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Posts Tagged ‘Essex Police’
Manchester Bound Pakistan Flight Escorted in to Stansted by Typhoon Jets: BBC News
Posted: May 24, 2013 in Airlines, Aviation & Airports (General News), Manchester Airport, Pakistan, Stansted
Tags: BBC, diverted, Essex Police, incident, lahore, Manchester, Manchester Airport, Ministry of Defence, Pakistan International Airlines, raf typhoon, Stansted, stansted airport, typhoon jet
[BBC News] RAF Typhoon jets have been launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft within UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence has said.
A reported on board incident created an alert and diverted the aircraft: Picture Wikipedia
A Pakistan International Airlines plane has been diverted from Manchester to Stansted Airport, a Manchester Airport spokesman said.
An Essex Police spokeswoman added: “An incident has occurred on an aircraft. Police and partners are responding.”
The BBC understands that the plane has now landed in Stansted.
The plane reportedly left Lahore at 09:35 local time. It was due in at Manchester at 1400 BST.
UPDATE at 14:55
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said that police were expected to meet the plane at the airport. The plane, flight number PK709, reportedly left Lahore at 09:35 local time. It was due in at Manchester at 14:00 BST.
The MoD said responsibility for the incident had now passed to Essex Police and the Home Office. The MoD was not able to say how serious a threat there was on board.
An MoD spokesman said the incident was now a police matter and that “our involvement is over”.
He said Typhoon jets could be scrambled after the pilot or crew of a passenger aircraft sends out an emergency signal.
“The purpose of going up is to investigate what the situation is,” he said.
“Often when a Quick Reaction Alert aircraft is launched the details are not known, but it is known that a signal has been sent.
“Part of the purpose of sending a Typhoon up is to have a look and see what they can see.”
A Pakistan International Airlines spokesman Zufiqar Bijarani told CNN: “We have been told there may have been a bomb threat.” But he did not say if he had anything to confirm or deny this.
Stansted Airport said on Twitter that it was operating normally.
Pakistan International Airlines said there were 308 passengers on board, as well as 14 crew including pilots, with a mixture of Pakistani and British passport holders.
Read the original story at BBC News…..
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Bambaragala Monastery – Teldiniya – බඹරගල රජමහා විහාරය – තෙල්දෙනිය
Bambaragala Monastery and Temple
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The Dumbara Valley in the distant past was the seat of ancient temples, Raja Maha Viharas and rock cave hermitages (Aranne) where Buddha statues were housed. Dr. John Davy, surgeon to British Governor Sir Robert Brownrigg in his palanquin tours in 1817 had stumbled on some of these cave hermitages close to Teldeniya, a few miles from Kandy.
In his voluminous book “An Account of Ceylon”, Davy gives a graphic description of the rock shelters he had come across, among them.
Bambaragala Monastery – licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Hasindu2008
“….in the evening before sunset, we walked about half a mile to the Bambaragala Vihara, romantically situated on the side of a steep hill, amongst masses of rock……The cavity of the rock, very prettily and gaily painted was divided into two compartments in the largest of which there was a recumbent figure of a Buddha statue about five feet long.”
The old roadway to the temple via Henagahuwela was submerged by the waters of the Victoria reservoir and now access to the temple is through Tennekumbura, on the main Mahiyangane road leading to the Victoria dam site.
A steep flight of stone steps leads to the summit of this rock cave temple, where halfway up is the priests’ residency (Avasa). At the top is an assembly of ancient rock cave hermitages (lenas), with prominent drip ledges carved for the rain to drip down.
The Brahmi inscriptions etched on the apex of the cave have been deciphered and reveal that these rock caves were donated to the Sangha by the ruling monarchs dating back some 2000 years.
Steps leading to the temple
Former Archaeological Commissioner Dr. Senerath Paranavitane in his Inscriptions of Ceylon, Vol 1 (1970), writes of the Bambaragala rock inscriptions. These inscriptions date back to the 2nd and 3rd Century BC.
During the reign of King Kirthi Sri Rajasingha, (1747-1782 AD) of the Kandyan period, a vihara was built, the ruins of which are still to be seen. A Thamba Sannasa ( royal edicts written on copper plates) says that the surrounding lands had been gifted by the king of the time to the Bambaragala Rock Temple.
The mural paintings adorning the walls of the temple depict fascinating episodes of Jataka stories, combined with cultural and Buddhist motifs. Their value lies not only in their beauty but also in their worth as a historical record.
The floral patterns on the motifs are of tendrils and leaves. The lotus in full bloom is drawn on the ceiling.
Prof. Sri Gunasinghe, an authority on Kandyan paintings says in his monograph, ‘Buddhist paintings of the Kandyan period’, “ A favourite subject of the Kandyan artists without doubt is the Jataka Story- past lives of the Buddha which also supply the major theme for this particular group of murals. Human figures often seen in mixed and frontal view of different parts of the body (profile) being more favoured, however are delineated with little appreciation of anatomical truth or natural proportions. Despite their being engaged in various activities, the figures remain static in effect”.
Text and pix by Gamini G. Punchihewa
Kandy Times
Kandy – The Last Kingdom of Sinhale
Other Places of Interest Within Close Proximity
Map of the Bambaragala Monastery
Driving Directions to Bambaragala Monastery
Route from Colombo to Bambaragala Monastery
Route from Kandy City to Bambaragala Monastery
Though : Kandy
distance : 135 km
Travel time : 4-4.5 hours
Driving directions : see on google map Though : Kundasale – Digana
Travel time : 30 minutes
‹ Bahirawa Kanda – බහිරව කන්ද
Temple of the Tooth Relic (Dalada Maligawa) – ශ්රී දළදා මාලිගාව ›
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Queensland Labor could protect its funding, but not its seats
March 25, 2012 Andrew NortonLeave a comment
After yesterday’s disastrous electoral result, one decision of the former Queensland Labor government is looking good, at least from their perspective. This was the change to the public election campaign funding regime.
Previously Queensland, like other jurisdictions, had a pay-per-vote system of election public funding (about $1.65 per vote in the QLD case). In the reforms legislated last year, this was changed to a system of reimbursement, up to a maximum of about $5.3 million. The formula works like this:
All of the first 10% of electoral expenditure
75% of the next 80% of electoral expenditure
50% of the remaining 10% of electoral expenditure
I’m not sure how much Queensland Labor spent this time around, but presumably they will walk away with several million dollars in public funding, while the old system would have netted them $1.2 million on yesterday’s vote.
The main argument for the new system is that it introduces a counter-cyclical element to the system. With donations tending to follow popular support, parties on the downward part of their cycle are dealt a double blow. This system of public funding lets them mount a decent-sized campaign (I’m not sure how big the Queensland Greens or Katter Party campaigns were, but this system also helps small parties, provided they reach a 4% threshold).
However, as the NSW and QLD elections demonstrate there is only so much money can do. From a campaign finance theory perspective, each campaign was a fairer and more even contest than it might otherwise have been. But that did not stop two of the biggest defeats in Australian electoral history.
Should the government redistribute student fees between universities?
In an AFR op-ed today (not behind a paywall – things are improving), Macquarie Uni VC Steve Schwartz suggests some egalitarianism for universities.
If fees are deregulated, the more prestigious universities would charge higher fees than others. Schwartz suggests that if they did, their government subsidy should be reduced, and redistributed to other universities.
The reason is regulatory – the new Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency is imposing standards on all universities, but it is hard for the poorer universities to match the standards of the wealthier universities.
I doubt TEQSA will require all universities to be the same. A university licence to operate depends on meeting minimum standards, not being identical to all other universities. That said, there is a tendency in the standards released to date to codify common practices, some of which are of doubtful necessity. If this continues, the universities in the best financial position to try new things will tend to set the standards over the long term. Read More »
For those who downloaded my Grattan report, Mapping Australian higher education, there was an error in table 8 on page 50 which lists funding rates for Commonwealth-supported places. The maths and science rates did not include $3,499 in transitional funding paid for students enrolled in 2009 or later, who paid a student contribution amount reduced by that amount. The correct numbers are in a revised version of the report.
Further complicating matters, these student contributions will be put back up next year, so assuming that the required legislation is passed future calculations should take this into account. Other than via indexation the total won’t be affected, but the student contribution will go up, and the Commonwealth contribution will go down.
The pattern of growing information regulation
March 5, 2012 Andrew Norton1 Comment
There has been plenty of negative comment on the Finkelstein review proposal to impose federal regulation of the media. But so far as I have seen this commentary has not focused on how it fits a pattern of increasing central regulation of, or proposed regulation of, information flows in Australian society. Further examples here:
* National curriculum. One of the oddities of Australian political culture is that we have always – and the negative reaction to Finkelstein suggests still – been sceptical of government media regulation, but quite unconcerned about government control of what is taught to the young people who must attend school for 10 to 12 years. Many complain about the content of that curriculum – but think that the wrong people are in charge, not that there is too much centralisation of curriculum in the first place.
* The mechanism now exists for the federal minister of education to impose ‘teaching and learning standards’ that could control what universities teach.
* While the federal proposals for controlling 3rd-party opposition to the government are much milder than the draconian NSW regime, it’s highly likely that we will see more controls introduced during the current parliament. Was Wayne Swan’s speech today softening us up for banning billionaires from buying media space when the government attacks them?
* Senator Conroy’s internet filter seems to be on hold, and while not aimed at political speech it would create a mechanism for regulating it at a future time.
Overall, I think technological changes mean that we are in a better free speech situation now than 15 or 20 years ago. It is important to keep things in perspective. But it is hard to see that the at best very minor gains from the proposed or actual centralisation of information control in Canberra are worth the risks.
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Capitals’ Tom Wilson throws shade at Pittsburgh on eve of playoff opener | TribLIVE.com
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Capitals’ Tom Wilson throws shade at Pittsburgh on eve of playoff opener
Jonathan Bombulie
Wed., April 25, 2018 4:24 p.m. | Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4:24 p.m.
Chaz Palla | Tribune-Review
Capitals right wing Tom Wilson (43) holds down Penguins defenseman Olli Maatta (3) in the second period of Game 6 of an Eastern Conference semifinal series Monday, May 8, 2017, at PPG Paints Arena.
As if Penguins fans needed another reason to jeer Tom Wilson, the physical Washington Capitals winger gave them one Wednesday.
In discussing the third straight second-round playoff matchup between the Capitals and Penguins, Wilson was asked by a reporter whether he was considering renting in Pittsburgh since the teams face each other so often.
“I’m definitely not gonna get a condo in Pittsburgh. That would be the last place,” Wilson said, according to a post on Associated Press hockey writer Stephen Whyno’s Twitter account.
Wilson has been Washington’s leader in penalty minutes in each of the last five seasons. This year, he had 14 goals, 13 fighting majors and 187 penalty minutes in 78 games.
Jonathan Bombulie is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at [email protected] or via Twitter @BombulieTrib.
Mother Nature recycles fallen leaves
Nearly 2 decades after the murder of a physician and his son a legacy of love survives
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home : titles : genres : sitcom
All titles in the ‘Sitcom’ genre
9 titles - sorted alphabetically or by year
The Games – Series 1 Episode 8, Rural and Environment television program – 1998
In mockumentary style, The Games charts the progress of the fictitious Logistics and Liaison Division of SOCOG in the run-up to the Sydney Olympics.
Kath and Kim – Money television program – 2002
Kath’s 'look at moi’ is the show’s most famous catchphrase and the vernacular of the 'foxy ladies’ has become a recognisable fixture in popular culture.
Kingswood Country – There’s No Place Like Rome television program – 1980
A sitcom that lampoons suburban Australian culture, while being equally fascinated with it.
The Librarians – Series 1 Episode 1 television program – 2007
This situation comedy series is set in a fictitious ‘Interactive Learning Centre’, known more prosaically as the local library.
Mother and Son – The Clock television program – 1991
Writer Geoffrey Atherden offers a deft spin on the eccentric character of Maggie Beare, who assumes that something that’s misplaced must be stolen.
Mother and Son – The Funeral television program – 1984
This sitcom shows the fraught relationship between 40-year-old Arthur and his mother Maggie, who is at turns forgetful, quick-witted and manipulative.
Mother and Son – The Money television program – 1984
The problems of ageing would seem like an unlikely subject for television comedy but Mother and Son became an instant success when it was first shown in 1984, continuing for nine years to become one of Australia’s best-loved television shows.
Mother and Son – The Ride television program – 1993
Maggie’s favourite son Robert proposes to take her for a drive. This generous offer is so out of character that Arthur is immediately astonished and suspicious.
My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours? – End of the Line television program – 1967
McGooley , starring Gordon Chater and set in Balmain in the ’60s, was Australia’s first homegrown sitcom success.
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Aussie Thread: Democracy Sausage
By Paxter, April 8 in General Chatter
Paxter
Cricket Tragic
Location:Toronto, Canada
Labor are in a quandary with the leadership contest: Albo and Plibs are decent retail politicians and are certainly a lot less robotic than Shorten. But they are in the left faction, which is not going to help things along in Qld.
The Anti-Targ
Level 20 Social Justice Mage, with melee ability
Location:New Zealand
Australian election: Pollsters unsure how they got it so wrong
Hmmm, I haven't really looked into it, but how wrong did they really get it? It sounds like the polls were saying (on a nation-wide 2-party poreference basis) it was 51(2)/49(8) to Labour. That's margin for error stuff. It ended up being 50.9/49.1 the other direction, which is totally within reality for the pre-election polling. And if it really was substantially the North Queensland outcome that made a difference, localised effects can be missed in national polling.
Greens get 10% of the vote and 1 seat. Bob Katter gets 0.5% of the vote and 1 seat. PV is better than FPP, but not by that much.
14 minutes ago, Paxter said:
The only thing the left needs to do is not talk about killing off polluting industries that employ a lot of their traditional base, but rather talk about how many jobs are going to be created in those very same communities. Don't tell coal-miner families their mining days are numbered. Tell them about how many higher paying, safer and more satisfying jobs there there will be in the community outside of mining. Let coal mining die a natural death rather than make its murder a central pillar of the manifesto.
Edited May 20 by The Anti-Targ
karaddin
Mailed fist of feminist entitlement
1 hour ago, Jeor said:
I suspect a lot depends on how much the Coalition can woo the Centre Alliance. If they can't, they'll have to cobble together deals with all the crazies and I'm guessing that will result in some pretty dodgy business. Probably not a bad thing if Morrison tries to govern as a moderate Liberal - it's popular with the wider electorate and has broader appeal (ala Turnbull), and for now at least he can't get outflanked on the right by anyone especially threatening.
There is still potential for a lot of people to be harmed by this continuance of the worst of the policies from their last term (I can't hammer how horrifically harmful robodebt is enough) but on the selfish front I know I'll be OK if this is what happens. What scares me is if Morrison's "this was a miracle" wasn't a linguistic turn but literal - he's a Pentecostal with pretty out there religious views and if he (and his church) decide that this win was god ordained to fight back against the "sin" of the last years like same sex marriage things could get bad for me. I think his majority is tiny enough and the senate too opposed for that to actually happen after the postal survey, but I don't like to ignore how much "divine right" can twist a persons thinking.
Hopefully he just wanted the crowd to respond to his "I believe in miracles" with "where're you from you sexy thing"
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2 hours ago, The Anti-Targ said:
Couldn’t agree more! The “end of polling” lines being spun ATM are really quite hilarious. People who predicted a Labor landslide are just looking for something to blame.
@karaddin: I’m not a fan of that aspect of Morrison either. But I still think he’s way better than Tony and that he will largely govern from the centre.
Edited May 20 by Paxter
lmanion
Location:Lys
Apparently one of the betting agencies paid out on a Labor win last thursday. That's a pretty expensive mistake.
Dropnerd
Board Moderators
Location:Perth, Western Australia
Banks and Health Insurers surged on the markets today. Evidently expecting obscene profits for the next three years.
Paxter reacted to this
Albanese vs Bowen? *sigh*
Surely the Labor Right has more talent than that!?
Perhaps as a post script to Folau's Rugby contract being terminated, and him choosing not to appeal:
An Australian journalist has shared claims that Wallabies staff believed Israel Folau was looking for a way out of life as a professional sportsman.
Folau was officially sacked from his multi-million dollar contract with Rugby Australia during the week over social media posts that hit out against gay and transgender people.
Many assume the cross-code footballer will look to continue his sporting career in some form in the future, however Sydney Morning Herald chief sports writer Andrew Webster has suggested otherwise.
Speaking on Channel Nine's Sports Sunday, Webster said the former Wallabies fullback had grown tired after more than a decade in professional sport.
[Career] suicide by social media? The added benefit is that he's a martyr/hero to his congregation and millions of Christians around the world. Even if it comes out that he did this in part because he wanted out, he'll still be a hero.
It's possible, but I'm not sure it's very believable. Some people do retire at their peak, but I'd be more inclined to believe it was a move to prematurely end his player contract if it happened after the world cup. Folau hasn't been in a RWC world cup winning squad, and I would have thought he'd have liked to have one more crack at that before exiting professional sport.
Impmk2
1 hour ago, Paxter said:
I was really hoping for Plibersek. Oh well. It'll be hard to be less charismatic than Shorten at least.
Really don't know where Labor goes policy wise from here. Drop the economic stuff and just run on the environment & energy? I feel like it was the franking credits that did the most damage outside of Queensland. Though they lost the most in the suburbs which would be least impacted by that. Frankly, it feels like north Queensland is lost for the next decade. They should write it off and focus where they can win, but that's probably my bias showing and not a great strategy.
As an anecdote I had an interesting conversation with a security guard here at work. He said he voted Lib because Labor was going to raise taxes on him. This is a guy in his 40s, who I'd be very surprised if wasn't on the lower end of the income scale. Just goes to show that scare campaigns work.
lessthanluke
Location:South Wales
Australia aren't really in a position at the moment where they'll be threatening to win the world Cup.
4 hours ago, lessthanluke said:
Haha thanks for that drive-by post Lurky!
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You're always welcome Pax!
Apparently over 11,000 people in Australia googled moving to New Zealand on Sunday, compared the the usual weekly average of about 2,000.
You'd think that this was about the outcome of the election, but some of us have a different theory:
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/crikey-its-not-their-election-result-thats-making-aussies-want-fly-coop-nz
We can kill possums and even make them into pies in New Zealand where the forest-eating pests are the scourge of our native birdies. If you kill a possum in Australia, you go to jail.
The KFC chicken Double Down, currently only available in New Zealand.
Road cones. We have more per capita than anywhere in the free world.
Kiwi rain is the best rain and the "new gold".
The fibrous glory of our Vogel's bread.
But, while spiders, snakes and Australian accents keep most Kiwis at home, volcanoes and earthquakes tend to help Australians stay put.
Moving to Auckland is already our long term plan and the main impact this election had on it is further locking in inaction on climate change. The increasing heat in Sydney is the primary reason we want to move, assuming we can when the time comes.
Looks like Albo is a certainty now, with Bowen withdrawing as he knows he doesn’t have the numbers. I think he’ll be a decent interim opposition leader, but I’m not convinced he will be the right person for the job in three years’ time.
ETA: Hmm maybe Chalmers will run against him but I don’t think that will work either. Chalmers might be a shrewd long term pick though.
Jeor
Lord Commander, Night's Watch
Location:Sydney, Australia.
6 hours ago, Paxter said:
What makes you think Albo wouldn't be a good PM candidate? He seems to be pretty popular and has had experience in government and political skill (presumably you don't become Leader of the House if you're a numpty). I would've thought he'd have as good a chance as any in the Labor party to win the next election.
55 minutes ago, Jeor said:
I worry about him being typecast and easily dispatched by the Liberals as a crusty, inner-city lefty. He’s a standard bearer of the Labor left and I don’t see him being able to turn things around for the ALP in Qld, which as 2007 showed is the main Labor pathway to Government. Chalmers by contrast is more conservative and a Queenslander.
The main thing in Albo’s favour is that he connects a lot better with voters than pretty much anyone on Labor’s front bench.
23 hours ago, karaddin said:
Auckland is the most familiar move a Sydney-sider can make. But if it's not essential to move there for job purposes I'd strongly suggest you look elsewhere. If it needs to be upper North Island I'd suggest looking at Whangarei. It's city-fied enough that you don't feel you've left civilization behind, and it's got a far better climate than Auckland. But how small are you willing/able to go and retain your sanity? I'm a man of simple needs, if there's a movie theater, good internet and a KFC I'm happy.
24 minutes ago, The Anti-Targ said:
We're city people through and through. I grew up in a semi country area (out in the country but culturally influenced by a lot of well off people that had moved from Sydney) so I know how I feel about smaller areas. Brook feels even more strongly and needs to be in a bigger city. We also derive a lot of emotional support from seeing other queer people around which tends to rely on being a certain size.
I've seen the comparisons between Sydney and Auckland a lot, but one of the important ones here is that it looks quite similar to Sydney's climate minus 2-3 degrees, so the thinking is after 2 degrees of warming it will be closer to the Sydney climate we like. In what way is Whangarei's better? The issue with other Australian cities is that the ones with a cooler climate (Melb, Adelaide) already have extreme heat worse than inner Sydney during summer which will only get worse and will still be a bit too cold for me in winter. Hobart is too cold.
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US Woos India into 100-Year Alliance Against China
October 23, 2017 Asif Aziz Opinion Comments Off on US Woos India into 100-Year Alliance Against China
Even as the countdown begins for US President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated state visit to China, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is heading to India next week in a delicate geopolitical balancing act.
A landmark speech Tillerson gave at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Wednesday, titled ‘Defining Our Relationship with India for the Next Century’, served as preamble to his visit. His remarks gave powerful optics projecting India as a ‘pivotal state’ in the US’ future regional strategies.
The US evidently hopes to pile pressure on Pakistan, which Tillerson will also visit, to cooperate in forging a negotiated settlement with the insurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and remote Pakistan territories. Tillerson’s speech also became a repartee to the triumphalist narrative of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s report at the 19th Communist Party Congress, which began in Beijing just a few hours earlier on October 18.
The Trump administration has also encouraged India to step up in Afghanistan. Tillerson outlined an intensification of cooperation with India in counterterrorism and maritime security, and held out a profound US pledge that “the world’s two greatest democracies should have the world’s two greatest militaries.”
Tillerson also signaled that the US will be leaning on India to offset China’s influence and proposed a new regional security architecture with the US, Japan, India and Australia as its main pillars. The US claims that it intends to use defense ties with India to challenge China’s rising military profile and regional influence, while also boosting its arms exports.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks entitled ‘Relationship with India for the Next Century’ at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, October 18, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Yuri Gripas
But Delhi has also witnessed a new type of relationship between the US and China. This is a game India, too, can clearly play, as Delhi balances its own defense ties. When Tillerson arrives in Delhi, Indian armed forces will be in the middle of a 10-day landmark military exercise with Russia, unprecedented for its involvement of all three services – army, navy and air force.
The US, meanwhile, is struggling to clinch the sale of its Predator Guardian UAVs and F-18 and F-16 fighter jets to India, while Delhi takes time to weigh its options. Again, Tillerson spoke effusively about the sale of hi-tech weapons, but never once mentioned co-production, as India does for certain weapons with Russia, leave alone any nod to ‘Make in India.’
Suffice to say, behind the high-flown American rhetoric about a bolstered strategic alliance with India, ‘America First’ very much remains the key template in Trump’s foreign policy approach.
Tillerson also singled out ‘energy cooperation’ in his speech. The US shale industry is targeting India’s rapidly growing market and American companies are keen to enter the lucrative downstream retail sector as well as secure contracts to construct pipeline grids connecting India’s far-flung regions.
Still, India will be watchful of entrapment in the US maneuvering vis-à-vis China and Pakistan. One lesson that Delhi learned from the recent border face-off with China is that there is no substitute to bilateral diplomatic and political tracks to navigate complex issues and make relationships stable and predictable.
On the other hand, US-China interdependency is a geopolitical reality, as evident from Trump’s prioritization of China (alongside key ally Japan) in the itinerary of his first Asian tour, slated to begin on November 3.
It is the nuances in the US’ approach to Pakistan, however, that Delhi will watch most closely.
Lately, the US-Pakistan relationship has become kinetic, thanks to the Pakistani military’s rescue of a Canadian-American couple held hostage for five years in the lawless Pakistan-Afghan border region, and, importantly, Islamabad’s initiative to organize a meeting of the moribund Quadrilateral Consultative Group (comprising US, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan) on October 16 in Muscat.
Pakistani army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa attended the Muscat meet. The Voice of America, for one, already senses change in Pakistani thinking. “The events have fostered some optimism about the US relationship with Pakistan… Pakistan still needs the United States on its side, as Pakistan fears India and wants continued financial aid and military material,” the US Congress-funded broadcaster reported.
A State Department official said in Washington on Wednesday, “America’s relationship with India does not come at the expense of Pakistan or vice versa. There are things that the US can do to help alleviate some of the tensions on Pakistan’s borders around Afghanistan and in India.”
The official continued: “When the president gave his remarks about Pakistan, he talked about a lot of the positive aspects of the bilateral relationship… we are having much more serious conversations about (Pakistan) being a partner for achieving our priorities in the region… We have many common interests and common enemies in the region.”
A Pakistani soldier outside the Kitton outpost along the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, Pakistan October 18, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Caren Firouz
Tillerson added further nuance at the CSIS gathering, saying that the Afghanistan issue can be solved only by addressing “regional challenges” and that Pakistan and India are “important elements” in that effort. Therefore, he added, “we intend to work closely with India and with Pakistan to, we hope, ease tensions along their border as well.”
Of course, any suggestion of outside intervention in India-Pakistan border tensions will put Delhi on guard. The “border” that US officials refer to is the turbulent ‘Line of Control’ separating the regions of Kashmir under Indian and Pakistani control.
Unsurprisingly, the Foreign Ministry reaction in Delhi to Tillerson’s speech was polite but noticeably reticent, calling it “significant” for bringing out the “various strengths” of the US-Indian relationship and highlighting the two sides’ “shared commitment to a rule-based international order” and appreciating Tillerson’s “positive evaluation” of the relationship and “his optimism about its future directions.”
By M.K. Bhadrakumar
Source: Asia Times
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Movement for a New Society Records
Identifier: SCPC-DG-154
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Includes correspondence, administrative files, notes of meetings, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, brochures, directories, membership materials, financial records, notebooks, journals, and photos. Subjects include nonviolence and training for nonviolent action; feminism, nonviolence, and peace.
Movement for a New Society (Organization)
Materials are in English.
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48.5 Linear Feet (48.5 linear ft.)
Movement for a New Society began in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a national network of activists committed to building a nonviolent revolution. Movement for a New Society grew to be a community, based in several areas around the United States. While Movement for a New Society was always an activist organization, it was also a co-housing and/or communal society. Movement for a New Society collectives formed in the Boston/Northeast Region, the Mid-Atlantic Region, Tucson, Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, etc. Movement for a New Society ceased operation in 1988.Some members formed a collective publishing business, based in Philadelphia, New Society Publishers, which published books and pamphlets on peace, social justice, and ecological issues. New Society Publishers was in existence from 1988-1996.
Movement for a New Society began in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a national network of activists committed to building a nonviolent revolution. Movement for a New Society grew to be a community, based in several areas around the United States. While Movement for a New Society was always an activist organization, it was also a co-housing and/or communal society. Movement for a New Society provided training in nonviolent direct action; was committed to decentralized organization and decision-making. It grew out of an earlier gathering of peace activists, A Quaker Action Group. For the first ten years, Movement for a New Society collectives in Philadelphia encouraged the formation of regional groups, including collectives in the Boston/Northeast Region, the Mid-Atlantic Region, Tucson, Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, etc. After 1981 efforts were made to strengthen communication and coordination among the various collectives. Movement for a New Society published at least three newsletters for internal communication: Dandelion Wine, Wine, and Grapevine; and one external newsletter, The Dandelion. Movement for a New Society ceased operation in 1988. Members of Movement for a New Society formed a collective publishing business, based in Philadelphia, New Society Publishers, which published books and pamphlets on peace, social justice, and ecological issues. New Society Publishers was in existence from 1988-1996.
This collection is unprocessed and in much the same order as when it was donated. The collection is organized into the various accessions in which it was donated to the Peace Collection. Most of the accessions have been small donations, containing only a few items relating to Movement for a New Society.
Gift of Beth Brockman, 1988 [Acc. 88A-065; Betsy Gilman-Radsch, 1990, 1995, 2002 [Acc. 90A-002, Acc. 95A-022, Acc. 02A-025]; Peter J. Woodrow, 1990 [Acc. 90A-055]; Lynne Shivers, 1992 [Acc. 92A-062]; Nancy Brigham, 1992 [Acc. 92A-090]; Jonathan Ber Zall, 2004 [Acc. 04A-003]; James Schrag [Acc. 06A-044]; Kenneth K. Martin [Acc. 08A-077], George Lakey, 2010 [Acc. 10A-026]
A Quaker Action Group Records (DG 074)
New Society Publishers Records (DG 189)
New Swarthmoor Community Records (DG 028)
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers (DG 236)
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Fengwei Zhou
Bin Wu
Zhenguo Li
Computer Science > Machine Learning
Title:Deep Meta-Learning: Learning to Learn in the Concept Space
Authors:Fengwei Zhou, Bin Wu, Zhenguo Li
(Submitted on 10 Feb 2018)
Abstract: Few-shot learning remains challenging for meta-learning that learns a learning algorithm (meta-learner) from many related tasks. In this work, we argue that this is due to the lack of a good representation for meta-learning, and propose deep meta-learning to integrate the representation power of deep learning into meta-learning. The framework is composed of three modules, a concept generator, a meta-learner, and a concept discriminator, which are learned jointly. The concept generator, e.g. a deep residual net, extracts a representation for each instance that captures its high-level concept, on which the meta-learner performs few-shot learning, and the concept discriminator recognizes the concepts. By learning to learn in the concept space rather than in the complicated instance space, deep meta-learning can substantially improve vanilla meta-learning, which is demonstrated on various few-shot image recognition problems. For example, on 5-way-1-shot image recognition on CIFAR-100 and CUB-200, it improves Matching Nets from 50.53% and 56.53% to 58.18% and 63.47%, improves MAML from 49.28% and 50.45% to 56.65% and 64.63%, and improves Meta-SGD from 53.83% and 53.34% to 61.62% and 66.95%, respectively.
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:1802.03596 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:1802.03596v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
From: Fengwei Zhou [view email]
[v1] Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:18:08 UTC (756 KB)
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BMW i8 review: A green compromise?
BMW's top-shelf EV has supercar looks, hybrid powertrain, supercar price
The first combination of BMW TwinPower Turbo and BMW eDrive technology plus intelligent energy management produce system output of 266 kW/357 hp (max. torque: 570 Nm / 420 lb-ft) and give the BMW i8 the performance characteristics of a pure-bred sports car (0 –60 mph in 4.2 seconds) combined with fuel economy and emissions comparable to a small car
When I look at the engine and electric motor of the BMW i8, my first thought is, “this shouldn’t be fun to drive,” but it is. I guess when you break down the full spec sheet: 357 total hp, 420 total lb-ft of torque, 3,455 pounds, it makes sense. It looks fast, that’s for sure, but weird too. I talked to several people about it, most of whom were interested in what it actually is. Some confuse it for a supercar, which maybe it is by some definitions. It does have a near-supercar price.
It’s as stiff as a supercar, that’s for sure. The i8 rides with a tight little bounce that stays controlled, but I was avoiding potholes with those huge wheels and rubber-band tires. I think if you’re going for just efficiency you’d use something with less rolling resistance, but this is more of a hybrid sports car, not just a hybrid. The steering is tight and direct too, and those tires are a big part of that. It’s electrically boosted, but still has some road feel.
The 1.5-liter three banger sounds great, though enhanced, and makes little turbo noises on shifts; there's a six-speed automatic that powers the rears while the electric motor works with a two-speed trans and pushes the front. The combo rockets off the starting line; shifts are quick without any surge or lag. The brakes have a short stroke, which is nice, and only suffer a little from that spongy, regenerative feel that a lot of hybrids have. Overall it feels super light on the road and it should, considering the body is made from carbon fiber.
You can see that carbon fiber on the doors, which makes them easier than expected to open and close, and on a personal styling note, I’d take bare carbon fiber over almost anything else. But that’s the minimalist enthusiast in me.
Inside it's logically laid out like a normal BMW. It has rotary dial for most of the controls, a rear-view camera, a nice stereo system and the rest. The blind spots are huge with the giant back pillar, so get used to craning your neck and praying. It does have blind spot warnings though, and you’ll have to trust them.
The i8 has a supercar-like price and is extremely low on the utility quotient. You’ll have to really want it. The i3 is probably a better solution all the way around, but it’s super dorky looking, and not fast at all. And it has a teeny gas tank. This i8 has some actual range.
Oh, and getting in and out of it is a huge pain. There may be a better way, but I’ve found that backing up my rear and bending over until I hit the sill and fall in, is the best way. Feel free to correct me on that if someone finds a better way.
--Jake Lingeman, road test editor
Here's our first look at the 2019 BMW X7 SUV
OTHER VOICES: I'm not going to correct you, Lingeman -- this is just a matter of preference -- but I prefer to anchor my weight in the car using my right foot, then sort of tumble in under the door. It's awkward no matter what, but you are afforded a look at all that lovely carbon fiber every time, plus the neighbor kids will mow your lawn for a chance to open and close those butterfly doors.
I mentioned my affection for the i8 in an earlier back-and-forth with Graham Kozak, and time has done nothing to diminish it. BMW's little batmobile is the perfect pseudo-supercar for anyone who wants an R8 but also needs a green car for business/political/HOV lane reasons. It looks fantastic to my eyes, drives like a lightweight, firmly sprung sports coupe (though it doesn’t beat the occupants up) and features all the creature comforts and cockpit engineering of BMW's best machines.
You can look good, have fun and get 76 MPGe; yeah, it costs $150K, but if it was less it wouldn't be a supercar, would it?
--Andrew Stoy, digital editor
The interior mostly feels like a regular BMW.
There is probably no other car that troubles me as deeply as the BMW i8. It bugs me; the fact that it bugs me bugs me. This is a profoundly unhealthy state of being. Acknowledging it, and trying to understand it, is the first step toward getting better.
In an attempt to shed the weight I carry with me always, I took the i8 for a weekend this time around. I drove it long distances at terrific speeds. I let lots of friends and neighbors ogle it and sit in it. I drove it to a pumpkin patch. I meditated on it.
I now think my i8 complex makes a little more sense.
Much of what’s good here comes down to profile and seating position. Take away the overwrought flying buttresses and winglets and you get a sleek midengine wedge woven from super-rigid carbon fiber.
You sit so low that sensations of speed and directional changes are amplified. It corners very flat and very surely, which I am sure the split powertrain (motor powering the front wheels, gas engine/motor combo in the back) has something to do with. It is less capable of dealing with uneven/gravely surfaces, which seem to startle the car and cause it to cut power at strange and unexpected times.
The brakes are also inconsistent. There’s not much feel to begin with, but sometimes they seem to take a beat longer than expected to bite. Odd.
Also, I despise the fake engine note. No engine has ever sounded like this. Certainly no 1.5-liter three-cylinder has ever come close.
I don’t think I hate this car, exactly. I think what it comes down to is that I hate what it stands for, or at least what it has been made to stand for by legions of adoring fanboys. It may be an interesting science experiment, but BMW’s techo-GT is not a supercar, it isn’t particularly eco-conscious and I sincerely hope it doesn’t predict The Future.
Extensive standard equipment includes the Navigation system Professional with proactive drive system for all-electric driving, fully-digital instrument display, BMW iDrive with freestanding Control Display and leather sports seats; choice of four exterior paint finishes and four interior equipment variants.
It’s no surprise that, despite the leather-trimmed ledges BMW calls “rear seats,” the i8 is basically useless for transporting anything other than two full-grown humans. Cargo? I fit two medium pumpkins in the car’s bucket-sized trunk; maybe count on three reusable tote bags full of ethically-sourced sustainable products, tops. Apparently, the trunk gets hot on long drives, so keep that in mind when you’re hauling foodstuffs.
I wouldn’t criticize a McLaren or an Alfa Romeo for these shortcomings; they come with the midengine goofy-door territory. But anyone who owns a racy two-door is basically guaranteed to have a fleet of more practical cars in their personal stables. This is why the idea of an “everyday exotic” kind of dumb, but also why the idea of a “green exotic” is just insulting.
“Surely this is better than buying another fuel-guzzling sports car,” you’ll say. Perhaps, but something about that argument just doesn’t sit right with me. Given the number of miles the average exotic/sports car gets driven, and the minuscule micro-fraction of the market such vehicles represent in the first place, the tailpipe emissions difference between this at an observed 33.3 mpg and a Ferrari 488 at 18 mpg combined are basically negligible.
But every little bit helps, right? Bullshit. If you actually cared an iota about the impact of consumption on the environment you wouldn’t buy another brand-new car -- let alone a flashy toy like this. Far be it from me to judge what you drive, but I will call out self-righteous hypocrisy.
Again, the car is not entirely without merit. It isn’t the first car of its kind to pack a hybrid powertrain into a carbon fiber shell, but I expect its existence will help make the tech more widespread across the BMW lineup. It isn’t boring to drive, and if nothing else, it will make any streetscape more interesting and draw the attention of just about everyone.
Yet as it stands, it feels like a rolling collection of compromises too easily excused by its looks and purported greenie credentials. It tries to be something revolutionary and new, yet bends over backwards to synthesize and simulate a conventional driving experience (the fake engine note here goes a few steps beyond the already-annoying “sound symposers”).
I would have more respect for the effort if it went all-in on electrification, even if the end result was a less-useable vehicle. It would have at least been truer to the forward-looking philosophy that seems to undergird the i-family concept.
But, as I said last time, the i8 has made me think more about the future of transportation -- both what I’d like to see and what don’t want to see on the roads of tomorrow -- and I have to give it credit for that.
--Graham Kozak, associate editor
Vehicle Model Information
BASE PRICE: $141,695
AS TESTED PRICE: $151,795
POWERTRAIN: 1.5-liter turbo I3, AC synchronous motor, RWD six-speed automatic
OUTPUT: 228 hp @ 5,800 rpm (gas) 129 hp (electric) 357 hp total; 236 lb-ft @ 3,700 rpm (gas) 184 lb-ft (electric) 420 lb-ft total
CURB WEIGHT: 3,455 lb
FUEL ECONOMY: 76 MPGe
OPTIONS: BMW laserlight ($6,000); Giga World package with 20-inch BMW light alloy wheels ($2,000); crystal white ($1,800)
PROS: Looks like a supercar but gets great gas mileage
CONS: If you really wanted to be green, there are more efficient options
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India win the Border-Gavaskar trophy
India create history in Nagpur, as they bring home the Border-Gavaskar Trophy
The nation revelled today (Nov 10), as India, under the captaincy of MS Dhoni, created history by registering a 172 run victory in the fourth and final Test at Nagpur against world champions Australia, to bring home the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 2-0 series win. India now lead the overal series wins by 4-3 in the last decade.
This historic Test also saw the end of one the most celebrated Indian cricketers career — Sourav Ganguly. The classically elegant Ganguly had announced that he will play his last Test in this Orange City before hanging up his boots.
Earlier, set the daunting task of scoring an imposing 382 to win the fourth and final Test against India, Australia were tottering at 111 for three wickets at lunch on the fifth and final day in Nagpur today.
As play resumed post lunch India continued to inch closer to victory with their spinners bringing about the dismissal of the dangerous Michael Hussey and Matthew Hayden. Soon, the Australian wicketkeeper too fell prey to the spin web wound by India as he fell prey to Amit Mishra having been caught by Sachin Tendulkar at mid-on.
This catch has given the Master Blaster another berth in the record books, as he claims his 100th Test catch. The batting maestro, who holds several batting records in Tests and ODIs, reached the milestone in his 154th Test to follow compatriots Rahul Dravid (179), Sunil Gavaskar (108), VVS Laxman and Mohd Azharuddin (105) into the record book. The world record for the most number of catches in a Test career, 181 in 128 matches, stands in the name of Mark Waugh of Australia.
Soon, Shane Watson too fell prey to the the 300 wicket taker Harbhajan Singh for nine runs. In no time, leg spinner Amit Mishra got rid of ten wicket hauler on debut Jason Krejza and Brett Lee.
Mitchel Johnson and Cameroon White looked to consolidate and defend towards the end of the innings, however, failed to save the Test as Bhajji claimed the last wicket of Johnson.
Brief scores: India: 441 and 295
Australia 355 and 209 (Matthew Hayden 77; Amit Mishra 4/64, Harbhajan Singh 3/27)
Earlier, the batsmen out in the visitors’ second innings, after they had commenced at the overnight 13 for no loss, were first innings centurion Simon Katich (16), captain Ricky Ponting (8) and his deputy Michael Clarke (22), promoted up the order in quest for quick runs despite being unwell.
Ishant Sharma, India’s most successful bowler of the four-Test rubber, was easily the pick of the attack this morning and accounted for Katich and Clarke, while Ponting was run out through a brilliant piece of fielding and throwing by Amit Mishra.
The home team should have ended the session with more Australian wickets in their clutch but for a few dropped catches and a few edges that eluded the slip cordon.
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BCCI felicitates ‘Fab Four’
VVS Laxman, Anil Kumble, Sourav Ganguly, and Sachin Tendulkar during a felicitation
Former captains Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly reposed faith in Mahendra Singh Dhoni and expressed hopes that under him, India would emerge as the number one team in the world.
“I know for the fact that this team under MS and (coach) Gary (Kirsten) will soon become the number one team. We have that talent,” an optimist Kumble said after he, along with Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman were felicitated by the BCCI.
Ganguly, India’s most successful captain ever, shared Kumble’s view and said, “MS and Gary are our two torch-bearers and I hope they would take Indian cricket forward.”
Ganguly, who is playing his last Test here, took the occasion to thank all and said though he didn’t endear to all, he always had the team interest in mind.
“It was a long journey with lots of ups and downs, victory and loss but it was wonderful. Sharing the dressing room with the likes of Anil, Sachin, Rahul (Dravid) and Laxman has been an honour and privilege.
“During the journey, I made both friends and enemies but it was all for the good of Indian cricket,” said the left-hander.
Kumble individually thanked almost each and every teammate even though Tendulkar came in for special praise. “When he first came into the international scene, whole India said ‘you’d break every batting record’ and he had the talents to prove all right…
“With Rahul, I have shared a special bond, he was my Karnataka teammate as well. We have had some fantastic moments and I say ‘you have been the backbone of Indian cricket. All the success we had came because of your contribution’,” Kumble said.
Kumble was equally effusive in his praise for Ganguly and said, “Under you, we’ve learnt how to win Tests abroad. Besides, we have always cherished your batting.”
On Laxman, who is playing his 100th Test here, Kumble felt the right hander didn’t get his dues despite bailing out the team from difficult situations.
For his spin partner Harbhajan Singh, Kumble said, “I will miss bowling with you from the other end. From now onwards, you’d lead the (spin) attack. You are close to a personal landmark (of 300 Test wickets) and I’m sure one day you’ll become the highest wicket-taker for India.”
On Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan, Kumble said, “I have played lot with both Veeru and Zak. Veeru is a very special talent and both he and Zak would lead the Indian batting and bowling.
“To all other members of the team, I wish you a great career ahead. Before this Test series against Australia, we sat and decided in Bangalore that we have to win this series. We are very close to that and I hope you guys will win it.”
Talking about Kumble and Ganguly, Tendulkar paid a rich tribute to both and said, “Sourav had lots of ups and downs in his career but has shown great determination and delivered tremendous performance. We’ve opened in lot of ODIs and know each other’s game very well.
“Anil too showed 100 percent determination. He broke his jaw in West Indies but returned with a plastered jaw and removed Brian Lara,” Tendulkar said.
“We’ll miss Sourav and Anil, as will the entire country,” he added.
November 7, 2008 Posted by Bala | Cricket, General, Sports | 300, Anil, Anil Kumble, Attack, Australia, Bangalore, Batting, BCCI, Bengal Tiger, Bhajji, Board of Control for Cricket in India, Bowling, Brian, Brian Lara, Captain, Captains, Coach, Cricket, Dada, Dhoni, Downs, Enemies, Fab, Fab 4, Fab Four, Fabulous, Felicitate, Felicitates, Felicitation, Fielding, Former, Four, Friends, Ganguly, Gary, Gary Kirsten, Harbhajan, Harbhajan Singh, Honour, India, Indian, Jaw, Journey, Jumbo, Karnataka, Keeping, Khan, Kirsten, Kumble, Lara, Last, Laxman, Left-Hander, Little Master, Mahendra Singh, Master Blaster, Most, MS, MS Dhoni, Nagpur, Number One, Optimist, Plaster, Prince of Kolkata, Record, Sachin, Sachin Tendulkar, Sehwag, Singh, Sourav, Sourav Ganguly, Spin, Success, Successful, Teammate, Tendulkar, Test, The Wall, Turbanetor, Ups, Veeru, Virender, Virender Sehwag, Viru, VVS, VVS Laxman, West Indies, Wickets, Win, Winning, World, Zaheer, Zaheer Khan, Zak | Leave a comment
Tendulkar ton, poor fielding deny Aussies the edge
There couldn’t have been more perfect a beginning to international cricket at the VCA Jamtha Stadium here. Sourav Ganguly’s farewell and VVS Laxman’s 100th Test had already built up the stakes, before Sachin Tendulkar made it consummate with a magnificent 40th Test hundred.
India closed the opening day of the fourth and final Test against Australia on 311-5 with the retiring Sourav Ganguly batting on 27 and captain MS Dhoni four not out, after Dhoni’s decision to bat first on a batting paradise nearly backfired. But Laxman’s calm 64 and Tendulkar’s classy 109 steadied India with their 146-run fifth wicket stand before both fell in the final session of play.
A freak two-wicket burst from debutant Jason Krejza before lunch after being hammered around the park was not enough to slow down Tendulkar, whose latest milestone became his 10th century against the Australians.
The Australians have a reputation of giving it back to their opponents on the field. Michael Clarke was helped on to his century in the previous Test in Delhi by three dropped chances. Australia returned the favour to Tendulkar through Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee, who grassed sitters when the batsman was on 85 and 96 respectively.
Australia seemed to have lost the initiative as getting rid of Tendulkar on the back of Laxman’s wicket would have put on added pressure. However, Johnson’s strike towards the end of day’s play still keeps the game intriguingly poised.
It could have been worse for the Australians had a belligerent Virender Sehwag not thrown away his wicket for 66. The opener tore into Lee and Johnson, who went for five runs an over in their respective opening spells, which also gave a significant boost to debutant Murali Vijay at the other end.
November 6, 2008 Posted by Bala | Cricket, General, Sports | 100, 100th Test, 40, Aussies, Australia, Australian, Australians, Batting, Bowling, Brett, Brett Lee, Captain, Century, Clarke, Debut, Debutant, Delhi, Dhoni, Farewell, Fielding, Ganguly, Hundred, India, Indian, Indians, Jamtha, Jason, Jason Krejza, Johnson, Krejza, Laxman, Lee, Lunch, M Vijay, Mahendra, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Michael, Michael Clarke, Mitchell, Mitchell Johnson, MS Dhoni, Murali, Murali Vijay, Nagpur, New, New Delhi, Poor, Retirement, Sachin, Sachin Tendulkar, Sehwag, Singh, Skipper, Sourav, Sourav Ganguly, Stadium, Tea, Tendulkar, Test, Ton, VCA, VCA Jamtha Stadium, Vijay, Virender, Virender Sehwag, VVS, VVS Laxman, Wicket | Leave a comment
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Former Team India captain Sourav Ganguly today assured West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of arranging Rs 50-60 lakh for relief to the Aila-affected people.
Ganguly went to the Writers’ Buildings and called on the Chief Minister to express his sympathy with the cyclone-hit people of the state.
After emerging out of the Chief Minister’s chamber, Ganguly told reporters that he assured him of arranging Rs 50-60 lakh for the cyclone-affected people.
He said he would contribute the money after returning from England.
He informed he would fly to London on June 05, 2009 to witness ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Ganguly had been assigned by the ESPN STAR Sports to give expert comment for two semifinals and the final match.
In reply to a question, he said he had apprised of a disputed matter to the Chief Minister regarding his proposed school at Salt Lake in the city.
The residents of CA and DA blocks of Salt Lake have been opposing construction of an English medium school on a 60-cottah land.
They said already there are two institutions Salt Lake School and Haryana Vidyamandir and the proposed six-storeyed third school- Wiffren International School of Ganguly- would cause environmental hazards and create noise pollution as the area is very congested.
Ganguly hoped the dispute would be resoved amicably.
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Posted in ballet, dance, film, journalism by MiNA on December 31, 2017
12.27.17 Issue. Ballet in Cinema | Stage on Screen article by Mina Rios – page 12.
Ballet in Cinema | Stage on Screen by Mina Rios is now available on Marin County newspaper stands through Jan. 2, 2018.
The article discusses both the ballet in cinema phenomenon as well as the 2017/2018 Bolshoi Ballet and Royal Ballet seasons scheduled live via satellite – in cinemas across the world. (Link to article)
Due to space limitations in the printed article, certain quotes, facts, and photography did not appear in the 12.27.17 published piece. As such, the supplemental content can be viewed here. Read on….
Provided courtesy of the Bolshoi Ballet. “Romeo and Juliet” photo by Damir Yusupov.
The Bolshoi Ballet
Executive Director of the Lark Theater in Larkspur, Ellie Mednick confirms that Bolshoi Ballet in cinema attendance averages about 50 people. Though a fairly modest number for a 236 capacity theater – particularly when most operas sell out and live theater generates a three quarters full audience, comparatively – over the last three Bolshoi seasons, ballet attendance has increased. On an even brighter note, local ballet-students benefit with free tickets to help fill seats.
Provided courtesy of the Bolshoi Ballet. “Lady of the Camellias” photo by Elena Fetisova.
Provided courtesy of the Bolshoi Ballet. “Lady of the Camellias” photo by Damir Yusupov.
2018 Bolshoi Ballet performances at the Lark Theater
January 21 & 23: Romeo & Juliet
February 4: The Lady of the Camellias
March 4 & 6: The Flames of Paris
April 8 & 10: Giselle
June 10 & 12: Coppelia
Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur; 415/924-5111; larktheater.net.
THE WINTER’S TALE by Wheeldon, , choreography – Christopher Wheeldon, music – Joby Talbot, designs – Bob Crowley, The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, 2014, Credit: Johan Persson/www.perssonphotography.com
Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione and Edward Watson as Leontes in Act I of The Royal Ballet production of The Winters Tale, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, to music by Joby Talbot. Designs by Bob Crowley and lighting design by Natasha Katz. Performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 9 April 2014. ARPDATA ; THE WINTERS TALE ; Music by Joby Talbot ; Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon ; Lauren Cuthbertson (Hermione), Edward Watson (Leontes) ; Designs by Bob Crowley ; Lighting Design by Natasha Katz ; The Royal Ballet ; At the Royal Opera House, London, UK ; 9 April 2014 ; Credit: Johan Persson / Royal Opera House / ArenaPAL
Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione and Edward Watson as Leontesin Act III of The Royal Ballet production of The Winters Tale, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, to music by Joby Talbot. Designs by Bob Crowley and lighting design by Natasha Katz. Performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 9 April 2014. ARPDATA ; THE WINTERS TALE ; Music by Joby Talbot ; Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon ; Lauren Cuthbertson (Hermione), Edward Watson (Leontesin) ; Designs by Bob Crowley ; Lighting Design by Natasha Katz ; The Royal Ballet ; At the Royal Opera House, London, UK ; 9 April 2014 ; Credit: Johan Persson / Royal Opera House / ArenaPAL
Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione in Act I of The Royal Ballet production of The Winters Tale, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, to music by Joby Talbot. Designs by Bob Crowley and lighting design by Natasha Katz. Performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 9 April 2014. ARPDATA ; THE WINTERS TALE ; Music by Joby Talbot ; Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon ; Lauren Cuthbertson (Hermione) ; Designs by Bob Crowley ; Lighting Design by Natasha Katz ; The Royal Ballet ; At the Royal Opera House, London, UK ; 9 April 2014 ; Credit: Johan Persson / Royal Opera House / ArenaPAL
CEO of Trafalgar Releasing, Marc Allenby shares, “We regularly screen in over 60 countries. There is a dedicated core audience who buy into seeing the full season, in part motivated by the breadth of work and the curatorial balance provided by the Royal Ballet. In this current season the forthcoming Swan Lake will appeal to a wider audience and will perform on a par with the more commercial opera and theater shows in cinema. We have great respect for all organisations working in the ‘event cinema’ space and collectively are really pushing the boundaries in a virgin industry. Trafalgar Releasing are ambitious and committed to this space and expect to see more growth in 2018, we have just started setting up our US team to help develop the good work we have done here over the last 5 or so years and are exploring similar plans in other markets. As a distributor, Trafalgar Releasing is set up so we can be involved in a multitude of ways on a release… from financing, producing, marketing, physical distribution, cinema sales and box office reconciliation. We work very much in partnership with the team in Covent Garden to pool our expertise to achieve the best results.”
Head of Marketing and Enterprises at the Royal Ballet, Jeff Coventry shares, “We are currently in our second season working with Trafalgar Releasing and are very happy with how things are progressing. Generally speaking, opera and ballet are equally popular, but this does fluctuate depending on the production. Revenue is an important but secondary objective, bringing a new revenue stream to the organisation over the past five years. Cinema sales are growing both nationally and internationally.”
2018 Royal Ballet performances at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
February 28: The Winter’s Tale
March 27: Bernstein program from Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon
May 3: Manon
June 12: Swan Lake
Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael; 415/454-1222; rafaelfilm.cafilm.org.
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Digitized Historical Belmont Newspapers
We are very pleased to announce that thanks to our Community Preservation Act Grant, our collection of local historical newspapers has now been digitized. This collection includes:
Belmont Bulletin Mar. 8, 1890 – Feb. 26, 1898
Belmont Tribune Nov.14, 1902 – Apr. 14, 1916
Belmont Courier Jan. 2, 1889 – Dec. 1, 1917
Belmont Patriot Jan. 5, 1918 – Dec. 28, 1918
Belmont Citizen Mar. 29, 1919 – Mar. 31, 1988
Belmont Herald Jan. 5, 1945 – April 1, 1988
Belmont Citizen Herald April 7, 1988 – 2015
From within the library, you may access our entire collection of Historical Belmont Newspapers, 1889-2015. From outside the library you may access Historical Belmont Newspapers, 1889-1962. View our online guide to Getting Started With Digitized Newspapers.
The library’s collection of historical newspapers is also still available on microfilm in the library. In microfilm, the Belmont Citizen Herald is available from April 7, 1988 to the current year, minus one.
More Digitized Collections
Thanks to our membership in the Digital Commonwealth, the Massachusetts hub of the Digital Public Library of America, we are able to have selected portions of the library’s historical collection digitized.
Belmont Residents Lists from 1911-2009 are available in the Internet Archive. Note that Residents Lists for some years were missing, or deemed too fragile to digitize. If you wish to view a year that is not digitized, please call the Belmont Historical Society at 617-489-2000 ext. 2878 to determine if a print copy is available in the Claflin Room.
Belmont High School Yearbooks from 1922 to 2016 can be viewed in the Internet Archive. Note that most, but not all years, were available to be digitized. Print copies of BHS yearbooks are held in the Claflin room.
Claflin Room
The Claflin Room, (formerly the Belmont Room), houses important items of local history. The Belmont Historical Society oversees the care and maintenance of the room, and has volunteers who open the room to the public during the hours noted on their website. The Belmont Historical Society can be reached at [email protected] or by phone, 617-489-2000 ext.2878.
Obituary Research in Belmont
Find the date on which an obituary appeared in the Belmont Herald, using our Belmont Herald Obituary Index, January 1, 1945 – April 1, 1988.
Obituary Index, Organized by “Known as” Name
Obituary Index, Organized by “Former” or “Maiden” Name
The dates indexed begin with January 1, 1945, the first issue of The Belmont Herald newspaper, and end with April 1, 1988, the last issue before it merged with The Belmont Citizen newspaper. You can search for the actual obituary using our digitized newspaper collection, or the microfilm collection at the library.
Please ask a member of our Reference team (617-993-2870 or Ask a Librarian) if you would like help searching the Obituary Index. If you do not find the name you are looking for in the Belmont Herald Index, see Vital Records below.
The Belmont Library thanks the many library volunteers who spent hours scrolling through reels of microfilm looking at pages of newspapers for death notices. The project began in 2007 and ended in 2015.
Vital Records (Births, Deaths, & Marriages)
Belmont Town Clerk
The Town Clerk’s Office keeps records of births if the parents were Belmont residents, deaths of Belmont residents, and marriages if they filed their intentions in Belmont. Staff will give simple information over the phone; or a certified document ($20.00) must be requested in writing. These records will give a date of death which helps pinpoint in which issue of the Belmont Herald or Belmont Citizen to look for an obituary.
Ellen O’Brien Cushman, Town Clerk
455 Concord Avenue
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Telephone: 617-993-2600; FAX: 617-993-2601
Visit the Belmont Town Clerk’s Website for more information.
Cemeteries in Belmont
The Belmont Cemetery and Highland Meadow Cemetery (Dedicated October 20, 2007) are the two cemeteries in Belmont. The Belmont Cemetery is located at the intersection of Grove Street and Huron Avenue. Highland Meadow Cemetery is located at 700 Concord Avenue. Going up Concord Avenue from the Police Station/Town Hall, the cemetery land begins on your left. The entrance is opposite Somerset Street.
Cemetery records are kept by the Cemetery division of the Department of Public Works. Staff will give burial information over the phone. There is a fee for written genealogical requests – $10.00 (up to 5 people).
Belmont Cemetery Division
Hours: Monday – Friday; 7:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Visit the Town’s Parks and Cemetery Division Website for more information.
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
The Vital Records to 1850 series was compiled and published in the early 20th century for many municipalities in Massachusetts. These volumes include birth, marriage, and death information and are transcribed from town and church records, cemeteries, and private sources.
Oral History Recordings
The Belmont Story Project (BSP) is a local, oral-history recording project, modeled after NPR’s StoryCorps. BSP encourages Belmont resident’s to share their stories, preserving them for future generations. To find out more, or schedule an appointment, contact Nancy McColm at 617-993-2870.
Listen to BSP Recordings
The Belmont Story Project is a collaboration of the Belmont Council on Aging, Belmont Historical Society, Belmont Media Center, the Belmont Citizen-Herald, and the Belmont Public Library.
More Local History
Titles by Belmont authors
Books about the history of Belmont
Belmont, the Town of Farms, a slideshow created and narrated by Jane Sherwin for One Book, One Belmont 2009. July, 2009.
For assistance with local history questions, contact Nancy McColm at [email protected] or 617-993-2870.
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Snoop Lion performs in Denver 4/19
Posted in assignment work, Bellingham editorial photographer, Bellingham visual journalist, editorial work, news, portraits, Seattle editorial photographer, Seattle environmental portraits, seattle medical marijuana photos, Seattle news photographer, Seattle photojournalist, Seattle visual journalist, washington state medical marijuana by bermanphotos on April 20, 2013
I got into Denver at 10:30am Friday after leaving my house at well before 5 a.m. Seattle time to cover 4/20 weekend in the Mile-High City for Northwest Leaf. One crazy event I never thought I would get to shoot would be a smoker’s VIP party featuring none other than Snoop Lion. Making the event even more historic, the fact that Amendment 64 passed in Colorado, legalizing recreational use of marijuana. Washington state and Colorado are the first states to do so.
After a bit of back and forth to get the credentials squared away, I was lead into the beautiful Fillmore Auditorium. Soon, hundreds of medical Cannabis patients and recreational enthusiasts from across the country streamed in, having paid hundreds for access to the concert and film screening. They settled in and took a seat to watch Snoop’s new documentary, Reincarnated. The film explores Jamaica, rasta and Snoop’s work to make an authentic reggae album, and was pretty entertaining, from the glimpses I caught during the evening. Many of the attendees were smoking pot, passing joints and blunts from row to row. Sharing is caring.
Snoop Lion performs at The Fillmore Auditorium Friday April 19 in Denver to kick off 4/20 weekend celebrations at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup. High Times gave Snoop Lion a lifetime achievement award during the raucous, smoke-filled evening.
Bryan Stoutenberg and Caiti Beckwith of Ann Arbor, MI smoke up before Snoop Lion performs at The Fillmore Auditorium Friday April 19 in Denver to kick off 4/20 weekend celebrations at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup. High Times gave Snoop Lion a lifetime achievement award during the raucous, smoke-filled evening.
Snoop Lion performs at The Fillmore Auditorium Friday April 19 in Denver to kick off 4/20 weekend celebrations at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup. High Times gave Snoop Lion a lifetime achievement award during the raucous, smoke-filled evening. “Your state legislators deserve a street named after them for legalizing marijuana,” Snoop told the crowd.
High Times gave Snoop Lion a lifetime achievement award during the raucous, smoke-filled evening, and he wasted little time smoking from his trophy.
With two blunts in-hand, Snoop Lion picks up a Cannabis-infused brownie thrown onto the stage. “How you about to throw something up here with a bite out of it?” he joked.
Bags of Cannabis, joints and blunts are seen after being thrown on stage as Snoop Lion performs at The Fillmore Auditorium Friday April 19 in Denver to kick off 4/20 weekend celebrations at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup. High Times gave Snoop Lion a lifetime achievement award during the raucous, smoke-filled evening.
Smoke fills The Fillmore Auditorium as Snoop Lion performs Friday April 19 in Denver to kick off 4/20 weekend celebrations at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup. High Times gave Snoop Lion a lifetime achievement award during the raucous, smoke-filled evening.
Balloons are dropped from the ceiling as the clock strikes midnight and 4/20 was officially welcomed.
Snoop Lion threw pre-rolled blunts into the crowd.
Ricky Powell from Omaha, Neb. watches as Snoop Lion performs at The Fillmore Auditorium Friday April 19 in Denver to kick off 4/20 weekend. “I feel like I’m a part of history right now,” Powell said.
As the clock struck midnight and 4/19 became 4/20 (the much-vaunted marijuana smoker’s holiday), a new year’s eve worthynumber of balloons fell from the ceiling and the party raged on. Today’s 50k+ strong celebrations in the shadow of the Colorado state Capitol should be even more interesting to cover.
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Home Alicia Silverstone 37 Hot Pictures Of Alicia Silverstone – The Forgotten Batgirl In Batman...
37 Hot Pictures Of Alicia Silverstone – The Forgotten Batgirl In Batman & Robin
Alicia Silverstone is one of the hottest women in Hollywood and she is also a very powerful activist. So, while we are talking about her performances and the actress as a whole, we want to now take you on a ride through an Alicia Silverstone photo gallery. This curated image gallery will showcase some of the sexiest Alicia Silverstone pictures that will make you fall in love with her.
The actress made her movie debut in The Crush and got the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. She also appeared in the music video, “Cryin'” and the actress had starred in Clueless and this had gotten her a huge deal with Columbia Pictures.
For her role in Miss Match, she had received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. The actress is a strict vegan and has endorsed PETA activities and is well-known for being an animal rights and environmental activist.
Silverstone had become a vegan in 1998 after she attended an animal rights meeting and said “I realized that I was the problem … I was an animal lover who was eating animals.”
She had then said that she struggled with childhood vegetarianism and said,”at eight years old it’s hard to stick to your guns – and so through the years I was always starting and stopping trying to be a vegetarian.” By the year, 2004, she had been voted as the “Sexiest Female Vegetarian” by PETA and in 2007, the actress had appeared nude in an advertisement and a 30-second commercial for PETA. In the year, 2016, she had posed nude in the group’s “I’d Rather Go Naked” antiwool ads.
The actress then established a sanctuary for all rescued pets in Los Angeles and by the year, 2012, she had written a letter to Vladimir Putin and asked that all vegan meals be made available to the Russian prisoners.
These sexy Alicia Silverstone photos will make you wonder how someone so beautiful could exist. Yes, she is a very sexy actress and Alicia Silverstone’s bra and breast size prove that she can carry off any dress in style. So, we have also gathered a few Alicia Silverstone bikini and swimsuit featuring Alicia Silverstone face and body pictures as well.
Apart from the mind-blowing images that will show you Alicia Silverstone Red carpet images, photos taken of Alicia Silverstone at the beach and those from her promotional and magazine shoots, we will also show you a few of Alicia Silverstone’s cutest pictures.
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The History of Surrealism
Maurice Nadeau
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989 - 351 pagina's
"I believe," André Breton said, "in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or surréalité." The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois rationalism, and inspired by Freudian exploration of the unconscious, has reverberated more widely and deeply than perhaps any other art movement in our century. Its automatism, biomorphic shapes, visionary mode, and manipulation of found objects mark the work of artists as different as Ernst, Miró, Magritte, and Dali.
Maurice Nadeau's History of Surrealism, first published in French in 1944 and in English in 1965, has become a classic. It is both lucid and authoritative--by far the best overall account of this complex movement. Nadeau traces the evolution of Surrealism, bringing to life its many internal debates about politics and art. He relates the movement to its intellectual and artistic environment. And he provides the statements and manifestos of Breton, Aragon, Tzara, and others.
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foreword Maurice Nadeau
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Richard Howard was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 13, 1929. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1951 and studied at the Sorbonne as a Fellow of the French Government in 1952-1953. He briefly worked as a lexicographer, but soon turned his attention to poetry and poetic criticism. His works include Trappings: New Poems; Like Most Revelations: New Poems; Selected Poems; No Traveler; Findings; Alone with America; and Quantities. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1969 for Untitled Subjects. He is also a translator and published more than 150 translations from the French. He received the PEN Translation Prize in 1976 for his translation of E. M. Cioran's A Short History of Decay and the American Book Award for his 1983 translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. In 1982, he was named a Chevalier of L'Ordre National du Mérite by the government of France. He teaches in the Writing Division of the School of the Arts, Columbia University.
Roger Shattuck taught for many years at Boston University and now resides in Vermont. He is the author, most recently, of "Candor & Perversion".
Titel The History of Surrealism
Paperbacks in AA History Series
Auteur Maurice Nadeau
vertaald door Richard Howard
Bijdrager Roger Shattuck
Editie geïllustreerd, herdruk
Uitgever Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989
Oorspronkelijk uit de University of Virginia
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The sequel to the massive hit Jurassic World promised epic adventure and dinos in danger. So we brought the action to life across media touchpoints – from multiple key art finishes to a hands-on social campaign that filled feeds with original content to an “Adopt-a-Dino” in-world microsite to the banner campaign. The result? We’re proud to have been part of an opening weekend that exceeded $150M+, netting the second largest opening in the history of Universal.
Our key art took over wallscapes, conveying not only larger-than-life action but that Jurassic has evolved: the park is closed, the dinos are loose, and the threat is close enough to touch.
Classic JW elements and a talent shoot inspired over 120 pieces to feed dino fever. Community management amplified big media hits while serving as the studio’s frontline responder.
We invited fans to Adopt-a-Dino and share a Certificate of Adoption, gave cover photos the “dino treatment” across NBCUniversal properties, and produced the digital ad campaign.
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6 Key Skills You Need to Build a Career in the Cloud: Part 1
By Kevin Casey • Jun. 8th, 2015 • Technology Industry
careers, cloud computing, Google Cloud, training
We recently shared advice on becoming a cloud computing leader within your company (See 4 Steps to Becoming a Cloud Leader in Your Company.) Now we’re focusing on what it takes to build a cloud-first career. The idea is to make yourself invaluable to the growing numbers of organizations where cloud computing is becoming the default mode of operations. These firms need bona fide expertise to get the best business results out of their strategic technology investments in public, private, and hybrid cloud approaches.
Critically, a successful cloud career requires not just a technical background, but also the right mix of business skills, as noted in a recent TechTarget report. And while there’s not just one successful cloud career path, the six key skill categories outlined here will likely define the successful modern cloud pro—a person who’s going to be highly sought after for the foreseeable future.
We want to examine each of these skills in some depth, so we’ve split this post into two parts. In this Part One, we’ll look at the key technology-oriented aspects, including technologies and platforms, integration and multi-cloud issues, and training and certifications. In Part Two, we’ll address the more business-focused skills.
1. Technologies and platforms
Seasoned IT pros don’t need to abandon their prior experience to prep for a cloud career, but you’ll need to add some new skills. For instance, you’ll be hard-pressed to get anywhere without developing expertise in at least one of the public cloud behemoths, namely Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
Should you focus on one vendor or build multi-platform experience? The latter approach will make you more versatile on the job market, though picking one to start with isn’t a bad idea. Amazon’s popularity and explosive growth make it a sensible first choice, though TechTarget contributor David Linthicum noted that both Microsoft and Google have shown more robust growth rates in the past year. There’s been a corresponding increase in related job openings as well, and that trend may be bolstered by the ongoing cloud price wars spurring enterprises to consider a multi-cloud approach. Of course, those aren’t the only cloud platforms in town, with IBM, HP, Verizon, Rackspace, and CenturyLink also generating employment demand.
Don’t lose sight of OpenStack, either—there’s a lack of qualified talent for this open source cloud option, according to 451 Research, and that’s driving up labor costs (read: your potential salary).
Containerization is increasingly a must-have, especially for developers building and running applications in the cloud. Docker has become the go-to option, though there are plenty of alternatives worth keeping an eye on. As Docker adoption grows, so will demand for cloud pros experienced with it.
Automation software is another technology category gaining steam in cloud-first environments, especially those that have adopted DevOps, according to InformationWeek. This includes tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and others, and as their usage grows, so does employer demand for people who know their way around these platforms. Hiring interest in Puppet’s automation and configuration management suite jumped 67% from January 2014 to January 2015 on tech jobs site Dice, for example.
2. Integration and multi-cloud environments
“Cloud” means different things to different audiences. Too often it’s used as an umbrella term for anything and everything delivered online, from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and more. But this terminology confusion reflects a real trend: Organizations will increasingly have to manage a mix of cloud services and vendors, as well as cloud types (public, private, and hybrid). Part of the task of the cloud pro, then, is to help efficiently manage multi-cloud environments.
Integration of data across applications—often acquired from different vendors and platforms or residing in different data centers—is a big deal in the cloud. It gets even more complicated when you want your cloud systems to talk to your legacy systems, too. But before you begin kicking the tires on potential integration tools, an important fundamental for future cloud architects and other cloud-first professionals is to include integration as a first step. Scrambling to address integration after the fact is like building a house and adding the wiring and plumbing after you’ve already put in the flooring and walls.
In a strategy piece for TechTarget, CIMI Corporation’s Tom Nolle points to workflow analysis as an essential skill in successful cloud integration. The site also offers a useful series on the subject of cloud integration:
What developers need to know about cloud app integration
Why SaaS application integration requires new strategies, tools
Integration tools that bridge the mobile DevOps gap
Don’t let application integration stand in the way of SaaS adoption
3. Trainings and certifications
Industry and vendor certifications have long been an essential part of IT resumes. And now cloud computing has hopped on the certification bandwagon. Major vendors like Amazon and Microsoft run various training and credentialing programs, and industry association CompTIA offers the Cloud+ certification. Tom’s IT Pro checks in with its own list of the best cloud certifications for 2015.
Aspiring cloud professionals should remember that certifications alone won’t ensure your career success. In fact, Mark Broderick, IT applications director at Eliassen Group, tells us that when it comes to helping your organization develop the right cloud strategy, “traditional training and the accumulation of certifications are not always the best predictors for a successful outcome.”
That’s not to say certifications aren’t useful. They advertise particular skills and interests to employers; if you want to focus on, say, Microsoft Azure cloud environments, getting a Microsoft Specialist certification in Azure can only help. But it makes sense to treat certifications as a complementary piece of your career foundation.
In his TechTarget piece, David Linthicum points out a clear reason why: the pace of change in cloud computing makes it difficult for even the best certifications to stay current. So while employers may increasingly include them in their job descriptions, self-motivated, do-it-yourself cloud pros will retain an edge: “Those cloud experts who have a consistent motivation to learn and keep up with the rapid changes typically do better, and therefore make more money,” Linthicum writes.
Be sure to also read 6 Key Skills You Need to Build a Career in the Cloud: Part 2
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Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible design
Just minutes ago, at the ATypI conference in Warsaw, the world was introduced to a new kind of font: a variable font. Jointly developed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe, a variable font is, as John Hudson put it, “a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts”. Imagine a single font file gaining an infinite flexibility of weight, width, and other attributes without also gaining file size — and imagine what this means for design.
Imagine condensing or extending glyph widths ever so slightly, to accommodate narrow and wide viewports. Imagine raising your favorite font’s x-height just a touch at small sizes. Imagine sharpening or rounding your brand typeface in ways its type designer intended, for the purposes of art direction. Imagine shortening descenders imperceptibly so that headings can be set nice and tight without letters crashing into one another. Imagine this all happening live on the web, as a natural part of responsive design.
A responsive lettering example, courtesy of Erik van Blokland. This shows one kind of flexibility that variable fonts will enable.
To facilitate just such advancements, people from our four companies (along with notable independent contributors) have been collaborating for more than half a year on a significant improvement to the OpenType font file specification that now includes a new technology: OpenType Font Variations, which allows type designers to interpolate a font’s entire glyph set or individual glyphs along up to 64,000 axes of variation (weight, width, etc.), and define specific positions in the design space as named instances (“Bold”, “Condensed”, etc.). Get a technical overview and a complete introduction by watching this video of the announcement at ATypI or reading our joint announcement on Medium, penned by John Hudson:
While earlier font interpolation technologies emerged from the font format wars of the early 1990s, and were developed and championed by individual, competing software companies, OpenType variable fonts are the product of a new collegiality aimed not only at defining a common standard but also interoperable implementations.
Variable fonts are real, but there’s work to do
Given this high-profile collaboration, it seems as if the whole world is moving in unison toward our future with variable fonts. But it’s going to take some time – and a lot of effort – before this new kind of font becomes something people can design with and readers can read.
We need fonts. Type designers need to make and offer variable fonts. To encourage this, our multi-company working group sweated every detail of the new OpenType specification, and built tools to help convert existing type families into variable font files. Our own David Lemon demonstrated this conversion as part of the variable fonts announcement at ATypI, and representatives from all four companies are at ATypI this week to talk with type designers.
Type designers, at least the ones I have spoken with, are all too ready for variable fonts. Adobe’s early efforts to define the multiple master font format may not have gained traction in the 1990s (it was way ahead of its time), but it certainly influenced type design tools and workflows. The hard part now will be licensing. Nobody knows yet how to handle the business aspects of variable fonts. But we’ve been there before, with web fonts. We’ll find a good solution.
We need rendering engines that can show the fonts. For fonts to actually show up anywhere, software behind the scenes called a rendering engine has to make typesetting and rasterization calculations. Rendering engines are incredibly complex. They also take a long time to develop and test. But people who work on rendering engines are in this working group, and collaborating. This is very promising.
We need browsers and design software to support the rendering engines. It’s great if variable fonts can technically be rendered, but it won’t matter unless our favorite software chooses to use the appropriate rendering engine. That can take quite a while — it took quite a while for web browsers to go from GDI to DirectWrite on Windows. But we got there! Look at it this way: our working group includes people whose companies make the Chrome, Safari, and Edge web browsers, as well as the world’s most popular design software.
We need ways for people to design with these new fonts. If we’re going to use them on the web, we need to define the appropriate properties and values as part of the CSS standard. Our working group has begun this effort, and you’ll be happy to know that Typekit’s own Bram Stein is involved.
And if design tools are going to help us make flexible typographic decisions, we’ll need to articulate those decisions and know how they relate to one another. Flexible design is complicated. I am personally working with the Typekit team, other teams at Adobe, our external integration partners, and you (yes, you!) to better understand that complexity so we can build appropriate tools.
And, we need you. Join us in raising a glass to today’s announcement, and our dedicated working group. Follow the discussion at TypeDrawers. We’ll certainly be talking more, as here at Typekit we work to help people make, find, get, and use variable fonts. If you have any questions for us, please ask. We would love to talk with you.
Update: As of September 23, this post has been translated into Japanese. Read the Japanese translation here.
This is fantastic. I don’t even know how many times I haven’t used a typeface because it didn’t have the weight I needed. Being able to adjust certain key elements of a typeface would be groundbreaking. I know at least two major browsers that auto-upgrade—maybe the adoption rate will be a little faster now.
Would these additional features be accessible via JavaScript? I’m reaching the limits of my technical knowledge here, but I was wondering if a polyfill could make these features available, in the event that browsers support them before CSS does.
Thomas Phinney says:
CSS already supports weight and width declarations, which will be the two most common variation axes (as we know from previous generations of MM and GX fonts doing the same things). More needs to be done, but we saw a demo of using CSS weight and width to get at font variations in shipping Chrome and Edge browsers on the latest Windows 10, today. I *think* that was shipping browser versions, but even if not, the CSS part used existing CSS.
CSS will need to be extended to get at the full range of potential values, it’s a bit too much piecewise now. And it will need a way to get at arbitrary axes, too.
Mike Mitchell (@Mitchell_Mike) says:
This is just super cool. I know OTFV isn’t ready yet, but it certainly seems it’ll be *very* useful and convenient when it is. Nice job, folks!
George Thomas says:
Since the days of Incubator Pro and its single-master interpolation capabilities in the early 90s I have wished for modern software that could do the same — and now it is here! Many thanks to all the people and companies involved in upgrading our tools.
cdickman says:
As the Marquis de Sade once said, “Those who define are the masters.” Sounds promising unless this turns out to be a landgrab by Adobe. Where’s Quark in all this, for example? Not invited to the party?
Quark is not part of any font technology group; they are an implementer. Adobe is there because they are and always have been part of font technology. Adobe also happens to be in another group that Quark is in, at the application implementation level. It really is that simple; Quark is not being ignored.
Michael W. Perry says:
A marvelous idea—to which I’d suggest a feature I didn’t see mentioned, although it may be in the specs.
Make these font variations easily shareable. Not all of us are font wizards. We’d love to be able to benefit from the talents of the more gifted. It’d be great to not only pick one of these variable fonts, but to have sets of expertly done tweaks to select from. Their very complexity and power means many of us will find them overwhelming and intimidating. What we don’t understand, we may not use.
Creating sharable variations would also make it easier to to add these new fonts to applications such as InDesign. Users would choose a variable font and then a named set of adjustments for it.
Your last sentence is the key and from what I’ve been reading I think that is the way it works. If all users have the base font then instances can be shared.
Variable Fonts allow for the type designer to select the pre-defined “instances” of the variable font, that would work like a traditional (if possibly large) font family. So the average user sees those instances and can use them. More advanced users can dial in their own preferred styles from anywhere in the range allowed by the font.
typepressinkpaper says:
i like the carl dair’s typographic quest #1 used at the top of the page. i fondly remember adobe MM fonts and look forward to creating and using variable fonts.
loooodmiua says:
format invented by people who don’t understand type design….
Erik van Blokland says:
How is the format not understanding type design?
On the contrary, the format was invented by people with a *very* deep understanding of type design, as well as font technology. If you watch the video of the announcement you will get many glimpses of the depth of that understanding, with things like glyph morphology changes with changing weight.
Most sophisticated, large type families today are designed using this technology under the hood, and then because of the limitations of current font formats, are “flattened” into a bunch of predefined styles because that’s all that operating systems could support. Do you think that typefaces like Minion and Myriad, and the offerings of Font Bureau, Hoefler & Co, Frere-Jones and Commercial Type are unsophisticated?
George Gu says:
Do you have MMF of CJK? If you have it, I want to see it. Thanks!
Pascal Sommer says:
The next big step after this will be to have two or three of these variable fonts installed on every system. This will give the designers the freedom to have a unique look to the typography on their site without the user having to download a sibgle font along with the site.
Hi Thomas, Does the OpenType Version 1.8 have CJK fonts and see the samples? If you know it, please let me know it. Thanks for your time.
CV Radhakrishnan says:
Is it not similar to Hz micro-typographic extensions that The-Thanh Han introduced in pdfTeX almost a decade ago? Hz extension provides a feature to dynamically thicken or thin glyphs at microlevel during runtime. This provides the user the ability to save lines nicely from unwanted hyphenations, looseness and tightness without compromising typographically.
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjA6o_hp5HPAhUU_GMKHRdwAMEQFggfMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftug.org%2FTUGboat%2Ftb25-1%2Fthanh.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHw9_ULqBPAFHfx3oJ4AiaRH3gKsA&sig2=2hwGltyNrzoRLjehKz7djA
Pedro Marques 🙃 (@pmarquees) says:
Do you plan on making the engine and process entirely opensource?
Sascha Brawer says:
Yes, there’s already some open-source code. Adobe has contributed changes to the FreeType rasterizer. Currently they’re in a separate branch called “OpenType-1.8”, but this will flow into the master branch. Likewise, there’s a branch of the HarfBuzz shaping library with the needed changes; again, they’ll get integrated into the mainline. Here’s a demo app that pulls all of this together: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview
Karl Kaufmann says:
This is indeed exciting. As mentioned in the article, looks like a new riff on the multiple master format. Sad that never gained traction in the 1990s, but the use case is even more compelling for fluid Web designs, not to mention helping give a more consistent experience in mobile app design across multiple device formats.
dblatner says:
I’m glad Multiple Master fonts was mentioned, as this is remarkably similar to that technology from the mid-90s. But I am worried that many of the same reasons that MM failed (as well as the Panose numbering system) will play out again in this century, including:
a) too much choice can cause more frustration rather than less;
b) it’s hard to create consistency throughout a publication;
c) it’s very difficult to spec the type (“no, I told you to use Helvetica 105cba7, not Helvetica 105a9e!”)
d) it’s hard to create a good UI, so only the hard-core font geeks get around to using it
e) it’s hard to convince software companies to include a technology that only font-lovers see the value of (look how long it has taken for even some basic OpenType formatting to catch on)
f) it’s hard to design these fonts, so there end up not being very many of them.
I’m very excited to read about this reintroduction of what is essentially MM fonts, because I LOVED that technology. But it’s hard to think about without feeling a little sting of remembered pain from MM’s death two decades ago.
Although almost all your concerns are reasonable, a number of other issues that I saw as the biggest problems for both MM and GX Variations look to be resolved this time around: support across operating systems and apps, for one. Also, the many dozens of families designed using these technologies can now be released with this enhanced flexibility.
I also note that predefined instances can use nice friendly names, and the infrastructure is being put in place so that custom instances will still not be as cryptically named as MM instances were.
kristian Rasmussen says:
with all due respect:
Apple has done a great job of foreseeing these problems with the San Fransisco typeface.
With that being said, Frutiger’s idea of numbering weights etc. still seem prophetic 🙂
Lorraine Leber says:
This is VERY exciting—I too loved the flexibility of MM fonts, and mourned their passing. The involvement of all the ‘big boys’ in the development of Variable Fonts and their clear usefulness in the world of screen typography makes me hopeful that Variable Fonts will thrive.
bust says:
Try this : https://www.prototypo.io/ . Really cool!
Yannick says:
Thank you Bust!
Here the demo we showed at ATypI 2016 during our talk: https://lab.prototypo.io/smartFont
(Chrome and Firefox only)
Mark Henshaw says:
The technology is very cool; but I’ll be interested to see how it affects prices. Font foundries make good money by selling font variations a la carte, which is usually more expensive than just buying the entire font family. But this technology would seem to eliminate that pricing model, since the technology essentially packs all possible variations for a font into a single file–no more selling variations a la carte.
Will we have to pay the full “font family” price for each “variable font” regardless of how many variations of that font we actually need?
Brandon Buerkle says:
I can imagine the OTFV file being sold as an inexpensive “family bundle” as Thomas mentions, but then foundries can still make instances of specific nodes on the axes and sell them as stand alone OTFs, as is currently done. Best of both worlds. Then after OTFV catches on a bit more, the sales will end and this more powerful, versatile format will be the premium priced option, with the static instances remaining as lower price options.
Pricing is up to each foundry, but it seems likely that foundries will price these new fonts a bit less than a full family of single fonts to encourage purchasing the all-in-one variable fonts.
With new releases this would be a “safe” option if there is no way to buy separate single-master fonts for the same family. People would only be able to buy the whole family, but it will be a bit cheaper.
That’s just me speculation, of course. Each foundry will do as they think best, and the optimal pricing might be different depending on whether the separate single-master fonts are also available for the same family.
Something else that would be great would be a lot more control over how underlined text is shown on the web. We need some CSS rules for controlling the thickness and space for underlined text. The current controls are very limited.
John Cowan says:
How is this different from good old MetaFont by Donald Knuth?
peterbruells says:
I looks as if the general idea is the same, but as far as I remember MetaFont, it was mostly concerned with size changes and creating the best possible rendering for a given size and type of printing technology to be used.
Johan Palme says:
MetaFont describes the entire font in terms of mathematical operations. This is still a traditional drawn outline of a font, it’s just modified using mathematical operations.
TomW says:
If this font standard prevails, then everyone with the know-how to design a custom font will be in direct competition with every other font designer, until their products are only slightly distinguished from one another.. The intense competition between near-identical fonts will limit profits in the font-designing business to the short run — i.e., weeks or months until competitors can react, after a new font proves popular with users.
Once profits have been competed away, the next opportunity for a font engineer will be to develop an app that gives direct control of font features to users themselves. After that, the next iteration might be an AI assistant that suggests fonts and font modifications to suit the intended objectives of the user: to persuade the expected reader. .
By the way, my “Synesthesia” font assigns colors to dominant consonants in subject nouns and object nouns. Fonts for verbs have slightly more weight/thickness.
perrymetzger says:
Metafont did this decades ago. Don Knuth had a demo where a text from the bible was incrementally transformed letter by letter from a sans serif font to a very different serif font, with smooth transition throughout that was almost imperceptible, all just slowly turning the knobs on the font. It was very impressive. He did loads of work to make all this happen.
Unfortunately, it turned out that it required insane amounts of understanding and discipline on the part of font designers to make this work well. It died on the vine for that reason.
Murat Tekmen says:
This is just super cool. Nice job, folks!
Chen-Lieh Huang says:
The “Pinyin Font” design has shown one application of utilizing the variable font concept with multiple weights, which is used in a new book that was published in June 2016.
Unfortunately, there is no way to post pictures here to show some English Pinyin Font samples, which were created to celebrate Professor Knuth’s “Thirty Two Years of Metafont” talk occurred two days ago.
For folks interested in seeing this “variable fonts” implementation and production of the world’s first “Pinyin Font” design, please visit https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1645078299155390&set=p.1645078299155390&type=3&theater.
Matthew Dean says:
I’d love to see all these players come up with a recommended (and free) set of pre-installed fonts for OS’s and/or browsers, therefore greatly expanding the list of system fonts available to web developers.
Stephen Dench says:
This is clearly the next big thing in typography and a massive step in web design for improving page load speeds. Font loading is such a bottle next and this will take us light years forward.
For folks who might be curious about a “variable fonts” OpenType implementation and production using the world’s first “Pinyin Font” design, please visit https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1645078299155390&set=p.1645078299155390&type=3&theater.
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Going global: 360 media event
Andy gave a presentation based on a report that he wrote for the British Council on Creative Hubs. The event took place at the Queen Elizabeth II centre near Parliament. This report is being used as a reference document for the British Council advising cities and national governments on setting up and managing creative hubs….
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Andy Pratt spoke on a panel concerned with addressing the challenges of city-governments in finding urban solutions to global problems raises various questions in relation to the changing politics of the ‘urban age’, and the governance challenges posed by the apprehension of global and trans sectorial issues through an urban lens. The event took places…
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On June 16th, the launch of the continental pilot programme ‘Arterial African Creative Cities’ (AACC) took place in Mahe, Victoria (Seychelles) at the Cafe and Art Gallery, Kaz Zanana owned by the artist and vice-president of Arterial Network Steering Committee, George Camille. The event welcomed three speakers: Mamou Daffe who, as the chairman of Arterial…
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The E&P Pub: Seattle Times’ new hyperlocal partners
As part of the Networked Journalism pilot project, by American University’s J-Lab and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, local news partners for the Seattle Times have been announced this week:
“The four local producers and web sites partnering with The Seattle Times are: Tracy Record, who runs West Seattle Blog and White Center Now; Kate Bergman, who runs Next Door Media, which includes My Ballard, PhinneyWood, Queen Anne View, Magnolia Voice and Freemont Universe; Justin Carder, who runs Capitol Hill Seattle and helped create Neighborlogs, which is the platform for several neighborhood sites in Seattle; and Amber Campbell, who runs the Rainier Valley Post.”
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New Voices journalism grant winners for 2009 announced
Eight hyperlocal, community media projects from across the United States have been chosen as New Voices grant winners for 2009.
New Voices, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, helps to finance the launch of local news projects. It also provides technical support to create new ways for people to take part in public life.
The judging panel made its decision from more than 300 applicants, which all have a specific geographic community focus.
The winners include GrossePointeToday.com, Oakland Local and Backyard News.
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First Read notes that in less than three weeks, President Trump has made three different retreats:
Reaching a deal with Mexico to avert tariffs – a deal that largely consisted of actions that Mexico had already agreed to.
Backing down on military strikes against Iran for shooting down a U.S. drone.
Delaying his plan for nationwide raids to deport undocumented immigrants.
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“President Trump announced on Monday that he is imposing new sanctions on Iran, after saying for days that he preferred tightening the pressure on a crippled Iranian economy to launching an immediate military strike in retaliation for what American officials have said are recent aggressive acts by Tehran,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump :“We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran. Never can Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
Meanwhile, the Washington Post notes that Iran said its forces “could shoot down more surveillance drones if they violate the country’s airspace.”
Congress has been fighting over aid to the border for weeks. Trump just got in the middle of it. https://t.co/Usn3G6EJlo
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A federal judge says new evidence paints a “disturbing picture” that racial discrimination may be the motive behind the Trump administration’s push to ask everyone in the country about citizenship status, the AP reports.
Said U.S. District Judge George Hazel: “It is becoming difficult to avoid seeing that which is increasingly clear. As more puzzle pieces are placed on the mat, a disturbing picture of the decisionmakers’ motives takes shape.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court could soon render Hazel’s decision moot. The country’s highest court is expected to decide this week whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.”
As the Trump transition team geared up to fill the incoming president’s Cabinet in the weeks following his election, it identified a host of red flags for people like Scott Pruitt, Gary Cohn, and Rex Tillerson. Trump hired them all anyway https://t.co/ssvYwjuCeL
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The White House moved to bar counselor Kellyanne Conway from testifying to Congress about alleged violations of Hatch Act, the Washington Post reports. Conway claimed that House Democrats are seeking to compel testimony from her in retaliation for her successfully managing President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
“The House Oversight Committee will vote on Wednesday to authorize a subpoena for White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for testimony connected to her violations of the Hatch Act if she does not voluntarily show up to the committee’s hearing,” Axios reports.
E. Jean Carroll on Trump denying rape accusation she made against him: "With all the 16 women who have come forward, it's the same — he denies he, he turns it around, he attacks, & he threatens. Then everybody forgets it, & then the next woman comes along. And I am sick of it." pic.twitter.com/OuP20AvKTF
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President Trump told The Hill that writer E. Jean Carroll was “totally lying” when she recently accused him of raping her in the mid-1990s.
Said Trump: “I’ll say it with great respect: No. 1, she’s not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, OK?”
“The New York Post’s former top editor, a supporter of President Trump and an old lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch who returned to the conservative tabloid as an adviser in early 2019, ordered the removal of a story about writer Jean Carroll’s sexual assault allegations against President Trump,” CNN reports.
“The Post’s story about Carroll’s sexual assault allegations was mysteriously scrubbed from the tabloid’s website on Friday afternoon.”
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee, became the latest Democrat to publicly back launching impeachment proceedings against President Trump, The Hill reports.
Said Himes: “Those that know me know that I generally shy away from sharp partisanship in favor of the negotiation and compromise required for law to be made. But there are moments for calculation. For prudence, compromise and the careful weighing of competing interests. And there are moments for clarity and conviction. This is such a moment.”
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“The opposition candidate for mayor of Istanbul celebrated a landmark win Sunday in a closely watched repeat election that ended weeks of political tension and broke the long hold President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party had on leading Turkey’s largest city,” the AP reports.
“The governing party’s candidate, former Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, conceded moments after returns showed him trailing well behind Imamoglu, 54% to 45%. Imamoglu increased his lead from a March mayoral election by hundreds of thousands of votes.”
Politico: “The Democratic research group American Bridge is preparing a $50 million campaign to win over a slice of President Donald Trump’s base, and new polling has convinced the organization that Trump is vulnerable on pocketbook issues, especially health care, among white working-class voters.”
.@ed_kilgore writes that "it’s remarkable how erratic and politically insensitive Team Trump has been in dealing with the lethal impression that it is deliberately mistreating children as sort of an extreme version of a deterrent to future migrants" https://t.co/3Toh46xgAl
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 24, 2019
As he underwent confirmation for the Pentagon’s second-highest position in 2017, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told lawmakers he was “aware of no incidents reflecting adversely” on his ability to do his job and had “never been party to any civil litigation,” USA Today reports.
“But at the time, he had only recently emerged from a contentious, years-long divorce, which is a civil court matter. His ex-wife had accused him in divorce filings and police records of punching her during a violent domestic battle in 2010.”
Have we become numb to Trump's loathsomeness?
My somewhat angry thoughts on Jean Carroll's accusation, accountability, and this sickening period in our history: https://t.co/alV8XU85T3
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) June 24, 2019
“The Trump administration has refused to publicize dozens of government-funded studies that carry warnings about the effects of climate change, defying a longstanding practice of touting such findings by the Agriculture Department’s acclaimed in-house scientists,” Politicoreports.
“The studies range from a groundbreaking discovery that rice loses vitamins in a carbon-rich environment — a potentially serious health concern for the 600 million people world-wide whose diet consists mostly of rice — to a finding that climate change could exacerbate allergy seasons to a warning to farmers about the reduction in quality of grasses important for raising cattle.”
My latest feature for @NYMag is a profile of Cindy Yang. It’s about Palm Beach, social ambition, money, Donald Trump’s business, corruption, prostitution, US-China relations, football, Mar-a-Lago, possibly spying, and more than anything else, Florida https://t.co/yPfAcLK2Rm
— Andrew Rice (@riceid) June 24, 2019
“As a presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has often defended his vote for a controversial 1994 crime bill as a hold-your-nose compromise that included measures popular within the Democratic Party, such as a ban on assault weapons. As a result, Sanders’ support for the massive anti-crime package hasn’t come under the same level of scrutiny that has at times stuck to other Democratic candidates,” NBC Newsreports.
“But an NBC News review of his past statements shows that Sanders also backed some of the legislation’s key get-tough-on-crime provisions, which he now says ‘created a very broken system,’ — a part of his public record that may surprise some Sanders supporters.”
My SC piece: "Biden may be the political equivalent of Tantalus, the tragic figure from Greek mythology who was up to his neck in water — water that disappeared as he tried to drink. For Biden, the Oval Office is tantalizingly close but he can't enter." https://t.co/JhLm6gE89K
— Walter Shapiro (@MrWalterShapiro) June 24, 2019
“The Treasury Department’s internal watchdog has agreed to look into why designs of a new $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman will not be unveiled next year,” the New York Times reports.
“Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Democratic leader, last week asked the Treasury Department’s inspector general to open an investigation following Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s announcement at a May Congressional hearing that designs of the new $20 would be unveiled in 2026 instead of 2020 — the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.”
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B2B’s 2016 NHL Entry Draft Preview- Pick 1: Auston Matthews
By the german hammer | June 24, 2016 - 2:00 pm | June 23, 2016 2016 NHL Draft Preview
First overall is phenom center Auston Matthews, currently skating for ZSC Lions in the top Swiss league, the NLA.
Matthews is reasonably big at 6’2″, and 216 pounds. He’s very strong on the puck and an incredibly agile skater. He can accelerate to top speed in a jiffy and make plays at a crazy pace, or he can slow the game down and be just as effective. Matthews is a complete offensive player – the kid’s got the whole package. He could use a little work defensively, but if you draft Auston Matthews, you are NOT worried about his defensive game one iota (what the fuck is an iota, anyway?). The kid is a gamebreaker, and a franchise player.
Should the Bruins draft him? Yes, everyone should draft him, but it’s not going to happen. He is very, very likely to be a Toronto Maple Leaf on Friday night; the hockey world will be shocked otherwise.
From Eliteprospects.com:
A high octane dynamo that thrives under the microscope, Auston Matthews is a complete offensive forward who consistently boasts quick hands, feet, and thinking at both ends of the ice. Naturally nimble skater who accelerates to top speed very quickly. An unwavering focus on fine tuning elements of his own game facilitates confidence and competence in his young, but mature, mind. Prolific goal scoring ability and doesn’t wait for opportunities to show themselves. He makes his own luck, so to speak, maximizing the use of his body and stick to gain leverage against the toughest of opponents. All-in-all, a generational talent who has the potential to develop into a top flight franchise center.
– See more at: http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=199898#sthash.bBP6EqTR.dpuf
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Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the enforceability of arbitration clauses
Back in January, an Ontario court ruled that Uber's arbitration clause couldn't keep its drivers from suing it; Uber has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which has taken up the case and will hear arguments about whether arbitration clauses (through which the parties surrender the right to sue in court) are enforceable in "adhesion contracts" (contracts that are not negotiated, where one party has much less power than the other, such as in click-through agreements).
The Supreme Court's ruling will have far-reaching implications, as mandatory arbitration is a common feature in adhesion contracts, and these contracts have become ubiquitous.
The hearing of this matter will provide the Supreme Court with an opportunity to determine the breadth of application of its holdings in Douez. Additionally, the Supreme Court may choose to revisit the competing, though arguably consistent, tests for unconscionability from Titus v. William F. Cooke Enterprises Inc.[6] and Morrison v. Coast Finance Ltd.[7] Hopefully, this decision will bring much-needed clarity to all parties seeking to contract on the basis of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as arbitration clauses.
Supreme Court to hear arguments about enforceability of arbitration clauses [Allan Wells, Steven Dickie, Laura Fric, Lauren Tomasich and Alexis Beale/Osler]
(Thanks, Bryan!)
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Cooperative porno copyright troll gets 5 years in prison, while his co-conspirator got 14 years
Last month, Paul Hansmeier was sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.5m in restitution for the copyright trolling his firm, Prenda Law, engaged in: the firm used a mix of entrapment, blackmail, identity theft, intimidation and fraud to extort millions from its victims by threatening to drag them into court for […]
After poacher crackdown, Tanzanian endangered rhino and elephant populations are staging inspiring recoveries
Four years ago, there were 15 known black rhinos left in Tanzania -- "ground zero of the poaching crisis" -- and today there 167 of them; elephant populations (which dropped 60% between 2009-2014) are rebounding too, up to over 60,000 from a low of 43,330.
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January Top Ten
We didn’t do a top ten at the end of November. It had been a quiet month, and we were gearing up for our top twenty that we posted in December. Both months had a few great tunes that are too good to pass up though, so this month’s top ten has a few tracks from the end of last year too.
1 The Go! Team / The Scene Between
The Go! Team are back! Our top spot is the lead track from the band’s new album also called The Scene Between, out in March on Memphis Industries.
2 Anneka / End of It
End of It only features Anneka’s voice, but the layers and the textures and the harmonies demand repeat listens.
3 GAPS / She Bears a Flower
GAPS latest release came out right at the end of November last year sounding like some a futuristic remix of an Elizabethan childrens folk song.
4 Ambassadeurs / Forever
Forever is the lead track from Ambassadeurs latest EP out last month. Ambassadeurs play a gig at The Green Door Store at the end of the month, supported by Foreign Skin.
5 The Fiction Aisle / Blue
We liked Tom White’s new band’s first proper track so much that we got it into our end of the year round up, even though it hadn’t been in one of our top ten posts. Since we’re catching up on November here it would be wrong of us to omit it.
6 David Harks / Odyssey
We loved Open Arms, also taken from David Harks’ Lomo EP but shared much earlier in the year, as soon as we heard it but Odyssey was much more of a slow burner working it’s way under our skin until we couldn’t stop listening to it.
7 Tyrannosaurus Dead – Flying Ant Day
Tyrannosaurus Dead were the first band we ever interviewed on the blog, so it’s great to see their debut album (also called Flying Ant Day) finally released.
8 Seadog / Transmitter
Seadog’s Transmitter EP was launched at the end of December, while most of us were busy being distracted. The physical release is due in the springtime, but you can grab the EP now if you head over to Bandcamp.
9 Phantom Runners / Laserbeam
Laserbeam is a free download from Phantom Runnerscover on Soundcloud. Hanging out with Huey Morgan (who’s produced their last few tracks) is obviously rubbing off – this is the most laid back thing they’ve done.
10 Man Ray Sky / Ether Song
Finishing up with the title track from an EP from December, Ether Song is four minutes of breezy guitar pop.
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There’s an unwritten rule that if you’re going to release any music, you do it in the first eleven months of the year. That way it’s out there in time to be included in any end of year lists, and you don’t end up competing for anyone’s attention with X-factor contestants or Greatest Hits compilations. But obviously nobody told the musicians of Brighton – we’ve got sixteen different tracks for you in this post.
First up is the new release from David Harks, who’s been posting up other tracks from his Lomo EP over the past few months. The title track Odyssey is now out there, and the whole EP is available to buy on iTunes, out now on his own Jumjum Records imprint.
Next we have the first new music from Brighton Music Blog favourite Anneka for a while. End of It is built up from a number of vocal lines sung by her, with mournful harmonies and percussive exhalations. Apparently the track (which is available as a free download if you click through and follow the links) is a taster of more to come in early 2015.
Ital Tek has been busy working on his next album this year so hasn’t appeared too active to the outside world. Last Christmas he gave away a free download of one of his tracks and this year he’s doing the same, with new tune Crossed Wires:
Fickle Friends are also giving away a track for Christmas. If you head over to their bandcamp page you can grab their cover of Gorgon City’s Ready For Your Love
Sticking with tracks for Christmas, here’s Crayola Lectern‘s seasonal offering. (No More) Happy Endings is a little cheerier than last year’s SFXmas, and gives us some a hint of what we might expect when the band finish recording their second album:
Soccer96 have a new EP out on Wotnot records on 7″ and download, entitled Jupiter Masterdrive. The title track is a few minutes of wonky hip hop and is called Constellation. To hear the rest of the EP and buy it on either format head over to the band’s bandcamp page
A lot of people were quite excited about the recent news about Twin Peaks returning, and we can probably count electronica band Dark Train amongst that number. Their latest offering is a cover of Julee Cruse’s Falling which featured heavily in the original series.
We loved Cate Ferris‘ Disappear EP which came out earlier this year. Last week saw the release of the sister remix EP, suitably entitled Reappear:
Another new EP is the new release from Man Ray Sky (currently hosting their launch party at the Hope as I type). The EP name and lead track is the breezy Ether Song:
Kanzi‘s debut EP isn’t out until January sometime (I’ve read several different dates on different bits of the internet), but you can check out lead track Two Hearts now:
Troves debut double a-side single came out back in September on Nude Records. Keeping interest up for the release is a new video for the beautiful track Afterthought:
Anushka have released another single from their Broken Circuit long player. Kisses is a different version from the one on the album, with the addition of of extra vocals from guest MC Trim. I’ve also also just seen in the PR email I got that I missed out on a live performance from the band last weekend. Sorry!
If you fancy some electro pop then get your ears around Astrid’s Tea Party‘s debut single. What’s in it for Me? is up as a free download for a limited period and will be followed up with an EP in early 2015.
Math-pop band Orchards new single Chemystery was released last thursday. It’s taken from their new EP which is due to drop in March next year:
Rooster Cole has uploaded a few tracks to Soundcloud and has promised more music and more live shows for 2015. Here’s one of those tracks, the quirky Bird Don’t Sing:
Finally we finish up a video from Battery Operated Orchestra. Flouro Sushi is taken from the band’s debut album Incomplete Until Broken, out now via Bandcamp.
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SBC exhibits: new leaders, conversation & fun
May 20 2019 by Baptist Press Staff
Southern Baptist leaders once again will have much to talk about at this year’s Cooperative Program (CP) exhibit hall booth during the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Ala.
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Southern Baptist entity leaders, left to right, Jon Akin, Danny Akin, Jarvis Williams and Dhati Lewis discuss race relations in the SBC during a panel discussion at the Cooperative Program stage in the exhibit hall of the 2018 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas.
Among the topics at the CP Stage and Platform are everything from adoption, the sexual abuse crisis and church revitalization to the new movie, “Overcomer.” The exhibit hall area of the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex will be open June 10-12.
The booths will also feature discussion on missions and the future of the SBC between Southern Baptist leaders. Among those speakers will be SBC President J.D. Greear and entity presidents Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board; Kevin Ezell, North American Mission Board; and Ronnie Floyd, SBC Executive Committee. Specific topics of discussion will include the “Who’s Your One?” evangelism campaign, encouraging college students to be on mission, church planting and vision for the SBC and more.
“With new leaders at the helm of three of our entities ... we will take the opportunity to focus on the future of these organizations and the vision of their leaders,” C. Ashley Clayton, SBC Executive Committee vice president for CP and stewardship, said.
“Our programming will also include conversations about some of the challenges that Southern Baptists have faced and are currently facing,” Clayton noted, “such as racial reconciliation and other ethnic diversity issues, women having a more prominent role in ministry and how to prevent sexual abuse in our churches.”
The CP platform will be located between the International Mission Board and North American Mission Board exhibits.
A full three-day schedule of the events, which begin at 8:30 a.m. daily, is available at TalkCP.com and the SBC mobile app and will be listed in the annual meeting’s daily bulletin.
Also slated for the exhibit hall:
International Mission Board
At the IMB’s interactive exhibit, attendees can help fund a translation of the New Testament and pray for the 500,000 people in Southeast Asia who will have an opportunity to read the scriptures in their language for the first time. Nearly 3,000 languages still have no translation of scripture. Visitors also will receive resources to help lead their churches to participate in international missions through going, praying and giving.
North American Mission Board
“Who’s Your One?” That’s what the North American Mission Board will ask visitors at its exhibit at the annual meeting. Those who stop by will be able to learn more about NAMB’s “Who’s Your One?” evangelism resources. These resources include a kit that pastors can use to lead their entire congregation through the evangelistic emphasis. Pastors will also be able to record a video they can later use to challenge and mobilize church members to choose someone with whom they will share the gospel.
In addition to featuring an emphasis on its evangelism resources, NAMB’s exhibit will include a Send Network area where visitors can learn more about how their churches can be actively involved in church planting or how they can take the first steps toward becoming a church planting missionary.
A Send Relief area in the exhibit will focus on NAMB’s compassion ministries including foster care and adoption, crisis response and ministry centers that focus on poverty, human trafficking, immigrant ministry and more.
Another section of NAMB’s exhibit is dedicated to collegiate mobilization featuring the new GO2 initiative and GenSend.
LifeWay Christian Resources
LifeWay Christian Resources’ 20,400-square-foot exhibit will offer a store containing a wide selection of books, Bibles, small group studies and other Christian products. Among the exhibit’s other features:
LifeWay Groups Ministry staff will help messengers plan and select appropriate materials for group Bible studies. Attendees can learn more about LifeWay’s ongoing studies: Bible Studies for Life, The Gospel Project, Explore the Bible and SmallGroup.com, as well as short-term Bible studies.
Messengers and guests can obtain information about two Tuesday-evening screenings of “Overcomer,” the latest film from the Kendrick Brothers. “Overcomer” church campaign and Bible study kits will be available in the LifeWay store for purchase. See related story.
Pastor and author Robby Gallaty, along with his wife, Kandi, will sign copies of their respective books, Here and Now and Disciple Her. The book signing is scheduled for June 11 from 9:30-10:30 a.m.
In addition to their exhibit space, LifeWay will also be featured in the SBC women’s expo. Messengers and guests can learn more about Woo Marriage, a marriage coaching tool to help church leaders guide marriages in their congregations back to health.
LifeWay staff will be available at the Woo Marriage booth to answer questions June 10 from 8-10 a.m. and 12-2 p.m., and again on June 11 from 9-11:30 a.m.
Kandi Gallaty also will be available to discuss her book Disciple Her and the Disciple’s Study Bible in the women’s expo area immediately following her Tuesday morning book signing in the LifeWay exhibit.
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Visitors to ERLC’s booth in the exhibit hall can pick up the latest issue of Light Magazine on International Christian Persecution. This issue focuses on the plight of believers in countries throughout the world who faithfully seek to shine the light of the gospel in the darkest places.
Booth visitors also can register to win an ERLC ministry resource pack featuring the most recent books from ERLC authors and other resources to equip you and your church to engage the culture with the gospel. Each pack will also include two complimentary registrations to the 2019 ERLC National Conference “Caring Well: Equipping the Church to Confront the Abuse Crisis.” Speakers include Russel Moore, Beth Moore, Rachael Denhollander, Gary Haugen, J.D. Greear, Jackie-Hill Perry, and many more.
GuideStone Financial Resources
GuideStone will once again make available the popular Wellness Center June 10-12 during the SBC Pastors’ Conference and the SBC annual meeting. Personal health assessments will be available during the sessions each day the exhibit hall is open, Monday and Tuesday until 6 p.m. and until 1 p.m. Wednesday. The free assessments – valued at $150 – provide a report suitable to take to participants’ family doctors. The wellness screening offers blood-based screenings for cholesterol and glucose.
GuideStone staff will be available during all exhibit hall hours to meet with participants about their retirement accounts or to speak about insurance coverage.
A free two-part giveaway of coffee and a coffee mug (while supplies last) is available, with the first part at the GuideStone Property and Casualty display and the second part at the nearby Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company booth, with which GuideStone has an alliance to provide property and casualty coverage and education.
Mission:Dignity Sunday – June 23 on the Southern Baptist calendar – arrives shortly after the Convention. Attendees can request free promotional materials at the GuideStone booth, by visiting MDSunday.org or by texting MDORDER to 41444 from a mobile device*.
While supplies last, participants can also pick up a free copy of both The Christmas Code: Daily Devotions Celebrating the Advent Season and The Easter Code: A 40-Day Journey to the Cross. The short devotions, written by GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins, have been effectively used by hundreds of churches for evangelistic outreach during the Advent and Lenten seasons. Additionally, messengers can pick up a free copy of The Joshua Code: 52 Scripture Verses Every Believer Should Know, while supplies last. All author royalties and proceeds from sales of the books benefit Mission:Dignity.
Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention
Gateway Seminary’s exhibit booth will focus on its role as Southern Baptists’ seminary in the West, with five campuses located in North American Mission Board Send cities. Gateway will continue its 75th anniversary celebration at its annual alumni and friends luncheon after the morning session of the SBC annual meeting on Wednesday, June 12. The event will take place on Level 3, Room Forum J in the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. President Jeff Iorg will report on the seminary’s reaccreditation by the Western Association of Senior Colleges and University Commission and progress by Gateway Online. In addition, the seminary’s distinguished alumni award winners will be presented. Tickets are $10 each. Seating is limited and can be reserved at gs.edu/sbc19.
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Guests visiting Midwestern Seminary’s exhibit booth at the convention will receive limited-edition giveaways. More details about the giveaways to come. Guests can also receive a promo code to waive their application fee until June 26. Admissions team members will be ready to answer questions about Midwestern Seminary’s opportunities for training in ministry and missions. Purchase tickets to the For the Church Birmingham Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 11, for $15 and tickets to Midwestern’s Alumni & Friends Luncheon at noon Wednesday, June 12, for $20. During the Tuesday luncheon, SBC leaders Ronnie Floyd, Paul Chitwood, and Kevin Ezell will join seminary president Jason Allen for a panel discussing “The Future of Southern Baptist Ministry and Mission,” while the Wednesday luncheon will feature panelists Allen, Micah Fries, Dean Inserra, and Collin Hansen as they discuss “Cultural Christianity and The Gospel.” Early bird pricing for events is available through June 8; register online at mbts.edu/sbc2019.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
The New Orleans Seminary exhibit booth offers a chance for alumni and prospective students to connect with faculty members to learn about the school and the city of New Orleans. The booth will feature a new campus-themed design which provides a perfect backdrop for student and alumni social media photos. Throughout the annual meeting, cartoonist Joe McKeever, an NOBTS alumnus, will provide complimentary sketches at the booth. Visitors may also stop by for seminary literature and giveaways, including specially-designed ceramic mugs. Members of the seminary enlistment team will be on site to guide future students as they seek to answer God’s call to ministry and prepare for service.
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
At this year’s Southeastern Seminary exhibit, visitors will have the chance to learn more about what it looks like to be equipped to serve the church and fulfill the Great Commission. This year’s exhibit will include the Spring edition of Southeastern Magazine, featuring the For the Mission campaign. For the Mission is a four-year campaign with four strategic initiatives focused on the campus, faculty, students and cause of the school. Campaign funding will go toward a new dining hall, renovations for campus housing, student aid, the Southeastern Fund and faculty endowments. President Danny Akin, Chuck Lawless, Julia Bickley, Ronjour Locke, Tate Cockrell and Jim Shaddix are among the many faculty one can expect to interact with while visiting the exhibit.
Southeastern’s exhibit will also feature a number of book giveaways, including The Gospel of Our King by Bruce Ashford and Heath Thomas, Islam and North America by Keith Whitfield and Micah Fries, multiple volumes from the Christ-Centered Exposition series and more. Visitors can learn what it means to have a theologically-developed and biblically-informed foundation while pursuing the ministry to which God has called them by checking out the Southeastern Seminary exhibit.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Throughout the annual meeting, Southern Seminary’s exhibit booth will offer a variety of giveaways providing resources for pastors. One giveaway is a new resource by SBTS Press, Essential Reading on Evangelism, featuring contributions by seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr., Timothy K. Beougher and others. Along with promotions and interaction opportunities with faculty, the seminary will distribute the spring issue of Southern Seminary Magazine. Themed around Boyce College, the magazine features articles by Mohler and Matthew J. Hall, provost of SBTS and senior vice president of academic administration. Convention attendees can connect with alumni, professors, friends and prospective students at the exhibit’s seating area, as well as purchase tickets for the annual alumni luncheon on Wednesday, June 12. The first 500 visitors to the SBTS booth will receive a free copy of Mohler’s new book, The Apostles’ Creed.
This year’s emphasis of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s exhibit booth is a call to all Southwesterners to come home to their seminary. The booth will also highlight President Adam W. Greenway’s “big-tent” vision for the seminary, featuring the core commitments of the institution’s founders. Visitors to the booth will receive the latest issue of Southwestern News, which focuses on the seminary’s future, as well as a free book from Seminary Hill Press – And You Will Be My Witnesses: 31 Devotionals to Encourage a Spirit of Everyday Evangelism, co-edited by Matt Queen. Gifts for SWBTS alumni will also be available, including lapel pins featuring the seminary’s historic seal. SWBTS representatives and faculty will be present to discuss seminary programs and how you can be part of the seminary’s story. Tickets to the Alumni and Friends Luncheon on June 12 will be available while supplies last. To learn more about the luncheon or purchase tickets in advance, visit swbts.edu/sbclunch.
The exhibits for WMU and WorldCrafts will be combined this year, highlighting ways to be involved in missions discipleship, leadership development and compassion ministries of WMU. Several conversation areas will provide the perfect backdrop for scheduled features such as hearing from WorldCrafts artisans; Pure Water, Pure Love water filter demonstrations; and more. Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer, and Linda Cooper, president, will also sign copies of their new 30-day devotional, On the Journey. This book, along with select WMU resources and WorldCrafts products, will be available for purchase in the WMU/WorldCrafts exhibit space. A free gift will accompany each purchase, while supplies last, and attendees can register to win various giveaways.
Seminary Extension
For those who are interested in studying with Seminary Extension or in seeing how Seminary Extension can help them to better serve in their ministry, please stop by the booth for a visit. Learn more about how this ministry of the SBC serves the convention by offering theological education and ministry training that is biblical, accessible and affordable. The staff with Seminary Extension look forward to visiting with former students, instructors and friends.
Southern Baptist Foundation
Visitors to the Southern Baptist Foundation booth will be encouraged to explore how they can impact the Kingdom and the legacy they will leave. They also will be challenged to think about causes they love and discover ways to support them. Visitors can also register to win one of two autographed jerseys (University of Alabama and Auburn University). They also can win a giant soda bottle filled with money by guessing the amount. For more information, visit the booth or email sbfdn@southernbaptistfoundation.org.
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Gentle giants: Understanding of giraffes just doesn’t measure up
New research finds that giraffes, once thought to be social dullards, have much in common with elephants.
By By Natalie Angier / New York Times|Published Sun, Oct 26, 2014
OKAVANGO DELTA, Botswana – For the tallest animals on earth, giraffes can be awfully easy to overlook. Their ochered flagstone fur and arboreal proportions blend in seamlessly with the acacia trees on which they tirelessly forage, and they’re as quiet as trees, too: no whinnies, growls, trumpets or howls. “Giraffes are basically mute,” said Kerryn Carter, a zoologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. “A snort is the only sound I’ve heard.”
Yet watch giraffes make their stately cortege across the open landscape and their grandeur is operatic, every dip and weave and pendulum swing an aria embodied.
To giraffe researchers, the paradox of this keystone African herbivore goes beyond questions of its camouflaging coat. Giraffes may be popular, they said – a staple of zoos, corporate logos and the plush toy industry – but until recently almost nobody studied giraffes in the field.
“When I first became interested in giraffes in 2008 and started looking through the scientific literature, I was really surprised to see how little had been done,” said Megan Strauss, who studies evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota. “It was amazing that something as well known as the giraffe could be so little studied.”
Giraffes are the “forgotten megafauna,” said Julian Fennessy, a giraffe researcher and executive director of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation. “You hear all about elephants, Jane Goodall and her chimpanzees, Dian Fossey and her mountain gorillas, but there’s been a massive paucity of information about giraffes.”
Now all that is changing fast, as researchers seek to understand the spectacular biology and surprisingly complex behavior of what Fennessy calls a “gentle giant and the world’s most graceful animal.” Scientists have lately discovered that giraffes are not the social dullards or indifferent parents they were reputed to be, but instead have much in common with another charismatic mega-herbivore, the famously gregarious elephant. Female giraffes, for example, have been found to form close friendships with one another that can last for years, while mother giraffes have displayed signs of persistent grief after losing their calves to lions.
“Giraffes have been underestimated, even thought of as a bit stupid,” said Zoe Muller, a wildlife biologist at the University of Warwick in England. But through advances in satellite and aerial tracking technology, improved hormonal tests and DNA fingerprinting methods to extract maximum data from giraffe scat, saliva and hair, and a more statistically rigorous approach to analyzing giraffe interactions, she said, “we’ve been able to map out their social structure and relationships in a much more sophisticated way; there’s a lot more going on than we appreciated.”
Giraffes are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, currently classified as a single species with up to nine subspecies that differ by features like head shape and whether the fur on their legs is plain or patterned. The species is not listed as endangered, but researchers point with alarm to evidence that in the past 15 years, the giraffe population has plummeted some 40 percent, to less than 80,000 from 140,000.
Researchers also emphasize the ecological importance of giraffes. “As large browsers, they’re habitat changers,” Fennessy said. “They spend a hell of a lot of time feeding, pruning, distributing seeds across the landscape, keeping the habitat open for other wildlife to use.” By going from tree to tree and blossom to blossom, he added, they even serve as pollinators.
Carter and her colleagues followed more than 400 giraffes for six years, identifying their home ranges and who associated with whom. As the researchers reported in the journal Animal Behaviour, the females displayed clear and persistent social preferences. Some giraffes with overlapping home territories would never be found together, while others were sighted associating a good 80 percent of the time.
Female giraffes can live 20 years or more, Carter said, and it makes sense they might rely on each other for clues to the best feeding grounds or help with calf caretaking. Or perhaps to console each other. Giraffe calves are extremely vulnerable to predators, and though mothers will fight valiantly to keep their young alive, half or more of all calves are killed in their first year of life.
Also of interest is the giraffe’s exceptional cardiovascular system. A large giraffe can stand 20 feet tall, with its neck accounting for roughly a third of its span and its long legs the same. The multitiered challenge, then, is how to both pump blood very high and retrieve it from far below while avoiding burst capillaries in the brain or blood pooling around the hooves.
As part of the Danish Cardiovascular Giraffe Research Program, scientists have traveled to South Africa to study giraffe physiology. They have measured blood pressure and found readings that range from high to ridiculous – up to five times human blood pressure. The giraffe has extremely thick blood vessel walls to prevent blood from leaking into surrounding tissue, while rugged, inflexible collagen fibers in its neck and legs help keep the blood traffic moving. A complex mesh of capillaries and valves store and release blood in the neck, allowing the giraffe to bend over for a drink of water and then raise its head again quickly without fainting.
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President Trump Warns Facebook Over Its Plan to Create Libra Digital Currency
July 12, 2019 July 12, 2019 Editor 0 Comments
President Donald Trump on Thursday night warned Facebook Inc. over its plan to create a digital currency, the Libra, a move that poses a new obstacle to the company’s cryptocurrency ambitions.
“Facebook Libra’s ‘virtual currency’ will have little standing or dependability. If Facebook and other companies want to become a bank, they must seek a new Banking Charter and become subject to all Banking Regulations, just like other Banks,” Trump said in a series of posts on Twitter.
In the tweets, the president also expressed skepticism of digital currencies in general.
“I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air,” Trump wrote. “Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity.”
Trump’s entrance into the debate over Bitcoin and Libra could mark a significant development for crypto enthusiasts. The White House has largely remained silent on the subject even as federal regulators like the Securities Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and units of the Treasury Department have grappled with how to regulate virtual coins.
Why Facebook Chose Stablecoins as Its Path to Crypto: QuickTake
After tumbling last year, Bitcoin, the world’s most-traded cryptocurrency, has surged more than 200% in 2019.
The market reaction to Trump’s comments was muted. Bitcoin traded at $11,400 as of 10 p.m. in Washington, little changed from its level before Trump tweeted. The cryptocurrency has more than tripled this year, recovering some of its losses from a 2018 crash, as the Libra project helped revive investor interest in digital assets.
Facebook declined to comment on Thursday night.
Earlier: Facebook Defends Libra Token Ahead of Congressional Scrutiny
Trump’s Twitter comments add to the political heat that the world’s largest social network is already facing in Washington over its cryptocurrency agenda. Lawmakers are preparing to grill the company on Libra at two hearings scheduled for next week and Facebook executives have been holding meetings across Capitol Hill for days to try to ease their concerns.
Trump’s remarks on Libra were posted just a few hours after a White House session on social media that was convened to discuss the grievances of conservatives that the big technology companies that control the platforms were biased against them.
Facebook has faced questions and scrutiny from regulators and politicians in both parties since it announced that it planned to enter the cryptocurrency market.
Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee earlier this week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the proposed coin “raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability.”
Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters expressed concern about the social networking giant’s plans for the token and questioned Powell about the Fed’s thinking on it. Waters and others Democrats have been critical of Facebook’s strategy, and she said the company might ultimately want “to establish a parallel banking and monetary policy system” that would rival the U.S. dollar.
Maxine Waters Wasn’t Kidding About Facebook Token Moratorium
Facebook has said repeatedly that it plans to work with regulators to get Libra off the ground, and David Marcus, the Facebook executive who has spearheaded the Libra effort, will testify before multiple congressional committees next week.
Marcus wrote in a blog post last week that he wants to “ensure that Libra helps with the kinds of issues that the existing financial system has been fighting, notably around money laundering, terrorism financing, and more.”
So far, however, American regulators and lawmakers have mostly dithered over how to tackle the thorny issues surrounding the emergence of cryptocurrencies, like protecting consumers and keeping out criminals. But the entry of a huge company like Facebook is already forcing their hand.
Facebook was already under intense scrutiny in Washington for a series of stumbles and scandals that have many lawmakers itching for a fight. The company’s missteps include major data breaches and letting Russians hijack its platform during the 2016 election to push Trump’s candidacy.
Facebook’s Libra Crypto Coin: 5 Things We Know, and 5 We Don’t
The publication of a 12-page white paper late last month detailing the plans for Libra ignited the controversy. According to the paper, Facebook and its partners aim to launch “a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people” by next year.
The virtual coin will be built on a new Blockchain infrastructure accessible from anywhere in the world. Facebook and its partners on the project have set up a non-profit organization in Switzerland to govern the payment network and will hold a reserve of bank deposits and short-term government securities that will back the coin, according to the document.
Trump’s Twitter comments drew an immediate rebuke from the Blockchain Association, which advocates for several major crypto firms in Washington. The trade association said on its Twitter page that Trump should support the industry because it will become increasingly important. “If you care about US leadership, you should support policies that support the growth of this industry *here*,” the group said.
By John Harney and Benjamin Bain, Bloomberg
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The Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Exhibition and Award is a survey of contemporary documentary photography by Australian photographers, and provides a rare and valuable opportunity to assess the themes, styles and ideas which characterise documentary photography. It assumes documentary photography to be distinct from photojournalism, defined by a more contemplative approach to subject matter, and encourages work in essay format which develops themes across a series of photographs.
The exhibition will tour into the year 2001, visiting both regional Victorian and interstate venues. This year over two hundred and fifty entries were received from photographers Australia wide. Fifteen finalists were then selected, representing a mix of established and emerging practitioners, of varying age and background, helping to make the Leica/CCP Documentary Exhibition and Award an exciting and dynamic project. The winner of the Leica M6 camera and lenses valued at over $13,000 awarded for the most outstanding photo-essay, will be announced on opening night.
Finalists: Effy Alexakis, Philip andrews, Narelle Autio, Mark Baker, Donna Bailey, Max Creasy, Stephen Dupont, Lisa Fitzgerald, Ashley Gilbertson, Liz Ham, Tiet Ho, Steven Lojewski, Trent Parke, David Dare Parker, Jack Picone.
Judges: Kelly Gallatly, Senior Assistant Curator, Australian Photography, National Gallery of Australia; Robert McFarlane, Photographer and Critic, Sydney Morning Herald; John Storey, Lecturer in Photography, RMIT University
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What you want to say – 15 May 2019 May 15, 2019
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Uncategorized.
As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
1. GW - May 15, 2019
Is it true that the neolib govmint is planning to privatise even more of the dental health service?
Fintan Hourihan, chief executive of the Irish Dental Association, is set to tell the Oireachtas Health Committee today, that not only will the new policy fail, but it will be “catastrophic for patients in lower socio-economic areas with high treatment needs”.
2. Tomboktu - May 15, 2019
Does Ciarán Cuffe think he’s emulating De Rossa’s famous poster with the Pigeon House chimneys?
On his poster, Cuffe’s face is sandwiched between the Beckett Bridge ‘harp’ and the Convention Centre tilted ‘pint glass’.
Two problems. One, De Rossa gave enough space on his poster for his symbol of Dublin to be seen, for the viewer to make the connection. Two, De Rossa didn’t pick a cliche that is over use by international financial firms. If De Rossa had been as imaginative as Cuffe is, sure wouldn’t the Ha’penny bridge have done?
I always hated the smugness of the postcards with ‘Georgian’ doors. Indeed the general smugness of the owners of the generally, lets face it, pretty boring historical architecture in Dublin.
So photographer Graham Martin has created an updated version, more appropriate to a city being destroyed by property speculation and artificial scarcity.
Some sense from Richard Seymour here about Brexitanian Labour’s ‘formally correct’ but tactically somewhat erm wanting approach to the Euro elections.
To give an example of how this works, one of the Brexit Party’s major media strategies is to accentuate its apparent novelty: its defiance of left-right conventions above all. Now, this story is absolute bollocks. The Brexit Party is a small, far-right enterprise, with some Tory funders and right-wing newspapers backing it, whose MEPs are all ex-UKIP, and whose personnel are the usual fash-curious flotsam. And even this bollocks story is not new: UKIP pretended to be ‘neither left nor right’ for a period of time when Farage thought he was going to win Labour seats. Many journalists and academic bought it at the time. So, how to put a shine on this ordure? The answer was smart. Get the Koch brothers-funded Sp!ked chancers on board. They knew it would be impossible for the media to resist pointing out that these reactionaries were once known as the Revolutionary Communist Party. Job done. How could anyone doubt their diversity when they have even opened their doors to ‘communists’?
There is thus a real danger of capitulating to the mystique of such organisations, while appearing to criticise them. Labour’s strategy in the European elections, has been to define itself as the anti-Farage party, the party to “bring our divided country back together”. Now while this is rooted in Corbyn’s formally correct analysis that a culture war between Leavers and Remainers is stupid and will only benefit reaction, it is a questionable strategy. Far from offering a militantly left-populism to combat Farage’s right-populism, it looks anodyne, completely contrary to the insurgent spirit of 2017. The country doesn’t want to be brought back together, and Corbyn shouldn’t want to be the sort of politician who could bring it together. Besides, as much as Farage is a danger, it’s really not a good idea for Labour to be talking up the polls which give the Brexit Party a lead. Those polls are a perfect example of how the media can be gamed, because they are picking up on short-term trends, surges of media attention and interest, which then go on to justify further interest. For that reason, any predictive value they have is limited to this: they might become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Meanwhile the UCL Brexit blog has data that gives the lie (again) to the anti-PV claims about the paramount importance of northern Labour leave voters.
GW - May 15, 2019
And Spiked seems to have been one of the best Koch-Bros investment – they are permanently camped of the Brexitanian Broadcasting Company studios.
It’s amazing how unashamed they are about it tho why am I surprised really?
Jim Monaghan - May 15, 2019
Vulliamy of the Guardian revealed the appalling conditions in Serb prison camps at Omarska and Tmopolje, Living Marxism declared that the journalists had faked the pictures. Fox and friends offered no defence of their story when ITN sued for libel. They did not recant when survivors gave testimony in the Hague or when mass graves were found near Omarska. Last year the journalists who run London’s Frontline Club considered inviting Fox to speak. Vulliamy insisted she apologise to the camp victims first, but Fox refused to back away from the modem equivalent of holocaust denial. Naturally, the BBC thinks she is the ideal person to have as a regular panellist on the Moral Maze.
To be fair to Farage, he has never endorsed bullying children, indeed he broke down when describing how his own children had been bullied. He may have won the Brexit referendum by demonising East European immigrants but he has never covered up their murder. And although he endorses Orbén, he has yet to act as propagandist for Balkan strongmen who have been convicted of crimes against humanity.
The question is not how Fox can bear to be in the same party as Farage, but how Farage can bear to be in the same party as her.”
5. EWI - May 15, 2019
Hopefully that Eurovision dunderhead, clearly bottom of the barrel in their desperation for someone to do the dirty deed, goes away and is never heard of again afterwards.
6. kestrel - May 15, 2019
really have doubts about these local elections; is this just voting for a local bottleneck being put in place that/to limits the queries that need to be asked and addressed from all local persons. also, I really reckon if there should not be a second term at all; as local councillors only want to address the most popular questions and the questions that will secure them popularity and secure for them extra votes. this effectively screens out some potentially unpopular and incisive queries.
and maybe four meetings per year should be for the general public to put local questions.
7. Paul Culloty - May 15, 2019
Nico Cué sounds like an interesting Spitzenkandidaten candidate by the European Left group – born in Asturias under Franco, his family fled to Belgium, and he has a strong trade union record. Will feature in the TV debate from 8 tonight on RTE News Now:
https://www.european-left.org/candidates/nico-cue/
YouTube link here:
I need to start thinking about my preferences in the two elections.
I know that Brexitanian Lexiteers only count the 2017 GE as a valid poll, but how wrong can the Yougov poll referenced here be?
40% of 2017 BLP voters in 2017 will vote for them again in the Euros.
Of the defecting 60%, 12% are defecting to explicitly pro-Brexit parties, and 44% to explicitly pro-Remain parties.
But nothing to see there, move on please.
They are running out of road – not sure how they can hold the coalition of voters together tho polling for a putative GE does show people going back to the LP tho not as strongly
Considering how the left in the European Parliament could do with a cadre of left MEPs in the S&D, the continuation of the self-harm in the British Labour Party is tragic.
10. CL - May 16, 2019
” the party needs a clear answer to the Brexit question. Until it gets one, it is wholly reliant on the new electoral split on the right of politics to come to power….
While pro-Corbyn web outlets and bloggers fulminate against Starmer and Watson, the massive changes in British politics seem to be passing Labour’s strategists by.
The Brexit Party is on a roll because some 30 per cent of Brits want to see a hard, xenophobic No Deal Brexit. This is the new reality. It is a case study in what Hannah Arendt called the “temporary alliance of the elite and the mob”. ”
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/05/labour-s-refusal-oppose-brexit-killing-it-doorstep-it-should-quit-talks
11. Paddy Healy - May 16, 2019
Irish Times Europe Editor Describes New IIEA Anti-Neutrality Paper as “Timely” and Describes Irish Neutrality as “Sacred Cow” https://wp.me/pKzXa-Kd
As Turkey is a member of NATO, he seems to think that Ireland should get involved in a military conflict between NATO powers !!! Patrick Smyth Continues:
“As Keatinge points out, there are strict limits to how far Ireland would go in defending a fellow member state which comes under attack.Whether that should be is another matter, but, as he points out in his dispassionate style, the changed political and strategic landscape that Ireland finds itself in warrants at least a re-examination of the ill-defined sacred cow of neutrality.”
CYPRUS ESCALATION COULD DRILL HOLE IN IRISH SACRED COW OF NEUTRALITY Patrick Smyth, May 16, 2019,
EWI - May 16, 2019
Irish Times Europe Editor Describes New IIEA Anti-Neutrality Paper as “Timely” and Describes Irish Neutrality as “Sacred Cow”
Nothing changed for the IT from a century ago, then, not least their love for breathless accounts of English-speaking soldiers socking it to various foreigners overseas.
Right EWI! Remember the need to defend “little Catholic Belgium” when England was trying to recruit Irish soldiers for their imperialist objectives in World War 1!
Poor little Belgium. Which had Casement as an enemy because of what it was doing in the Congo.
CL - May 18, 2019
“In the first Gulf conflict of 1990-91 two notorious pieces of propaganda and misinformation greatly helped to rally support for the war by seeming to demonstrate the savagery and duplicity of the Iraqi government. The first was the appearance of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl before a US congressional committee to testify how, as a volunteer hospital nurse, she had seen Iraqi soldiers tip babies out of incubators and leave them to die on the floor. Her account was greeted with outrage until, some time later, it was revealed that the girl was the well-coached daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador in Washington who had never left the US during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait….
The verification of atrocities matters so much because if people are to try to have them stopped they must be sure that what they are told is true and not propaganda. One toxic impact of the anti-German lies told by First World War propagandists was that when, 20 years later, the Nazis did embark on mass slaughter, the evidence of their crimes was at first treated with extreme scepticism.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/patrick-cockburn-lies-damn-lies-and-reports-of-battlefield-atrocities-2299701.html
IRISH TIMES AND IIEA (Chair Ruairí Quinn, Former Labour Minister) Wants Irish Soldiers to Fight in War BETWEEN Nato Powers and to Abandon Irish Neutrality
Politico: EU warns Turkey over oil drilling in Cypriot waters
Greece and Cyprus urged EU to address alleged Turkish violation of exclusive economic zone. 5/10/19, 2:48 PM CET https://wp.me/pKzXa-Ut
SIBIU, Romania — EU leaders warned Turkey on Thursday to respect the sovereign rights of Cyprus amid a growing dispute over a Turkish oil drilling ship that entered Cypriot territory in the eastern Mediterranean.
Remember the British Using the Plight of “little Catholic Belgium” to recruit Irish troops during first world war!
14. kestrel - May 17, 2019
i have just been in to the local authority general office/motor tax/housing, etc. and i indicated to the young lady at the counter that there were circa. five or more people with their tickets waiting; whilst screened away, there were c.5 staff members in laughter and fits of giggles about the photocopier, holding up their mobile phones to each other.
‘oh, they are just at the photocopier’, the young lady said.
….. no allusion to the people waiting and who, imo opinion and experience, will be rapidly and incongrously rushed through.
Add in those responsible for making sure that the signage on darts shows the proper station coming up, and indeed the direction of travel.
15. Joe - May 17, 2019
And now we go to Episode Two of our comprehensive guide to the constituencies in the RoI local elections. Today we focus on the North Inner City Dublin constituency.
Six seats I think. Three SF candidates, 2 SocDem, 2 FF, 1 FG, 1 Lab, 1 WP, 1PbP, 1 Green, Burke Ind, Ring Ind, Flynn Ind. Interestingly no Gregory candidate ind.
If it is just six seats it’s a bit of a Group of Death, isn’t it?
Predictions? 2 SF; 1 FG; Burke; Ring; 1 Lab.
1 SF; 1FG; Burke; Ring; 1 Lab; 1 WP.
But it’ll be well worth watching… how will Flynn of Inner City Helping Homeless do? How will Brien of PbP and from Constitution Hill do? Why no Gregory Ind candidate? Has Ryan of WP any chance of holding her seat? And if she doesn’t where do WP go from there? And not being ageist but Burke, Ring and Labour’s Costello are all oul’ lads – which of their careers, if any, will come to an end on Saturday week?
That’s two separate predictions above, one on each line.
I wonder is there room for two ff here
Just been for a two hour walk with the dog around the Cabra Glasnevin and North Inner City constituencies. There’s actually three FF candidates in NIC – Khurshid, McMorrow and Mohan. Absolute madness on their part! They have no councillor there and they put up three candidates. Contrast with FG who have one councillor and have put up just him as a candidate. FG will get one and FF none.
Wonder is it cuteness by Mary Fitzpatrick to make sure she has no potential rival for the GE whenever?
Before I went for that walk an SF canvasser was at the door. Looking for a number one for O’Farrell, their second candidate. The canvasser was a very nice lad, from New Zealand originally, folks from Belfast. His first words were “Are you interested in the election?” When I told him I was big time, he was delighted. “Most people aren’t” he said. I remember it was soul destroying when you were canvassing and getting one meh after the other as you went from door to door.
Anyway I told him I was hugely impressed with O’Farrell’s cv and with SF’s commitment to the peace process. I specifically referenced the “we reiterate our support for the PSNI” statement after the Lyra McKee murder. Then I told him that I still couldn’t vote SF cos of the 70s 80s and 90s. He was good, saying I might give them a preference. I said not this time but keep it up and maybe next time. Maybe.
yourcousin - May 18, 2019
Jesus Joe, you should have just said, “stickie for life” and been done with it. Leading the poor kid on like that, tsk, tsk. 😉
Look, he came to my door so he has to take what he gets. In fairness, three or four elections ago I ripped up their leaflet in front of the canvasser and told them to get out of my garden. Progress. I don’t think I was unfair to yer man – he was happy to meet someone who was willing to talk to him. We agreed that when the demographics lead to a majority in the North for a UI, that the new arrangement has to give something to unionists in terms of their nationality and national allegiance.
But you have to get your money’s worth from whatever canvasser comes to the door. Believe it or not, Mitchel McLaughlin came to my door must have been 15 years ago and we had a great chat.
Maybe not stickie for life, but I can’t ever see myself voting for SF having lived through their ‘war’.
Colm B - May 18, 2019
Definition of convergence – Joe softens on SF, SF move from militarism to left-nationalism lite…until suddenly a lower preference becomes a second preference…becomes a first???
I always had a golden rule: never vote for bourgeois parties. Problem is my definition of bourgeois parties keeps changing!! At least you guys have PR, I have to contend with the awful first-past-the-post for Westminster elections – now that would test any socialist’s ethical voting practices.
Just giving you a razzing.
Razz away.
kestrel - May 20, 2019
really losin’ the will to vote in these local elections. the devastating ignorance to queries asked of the clerks, to me seems like these clerks are just purchased voters themselves.
I really think if anyone takes a case against a local council, that the actual local Councillors themselves must be in court, as instigators of such case.
these local elections just seem like every voter is writing away, handing away their own personal bit of power to some: private gang, or organisation, or the privately ambitious; who then will be ‘oh soo busy’ that they will deliberately manage not to progress or inform of anything.
Ha ha – baptism of fire from Joe.
It’s like when you invite the Jehovah’s witness in for a discussion of textual analysis of the bible.
17. Jim Monaghan - May 18, 2019
Passing through town, Dublin City Centre, I saw some quite political stuff written on a few Posters. Questions about McCabe and Tusla on Frances Fitzgerald. WQhile I figure vulgar abuse backfires, I thought these were legitimate questions. Saw Pesco raised on a FF poster. Maybe a newish way of intervening politically, especially with politicians not as open as they should be to public scrutiny.
18. Paul Culloty - May 18, 2019
Aontú surge! On a serious note, a real Green advance, which suggests they could win an MEP, especially in Dublin:
POLL: SBP/Red C
(in a general election)
May 9-16, double usual sample, MoE ~2%
Fine Gael 28 (-5 in four weeks!)
Fianna Fáil 24 (+1)
Sinn Féin 13 (-1)
Independents 14 (-2)
Greens 7 (+4)
IndAll 2
Sol-PBP 2 (+1)
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Great marches for a inclusive Europe across Europe today.
At least 150,000 in major German cities.
Scroll down for the map here:
https://yestochange.eu/
I make no apologies for quoting the English web site blurb:
The European election in May is a potential game-changer for the EU and its 500 million citizens. Huge numbers will be voting for decision-makers who champion positive change in Europe.
Europe is on the wrong track, but a better Europe is worth fighting for. A united Europe is our best chance to pull back the power of the far-right, limit corporation control, really tackle the climate crisis and address discrimination and rights violations, be it about women’s rights or immigration.
But Europe’s far-right extremists want to divide using fear and hate. Their next goal is the European Parliament. In the May election, they want to increase their power and dismantle the EU from within.
We will be disrupting this current political conversation of fear and hate by starting a new one focused on hope and change. Europe also needs to rein in the power of big business and put people before profit. The best thing we can do now is really engage in the European election so that the EU puts its original values – of rights, equality, solidarity and democracy – back into practice.
Great interview with the Bulgarian trades unionist Vanya Grigorova, who’s standing in the Euro elections here at Jacobin Mag.
Well Said UNA MULLALLY IN IRISH TIMES Today!
Una Mullally: Eoghan Murphy needs to get real or get out
https://wp.me/pKzXa-wc Previously one could say that maybe ministers were out of touch, or didn’t understand the experiences of a younger generation. But Varadkar and Murphy are that generation. Why don’t they care? The solutions to this crisis are staring Fine Gael in the face. Build more social housing. Build more affordable homes. They just don’t want to do it. Murphy and his department’s enthusiasm for doing anything but that simple solution, is getting more ludicrous and insulting by the day
On the eve of Saturday’s Raise the Roof housing protest in Dublin, Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy struck a tone-deaf note. Speaking on Newstalk, he said that “what we’re doing with co-living is bringing around another option, another choice for people”. “Co-living” is property business marketing language for high-density bedsits, a setting few aspire to live in. The privileged live in a world of options and choices. That is simply not the reality for those caught in the housing emergency. It’s time for Murphy to get real, or get out.
At the housing protest, the solidarity across all areas of Irish society was evident
Scandalous Anti-Human Savagery Implemented By Government including Ministers Finian McGrath, John Halligan and K. Zappone, Fianna Fail, in Backing Extremist Pro-Rich Housing Policy of FG and Varadkar-Paddy Healy
Well Said UNA MULLALLY IN IRISH TIMES TODAY! https://wp.me/pKzXa-wc
Paddy Healy: Mcgrath and Halligan should do the same!
A global, transational demos builds itself around the climate emergency.
https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/events/map
This Fridays strike for climate should be biggest worldwide yet. Be there.
Going too far?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/20/what-is-milkshaking-ask-brits-hurling-drinks-right-wing-candidates/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e4a1c38f34e5
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/05/lactose-against-intolerance-how-milkshake-became-tool-protest
“Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, with the sounds of the rebellion still ringing in America’s ears, Aron Kay railed against the establishment using a variety of creamy desserts.”
https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/activism-2/the-yippie-pie-man-americas-unlikely-hero-of-the-radical-left/
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Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn on the 2017 Reykjavik Open
On May 8, 2017 May 8, 2017 By Isaac SteincampIn Europe, Games and Puzzles
As many of you all know, I recently returned from my three month trip in Europe. While I was often the only American in many of the tournaments I attended, the Reykjavik Open, my final stop, drew many from the states overseas. My coach, Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn, made his first pilgrimage to Iceland, and shares his thoughts on the tournament with us here on Chess^Summit.
Chess^Summit: Iceland is pretty far from the US. What made you decide to play in Iceland?
Eugene made his way to Iceland before the start of the tournament to explore the countries many sites! He told me that he might have driven 1000 km in Iceland prior to the tournament!
Eugene Perelshteyn: I wanted to play in a strong tournament where it’s one game a day in a beautiful setting. Given that Iceland is only five-hour flight from Boston, I figured it would be a good idea to play there!
CS: The Reykjavik Open is already prestigious as far as open tournaments go. Have you played in any other famous open tournaments?
EP: I don’t think any of the Open tournaments would match it. I’ve played many US Championships, this would probably be the closest comparison.
CS: What is Reykjavik like? Did you get to explore Iceland before the tournament?
EP: Yes, I rented a car and explored Iceland for a week before the tournament! This is probably the best decision given how much natural beauty there is to see!
CS: You got to play Anish Giri in just round 3 of the tournament. What was that like? Is he the strongest player you’ve ever played?
EP: I would say he’s the highest rated played that I’ve ever faced (rated 2775). I was impressed by his opening knowledge. He showed a completely new plan in a sideline that I felt I knew well. But he’s already well-known for his openings, so it may not be that a big surprise. However, his technique and quick decision-making was duly impressive as he didn’t give me any chances by converting an extra pawn.
Eugene was the main focus of the tournament’s third round. Look’s like he’s caught Jobava’s eye!
CS: You put together a strong 7/10 performance in Reykjavik. What are your thoughts on your play – positives/negatives?
EP: On a positive note, I didn’t expect to have all ten decisive games! I managed to put together 7 wins. However, my loss to a talented Indian girl from a good position was probably the low point of my tournament. I have to say that she played well beyond her 2200+ rating!
My wins vs IM Piasetski and GM-elect Sarkar that both finished in mating attacks was a good recovery!
CS: While you had to play a lot of lower rated players, you also got to play Giri and Kamsky. How does a Grandmaster improve from these experiences? Is this different from how an amateur might respond from a critical game?
With only 7 minutes left on the clock, Eugene played 52. Ra8? and lost, but the tricky move 52. h5! holds the balance.
I definitely learned a thing or two from playing Giri! My game vs Kamsky was evenly matched until I miscalculated and had to defend a rook and pawn endgame down a pawn. Yet, while we both thought I was lost, I had a feeling there may be a draw. And, indeed giving up the second pawn 52.h5 draws! The lesson: never give up and keep looking for chances!
CS: Would you recommend the Reykjavik Open to American players? Do you think you would play in the event again?
Yes, I would definitely recommend it, especially if you’ve never been to Iceland. The only thing I didn’t like about the tournament is allowing players U2000 in the open section. While I understand that it gives amateurs a chance to face a titled player, I think it creates a strong rollercoaster-like conditions for everyone else where you play either 200-300 points up or down (end of interview).
Some of the American team at the conclusion of Reykjavik
One game I was particularly impressed by was Eugene’s triumph over FM Victor Plotkin in the fourth round of the tournament. Looking to bounce back with Black after losing to the eventual tournament winner, Eugene put together an instructive game to crush the Alapin Sicilian. By slowly building the tension and keeping the nature of the position, he exploited White’s lack of a plan. In many of my own posts, I try to show how this is an effective idea against roughly 1800-1900 rated players, but Eugene did it perfectly against a titled player rated nearly 2250! Eugene was nice enough to share a video analysis with us, and if you like his videos, I would recommend you visit ChessOpeningsExplained for more!
Hope you enjoyed this Reykjavik Open tournament wrap-up! We have one more coming later this week by IM Kostya Kavutskiy, who put together an amazing 6th place finish in Iceland with a 7.5/10 finish. If you recall, Kostya and I put together analysis videos for each round, so I’m excited to see what he has to say about one of his best tournament performances to date!
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Sophie Hartley and the Facts of Life
Greene, Stephanie
"Sophie, 10, doesn't want to turn into a moody teenager like her older brother and sister, and she certainly doesn't want to see The Movie (about gross adolescent body changes) at school. On the other hand, she doesn't want to be considered immature by her classmates"--
Publisher: Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2013.
Characteristics: 140 pages ;,22 cm
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"Resolving to avoid the drama displayed by her older siblings and embarrassed by an educational film about body changes at school, Sophie wishes she could perpetually remain 10 years old without her peers thinking she is immature. By the author of the Owen Foote series." Kids' Books February 2014 newsletter http://www.libraryaware.com/996/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/3100932d-b9be-4ff8-9612-81fd8d7488ca?postId=207f86e2-d1e6-46f0-aa8c-8f54f210b887
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The Best New Books of March 2019
There are . . . many.
Here’s the thing: March is stacked. This list is one of the longest we’ve compiled in a while. We’re sorry. Honestly, we try to keep these things to 10 books, 12 tops, but there are just so many fantastic releases this month that we couldn’t narrow them down any further. See below for plenty of great fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
By Helen Oyeyemi
Riverhead Books, March 5
“Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children’s stories—equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch’s house in “Hansel and Gretel” to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he can—beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe.”
By Tim Maughan
MCD x FSG, March 5
“The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.”
A Woman Is No Man
By Etaf Rum
Harper, March 5
“Set in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man is a story of culture and honor, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world, and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect.”
The Age of Disenchantments
By Aaron Shulman
Ecco, March 5
“A gripping narrative history of Spain’s most brilliant and troubled literary family—a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy—set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and beyond In this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetry of the Paneros, Spain’s most compelling and eccentric family, whose lives intersected memorably with many of the most storied figures in the art, literature, and politics of the time—from Neruda to Salvador Dalí, from Ava Gardner to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Bolaño.”
Mitochondrial Night
By Ed Bok Lee
Coffee House Press, March 5
“Taking mitochondrial DNA as his guide, Lee explores familial and national legacies, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn, and in her cry generations of women’s voices echo. Stories, both benign and traumatic, travel as lore and DNA. Using lush, exact imagery, whether about the corner bar or a hilltop in Korea, Lee is a careful observer, tracking and documenting the way that seemingly small moments can lead to larger insights.”
The Reign of the Kingfisher
By T.J. Martinson
Flatiron Books, March 5
“Thirty years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again under siege, in this gritty, suspenseful, and beautifully written novel from award-winning debut author T.J. Martinson.”
By Kathryn Davis
Graywolf Press, March 5
“The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to rise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there—paths on which they still seem to be traveling. The Silk Road also begins in rivalrous skirmishing for favor, in the protected Eden of childhood, and it ends in the harrowing democracy of mortality, in sickness and loss and death.”
Famous Men Who Never Lived
By K. Chess
Tin House Books, March 5
“For readers of Station Eleven and Exit West, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities, the communities that come together through circumstance, and the power of art to save us. Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York.”
Woman 99
By Greer Macallister
Sourcebooks Landmark, March 5
“Charlotte Smith’s future is planned to the last detail, but so was her sister’s—that is, until Phoebe became a disruption. When their parents commit Phoebe to a notorious asylum, Charlotte knows there’s more to the story than madness. Shedding her true identity to become an anonymous inmate, “Woman Ninety-Nine,” Charlotte uncovers dangerous secrets that haunt the asylum. Insanity isn’t the only reason her fellow inmates were put away—and those in power will do anything to keep the truth, and Charlotte, from getting out.”
Deaf Republic
By Ilya Kaminsky
“Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.”
By Halle Butler
Penguin Press, March 5
“Thirty-year-old Millie just can’t pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates wildly between self-recrimination and mild delusion, fixating on all the little ways she might change her life. Then she watches TV until she drops off to sleep, and the cycle begins again. When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to bring the better life she’s envisioning – one that involves nicer clothes, fresh produce, maybe even financial independence – within reach. But with it also comes the paralyzing realization, lurking just beneath the surface, of just how hollow that vision has become. Darkly hilarious and devastating, The New Me is a dizzying descent into the mind of a young woman trapped in the funhouse of American consumer culture.”
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
By T Kira Madden
Bloomsbury, March 5
“Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight.”
Another Kind of Madness
By Ed Pavlić
Milkweed Editions, March 12
“Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can’t protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite: Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day and a self-taught piano player by night. The love story that ensues propels them on an unforgettable journey from Chicago’s South Side to the coast of Kenya as they navigate the turbulence of long-buried pasts and an uncertain future. A stirring novel tuned to the clash between soul music’s vision of our essential responsibility to each other and a world that breaks us down and tears us apart, Another Kind of Madness is an indelible tale of human connection.”
Dragonfly Sea
By Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Knopf, March 12
“On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself—from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship’s journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy.”
If, Then
By Kate Hope Day
Random House, March 19
“In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities. Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family, has a baffling vision of a beautiful co-worker in Ginny’s own bed and begins to doubt the solidity of her marriage. Ginny’s husband, Mark, a wildlife scientist, sees a vision that suggests impending devastation and grows increasingly paranoid, threatening the safety of his wife and son. Samara, a young woman desperately mourning the recent death of her mother and questioning why her father seems to be coping with such ease, witnesses an apparition of her mother healthy and vibrant and wonders about the secrets her parents may have kept from her. Cass, a brilliant scholar struggling with the demands of new motherhood, catches a glimpse of herself pregnant again, just as she’s on the brink of returning to the project that could define her career.”
By Johnathan Carr
Henry Holt, March 19
“A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago’s 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus.”
The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution- and How We Can Fight Back
By Gary Fuller
Melville House, March 19
“Gary Fuller’s global story examines devastating incidents from London’s Great Smog to Norway’s acid rain; Los Angeles’s traffic problem to wood burning damage in New Zealand. Fuller argues that the only way to alter the future course of our planet and improve collective global health is for city and national governments to stop ignoring evidence and take action, persuading the public and making polluters bear the full cost of the harm that they do. The decisions that we make today will impact on our health for decades to come.”
A People’s History of Heaven
By Mathangi Subramanian
Algonquin Books, March 19
People’s History of Heaven centers on five best friends, girls who go to school together, a diverse group who love and accept one another unconditionally, pulling one another through crises and providing emotional, physical, and financial support. Together they wage war on the bulldozers that would bury their homes, and, ultimately, on the city that does not care what happens to them.”
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
By Sarah Pinsker
Small Beer Press, March 19
“The baker’s dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and even multiple selves on generation ships and cruise ships, on highways and high seas, in murder houses and treehouses. They feature runaways, fiddle-playing astronauts, and retired time travelers; they are weird, wired, hopeful, haunting, and deeply human. They are often described as beautiful but Pinsker also knows that the heart wants what the heart wants and that is not always right, or easy.”
By Bryan Washington
Riverhead Books, March 19
“In the city of Houston – a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America – the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston’s myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wing, a reluctant chupacabra. Bryan Washington’s brilliant, viscerally drawn world vibrates with energy, wit, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms.”
Scared Violent Like Horses
By John McCarthy
Milkweed Edition, March 19
“McCarthy’s flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fun. He shows us a boy struggling to understand pain carried down through generations and how quickly abandonment becomes a silent kind of violence; “how we deny each other, daily, so many chances to care,” and how “we didn’t know how to talk about loss, / so we made each other lose.” Constant throughout is the brutality of the Midwestern landscape that, like the people who inhabit it, turns out to be beautiful in its vulnerability: sedgegrass littered with plastic bags floating like ghosts, dilapidated houses with abandoned Fisher Price toys in the yard, and silos of dirt and rust under a sky that struggles to remember the ground below.”
The Old Drift
By Namwali Serpell
Hogarth, March 26
“Three families intersect over three generations, traveling from India, Italy, England, and ultimately Zambia: a country that becomes a character in itself, from Livingstone’s “discovery” of Victoria Falls in 1855 to a brilliantly imagined Southern Africa of 2050. Split into three Books—the Grandmothers, the Mothers, and the Children—the story follows these families with beautifully human detail, all framed within an interstitial Greek chorus: the voice of a swarm of mosquitoes.”
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Patient Stories Jan 16, 2019
New Year’s resolution: Reach out. Reinforce. Repeat.
Three months ago, I was hearing strong messages from celebrities, politicians and community leaders: VOTE. Personally, I found the momentum exciting. While the 2018 election cycle got a lot of attention, even more important decisions will be made in government in 2019. The two-year legislative session in Wisconsin and the new Congressional session in Washington, D.C., kicking off this month, are where the action’s at.
Whether you’re a patient family, someone who provides care to kids or, like me, both, we have a serious responsibility to kids in Wisconsin. We must proactively communicate with those in power who will make decisions related to the health of children. I want to encourage you to embrace the New Year with a special resolution: connect with your legislators.
As a pediatric dentist at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, I help take care of many kids in foster care. Our team spends many hours navigating complicated consent processes for routine dental procedures. As a foster parent and a dentist, it never occurred to me that this could be fixed by talking about it with legislators. Policymakers may not know what our challenges are unless we tell them. All of us — health care professionals, parents, family members — play a critical role in communicating with government because it is so tightly woven into our lives.
I saw how important it is to speak up one year ago. As part of a larger effort to help improve Wisconsin’s foster care system, a bill was introduced to help children get the best and safest dental care. Last January, I testified in front of a legislative committee to share my experience. The bill passed, along with many other laws that helped improve the life of children in foster care.
Whether you’ve ever communicated directly with your elected officials before or not, they are eager to hear from you. Now is the perfect time to introduce yourself by email and remind them why keeping kids in mind is important to you and your family. The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin advocacy team has begun an email to get you started. The email will simply let your representatives know that if they ever have questions about your experiences as a parent of a child with special needs or as someone interested in strengthening Medicaid or as a public health nurse practitioner, for instance, you are there for them as a resource and advocate. No political experience is necessary on your end. It takes little time and the dividends are priceless.
The health of children isn’t a political issue. If more can be done to help kids, help be a part of the solution by connecting with the people who make decisions. A quick note to encourage collaboration could go a long way when your elected officials are facing important votes, budget talks and other decisions that will impact your family later. I did, and I can tell you it made a difference.
Colleen Collins Greene, DMD, MPH Pediatric Dentist Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin is committed to advocating on behalf of children and families at the local, state and federal levels to positively impact laws that affect their health and well-being. Advocacy efforts rely on dedicated volunteers who care about kids and want to make a difference. Our Children’s Advocacy Network (CAN) connects community members to our work, offering advocates the opportunity to contact their lawmakers on important policies and helps you to be a strong voice for kids and families. Join us!
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Our director of mental and behavioral health recently shared kids’ success stories with legislators in Madison in support of Assembly Bill 192.
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Can a human being really remain neutral?
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who,
in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
(photograph of Carl Lutz, Swiss Ambassador to Hungry, as seen from the cellar
where he and those he protected waited out the battle of the Soviets over the Nazi occupation)
I promise, really I do…..
I’ll get back to my focus on what I took away this week when watching our friend the
Wee Flea but first—- I have to share this story.
It’s a story I saw day before yesterday and it begged me to stop and
read further.
I did and I was glad that I did.
The story is a story with a back story….
and I believe it will be beneficial for us to first read the
back story in order to fully understand the front story….
of which is an end story…. which is really just a story about humankind.
How’s that for a story about a story??!!
I would think that most of us who know any little something about nations,
countries, Europe wars, etc, knows that that tiny land locked country of Switzerland
is and has always been known for being fiercely neutral.
It has watches and clocks.
It has the Alps and skiing.
It has snow and the Matterhorn.
It has Heidi and cows.
It has chocolate.
It also has neutrality.
As in it maintains a fierce state of neutrality.
The words ‘fiercely neutral’ almost rings of an oxymoron…..
because when one thinks of the word and notion of being neutral and of neutrality,
one would naturally think nonchalant, laid back or indifferent…
not seemingly to care one way or another as to what’s going on around
say, in the neighboring countries.
Think of it like “we’re neutral, we’re not getting involved with that…”
sort of mindset.
Switzerland is globally recognized as a Neutral Nation.
Meaning Switzerland doed not engage in wars nor will it get involved.
Despite having a military requirement that all young Swiss males serve two years in
the Swiss Army.
My husband has a life long Swiss friend who has shared his tales of committal to a
military inscription as a young man. He marvels that I would love to have had his
Government issued Swiss army blanket as those original blankets now command a
pretty penny.
According to a story on the BBC Travel section, the Swiss have not always been
a neutral nation. I found this to be quite interesting.
Their past, it turns out, might actually appear to be a bit more unsavory than
gallant as they started out not so much as indifferent as they did fortuitous mercenaries.
According to Merriam Webster a mercenary is of a person,
or the behavior of said person, which is primarily concerned with making money
at the expense of ethics.
That doesn’t sound too much like someone interested in being a
humanitarian or neutral now does it??
And even currently found on the Swiss government’s website it states that not only is
the nation to focus on the country’s humanitarian bent
(think Red Cross on flag for a reason)
it lists some of the rules: The country must refrain from engaging in war,
not allow belligerent states to use its territory and not supply mercenary troops to belligerent states….
Hummmmm…..
According to Billie Cohen the author of the article,
even the way the country is set up seems like the epitome of peaceful
coexistence. Politically it’s a direct democracy;
culturally it recognises four language groups;
and as you crisscross the cantons, you feel like you’re visiting four countries:
Italy (in Ticino), Germany (in Zurich), France (in Geneva)
and a unique descendant of the Roman Empire (in Grisons).
I’ll let you click on the link below for the full story of Switzerland’s neutrality
as it is rather interesting but suffice it to say that being a mercenary nation
became no longer advantageous nor profitable as the Swiss were militarily routed
by both the French and Venetian forces in 1515.
Selling out then to France, as acting bodyguards to the King, became the path of least resistance and least painful….that was until a certain French Revolution
rolled around, as heads were also rolling, so thus a rethinking,
or more like a redo or makeover, was in the works.
Neutrality it would be.
But then the World Wars happened, and that reputation was sorely tested,
especially during WWII when Switzerland controversially bought Jewish gold from Nazi Germany and refused Jewish refugees.
“From a Swiss perspective, [neutrality] was successful in so far as Switzerland
wasn’t involved in fighting,” Goestchel explained.
“There have been many debates if Switzerland was really neutral,
especially in WWII, but it wasn’t involved in fighting activities.”
( http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170717-the-country-that-cant-choose-a-side)
And so it helps for us to understand Switzerland as a whole before we can fully
appreciate the story a certain Swiss diplomat…..
All of this—this particular story, makes me wonder….
It makes me wonder as to how is it that I can still be amazed??
How can there continue being tales of such goodness and quiet heroism that just
seem to keep popping up out of the blue during a time of such horrendous darkness?
Just when you’re pretty certain you’ve read or heard all there is in the way of
the positives during the World’s greatest time of negative…
something else is uncovered, unearthed and brought to light…
One of those still hidden, yet rare tiny gems.
And so is the story of Carl Lutz.
Mr Lutz was a Swiss diplomat who had served his diplomatic time in the 1930s
in Palestine.
(Remember Israel was not yet a nation…that was after the war in 1948)
He was up and transferred to Budapest in 1942—a rather precarious time
for a transfer during what was shaping up to be a full blown European war.
Upon Lutz’s arrival it became most apparent quite quickly that Hungary’s Jews were in
grave peril and Mr. Lutz realized that in his position,
that of a lone diplomat in a country that no longer had an American or British embassy,
it rested upon him and a handful of others to do something drastic.
Dubbed Switzerland’s Schindler, Lutz got to work.
As one of a few remaining diplomates Lutz was to act as “diplomat” for those
countries no longer represented in Hungry. He was to represent the interests of those countries who had removed their staffs due to the war.
So Lutz went about the task to create a slew of protective passports under the guise of various countries….and not for just individuals, as he had lead German authorities
to believe, but rather passports to entire families.
He also fudged his number counting hoping that the Germans would not notice.
For those Jewish families and individuals who he could not spirit out of the country,
he found and created 76 safe houses and places that he could hide them away—
away from the Nazis seeking to deport all of Hungry’s Jews to the Death Camps.
It is estimated that Lutz saved the lives of 62,000 people.
“It is the largest civilian rescue operation of the Second World War,” says Charlotte Schallié.
Other diplomates still living in Budapest did the same. Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish envoy did his share to assist the Jews. But it was Lutz who made the decision to use
his own Embassy as a safe house.
After the war, when he finally returned home to Switzerland, it was not to a
hero’s welcome as one would imagine. Instead Lutz returned across the border alone.
There was no congratulations from his colleagues or Government but rather a
stinging rap on the knuckles, a reprimand for overstepping his boundaries and
for being what was thought to be careless and foolhardy.
Yet Lutz’s selflessness and humanitarian bravery has not gone totally unnoticed.
Over the years Lutz was awarded honors from Israel, Hungry, The UK, The United States
and slowly even Switzerland has made a few memorials to one of their own who
when push came to shove chose to take a stand rather than to stand by in neutral
watching thousands of men, woman and children being sent to certain death.
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot.
Would that you were either cold or hot!
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold,
I will spit you out of my mouth.”
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In the Milky Way Transit Authority, Samuel Arbesman has taken the subway map infographic style and applied it to the Milky Way, using stars and nebula as the station points. The lines do correlate to the spiral arms of the galaxy.
Each line on the map corresponds to an arm of the galaxy, and the ‘stations’ are places in their actual locations, albeit stars, nebula and other astronomical objects. The inspiration for the schematic representation came after he re-read Carl Sagan’s novel ‘Contact’, which alludes to a cosmic Grand Central Station. The idea drew him to analyse the first modern subway map, London’s Tube map, which was designed by Harry Beck.
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Throwing the Book at Civic Knowledge
Years ago, education advocate Mary Ann Sullivan invited me to visit the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School—then a new charter school in Indianapolis.
We drove to the Meadows neighborhood, had breakfast in a school conference room, heard from Principal Marcus Robinson and met some of the founding board members.
Then we got a history lesson I’ve never forgotten. Here’s how I told the tale in 2006:
On the first day of school, eighth-grade history teacher George Barnes took aim at tradition. With all the arm strength of the former Butler University football player he is, Barnes heaved a history text across his classroom. The book flew past his students’ stunned faces and crashed against the wall.
Barnes asked the shocked teens: “If you were recording for history what you just witnessed, what would you say?”
“Some,” said Barnes, “said, ‘That Mr. Barnes, he’s a crazy man. He’s insane. We’d better worry about our lives.’
“Others,” he said, “suggested I must have been aiming for so-and-so’s head, because she was talking in class.
“Then I told them that if I were writing that history, I’d say, ‘Oh, my hand slipped.’ And if that’s the only history they ever read, the ‘truth’ would be that my hand slipped.”
Then Barnes explained to his students why he threw the book. He wanted to get their attention. He wanted to demonstrate that he doesn’t teach from a text. And he wanted his students to learn, via their own reporting, why: Because history is a matter of perspective. And different people have different perspectives. So instead of any single text, Barnes uses myriad books, websites, papers, speeches and other sources.
“History is not an exact science,” Barnes said. “Yet too often, we believe what we learn in history is gospel, definite fact, the way it is.”
I remembered this story when the Associated Press reported on emails from former Indiana governor and now Purdue University President Mitch Daniels. Daniels was concerned about a history book written by the late Howard Zinn.
“This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away,” Daniels said of Zinn in an email to state education officials. “The obits and commentaries mentioned his book, ‘A People’s History of the United States,’ is the ‘textbook of choice in high schools and colleges around the country.’ It is a truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page.
“Can someone assure me that it is not in use anywhere in Indiana? If it is, how do we get rid of it before more young people are force-fed a totally false version of our history?”
When his education adviser reported that Zinn’s book was being used along with others in a course at Indiana University, Daniels quickly responded: “This crap should not be accepted for any credit by the state. No student will be better taught because someone sat through this session.”
Something tells me that instead of throwing the book at Zinn’s book, Mr. Barnes would have assigned comparison-and-contrast lessons between Zinn’s version of history and those of others. And had he done so, his students would have walked out of Tindley’s classrooms and into Daniels’ Purdue University and other colleges not with a set of memorized, single-perspective “historical facts,” but with the ability to question, discern, reason, shape opinions, defend those opinions and compromise.
Sadly, our students and citizens are sorely lacking in these abilities—as well as a basic knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and the civic process by which we govern ourselves.
Last week, at an ACLU program called “The Constitution: Peruse It or Lose It,” my IUPUI colleague Sheila Kennedy spoke of a research study that found only 36 percent of Americans can even name the three branches of government. She noted that in our educational institutions, we test what’s deemed important, and that Indiana students are not tested on their knowledge of civics. In fact, said Kennedy, when she conducts her own tests of U.S. civic literacy, only her foreign students pass.
Given their media habits, Hoosier adults are likely as ill-informed as their children.
At the same ACLU event, Michael Gordon, an educator from Munster, cited a study showing that 40 percent of Hoosiers look at only one source of news per day. No comparison. No contrast. No questioning. No discerning. Just Fox News. Or MSNBC. Or Rush Limbaugh. Or “Entertainment Tonight.” Or “Sports Center.” Or “Good Morning America.” Or “The National Enquirer.”
French lawyer, diplomat, writer and philosopher Joseph de Maistre said, “Every nation gets the government it deserves.”
If we, as citizens, don’t do a better job of learning, teaching and actively engaging in what Gordon calls “civic knowledge, civic skills and civic disposition,” then we’ll almost assuredly get the government, leaders and policies we deserve.
That, sadly, would be something to throw the book at.
Bruce Hetrick is an Indianapolis-based writer, speaker and public relations consultant. He is also visiting professor of public relations for the IU School of Journalism at IUPUI. His column appears twice a month at ibj.com and contributes regularly to the Civic Blog. He can be reached at bhetrick@ibj.com.
This post was originally published in the Indianapolis Business Journal on August 10, 2013 and republished here with the permission of the Author and the IBJ.
Tags: ACLU, Civic Health Index, Fox News, Howard Zinn, IUPUI, Joseph de Maistre, Michael Gordon, Mitch Daniels, MSNBC, Munster, Rush Limbaugh, Sheila Kennedy, Tindley Charter School
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Cleveland Teen Makes Candles To Spread Positivity
After his own struggles with depression and suicide, Josh Ruminski started Happy Thoughts Candle Co. to promote good vibes and suicide prevention.
Josh Ruminski can’t remember a time when he didn’t want to make people smile. But the 18-year-old also can’t remember when he wasn’t struggling with depression.
After surviving two suicide attempts when he was 12 and 15 years old, the Cleveland native wanted to make candles in scents that could conjure happy memories with just a flick of a match. Since launching Happy Thoughts Candle Co. in 2016, the St. Martin de Porres High School senior estimates he’s made more than 200 different scents of his soy candle.
“Research says that a memory is about 10 times stronger if it is associated with a scent,” Ruminski says. “I thought that if I can create scents that can help bring memories that are happy for people, that maybe it can overpower those negative thoughts.”
Memory Gains: Almost every candle holds a specific memory for Ruminski. His favorite, Blueberry Pumpkin Patch, reminds him of a great day at a pumpkin farm. “I burn that candle in challenging times to remind myself that happy times are ahead,” he says. He also has scents such as lemon and bamboo that are proven to increase serotonin levels, which improves mental health.
Can Do: To make his candles, he purchases tomato sauce in 8-ounce cans, pours it into freezable bags and then donates the sauce to two local homeless ministries and a youth ministry. “I grew up volunteering almost every Saturday with the homeless in Cleveland,” he says.
Home Base: Ruminski, who stocks his candles in five shops, hopes to have his own storefront one day. But for now, he and his parents create, package and ship his candles out of their West Side home. “We make about 96 candles every night,” he says.
Helping Hand: Ruminski puts encouraging phrases such as “go smell the flowers” on the packaging along with the number for a suicide prevention hotline. “I want to show people that they aren’t alone,” he says. “We all need to lean on each other sometimes.”
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The CPHT HPD Course is accredited by the following bodies :
Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH)
AfSFH’s aim is to increase the public’s awareness of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy and its associated benefits. The Association also provides information and advice to qualified hypnotherapists and those who are currently training as well as Register of all member Hypnotherapists who practise Solution Focused Hypnotherapy. It is a course requirement to register as a Student Member of AfSFH by month three of training. (see Fees Additional Costs)
www.afsfh.com
National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH)
The National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH) has been approved as an NCFE centre and the HPD has been accredited by the NCFE to guarantee that it is of a high standard and meets the rigorous requirements of a national awarding organisation.
www.hypnotherapists.org.uk
General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC)
The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) and General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) are the UK’s largest and most prominent organisations within the field of Hypnotherapy and together present an exemplary model for the simultaneous protection of the public and the provision of practitioner credibility and services. The GHR is a professional association and register of practising hypnotherapists, comprising in excess of 3,000 UK based individual practitioners, together with registered therapists in some 35 countries around the world.
www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com
NCFE
When you successfully pass the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diplomac (HPD) you will be awarded a certificate of achievement by NCFE. The Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD) has been accredited by the NCFE as having measurable learning outcomes that have been benchmarked at Level 4 (using Ofqual’s Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) level descriptors). NCFE accreditation gives assurance that the content of the hypnotherapy training course is of a high standard and meets the rigorous requirements of a national awarding organisation. NCFE accreditation also gives formal recognition to our hypnotherapy training courses which result in the ‘award’ of a certificate of achievement. This award does not qualify you for a nationally recognised qualification. The NCFE is recognised as an Awarding Organisation by the qualification regulators for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
www.ncfe.org.uk
National Board for Modern Psychotherapy (NBMP)
The National Board for Modern Psychotherapy was primarily set up to increase the public’s awareness of Modern Psychotherapy and its associated benefits. Modern Psychotherapists use the best available resources, including the latest understandings of the brain, the use of trance and measured outcomes on each session.
www.nbfmp.com
All these associations are ‘Verifying Organisations’ for the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) – see below.
Upon successful completion of the HPD Course you are eligible for membership of the following bodies :
General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP) awarded by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council
Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)
Graduates of this course (HPD) will be eligible to register with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). The Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD) also meets all the ‘Learning Outcomes’ of the “Complementary and Alternative Healthcare – Hypnotherapy” National Occupational Standards.
For more information see www.cnhc.org.uk.
Professional Letters
Graduates of the HPD Course are entitled to use the following professional letters after their name :
DSFH* HPD** AfSFH*** MNCH(Reg)*** GQHP*** NBMP(Reg)*** CNHC***
These are explained below:
DSFH : Diploma in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, equivalent to the USA ‘CHt.’
HPD : Hypnotherapy Practitioners Diploma
AfSFH : Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy
MNCH(Reg) : Registered membership of the National Council for Hypnotherapy
GQHP : General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice awarded by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council
NBMP(Reg) : National Board for Modern Psychotherapy
CNCH : Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council
*Subject to successful graduation
**Subject to external accreditation
***Subject to membership
Graduates may also join the National Hypnotherapy Society (HS) after they have achieved HPD.
Graduates may also join the National Council for Psychotherapy (NCP) after they have registered with CNHC.
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What is Rugby?
Wheelchair Rugby is a mixed team sport for male and female quadriplegic athletes. A unique sport created for athletes with a disability, it combines elements of rugby, basketball and handball. Players compete in teams of four to carry the ball across the opposing team’s goal line. Contact between wheelchairs is permitted, and is in fact an integral part of the sport as players use their chairs to block and hold opponents.
Who Can Take Part?
Wheelchair Rugby is played in manual wheelchairs specifically designed for the sport. Players must meet minimum disability criteria and be classifiable under the sport classification rules.
There are seven classes ranging from 0.5 to 3.5 with functional characteristics identified for each athlete class. In general, the 0.5 class includes those athletes with the most disability and the 3.5 class includes those athletes with the least disability or “minimal” disability eligible for the sport of wheelchair rugby.
In international wheelchair rugby the total number of points allowed on court at any time for each team is 8.0. That is, the total points of all four athletes actually playing cannot exceed 8.0 points. A team may play with a lineup that totals less than 8.0 points, but not more.
International Wheelchair Rugby Federation
The International Wheelchair Rugby Federation governs and promotes the sport of Wheelchair Rugby. Wheelchair Rugby is a Paralympic sport, with twenty-six countries competing in international competition and more than ten others developing national programs.
CPISRA is currently developing an adapted form of ambulant rugby suitable for individuals with cerebral palsy. Contact craig.carscadden@cpisra.org for more information.
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All children and young people “have the right to say what they think should happen when adults are making decisions that affect them and to have their opinions taken into account” (Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child).
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This resource was developed by CREATE in consultation with clubCREATE members and Young Consultants with an aim to explaining to case workers and carers why supporting children and young people to participate in decisions is worth the effort.
Participation – Information for Case Workers & Carers
Whilst children and young people’s participation is often promoted across the out-of-home care (OOHC) sector, policy makers, practitioners and young people sometimes struggle with how good intentions can result in meaningful change. The Children and Young People’s Participation Strategy represents a commitment from the OOHC sector in Queensland to listen and engage at both a systems and individual level. This document is useful for both policy makers and practitioners alike:
Queensland’s Children and Young People’s Participation Strategy
It is important to understand that the concept of participation can have different meanings in different cultural contexts. In the below video two Aboriginal CREATE Young Consultants talk about what participation means to them.
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Whilst many aspects of health need are the same as the general public, there are sometimes significant differences, particularly in relation to conditions attributable to service life and the impact upon families. These differences can be reflected in the way in which healthcare is delivered, the range and types of some specific services provided and the long-term impact upon patients and families.
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The Armed Forces Covenant sets the following goals with respect to healthcare:
Members of the Armed Forces community should enjoy the same standard of, and access to, healthcare as received by any other UK citizen in the area where they live
Personnel injured on operations should be treated in conditions which recognise the specific needs of Service personnel
Family members should retain their relative position on any NHS waiting list, if moved around the UK due to the Service person being posted
Veterans should receive priority treatment (subject to the clinical needs of others) in respect of NHS secondary healthcare relating to a condition resulting from their service in the Armed Forces
Veterans should be able to access mental health professionals who have an understanding of the Armed Forces culture.
This is reflected in the NHS Constitution, which states ‘the NHS will ensure that in line with the Armed Forces Covenant, those in the Armed Forces, reservists, their families and veterans are not disadvantaged in accessing health services in the area they reside’.
The Covenant is an important aspect of our approach to care, especially as the Armed Forces community can be at a disadvantage due to their mobility, and frequent moves etc.
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Transition: service for those in transition, leaving the armed forces
The service works with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to offer mental health support for Armed Forces personnel approaching discharge.
Intervention: service for veterans with complex presentation
Service personnel approaching discharge and veterans will have an assessment within two weeks of a receipt of referral. If their needs are identified as more complex, they will be offered an appointment two weeks thereafter at the TILS. This will be with a clinician who has an expert understanding of Armed Forces life and culture. They may also be supported by a care coordinator who will liaise with other services and organisations to ensure a coordinated approach to their care.
Liaison: general service for veterans
Patients who do not have complex presentations, yet would benefit from NHS care, will be referred into local mainstream NHS mental health services where they will receive treatment and support.
Meeting the Healthcare Needs of Veterans
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Home Community Theater Review: ‘Steel Magnolias’ at Spotlighters
Review: ‘Steel Magnolias’ at Spotlighters
Max Garner
It’s the mid-1980s. The Oval Office is occupied by a former movie star, Al Gore has yet to create the Internet, and an aspiring actor from Alabama named Robert Harling lost his younger sister. Harling’s grief over her death inspired him to write a short story, then a play, then finally an award-winning film. All depict a version of the author’s family tragedy in a warm, loving light; and with astonishing humor.
‘Steel Magnolias’ at Spotlighters Theatre. Photo by Spotlighters Theatre/ShealyJaePhotography.
In Spotlighters’ current production of Steel Magnolias, its four-poster stage is transformed into a rural Louisiana beauty shop inhabited by a group of six southern women. They range in status from the late mayor’s widow to an abandoned bride whose runaway husband is a fugitive from the law. That these characters are partially defined by the men in and out of their lives isn’t all that surprising, given the age of the play; it also provides a context in which the audience is invited to celebrate how strong these ladies all are. If the setup sounds potentially troublesome for a community theater production in 2019, it is; but Spots does a laudable job here.
As two-thirds of the characters are women of a certain age, Steel Magnolias is a play rich with opportunities for older actors; and this cast contains some real gems. More about that in a moment. What Director Fuzz Roark’s ensemble lacks in racial diversity it makes up in chemistry: this group of performers not only draw together with grace and ease, they engage their audience.
Suzanne Young, as the shop’s owner, Truvy Jones, dispenses equal parts wisdom and mousse among her customers played by Hillary Mazer, Melanie Bishop, and Valerie Lash. These four are utterly convincing as lifelong friends who finish each other’s sentences and “laugh through the tears” together. Two younger women, bride-to-be Shelby (Karen Starliper) and newcomer Annelle (Erin Klarner) round out the group.
As the town’s power broker Clairee, Mazer delivers genuine sass, always with a beaming smile hidden just below her deadpan surface. Annelle (Klarner), the newcomer, is so tightly wound and twitchy she seems ready to come apart at the seams at any moment. Starliper’s pink-obsessed Shelby is fun and vibrant in ways that thoroughly win the audience’s sympathy in the second act. (If you don’t already know the story, wait to read the program after the play). Shelby’s mother is M’Lynn, who Bishop fills with firm stoicism just slightly tinged with vulnerability. Lash brings epic snark to her portrayal of Ouiser – hard as nails, with a heart of gold (natch).
Each of these women has a lot to do individually in this play, and the script gives them ample chances. The cast shines most brightly, though, as an ensemble that’s more powerful than the sum of its parts. They carry us along in a relaxed pacing that pushes the run time well past two hours. It doesn’t feel long, though so sit back and relax.
‘Steel Magnolias.’ Photo by Spotlighters Theatre/ShealyJaePhotography.
Set by Alan Zemla, lighting by Jessica Anderson, costumes by Laura Nicholson, props by Alexandra McIntosh, and sound by Roark all create a highly believable world in which Truvy’s business model “there’s no such thing as natural beauty” is brought to life with extraordinary accuracy and detail. Paul Saar pulls double-duty as stage manager and assistant director.
1980s top-40 hits fill the salon, at times underscoring a bit too loudly to hear the actors but always on-point to the period. The set and props masterfully make use of all the space available, and add whimsical details such as a hair-roller-decorated Christmas tree.
Running Time: Two hours and twenty minutes including a 15-minute intermission.
Steel Magnolias plays through July 14 at Spotlighters – 817 St. Paul Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. For tickets call (410) 752-1225 or purchase online.
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Max Garner is an administrator, producer, designer, and playwright based in Baltimore. He leads the independent company Rapid Lemon Productions, whose mission is to develop and present new works by local authors. Information at www.rapidlemon.com.
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EXCLUSIVE: Omari Hardwick, who stars as Ghost on Starz’s hit original series Power, has signed with WME. The move comes at a busy time for the actor, and ahead of the November release of Nobody’s Fool, Paramount’s Tyler Perry pic in which Hardwick co-star stars alongside Tiffany Haddish and Tika Sumpter.
Immediately on the horizon, he is set to star in his one-man show HerO: A Work in Progress with Omari Hardwick on June 29 at the Billie Holiday Theater at RestorationArt in New York. He also just wrapped on work on Max Martini’s upcoming Will Gardner opposite Dermot Mulroney, and he has the Boots Riley pic Sorry to Bother You and A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. due out later this year.
Hardwick won a Best Actor in a Drama Series Image Award this year for his role in Power, the crime drama that Starz already has renewed for Season 6. Season 5 bows July 1.
He continues to be repped by manager Estelle Lasher.
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2.0 Logistics
PEO EIS Annual Catalog Introduction letter
Command Group: Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS)
1.0 Communications, Computing Infrastructure and Core Enterprise Services
3.0 Human Capital Management
4.0 Financial Management
5.0 Acquisition
6.0 Biometrics
2.1 Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program (AESIP)
Project Manager: COL T. Patrick Flanders
Alexandria, Va.
A component of the GCSS-Army program, AESIP’s mission is to provide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) enterprise hub services, centralized master data management and business intelligence reporting.
The Army continues to modernize its ERP business systems to simplify operations, optimize processes and provide an accurate, enterprise view of business information to all users. AESIP is a key component of this initiative. AESIP integrates business processes and systems by serving as the enterprise hub for the Army’s logistics and financial ERP business systems:
• General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), the Army’s first financial system
• Global Combat Support System – Army (GCSS-Army), the tactical logistics system
• Logistics Modernization Program (LMP), the national logistics system
AESIP enables integration by linking business processes and data across existing IT systems. This integration optimizes business processes and supports enterprise-level information requirements. AESIP has successfully delivered a web-based solution for the creation and management of customer and vendor master data and implemented an optimized messaging and hub services capability.
AESIP houses and enables the Army Enterprise material master, which provides the Army with a single authoritative source for material data supporting all Army constituent systems, both modernized and legacy. This Army Enterprise material master provides the catalyst to manage, control, create, change, archive and validate data, while providing a single global view of material. This global view provides the basic building blocks for product lifecycle and weapon system management. Implementation of the enterprise material master enables inventory management, accountability, pricing, accounting functions and material requirements planning operations to be seamlessly integrated into the Army Enterprise vision.
AESIP services include:
• Enterprise hub services
• Enterprise master data management
• Business intelligence and analytics
2.1.1 Global Combat Support System – Army (GCSS-Army)
Product Manager: LTC Timothy Domke
http:// www.gcss.army.mil
To field an Army automated information system as the primary tactical logistics enabler to support Army and joint transformation of sustainment using an ERP system; reengineer current business processes to achieve end-to-end logistics and provide unclassified feeder data to applicable C2/joint systems; and implement tactical financial processes relating to supply and maintenance.
GCSS-Army manages the development, deployment and sustainment of the tactical logistics ERP solution for the Army’s logistics enterprise. GCSS-Army replaces the aging Standard Army Management Information Systems that manage Army tactical logistics and the associated financial management systems with one integrated solution.
GCSS-Army oversees the implementation of the tactical logistics and ERP solution to integrate business processes and offer an Army-wide view of logistics information from the battlefield. GCSS-Army allows commanders to anticipate, allocate and synchronize the flow of resources across all areas of operations. Army logisticians will realize significant improvements in mission performance over the current tactical logistics management information systems. GCSS-Army will replace aging, stove-piped tactical logistics systems and associated financial capabilities.
GCSS-Army, supported by laptops and AIT devices, provides essential functionality for limited disconnected operations and for connected operations using robust deployable communications to connect to a centralized database for all users at all echelons. Future increments of GCSS-Army will provide additional logistics capability.
2.1.2 Logistics Modernization Program (LMP)
Product Director, Mr. Gabriel Saliba
https://www.po.lmp.army.mil
To sustain, monitor, measure and improve the modernized national-level logistics support solution; transition services from contractor to organic support without performance degradation; deliver new capabilities to achieve Army Business Council (ABC) and DoD Enterprise Transition Plan objectives; address strategic Army/DoD business transformation elements; and, support DoD/Army ERP integration efforts and related end-to-end processes.
Army Soldier with interrogator in Southwest Asia.
LMP supports the Army national-level logistics mission to develop, acquire, field and sustain the world’s best equipment and services, providing Soldiers with a decisive advantage. LMP delivers an enterprise system for the Army Materiel Command (AMC) with a fully-integrated suite of software and business processes, providing streamlined data on maintenance, repair and overhaul, planning, finance, acquisition, and on weapon systems supplies, spare parts, services and material.
LMP Increment 1 is deployed to approximately 50 locations with more than 20,000 users throughout AMC and related major subordinate commands, depots and arsenals, as well as the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
LMP is a Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP)-based COTS solution that manages and tracks orders and delivery of materiel from the AMC to Soldiers where and when they need it. It is one of the world’s largest, fully integrated supply chain, maintenance, repair and overhaul, planning, execution and financial management systems.
Under the stewardship of PEO EIS, the LMP provides state-of-the-art automated support to the U.S. Army’s arsenal and depot activities worldwide by providing a modernized logistics and finance solution that allows the AMC to provide world-class logistics and finance readiness to Soldiers.
The support that LMP provides is critical to the Army achieving an integrated enterprise solution that enables materiel readiness and provides asset management and accountability, architecture and acquisition compliancy, and financial transparency from factory to foxhole. Through LMP Increment 2, the system will provide added capabilities supporting Expanded Industrial Base, Extended Ammunition, Non-Army Managed Items, Army Prepositioned Stock, National Maintenance Program, and other Army ERP/Defense Logistics Agency ERP integration efforts.
2.1.3 Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (AMIS)
Product Director: Mr. James Alexander
https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMIS/161348267264210?ref=hl#!/pages/AMIS/161348267264210
https://twitter.com/PD_AMIS
To provide and sustain premier automated transportation and IT solutions to the DoD, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and coalition partners with procurement and technical services related to the acquisition, operation and management of transportation and identification IT and infrastructure.
In September 2012, PEO EIS merged the Transportation Information Systems (TIS) and Joint-Automatic Identification Technology (J-AIT) product offices into one centralized source for Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (AMIS). This convergence of complementary capabilities increases the quality of both the Transportation Coordinators’ – Automated Information for Movements System II (TC-AIMS II) and the Radio Frequency In-Transit Visibility (RF-ITV) system capabilities, maximizes effectiveness and delivers the best value to our customers.
As part of this change, AMIS merges TC-AIMS II and RF-ITV capabilities. TC-AIMS II automates and manages the movement of personnel, equipment and sustainment cargo – maintaining visibility at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. RF-ITV produces, collects and integrates movement and ITV information through a worldwide infrastructure of mobile and fixed RF-ITV Read and Write stations and satellite transponder-equipped vehicles and servers, making ITV data available to users through a web-based tracking portal that shares the data with 35 other DOD systems.
AMIS is the DoD procurement activity for AIT and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products. AMIS provides complete product life cycle management, premier transportation and distribution IT solutions, transportation systems functional expertise and around-the-clock customer service support. AMIS solutions provide a suite of electronic tools to automate the movement, deployment and tracking of assets.
Advancing Solider Requirements
AMIS IT advances Soldier capabilities while continually leveraging the contrasting strengths of the diverse perspectives among customers in the active Army, the Army National Guard and the Reserves worldwide. AMIS is currently developing software improvements to TC-AIMS II Theater Operations (TOPS). The result of a yearlong Office of the Secretary of Defense-level ITV study and two Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statements (JUONS), these advances aim to provide DoD and the Army with improved visibility of personnel and equipment, positively impacting global DoD operations.
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'Shazam!' Director Reveals His Cameo
By Russ Burlingame - April 12, 2019 12:44 pm EDT
It has been over a week since Shazam! hit theaters, so while there are spoilers in this post, they are not plot-sensitive and filmmaker David F. Sandberg has apparently decided that the potential for spoilers is not great enough to dissuade him from sharing a look behind the scenes at his cameo from the DC superhero film. He revealed the cameo kind of gradually -- the character he appeared as in the film was a VFX-heavy role, so rather than just show a shot from the movie, Sandberg dropped a series of 9 process images, from taking a cast of his head to the final cameo in the film -- and then a tenth depicting a shot from the comics.
The image from the comics is by artist Evan "Doc" Shaner (he drew the Marvel Family in those Convergence: Shazam! comics), who also shared the post. He tweeted, "I don't want to go accidentally spreading spoilers but when the director of Shazam! includes one of my drawings from a billion years ago in a post I feel inclined to do so." While many directors elect to make cameos that are pretty minimalist, it is rare that a filmmaker will go so far out of his way as to make himself basically unrecognizable to anybody who does not already know what to look for. This one is pretty fun.
Since people have been asking about my Shazam cameo. If you haven’t seen Shazam yet, don’t swipe, run to the theater and see it!! Created by @aafxstudio
A post shared by David F. Sandberg (@ponysmasher) on Apr 11, 2019 at 4:38pm PDT
Here's where the spoilers are. What is the cameo? Well, as you can see in the Instagram post above, Sandberg plays one of a small group of suit-wearing crocodile men who appear in a scene late in the film. There are a number of doors to alternate worlds, and the crocodile men are found behind one of them. One of them gets up and charges at Shazam and his foster siblings, but they manage to close the door on him before he can come. The cameo is a fun Easter egg for longtime fans of Shazam!, but has potential to be even more than that, as Sabek -- a member of Mr. Mind and Dr. Sivana's Monster Society of Evil -- is also an anthropomorphized crocodile. Given that the movie ends with Sivana and Mr. Mind meeting for the first time, it would not be outside of the realm of possibility to think that we might see Sabek in a presumable second Shazam! movie.
Given that Sandberg has a history in horror -- and particularly in the same Blumhouse franchise as Aquaman director James Wan -- it is worth noting that he also has a kind of six-degrees-of-separation connection to the best Aquaman cameo -- that of Annabelle, the creepy doll from the Conjuring films. Not only did Shazam! have an Annabelle sighting, but the film did have another surprising toy cameo in the form of Hoppy, the Marvel Bunny.
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Getting to Yes: What It Takes to Land Construction Debt Today
By Matt Grossman September 4, 2018 9:45 am
Lenders of all stripes give construction loans close scrutiny before they reach for the 'approve' stamp. Illustration: Javier Muñoz
Commercial real estate, for all its intrigue and outsized egos, can be at times a rather staid business—just count the long hours spent fiddling with spreadsheets and attending breakfast panels at convention hotels.
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Still, sometimes the work provides its own brand of adrenal pleasures. When it comes to originating construction loans, even the coolest practitioners will tell you there’s nothing routine about handing a $50 million check to a developer with little more to show for his project than a business plan and an artist’s sketch.
“If you’re going to get into construction [lending], you’ve got to have a pretty strong stomach,” said Thomas Whitesell, the head of construction lending at CapitalSource, a big balance-sheet lender based in Maryland. “You have to structure loans for the issues you’re going to have—because every construction deal has issues.” The only thing that’s predictable, in other words, is unpredictability.
Right off the bat, that sense of hazard winnows the field of debt investors who are willing to take part. Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) lenders, for instance, are mostly off the table as a source of funding. Even though banks that originate securitized mortgages have lately grown ravenously competitive for financing opportunities, construction loans don’t match up well with the demands of securities investors.
“CMBS, and mortgage-backed securities in general, work well with long-term, fixed-rate loans with a somewhat uniform structure and relatively predictable cash-flow streams,” Joe McBride, a research director at Trepp, said in an email. “CMBS investors want longer duration bonds, [typically with an] eight- to 10-year weighted average life, so you need long-term loans as collateral. Also, construction loans often have future funding components where the loan balance actually increases over time based on different phases of development.” Bond investors would find it challenging to incorporate increasing loan balances into their debt strategies, McBride said.
That leaves more work in the construction loan space for banks and, increasingly, debt funds. To get a sense of their rapidly rising profile, search no further than one of New York City’s biggest financing deals of the year, advised Tom Traynor, an executive vice president at CBRE’s debt brokerage.
“Look at what Blackstone did for The Spiral with Tishman Speyer,” Traynor said, referring to Blackstone’s massive $1.8 billion loan on the 65-story skyscraper under construction at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards that closed in April. “In the past, that would have been a more traditional global bank loan—and Tishman Speyer has as many relationships [with big banks] as anybody else.” But they clearly found what they were looking for with the giant debt fund.
Because banks can be so hesitant to wade into a deal with any elements that threaten a routine and seamless buildout, even prolific developers with long track records can find it difficult to woo traditional lenders for projects that lie in any way off the beaten path. Michael Maturo, a managing director at RXR, recalled that the mega-developer first sought a bank to fund its massive Garvies Point project, a 1,100-unit development in Glen Cove, N.Y., on Long Island. But because the location is a Superfund site that once housed a munitions factory and will require significant remediation, traditional lenders weren’t interested.
“The banks had a hard time getting their arms around the project,” Maturo said. “So we went to the street to find [nontraditional financing from a source] that was able to underwrite the complexity a little bit better.”
In the end, construction money was lent by an alternative financing vehicle that sold the senior portion of the debt to a bank, Maturo said. (The executive declined to identify the lenders more specifically.)
Even as eager as funds are to dive headfirst into high-margin construction lending, however, they too have to keep in mind that markets often swing faster than I-beams can rise.
“In New York or in most gateway markets, when you’re making the decision to build something, the biggest question on sponsors’ and lenders’ minds is, where are we in the cycle?” said Jonathan Chassin, a managing director at Moinian Capital Partners, the financing arm of The Moinian Group. With 10 years of expansion in the books for the American economy, lenders like Moinian are forced to consider that a recession could hit before new construction projects have a chance to get out of the ground.
In that way, construction lending forces a conservative mindset on practitioners in all walks of the sector. Potential sponsors face stubborn gatekeepers long before their blueprints wind up on a lending committee’s conference table. In some cases, even though finance brokers work for borrowers, brokers might delay showing a perspective project to lenders if they doubt the proposition has the right stuff to win a debt deal.
“We have to first act as bankers ourselves [to study] the metrics of the deal and get to a certain comfort level,” said Dmitry Levkov, a managing director in Colliers International’s finance division. “We do a lot of work early in the process educating borrowers.”
If their study of a project raises questions about a borrower’s ability to see a project through to the topping out, Levkov’s team might simply tell clients thanks but no thanks. Putting a half-baked plan in front of the wrong lender could hurt not only the developer’s reputation but also that of the brokerage.
“A lot of folks run around trying to get financing, and we have to do our own due diligence,” said Jeff Donnelly, a finance broker at Colliers. When sharing potential deals with a lender, “you can’t bring in a parade of schmendricks.”
David Eyzenberg, an investment banker who arranges some commercial construction debt through his firm Eyzenberg & Company, said that the most mature finance brokers have the wherewithal to pick their spots carefully.
“When you’re just starting out [as a finance broker], you run around trying to slay the dragon. You pretty much take any” business you can get, Eyzenberg said. “Those that are more established are generally working only on deals that are executable. We find ourselves saying no [to] substantially more deals that come to us than we say yes to. I only get paid on success.”
Eyzenberg’s peers in the industry follow the same logic, he said. “The bigger shops clearly aren’t taking on a butterfly farm in Panama.”
If a project’s design, budget and lease-up appear unimpeachable, a borrower’s reputation and track record can sometimes be the deal breaker, especially if it’s a project under development by a small shop or under the aegis of an individual mastermind.
Gary Barnett, the founder and president of Extell Development Company, said that his firm’s high profile and strong track record go a long way toward opening access to construction financing. In the mid-2010s, the construction lending market briefly ran into the doldrums, but Extell was able to leverage its reputation to secure a syndicated bank loan for construction on a marquee Manhattan residential project, One Manhattan Square in the island’s Two Bridges neighborhood.
“It took us some time to get it done, but in the end, we got [financing],” Barnett said. “I think the market is open to well-thought-out plans.”
If constructions lenders sometimes seem stingy, Barnett argued, it might be developers who are in fact the guilty parties.
“It’s hard to get loans when the projects are not so good,” Barnett said. “You have a lot of projects today that have paid a lot of money for land…and now interest rates have gone up. The bankers don’t like projects that don’t pencil out.”
From Traynor’s previous experience as a real estate banker at Deutsche Bank, he said he knows firsthand how sharply lenders differentiate large institutional developers and smaller operations that aspire to manage construction projects.
“If it’s a sponsor no one’s ever heard of, that’s going to be a problem for us,” Traynor said. His practice at CBRE is focused on large-dollar financings that typically generate competition among lenders for the business—such as the process of securing a multi-hundred-million-dollar conversion loan for the Terminal Stores project in Chelsea, a former warehouse that L&L Holdings and Normandy Real Estate are converting into office space. But the market for lending to little-known developers is so different, in fact, that some finance brokers might specialize in those clients alone.
“We have competitors out there doing $50 million construction loans with guys you and I have never heard of,” Traynor said. “They may take that assignment on because they could be compensated very well,” given that finding a willing lender on a more obscure deal could involve an in-depth search. “It may make sense from a time-management perspective.”
Relatively unknown sponsors seeking bank loans may get more scrutiny than they would if they approached a debt fund.
“Banks have become more conservative,” said Richard Horowitz, a principal at finance brokerage Cooper Horowitz. “If it’s a sound sponsor, with a lot of equity…you’re going to get a loan from a traditional lender.”
Developers who lack a strong track record in a particular asset type, on the other hand, face an uphill battle. Some first-time builders who have experience buying and selling real estate enter the construction financing market thinking their property management expertise will make debt easy to obtain based on their experience. “But banks making construction loans don’t think the same way,” Levkov said.
If a sponsor proposes to build a new hotel, “the bank’s first question will be, ‘Have you ever built any hotels?’ If the answer is no, they’ll have to find a co-developer with experience building hotels,” Levkov said, adding that construction lenders’ pickiness means it takes many construction projects three to six months to match with a financier.
Lenders are just as cynical if a developer doesn’t have experience in a certain market or even with a specific mode of construction, according to Eyzenberg.
“If you’re a New York developer and you’re going to Atlanta to build for the first time, sometimes it’s problematic because you don’t know the local [fundamentals],” Eyzenberg said.
“The same is true if you’ve only built stick-frame and you want to build a 30-story concrete building. That’s really different.”
“People give you money because they think you can replicate your past success,” the investment banker added.
Donnelly agreed.
“If you just own or operate property, lenders don’t accept that experience [as being sufficiently relevant],” Donnelly, a Colliers executive director, said. “Very successful contractors are also under scrutiny as developers because it’s thought to be a different responsibility.”
Whitesell, the CapitalSource construction-lending manager, confirmed that many of the banks that are active in the sector draw up a rigid set of guidelines that approved loans must adhere to.
“A lot of banks have a philosophy [that a construction loan] has to fit into a box,” Whitesell said, an approach he thinks occasionally handcuffs his less creative competitors. “If you have a mentality like that, it’s not going to be as successful. You have to want to do construction with a lot of moving parts.”
If a borrower’s scheme does not conform precisely to banks’ specifications, projects can stall in front of institutional lending committees. Late last year, local developer Land South hired Eyzenberg & Company to arrange a $23 million construction loan for an entertainment venue and retail center in Myrtle Beach, S.C. But though the beach town is a popular vacation spot that attracted about 10 million tourists per year, banks hesitated to fund the project.
“We could not really get a local bank interested,” Eyzenberg recalled. “It was something new for that market, and the sponsor had not built anything like that before.”
In the end, Eyzenberg was able to secure a 60 percent loan-to-value financing from New York-based Gamma Real Estate, stating in an announcement about the deal that he received a term sheet from Gamma “within two hours.”
Debt funds, indeed, might take a more generous perspective of less experienced borrowers—provided they’re willing to pay the higher returns that fund investors want. Chassin, for instance, takes a glass-half-full view of lending to newer borrowers from his company’s fund-based platform.
“Relatively speaking, development is a better return than you’re getting just buying a building these days,” Chassin said. “If you’re a smaller developer and you’re looking to go up to a development bigger than anything you’ve done, we’re willing to take the risk.”
And because they’re not constrained by so-called high-volatility commercial real estate lending rules—federal statutes that require banks to maintain hefty reserves relative to the volume of construction loans they write—debt funds are frequently willing to deliver more debt at a higher leverage ratio for a given project.
“Funds are at times a little bit stronger on the dollars than banks,” said Abraham Bergman, a co-founder of New York mortgage brokerage Eastern Union.
Execution time matters as well. “Funds also promise a quicker yes or no. That’s a good thing,” Levkov said, “because it puts pressure on banks to speed up their decisions, too.”
On the other hand, banks can leverage the broader range of nonlending services they offer to come up with an attractive package for developers. Institutional lenders sometimes use the promise of a construction loan to goad a builder or property-management company into moving its deposit accounts to the lender’s books, agreeing to stretch to make an otherwise elusive construction loan if the borrower agrees to use the bank’s checking account to store cash.
“It’s easy to get a construction loan from a bank, but only if [the bank] sees an opportunity,” Donnelly said. It’s not unusual for banks to ask the Colliers broker to put his construction-lending clients in a room with their depository bankers. “If clients are smart, they’ll go along with it,” Donnelly said. Relationships like that also can lead to easier refinancings later on, he added.
Finally, developers’ ability to procure affordable materials and labor—and to manage the endless complications and contingencies of a full-scale construction project—raises yet more crucial questions for lenders of all stripes to grapple with before they reach for the “approve” stamp. When CapitalSource is making a construction loan, Whitesell likes to sit in a room with the potential developer and the lead contractor to watch how they interact.
“You can easily see in a conversation who has the upper hand,” Whitesell said. “‘What’s going to happen in this situation? What’s going to happen here?’ We know what questions to ask—[you learn from] making mistakes through the years.”
But though the list of snags like inexperienced builders, rising construction costs, ascending interest rates and skeptical banks filter which projects break ground, stakeholders on all ends of the deals agree that lenders have maintained their appetite for good opportunities.
On the whole, “Extell has not had any problem” finding construction funding, Barnett said.
“It’s been busy, though I wish it were a little busier,” Horowitz said. “If you have the right deal, it’s still going to get financed. There’s more capital than deals.”
With additional reporting by Max Gross.
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Keywords: Abe Bergman, Blackstone, CapitalSource, CBRE, Colliers International, David Eyzenberg, Deutsche Bank, Dmitry Levkov, Extell, Eyzenberg & Company, Garvies Point, Gary Barnett, Hudson Yards, Jeffrey Donnelly, Joe McBride, Jonathan Chassin, Michael Maturo, Moinian Capital Partners, RXR, Thomas Whitesell, Tishman Speyer, Tom Traynor, Trepp
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Automatically generating instrumental music for given lyrics
Lots of people are creative enough to write awesome lyrics, but they lack the musical knowledge to create songs with them. What if we had a program to generate a good song depending on the text input? That's exactly what AutoDJ does.
Using Microsoft's Text Analysis API from Cognitive Services, we analyse the key-phrases of the input text given by the user. We also look if it is happy / sad, using the sentiment analysis feature of the API. We compare the resulted features against a large collection of song lyrics, using the cosine similarity measure. The first few best matches are then fed into a Restricted Boltzmann Machine algorithm that generates a new song from them.
First we downloaded a large number of popular songs from YouTube (the instrumentals only) and their lyrics separately from different websites. Then we have a script that calls Microsoft's Text Analysis API and gets the key phrases for the user input, and compares it using the cosine similarity measure with the key phrases from all the lyrics downloaded. We take the instrumental songs of the best matches (encoded as .mid) and feed them into the neural network that generates a new .mid with similar sounding.
It's very hard to generate new music, as this is a cutting-edge current research topic. It is also very hard (and thus unreliable) to convert mp3s into midis. We had some troubles doing that, and even now it's not too accurate. Of course we also had the usual issues with permissions, dependencies, etc., but who doesn't have those ?
Actually managing to complete a pipeline user -> algorithm -> result -> user.
Quite a lot. Mostly about neural networks and language processing.
What's next for AutoDJ
Some extra features could be implemented such as improving the accuracy of similarity, by taking more details into account. Also we could have more than just happy/sad sentiments, and maybe even analyse the main topic of the text.
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youtube-dl
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OxfordHack
Winner 2nd Prize
Winner Microsoft Cognitive Challenge
Alex Radu
Another day, another app to build.
Andrei Muntean
Raul Ignatus
Alexandru-Paul Copil
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[PDF] Encyclopedia of American Disability History (3 Volume set)
Author: Susan Burch | Publisher: Facts on File | Category: Encyclopedias | Language: English | Page: 3 | ISBN: 081607030X | ISBN13: 9780816070305 |
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November 20, 2018, 08:01 GMT-0500 Fortnite
Fortnite’s Wild West Limited Time Mode will test your skills without high-tech weaponry
No fancy tech here, partner!
Bhernardo Viana
Image via Epic Games
Fortnite‘s 6.30 content update brought the new Limited Time Mode Wild West. As game developer Epic Games describes this Duos game mode, “no fancy tech here, partner!” Players don’t have access to items that wouldn’t exist in the American Old West on the 19th century.
That means most automatic weapons, sniper rifles, and all launchers are disabled in Wild West. The only guns players and their ally can use are the Hunting Rifle, Pump Shotgun, Double Barrel Shotgun, Six Shooter, and the Minigun.
Players have item restrictions. They can heal themselves with Bandages, Medical Kits, and Campfires, but the only way to get shield from items is from Slurp Juices found in Supply Drops. Mushrooms are still spread around the map and grant five shield each.
Supply Drops can also carry epic Six Shooters and legendary Double Barrel Shotguns or Miniguns. These are the items of highest rarity available in the game mode, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be the best.
The new explosive item Dynamite is debuting in Wild West. With its huge 800 damage to structures, players will probably have a hard time staying on their structures for long.
Glider re-deploy is enabled, so having your building destroyed in Wild West won’t be the worst thing that can happen to you in the mode.
Wild West will probably have a lot of close-quarters combat since most of the weapons available are horrible at distance. Players without a Hunting Rifle will be forced to approach their enemies aggressively to take advantage of shotguns.
As in every Limited Time Mode, players can join Wild West to complete challenges of their season six Battle Pass.
Wild West is already available for all Fortnite: Battle Royale players.
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Digital Preservation Handbook
Explore the Handbook
Digital preservation briefing
Organisational activities
Technical solutions and tools
Content-specific preservation
Illustration by Jørgen Stamp digitalbevaring.dk CC BY 2.5 Denmark
Welcome to the revised 2nd edition of the Digital Preservation Handbook. A key knowledge base for digital preservation, peer-reviewed and freely accessible to all.
"Overall the improvements to the Handbook make it, in my opinion, one of the more useful and flexible tools for identifying, understanding and getting to grips with practical approaches to the varying challenges of digital preservation. It uses approachable language, clear terminology and provides useful links to case studies and further reading which will be of benefit to students and practitioners alike." Stefanie Davidson West Yorkshire Archive Service
Digital information is increasingly important to our culture, knowledge base and economy. The Handbook, first compiled by Neil Beagrie and Maggie Jones in 2001, is maintained and updated by the DPC. This full revision (the 2nd Edition) has expanded and updated content to cover over 30 major sections (see Contents). The 2nd edition was compiled with input from 45 practitioners and experts in digital preservation under the direction of Neil Beagrie as managing editor and William Kilbride as chair of the Management and Advisory Boards. The Handbook provides an internationally authoritative and practical guide to the subject of managing digital resources over time and the issues in sustaining access to them. It will be of interest to all those involved in the creation and management of digital materials.
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Please use this form of citation for the Handbook: Digital Preservation Handbook, 2nd Edition, http://handbook.dpconline.org/, Digital Preservation Coalition © 2015.
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Evil buu
After Majin Buu dispelled the evil from his body a tall, thin, gray emaciated form appeared. This Evil Buu
represents the dark side of Fat Buu and has the bulk of the original Majin Buu's power, being that Majin Buu was originally created through pure evil. This also explains why his reaction to the shooting of Mr. Satan was so despicable, and even appalled the Fat Majin Buu. He is a polar opposite of the
"good" Majin Buu in all aspects apart from apparel, (except for him having a dark blue cape where Fat Buu has a purple cape), including the color of his flesh (a drab grey), his incredibly thin body, and gravelly manner of speech.
Evil Buu immediately proceeds to mercilessly eliminate crazed gunman Van Zant in the mountains. He then battles against Majin Buu, with the evil incarnation quickly gaining the upper hand and consuming "Good Majin Buu" after reflecting an attack meant to turn him into chocolate. Evil Buu then eats the chocolate Good Buu causing them to re-fuse, this time with the evil on the outside instead of the inside resulting in Super Buu.
Evil Buu appears as a playable character in the Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi series, under the name "Majin Buu (Pure evil)." In these games, he can use the Kamehameha but doesn't know the Chocolate Beam. His stats are very similar to Fat Buu's.
Because Evil Buu is directly split from Fat Buu it can be assumed he possesses the same techniques.The only technique unique to Evil Buu was an orange ball of energy similar to Fat Buu's
Koukyuu Gata Kikou Ha. Evil Buu charged up the ball and then used it to kill Van Zant. The technique decimated the gunman and the entire mountain he was on at the time.
Evil Buu has appeared in the following Dragon Ball related video games:
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi. Every form of Buu except Mega Buu, Frieza Buu, Cell Buu, Vegeta Buu, Tien/Yamcha Buu and Piccolo Buu is playable
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2. All forms are available except Mega Buu and Piccolo Buu
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Every form of Buu except Mega Buu and Piccolo Buu is playable
Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury. Various forms of Buu act as bosses
Majin Buu Saga
Fusion Saga
Japanese: Kozo Shioya
Ocean Dub: Brian Dobson (Evil Buu and Super Buu)
Funimation Dub: Justin Cook (Evil Buu and Super Buu)
Evil Buu's voice is high-pitched in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi. This is fixed later on. However, Evil Buu still only yells and grunts in the Budokai Tenkaichi games despite being able to speak in the series.
*Evil Buu is the only Buu form to refer to himself with correct grammar (without the absorption of Piccolo). He says "I'm Majin Buu" instead of Me Majin Buu or simply Buu like all other forms. This could mean he is the most intelligent of the four main forms.
He is the only form of Buu not to display any stretching of his body parts as well as the shortest lived Buu, his appearance has little over half an episode in the anime.
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I Never Ate for My Father
"I Never Ate for My Father"
Season 2 Number 3
Rob Ulin
Tom Trbovich
"Family Challenge" "Charlene's Tale"
"I Never Ate for My Father" is the third episode of season two of the family sitcom Dinosaurs and the 8th episode overall.
Robbie doesn't feel that he's cut out to be a carnivore like the rest of his family. When he tries being an herbivore, his parents try to reinforce the ethic that the smaller are eaten by the bigger.
Retrieved from "https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/I_Never_Ate_for_My_Father?oldid=2300432"
2 Mulan (2020 film)
3 Descendants 3
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New " Back into Cars 2 " Featurette !
Pixar relleased a new featurette about Cars 2, and there is plenty ofnew clips from the movie inside it! and specially new shots of the Paris and Italy sequence! Have a look!
The Cars 2 poster above is coming from a triptych. Here is the two other parts, related to the Japan and London sequences...
...and the original triptych with all three together.
Pictures and video: copyright Disney-Pixar
Publié par Alain Littaye à l'adresse 6:39 PM
Libellés : cars, cars 2, cars 2 featurette, john lasseter, oixar, pixar animation studios
Editor's Note: LOT of new Star Tours 2 articles today on my Star Tours 2 web site! gorgeous wallpaper high-res pictures, new videos of the pre-show movies, and always the Grand Opening and full-ride videos!
Star Tours 2 High-Res "Wallpaper" Pictures
Disney released a selection of gorgeous Star Tours 2 high-res pictures. Let's begin by the one showing the decor of the Starspeeder room, Captain Rex and one of the AA droids of the second room.
There is 14 more high-res pictures awaiting you on the D&M Star Tours section, and it's HERE!
Libellés : Star Tours High-Res "Wallpaper" Pictures
Star Tours Grand Opening ! First Official Star Tours 2 Video ....and more !
Here it is, the first official video showing the Star Tours queue decor and clips from each destination! Have a look at it, and then jump to the D&M Star Tours 2 section for more about ST2 Grand Opening, Disneyland ST2 "early departure" event as well as the first FULL RIDE video!
Video: copyright Disney - Lucas Film Ltd
Libellés : star tour 2, star tours
Universal Studios Singapore Madagascar Flume Ride Finally Open ! Full Ride Video
The awaited "Madagascar, A Crate Adventure" flume ride is finally open at Universal Studios Singapore! The ride was expected to open last year but some problems were responsible of this long delay, and 14 months after the park's opening the ride is now open at USS.
It's a major six minutes long flume ride, with a lot of audio-animatronics, projection effects, smoke and water effects, and much more. And it's probably one of the major flume ride of the year. Thanks to dejiki you'll be able to see the full ride video.
I have a problem to have an opinion about this Madagascar ride as i've never seen the animated movie! Apparently the ride is full of scenes inspired by the movie, but as i never watched it, i am not in the best position to appreciate if they did a good job or not. Those of you who know the movie better than i do - it won't be difficult! - are welcome to leave a comment in the comments section. If just like me you don't know the plot of the original story, then jump to Wikipedia HERE to know more about it.
The Audio-Animmatronics may look less impressive than the one created by WDI but we must remember that here it's AA of animated characters - i mean, not humans. More surprising it seems there is no drop but one of the comments on the Youtube video said that "originally there was going to be a drop on this ride. But unfortunately, the drop caused water to get on the animatronics. They tried over and over again, and there was even a fire once..." If that is true this may be the reason why the ride looks more like a slow flume ride like It's a Small World than Pirates of Caribbean. Still, according to dejiki who did the video the families seems to enjoy the ride very much, and for him, Madagascar, A Crate Adventure is "better than Winnie the Pooh and It’s a Small World at Hong Kong Disneyland" nd that "Some have said that overall, MCA can be compared to the Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! at Disney California Adventure".
Anyway, you're probably curious to discover this new flume ride so here is the full ride video thanks to dejiki, and once you've watched it jump on his web site where you'll see more pictures and comments on the ride!
Video: copyright dejiki
Libellés : Madagascar A Crate Adventure, madagascar ride, universal singapore, universal studios
First Star Tours 2 Commercial !
Editor's Note: Want to see the first Star Tours 2 commercial featuring many Star Wars characters like Darth Vader, Admiral Ackbar, Chewbacca as well as a host of other characters in the background, including Boba Fett, Stormtroopers, Jawas, Ewoks, Emporers Imperial Guards, a Tusken Raider and even a member of the Cantina Band? Then, jump to the D&M Star Tours section HERE!
Picture: copyright Disney - Lucas Film Ltd
Libellés : darth vader, star tours 2, star tours 2 commercial, star wars
Pirates of Caribbean "On Stranger Tides" Review
I was invited last monday at the press screening of Pirates of Caribbean "On Stranger Tides" and here is my review. So, did i liked it? Yes i did - not as much as the first POTC movie, though, but i think it was pretty good. I specially enjoyed the Rob Marshall filming that i found a bit more "stylised" than the three first movies. I will try to don't spoil in this review the whole story but i warn you that there will be some inevitable spoilers below.
What i can say is that the storyline is a bit like "Treasure Island" - a group of people are sailing overseas to find an island - except that in this case they are "three" groups who don't look for an island with a treasure but with the fountain of youth. Which, i agree, is a different kind of "treasure".
I liked very much the beginning in London - an old 18th century London to be precise. Captain Jack Sparrow try to help one of his friend to escape...only to discover that someone else is using his name to enroll sailors for a long trip overseas. However Jack is captured and it's in this opening sequence that we also see the return of Barbossa, played by Geoffrey Rush. Below, a short clip of Jack's escape in London in front of the king of England.
The trip to the fountain of youth island will not be that easy, specially considering that they need to capture a mermaid for a reason i don't disclose here. The mermaids sequence is one of my favorites and i think they did a pretty good job on this one. More adventures awaits Jack and his friends before they arrive at the fountain of youth and i let you the pleasure to discover them.
About the actors, now. Johnny Depp is playing Jack Sparrow just like the filming didn't stopped since the third movie, but there is nothing really surprising in the way he plays it. Ian McShane is playing a dreadful Blackbeard - who is able to create zombies - and is very good, and Geoffrey Rush playing Barbossa is absolutely formidable. But Geoffrey is such a great and enjoyable actor that each scene he's in is saved by the way he acts. Penelope Cruz is not bad at all, actually. She is Blackbeard's daughter and she is doing a good job, just like Astrid Berges-Frisbey who plays one of the mermaids.
There is less supernatural elements than in the three previous POTC movies - the part with the zombies is very short - but the production of the movie is really good. Actually, they even succeed to place a scene from the POTC attraction, and it's the one that DLP guests can see at the end of the ride when you're in the treasure grotto scene. Just in front of the treasure there is the "captain cabin" scene with a skeleton sitting in an old luxurious bed, and you will see the same scene inside the Ponce de Leon ship, a spaniard ship who disappeared since 200 years and that everyone is looking for for reasons you will see in the movie.
This next video will show you some scenes with Blackbeard and also the zombies and the mermaids.
A few last words about the 3D. As usual 3D is used to give some depth and there is just a few pop-up effects, but not mre than five or six. Personnally i think that in this case the 3D, although well done, doesn't brings a lot to the movie and i even think that i would have prefered to watch it in 2D. If you can't see it in 3D, don't worry, you won't miss a lot.
Just let us know in the comments what you think of this Pirates of Caribbean "On Stranger Tides"!
Pictures and videos: copyright Disney
Libellés : geoffrey rush, johnny depp, pirates of caribbean, Pirates of caribbean "on stranger tides", Pirates of Caribbean 4, rob marshall
Star Tours 2 Pre-Show Videos - Plus: On Ride Audio !
Disney fans who were at WDW last week-end had the luck to try the awaited Star Tours 2 and it seems that everyone is pretty enthusiastic about the new version of the ride. Videos were not allowed inside the attraction whether it was in the pre-show or the ride itself but the will of transgression was too strong for some of them and on my latest post on the D&M Star Tours website you will find some videos that will show you more of the pre-show decor. AND also the full on-ride audio of one Star Tours 2 trip!
Jump to the D&M Star Tours website to watch and hear all this!
Libellés : star tours, star tours 2, star wars, tom fitzgerald, walt disney imagineering
WDS Ratatouille Dark Ride Artwork and Blueprint Unveiled !
The always excellent Mouetto from Disney Central Plaza forum found the blue-print and some artwork of the awaited Ratatouille dark ride, expected to open at the Walt Disney Studios in 2013. If everything goes well, i.e if the park succeed to have the agreement of the banks for the needed amount of money.
It's a great find from Mouetto who found these documents at the Chessy City Hall. The construction permit has been approved and is now - according to the french law - available to be seen by anyone.
The artwork above shows how the area will look and, as you can see, when WDS guests will enter the Ratatouille area they will see Paris building facades as well as a fountain. You'll note also the Gusteau sign on the top of the left building, identical to the one we saw in the animated movie. On one of the building a "patisserie" sign might indicate that a food store will be here but this can change. One thing is sure, there will be a restaurant and if there is a logic it should be a table service restaurant with a decor identical to the Gusteau's restaurant. Note that this is my own thoughts about the decor but once again this would be a logical choice. Close to the restaurant, on the right, the entrance of the Ratatouille dark ride.
The next document is a blueprint showing the location of the Ratatouille area. As expected it is located near Toy Story Playland, behind the costuming building and near the back exit of TSP through the giant blue barrel. The facility is really big and my feeling is that there is not more than 40 meters between the TSP exit and the entrance of the Ratatouille ride. Also, i'll be curious to know how they will hide the back of the costuming building which is very near from the Ratatouille facility.
This last document is perhaps the most interesting as it shows the whole mini-land in 3D. As you can see the main building - which will be used mainly for the ride is really huge, not only in length but also in height as it's even higher than the four storeys Paris facades. Even if the part in the foreground is kept for the restaurant and shops the main building is really big and the question is: why is it so high? Will the attraction vehicle go up and down? We'll know more about this in the future but for now let's have a closer look at the entrance - on the bottom right - where we can see that an outside queue area has been designed to protect WDS guests from the rainy days that can happen in Paris in the winter.
In a previous report i've posted pictures of the road going from the main entrance of TSP to the Ratatouille area. The road is already designed like a Paris street - with cobblestones and typical Parisian benches and lampposts - and i re-post here these pictures.
Click on the panoramic picture below to see it in larger scale.
A sculpture of Gusteau - Ratatouille's chef - was sculpted on the arch sticked to the blue barrel. It is now hidden but as you can see on the picture below it's really the case and it's really a sculpture of Gusteau.
The picture above was shot by Alexandre Rosa, a former Disney and more contributor, during the cast member TSP preview days. Two days after the land opened for annual passholders soft-openings Gusteau's sculpture was hidden as you will see on the pictures below.
At that time there was a good reason for that - there is always a good reason for anything done by WDI Imagineers! - and it was that DLP execs prefered to keep secret for a while the future land which will open during DLP 2013 fiscal year. No more Gusteau's sculpture means no questions from the guests, etc...
Unfortunately, all signs related to Ratatouille couldn't be hidden beginning by the face of Remy, Ratatouille's main character that anyone can see on EACH bench of this Parisian street. Have a look at the picture below...
Don't see Remy? Okay, let's have a closer look. Do you see him now?
The next panoramic, shot from the Parachute Drop attraction, will show you the area where the Ratatouille ride will be build. The building you see on the right is actually located backstage and is the "costuming" building where cast-members come each morning to pick their costume - a Paris backdrop is supposed to hide the building along the street when the Ratatouille ride will open. And on the left of this building, behind the blue barrel, is the land reserved for the Ratatouille ride and Paris area.
Christian, from www.eap-magazin.de sent me this picture showing the land where the Ratatouille ride will be build. Note that there is on the left more land that you don't see on the picture. As you can see it's a pretty big area and I wonder if they will keep the big trees located at the center of the land... my feeling is that they will keep them and it will be a good idea.
Now, when will Ratatouille open at WDS? Of course it all depends of when the works will begin. And the sooner will be the better as i've learned that WDI Imagineers needs apparently two years to build everything and one year to install and test the ride. One full year to install and test the ride might seem a long time to you but i remind you that Ratatouille will use a trackless vehicle system, will have a lot of 3D projections effects and that, basically, it's a new kind of ride for WDI Imagineers. The Little Mermaid which will open June 3 at DCA is a classic onmimover ride in comparison.
Even if eventually they can reduce the timing to 21 months they need to begin the works next September to have an opening Summer 2013. And to begin the works they need the money green light from the banks. And so, you ask? Well, from what i've been told, the Ratatouille budget - for the whole area including the restaurant - is close to $165M, if not more. That makes 116M euros right now and the park needs probably more money for the 20th Anniversary events. Which, i agree, is quite a lot of money for a park that is always in a difficult financial situation. So, we better cross our fingers that the banks will give their green light for the Ratatouille ride and as soon as possible if we want to enjoy in 2013 what will be an amazing E-Ticket ride!
Pictures: copyright Disney or Disney and more
Arch with Gusteau's sculpture picture: copyright Alexandre Rosa
Libellés : ratatouille, ratatouille dark ride, toy story playland, walt disney imagineering, walt disney studios
New DCA Attractions Posters !
Disney parks unveiled three new attraction poster swhicg will appear soon at DCA Blue Sky Cellar. From the top: posters of the Little Mermaid, grizzly River Run Rapids and Goofy's sky School. Click on each to see them in bigger size.
Also released, the visual of a Larry Nicolai painting created in tribute to the ride. Larry said: "I really wanted to do a commemorative painting of Ariel that was both a portrait of her and also summed up the attraction in an allegorical way. I couldn’t cram every fish from “Under the Sea” into the composition, but her friends Flounder and Sebastian are there, along with some specific props that reference back to the attraction". Prints of this artwork will be available at a Disney's The Little Mermaid Product Debut & Signing event Saturday, June 11, 2011 between 10am to 1pm at Treasures in Paradise at Disney California Adventure. Larry also said that "a print of the concept painting that I did a couple of years ago for the attraction’s 86-foot-long load area mural" will also be available.
All pictures: copyright Disney
Libellés : attraction posters, goofy's sky school, grizzly River Run Rapids, the little mermaid, walt disney imagineering
First Star Tours 2 Reviews
Editor's Note: The first Star Tours 2 reviews are appearing on the web, mostly from cast members or from Disney fans who are currently at the WDW Destination D event. You can read a selection of them on the D&M Star Tours web site HERE and i also remind you that the ST2 Grand Opening will have a LIVE webcast next Friday May 20th at 10am Florida time!
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Disneyland Paris Hotel Charming Christmas Decorations and 2018 Gingerbread House
The Disneyland Paris Hotel has lovely Christmas decorations including this year Gingerbread House, two giant Christmas trees, one in the hotel lobby and the other in the Castle Club rotunda, surrounded by plushs, toys, and even electric trains. Both Max and Robert Stallard, regular D&M contributors have shot pictures of these and you have below their pictures, starting by those of Robert that you can follow on his Facebook page HERE.
And now, here are Max pictures with close shots of the Gingerbread House. You can follow Max on his DLP Welcome website HERE.
Here is a video of the whole thing, filmed by Max.
And for those of you who have never sleep at the Disneyland Paris Hotel, here are more videos , the fitrst one below showing the charming rooms and swimming pool.
The next video show you the Sleeping Beauty Suite - right after some guests left the suite so don't pay attention to the used towels in the bathroom- which is the one in which Michael Jackson was sleeping when he stayed at the hotel.
More DLP updates will come soon, in the mean time don't miss the Christmas special offer for the last copies of the 320 pages book Disneyland Paris book "From Sketch to Reality" atthe best price available on the web!
From Nov 15 until January 10 it's Christmas Special Offer on the LAST English copies of the acclaimed Disneyland Paris book "From Sketch to Reality" and if you own an Apple device get in addition for FREE the eBook English edition when it will be available in 2019, allowing you to read the book wherever you are. And the eBook edition incllude more than 60 video links to the best available videos of the park! It's your last chance to get a printed copy of this gorgeous book at a reasonable price, no kidding! The book is sold on Amazon by others sellers at $2000 or more - check this HERE - and it's the last time you'll find it at its original price!
Lecteurs Français: Etant donné que l'édition française est épuisée, tout acheteur de l'édition anglaise recevra gratuitement l'édition française eBook du livre! Et l'édition eBook contient plus de 60 liens vidéos d'une délection des meilelures vidéos du parc! Note Importante: cette offre avec l'eBook est réservée à ceux possédant du matériel Apple ( iPhone, Ipad ou iMac ) nécessaire pour pouvoir liire l'eBook.
Here is all you need to know to order a copy of the "Disneyland Paris From Sketch to Reality" book with the special offer. First, it's a 320 pages book with 750 pictures of the park including 250 WDI artworks! It's also probably the best Christmas gift you can find for a Disneyland Paris fan - and it is true! Have a look below to the mosaic pictures showing a selection of pages of the book.
To place your order for the DLP book, please send me an email at: amplittaye@gmail.com with your shipping address. The price during the special offer is 100€ and shipping worldwide is 22€ ( except Belgium and Italy for which it is 29€ ).
Also, each order will receive GREAT surprise gifts! ( and believe me they are really great! )
You can pay with Paypal, credit card or bank transfer. For Paypal payments please send directly the full amount including shipping, i.e 122€ worldwide, except for Belgium and Italy for which it is 129€ at: nme4@wanadoo.fr If you wish to pay by credit card and bank transfer, send me an email at: amplittaye@gmail.com and i'll tell you how to do.
If you've never seen the book before, don't miss the video below or on Youtube HERE showing the full 320 pages of the book!
Pictures: copyright Robert Stallard, DLP Welcome
Videos: copyright DLP Welcome, D&M
Libellés : Christmas Decorations, Disneyland paris hotel, DLP 2018 Gingerbread House
Watch Bangkok Icon Siam Stunning Waterfall Magically Changing Its Shape Each 15 Seconds
The video below is showing the new amazing Bangkok Icon Siam Waterfall. Since the last 20 years we saw incredible fountains shows - from the famous one of the Bellagio in Las Vegas to the one of the Macau Wynn Hotel, and now the new trend seems to have moved to create stunning waterfalls in which the falling water can take any shape.
This new 20 meters high waterfall at Icon Siam in Bangkok is truly amazing, and, if i'm right, it shows something that you've never seen yet in any Disney theme parks or resorts, so don't miss this 3.23 minutes video during which the shape of water changes randomly each 15 seconds! Definitely watch the video full screen mode.
Picture and video: copyright Disney and more
Libellés : Bangkok Icon Siam, Icon Siam Waterfall
Natacha Rafalski Appointed as Disneyland Paris President
It took months since it was announced that Catherine Powell ended her position as Disneyland Paris President, but that's it, today Disneyland Paris has a new President as DLP announced the appointment of Natacha Rafalski to the position of President, effective immediately! Here is DLP full corporate release:
Natacha Rafalski has had a 23-year career with The Walt Disney Company, holding a variety of senior leadership positions throughout the world. She joined the Disneyland Paris team in 2017 as Chief Financial Officer and since then has taken on responsibility for real estate, transformation, corporate alliances and operating participants.
The announcement comes from Catherine Powell, who recently served as Présidente of the resort before being promoted to President of the Disney Parks Western Region in March 2018 and now has responsibility for Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort and Disneyland Paris.
“It is a very exciting time for Disneyland Paris as we continue to transform our organization and move forward with the expansion of our resort,” said Catherine Powell. “Natacha has proven to be an exceptional leader with a global viewpoint who has the versatility and experience needed to lead the continued success of Disneyland Paris.”
In this role Natacha Rafalski will be responsible for bringing Disney magic to life for nearly 15 million guests each year at Disneyland Paris, Europe’s top tourist destination and the beacon of Disney in the region. She leads a multinational team of 16,000 Cast Members and oversees two theme parks, eight themed hotels, a 27-hole golf course and Disney Village, a themed dining entertainment and shopping destination.
She will also oversee the ambitious expansion plan for The Walt Disney Studios Park announced earlier this year. “I am incredibly honored and excited to assume this position at such a transformational time for the resort,” said Natacha Rafalski. “France holds a special place in my heart, and I’m looking forward to leading and growing the business as we continue to build on and expand the promise of Europe’s top tourist destination.”
Prior to joining the Disneyland Paris team Natacha Rafalski was CFO for The Walt Disney Company Greater China headquartered in Shanghai between October 2013 and October 2017. During that time, she provided instrumental leadership related to various major strategic initiatives and spearheaded work that continues to drive long-term financial growth to that region.
She began her career with Disney in 1995 and has held various positions in corporate treasury and finance including a key role on the Shanghai Disney Resort negotiation team. Prior to this she held roles that included oversight for corporate finance and projects related to Disneyland Paris.
Natacha Rafalski has been a key champion and leader for Diversity and Inclusion at Disneyland Paris, establishing a woman’s leadership group, D Elles P and encouraging Cast Members to form a network dedicated to women.
In addition to the many initiatives she continues to lead for Disneyland Paris, she was among the 2017 winners of Profiles in Diversity Journal’s 16th Annual Women Worth Watching® Awards.
Natacha Rafalski was born in Montreal, Canada, and raised just outside of Paris, France. She holds an M.B.A. in Finance from Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.A. in Mathematics/Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California.
D&M wish the best luck to Natacha Rafalski in her role as DLP president.
Pictures: copyright Disney
Pixar Announces New Animated Film "Onward", To Be Released in 2020
Pixar Announces New Animated Film Titled "Onward", to be released in 2020!
Onward is directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae, the team behind Monsters University. The film is set in a suburban fantasy world and introduces two teenage elf brothers who embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there. “At Pixar we try to create stories that come from some kind of personal truth,” said Scanlon. “This film was inspired by my own relationship with my brother.”
Pixar Animation Studios revealed four members of the film’s voice cast, which includes Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Tom Holland (Spiderman: Homecoming), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), and Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water).
No other picture than the one above with the title was released but Onward will come to a theater near you on March 6, 2020.
Picture: copyright Pixar
Libellés : Pixar Onward
First Look at Disneyland Tropical Hideaway Opening Soon
Disney Parks released the first pictures of the awaited Tropical Hideaway restaurant at Disneyland which will be opening soon at Adventureland!
This exotic marketplace is the go-to destination for discovering extraordinary eats from all corners of the world. Set along the Jungle River waterfront, it’s also the perfect spot to sit and relax in between adventures—perhaps with a refreshing Dole Whip! After sunset, flickering torchlights add to the evening ambiance.
Travelers can reach The Tropical Hideaway across its main bridge, through Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room or along “Skipper’s Walk,” a pathway leading from the Jungle Cruise loading dock.
Colorful wildlife can also be found at the Hideaway. The stars of the Enchanted Tiki Room live in small birdhouses that dot the roofline, each personally labeled. Can you spot them?
One cockatoo who has packed up her bags and spreading her wings is Rosita. As she waits on the dock for her boat to arrive, this friendly bird makes small talk with visitors!
Below : Paddles on the wall of The Tropical Hideaway.
Below: The Tropical Hideaway at Disneyland park Lost and Not Found items, at The Tropical Hideaway.
The trader’s market is filled with details to discover around every nook and cranny. Disneyland look forward to welcoming world travelers soon at The Tropical Hideaway!
Libellés : disneyland, Disneyland Tropical Hideaway, Tropical Hideaway Restaurant
A Closer Look at DLP Walt Disney Studios Marvel Land Artwork
Yesterday Disney released the above concept-art showing the future Marvel Land at DLP Walt Disney Studios. We already know that the land will include an Iron Man roller coaster inside the Rock and Roller Coaster building and a Spiderman attraction in the Armaggedon building - and that chances are high that it will be the same Spiderman ride than the one they build at Disney's California Adventure, but more about this later.
That said, there is more to say about this rendering and i suggest we have a closer look at it. First, we can see that they did their best to show the future land without showing too much of it, as not less than 19 people ( supposed guests ) are standing in the foreground and even more in the background hiding details ofthe land.
However, if we blow up the image some interesting details appear. Let's start by the right, showing the current Armaggedon building with its future look for the Spidey ride. Spiderman is hanging up there to make sure we get it, that here will be his attraction, and, yes, we got it. Under him Black Widow and Black Panther stand on an Avengers jeep and the big Avengers logo is on the right of the building. So far, this part of the artwork is quite clear.
Let's have a look now at the left part of the rendering...
The two people on the foreground hide as much as they can the building where is currently the Rendez-Vous des Stars restaurant but if we zoom even more on the visual we can see the letters "PYM" above the current entrance - see picture below - which is obviously a reference to Dr Hank Pym played by Michael Douglas in Ant-Man, the one who created the famous Ant-Man costume and we can guess that the theme of the restaurant will have a link with Ant-Man.
Let's have a look now at the center part of the artwork, the most interesting one. First, among the people standing in the middle we can see clearly THOR holding his hammer and apparently talking with a kid and some older person who looks to be ...Stan Lee himself as some DLP fans already noticed.
Now, let's have a look at the background, on the right, after the blue building, where we can see on an elevated platform the Quinjet - the Avengers plane. For your info, the Quinjet first appeared in The Avengers issue 61 on February 1969, and was designed by the Wakanda Design Group, headed by the Black Panther. The Quinjet is equipped with VTOL capability and five turbojet engines.
But why the Quinjet is located here, so close to the stunt show entrance? Well, actually the plan is to keep the stunt show for a while with a new Marvel storyline and theming but later - i.e in quite a few years - chances are that Disney will add the big Avengers ride - the one which will open in 2023 at HKDL Tomorrowland - after removing the stunt show.
There is more to see in the background and it's where will be the entrance of the Iron Man coaster. Right now we can see for the attraction facade a structure which envelops the building - with curves reminding a bit the ones of the beautiful TRON canopy at Shanghaî Disneyland, but don't dream to have a structure as big as the one at SDL because it won't be the case. Actually, i should say "guess" rather than "see" this facade as the rendering don't allow to see what will be the visual displayed on it. There is a good reason why they've voluntarily overexposed this part, and it's because Disney don't want you to see - not yet - what the visual will be as it would be a MAJOR spoiler. I think i have a pretty good idea what it will show but i've promised to don't talk so unfortunately you will have to wait that Bob Chapek will reveal it, most probably next year at the 2019 D23 Expo in Anaheim.
In the meantime, those who wish to guess can read again yesterday's D&M article HERE which was basically a copy and paste of the Disney Parks Blog post which included unvoluntarily a clue that can eventually help you to find ...if you're good enough to make links with ...something else. Good luck!
Libellés : Marvel Land Artwork, walt disney studios, Walt Disney Studios Marvel Land, Walt Disney Studios Marvel Land Artwork
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Publication:The Treasure of the Hideous One
[ The Treasure of the Hideous One]
System: Dungeons and Dragons 1e
Levels: 4 – 7
Author: David Cook
Publisher: TSR
Plot Summary[edit]
This adventure follows along relatively traditional paths. The group of player characters finds a message that indicates a long hidden treasure lies somewhere in a swampy region. An expedition led by an intrepid explorer attempted to find the treasure but came to an untimely end.
The group eventually fights their way through various enemies to secure the treasure and learn the fate of the original expedition. The module lists several possible treasures to choose as the final reward.
Despite the shortness of the adventure it requires a fairly advanced party because of the presence of Rosentos the Vampire.
Publication History[edit]
AC2 Combat Shield and Mini-Adventure was designed by David Cook, with cover art by Jeff Easley, and was published by TSR in 1984 as a cardstock screen with an 8-page pamphlet.[1]
The 10th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons Collector's Set boxed set, published by TSR in 1984, included the rulebooks from the Basic, Expert, and Companion sets; modules AC2, AC3, B1, B2, and M1, Blizzard Pass; Player Character Record Sheets; and dice; this set was limited to 1,000 copies, and was sold by mail and at GenCon 17.[1]:147
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Negotiating the Epistemologic Implications of Oenophilia
Italian-English wine glossary
Houston mourns the loss of beloved Italian wine professional Joseph Kemble
Posted on July 11, 2019 by Do Bianchi
Above: Jospeh Kemble in Cervia (Ravenna), Italy (photo via Joseph’s Facebook).
Today the Houston wine community mourns the loss of one of its most beloved members, Joseph Kemble, longtime Italian wine buyer for Spec’s retail operations and distribution.
According to numerous posts by his friends on Facebook, he died yesterday after a long bout with cirrhosis. He was 48 years old and would have celebrated his 49th birthday next month.
Joseph was a larger-than-life figure in the Italian wine world: as the Italian buyer for one of the largest retail chains in the country, with more than 150 locations across Texas, he oversaw one of the biggest Italian wine programs in the U.S.
He traveled regularly in Italy, tasting wines and visiting with winemakers. And he reveled in his Texan persona, so adored by Italian and American wine professionals alike. Many of them knew and referred to him affectionately as “Grappa Joe.”
His career in Italian wine mirrored and aligned nearly seamlessly with the Italian wine renaissance that took shape over the last 20 years. The son of a noted Houston hair stylist, he started working at Spec’s as a sales person and ultimately became one of its most influential buyers, developing an Italian wine program at a time when Texans had little interest in the category.
Over the last 10 years, as demographics and opportunity reshaped the Houston wine scene, his unbridled passion for Italian wine proved visionary. Today the city is home to one of the country’s most vibrant markets for Italian wine, a “must” destination for Italian winemakers and traveling Italian wine professionals. As a retailer and distributor of Italian fine wine, Joseph played an outsized role in making Houston into one of the most important Italian wine epicenters in north America.
An affable and colorful ambassador of his state, Joseph would don a classic oversized western-style belt buckle when he attended Vinitaly, the annual Italian wine trade fair in Verona. Although few of his Italian colleagues perceived his distinctive Texas twang, he was the embodiment of the Texan character that many of them knew from the movies.
Across his Facebook timeline yesterday and today, friends and colleagues have been posting heartfelt tributes and remembrances.
Sit tibi terra levis Iosephe. You will be sorely missed by your community on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Prosecco seminar and Bastille Day/birthday bash music this week and next in Houston
Back when I was living in New York City and playing with Les Sans Culottes and Nous Non Plus, we ALWAYS had a gig on my birthday, July 14 — Bastille Day.
It was only natural: as the city’s leading faux French rock bands, we were always in demand for the holiday, which is annually celebrated there with élan.
Sometimes we would play two gigs on the same day, usually at the Orchard St. Bastille Day festival during the day and then later that night at a club like the now defunct Brownies where the above picture was snapped in the pre-digital days.
This year, I’ll be playing on my birthday with our new 70s and 80s cover band BioDynamic here in Houston at Mongoose vs. Cobra where house mixologist Patrick Abalos will be serving a special cocktail list of French- and Bastille Day-themed drinks.
I’ll be breaking out one of my French-band-era costumes for the occasion and my famous Fred Buscaglione mustache.
Please dress as your favorite French revolutionary or cultural icon (Roland Barthes?) and join us! Details below.
And on Wednesday of next week, I’ll be co-presenting a Prosecco seminar with my friend and colleague Flavio Geretto of Villa Sandi (whom I’ve been doing some work for this year).
A Prosecco favorite son and a winemaker in his own right, Flavio is one of the greatest experts on Prosecco I’ve ever met. He’s also a lovely guy and we’ve had a blast traveling and pouring together this year. Please join us! RSVP to my email below.
70s and 80s covers
@ Mongoose vs. Cobra
4-8 p.m.
1011 McGowen St.
Prosecco Seminar
with Flavio Geretto of Villa Sandi
and Jeremy Parzen
@ Vinology
RSVP @ jparzen@gmail.com
2314 Bissonnet St.
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Prosecco DOCG named UNESCO World Heritage Site
Posted on July 8, 2019 by Do Bianchi
Above: a photograph taken in the hills of Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene during the 2018 harvest (via the Villa Sandi Facebook).
In a tweet posted early Sunday morning (EST), UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) announced that the hills of Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene have been officially “inscribed on” the World Heritage list, a coveted designation that adds the Prosecco DOCG appellation to an exclusive club of sites recognized for their cultural uniqueness, beauty, and significance.
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Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano a Valdobbiadene in #Italy 🇮🇹 has just been inscribed on @UNESCO #WorldHeritage List. Congratulations! 👏
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— UNESCO (@UNESCO) July 7, 2019
The following statement appeared yesterday on the UNESCO website:
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene (Italy) — Located in north-eastern Italy, the site includes part of the vinegrowing landscape of the Prosecco wine production area. The landscape is characterized by “hogback” hills, ciglioni – small plots of vines on narrow grassy terraces – forests, small villages and farmland. For centuries, this rugged terrain has been shaped and adapted by man. Since the 17th century, the use of ciglioni has created a particular chequerboard landscape consisting of rows of vines parallel and vertical to the slopes. In the 19th century, the bellussera technique of training the vines contributed to the aesthetic characteristics of the landscape.
With 55 sites included in the list as of 2019, Italy has more designations than any other country in the world (see the complete list on the Italian Wikipedia here). Other sites include the archeological excavation at Pompei in Campania and the viticultural landscape of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato in Piedmont.
The hills of Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene were considered but not included in the list during last year’s meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Committee. They are now the eighth site to receive the designation in Italy’s Veneto region.
J. Brix Chardonnay from Santa Barbara Calaveras County blew me away and other great wines (and guitars)
That’s Chris Broomell above, co-owner Vesper Vineyards in north county San Diego, one of the most compelling winemakers working in the state imho.
Writing on the fly I am this long holiday weekend in San Diego where I’ve been tasting with winemakers like Chris for the Slow Wine Guide 2020 (and playing some guitar).
I’m always impressed by the way he talks about his wines and the nascent revolution in San Diego viticulture. The fruit has always been here, he points out. But the hegemonic winemaking style never reflected — never translated — the quality that San Diego can produce.
But the wine I can’t stop thinking about is the J. Brix Santa Barbara Calaveras County Chardonnay I tasted this week.
I had tasted Emily and Jody Towe’s wines on many occasions over the years and have always enjoyed them immensely (I had them on my list at the now defunct Sotto in Los Angeles where I ran the wine program for nearly eight years).
But this wine really takes it over the top in terms of the depth and nuance. It opens with primary Chardonnay flavors (tropical fruit and banana) but then unfolds its layers-upon-layers of savory herbs, minerality, and ripe and dried stone fruit.
I can’t wait to taste Tracie on this wine. She is going to flip out (I’m planning smuggle a couple of bottles back to Texas where they are still illegal).
Another wine that surprised me with its depth was this Syrah by Chris’ wife and partner Alysha Stehly, another winemaker to watch imho. I’ll be visiting and tasting with her tomorrow before I head back to Houston.
I’ve only been here a few days but have tasted some truly spectacular wines — all of which land with affordable pricing btw.
But the biggest treat of my sojourn was getting to sit in with the magical Dave Gleason (below).
He’s a true virtuoso of the Telecaster. I’m nowhere in his league but he generously lets me sit in with his band when I’m in town.
We played blues and country yesterday out at the Grand Ole BBQ Flinn Springs in El Cajon (where, btw, the Texas-style brisket was completely legit, melt-in-your-mouth liquid delicious).
Dave is a Doug Sahm of our generation, a musical polymath and one of the sweetest people you could ever meet.
Tonight I’ll be playing the whole evening with one of his bands, the Born Fighters, at Beaumont’s in La Jolla (where I grew up). All the stars from the La Jolla music scene are coming out for this one.
If you’re in town, we’ll take the stage around 9 and play until midnight or so. Beaumont’s is pretty rowdy and things can get a little out of hand there. So come ready to rock!
Bastille Day-Birthday Bash July 14 at Mongoose vs. Cobra in Houston
Posted on June 28, 2019 by Do Bianchi
Our new band has a new name (BioDynamic) and a gig on my birthday: Sunday, July 14 at Mongoose vs. Cobra in Houston’s Midtown!
Please come and rock out with me and the family!
Top image via Wikipedia Creative Commons.
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The best vitello tonnato ever…
Vitello tonnato is one of my gastronomic obsessions.
In part because of how good it is when done right. In part because it agrees with me metabolically. (Ascribe it to the famous “Jewish boy stomach” syndrome for those weened on tuna fish sandwiches and white fish salad.)
My latest trip to Italy included a convivial encounter with what — everyone at the table agreed — was probably the best vitello tonnato ever.
It came from a newish wine bar in the village of Barbaresco called Koki (Facebook; website).
My hosts, who had already experienced this apotheosis of vitello tonnato, had asked the owner/chef for a take-out vitello tonnato.
He instructed them to come to the venue just a few hours before the luncheon they were hosting. Not before, he said. And he also told them to bring their own dishes, which they did.
He plated it for them and sent them home with plastic-wrapped veal and sauce.
The Koki vitello tonnato was pinker than most. It resembled what the Italians call rosbif, a calque of the English roast beef, always served cold and generally dressed with extra-virgin olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice.
My hosts speculated that it had been cooked sous vide and then finished in a hot oven to make the edges well done.
The quality of the veal was spectacular, not surprising for Piedmont where bovine protein is a supreme victual.
But the thing that really took it over the top was the tuna sauce, which had a hint of eastern spice. My hosts speculated that it had been made with hazelnuts, an admissible and canonical ingredient, although sometimes omitted in my personal experience.
I never had a chance to visit Koki Wine Bar in person but it’s on my list for my next visit to Langa. I can’t recommend the vitello tonnato highly enough.
Last year I published this photography retrospective of some of my favorite expressions of vitello tonnato.
And I have to give a shout-out here to the vitello tonnato I ate, also on this last trip, at Local, the Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences food shop and casual restaurant in downtown Bra (below). As you can see, there is barely any pink in the meat, typical of most recipes.
What did we drink with our vitello tonnato? A 1996 Barberesco Riserva was the highlight of the flight. But more on that later…
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The wine world’s culture wars have left millennials behind
Above: students in the Master’s in Wine Culture and Master’s in Food Culture at the Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences in Piedmont, Italy.
More than any other, three posts captured and commanded the attention of wine trade members, observers, and enthusiasts this month.
Master of Wine Jancis Robinson’s “Naturally Divisive” on “natural vs. conventional” wine culture for the Financial Times (republished and available to all on her tasting note portal); Cathy Huyghe’s interview with natural wine advocate Alice Feiring, “Alice Feiring on Satire and Misogyny in the Wine Industry,” a response and reaction to a predictably misogynic parody of Alice’s work; and New York Times wine columnist Eric Asimov’s “It’s Time to Rethink Wine Criticism” on the dismal state of winespeak today.
At the center of each of these pieces, one character looms ominous above all others: Robert Parker, Jr., the twentieth-century creator and disseminator of the hegemonic 100-point-scale score and tasting note model for wine criticism.
Jancis is the only one who doesn’t mention him by name but he’s in there. A genie in a bottle, he arrives via a pair of top-rated Bordeaux wines from the 1982 harvest — the same “near-mythical” vintage, as Jancis calls it, that launched his name, brand, and career as America’s most famous wine writer.
“His influence grew in the mid-1980s,” writes Eric for the Times, “particularly with his unconditional, flamboyant praise for the 1982 Bordeaux vintage…”
Parker more than any other writer, perhaps unjustly so, represents the realm of what has been inaptly called “conventional wine.” It’s a category that exists only inasmuch as it is the polar and polarizing opposite of “natural wine.”
“A very significant proportion of the wine establishment,” writes Jancis, “roll their eyes at the very mention of natural wine. On the other hand, there is no shortage of converts to natural wine who… will not sully their or their customers’ palates with wine they do not consider natural. They have a tendency to lecture the world on the iniquities of conventional wine.”
The terms of that dialectic were forged once and for all in 2008 when Alice published her now landmark book, The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization (Harcourt).
Horse meat burgers? Yes, that’s right…
A lot of folks have asked about a photo of horse meat hamburgers (above) posted to my social media.
Yes, that’s ground horse meat, a delicacy that you can commonly find in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto.
People in Italy and France began eating horse meat in the 1960s. As Europe was still rebuilding after World War II, it was an excellent and amply available source of protein for young people. Meat was scarce then. And horse meat was cheap.
Today, it’s not unusual for people to eat horse meat on special occasions, like the party my friends in Lombardy threw on Saturday night. They regularly visit a specialized “equine” butcher where they buy the meat ground or butchered into steaks.
We also ate air-dried, shredded horse meat, known as sfilacci (threads).
During my university days in Padua (Veneto), we used to go to horse meat restaurants in the country on Saturday nights. Nearly every dish — from the antipasti and primi to the secondi — were made using horse meat.
Horse meat is very lean and rich in flavor. The savory burgers, which we dressed like regular burgers, tasted almost like cooked salame.
We paired with a 1998 Bordeaux blend in magnum from Franciacorta. It was delicious.
Wait ’til the folks back in Texas hear about this!
Today is my last day teaching at the Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences. All in all, it’s been a great experience. But I can’t wait to get home tomorrow to Houston, where I belong and where our precious daughters, our stinky Chihuahuas, and my beautiful wife Tracie are waiting for me. I miss them all so much. There’s no place like home. And I’m glad to have one. Wish me luck and wish me speed…
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Rock out with me on Bastille Day (and my birthday) July 14 in Houston…
Above: my new band, still nameless, will be playing at Mongoose vs. Cobra in Houston on Sunday, July 14. Two sets from 5-7 p.m. That’s me with the Telecaster, stage left.
Back when my French band Nous Non Plus was touring and playing regularly in New York City, I used to have a gig on my birthday every year — sometimes two!
I was born on July 14, 1967, during the summer of love, on Bastille Day, the day the French revolutionaries, Les Sans Culottes, stormed the famous prison in Paris (the other French band I used to belong to was called Les Sans Culottes, loosely translated as those who don’t have pants).
To this day, my parents both tell the same story of the day I was born: “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem, was playing on the radio the morning they drove to the hospital.
Nous Non Plus played its last live shows in 2013. And I still pine for those wonderful years of playing great music and making records with my bandmates, whom I’ll love until my dying day.
I’m super geeked to share the news that I’ll be playing a gig this year on my birthday at a Bastille Day celebration hosted by Mongoose vs. Cobra, one of Houston’s many super cool hipster beer gardens (in Midtown).
Our new band in Houston doesn’t have an official name yet. But we have two sets of great covers from the 70s and the 80s. It’s a super tight, rocking band and really fun.
So come out and rock with me on my birthday this year, July 14, 2019!
You can hear the Les Sans Culottes live version of the “Marseillaise” from our only live album here. And yes, that’s me playing guitar. That show was recorded at the Bowery Ballroom in lower Manhattan where we used to headline regularly. Thanks for listening!
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Alba has a new progressive wine bar (FINALLY!): Petricore…
petrichor, n.
A pleasant, distinctive smell frequently accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions. Also: an oily liquid mixture of organic compounds which collects in the ground and is believed to be responsible for this smell.
From the Oxford English Dictionary (online edition).
It’s been a long time coming but I’m happy to share the news that Alba — one of the world’s greatest wine capitals — finally has a progressive wine bar. FINALLY!
The joint is called Petricore Enoteca (as in petrichor).
It’s run by a lovely couple of wine professionals, Rebecca Ruatasio and Carmine Pessolani, whom I had the distinct pleasure to meet and taste with the other night.
The town of Alba lies smack-dab in the heart of Barolo and Barbaresco country and it receives a tide of wine lovers and tradesfolk each year.
But as surprising as it may be, it isn’t exactly the most welcoming destintation in Italy when it comes to people looking to connect with the more playful, experimental, and funky side of wine life.
A friend treated me there to a reclassified bottle of white Burgundy the other night. Think of that! Hipster Chardonnay in Alba! If I hadn’t tasted it myself, I still wouldn’t believe it.
Humans cannot live by Nebbiolo alone. And from what I’ve heard through the grapevines, Petricore has been a warmly welcomed addition to the Langa and Roero wine scene.
I can’t recommend it enough.
Just four more days of teaching at the Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra. On Monday, my last night, Natale Baricchi and I will be playing a couple of acoustic sets at L’Alfieri here in town. Come on by!
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Revolutionizing ETD Operations With Effective Workflows
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1. Identify factors to consider when altering existing workflows or setting up new workflows for ETDs.
2. Recognize the value of collaboration between the Graduate School and the Libraries to facilitate efficient workflows for processing, approving, and cataloging ETDs.
This poster will illustrate the evolution of workflows for theses and dissertations at the University of Dayton. When the University of Dayton implemented electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in 2008, the Graduate School and the University Libraries already had a long history of collaboration on print format checking and commercial binding of theses and dissertations. The furthering of this partnership was instrumental to the successful implementation of ETDs at UD. The adaptation of existing workflows and the development of new workflows in the Graduate School and the Libraries were required. Mandatory electronic submission was not instituted at the University of Dayton until the Fall of 2011; therefore, the print workflows had to be retained as the electronic workflows were developed. With the advent of electronic submissions, metadata harvested from the OhioLINK ETD Center, a statewide online repository of electronic theses and dissertations, was used as the basis for MARC catalog records. Prior to ETDs, the cataloging of print theses and dissertations was a manual process triggered by the arrival of the Libraries’ commercially-bound copies. Original bibliographic records and name authority records were subsequently contributed to OCLC Worldcat and added to the online catalog. Now system-generated email notifications trigger the online approval process and subsequently, the cataloging process. Other factors influencing workflow include changes in cataloging personnel and metadata processes, changes in the on-campus name verification process, and the development of ETD workflow tracking mechanisms.
Hicks, Emily A., "Revolutionizing ETD Operations With Effective Workflows" (2012). Roesch Library Faculty Presentations. 13.
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MRI machine for Addu's new hospital arrives
Maximus Air Cargo Antonov An-124 which landed in Gan International Airport carrying the MRI machine. PHOTO: READER
The MRI machine for the tertiary hospital currently being developed in Addu arrived in Gan International Airport on early morning.
The machine was delivered by chartered flight Maximus Air Cargo Antonov An-124.
Preparations to begin operations at the hospital, which is scheduled for upcoming August, are currently underway. Installing the necessary equipment and facility to begin services are in progress.
A spokesperson from Hithadhoo Regional Hospital (HRH) stated that the installation of the MRI machine will begin shortly. He also expressed hopes that services will commence in the hospital as scheduled, based on the current progress.
The hospital being developed in Addu has a capacity of 100 beds and will be established in the Equatorial Convention Centre (ECC) building constructed in 2011 for the 17th SAARC Summit.
Former President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom's administration tasked Alia Construction with converting the building to a hospital on November 14, 2016.
According to HRH, the new hospital will provide a solution for various issues faced by the current hospital such as space constraints, lack of facilities and dilapidated structures.
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Samson Cree celebrate milestones in education
A gala event Friday to mark 25 years of local control over education for the Samson Cree Nation also celebrates a series of recent successes. The First Nation predicts 16 graduates at their new outreach school this year, had 26 graduates from Grade 12 last year and enrolment is over 1,000 as more parents see options locally for their kids. The First Nations runs three schools covering kindergarten to Grade 12 on reserve.
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Marvin Yellowbird
EDMONTON – A gala event Friday to mark 25 years of local control over education for the Samson Cree Nation also celebrates a series of recent successes.
The First Nation predicts 16 graduates at their new outreach school this year, had 26 graduates from Grade 12 last year and enrolment is over 1,000 as more parents see options locally for their kids. The First Nations runs five schools covering kindergarten to Grade 12 on reserve.
“It’s changing in the right direction,” said Marvin Yellowbird, chair of the Nipisihkopahk Education Authority.
Based in Maskwacis, formerly known as Hobbema, the schools serve a challenging population that struggles with poverty, gang violence and the lasting impacts of residential schools. But their new Hub program is keeping more kids in school, said Supt. Kevin Wells.
Every Thursday morning, a representative from the school, RCMP, probation, housing authority, child welfare agency and others meet to solve challenges keeping specific children from class.
They take a comprehensive look at what’s happening in a family and create an action plan — sometimes cleaning a house, moving a family, getting better health care or enrolling a high school student in evening courses.
“We’ve closed over 100 cases,” Wells said. “Our mantra is meeting the needs of the kids. You’re going beyond a simple education institution.”
At the school, 60 per cent of the teachers are aboriginal, which is slowly helping to change attitudes in the community toward education and in the last two years hired coaches to help teachers teach math and literacy more effectively. “We’ve seen growth,” said Wells, hoping to see those results show up this year on the Grade 6 provincial exams.
However, the school still struggling with funding, said Wells. For years, the federal government has funded First Nations schools on reserve at much lower rates than equivalent provincial schools.
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Thursday’s Letters: The term ‘bed blocker’ is derogatory
Re: “Province to act on bed blockers,” Sept. 24 “Bed blockers” is a disparaging term that has been widely used by health administrators, some health-care workers in acute care and the media. It is disappointing to see our new Health Minister, Stephen Mandel, use it to describe the most vulnerable group in our society. This derogatory term puts the blame on mainly frail older adults who find themselves occupying an acute-care bed through no fault of their own, but as a result of years of failed government health policies.
Calling our frail elderly “bed blockers” puts the blame on those who find themselves occupying an acute-care bed through no fault of their own, but because of failed government policies, writes Dr. Hubert Kammerer. Supplied / Calgary Herald/file
Re: “Province to act on bed blockers,” Sept. 24
“Bed blockers” is a disparaging term that has been widely used by health administrators, some health-care workers in acute care and the media. It is disappointing to see our new Health Minister, Stephen Mandel, use it to describe the most vulnerable group in our society. This derogatory term puts the blame on mainly frail older adults who find themselves occupying an acute-care bed through no fault of their own, but as a result of years of failed government health policies.
Describing the frail elderly in cliché terms says more about the speaker than the issue. Those of us who work with older adults have campaigned for years to rid the system of this term.
We hope that the new minister will join us in treating the frail elderly with the dignity and respect they deserve.
Hubert Kammerer MD, Edmonton
Show elderly some respect
I am appalled by Health Minister Stephen Mandel’s repetitive, dismissive description of elderly patients in need of ongoing care as bed blockers.
He is referring to a generation who — through hard work and sacrifice, and long before the era of Freedom 55 — built this province.
Mr. Mandel proposes that this “inconvenient” population be transported expeditiously out of hospital to facilities built in conjunction with private, profit-driven companies. The care of Alberta’s seniors should not be offered up as a commodity.
Good health care is a humanistic endeavour, not an economic enterprise. Building facilities is one aspect, providing appropriate staffing to deliver adequate care for this vulnerable population is a much more challenging and costly proposition.
Yes, Mr. Mandel, this is not rocket science — it is much more difficult and complex. Health-care delivery, particularly to frail seniors, is multi-faceted and involves an array of providers striving to do it right.
Perhaps when selecting the next Alberta Health Services board, Mr. Mandel might consider getting some actual health-care providers, those directly working with patients, to assist with his new hobby. He’d be getting a bargain.
Teresa Genge, nurse practitioner, Edmonton
Dementia policy needed
Re: “Failing grade for dementia policy,” Ideas, Joanne Cave, Sept. 22
Thank you for publishing this brilliant essay regarding the need for a national dementia strategy.
Alberta Health has recently published a Primary Health Care Strategy and this may ultimately improve dementia care in the province.
It’s interesting that dementia is not included in the top seven chronic diseases (arthritis, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and mood disorders) that affect Albertans in this strategic plan. However, seniors/geriatric care is included. Alberta Health Services does recognize that dementia is an overwhelming burden to caregivers, families, society and those afflicted with the disease. Research and quality improvement projects are underway to improve dementia care in Alberta. The Canadian Medical Association, New Democrat MP Claude Gravelle, the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada and others are advocating for a national dementia strategy. A dedicated, co-ordinated strategy would provide support and consistency to already existing research, education and clinical programs within Canada. The question for Prime Minister Stephen Harper is: Why is Canada the only G8 country without a national dementia strategy?
Joy Mekechuk, clinical nurse specialist with the Geriatric Consult Team, Alberta Health Services
Tail is wagging the CRTC dog
Re: “CRTC orders Netflix to reveal subscriber data,” Sept. 20
Am I naive? How come a foreign company that now has a vested interest in making heaps of money in Canada can say “no” to the CRTC?
Is this the Netflix tail wagging the CRTC dog?
Kick Netflix out of Canada and let the CRTC carry on with its business.
Robin Leech, Edmonton
Follow existing guidelines
Re: “Vacant lot on Whyte Ave. to undergo transformation,” Sept. 23
Perhaps no one spoke before city council on Monday, but not all of us are in favour of the new development on Whyte Avenue.
I am disappointed that council relaxed the restrictions of the Strathcona Area Redevelopment Plan. The SARP was created to “recognize the uniqueness of Strathcona in terms of its historical importance, its desirability as a residential area, and to contain commercial development, while reinforcing the strength of the viable commercial area along Whyte Avenue” (taken from the introduction of the SARP). In short, it was enacted precisely to govern situations like this.
A 27-metre-tall structure exceeds the SARP height guidelines by 80 per cent; the restaurant space has been increased by 76 per cent. These are significant allowances. Intended or not, this exemption sets a precedent for future developments.
The current vacant lot has been a 15-year disappointment, in no way historical, commercial, or viable. I am in support of developing the lot. It will bring life and energy back to that corner. But I believe it could — and should — have been done within council’s existing guidelines.
Barbara L. Hilden, Edmonton
Being run by adults now
Re: “Premier scraps licence plate redesign,” Sept. 19
It would take some time for me to buy in to the idea that the PC party has improved, but at least it is nice to see the province seemingly being run by adults for a change.
Martin Connors, Edmonton
Natural encounters
Re: “Walk on the wild side for Vitamin N,” Sept. 22
The Wild Rose Ramblers have been meeting at the John Janzen Nature Centre for 26 years in the spring and fall to walk in Edmonton’s beautiful river valley and ravines. Anyone is welcome to join us.
We get pleasure walking on the trails in sight of our precious river, creeks and ponds. We feel the stress melt away. Walking in the companionship of others creates a shared bond of pleasure. Admiring the trees and flowers and listening and identifying the birdsong and watching for other wildlife adds to the enjoyment.
Pat Wishart and Sharon Pisesky, Edmonton
Are envoys necessary?
Re: “Prentice replaces top envoys,” Sept. 18
I don’t recall ever having heard convincing reasons why Alberta needs envoys in the first place.
This is a huge expense, and is it necessary?
Donna Martyn, Edmonton
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Rescue (Abridged Article) - Photograph
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Dr. Joseph Jaksy, who rescued 25 Jews during the war
Dr. Joseph Jaksy, who rescued 25 Jews during the war. He provided them with hiding places, money, medicine and forged identification papers. Jaksy was named "Righteous Among the Nations." Czechoslovakia, prewar.
Portrait of Johannes Post, who sheltered Dutch Jews
Johannes Post organized a network of 250 people in Nieuwlande who smuggled Jews out of Amsterdam and found them shelter and identity papers. He was awarded the status of "Righteous Among the Nations" in 1965. The Netherlands, date uncertain.
A rescuer with the Jewish boy she hid
Gertruda Babilinska with Michael Stolovitzky, a Jewish boy she hid. Yad Vashem recognized her as Righteous Among the Nations. Vilna, 1943.
Hermine Orsi
Hermine Orsi sheltered a number of Jews in her home and helped others reach refuge in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Yad Vashem recognized her as "Righteous Among the Nations." Marseille, France, 1940.
Honoring Gerardus Pontier and Dora Wartema
Calvinist minister Gerardus Pontier and his wife, Dora Wartema, at Yad Vashem, where they were honored for hiding Jewish children in the Netherlands. Pontier and Wartema were named "Righteous Among the Nations." Jerusalem, Israel, 1968.
Bert and Anne Bochove with their children
Bert and Anne Bochove, who hid 37 Jews in their pharmacy in Huizen, an Amsterdam suburb, pose here with their children. The two were named Righteous Among the Nations. The Netherlands, 1944 or 1945.
Dutch rescuer Semmy Woortman-Glasoog
Semmy Woortman-Glasoog with Lientje, a 9-month-old Jewish girl she hid. Woortman-Glasoog was active in a network which found foster homes, hiding places, and false papers for Jewish children. She was later named "Righteous Among the Nations." Amsterdam, the Netherlands, between 1942 and 1944.
Chiune Sugihara
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul general in Kovno, Lithuania, who in July-August 1940 issued more than 2,000 transit visas for Jewish refugees. Helsinki, Finland, 1937–38.
Joop Westerweel
Joop Westerweel, schoolteacher executed by the Nazis for helping Jews escape from the Netherlands.
House in Amsterdam with a specially constructed hiding place
The house in Amsterdam where Tina Strobos hid over 100 Jews in a specially constructed hiding place. Her house was raided eight times, but the Jews were never discovered. Netherlands, date uncertain.
The gift of an ID photo to save a Jewish woman's life
Identity photo of Dirke Otten, who gave her identity card to a Jew in order to save her. Otten and her husband hid as many as 50 Jews in their home at one time. Nieuwlande, the Netherlands, date uncertain.
Six Jewish girls who were hidden in a convent
Six Jewish girls hidden from the Nazis at the Dominican Convent of Lubbeek near Hasselt. Belgium, between October 1942 and October 1944.
Rescuer Dr. Joseph Jaksy
Dr. Joseph Jaksy poses with (from left to right) Valeria Suran, Lydia Suran, and his wife. The Suran sisters were among 25 Jews Dr. Jaksy rescued during the war. Czechoslovakia, date uncertain.
Danish chief rabbi who warned that the Germans intended to round up Denmark's Jews
Rabbi Marcus Melchior, Danish chief rabbi, who warned his congregants that the Germans intended to round up Denmark's Jews. Melchior himself went into hiding and escaped to Sweden. Copenhagen, Denmark, before 1943.
Danish fishermen ferry Jews to safety
Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry Jews across a narrow sound to safety in neutral Sweden during the German occupation of Denmark. Sweden, 1943.
Danish rescue boat
Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation. Denmark, 1943 or 1944.
Quakers who set up a relief and rescue operation in Toulouse
Quaker delegates of the American Friends Service Committee who set up a relief and rescue operation in Toulouse. France, January 1941.
Hannah Szenes in Budapest
Hannah Szenes, in the garden of her Budapest home before she moved to Palestine and became a parachutist for rescue missions. Budapest, Hungary, before 1939.
Children who were sheltered in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
A group of children who were sheltered in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a town in southern France. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, August 1942.
Rescuer Stefania Podgorska with her younger sister Helena
Stefania Podgorska (right), pictured here with her younger sister Helena (left), helped Jews survive in German-occupied Poland. She supplied food to Jews in the Przemysl ghetto. Following the German destruction of the ghetto in 1943, she saved 13 Jews by hiding them in her attic. Przemysl, Poland, 1944.
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler (Sendlerowa in Polish), a member of Zegota, an underground organization of Poles and Jews that coordinated efforts to save Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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2MEX - B-Boys in Occupied Mexico
By codotusylv on Tuesday 29 October 2013, 23:06 - Permalink
B-Boys in Occupied Mexico was 2Mex's first true album, a promising beginning, a record which should have boosted the rapper's career. An excellent MC and performer, the guy had the potential of a star, everyone should have expected an opus magnus from him. Such a masterpiece, though, was never delivered. And now, many years later, B-Boys in Occupied Mexico is still 2Mex's best album.
Mean Street / Up Above :: 2001 / 2005 :: buy this record
In 2001, 2Mex was somehow in the heart of the West Coast Underground. He was its hotspot, its gravity center (and I am not saying this because of his weight). A Good Life Café attendee, an MC affiliated to both the Afterlife and the Shape Shifters crews, a member of the Visionaries, the Mindclouders (with Mum's the Word), Of Mexican Descent (with Xololanxinxo) and the Brainbusters (with Murs), the fat Mexican with a breathless and jerky flow was everywhere. The emblematic B-Boys in Occupied Mexico was the product of this omnipresence, the rapper, with the help of the three most important beatmakers of the place (Mum’s, Nobody and Omid), exploring on it all of the multiple styles the Californian underground (or even rap in general) had tested in the past, or would experiment in the future.
With B-Boys in Occupied Mexico, 2Mex delivered successively some nice guitar-rap songs ("Humble is the Style of the Day", "Across & Down", "Love You the Same"), some chili rap declaimed in Spanish ("Control Mexica"), social comments ("The Truth"), a tribute to drummers and percussionists ("Percussion Precaution"), some kind of Oulipo rap (an "M the Memo" made exclusively with words starting with the letter "m") and other lyrical exercises ("Making Money off God" with another rap virtuoso, Busdriver). He lapsed into nu-soul ("Wonderful Memories"), or emo-rap ("I didn’t Mean to Touch your Hand", "Love You the Same"), or strange Indian-sounding things ("The Believe in Yourself Song"). And of course, he didn't forget to write an anthem to his home city, mentioning on "L.A." all the groups who made the local rap scene, from Jurassic 5 to the Hip-Hop Kclan, and to Black Eyed Peas.
This diversity, though, was also the album's weakness. With this album, his first decently produced and released, 2Mex delivered some manifesto, a dense compilation, a demonstration of his multiple talents. It was his visit card, but not a record structured around a concept. We would have to wait for the latter, for years and years, and unfortunately, our expectations would not be satisfied. The rapper would record many other albums, better and better advertised, but less and less convincing. And so many years later, B-Boys in Occupied Mexico is still his most accomplished. Not a classic, but a must-have, thanks to great tracks like the hallucinated "Offering", the repentant love of "I didn’t Mean to Touch your Hand", the nice "Love You the Same" and the epic "The Believe in Yourself Song".
2Mex
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JURASSIC 5 - Jurassic 5 LP
ORKO THE SYCOTIK ALIEN - Atoms of Eden
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SH Chapter 67
November 12, 2018 November 12, 2018 by exiledrebelsscanlations, posted in SH Chapters, Spirit Hotel
Chapter 67 – Disputes (Part 1)
Translated by satellite of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Locktini hadn’t even had the time to start conspiring with Shamal before he was suddenly taken away by Layton for an emergency meeting.
Isefel convened the meeting. There was only one topic of discussion– should they rescue Gin and Hughes?
After listening to Layton’s thirty six lines of nonsense (1), Feisha finally understood that Gin and Hughes were in danger in another world. For Noah’s Ark, it was the first time something like this had happened.
“Even though Gin and Hughes are members of Noah’s Ark, they’re representatives for the Blood Clan and Genesis. Even if we’re talking about staging a rescue, shouldn’t we be turning to them first?” Shamal asked.
“Cain, the lord of the Blood Clan, is still asleep. Commoners like us wouldn’t be be able to find him. Other than Cain, Gin’s the strongest one. Any other vampires would be useless even if they went.” Antonio said.
“Could we just get a bunch of vampires?” Shamal asked.
Antonio didn’t appreciate the suggestion at all, glaring at him. “Do you want to start an inter-world war?”
Shamal’s enthusiastic suggestions were met with such a cold stop, and his mood immediately went down the drain. Embarrassed, he stops talking.
Feisha felt like this discussion was going nowhere. Both sides were just refuting each other, and no one actually cared about the origin of the actual problem.
He thought for a bit and asked, “What’s the situation in Genesis right now?”
How did Gin manage to get himself in trouble simply by going to his in-law’s for a wedding? Or did Feisha jinx him, (2) and it turned out Lanka really did have some sort of connection to the Liberation Resistance? Then Gin really did manage a narrow escape from this one. (3)
Isefel shook his head. “Not sure. Gin’s communication gem shattered.”
Feisha looked down at his own brooch on his chest. If even the gem had shattered, then it was unlikely the chest could make it out in one piece either. Suddenly a scene of Gin being disemboweled surfaced in his mind. It was truly…horrifying!
Antonio finally caught on to his train of thought. “What about Hughes?”
Isefel replied, “Can’t reach him.”
Shamal watched Antonio’s expression carefully and, trying to appease him, asked, “Would you like me to contact his Highness Lanka? Or the King of Genesis?”
Isebel replied, “Can’t reach any of them.”
“This sounds like some type of conspiracy.” Feisha stroked his chin. At the key moment, all the important players vanished. This was the crucial part of any good suspense drama. Next, the bad guys would prepare one trap after another, waiting for the protagonist to investigate and stupidly leap into them.
As a member of the audience, Feisha wouldn’t normally be a proponent saving them. After all, if one knew there was a tiger in the mountains and still walked boldly forward, that was not called being a hero– that’s called being a poser. But still…that image of Gin being disemboweled reappeared in his mind.
…Well, if he was already disemboweled, then it didn’t really matter if they saved him or not right? Feisha thought heartlessly.
Asa suddenly slammed his hand on the table. “Let’s fight our way into Genesis and get them out of there!”
An awkward silence filled the room.
Feisha watched Layton dejectedly wipe Asa’s spit off his face with his sleeves. He couldn’t help being pleased with himself for arriving early so that he wouldn’t have to sit across from Asa.
Shamal spoke. “Both Hughes’ and Lanka’s issues can be classified as internal affairs of Genesis. Would rushing to intervene like this be inappropriate?”
As the sales manager, his first concern was always the relations between Noah’s Ark and all its customers.
Antonio glared at him.
Shamal hastily added. “Of course, if they’re really in danger, we definitely can’t just stand by.”
If we can’t just stand by, then we have to take a seat in the peanut gallery to watch the show. (4) Feisha wasted no time helping him add in the second half of the statement.
Isefel sighed. “We’ll vote on it.”
“Huh?” Feisha stared in shock. He assumed that they wouldn’t be able to reach a consensus today, and never thought they’d decide in such a straightforward manner.
“Those for, raise your left hand. Those against, raise your right hand.”
This was an ingenious move. It avoided the problem of hesitant people missing the opportunity to vote for the first option and being forced into the second.
Both Antonio and Asa raised their left hands without hesitation.
Shamal frowned, and his eyes met Layton’s for a moment. Although it was only a few short seconds, it was enough for them to form a tacit understanding.
Sure enough, they raised their right hands at the same time.
Only Feisha was left, his arms around his chest as he watched the show.
He watched as everyone’s gaze swept over to him, and forced a laugh. He looked to Isefel and asked, “You aren’t voting?”
“I can’t leave Noah’s Ark. Even if there’s a rescue mission, only you will be able to go.” Isefel replied.
So to avoid the sin of being all talk and no action, (5) he was abstaining?
“But didn’t you say you could go to Hell?” Feisha whispered.
“Hell is an exception.”
Feisha sank, then suddenly asked, “Does that mean that if the result of the vote is to save them, I’ll also be required to join the rescue team?”
Everyone looked at him, their faces all an identical expression of ‘no kidding!’
Feisha gulped before saying “I want to ask, just…out of curiosity, have any humans ever joined similar expeditions? How did they do? Err, did they survive?”
“I’ve never encountered anything like this since I came to Noah’s Ark.” Layton replied.
Feisha looked to Isefel.
Isefel nodded.
So he would be the first human to fight alongside these other races? So regardless of whether he lived or died, he would be paving the road to a new era of humanity? So his vote would determine not only the fate of Gin and Hughes, but also his own destiny?
“Vote.” Isefel said..
Feisha clenched both hands tightly.
Shamal, Antonio, Asa, and Layton all stared hard at him. Feisha took a deep breath and slowly raised his hand.
Layton and Shamal were dumbfounded. Antonio was also dumbfounded.
The only one rejoicing was Asa. He stood up and hugged Feisha abruptly. Asa’s booming voice rumbled next to his ear. “You’re such a good person…”
Feisha rolled his eyes as he thought. That’s right, it’s great, now he wouldn’t need to die gloriously on the battlefield. Instead, he’d die pathetically before he could ever amount to anything. (6)
Isefel glanced at Asa, who was still overwhelmed with joy. “Sit down.”
Although it was just a single look, Asa immediately let go of him and obediently returned to his seat.
“Since we’ve made the decision, the next step is to plan the rescue.”
This was a matter of life and death. Feisha sat up straight and listened attentively.
“We still don’t have any way of knowing specifics on the situation in Genesis, so we’ll need to play it by ear.”
Feisha could die of regret right now. (7)
The meeting was over and everyone left the conference room, one after another. As always, Antonio led the way. His steps were slower than ever. Feisha was the last to walk out.
Antonio stepped back to where he was, commenting, “This type of thing has never happened before, because the Isefel in the past would never care.”
Feisha stared blankly for a moment. “What?”
Antonio continued, “The last representative of the Titans suddenly disappeared in werewolf territory. Even though I asked for our patriarch to investigate it for a long time, there was no news. Legend says that the Titan sent a distress signal to Noah’s Ark.”
“Legend?”
“Yeah. Because Isefel has never mentioned this incident.”
Feisha asks, “So what’s this supposed to mean?”
Antonio gave him a look and huffed. “If you don’t know what it means, why’s the corner of your mouth turning up?”
“…I dunno, my face is doing that on its own.”
After returning to Isefel’s room, Feisha continued pondering Antonio’s words.
Was Isefel finally taking interest in other people’s business because Gin was Feisha’s friend? Or was his heart less indifferent now? After all, his embrace and his hands were so warm.
Warmth filled his heart. He looked up and noticed Isefel sitting on the sofa, watching him. “Come here.”
Feisha carefully hid his smile in his heart, but unfortunately his quick pace betrayed his thoughts.
“Time for a lesson.”
Feisha’s lip twitched. “Guest history? Seeing as we’ll be setting out tomorrow, could we skip it this once?”
Isefel placed a gemstone on the table and watched as Feisha’s eyes immediately lit up. When would he be able to treat gemstones like chewing gum, free to take out and use as he pleased?
Isefel gently waved his hand above the gemstone, and it began emitting a silver-blue light. In the center of the light, a map was clearly visible.
Feisha curiously inched closer. “What is this?”
“It’s a map of the different territories in Genesis.”
Feisha suddenly perked up.
“There are many groups of people living in Genesis. We can classify them by where they reside. The four main categories are the mountains, plains, rivers, and swamps. The invisible people represent the plains. Their bodies have a unique energy that allows them to resist mutation, and thus they became the leaders of Genesis. They live on the east side of Genesis in Crystal City.”
“Is Crystal City made of crystals?”
“There’s a massive energy crystal at the top of the castle that casts a protective enchantment and prevent invasions.”
Feisha muttered, “So it’s like Stargate Atlantis?”
Isefel continued, “Usually, if you enter Crystal City from the east side, you won’t encounter any other races. But to be safe, you should remember that people of the rivers fear fire, and people of the swamps fear incense.”
What was there to fear from incense?
Feisha asked, “Then what about people of the mountains and the plains?”
“Whatever you fear, they also fear.”
“What do they look like? Horrifying?”
“They’re alright.”
If even Isefel said they were just ‘alright’, then it really seemed like…Feisha was now extremely worried.
Isefel added, “Because I’ve never seem them.”
Feisha pointed at the map, “Then how do you know?”
No wonder he was giving him special treatment.
“Actually,” Feisha said, looking down at his hands, “I’m very fragile, and I don’t have any special powers that let me fly around. If something happens, I can’t even run very fast. Hey, have you ever thought that maybe…” Feisha looked up, gazing up with woeful eyes. “Maybe I could just stay behind?”
“Thought about it.” Isefel answered immediately.
Feisha’s eyes lit up.
Isefel went on and said. “But I think you might be necessary for this rescue mission.”
“Perhaps this fact is just too uncertain.” Feisha dropped down, rested his chin on the coffee table, and wore a face of utter dejection. Although deep down, he really did want to explore other worlds, any impulse of the sort was cut short when Noah’s Ark was attacked. After seeing that type of combat up close, he lost any desire to seek thrilling adventures. As the saying goes, if you don’t have the tools to do the job, don’t try to push it. (8)
He was Shi Feisha, not Yuan Zhenxia. (9) That type of thrilling scenario…he would rather just scream a couple times in excitement at the cinema and leave it at that.
Isefel was silent for a moment, then said, “The gem set into your brooch is the Black Star of Hell.”
Feisha lifted his chin, blinked a few times, then looked down at his brooch.
“It’s one billion times more powerful than a ruby.”
One billion? How many zeros was that? (10) Feisha looked down and started counting with his fingers.
“Although I won’t be able to leave Noah’s Ark, the Black Star can condense my energy. It should be enough to protect you and ensure your safe return.”
“Nine zeros.” Feisha heard Isefel’s words and looked up. “Should be?”
Isefel’s eyes are dark and serious as he slowly said, “Definitely.”
This was the equivalent of having a super bodyguard at his side.
All of his distress and anxiety were suddenly swept away. He jumped up excitedly, “I’m not sure what the weather in Genesis will be like? If it’s gonna be cold, I’d better pack some more clothes. But when Hughes and Gin left, they didn’t seem to bring very much luggage…ah! I should go ask Layton if he has a camera or something of the sort. I’d really like to snap a few pictures to bring back to the human world. Isefel, do you have any nice clothes that I could borrow? Ah, or a sun hat. The sunlight might be strong there, and my skin tans too easily. If only we had some sunscreen around here.”
Feisha tossed and turned the entire night in his excitement, not getting a wink of sleep. He would roll to the edge of the bed, stretching out a leg to tap the ground a few times, then later flip over and hug the end of the bed, humming a little tune to himself.
Finally, Isefel couldn’t deal with it anymore. He pulled Feisha into his arms firmly, and stopped him.
He may have stopped rolling about, but his excitement didn’t die down. His eyes stayed wide open until the next morning.
As soon as the clock struck six, he immediately crawled out of Isefel’s arms, turned on the light, stood on the bed, and announced with his hands on his hips, “It’s time to go!”
Isefel opened his eyes and said slowly. “Have I ever told you that I’m also not a morning person?” (11)
The rescue team gathered at the front desk.
Layton looked curiously at Feisha. “Why do you keep touching your ass?”
Feisha glared resentfully at the silent Isefel. “Because it was bullied this morning. ” Ugh, he really came down hard. With just one hit, it felt like his ass was run over by a train.
Layton’s mouth hung open in shock. He looked at Feisha, then looked at Isefel, and silently took two steps back.
Shamal still hadn’t given up on convincing Isefel to change his mind. “If we all leave, what will happen to Noah’s Ark? Wouldn’t it be better if I stayed?”
“Noah’s Ark will be closed while all of you are away.” Isefel replied.
“For what reason? Is the owner getting married?” Feisha was still moody.
Layton’s mouth opened even wider– he couldn’t believe what he was seeing with his eyes.
“The sales manager is on annual leave, so there’ll be no one here to take reservations.”
Shamal lamented. “But I don’t want to take my annual leave!”
“Is it that you don’t want to take your annual leave, or that you don’t want to go to Genesis?” Locktini slowly walked out.
Shamal suddenly switched focus. “Brother, how about I join you and return to the spirit world?”
Locktini replied, “When did I say I was returning to spirit world?”
Shamal stared at him. “Are you telling me you’re planning to stay here with Isefel…in a world for just the two of you?” (12)
The entire room froze.
Locktini coldly replied, “I’ll be going with you to Genesis!”
Shamal’s mouth formed a complicated expression. (13) “This is truly a magnificent decision.”
Feisha nervously pulled on Isefel’s sleeve and tried to exchange a meaningful look.
Locktini looked over at Isefel. “With this complicated situation in Genesis, an extra hand will increase chances of success, no?”
Feisha’s thought, this ‘extra hand’ might just be the culprit in all of this!
Isefel closed his eyes and seemed to weigh the pros and cons.
Shamal seemed to have thought of something and suddenly changed his tune. “Yes, yes, Genesis is the home of three great monsters. With Brother here, our hope for success will be even greater. After all, our goal is to save Gin and Hughes, we can put aside everything else for now right?”
In a rare show of agreement, Antonio said, “Not bad to have another helping hand.”
If he knew this would happen earlier, he wouldn’t have voted to agree! Feisha was extremely annoyed. The only thing he could count on now was Isefel’s ultimate veto!
His last hope has vanished. Feisha sighed.
Locktini’s lips curled up into a smug smile.
Asa brought out the Hell Horse that had been staying here ever since Shamal and Feisha arrived at Noah’s Ark.
Isefel spoke indifferently to Feisha before he boarded the carriage. “You still remember the summoning method, right?”
Feisha raised his head and looked into Isefel’s deep, fathomless eyes, noticing the concern hidden in them. Warmth filled his heart, and he nodded hard.
Locktini coldly intoned, “Why don’t you guys just keep dawdling until Gin and Hughes are both dead and collect the bodies?”
“Peh, childish words don’t mean anything.” (14) Feisha spit at the carriage before climbing on board.
The hell horses waited for the passengers to be seated, then without direction from anyone else, they charged into the depths of the darkness ahead.
三十六句, literally 36 Sentences in Chinese. This likely refers to a Buddhist scripture that describes the Buddhist outlook on life. Think of the 10 Commandments but 3.6x longer.
The expression used here is actually “乌鸦嘴”, literally “crow’s mouth.” Since crows are generally signs of bad luck/curses, it basically means someone is jinxing something.
The idiom “九死一生” is used here, literally “9 deaths and 1 life.” It’s an expression for a narrow escape because if you tried 10 times, you’d only live 1 of those times lol.
The actual expression Shamal used here is “袖手旁观”, literally translating to “watching with folded arms.” It refers to being a bystander without lifting a finger to help. Feisha sarcastically adds that if they’re not “watching with folded arms”, instead they should watch with popcorn in their hands.
All talk and no action. The original expression is “站着说话不腰疼” (standing and talking without a backache), which refers to someone who makes loud proclamations but doesn’t really understand or experience the issue that he is talking about (usually at the expense of others). All talk and no action is not quite the same but it’s the closest I could think of in English.
This entire passage is a bunch of idioms gathered together. The first two (“战死沙场” lit. dying in war on the battlefield, and “马革裹尸” lit. to be buried in a horse hide) both describe dying in battle, so I’ve grouped them into one. The third one, “出师未捷身先死”, literally translates to “sent out troops and died before achieving victory.” It’s taken from a famous poem by Lu Bu, which can be found here: http://www.mountainsongs.net/poem_.php?id=386. It refers to how the famous Chinese commander Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period of China died of illness while out on a massive expedition. The expression, especially taken along with another phrase from the same poem, is usually used to describe the somewhat awkwardly anticlimactic death of someone who had great plans or ambitions.
This was a pretty funny saying in Chinese so I thought I’d note it. The original text right here was “悔得肠子都青了”, lit. regrets it so much his intestines turned green. Apparently it’s only when you die that your intestines turn green, so it’s an expression for regretting something “to death.”
The actual expression Feisha uses here is “没有金刚钻，就别揽瓷器活” (lit. “If you don’t have a diamond drill, then don’t take a porcelain job”). The “porcelain job” refers to repairing porcelain. Porcelain in the olden days was very expensive, so when it broke, people would be hired to repair it. But the only way to repair it would be to drill tiny holes in it and use copper wire to sort of “staple” the pieces back together. In order to successful get the hole in there without breaking the porcelain further and to make the final piece look good requires a lot of skill and craftsmanship, as well as a diamond drill. Thus the expression nowadays is used to say, if you don’t have the skill to do something, don’t try it, leave it to the experts.
Feisha’s name shares a character with Yuan Zhenxia, the titular character of The Legendary Ranger, a 1993 Hong Kong miniseries. It’s also cross genre series with elements from scifi and wuxia alike and considered pretty groundbreaking because the wuxia genre is dominated by period-fantasy pieces.
Minor note– we say 1 billion in English so it feels obvious how many zeros should follow that. But Chinese uses a different counting system. What they actually say here is “10 Yi”, where the “Yi” is a unit of measurement equivalent to 100 million. So Feisha here understandably gets a little confused at how many zeros tail it.
This is a nod to earlier chapters where we’re shown that Feisha has a “morning temper” (起床气)
There’s a romantic connotation to the “two person world” that Shamal’s saying here.
The expression in Chinese is described as “嘴角一抽” which apparently means one side of your mouth tilts up and the other tilts down. It’s an expression of awkward almost-smile, partial-frown, and sort of speechless.
The expression actually used is “童言无忌，大风吹去” (lit. children’s words are harmless, a great wind blows). I’m guessing a bit at the meaning here, since I’ve not actually seen the two halves of this phrase used together before. The first half is not usually negative in connotation, it refers to the fact that children are innocent and they don’t mean any harm in what they say. But it can also be applied to say that the things childish people say are ridiculous and shouldn’t be taken seriously. Second half is referring to…the fact that they can easily just be ignored I guess? Taken away by the wind.
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Lethal Weapons fans will be pleased to hear that Clayne Crawford will be heading back to the small screen very soon. The actor has been cast to star in an upcoming episode of Hulu’s Into the Dark horror anthology series. Into the Dark releases, feature-length episodes each month focused on a holiday that takes place during that month. Previous Installments include February’s Treehouse, which was written and directed by James Roday starring Jimmi Simpson and February’s Down starring Matt Lauria.
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Low-dose corticosteroid use and mortality in severe community-acquired pneumonia patients
Takashi Tagami, Hiroki Matsui, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga
European Respiratory Journal 2015 45: 463-472; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00081514
Takashi Tagami
Dept of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanDept of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
For correspondence: t-tagami@nms.ac.jp
Hiroki Matsui
Dept of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hiromasa Horiguchi
Dept of Clinical Data Management and Research, Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan
Kiyohide Fushimi
Dept of Health Informatics and Policy, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Hideo Yasunaga
The relationship between low-dose corticosteroid use and mortality in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains unclear.
6925 patients with severe CAP who received mechanical ventilation with or without shock (defined as use of catecholamines) at 983 hospitals were identified using a Japanese nationwide administrative database. The main outcome measure was 28-day mortality.
2524 patients with severe CAP who received catecholamines were divided into corticosteroid (n=631) and control (n=1893) groups. The 28-day mortality was significantly different between corticosteroid and control groups (unmatched: 24.6% versus 36.3%, p<0.001; propensity score-matched: 25.3% versus 32.6%, p=0.01; inverse probability-weighted: 27.5% versus 34.2%, p<0.001). 4401 patients with severe CAP who did not receive catecholamines were also divided into corticosteroid (n=1112) and control (n=3289) groups. The 28-day mortality was not significantly different between corticosteroid and control groups in propensity score-matched analyses (unmatched: 16.0% versus 19.4%, p=0.01; propensity score-matched: 17.7% versus 15.6%, p=0.22; inverse probability-weighted: 18.8% versus 18.2%, p=0.44).
Low-dose corticosteroid use may be associated with reduced 28-day mortality in patients with septic shock complicating CAP.
Low-dose corticosteroids in severe CAP patients was associated with better prognosis only in those with septic shock http://ow.ly/AWqZW
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common and serious infectious disease, and is one of the leading causes of death worldwide [1, 2]. The mortality rate is low in most ambulatory patients with CAP, but is ∼40% in patients with severe CAP who require intensive care, despite use of effective antibiotic therapy [1, 3]. Effective additional therapy to reduce this high mortality rate has been sought for several decades [4].
Several previous reports suggested that excessive systemic inflammatory responses and/or relative adrenal insufficiency may lead to poor clinical outcomes in patients with severe CAP and sepsis [5–11]. Corticosteroids are potent inhibitors of inflammation, and are used to treat adrenal insufficiency [10]. However, a previous study found that short-term high-dose corticosteroid use had negative effects in patients with respiratory failure, including those with CAP [12]. There has been longstanding debate regarding the benefit of low-dose corticosteroid use in patients with CAP, but no consensus has been reached [4, 13–20]. Recent meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials found that even though low-dose corticosteroid use may not be beneficial to the overall population of patients with CAP, it may have a beneficial effect on mortality in patients with severe CAP and/or acute respiratory distress [13, 21–23]. However, recent small observational studies that focused on patients with severe CAP reported conflicting results [24–26]. Therefore, the effect of low-dose corticosteroid use on mortality in critically ill patients with severe CAP remains unclear.
We hypothesised that low-dose corticosteroid use may reduce mortality in patients with severe CAP. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate this hypothesis using a large, nationwide dataset available through the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) database.
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Tokyo Hospital (Tokyo, Japan). Requirement for informed patient consent was waived because of the anonymous nature of the data.
Data source and patient selection
The DPC database includes administrative claims and abstract discharge data for all inpatients discharged from more than 1000 participating hospitals in Japan [27]. The database includes the following information for each patient: age; sex; primary diagnosis; comorbidities at admission and post-admission complications coded with International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision codes and written in Japanese; medical procedures, including types of surgery, coded with original Japanese codes; daily records of drug administration and devices used; length of stay; and discharge status. The dates of hospital admission, surgery, bedside procedures, drugs administered and discharge were recorded using a uniform data submission format [27].
The present study used data collected from July 1, 2010 to March 31, 2013. Only patients with the primary diagnosis recorded as CAP were included for the current study. To rule out hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia, patients with pneumonia recorded as a comorbidity at admission or as a post-admission complication were not included [28]. The inclusion criteria were: 1) age ⩾18 years; 2) confirmed diagnosis of CAP (antibiotic therapy initiated on day 0 or 1), not including cases of “suspected pneumonia”; and 3) evidence of severe pneumonia, requiring mechanical ventilation within 7 days of admission [29, 30]. The exclusion criteria were: 1) pregnancy; 2) trauma, haematological malignancy, solid tumour, obstetric complications, or vascular disorders recorded as comorbidities at admission; 3) major surgery (under general anaesthesia) within 3 days after admission; 4) viral pneumonia (including influenza), aspiration pneumonia, HIV-related Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, or tuberculous pneumonia; 5) hospitalisation in the same hospital within the preceding 90 days (to rule out healthcare-associated pneumonia); and 6) discharged within 2 days of admission [1, 3, 28, 31, 32]. Patients who received corticosteroids for <3 days, who received no corticosteroids in the early phase (within 7 days after admission), and who received high-dose corticosteroids were also excluded [12, 16, 21–23]. Low-dose corticosteroid use was defined as intravenous infusion of methylprednisolone 0.5–2.5 mg·kg−1·day−1 (or an equivalent dose of dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, prednisolone or betamethasone), and any higher dose was defined as high dose [16, 22].
Variables and end-point
In addition to the baseline characteristics at the time of admission, several other variables were evaluated in the current study. The Japan Coma Scale (JCS) [27] score at the time of admission was recorded for all patients. The JCS score correlates well with the Glasgow Coma Scale score, and a JCS score of 100 is equivalent to a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 6–9 [27]. The hospital type was categorised as academic or nonacademic. Hospital volume was defined as the mean annual number of corticosteroid prescriptions to CAP patients. Shock was defined as use of catecholamines (dopamine, dobutamine or noradrenaline) within 7 days of admission. The main endpoint was 28-day all-cause mortality.
Propensity score analysis
One-to-one matching was performed between patients in the corticosteroid and control groups using estimated propensity scores [32–34]. To estimate the propensity score, we fitted a logistic regression model for corticosteroid use as a function of patient and hospital factors including: age; sex; hospital type (academic or nonacademic) and hospital volume; JCS score; liver cirrhosis with a Child–Pugh score of 10–15 (Class C); coexisting lung disease (asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease); evidence of pleural effusion with/without paracentesis or drainage; evidence of gastrointestinal ulcer bleeding; gastroscopy with/without a haemostatic procedure; intermittent haemodialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy after admission; type of catecholamine used (dopamine, dobutamine or noradrenaline); blood transfusion use; albumin use; antithrombin concentration use; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use; intravenous immunoglobulin use; sivelestat sodium use; initial use of two or more antibiotics; and each type of antibiotic used [1, 3, 27, 30, 35–39]. The C-statistic was used to evaluate the goodness of fit. One-to-one matched analysis using nearest-neighbour matching was performed based on the estimated propensity scores of the patients. A match occurred when a patient in the corticosteroid group had an estimated score within 0.25 sd of a patient in the control group [27, 33]. Inverse probability-weighted estimators were used to examine the robustness of the results of the propensity matching analysis [27, 34].
Instrumental variable analysis
When hospitals have strongly consistent corticosteroid use patterns for severe pneumonia, it is assumed that decisions regarding corticosteroid use may be made independently of individual patient characteristics. In this situation, the hospital’s corticosteroid use pattern may act as an instrumental variable, thereby setting the conditions for a “natural experiment” that allows an unbiased estimate of risk in patients with severe pneumonia [27, 34, 40]. A consistent result from the instrumental variable analysis may serve as useful confirmatory analysis for the propensity score analysis. Hospitals that used corticosteroids for ⩾25.7% (mean value) of their pneumonia patients were classified as hospitals with a preference for corticosteroid use, and those that used corticosteroids for <25.7% of their pneumonia patients were classified as hospitals without a preference for corticosteroid use. Estimated risk differences for 28-day mortality with 95% confidence intervals were calculated using the ivreg2 command in Stata/SE version 13.0 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX, USA). The partial F-test was used to confirm that the hospital corticosteroid use pattern was not a weak instrument [40]. An F-statistic >10 suggests that the instrument is not weak [40].
Stratified analyses were performed for CAP patients with and without shock. Descriptive statistics are presented for all included patients (unmatched) and for propensity score-matched patients. Continuous variables were compared using the t-test, and categorical variables were compared using the Chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test. Kaplan–Meier plots with log-rank statistics were used to assess differences in survival between the propensity score-matched corticosteroid and control groups. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed for the unmatched, propensity score-matched and inverse probability-weighted groups to examine the associations between corticosteroid use and 28-day mortality. Values of p<0.05 were considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses except the instrumental variable analysis were performed using IBM SPSS version 22 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA).
During the 33-month study period, 33 977 patients at 1163 hospitals were admitted with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia, including 14 943 patients with CAP who required mechanical ventilation, of which 8018 were excluded from the current study (fig. 1). The remaining 6925 CAP patients who required mechanical ventilation at 983 hospitals were divided into CAP patients with shock (n=2524) (table 1) and CAP patients without shock (n=4401) (table 2). There was a significant difference in 28-day mortality between CAP patients with and without shock (33.4% versus 18.5%, p<0.001).
Patient selection. CAP: community-acquired pneumonia.
TABLE 1 Baseline characteristics in unmatched and propensity score-matched groups of patients with shock
TABLE 2 Baseline characteristics in unmatched and propensity score-matched groups of patients without shock
Ventilated CAP patients with shock
The 2524 CAP patients with shock were divided into corticosteroid (n=631) and control (n=1893) groups, from which 491 propensity score-matched pairs were generated. Calculation of the C-statistic showed that the goodness of fit was 0.75 in the propensity score-matched model.
Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics of the unmatched corticosteroid and control groups (n=2524) and the propensity score-matched groups (n=982). In the unmatched groups, corticosteroid use was associated with admission to an academic hospital, and coexisting lung disease. The corticosteroid group received more noradrenaline, blood transfusions and blood products, and medications than the control group. The corticosteroid group received more fluoroquinolones, macrolides and anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus drugs, and were more likely to receive multiple concomitant antibiotics. The control group received more ampicillin/sulbactam. The baseline patient characteristics were similar between the propensity score-matched corticosteroid and control groups. The mean (quartile) duration of corticosteroid use was 8 (11) days.
The overall 28-day mortality rate was 33.4% (843 out of 2524). The 28-day mortality rate was significantly different between corticosteroid and control groups (unmatched: 24.6% versus 36.3%, p<0.001; propensity score-matched: 25.3% versus 32.6%, p=0.01; inverse probability-weighted: 27.5% versus 34.2%, p<0.001) (table 3). Kaplan–Meier survival curves for the propensity score-matched corticosteroid and control groups are shown in figure 2 (log-rank Chi-squared=6.99, p=0.008). Multiple logistic regression analyses showed significant associations between corticosteroid use and lower 28-day mortality (table 4). In the instrumental variable model, the null hypothesis that there was no association between the pattern of hospital corticosteroid use and actual corticosteroid use was rejected (p<0.001, F-statistic=247.5). The estimated reduction in 28-day mortality associated with corticosteroid use was 27.4% (95% CI 12.8–42.1, p<0.001).
Kaplan–Meier survival curves for propensity score-matched patients with shock, treated with or without low-dose corticosteroids. In patients with shock who received catecholamines, there was a significant difference in survival between those who received corticosteroids and those who did not (log-rank Chi-squared=6.99, p=0.008).
TABLE 3 Comparisons of 28-day mortality rates between groups
TABLE 4 Logistic regression analyses for 28-day mortality for patients in corticosteroid groups compared with control groups
Ventilated CAP patients without shock
The 4401 CAP patients without shock were divided into corticosteroid (n=1112) and control (n=3289) groups, from which 943 propensity score-matched pairs were generated. Calculation of the C-statistic showed that the goodness of fit was 0.76 in the propensity score-matched model. Table 2 shows the baseline characteristics of the unmatched corticosteroid and control groups (n=4401) and the propensity score-matched groups (n=1886). The mean (quartile) duration of corticosteroid use was 7 (7) days.
The overall 28-day mortality rate was 18.5% (815 out of 4401). Although the 28-day mortality was significantly different between the unmatched corticosteroid and control groups (16.0% versus 19.4%, p=0.01), it was not significantly different between corticosteroid and control groups on propensity score-matched analysis (17.7% versus 15.6%, p=0.22) or inverse probability-weighted analysis (18.8% versus 18.2%, p=0.44) (table 3). Multiple logistic regression analysis did not show a significant association between corticosteroid use and 28-day mortality (table 4). In the instrumental variable model, the null hypothesis that there was no association between the pattern of hospital corticosteroid use and actual corticosteroid use was rejected (p<0.001, F-statistic=306.8). Corticosteroid use was not associated with a significant estimated reduction in 28-day mortality (3.0% reduction, 95% CI -7.6–13.6, p=0.59).
Using a nationwide database, the results of this study suggest that there may be a significant association between low-dose corticosteroid use and 28-day mortality in patients with severe CAP and shock. However, this association was not found in patients with severe CAP without shock.
CAP is a heterogeneous infectious disease with various causes (bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic), severities and immunological response patterns [1]. Several pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines are over synthesised and secreted into the systemic circulation during severe infections. The cytokine profiles of CAP patients vary according to the cause, severity and immunological response pattern of the disease 5, and mortality is highest when both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine levels are high [5]. Several clinical studies reported that the prognosis of CAP may differ according to the underlying condition of the patient [1, 3]. Corticosteroid use was reported to be beneficial in HIV patients with P. jiroveci pneumonia 31, but not in patients with severe influenza A/H1N1 pneumonia [32]. Corticosteroid use may have a beneficial effect on mortality in patients with severe CAP and/or acute respiratory distress [13, 21, 22], but not in patients with mild CAP [21]. Therefore, we considered that evaluation of the efficacy of corticosteroid use for CAP should compare patient groups that are as homogeneous as possible. However, it is not easy to evaluate sufficiently large homogeneous populations of patients with CAP in prospective trials or single-centre observational studies. The current nationwide study analysed the clinical data of >6900 patients at 983 hospitals who were critically ill with CAP and received mechanical ventilation, with or without catecholamines. One of the strengths of the current study is the use of strict inclusion and exclusion criteria, enabling a large number of homogeneous patients with severe CAP to be reviewed. Additionally, we performed stratified analyses of patients with and without shock. We believe that this stratification is important when investigating patients with severe CAP who receive corticosteroids, because shock is an important contributing factor to 28-day mortality, and may respond to corticosteroid use [10, 23, 26]. The propensity score-matched approach is a powerful tool that attempts to construct a randomised experiment-like situation by comparing groups with similar observed characteristics, without specifying the relationships between confounders and outcomes. Although analysis of the baseline patient characteristics in the unmatched group showed more corticosteroid use in patients with more severe illness, one-to-one propensity score matching successfully balanced the characteristics between patient groups with and without corticosteroid use, including factors that have the potential to affect mortality or are known to affect mortality in patients with pneumonia, as described in the methods section [1, 3, 30, 35–39]. Our results suggest that patients with severe CAP and shock who received corticosteroids were less likely to die than similar patients who did not receive corticosteroids. This finding was robust with regard to the results obtained using probability-weighted, instrumental variable, and multiple logistic regression analyses. However, this relationship was not observed in patients with CAP without shock.
In patients with severe CAP, the relationship between corticosteroid use and mortality differed between patients with and without shock. This study clearly shows for the first time that benefits of low-dose corticosteroids in patients with severe CAP are related to the positive effects of these drugs on septic shock rather than on CAP. Our results offer strong evidence to restrain from giving low-dose corticosteroids to patients with severe CAP when septic shock is not present. A prospective trial is required to confirm our results.
This study has some limitations. First, although the study used a nationwide database, it was retrospective and observational, without randomisation. Even though propensity score-matching was used to adjust for differences in baseline characteristics and disease severity, there may still be bias in the form of confounders that were not measured. Important examples of such confounders are the systemic and respiratory variables that represent the pathophysiology of severe pneumonia and are related to the prognosis, such as the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) score, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, arterial oxygen tension/inspiratory oxygen fraction, ventilator settings, positive end-expiratory pressure level, and extravascular lung water. Unfortunately, these data were not available from the DPC database. Therefore, our results were additionally validated using instrumental variable analysis to compensate for these potential unmeasured confounders. Secondly, this study evaluated only early and prolonged low-dose corticosteroid use, because the results of previous studies suggested that short-duration, late-phase, and high-dose corticosteroid use are not beneficial in patients with severe CAP [12, 13, 18, 21]. Thirdly, the potential adverse effects of corticosteroid use, such as superinfection, hyperglycaemia and myopathy, could not be evaluated [18]. Fourthly, the DPC database does not include data regarding microbial aetiology. We tried to compensate for this limitation by evaluating all the antibiotics administered to patients. However, high proportions of patients received two or more antibiotics, carbapenem, piperacillin-tazobactam, anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus drugs, fluoroquinolone and fourth generation cephalosporins. Although these antibiotics are often used for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, only patients with the primary diagnosis of CAP at admission were included in the current study. We speculate that these antibiotics may have been used as empiric therapy in patients with severe CAP, as recommended by the current CAP treatment guidelines and sepsis guidelines [29, 30]. Finally, even though patients who had been hospitalised in the same hospital within the preceding 90 days were excluded, we cannot completely rule out the possibility that some patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia were included.
In conclusion, the current study conducted propensity score and instrumental variable analyses using data from a large nationwide database, and found that low-dose corticosteroid use may result in improved 28-day prognosis in patients with severe CAP and shock, but not in patients with severe CAP without shock.
For editorial comments see Eur Respir J 2015; 45: 305–307 [DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00225414].
Support statement: H. Horiguchi, K. Fushimi and H. Yasunaga received grant support from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (Research on Policy Planning and Evaluation, grant no. H25-Policy-010). The funders had no role in the execution of this study or the interpretation of the results.
Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside the online version of this article at erj.ersjournals.com
Received May 1, 2014.
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Week 1: Animals and Sustainable Food Production
This week we will review the universal and historical principles underlying livestock system design, and how management of genetics, nutrition, and the environment have advanced efficiency through their impact on the physiological processes that control animal growth, development, and production
1.1. The Challenges Before Us: Feeding 9 Billion People 5:23
1.2. People: Our Role in Managing Animal Well-Being 8:16
1.3. Farming 101: The Basics of Livestock Production19:01
1.4. Understanding Growth17:05
1.5. Production Efficiency through the Ages8:25
1.6. The Economics of Production9:59
Dr. Jim Lowe, DVM, MS, Dip ABVP (Food Animal)
Dr. Brian Aldridge, BVSc, MS, PhD, Dip ACVIM (Large Animal), MRCVS
Clinical Professor
So, Jim Lowe back again with you today.
And today, we will want to talk a little bit about economics.
And how do we make economic based decisions in animal agriculture.
We've talked about sustainability, we've talked about why do we raise animals and
these really beautiful calves here standing next to us
during their feeding period.
But, how do we assess the economics and how do we manage a business
to make a determination of how we make decisions in agriculture?
I think what's important to remember particularly in intensive US agriculture,
and into some extent to the rest of the world but
particularly in intensive US AG, we're very focus on the economic returns,
we run these as businesses as much as farms.
And so when we think that way, it's often helpful to understand how does intensive
agriculture, or how do other businesses talk about profit.
How do they talk about making money?
So as we think about profit,
there's really kind of three ways to measure profit.
Number one, we can talk about cash flow and this is how we all
tend to manage our own businesses everyday in our own lives, right?
I have a checkbook.
How much money's in my checkbook?
Can I buy something or not depending on how much cash I have.
So, cash flow really talks about I bought this calf here for a $1,000.
And I'm going to sell him five months later for about $2,500 today.
And so after cash, after I sold him, I've got $1,500 of
which I had to spend $1,000 on feed and $200 on housing.
I wrote checks for those things, so my net cash, excess cash,
was about $300 on this calf that's standing next to me.
That's simple, right.
We can think through that.
So cash flow is one really important way we measure the business, and
we measure profitability.
That's one way to look at it, how much is there?
So another way to look at it, is to talk about net profit.
Well net profit is really a time based measure.
And it says, so over time, accounting for
the barn that these animals are standing in,
how much profit am I making, accounting for the depreciation in this building?
So, if I'm thinking about cash, and
let's say it costs me a $1 million dollars to build this building.
I don't know what it cost, but let's say it cost $1 million dollars.
So, year one I spent $1 million dollars to build this building.
And then I didn't have to spend any more.
And so I can run the calves through here and my only expense for the housing now is
to turn the lights on, but from a profitability standpoint, I have to pay
for this building, and we call that depreciation, it's wearing out over time.
So the two kind of ways we think about that are cash flow, or how much is in?
How much is in my checkbook.
And net profit, how much from a time base standpoint am I making?
So accounting for how much of the building I used up every year.
They're are two important ways and they're slightly different,
but kind of over time they end up being the same number.
The third way we think about measuring the business is really round this concept of
return on net invested capital, or return on equity, or return on capital invested.
You hear a lot of terms around this.
What that means is, is that I had to spend $1 million today to build this barn.
So over the next ten years, how much money am I going to make?
What's the return on my investment?
It's an investment philosophy.
All three of these ways to measure businesses are equally important.
If I don't have cash, I can't run the business.
If I'm not profitable overtime, I'm not using
my resources wisely overtime, I can't stay in business.
And if I make bad investments,
IE I put money into this cattle barn instead of into stocks and
it's worse return I have less money when I'm done at the end of the day.
So not one is not more important than the other but all three are equally important.
So why do we use those?
Why are we talking about that?
Well, to buy this pen of 30 calves here probably costs
between $30,000 and $45,000 depending on what they paid for these calves.
So it takes a lot of money to buy very few animals today.
And so as I think about this, I'm allocating resources in a way that become
important to decide where should I allocate those to be the most effective.
Where does this relate to sustainable ag?
Well, I can go out and build a farm that might be perfect, right?
It could be everything I ever wanted in a farm.
It can have gold-plated gates.
And the cows had beds to sleep on, and it would be perfect in my mind.
But it might cost me 10 times as much as it cost to build this facility.
We think about feeding 9 billion people by 2050,
we have to think we take the limited amount of dollars we have as a society,
and how do we invest those in a way that creates the most good for the most people?
That means that I need to build the kinds of facilities, invest in the kinds of
cattle, deploy the right kinds of technology, to allow us to meet our goal
of providing enough food for the world, to both meet their needs and wants.
So what influences profit?
It's good to talk about profit, what influences profit?
Generally, when we think about profit in the business,
it's a function of two things.
How much margin or how much excess profit did I make on each unit?
In this case every calf.
So if this calf here I make $200 on, how much margin did I make on that calf?
And secondly, how many calves did I sell, or throughput?
It's a very simple equation.
It's margin per unit times number of units sold.
Now, that determines the profitability.
Well, what determines the margin per calf?
Well, we think about animal ag today,
we've got a calf standing here eating at the feed bunk.
Feed represents about 70% to 80% of the cost of raising livestock today.
So we think about what determines really margin,
the vast majority of cost today in animal agriculture is feed.
So you've got these calves standing here eating feed today.
And the feed that these animals consume and that their mothers consumed or
at least the land they grazed on the grass the cost of the grass is somewhere
between 60 and 80% of the total cost of raising live stock today.
So if we really think about driving efficiency,
driving cost to produce affordable food and sustainable food,
it's how do we get grain produced or roughage produced in an efficient manner.
So, cost and efficiency typically match.
So how do I create enough supply at a low cost to be efficient?
And secondly, how do I get each of these animals to convert that food into
muscle or milk in a manner that is highly efficient?
We're going to talk a lot in some other discussions about what determines that.
But at a very high level, cattle or pigs are really compose of three things.
They're composed of muscle, of fat, and of bone.
And then it got a little of other vital organs, so their liver and
their spleen etc.
But if we think about muscle,
fat in the bone, bone actually takes very little energy.
But muscle and
fat by far the biggest portion of these calves that are standing here next to us.
Fat takes eight times as much energy to deposit as muscle does.
So, animals which have a genetic previous position to actually have a fat
carcass are much less efficient than animals which have a lean carcass.
These are Charolais cross cattle which is a French breed which is
commonly used in the US today.
We used these cattle because they're heavily muscled.
And produce a lot of lean meat relative to the feed that they consumed.
It's one of the biggest cost drivers in the business.
So we can talk about the genetic capacity of these cattle and
we can talk about the cost of raising grain, but this course is about disease.
We're going to have a whole lecture talking about how disease influences feed
utilization.
But for now, let's just summarize it to say that sick animals
use feed much less efficiently because they're not growing.
They're using what they eat to fight off the disease.
So again, disease comes back to be a primary driver
of the efficiency and therefore the sustainability of our livestock systems
because it decreases the margin per animal or increases the cost per animal.
And in the case of mortality it actually decreases the number of animals
we can sell per year.
The throughput of the system.
So, that's a wrap up.
That's a really quick overview of the economics.
We've got some supplemental material that you can always look at about
how the beef business functions and how the pig business functions.
And that'll be available as part of this course as well.
But looking forward to the next lecture and we'll talk a bit there about
how really these impact energy utilization in these animals
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Lt. Gov. Dan Forest Calls for Investigation into Apparent ‘Stand Down’ Order in Toppling of UNC Statue
RALEIGH – By now you have heard that Monday night students and activists tore down the statue of ‘Silent Sam,’ a monument to UNC alumni that died fighting for the confederacy in the Civil War. After months, if not years, of extra security around the statue to guard against vandalism from social justice warriors unconcerned with the idea of law and order, the Chapel Hill police were faced with a large crowd protest at the statue coinciding with UNC students returning for fall semester.
Someone just wanted it to be over with apparently, because this time, after spending hundreds of thousands to protect it in past months, the police merely backed away and let the mob takeover. The statue was down soon thereafter and the mob rejoiced.
During a radio interview Tuesday morning, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest called for an investigation into the apparent stand down order, why it was given, and why officials would abandon the lawful process for dealing with the controversial statue in favor of mob violence.
To be clear, the First in Freedom Daily team does not harbor any real sense of loss upon the absence of a confederate statue. While honoring those former students that died in a war is seemingly innocuous, the dedication of the statue itself was replete with the basest boasting racism that should be universally condemned. It was a time (1913) when such social attitudes were rampant, blatant, altogether disgusting.
It is a credit to the founding fathers’ codification of each person’s inalienable liberty, that those individual rights were finally recognized and enforced equally.
However, this is 2018, and this inanimate object, controversial and uncouth though it may be, is not actively oppressing anyone. Even the more generous definitions of ‘oppress’ require one assign that power of oppression to a statue. This is what the social justice class has done, assigning oppressing power to statues in such a way as to in their minds justify mob action.
The Chapel Hill Police Department, and someone in the higher ranks of the University of North Carolina submitted to that mob Monday night. In doing so they subverted the very moral values that the ‘offended’ are so quick to claim as their motivation.
How ironic is it, that a protest against a statue, a protest against the scourge of slavery, was led by a mob of young collectivists that likely support the very identity politics that created led to that statue in the first place?
Because to be anti-slavery should equate to being pro-individualism – something this mob is decidedly opposed to.
Remember, it was Democrats who erected this statue. It was Democrats who fought to keep the institution of slavery. It was Democrats who for years hung on to the misguided notion that all men are not created equal when it comes to just government.
Mob violence was a tool the racists used to execute their oppression in the first place, for crying out loud.
Forest is right to call for an investigation into the ‘stand down’ order. Because there is no telling where the mob will go next, which mob will attack which symbols (or people). Where does it stop?
It should stop with the lawful process established to handle this very issue. The commission charged with considering the removal of these statues was scheduled to meet Wednesday. If the statue were to be removed it should have come from that body, not a body of crazed activists emboldened by their collective sense of mob justice.
In the end, what did they accomplish? There is precisely the same amount of (negligible) racism in the nation today, as there was yesterday when this statue was still standing.
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GoSmile: Elevating a Brand through Web Design
GoSmile needed a new website that would help differentiate their growing line of products, reflect the beautiful design of their products and improve user experience.
GoSmile is the premier, luxury tooth whitening brand. From their beautiful packaging and the elegant product designs, it’s immediately clear that they’re a step above the average teeth whitening you encounter in supermarket. However their website had lagged behind on proprietary software that restricted the functionality of the website and made updates extremely challenging. They wanted to move to Magento, get a responsive design, and, in the process, re-conceptualize their website.
The initial website design did not reflect the sophisticated design of their products.
Since the brand had long since overgrown their old website, we started by organizing the content and information architecture of the site. Once that was agreed to, we began to wireframe the individual pages.
Visually, the first priority was to align the site with the look of the products. In the previous version, the website was contained in a boxy template that didn’t to reflect the airy, modern designs of the products. By incorporating the feel from the packaging and products, we opened up the designs and replaced the boxy with more expansive, modern designs that were unique to their brand.
Functionality-wise we wanted to allow multiple paths for users ranging from experienced users who want the quickest path to purchase, to informational browsers looking to read more about the products. We identified and eliminated several unnecessary steps in their previous website and were able to streamline and improve the experience for both types of users.
However one of the key challenges we quickly identified was distinguishing between the products. GoSmile has grown substantially and has an array of core products, all of which solve essentially the same problem: whitening teeth. While they each have unique selling points, these weren’t immediately clear to website users. To avoid self-competition and a push to the lowest-price, it was crucial to create a clear system of distinguishing the products.
The previous website used a quiz to walk users through a series of their preferences before giving them a product recommendation. While quizzes can be a useful strategy, it required a high level of engagement and the recommendations felt opaque — they failed to orient users to the relative advantages of one product vs another.
We identified three areas to differentiate based on:
Intensity — the amount of total whitening that could be achieved.
Time — the length of time required to achieve the desired result.
Method — how the product is used.
We created icons for each and included this information on the product pages and the navigation drop down menu. To give an overview at a glance, we also compiled it into a comparison chart to give customers a quick, easy to understand overview of each product.
Based on these distinctions, we built personas for each product. For example, Teeth Whitening Gel is a low intensity, easy-to-use method perfect for a busy mom who wants to maintain her smile but doesn’t have time to add an additional step to her routine. Meanwhile, the more intensive, time-consuming method Double Action Whitening System would be perfect for a bride preparing for her big day who wants to look her best in the shortest amount of time. Based on these personas, we created banners with lifestyle images and taglines to match.
In the end, the redesign improved user experience, created unity between the product, packaging and website and differentiated the products to users.
FROM THE CLIENT
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Thank you for all the hard work and giving us such a great new look. It was a pleasure to work with you and look forward to working with you more in the future."
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Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
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Radionics and Agriculture
Many agricultural researchers today acknowledge the connection between nature and what we eat, generating ideas on environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible agricultural systems. Much has been accomplished in understanding organic farming and sustainable agriculture practices. Less has been accomplished in understanding one practice, radionics
“The use of radionic instruments for plant and animal diagnosis and treatment is gaining increased attention in alternative agriculture circles. While several commercial labs and consultants in support this technology, little information is available through conventional channels like the Extension Service or land-grant colleges.
“Currently, radionics, and the related concepts of radiesthesia and homeopathy, are largely practitioner-based technologies. An exception is homeopathy, which receives some attention in mainstream medical journals. By contrast, all three are licensed, medical disciplines in the United Kingdom and several other European countries.
“Radionics is controversial. It is not yet recognized by mainstream agricultural science; thus, useful information is available only from select sources. Within the alternative (sustainable, organic) agricultural communities there are many reports of success among those who have given radionics a serious look; and the number of practitioners – farmers, gardeners, crop consultants, veterinarians – appears to be growing.”
What Is Radionics?
By The Radionic AssociationRadionics is a method of healing at a distance through the medium of an instrument using the esp facility. In this way, a trained and competent practitioner can discover the cause of disease within any living system, be it a human being, an animal, a plant, or the soil itself. Suitable therapeutic energies can then be made available to the patient to help restore optimum health. Radionics was originated by a distinguished American physician, Doctor Albert Abrams (1863-1924) of San Francisco, and it has been developed by numerous other research workers and exponents including Ruth Drown, George de la Warr, T. Galen Hieronymus, Malcolm Rae; and David Tansley.
Basic to radionic theory and practice is the concept that man and all life forms share a common ground in that they are submerged in the electro-magnetic field of the earth; and, further, that each life form has its own electro-magnetic field which, if sufficiently distorted, will ultimately result in disease of the organism. Accepting that “all is energy,” radionics sees organs, diseases and remedies as having their own particular frequency or vibration. These factors can be expressed in numerical values which are known in radionics as “rates” and radionic instruments are provided with calibrated dials on which such rates are set for diagnostic and treatment purposes.
The radionic practitioner, in making his analysis, uses the principle of dowsing by applying his faculty of extra sensory perception to the problem of detecting disease in much the same way that the dowser detects the location of water, oil or mineral deposits. The particular form of esp used in radionics is often referred to as “the radiesthetic faculty” through which the practitioner, by means of a series of mentally posed questions, obtains, information about the health of his patient to which the conscious thinking mind has no direct access.
Inquiries and requests for membership application forms, training prospectuses and publications are welcomed by the Secretary at Baerlin House, Goose Green. Deddington, Oxon,0X15-0SZ, England Tele:O186-338852
Invitation for Research Grant Proposals
The Foundation for Science and Spirituality, Inc. (“Foundation’) was founded in December, 1986 to explore and support research into the interelationship between humankind, agriculture, health and evolution of the human spirit.
The use of radionic instruments for plant and animal diagnosis and treatment is gaining increased attention in alternative agriculture circles. While several commercial labs and consultants support this technology, little information is available through conventional channels like the Extension Service or land-grant colleges.
Currently, radionics, and the related concepts of radiesthesia and homeopathy, are largely practitioner-based technologies. An exception is homeopathy, which receives some attention in mainstream medical journals. By contrast, all three are licensed, medical disciplines in the United Kingdom and several other European countries. ii
Radionics is controversial. It is yet to be recognized by mainstream agricultural science; thus, useful information is available only from select sources. Within the alternative (sustainable, organic) agricultural communities, there are many reports of success among those who have given radionics a serious look; and the number of practitioners- farmers, gardeners, crop consultants, veterinarians- appears to be growing.
The Foundation extends an invitation to researchers to submit proposals for research project grants in the following areas:
Objective: Investigate and document radionics as an enhancement to dryland farming practices as an extension of sustainable agriculture and organic farming practices.
Subobjective 1. Development and use of radionics farming techniques
Subobjective 2 Dry land farming techniques
Subobjective 3 Techniques to enhance productivity in poor soil
The invitation is a two step process. Step one is the submission and evaluation of pre-proposals. Step two is the invitation for, submission of, and evaluation of proposals. Proposals will be evaluated on the quality of the proposed research and its contribution to scientific advancement; relevance to the objective; the qualifications of the principal investigator and any team; and the appropriateness of the research strategy.
Eligible Entities and Individuals
Any individual researcher, research team, or non-profit organization may submit a proposal. The principal investigator must be a qualified researcher with experience in an agriculture-related discipline. Researchers with stand-alone projects, and with projects that are components of more comprehensive research efforts, are encouraged to apply.
Grants may include the following:
Up to $5,000 per annum for seed and equipment expenses.
Additional funding may be available depending on the amount of acreage farmed and other elements of the proposal.
Use of up to 80 acres of farmland located near Pagosa Springs, Colorado (which has been unfarmed or organically and radionically farmed in hay for the last 13 years.)
Up to 40 acres are under irrigation.
50% of any resulting crops
Funding and Proposals
Funding may be requested for one, two or three years with a maximum request of $15,000 total, regardless of the project duration. Financial support for funding beyond FY2005 will be contingent on satisfactory progress toward achieving objectives. This progress is reported via a written quarterly report to the Foundation.
Pre-proposals should be a two or three paragraph statement, submitted electronically, including the following:
Proposed title of the project
Name of the principal investigator
Description of the project
Proposals shall be limited to two pages, using a minimum 11 point font size and may be submitted electronically. The two-page pre-proposal should include the following:
Title of the project
A description of how the proposed work meets the objectives
Description of the anticipated outcomes and benefits
Dissemination plan
Pre-proposals and Proposals may be sent via electronic mail or via the US postal service to:
Susan Young
Pagosa Springs, CO 81147
970-264-0592 or cell: 937-243-5576
You may wish to consider co-sponsorship of your proposal. One place to start is the grants programs provided by SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education) which is a UDSA competitive grants program. See www.sare.org.
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Four Refineries To Work By 2023 – NNPC Boss
Date: July 9, 2019Author: Olajide David 0 Comments
With a promise to reactivate all four refineries before the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2023, Mele Kyari yesterday took the baton from Dr. Makanti Baru as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
He also pledged his readiness to work towards the delivery of the Dangote Refinery by the first quarter of next year.
Kyari plans to ensure that Nigeria achieves its production target of three million barrel per day and also grow its reserve to 40 million barrels.
The four refineries – Port Harcourt Refinery & Petrochemical (1 & 2); Warri Refinery & Petrochemical and Kaduna Refinery & Petrochemical – have installed capacity to produce 445,000 barrels per day. They have been on and off for technical reasons.
The NNPC chief said: It is the intention of NNPC to support the industry to make sure we achieve production level of three million barrels per day and grow our reserves to at least 40 million barrels. We will achieve this and it is possible. I have already set the time for it. We will do it before 2023.
Kyari spoke at the amphitheater of the NNPC in Abuja, where Baru handed over to him.
His words: “There is a legitimate expectation from Nigerians that why can we be oil producing country with four refineries and yet importing sometimes 100% of our requirement.
“I will follow it up to make sure that before the life of this administration expires, before Baba’s (President Muhammadu) tenure ends in 2023, we will deliver on the four refineries.
The NNPC, under Kyari, will encourage private sector participation in revamping the refineries.
We support the Dangote Refinery to make sure they come on stream within the shortest time. I cannot say for them but the last information we had was that they will come on stream the first quarter of 2020. We will support them with everything possible to make sure it comes on stream,” the new chief said.
Kyari said that with the modular refineries coming on board, Nigeria would become a net exporter of petroleum products at the expiration of President Buhari’s tenure.
According to him, products can now be bought without going to NNPC but what is left is taking it from the gate into the tank. “At the end of the day, you will sit on your bed, buy petroleum product and deliver it to your filling station,” Kyari said.
He spoke of fighting corruption, saying: “There will be no corruption where there is no discretion. We are going to work with the EFCC to take out corruption from our system. Leadership is about trust, I also know that there is eternal accountability we respond to. We will not make deliberate mistakes.
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Continuing, he said that he would do his job with integrity without allowing his personal interest to betray him.
Kyari hinged his decision to be upright in the discharge of his duty on the fact that he would one day give account of his stewardship to God.
His words: “I will stand before my creator and say I have done well.
According to him, the corporation will henceforth become accountable to the citizens.
He said: It is a promise that we are going to be accountable to the citizens. The citizens will have access to what we are doing.
But putting a caveat, he said that unless on commercial value ground, “we will disclose every data. But we will discuss every data at the appointed time.
Warning his children, Kyari urged them not to accept any gift from anyone on his behalf.
His words: “From today, if you accept gift from anyone, it is not for me; don’t give gift to members of my family. It is not for me.
Kyari said he never prayed for the job, stressing that the opportunity could only come from God. The NNPC boss said that there are other personnel with better grades and 40 PhD holders who are also qualified for the seat, but providence only saddled him with the responsibility.
According to him, at a point in his service, his predecessor (Baru) was simply signing his requests without reading them because he had earned his trust.
He has no illusion that the journey ahead would be easy.
Baru, who became the 18th GMD of NNPC in 2016, told the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, that the corporation’s records under his watch were clean.
He said: I look back with pride, recalling that kerosene was gold, diesel a nightmare; nobody talks about them now.
Baru urged his successor to ensure regular audits of his books, reminding him of the need to focus on oil and gas development, especially in the frontier basins, and opening up of new fields.
He said: “The new GMD should rigorously focus on the growth of oil and gas production and reserve through aggressive exploration campaign in the traditional basins and frontier basins, opening up of deep offshore through negotiation of fiscal terms.
You should focus on passionately continuing empathic community and stakeholder engagement in the Niger Delta and other areas of operations; continuing cost reduction initiatives and contracting cycle reduction; completion of negotiations of the new PSC terms and Renew licenses early, if necessary thereafter.
He also advised Kyari on the implementation of the PSC Dispute Settlement Agreements and the Gas Terms.
Baru advised Kyari to focus on exploration to grow reserves in the Niger Delta, Frontier Basins and Deep Offshore.
He spoke also on the completion of the cash call repayment and cash call exit programme.
The former GMD urged Kyari to see to complete the migration to IJV in all the unincorporated JVs.
Other areas that Baru counselled his successor to focus on included:
• completion of the financing arrangements for NPDC assets (OMLs 65, 111, 119, 66 and 64).
• re-entering and developing OMLs 13 and 11 discretionarily awarded to NPDC.
• targeting growth to 500kbopd within existing assets while looking for new opportunities to surpass the target.
Baru reminded Kyari that NNPC’s mission statement was changed to reflect the vision of transforming it into an energy company, in line with the prevailing trend in the industry and its forays into renewables and power.
Baru wore a navy blue suit and a long cap with NNPC red, white, yellow and green logo.
Kyari was dressed in a blue agbada and a cap to match. Upon the handover of the corporation to him, Baru crowned him with the symbolic NNPC transition cap.
The change of bation was witnessed by 10 former GMDs as Festus Marinho; Funso Kupoluko; Dr. Thomas John; Joseph Darwa; Abubakar Yalam and Chambalain Oyinbo and others.
Also present were: Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, Magu; Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Executive Secretary Dr. Waziri Adio; Daily Trust Publisher Kabiru Yusuf and his Leadership counterpart, Nda Isaiah, among others.
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WhatsApp Video Calling Launched, Vivo V5 Launch, and More: Your 360 Daily
By Ravi Sharma | Updated: 15 November 2016 23:38 IST
WhatsApp's video calling feature is rolling out to over 1 billion users
Quarterly smartphone shipments in India cross 30 million
Apple reportedly planning a foray into Augment Reality-based wearables
Here's your 360 Daily, bringing you the biggest technology news of the day - from WhatsApp video calling feature's public rollout to Apple's possible plans for an AR-enabled wearable, and a potential big reveal about the Samsung Galaxy S8, alonng with today's launches.
WhatsApp rolls out video calling globally
Putting an end to the beta tests of the feature, WhatsApp today rolled out video calling for its 1 billion users worldwide. The service has been optimised to work smoothly in markets like India, where connectivity can be an issue. WhatsApp also said that India, with 160 million monthly active users, is its biggest market.
Vivo V5 selfie smartphone launched in India
Vivo V5, a selfie-focussed smartphone priced at Rs. 17, 980, made its India debut today, alongside its sibling V5 Plus. The smartphone will be up for pre-orders starting tomorrow in 22 cities and will be available for purchase from November 26; Vivo did not give a release date for the V5 Plus, which has two cameras in the front.
Vivo V5 Plus, on the other hand, has a 20-megapixel front camera with a ‘Moonlight Glow’ flash meant to improve lowlight performance. The smartphone also has a 5.5-inch screen, 1.5GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6750 chipset, 4GB of RAM, fingerprint sensor, and a 3000mAh battery.
India’s Q3 smartphone shipments over 30 million, says IDC
Smartphone shipments in India in the July-September quarter stood at 32.3 million, the first quarter the figure crossed the 30-million mark, according to IDC. Lenovo and Xiaomi lead in online sales, with overall share of smartphones purchased over the Internet touching 31.6 percent. Samsung, Lenovo (including Motorola), Micromax, Xiaomi, and Reliance Jio were the top brands for the quarter. The rate of people upgrading from feature phones to smartphones, however, slowed down this quarter, IDC said.
iPhone allegedly burns woman as she sleeps
A woman blamed her iPhone 7 for the severe burns she got after she slept on the smartphone when it was charging. In a Facebook post, the Australian woman said that after the incident, she contacted Apple about the burning iPhone 7 but did not get a response. It was only after the case was highlighted by the media thanks to her Facebook post that Apple approached her, she says, and tried to find out how she was. Apparently, she was offered another iPhone, which she refused to take.
Samsung Galaxy S8 said to have iPhone’s 3D Touch-like display
Samsung will reportedly join the growing band of smartphone makers using multi-level pressure-sensitive display panels with the launch of Galaxy S8. The technology was introduced on smartphones by Huawei Mate S and made popular by iPhone 6s, and can distinguish between light taps and long-presses to provide separate functionalities for each on the same menu. Samsung Display may supply the pressure-sensitive touchscreen panels to be used in Galaxy S8.
‘World’s thinnest laptop’ Acer Swift 7 comes to India
Acer Swift 7, which the company calls the world’s thinnest laptop due to its 9.98mm thickness, has been launched in India at Rs. 99,999. The laptop has a 13.3-inch screen with 1920x1080 pixel resolution & Gorilla Glass 5 protection, is powered by the seventh-generation Intel Core i5 processor, supports up to 8GB of RAM, and weighs just 1.1kg.
Apple’s next big project may be AR-based wearable glasses
Apple is reportedly eyeing wearable glasses as an option in its search for the next big thing. The company is said to have ordered a small number of near-eye displays to conduct tests; it's said to be building a wearable headset that will display images as well as other information, and may integrate Augmented Reality elements. The device may launch in 2018.
iOS 10.2 could bring India-only SOS buttons to the iPhone
With iOS 10.2 beta 3, Apple has made the Emergency SOS button an India-only feature, removing it from all other countries. Ostensibly developed in response to the government’s mandate to have panic buttons on all phones, the new feature can be found Settings -> General in the beta software, and activated by pressing the Power button 3 or 5 times, depending on the settings. It sends a call to 112 (the single-point emergency contact that will adopted in India starting January 1, 2017); you can add more phone numbers to your emergency contacts list.
Further reading: WhatsApp, WhatsApp Video Calling, Indian Smartphone Market, smartphone shipments in India, iPhone 7, Apple, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S8, Acer Swift 7, Vivo V5, iOS 10.2 Beta, iOS 10.2 Beta 3
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Serena Williams pulls off huge comeback at French Open
Posted 10:56 AM, June 1, 2018, by CNN Wire
Serena Williams turned heads with her striking black catsuit in the first round of the 2018 French Open in Paris.
Serena Williams felt like a ‘superhero’ as she wore a black catsuit when making her grand slam return Tuesday after 16 months away.
The American’s 23 majors speak to her immense powers on the tennis court and she engineered an out-of-this world comeback at the French Open against Ashleigh Barty on Thursday to reach the third round.
Barty — the 17th-seeded Australian with a serve nearly as imposing as Williams’ — looked on course for the biggest victory of her career when she claimed the first set and led by a break in the second.
But Williams — as she has done so often in her career — rallied for a 3-6 6-3 6-4 win as light faded in the Parisian evening.
The gripping tussle on Philippe-Chatrier court concluded at around 9:15 p.m. local time.
‘Superhero’ Serena Williams wins on French Open return
“I think when push came to shove, the real Serena came out,” Barty told reporters. “And that’s one of her best assets is, when her back is against the wall, the best comes out.”
Where does that come from?
“I have definitely always had that will to win,” new mum Williams told reporters. “It was something I was born with, thank goodness.
“This is a grand slam, my first one back. I want to do the best that I can. I want to be able to just do my best and one day tell my daughter that I tried my best. When I was out there, that’s all I was trying to do.”
Lack of matches
Despite those nearly two-dozen grand slam titles, if Barty had prevailed it could hardly have been classified a massive upset.
The 36-year-old Williams revealed for CNN that she almost died while giving birth to daughter Olympia in September and has only contested two tournaments in 2018 prior to Roland Garros.
Serena Williams & Rafael Nadal out to make French Open history
None came on clay, either, a specialized surface where moving can be difficult, unlike hard courts.
And Williams — down to 451st in the rankings due to her tour inactivity — was facing a different Barty than the one she defeated at the 2014 Australian Open for the loss of only three games.
After taking a break from tennis as it all got too much for the junior Wimbledon winner, Barty enjoyed a breakthrough 2017.
Her first serve fired as the opening frame unfolded while Williams was struggling. Barty’s low slice caused havoc, Williams erred on overheads and dumped make-able volleys into the net.
Her first-set tally read three winners and 12 unforced errors.
The first game of the second set brought yet more miscues and Williams was broken to love.
Then came the turnaround.
Big point
On break point in the ensuing game, with a short forehand and Williams out of position, Barty directed her shot at her opponent instead of putting it away down the line.
Williams duly sent her own forehand into the open court for 1-1.
Of the 159 points in the match, that could have been the most important.
There was simply no stopping Williams afterward, roars of delight and fist pumps confirming the shift. Barty, meanwhile, was rattled and the 22-year-old never regained her form of the first set.
In the final two sets Williams, whose next foe is 11th seed Julia Goerges, compiled 25 winners and 24 unforced errors.
“I think she’s not quite at the level she was when she was at her best, but that’s normal,” Barty said. “But her level when she’s not quite on her best is still bloody good.”
Williams acknowledged she is still seeking top form but is adamant she will find it.
“I’m probably not where I was before I left,” said Williams. “But the good news is I feel like I’m definitely going to get there. And I don’t want to get there, I want to get beyond there. I don’t want to limit myself. That’s what I want to look forward to doing.”
Stunning comebacks
Williams has been closer to defeat at grand slams in the past.
At the Australian Open, for example, in 2007 — the last time she was unseeded at a major — Nadia Petrova and Shahar Peer were within a whisker of ousting Williams. Williams didn’t buckle and beat Maria Sharapova in the final.
And at the French Open in 2015, when Williams dealt with illness, she overturned set deficits four times. In the final, Lucie Safarova led by a break in the third set prior to Williams’ charge.
Yet this comeback, with her time away from the game, playing on clay — just three of her 23 grand slam titles have come at the French Open — and how the first set unfolded, has to be right up there.
Elsewhere, Sharapova — a possible opponent of Williams’ in the fourth round — relinquished leads in both sets but still beat Donna Vekic 7-5 6-4 and top-ranked Simona Halep thumped Taylor Townsend 6-3 6-1.
In the men’s draw, 10-time champion Rafael Nadal cruised past Guido Pella 6-2 6-1 6-1, with Dominic Thiem — perhaps the Spaniard’s main threat — completing a four-set win over Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2 2-6 6-4 6-4.
Nadal next encounters friend and French hope Richard Gasquet, against whom he holds a 15-0 record.
Back to Williams and who is to say she can’t keep it going at Roland Garros?
She is still, after all, wearing that ‘superhero’ outfit.
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NLE10 / Bilderberg False Flag Car Dud exposed
Author Topic: NLE10 / Bilderberg False Flag Car Dud exposed (Read 152293 times)
UK Lyn
Re: NLE10 gone nuts with NYC Time Square "crude" car "bomb" FALSE FLAG
Just awoken over here to see the Mayor talking about this.
Mention of "gunpowder" and a "what looks like a gun locker" in the car.
Are they going to use this to attack gun owners? How the hell does a "black box" become a "gun locker" so soon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd2AHZ22SJ8
Look at how standard this scenario ius in all of the wonderful training war games:
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so NYPD has one video tape from Bank of America that does not show features of the driver.
They are raiding all stores in the area to grab all surveillance videos.
Yup, that makes sense.
Confiscating videos?
There is no surveillance of Times Square?
This likely will be used for some new surveillance system via UAV/Blimp and gasoline/propane sensor system grids throughout large cities. Also license plate reading systems throughout cities.
My guess is that General Electric is a part of this false flag and also develops these ststems.
How General Electric is not investigated is beyond reality seeing as they were an integral part of the Virginia Tech false flag and other domestic terrorist acts. They also helped Hitler, Mao, and Stalin exterminate over 10 million humans.
People Tracking – It’s a Good Thing
http://www.securitymagazine.com/Articles/Feature_Article/d2ddc0684fa0f010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____
by Bill Zalud
People tracking in emergencies. A system lets incident commanders immediately gather the information needed to accurately pinpoint people and situations.
Shannon Torrez is a troubled person. The Missouri resident just weeks ago kidnapped an 11-day-old baby, later found safe. At about the same time, a New York hospital reported an alleged baby snatcher stalking the facility’s maternity ward.
Infant abductions, especially from healthcare facilities, are rare but tragic incidents that can destroy families and harm businesses that protect the little ones and their relatives. It is also one of the first areas in which “people tracking” solutions have played a significant role as systems including sensors and detectors, “read” tags and bracelets to alert to a moving infant. Healthcare security executives enlarged the business model to also include wandering patients and assisted-living residents who suffer from dementia, Alzheimer’s or similar conditions and are at risk of wandering off.
NEW TECH TWISTS
Tracking deliveries after hours. An outsourced monitoring system combines security video, door access and two-way audio to protect facilities and assets but allow after hours deliveries at retail and other operations.
Intelligent security video adds a new twist to people tracking in healthcare environments.
“Traditionally, intelligent video technology has been used in security applications,” Ray Rudy of Arteco told Security Magazine. “However, as these systems become more advanced, there are new uses that are helping people in ways far beyond security. Within healthcare and senior citizen settings, intelligent video is being used to detect events and alert personnel to safety issues. With its network capabilities and analytics, intelligent video is a solution to a variety of serious issues, including patient and resident falls, and injuries that result from falls.”
Security cameras are strategically mounted in rooms for wide coverage and digital areas of interest created around the patient beds using analytics software. If a patient gets out of bed or should slip, fall or wander away, the system detects this event as abnormal behavior and immediately alerts the personal hand-held communication device of on-duty staff.
“We provide these administrators with cost-effective measures to improve performance and avert safety and security problems,” said Rudy.
Beyond healthcare, solutions have exploded as enterprises use radio frequency identification, global positioning, cellular radio, intelligent security video, visitor badging, access controls, recognition software and even cutting edge wayfinding navigational tools to track employees, visitors and people in vehicles.
The beginning of people tracking in hospital settings continues, of course. There are simple door-activated warning sensors as well as sophisticated, computer-based networks sometimes tied into nurse call systems to quickly alert staff of a wandering patient or potential infant abduction. Elements can include: door-ajar alerts, door lock activators, staff alert graphic display panel, elevator deactivation, voice annunciators, lightweight ankle or wrist detectors, loitering notification and escort bypass functions.
Some hospital systems can operate on two different digitally encoded frequencies, to virtually eliminate the problem of false alarms that many systems cause with stray radio signals.
ULTRASOUND TRACKING
Patient tracking to avoid falls. At assisted living facilities, if a patient gets out of bed or should slip, fall or wander away, a tracking system detects this event as abnormal behavior and immediately alerts staff.
Another approach, ultrasound indoor positioning systems automatically track precisely by room the real-time location of people in complex indoor environments. Using wireless detectors and “tags” linked to a digital file containing vital statistics and information about the person being monitored, such tags transmit a unique identification signal using ultrasound waves to detectors that use digital signal processing algorithms, which transmit signals via an existing LAN to a central computer that stores the information about the tag’s room-location and the time of receipt of the signal.
Retail operations also find business reasons for people tracking tech. For example, at ASIS International in late September, loss prevention directors viewed a new approach from ADT Security Services called Unattended Delivery, a video-based service that provides a secure way for retailers to track delivery people and goods after hours, reducing store delivery costs.
It consists of an integrated mix of technologies including access control, video surveillance, remote monitoring, intrusion detection and two-way voice to monitor after-hour deliveries. Delivery drivers are issued access control badges, which grant limited access to a retail establishment after hours. The access control system triggers a deliver notification to a monitoring center, where a person can remotely monitor and record activities via video surveillance cameras installed in the store. Two-way voice capabilities allow the monitoring team to communicate with the delivery driver, if needed.
Tracking vehicles and people. Inexpensive cameras on security officer cars can patrol a parking lot and track and identify vehicles by the car’s license plate.
Look for even more people tracking applications coming out of video analytics. According to GE Security’s Robert Siegel, “At our GE Global Research Center, developers are creating such analytics in products such as digital pan-tilt-zoom cameras and digital video recorders. These technologies will let operators track a specific human, in either a live or recorded setting. The system teaches itself all the attributes necessary to distinguish a selected individual, even in the presence of other people. The system will watch only that person and even hand-off the target from one camera to another, passing the individual from camera-to-camera as a person leaves one field of view for another.”
Recognition systems also play a role in tracking people and identifying vehicles. An example is mobile license plate recognition system helping the University of Southern California Transportation – Parking Enforcement expedite parking enforcement on campus. CarCatcher licensed by InPlay includes a recognition software engine that can be applied for a wide range of license plate recognition applications. For the University of Southern California, the mobile system enables parking enforcement officials to monitor an entire campus in a very short amount of time. CarCatcher scans license plates, matching them to a list of scofflaws provided by the university.
LINKING PEOPLE AND CAR PLATES
Tracking gets smarter. Under development are intelligent security video systems that can track an individual even among a crowd of people.
“In the first 20 minutes of our initial test run of the system, we caught three offenders with over $1,700 in unpaid citation fees,” said Kenneth Marshall, assistant manager transportation services – administration, University of Southern California Transportation – Parking Enforcement. “Return on investment from these systems is incredible given the increased efficiency in collections with less manpower. In addition, universities often see a decrease in parking violations once students become aware that the campus is patrolled by the automatic license plate reading system.”
The system uses a laptop computer in conjunction with an off-the-shelf camera system. Cameras mount temporarily or permanently to any vehicle, and can be quickly exchanged between vehicles. Once installed, the driver can cruise the parking lots at any speed. The software automatically sounds an alarm when a plate matches categorized “hot lists.” Multiple lists can be used, and the system offers the flexibility to match alarms to the urgency of individual lists.
Long-range radio frequency, integrated into traditional electronic access control systems, also provides people tracking capability.
According to Jerry Cordasco of Compass Technologies, to provide for building emergencies like fire, terror and hostage situations, businesses, schools and others are developing “mustering” practices. “Unfortunately mustering is not ideal practice that can assure first responders that a building is completely free of occupants,” he said.
Employing standard access-control cards and readers means everyone evacuating a building would theoretically present their badges while running out the door. People just don’t do that in an emergency. In most cases evacuees won’t bother to go to an outside-the-building mustering station, either. So first responders will still have no idea how many people remain in the building.
With RFID, badges are active tags, continuously being read by the RF readers. Technology exists to read multiple tags simultaneously at high speed. Even with a throng of people pushing out the door, the RF reader can pickup real-time information from all tags with a high degree of accuracy: near-100 percent with long-range readers.
SideBar: Tracking People to Avoid Falls
The Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations names the reduction of risk of falls, and implementation of a fall reduction program, among their 2007 Assistant Living National Patient Safety Goals. The financial impact of fall injuries is staggering. In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control reports that direct medical costs for all fatal and non-fatal falls totaled $19.4 billion. This is expected to rise to $32.4 billion by 2020.
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Telematics Wireless USA Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telematics Wireless, Ltd. Telematics Wireless, Ltd in turn was established in October 1995 as a subsidiary of Tadiran, a major manufacturer of electronic equipment and defense oriented systems in Israel. The mission of Telematics Wireless is to build and sell commercially-oriented wireless data communication products and systems, originally using technology spun off from the advanced technologies of Tadiran's Defense Communications and Systems group. Website: http://www.telematics-wireless.com.
Kistler Instrument Corporation is a worldwide supplier of precision instrumentation for the measurement of pressure, force and acceleration serving the R & D, industrial and automotive communities. Kistler products, ISO certified since 1994, are well recognized for performance, quality and reliability.
Industries and applications currently served by Kistler sensors and systems include automotive combustion engine research, automotive crash testing, plastics injection molding, aerospace and defense, biomedical, metalworking, transportation ride quality, environmental testing, diesel and natural gas engine monitoring, machine tool research, highway monitoring and factory automation. Website: http://www.kistler.com.
PIPS Technology is an innovative leader in the design, development and manufacturing of pulsed infrared license plate capture cameras, optical character recognition microprocessors and application software for the Tolling, Parking, Security, Transportation, Access Control & Law Enforcement industries worldwide. Website: http://www.pipstechnology.com.
Daktronics, Inc. is the leader in design, production, sales and service of dynamic visual communication systems for customers worldwide. We have installed tens of thousands electronic display systems, large screen video systems, scoreboards and control software systems in more than 70 countries since our founding in 1968. Our strong reputation for delivering quality, reliable products supported by top-notch service is unsurpassed in the industry.
We serve the needs of the transportation, commercial and sports customers with the most complete line of electronic displays available from any single manufacturer. Our core business is electronic signage, and we are the largest and most diversified signage company in the world. Our leadership is also shown in our development and introduction of new display technologies, and innovated PC-based electronic sign control systems. Website: http://www.daktronics.com.
ELKA-Torantriebe is a German manufacturer of barriers with more than 10 years of experience. We produce barriers for parking, access control, industrial use, and toll stations. All these barriers were developed by our own engineers. ELKA products are in use in 48 countries of the world and are known for high quality and reliability.
Extreme cctv, Bringing cctv Imaging to a Whole New Level
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The Extreme CCTV group of companies are known in the CCTV world for engineering expertise, especially in the areas of infrared illumination and extreme environment cameras. Throughout its ten year history, Extreme CCTV has delivered precision engineered surveillance products for prestigious security projects around the world. Today, the world’s top security integrators and consultants choose Extreme products -- in brands that include Forward Vision and Derwent Systems -- for their field-proven track record of reliability, quality and durability. In a competitive industry that is wrought with “copycat cloning” from unreliable sources, Extreme CCTV has continued to innovate the industry. Extreme CCTV derives its success from being able to deliver innovative products that exceed expectations, delivered time and time again, from manufacturing facilities that operate with quality and integrity. Even now, no other company in the world operates night vision labs to continually improve its active-infrared products while being of service to all the top specifiers and systems integrators in the world. The Extreme Group now operates three centers of excellence in Canada and the United Kingdom to ensure continuity in engineering innovation both infrared and electro-mechanical products.
Engineering Excellence
The driving force behind Extreme CCTV’s success is an unshakable commitment to engineering. Founder, President and CEO of Extreme CCTV Jack Gin, who is an engineer by training, endowed the company with a rich tradition of engineering from its very beginnings. From the very first employee he hired, who was an engineer, to the recently appointed Managing Director of European Operations, also an engineer, one clearly senses the spirit of engineering permeate almost every aspect of Extreme’s operations today.
Engineering excellence is written all over the corridors as one enters Extreme’s headquarters in Vancouver, Canada. The halls are decorated by awards from some of the most prominent security organizations in the world, including the Security Industry Association in the U.S.A. and the British Security Industry Association in the U.K. Most recently, Extreme won a coveted ‘Product Achievement Award’ for Best New Video Device at ISC West 2007 in Las Vegas.
However, Extreme does not innovate for the sake of winning awards. Its products solve some of the most difficult technical challenges in the world of surveillance imaging. Pitch black darkness, subzero temperatures, superheated lavabombs, gunfire, blinding sunlight glare, vehicles speeding in excess of 150mph, high resolution long range imaging... the list of imaging challenges continues to read like a “Most Wanted” list of surveillance villains.
An illustrative example is that of Extreme’s REGTM cameras, the current industry benchmark f
Extreme CCTV’s President and CEO Jack Gin and Managing Director of European Operations Peter Beare accept Extreme’s latest award, a Product Achievement Award for ‘Best New Video Device’ from the Security Industry Association at ISC West. (Photo by Extreme CCTV)
or effective license plate capture. License plate imaging is a minefield of technical challenges caused by a number of factors. First and foremost, license plates are typically made of retro-reflective material, which is notorious for being rendered as an overexposured area in an image. Secondly, license plates are flanked by headlights or taillights, further fooling cameras into using the wrong exposure. And finally, license plates are attached to vehicles capable of moving very quickly. Reflectivity, glare and speed... combined together, these three factors make effective license plate capture a technical game of surveillance chess.
Yet, in accordance with its traditions, Extreme was able to triumph in the face of serious technical challenges. In doing so, it brought a new level of imaging capability to the world. Today, license plate capture is one of Extreme’s fastest growing product families. The leading consultants and integrators in Europe and North America have specified REG for thousands of successful installations around the world.
To make products like REG, Extreme has established three Centers of Excellence to house its extensive pool of engineering expertise. Each with a distinct mandate, the three Centers of Excellence strive to be the global undisputed leader in its field, delivering innovative technologies to meet the needs of a rapidly converging, IT-integrated world.
Extreme’s Moondance is designed to provide absolute performance under the most difficult environmental conditions, such as at this coastal application. (Photo by Extreme CCTV)
In North America, Extreme CCTV serves as a Center of Excellence for extreme environment active-infrared products. Building on its origins as the company that developed cameras for the explosion protected markets, Extreme engineers have delivered products that fit into environments where it was believed that cameras could never survive. For example, Extreme has developed ruggedized electro-optics that have peered into active volcanoes, stared down the deluge of a firehose, taken bullets, and operated underwater. In one memorable incident, an inmate attacked Extreme’s EX36 corner mounted No-Grip camera in a violent fit of rage. The camera, specifically designed for tough prison environments, caught the entire episode on tape, including how the inmate badly bloodied his fist in his unsuccessful attempts to destroy the camera. Incorporating active-infrared illumination into these super-tough cameras, Extreme creates 24/7 surveillance solutions that can survive the worst environments imaginable.
Derwent Systems, based in Newcastle, U.K., is the Center of Excellence specializing as the world’s premier active-infrared night vision laboratory. Within the laboratory walls, Derwent engineers spend many hours in the dark studying, testing and perfecting active-infrared illumination for CCTV. A rich tradition of innovation in infrared is part of the Derwent identity. In fact, the company is so revered as an authority in infrared that major camera manufacturers routinely request testing from Derwent for sensitivity to active-infrared illumination. From early in its history when it patented ‘Even Illumination” to its most recent win in Las Vegas for its Black Diamond technology, Derwent has been an innovator in infrared. Having solved the spatial challenges of three dimensions through its Even Illumination and High Fidelity products (patented and patent pending), Derwent Engineers are in the final stages of releasing a product that addresses the 4th dimension of time. Another industry first developed in its Night Vision Labs, Derwent is in final development of “Constant Light” technology which corrects the problem of degraded performance over time.
Meanwhile, Extreme’s third Center of Excellence is busily perfecting the art and science of mechanical positioning for CCTV. Forward Vision, based in the South of England, is the Center of Excellence responsible for “All things moving” Its flagship Moondance camera has been a staple of the British security landscape for years, providing absolute performance in the worst of conditions. During a time when pan-tilt-zoom cameras were limited in performance, appearance and functionality, Forward Vision’s three founders -- all engineers by training -- released a new kind of camera that eliminated all the shortcomings of conventional PTZs. The Moondance camera earned a loyal following among British security consultants and integrators, fulfilling important security needs at some of Great Britain’s most prestigious projects including the London Underground. As the engineers at Forward Vision imagine their next innovations, they are reminded of the importance of their work by the London bombings that occurred two years ago. Moondance -- or Metal Mickey as it is known in the U.K. -- was able to deliver some of the evidence that authorities used to help identify and eventually arrest the plotters.
Innovating for Absolute Performance
The result of such overarching focus on engineering is a rich and versatile product line marked by an affinity for what Extreme refers to as absolute performance. Extreme believes that every product it makes should provide mission critical performance for equally critical applications. At such critical applications, the security systems need to operate at a high level 24/7/365 with no down time.
Extreme’s active-infrared illuminators have earned a reputation for being a global technical standard for active-infrared night vision. Around the world, Extreme’s illuminators allow cameras to deliver outstanding night vision images. (Photo by Extreme CCTV)
“Extreme is a company of engineers and absolute performance is our mission,” says Jack Gin, President and CEO. “In the final analysis, the true test of a product is its performance. Whether or not the product works, whether it lives up to its stated specifications, and whether or not it can deliver performance not only on its first day, but also several years into its operational lifetime. Extreme strives to ensure that every product we make delivers performance that exceeds the expectations of our customers.”
The philosophy of absolute performance is a part of the Extreme brand name. On a daily basis, Extreme is relied upon by some of the world’s most prestigious end-users to deliver absolute results. These are the end-users where results are expected in the face of seemingly impossible conditions: extreme darkness, hurricanes, gunfire, extreme cold, extreme heat, gunfire, explosion protected, blackouts... the intense nature of their performance demands normally destroy other cameras. And that is precisely the time when they contact Extreme.
A more recent example of Extreme’s passion for absolute performance is its Moondance camera, the toughest pan-tilt-zoom powerdome camera available in the security industry today. Moondance was developed by the three founding engineers at Forward Vision, all of whom are with the company today. At a time when speed domes were hugely popular in the security world, the three gentlemen were already several steps ahead of the curve. They conceived of a new pan-tilt-zoom camera design truly worthy of the term “evolutionary” While most end-users of speed domes complained of their poor construction, limited viewing angles and tendency for the plastic dome to distort the optics, the three forward engineers were perfecting a design that would eliminate all these shortcomings. Constructed of super-tough materials like stainless steel, equipped with a small flat optical window with wiper and capable of capturing video from both above and below the camera, the “metal Mickey” (as it was later to be affectionately named in the Great Britain) was designed to provide important benefits over conventional speed domes while eliminating all functional shortcomings. And it was designed to do this in some of the worst conditions possible.
A US Marine fires at Extreme’s ZX20 housing during ballistic testing at US Marine Corps Base, Quantico in Virginia. Extreme regularly tests its products to ensure absolute performance. (Photo by Extreme CCTV)
The three forward engineers definitely struck a cord in the security marketplace. In a short time, the Metal Mickey became the camera of choice for the most difficult of environmental conditions where conventional speed dome cameras were being routinely destroyed. Such applications included coastlines, mining, vandal-prone town centers, prison grounds and heavy industrial sites.
“We innovate for absolute performance for the worst case environments,”says Jack Gin. “It’s what we’ve known for in the security industry.”
Taking Care of Customers
A couple of years ago, the local office of the Department of Homeland Security called upon Extreme CCTV for help on a technical problem. Extreme’s response was quick and decisive. Sensing that this was an important issue, Extreme put engineer technicians on a plane with the mission to solve the problem. The trip, which was a courtesy call at heart, ended successfully with all cameras operating to specification.
About one year later, while Jack was watching TV at home one evening, he saw the District Attorney for Philadelphia Lynn Abraham giving a press conference to announce the arrest of suspected murderer Juan Convington. “Great detective work. Great surveillance cameras. That’s what made it happen,”said Ms. Abraham, referring to the DHS-operated cameras near the transit stop that captured actual footage of the murder as it happened in the early morning darkness. Jack later learned that the camera that caught the footage was in fact an Extreme CCTV EX82 Integrated Day-Night camera.
“The Covington case was a sobering reminder of how important our cameras are, how many times it has provided hard evidence for what otherwise have been unsolved crimes and how many people rely on our cameras everyday to help them protect people and property,” says Jack. The Convington case was later featured on an episode of ABC’s 20/20, where the cameras were again acknowledged for providing critical video evidence in solving the crime.
The ARGC2400 is a range-gated active-imager that produces high resolution imaging at long range. Using gated laser technology, the ARGC2400 provides high-resolution long-range night vision up to 10km through airborne obscurities such as rain, snow and fog. (Photo by Extreme CCTV)
“We went the extra mile to make sure we took care of our customer,” says Jack. It’s a philosophy that has served Extreme well. Extreme offers technical support from both its U.K. and North American offices. The company also provides direct access to its engineering team for project consultation, a service often used by some of the world’s foremost system integrators when designing CCTV systems.
“We go beyond the call of simply being a supplier,” says Jack. “Essentially, we become part of our customer’s engineering staff. They rely on us as the experts in the design of active-infrared systems.”
Whether it’s answering questions over the phone for a dealer calling from atop a ladder, or doing a security assessment with a major defense contractor who requires design assistance during initial planning stages, technical support and engineering support will always be a strength for Extreme CCTV.
Perhaps Jack says it best when he talks about his commitment to his customers: “We are Extreme. And we are here.”
Extreme shows all the signs that “The best is yet to come.” Although following the act of its first ten years of continuous revenue growth might seem difficult for some, Gin has assembled superb management team to help. “Our management team is world class,” says Gin. “We have to be. To thrive in today’s global market, you have to be the absolute best at what you do.” Today’s Extreme has a management team with extensive global experience in business development, senior management and engineering excellence, showing a consistent ability to manage well on a global basis. They have delivered positive top and bottom line results year after year while maintaining and steadily enhancing profitability despite dramatic currency fluctuations.
Extreme’s equipment is providing irrefutable evidence at prestigious security installations worldwide. Here, REG license plate capture delivers effective vehicle surveillance at the United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S.A. (Photo by Extreme CCTV)
Extreme’s research and development at the outer limit of opto-electronic engineering continues to yield new products that will continue to make Extreme invaluable to systems integrators. For applications that require higher levels of technical surveillance that is beyond what even Extreme provides on a day-to-day basis, Extreme (in cooperation with strategic investment partner Obzerv technologies) provides the ARGC-2400 Range-Gated Active-Imager, a pulsed-laser device designed for defense applications. The ARGC2400 provides high-resolution long-range night vision through airborne obscurities such as rain, snow and fog, reading license plates at 1.5km, recognizing human beings at 5km, classifying vehicles at 10km and pinpointing people in search and rescue at distances greater than 10km. Although currently available on a controlled basis to government and defense end-users only, Extreme is commercializing the core range-gated technology for broader application in Homeland Security markets.
Extreme will continue to build on its growing portfolio of proprietary and patented designs, backed by intellectual property laws. Today’s security world demands performance optics. In this world, Extreme delivers.
Jack Gin, President & CEO, Extreme CCTV
Extreme CCTV works extremely hard at strengthening our leadership position through technology innovation.
Delivering extreme cameras and illuminators to critical locations around the globe, Extreme CCTV has gained a strong foothold in the CCTV world with its accumulated engineering expertise. Through developing strong relationships with its strategic customers, Extreme CCTV has anticipated customers’ needs and identified trends very quickly, thus successfully differentiating itself from its rivals. To keep pace with the growing attention around the world to video surveillance, Sunny Kim, Editor of SecurityWorld INT’L, has met with Jack Gin, President & CEO of Extreme CCTV, who in the interview talks about his biggest challenge and the company’s vision.
Can you give us a short history of Extreme CCTV?
For over a decade, Extreme has designed, developed and manufactured advanced infrared illuminators and precision engineered surveillance solutions for critical infrastructure, defense, homeland security, transportation and national heritage sites. Our team of engineers is dedicated to the constant advancement of opto-electronic night vision technology. Today, Extreme cameras and illuminators are being delivered to critical locations on every continent.
Extreme is managed by a world-class management team. Extreme CCTV has three distinct business divisions that operate independently from each other. In order to have all of our operations running smoothly, we needed outstanding managers to execute on our strategic plans. Several of the senior managers are engineers by training, giving Extreme a very strong technical position. The engineering background is refined by many years of business development and leadership roles and a powerful understanding of the security industry and the markets that it serves. Our most recent addition is Peter Beare, who was appointed Managing Director of our European Operations. Peter brings over 15 years of executive management experience and is well known in both the U.K. and Europe for his key role as Managing Director of Baxall Ltd., the UK’s premier manufacturer of CCTV surveillance cameras.
Why do you think Extreme CCTV has succeeded when a number of other companies in the industry have failed?
Extreme has built its business around a strong tradition of engineering expertise and innovation. We have three “Centers of Excellence”, one at our North American headquarters and two at our manufacturing facilities at Derwent Systems and Forward Vision CCTV, both in the United Kingdom. In all cases, we have developed strong relationships with our strategic customers that enable us to anticipate their needs and identify trends very quickly. These relationships allow us to be the first to market with innovative new product categories, ranging from our “Even Illumination” infrared technology nearly ten years ago to our REG license plate capture technology today.
Throughout our ten-year history, we have refined our technical mastery in electro-optics, infrared illumination and PTZ mechanical positioners. Today, our products are known for “Absolute Performance” and are routinely specified by the world’s leading security consultants for important security projects internationally. Extreme CCTV is the most recognized brand in active-infrared night vision and extreme environment surveillance and an acknowledged technical leader in electro-optics. People know us. People trust us. Our customers know that when they specify Extreme products, they are getting quality that is among the highest standards in the security industry. And they know that the products will do what we say they will do.
On the non-technical side, Extreme places very high importance on being there for our customers. We provide a very high standard of technical support and make our engineers available to our customers for project design and consultation. Delivering this level of service has given Extreme a very high reputation for reliability and service. Our customers come back to us time again because they know they can trust us and rely on us for their most important projects.
Where do you see the current security threats your products are guarding against in 5 years from now? What kind of evolution do you expect?
The role of todays surveillance systems is deterring and preventing crime, detecting suspicious behavior, verifying potential threats, assessing risk, identifying the people involved and providing court evidence. For homeland security and defense, the biggest threats are terrorist attacks. Security agencies have the mandate of preventing terrorist attacks. To achieve this aim, security is by necessity a long term project, gathering intelligence and evidence on an ongoing basis.
Surveillance is a critical piece of the puzzle. Authorities are in the process of making surveillance more strategic, more intelligent and more prevalent. Operational anytime, anywhere and under any conditions. And it will all work in the context of a larger IT-based system.
What has been your biggest challenge as President & CEO?
Extreme CCTV works extremely hard at strengthening our leadership position through technology innovation. I am constantly working to protect our intellectual property through US and international patents and trademarks. We will protect our intellectual property using legal means as necessary.
Another challenge has been maintaining our speed to market. We have a constant stream of innovative ideas worthy of patent filings. However, it takes longer to productize an idea then it does to come up with the ideas. And we have a proven-history of our ideas “innovating the market”.
Please tell us if there have been any technical breakthroughs your company has made recently and thus contributed to the security industry.
We are the world-leader in license plate imaging and our REG camera is now in successful operation at thousands of locations across the globe. The patented technology in REG enables high-resolution, high-contrast images of license plates to be taken under any lighting conditions and at speeds exceeding 100mph. REG delivers irrefutable plate images at important applications such as the United Nations Headquarters in New York, US Naval Bases and Hong Kong border control.
As the CCTV industry marches on in its conversion to IP, Extreme CCTV’s Black Diamond technology delivers the High-Fidelity infrared illumination necessary for effective night time performance. Megapixel cameras are typically larger than traditional CCD sensors and therefore produce a wider field of view at any given distance. Black Diamond technology is the world’s first infrared illuminator designed specifically for megapixel surveillance. Additionally, Black Diamond is an excellent enabling technology that allows video analytics -- often found working with megapixel cameras -- to function at night.
Last but not least, please comment on the mid- and long-term visions Extreme CCTV has now.
We will continue to innovate from our foundation of electro-optics expertise and we will expand to new vertical markets that require the solutions made possible through high performance imaging.
YouTube - License Plate Recognition System
It reads the License Plate of any vehicle and records it in a Database.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe9nXSyW71g
Automatic License Plate Recognition Goes Mobile
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=938
Stationary Automatic License Plate Recognition Systems (ALPR) are common throughout the industrialized world. However, a new mobile Automatic License Plate Recognition System is now available in British Columbia, and may be cruising down a road near you soon.
This system can capture up to 3,000 license plates per hour. It has three cameras mounted outside the police vehicle.
This camera is used to capture license plates of oncoming vehicles.
This camera is used to capture license plates of cars in the right-hand lane (on a four or more lane road), as well as cars parked on the right side of the road.
This camera captures the license plates of parked cars in a parking lot.
This system seems to be an advance over previous systems, which were either stationary or were drive-by parking lot control systems.
Why Vigilant Video? Simply Smarter...
http://www.vigilantvideo.com/CarDetector_Mobile.htm
Looking into the future, Vigilant Video has developed an innovative eye for fully automated license plate recognition systems specifically for use with law enforcement operations. We understand the past, are engaged in the present and envision the future:
Past: In-Car video systems led way for CCTV cameras to emerge inside a patrol vehicle. The recorded video served to ward off unwanted claims and safeguard law enforcement field officers. At best this technology serves as a reactive force playing significantly in the aftermath.
Present: LPR is now advancing as a widely accepted law enforcement technology. While the market remains a breeding ground for vendors struggling to present a stable offering, Vigilant Video has achieved significant success integrating the complexities required to offer a robust solution. With over thirty years of expertise rolled into all components that make up the LPR system, our venture into the LPR realm was a simple matter of “duplication of effort”! Simply, Vigilant Video combined its existing strengths to deliver a world class LPR solution.
Future: Vigilant Video has enhanced the traditional vision of LPR technologies to serve our clients with national data sets of LPR records. Our roadmap already includes delivering LPR data to all law enforcement via our National Vehicle Location Service (NVLS) program. As the only LPR company capable of architecting a national LPR data conglomerate, we are scheduled to proactively deliver as many as 100,000 LPR data scans to law enforcement weekly. Vigilant Video is creating a virtual digital pipeline - a universal data system with one common goal in mind - making it easier for law enforcement to “Catch the Bad Guy”.
Bloomberg and cops say there is no VIN number, it has been removed!!!!!!!!
every part has a vin on it, there is an rfid vin system
how can he say no vin number
how can you remove the vin?
XR500Final
The Elite are SO Cheap now with their false flags, they don't even level buildings anymore, just toss a little bit of explosives in the back of a vehicle, and call it a major false flag.
How can you change the VIN number of a car?
http://www.akatoo.com/question.html?question_id=870554
Asked by Mast on May. 15th, 2008.
4.0 average rating for 4 answers in Automotive
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Short answer: You can't, and you shouldn't.
Long answer: Removal or alteration of a VIN number is extremely illegal. It's also extremely difficult. Your VIN number is printed or etched in multiple locations throughout the vehicle. Most vehicles have three or four such locations, with one of them usually being in a deeply hidden location that is - theoretically - known only to the manufacturer and law enforcement agencies.
Additionally, some of these VIN locations may be on sensitive or easily damaged parts of the vehicle. These are the most common places:
Firewall of the vehicle
Radiator Support Bracket
Dash by windshield
Left hand inner wheel arch
Guarantee & Maintenance Book
Machined Pad on front of engine
Drivers door or post on passenger side
[Ref: http://www.kerrywilson.com/vin.htm]
Additional locations include the interior frame, gas tank, etc. These are often under the body work or deep up inside the undercarrage. They are intended be used for forensic identification rather than on immediate inspection. So, they are difficult to find unless you know exactly where they are.
If you know where all your VIN locations are, you can theoretically remove them all. This would be difficult, for aformentioned reasons, but it is possible. To CHANGE the VIN, however, would require the identical parts from a similar vehicle. This doesn't change your VIN so much as take someone elses. And since the new parts would most likely have to come from a stolen vehicle (No garage or scrap yard will sell all of the necessary parts, such as the dash-plate), it wouldn't help you much.
Additionally, the VIN itself cannot be altered in-place. Not only would such an alteration be extremely difficult even for an expert forger, it would be easily found. If you were to, for example, turn a 6 into an 8, the check digit would not longer be correct. This would be caught instantly, were the VIN to be entered into a computer system.
So, all in all, it boils down to the short answer: you can't. Even if you can, it's extremely illegal, difficult, easy to catch, and won't get you much.
RFID & Auto Manufacturing
The technology is driving integration on shop floor.
http://www.industryweek.com/articles/rfid__auto_manufacturing_15842.aspx
By Adrienne Selko Feb. 25, 2008
The relationship between the automotive sector and RFID goes back as far as the key fob and placing chips on the chassis. The relationship now is how RFID can be integrated in the factory, used for container management as well was yard management.
The best news for manufacturing companies is that the ROI on RFID is robust and in some applications, quite quick. Honda Italia, Industriale, the Italian subsidiary of the Honda Motor Co. and leader in the 2 wheels worldwide market with more than 12.7 million PTW (powered two wheels) models sold in 2006, is an example of how a company successfully integrated RFID on one of its scooter lines while finding benefits beyond ROI. The company underwent an extensive pilot program before rolling out a full RFID program for their ASSi line of scooters produced at their plant in Atessa, Italy. They set up general guidelines for implementation of the program which included the following:
VIN progression tracking along the supply chain
Pull approach in the operative production management
Change on management support (Communication, Organizational alignment, Operational training)
Future extension to engine line assembly
The RFID tag is part of an overall integration with the entire manufacturing production. In the factory the VIN code is stored on the RFID tag/label and is read on specific RFID reading points on the assembly line. The RFID system checks all the Tag reads and sends Alerts or Notifications for errors during operations or for parts replenishment. The VIN code is stored on a RFID tag/label, tag of critical parts, attached to the first item of the critical parts cage at the location and is read using a RFID reading drawer/hole. The RFID System creates a request of critical parts to supply to the assembly line
"This system allows for a reduction in the work in process, as well as quality improvement. Furthermore we have reduced the need for adjustment after the scooters are sold," explains Nicola Marrone, RFID Project Executive, Honda Italia. From a supply chain perspective, Honda has better tracing ability as well as improving critical parts availability which reduced assembly line stops due to parts shortages.
"We viewed RFID technology as a continuous improvement. We assembled the necessary team members and worked closely together throughout the pilot and implementation," said Marrone. IBM, which developed a customized software solution to enable the project, was an active partner throughout. "The teamwork effort was so successful that we are now all working on expanding the system to Honda's suppliers," explains Armando Grosso, the Honda Italia client representative at IBM.
Nissan Accelerates Into Active RFID Fast Lane
Automaker's North American unit calls on WhereNet to provide real-time locating system hardware and software to help streamline in-bound supply and outbound delivery processes.
http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/news/read/Nissan_Accelerates_Into_Active_RFID_Fast_Lane_26123
by Alan AlperRead Author's Blogs Read Author's Articles Posted on Nov 28, 2006
WhereNet today disclosed that it has signed a "seven figure" contract with Nissan North America Inc. to deploy active RFID, real-time locating system (RTLS) technology to streamline the inbound supply chain and outbound delivery processes at the automaker's assembly plant in Canton, MS. Nissan will use a single wireless architecture across the 4-million-square-foot facility to run multiple WhereNet applications, including its Yard Management System (YMS) and the Vehicle Tracking and Management System (VTMS). Work on the project is already underway, and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of next year, according to Gary Latham, the director of industry solutions for WhereNet's automotive division. The active RFID project, which is part of a continuous improvement initiative at the facility, is aimed at improving production velocity and throughput, labor productivity, and vehicle quality, Latham said in an interview. Nissan did not return calls by press time to comment on the deal. Latham said the "seven figure" deal, while not WhereNet's largest in the automotive space, was "above average" in terms of dollar value. Other WhereNet customers include BMW, Ford, GM, HUMMER, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Toyota. Latham declined to specify the project's value, and argued that the deal's significance extends beyond dollars and cents. He said Nissan's "big bang" approach of equipping its entire plant with an active RFID infrastructure that connects to its enterprise information architecture -- and can be extended over time with new applications -- represented a bet that automaker can achieve greater overall ROI compared with the one-off deployments that have undermined the efficacy of many RFID projects. Chantal Polsonetti, vice president of manufacturing advisory services at ARC Advisory Group, said many automakers have taken a piecemeal approach to RFID, only to find it difficult to achieve returns on their investments. "One of the things we [have found] with RFID is that [some] solutions have a tangential relationship to the overall information architecture." This, Polsonetti said, is counter-intuitive, since tying supply or finished goods shipment data to the enterprise systems architecture is critical to establishing solid ROI metrics for auto-identification projects. "What's critical is how Nissan is going forward with the integration of the RTLS system to actually make decisions," she continued. "The use of this data in terms of just-in-time [JIT], inbound supply management -- knowing when you need a part for car, and knowing where it is and then executing by bringing the part where it is needed," is a significant advance in the use of RFID in the car assembly process, Polsonetti said. And that's precisely what Nissan is doing to automate manual procedures at its Canton plant, which has the capacity to produce 400,000 vehicles annually, including the Altima sedan, Armada sport utility vehicle, Infiniti QX56 sport utility vehicle, Quest minivan, and Titan pickup truck. Here's how the supply chain portion of the project is expected to work:
All car parts and equipment entering the facility will be tracked using active -- i.e., battery-powered -- RFID tags that are affixed to the trailer trucks transporting that material. The tags will contain data about the trucks' contents and arrival times.
WhereNet's automated gate check-in/out package, Fast Gate, will then sense when a truck is approaching the gate; cross-reference contents data with a corporate database; and, if authorized, open the gate to grant entry.
Once the truck enters the Nissan yard, its data will be transmitted to WhereNet's YMS application, which uses pre-set business rules to generate instructions that tell drivers and yard personnel on which docks to move certain materials to support JIT sequencing of parts, WhereNet's Latham explained.
The automated check-in/out procedures for the hundreds of daily truckloads and thousands of components that arrive at the assembly facility are expected to save Nissan several hours a day processing deliveries, Latham noted. It will also improve plant velocity and throughput in the yard, while increasing flexibility in manufacturing through better utilization of equipment, facilities, and labor, he claimed. On the outbound side of the equation, the use of active RFID is expected to improve product quality and delivery accuracy, Latham noted. Here's how that part of the process will work:
New vehicles rolling off the Nissan assembly line will be assigned an active RFID WhereTag transmitter that is "married" to the vehicle identification number (VIN), WhereNet said. The WhereTag remains on the vehicle until it has been processed and is ready to ship to its final destination.
Along the way, data is collected via WhereNet's VTMS and used in off-line areas to manage post-assembly verification and test processes, as well as quality repair, containment, and shipping. VTMS is based on a hierarchy of rules that is said to manage the processing of every vehicle by its assigned status, enabling Nissan to deliver high-priority units before others, WhereNet said.
For instance, VTMS will make sure that a car with a quality problem is fixed before it moves into the distribution queue, Latham said. "This vehicle may look identical to those that are OK," he pointed out, but the VTMS puts a "logical lock" on the vehicle that is transmitted by its tag, which prevents it from being shipped until the defect is corrected, Latham explained. "It's a win all around," he added. "The consumer wins by receiving a better vehicle; the auto dealer wins by selling more quality vehicles; and the manufacturer wins by being known for more quality products." The project's hardware will consist of 1,500 active RFID WhereTag transmitters, which are temporarily attached to new vehicles as they roll off the assembly line as part of the WhereNet VTMS system; 700 WhereTag transmitters that are permanently fixed to trailers belonging to Nissan's dedicated suppliers or temporarily attached to others as part of the YMS application; 120 WherePort magnetic "exciters" positioned between gates and at key choke points across the complex; and a local infrastructure of 80 wireless WhereLAN locating access points, WhereNet said. All of the gear complies with ANSI standards, the company noted. The vehicle tracking portion of the Nissan project, according to Mike Liard, RFID practice director at ABI Research, is fairly standard practice within the auto industry. "They've mainly done location [tracking] applications," he said, which ask, "'Where are the cars in the yard once they come off manufacturing?'" It's only recently that the industry has begun investigating tracking components and equipment moving through the factory, Liard noted. What's not clear in the case of Nissan is how many cars produced at its Canton, MS, plant will make use of RFID technology. "It's not clear if it's 100%," Liard said. "Nissan is getting its feet wet in RFID technology -- and that is the important takeaway." Latham said WhereNet has already conducted a study of the Canton facility's airwaves to determine the best way to install its gear. Unlike passive RFID, active RFID does not require unblocked sight lines. "The technology works in a heavy manufacturing industrial environment. The only thing it can't deal with is metal -- [the signal] can't go through a solid metal wall," he said. "There's nothing at Nissan that we've not seen before." Similarly, WhereNet does not anticipate encountering RFID/enterprise systems integration issues. Nissan will create custom interfaces and also use WhereNet's standard software development kit to build the mechanisms necessary to feed WhereNet RFID data into its enterprise systems. Nissan's existing legacy applications will "be the system of record," Latham said. "Our software will help process things more automatically and offer more real-time visibility of data." Nissan, Latham said, has already decided to move forward with WhereNet active RFID technology at another undisclosed plant, and is expected to deploy the technology at additional facilities across North America, he added. "That's the logical progression," Latham said. "That's how we started at Ford; once we deployed in one plant it [was deployed at] another."
No VIN.
This is just becoming more and more absurd. It's like the Hutaree and their pipe bomb.
Don't the elite have more important things to do than these juvenile theatrics? It actually makes me miss the days of 911. Now that was high theater. The thing about the false-flags since has been how petty, phony, and half-ass they have been. Barnstormer, farm-league false-flags. At least, you've got to respect the evil genius planning that went into 911 (unless you believe it was all done by goat-herders with boxcutters, I suppose). I really think some days they just can't get the old team together.
Dick is blowing up oil platforms from his den-office. W. has devoted himself to literary pursuits. Bibi has a real job again now, running and ripping off his own country, and Ehud has his hands full with Hizbollah, Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Syria, and Iran. The rest of the crew are probably busy with their own projects.
Is there an "Oceans Fourteen" yet? God, I hope not. Really.
there were no explosives
there was no car bomb
there were some propane tanks, 5 gallon jugs of gasoline, 3 clocks with batteries and wires hanging out (not connected)
This is the fake device used in over 100 training exercises throughout america.
this is the device used to make the appearance of a threat without causing a real threat.
this was a staged event part of a training drill
it was exposed by a vietnam vet early and perhaps the CIA/MI6/Mossad agents that were going to really pull a trigger backed off.
The media was already paid for the terror advertising, so they have to go on as if something exploded even though nothing did.
look at the media psyops, it is as if this completely non-event was 9/11 all over again, same scripts about terrorism, they want to destroy our freedoms, we need to give up freedoms to get secutity fear, fear, fear, fear.
We so need to awaken everyone to 9/11 truth and take away these weapons of mass deception from the global elite psycho terrorists
Abolutely, this was a completely by-the-book military psyop.
Boooooring!
mr anderson
This New York incident reminded me of a Twlight Zone episode with an amazing twist for a conclusion.
If your antsy go to 8:51 (Part II) and wait for the shocking but not surprising twist.
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Twilight Zone - S01E32
The Monsters Are On Maple Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIBMWoVfnMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVFrNfCp1g
In this remake of the original classic Twilight Zone's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".. a neighborhood is terrorized by mysterious power outages and begin to turn on each other. Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood..
(opening narration) Maple Street, U.S.A. A suburban community on a pleasant Saturday afternoon. But in a few moments everything will change for the residents of Maple Street as they discover that the monsters they fear may already be among them..
(closing narration) It isn't enough for a sole voice of reason to exist. In this time of uncertainty we're so sure that villains lurk around every corner that we will create them ourselves if we can't find them. For while fear may keep us vigilant, it's also fear that tears us apart. A fear that sadly exists only to often outside The Twilight Zone..
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts.. attitudes.. prejudices.. To be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is... that these things cannot be confined to.. The Twilight Zone..
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The "expert" on CNN said it was 3 propane tanks and that it would have been "catastrophic".
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/05/02/palumbo.ny.car.bomb.cnn?iref=allsearch
Let's look at that...the effect would be impressive but not that destructive or long lasting...
Full Gas Grill Propane Tank Explosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZmbp_zO6rs
Chris Jeka 16.4oz Propane Tank Explosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roWRuCllpMA&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Mythbusters blow up a propane tank!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ZLefQC_oU&NR=1
exploding propane tank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzCEPsM748&feature=related
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
~Aldous Huxley
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - ~Friedrich Nietzsche
CNN just ran a promo for a new series:
American Al-Qaeda
with the Astor Jesus: Anderson Cooper
What a coincidence!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do not be fooled by CIA's latest decepti-CON...
Astor Jesus
[Again thanks to Brocke for this awesome work!]
Scootle
Media Speculates Car Bomb Was Reprisal For South Park Controversy
http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-speculates-car-bomb-was-reprisal-for-south-park-controversy.html
"The location is also adjacent to the Viacom building, fuelling speculation that it might be linked to the company’s controversial South Park cartoon which recently depicted Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit."
I think the fact that this is blatantly a psyop confirms what we suspected about the South Park stuff haha.
From global tyranny
Wake up American slobs
9/11 was an inside job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OntBg2qwk_M&fmt=35
Century of Manipulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mujq-C1UAw0
... Here's Tom with the weather!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CCIcjIngLA
That would be funny, but I would only believe there was a direct connection if the man running away from the abandoned car/bomb/barbecue was actually wearing a bear suit at the time. Now that would be some good T.V. Of course, the barbecue would actually have to explode.
If you introduce a gun in the first act...
An ANDERSON COOPER 360°INVESTIGATION
AMERICAN AL QAEDA
http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/cnn-announces-new-programming-and-website-changes/
"Mo Money, Mo Money Mo Money!"
"Anderson Cooper is rich, bitch!"
Week-long series begins the week of
followed by one hour special on Sat., May 15, & Sun., May 16, at 8 p.m., 11 p.m., 2 a.m. (one hour; all times Eastern)
Bryant Neal Vinas, born and raised in New York, a once friendly, baseball-playing Catholic altar boy, is now a sworn enemy of the U.S. CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson spent a year tracing Vinas’ life’s journey, learning how and why he became a hate-filled terrorist helping al Qaeda plan a bomb attack on New York City. Exclusive images and first-time interviews yield the most intimate portrait ever of an American homegrown terrorist.
Quote from: Scootle on May 02, 2010, 08:11:49 am
mohammed was not in the fricking bear outfit!
this is 100% false flag psyops insanity
Don't convert to Islam. It's exactly what they want. (Don't riot either.)
If anything, my disgust with human evil has finally made me prefer to disregard the voyeur upstairs altogether.
As for the Astor Jesus, he doesn't strike me as either an improvement on or any worse than Cesare Borgia Jesus. For five hudred years the Jesus people worship has been an Aryan fraud.
Re: NLE10 gone nuts with NYC Time Square "crude" car "bomb" that uses propane
Quote from: Brocke on May 02, 2010, 12:41:40 am
Tourists in the area expressed annoyance and amusement. Nam Vu, 24, said he had arrived by bus in New York at 8 a.m. from Canada and was prevented from meeting a friend at the Marriott Marquis on Times Square.
"I feel like I'm on a TV show," he said. "Where is (actor) Denzel Washington?"
THAT is a quote that perfectly exemplifies the fact that EVEN THE SHEEP aren't buying the bullshit anymore!!! They've gone too far too many times; they're self-destructing in their own piles of bs.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Re: NLE10 / Bilderberg False Flag Car Dud exposed
hey, ny pd must be reading this forum because all of a sudden they found VIN numbers. amazing.
what other absurdities can we bring up to force them to admit their lies and finally tell the truth about this crap.
flaming_red_pill
it's my *
Quote from: Sane on May 02, 2010, 06:30:53 am
Informative and terrifying as always. @@
License plate reading... eek, says darpa all over it. Sigh.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.
-President John F. Kennedy on the Global Conspiracy
YouTube - Car Bomb IED in New York Times Square, False Flag ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVN6WLNzZ5Y&hd=1
False Flag Prelude? Clinton Launches Demonization Campaign On OK City Bombing Anniversary
http://www.infowars.com/false-flag-prelude-clinton-launches-demonization-campaign-on-ok-city-bombing-anniversary/
Kurt Nimmo
Former president Bill Clinton has told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he is worried that anti-government rhetoric will lead to violence and another Oklahoma City. He said he is concerned about people opposed to the government using the internet.
Government defined terrorists, Clinton said, “can communicate with each other much faster and much better than they did before. The main thing that bothered us since the time of Oklahoma City was that already, there was enough use of the Internet that if you knew how to find a Web site — and not everybody even had a computer back then, but if you knew how to find it, you could learn, for example, how to make a bomb” like the one used to bring down the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people.
Beyond the obvious propaganda designed to link the Tea Party movement to domestic terrorism — a sign that the government is indeed desperate to discredit growing opposition — Bill Clinton’s remarks reveal just how alarmed the establishment is over the opposition’s use of the internet as an organizational and educational tool. Traditional corporate media propaganda avenues are now avoided by growing numbers of Americans who no longer trust the government and the lies it disseminates via the corporate media.
Clinton also appeared on ABC where he repeated his assertion that opposition to the government is domestic terrorism (he has yet to use that specific term, however). Once again, he brought up the specter of Oklahoma City. “And we shouldn’t demonize the government or its public employees or its elected officials. We can disagree with them,” Clinton told Jack Tapper. “We ought to remember after Oklahoma City, we learned something about the difference in disagreement and demonization.”
He launched the effort to blur the lines between legitimate anti-government opposition and the documented false flag attack in Oklahoma on Friday during a speech at the Center for American Progress Action Fund in California.
Monday is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and the premeditated government massacre that slaughtered 76 people in Waco, more than 20 of them children. Clinton was president at the time and is directly responsible along with his attorney general Janet Reno for the massacre in Texas two years before the Oklahoma City bombing.
“I’m glad they’re fighting over health care and everything else. Let them have at it. But I think that all you have to do is read the paper every day to see how many people there are who are deeply, deeply troubled,” he said. “What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold — but that the words we use really do matter, because there’s this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike.”
It certainly looks like the government is preparing another false flag attack to demonize the patriot movement and the real Tea Party movement (the Republican hijacked Tea Party is not a threat and will follow orders this November and vote for establishment candidates).
It is no mistake Bill Clinton’s demonization campaign is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Is it a prelude to yet another false flag attack to be blamed by the government and its Mockingbird corporate media on those of us opposed to an authoritarian federal government?
A government orchestrated terror event somewhere within the United States exploited as an excuse to crack down on the opposition is the government’s only viable option at this point.
Millions of Americans are now awake and mobilized in opposition to the government. Increased and growing activism now threatens the establishment. The Tea Party movement is only the most obvious manifestation of an effort to take back control of the government from the elite and their corporate minions.
Faced with such historically significant opposition, the establishment has two options – capitulate or attack the movement indirectly through false flag terrorism. Attacking the movement directly would create even more support for the opposition and further legitimize their argument that the federal government is tyrannical.
Although Gordon believes that only Israel is the root of all evil, just change Israel to Bankers or CIA and this article exposes the Bilderberg agenda...
GORDON DUFF: STAGE BEING SET FOR “DIRTY BOMB” FALSE FLAG
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/24/gordon-duff-stage-being-set-for-dirty-bomb-false-flag/
April 24, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff ·
“CHATTER” FLOWING IN FROM EVERYWHERE
“SUITCASE” NUKE SAID TO BE IN PLACE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Rumors of an upcoming terror attack to be blamed on Iran are moving around the world, “backchannel chatter.” The primary suspect is Israel who is said to have a number of small “suitcase” type nuclear weapons, some primarily “dirty bombs,” possibly supplied secretly by a previous US administration. These devices are in the “40 ton” range, highly radioactive, extremely small and can be engineered to leave the signature of a primitive device. They were originally designed for use against Soviet armor and troop concentrations in Europe if a massed attack on NATO were to occur. Current conventional systems have made this type of weapon obsolete.
We have been told that federal authorities have interviewed, on video, a prominent individual with specific knowledge of the possession of this type of weapon.
This won’t be in the news. All that “every day folks” will see is a story here or one there that don’t make sense. Why would “ultra-Liberal” Senator Chuck Schumer, nightmare “anti-gun” nut, extreme lefty and staunch New York democrat turn on the president? In fact, why are extreme liberals and conservatives all attacking President Obama and, less visibly, our military leaders, all at the same time? Who is orchestrating this oddest turn of political events in recent history? Why would the Pentagon ban Reverend Billy Graham’s son from a prayer breakfast as an “Islamophobe?”
Dad, the famous Reverend Billy Graham, primary spiritual advisor to every American president since Harry Truman held different views.
Rev. Billy Graham openly voiced a belief that Jews control the American media, calling it a “stranglehold” during a 1972 conversation with President Richard Nixon, according to a tape of the Oval Office meeting released Thursday by the National Archives.
“This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country’s going down the drain,” the nation’s best-known preacher declared as he agreed with a stream of bigoted Nixon comments about Jews and their perceived influence in American life.
“You believe that?” Nixon says after the “stranglehold” comment.
“Yes, sir,” Graham says.
“Oh, boy,” replies Nixon. “So do I. I can’t ever say that but I believe it.”
“No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something,” Graham replies.
Consider this report as a form of “innocualtion,” meant to prevent an unseemly accident.
EVER WONDER WHY OVER 80% OF AMERICAN’S DON’T TRUST CONGRESS?
YouTube - Veterans Today -
FACE THE FACTS
Israel has never been in more trouble today, not from any imaginary Arab armies or a “holocaust” from Iran, a country with only minor defensive weaponry, a 4th rate military power, for those who really pay attention to these things. Israel has gotten in trouble because of “chickens coming home to roost.” Americans and Europeans have been conditioned by the press, yes, Israel controls the press in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, to ignore ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Palestine. Years of news and “infotainment” along with movies and TV series, always depicting Palestinians as crazed murders has done its job, covered mass murder in ways that Josef Goebbels could never do for Hitler.
Things started to go wrong for Israel when top military leaders became increasingly suspicious of 9/11. None will openly admit to it, but as years have gone on, and Iraq and Afghanistan could no longer be called real security issues for the US, an unspoken movement toward lending a suspicious eye to Israeli involvement in 9/11 has festered. Israel’s hand in propagandizing our news has become too obvious for trained observers to miss, with the direction not “pro-Israel” but looking more like a country covering for crimes.
This is the potential list:
Possible complicity in some part of 9/11 with or without help from groups in the US and one other Middle Eastern nation known to secretly finance Israeli operations but pretending to be a “blood enemy” of the Jews
Israeli complicity in massive financial crimes in the US, including engineering of the sub-prime mortgage collapse as an operation meant to destabilize the United States. That current financial reforms meant to prevent a repeat of this, pushed by President Obama (and military leaders) is opposed by groups financed by the Israeli lobby is a “smoking gun.”
Terrorist attacks in Iraq, Russia, Iran and Pakistan carry clear signs of involvement of one or more intelligence agencies being involved, among them Israel.
Israeli political machinations backed by a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign attempting to justify an unprovoked attack on Iran, disinformation including “holocaust” rhetoric and clearly falsified intelligence on Iran’s non-existent nuclear program are an almost perfect repeat of the same operation that pushed the Bush administration to mistakenly attack Iraq. Note this classic example of disinformation propaganda, conditioning “the west” to expect a dirty bomb attack: Debka/Israel Hoax and, more “cover” still from Israeli stooge Mikhail Saakashvili.
The “Israel Project” actually has run ad advertisement warning of exactly such an attack. You can see an RT (Russia Television) video about this video, labeled “crazy” and “propaganda.” A national survey mentioned indicates that 70% of the American people because of Israeli propaganda, now believe Iran currently has nuclear weapons. Many prominent lawmakers advise “the Israel Project,” a group with no other purpose than to condition Americans to expect terror attacks and to “pre-blame” Iran.
Nuclear threats made by “extremists” in Israel against Western Europe went unheeded and the desired outcry of support for an attack on Iran never materialized. Israel would never have allowed prominent sources in its defense establishment to voice “crazy threats” to “nuke Rome” unless some purpose were served.
Highly orchestrated attacks on the Obama administration, now finally working in close association with top military leaders, is meant to destabilize the US. Moving threats against the US, the engineering of a new market collapse by Goldman Sachs, an ineffective attack by Israel on Iran, cutting off all oil to the west or attempts by Israeli controlled media giants to forment civil unrest in the US are all “on the table” and being pushed forward.
AMERICAN POLITICIANS, PRESIDENT OBAMA INCLUDED ARE “SWORN” TO KEEP ISRAEL’S VAST NUCLEAR ARSENAL THE WORLD’S “WORST KEPT SECRET”
HOW AMERICA’S MILITARY HAS CHANGED
The deteriorating situation in Iraq and Afghanistan have tied down so many resources that our defense capabilities, the contingency response that our defense planners have spent years creating and over a trillion dollars financing is a shambles. We are trucking supplies hundreds of miles through enemy territory to resupply in Afghanistan, that and flying everything thousands of miles across Russia followed by more trucking, hundreds of miles across enemy territory again. In the process, we are paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to our own enemies, simply to keep ourselves in Twinkies and Ho Hos.
America is saddled with an incompetent and corrupt ally who has hopelessly embroiled us in his endless and ineffective plots, all with a massive subtext of drug dealing, selling weapons to the enemy and double dealing with foreign intelligence services.
How we got here is no secret and military leaders are unhappy. America got herself led into these disasters for the good of, not Israeli security but a series of intrigues, more like a chess match, playing country against country, while raking in cash selling weapons to everyone, including the US and India, but, less overtly, to Iran and the Taliban as well. These are some of the worst kept secrets in the world. Even President Obama knows, heaven forbid.
ONLY A NEW 9/11 CAN BAIL ISRAEL OUT
With massive control of news organization, half our top retired military leaders taking regularly paid “junkets” to Israel and 363 members of congress indicating an “unbreakable bond” with Israel, no matter what they are caught doing, and they have been caught so many times, starting with the 1956 Suez/Sinai invasion, the 1967 USS Liberty attack, which helped Israel sell the idea that they were attacked when quite the opposite is true, the belief is that that a new “false flag” attack can be covered easily.
Who could blame Israel, poor beleaguered country, the only “democracy” in the Middle East surrounded by vicious and dirty Arabs trying to sneak in and cut throats of small children in school?
We have already seen the stories about Iran’s planned “holocaust’ and how they are going to invade Israel, a technical impossibility” and set up gas chambers, start making soap and lamp shades out of Jews. If anything warns America that an attack is coming, hearing both “holocaust” and seeing Charles Schumer attacking a democratic president should be warning enough.
The rumors are that the weapons are in place in Europe and the US. “The usual suspects,” Arabs, Persians, Pakistanis, some kind of Islamic terrorist group has either been recruited, invented or is being thawed out. News stories are in place and with 9/11, film crews are ready to be onsite. Witnesses will be briefed, all to say, “yes it was an Arab dirty bomb, we saw them, Middle Eastern looking, they must have bought it from North Korea.”
That kind of story would hit the news within seconds from “stunned survivors” who will suddenly disappear, returning quickly to “you know where.”
Glenn Beck will cry.
LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES HAVE ALWAYS GOTTEN MARCHING ORDERS FROM TEL AVIV
Americans have the rare privilege of seeing the GOP, NRA, Fox News and the Tea Baggers aligned with 250 or is it 300 or 400, we aren’t sure, members of congress that have signed a letter promising to support Israel, in this case, against the interests of the United States. The names of those involved is difficult to find. A search of 100 stories on this subject has failed to give a list. Blog after blog is requesting the list of those who signed the letter but even Israeli papers don’t print it.
Sites claiming to list the members signing now show “FORBIDDEN” or “NO LONGER AVAILABLE.”
What we do know is that congress’s most liberal members, those most outspoken for gun control and all of those listed by the Tea Bag movements and GOP as the most liberal and “unpatriotic” of our politicians are now lined up with the supporters of Goldman Sachs and all, the most conservative and most liberal, are signed up against the President and the Pentagon, aligned with Israel.
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the entire “liberal” and “conservative” political hoopla of the last few years is turning out to be a subterfuge to keep Americans from uniting together to regain control of their own country, a control that, for awhile, ran our military, our intelligence services and even the oval office.
Now it runs only Congress, no party, just those addicted to AIPAC/Israeli funding more than allegiance to the United States of America.
What they may earn us through this “moral flexibility” and indifference to allegiance to their own country is another major terrorist attack. These same members of congress will receive the call, be told how to vote, what to say and exactly what they get in return, same as with Iraq.
Ah, the foibles of living in a democracy for sale to the highest bidder!
NLE10 calls for combination of environmental catastrophe plus a domestic terror attack occuring at the same time.
This is the plan.
This is the progam of NLE10
All NLE10 architects and executioners need to be investigated for sedition, conspiracy, treason ASAP.
How is this not a conspiracy?
samyG
What does NLE10 stand for? Care to elaborate more on the term?
Feds say device was not operational.
just like in the war game exercises.
MSNBC says that they need more surveillance and extreme optics military grade video tracking systems throughout NY City in order to prevent these type of terrorist acts in the future.
this is 100% false flag to bring in IBM's Global Human tracking system...RFID, heat resonance detection, facial detection, biometrics detection, etc.
Real-Time Human Detection, Tracking, and Verification
www.cs.umd.edu/~mhussein/papers/icvs06_paper.pdf
Real-Time Human Detection, Tracking, and Verification in Uncontrolled Camera
Motion Environments
Fusion of color and infrared video for moving human detection
This provides an opportunity for improving the human detection
www.vislab.ucr.edu/PUBLICATIONS/pubs/Journal%2520and%2520Conference%2520Papers/after10-1-1997/Journals/2007/fusionofcolorjuly06.pdf
Quote from: samyG on May 02, 2010, 09:37:05 am
10,000 person multi-state war game exercise involving homeland security, military, cdc, fema, nsa, nro, fbi, cia to conduct terror attacks on US citizens as drills and then evaluate the command and control communications and the emergency responses.
on 9/11 a very similar elaborate set of war games were going on where they hijacked planes, flew planes into buildings, and had un troops available to squash civilian uprisings.
Verichip now Poitive ID and Linked with IBM
http://eme.v1-p.com/?p=92
Verichip is now called PositiveID! Verichip/PositiveID is a provider of RFID systems for health care. It appears microchipping is experimented on Alzheimer patients without their knowledge. Verichip stock plummeted after reports circulated the rice size implants were causing cancer. The FDA reports a series of potential problems with implanting Verichip/PositiveID in humans see here. Now Verichip/PositiveID has started a new public relations program with a new public relations team.
The company taking over Verichips/PositiveID media relations and corporate communications is Gibraltar. A company who has close ties with the Clinton administration, expertise in biotech, energy and of course as a company who has excellent inroads into government, Gibraltar even has the mandatory Washington office!
When Verichip/PositiveID started the seed money came from giant IBM. Looking at connections we found a great article by Greg Nikolettos. Read his complete article here. We have taken a few snipets of the article and posted below.
“$60 million is chickenfeed to a company who turns over 100 billion US dollars a year. Yes sir, the IBM Hollerith Machine Punch Card system was very profitable in WWII, cleverly “leased” to the Nazi regime to create enabling technologies to identify and catalog non-compliant peoples.
IBM custom-designed and constantly updated the Hollerith Machine using the punch-card system and thus Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the undesirables. Hitlers remedy? Zyklon B, the brand name of the cyanide-based pesticide used in the Holocaust gas chambers !
The Zyklon B patents were owned by a little company called IG Farben who was also in bed with John D. Rockefeller’s United States based Standard Oil Co. during the reign of the Third Reich.
Agfa, BASF, and Bayer continue today after the buyout of IG Faben Western Assets, showing that you can’t keep a good criminal company down. But let’s remember, we all need to be more forgiving as BASF manufactured excellent magnetic recording cassette tapes in the 80s-90s as acid house music merged and fused into techno.
Verichip/PositiveID is manufactured by Raytheon Microelectronics España/ECLAN from Tomahawk Missile fame thus creating a synergy between the fifth largest defense government contractor and the human implantable microchip.
VeriChip Corporation acquires Steel Vault Corporation to Form PositiveID Corporation thus creating a synergy between identity theft and the human implantable microchip⁷
VeriChip Corporation acquires credit monitoring company, NationalCreditReport.com, thus creating a synergy between credit monitoring and the human implantable microchip⁸
Verichip includes the VeriPay System which is designed to be used as a swipe and go payment method for cash and credit-card transactions as seen at the Baja nightclub, thus creating a synergy between “scan and go” electronic payments and the human implantable microchip.19
Verichip can be linked to Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, thus creating a synergy between the Electronic Health Records Government stampede and the human implantable microchip.
Verichip/PositiveID/RECEPTORS LLC manufactures Virus Triage Detection System for the H1N1 Virus thus creating a synergy between the WHO hyped flu pandemic and the human implantable microchip.
Verichip/PositiveID announced it would expand its HealthID division with a range of products, including an implantable RFID microchip in phase 2 development which can detect glucose levels in the body, thus creating a synergy between HealthCare , Diabetic Patients and the human implantable microchip
Verichip/PositiveID announced it is working closely with HealthScreenDirect, a company that offers screening for diabetes and high cholesterol . We soon predict a cholesterol sensor announcement via the Verichip Receptors alliance thus creating a synergy between the 106 million Americans who suffer from high cholesterol and the human implantable microchip.⁴
Verichip/PositiveID formed VeriGreen Energy Corporation, to invest in the clean and alternative energy sector.Following the recently signed stimulus package, which invested $79 billion in renewable energy. Verichip/PositiveID created a synergy between their new marketing company Gibraltar , the stimulus bill , cap and trade, the global warming agenda and the human implantable microchip.⁵
But relax…after all these acquisitions, name changes and synergies created, Scott Silverman CEO of Verichip/PositiveID states to the market with a straight face:
“Using the chip to relate to the credit-reporting services of NationalCreditReport.com, or even using it for financial transactions” has not been a part of our business model for five years or more, since Sullivan’s been gone, and is not part of our business model moving forward.”
Scott Silverman continued “I can tell you that” putting [the chips] into children and immigrants for identification purposes, or putting them into people, especially unwillingly, for financial transactions, has [not] been and never will be the intent of this company as long I’m the chairman and CEO,”
Reuters reported in May 2009, “Verichip had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans. ” See the article here.
It appears IBM invested $ 60 million to help Verichip/PositiveID and IBM, it appears, played a roll in WWII helping to identify the enemies of the Third Reich. One might want to question buying any IBM products, wouldn’t they?
You need to google the term and research it out or read the posts.
Amazing, almost like it was in a scripted.
headwest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8656651.stm
New York City police have defused an improvised car bomb parked in Times Square, one of the city's busiest tourist areas.
They say propane tanks, fireworks, petrol and a clock device were removed from a parked sports utility vehicle.
Sounds more like someone packing for a week of camping and shooting off fireworks than it does a bomb. Clock device - watch? Some vehicles run on propane also.
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Gordon_Cameron March 16, 2019, 8:55pm #6128
Well if the government can FORCE YOU to buy health insurance, then why can’t it FORCE YOU to buy a gun?!
– Gordon, right-wing pundit in training
Timex March 16, 2019, 8:59pm #6129
I’m just gonna go with the Google autocorrect from now on.
I mean, i clearly already do, but from now on, it’s on purpose.
Oh, I see Timex anticipated me. Need more training!
LockerK March 29, 2019, 10:25pm #6131
Bill would allow Ohioans to carry guns without permit, training, background...
Almost half of Ohio House Republicans are pushing for passage of a bill that would allow all law-abiding Ohioans to carry a concealed weapon without
Fuck my shitty-ass state.
rowe33 March 29, 2019, 10:35pm #6132
Wow…without training, without permit, without background check…also without bullets? That’s the only way that bill could possibly come across as sane.
Don’t they realize that any black Ohio residents will also be able to carry a gun like this? Oh wait…law-abiding is code for white in Ohio, isn’t it?
Almost half of Ohio House Republicans are pushing for passage of a bill that would allow all law-abiding Ohioans to carry a concealed weapon without obtaining a permit — a measure that GOP Gov. Mike DeWine supports.
And wtf is this? If you don’t inform a cop that you have a gun and they spot a concealed gun then aren’t they going to assume you’ll be using it on them & open fire? Hell, they do that now even if you don’t have a gun, if you’re the wrong hue.
The bill also would repeal a current requirement that concealed-carry owners notify police officers they are carrying a gun when stopped.
Dan_Theman March 30, 2019, 1:01am #6133
rowe33:
law-abiding is code for white in Ohio, isn’t it?
Outside of the liberal havens, sadly yes.
rowe33 April 13, 2019, 2:29am #6134
Aww shucks, someone’s blood has to water the gun tree of freedom though.
Georgia girl, 6, dies after brother accidentally shoots her in head, police say
A Georgia girl died this week after her younger brother accidentally shot her in the head, police say.
Menzo April 13, 2019, 2:38am #6135
Thoughts and prayers.
Woolen_Horde April 13, 2019, 2:40am #6136
Those poor kids. Both the little girl and her brother. He’s only 4. He can’t possibly understand the magnitude of what he’s done. And when he finally gets old enough to do so, he’ll have to live with it the rest of his life.
The mother should be in jail.
Gordon_Cameron April 13, 2019, 3:00am #6137
That’s almost unreadably awful. I can’t even imagine.
sillhouette April 13, 2019, 3:38am #6138
from a few years ago
“Someone needs to be responsible when children kill children with unsecured guns. Gun makers enjoy extraordinary freedom from liability when gun accidents occur, and that means gun owners bear most of the legal burden. Twenty-eight states have what are known as “child access prevention” laws, which impose criminal liability on adults who negligently allow kids to have access to their guns. States with these CAP laws show reductions in both accidental shootings and child suicides. But as Justin Peters has argued many times here at Slate, these CAP laws are almost never enforced, in part because they are vague, and in part because prosecutors have no heart to punish parents who have already suffered unimaginable pain when their child killed another child, often their own.”
Slate Magazine – 13 Oct 15
A Kid Finds a Loaded Gun. Someone Gets Killed. Why Is No One Prosecuted?
Last week, in what’s actually become a pretty standard week in America, two young children shot two other children dead with unsecured guns. Nothing...
Stepsongrapes April 14, 2019, 3:54pm #6139
A child is found hiding under a bed after father kills mother and 2 siblings...
A man killed four people, including his wife and two children, in a shooting rampage that happened in two homes in Phoenix and started as a domestic dispute over allegations of an affair, police said.
Ah religion, guns and alcohol, MAGA!
I don’t think the absence of the gun would have fully prevented this tragedy, but I do think it would of mitigated it.
Guns making it easier to kill, when inhibitions are down, is something we’ve discussed in this thread. Knife=\gun under at least these type of circumstances.
DeForrestation April 17, 2019, 6:12pm #6140
“This edible ain’t shit.”
KMGH – 17 Apr 19
Sol Pais found dead near base of Mt. Evans, sources say
After a massive manhunt along the Front Range and foothills west of Denver, Sol Pais was found dead by suicide Wednesday morning near the base of Mt. Evans, according to multiple high-ranking sources.
kerzain April 17, 2019, 8:28pm #6141
Whenever there’s a school shooting there’s a number of people that tend to wish school shooters would simply kill themselves before going in and shooting up a school (only to kill themselves later anyway), this time they got their wish.
CraigM April 17, 2019, 8:37pm #6142
I mean in the list of possible outcomes, this sure as hell beats many of the alternatives.
And chalk one more up to the ‘the sale of guns should be more time consuming and difficult’. As this was a legal purchase.
rowe33 April 17, 2019, 8:42pm #6143
But Craig, then only the bla…err, bad guys will have guns!
Gordon_Cameron April 26, 2019, 7:09pm #6144
Trump Pulls Out of Arms Treaty During Speech at N.R.A. Convention
The N.R.A. is dealing with inner turmoil, lawsuits and a newly empowered Democratic House. The president’s visit is being thought of as a needed pep talk.
MikeOberly April 26, 2019, 10:48pm #6145
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Area NRA executive stunned to find Oliver North acting like a criminal twitter.com/briandelay/sta…
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Brian DeLay (BrianDeLay)
With the NRA cratering, Oliver North, President of the NRA, calls for the resignation of Wayne LaPierre, the org's long-serving chief exec. LaPierre accuses North of extortion. Stunned world wonders: if you can't trust these two guys, who can you trust? nyti.ms/2VxfS1G
ShivaX April 26, 2019, 11:11pm #6146
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
Wayne LaPierre says NRA President Oliver North is extorting him and pressuring him to resign as CEO over allegations of financial improprieties on.wsj.com/2ZA8C4l
9:44 PM - 26 Apr 2019 830 380
vyshka April 26, 2019, 11:22pm #6147
I suggest pistols and 10 paces at dawn!
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The 28,6-foot electric yacht Dasher by British company Hinckley was presented at the 47th Newport International Boat Show in Newport. As the vendor claims, it’s the first boat which using electropull in the yachtbuilding’s history. The yacht has the BMW i3 accumulator and two 40 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion batteries and electric motors Torqeedo Deep Blue 80i 1800. Dasher is loading for 4 hours. It’s possible to go safely to a 40 miles way with a speed of 10 miles per hour. If you accelerate to 18-27 miles, the charge will last for a shorter path. The carbon fiber casing allowed a yacht have weight about 2950 kg. Representatives of "Hinckley" don’t disclose publicly the price, and the market estimated Tesla boat at $500 000.
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Xbox Live Launches
Xbox has announced that Live gaming has hit Ireland, with Xbox Live Starter Kits available at retail from October 30th. The Starter Kits contain an Xbox Voice Communicator headset that allows voice chat during play and from the Xbox Live Dashboard, a one-year subscription to the Xbox Live service, and Live-enabled demoversions of MotoGP and MechAssault.
Xbox Live is a broadband gaming service where gamers can simultaneously play, talk and build their legend across games and around the world. Competitors can connect, play and talk with each other during their game sessions – and with a growing Live community of over 500,000 gamers around the world, there’s a lot of
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There will be a total of 50 Live-enabled games available by the end of December, including:
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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3 (Ubi Soft)
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XIII (Ubi Soft)
CounterStrike (Microsoft Game Studios)
Crimson Skies (Microsoft Game Studios)
Links (Microsoft Games Studio)
Magic: The Gathering (Atari)
Project Gotham Racing 2 (Microsoft Game Studios)
TOCA Race Driver (Codemasters)
Sega GT Online (Sega).
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Activision)
Xbox Live is now available in 14 European countries. Ireland joins Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
The Official Xbox Live Launch will take place today at 3.30pm in Microsoft, The Atrium, Block B, Carmenhall Road Sandyford, Dublin 18.
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Heads or Kales
Tim Entwisle March 30, 2013
James Joyce mentions the florin early into Ulysses, reason enough for Frank Delaney to tell us about the origin of the word in his exasperatingly brilliant Re:Joyce podcast. The ‘florin’ was first used and named in the Italian city of Florence, or Firenze, but according to Delaney the name refers to a flower rather than the city. The first coins, he says, bore a lily on one side.
The name of the Italian city has nothing to do with flowers. It was originally called Fluentia because it was built between two rivers and the name evolved from there. (Coincidentally, the name Entwisle probably comes from an Old English or Norse word for the piece of land between two rivers, a twisle or twisla; the ‘Ent’ bit may be from the word for water hen, enna or henn, an animal no doubt frequenting such areas.)
Not everyone takes the side of the flower over the city. My old literary companion Dr Samuel Johnson, for example, cites William Camden’s view that the Florin was so named because it was made by Floretines (which I take to be the inhabitants of the Italian city rather than tasty biscuits).
I prefer, of course, the botanical derivation. The original coin certainly seems to have been adorned with a flower on one side. In this line of thinking, Florin comes from Fiorino, the diminutive of flore (or in Latin flos and flor) – that is, a small flower.
The link to the city may be in the identity of the flower which, according to the Oxford Dictionary was the Fleur-de-lis (a stylised lily flower), the emblem of the city Florence.
The Florin has been used in various currencies since the thirteenth century, such as the Dutch guilder and the English two shillings (although Johnson oddly says it is a coin of Edward III and worth six shillings).
Australia didn’t quite get it, using the tail side of the coin to display the country’s coat of arms. Luckily that coat includes a sprig of Golden Wattle, Acacia pycnantha, clearly visible on this particular coin.
But of course the Florin has gone the way of the penny and pound. Today, what flora appears on our coins and notes? We have plenty of wildlife – an echidna on our five cent coin, a lyre bird on the ten, a platypus on the twenty, kangaroos on the dollar, some cows and horses (and humans) on the $10 bill, a camel and humans on the $20, horses and humans on the $100, and only humans on the $2 coin* and $50 note.
The 50 cent coin has something behind the shield component of the coat of arms that might be vegetable matter – certainly not clearly identifiable as wattle – but it’s the two Australian animals that dominate.
The $5 bill is where we chose to celebrate the Australian flora, at least a little, with a eucalypt branch reaching out to the shoulder of Queen Elizabeth II like Adam to God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
So bring back the florin I say. Or at least wrap the playpus in some algae or something photosynthetic. Better still, lets put a cabbage on the 20c coin so we can call “heads or kales”.
Images: my pictures today are from a web trawl and seem to be in common use…
* Todd McLay left a comment on Talking Plants pointing out, quite rightly, that there is definitely a small Xanthorrhoea (Grass Tree) on the $2 coin. Well spotted!
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2 thoughts on “Heads or Kales”
Linda on April 1, 2013 at 11:03 pm said:
Most interesting Tim. Yes some more vegetation on currency would be good – there are certainly plenty of distinctive Australian plants to choose from. I’d like to see more floral stamps too as I always try to use them in preference to any others.
Tim Entwisle on April 2, 2013 at 7:23 am said:
Thanks Linda. Watch out for a set of five stamps to be released this month (I think) featuring botanic gardens. Our Australian Garden (part of Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne) will star!
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Review: Resident Evil HD (Nintendo Switch)
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Reviewed by Krista Noren, posted May 24, 2019
Release Date (NA): May 21, 2019
Developer: Capcom
Genres: Survival Horror
ESRB Rating: Mature
PEGI Rating: Sixteen years and older
Get your survival-horror fix with the game that started it all, now on the Nintendo Switch.
Enter the Survival Horror
Resident Evil 2 took the world by storm when it released earlier this year, quickly becoming one of the most well-received games of 2019. Currently, it sits atop OpenCritic’s Hall of Fame as the number 1 entry, against other titans like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Devil May Cry V. With such a successful remake on their hands, Capcom could clearly see that nostalgia and popularity for the series was at an all time high, which resulted in a bevy of Resident Evil remakes making their way to the ever-popular Nintendo Switch; a perfect combination. Now it’s time to return to a new-old classic, in the form of Resident Evil HD, for the Nintendo Switch.
Resident Evil HD is a rather amusing game, as it’s a remake of a remake. Originally released in 1996 for the PlayStation 1, then remade for the Nintendo GameCube in 2002, followed up by receiving a remake in 2015 for both seventh and eighth gen consoles, we find Resident Evil 1 returning to a Nintendo system once more. Just as with the 2015 release of the game, this version boasts HD visuals, widescreen support, and a new control scheme, for those that dislike tank-style movement. These changes help bring the title back from the brink of being overly dated, and make it much easier for a new generation of players to pick up.
Previously we took a look at Resident Evil HD, when it first released over four years ago. As opposed to our Chief Editor in his aforementioned review, I have no prior experience with the series, and went into things blind, with mild expectations.
Knowing only that the concept of Resident Evil was about being spooked and shooting zombies, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. After my first 30 minutes or so with the game, I had begun to realize that Resident Evil 1 wasn’t actually about action, or even fighting waves of the undead. It certainly has those elements at times, but the main focus is more methodical and strategic. You play as separate protagonists; Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield, two Alpha Team S.T.A.R.S. agents who are in the process of investigating a multiple murder case. Everything goes awry when some weird zombified dogs begin to attack and the team members lose contact with one another in the chaos, leaving them split up and stuck inside a creepy abandoned mansion.
The Nintendo Switch version has a few oddities when it comes to the quality of the port. Standing out in an egregious way are the loading times, which range from barely tolerable to utterly atrocious for the most part. Even when installed to the system's internal memory or a micro SD card, you will frequently experience load times that can last up to 16 seconds. This is especially noticeable due to how Resident Evil plays; a majority of the game is spent exploring small rooms within the mansion, with the occasional hallway. Each time you go through a door, you'll be met with a loading screen. With just how frequently you're walking in and out of doorways, a good amount of your time will be spent waiting, and it can get annoying. If you're willing to overlook that, the game looks absolutely great, in both handheld and docked modes. While it is locked to only 30fps, it isn't much of a dealbreaker, as the slow-paced nature of the gameplay won't require much from you in terms of precision. The port also does a decent job at staying at a stable framerate, with an exception for the cutscenes, which can cause the cinematic moments to look weirdly choppy.
While the remake does well to modernize gameplay elements and visuals, there's a clear indicator of this being a game from the late 90s, through the laughably dorky voice acting. Every line is delivered with the grace of a high school drama play, which in all honesty, slightly adds to the retro horror movie aesthetic. Apart from that, the sound design is absolutely superb; each step you take through the carpeted mansion has a nice "crunch" to it, the creaking of floorboards add a tinge of tension to your silent exploration, and distant zombie groans will put you on edge, having you wonder which direction they'll stumble in from.
Despite being billed as a survival horror title, Resident Evil had me more mildly startled than outright scared on most occasions. What it does excel at doing, however, is making you uncomfortable and unsettled at every turn. Impressive lighting effects will cast dark foreboding shadows into hallways with fixed camera angles that perfectly set the mood. Gameplay elements also lend a hearty dose of atmosphere to the game, by giving you a limited inventory, meaning you need to explore every nook and cranny to keep yourself alive and solve tricky puzzles, but also carefully manage what you're holding, otherwise you'll be forced to backtrack and risk getting lost, or accosted by zombies and wasting precious bullets. Even your ability to save is limited, which makes every nerve-wracking use of your Ink Ribbons to record your progress feel like it really counts.
Speaking of backtracking, there certainly is a lot of it. A majority of puzzles will require you to locate them within the labyrinth of the mansion, solve them to obtain a key or item that will allow you to progress, and then go from room to room trying to access all the new areas you've unlocked. Certain outcomes will also differ depending on how quickly you can navigate the rooms and rescue your fellow S.T.A.R.S. agents, which adds a subtle layer of stress to your already spooky adventure. As you make your way through the manor, you'll get turned around quite easily, though you have a map to help you get your bearings. The new control scheme does well to make movement and exploration feel nice, but at the cost of scene transitions being awkward from time to time, as the game was always intended to be played with tank controls.
When it comes down to it, Resident Evil HD on the Nintendo Switch is a hard sell for those that are familiar with this version--especially due to its $29.99 price tag--unless you’re sold on the idea of having some survival horror goodness on the go. For those like me, who have never managed to play a Resident Evil game before, this port is serviceable enough. While it’s best played on other platforms, the Nintendo Switch version will no doubt be many’s first experience with the series, and it’s a fine way to jump into the franchise.
+ Faithful remake.
+ Sound design and visuals are on point.
+ Ability to choose between new or old control scheme.
- Atrocious load times.
- A few obtuse puzzles here and there.
The game looks great on the Nintendo Switch, especially in handheld mode. Performance is a bit of a mixed bag, however, with occasional random framerate dips during cutscenes, and massively annoying load times.
Considered as the father of the survival horror genre, Resident Evil still stands up as a strong game. There are a few moments where puzzles can seem overly difficult, but in general, figuring out mysteries feels rewarding, while adventuring through the mansion to find new rooms is fun and exciting. Certain gameplay elements have been updated to fit modern standards, and help keep the game from feeling like too much of a clunky relic.
8 Lasting Appeal
Taking around 10 hours to complete, Resident Evil HD is a fairly short game overall. With two protagonists to play as, and multiple endings, you get a tightly contained experience that doesn't outstay its welcome.
Overall (not an average)
It's been four years, but Resident Evil HD is just as good a remake as when it first launched. For anyone who didn't grow up in the era of the original PlayStation or get around to trying it on another platform, this specific outing of Resident Evil 1 is a great way to get into the series, provided you don't mind a few Switch-related quirks with the port.
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ShadowOne333
Just fyi, the 2015 version (and this one thereby) is not a "remake of a remake", but rather a remastered or HD version of the 2002 Remake.
Out of that, great review!
And I do agree with the loading times, but you just wait until you try Zero on Switch, those are even WORSE!
Best one out of the pack is RE4 for sure, loading times are decent and the game feels responsive and smooth altogether, only thing people ditch it for is the pricing and no gyro aiming to have Wii-like precision/target.
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Thardus
Nice review. I played the GC version. Loved it. I have the HD version on PC. I plan on tackling it soon.
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Clydefrosch
ShadowOne333 said: ↑
i mean, gyro aiming was what made the wii version the absolute king of re4 versions to this day.
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CrisFTW
I was thinking the game would be worth a 7/10 thanks to the annoying load times but I guess the 8/10 is alright
Clydefrosch said: ↑
I do agree though, having no gyro aiming does take away from it compared to the Wii version.
That said, and if I recall correctly, I believe there is no version after RE4 Wii which had motion controls in it, that includes the HD versions, so no version of RE4 HD has motion controls afaik.
Only one which did was RE5 with the PlayStation Move controller, but not RE4.
I do wish they could port RE5 to the Switch, and RE2 Remake, but oh well :/
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I had a really hard time getting into RE4 on the Wii. I'll have to give it another shot. I think I really liked the resource management and fixed camera style of the first game too much.
Purple_Shyguy
This is the exact reason that the CPU overclocking during load times that Nintendo added needs to be implemented into every game ASAP
Many games (frequently capcoms ports coincidentally) have awful loading times.
ibroxgaz
Loading screens of sixteen seconds,I remember loading screens off five minutes in the eighties,It’s resi evil on the switch bring it on.
nWo likes this.
Can't wait for the RE4 review
a port of a remaster of a remake
Foxi4
I thought that if there was one thing putting the game on a cartridge would do, it'd *reduce* load times. In fact, faster loading is one of the selling points of the medium. Capcom must be using some ridiculous compression if it takes this much time for the Switch to crunch all the data, it's very surprising.
azoreseuropa
CrisFTW said: ↑
LOL! 7/10 and 8/10 are almost the same. No difference, really.
Reecey
I was playing Resident Evil 4 yesterday so really excited about it, it was because it’s was my favourite resi evil game ever but oh my!!! The controls are a complete mess, trying to even turn around and shoot accurately is a mission in itself, it was an all round huge let down I felt quite sad about it! I haven’t tried this version yet but this review sounds promising.
raxadian
Atrocious load times? What the hell? This is a game I could play on PC almost two decades ago!
I dtill have the original, I just will have to find out how to make it work on Windows 7.
I started playing RE1 on pc last night. The controls are soooo much better than the PS1 or GC versions. I had a hard time getting into Wii RE4 back in the day precisely because of the awkward controls.
tbb043
there's a clear indicator of this being a game from the late 90s, through the laughably dorky voice acting. Every line is delivered with the grace of a high school drama play,
Even so, it's rewritten and delivered a thousand times better than in the PSX version and its ports.
It's the switch, for some reason it has atrocious load times in general, despite being solid state with no moving parts. It's certainly not unique to this game. Besides the terrible bugs, it's part of what makes the switch version of WWE nearly unplayable. It's slower than much older games in the same series on the PS2 and 360, and more recent games on the PS4 (including the very same game it's intended to be a port of). Granted, the other games are still generally buggy, but they load a lot faster, even off of DVD.
EmulateLife
3 of the last 4 Nintendo consoles have had this, RE0 and Resident Evil 4.
Even Nintendo doesn't whore out their games like Capcom.
Shame about load times, you'd think a cartridge would, you know, load faster?
Silent_Gunner
I'm glad that these games have come to the Switch, you know, the Switch IS portable and all that, but...
...how the hell are you gonna play these games, which aren't the brightest and most visually vibrant in terms of color palette, lighting, and especially atmosphere, in the sun if you're outside or something? With the sun shining on you from behind?
Also, by load times, you mean you can't skip the door transitions? That sucks, but that's classic RE for you. Not that it's something you can't criticize, mind you. I would be miffed as well if the "remastered" (translation: ported) version had a new feature that, in this case, this version doesn't have. (assuming this also applies to RE0, a RE game that I've never finished)
That said, and if I recall correctly, I believe there is no version after RE4 which had motion controls in it, that includes the HD versions, so no version of RE4 HD has motion controls afaik.
No gyro aiming for RE4 on the Switch? With what are essentially improved Wiimotes?
What you smokin', Capcom?
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Issac
Yay, now it's time for SH2 ;p
Issac said: ↑
When they no longer have the source code?
Silent_Gunner said: ↑
We could get the remastered versios, with the fixes update for both SH2 and SH3, the fixes make them decent at best.
Still though, I'm sad SH4 never got a remaster, it's my favorite SH alongside 2
Retroboy
Its still classed as a remake because it has features the cube version didnt have.
I dont get why people claim a game isnt a remake and say remaster, when yoh re release a game and make changes it makes it different to what it originally was thus remake.
Its not a direct port off the cube version with better resolution, this would be hd
RedBlueGreen
There would probably have to be a lot of work done porting the RE2 remake if it's as technically impressive as people say. I'm sure it could be done with lower resolution resources and locking it to 30 FPS.
RedBlueGreen said: ↑
Well of course it is possible, it's just Capcom being lazy and not wanting to put the resources/polish/cleanup of the code to make it run decently on lower hardware.
netovsk
So many new games out there, everyone knows this port of a remaster of a remake by now I believe. They gave this away on PS+ 2 years ago btw.
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Wall St. slips; banks fall with prospect of rate cut, energy drops
June 12, 2019 by GNH 0 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street ended down slightly on Wednesday, with bank stocks declining as prospects of a U.S. interest rate cut rose and energy shares tumbling along with oil prices.
The S&P 500 energy index slid 1.4%, the most among the 11 S&P sectors, as demand worries drove U.S. crude prices down 4%. The day’s losses made energy the worst-performing S&P 500 sector for the year-to-date.
A report from the Labor Department showed U.S. consumer prices rose 0.1% in May, in line with expectations of economists polled by Reuters, pointing to moderate inflation. This backed the case for a rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
Banking stocks, which tend to benefit from higher interest rates, dropped 1.4%. The broader financial sector fell 1%.
Still, hopes that the Fed will act to counter a slowing global economy due to the escalating trade war with China have spurred a rally in stocks this month. The S&P 500 index is up 4.6% so far in June.
Fed policymakers will meet on June 18-19. Markets have priced in at least two rate cuts by the end of 2019. Fed fund futures imply around an 80% chance of an easing in rates as soon as July.
Investors are reducing exposure to stocks after the recent rally and as they brace for the Fed meeting.
“People don’t want to be too far over their skis going into next week,” said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 43.68 points, or 0.17%, to 26,004.83, the S&P 500 lost 5.88 points, or 0.20%, to 2,879.84 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 29.85 points, or 0.38%, to 7,792.72.
S&P 500 utilities, which are positively affected by falling rates, was the day’s best-peforming sector, rising 1.3%.
Lingering worries on the trade front weighed on sentiment, a day after President Donald Trump said he was holding up a deal with China and had no interest in moving ahead unless Beijing agrees to four or five major points.
Less than three weeks before proposed talks between the United States and Chinese leaders, sources say there has been little preparation. Trump said a deal could be reached, but again threatened to increase tariffs on Chinese goods unless that happens.
Semiconductor stocks, which get sizeable revenue from China, declined on Wednesday. The Philadelphia Semiconductor index dropped 2.3%. Micron Technology Inc, Applied Materials Inc and Lam Research Corp dropped more than 5% each.
Facebook Inc shares declined 1.7% after the Wall Street Journal reported the social media giant uncovered emails possibly connecting Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to potentially problematic privacy practices.
FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 23, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.20-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.07-to-1 ratio favored decliners.
The S&P 500 posted 24 new 52-week highs and 2 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 41 new highs and 104 new lows.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 5.98 billion shares, compared to the 6.88 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Additional reporting by Shreyashi Sanyal and Aparajita Saxena in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur, Leslie Adler and David Gregorio
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Why Your Low-Power FM Radio Station Needs Text-to-Give
By Eric Bryant, November 24, 2018
If you’re a producer at a radio station — especially a low-power FM radio station — you should really consider a text to donate service. Last year, during the San Francisco wild fires, we worked with Cumulus Radio to help KSFO, KFOG, The Bone, KNBR and KGO810 raise approximately $300,000 for the Bay Area Fire Relief Fund. Currently, WDIF 97.5 FM, a low-power FM station in Marion, Ohio, is using our innovative SMS donations service to raise funds for its nonprofit.
WDIF, an LP FM local radio station, utilizes our text to donate service to fulfill its requirement of charitable work.
How Text to Donate Benefits LPFMs?
Every LPFM radio station is required by law to be associated with a charity or nonprofit of some sort. Therefore, SMS donations are a win-win, because they give LPFM radio stations an easy way to fulfill their charitable requirements. Text to give also makes it easier to find sponsors as well as raise funds for their nonprofits.
For example, WDIF 97.5 is sponsored by US Gold Jewelers, a local Marion, OH business. US Gold sponsors our text to give service on behalf of WDIF-LP, and in exchange WDIF promotes the local jeweler on its station. Using text to donate enhances your LPFM station’s marketing and revenue generation.
“We approach local businesses as a regular radio station does. We said, ‘Hey we have this text to donate service that runs every hour. We're looking for a sponsor,’” said Spencer Phelps, radio host at WDIF 97.5 After Phelps announces WDIF’s SMS donation number and call to action (“Text BLUES to 77948 …”) they immediately follow it up with: “Powered by US Gold Jewelers of Marion, OH” (one of their sponsors).
It makes the audience feel good that they are supporting charity; US Gold gets a plug every hour; and, WDIF gets new supporters and donors. It’s an all around win!
Text DONATE to 77948 to see how it works!
Text to Donate Works Well with Radio Call to Actions
One reason text to donate works so well with radio is because the call to actions are simple and memorable when done over the airways. Prompting your listeners to “text BLUES to 77948 to support this radio station” is easy to remember, makes an indelible impression on the listener if heard over and over, and isn’t a long commercial. Plus, listeners carry their mobile devices with them everywhere, so you will build up a subscriber base of listeners you can text later on with other news or promotions.
How to Get Started with SMS Donations for Your LPFM
Getting started is easy. Just follow these simple steps:
Choose a keyword that will trigger your donation sequence. Most radio stations just use their call sign, such as KSFO or KGo810. However, WDIF 97.5 uses the word BLUES, since it is a blues radio station. Your keyword can be any combination of letters and numbers. Must be 4 or more characters. No spaces or special characters.
Once you have your keyword in mind, head over to the order form.
Choose your package, supply your PayPal email, or give us the link to your donation page, if you don’t use PayPal. (If you don’t have PayPal or your own payment processor, you can use us).
Give us your text message reply.
Once you pay, we set up your keyword on our short code, which is 77948, usually within the hour.
That’s it — it’s that simple. After you set up your text to donate service (or before if preferable), we recommend you do what WDIF does: find a local business to sponsor your SMS donation service, that way your nonprofit doesn’t have to pay for it. You can fairly easily attract a local sponsor by giving them free publicity or air time in exchange for their sponsorship. This way, the business gets free advertising, and your station get a free way to generate recurring revenue in the form of donations.
What Does LPFM Stand For?
If you’re not familiar with what Low-Power FM (LPFM) radio means, it is a class of radio station established in the 2000s designed specifically for non-commercial radio programming. The LPFM is a license by the FCC to such organizations, like community radio stations, who will operate on a not-for-profit basis and provide educational or public service programming.
The “low-power” part refers to the wattage that these radio stations can broadcast. It's a special class of nonprofit radio that is only allowed to operate at a maximum broadcast power of 100 watts, which is roughly the size of your average county. The wattage limit is in place so smaller communities get a voice on the dial without having to compete with larger, commercial radio stations. There are between 1,200 and 2,000 LPFM radio stations in the U.S.
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Fairfield Glade Resort Receives Four Awards at the Annual Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee PGA Luncheon
By Brian Weis
Jeremy Jones was selected Golf Professional of Year for the Knoxville Section of the Tennessee Professional Golfers Association. The "PGA Golf Professional of the Year Award" bestows special recognition on a PGA Golf Professional who has performed outstanding services as an overall PGA Professional. As one of the highest honors the PGA can bestow, candidates must possess outstanding qualities of leadership, strong moral character, and a substantial record of service to the Association and the game of golf. Individuals honored with the PGA Golf Professional of the Year award will be held as the model PGA Golf Professional. Jeremy is now in the finals for the Tennessee Section Professional of Year award with 4 other chapter winners.
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What of no lend lease to Soviets?
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sparky said:
there were 8 convoys in 1941 , 15 during the 42 sailing season
After the disaster of pQ17 in late June 42 , the convoys were stopped ,
much to Stalin ire , some convoys were send in mid September
but the sailing season was short no ships sailed in winter
the battle of Stalingrad was fought with Soviet resources ,
the number of 4697 tanks in 41 42 ( I suppose it include January 43 ) seems surprising
Britain supplied a little more than 5000 tanks for the whole war ,
during the whole of 41 , 1084 Mathildas were send but only 918 received
I'm digging for the Valentine numbers
are you sure you don't include the "universal carriers" tankette in the number
From the tank encyclopedia
Matilda II in Soviet Service - Tanks Encyclopedia
"By the end of 1941, some 182 British tanks had been committed to combat operations, of which around 80 would be lost in action. By this time, there were only 46 Lend/Lease tanks still operational on the Western Front, this consisted of 38 Valentines and only eight Matildas. Many Matildas were pulled back from frontline service due to the Matilda’s shortcomings in harsh winter weather. "
Supplies of British tanks decreased by 1943. Matilda enjoyed popularity with the Russians for her strong frontal armor etc. and the American Sherman for its armor, reliability and comfort for the crew. At the same time, British tanks (Churchill) are visible in the photo on the streets of Kiev in the days of the liberation of the city in the autumn of 1943.
Theу move along the center of Kiev which was completely destroyed by explosions of Russian land mines with radio detonators in September 1941 after the Germans entered the city. Prior to this, the city was absolutely not affected by the fighting.
It must be said that the Soviet political leaders and the NKVD made great efforts against praising the Western armament in the Red Army, so good words about British and American tanks can be heard only in the responses of Russian veterans recorded in recent years - when the syndrome of fear to tell the truth gradually passed
The whole phrase about the number of tanks under the Lend-Lease from that source looks like this -
In 1941-1942 The Red Army received 4,697 tanks on Lend-Lease, in 1943 - another 3026.
Спасительный ленд-лиз / / Независимая газета
That is, the number of tanks in the Russian requests for lend-lease after 1942 was reduced on the whole. They preferred to receive instead of tanks scarce materials, machine tools and equipment that they could not produce.
And they did the tanks well themselves. At the same time, it is necessary to say about the main shortcomings of the most popular Russian tank T-34.
All models with a 76mm cannon that dominated before 1944 had a very poor visibility for its crew. The gearbox of this tank was disgusting. And I read that many tank drivers used only the second gear - on it they drove on the march and in battle. Switching the control levers of the tank for the driver was very hard. And for this the radio operator/machine gunner (радист-стрелок) of these T-34 models often helped the driver (Rus. - механик-водитель) pull arrows to the next gear lever as he sat near the driver . The intercom system of the crew was unreliable and noisy, so the commander often gave signals to the driver for driving the tank, kicking him on the back or on the shoulders. The driver-mechanic saw almost nothing during the battle, and he often had to drive with a half-open hatch in the frontal part of the tank with more risk to be wounded or killed.
A very large upper hatch on the T-34-76 opened with great difficulty, and often this required the efforts of two or three crew members. In a burning tank this often prevented the crew from quickly getting out. After several shots, the tank was filled with powder gases, and it was very hard to breathe in it.
When an Armor piercing shell (non-explosive) got into the tank even without penetrating the armor, lots of the fragments of the armor flew out from its inside part and damaging the crew. During a heavy rain inside the tank, a real flood often began.
There also were problems with radio stations. On many T-34s, they have not been installed for a long time. Thus, on June 1, 1941, the Red Army had 671 “linear” (линейные) T-34 tank (without a radio station in general) and 221 - “radio” (радийные) (with just a receiving radio station, less often with a receiving and transmitting one). The radio stations themselves were of poor quality for a long time. Due to problems with the evacuation of enterprises from August 1941 the production of tank radio stations in Russia was practically ceased until the middle of 1942.
By the middle of the war, the Russians began to release new and quite high-quality tank radio stations (РСИ-4 - 9Р ). The radio station was of English origin and for a long time it was produced using lend-lease components. This radio station was praised by Russian tankers.
More detailed information about Lend-Lease tanks, armored personnel carriers, repair and evacuation vehicles, etc. - in an excellent article in Russian -
Танки ленд-лиза. Объемы и модификации
Lend-Lease Tanks. Volumes and modifications
If you have some difficulty translating something in the article with Google translator - I can help
The tables in the article give such supply figures in 1941-1942:
- In 1941, 361 tanks (Matilda and Valentine) were delivered to Russia from Britain, in 1942 - 1,689 tanks (Matilda, Valentine, Churchill and Tetrarch).
From the USA in 1941 tanks were not delivered to Russia. In 1942, 1,825 tanks were delivered (Lee, Stuart and Sherman)
Thus, your replica looks quite appropriate. In total for 1941-1942, the Allies delivered 3,875 tanks to the Russians, and taking into account the British 1,233 carrier Universal, we reach the figure of 5,108, which is closer to the figure I had announced from another - less reliable - source in the previous message. Thus, my previous figure of tank supplies to Russian in 1941-1942 was clearly too high.
You make it sound like it was charity
both the US and Britain gave war material so that soviets boys could die rather than their own
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I want to remind you in turn that the British and French boys died in the war with German Nazism while the Russian authorities signed a friendship agreement with Nazis in October 1939 following a joint campaign with Wermacht against Poland. Then Russian boys killed the Finns in Finland in an attempt to seize and annex this country, and in the summer of 1940 Russia annexed Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bessarabia and Bukovina threatening the Baltic countries and Romania big war
During which time the British were sweet talking Stalin
get real ......geopolitics has very little to do with morality except in the packaging
and the non-aggression pact was a neutrality and trade treaty , like a dozen of others non-aggression treaties signed by pretty much everybody before
one of the few things Stalin did right
I am not talking a non-aggression pact. I'm about the Secret protocol. And this is not the format of the sweet talking. This is a secret agreement on the coordinated seizure of foreign countries and their territories. Agreement of two tomorrows aggressors and bandits
And the fact that the WWII began a week after the parties signed this Russian protocol, makes at least think about the direct connection between the two events. And there is no need to talk about morality here. The friendship treaty between the Russians and the Germans, signed during the Second World War, is not from the sphere of morality. He is absolutely immoral.
And the meat grinder that staged Berlin and Moscow to the local population after the occupation of Poland by the Germans and the Russians - each in its own part of the sawn territory - is also beyond the scope of morality. The consequences of the Russian meat grinder that the Germans saw when they entered Lviv and other cities in the west of Ukraine at the end of June 1941 shocked even inhuman Nazis.
"makes at least think about the direct connection between the two events "
there was plenty of connections , Stalin was fighting the Japanese at Khalin gol
the Fascists in Spain had won with plenty of support from the British
the poles six months before had attacked Czechoslovakia alongside the Nazis
the poles had not hesitated in grabbing lands from the Lithuanian ( including the Capital ) and as much of Western Ukraine as they could
the French had dishonored themselves for the sake of the British alliance
Both the French and British explicitly wanted the Soviets to fight and bleed while they would be on the defensive
Of course Stalin knew there would be a great war in the West ,
he was many things but stupid wasn't one of them
he just loved the idea that he could look forward to his enemies ripping each other to shred for years
where are morality and honestly ?? in Sweden , who made a lot of money from the war ?
don't worry too much for the Germans sensibility , soviet troops were shocked when they saw Auschwitz , Sobibor ,Majdanek ...
What about all the other countries the US gave Lend Lease supplies to?
nation supply value, in millions of dollars
British Empire 31,387.1
Brazil 372.0
Soviet Union 10,982.1
Mexico 39.2
France 3,223.9
Chile 21.6
China 1,627.0
Peru 18.9
Netherlands 251.1
Colombia 8.3
Belgium 159.5
Ecuador 7.8
Greece 81.5
Uruguay 7.1
Norway 47.0
Cuba 6.6
Turkey 42.9
Bolivia 5.5
Yugoslavia 32.2
Venezuela 4.5
Saudi Arabia 19.0
Guatemala 2.6
Poland 12.5
Paraguay 2.0
Liberia 11.6
Dominican Republic 1.6
Iran 5.3
Haiti 1.4
Ethiopia 5.3
Nicaragua 0.9
Iceland 4.4
El Salvador 0.9
Iraq 0.9
Honduras 0.4
Czechoslovakia 0.6
Costa Rica 0.2
All done so their boys would die instead of America's?
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Tulius
aggienation said:
Interesting list.
It would be quite interesting to see how some of that money was spent:
200.000 dollars to Costa Rica and 600.000 to Czechoslovakia, just to pick the two last ones. Costa Rica really didn’t make it much with 200.000 dollars and when were the 600.000 give to Czechoslovakia. Did the country exist at the time, or was under German and then Soviet occupation? I have no sources, but could this serve to wash some money? It was my first idea when I saw the list.
Tulius said:
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The annual Reykjavík Arts Festival is just behind the corner and as usual, the Reykjavík Art Museum will present a packed programme for the occasion. One of the festival’s highlights is the Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, an exhibition and program of various events, organised by the Reykjavík Art Museum and the Serpentine Gallery in London. On Friday, May 16, the museum at Hafnarhús will transform into a laboratory for the next three months where over forty leading local and international artists, architects, film-makers and scientists will create an environment of invention through a series of installations, screenings, performances and experimental films.
The Marathon is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director of International Projects and Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes for the Serpentine Gallery in London; in collaboration with artist Ólafur Elíasson. They’ve done everything in their power to promote art and science to the public in a diverse and entertaining way with numerous intriguing experiments, exhibitions, performances, workshops and panel discussions exploring the connection between art and science. To enrich the whole experience, the audience is supposed to take part in the events.
The focus of the project is experimentation in all its forms and numerous international artists and scientist will do curious exhibitions and experiments. To name just a few, a project organised by Mexican artist Pedro Ryes, ‘Ideas for Iraq’, focuses on the state of the war in Iraq where participants will be able to illustrate their strategies towards possible solutions for the war. Scientist and hydrogen expert, Þorsteinn Ingi Sigfússon, will do the performance ‘The Taming of the Proton’ while artist Marina Abramovic will take the audience on a soul exploration journey in an experiment with German psychosexual therapist Dr. Ruth and Hans Ulrich Obrist. The list also includes electronic musician and record producer Brian Eno, who will presents sound installations, Hungarian artist Attila Csörgo and Luc Steels, a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Brussels.
Nature as a Phenomenon
Interesting exhibitions will also open at Reykjavík Art Museum’s second largest venue, Kjarvalsstaðir, during the Art Festival. In the collaborative exhibition ‘Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere’, surator Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir brings together a group of Icelandic artists of different backgrounds and generations (Ragnar Kjartansson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Ólafur Elíasson and Spessi, among others) to explore the place of the “sublime” in Icelandic visual arts. Different ideas of nature and natural phenomena in photographic and video art will be presented. The exhibition features early twentieth-century black-and-white landscape photographs to multi-media installations with the aim to “showcases diverse visions and interpretations of the “sublime” and “nowhere”, through classical, melancholic, ironic, or radically ecological images”.
As an opposition to Sigurjónsdóttir’s exhibition, American landscape architect and visual artist Martha Schwarts will display an aluminium-installation in the courtyard of Kjarvalsstaðir. Her installation is titled ‘I Hate Nature’ and “alludes both to the artist’s experience of nature as explored in the exhibition Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere and to the debate over environmental protection versus exploitation”
And there is more. The North Gallery of Kjarvalsstaðir, will see an exhibition for the whole family, related to the nature theme of the aforementioned exhibitions. Entitled ‘Where Am I?’ children and adults will be able to contemplate their planet, their country, and the landmarks of their environment through various games and puzzles.
All these exhibitions will stay open through the summer and entrance is always free. For more info visit www.listasafnreykjavikur.is
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Greg Stevens
Maybe it’s all just a joke.
History | June 25th, 2013 Greg Stevens
This past week has put me in a cynical mood, but has also made me wonder: how many of our “long-held beliefs” might have originally been intended to be…. well, bullshit?
Let me start at the beginning.
People have a difficult time with satire. I experience this first-hand, since a lot of my online humor is satire. For example, just this past week I received a long lecture in response to my NO SAME-HEIGHT MARRIAGE article, explaining that I am crazy and just down-right mean to be against relationships between people of the same height. To me, the article is very clearly a direct parody of all of the arguments against same-sex marriage…. but apparently that intent was not clear to this reader.
I also feel bad for the poor actors who appear in the satirical videos that I make. My buddy Josiah played a kind of conservative “gun nut” in a parody video called My rights as a gun owner, and now people are Googling “Josiah Jennings conservative” to try to figure out what his political orientation is. My buddy Gary played a gay Republican in a parody video called You CAN be a gay Republican!, and people are leaving comments implying that he’s racist. What I find striking is, to my mind these videos are very clearly satire!
But apparently not to everyone.
Somebody left a comment on one of the videos saying that if I were “better at satire” then people would be able to tell. Although I appreciate the attempt at constructive criticism, I’m not sure that I agree. I’ve always enjoyed the kind of satire that is limnal…. where you can’t be totally sure whether it’s serious or not. And yes, I’ll admit that I have that elitist part of me that thinks: Well, the smart people will get it! Surely, they will…. they must!
But that very same elitist part of me also acknowledges: most people are not that smart.
Thus, I deal with the comments. C’est la vie.
But then, that makes me wonder this: human beings have probably always had a sense of humor. We know for a fact that dry, satirical humor dates back at least to the Greeks… but I think it’s underestimating our ancestors to assume that it stops there. I’ll bet that even our Paleolithic cousins wandering in the grasslands could conjure up some wit when it suited them.
Although I assume that then, just as now, many of the stupider ones didn’t “get it”.
And when ancient texts are written in foreign tongues, and very serious historians only uncover and translate documents hundreds of years later, do we assume that those historians would be able to tell, all the time, whether the writing was satire or not?
I mean, if my own peers, contemporary Americans, can’t tell that “NO SAME-HEIGHT MARRIAGE!!!” is satire, then it seems almost inevitable that historians coming across, say, ancient Greek or ancient Aramaic satire might miss the joke completely.
Which makes me wonder…. what old texts out there, which have up to this point taken very, very seriously… might have actually been meant as completely and utter larks?
“I’m so sick of these traveling merchants making up bullshit about the fantastic foreign lands they’ve supposedly visited,” Plato thought to himself, “I’m going to write a book making fun of them. I’ll be all: OMG guys, there was this whole land where the streets were gold and everything was awesome! But you can’t go and find it now, because it sank into the sea! That would be pretty funny. And hey, I’m sure everyone will realize that I’m poking fun at the exaggerate tales people come up with. After all, I’ll just make it so outlandish that nobody could ever think I was being serious!!!”
“Hey, listen up! This is gonna be hilarious!” Moses said, “You know that Egyptian myth about how the world began? It’s so stupid…. so I has this great idea. For a little comedy, I’m just going to write a parody of that. Yeah, I’ll include all kinds of bullshit, like talking animals and the world being created in just a few days. But, I’ll make it sound all serious-like. It’s gonna be a total riot.”
When it comes right down to it, we just don’t know.
And with the track record that people today have of not recognizing satire… how much faith can we really have that we’d know ancient satire when we looked at it?
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I seriously wonder if this s the case in Romans 13:1-7. As someone who was persecuted by the authorities of his day, who led an underground movement to which he gave lofty and ethereal descriptions of a better world, Paul seems unlikely to have seriously been defending the righteous authority of those who “bear the sword.” The sword was continuously placed at his own neck, after all.
Not to get into a rabbit trail about that particular section of Christian scripture, just that it came to mind while reading this post. I was perplexed reading Romans 13 until I thought, “He must be kidding–oh wait…maybe he IS.”
As you said, there’s no way to know, but based on many persons’ inability to perceive satire in our own day, I can’t imagine what major ideas we have gotten very wrong.
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Photojournalist detained by ICE, Amtrak raid in Montana
Karen TownsendPosted at 10:41 am on June 28, 2019
A 28-year-old photojournalist and DACA recipient was detained in Montana Monday by border patrol officers as he was traveling from Seattle to Williston, North Dakota on Amtrak. Despite the fact that he has an outstanding deportation order, ICE decided to let him go.
Wait. I thought that all ICE agents are monsters who live for the opportunity to deport illegal aliens. That’s the narrative from our moral betters in the Democrat Party. Ibrahim Ramades Cetindemir Cordon inadvertently turned that canard around. After spending some time at a detention center, he was released Wednesday morning.
DACA photojournalist detained by ICE, border patrol on Montana's Hi-Line https://t.co/aqezwF6KjL via @billingsgazette
— Juliana Sukut (@sukut_j) June 27, 2019
Cetindemir was detained under the Immigration and Nationality Act 212, inadmissible aliens, and 237, deportable aliens, for an outstanding deportation order for Cetindemir from 2014. The order was from overstaying his visa in 2014 before he was granted DACA status, Cetindemir told the Billings Gazette. Since then he has renewed his DACA status in 2016 and in 2018.
In his case, Cetindemir entered the United States at the age of 13 with his mother and younger sister in 2012 after traveling from Guatemala. His visa expired and a deportation order was issued. Before that order was carried out, though, Cetindemir was granted DACA status. Currently, his DACA status is set to expire in 2020. He has no criminal record. He works as a freelance photographer based in North Dakota. His work has appeared in Outdoor Magazine, Matador Network, Patagonia, REI and other outlets.
Cetindemir was first questioned by border patrol during a routine Amtrak stop in Havre, Montana. The train had to remain on schedule and continued on to the town of Malta. At the Malta stop border patrol again entered the train and questioned Cetindemir. He showed the officers both his driver’s license and his work permit. He told them he is a DACA recipient. The border patrol officers arrested him and held him in Malta.
He thought his DACA status was his get out of jail free card. Until the final decision was made, though, he was told he would be deported.
Once in custody he said border patrol told him he would be deported and that he wouldn’t be able to speak to a lawyer or judge. It wasn’t until he was booked into jail that his situation started to sink in.
He was transferred Tuesday afternoon to Cascade County Detention Center in Great Falls. He arrived just after 3 p.m., and the jail had him under an “immigration hold,” according to Cascade County Cpl. Freiling and the ICE detainee database. (The corporal refused to give his first name).
“It was a bit nerve-wracking walking into jail because I didn’t know what to expect,” Cetindemir said. “Jail was not a pleasant place, (but) it wasn’t a really negative experience. If anything I learned from it.”
So, it looks like to me that after being questioned at the first stop in Havre the border patrol officers probably checked him out and found the deportation order. They arranged for Cetindemir to be picked up in Malta and let ICE figure out if he’d be deported or not. In his case, ICE decided to release him, probably because of his clean record and employment status.
There was a social media campaign going on during the time he was detained. A friend in Seattle let him know of the support he was receiving after he published a Reddit post with a plea for help. A YouTube video taken by a fellow train passenger was published, too. (There is always a video.) A Facebook group conducted an organized effort of phone calls to border patrol, immigration lawyers, and local organizations who might be able to help Cetindemir.
This young man’s story is a good example of why the dehumanization of border patrol officers and ICE agents is so wrong. Cetindemir has been allowed to remain in America because of President Obama’s amnesty program for young illegal aliens. Other nations would not allow such a policy to go into effect. He is living the American Dream though he cut in line to illegally enter our country. Now a valid deportation order is being ignored. How is any of this proof that those working to secure our borders are abusing those they detain? He’s fortunate he was detained in Montana instead of Texas or Arizona. The southern border is overwhelmed with those trying to do the same thing he did as a 13-year-old. Remember Centindemir’s story the next time you hear the far left demand that ICE be abolished. Most of all, his story points to the legitimacy of the anger felt towards illegal aliens by the immigrants who did it the legal way.
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APCOA drives business partnerships with major car park improvements.
Posted By: editor 1st December 2018
Pic shows Kathryn Shillito, HullBID Executive Director, with Jethro Shearing (left) of Dove House Hospice and Clinton Cooper of APCOA.
The operator of one of Hull’s biggest car parks has embarked on a significant improvement programme which will make the site safer and cleaner and generate thousands of pounds for a major charity in the region.
APCOA is already receiving positive feedback from business clients who use the King William House car park in Market Place, Hull. They hope to attract more users as the refurbishment continues, and as new neighbours arrive in an adjacent residential and commercial development.
Increased visitor numbers at the car park will also mean more money for Dove House Hospice from an innovative, ongoing fund-raising partnership which sees APCOA donate £5 of every £35 monthly season ticket. In addition, Dove House Hospice receive 5 per cent of weekend revenue.
The renovation works follow the decision by APCOA earlier this year to commit to a new long-term lease on the multi storey car park which has 630 spaces. The work, which will be completed during 2019, includes resurfacing, repainting and installation of energy-efficient LED lighting.
The company are also investing in new parking equipment, including the introduction of online payments, which will enable their customers to arrive and leave the car park more quickly. Along with improvements to security, the changes have enabled APCOA to open the car park 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
As part of its efforts to strengthen its links with Hull’s business community the company is supporting the Hull Business Improvement District (HullBID) Annual Awards by sponsoring a category and providing free parking for people attending the ceremony at nearby Hull Minster on Friday 22 February 2019.
Clinton Cooper, Commercial Operations Manager said: “’We are delighted to recommence our partnership with Dove House Hospice. We raised more than £15,000 between October 2015 and September 2017and another £1,000 between May and October this year and we’ll continue to raise the profile of Dove House around the site as well as with texts and social media.”
Jethro Shearring, Fundraising Coordinator at Dove House Hospice, said: “This makes a massive difference for us. There was a week in 2017 when APCOA shut off all the pay stations and did bucket collections instead and we raised £2,500.
“Now we have a percentage of ticket sales going to the hospice and it works really well. The customers appreciate the fact that money is coming back to the local community.
“Schemes like this and the other support we get from businesses are massively important. They enable us to do more and to remain at the forefront of palliative care.
“The car park is used by a lot of businesses which are Dove House supporters. They have picked up on the scheme because they think it’s a great idea. It also gives us the opportunity to use the space in the car park to set out what we do as a hospice and there’s great potential to come here with posters and other ways of getting our message across.”
Kathryn Shillito, HullBID Executive Director, said: “The investment by APCOA is really important to our business members in the city centre, and to their staff and customers. It adds to the appeal of the Old Town, where a number of other improvement programmes are under way – not least in King William House, which adjoins the car park.
“In addition, APCOA’s support for Dove House Hospice and for the HullBID Awards shows how committed they are to building strong partnerships and making a difference.”
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Rand Paul Shakes Up GOP Easily Winning Nomination in Kentucky
Connie Hair
Political newcomer Dr. Rand Paul has easily won the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate from Kentucky according to Associated Press reports.
The AP projected the win with Paul taking 59 percent of the vote with 29 percent of precincts reporting. Establishment GOP opponent Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who had been recruited to run by the state’s dominant Republican, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, had 37 percent of the vote when the AP called the race.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Conservatives Fund has bucked the establishment around the country with endorsements of Paul, Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, Marco Rubio in Florida, Chuck DeVore in California, Ken Buck in Colorado, and Mike Lee in Utah.
“I want to congratulate Rand Paul on this important victory tonight,” DeMint said after the race was called. “His message of less spending and less debt is resonating with voters across Kentucky. He’s building a winning coalition of conservatives, independents, and frustrated Democrats who believe in limited government, a strong national defense, and traditional values.”
“The Washington establishment threw everything they had at him and yet he prevailed,” DeMint said. “Rand’s victory is part of an American awakening that is taking place across the country as people embrace the principles of freedom that are the backbone of our country. It shows that Americans want strong leaders who will stand up to the massive spending, bailouts, and debt in Washington that are bankrupting our country.”
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