and scripts. There are a bunch of platforms that can now accommodate films. Theatres have always been the main medium but now with Netflix and Amazon, there is a more niche outlet for certain films as well. This means that there is a broader breadth of content emerging. This is good for cinema and for our audiences. That said, work still needs to be done on the mass films. Perhaps in the Hindi segment there aren’t quite enough of these. I am not sure this is entirely down to segmentation, I also think there are just a few people who have a sensibility like this anymore. There is, though, a new equilibrium brewing and hopefully this will settle down soon.
Is content winning over celebrity, if yes, then why?
I think content is winning. Even celebrity has to be backed by content these days. Celebrity alone can work sometimes but not all of the time. I think content will always work. There is no excuse for it not to if promoted and communicated well. Excellent recent examples are Stree, Andhadhun and Badhaai Ho. This is an indication of the how cinema goers are voting for good stories over the largest casts. People want to now come to the cinema to experience. Just being entertained is not enough I think. There is a lot at stake in a cinema visit these days. Ticket prices, F&B and of course the time it takes. This therefore has to be compensated well otherwise there are other platforms which are cheaper and more convenient. So the audience has become more discerning.
Are special days like Diwali/ Eid/ Christmas big ticket selling days even now?
Yes for sure. These are festivals which are celebrated. The particular day may not the big seller (who goes to a movie on Diwali day) but the period is when there are holidays, a festive mood and disposable income for families. This has not changed and people have become accustomed to seeing the big films release around these dates. This will continue and new periods will be created. As I said, this is about an experience and these festivals are part of that.
Which upcoming special day launch will be a hit and which will be a miss according to you?
Well I think we all have big expectations for Thugs of Hindostan this Diwali. As I mentioned earlier, even Badhai Ho had an excellent weekend (during Dusshera). These are examples of a big star cast spectacle as well as a smaller content driven film that have captured the mind space and therefore people will come to see what the fuss is about. Difficult to judge the others without seeing any material of them but so far this is the one I can think of.
Does an A-lister star cast impact box office earnings during the festive season?
As I said experience is key. An A lister brings value to an experience with their image and star power. Thus box office will be impacted. There is a reason why the large stars have consistently crowded these festive periods. They can pull crowds and there are plenty to pull due to holidays during any festival. They are a big attraction no doubt but their star power needs to be harnessed well with good content and an impactful and targeted promotional campaign. It’s not a done deal that a big star always brings a big start.
Which is the most apt festive season film according to you?
Personally I think 3 Idiots was perfectly placed. It released during the Christmas period and I think established that period as a strong one for Hindi films. It was the perfect blend of a film with a strong meaning that brought families together and that is what festivals are finally all about. The film still stands, I think, as one of the best in Hindi cinema and it’s a strong example of what the elements of a film around a big festival needs to be.
What kind of films do we usually see releasing during festive seasons? Do you think it works for the filmmakers?
We usually see films about family, films with a broad genre that encompass the Hindi film narrative. So there should be romance, drama, action, good music and big stars. This is something for everyone. It is what Hindi cinema has been built on all these years and I still think that it’s this foundation that still shapes films for the big festivals. It goes without saying that the film should be good but I think that during these periods, these elements will make for the best returns at the box office.
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Ninth SCSCS Season Kicks Off Saturday at Midvale Speedway
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania (May 9, 2016) – The 3,330-pound steel-bodied Super Cup Stock Car Series machines will be invading Eastern Ohio ready to open their 2016 campaign this weekend. The running of the Frontier Tire and Equipment Rental 75 presented by Performance Fiberglass will take place on Saturday, May 14 at Midvale Speedway, a facility that has supported the series since 2011.
There is one major difference about this year, as it will be the first occurrence that the drivers and teams will take to the 3/10-mile in a month other than August. The change from the dog days of summer to a spring date could present some challenges when it comes to track conditions, but most will be set to go after multiple months of preparation in the shop.
Two former event winners at Midvale will be there, looking to repeat their past success. Veteran driver Kevin Kromer, who took the check back home to Walnutport, Pennsylvania in 2011 and 2014, is looking to turn a dismal 2015 that ended a streak of 19 consecutive top 10 finishes back around with a newly purchased car for 2016.
Petersburg, West Virginia’s Larry Berg swept the pole award and race win a year ago in only his second career start, but will also be bringing a different car after the winning ride was wrecked a race later at Jennerstown at the conclusion of the 2015 season.
“I think we should do well at Midvale, but being a different car you never know how it could react to the setup we have,” Berg, who will piloting the car in which his grandson Codie Rohrbaugh won twice with at the 2015 Jennerstown finale, said. “Our comfort level is pretty high.”
Several perennial contenders look to score their first Midvale victory, or in some cases the first of their SCSCS career. 2015 champion Dan Bainey led laps in every event a season ago and would like to finish one position better than his result last August. Additional West Virginia racers Brent Nelson, the Harrison family composed of Harvey, Brian, and Brandon Harrison, plus Pennsylvania’s Kyle Kromer, Bill Ashton, and Lou Ansel will all be back in action.
Also expected are relative newcomers Jason Schue, Brian Kaltreider, and Trent Gossar as well as last year’s Motordrome Speedway trophy recipient Mike Kurkowski, Jeff Zillweger after sitting out most of 2015 with motor issues, and Stephen Cox making his first start since 2012.
Cox will be competing as a teammate to Berg with the Rohrbaugh Racing organization, and is also part of another renewed partnership in SCSCS for the new season.
Sopwith Motorsports Television Productions of Indianapolis, which produced high quality shows for SCSCS during the 2011 and 2012 seasons, will be filming several of the 2016 events. Those productions will be showcased to a national audience at a later date on MAVTV and LucasOilRacing.tv.
"We partnered with Super Cup four years ago to create a regional television package for the series," Sopwith producer Stephen Dale said. "Our specialty is helping our series partners to move to the next level, and it's exciting to give Super Cup the exposure it deserves on a national basis with MAVTV. It's another success story that we're really proud of."
For those looking forward to being at the track on race day, grandstands open at 3:00 p.m. which also marks the beginning of SCSCS practice. Qualifying will take place at 4:45 p.m. for local divisions followed by SCSCS with racing beginning at 6:30 p.m.
A four hour optional open practice session will be offered to teams early Friday evening as well.
After a several month layoff, the Super Cup Stock Car Series drivers and teams are anxious to get back on the track to begin seeing who will be the champion for the ninth season of competition.
For more information leading up to the Frontier Tire and Equipment Rental 75 presented by Performance Fiberglass please visit the official web site at www.supercupstockcarseries.com. Race day updates will be available on the Super Cup Stock Car Series Facebook at www.facebook.com/SCSCSRacing or on Twitter @SCSCSRacing.
Sponsorship and marketing opportunities remain available for the 2016 season, including events scheduled to air on MAVTV and LucasOilRacing.tv. Organizations interested learning more information can contact brucescscs@gmail.com.
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REVIEW ARTICLE Genetic determinants of exceptional human longevity: insights from the Okinawa Centenarian Study D. Craig Willcox & Bradley J. Willcox & Wen-Chi Hsueh & Makoto Suzuki Received: 6 June 2006 /Revised: 30 September 2006 / Accepted: 1 October 2006 / Published online: 8 December 2006 # American Aging Association 2006 Abstract Centenarians represent a rare phenotype appearing in roughly 10–20 per 100,000 persons in most industrialized countries but as high as 40–50 per 100,000 persons in Okinawa, Japan. Siblings of centenarians in Okinawa have been found to have cumulative survival advantages such that female centenarian siblings have a 2.58-fold likelihood and male siblings a 5.43-fold likelihood (versus their birth cohorts) of reaching the age of 90 years. This is indicative of a strong familial component to longevity. Centenarians may live such extraordinarily long lives in large part due to genetic variations that either affect the rate of aging and/or have genes that result in decreased susceptibility to age-associated diseases. Some of the most promising candidate genes appear to be those involved in regulatory pathways such as insulin signaling, immunoinflammatory response, stress resistance or cardiovascular function. Although gene variants with large beneficial effects have been suggested to exist, only APOE, an important regulator of lipoproteins has been consistently associated with a longer human lifespan across numerous populations. As longevity is a very complex trait, several issues challenge our ability to identify its genetic influences, such as control for environmental confounders across time, the lack of precise phenotypes of aging and longevity, statistical power, study design and availability of appropriate study populations. Genetic studies on the Okinawan population suggest that Okinawans are a genetically distinct group that has several characteristics of a founder population, including less genetic diversity, and clustering of specific gene variants, some of which may be related to longevity. Further work on this population and other genetic isolates would be of significant interest to the genetics of human longevity. Key words longevity . genetics. centenarians. Okinawa . longevity genes AGE (2006) 28:313–332 DOI 10.1007/s11357-006-9020-x D. C. Willcox (*) College of Nursing, Okinawa Prefectural University, 1-24-1 Yogi, Naha City, Okinawa, Japan 902-0076 e-mail: willcox@okinawa-nurs.ac.jp D. C. Willcox : B. J. Willcox Pacific Health Research Institute, 846 South Hotel Street, Suite 301, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA B. J. Willcox Departments of Geriatric Medicine and Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, 1356 Lusitana Street, 7F, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA W.-C. Hsueh School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA W.-C. Hsueh 2200 Post Street, C433, San Francisco, CA 94143-1640, USA M. Suzuki Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, 207 Uehara, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan Introduction Within the past few generations, both developed and developing countries have witnessed rapid increases in average life expectancy. Initially, this was attributed to large decreases in mortality at younger ages, due mainly to reduction in infant mortality from better public health practices (Vaupel 1997). This was followed by a large reduction in late-life mortality. These changes are unprecedented on an evolutionary time scale and demonstrate significant environmental influences on human lifespan. However, the observation of large variations in the rate of aging and maximum lifespan between species points toward genetic factors as exceedingly important, particularly with regards to determining the essential lifespan potential of a species. In fact, multiple genes in many species have already been shown to affect lifespan. For example, over 70 genes have been found to influence lifespan in the worm model C. elegans (Braeckman and Vanfleteren 2006). On the one hand, this complexity has led many researchers to conclude that the genetic contribution to human lifespan is far too complex to be meaningfully studied. However, significant extension of both mean and maximum lifespan has already been accomplished through genetic means in lower species including worms, fruit flies and mice (Lin et al. 1998; Guarente and Kenyon 2000; Arantes-Oliveira et al. 2003; Warner 2005). Moreover, this recent progress in identifying longevity-associated genes (hereafter referred to as “longevity genes”) in animal models combined with the advances made through the Human Genome Project and the development of more refined genomic technology should make it possible to identify longevity genes in humans as well. Extended lifespan, induced by genetic manipulations on less complex organisms, does provide some compelling support for the concept that genes can modify lifespan. The fact that many of these genes are evolutionarily conserved suggests that primitive biological pathways exist from lower organisms to humans that may profoundly impact upon longevity (Barbieri et al. 2003). However, extrapolating results from lower organisms to humans should be done cautiously because of the complexity of human biological and sociocultural systems and because lifespan and causes of mortality in humans are not the same as those in other species. Human populations are characterized by specific gene pools that arise from the unique sociocultural and historical experiences and population movements of particular ethnic groups. Thus, in humans culture and biology are inextricably linked phenomena. It has been hypothesized that persons who live exceptionally long lives, such as centenarians, do so in large part due to genetic variations that either affect the rate of aging and/or have genes that result in decreased susceptibility to age-associated diseases (Cutler 1975; Schachter 1998; Perls and Terry 2003). For example, it has been found in studies of exceptionally long-lived individuals that many experience delayed onset of major chronic (age-related) diseases until very late in life, often past eighty years of age or later (Evert et al. 2003). There exist a number of potential genes and regulatory pathways where centenarians may hold a genetic edge over the rest of the population. This article will review some of the most promising candidate genes and pathways that have been found thus far and in the process suggest that centenarians may be promising subjects for future discovery of genetic determinants of human longevity. It will end with a discussion of some of the challenges that currently face researchers and examine different approaches that are currently being undertaken to overcome them. Throughout the article insights from the study of centenarians in Okinawa (Okinawa Centenarian Study) will be highlighted and the unique attractiveness of genetic isolates for the future of genetic investigations will be stressed. The Okinawa Centenarian Study (OCS): a brief introduction The OCS is the world’s longest-running populationbased study of centenarians. Beginning in 1976 and ongoing, over 900 centenarians have been examined in their own homes, which represents almost a third of all centenarians who have ever existed in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. The purpose has been to better understand the genetic and environmental factors contributing to the exceptional longevity of the inhabitants, who are the longest-lived of the Japanese (Sanabe et al. 1977). Although much of the work in the OCS has been cross-sectional and retrospective, its population-based design has helped limit the selection bias towards healthier subjects often seen in other studies of centenarians. 314 AGE (2006) 28:313–332 Okinawa also has the highest prevalence of centenarians in Japan despite long-standing socioeconomic disadvantages relative to other Japanese (Cockerham et al. 2000). The high prevalence of very old individuals further suggests that genetics may have played an important role in their survival advantage. However, as of yet, the relative genetic and environmental contributions to the longevity phenotype are still unknown and sociocultural and historical factors are also likely playing an important role. Okinawans have been the most culturally and geographically isolated of Japanese subpopulations, and they remain resistant to acculturation into the surrounding dominant culture of Japan (Allen 2002). The Okinawans possess a distinctive identity, language, social organization and religion, as well as unique art forms and dietary habits (Lebra 1986; Kerr 2000). Okinawans tend to have large families (highest birthrate within Japan) and relatives often live either in the same household or in nearby cities, towns or villages. Okinawans have traditionally married within their own villages (Lebra 1986; Kerr 2000), increasing the likelihood of a high inbreeding coefficient that may have resulted in clustering of genetic variants affecting health and longevity. Until recently there has been little evidence of substantial gene flow for centuries, resulting in what appears to be less genetic variability in Okinawans than in other Japanese (Tanaka et al. 2004). Genealogical and historical village records are extensive. The genetic contribution to healthy aging and exceptional longevity has been a primary research area of the OCS. In 1985, in order to assess the genetics of exceptional longevity the first extensive study of centenarian pedigrees was conducted and showed that more long-lived siblings exist in centenarian families (Suzuki et al. 1985) compared to their age matched birth cohort. This work was followed by the first study on the genetics of human longevity using centenarians as a study model, which showed that Okinawan centenarians tended to possess specific type-2 HLA patterns that favor DR1 homozygosity and lower risk for inflammatory disease (Takata et al. 1987). We later replicated this study (Akisaka et al. 1997) and extended the results to other HLA alleles. Some of these findings have been replicated in other populations and inflammation has since become a major focus of studies in CVD and aging (Franceschi et al. 2000; Capri et al. 2006; Candore et al. 2006; Davis and Kipling 2006). The OCS also first reported that cardiovascular health is an important survival factor for centenarians and part of this phenotype includes high HDL levels (Chan et al. 1997a; Suzuki et al. 2001). This finding has been replicated in Ashkenazi Jewish centenarians and at least two genetic variants have recently been found that may offer a partial genetic basis for this phenomenon (Geesaman et al. 2003; Atzmon et al. 2004; Barzilai et al. 2003). Other OCS studies have defined biochemical and hematological factors (Chan et al. 1997b), hormonal patterns (Suzuki and Hirose 1999), measured bone density (Akisaka and Suzuki 1996), characterized nutritional habits (Akisaka et al. 1996; Chan et al. 1997a; Suzuki et al. 2001) assessed cognitive status (Ogura et al. 1995) and verified phenotypic findings with autopsy study (Bernstein et al. 2004). Discerning true genetic effects from familial patterns in a population is always a challenge due to the fact that families not only share genes in common but families also tend to share common environmental habits. Clearly, some environmental factors do seem to be playing a part in the Okinawan longevity phenomenon—particularly the traditional diet (Willcox 2005). The traditional Okinawan diet includes low-caloric density, plant-based foods such as sweet potatoes, green and yellow vegetables, soy products, fish, and limited amounts of meat (Sho 2001; Suzuki et al. 2001; Willcox et al. 2004). Consistent with their low caloric intake, older Okinawans share several characteristics of the caloric restriction phenotype as part of their exceptional longevity phenotype, including short stature, low body mass index, and high HDL levels relative to other Japanese (Kagawa 1978; Chan et al. 1997a; Willcox BJ et al. 2006). Interestingly, this phenotype shares several similarities with certain animal models of longevity (Chan et al. 1997b; Willcox DC et al. 2006). For example, several spontaneous or experimentally induced mutations that hinder growth hormone biosynthesis and growth hormone actions, or increase sensitivity to insulin or IGF-1 induce an exceptional longevity phenotype in mice and some other animal models (Bonafe et al. 2003; Bartke et al. 2003). The average lifespan of these mutants increases on the order of 20% to 70% depending on the particular hormonal alterations, gender, diet, and/or the genetic background of the strain. The extended longevity of these mutants is thought to result from lower insulin and IGF-1 levels, higher insulin sensitivity, metabolic changes in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, reduced AGE (2006) 28:313–332 315 production of reactive oxygen species, enhanced antioxidant defenses, greater resistance to cytotoxic stress, and delayed onset of age-related diseases (Barbieri et al. 2003; Tatar et al. 2003; Bartke 2005). However, a major nutrition transition has taken place in post-war birth cohorts, mainly from the 1960s, and the traditional diet has increased in caloric density with a concomitant mild increase in caloric intake (Todoriki et al. 2004; Willcox 2005). This has been coupled to a decrease in physical activity and the resultant positive energy balance is associated with higher body weight and body mass index in postWorld War II cohorts. Yet, the persistence of some of the characteristics of the caloric restriction phenotype in these cohorts, such as shorter stature, and low risk for some chronic age-related diseases, despite the environmental changes, suggests that genetic factors have played an important role in the longevity phenotype in Okinawa (Willcox DC et al. 2006). Unlike many countries, such as the U.S. in the early 20th century, the current centenarian and near centenarian birth cohorts in Okinawa had relative homogeneity with respect to socioeconomic status and lifestyle. This includes moderate smoking and alcohol consumption, abundant and consistent physical exercise, similar dietary routines, similar access (or lack of access) to healthcare, and a relatively equitable distribution of wealth. This reduces sources of non-genetic variation and makes Okinawa a rare and attractive locale for genetic studies of longevity and healthy aging. For instance, genome-wide association studies may be especially powerful in genetic isolates owing to their increased linkage disequilibrium and decreased allele diversity (Service et al. 2006). The potential and challenges of such studies and other study designs will be discussed in more detail at the end of this article. Familial clustering of exceptional longevity From a demographic perspective it seems logical that as the force of mortality increases with advancing age there will be a progressive elimination of those individuals with less favorable genetic polymorphisms (gene variants) so that at exceptional ages (such as centenarians) there comes to exist an enriched gene pool for the study of genes associated with exceptional longevity. However, evolutionary theory posits other mechanisms, such as “antagonistic pleiotropy,” that may actually benefit the health and fitness of younger organisms (of reproducible age) but that can have deleterious effects in older organisms and therefore contribute to aging and risk of ageassociated disease (Gavrilov and Gavrilova 2002; Capri et al. 2006). It has also been hypothesized that genetic polymorphisms may play an even more important role in determining survival at extremely advanced ages. Although family studies have indicated that a modest amount (about 20–30%) of the overall variation in human adult lifespan is due to additive genetic effects it has been unclear whether or not genetic factors become increasingly important for survival at the oldest ages. A recent report suggests that this may indeed be the case. Hjelmborg et al. (2006) studied the genetic influence on human lifespan and how it varies with age using the near extinct cohorts of Danish, Finnish and Swedish twins born between 1870 and 1910 and found that genetic influences on lifespan are minimal prior to age 60 but increase thereafter. In addition, a number of recent studies have also indicated moderate to substantial genetic influence on late-life physical functioning (Christensen et al. 2000; Christensen et al. 2002; Frederiksen and Christensen 2003) as well as cognitive functioning (McClearn et al. 1997; Gatz et al. 2006). Familial aggregation of longevity has been observed in many diverse populations. For example, in the Utah Population Database, Kerber et al. (2001) found a significant familial relationship in longevity among relatives of long-lived study members including more remotely related members. In Denmark, Frederiksen et al. (2002) found that parental lifespan was positively associated with offspring’s physical and cognitive functioning as well as disease-free survival in a large, cross-sectional population-based survey. Analyzed separately, the effects of the mothers’ and fathers’ ages at death were similar to the combined results. Longer parental survival was associated with reduced odds of having diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), congestive heart failure, and stroke. Similarly, a relationship between parental longevity and successful aging in elderly males in the U.S. has been reported (Vaillent 1991). Data from centenarian studies in Ashkenazi Jews also has produced similar results (Atzmon et al. 2004). Moreover, most such studies underestimate any real association between parental lifespan and their offspring’s traits because they are 316 AGE (2006) 28:313–332 cross-sectional and based on interview data, which is more prone to recall bias. Similar results supporting genetic influences upon longevity have been found for studies of siblings of centenarians. For example, one study found that compared to the rest of the U.S. birth cohort from the year 1900, male siblings of centenarians were at least four times as likely to achieve the age of 90 years and 17 times as likely to attain age 100 or beyond (Perls et al. 1998). We have also found that siblings from our population-based study of centenarians in Okinawa had even more impressive survival rates (Figure 1). We analyzed the pedigrees of 348 centenarian families with 1,142 siblings and compared sibling survival with that of the 1890 Okinawan general population cohort. Both male and female centenarian siblings experienced approximately half the mortality of their birth cohort-matched counterparts (Willcox BJ et al. 2006). This mortality advantage was sustained and did not diminish with age in contrast to many environmentally based mortality gradients, such as education and income. Cumulative survival advantages for this centenarian sibling cohort increased over the lifespan such that female centenarian siblings had a 2.58-fold likelihood and male siblings a 5.43-fold likelihood, versus their birth cohorts, of reaching the age of 90 years. These data support a significant familial component to exceptional human longevity (Willcox BJ et al. 2006). Potential longevity enhancing genes and regulatory pathways Metabolism-related genes and pathways Studies in model organisms suggest that lifespans may be partially regulated by the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway. Growing evidence suggests that disruption of the insulin/IGF-signaling cascade can significantly extend lifespan in diverse species, including yeast, nematodes, fruit flies, and rodents (Longo and Fabrizio 2002; Tatar et al. 2003; Bluher et al. 2003; Warner 2003). For example, model organisms with mutations in the genes daf-2, age-1 and daf-16 in nematodes; sch9 and CYR in yeast; InR, Rpd3, mth, Indy, and chico in fruit flies; and Prop1 and Pit1 in mice all share similar phenotypes, including smaller body size and increased longevity (Clancy et al. 2001; Gems and Partridge 2001; Lin et al. 1998, 2001; Rogina et al. 2000). Other important phenotypic characteristics include reduced insulin signaling, enhanced sensitivity to insulin and reduced plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). These characteristics, along with subsequent reduced oxidative damage and increased resistance to cytotoxic stress, may be part of an evolutionarily conserved common pathway (Barbieri et al. 2003). The few human studies on reduced insulin/IGF-1 signaling and human longevity appear to be supportive Figure 1 Survival of siblings of Okinawan centenarians vs. their respective birth cohorts AGE (2006) 28:313–332 317 of findings in animal studies but with some caveats. For example, a case-control study has reported low levels of free plasma IGF in long-lived humans were due to the presence of a specific IGF1-R allele and that different combinations of IGF1-R and P13KCB alleles were shown to influence free-plasma IGF-1 levels as well as longevity (Bonafe et al. 2003). Gene variants causing reduced insulin/IGF-1 signaling (especially insulin signaling component of GH-1) have also been found among long-living Dutch women (van Heemst et al. 2005). However, genetic mutations causing IGF-1 (and GH) deficiencies in humans have also been associated with functional problems and diseases. For example, human gene variants analogous to the prop-1 mutations that extend longevity in mice have been associated with defects that include dwarfism, wrinkled skin and intellectual deficiencies. Interestingly, although few cases have been followed over the lifespan, several of these cases are over the age of 90 years (Longo and Finch 2003). Reduced levels of plasma glucose and/or insulin/ IGF-1 through environmental manipulations such as caloric restriction have also been associated with increased lifespan of numerous species, including humans, and have therefore been suggested as “biomarkers” of aging. For example, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging noted that healthy men who displayed three “biomarkers of the CR phenotype”—lower insulin levels, lower body temperature and a slower decline in levels of the hormone dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) also had significantly longer survival (Roth et al. 2002). Furthermore, similar findings have also been seen in a Japanese American cohort where blood glucose in middle age strongly predicts survival (Rodriguez et al. 1999). Finally, a recent study in Japanese semi-super-centenarians (defined as survival to age 105+ years) examined polymorphic variations in six genes involved in insulin/IGF-1 signaling. This study found one INSR haplotype (composed of two SNPs in linkage disequilibrium) to be more frequent in the centenarians when compared to younger healthy controls (Kojima et al. 2004). Immuno-inflammatory response genes and pathways Chronic, low-grade inflammation has been suggested to play an important role in human aging (Franceschi et al. 2000; De Martinis et al. 2005; Capri et al. 2006; Candore et al. 2006; Davis and Kipling 2006; Gupta et al. 2006; Peila and Launer 2006). High circulating levels of cytokines in the blood such as interleukin (IL)-6, C-reactive protein (CRP) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), among others, have been associated with many age-related diseases, the end result of which is impaired functioning and earlier mortality. Age related increases of IL-6 levels have also been reported, particularly in those elderly undergoing chronic stress (Kiecolt-Glaser et al. 2003); and ‘in vitro’ addition of IL-1 and TNF-α to fibroblasts has been shown to induce an accelerated senescent phenotype (Capri et al. 2006). Studies have shown that polymorphisms in the IL-6 promoter region appear to affect gene transcription and that a SNP (C174G) has been associated with reduced transcription and improved outcome in a variety of diseases, including several autoimmune conditions, CHD, and some cancers (DeMichele et al. 2003). On the other hand, studies of centenarians in different geographic locations have been conflicting. Pes et al. (2004) suggested that cytokine-longevity associations may have a population-specific component, being affected by the age and populationspecific gene pool as well as by gene-environment interactions. No doubt, one of the main confounding factors in these kinds of case control association studies is undetected differences in genetic background among different populations. To avoid this, Hurme et al. (2005) collected the mortality data of a cohort of 285 nonagenarians (representing mortality between 90 and 95 years of age) and correlated these to the IL-6 genotype. They found that the frequency of -174 allele G was clearly higher in the survivors than in the non-survivors. Although these are exciting findings more research on this polymorphism is needed before any definitive conclusions can be drawn. Particular alleles of the HLA II locus on chromosome 6 have been shown to vary in prevalence between young and very old members in some ethnic groups suggesting that this locus may have some influence on human longevity. This was also an early area of investigation for the OCS. For example, comparing phenotype frequency of HLA genetic variants in Okinawan centenarians to that of younger controls (mean age of 66 years) revealed that the frequency of HLA-DRw9 was significantly lower but that there was an increased frequency of DR1 (Takata et al. 1987). 318 AGE (2006) 28:313–332 DRw9 is associated with inflammatory and autoimmune or immune deficiency disease while DR1 seems to offer some protection from these diseases. Later studies demonstrated that gene frequencies for other HLA alleles also differed between Okinawan centenarians and adult controls from the surrounding areas (Table 1). Allele frequencies of other HLA alleles differed in centenarians compared with those of adult controls who were selected from the same vicinity as the centenarians. The following differences were identified: for the HLA-DQ genes (B1 and A1) the frequencies of DQB1*0503, DQA1*0101 (04) and DQA1*05 were increased in the centenarians, whereas those of DQA1*0102, DQA1*0103 and DQB1*0604 were decreased. Similarly, for the DRB1 gene, the frequencies of DRB1*0101, DRB1*1201 and DRB1*1401 were increased in the centenarians, whereas those of DRB1*0403 and DRB1*1302 were decreased (Akisaka et al. 1997; Akisaka and Suzuki 1998). Therefore, it appears that Okinawan centenarians may be relatively protected from inflammatory and/or autoimmune diseases and that this may be promoting better survival. However, a recent analysis of HLA-DQA and HLA-DQB frequencies in Sardinian centenarians revealed non-significant differences suggesting only marginal effects of the class II HLA genes on longevity (Scola et al. 2006). A critical reappraisal of the studies on HLA genes, aging and longevity has exposed numerous methodological shortcomings such as insufficient sample sizes, different inclusion criteria and age cut-offs, inappropriate control matching, and neglected consideration of sex-related effects and the different genetic make-up of studied populations among others. Nevertheless, despite these shortcomings it was concluded that there appears to be some HLA gene variants associated with longevity while some of these alleles seem to confer an increased risk for early mortality, depending on life stage (youth, adulthood or older) or sex (Caruso et al. 2000). Telomere length Studies have shown that telomeres are associated with cellular senescence and lifespan in model organisms of aging. Telomeres are protective structures at the end of chromosomes that consist of six recurring nucleotide bases (TTAGGG). Small amounts of these terminal sequences are lost with each cell division. The enzyme telomerase compensates for this loss by rebuilding telomeres. The negative correlation between telomere length and the ability to replicate in somatic cells coupled with an observed reduction in telomere length with age, has led to the suggestion that telomeres play a central role in the aging process. Telomere length is heritable and varies among individuals of the same age and a possible association between telomere length, chronic diseases and latelife mortality has been suggested (Aviv et al. 2006). In the genetic disorder dyskeratosis congenital, telomere shortening is accelerated and patients experience symptoms of premature aging, premature onset of many age-related diseases, as well as early mortality. During the normal aging process, the loss of telomeric DNA in dividing somatic cells may lead to apoptosis, replicative senescence, or neoplastic transformation. Telomeres have been found to be shorter in persons with age associated diseases such as atherosclerosis, vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, osteoporosis, some cancers and even mood disorders, among others (Bekaert et al. 2005; Bisoffi et al. 2006; Edo and Andres 2005; Honig et al. 2006; Panossian et al. 2003; Simon et al. 2006; Samani et al. 2001). Similarly, cross-sectional studies have repeatedly suggested that peripheral blood monocyte telomere length may be a biomarker of aging (Bekaert et al. 2005). However, not all studies have supported the putative relationship between telomere length and longevity (Bischoff et al. 2006). For example, MartinRuiz et al. (2005) measured telomere length in a subset of the Leiden 85-plus study at baseline and HLA antigen Control (n=159) Centenarian (n=82) p value n Frequency (%) n Frequency (%) DR 1 0 0 5 6.1 0.0042 DR w9 49 30.8 7 8.5 0.00004 DR w10 0 0 4 4.9 0.01276 DQ wd 135 84.9 56 68.3 0.00258 Table 1 HLA, DR and DQ genotype distribution in Okinawans (Takata et al. 1987). AGE (2006) 28:313–332 319 after an average time span of between 3.9 and 12.9 years but did not find telomere length at baseline to be predictive for mortality, cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia. Moreover, in Japanese centenarians, Hirose et al. (1999) did not find telomere length to be correlated with physical functioning (as measured by ADL levels) or cognitive function. Interestingly, they did find that telomere length of female centenarians was longer than that of male centenarians. Currently, it is not known with certainty whether human telomere length is only a proxy for fundamental mechanisms that govern the course of aging or a key factor in its advancement (Aviv 2004). Mitochondrial gene mutations and reactive oxygen species Mitochondrial gene variants are among the top candidates for genetic factors that are associated with longer survival. There are several compelling reasons for this. One, mitochondria are the major site of energy production in cells and energy balance has been linked to aging and longevity (Lee et al. 2001). Two, mitochondria are a major source of potential radical-induced cellular damage. Three, mitochondrial DNA and other subcomponents, due to their close proximity to the site of radical production, are at higher risk of damage and subsequent dysfunction. Genetic variation in mtDNA may lead to differences both in the functioning of the respiratory chain and in free radical production. In somatic cells, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutates at up to 20 times the rate of nuclear DNA (Merriwether et al. 1991) and these mutations accumulate with age. More than 250 pathogenic point mutations and rearrangements of the mitochondrial genome have been reported in a spectrum of clinical disorders, which exhibit prominent muscle and central nervous system involvement (Greaves and Taylor 2006). The degree of age-related mutations in mtDNA also varies between people and may be associated with human aging (Chinnery et al. 2002). There are only a few major haplotypes of mitochondrial DNA in humans and an association between certain mtDNA haplogroups and longevity has been proposed. For example, Niemi et al. (2003, 2005) studied the frequencies of mtDNA haplogroups and haplogroup clusters among elderly subjects and controls in a Finnish population and found that haplogroups U and J were more frequent among nonagenarians. An Italian study of centenarians and younger controls also found that the J haplogroup was notably higher among male centenarians from the Northern region but a later Italian study failed to confirm this finding suggesting that the original findings were population specific (De Benedictis et al. 1999; Dato et al. 2004). Zhang et al. (2003) found a strikingly higher frequency of the C150T mutation in the replication control region of leukocytic mtDNA in Italian centenarians. In another study, the 150T mutation was also found to be more frequent among the very old in both Finnish and Japanese subjects (Niemi et al. 2005). Interestingly, the association was not similar in all haplogroups, and a stratified analysis revealed that two additional common polymorphisms, 489C and 10398G, modified the association between 150T and longevity. The authors suggest that longevity is partly determined by epistatic interactions involving these three mtDNA loci. Tanaka et al. (2000) analyzed the mtDNA from Japanese centenarians and identified a longevityassociated mitochondrial genotype, Mt5178A that has been associated with less frequent occurrence of mtDNA mutations in the oocytes as well as possibly a deceleration of the accumulation of mtDNA mutations in the somatic cells with increasing age. The authors concluded that this genotype is likely to confer resistance to adult-onset diseases. More research is needed to confirm these preliminary studies but they suggest that certain haplotypes are associated with increased lifespan because they either modulate energy metabolism and oxidative damage and/or the rate of mtDNA mutation. Moreover, recent research has suggested that interactions between mtDNA and nuclear DNA variability occur in humans that can be interpreted as an “ancestral mtDNA/nDNA crosstalk” that affects aging and longevity (De Benedictis and Franceschi 2006). Stress resistance genes and pathways Emerging findings suggest that many of the environmental factors that might promote healthy aging, such as caloric restriction or exercise, exert their effects through a hormesis-like mechanism (Masoro 2006). 320 AGE (2006) 28:313–332 Cells possess a variety of stress response signaling pathways that induce the expression of genes that encode protective proteins such as heat shock proteins, growth factors and antioxidant enzymes. Animal findings support this line of reasoning by showing that stress resistance at the cellular level (resistance to high temperatures, starvation, and damage from reactive oxygen species or ROS) correlates with length of life at the level of the organism (Lithgow and Walker 2002). Several of these genes have human homologs. Although the genes involved in stress resistance have yet to be explored in sufficient detail to make definitive conclusions regarding longevity related polymorphisms, some of the most promising appear to be related to the super oxide dismutases (SOD). Superoxide is among the most abundant ROS produced by the mitochondria. There is increasing evidence that ROS are not only toxic but also play an important role in cellular signaling and in the regulation of gene expression (Ishii et al. 2006). Superoxide and other ROS can damage cellular machinery and levels of oxidative damage products have been positively correlated with characteristic features of aging (Sampayo et al. 2003). SOD enzymes catalyze the breakdown of superoxide into hydrogen peroxide and water and are therefore central regulators of ROS levels. Deleterious mutations in these genes have been found to be associated with neurological diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Turner et al. 2005; Julien and Kriz 2006) but the current literature is controversial with regard to polymorphisms that lower risk for morbidity or that are associated with extended lifespan. For example, De Benedictis et al. (1998) did not find any age-dependent difference in the allelic or gentotypic frequency regarding SOD2 polymorphisms (T/C 401nt) in Italian centenarians compared to younger subjects matched for sex and geographic area. However, more recent research supports the potential role of the Ala16Val polymorphism in human aging with the AA genotype associated with increased risk for prostate and breast cancer, immunosenescence profile, as well as DNA damage (Taufer et al. 2005). Other studies have found MnSOD genotypes may modify individual cancer risk (Ambrosone et al. 1999; Mitrunen et al. 2001; Stoehlmacher et al. 2002; Woodson et al. 2003). Nevertheless not all studies support this putative association (Egan et al. 2003; Lin et al. 2003; Hung et al. 2004). Regulation of genome maintenance and repair DNA damage accumulates with age, and defects in genes responsible for DNA repair can lead to phenotypes resembling accelerated aging states such as Ataxia-telangiectasia (ATM), Dyskeratosis congenital (DKC1), Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (LMNA), Rothmund–Thomson Syndrome (RECQL4), and Werner Syndrome (WRN) although they are not completely synonymous with the aging process (Martin et al. 1999). Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), for example, is characterized by hair loss, growth retardation, lack of subcutaneous fat, wrinkled (agedlooking) skin, osteoporosis, and arteriosclerosis with patients usually dying from cardiovascular disease before the age of twenty (Pollex and Hegele 2004; Hennekam 2006). Alzheimer-type dementia is not observed nor are other markers of aging such as intracellular deposits of lipofuscins. The most common form of HGPS is caused by a mutation in the human nuclear lamin A gene (LMNA) which codes for a group of proteins called lamins, which maintain the mechanical properties and shape of nuclei. Lamins are also distributed throughout the nucleoplasm, where they appear to be essential for DNA replication and RNA polymerase II transcription. Interest in the lamins has increased because mutations or incorrect processing cause more than a dozen different inherited diseases, ranging from striated muscular diseases, via fat and peripheral nerve cell diseases, to progeria (Broers et al. 2006). The effects of less severe LMNA genetic variants on extended survival remain to be explored. The Werner syndrome gene (WRN) encodes a novel helicase of 1,432 amino acids. Homozygous mutations, all of which result in the truncation of the protein, lead to Werner syndrome. However, little is known about the role of WRN in so-called normal aging. Some SNPs seem to be protective against age-related diseases. For example, the 1367 Arg allele of the WRN gene has been found to be associated with reduced risk for type 2 diabetes (Hirai et al. 2005) and myocardial infarction (Ye et al. 1997) in Japanese subjects. However, Castro et al. (1999) compared the frequency of the C1367A polymorphism in centenarians to that of newborns within the Finnish population, and found no differences in the proportions of 1367 Cys/Arg across age groups. These findings suggest no AGE (2006) 28:313–332 321 evidence of an association of this WRN polymorphism with longevity, at least in this population. It has been suggested that at least some aspects of normal aging are the consequence of anti-cancer mechanisms designed to deal with damaged DNA pathways including those that reduce DNA damage levels from exogenous sources, replication errors and by-products of cellular respiration (Mitchell et al. 2003; Campisi 2003). As unrepaired DNA damage leads to permanent changes in the genetic code that may be oncogenic, pathways that repair DNA damage are important anti-cancer mechanisms. In addition, there are anti-cancer pathways that respond to DNA damage by either preventing cellular replication or inducing cell death. Genes in these pathways code for proteins that reduce cancer incidence. Data from mouse models, many that were originally designed to study cancer, suggest that a potential consequence of DNA damage and response to DNA damage may be aging (Hasty 2005). Genes and pathways affecting cardiovascular disease Avoidance or delayed onset of CHD and a better cardiovascular disease risk factor profile are important familial aspects of centenarian survival. For example, individuals with exceptional longevity and their offspring have been shown to have significantly larger high-density lipoproteins (HDL) and lowdensity lipoprotein (LDL) particle sizes, which confers protection against coronary heart disease (Barzilai et al. 2003). These individuals also had lower prevalence of hypertension, stroke, and metabolic syndrome. These phenotypes were associated with increased homozygosity for the 405 valine allele (VV genotype) in the cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) gene compared to controls. The authors hypothesized that lipoprotein particle sizes are heritable and larger particle sizes were associated with delayed aging. However, CETP deficiency and other polymorphisms in CETP were found to have no association with longevity in a study of Japanese centenarians, perhaps due to low CHD risk in Japanese (Arai et al. 2003). Recent prospective analyses of a Japanese American male cohort from the Honolulu Heart Program, where CHD is more prevalent than in Japan, revealed a trend towards decreased CHD in the small number of men with the same intron 14 splicing defect (Curb et al. 2004). A positional candidate gene for longevity identified from a genome-wide linkage scan among long-lived families in the US by Puca et al. (2001) involved in lipoprotein metabolism, microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTTP) was found to be suggestive of a link to human longevity. Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been found to account for most of the variation at the MTTP locus and a haplotype that contains both of these was found to be significantly less frequent in long-lived individuals compared to younger controls (Geesaman et al. 2003). However, this finding has not been supported in other ethnic groups (Beekman et al. 2006). An insertion/deletion variant in the gene encoding ACE (angiotensin I-converting enzyme) has also been proposed to have links to longevity as an increased frequency of homozygotes for the D (deletion) allele was found in German octogenarians and these results were supported in a longitudinal (follow-up) study of Danish twins (Luft 1999; Frederiksen et al. 2003). Polymorphisms in ACE have been suggested to be involved in cardiovascular and renal diseases due to negative effects associated with vasoconstriction. However, two large studies of centenarians and younger controls failed to replicate these findings (Bladbjerg et al. 1999; Blanche et al. 2001). In contrast to almost all of the other candidate genes reviewed so far, cross-sectional analyses of apolipoprotein E (APOE) allele frequencies among different age groups have been strikingly consistent. The epsilon4 (APOE4) allele (deleterious type) among centenarians has been found to be about half as common as that of younger adults in numerous different ethnic groups (Christensen et al. 2006). APOE plays an important role in regulating lipoproteins and is found in three forms: APOE2, APOE3 and APOE4. APOE4 has been consistently associated with a moderately increased risk of both cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer disease while APOE2 seems to confer protection. Risk also seems to increase for APOE4 carriers with negative environmental exposures such as head trauma, diabetes, atherosclerosis, or peripheral vascular disease, since these phenotypes are at even higher risk of cognitive decline (Jordan et al. 1997; Haan et al. 1999). 322 AGE (2006) 28:313–332 Table 2 Selected candidate genes and pathways that may be related to human longevity. Gene Sample Finding PATHWAY: Metabolism: Growth hormone/IGF-1 axis IGF-1 Dutch adults (Rotterdam study) Noncarriers of the 192-bp allele in promoter had increased relative risk for Type 2 diabetes and myocardial infarction (Vaessen et al. 2001) Elderly Dutch women (Rotterdam study) Baseline bone mineral density lower and bone loss higher in noncarriers of the 192-bp allele (Rivadeneira et al. 2003) KLOTHO Czechs, U.S. Caucasians, and U.S. African Americans KL-VS homozygotes less prevalent in the elderly (Arking et al. 2002) PATHWAY: Inflammation HLA Okinawans aged 90+ and adult controls HLA-DR9 allele under-represented and HLA-DR1 allele over-represented in long-lived Okinawans (Takata et al. 1987; Akisaka et al. 1997) IL-6 Octo/nonagenarians vs. younger controls (Belfast study) Frequency of IL-6-174 G/G decreases with age (Rea et al. 2003) Finnish nonagenarians vs. healthy blood donors, aged 18–60 No statistically significant differences in IL-6-174 G/G genotype distributions (Wang et al. 2001) PATHWAY: Mitochondrial energy production Mt5178A Japanese centenarians More frequent in centenarians and may be related to increased resistance to age associated disease (Tanaka et al. 2000) PATHWAY: Stress resistance HSP70-1 Italians aged 18–109 Age-related decrease of the allele A frequency in −110A > C promoter region polymorphism in females (Altomare et al. 2003) Danish septuagenarian twins Association between low self-rated health and heterozygosity for −110A > C polymorphism (Singh et al. 2004) SIRT3 Italian males, young and old G477T genotype TT decreases while GT genotype increases in the elderly (Rose et al. 2003) PATHWAY: Genome maintenance and repair WRN Finnish newborns, Finnish centenarians, Mexican newborns Decline of 1074Phe/Phe genotype of 1074Leu/Phe polymorphism with age (Castro et al. 2000) PATHWAY: Cardiovascular ACE French centenarians vs. adults, aged 20–70 II genotype is more frequent in centenarians (Schachter et al. 1994) Danish twins, aged 73 + Relative risk of death increased in II genotype (Frederiksen et al. 2003) ApoE French centenarians vs. adults, aged 20–70 &4 allele less frequent in centenarians than controls; &2 allele reciprocally increased (Schachter et al. 1994) U.S. aged 90+ vs. young adults, aged 18–25 Same as above (Zubenko et al. 2002) Danish centenarians and male controls, age 40 Average relative mortality risk was lower for &2 allele (Gerdes et al. 2000) CETP Ashkenazi Jewish aged 95+ and their offspring vs. adult controls Probands and offspring had increased homozygosity for VV genotype (I-405-V) (Barzilai et al. 2003) Japanese centenarians and healthy younger controls No association with longevity (Arai et al. 2003) 7 years prospective follow-up of Japanese American men aged 71–93 Borderline reduced risk for heart disease (Curb et al. 2004) MTTP American centenarians and long-lived siblings Minor allele rs 2866164 (allele G) under-represented (Geesaman et al. 2003) Germans aged 90+ and adult controls No differences (Nebel et al. 2005) PON I Italian centenarians vs. younger controls, aged forties Significant difference in haplotype 192R/55L frequency between older and younger individuals (Rea et al. 2004) Irish octo/nonagenarians vs. adolescents MTHFR Dutch elderly, aged 85+, vs. younger controls, aged 18–40 677T/T (Val/Val) genotype less prevalent in elderly men (Heijmans et al. 2000) Swiss, healthy younger and older subjects 677T allele was 1.4 times less frequent in older individuals (Todesco et al. 1999) AGE (2006) 28:313–332 323 Table 2 outlines several genetic variants and associated biological pathways that have been implicated in human longevity, many of these genetic variants have been identified from centenarian studies. The genetic epidemiology of exceptional longevity: challenges and opportunities From the previous discussion it seems clear that the length of the human lifespan appears to be controlled by a complex interaction of genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors. As has been observed for other complex traits, genetic control of the human lifespan is also likely to be determined by subtle variations in numerous “hub genes” that participate in multiple regulatory pathways, resulting in weak to moderate effects. The complexity of this phenotype is a challenge that has likely been slowing progress in this area. In order to identify longevity genes in human beings there are a number of different strategies available. The merits and demerits of some of the most common strategies are discussed below. Approaches to identifying human longevity genes In order to identify genes linked to a particular phenotype in humans, two types of approaches are commonly used: linkage approaches and populationbased association studies, both of which are being extended to human longevity research (Nebel and Schreiber 2005). Linkage analysis studies, in which gene loci can be found by co-segregation of a polymorphic marker allele with the phenotype under study, are particularly useful when one also has extended pedigrees from study subjects, which is rarely the case. However, linkage approaches using small core pedigrees or with long-lived sibpairs can also be performed. In the case of sibpairs, a greater than expected proportion of shared alleles between two sibs with the same phenotype indicates that a gene involved with this phenotype is located in a nearby region. Linkage analysis is not subject to confounding due to population stratification (differences in allele frequencies between subpopulations due to differences in ethnicity, geography, or historical population movements). However, linkage studies usually can only detect loci with relatively strong effects. To achieve the statistical power needed for identification of the weak or moderate susceptibility factors that are likely to play a role in human longevity, DNA samples from a very large sample of long-lived individuals is required, as in the GEHA project (http://www.geha. unibo.it) which is collecting 2,650 long-lived (aged 90+) sibpairs from 11 European countries or the Long-life Family Study which also studies large numbers of long-lived families (http://www.biostat. wustl.edu/llfs). Another disadvantage of linkage analysis is that the identified chromosomal candidate regions are usually large and have to be narrowed by subsequent association and linkage disequilibrium studies in order to be able to localize specific genes. Recent advances in ultra-high-throughput genotyping technology and statistical analysis have made population-based association studies, such as case-control studies, an attractive alternative. Although complete genome sequencing is not yet feasible for large studies, it is now possible to type a large number of common SNPs, which account for the majority of genetic variation in human genomes (Hirschhorn and Daly 2005). Association studies, compared to linkage studies, provide more precise localization of susceptibility genes, often extending to only a few thousand base pairs. Future investigations are increasingly turning to large-scale case-control studies in which entire genomes (or candidate genes representing functional pathways) are assessed for sequence variation and for association with longevity phenotypes. However, in order to avoid population stratification issues, casecontrol studies require that cases and controls be sampled from the same population (Nebel et al. 2005; Hirschhorn and Daly 2005). Thus, the availability of large and appropriate study samples remains a substantial obstacle. Study designs Centenarians as representative of the longevity phenotype Centenarians represent a rare phenotype appearing in roughly 10–20 per 100,000 persons in most industrialized countries but as high as 40–50 per 100,000 persons in Okinawa, Japan (Willcox DC et al. 2006). 324 AGE (2006) 28:313–332 There are less than a dozen major research groups that investigate this unique phenotype, mainly in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Study populations have included isolated or ethnic groups of centenarians, mixed populations and populations from urban and rural areas. Selection of extreme phenotypes such as centenarians (and/or the oldest old) is likely to substantially increase power for detection of genes affecting longevity (Zhang and Risch 1996; Perls et al. 2002; Vijg and van Orsouw 2002; Perls and Terry 2003). A sub-group of oldest-old individuals with good cognitive and physical function who have not suffered from major age-related diseases may be even better candidates as they likely represent a “healthy aging phenotype”. Particularly valuable information about the heritability of the longevity trait may also be contributed by long-living persons who represent the top percentiles of long-lived birth cohorts (i.e. the 95th percentile and beyond) from their respective populations (Hadley and Rossi 2005). Who represent the best controls? The case-control design usually calls for cases and controls that differ only with regard to the phenotype under investigation. Ideally, all other variables, such as environmental factors, ethnicity, and gender should be as similar as possible in order to minimize confounding effects (Hirschhorn and Daly 2005). Long-term (preferably decades long) prospective cohort studies in which allelic variation in the long-lived group is compared with that of shorter lived controls are ideal but usually impractical, if not impossible. However, establishing “bio-banks” with stored samples will help to eliminate this problem in the future. At present, the most widely applied practical approach is one in which allele frequency in long-lived cases is compared with that of younger controls. However, a major problem associated with this type of study design is that we have no way of knowing how many of the controls will also live long. Another methodological problem arises from the possibility that differences between the long-lived group and younger controls could be merely reflective of a change in population structure over time (Nebel et al. 2005). This may be easily brought about through recent population movements and/or admixture. However, there are some approaches that can help to compensate for these issues. These methods can be classified into two categories. Genomic control methods use the independent marker loci to adjust the distribution of a standard test statistic, while structured association methods infer the details of population structure to testing for association. Both methods may help compensate for some of the genetic differences between cases and controls that can arise from the lack of appropriate matching (Pritchard and Donnelly 2001). The challenges of gene-environment interaction and other variables Longevity associated allelic variation is context-dependent and the risk of mortality attributable to genotypes may depend on interactions with environmental risk factors that in turn vary by age, gender, ethnicity, geography, historical time period and/or biocultural context. As such, genes may have beneficial effects at younger ages but detrimental effects at older ages or the opposite pattern may hold, a phenomenon referred to as antagonistic pleiotropy (Toupance et al. 1998; Capri et al. 2006). Moreover, what may be good for men may not necessarily be beneficial for women. For example, some studies have found male or female-specific associations for certain polymorphisms and therefore stress the importance of gender as a major variable, suggesting that men and women may follow different trajectories to reach longevity (Lio et al. 2002). Some environments may be more challenging to achieve exceptional longevity. De Benedictis and Franceschi (2006) recently touched upon this problem when they concluded that due to a more challenging environment, a better genetic make-up may be required to attain longevity in southern Europe than in northern Europe. Similarly, the centenarian of today is almost assuredly different from the centenarian of a generation ago. Moreover, what may be true for centenarians of today may not necessarily be true for their grandchildren. Since gene pools of populations change in response to environmental factors it is risky to assume that the genetic makeup of the current oldest-old generation is identical to that of past or future cohorts living in very different environments. The oldest-old still surviving today in most developed countries were born before demographic and epidemiological transitions sculpted a new bio-cultural landscape that has largely eliminated the mortality risks that were common at the turn of the century. AGE (2006) 28:313–332 325 Most younger cohorts have had the benefits of public health and modern life-saving medical technology, and most younger cohorts did not experience the world wars, socio-economic deprivation, or epidemics of deadly infectious disease that most of their forebears did. Thus, genetic variations that may have brought about the current generation of centenarians may not necessarily increase the life expectancy of a younger generation living in a vastly different biocultural /environmental milieu with a very different set of risk factors for morbidity and mortality. Old genetic isolates may hold key to the new genetic research Of particular interest to the genetic epidemiology of exceptional longevity is that several isolated subpopulations appear to have longevity advantages. Iceland, Sardinia, and Okinawa, which exist within the Nordic countries, Italy, and Japan, respectively, have significantly lower old-age mortality, extended survival, and higher prevalence of long-lived individuals than surrounding areas (Gudmundsson et al. 2000; Poulain et al. 2004; Japan Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly 2006). The precise reasons are unclear but this may be due, in part, to clustering of advantageous genetic variants. This longevity advantage effect appears particularly strong in Okinawa, which has the highest prevalence of centenarians in Japan, if not the world at approximately 50 centenarians per 100,000 people in 2006 (Japan Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly 2006). Although we must be cautious when comparing centenarian ratios cross nationally due to methodological differences in calculating centenarian ratios and rapid year to year growth rates (Willcox et al., unpublished data), Figure 2 shows that prevalence of centenarians in Okinawa was substantially higher than other areas at 34/100,000 in the year 2002, in contrast to 16.5/100,000 in Sardinia, and approximately 10/100,000 in most Western countries (Japan Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly 2003; Poulain et al. 2004). This suggests a fertile location for exploring the genetics of human longevity. As mentioned previously, large movements of people and subsequent gene admixture (mixing of two or more genetically different populations) are substantial confounding factors in genetic studies. Genetic admixture can be seen in just one generation. These changes are of particular concern in countries with a large number of recent immigrants, such as the U.S. when using centenarians as a phenotype of longevity (Nebel et al. 2005). Even Caucasians in the U.S. are a markedly admixed population from diverse European origins. Therefore, the genetic composition of a U.S. centenarian sample is likely to differ substantially from that of a younger control population simply due to different migration patterns over different generations. Inappropriate matching of cases Figure 2 Centenarian ratios in selected regions in 2002. Note: Data are reported from respective government statistics for the year 2002 or the closest available calendar year 326 AGE (2006) 28:313–332 and controls under even modest levels of population stratification can cause both false-positive and falsenegative findings. These problems do not exist in Okinawa for older generations, which have seen extremely limited immigration (Kerr 2000). Furthermore, population isolates are considered to be more useful in genome-wide association studies owing to increased linkage disequilibrium and decreased allelic diversity. This has recently been empirically demonstrated in a Pacific Island population where the longrange linkage disequilibrium around common alleles and limited diversity resulted in much improved efficiency in a genome wide association study, significantly augmenting the power to detect association of SNPs with particular complex phenotypes (Bonnen et al. 2006). With the exception of our work on HLA genetic variants and two family studies there has been little study of the genetic determinants of longevity in this interesting population. However, a recent investigation of mitochondrial gene variants in Japan supports our past genetic work and argues strongly for further exploration of this population’s unique genotype (Tanaka et al. 2004). This study suggests that Okinawans may be a genetically distinct group that has several characteristics of a founder population, including less genetic diversity, and possess at least one mitochondrial haplotype (M7) linked to human longevity that has clustered in higher frequency than surrounding East Asian populations. Further work in this population would be of significant interest to the genetics of human longevity. The future Despite the observation that there is substantial genetic contribution to human longevity, little is known about what specific genetic effects are involved. As longevity is a very complex trait, several issues challenge our ability to identify its genetic influences, such as control for environmental confounders across time, the lack of precise phenotypes of aging and longevity, availability of appropriate study populations, statistical power, and study design. While recent advances in human genomics have made a comprehensive search for such genetic effects feasible, the aforementioned challenges still need to be met. There is a strong need for validation as well as replication of initial association findings in very large samples from a variety of different populations and sub-populations. Genetic background, age, gender, gene-environment interactions and other variables need sufficient consideration. Moreover, the role of genes as modifiers of human lifespan requires rigorous testing through functional analyses before they can be regarded as genuine longevity genes. Recent studies have shown that the search for genes with moderate effects on complex traits at a whole-genome scale is now feasible and efforts in identifying specific genetic contributions to human longevity have begun to bear fruit. 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