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Mr_Goodbytes
The Power of One By Courtenay, Bryce Book - 2008
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In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language -- English, the language spoken by those who had sent the Afrikaners to the world's first concentration camps during the Boer War. He was suckled by a woman of the wrong color -- black, the color of fear and disdain. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment. Yet he vowed to survive -- he would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams.
But his dreams were nothing compared to what awaited him. For he embarked on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice, where he would learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the mystical power that would sustain him even when it appeared that villainy would rule the world: the power of one.
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in the news | LAST UPDATED : Jul 15, 2019, 01:15 AM IST
How England won their maiden World Cup title despite tied Super Over
England clinched their maiden World Cup title with a dramatic victory over New Zealand at the Lord’s in London on Sunday. The summit clash was action packed, went down to the wire and New Zealand and England were at par till the last ball of the encounter.
Four years' hard work pays off for England World Cup hero Stokes
England's Ben Stokes hailed Sunday's dramatic Super Over victory over New Zealand to win the Cricket World Cup as the culmination of four years' hard work.
England won the World Cup for the first time as they beat New Zealand in a Super Over after a nerve-shredding final ended in a tie at Lord's. England finished on 241 all out in pursuit of New Zealand's 241-8, the final came down to a six-ball shootout for each team. Both sides finished on 15 so England won due to a tie-break rule because they hit more boundaries.
Chennai socialite recalls Sunday's super final at the Lord's
She says it was a jungle of people outside the stadium gates after the match to get used tickets to put them in their scrapbooks
No one lost the World Cup final: Kane Williamson
Kiwi skipper Kane Williamson said his team was not defeated on the pitch, saying it instead fell victim to "fine print" in the rules. He said that was a shame, but the New Zealanders were aware of the rules. "At the end of the day nothing separated us, no one lost the final, but there was a crowned winner and there it is," said Williamson.
British PM Theresa May hosts victorious England cricket team
British Prime Minister Theresa May hosted the World Cup-winning England cricket team in the garden of her Downing Street residence on Monday, describing their win as "one of the great sporting spectacles of our time".
'Nothing can faze me now', says Jos Buttler
Jos Buttler said nothing would faze him again after his key role in England's unforgettable World Cup triumph at Lord's.
Lucky charm Plunkett says England World Cup win 'meant to be'
Liam Plunkett believes the drama of England's World Cup win against New Zealand has "changed the history of English cricket".
Player of the Day, New Zealand vs England: Ben Stokes
All-rounder Ben Stokes played one of his best knocks under pressure as England won the World Cup for the first time after New Zealand matched their 15 in a Super Over but lost on fewer boundaries scored in the match in an extraordinary final at Lord's on Sunday.
World Cup 2019: Sharing MS Dhoni's trade secrets with Australia? Naah, says CSK batting coach Mike Hussey
Michael Hussey feels that Mahendra Singh Dhoni does not have "too many weaknesses" but even if he has, the Chennai Super Kings batting coach wouldn't share them with in-form Australia ahead of their World Cup clash on Sunday.
England revelled in their first World Cup triumph on Monday, soaking up the adulation of a disbelieving nation after one of the most extraordinary finishes to a cricket match in history.
India vs Pakistan, World Cup 2019: Shoaib Akhtar slams Sarfaraz Ahmed's 'brainless captaincy' after defeat to India
Former speedster Shoaib Akhtar, dejected after Pakistan's crushing defeat to India in the World Cup, has asked fans not to expect "extraordinary things from average Pakistan players". "I can't understand how Sarfaraz can be so brainless. How could he forget that we don't chase very well. Knowing our strength, which is bowling, is important," said Akhtar.
With World Cup coming, I need to be careful with my back: MS Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has battled a dodgy back for a long time and he wants to be careful with it as the ICC World Cup is round the corner. The Chennai Super Kings skipper said that there has been some stiffness but it is holding up as of now.
How sports fans stayed on top of this Super Sunday
The Super Sunday that had fans reaching for the remote
On Sunday, sports fans had to choose between watching the Wimbledon final and the Cricket World Cup final
Chennai may break away and play Super Cup
ICC World Cup 2019: Ben Stokes' redemption comes full circle
Ben Stokes started England's march to World Cup glory with a catch to remember and ended their historic campaign weeping tears of joy as victory against New Zealand completed a personal tale of redemption.
ICC World Cup 2019: Boundary count beyond realm of cricket's logic
England and New Zealand could not be separated at the end of both regular play and a Super Over shootout, so England were handed victory because they had a superior boundary count. England had been mistakenly handed an extra run after a throw from Martin Guptill hit the bat of a diving Ben Stokes' and deflected to the boundary in the final over of regular play.
MS Dhoni wants to fulfill dream of becoming painter post retirement
Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday shared his childhood dream of becoming a painter and his plans after quitting cricket, fuelling fresh speculations about his retirement.
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Putin reveals two cases where Russia will use nuclear weapons
MOSCOW - Russia may potentially use nuclear weapons only in the event of an impending nuclear attack, or if there is a threat to the country's existence, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the NBC broadcaster, Sputnik has reported.
"There can be two reasons that can make us use nuclear weapons: an attack against us with nuclear weapons or an attack on Russia with conventional weapons <link>. But the second case is only if it threatens the existence of the Russian state," Vladimir Putin said.
Putin said he had offered to collaborate on the joint improvement of missile defenses <link>with the United States but had been rebuffed, so he had to act in Russia 's best interests.
"Instead of creating threats to one another, great powers should join their efforts in protecting against terrorists," he said.
Commenting on suggestions that Russia could spark a new Cold War, Putin emphasized, "the individuals that have said that a new Cold War has started are not analysts. They do propaganda."
On Thursday, Putin made his annual address to the country's bicameral parliament <link>, the Federal Assembly, which comprises the Federation Council and State Duma. The Russian leader announced his country's development of new types of armaments, including intercontinental underwater drones, nuclear-powered cruise missiles, and a prospective hypersonic missile, and showed footage featuring tests of these weapons.
The Russian president stressed that Russia 's efforts toward enhancing its defense capabilities were being carried out within the framework of existing international accords. According to Putin, Russia is creating advanced weapon systems in response to the deployment of US missile defense systems, and these arms present no threat to other states.
Russia delivers first ever S 400 Missile defence System to the Islamic country
Russia responds over media reports of invitation to Pakistan PM Imran Khan and its embarrassing
Russia successfully test fires new anti ballistic missile
Russian submarine catches fire, scores of seamen killed
Russia and Saudi Arabia reach important understanding
Russia hints at providing S 400 Missile defence System to yet another Islamic country
Russia makes a big military jets offer to China
S 500- Russia unveils World's most dangerous Missile defence System
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Traveling Sprinkler Repair Teen’s First Wheels — One Year Later
First Look: DeWalt’s 20V Max 1/4″ Impact Driver
By Chuck Cage On September 5, 2012 · 14 Comments · In DeWalt, Power Tools
Anyone who’s a fan of the yellow and black has probably noticed that since the Stanley/B&D merger, DeWalt’s lineup has moved into the fast lane in terms of forward-thinking design. Love ’em or hate ’em, these are no longer the same old tools with a slightly-upgraded battery or a vaguely different case. For more about this change (and the beginnings of the 20V MAX line) check out our preview post about the 20V MAX drill-drivers last summer. For now, let’s take a look at one of the tools — specifically the DCF885 1/4″ impact driver.
First up, the specs: The DCF885 delivers a no-load speed of 0-2,800 RPM and 0-3,200 IPM (impacts per minute), resulting in up to 1,400 in/lbs. of torque — more than enough to drive big-ass screws or assemble large hardware. Weighing in at 2.8 lbs. (with the included 1.5 Ah battery), this driver is also quite compact, featuring a 5.55″ length from chuck to motor. In short: These specs are respectable, and it’s a capable, compact 18V-class impact driver.
But hey — when’s the last time you found yourself thinking “Wow, if only this 1/4″ impact driver made 50 in/lbs. more torque! Or spun 100 RPM faster!” In our opinion, it’s not the core specs (assuming they’re reasonable), but the little design details that differentiate the various competitors in this market segment. And this is where DeWalt’s 20V MAX update seems to have paid off.
Like the other 12V and 20V MAX tools, the DCF885’s over-molded grip is quite comfortable. As you can see in the photos, it falls easily to hand, and the slight pliability of the grip helps cushion the grip a little when you’re hammering away at a tough fastener. It’s also tacky enough to make the driver easy to hold firmly. The case design seems pretty well thought-out, too; we noticed a number of little details, like the bumpers added to the motor housing. While they may look pointless in beauty shots, lay the driver over on the work bench and all becomes clear — the bumpers support the motor housing, a) keeping the tool stuck to the bench (it doesn’t slide around), b) protecting the motor and housing from shock when you knock it over (you know you will), and c) protecting whatever surface the knocked-over driver lands on from getting gouged up. All good stuff. It’s also worth noting that, because of the new 12V/20V slide-on battery design, the DCF885 stands up on the battery quite stably.
Three bright LEDs arranged around the chuck in an annular fashion light up your workpiece, and these lights are seriously damn bright. Really bright. They also stay on for 20 seconds after you release the trigger, making the driver a decent flashlight in a pinch. (Again, you know you do it.)
The trigger is smoothly rounded and fairly large, so it’s easy to operate, both in gloves and bare hands.
The DCF885’s chuck is DeWalt’s standard “one-handed” model, which includes a spring-loaded mechanism that accepts locking hex bits without you having to pull the collar back. Just stick the bit in, and it snaps in place. Pull the collar and the spring forcefully ejects the bit. (Remember to put your hand in front of it.)
As you’d expect, the belt hook is removable, and the tool includes receivers for it on both sides.
We haven’t had a chance to put the DCF885 through long cycles yet, but using it around the shop for the last few days has proved easy and uneventful. I’d love to regale you with tales of derring-do, but suffice it to say that it does the job. We did notice, though, that we found ourselves picking it up first over other similar models we have in the shop, and after some discussion we uncovered a couple of reasons for this. First, the batteries charge quickly and don’t seem to go into overheat mode easily — at least in our brief experience. I think when we test the drill/driver, we’ll likely push this limit a bit more to see how they perform under stupidly-high stress. Second, the DCF885 feels really good in the hand. It’s hard to describe exactly why (see above for our thoughts), but it feels solid and comfortable.
As early thoughts go, we’re impressed. This looks like a well-thought-out tool, and having heard DeWalt’s engineers talk through the 20V design goals last summer, we’re not surprised. A lot of those ideas are expressed well in the DCF885, resulting in something that doesn’t make for good press, but does make for a good purchase: a quietly competent tool.
The kit we looked at is the DCF885C2, which includes the tool, a 30-minute quick charger, and two 1.5 Ah batteries. We haven’t had a chance to ask DeWalt yet, but we suspect the inclusion of the 1.5Ah batteries targets this at the HVAC and electrician crowd. (I know for a fact that my A/C guy carries an 18V impact driver, and this would be a perfect match for him.)
Note, too, that as this model is soon to be upgraded with brushless tech in the form of the DF895C2, it’s on pretty heavy sale right now. As of today, Amazon carries it for $170 [What’s This?], and it’s available lots of other places in the $225 range. That’s a hell of a deal. Look for a review of the brushless tech soon, as we can’t help but notice DeWalt’s claims of significantly increased runtime due to the brushless motor efficiency. Still, I can report that this one runs quite a long time.
DCCF885C2 1/4″ Impact Driver [DeWalt]
Street Pricing [Google]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
14 Responses to First Look: DeWalt’s 20V Max 1/4″ Impact Driver
Just an FYI.
This is still an 18v Li-ion powered tool. It has 5×3.6v cells for 18v.
DeWalt called it the 20v-Max to distinguish it from their 18v Ni-cad tools that they are will continue to sell. They didn’t want anyone buying 18v NiCad tools and thinking their new Li-ion batteries would work with them.
I don’t really like them being called 20v, but I can understand the reasoning behind it. It is still a very good tool.
I don’t like that 20v max advertising bs either. It reminds me of the days when a legitimate 10W audio amplifier was claimed to be a 200W amplifier, using some ridiculous ‘instantaneous peak to peak voltage’ measurements that had no real basis in reality. The FTC put a stop to that as I recall.
Chuck Cage says:
Thanks for the reminder, Rick. You’re correct. We address this (with some additional detail) in the first 20V article, linked at the beginning of this one. FWIW, I feel pretty much the same way you do about it. 🙂
And it still comes in a hard case! Milwaukee take note!
I was going to mention the DCF895C2. Why not “brushless”? DeWalt claims 57% more run-time. That seems quite signifigant, if not totally attainable. Festool offers a “brushless” model. They also claim signifigant run-time improvement. The Festool unit is only offered in the 14v model.
We’re definitely planning to follow up with information (and eventually a look at) the brushless models ASAP. Looks like we’re in for a runtime test… :/
Jeff Tieman says:
I have this model that I got with the 3.0ah hammer drill/impact kit (batteries had the battery meters on them. Its great but my only complaint is that it stinks to high heaven when running! Did you guys notice that? I was told that there is a coating on the field of the motor that needs to burn off during break in but it has been months and it wreaks especially when working in cabinets. I am almost tempted to open it up and give it an alcohol bath.
I have never heard of that. That does not sound good. Warranty?
Harvey Elmore says:
I have the new 20v Brushless and love it. I am building a 12 x 12 shed and shot hundreds of screws and have only needed three charged batteries so far. Has a lot of power also. Never been a Dewalt fan but this tool kicks butt. No complaints so far
I have the brushless model as well. Used it to build a pergola, including using it as a hammer drill to pre-drill anchor holes in patio concrete and the torque was amazing. Love this thing so much right now.
Neil Bruce says:
The Dewalt impact drivers stand out in the marketplace, but take a look at the brushless model with 57% more runtime (apparently), we loved it, with the shorter head due to the smaller motor and recessed chuck and also the 3-speed power/torque adjustment which is fantastic too. We have a video review on the Toolstop website. Keep up the good work guys, Neil @ Toolstop
grady perry says:
i have the drill and after 30years of dewalt drills i love it.
Robert Steeg says:
stinks when running!
can the DWF885-EX cordless impact driver be used for removing wheel nuts on a car?
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Her Gabrielle
by Della Street
A variation on the Remember Nothing theme . . .
Gabrielle lay under the covers, trying not to betray her mixed feelings. The amazing woman who had freed her was preparing for bed. Gabrielle watched as she took off her dress and slipped into a thigh-length sleeping shirt, then sat down to brush her long, dark hair, still damp from her bath. The woman had looked at Gabrielle only once since she entered the room, a quick glance before heading for the dresser.
“I’m sorry about the arrangements.” Gabrielle was startled by the woman’s voice. “We’ll have a place for you by tomorrow night.” Xena looked over at her, then turned away again.
Gabrielle shifted onto her back and looked up at the ceiling. What an interesting woman. Fiery and strong one moment, shy and reserved the next. Gabrielle’s suspicious nature nagged at her and she turned her head to study her savior again. What did this woman want with her? She said she reminded her of her best friend, but was Gabrielle supposed to believe she had risked her own life because of some vague resemblance? Her eyes narrowed.
The woman rose and walked over to the bed. She seemed to hesitate, then lifted the edge of the covers, and slipped into bed beside her. They lay side by side, both staring up at the ceiling. Gabrielle felt as if they were waiting for something, and she suspected she knew what it was. She had been through this before.
A long arm reached across her chest, and Gabrielle recoiled instinctively. The woman drew back. “What’s the matter?”
“Did I scare you?”
“No,” Gabrielle said. “I expected it. I know how it works.”
“How what works?”
The blonde woman remained silent, and she saw Xena’s eyes widen. “I wasn’t . . . If you’re thinking . . ..” Xena shook her head and said solemnly, “I would never touch you against your will, Gabrielle.”
“I was going to light the candle.” Xena pointed at the bedside table. “I thought you might want some light, since you don’t know your way around.”
A moment passed, and Gabrielle spoke. “Sorry. I’m just used to . . ..”
“You’re not a slave anymore,” Xena said, “and I’m not your master. I’m your friend.”
Gabrielle turned her head and met remarkable blue eyes. She found herself experiencing the same feeling that had come over her in the dungeon, when she saw Xena grab a knife out of the air and hurl it cleanly through the rope holding her cage aloft. Gabrielle had pressed against the side of her own prison, straining for a better view of Xena as she lowered the cage to the ground. She was exciting, everything about her.
When she had entered the main hall behind Xena and the two men, it had seemed natural for Gabrielle to follow Xena. Gabrielle had watched, captivated, as the dark-haired woman dispatched one assailant after another, barely noticing when one of them flew directly past her. The woman was incredible. She was also the most beautiful woman Gabrielle had ever seen.
She realized she was still staring at Xena, who had turned onto her side and now faced away from her. She thought back to Xena’s words a moment ago. Against your will. Xena had said she wouldn’t touch her against her will. Did that mean she would touch her if …
Xena could feel the younger woman’s gaze on her. This wasn’t the Gabrielle she had spent the last year of her life with, but she was still Gabrielle. The woman Xena loved.
This was sheer torture, lying inches away from that desirable body and unable to caress it. She’s still Gabrielle; Xena mused, so she would respond to a woman’s touch–to Xena’s touch. The warrior squeezed her eyes tightly, trying to shut out images of Gabrielle under her coaxing hands. These kinds of thoughts were pointless; this Gabrielle barely knew her.
“Would you like a massage?”
Xena’s eyes flew open, and her heart began racing. Don’t read too much into it, she cautioned herself, while she wrestled with her decision. She wanted Gabrielle’s touch, desperately. But why torment herself further?
Gabrielle thought for a moment that Xena hadn’t heard her. Maybe she was already asleep. Gabrielle felt a mixture of relief and disappointment. She didn’t have the nerve to ask again, and was starting to roll over when she heard a soft voice. “That’d be nice.”
Gabrielle’s breath caught. Careful, she thought. She didn’t even know if Xena was interested in her that way. If she blew it, she’d be all alone again. Two days ago, she wouldn’t have cared. Now, it mattered more than anything.
She tried to appear calm as she slid over next to Xena and arced a leg across the other woman’s back, straddling her. She tentatively reached her hands down to Xena’s shoulders, and began to gently stroke them. Xena was surprisingly tense; she really did need a massage.
Gabrielle worked her way down to Xena’s upper arms. She felt the other woman’s muscles relaxing under her, but the process was having the opposite effect on her own body. She felt flushed, her temperature rising with every passing moment. She wondered if Xena could feel the frantic pounding of her heart. She hoped she could.
The smooth hands made their way onto Xena’s back. Gabrielle swallowed, then spoke quietly. “This would feel better if you took your nightshirt off.” She was impressed at the way her voice sounded almost normal.
The throbbing of Xena’s heart, which had been steadily building while Gabrielle ministered to her, shot forcefully through the rest of her body, and she turned her face into a pillow to hide the sharp increase in her breathing. She wanted this woman with every fiber of her being. She shouldn’t do it. But she had already let it go too far. If it got too bad, she would just make an excuse to leave.
She raised herself up on her elbows, and slowly tugged the shirt up over her head. She paused; had Gabrielle made a sound? She felt Gabrielle’s hands on her bare back, and suppressed a moan. This was a big mistake. She couldn’t take much more.
Gabrielle felt the slight movement of the woman under her hands, and bit her lip at the implication. She continued the soothing motions of her hands, gliding them with agonizing slowness down to Xena’s lower back. She hesitated for a moment, then slid her palms over Xena’s hips.
This time there was no mistaking Xena’s reaction. She groaned, her shoulders lifting off the bed. Gabrielle squeezed the firm mounds of flesh, then leaned down, and planted a kiss between Xena’s shoulder blades. Xena uttered another sensuous noise, and Gabrielle trailed her lips across the older woman’s back.
“Gabrielle . . ..” Xena twisted around and grasped the smaller woman, turning her onto her back. Xena gazed down at the beautiful face and lowered herself for a kiss. Not the same as when they had first kissed in their other world, but unmistakably Gabrielle.
The notion inspired Xena. She knew every inch of Gabrielle’s body, knew what she liked, what made her cry out . . .. She would make Gabrielle forget past cruelties and the harshness of her captivity. For now, Xena wanted her to remember only the joy of their union. She smiled. Of their reunion.
She kissed Gabrielle again, her tongue searching out the other woman’s with gentle insistence. After a few minutes, she gripped Gabrielle’s gown with her fingers, pulling up on it. They broke the kiss to allow her to raise the gown over Gabrielle’s head, and then the younger woman watched for Xena’s reaction.
Xena looked down at the scarred flesh, her heart breaking. She kissed Gabrielle’s shoulder, noticing yet another scar lower on her chest. In this life, her own skin was unsullied; it was Gabrielle’s body that bore the marks of a violent existence. ‘I’m sorry,’ she started to say, but held back the words. She didn’t want Gabrielle to think the scars made her anything less than beautiful. Nothing could.
She leaned into Gabrielle and pressed her lips against the pulse in the tender throat. Her mouth worked slowly up Gabrielle’s neck, nibbling lightly on Gabrielle’s earlobe, then flicking her tongue inside. Gabrielle gasped with surprise, but soon closed her eyes, quivering at the flood of sensations Xena was giving her.
Eager hands grazed Gabrielle’s stomach and edged around her side, craving as much of the familiar body as they could reach. Xena lowered her head and circled Gabrielle’s breast with her tongue. Her other hand came up and clasped the breast, cupping it as she brought her lips to the tip. She sucked gently on the nipple, running her tongue across it, taking the whole breast into her mouth as passion overtook her.
“Xena . . ..”
A noise came from Xena’s throat. Her name breathed in the same urgent tone . . .. This was her Gabrielle.
She looked down to see Gabrielle’s hips moving on the bed, and ran her hand over the flat abdomen. Gabrielle parted her legs, whimpering as Xena slid her hand between them and pressed two fingers into her warmth. Xena stroked her leisurely, thrusting her tongue into her mouth as she felt Gabrielle’s excitement mounting. Suddenly, Gabrielle pulled her face away, her arm tightening around Xena’s back, hips thrusting forcefully against Xena’s hand. She emitted a sharp cry, clutching Xena’s neck against her.
After a moment, her grip loosened, and she ran her hand down Xena’s arm. She started to speak, but Xena rolled onto her and covered her lips, savoring the feel of soft tongues sliding against each other, long minutes passing seamlessly.
She lowered her mouth to Gabrielle’s breasts, a small hand pressing against the back of her head as she nuzzled them. She trailed her lips over to Gabrielle’s side, then nipped at Gabrielle’s hip bone with her teeth. Gabrielle reacted, as Xena knew she would, and Xena sank her teeth into the bone.
She pressed the tip of her middle finger against Gabrielle, circling gently. Gabrielle spread her legs further apart, wordlessly asking . . ..
Xena slid her finger inside. Moments later, a second finger joined it, working in and out as Xena thrust into her. She felt Gabrielle’s hands grip her shoulders, and lust swelled through her as she remembered what it was like to feel those hands on the back of her head. She lowered her body, nearly overwhelmed with anticipation.
She drew her fingers out and pressed her mouth into Gabrielle’s heat at the same moment. She eased her tongue inside and lapped slowly at the moist flesh, closing her eyes in exhilaration as Gabrielle’s exclamations grew louder. She brought her hand back up and worked two fingers into the warmth, their motions in sync with her tongue. Soon she felt what she had wanted, Gabrielle’s hands gripping her hair, her thighs spread wide apart.
Gabrielle felt as if she had been waiting all her life for this moment, and she had. She had never imagined anything could feel like this. Her arousal continued to build as her hands wildly caressed silky black hair.
Gradually, Gabrielle’s mind registered that Xena was making a noise, and she willed her breathing to calm for a moment. She heard it clearly then, a continuous hum-moan as Xena consumed her. Xena was enjoying herself. Really enjoying herself. The realization sent electricity through her, and she surged into Xena, powerful contractions jolting her body.
Xena watched the waves overtake her lover for the hundredth time and the first time. She sighed contentedly, pressing her lips lightly into blonde curly hair. She pulled herself up and drew Gabrielle into her arms; the scars on the younger woman’s skin a jarring reminder that this was not her Gabrielle.
Green eyes met hers, and then Gabrielle nestled against her shoulder. Xena brushed aside a strand of blonde hair and kissed her forehead tenderly. “Yes, you are,” she whispered. She looked down, but Gabrielle had not heard her. Her exhausted lover lay quietly, eyes closed, sound asleep.
Xena shifted on the bed, her body still feeling the effects of their heated lovemaking. She smiled wryly to herself. Her plan to drive Gabrielle crazy had been a little too successful.
Gabrielle opened her eyes, feeling soft skin beneath her arm. Memories from the night before came flooding back to her, Xena pleasing her in ways she hadn’t known was possible. Then . . . .
Oh gods. She sat up abruptly and looked down at Xena; whose blue eyes were watching her.
“I’m sorry.” Gabrielle backed away quickly from her.
“Hey . . ..” Xena reached out a hand, wincing at the panic in her lover’s eyes. “It’s all right.”
The younger woman shook her head. “I–”
Xena pressed her index finger against Gabrielle’s lips. “It’s all right,” she said again.
“You fell asleep. I consider it a compliment.” She smiled; hoping that Gabrielle would someday stop fearing her.
Gabrielle looked at her for a long moment, then kissed Xena’s finger, running her tongue up its length. Xena stirred, and Gabrielle moved to Xena’s middle finger, taking it into her mouth, sliding it in and out.
Xena’s hips moved on the bed, her breath coming slow and steady as her desire grew. Gabrielle moved on top of her and lowered herself into softness. Xena’s hand came up beneath blonde hair, the other circling her back as Gabrielle kissed her eagerly.
Both women turned toward the sound. Xena’s brother Lyceus stood motionless, one step inside the curtain, gaping at them.
An awkward silence passed. Xena pulled the sheet up over the two of them and waited.
After a moment, her brother recovered. “What are you doing?”
Xena did not reply. She was quite certain Lyceus knew what she was doing.
“You’re–” He raised a hand to his head. “With a girl?”
She remained silent. Again, he already knew the answer.
“You don’t even know her!”
“I know her,” Xena said. “I’ve loved her from the moment I first saw her.”
Gabrielle turned her head and stared down at Xena.
“Is that what this whole thing has been about? You just wanted to get her into your bed?”
Xena fixed him with a cold stare. “You owe me better than that, Lyceus.”
“What about Maphias?”
“That’s between him and me.”
“If you’re trying to say this is none of my business, Xena, you’re dead wrong,” he said. “Maphias is my best friend, and you’re my sister. I don’t know what’s come over you. You’re not yourself.”
His eyes strayed to the younger woman still lying on top of Xena, tucked under his sister’s protective arm. She was so beautiful. He had imagined her lying with him in his own bed, loving him–not his sister. He turned and walked out of the room.
With a sigh, Xena slid out from beneath her lover.
“I’m sorry,” Gabrielle said. She didn’t know what else to say.
“It’s not your fault,” Xena said, slipping into her dress and running a brush through her hair. She turned toward the bed. “I don’t regret any of it.” She met Gabrielle’s eyes. “Do you?”
Xena smiled, and finished dressing. “I’m afraid you’ll be on your own this morning. I’ll have to see to the inn. Will you be all right?”
Gabrielle nodded, and watched the amazing woman walk across the bedroom floor and through the curtain.
Xena found her brother in the store room. She leaned against the door sill, hands behind her back, and waited for him to acknowledge her presence.
Lyceus glanced at her, then returned to counting stock.
“I love her, Lyceus. You should be happy for me.”
“You’ve known her two days. I’d call it something else.”
“I’ve known her–” Xena closed her eyes for a moment. “I feel as though I’ve known her a long time; my whole life. Sometimes you just know you’re destined to be with someone, Lyceus.” She waited, but he did not look at her. “I’ve never felt that way about Maphias,” she continued. “He’s a good man, but we weren’t meant to be together. Why do you think we never married?”
“Something always came up.”
She nodded. “That’s right. For eleven years,” she said pointedly. “I’ve been waiting for something, Lyceus, and when I saw Gabrielle I knew what it was.”
“Does she feel the same way?”
Xena looked at the floor. “I don’t know.”
He snorted.
“Don’t make light of my feelings, Lyceus. I love her, and I pray that she’ll stay with me. Frankly, if she doesn’t, I don’t know what I’ll do.” Her voice choked on the last words, and she shook her head, angry at the loss of control.
She turned and started from the room, but felt a hand on her arm. “Hey. I’m sorry.” Lyceus looked into his sister’s eyes apologetically. “I am happy for you. I’m just . . ..” He shrugged. “Jealous,” he admitted. “She’s beautiful. I–”
Xena laid her hand on his shoulder. “There are plenty of beautiful women out there, Lyceus. Half the women in this village would come running if you held out your hand.” She smirked. “Quite a few of them have already, as I recall.” Lyceus laughed, and they grinned at each other, walking out of the store room together.
Gabrielle stepped cautiously into the dining room, feeling a little bolder when she saw Xena behind the counter. She looked around curiously, taking in her surroundings, then sat on a bench near a couple of local women.
One of the women spoke to her, and Gabrielle flinched. Xena wanted to run to her, to comfort her, but she held back. As much as it hurt, Gabrielle would have to learn for herself.
Gabrielle responded nervously to the woman’s question. The woman spoke again, and after a few minutes of conversation, Gabrielle seemed to relax, her stance more natural.
Xena’s eyes returned frequently to the bench, wandering down the slim form resting on it. Suddenly Gabrielle laughed, and Xena froze. “I’m taking a lunch break,” she said, dropping her rag on the counter. She strode over and took the blonde woman’s hand, Lyceus’ eyes following them as she led Gabrielle out of the room.
She pulled Gabrielle through the curtain, lifting the smaller woman and tossing her gently onto the bed. “I can’t take it anymore,” she said huskily. Gabrielle’s eyes widened. “Take off your clothes.”
Xena stripped off her dress, then climbed into bed and pressed against her lover’s naked body. Her thigh parted the legs beneath her as she kissed Gabrielle hungrily. Xena felt her passion rising and slid her arms under Gabrielle, pulling the younger woman harder against her. Suddenly, she stopped. “I’m sorry,” she said, pulling back. “I’m being too rough.”
“No. I know you won’t hurt me.”
“Never.” Xena kissed Gabrielle’s cheek, and then Gabrielle moved her face and covered Xena’s lips with her own.
After a moment, Gabrielle rolled over, turning Xena onto her back. Xena’s thighs fell open, and Gabrielle groaned at the sight of her urgent, arching back. She remembered the feel of Xena’s lips against her, and wanted to share the incredible sensation.
She kissed her way down Xena’s stomach to the dark triangle cresting the long legs. Xena moaned, her head moving slowly from side to side, driving Gabrielle’s own excitement. She lowered herself further, and tasted the delicious flavor of her lover’s passion. She searched out Xena’s desire with her tongue, murmuring in her concentration.
Within seconds, Xena’s hips rose from the bed and she jerked forward, hands clutching at Gabrielle’s hair as she shuddered violently. Finally, she lay back, her hands now lightly caressing, as if to make up for their earlier fierceness.
The younger woman lay her head on Xena’s stomach, directly above the dark thatch. It had happened too quickly; she wanted more of Xena, wanted to savor her longer. “I want to do that to you again,” she said.
Xena smiled, her breath calming. So much like her Gabrielle. “Did you enjoy it?” she asked.
“Did it make you wet?”
Gabrielle stirred. “Yes.”
“Show me.”
She slid her hand between her legs and drew a finger through her wetness. She brought her hand up and trailed it across Xena’s breast. Xena met her gaze, then lowered her head, licking the moisture from her nipple.
Gabrielle closed her eyes and slid a leg across Xena’s thigh. Xena watched through heavy-lidded eyes as Gabrielle began to move her hips back and forth.
Xena raised her leg slightly off the bed, flexing it, listening to low grunts as Gabrielle thrust against the firm muscles, her noises sending fire through Xena again. Suddenly Gabrielle stiffened, gasping, and with a few final, passionate thrusts, release flowed through her body.
Breath still ragged; she brought her mouth to Xena’s breasts, kissing them with abandon. A few minutes later, she plunged her mouth into the heat between Xena’s legs. Still feeling Gabrielle’s warmth on her thigh, still hearing her electrifying cries, Xena felt her desire build rapidly, and within moments her body quaked, a crescendo of pleasure washing over her.
“Gabrielle, please stay with me,” she said, her inner thoughts spilling out with overwhelming emotion. She closed her eyes, castigating herself for blurting it out.
She felt Gabrielle’s head move against her thigh, but no sound came from the younger woman. Xena wished she could take back the words. “I’m sorry,” she said hastily, hoping to forestall an outright rejection. “I know it’s too soon.” She hoped that was the only reason for Gabrielle’s hesitation.
The words fell like stones upon Gabrielle, who already felt paralyzed. Someone wanted her. Not just someone, but a beautiful, exciting, gentle woman who knew what she was and wanted her anyway. She closed her eyes, sadly concluding now that this was only a dream, a cruel dream that she would awaken from, the illusion of happiness beaten out of her.
She drew herself up and lay her head on Xena’s shoulder. “I’ll stay with you as long as you want me,” she said. She would enjoy this illusion as long as she could.
Xena picked up the counter rag, smiling at the world.
“You must have had a nice lunch.”
“Very nice,” she said. She picked up a wine bottle and wiped the side. “I’m planning on a nice dinner, too.” She grinned. “And maybe a midnight snack.”
Lyceus frowned at her affectionately. “Haven’t you ever heard of moderation?”
“Hey, that is moderation.” She grinned again, and began to sort fruit into a basket, humming happily.
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KZN government to assist with funerals following deadly church wall collapse
Durban – The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government would assist with funerals for congregants who died when a church wall collapsed during an Easter service outside Empangeni on Thursday, it has said.
Premier Willies Mchunu made the announcement from his Durban-based office on Monday following a special sitting of the provincial executive council, which was convened to decide on "a way forward" following the tragedy. Mchunu was joined by his MECs at the press briefing.
Twelve women and a 10-year-old boy were killed when a brick wall at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Dlangubo collapsed during a Passover service. Sixteen other congregants were injured.
The premier said the number of deceased and injured, and the “timing” of the incident (Easter weekend), ranked it as “unprecedented” for the province.
“The front wall of the church collapsed at around 10.15pm as a result of a severe thunderstorm which was accompanied by strong winds in the area that had undermined the structural foundations of the building,” said Mchunu.
The front wall of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, just outside Empangeni, collapsed on Thursday night during a Passover service. Twelve female congregants and one young boy died in the incident. About 16 others were injured. Photo by Leon Lestrade/African News Agency(ANA)
A number of the injured who were still at Ngwelezane Hospital, just outside Empangeni, were being treated for various fractures, he said.
Police have said an inquest docket had been opened. This will presumably include scrutinising adherence to building requirements. A forensic engineering team was also conducting an investigation to determine if the collapse was due to structural defects.
“We are advised that forensic teams are still busy with their investigative reports on this horrific accident and we will communicate the outcomes once all processes are concluded,” said Mchunu.
Government and church representatives would be in attendance on Tuesday as family members gathered at a mortuary in the Richards Bay area to identify the dead, the premier said.
A prayer service would take place at 9am before the bodies were viewed, he said.
The front wall of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, just outside Empangeni, collapsed on Thursday night during a Passover service. Photo by Leon Lestrade/African News Agency(ANA)
A memorial service would be held on Thursday and funeral details – set for the weekend – would be conveyed at a later stage.
“This is a time to come together to pray, grieve and to extend a helping hand. Let us all join these efforts to ensure that life in this devastated community returns to normality as soon as possible,” said Mchunu.
In a statement issued on Monday, the province’s cooperative governance and traditional affairs department said an operations’ centre had been pitched to assist those who would be identifying the corpses of their loved ones. "An additional team of doctors will be brought in to assist."
The front wall of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, just outside Empangeni, collapsed on Thursday night during a Passover service. Photo by Leon Lestrade/African News Agency (ANA)
In a statement issued on Sunday, bishop Moses Sibiya of the Pentecostal Holiness Church said: “We have been assured by government that a formal report of the investigation into this tragedy will be presented to the church once all investigating processes have been finalised.”
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ABC primary channel highlights for week commencing July 21, 2019 include the season final of Anh’s Brush with Fame and the new season premiere of Midsomer Murders, plus all new episodes of The Planets, Back Roads, Four Corners, Media Watch, Q&A, Ask the Doctor, Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL, Squinters, Insert Name Here, Escape from the City, No Offence, Humans, Gardening Australia, The Heights, Shakespeare & Hathaway and Father Brown.
7:40 The Planets (ep 3 of 5 in season 1)
8:40 Midsomer Murders (ep 1 of 6 in season 20A) *New Season Premiere
10:10 Special - Helpmann Awards 2019 (repeat)
11:55 Shetland (repeat)
8:00 Back Roads (ep 6 of 8 in season 5)
8:30 Four Corners
9:15 Media Watch
9:35 Q&A
8:00 Ask the Doctor (ep 11 of 12 in season 2)
9:30 Brian Cox: The 21st Century Race for Space (repeat)
8:00 Anh’s Brush with Fame (ep 14 of 14 in season 4) *Season Final
8:30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL (ep 5 in season 10)
9:00 Squinters (ep 3 of 6 in season 2)
9:25 Insert Name Here (ep 5 of 8 in season 3)
9:55 Qi (repeat)
8:00 Escape from the City (ep 30 of 60 in season 1)
9:00 No Offence (ep 4 of 6 in season 3)
9:45 Humans (ep 4 of 8 in season 3)
7:30 Gardening Australia (ep 26 of 42 in season 28)
8:30 The Heights (ep 23 of 30 in season 1)
9:25 Loch Ness (repeat) (ep 3 of 6 in season 1)
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8:15 Father Brown (ep 8 of 10 in season 7)
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Cricketer’s Score Of “20 Odd” Revealed To Be Just 13
Local batsman Ben Patmore has today been caught out after falsely telling his mates that he made a score of “20 odd” over the weekend.
The investigation into Patmore’s innings began after his friends contacted The First Reserve, stating that while recounting the innings Patmore began sweating profusely while trying to change the subject numerous times.
A close friend of Patmore, who chose to remain anonymous told The First Reserve that “Ben is probably the worst batsman I’ve ever seen in my whole life. When he told us he’d managed to crack the twenties, we had to know more.”
Our best investigative journalists were able to track down the scorecard and reveal to Patmore’s friends and family that the batsman managed just 13 runs from 35 balls in his side’s 10 wicket loss.
A teammate from the controversial match stated that “It was incredible that he even made it to 13. I honestly think he edged every shot he played.”
When asked for a comment, Patmore’s father said “I’d like to apologise to all of Ben’s friends who have been lied to. We thought we’d raised our child better than this. We’re so, incredibly sorry.”
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by Max Rayman April 8, 2019 April 8, 2019 1
The second week of the season has come to a close. The NL East has continued to beat up on each other and has showcased some impressive pitching outings and offensive outbursts.
For those that missed last week’s issue, click here.
1) Philadelphia Phillies (6-2) (3-2 in the past week) (Last week ranked 1)
For the second week in a row, the Phillies are atop these power rankings. They split with Washington in which saw Bryce Harper’s return to DC. He went 3-5 with two strikeouts against Scherzer as well as a massive homer against Jeremy Hellickson. Philly followed this up by taking two of three against an impressive Twins team.
Harper and Rhys Hoskins have started to form the new bash brothers. The two have combined for three home runs, 11 RBI’s, and seven runs scored in the past week. These two are on the right track to helping the Phillies get back to the playoffs.
2) New York Mets (6-3) (4-2 in the past week) (Last week ranked 2)
The Mets swept the Marlins before losing two of three to the Nationals. The only thing that kept them from being swept by Washington was another bullpen meltdown. Rookie Peter Alonzo and Robinson Cano hit back to back home runs to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth. In that same inning, Keon Broxton hit a single to score what turned out to be the game-winning single.
The Mets offense has helped provide enough run support which is a vast contrast from the season before. Jacob deGrom is 2-0 and can double his win total of ten from the year before. deGrom will help the new look Mets battle for division supremacy and finally has the run support needed.
3) Atlanta Braves (5-4) (5-1 in the past week) (Last week ranked 5)
Image courtesy of ESPN.com
The Braves were able to recover from starting the season 0-3 by winning five of their last six. They swept the Cubs and walked off the Marlins Sunday afternoon to win the series. The Braves have inked star Ronald Acuna Jr. to an eight-year extension worth 100 million. He has rewarded them by hitting a pair of home runs in the past week.
Freddie Freeman has helped the team surge as he has walked nine times and is hitting .316 over the past week. Look for the 29-year-old to carry the load until Acuna can return to his Rookie of the Year form.
4) Washington Nationals (4-4) (3-2 in the past week) (Last week ranked 4)
Washington dropped a heart breaker to the Mets in game two of the series as once again their bullpen imploded. The bullpen gave up three runs in the bottom of the eighth. In the rubber match, the bullpen allowed the Mets to come back into the game. A 12-2 lead quickly became 12-9 after a pair of three-run homers.
The rubber match saw Scherzer get his first win in three attempts. Patrick Corbin has continued to shine in his first year with Washington as he struck out nine in six innings against the Mets. Stephen Strasburg got his first win as he outdueled Noah Syndergaard. The Nats top three starters will have to be on their best for the rest of the season until the bullpen can figure it out.
5) Miami Marlins (3-7) (1-5 in the past week) (Last week ranked 3)
The Marlins struggles have begun and it will only get worse from here. Now is the time to see what the young guys can do, such as Sandy Alcantara, Jorge Alfaro, Lewis Brinson, and Brian Anderson.
NL East Player of the week
Image courtesy of Sports Illustrated.
Anthony Rendon- In a contract year, Rendon has started to produce early. This week he went 10-19 with three walks, three home runs, five RBI’s, and seven runs scored. He hit .526 and helped drive in some much-needed run support.
Honorable Mention- Freddie Freeman, Jacob deGrom, Bryce Harper, Rhys Hoskins.
Atlanta Braves- Brian McCann was placed on the IL after he strained his hamstring.
New York Mets- Yoenis Cespedes and Jed Lowrie are still out for an extended amount of time.
Washington Nationals- Howie Kendrick has been reinstated from the IL. Michael A. Taylor is still suffering from a sprained left knee and hip. Nothing has changed on his return date and will be out for a significant amount of time.
Craig Kimbrel and Dallas Keuchel are still on the open market. The Braves and Phillies are two teams to keep an eye out for Keuchel. Craig Kimbrel has been monitored by Atlanta, New York, Washington, and Philadelphia. He would vastly improve all four bullpens.
If Washington’s bullpen continues to implode, watch out for them to pull the trigger on either Kimbrel or trading for bullpen help.
Philly has also had bullpen issues and can be in the market for extra relievers.
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[…] The third week of the season has come to a close and the division has not disappointed. Four of the five are at .500 or better and do not seem to be slowing down. This week saw some great division matchups, such as the Nationals vs. Philadelphia and New York vs. Atlanta. Without further ado, here is this week’s NL East Rundown. For those that missed last week, click here. […]
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NYPD officer accused of Eric Garner’s choke hold death will finally face disciplinary trial
Although he was not prosecuted for the death of Eric Garner, the NYPD officer who placed the chokehold under which he died will still face disciplinary action
Kia Morgan-Smith
Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD cop who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold before he died, will finally face a disciplinary trial years after the fact, NBC reports.
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A federal grand jury has been investigating Pantaleo since the death of Garner on July 17, 2014, after Garner was selling loose cigarettes on New York’s Staten Island. Pantaleo constricted Garner, and his final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for protest movements across the country. Even though Garner’s death was ruled a homicide, Pantaleo was not convicted by a Staten Island grand jury.
Pantaleo will go to trial May 13, and the trial could take about two weeks, the judge said. Pantaleo’s legal team tried and failed to get the judge to postpone the trial.
If justice prevails, Pantaleo could be fired from the department or lose vacation days, seemingly paltry in light of Garner’s death.
Pantaleo has been on desk duty and had his gun privileges revoked.
Garner’s mother Gwen Carr attended the hearing—a moment in time that was surreal for the still grieving woman.
“I felt sort of numb being in the same room as my son’s murderer,” said Carr.
Carr wants Pantaleo’s fired.
The police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, defended Pantaleo saying he had used “the least amount of force necessary” and said his windpipe was not crushed during the chokehold.
“This case demonstrates the danger that is inherent in prejudging incidents absent all of the information that must be considered in order to come to a truthful and accurate conclusion,” Union president Patrick Lynch said in a statement.
The haunting and brutal video of Garner dying at the hands of New York police officers is traumatic for many who have seen it, but the circumstances surrounding his horrific death are becoming faint memories that are hard for witnesses to recall.
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According to a new court filing by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the investigation into Garner’s 2014 death has languished on so long that the time lapse has caused the medical examiner and witnesses to forget key facts in their grand jury testimony, the NY Daily News reports.
Recently, the agency argued that their grand jury testimony needs to be unsealed to help them recall facts as the agency works to prosecute Officer Pantaleo at his upcoming NYPD disciplinary trial.
“The M.E. stated that she wanted to make sure that her testimony at the … trial was consistent with her testimony that she had given to the grand jury and to the (Department of Justice.) However, that would be difficult because of the amount of time that elapsed since those testimonies,” wrote Kerry Jamison, the CCRB’s assistant general counsel.
The NYPD issued disciplinary charges against Pantaleo in July. They first said they would wait until the Department of Justice finished its civil rights investigation into of Garner’s death, but it was taking too long and it has been four years so they moved ahead with disciplinary charges against him.
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What do we mean by humanism, in the real world of legacies and influences? When Irving Babbitt passed away in 1933, he left an incredible legacy of allies, students, and literature. His humanism—so powerfully a part of the cultural mores of his day—transformed into several things following his death (or shortly before it). [...]
Remembering Irving Babbitt
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Irving Babbitt’s humanism was not radically intricate or convoluted: It was a reflection of nature and, at least to the wise, of common sense. No one could—in his wildest dreams—dismiss the humanism of Babbitt as a mere fad or a marginal movement; all thinking people engaged the ideas, whether they found them palatable or [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign’s Cozy Press Relationship
Glenn Greenwald Lee Fang
Glenn Greenwald, Lee Fang
October 9 2016, 3:47 p.m.
Internal strategy documents and emails among Clinton staffers shed light on friendly and highly useful relationships between the campaign and various members of the U.S. media, as well as the campaign’s strategies for manipulating those relationships.
The emails were provided to The Intercept by the source identifying himself as Guccifer 2.0, who was reportedly responsible for prior significant hacks, including one that targeted the Democratic National Committee and resulted in the resignations of its top four officials. On Friday, Obama administration officials claimed that Russia’s “senior-most officials” were responsible for that hack and others, although they provided no evidence for that assertion.
As these internal documents demonstrate, a central component of the Clinton campaign strategy is ensuring that journalists they believe are favorable to Clinton are tasked to report the stories the campaign wants circulated.
At times, Clinton’s campaign staff not only internally drafted the stories they wanted published but even specified what should be quoted “on background” and what should be described as “on the record.”
One January 2015 strategy document — designed to plant stories on Clinton’s decision-making process about whether to run for president — singled out reporter Maggie Haberman, then of Politico, now covering the election for the New York Times, as a “friendly journalist” who has “teed up” stories for them in the past and “never disappointed” them. Nick Merrill, the campaign press secretary, produced the memo, according to the document metadata:
That strategy document plotted how Clinton aides could induce Haberman to write a story on the thoroughness and profound introspection involved in Clinton’s decision-making process. The following month, when she was at the Times, Haberman published two stories on Clinton’s vetting process; in this instance, Haberman’s stories were more sophisticated, nuanced, and even somewhat more critical than what the Clinton memo envisioned.
But they nonetheless accomplished the goal Clinton campaign aides wanted to fulfill of casting the appearance of transparency on Clinton’s vetting process in a way that made clear she was moving carefully but inexorably toward a presidential run.
Given more than 24 hours to challenge the authenticity of these documents and respond, Merrill did not reply to our emails. Haberman declined to comment.
Other documents listed those whom the campaign regarded as their most reliable “surrogates” — such as CNN’s Hilary Rosen and Donna Brazile, as well as Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden — but then also listed operatives whom they believed were either good “progressive helpers” or more potentially friendly media figures who might be worth targeting with messaging. The metadata of the surrogate document shows the file was authored by Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director of the campaign. As The Intercept previously reported, pundits regularly featured on cable news programs were paid by the Clinton campaign without any disclosure when they appeared; several of them are included on this “surrogates” list, including Stephanie Cutter and Maria Cardona:
The Clinton campaign likes to use glitzy, intimate, completely off-the-record parties between top campaign aides and leading media personalities. One of the most elaborately planned get-togethers was described in an April, 2015, memo — produced, according to the document metadata, by deputy press secretary Jesse Ferguson — to take place shortly before Clinton’s official announcement of her candidacy. The event was an April 10 cocktail party for leading news figures and top-level Clinton staff at the Upper East Side home of Clinton strategist Joel Benenson, a fully off-the-record gathering designed to impart the campaign’s messaging:
A separate email chain between Clinton staff (one that was not among those provided by Guccifer 2.0 but appeared on the DCLeaks.com site earlier this week) contains plans for a separate off-the-record media get-together in May. Food and drinks were provided by the campaign for the journalists covering it, on the condition that nothing said would be reported to the public.
Many of the enduring Clinton tactics for managing the press were created by the campaign before she even announced her candidacy. A March 13, 2015, memo from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook provides insight into some of the tactics employed by the campaign to shape coverage to their liking. In particular, Mook was concerned that because journalists were assigned to cover Clinton, they needed to be fed a constant stream of stories that the campaign liked. As he put it, a key strategy was to “give reporters who must cover daily HRC news something to cover other than the unhelpful stories about the foundation, emails, etc.”
All presidential campaigns have their favorite reporters, try to plant stories they want published, and attempt in multiple ways to curry favor with journalists. These tactics are certainly not unique to the Clinton campaign (liberals were furious in 2008 when journalists went to John McCain’s Arizona ranch for an off-the-record BBQ). But these rituals and dynamics between political campaigns and the journalists who cover them are typically carried out in the dark, despite how significant they can be. These documents provide a valuable glimpse into that process.
Top photo: Hillary Clinton looks at national press secretary Brian Fallon’s phone, with aide Huma Abedin and traveling press secretary Nick Merrill.
Lee Fang[email protected]theintercept.com@lhfang
October 16 2016, 1:04 a.m.
And you were shocked, shocked I say!, to learn that such things are happening now as they never have in the past.
Leonard P. Cary
October 15 2016, 6:16 p.m.
Thank you. Keep the truth coming. God knows we need to hear it.
Chris Hayes was on the list, yes, but he still has a foot planted firmly in the actually progressive field. Tonight, he had Glenn Greenwald on his show to discuss the Hillary emails, Wikileaks and the value and ethics of it all. (Hillary hacks hated it — they went quite berserk.)
Hayes has Glenn on with some frequency.
Donal -Mona-
Cuz he knows he got caught
Lynette Johnson
October 12 2016, 11:53 a.m.
Thank you for HONESTY in Reporting, don’t see much of this anymore.
It is OBVIOUS to anyone awake that Hillary Clinton and her backers like George Soro’s OWN the Media, control the Media, and sadly destroy any real sense of democracy in our country.
I hope that “The Intercept” will also do some HONEST coverage on all those Leaks released recently.
It’s important for Americans to know that Hillary Clinton is pushing for a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, no more America via “Open Boarders”, “Total Gun Control” even by Executive Orders if necessary as she herself says in her paid speeches to Big Banks. Our own police forces will cease to exist, The United Nations (U.N.) will be given full authority over ALL of our healthcare, education, and security systems. This all goes completely AGAINST the United States Constitution and is considered TREASON.
October 11 2016, 11:25 p.m.
Dog bites man. Stop the presses.
very well-reported stories
Steven M Ellman
Thanks for the nothingburger.
Given where we are in the campaign is this really news?
“journalists they believe are favorable to Clinton are tasked to report the stories the campaign wants circulated”
This article reads like an Onion parody of someone who only just discovered how journalism works.
tim kimball CJ
David CJ
I don’t think most Americans are aware of, or okay with, the possibility that acting as a puppet for a political party’s campaign is just “how journalism works”.
Chris Jonsson
The list has no one from RT, Vice, NPR, Guardian, the Atlantic, Harper’s, Rollingstone, Time, or FOX. Some of them could be secret friends.
NPR is biased for Hillary. FOX has better reporting now on the election than MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CNN.
Gil G Chris Jonsson
Yep, just like the recent junket to Moscow sponsored by RT , had reporters like Max Blumenthal, and politicians like Jill Stein but none from NBC, CBS, the NY Times.
Sam Chris Jonsson
Did we read the same list? VICE is included.
Speaking of the rancid press: Jeffrey Goldberg was just named Editor in Chief of The Atlantic. The same Jeffrey Goldberg who can’t read Israeli paper Haaretz any more because, doncha know, it’s “antisemitic.”
Now we hear from Wikileaks that Donna Brazile tipped off the Clinton Campaign on Jan. 5, 2016 about a Sanders Twitterstorm campaign, giving them all the juicy details about the Tweets.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3023
All presidential campaigns have their favorite reporters, try to plant stories they want published, and attempt in multiple ways to curry favor with journalists.
Of course, when Pierre Omidyar is already in your corner an invitation to Intercept staff writers by the Clinton Campaign would be a little too revealing and redundant:
Twitter; Pierre Omidyar (9:10 AM – 8 Jun 2016) retweet:
It’s time to admit Hillary Clinton is an extraordinarily talented politician – Vox http://ow.ly/MLgA3012nKW
https://twitter.com/pierre/status/740576725122289664
Disappointing to see Chris Hayes on this list (as a target if not someone who actually agreed to be used in this way which I don’t know). I’m not at all surprised about the rest of the “target list” particularly Rachel Maddow who used be so much better on Air America than she is now. Not that I necessarily agreed with all of her political positions, but she really has become an obsequious suck up to politicians in a way that is truly disturbing, as both an academic and journalist.
Little surprised Chuck Todd declined to attend the roll-out party.
dahoit rrheard
Chuck had a facial appointment.Couldn’t make it.
Of course over at Lawyers Guns and Money blog they are mocking The Intercept, and Greenwald and Fang as so unserious to not know and report on this story, and not accept that “this is just the way things are done, move along, nothing to see here.”
Some of them simply don’t get it. Same sort of centrist dupes and propagandists that don’t believe “corruption” can take place unless their is court-quality evidence of quid pro quo.
Like I’ve said repeatedly, other than Loomis, the place is precisely what’s wrong with the Democratic Party–low aspirations, small real world goals and a real comfort with almost every fucked up thing about America because, well, “realpolitick” or “no we can’t”.
Lou Thomas
Did not see Glenn Greenwald on those lists; keep up the good work.
sanford sklansky
From Charlie Pierce
there is one thing I would like before this endless campaign grinds to its miserable–and now, apparently inevitable–end, it is to ask all of my colleagues in this business to stop pretending that they are shocked by politics and the sharp elbows and sharper practices involved therein. Mock horror is a calamitous pretense on which to base your coverage of anything, let alone a vital presidential election that has been dragged onto rancid ground because one of our two major political parties nominated a vulgar talking yam.
Exhibit A: the latest scooplet from The Intercept, in which we discover that the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton literally wined and dined some influential political journalists–which, by the way, has been a practice of political campaigns ever since influential political journalists were setting type by hand and publishing their work by pasting it in the windows of their print shops.
As these internal documents demonstrate, a central component of the Clinton campaign strategy is ensuring that journalists they believe are favorable to Clinton are tasked to report the stories the campaign wants circulated. At times, Clinton’s campaign staff not only internally drafted the stories they wanted published but even specified what should be quoted “on background” and what should be described as “on the record.” One January 2015 strategy document—designed to plant stories on Clinton’s decision-making process about whether to run for president—singled out reporter Maggie Haberman, then of Politico, now covering the election for The New York Times, as a “friendly journalist” who has “teed up” stories for them in the past and “never disappointed” them.
I may never recover.
To me, anyway, this story’s essential news value resides purely in its sourcing–leaked documents hacked from the DNC–because that still sounds exotic and carries with it an air of international mystery. And even that is presented curiously. The Intercept continues:
Both ends of that paragraph are strange and very vague. The source “identifies himself” as someone whose previous hacks have had a tangible effect on the campaign. This, apparently, gives the revelation more credibility than the flat statement from the administration, although there’s no more (or less) substance to the sourcing of the report than there is to the administration’s response. The earth-shaking revelation, of course, is that the Clinton campaign is trying to buy favorable coverage by courting what it perceives to be the influential members of the elite political press. The implication, which is both foul and unproven, is that it worked.
That strategy document plotted how Clinton aides could induce Haberman to write a story on the thoroughness and profound introspection involved in Clinton’s decision-making process. The following month, when she was at the Times, Haberman published two stories on Clinton’s vetting process; in this instance, Haberman’s stories were more sophisticated, nuanced, and even somewhat more critical than what the Clinton memo envisioned. But they nonetheless accomplished the goal Clinton campaign aides wanted to fulfill of casting the appearance of transparency on Clinton’s vetting process in a way that made clear she was moving carefully but inexorably toward a presidential run.
In other words, Haberman pretty much informed her readers accurately what was going on in the Clinton campaign, but that is given a sinister edge because of the way the information was obtained, and because it can be made to conform to a narrative of artificial mystery. This is some cheap work. For the record, I would have RSVP’d in the negative, were I invited, which I was not. That doesn’t make me better or worse than the people who may have accepted the invitation.
Kitt sanford sklansky
That doesn’t make me better or worse than the people who may have accepted the invitation.
That’s for you, Pierce, to say about you. But, to put it bluntly to you, I’ll god damned decide for myself if a reporter or journalist accepting such an invitation is something I’ll judge in the negative about any and all reporters and journalist who do so.
The irony of a curmudgeon reporter writing an entire article to express in his cliched,hackneyed curmudgeon speak his hard nosed, seen it all, can’t send me to the fainting couch sermon to the tiny people reporters who are beneath his station on-high.
Pierce has written, in my opinion, some very good and thoughtful informative stuff over the years. That one is just shit. Just because what is being written about is something that has happened before doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be bothered with, investigated and written about. If that were the case, then Pierce and a lot of other journalists might just as well throw in their bloody towels or take them to the beach, catch some rays and call it quits.
-Mona- sanford sklansky
Pierce is simply wrong. Greenwald didn’t remotely suggest this story is “shocking.” He’s addressed that inane point multiple times on Twitter:
Glenn Greenwald [email protected] 5h5 hours ago
“Not shocking” is not the newsworthiness standard. No media outlet meets it with all articles. It’s just a way partisans dismiss reporting.
He’s also pointed that major outlets publish non-shocking stories every day.
Moreover, Greenwald has been (properly) writing scathing attacks on the corporate media for years, denouncing their access-journalism. Journalists are supposed to be adversarial to power– not fucking enjoying cocktails with the powerful at Manhattan soirees. Or frolicking with squirt guns together on the beach.
The shocking thing is that the above story is not shocking.
GilG -Mona-
“Journalists are supposed to be adversarial to power– not fucking enjoying cocktails with the powerful at Manhattan soirees.”
How do you feel about Max Blumenthal enjoying cocktails in Moscow at events thrown by a media organ of the Russian gov’t ?
http://conference.rt.com/
Kitt GilG
He was a speaker, among many other speakers. I don’t see any evidence of him “enjoying cocktails.” Did you roll in with your robot wheels and see Blumenthal “enjoying cocktails?”
If it were possible to pity a pathetic “GilG” robot, I’d feel pity for it.
Gil G Kitt
Were the authors of this article who claimed the journalists invited to the event were drinking coctails robots?
-Mona- GilG
What Kitt said — Max was a speaker at an international human rights conference. He wasn’t a Russian journalist who has the beat of covering Russia who went to a cocktail party Putin put on for journalists who cover him.
Gil, I’ve decided you’re more stupid than dishonest. A bright person would have resisted what you posted, if they’d have thought of it at all.
Gil G -Mona-
A paid trip as a guest of the Russian govt and payment for speaking is fine but cocktails is proof of being subverted. The Russian govt has spent far more on Max then was spent by Hillary on any reporter at that party.
I love it when i get accused of being a robot. Ad homs rather than substance always display lack of a valid argument.
Yeah generally I like Pierce’s insights on politics and his writing style. But on this he’s dead wrong.
Kitt rrheard
This ten minute or so video of Cenk Uygur of Young Turks explaining all of this not only is an excellent take and explanation, but it really shows how buffoonish Pierce’s combination self righteous old befuddle man/childish sermon was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt4hkk2yEG0
Sonja sanford sklansky
Whoa, let’s hold on here.
Is it news to anyone that these journalists pose as objective?
Is it news that millions of people who rely on them believe the pose?
That is the non-story!
Here is what is most disingenuous:
“The earth-shaking revelation, of course, is that the Clinton campaign is trying to buy favorable coverage by courting what it perceives to be the influential members of the elite political press. The implication, which is both foul and unproven, is that it worked.”
How, exactly, would you be able to tell whether these journalists were bought? It would be pretty hard, no? Sort of like the principle behind Bentham’s Panopticon — you will never know who is doing what, when. You will only be left with the eerie feeling that the spying is constant and unrelenting. No one can live that way.
This is the reason to avoid the appearance of impropriety. As a real journalist, this is what you owe to your readers. They should not have to guess when you are selling your pen.
Israeli/AIPAC playbook written all over this for sure….
dahoit jay
Its quite obvious the zionists love this evil shite of destroying their self made enemies using proxies like US.
And that Donald Trump might get 6 zionist voters.
Reality check: does anyone really think that political campaigns do not try to cultivate journalists? Really? Even this article admits at the end that it’s common practice! Of course the first 95% of the piece implies that something uniquely terrible has been going on. What you are seeing, I think, is unusual efficiency. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a good quality. Now can we please talk about policies?
Joshua88
With Gawker closed, you cannot access the site, but a few months ago, I spent a long afternoon reading one story after another. Especially redolent is Sec’y Clinton’s lapdog, Phillipe. See these: https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/02/12/americas-corrupt-media-how-reporters-took-direct-orders-from-hillary-clintons-staff/
Know who you can trust and who you cannot. What’s there to say?
The most recent Wikileaks revelations reveal that Trump is essentially a conspiracy, not by the Russians, but rather one effectuated by the msm at the implicit or otherwise suggestion of the DNC to elevate objectively risible and/or psychologically non-viable candidates such as Trump or Cruz to artificially sustained lead positions within the Republican pack so as to have what would essentially be a straw or bogey man as the Republican candidate for the presidency, enabling Hillary Clinton to have a (considering the demographic realities of the country) cake walk candidacy for the White House all while she pretends and maintains that the opposite is the case, i.e. that her opponent is formidable, albeit execrable, indeed, a serious threat to the constitutional order of the Republic, when in reality he is an artificially-elevated ‘pied piper’ buffoon, instrumentalized to lead the Republican presidential field in toto towards a ‘malarial swamp’ of political confusion and delusion, reflecting an almost Artaudian level of theatrical (political) irreality and perversity, of irrationality, incomprehensibility, even semiotic decomposition itself: a signal war consisting of amplifying up the ‘enemy’s’ signals (i.e. themes, messages, and methods) until they become indistinguishable from noxious and cacophonous static or white noise (ironically, considering his purportedly white nationalist demographic).
Trump is a political eructation elevated by the msm to the condition of an intolerably shrill and repetitive psycho-environmentally offensive noise: noxious and toxic to a majority of American voters (especially those evincing the psychologies of responsible heads of families) by Orwellian-cum-Machiavellian design.
dahoit ludo
Ah,the meme of the day.
Every day they run something up the flagpole,but all we can do is piss on the pole.
Doug Salzmann ludo
It was a dark and stormy night, but despite the lowering gloom, the deep, impenetrable shadows, the rumble of distant thunder and the howling of the wind, the word salad was somehow able, magically — nay, mystically — to chop, assemble and toss itself.
Hacked Clinton Emails Show CNBC Host John Harwood Constantly Complimenting Hillary
Eeuuwww! Definitely in the running for the Bootlicker of the Year trophy awarded by the National Stenographic Society.
If the Wash Post, NYT, etc. are explicitly coordinating with Clinton campaign (not just receiving information) — as some of the leaked emails imply and as the timing of the Access Hollywood video release certainly indicates — it seems like that’s a hard-money donation under federal election law, with a value way, way over the hard-money limit.
L Garou
The Fifth Column (poorly) disguised as The Fourth Estate.
dahoit L Garou
That’s for sure,that’s for dang sure.Mole traitors all.
Mary Lou Simms
I’m very concerned about the direction of the mainstream press. Major newspapers (and TV) seem to be indicating their support of one presidential candidate over the other in daily coverage, no less. What happened to covering them fairly and then endorsing one (or neither)? I’m also stunned by the outright support for Clinton, the more dangerous of the two. (As far as I know, Trump, for all his faults, hadn’t murdered anyone or put national security at risk.) I can understand the media not supporting either but why the big push for Clinton, who probably should be in prison, not the White House. Where are the stories on the vast fortune ($150 million) the Clintons have amassed? Why the extensive coverage of the Trump video and almost nothing on the latest WikiLeaks releases? And in that vein, why is Bill Clinton, the nation’s serial womanizer who was almost impeached for lying under oath about Lewinsky, going to be allowed back in the White House? I don’t get it. And I don’t get the industry’s warped coverage of this campaign, to say the least.
dahoit Mary Lou Simms
The Israelis find her much more amenable and controllable than Donald Trump.
That is their agenda,the expansion of the racist malignant state at the heart of American decline.
And greed of course.
bud101 dahoit
There is nothing mysterious about mainstream media support for HRC. She represents the “safe” status quo: foreign wars and other entanglements to provide “incidents” needed to rationalize and expand the surveillance/police state; massive subsidies/regulations to support and eliminate any potential competition for the the corporate interests and other special interests groups in DC and NYC; and a few crumbs in the form of a Welfare State thrown at the masses who are the victims of this system. The mainstream media is owned by and entangled with this status quo.
Geronimo Mary Lou Simms
Stop making sense.
norman kelley
Excuse me, but wasn’t Glenn Greenwald writing this kind of story about relationships between politico and the media? I recall him doing a story about journos and McCain BBQ. I find these kind of stories a form of “post-journalism”–not about issues or events, but more about journalism and the process. It is well known that newsmakers–politicians and others–cultivate relationship with the media and vice versa. This isn’t new, but to hype this as being “dark” is the same kind of stuff that Fox News and Breitbart runs about MSM. In other words, MSM is always the easy target of right and left media because MSM has greater access to those newsmakers.
-Mona- norman kelley
This isn’t new, but to hype this as being “dark” is the same kind of stuff that Fox News and Breitbart runs about MSM.
Those cesspools of crazy seriously think the media is all leftwing and liberal. They are unhinged.
As you note, Greenwald has been doing media criticism for virtually his entire journalistic career. One of the choicest is from 2010: Our hard-core, adversarial press corps. The sub-title says it all: “Leading ‘journalists’ play water sports with Rahm and Biden and proudly giggle about it later.”
Do read it. The same (merited) themes and contempt are there.
Donald Trump DID NOT SELF DESTRUCT AT THE DEBATE LAST NIGHT – HE WIPED THE FLOOR WITH THE CLINTONS IT WAS A THING OF BEAUTY
dahoit Ruthless
Yes,it was.
Froomkin has an agenda.Guess?
BOTH CANDIDATES ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE – THIS SHOULD BE THE FUCKING HEADLINES TODAY AND EVERY FUCKING DAY. Apparently not even the Intercept dares say this, although Scahill comes close. — Maisie
I understand your frustration, and share it but, consider this: What exactly is the actual effect of the headlines that, say, Drudge’s site produces? They are a reasonable facsimile of what you insist must happen, in tone, if not in exact fact. And, to the extent that I am able to decipher, sites like that, that employ over-the-top hyperbole (again, in tone, if not fact) are largely dismissed except for a small slice of people who will follow them no matter what, because, ideology/dogma.
In my opinion, what has been done here, where Scahill, Greenwald and others have been providing serious fact-based critiques of the candidates, is more effectual if still representative of the long-haul slogging that is necessary part of making change happen.
Consider this Greenwald interview that I have posted here in comment sections multiple times, which does exactly what you are requesting, literally within the first minutes of the video:
Greenwald: Nobody knows what Donald Trump is going to be because he’s so unstable. And so, I think he’s mentally unbalanced, and he’s so driven by personal grievance and vendetta, and ego insecurities.
Hillary Clinton is, I think, a sociopathic and evil person who’s going to kill huge numbers of innocent people for her own opportunistic political gain.
Interviewer: How can it be that the two – you almost said it – like, the two most hated politicians in the United States are actually the two candidates for President? How the fuck can that be?
Greenwald: When political culture and the fabric of a nation gets really fucked up the political process ends up fucked up too. If you talk to his supporters they know that he says outrageous, disgusting things, that he’s kind of unstable, that he has been, you know, in a lot of ways a joke and a clown. That’s what they like about it because they want to burn the political system down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PUwSqnU8A&feature=youtu.be
It’s a good interview. Share it liberally. But realize that our two-party system has been entrenched and empowered for a very long time and it will take a long time to dismantle it and create other areas of influence. Every bit of that system will fight tooth and nail against this dismantlement. And simple screaming of headlines will not win that battle. It will, in fact, provide the basis for dismissal from “serious” consideration.
Is it then, in fact, pointless to do that work? No because it provides a relentless drip of criticism that erodes the support of the system. And support for the two-party system is taking hits. Polls show that. The continued slow rise of alternative candidates within the system (Trump & Sanders) and alternative parties without (Green & Libertarian), and the growing numbers of people who are pushing in many ways for true alternatives, show that too, even if it isn’t progressing as fast as we know it needs to.
It takes time and relentless effort to educate a critical mass of people to the many ways they have been marinating in cultural deceit. There are things/events that can push that mass over the edge, but we rarely see them coming in exact detail.
Will change arrive “in time”? No. Not for many of us. Should we give up hope and submit? No, though many of us are tired to the bone and filled with defeatism. In the meantime, we should shore up support where we find it, create ways to ally with people (where/when we can) who might not be our natural allies in other circumstances, and continue, as you note, to scream bloody murder wherever/whenever appropriate while still recognizing that people will often need a mountain of facts just to move them a molehill away from their preconceptions.
Deadheded Pedinska
“That’s what they like about it because they want to burn the political system down”
it is so nice and refreshing to finally hear a reporter understand the mindset of a large section of the American voter
Pedinska Deadheded
He really does get it. The entire interview is refreshing for a LOT of reasons.
p.s. to my above: My use of the “hyperbole” was perhaps intemperate or may appear dismissive. Not my intent. There are places where hyperbole should be used and reasonable people can differ as to frequency and tactics of such. I only intended to draw attention to the fact that repeated hyperbole tends to dilute the desired effects if only because it allows an avenue for attack that is not easily pursued when articles are written well and supplied with factual bases for the critiques, however appropriately hyperbolic they may be. The shorthand,
BOTH CANDIDATES ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE
will only go so far, and not very far at all, without supporting documentation and argumentation. Something all of us who support(ed) Snowden’s efforts ought to realize by now.
bahhummingbug Pedinska
I argue with folks (some you may know) all the time when they try to ‘poo poo’ my protege’ Glenn Greenwald as some kind of *radical*, around the bend, American-hater.
Sigh … it’s exhausting./
I think it is incredible that the folks at The Intercept come up with accusations about other newspapers when they have Robert Mackey in their rolls doing exactly the same mischief.
Pedinska General Hercules
Do you have documentation showing that Mackey is on a Clinton apparatchik list somewhere? If so, then please provide it. I think there are people here who would find that interesting.
Mackey is, without doubt, a Clinton supporter. His writing here, on twitter and likely elsewhere support that irrefutably. But it’s a far cry from him throwing his support behind a given candidate to stating affirmatively that there exists proof of collusion between him (or TI) and that candidate’s machinery. Surely even you can recognize that truth.
Reporters are human and, as such, they will have their moments of, um, frailty as well. :-s
Dem-Smasher
Proof the MSM are Democrat Operatives disguised as “journalists” who’s job it is to protect Democrats at all costs and destroy Republicans at every opportunity.
ABC News Reporter Martha Raddatz, Obama at her wedding…
CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos donated $75,000 to the Clintons personal “charity” was a top operative in Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign and then served as communications director of his White House.
ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to Obama’s former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama’s Deputy Press Secretary.
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama’s Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood.
NBC General Counsel Kimberley D. Harris served as White House Deputy Counsel and Deputy Assistant to President Hussein Obama…
ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, Obama’s National Security Adviser.
Susan Rice is the one who went on the Five Sunday talk shows blaming Benghazi on a video… A talking point put forth by Ben Rhodes Security Adviser for Strategic Communications…. See next:
Ben Rhodes is the guy responsible for floating out the video lie/narrative regarding Benghazi… No wonder CBS and the rest of the MSM didn’t cover the story… Couldn’t make Hussein Obama look incompetent, or worse, now could we. Oh, and by the way,
CBS News President David Rhodes just happens to be Ben Rhodes’ brother.
Both CBS News President David Rhodes and ABC News President Ben Sherwood, have siblings that not only work at the White House for President Obama, but they work at the NSC on foreign policy issues directly related to Benghazi.”
CNBC vice president of communications Brian Steel worked
in the Bill Clinton White House for Vice President Al Gore and held
three different positions in the Clinton administration, including two
in Clinton’s Department of Justice.
bahhummingbug
I don’t think D.J. Trump has any ‘favorite’ reporters (at least any ‘reporters’ that Glenn Greenwald would know.). And even if he did, I doubt he would ‘curry’ favour with them. .. other than the obligatory thank you note “checks in the mail”.
*certainly, Trump didn’t curry favor, or mince words, with last nights debate moderators \../
So, in a rare outburst of despair I asked my companions “what’s wrong with Jill Stein”? (I had ruled-out Gary Johnson from contention bc he didn’t know what a pussy was.)
“SHE’S UN-ELECTABLE” (i.e. not viable) the crowd roared (like, It’s in the Constitution or something!) … and returned their attention to the presidential Trump/Clinton debate.
Pedinska bahhummingbug
(I had ruled-out Gary Johnson from contention bc he didn’t know what a pussy was.)
Really? (wipes tears from her eyes) He truly said something like that??
I’ve been at the pond trying to escape all of this, so it’s entirely possible I missed what might have been the one redeeming humorous moment of all this shite. If so, damn. ;-}
>”He truly said something like that??”
Yes … he said something like that :)
dahoit bahhummingbug
A satirical comment relating to Aleppo by Johnson?
No ones that phony.
Something must be done about Putin! He has no right to inform the American public how rigged our political system is; President Peace should slap him with more sanctions, so he can unite with China and Iran and, um..
How is this supposed to work?…USA! USA!
So what’s the difference between Guccifer 2.0 feeding Glenn & Lee stories to print, and Hillary feeding WaPo & others stories to print? Oh right, Guccifer stole his.
I recall getting interviewed for Wired Magazine, and largely writing up the talking points that the journalist would then use. It was a tech story, but nothing much different than goes on every day.
Chirpy Desidero
Stolen truth bombs vs. hack lies implanted to deceive. Yep, no difference there.
John Medina
Disgusting pig people. We live on Animal Farm. When will the democrat reign of terror end? When we get rid of Napoleon the pig. Don’t vote for Hillary the pig.
Oldest Millennial
First, thanks again to Lee and Glenn. Fang is about then only reporter who can be considered a journalist.
Now, I have to go puke.
The people on that list should resign in shame to save a legit media outlet from having to fire them. BAHAHAAHAHAHA… they have no shame and there is no legitimacy…and everyone knows it.
@Vic Perry
It’s bullshit that “nothing can be done.” Regular people are the ones who make it happen! They have a choice!
Then you should be able to answer the questions Maisie didn’t.She had written in anger that this site does not, every day, rant that “both candidates are unacceptable.” And I replied:
There’s not a damn thing that can be done about it. Even the kinds of things that make the Secret Service show up at your door if you talk about them are not possible. There’s simply not a remedy for the situation.
What can “regular people” do about the only two choices Maisie identifies? It’s going to be either Trump or Clinton. What plausible alternative is there that this site’s ranting “enough” about how both Trump and Clinton suck what bring about?
Vic Perry -Mona-
I don’t understand the question. I didn’t understand the secret service reference. We were probably all talking about different things anyway.
I meant something kind of boring I guess: that people talk as if they must choose one or the other when they do not. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy on a mass scale. My remark refers to not the true enthusiasts for one of the two candidates; it’s about the many people who talk in a self-pitying way like they are forced to vote a certain way. That irritates me because they are lying. They won’t own their choice. It’s all the other people’s fault, not theirs.
What can “regular people” do about the only two choices Maisie identifies?
Vote for Jill Stein. .. or jimmy crack corn.
*I also like Vic’s response, sis … except for that ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ bit. I think the NYT, Graun, Post(s) and countless other mass media have had something to do with it!
-Mona- bahhummingbug
Yes. But that doesn’t change the reality that the only two people who can in any plausible scenario become president in 2016 are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. No matter what anyone writes at The Intercept, or how often they write it.
@Vic
it’s about the many people who talk in a self-pitying way like they are forced to vote a certain way.
I don’t know who you mean or what kind of “self-pitying” commentary you mean. I do know that most African-Americans and Muslim-Americans I read are voting for Clinton. And I completely understand why. I get why they’d think Trump would be even worse. (Hillary might well start WWIII, which would be pretty fucking awful, too.)
As long as they (or anyone) doesn’t try to regale me with Hillary’s purported “good points” and explain that she’s got this and that to commend her, I don’t judge that choice. As a vote of pure opposition to the unprecedentedly racist and unstable/erratic Trump, I can respect that choice.
Would be more compelling if people hadn’t been talking in exactly this way every four years, forever. Should have saved some of the “wolf” cries for Trump eh? And let’s get real: this same exact dynamic would have played out no matter who the Republicans put up. I was just reading an article written in 2012 about the dangerous Mitt Romney…..
It’s patronizing to give some voter groups a pass for supporting entrenched political mediocrity. What does that make the Hillary-refusers who come from those groups, freaks? Traitors? Irresponsibly indifferent to the perilous position of their people? I’m sure they get accused of all of that and more, and I don’t see any reason to act all MORE “understanding” about vicious hivemind behavior.
I don’t care if anybody enthuses about Hillary, really: cuz they really don’t, much. What they really do: demand zero criticism. Attempt character assassination on absolutely everybody who crosses them.
Finally, Hillary ain’t gonna start WWIII. The whole scary Russia thing is bogus, as was most of the Cold War posturing. Russia and the US don’t start fair fights. The Cold War was mainly a gentlemen’s agreement to have proxy wars (oh great for arms manufacturers of course).
Vic Perry Vic Perry
also, to be a broken record on the main reason Jill Stein has “no plausible scenario” for victory:
People who won’t vote for her say they won’t vote for her because people won’t vote for her. Conveniently, these people leave themselves out of this fine calculation: it is the fault of others that they personally are forced to vote in what they call a responsible manner.
dahoit -Mona-
She understands why Muslim and black voters would not like the one guy who could end Zionism,and its terrible hold on American politics which has destroyed both black and Muslim communities worldwide.
If that is true,they deserve whatever fate HRC holds for them,although she won’t win,thank Allah.
Vic Perry dahoit
dahoit fuck off, your pretend fantasy that Trump wants to combat Zionism is just boring at this point.
nfjtakfa
You know – I’m not surprised the Republican Party’s imploding and ripping itself apart, or that the Democratic Party’s partially managed the same. They’re BOTH thoroughly corrupt parasites maintaining a system of unjust institutionalized privilege, insanely peddling influence to those consuming the planet and peoples in gluttonous fits of greed. Selling out OUR country’s constitution and citizens to empire builders is now the ONLY thing elected leaders accomplish, and that makes them worthless to voters.
Unconscionable violence perpetrated on “others” haunts their empire of greed and always will.
Torontonian nfjtakfa
Well said! Write in your choice if you are in a State where you can. Take your energy, money and time and put it into positive local groups– election reform or any other cause. Make your energy work!
The Battle of the Boilerplate
The boilerplate that just won’t go away. And this time it has Glenn (a moment of silence). Although there is some very very limited push back, but lets be honest, at best a coded message being blinked by a kidnap victim.
It reminds me of the good old days when you couldn’t mention the word Iraq in a newspaper article without being forced by ownership to include a one paragraph boilerplate summation of the administration’s insane charges in their march to war.
So it seems every time leaked documents are mentioned by the Intercept we are going to get at least a paragraph of government butt nuzzling–for balance…I guess. There never was a view from nowhere. There was always only battles between journalists and ownership.
But why stop there? Why not include that administration officials think the emails are fake? Why not include that administration officials think that the Russians are doing this to throw the election for Trump? Why not include that journalists printing these emails are working with the Russians?
The boilerplate demands more. You will submit.
The Intercept is a now net minus.
Donald B. thelastnamechosen
This is a strange comment, since Glenn and most here scoff at claims of Russian involvement in the election. He wrote a whole column denouncing the Democrats’ red-baiting and efforts to start up a new Cold War.
thelastnamechosen Donald B.
I don’t think for two seconds that Glenn wrote the copy I quoted.
But it is still in an article with Glenn Greenwald’s name on it.
Since that same paragraph, in some form or another, has been used repeatedly in various articles here at the Intercept it seems pretty obvious that ownership is using the invisible hand of capitalism to influence the show.
Could you see Glenn writing that paragraph as anything but a satire of terrible journalism?
Why would ownership hire the likes of Scahill, Poitras, and Greenwald to run a site, only to try to undermine the kind of journalism they do? Do you really think Greenwald would stay if someone were altering, or inserting passages into, his pieces?
I’m not even sure what your objection to the passage is. It’s a fact that the Democrats and the FBI assert the hacks are being done by the Russians. Should that not be reported? Does reporting it connote complicity with those making the claim?
Without them providing any evidence, there’s no reason to blindly accept their claims. Again, Greenwald and most here don’t. The skepticism seems pretty strong.
@Donald B.
Let’s follow the evolution of this boilerplate and you can decide if Glenn is responsible for writing the quoted paragraph.
Zaid Jilani wrote:
Powell’s private e-mails were leaked by D.C. Leaks, a website that has in the past shared hacked emails from U.S. political and military figures. D.C. Leaks has a relationship with Guccifer 2.0, a hacker that many allege to have ties with Russian intelligence. D.C. Leaks provided access to Powell’s emails to a number of reporters on Tuesday, including The Intercept.
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/13/in-leaked-emails-iraq-war-architect-expressed-relief-that-brexit-distracted-from-u-k-war-inquiry
Then Lee Fang & Naomi LaChance wrote:
Powell’s private messages were leaked by D.C. Leaks, an anonymously managed website that shares hacked emails from U.S. military and political figures. D.C. Leaks has a relationship with Guccifer 2.0, a hacker that many allege to have ties with Russian intelligence. D.C. Leaks provided access to Powell’s emails to a number of reporters on Tuesday.
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/13/colin-powell-emails/
Then Zaid Jilani updated the boilerplate to read:
The emails were released by the group DCLeaks, which in the past has shared hacked emails from U.S. political and military figures. The U.S. Intelligence Community announced Friday that it is “confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails” that were made public “on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona.”
Now Glenn and Lee Fang write:
First, I want to point out that the updated boilerplate is still dead wrong. On Friday, Obama administration officials did not claim that Russia’s “senior-most officials” were responsible for the DNC hack.
This is what was said:
The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process. Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.
They don’t say that the DNC was hacked by Russia and the don’t say Wikileaks or DCleaks or the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are in involved in publishing documents hacked by Russia–only sites “like” Wikileaks, DCleaks or the Guccifer 2.0 online persona.
If you read what they actually wrote they don’t really say anything, just so much innuendo that if they were talking about Mexicans instead of Russians they would be leading a Trump rally.
So even the new improved boilerplate is still fucking wrong and full on propaganda.
Now either a whole bunch of journalists here have a need to write (independently of their own volition, without any coordination) essentially the exact same boilerplate message each encouraging a march to war against Russia–and let’s be fucking very clear and very honest about what kind of fire is being played with here–this is incredibly dangerous propaganda to be playing the standard he said/she said crap that unfortunately still passes for journalism these days.
It’s not enough to mindlessly repeat this crap and then tack on a throwaway line that the government hasn’t proven their case yet.
We have the US intelligence community trying to influence our election and march us to war, and whether you believe it is justified or not, that is exactly what they are doing. Repeating this propaganda but with the caveat that the government hasn’t proved their case yet is immoral journalistic malpractice.
The fact that the intelligence community is so overtly trying to influence our election, even assuming they had an air tight case that they were willing to publicly reveal it, should be incredibly controversial and require critical analysis, not mindless repetition.
Do you really think that Glenn wrote that text?
Glenn and others have been reporting on how the intelligence community, the warhawks, and the financial elites have been behind Clinton from the beginning.
Yes, the government, or at least many in it, is trying to influence the election. Clinton has always been the establishment’s preferred candidate. The reporting on this site has actually exposed this. How you can argue that Greenwald wittingly or unwittingly part of the rigging of the system is simply baffling. He exposes the rigging.
I don’t think Glenn is infallible, and I don’t believe that when Glenn says or does something, then that automatically means he is correct or on the right side of an issue.
And more importantly, the Intercept does not get the benefit of the all credibility and trust that Glenn has built up over time just because they employ him. Salon sucked despite Glenn. The Guardian sucked despite Glenn. I see no reason for this trend not to continue.
I want to repeat again that I don’t think Glenn wrote that copy.
The interesting thing about the boilerplate is that it only seems to apply to Guccifer 2.0.
Wikileaks doesn’t get the disclaimer. If the Intercept uses something from wikileaks, they mention that it is from wikileaks, and then get on with the story, but if the information comes directly from Guccifer 2.0, then we get the boilerplate with the inevitable bullshit about Russia.
Very strange.
-Mona- thelastnamechosen
LNC, you should remove the tin foil from your head — things are getting overheated. The paragraph you cite as “boilerplate” is perfectly reasonable. Especially this sentence: “On Friday, Obama administration officials claimed that Russia’s “senior-most officials” were responsible for that hack and others, although they provided no evidence for that assertion.”
The notion that “ownership” is dictating anything to GLENN GREENWALD is as preposterous as it is undemonstrated.
(And before I see the usual bullshit about my purportedly always defending Glenn, please be advised that in addition to the fierce disagreement he and I had over the nature of Charlie Hebdo, more recently on Twitter we’ve been at it a bit over Maz Hussain-Syria, and the various ways such interventionists malign good people such as Max Blumenthal.)
Torontonian Donald B.
MoreFreedom thelastnamechosen
Consider the possibility that Putin has had Hillary’s emails for years, and has been blackmailing her. After all, Russia got no fighting against them/Syria, much of our uranium, and superb favors for their ally Iran.
If you were HRC, wouldn’t you lash out and want to blame the Russians for any hacking?
The reason there is no evidence provided by Obama’s administration that Russia is hacking, is because neither Hillary or Obama want it known that HRC and possibly Obama, are being blackmailed. And the only evidence, is what Putin told them quietly in person, and their actions of giving Putin what he wanted.
Doug Salzmann MoreFreedom
The forum for aspiring authors of political thrillers is over there —–>
dahoit MoreFreedom
Consider the possibility Mossad has all damaging facts about the hell bitch for the last 30 odd years, and threatens,by their possession of the MSM(and web),to reveal all.(And consider that same scenario for all our pols)
Which means they have her by the yuk a puks, a far more likely and believable story than Russophobic nonsense.
And of course this is exposed daily by their capitulation(she and Congress)to Israel.
Point out evidence of HB fealty to Russia,as it seems all she does is attack them,which of course belies any possible blackmail.
ContinuousDeception
Anyone watch Bill Maher on Friday; his entire panel was anti-DJT / pro-HRC… throwing in a few GEJ slams for flavor (I guess).
Sometimes he makes sense, that move did not.
Torontonian ContinuousDeception
Sigh… Bill Maher… used to be “must watch”, now its “lets guess– he is going to go the easy cheap route and slam the Palestinians, anyone who thinks there is a god and of course the super easy slam DJT… THATS good political satire and comedy?? Too much weed??
dahoit Torontonian
Too much ziocaine.
Is any of this surprising? OF course not. Even less is that HRCS campaign says they aren’t legitimate data dumps. She’s beyond evil and crooked and has no right even running!
Wouldn’t it been easier to just name the one or two main stream media journalist who aren’t Hillary shills?
Andrew Nichols
Nothing new. 100 years ago such cosy relationbships between the Establishment and their propagandists got the masses baying for war on simialr lies. WE ARE screwed.
Torontonian Andrew Nichols
Plus c’est change, plus le meme chose! Yup, there is nothing new here. But like a lot of things in the U.S. you guys do this kind of relationship BIGGER AND BETTER (sic) than anyone else…
Actually there is,as in the olden days their was individual ownership of various news outlets with different points of view on just about everything,and now its one big borg of BS,all for HRC and all totally dominated by zionists,dual citizens,an unheard of prior to modern time phenomenon,which of course is in no way beneficial to US.
Steve Hollahan
Hillary has a weak ego, therefore she has to make sure she is buoyed by others.
Worse than the Donald is her inability to be real.
Hillary and the DNCC can go to war w/o my vote.
For years I wondered who was advising Obama on foreign policy. Then he gave Kissinger the Medal of Freedom. What a joke.
The media are all whores for Hillary. It makes me sick to my stomach.
So what can we conclude?
1) On foreign policy, Hillary Clinton is reckless and dangerous and destabilizing, a real war pig in bed with the Saudis and the Israelis and bent on continuing the PNAC-CNAS regime change agenda across the Middle East and North Africa and Central Asia, no matter how much bloodshed results. It should be clear by now that she was the main force behind the Libya debacle and was involved in shipping Libyan weapons to Syria to help kick off the civil war there in alliance with Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Turkey and Israel, and that also kicked off the refugee crisis.
2) On domestic policy, Trump is just as dangerous as Clinton is on foreign policy – anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, tax cuts for the wealthy, obsolete energy policies – but not actually much different from the status quo, as anyone paying attention to Obama deportations or fracking/offshore oil drilling or Wall Street ‘partnerships’ can see; Trump is nevertheless worse than Clinton on domestic policies by any rational standard of measurement.
Neither has a plan that adds up for infrastructure, education, manufacturing, health care, or addressing wealth inequality; that would require major changes in U.S. foreign military spending at the very least; this would upset Democratic and Republican Congressional insiders, State and Pentagon bureaucrats, and all the private contractors who feed at the government trough – the whole corrupt sleazy clan, the apparatchiks and functionaires of this failing system who are dead set against the necessary reforms.
Thus, people should not be worrying about which clown ends up in the Oval Office, so much as they should be coming up with plans to defeat their agendas, perhaps via criminal investigations and impeachments and supporting the opposition in Congress; because the real war against the American public’s interests will begin immediately after the election is over (with the assistance of many media outlets, don’t forget).
Hillary’s wars, Donald’s walls – neither can be allowed, the results would be terrible.
ChasDokus photosymbiosis
Trump is less dangerous because his every action would be opposed by establishment. Only overwhelming popular support would be able to push through any Trump initiative. This state of affairs would be an improvement on the status quo.
Patrick Shaw photosymbiosis
Well, here is another leak that should worry everyone. I hope Intercept follows up on it. The Neocons, Likud, the GCC and NATO are hell bent on creating hell on earth. Can no one stop this?
It’s sad that I’m rooting for Russia to deal us a blow. The psychopaths running this world will never stop until we’re all vaporized.
Hillary: NEW IRAN AND SYRIA 2.DOC
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328
ContinuousDeception photosymbiosis
I wouldn’t put HRC in the pro for domestic; believe it was Lee Fang who reported HRC took money from coal — so there’s a con for domestic.
I like your split; but it just seems too fucking hard to tell. Who woulda guess HRC getting and her taking money from coal? Mind blown.
Torontonian photosymbiosis
Beautiful, brilliant post– I will send this along to my American friends. Look beyond the show of the election– it is orchestrated and before the balloons are down, you are right ” the real war against the American public’s interests will begin immediately”
dahoit photosymbiosis
The only thing that is terrible is the death wish of some Americans to be like the rest of this chaotic impoverished corrupt world,and dispute the fact that America First means anything but what it implies,America first,which of course should be a default position for any American patriot.
Hey DeNiro,go to your knew found chosen land Italy,we won’t miss you at all,we have your old tapes.(All the new ones suck)I guess zollywood got to him.
And he grew up on mean streets?Sheesh,it must be easy street now.
All of US who grew up on mean streets are for Trump.
Mark E Nord
Yep corruption , i bet some of them even received compensation to be an extension of the Clinton campaign. The media is supposed to be unbiased and neutral. They are supposed yo report the truth and the facts.News outlets are as politicized and corrupt as our politicians.
And this is surprising how?
Maisie CLK
It’s surprising how unsurprised we all are by this.
Vic Perry CLK
Be the change you want to see in the world, CLK. Write something that isn’t the biggest cliche in the history of the internet.
Vic Perry
I have to applaud Jon Schwarz’s comments that the Democrats are willing to “hug” any Republican so long as it doesn’t immediately impact the current race.
Schwarz strikes me as the kind of decent person who ends up voting for the Democrat in a pinch every time….not that I really know.
So, extend that trenchant criticism out and apply it to regular people. In whose interest do we consider each election in a tiny bubble as if there were no past and no future and saying “which ONE of these TWO candidates who are likely to win will you pick? It is your ONLY CHOICE, think no further”……
…….and then they compound the insult to our intelligence by pretending that this Voter Surrender should be called Voting Strategically.
MaynardG
It’s creepy to see politicians and news people and entertainers on various networks using the exact same language to talk about the same things at the same time. And yeah, I watch too much tv.
Pasquino Maroforio
No wonder their numbers are tanking. Stockholders should be more concerned. Something like this does permanent damage to a brand, that can’t be repaired.
Trump didn’t wilt again, as I suspected, but he did often ramble randomly (which I foresaw with my amazing psychic powers), and Clinton did lie profusely (also something predicted by Madame Masie’s Crystal Ball).
The media seems convinced Trump has somewhat turned this around, because the media is part of the establishment putting on this fucking theater and it’s not over until Miss Piggy sings.
BOTH CANDIDATES ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE – THIS SHOULD BE THE FUCKING HEADLINES TODAY AND EVERY FUCKING DAY. Apparently not even the Intercept dares say this, although Scahill comes close. Someone influential should point it out, because this election year is the year America has gone full retard and proposed two grim reapers for the highest office in the land.
But Madame Maisie predicts Americans will be too fucking stupid to see this until it’s too late.
Ted Maisie
Americans embrace the unsavory. It’s a feature, not a bug.
Maisie Ted
I think/hope it’s conditioning, propaganda, dumbing-down etc… A deliberate establishment attempt to quell individualism and non-conformism. But then I’m not old enough to know if we’ve always been this way. Movies from the past indicate we used to have some degree of dignity, and a respect for originality, but perhaps that was just the self-flattering propaganda of the day. What do you think? Genuinely curious.
I think you are correct…it’s easier for people to be intellectually lazy…critical thinking requires effort…
Doug Salzmann Maisie
Attagirl! Madame Maisie sees the future clearly. There is no sensible basis for optimism.
Maisie Doug Salzmann
I wish I could say there’s a glimmer of hope left, but after seeing so many fucking people today just *oblivious* to the very real lethal threat these two candidates represent, giddy with silliness about how entertaining all this is, fretting over perceptions that don’t mean anything… I’ve just lost all hope.
Patricia Lee Maisie
Would a Liberal Socialist state make you feel at ease because that’s where we are headed with HRC and Obama.
They have been putting us through the 8 steps involved with a man by the name of Saul Alinsky and there’s one step left to complete – GUN CONTROL AND STATE OF POLICE
-Mona- Maisie
BOTH CANDIDATES ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE – THIS SHOULD BE THE FUCKING HEADLINES TODAY AND EVERY FUCKING DAY.
Most people commenting here already know that. Most of the writers would agree. But what would be the point of ranting about it every single day?
Maisie -Mona-
I think if the Intercept pointed it out in no uncertain terms, people would notice, and it might have an impact by drawing needed attention to the idea.
I think that would be responsible, personally.
Vic Perry Maisie
I don’t read the Intercept to be told what to think.
Maisie Vic Perry
That isn’t what I mean – I’m just saying that an alternative media platform with some clout could establish this meme and express it consistently like a beacon of truth in a milieu of “this madness and unearthly risk is all normal and amusing” propaganda. A lot of people respect the intercept for not pulling its punches, but in the realm of warning about BOTH of the two Hitlers in the wings it does indeed hold back more than is sensible. It isn’t about telling people what to think, but about expressing the unheard voice of the observant, extreme skeptic who sees the emperor is naked.
There is no major voice that I’ve seen saying that both candidates are extremely dangerous and totally unacceptable – except of course for Jill Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka. They say it.
Even adversarial media hasn’t got the wherewithal to point out that we are seriously, seriously fucked if either one of Trump or Clinton take power. And this is not a situation with opportunities to learn from our mistakes – we are on the verge of entrenching the forces who refuse to see the dangers of their actions, at a time when we can’t afford even one more year of going the wrong way.
dahoit Vic Perry
Especially Maisie birds who leave the nest to elephants while they cavort on the net spewing their own version of reality,that fellow fowl agree with..:)
and it might have an impact by drawing needed attention to the idea.
That evades the point. What I wrote is true:
What “impact” or “needed attention” would change the fact that nothing can be done?
It’s bullshit that “nothing can be done.” Regular people are the ones who make it happen! They have a choice! But they make these fancy excuses for supporting bullshit. They don’t have to.
You can’t make other people do what you want, but for crying out loud the discourse around voting could get a hundred times smarter than it is now without breaking a sweat.
Doug Salzmann Vic Perry
Regular people are the ones who make it happen!
Unfortunately, Vic, that just isn’t true. Indeed, that’s the bullshit, part of the “mushroom treatment” the elites have designed and implemented for the masses: keep ’em in the dark and feed ’em shit.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
~Testing Theories of American Politics:
Elites, Interest Groups, and Average
I evaded your point? Possibly, since I was making one of my own! I get that you’re saying nothing can be done to stop the charade, but isn’t there any room in your understandable defeatism for momentum to challenge the system even if that seems futile? I’ve lost optimism, but not my spirit of defiance!
If the Intercept would say Hell No to both establishment candidates, every day, stressing that this is not just scrutiny but utter scorn, it would be encouraging for activists that an outlet with a reputation for directness isn’t just accepting this bullshit meekly but is actively mocking it without mercy.
Martin Luther King, Jr:
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
When Dr. King wrote that, there was still some hope for the redemption of our society, so the silence of the masses really mattered.
Since then, the dismantling and neutralizing the structures of the New Deal, the consolidation of power and wealth in the hands of the few, the incredible effectiveness that modern technology gives the Infotainment-Propaganda Industrial Complex. . . all of that and more have combined to make the voices and actions of the “good people” — or their silence — mostly ineffective and irrelevant in creating real change.
I post it here fairly often, including once, already, in this thread, but if you haven’t read the Gilens & Page paper, I urge you to do so:
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
. . .isn’t there any room in your understandable defeatism for momentum to challenge the system even if that seems futile?
Realism isn’t the same thing as defeatism, Maisie, and it ought to be clear that Mona continues to fight, even knowing that it is probably hopeless. As do many of us here.
Personally, I seem to be hardwired for resistance, so I couldn’t stop if I tried.
Perhaps Dylan Thomas’ poem on a not-entirely-different subject is relevant?
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Realism isn’t the same thing as defeatism, Maisie, and it ought to be clear that Mona continues to fight, even knowing that it is probably hopeless.
It is hopeless…for this election. But the millennials likesocial democrats — they approve of them in polls and are sour on total capitalism. They also hate war.
The under-35s get their news almost totally online, and it’s a different, far less controlled information world out here.
So while it is hopeless in 2016, I also think it entirely possible Hillary will be a one-term president. And that by 2024, when yet more younger people have joined the millennials in the voting population, and my parents’ generation is entirely dead — and boomers are starting to significantly go — things will change.
But the millennials likesocial democrats — they approve of them in polls and are sour on total capitalism. They also hate war.
Yes, but that was also largely true of our generation, when we were young. We were able to effect some change, but the Owners and their minions (running dog lackeys ;^) learned and adapted and now exercise tighter control and disseminate more effective propaganda than ever before.
And please review the Gilens and Page research. Paraphrased: Average citizens and grassroots movements have little to no influence on policy.
Finally, for the past few months, I’ve been surrounded by millennials (lots of them) and have interacted with them on a daily basis. The vast majority show no interest at all in politics or other civic matters, beyond specific matters that impact them personally. Their major concerns appear to be career advancement and partying.
Yeah, this.
These are the reasons, and the key demographic factors, I want to see Maisie recognize as she continues railing against the system no matter what. And codgers like us, who aren’t inclined to bury our heads in despair or exhaustion (even if it’s understandable), must continue to support them every way we can.
Doug Salzmann Pedinska
Would you comment on my post, above, please, Pedinska? After reading Gilens & Page, if you have not done so already, please.
dahoit Maisie
I believe the good people of the US will reject everything these evil neolibcon scum and their representative HRC support in November.
The Zionist coalition against American deplorables.
She got her ass handed to her last night btw.
qualmow Maisie
There are a great many that know that the media is feeding us syrupy-sick morsels of propaganda to give the illusion of choice.
It is not if we wake up in the nick of time and pull the stop lever. It is more a matter of asking the question – What can we do to stop it.
SalixVeridi
The Fourth Estate is dead. Our most noble profession that keeps us from becoming a banana republic, and an oligarchy, is now stunningly, openly, biased. Never mind that half the country feels differently, they will keep their listeners rapt with falsities, half-truths, and most importantly, omissions of facts. This is so disturbing. After all, WHERE are we going to go to get the Truth? If we cannot trust the press, who can we trust?
Htos1
Vic Perry Htos1
?dna…
Here we go again. Information from the Watergate style break in aimed at destroying the opposing party is hailed by none other than Glenn Greenwald who uses that information to viciously lie about the Clintons. Greenwald and Fang’s yellow journalism attempts to show Hillary’s great advantage with the press due to connections and strategy. Oh, never mind that Hillary’s coverage has been 84% negative versus Donald Trumps 43% versus Bernie Sanders 17% as a Harvard story meticulously documented in June of this year.
This disgusting law breaking on the part of the Kremlin who passes the illegally obtained information to Clinton hater Julian Assange who has admitted coordinartion with Roger Stone and Sean Hanity then over to Greenwald for further dissemination and distortion in true, unapologetic billionaire funded yellow journalism is perhaps too much to stomach, particularly in light of it furthering the cause and beliefs of Mr. Trump, the avowed Muslim hater, a religious group that Mr. Greenwald professes to defend. But then the lightly veiled misogyny that drives Mr. Greenwald has deep, deep roots, not only in the Roger Stone alt-Right but in the Assange-Greenwald so-called left.
In the previous case that Mr. Fang go going, regarding the transcripts, we learn that Hillary held her speeches back for exactly this reason, for the distortions the haters would create in the lines in the speech, such as being out of touch with middle class due to her and Bill’s wealth and leaving out the line that she’s never forgotten her roots.
In this case, the private strategies of a campaign are handed over to the opposing party, abrogating the rights of the first party. No, folks, this is not a leak, this is not the Pentagon Papers, this is not Edward Snowden, this is Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks, championed by none other–right to privacy advocate, Glenn Greenwald. Wake up, Mr. Greenwald because some day when you can see a bit more clearly about what has been done here, or perhaps when you find out you’ve been hacked and sullied for things you’ve innocently said to your partner, you will.
Lee on Hillary’s response to a question about the leaked emails:
Moments later, she pivoted and attacked the source of the emails, suggesting that the emails were from the Russian government and that “we don’t even know it’s accurate information.”
Now, just how is it possible for the Clinton campaign not to know if “it’s accurate information?”
She has admitted to having at least two faces. Her answers depend on which personality has surfaced, apparently. Too bad all of her multiples are evil.
No matter if Trump or Clinton wins, the White House will have to be mapped on the level three sex offender residence list.
photosymbiosis TheScaleman
Best op-ed on the debate:
http://www.dw.com/en/opinion-democracy-has-already-lost/a-36000374
Millions worldwide will be watching the second US presidential debate to see who wins this dirty fight revolving around sex, violence and power. According to Ines Pohl, it is democracy that will be the loser.
The debate had no mention of the 9,000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan or what their fate will be; no mention of any plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure; no mention of relief for $1 trillion in student loan debt held by young people; etc. etc. etc. And the corporate media were obviously trying to pimp a direct attack on the Syrian government by the U.S. military, while not asking any questions about Saudi Arabia’s assault on Yemen or the ongoing violence in Libya.
The only bright spot is that both have such high negatives, that regardless of which ends up in the White House, millions of Americans will support criminal investigations and will protest against their agendas.
barabbas photosymbiosis
ZSM
yep. As long as the pimped out US media can keeping pushing wars for profits and WMD the American citizens keep getting punked and the world suffers as the colateral damage of US policies.
TPP was mentioned once in the debate by Donald but the media didnt give a farthing. NOTE that Trump did note that Hellary did a job on Libya to dump momar but failed to do the same in syria. That she instead prodded and financed the conflict got no play.
US media is the worst on the planet – worser than China or any state media because likely US media seems to be a zion state media.
dahoit barabbas
Trumps America first implies no more stupid wars for zion,and although Afghanistan wasn’t mentioned,I’m absolutely sure Trump sees the futility of it all.
And of course our MSM is all zionist controlled.It’s part of the plot against our freedom to chart our own course in the world.
There will be blood.(when the Donald is POTUS)
Jeremy on the TI live blog:
Whether Trump wins, loses or loses big, he has empowered fascists, racists and bigots. He did not create them, but he has legitimized them by becoming the nominee and openly expressing their heinous, hateful beliefs. This, to me, is one of the most frightening developments on a domestic level in the U.S. this election cycle. Trump may go away, but the people he has empowered will not.
Jeremy is one of the best there is at investigative reporting — and I would urge him to take a voice recorder and spend a few months in the Red Zones, speaking with the people who empowered Donald Trump (which is a more accurate way of looking at this phenomenon than the other way around).
Those “fascists, racists and bigots” have become what they are as a result of their experiences of life in modern America. Like poor people, people of color, LGBT people, etc. they feel themselves oppressed, unrepresented, mistreated, lied to and cheated by our ruling establishment.
And they are right: they have truly suffered all of those things.
That they have chosen reprehensible and, ultimately, self-defeating views of reality, and lent their support to vile cretins like Trump, is perfectly “normal” and should not be a surprise to anyone. Right-wing populism has always arisen in similar circumstances.
Jeremy is right about one thing: these folks aren’t going away. And if their real concerns aren’t addressed by society and the Bosses in a meaningful way, the next demagogue who mines their discontent will likely be at least as offensive as Drumpfuck — and very well might be more effective.
Failure to understand the depth and magnitude of Red Zone anger and frustration is not merely unwise, it’s dangerous.
barabbas Doug Salzmann
most well said. definitely speaks to me. In our currency scheme of competition for life support in a never ending hierarchy of inequality it should be obvious to everyone that such a scheme will inevitably give rise to the same effects as has always historically been the case when the wealty have it all and everyone else is left to rob each other until one day the only ones left to rob are the horders and deprivers.
in fact, that has already started.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3819174/The-8-5m-worth-dazzling-jewels-stolen-Kim-Kardashian-including-15-carat-second-engagement-ring-diamond-grillz-sentimental-necklaces-designed-Kanye.html
photosymbiosis Doug Salzmann
Fascists, racists and bigots have been around in America since day one. We fought a civil war over racist bigotry; the rise of the Klu Klux Klan was about fascist racist bigotry (and served as one of the inspirations for the Nazi brownshirts); Wall Street was a top financier of the Nazi fascists in the 1930s; we had the American Nazi Party and the John Birch Society of the 1950s; Richard Nixon was the most fascist racist bigoted president since Woodrow Wilson; then we had the skinheads of the 1980s (a lot more violent than Trump supporters); the right-wing militia movement of the 1990s (see Timothy McVeigh); the racist bigoted anti-immigrant Minutemen of the 2000s – really, the phenomenon is nothing new.
Personally, I think Hillary Clinton’s eagerness to set up a no-fly zone over Syria and potentially launch World War III with Russia is a hell of a lot scarier than any bigoted Trump supporter could ever be.
Doug Salzmann photosymbiosis
Did I say that it is new?
Did I compare the relative dangers of right-wing populism and provocation of Russia?
Have you ever wondered how those fascists, racists and bigots we’ve had since Day One came to be what they were and are? Do you imagine they were born that way?
If you want to argue with me, please contest an assertion I’ve actually made or a position I’ve actually taken.
It’s easy to destroy straw men and the practice just happens to both annoy me and bore me silly. I know you can do better than this.
Well, what I was thinking is that the best way to deal with such people is by talking to them, not fighting with them; many are just grossly ignorant or victims of American class structure (like, the skinheads in California many of whom were from poor white Southern families who’d migrated cross-country). It’s also a poverty problem; just as with angry black people stuck in their own cycle of poverty and disenfranchisement. So, I don’t think I was arguing with you; but the phenomenon doesn’t seem to be on the rise relative to what I’ve seen in the past, and it’s not particularly frightening, it’s just kind of pathetic.
As far as “fascist”, again, the real fascist supporters are have always been the large corporations who throw their weight behind government insiders; the fusion of the corporate monopoly (like IG Farben) and the state dictatorship (like the Nazi Party) is what real fascism is all about; calling Trump a ‘fascist’ just doesn’t work. The alliance that got together to push for the Iraq invasion in 2003 was the most extreme fascist threat in the United States since Nixon, actually, and Hillary Clinton was closer to that alliance than Donald Trump was; Trump, having so little Wall Street support, is hardly a fascist threat.
Well, what I was thinking is that the best way to deal with such people is by talking to them, not fighting with them. . .
Absolutely right. Talk to them and share their stories.
That’s why I suggested the recorder.
elchucko photosymbiosis
So the Trump supporters are not as violent as skinheads? Stretch.But I’d say BLM are more violent than skinheads. ;)
photosymbiosis elchucko
You obviously never saw the California skinheads of the 1980s, did you? Trump supporters and BLM activists are calm, friendly and reasonable in comparison. Anyway, here’s how to talk to a skinhead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgIMuTELzXI
Explain to all sides that their crappy schools and crumbling infrastructure and polluted neighborhoods and lack of economic opportunity are all due to a system that is designed to concentrate wealth in a few hands, that in order to change this system they have to take back their government from the plutocratic billionaires, and for that to happen they have to work together, not fight among themselves like idiots.
Yes. Now, study and analysis leads me to conclude that it’s probably hopeless, but. . .
I’m hardwired for resistance, notwithstanding the futility, and the best way to resist the galloping fascism that is raging across America is to try to bring the elements of society that have long been pitted against each other, for the benefit of the Owners, to a common understanding of our collective plight and the real identity of the enemy.
Todays skinheads are all balding zionists who shave the rest of their hair so they don’t look like they are balding zionists.
Makes them look mean,also.F*cking pussies.
Methinks that if one was actually honest they would state that there is racism and prejudice throughout the world,in varying degrees with different targets,from GB to Russia,To Syria,to Egypt,to Israel to China to India to Japan etc etc.Even black Africans are prejudiced vs other blacks or social strata ,as it is a human condition which will probably never ever end until our moderator installs our Citizenchips.
Acting on prejudice is the issue.Our thoughts are our own,from whites,to blacks to Chinese to native peoples everywhere.
And for the thousandth time,judging long passed people by the standards of today is actually a futile endeavor.
In fact,I guarantee personal honor standards,if not moral standards (which are eschewed by every asshole in our present govt) ,were much higher in those days when a mans word was his bond.People would duel over honor and die for it.I see very few honorable humans in power today.
If tricky dick was such a fascist,why did he go down wo a fight?
Sheesh.Hyperbole divide and conquer crap.
Torontonian Doug Salzmann
Great post! I love Jeremy!
Someone has done this– she is a sociologist from Berkeley CA,
Arlie Hochschild– her book is “Strangers in their Own Land”- Anger and Mourning on the American Right. It is up for a U.S. National Book award. She went to the “reddest” state Louisiana and did just what you suggest.
Doug Salzmann Torontonian
Headed to Amazon (yuck!).
Joshua88 Doug Salzmann
See her extended interview on Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/28/what_drives_trump_supporters_sociologist_arlie
dahoit Doug Salzmann
Exceptional dissing of deplorables.sheesh.
The zionists are the most rabid aggressive racists on the planet.
Any words from Jeremy of confirmation of that obvious truth?
Divide and conquer used to work.No more.
frito blocker
When she came up with that Abraham Lincoln defense, wasn’t she in effect authenticating the wikileaks documents? I agree with Lee Fang.
dahoit frito blocker
And Trump went right to the heart of her attempted use of Lincoln.
He(Abe) was honest and she aint.And that her use of Lincoln was predictable BS.
landlocked
Why*am*I*not*surprised*
Proof in the pudding. imo, hellary got trounced in tonite’s debate but HER PRESS will go nuts into damage control tomorrow – watch, it will be a whole lot of YEAHBUTTS
He was stalking and intimidating her onstage!That’s about all they could mine from her disastrous showing.
No,there’s no collusion.sheesh.
dahoit dahoit
You want the real 1 %?;Check out the Graun and their huge yacht photo shoot.
Wow.(yesterday?)
Go sign Close the ClintonFoundation down, online.
Just now, Chris Hayes watching the debate:
Christopher HayesVerified account
This is interesting: Clinton not denying the documents’ authenticity. Kind of makes her campaign look ridiculous.
Ted -Mona-
Well, at least he isn’t incorrect.
Tim Osman
It’s funny how they are trying to blame Russia for all their email problems
Camille Gaven
Corruption, corruption, corruption, corruption!
Bob Mackey, on the TI live blog:
Trump tricks media into covering meeting with Clinton accusers by calling it “debate prep”
As if the media wouldn’t have covered it if Drumpfuck had called it what it was — or almost anything at all.
I hope Mackey has at least a little trouble sleeping at night. If he doesn’t, he may be irredeemable.
Some time ago I’d decided that Mackey is so good on the Israel-Palestine issue only because he’s Irish, raised much of the time on the old sod. Irish Catholics have pretty much always sided with the Palestinians as fellow indigenous people fucked over by the Brits — via Zionism and European Jews.
That is, in Ireland the pro-Palestinian narrative isn’t radical, or even daring. It’s long been the norm.
Mackey is a conventional neoliberal who to americans appears unusually progressive on Israel only because he was raised in possibly the only Western country where the truth about Zionism has long been spoken and was never really taboo.
Bizarre but true: In the very early 70s, I attended a meeting, at SUNY Albany, where representatives of various “radical” groups made presentations and pitches. Among them were Sinn Féin and the Radical Zionist Alliance, which was a bunch of student Zionists who championed rights for Palestinians, while still supporting the expropriation of their homeland.
When the RZA kids rose to express support for the Sinn Féin presentation, the outraged Irish guys would have chased them from the room, had cooler heads not prevailed. They didn’t want support from any brand of Zionists.
Mahatma -Mona-
Neoliberal, yup what would you expect from an establishment corporate Neoliberal website? Especially one run by elites with the full knowledge of what is in the Snowden archive but claim they are just so so elite that they and only they know what to redact, what to release, when to release and have never and will never make a mistake. Elite Neoliberals trying to be the “loyal opposition” within a poisoned system – Neoliberal through and through their owner pain i.i million in UK tax on revenue of over a billion. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/08/ebay-pays-11m-uk-tax-on-revenues-it-told-us-investors-were-11bn — The Intercept is a fully owned part of the eBay oligarch Neoliberal density. With a brand – hard hitting “journalism” and the Snowden association – please let me come home I promise to be good you know I did the right thing and didn’t really release anything dangerous. I want my own show on TV.
Out eliteing the elites that’s TI.
-Mona- Mahatma
Some shrieking:
Is it alcohol? Meth? Or are you simply uncommonly excitable?
No, at least not always, but I’m right anyway. In the case of a news outlet, if it is a corporation and part of the dynasty of a Neoliberal oligarch then by definition it is part of the corporate press – it often criticizes. The NYT is a corporation owned by a Neoliberal oligarch, the Washington Post is a corporation owned by an oligarch, and The Intercept is a corporation owned by an oligarch. But the oligarch who owns The Intercept is, well, different and only publishes stories for good reasons.
Look, there is a ton of great talent and great work going on here, just don’t pretend its owners and management are some kind of saints and that a spade is not a spade. The Intercept is corporate media by definition. It is part of and well within the established Neoliberal power structure, and by definition augments and enhances (if successful) the established paradigm. Additionally, its owner and senior staff are dominated by white men who have exclusive control of public information who have made sure that inclusion, community or society have absolutely no say in the way it is handled. That is just plain wrong and a continuation of elitism and Neoliberal ideology.
If the Intercept wants to beat up the NYT so much why does it act so much like it?
Just as you have, it is easy to just blow this off rather that give up the illusion that Snowden or the editors and management of the Intercept are fallible humans and they have made mistakes – the glaring one is their Armand for absolute control over the Snowden archive and the deliberate exclusion of inclusiveness or community or society – the process is exclusive, elite and corporate – I do not agree that this is some kind of perfect paradise beyond criticism.
barabbas -Mona-
because the Irish were tenants of the oppressor english/brits landlords, borrowers of the english banksters, infidels by anglican-protestants.
Infidels?Nah,just Papist dogs.:)
nuf said -Mona-
“Some time ago I’d decided that Mackey is so good on the Israel-Palestine issue only because he’s Irish,”
TI should have had an “Irish need not apply” policy in place.
Why won’t Mackey take these four women at their word? Is it misogyny or just Trump derangement syndrome?
I don’t think Mackey has expressed an opinion on the women’s accusations. He’ll just grab any and every opportunity to demonize Trump — which is getting sillier by the day, as Trump immolates himself before the whole damned world.
Yup. Trump is a goddam freak, and for a journo to spend so much time and energy on the details of his antics, says more about the journo than about the freak.
That said, I really did think this was funny: If Donald Trump published an academic article.
It only needs one addition to be accepted for peer review by august journals:
“Conflicts of interest: none.”
I’m sure you are both aware that stuff that gets printed in august journals today only passes muster if it meets the expectations of the globalists.
And who prints all these august documents?The same globalist zionists.Puleeze.
We are living in the age of bullshite.
wow. msm state media for wallstate.
never believed it before, figured rwnj’s were goody on this, been smelling it lately, now i see.
the primary difference between the candidates is this…
Hillary wants to expand the US geographical influence and restrict our
equality and individual powers of self governance.
Donald wants to restrict the US geographical influence and expand our
Jill Stein wants to re-establish self autonomy and equality.
http://www.jill2016.com/plan
As i see it, DO NOT VOTE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO DEFEAT SOMEONE. Neither vote for someone just because you want to be on a winning side. IF you would prefer that Jill Stein fits your conscience, vote for her even if you doubt she would never be president because the winning is not betting against your will. This is a matter of self ownership. Look at it this way. If you favor Jill Stein, AND you vote for her, AND she does not win the election, ONE thing is for sure – you will have made progress because the elites will here loud and clear, you matter, and it only gets worse for them when they dont listen and it sets up 2018 and 2020 to TURN THE TABLES.
Virginia Ham
The “journalists” on that list are not in the least surprising. Their partiality is blatant when you read or listen to their reports.
The Washington Post is deeply in the tank for her and very anti-Trump as is the NYT.
What’s scary is that if she wins those outlets will not be holding her accountable.
ChasDokus
Unlike the rest of the Clinton campaign’s activities (vote rigging, accepting bribes, interfering with the Syrian cease fire, killing leakers…), this doesn’t rise to the level of criminality. For the named media personalities, this does rise to the level of prostitution.
Virginia Ham ChasDokus
“Media personalities,” aka Presstitutes or Whorenalists.
Orville ChasDokus
This brings to mind the most recent thing from the Intercept which upset me- and it’s not Mackey. It’s the recent comment from Alex Emmons. Quoted here:
“Donald Trump promised, when elected president, to establish a “special prosecutor” to investigate Hillary Clinton, because “there has never been so many lies, so much deception.”
Clinton responded that it is “awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”
Trump then explicitly threatened to jail her if he wins.
“Because you’d be in jail,” he said.
The FBI investigated Clinton’s private email server and did not recommend bringing any criminal charges.
Trump’s threat to jail the leader of a would-be opposition party is disturbingly reminiscent of a collapsing, unstable democracy, where an executive can direct the criminal justice system to jail whom he sees fit.”
I vehemently disagree. True, there are cases of executive branches abusing the law (See the nationwide Occupy crackdown, and the criminalization of the prior government of Ukraine), but if a government is genuinely corrupt, there should be investigations, prosecutions and jail. Hillary Clinton has clearly committed high crimes, from the illegal bombing of Libya, to funneling arms to terrorist groups in Syria. And, sadly, the Republicans are not going after her, for fear that it would take some of them down with her. Trump, who’s made a clean break with most Neocons (pun intended), would be more than willing to take her (and them) down hard. Were I to get elected, one of the first things I’d do would be to expand ADMAX Florence and FMC Carswell to ensure lots of accommodations for criminals from previous executive and legislative branches.
As an aside, while eliminating corruption has not been finished, one country that did try prosecuting former officials is doing rather well. Georgia recently returned the Georgian Dream coalition to power in parliament, and significantly reduced the vote for the corrupt United National Movement that was in power. The US and EU, of course, opposed the crackdown, and the US even gave sanctuary to the former president, Mikhail Saakashvili, prior to his (and other officials) fleeing to Ukraine.
ChasDokus Orville
Yeah, it’s awfully good for Hillary that beneficiaries of the revolving door, like Holder, Lynch, and Comey, are in charge of the law in our country.
Shame. I was honestly hoping for AG Greenwald.
Fellow Citizen
It is a shame that Hillary’s media influence team did not consider utilizing psychics & mediums as that would have enabled them to place Lee Fang on the initial press gathering guest list so Hillary could immediately get out of the way him asking her “If she would release her Goldman Sachs speech transcripts”, plus Lee maybe could have used a couple of cocktails and some appetizers that Friday night.
Good article, but the reference to the previous Feb 2016 article showing how many of the TV pundits are paid by the Clinton campaign, yet not introduced as such, is precious and another prime example of elitist control here in Democracy Inc.
Freddie De Souza
So it’s confirmed the Hillary campaign has the main stream media in their pockets. When Trump wins it is truly against all odds.
People think Donald Trump is going to be extra offensive tonight, basically because the press has said so.
Never mind that both candidates are lethal threats to the planet’s inhabitants, this is entertainment!
Plus (no small point), Trump and Clinton ultimately represent the same power that has corrupted America.
But there may be fireworks! Grab the popcorn! (God how I cringe when people say that)
America, you’re fired.
We’re not supposed to say it, but one of the fundamental problems with democracy is that humans, on average, just are not very smart. And, as George Carlin famously told us, “half of them are stupider than that.”
They can’t help it. And bright people don’t deserve credit for being smart. It’s largely genetic, with, certainly, a component arising from environment and nurturing — but not a large enough component to change the underlying reality.
Not on the list of go-to reporters: Mariah Blake
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron
The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton’s diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe. . .
Clinton tapped a lawyer named David Goldwyn as her special envoy for international energy affairs; his charge was “to elevate energy diplomacy as a key function of US foreign policy.”
From 2005 to 2009 he directed the US-Libya Business Association, an organization funded primarily by US oil companies – including Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Marathon – clamoring to tap Libya’s abundant supply.
As Clinton’s Wall Street positions about “private vs. public positions” help show, she is lying through her teeth about her actual policy agenda on everything from student loans to renewable energy to trade policy, and corporate media is facilitating this parade of lies.
So, who cares if it’s her or Trump? Either one will be an absolute disaster, and in both cases, they’ll pursue policies deeply damaging to the interests of average American citizens, whose only option will be to undermine and sabotage those policy agendas.
Harry philly
Mikephilly
And our liberal politicians want this crooked money laundering, treasonous, & wall ztreet cronies as our next Perez. If elected American citizens will live in HELL!
October 9 2016, 11:59 p.m.
From the Graun’s live blog:
Donald Trump has just made brief appearance at the Four Seasons Hotel in St. Louis with three women who have accused Bill Clinton of rape or sexual assault and one woman whose rapist was defended by Hillary Clinton when Clinton was a 27-year-old lawyer in Arkansas.
I guess he won’t be doing the contrite penitent routine, huh?
Will Killary accuse the Russians of planting Juanita Broaddrick as a deep-cover mole?
Just when you thought this election couldn’t get any more sordid and tawdry.
My prediction – He’ll just waffle randomly like he always does, and probably wilt like a flower at some point like he did last time (only not quite so obviously). Hillary will have her best public face on, by which of course I mean she will lie almost constantly.
” On Friday, Obama administration officials claimed that Russia’s “senior-most officials” were responsible for that hack and others, although they provided no evidence for that assertion.”
Donna Brazille was pushing back with hard spin that by no means would she believe any Russian backed hacking and drop about Clinton’s emails. They sure laid out the “Russians are coming” fall back to protect Hillary from what was coming. Have they forgotten that they fired DNC chaired based on what was dropped about the way the DNC “system is rigged”
Then we had Rachel Maddow on MSNBC fervently protecting HRC from being called an enabler of a sexual predator. Amazing Maddow would consider herself a feminist. Hopefully people will not forget that HRC opened this seedy yet important sexist issue.
But why Rachel, Donna Brazille and others provide cover for Clinton’s war record and her decades long protection of a sexual predator. These MSM host ,analyst have also provided Clinton cover on the Wall Street issues, Comey findings etc.
All in a days work I guess of extremely biased journalist, analyst with their own agendas almost always showing
Doug Salzmann Kathleen
Amazing Maddow would consider herself a feminist.
Rachel used to consider herself a feminist. Now, she considers herself very well-paid (about $7 million per year).
Ted Doug Salzmann
Yeah, how much coin does she need before she turns on her Comcast masters?
Donald B. Doug Salzmann
Before Maddow joined MSNBC, when she was on Air America, she was vociferously critical of both Clintons and of Third Way/Blue Dog Democrats. Being given entree to the establishment has a way corrupting people.
Lesbians are card carrying feminists.
Maisie Kathleen
True feminists support Jill Stein, I reckon.
photosymbiosis Kathleen
Searching the emails for Russia Podesta Uranium turns up this tasty quote:
Our internal digital analysis has shown that this story line has flatlined over the last several days and we do not believe that inducing another spike in the online discussion will be beneficial.
Here’s another nice one from Podesta:
Your friend David Sirota being helpful as always.
From: HPS Alerts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 12:25 PM To: [email protected]
Subject: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: Goldman Paid Bill Clinton $200,000 For Speech Before Bank Lobbied Hillary Clinton
Who is Hamilton Place Strategies (hamiltonps.com)? A GW Bush-friendly firm that Podesta is working with; more proof that Hillary Clinton is basically a neocon Republican:
http://www.kochvsclean.com/hamilton-place-strategies-pr-firm-behind-fueling-u-s-forward/
MAGGIE ROSE
Thank you! Great facts. Always wondered who the dirty press were. Keep up your great work.
Meanwhile, in St. Louis (from the Graun).
These kids are alright! (I’m sure Lisa Cholodenko and the rest of the folks who made that great film won’t be offended.)
Even if they don’t understand, yet, that Hillary is a rapist of a different kind.
Sadly, they will learn.
RJ Steele
Simply shocked to see gutsy model/journalist Diane Sawyer’s name in the yes column.
Orville RJ Steele
Maybe she feels sorry for Clinton after her previous boss (Richard Milhous Nixon) was forced from office for his lies.
The title to this article is funny. The Press had to get leaked emails from russian hackers to report on the Press’ relationship with Clinton. Super sleuthy of them.
Actually, you know what would be helpful is to understand the journalistic work you did to determine these emails were actually real.
Professor Fate
No surprises here. Anyone with more than a dozen functioning brain cells knows that the MSM has been in the tank for the Democrats (and now Hitlery) for over thirty-odd years. Who remembers ‘Uncle’ Walter Cronkite deciding the VietNam war was bad and defaming our troops over there every night? Soviet Russia had ‘Pravda’, we have The New York ‘Times’. Not a dimes worth of difference between them.
Trump’s going to mop the floor with Hitlery tonight. Guaranteed.
dahoit Professor Fate
And they hated GWBush?
They made a superhero out of a superzero,who ,let 9-11 happen on his watch,and backed every crazy scheme he did,as Zion loved him.
They only backed off post Iraq,when it was clear it was a giant clusterf *ck.And they back every stupid thing this current whore of zion does,and not one discouraging word.
Did anyone see the crummy jobs report?
good2go
zzzzzzzz…. I bet they had shopping lists and made purchases by credit card.
Glenn, you do some really good work, but some of The Intercept is lame. After all that great Snowdon stuff, didn’t you feel silly writing this post? Much ado about nothing; about how the whole freakin’ world works. There’s nothing unusual or even terrible about anything here. There’s just no there there.
Tell Julian that FancyBear and his other eastern buddies need to get more creative.
Doug Salzmann good2go
Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain (memorizing her public positions)!
Tell Revise the Record and any other talking point source you’re using that they need to get more creative and more honest.
Here here!!
. . .that great Snowdon stuff. . .
It is pretty cool, isn’t it? Have you ridden the Mountain Railway?
Maisie good2go
Snowdon?
Are you trying to associate SnowDEN with DON Trump? Nasty stuff. I declare you are from ‘Secure Hillary In The White House On Rightwing Energy’ (SHITWHORE).
RJ Steele good2go
I disagree. It’s direct insider info, and I think it’s interesting as hell. For instance, I was surprised to see that Arianna Huffington had declined this particular invitation, considering her huffingtonpost comes off as little more than a Hillary Clinton newsletter so much of the time. Would you have guessed that?
Doug Salzmann RJ Steele
It’s not “her” Huffington Post. It’s been owned by AOL, a subsidiary of Verizon, for more than five years.
Arianna is an employee.
photosymbiosis good2go
Here’s a fun search for you at Wikileaks: “correct the record” gives 195 results for the Clinton online marketing effort:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=%22Correct+the+record%22&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=2#searchresult
For example, on the smear-Bernie-Sanders campaign run by Hillary Clinton:
Only a handful of Clinton surrogates have attacked Sanders directly, and it remains to be seen whether the gist of the email from Correct the Record will be fed to anyone other than reporters. If so, the attack would be in the vein of what Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said about Sanders earlier this year — that he’s unelectable, since he’s a self-identified democratic socialist. —
Milia Fisher
Special Assistant to the Chair
Hillary for America
James M. Ray
Wow. Diane Sawyer goes to a Hillary-party for exactly 1/2 hour. She must be loads of fun…
And thoughts drift to the upcoming town hall…
The Secret Service are probably on heightened alert tonight in case Hillary collapses and Trump tries to pick her up by the pussy. One supposes he could explain what he said ten years ago by saying “that was when I was a Democrat, hanging round with people like Bill and Hillary Clinton,” or saying this was just his “pubic” face rather than the face of his privates. God knows, it’s boring as hell watching America submissively agree to let this farce of an election proceed without a chorus of raspberries from all sides.
Two lying multimillionaires pretending to give a hoot about common folk. Jesus fucking Christ.
Vote Jill Stein, because not being a corporatist, militarist or imperialist really does matter.
Perhaps overlooked is the simple fact that most do not get to interact with a FPotusa couple within their lifetime. And it is flattering and interesting to have that opportunity.
It will undoubtedly be something they will tell their grandkids about? So it goes.
The pride of having been able to come so close to someone so historical and so Powerful.
This what CrookdClintons have capitalized on: the ultimate power couple. And they take every advantage they can.
People are embarrssed by what the CrookdClintons do, but who is going to call them out?
Porn star prez?b
So we have clintonemail.com to talk to criminals. It is that simple.
We have Public and Private policies– which really is the definition of a LIE.
Read Matthew Yglesias 10-07-2016 Vox:
“The lesson of Hillary secret speeches is she’s exactly who we already knew she was….. I personally find it kind of charming but most Americans seem not to–…peeling back further layers of the onion and delving into deeper realms of secrecy isn’t going to teach us much of anything new about her.”
Is the writing of a sick mind with no moral or ethical standards!
Kathy Gleason
Great article! Thank you. One has to wonder who the persons are “behind the curtain”? It takes producers or editors to put the pressure on for these lickspittles, calling themselves journalists to heel.
Free2Fly
Journalists in third world countries are afraid of their own governments. They can be fined, jailed, and even killed for seeking the truth. But there are conscientious journalists who strive to serve the public with thoroughness, honesty and integrity.
Journalists in the US are afraid of not being invited to the best parties. They are willing to lie, cover up, peddle manufactured propaganda, all so that they can been seen on CNN and MSNBC for personal gain.
This is worse than a third world country. North Korea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Eritrea, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Equatorial Guinea, Syria and Bahrain have shuttered independent newspapers and television stations, used state media as a propaganda weapon, and jailed, fined, and harassed journalists. At least the “government” newspaper in those countries don’t pretend to be objective or hard hitting.
In the US, the big name journalists and TV stars trade their objectivity and values for some hors d’oeuvres, free booze, and access to the “real insiders”.
But I was not surprised to see the names on your list. We knew that they have been shills for Mrs. Clinton for years. They pretend to be objective but they are not fooling anyone. It is so obvious that they are mouthpieces of the government.
That’s why we stopped watching “the news” on the major TV and Cable channels.
Ted Free2Fly
An excellent post. As far as I am concerned, the media has a requirement to take an adversarial position to those wielding great power. The fact that 98% of the MSM has abdicated that responsibility has aided and abetted war crimes. Crimes that may likely go unpunished in my lifetime.
Vivek Jain
What’s the overlap between this list and the membership of the CFR?
Recall this 1993 piece in the Washington Post by Richard Harwood.
RULING CLASS JOURNALISTS
http://www.pennsylvaniacrier.com/filemgmt_data/files/Ruling%20Class%20Journalists.pdf
Janus Vivek Jain
Very interesting line of inquiry. I posed a similar question to Lee Fang on twitter several days ago but he hasn’t gotten back to me. The CFR has considerable power and influence and is, as the article asserts, the organization that most closely resembles a Ruling Class.
justinb
You mention McCain’s tire swing obvious example, leave out all these others (they good was much better on Bush’s plane than Gore’s, iirc), and in the very next sentence su it’s usually done behind closed doors, when it plainly isn’t. Can you show me on the doll where Hillary touched you?
Remember – it’s all about Fox (Faux) News!
The Kochs! The Kochs!
Those evil rightwingnuts.
BushHitler.
etc…etc…
Compliments to the few invited “journalists” who declined invitation to what was plainly an organizing event for a political propaganda campaign.
BAMA BADGER
The word Pussy sure outrages supporters of a political rapist. Stronger than ever for Trump!
cjones1
Much like the RT staffing. Just parrots!
Damion Blackthorn
I’m Shocked !! Shocked I tell you…how could it be that the Media/Press now has become the 4th branch of Government. Weren’t these supposed “journalists” supposed to report the Truth and not what they’ve been fed ???
It seems that Ben Rhoades description of the media is correct. They don’t know anything and all they want to do is be close to the powers that be. They all want to be celebrities now…..
This is why no one believes in the Media and why they are so despised !!
Beak
And this is news?
Maisie Beak
Well it’s ‘olds,’ really, since Clinton and the mainstream media have been corrupt for a long time – but morons keep denying it, so it has to be restated in new and exciting demonstrations by responsible reporters for the benefit of the sort of intellectual midgets who think Clinton is okay.
Vic Perry Beak
What a brilliant comment.
are you THE Beaker, “Beak” for short? The famous Muppet?
It’s an honor to have you here. It’s thrilling to me that one of the more beloved Muppets would take an interest in an investigative news site like this.
Well, Miss Piggy and Animal are the duopoly’s candidates for the presidency, so that makes sense.
I always knew Beaker was a straight shooter.
I keep telling youse guys: she’s Momba, the original name for the Wicked Witch of the West.
I like Miss Piggy.
To be honest, I’ve only seen The Muppet Movie, in which the pig is an opportunistic, self-centered, violent liar. And Animal is a primal skirt-chaser who can barely speak two words coherently.
Well, to be honest, also, I not only haven’t seen the Muppet movie, I haven’t seen the Muppets at all since kids I cared for were in the appropriate age group.
That would probably be 70s to mid-80s.
But I have fond memories of Miss Piggy, who wasn’t anything like the character you describe — fuzzy as they may be. ;^)
There are some nice sentiments in the movie, but the pig is deliberately portrayed as a surprisingly manipulative and violent egoist in it – perhaps she’s different elsewhere; looking on YouTube there are certainly a lot of clips of her being shallow and hitting other puppets, but maybe it’s selective editing.
In the movie Miss Piggy can go from sweet to obnoxious at the drop of a hat, and the joke is supposed to be that the sweetness is utterly phony – this also seems very like Clinton to me!
I shall abandon my objection to the Miss Piggy reference.
But surely, we can agree on the resemblance to the Wicked Witch of the West?
And now, my beauties, something with poison in it, I think. With poison in it, but attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell.
[Cackling — recognize that?] Poppies… Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleeeeep. Now they’ll sleeeeep!
Yes, totally! She even has the “fake green” thing going.
Orville Doug Salzmann
Actually, the Muppets were designed to appeal to all ages, and did have some adult elements (though nothing above PG). The pilot for the Muppet Show was called “Sex and Violence”, after all.
Only in the original film. The book didn’t name her. (Mombi was the wicked witch who turned Princess Ozma into Tip, but she’s no relation.)
Joe Mack Beak
Yes. That George S goes to hear what is expected of him along with the rest, yes, news.
Bjorn O'Lister Beak
…as in “we always knew Clinton and the press worked hand in hand behind our backs to shape the “news” in their favor?” and “this is why we’ve lost all faith in an “independent ” press?”
Oh this is choice. Yo ho ho ho a pirate’s life for me.
Never mind the, “off-the-record meetings with real people”, I want to know what’s happening in the meetings with the pretend people.
Maisie dilettante
The Clintons themselves are the pretend people. Bill used to be effective at it until he turned into a shrunken head, but poor Hillary is incapable of looking human no matter how hard she tries.
Jesus, these representatives of the press are embarrassingly submissive and obsequious.
Americans really are largely weak-minded and obedient, partly due to propaganda from these sort of twits.
Trump’s supporters often speak of an emasculated nation (pussyfied is their insulting word for it) that meekly takes crap from the establishment (a cruel irony since Trump is not only of the elite himself, he’s an embodied political absurdity), and this meme hits home because there really is a lot of evidence for it.
The parties for the media executives who all these scribblers work for have way better food.
Making sure the people who might ask the wrong questions never get hired is step one.
And they write big checks too.
OK, OK… sorry.
Step one is the owners of the media outlets hiring the executives who won’t hire the people who might ask the wrong questions.
There are never emails about their parties.
wayoutwest
It’s very refreshing to see the Queen’s media quislings named and exposed for what they are but if much of the rest of the media ignores the story and other leaks while seeming to portray these leaks as Putin’s possibly altered propaganda there is something happening here and it is becoming clear.
I have been waiting to see how the PTB would guarantee their control of the outcome of this election and what has just transpired seems to be a soft coup with the first target for plotters usually being shutting down or taking control of the flow of news and information. Except for the AP and the Intercept these email stories have been mostly ignored or twisted into anti-Putin spin now with the active involvement of Homeland Security and most everyone involved is sticking to the Party Line.
Does anyone doubt that a ‘leak’ about similar sorts of gatherings and mutuality with ‘friendly’ media personalities would be shouted as proof of the lack of a free press if it took place in any country on the demonize list?
-Mona- Richard Pearce
Well, to be fair, many other countries in which no one pretends to have a dedication to a free press this kind of cozy partying isn’t necessary. We have a “free press” so what happens here is “access journalism.” Being invited to these parties makes them feel all savvy and important.
They know they’ll lose that All Important Access if they are critical beyond a certain point. That’s how the press is controlled here.
If I thought it possible to summon ghosts, I’d get H. L. Mencken and Izzy Stone at typewriters to thunder about this god-awful, mock-worthy mess that our “free press” has become.
Hard Right -Mona-
We do have a free press; the freest in the world. However, we don’t have a fair and honest press. They’re free to say and slant whatever they want!
Richard Pearce -Mona-
Of course, the reason why ‘no one pretends’ certain countries have a free press, while ‘everyone’ pretends certain other countries have a free press is because those opinions are fed to us as a steady diet from birth, reinforced as a social norm that it is taboo to break from, and ‘verified’ by agencies rooted in those norms that lose all credibility the second they dissent. It was exactly this sort of thing that kept slavery alive.
sgt_doom
Damnit!
The head choppers of Saudi Arabia have endorsed Hillary!
Charles Koch has endorsed Hillary!
Dick Cheney has endorsed Hillary!
Even mass murdering scumbag, Henry Kissinger, has endorsed Hillary!
Kissinger’s old employee, Noam Chomsky has endorsed Hillary, calling her a “moderate Republicon! (One assumes Chomsky would consider Hitler a moderate Nazi???!!!)
Time for every vermin in Amerika to vote Hillary!
[And for God’s sakes when will certain people finally come to their senses and realize that Noam Chomsky (and probably his spawn, Aviva) is nothing more than a CIA stooge and Wall Street mouthpiece? Yo, Chomsky, CIA says call home!]
Doug Salzmann sgt_doom
Kissinger’s old employee, Noam Chomsky . . .
Charlene Avis Richards sgt_doom
John McCain pulled his endorsement from Trump today and endorsed Clinton.
Maisie Charlene Avis Richards
Now they can do a duet of ‘bomb-bomb-bomb Iran.’ McCain Singing
When will people realize Clinton is actually a neoconservative?
John Gault Charlene Avis Richards
McCain had been a rhino since the first time he was elected. Called TRUMP supporters wacko birds and has done nothing for AZ. As head of the veterans committee three PHX VA is rated the worst.
He is a prime example of why we need term limits
McCain called Trump supporters wacko Birds when he held a rally here in Phoenix. He is a Rhino from the beginning of his term and a perfect example of why we need term limits. As head of the veterans committee the Phoenix Veterans Administration is held up as one of the worst examples of this government program McCain has to go Trump 216 now more than ever
Buck sgt_doom
Chomsky said if in a swing state, to “hold your nose and vote for the democrat” to avoid trump. Hardly an endorsement.
D.H. Fabian sgt_doom
The Clinton right wing have owned and controlled the Dem Party for the past 20 years. Much of the media marketed to liberals have been complicit.
Clinton Cash the full movie :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp2akjuUULI
How is this a big deal? She is going to reporters who would make her look good. Should she turn to the ones that favor Trump? It’s idiotic
dahoit Sal
Name one MSM reporter pro Trump.
Wharfplank
Slipping into Banana Republic territory…how ironic.
it’s ironic that the clinton supporters who constantly use phrases like “grow up” and “get educated” probably won’t bat an eyelash at this news. it will go over their heads and everyone will focus on the tabloid nonsense of trump’s 11 year old frat boy banter. if they care more about that salacious identity-politics-feeding trash than 900 dead haitians or saudis bombing funerals in yemen (assuming they even heard about those during the hysterical wall-to-wall coverage of the trump tape) then they won’t even register something as “inside baseball” as this.
plus, as many people online and elsewhere have mentioned, the scary thing isn’t that clinton supporters are ignorant of her awful behavior; it’s that they know about it and don’t care at all. i was hoping the assange/wikileaks drops would contain something more severe than this in any case…we know it’s out there but seeing is believing for many people. maybe all that stuff was in the wiped emails. oh well. yet another election decided by tits and ass.
AmyInNH
4 years of proHillary stories, we figured that out a while back.
xsnake
Who would eeeeeever guess that the media was corruptible?
D.H. Fabian
A lot of us had this figured out. The Clinton right wing have extraordinary power, and they have took over (and corrupted) the Democratic Party itself some 20 years ago. A good share of the media marketed to liberals was retooled to reflect the Clinton ideology, dismissing (or even denying!) the ugly consequences of the Clinton agenda. They very effectively got MSNBC (for example) on a tight corporate leash early on, and the last I watched, they were selling the right wing agenda to the beat of a rock and roll song.
Some fuckwit on Twitter claimed Glenn Greenwald is just jealous he wasn’t invited to the intimate party Hillary held for all her journalist pals. That literally made me laugh out loud.
As many know, I’m Glenn’s former law partner, and I know the hilarious face he makes (this is petty close) when contemplating that he must spend time in the presence of people he finds stupid and insufferable. He’d do nearly anything to get out off having to go to such a party, possibly even slit his wrists.
As if that basket of deplorables would invite Glenn, anyway.
“Now, remember, this is all off the record, Mr. Greenwald, so you have to promise not to report on anything you learn.”
Would never happen. It’s a quirk of his personality that he has nearly zero poker face on any sort of interpersonal level. When he doesn’t want to go somewhere, and has disdain for those attending, he can hide it only with some significant difficulty.
Glenn’s gaze over the crowd at the Academy Awards was pretty priceless. It just drips disdain. In a good way. ;o)
-Mona- Ted
“As many know, I’m Glenn’s former law partner, and I know the hilarious face he makes (this is petty close) when contemplating that he must spend time in the presence of people he finds stupid and insufferable.”
I’m sure you know that look well Mona.
The MSM may be more or less in the tank for Hillary, but the Trump campaign doesn’t do itself any favours obsessing over yesteryear’s war with Bill Clinton.
dahoit John H
Wha?They are clobbering him over sexual word crap when The Clintons are let off scot free by the MSM.
Highlighting their corruption when no one else will is a winning hand,and Bent Dick is a known sexual predator with actual rape in his past.Juanita Broadrick(sic?)?
And regardless of the corruption, illegal activity and nonstop lies…..the morons will vote for her. Just like they did for Obama, these clowns want to make history but not fix america
D.H. Fabian erik
And after the election, our liberal bourgeoisie will rage against those who “were lazy to vote” for Clinton. That said, it would take a people’s movement to pull us off this truck that’s speeding for the cliff’s edge. Consider that we’ve just been through another eight years of media (and people) working hard to more deeply pit us against each other by race and class, and calculate the odds of being able to form a movement.
Karen Orlando
Interesting. The dynamics between reporters and some activist sources would be interesting to explore as well if one is really interested in showing how the news gets made. Take the antifracking pipeline resistance movement for example.
This ideally should be posted to the thread on the WikiLeaks publication, but that one is dead, Jim.
Clinton campaign fends off questions about WikiLeaks ‘speech excerpts’
Kaine doubts accuracy of ‘documents dumped by hacking organization’
[. . .] “I have no way of knowing the accuracy of documents dumped by this hacking organization,” Kaine told CNN, noting that US intelligence officials have accused Russian security services of orchestrating the hack in order to influence the election. “If that is in fact true, then you cannot accept as gospel truth anything they put in a document.”
Pressed about Clinton’s positions, Kaine said: “I have no way of knowing that.”
The CNN host, Jake Tapper, insisted: “You could ask her.” Kaine replied: “I haven’t asked her. But you asked me about her position on trade and her position on trade is very clear.”
Well, maybe her public position is clear.
And even Kaine’s “doubts” are so wishy-washy and mealy-mouthed that he could successfully deny he actually expressed doubt.
The people who carry water for our Masters are — all of them — among the creepiest and sleaziest shitheads on the planet.
Now, we’ll get to see if anyone who did attend off-the-record parties will press even this hard.
And then there’s that leader of the revolution, Bernie:
On Saturday, Sanders reaffirmed his support for Clinton, saying: “Whatever Secretary Clinton may or may not have said behind closed doors on Wall Street, I am determined to implement the agenda of the Democratic party platform, which was agreed to by her campaign.”
Slip-slidin’ away. . .
oQ Doug Salzmann
He knows if she falls, he’ll step up. Might as well stay close behind and endorse the Democratic party, he would have never won as a independent but he may think he still has a chance here.
Deadheded Doug Salzmann
Well don’t forget she’s got a public position and a private position.
MaynardG Doug Salzmann
Donna Brazile pretty much said the same thing to George Stephanopoulos on ABC.
Doug Salzmann MaynardG
I bet she did. And I’m sure the former senior advisor (along with Rahm Emanuel) to Bill Clinton was really tough on the Acting Chair of the DNC.
It really might not be such a great idea to recklessly cast aspersions about WikiLeaks’ accuracy and integrity, with a month to go in the campaign. Julian and his team have been impeccably trustworthy, but they can, no doubt, remain trustworthy and still clobber the hell out of the Wicked Witch in that time period.
At least George bothers to ask the questions and get their response on record. He’s better than a lot of main stream journalists.
Kathleen Doug Salzmann
Interesting strategy they have taken since the DNC “rigged system” drop. They were sure quick to act on those email leaks. Did not question the “accuracy” then. They must have decided to run with this “the Russians are coming” strategy way back then. Laid the ground work. Hell they probably put out a release to Maddow, Joy Reid etc they all ran wile with the Russians are hacking as soon as they could.
Fueled that perception daily on MSNBC for weeks, Knowing there would be more drops having to do with Hillary’s emails, transcripts. Set it up so that they could dismiss all future Wikileak drops.
Not working so well
Did you see Wolf Blitzer trying to get Mike Pence to say the word “deplorable”? When he didn’t, CNN reported, “Mike Pence Refuses To Call David Duke Deplorable.” One example.
When I read about the latest wiki dump on HRC, I was disgusted by the MSM’s complete lack of coverage. Here in the UK, there was literally nothing about it. It was Trump this, Trump that. Journalism in the mainstream is dead. There is no ambition or desire among the current crop who operate in the mainstream to expose the truth. It’s a disgrace. I offer my thanks to the Intercept and other independent outlets for resisting the madness.
HawaiiRules
The system is corrupt, the media, the politicians, Wall Street, they are all scratching each others backs, and the Clinton campaign is the epicenter. Average Americans–you’re screwed.
Del Berton
Nothing here. It’s just more of the Greenwald jihad – with a helping hand from Russian spy agencies (Guccifer, etc.) – supplying stolen emails that Putin hopes will prevent what he dreads most: Hillary in the White House. Hey Glenn, the anal fumes you inhale going down on your boy friend have addled what’s left in your mind, oh yee of small hands.
HawaiiRules Del Berton
And your evidence it came from Putin? None–correct? If you say “intelligence officials” that’s Clinton speak for “we made it up.
Gregor Del Berton
It’s okay to be wrong, but it’s not okay to be an asshole.
Glenn Greenwald Del Berton
Hey Glenn, the anal fumes you inhale going down on your boy friend have addled what’s left in your mind….
From a Clinton-supporting progressive who – as he spews rank bigotry like this – will be the first to explain that Trump must be stopped because he’s a bigot.
As for Putin hating Clinton, see here.
rrheard Glenn Greenwald
Hey Glenn, the anal fumes you inhale going down on your boy friend have addled what’s left in your mind, oh yee of small hands.
You really have to marvel at the emotional and psychological level of (under)development of someone who would type something like that.
John H Del Berton
If you read the article it was actually quite measured. He even mentions at the end that all presidential campaigns engage in these kind of tactics. Also, your obviously unhealthy obsession with Greenwald’s sexual practices reveals far more about your mind than his.
Doug Salzmann Del Berton
. . .with a helping hand from Russian spy agencies (Guccifer, etc.). . .
Got evidence or citations, jerk?
Mister Del Berton
The only ‘anal fumes’ are coming from your foul breath which probably comes from all the bullshit you suck up, and spout, or maybe from you having your brown tongue right up Hellary’s ass. So go fuck yourself buddy.
Oh yee of small dick, did this exposure hurt you, or maybe like the Obama administration, you feel the need to keep perpetuating bullshit about Russia because they are doing such a great job destroying US-backed, Al Qaeda-affiliated “rebels” in eastern Aleppo?
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/08/russ-o08.html
Deadheded Del Berton
I bet you work for a certain Super PAC
-Mona- Deadheded
Prolly not. Revise the Record wouldn’t be advising the trolls they hire to go all homophobic. Their assigned talking points are about “white trust fund babies” and on like that.
There are two of them posting here — “Jimmy” and “Karen” whose points are virtually identical, clearly from a script, and slavishly adoring of their Queen.
elwood -Mona-
perhaps its just moonlighting or freelancing as a homophobe, off the company clock
““Jimmy” and “Karen” whose points are virtually identical, clearly from a script, and slavishly adoring of their Queen.”
You are spot on with Karen but jimmy is doing comedy. There’s a difference between the two.
anon Del Berton
Just go away and watch Clinton Cash the full movie – nobody inhales more anal fumes than Hillary, who has her corrupt head right up Wall Street’s arse:
Suzanne Persing
Yesterday, and today, I played a game. Just the day before (Friday) the new Wikileaks dumb came. Where are the headlines?! I played a game. I counted the number of pictures of Trump on their online pages with corresponding articles. It is AMAZING. Donald Trumps picture (article too) popped up something like 11 times on The Guardians U.S. page, like 5 to 6 on Politico, Huffington Post: at least that many if not more. Say the word “pus^*” 10 years ago, and that beats any other relevant Wikileaks e-mails, hands down! I will say this, I am not a Trump fan, but what do they think, one more irrelevant Trump story will get his voter’s on the other side of this. The so- called press are so devoid of connection to investigative journalism and so filled with sensational stories, treating the public to the “jersey shore” version of news for so many years. They have helped CREATE the Trump voters.
Mag-Sulf
Peanutsaregood
What a sad state our Nation is in. Freedom of the Press was intended by our forefathers as a necessary means of keeping the elected somewhat honest. Now, the press is just propaganda. Of course we’ve known it, but when it’s in our faces thusly, it turns my stomach.
Nick Nicholson
What a surprise. I’m sure if Trump had the same sort of relationship, MediaMatters would be going nuts.
Of course, he doesn’t.
Yone Jam
One needs to put into question the authenticity of this content, especially with assertions from the intelligence community that foreign goverments want to meddle with domestic election process through said source. Without evidence this content is highly questionable.
Had to go back and look at the Clinton loyalist list looking for Lawrence O’Donnell’s name. Not there. He has been such a Clinton loyalist on his program. Never ever bringing up her war record, Comey findings, Wall Street times etc.
All of MSNBC host going after Trumps horrible sexism but protecting Hillary who protected Bill from his sexual predator behavior’s
Funny you should mention this, because today both the NY Times and The Washington Post are running articles titled “inside Trump Tower…” The NYTimes version is “Inside Trump Tower: An Increasingly Alone and Upset Donald Trump.” The WashPo’s version is “Inside Trump Tower: The Defiant and Insulated Republican Nominee.”
I wonder who in Clinton’s camp is the real writer of these articles and then slapped the reporters’ names on them? Isn’t there a term for this? Plagiarism maybe?? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
What is sad here is that they are doing this right Out in the open and the sheep will lap it up. I’m a Johnson (former Sanders) supporter and this is the kind of stuff that makes me really dislike Hillary Clinton.
Pretty shocking to learn that people go to sympathetic ears when they want their story told the way they want it. Can you imagine that the Hillary campaign isn’t going to Sean Hannity with this stuff? Brilliant expose, Glenn.
Guccifer 2.0 may indeed be Russian. Providing no evidence though says maybe they don’t really know – and are bothered more by that than the thought of blaming Russia erroneously. And whether Russian or not I doubt motives were ever about somehow helping Russia or even Trump – so much as, just like Wikileaks, wanting to slow down the establishment’s empire building.
I have a feeling in their heart at least – Guccifer 2.0 wears a Guy Fawkes mask.
Glenn and Lee, thank you; keep up the great work you do.
It is good to know that there still dedicated journalist who can tell the story of truth to power and that the fourth estate lives on with power of the internet.
Maddow, Matthews, ODonnell, Joy Reid, Hallie Jackson all running cover for HRC’s horrific war record for years. Barely mentioning the Comey findiings
Now we are hearing all of them and more hammering Trump’s despicable sexist comments and actions while ignoring Hillary’s protection of a sexual predator her husband.
The choice..A sexist, racist billionaire in White House, Or a multi millionaire (most of her money made off of Wall Street) proven and deadly war hawk and also an enabler of a sexual predator along with the predator living in the White House…..again.
Shameful and oh so dangerous,
Today (Sunday) we keep hearing many of these same media host saying the “elephant in the room” tonight is Trump’s sexist comments and actions. The elephant in the room is Clinton’s deadly war record. They never talk about this horrific and critical issue
Kathleen Lowrey Kathleen
It’s interesting that this time there isn’t much shaming of Jill Stein supporters (compared to what it was like to be a Ralph Nader supporter back in the day). The funneling of every voter, right or left, toward the Only Possible Candidate seems to be going really well. After everybody has had an opportunity to posture about their bedrock principles on the matter of not being an embarrassing bloviator, we can move on to full scale thermonuclear war with Russia! It took a while after 1989 to work the bugs out, but hey, we’re right back on track.
Orville Kathleen Lowrey
Well, they are smearing her as an anti-Vaxxer (she’s not), a fan of Russia (she’s not), and accuse her opponent of racism (which is why he’s the VP of a white woman). Even then people are posting all sorts of things that I see regularly on how bad Trump is and saying it’s why we have to vote for her. (Some of the same is going on in some circles for the Libertarian side, particularly among the religious reactionaries, who fear Libertarian social ideas.)
If Trump wins, rest assured, the Hillaryites will treat the Stein (and Johnson) voters worse than Nader. After all, Bush won in part thanks to dirty tricks in Florida (and elsewhere), and the Supreme Court (including several justices who violated their oaths). Further, Gore didn’t have the sense of entitlement and anointing that Clinton does.
This disgusting law breaking on the part of the Kremlin who passes the illegally obtained information to Clinton hater Julian Assange who has admitted coordination with Roger Stone and Sean Hanity then over to Greenwald for further dissemination and distortion in true, unapologetic billionaire funded yellow journalism is perhaps too much to stomach, particularly in light of it furthering the cause and beliefs of Mr. Trump, the avowed Muslim hater, a religious group that Mr. Greenwald professes to defend. But then the lightly veiled misogyny that drives Mr. Greenwald has deep, deep roots, not only in the Roger Stone alt-Right but in the Assange-Greenwald so-called left.
In the previous case that Mr. Fang got going, regarding the transcripts, we learn that Hillary held her speeches back because of the the distortions the haters would create in the lines in the speech, such as being out of touch with middle class due to her and Bill’s wealth and leaving out the line that she’s never forgotten her roots.
In this case, the private strategies of a campaign are handed over to the opposing party, abrogating the rights of the first party, and handed to the likes of Greenwald and Fox News. No, folks, this is not a leak, this is not the Pentagon Papers, this is not Edward Snowden, this is Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks, championed by none other than–right to privacy advocate, Glenn Greenwald. Wake up, Mr. Greenwald because some day when you can see a bit more clearly about what has been done here, or perhaps when you find out you’ve been hacked and sullied for things you’ve innocently said to your partner, you will.
Dave Huntsman
Glenn et al, I’m a little concerned as much about you and your process – or in this case, lack of same? – than I am about any ‘revelations’ here (of the latter, it seems absolutely no different – unfortunately- from any American political campaign these days; don’t you agree?).
Since it’s not silly to assume these (selective? modified?) leaks came from Russian intelligence services, don’t you have a responsibility to not publish them until you’ve confirmed that they haven’t been altered in any way- which means a lot more than just giving someone 24 hours to comment or not. (e.g. NYTimes considered positive confirmation so serious with respect to Trump’s tax returns that they delayed, travelled, you name it, to get real, positive confirmation). By refusing to be serious about your journalistic responsibilities, you could be no better than julian Assange: a willing tool of a hostile foreign power. Why would you want to do that?
Benito Mussolini Dave Huntsman
It is not surprising that those who make themselves a willing tool of the Clinton campaign assume that someone with a counter-narrative must have made themselves a willing tool of Vladimir Putin.
The truth is far more frightening than that: Mr. Greenwald is a loose cannon! He is making his own decisions on what constitutes newsworthy subject matter and somehow, someone has given him a platform to advance his own personal agenda. All politicians and their partisans, regardless of their political affiliation, can agree this is a dangerous practice which must be stopped.
The NY Times, as everyone knows, sat on their knowledge of the warrantless wiretapping program for over a year, in order to avoid damaging George Bush’s election chances. I doubt Mr. Greenwald would show such discipline. A small number of mainstream news outlets have demonstrated by their actions they are worthy to be selected as gatekeepers of what information should be released to the rabble, er, general public. They should be granted exclusive license to disseminate the news. I understand the government is working on this, as soon as they can smooth out a few wrinkles posed by the First Amendment.
Thanks for the no holds barred approach to the truth!!!!
This is not about Trump or Hillary, it’s about the truth!!
These e-mails are valuable historic documents, chronicling what is probably the last time a campaign will rely on this classic model for managing the press. It worked well for over a century, but has now been rendered obsolete in the age of social media.
The new model is more do-it-yourself, having the candidate themselves composing some semi-coherent tweets at 3:00 am or distributing behind the scenes tapes from old reality shows. The public enjoys this unfiltered approach and therefore it is far more effective at controlling the news cycle and attracting attention. Frankly, the MSM, for all their eagerness to please, turned out a fairly bland formulaic coverage that failed to impress. People want to hear the candidates talk about the issues that matter, like grabbing pussy, in their own words, not the watered down, pseudo-intellectual pap turned out by the old fashioned mainstream media.
Phil Ferro
Mr Fang and Mr Greenwald, this is significant! Thank you for doing this piece. While flipping through the channels this am, everyone of them was running long pieces about Trump. None of it was favorable and NOTHING about HRC. No coincidence that a representative or more from every single channel trashing Trump is on the “Columnist/pundit calls” list above.
Thank you! Thank you! It’s disgusting the White House is in on the attempt to taint HRC emails with a bogus story. The Russians hacked those emails, yeah right. I’m glad they told me who to thank, Russians… (the story isn’t true so I’m not thanking the Russians, it’s a joke you morons)
I do appreciate your confidence and judgement on this matter. Keep it up!
JN Phil Ferro
I wonder if the HRC people were hanging on to these tapes to be released when they hit deep weeds such as Guccifer 2.0’s email hack.
Congratulations to Greenwald, Fang and Guccifer 2.0 for bringing the factual news that in the USA all humans are equal, but that some humans (named Democrats) are more equal than others.
And as long as politicians give enough money/privilege to crony journalists (whorenalists) I am sure that this rule also aplies to Republicans or any political candidate.
I don’t need to know who Guccifer 2.0 is, but shouldn’t YOU know who Guccifer 2.0 is? Anonymous sources with documents can still have an agenda.
-Mona- Jim
Glenn et al., don’t need to know who the source is. As long as the documents: 1. Are authentic, and 2. Concern a public interests, they should be published. End of.
The who and why they were sent might be an interesting story as well, but it isn’t this story — the contents of the documents are the story.
Aggrieved -Mona-
Exactly!!!!!!
Glenn Greenwald Jim
Leaving aside what we may or may not know about our source: who cares what “agenda” sources have? As a journalist, the only relevant inquiry is whether the documents and information provided is relevant and in the public interest.
Here’s the two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning NYT reporter David Barstow – who just reported on Trump’s tax returns, which was mailed to NYT by someone he doesn’t know – explaining why, as a journalist, he doesn’t care what “motives” the source has. Every source has an agenda.
lopez Glenn Greenwald
I’m surprised TI wasn’t invited given the impact they’ve had nationally over the last couple of years.
Nete Peedham lopez
DNC is scared shitless of TI.
AtheistInChief Nete Peedham
Bob Jermam Glenn Greenwald
Relevant and in the public interest? So, integrity of said documents is not important to you? Wow. This will definitely change the lens through which I read The Intercept going forward.
Gil G Glenn Greenwald
“Every source has an agenda”
As does every reporter.
Simple observation of the news outlets has pointed to the legions of the “in the tank for the democrats” propagandists in the MSM. The republicans likely have a very few too.
Journalism has devolved into being a sycophant for whoever you think will help you the most.
Journalists need/want a job where they get read. By default, that means working mainly for the uber liberal MSM. Alternative media tells more of the truth, but doesn’t carry the same glory.
The MSM is dying. The Intercept could be leading the charge for the ALT media, but their authors are still trying to get hired by the MSM.
Kevin Schmidt W0X0F
Really? What makes you say Intercept authors “are still trying to get hired by the MSM”? Could it be blind support for the oligarchy, which owns the MSM?
You said the MSM is dying. So why would Intercept authors want to take a job without a future at the fourth column, when they and the quickly growing fifth column, are two reasons why the MSM is dying?
W0X0F Kevin Schmidt
A Fifth column would be hammering Hellary, rather than the one sided focus on Trump.
dahoit W0X0F
“Just give us some truth now,all we want is the truth”(John Lennon)
Yes,it has been mostly anti Trump writing,but the comments are mostly anti H.B.
Again this just emblematic of the fix,she fixed Berniie with the MSMs assistance,and now Trump is the target on their wall.Do people realize the ramifications of all this if they succeed?We would no longer be a democracy,but a dictatorship of the 1%.
And what actually cost Sanders?The South.He won just about every other non minority dominated city or state.Wasn’t he cheated in California?By pre-election BS?And why wasn’t the southern 90% vs. 10 % challenged,at least as some type of bias?
Why do blacks like her anyway?
And the old;Opinions are like assholes,everyone’s got one,fits also.
Not surprised to see Chris Hayes on their list. His “All In with Chris Hayes” show used to be good. But now it should be called “All In for Hillary with Chris Hayes”.
S.S. McDonald
Boy this is real up-to-date NEWS. I wonder why nobody else in the past 30 years has ever revealed that the Clintons get news articles that are slanted in their favor? I’ll wager this is astonishng news to the Clinton News Nework (CNN).
A “free” press is protected by the Constitution. This is not a free press, it is Pravda on steroids!
At least we know every “journalist” listed is not credible. Ever.
Thanks. It is excellent insight into their behaviors, both journalists and the campaigns that manipulate them.
Did the intercept attempt contact any the the party-goers for comment? Or those that declined?
Any value in that from your perspective or are they simply lost in their own political agendas?
Ted Galactus-36215
I’d like to see Neera Tanden and Karen Finney put on the spot. Both seem like the ultimate social climbers.
Galactus-36215 Ted
I’m surprised chuck todd declined for that same reason. (social climbing)
Craig Purcell
What does the GOP do ? Trump has probably hired Roger Ailes and has Bannon of Breitbart on the payroll in a bit more direct compromise of so called “journalistic ethics”. The revolving door swings wide in both parties as the crisis of the 2 party system deepens. The People know no one is to be trusted.
Nete Peedham
I’m not surprised that Jake Tapper declined…he seems to be the only one at CNN with any credibility whatsoever.
Orville Nete Peedham
Tapper has reported some things that should have changed races. He was one of the few who paid attention to the poll closings in the SC Republican primary WAAAAAAAAY back in 2000 when he worked at Salon. Said poll closings broke the law, and helped ensure Bush’s “victory” over McCain in the primaries. (As an aside, after 2000, a lot of states ended their state running primaries and turned them over to the parties, like SC did (a legacy of Jim Crow). And this year, a lot of polling places were closed in Democratic primaries…)
He also did good coverage of the Florida debacle, which should have sunk Bush (and damaged Gore too).
Casual Observer
Thanks for this reporting.
Some how, some way, awareness of these tactics and the increasingly blurred line between journalism/PR/propaganda is being absorbed/perceived by the public (whether they read Intercept or not). Resulting in continued erosion of faith in journalism, as measured by Pew polling, etc.
GG, looking forward to your coming visit to Santa Fe and hope there may be a chance to meet after all these years.
By the way, a couple of weeks ago, I posted my little question at https://presidentialopenquestions.com/ . They, allegedly, are taking “the people’s” questions and the 30 most popular as voted by “the public” are given to the moderators who may decide to use some of them at the townhall.
So, to make the story short, my question, asking Hillary to explain why, given her past, should anyone trust her as our president, was quickly voted to ‘number 3′ and climbing, actually ‘trending number 2′. I was so excited, I called a coworker and I was sharing my screen so he could see how, with every screen refresh, dozens of more votes were added to my question.
Then… it just disappeared. I emailed the site asking what made them remove the third, soon to become the second most popular question at their site. A couple of hours later I actually received a reply. It basically said “oops, we are so sorry” but, of course, not a hint that they had any intention to reinstate my question.
Of course, nobody would ever attempt to manipulate or interfere with such as important process as that where ‘real people’ are given the opportunity to ask the real powerful anything. For as long as their questions are what the real powerful are willing to hear and answer.
Arth Arth
By the way, the #1 and #2 most voted questions at the time were about Libya and Benghazi. Both removed shortly after mine disappeared.
raphee Arth
Interesting. I just read Scott Adam, Dilbert cartoon creator, blog today. He is very critical of Hillary. He had had speaking engagements cancelled for next year. Opportunity cost US dollars one million.
spelling error 3rd last para: “A separate email chain between Clinton staff… [Guccifer] not Gufficer.
Great job!!!
“They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind”
And they never learn. After a couple of years of the government and the powerful enjoying their ability to be watching us as they pleased and, when found, their lapdogs barking the “let them survey me coz I got nothin’ to hide”, now it’s their turn to see what it’s like to be intrusively watched.
It’s so funny because I have little doubt that our super-corrupt politicians and oligarchs are increasingly adopting the Mafiosi style methods of interactions. Probably remove their phones’ batteries whenever they are expressing their PRIVATE views on things, refrain from emailing anything that could be even remotely compromising, probably having to travel hundreds of miles and be physically in the same room with no electronics in it whenever important things are to be plotted.
So, keep exposing them. This is exactly what they deserve. Because, yes, Hillary has her PUBLIC, not so attractive face and she has her UGLY as in ‘private’ face and I have some suspicion on which is her real face.
Clinton’s crime syndicate runs deep. This media frenzy over decade old Trump comments to cover Hillary’s @$$ while she’s being gutted by Wikileaks and FBI releases… Trump’s character is abhorrent, but he is not manifest evil like Hillary. She will never get my vote.
Judith Hernandez Garret
You hit the nail on the Head!!
toidiY sselesU
“New Email Leak Reveals…” how Clinton Campaign has sought to mind-fuck the US public.
This seems more damning to the reporters mentioned than it is to Clinton.
dahoit Kevin
Like Johns to a whore.
cathyx
As a journalist, how embarrassing it must be to have your name on the list.
Stuart Meade cathyx
Maybe, although most, like the polititians that they cover, have long ceased to be embarrassed by anything, ….as long as it’s not sex. Also, it’s a marker of their top position in the great scheme of things which I’m sure is satisfying.
elwood cathyx
having reams of money and access shoved into one’s gaping maw is never embarrassing
Donald B. cathyx
They’re too devoid of conscience to be ashamed. On the contrary, they likely consider themselves patriots for their service.
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Shifting Perceptions in News & Politics
Tesco Law
By News Staff | News & Politics
Tesco Law and DIY online legal firms in the UKPhoto Credit © Alistair Laming/Loop Images/Corbis
New DIY law firms in the UK prepare to compete with their traditional counterparts
New providers of legal services in Britain aim to play a major part in driving down costs and making the law more accessible to hard-pressed consumers. Recent legislation, the Legal Services Act (dubbed ‘Tesco Law’), relaxes restrictions on the ownership of legal firms, paving the way for Alternative Business Structures. Whether it’s relatively straightforward matters such as writing a will, or potentially more complicated areas such as employment, change is afoot.
Online United States firms Rocket Lawyer and LegalZoom are chief among the newest entrants into this fledgling UK market. The former launched in November 2012; the latter is set to launch ‘imminently.’ Both claim they may adapt their US experience to fundamentally alter the UK legal landscape, creating affordable and easier routes to civil law. Rocket Lawyer offers online document creation, with the back-up of a network of lawyers.
Mark Edwards, Rocket Lawyer’s Vice President and UK General Manager, tells The Positive, “The consumer and small business is yet to receive the legal service that they need and deserve. We’re aiming to make the law simple and affordable for these customers.”’He adds: “That’s what we’re doing in the US already, and the UK has the same challenges as the US and is the next biggest legal market globally.”
In a similar move, LegalZoom is partnering with QualitySolicitors, a network of UK law firms to launch its overseas endeavour. The former’s technology might combine with the latter’s solicitors, who will offer local support and advice from over 400 locations across the UK.
The range of services includes company formations, employment contracts, wills and power of attorney, and divorces available online 24/7, with local QualitySolicitors on-hand to review or help complete documents and provide further face-to-face advice and representation where necessary.
Although the legislation has given fresh impetus to such entrepreneurial initiatives, the vast market for legal services has been attracting cut-price players for many years. Lawpack, which provides packs of forms and guidance on the simpler legal transactions, was set up 20 years ago. Its products are sold in well-known retail outlets such as WH Smith, where a will-writing pack is available for £19.99. The packs are also available online.
“It’s a do-it-yourself solution,” Thomas Coles, director at Lawpack, tells The Positive. Lawpack points to the importance of cheaper ways of making wills, especially for the less well-off, with research showing that socioeconomic groups C, D and E (which include skilled and unskilled manual workers and casual labourers) are less likely to make wills.
He explains that the packs work best in “straightforward” areas such as wills and tenancy agreements. “Throughout all our packs we suggest to people that if there are any complications, they really do need to seek advice from a professional, a solicitor.”
Lawpack has recently developed partnerships with some legal firms to extend its range of services. The Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, says there is an increasing demand for accessibly priced legal services and notes that firms with models like those of Rocket Lawyer and Lawpack are on the rise.
The Citizens Advice Bureau may well be a useful starting point. The CAB offers a free source of advice, support and a raft of information, including helpful leaflets. It encourages people to think and talk through their options before launching a formal legal procedure.
If it looks as though law is necessary, the latest online legal businesses add to the overall choice available. Even longer-established players such as Lawpack accept the new offerings could be beneficial. Lawpack’s Coles says: “It’s all good for the market, certainly good for the consumer.”
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Home Editorial Dave Mortimore How much experience is necessary before starting F1?
How much experience is necessary before starting F1?
The new drivers signed for 2014 have prompted some questions over their experience, and whether they are ready for F1. Interestingly none of the three (Daniil Kvyat, Kevin Magnussen or Sergey Sirotkin) have any experience in the FIA’s preferred feeder series GP2. Their experience is shown below:
Kvyat: three years karting; 147 races over four seasons (F BMW, F Renault 2.0, F3, GP3)
Magnussen: three years karting; 138 races over five seasons (F Ford, F Renault 2.0, F3, F Renault 3.5)
Sirotkin: two years karting; 81 races over four seasons (F Abarth, Auto GP, F3, F Renault 3.5)
This compares favourably with the top current F1 drivers (in that they have comparable levels of experience). The current F1 drivers have this experience prior to F1:
Räikkönen: eight years karting; 23 races over two seasons (F Ford, F Renault 2.0)
Alonso: eight years karting; 26 races over two seasons (F Nissan, F3000)
Button: nine years karting; 40 races over two seasons (F Ford, F3, Spa 24)
Massa: seven years karting; 48 races over four seasons (F Chevrolet, F Renault 2.0, F3000, ETCC)
Rosberg: seven years karting; 69 races over four seasons (F BMW, F3, GP2)
Vettel: three years karting; 73 races over five seasons (F BMW, F3, World Series)
Webber: three years karting; 73 races over eight seasons (F Ford, F4000, F3, F3000, FIA GT)
Bottas: six years karting; 88 races over five seasons (F Renault 2.0, F3, GP3)
Sutil: four years karting; 104 races over five seasons (F Ford, F BMW, F3, A1 GP, Super GT)
di Resta: nine years karting; 105 races over eight seasons (F Renault 2.0, F3, DTM)
Hamilton: six years karting; 109 races over six seasons (F Renault 2.0, F3, GP2)
Ricciardo: six years karting; 109 races over seven seasons (F Ford, F BMW, F Renault 2.0, F3, F Renault 3.5)
Kovalainen: three years karting; 109 races over five seasons (F Renault 2.0, F3, World Series, GP2)
Pic: two years karting; 116 races over six seasons (F Campus, F Renault 2.0, F Renault 3.5, GP2)
Grosjean: two years karting; 128 races over seven seasons (F Renault 2.0, F3, GP2)
Vergne: two years karting; 129 races over five seasons (F Campus, F Renaul 2.0, F3, GP3, F Renault 3.5)
Gutiérrez: two years karting; 130 races over six seasons (F BMW, F3, F Master, GP3, GP2)
Bianchi: five years karting; 133 races over six seasons (F Renault 2.0, F3, F Renault 3.5, GP2)
Hülkenberg: eight years karting; 144 races over five seasons (FBMW, F3, A1 GP, GP2, V de V)
Pérez: eight years karting; 151 races over seven seasons (Skip Barber, F BMW, F3, A1 GP, GP2)
Maldonado: four years karting; 165 races over eight seasons (F Renault 2.0, F Renault V6, F Renault 3.5, F3000, GP2, GT Open)
Chilton: five years karting; 174 races over eight seasons (T Car, ELMS, Mazda, F3, F Renault 3.5, GP2)
van der Garde: eight years karting; 211 races over ten seasons (Renault 2.0, F3, World Series, F Renault 3.5, GP2)
Interestingly, the five world champions currently racing are among those with the least experience when they graduated to F1 (Hamilton being the most experienced of that group – which is possibly why he made the impact he did on arrival). Grosjean and Hülkenberg are the two highly rated drivers that stand out as having taken a long time to reach F1. This surprised me in the case of Grosjean (as he definitely looked lacking in experience the first time he was dropped into F1, and the second).
So is a driver’s pre F1 experience important to their development, or is it just a showcase for their talent to those F1 team bosses who are willing to take a risk on a new driver? From the list above, the three least experienced drivers on entering F1 all became world champions, and all impressed during their first season at the highest level.
I think this shows that it would be far better to rationalise the number of single seater series below F1, so that drivers were forced to compete against their peers at the junior level. Talent would then be easier to spot, and those drivers could be given an opportunity in F1 (or in today’s financial climate, attract the necessary sponsorship).
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Alianora La Canta
To my mind, you need to have enough talent to get, or nearly get, the performance-based automatic Superlicence qualifications (I am not referring to the “attended and scored points in X GP2 races” condition). The other methods were originally there for those who just missed them, or were forced into alternative routes through a lack of money – in a sense, the opposite of how the other methods are used now. The champions all won F3000/GP2, Renault World Series-and-equivalents or international F3 titles, except for Mark Webber due to lack of funds (and doing F3000 the same year as the… Read more »
Button didn’t win the F3 championship (the highest series he did before F1), in fact he only came third. He did win in Formula Ford, although I can’t see that qualifying for a super licence.
Raikkonen did win the Renault 2.0 championship, but again that doesn’t qualify for an automatic super licence.
If you can drive, you can drive. Junior series are just an opportunity to show your talent to those with the ability to give you a drive at the highest level.
I agree with you about Sirotkin, it does look too soon for him to be given the chance at F1 (he may be a slow developer like Grosjean). On Kvyat though, he has only had a year at GP3 which he won (he had a year of F BMW and two years at F Renault 2.0 winning the ALPS championship and coming second in the Euro championship). So much of a driver’s career is dictated by the budget they have available. Kvyat has performed well in the two Friday sessions in the last two races of the season, so I… Read more »
As for rationalisation, the problem is that other branches of the sport (think touring cars and sportscars) are growing. The latter in particular requires more drivers than single-seaters, to the point where its own feeder series can no longer supply enough drivers. Since single-seater junior series are easier to start than sportscar ones (despite the position being reversed at senior level), there has to be a lot of junior series to get the drivers for the senior ones. Even if F1 is no longer interested in most of the best ones.
The problem is that the money is outweighing the value of talent. Companies can just reach down anywhere they like, regardless of skill or experience. The problem can be solved by doing three things 1. Define the ladder in the rules and/or bylaws of the FIA. 2. Define how one progresses from level to level. 3. Outline how sponsors may back a person, but limit their reach as to who they can offer up to F1 by a combination of skill and experience. 4. Limit the F1 teams to just how far they can reach down, ensuring that, when they… Read more »
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Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston
Roberts, Madge Thornall
Contributor: Foreword by Randolph B. Campbell.
Hardcover Price: $0.00
Paperback ISBN-10: 929398513
Physical Description: 6 x 9. 364 pp. 36 b&w photos. Bib. Index
Award(s):
East Texas Historical Association Ottis Lock Award for the Best Book Published on East Texas History, 1994
East Texas Addy Federation Silver Award for Cover Design, 1992
Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston is now available as a free e-book at the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.
"In this story of a marriage, Roberts weaves the pieces of her great-grandmother’s life into a tapestry that is intricate in detail and rich in color . . . Unlike other biographies of the first governor of Texas and his wife, this is not Sam’s but Margaret Lea’s story, . . . [which contains] stories of love and praise for a woman whose life has until now been hidden from the public gaze."—Western American Literature
As the great-great-granddaughter of Sam Houston and Margaret Lea, Madge Thornall Roberts played in her great-grandparents' home in Independence, Texas, which had Santa Anna's saddle in the upstairs hall, the San Jacinto sword over the mantle, and where she kept her doll's clothes in an old chest of Margaret Lea's. Trunks of documents sat unattended in the barn. Some of those papers later were burned, and what remained were divided among descendants. Madge Roberts has gathered these documents together again and, along with other Houston letters and interviews, woven them into the story of the Houstons' marriage.
Much is known about Sam Houston's political and military career, but the influence of his wife and children on his life has been overlooked. The letters are astonishing in their emotional honesty, revealing a deep interdependency as well as a close and loving marital partnership.
MADGE THORNALL ROBERTS, with degrees from Southwestern University and Trinity University, spent thirty-five years as a teacher. She is the editor of The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston.
History - American
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Brits Dominate at the 2014 MTB World Championships in Hafjell, Norway
British women rule the mountain at the 2014 MTB World Championships at Hafjell, Norway.
Australian racer Tracey Hannah ripping through the rock section at the 2014 MTB World Champioships at Hafjell, Norway
If you ever needed a demonstration of just how strong the UK Women’s MTB field is, then the racing at the 2014 MTB World Championships in Hafjell, Norway, was the place to see it. The skills, technical prowess and athleticism of the women representing the UK was phenomenal, and they’ve got the medals to prove it.
Great Britain fielded a team of 25 riders, including 9 women, across Downhill and Cross Country categories. Women were represented in nearly all categories and levels in each discipline, with one notable absence; this year, no women were fielded in the Junior Downhill category.
The weather was dry and warm, the courses technical, the racing fast and the crashes many. Not only were the races broadcast live via Red Bull TV, but they are also available to watch again, so if you haven’t seen them, grab a cuppa and settle down for some incredible action.
If you follow the World Cup, you’ll notice that the UCI rankings are slightly different the World Cup rankings, as they UCI takes into account points won in other races like National or European race series.
You can find out more about the women competing with our Introduction to the 2014 MTB World Championship Team.
2014 Cross Country World Championships
The start of the Elite Women’s XC races at the 2014 World Championships. Image copyright UCI
Team GB fielded 6 riders in the XC Category, spread across the Elite, Under 23 and Junior titles. The course at Hafjell is punishing, and one of the most technical seen this year.
The course featured steep switchback climbs almost directly up a piste, followed by rooty rocky descents worthy of a downhill track, and indeed the XC course runs right next to the DH course in parts.
Boding well for the future, Evie Richards and Isla Short both placed in the top 10 in the Junior XC World Championships. Teammate Ffion James placed 13th, in a very strong field of riders. With results like these, it seems the future is looking bright for the next generation of Team GB cyclists.
In the Under 23 race, Alice Barnes rode hard to take another top-10 spot, placing 7th ahead of French rider Pauline Ferrand Prevot. Teammate Beth Crumpton placed 17th, a good result as she prepares for the upcoming Olympics, as both Beth and Alice are part of the British Cycling Olympic Training Academy.
Annie Last, who has only just returned to racing after over a year and a half out of the sport due to a back injury, was also on excellent form. Cross country is a huge sport with a lot of development support on the continent, and Annie had a very tough field to compete with. She just lost out on a top ten position, placing 12th overall, but again it’s a great result in one of her first few races back.
2014 Downhill World Championships
An all-British podium at the 2014 MTB World Championships! Left to right: Rachel Atherton (2nd place), Manon Carpenter (1st place) and Tahnee Seagrave (3rd place). Image copyright Laurence Crossman-Emms/Dirt Magazine
It was always going to be an amazing race. As the last big event of the year, where it’s all about medals and not points, riders tend to go flat out and this year was no different. The course can only be described as gnarly – huge rocks gardens, narrow and super-rutted root strewn sections through trees, and fast open off-camber turns.
With French contender Emmeline Ragot out of the race with a broken hand acquired in practice, all eyes were on Rachel Atherton, the defending champion, and Manon Carpenter, the newly crowned World Cup Champion.
The racing was down the wire. Both Manon and Rachel put in amazing runs, with very little to spot between them. In the end, Manon had the edge and rode to victory, taking the rainbow stripes and giving her what’s known as ‘The Double’, World Champion and World Cup Champion in the same year. The podium was rounded off with fellow Brit Tahnee Seagrave. Racing her first year as an elite, the former Junior World Champion has shown that she can more than hold her own with the Elite Women.
Check the full results for all of the 2014 World Championship races at the UCI Results Page.
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1x22 (22) Berserk!! The Terrifying Yōkai Gyūki
Mana and Neko-Musume visit a tourist resort island. At the same time, Nezumi-Otoko came to the island with a talent and TV crew to produce a program about bizarre and scary stories. On this island, there was a legend about a terrifying yōkai called Gyūki. The talent doesn't believe the legend at all and moves the Gyūki Rock, which breaks the seal. The talent suddenly started suffering and transformed into the Gyūki. The Gyūki ate Nezumi-Otoko and went on a rampage, destroying everything in its path. Just when things began to look grim for Neko-Musume and the others, Kitarō appears and defeats the Gyūki. Although it seemed that the Gyūki was perfectly vanquished, Kitarō...!?
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Mark Hunt says he wants Brock Lesnar's UFC 200 purse
Brock Lesnar Vows to Get to Bottom of Failed Drug Test, Mark Hunt ... - thebiglead.com
Veteran heavyweight demands all of Lesnar's purse, threatens to quit UFC if demands not met.
by Enzo Tanos
It may not have been the epic beatdown many were expecting, as Mark Hunt's knockout power was neutralized by the comebacking Brock Lesnar's slow and methodical, yet effective ground game. And it all worked to the advantage of “The Beast,” as he won the match unanimously in three rounds. But with Lesnar having potentially run afoul of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the “Super Samoan” is reportedly dead-set on demanding his opponent’s purse should he be found guilty of doping.
“The Beast” gets flagged for potential violation
Lesnar’s return to UFC action five years after his last mixed martial arts fight was a successful one, but prior to that, he was flagged by USADA officials for an unspecified potential doping violation. This originated from an out-of-competition sample taken on June 28, or about a week and a half before UFC 200.
In the run-up to UFC 200, Hunt had made comments to the press, suggesting that current WWE competitor Lesnar was “juiced to the gills,” and complaining that UFC was giving the 39-year-old former UFC heavyweight champion preferential treatment. USADA requires that newly-unretired athletes give a four-month notice for their first fight, a requirement that was apparently waived for Lesnar.
Hunt won’t be satisfied anymore with half of Lesnar’s UFC 200 payday
The 42-year-old Hunt said that he told UFC President Dana White that he wants half of Lesnar's UFC 200 purse, given that competitors caught “cheating” should lose all of their pay for a given event. But he had quickly followed up on that in a subsequent tweet, saying that he “changed (his) mind,” and that “cheaters shouldn’t get [expletive]” if caught.
Although it's common for UFC fighters to talk smack against each other outside of official interviews and press conferences, Hunt appears dead-serious on his demands, and his attempts at getting White's attention. So serious, in fact, that he may ask for his release from the promotion if he doesn't get his way.
“I’ve told Dana that I want a release from the UFC if they don’t sort this out,” he said.
“They say they are trying to clean up the sport, but it doesn’t feel like it. The UFC is basically saying if you cheat you won’t be penalized.”
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A structure from the other dimension?
GDK Chapter 398 – A structure from the other dimension?
As they walked out the Northern Rose Garden, Bollands followed Han Shuo closely the entire time.
As Han Shuo stared flabbergasted at Bollands, Bollands said respectfully, “Senior brother, from today onward, I will officially leave the Rose Garden and follow you.”
Han Shuo hadn’t expected Bollands to be so straightforward. After thinking for a moment, he smiled and said, “How about this? In this period of time, you will still be in charge of protecting Lawrence and ensuring his safety. When he doesn’t need your protection anymore, you can return to my side. I make preparations to arrange for your entrance ceremony after some time. Once we performed the ceremony, I will immediately impart to you the martial technique.”
“Alright then. In that case, I will continue to protect Prince Lawrence.” Hao Shuo’s instructions were now of higher importance than Karel’s. Bollands was used to listening to orders, hence he nodded and agreed.
Under Han Shuo’s orders, Bollands gradually sunk into the darkness. Han Shuo understood that Bollands had gone to secretly protect Lawrence and headed back to his residence alone.
It was currently a sensitive time in Ossen City. The streets were tightly guarded during the night as city guards patrolled all pathways within the city. Even while the nobles entertained themselves at night, they still wouldn’t forget to talk about proper business.
Han Shuo had previously heard via a mystical demon the discussion between many nobles within the Northern Rose Garden about the princes, debating about which prince they should support.
Han Shuo had also just realized abruptly why King Uhtred already acted quickly. All of a sudden, all officials who had close relations with Lawrence had been, more or less, promoted for all kinds of reasons.
Lawrence, who originally had the least support, was suddenly being ardently paid attention to.. King Uhtred’s obvious favoritism caused the nobles and princes to be apprehensive, as they couldn’t understand the reason behind Uhtred’s actions.
Sacred swordmaster Karel, who had always maintained neutrality and had never expressed his support for Lawrence, had declared when he left the imperial palace that if anyone dared to deal with Lawrence underhandedly, they would face his wrath. Karel had even hinted at Duke Ashburn’s despicableness.
Even the Dark Mantle organization which acted as the empire’s underground agents suddenly had close dealings with Lawrence. Amyes who was feared by all nobles was even seen visiting Lawrence’s residence at night. This seemingly proved that the Dark Mantle and Lawrence had allied secretly.
Lawrence, who had been suppressed by the other princes for a long time, suddenly had a surge in circumstances and became the topic of discussion between nobles. A number of influential personages who had never taken Lawrence seriously now had a sudden change of opinion.
“King Uhtred has been in power in the Lancelot Empire for many years. It seems that before Uhtred dies, the whole Lancelot Empire will act as he commands. His successor would ultimately still be his personal choice.” Han Shuo pondered inwardly as he unhurriedly walked toward his residence.
Late in the night, the streets were quiet. Han Shuo moved swiftly, not leaving any tracks on the streets. A couple of mystical demons watched the surroundings stealthily as Han Shuo easily evaded the city guards and returned quickly to his own residence.
When Han Shuo reached his residence, he realized that other than a few guards and the old steward, all the servants had already slept. When Kallas saw Han Shuo appear, he hastily greeted him and soon after said in a low voice, “Lord Marquis, there’s someone in the room who wishes to see you.”
Han Shuo stared blankly, baffled that someone actually came over so late at night and couldn’t help but be astonished. A mystical demon flew over in the direction Kallas had given and soon after a handsome and graceful figure suddenly entered Han Shuo’s sight.
It was actually him! Han Shuo was shocked. He then nodded towards Kallas and instructed, “Alright then, it’s already quite late. You should rest early. I can go over by myself.”
Kallas didn’t say anything else, bowing towards Han Shuo and then immediately withdrawing.
Han Shuo walked over to the room for receiving guests. Once he entered, the door closed automatically. Han Shuo frowned when he saw the handsome grand magus necromancer before him and asked, “Why are you here?”
Wolf gave a carefree smile and leisurely looked at Han Shuo, “I came over to thank you. Thanks to the skeletal staff, you’ve helped me regain my youth. Hehe. I’m especially grateful for this..”
“In recent days, there have been some rumors circulating that are not beneficial to me. I wouldn’t want your arrival to cause misunderstandings. If there aren’t any matters, it’s best that you don’t come over and cause trouble for me. Your identity is too sensitive and you’re someone I cannot provoke.” Han Shuo didn’t have any enmity towards Wolf, but he didn’t have any favorable impression of him either. Nowadays, Kosse’s group had been stopping at nothing to cause him to lose his standing within Ossen City. Even though Han Shuo had Uhtred’s help, if he really let Kosse latch onto credible evidence, it would be hard for Han Shuo to manage.
“Relax. It’s precisely because I don’t want to give you trouble that I chose to appear so late at night. Furthermore, an average people wouldn’t know my identity. Even if it were previous enemies from the Church of Light, they probably wouldn’t be able to recognize me too. Hence, you need not worry, I won’t bring you any trouble.” Wolf explained.
Hearing him say this, Han Shuo examined Wolf’s appearance carefully and couldn’t help but agree that his words did contain some truth. It was impossible to connect the current Wolf who was elegant, handsome and full of a dignified aura with the previous Wolf who looked inhuman and had a dense aura of death. If not for the changes due to the skeletal staff, even if someone were to beat Han Shuo to death, he wouldn’t believe that the graceful youth in front of him was that centuries-old Wolf.
“Why have you come to find me?” Han Shuo relaxed slightly, but still wrinkled his brows and annoyedly looked at Wolf.
“Hey, we should be considered allies, and are truly friends. From the beginning, our Calamity Church has always thought of you as a friend. Besides, I’m also a necromancer, you shouldn’t be so indifferent toward me.” Wolf shrugged and said with a little sorrow.
Han Shuo was shocked by his words. Thinking about it, it was indeed as Wolf said. Everyone in the Profound Continent was afraid of the evil Calamity Church. Once he showed his ability to refine undead creatures that weren’t afraid of light magic, they had tossed him an olive branch and even spared no effort in protecting him.
When Wolf discovered that Han Shuo had the skeletal staff, Calamity Church’s attitude towards Han Shuo was so amicable that it made him a little vexed. Looking at the earnest Wolf in front of him, Han Shuo really didn’t know how to treat him.
Han Shuo relaxed, no longer having a cold and emotionless expression. He smiled faintly as he pulled over a chair, sat down and asked, “In that case, could Mister Wolf tell me what you came here for? And also, how exactly does Calamity Church want to treat me?”
When Wolf saw that Han Shuo’s expression was no longer indifferent, he smiled happily and said, “This should be the way! We will be friends. Hehe. Very good friends!! There aren’t many necromancers in this world and even fewer Grand magus necromancers Yet, both you and I are grand magus necromancers. We ought to have many similar interests. Ha. I really had not expected that you would actually become a grand magus necromancer so quickly. Hehe. It seems like you must have gained many things from the Holy Land.”
“Holy Land? What Holy Land?” Han Shuo looked distracted and asked suspiciously.
Wolf seemed to know that Han Shuo would ask this question. He straightened himself, appearing slightly excited as he said, “ The Holy Land is what our Calamity Church calls that place. Most of the people in the Profound Continent call it the Cemetery of Death. Hehe, since the skeleton staff is in your possession I don’t think you would be able to deny that you’ve been to the Holy Land.
Moreover, you’ve only practiced necromancy for less than five years and yet you’ve already become a grand magus necromancer, which took me a couple of centuries to reach. This is already enough to illustrate the issue. There’s also the undead creatures that aren’t afraid of light magic and other mysteries that prove that you’ve been to the Holy Land.”
When Wolf said this, Han Shuo’s heart surged with waves of emotion. He realized that he hadn’t been cautious enough, or it could be said that he knew too little about the Calamity Church and the secrets about necromancers. This was why Wolf was able to recognize the skeletal staff. For Wolf to be so certain in his words, clearly showed that he had surmised the truth.
Han Shuo’s expression momentarily wavered, his eyes indistinctly revealing an ominous glint. He was considering if he should kill everyone who knew his secrets but after a round of contemplation, he knew it was already too late. Wolf had probably already shared this information with the Calamity Church.
Observing Han Shuo’s virulent gaze, even Wolf who had lived for a long time felt apprehensive. As a necromancer who had high accomplishments, Wolf could clearly sense Han Shuo’s concealed killing intent. Wolf who was being stared fixedly by Han Shuo unexpectedly had a feeling of palpitation, causing him to be startled.
Only when faced with the rebuke of high-ranked people in the evil Calamity Church would Wolf have such a feeling of apprehension. He would never have thought that he would feel a hint of fear from someone who was so much younger than him. Wolf was very clear what this feeling implied.
He knew that only when experts who could threaten his life were discontented and had the intention to kill him would he instinctually palpitate in fear!
Could this youth who had just become a grand magus necromancer possess the ability to kill him?
Illusion, it must an illusion! Wolf reassured himself before awkwardly saying to Han Shuo, “Don’t be so hostile towards me. Our Calamity Church will really never become your enemy. Since the skeletal staff has already recognized you as its master, you are a noble within our Calamity Church. There are many areas in which the Calamity Church will need rely on you, hence we require you to be living well.”
“In that case, if my death brings about more benefits, you all would’ve already acted?” Han Shuo squinted his eyes, sizing up Wolf as he replied slowly.
“Uh…” Wolf’s expression became more awkward. He hesitated for a while before nodding and said, “If we could kill you and there would be only benefits and no harm to the Calamity Church, I think my superiors would have given the order to kill you long ago and not decree to protect you and cooperate with you.”
Wolf could still be considered as a frank person. Han Shuo knew how the infamously evil Calamity Church handled matters. When he first saw Belinda, even though she was just an alchemist, she had already attempted to kill everyone in the hotel without inhibition. She didn’t place any importance on the lives of strangers, believing that everything was proper and as a matter of course.
Coldly snorting, Han Shuo knew that Wolf already knew about the matters regarding the Cemetery of Death. However, Han Shuo naturally wouldn’t reveal any details. He expressionlessly replied, “Don’t stick your noses into my business. Be honest about the reason why you are here!”
Seeing Han Shuo becoming displeased, Wolf hastily explained, “Regarding the Holy Land, we can temporarily not discuss it. I came here to inform you regarding some secrets of the skeletal staff and the Holy Land. This would probably be the information that you long for the most.”
“Oh? Didn’t you previously say that if I didn’t join the Calamity Church you wouldn’t tell me the secrets about the skeletal staff? Why have you now specifically come here to tell me this information? I had clearly stated previously that I wouldn’t join the Calamity Church. It’s best if you don’t act rashly.” Han Shuo said to Wolf.
For some unknown reason, the grand magus necromancer Wolf, who should’ve been aloof and surpassed ordinary people, was unbelievably humble and even seemed to be deliberately currying favor as he spoke to Han Shuo.
From the time you picked up the skeleton staff, you’re already considered a member of our Calamity Church! Wolf said inwardly before smiling as he explained, “Don’t worry. My superiors gave me the order and so I will naturally tell you the situation of the skeletal staff and the Holy Land. However, what I will tell you is only what I know. There are things that I don’t know about and I’m powerless to help.”
“In that case, it would be a waste to not listen. Go ahead then.” Han Shuo spoke indifferently, no longer appearing as pressing as the previous time. However, he was inwardly so curious that he could die. Only he himself could understand this fact.
“Then I’ll first talk about the Holy Land. Within the Calamity Church, it is rumored that the Holy Land possesses a magical transportation array. That transportation array has the mysterious ability to connect between planes, in particular, it can intercommunicate with the netherworld. Necromancers can rely on their original body to enter the netherworld to explore unknown territories within the nether realm and improve their necromancy magic.
Furthermore, there is another legend within the Calamity Church. I’m not sure whether this legend is true but I’ve once heard the pope say that the Holy Land wasn’t a structure of the Profound Continent. Instead, it came from another plane to the Profound Continent. I surmise that the plane it came from was the netherworld.” Wolf breathed in deeply as he explained to Han Shuo.
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Robotech Third Generation had a character called Lancer / Yellow Dancer. The former was his [male] official name. The second was his cross-dressing rock star alter ego. Robotech was a strange time, but it did produce some good music like the in universe song “Look Up (The Sky Is Falling).” The one below has been reproduced with a more hard rock sound (and the AMV is pretty cool too).
06/24/2019 05/25/2019 by James Young Categories: Metal MondayTags: Music to Write By Leave a comment
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Chris Stapleton Leads This Year’s CMA Award Noms
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Other artists landing multiple nods include Jason Aldean, Dan + Shay, Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line, Chris, Janson, Miranda Lambert, Midland, Thomas Rhett, and Keith Urban, who all have three.
As we previously told you, this year’s Entertainer of the Year nominees include Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Chris Stapleton and Keith Urban. For yet another year, no female artists were recognized in the category.
Among the snubs this year, Kane Brown and Dustin Lynch, who both had huge years, failed to be recognized. Meanwhile, Luke Bryan may have received an Entertainer of the Year nod, but didn’t receive any other nominations. Blake Shelton was once again snubbed for any CMA nods and last year’s Entertainer of the Year winner Garth Brookswas also snubbed this year. Interestingly, several up and comers, like Ashley McBryde and Carly Pearce, were left out of the Best New Artist category, while Luke Combs, Brett Young and Lauren Alaina, who were all nominated last year, were nominated again. Another odd occurance, Sam Hunt's "Body Like A Back Road" is nominated for Song of the Year, which he was also nominated for last year.
The 52nd Annual CMA Awards, hosted once again by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, air November 14th on ABC. Check out the nominees below, and some reactions here.
Nominees for the 52ndAnnual CMA Awards(click here for the complete list)
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Jason AldeanLuke BryanKenny ChesneyChris StapletonKeith Urban
SINGLE OF THE YEAR(Award goes to Artist, Producer(s), and Mix Engineer(s))
"Broken Halos" – Chris Stapleton"Drinkin' Problem" – Midland"Drowns the Whiskey" – Jason Aldean (Feat. Miranda Lambert)"Meant to Be" – Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line"Tequila" – Dan + Shay
ALBUM OF THE YEAR(Award goes to Artist and Producer(s))
“From A Room: Volume 2” – Chris Stapleton“Golden Hour” – Kacey Musgraves“Graffiti U” – Keith Urban“Life Changes” – Thomas Rhett“The Mountain: – Dierks Bentley
SONG OF THE YEAR(Award goes to Songwriter(s))
"Body Like A Back Road" - Songwriters: Zach Crowell, Sam Hunt, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne"Broken Halos" - Songwriters: Mike Henderson, Chris Stapleton"Drowns the Whiskey" - Songwriter: Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton, Josh Thompson"Drunk Girl" - Songwriter: Scooter Carusoe, Tom Douglas, Chris Janson"Tequila" - Songwriter: Nicolle Galyon, Jordan Reynolds, Dan Smyers
FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Kelsea BalleriniMiranda LambertMaren MorrisKacey MusgravesCarrie Underwood
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Dierks BentleyLuke CombsThomas RhettChris StapletonKeith Urban
VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Lady AntebellumLANCOLittle Big TownMidlandOld Dominion
VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR
Brothers OsborneDan + ShayFlorida Georgia LineMaddie & TaeSugarland
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Lauren AlainaLuke CombsChris JansonMidlandBrett Young
MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR(Award goes to each Artist)
"Burning Man" – Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne"Dear Hate" – Maren Morris (Feat. Vince Gill)"Drowns the Whiskey" – Jason Aldean (Feat. Miranda Lambert)"Everything's Gonna Be Alright" – David Lee Murphy (with Kenny Chesney)"Meant to Be" – Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR(Award goes to Artist and Director(s))
"Babe" – Sugarland (Featuring Taylor Swift) Director: Anthony Mandler"Cry Pretty" – Carrie Underwood Director: Randee St. Nicholas"Drunk Girl" – Chris Janson Director: Jeff Venable"Marry Me" – Thomas Rhett Director: TK McKamy"Tequila" – Dan + Shay Director: Patrick Tracy
Source: CMA
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Dewoitine D.371: Aerial Trickster (Pre-Order available)
War Thunder rolls out new, seventh nation with French aircraft to be released with the next Update.
We’re starting a series of developer diaries about the French military aircraft that will appear in update 1.73! The D.371 monoplane was one of the first attempts by French aircraft designers to create a next-generation airplane that significantly outclassed the good old biplanes of the First World War.
Dewoitine D.371 H.S.9 Starter Pack - 9.99
D.371 aircraft (Rank 1 France) - will become available after 1.73 update;
Premium account for 7 days;
500 Golden Eagles;
Pre-order bonus: "Bayard Knight's Helmet" emblem of 15th Fighter Wing, 1/7 "Provence" Fighter Group;
Pre-order bonus: “Beyond reproach” title;
French planes closed beta access (will start with 1.73 update).
PS4 users will be able to purchase the Dewoitine D.371 H.S.9 bundle after the release of update 1.73.
The exact date will be announced at a later date.
When the First World War ended, France possessed one of the most powerful aerial armies in the world, and French pilots were accepted professionals of aerial warfare. But the era of biplanes ended and the French army needed new airplanes – fast, high-altitude, and better armed. In 1932, the French designer Emile Dewoitine presented a prototype for the single-seat single-engine Dewoitine D.37 fighter at a contest to create a new fighter that could reach a speed of at least 300 km/h. This fighter was designed to a “monoplane-parasol” schematic. Tests showed that the engine power of the first experimental prototype was insufficient and the machine was further developed to house an 800 hp engine made by the Gnome-Rhône company. The wing, cooling system, and landing gear were also modernized. The new fighter was designated D.371 and, in spite of the fact that it failed to win in a contest of armed forces, 28 units of the vehicle were produced.
By the start of the Second World War, the D.371 was already considered outdated. Nonetheless, the Dewoitines saw combat against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, and were pretty successful! The Espana combined regiment, armed with D.371 and D.372 fighters, fulfilled combat objectives to escort bombers, patrol aerial regions, and destroy fascist aircraft. D.371s also fought against pilots from the Condor air group, in which many future aces of the Luftwaffe served.
In War Thunder, we present several models of the Dewoitine 371 and 372 fighter. These vehicles will be the first that the fighter pilot will start with in the French Air Force tech tree. The fighter’s main feature is its armament. On the original D.371, the engineers and designers installed four rifle-calibre machine guns that used the French 7.5 mm round. The machine guns were installed in the upper wing consoles. Each machine gun was equipped with a drum magazine of 300 rounds. For export to Spain and Lithuania, the armament was replaced with a pair of British Vickers machine guns with a caliber of 7.7 mm. But the most interesting variant is the cannon Dewoitine, which is already available for pre-order in our digital goods store. Instead of machine guns on the wing, it has two 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.9 cannons with an ammunition complement of 60 shells. Outstanding maneuverability and powerful cannons at rank I! This is a very pleasant airplane for the violent ‘dogfights’ among early fighters, in which cannons provide quite an advantage. The cannon-equipped D.371 is covered in silver aluminum paint and looks luxurious!
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French aircraft in update 1.73!
The War Thunder Team
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great4
Will we have a "white flag" option for example if you were to drive a french tank, can you higher a white flag out of the cupola? Or maybe out of the cockpit on a plane?
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KnightoftheAbyss
Are you suggesting the "Spartan option" instead? As far as I know, every other army has had troops that surrendered at some point. :)
thedoom7734
KnightoftheAbyss, That was a good one...I think there was also these "Winged Hussars". Don't know if they never surrendered but I know they won almost always!
Z3r0_
Probably not. Fighting will flying a white flag is a war crime, after all. :P
TSgamer04
you know you need to add italian ground forces and rank 6 aviation in the next or after the next update (1.75-1.77)
Smin1080p
Lets take things one step at a time :) Italy was only just added for Aviation this year and France was always promised to be close behind. Rank VI Aircraft are not guaranteed at all. Its only if internal tests prove they are viable.
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CosmicDan
Zepuoj, Err no. First of all, why does it even matter if the high BR planes are not in their own Rank? Rank separation used to be about Matchmaking but it's not anymore, it's just a loose indicator of the *era* of machines. Rank 4 is late WW2, Rank 5 is Korean War era, and Rank 6 is Cold War era (there are some exceptions here for historic reasons, e.g. Germany Rank 5). Gaijin have said they do not want automatic guided missiles on planes, so that severely limits applicability of R6 Cold war era planes.
AreaOfDefect
Why do they need to?
coolcaleb519
AreaOfDefect, To finish what they started. With the intro to tier 6 and Italian aviation, Gaijin should complete the tech trees to the standards they brought up before starting new ones
*MiniDz
Can't wait to play this beauty:)) Merci l'equipe war thunder !!
TheBlazero
Better be ready to squad with it at 1.75 ))
NokturnalFin
interesting cannon placement... do we have to pull negative lead to get those on target? :D
Nothing out of the ordinary, if you flew the Nieuport 11 in Rise of Flight. Know your convergence range, aim slightly below the target at shorter range than the convergence and above it after.
if we do this is going to be interesting in dogfight :P
Tubushi
Japanese tier 6 ground force needed
HonorableCeasar
Japanese tier 6 ground force needed!
Wolf_89
vive la france. viva la freedom :p Lets jump on the hype train :D
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DodgerRoger
The hype train has stopped at the historical accuracy station and won't be continuing on to it's destination. The D.372 is the version of the Dewoitine with 20 mm cannon, not the D.371.
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Stona_WT
DodgerRoger, As an expert on everything you most probably have got documentation that support your claims. Bug Report section is waiting :)
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Dogar and Kazon
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Dogar and Kazon are the twin gods of Death and Destruction worshipped by the Ilwrath race. They represent everything that is evil in the universe. As brutal gods, they have many appellations.
Dogar
"The Killer in a Black Cloak"
"The Great Destroyer"
"The Bloody-Clawed Murderer"
"The Dark Beast With a Thousand Young"
Kazon
"The Great Deceiver"
"The Malevolent Evil in the Darkness"
"The Unstoppable Monster Who Has No Pity"
"The Hungry Lurker in the Night".
It is not clear whether Dogar and Kazon actually exist and, as deific beings, very unlikely that any proof is forthcoming. It is known that their recent audio appearances on HyperWave channel 44 are a prank from the Umgah. However, the Ilwrath have worshipped their gods for a long time, so it is likely that the Umgah took advantage of the Ilwrath's established beliefs, instead of "inventing" new gods for them.
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CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO NATIONALIZE BANCO DE VENEZUELA
2008 July 31, 22:28 (Thursday)
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ECON - Economic Affairs--Economic Conditions, Trends and Potential | EFIN - Economic Affairs--Financial and Monetary Affairs | VE - Venezuela
Venezuela Caracas
Bolivia La Paz | Colombia Bogotá | Department of Commerce | Department of Energy | Department of the Treasury | Ecuador Quito | National Security Council | Secretary of State | United States Southern Command (Miami)
C O N F I D E N T I A L CARACAS 001061 SIPDIS ENERGY FOR CDAY AND ALOCKWOOD HQ SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD TREASURY FOR MEWENS NSC FOR JSHRIER COMMERCE FOR 4431/MAC/WH/MCAMERON E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/23/2018 TAGS: ECON, EFIN, VE SUBJECT: CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO NATIONALIZE BANCO DE VENEZUELA REF: A. CARACAS 930
B. CARACAS 1042 C. CARACAS 494 Classified By: Economic Counselor Darnall Steuart for reasons 1.4 (b) a nd (d). 1. (SBU) President Chavez announced on July 31 his intention to nationalize Banco de Venezuela, one of Venezuela's four largest banks, currently owned by the Spanish Grupo Santander. According to press reports, Chavez suggested three reasons for this move: first, the government "could use a bank of this size"; second, it was appropriate for the government to take it over given its name (Chavez mentioned it had been "privatized some years ago"); and third, as the owners were looking to sell, it was better for the government to take the bank than for private bankers to buy it. Chavez said the BRV had documentation that Santander was negotiating to sell the bank to a Venezuelan banker but had told the BRV it had no interest in selling when the BRV expressed interest. 2. (U) Banco de Venezuela, founded in 1890, is one of Venezuela's oldest and most respected private banks. It was taken over by the state in August 1994 during the 1993-1994 banking crisis and sold to Santander in December 1996. As of June 30 2008, Banco de Venezuela had assets worth 23 billion bolivars (Bs), or USD 10.7 billion at the official exchange rate, and capital of Bs 2.1 billion (USD 970 million), making it Venezuela's third largest bank by assets and fourth largest by capital. It has the fourth largest retail network in Venezuela, with 270 branches. 3. (C) As noted in ref A, rumors were rife that Santander was negotiating with Victor Vargas, president of Banco Occidental de Descuento (BOD). The BRV issued a resolution effectively blocking the sale, and elements within the BRV had previously directed a related resolution against Vargas and BOD (ref B). A financial sector contact told us July 30 that Vargas had purchased for USD 50 million an option to buy Banco de Venezuela and had been intending to use structured notes worth approximately USD 1.2 billion to make the purchase. This contact said that Santander, which was looking to sell Banco de Venezuela in order to free capital to buy a German bank, had also received an offer for USD 800 million from a group of Chavista investors. ------- Comment ------- 4. (C) Chavez' announcement comes as a surprise to most observers. Most of our financial sector contacts believed major nationalizations in the banking sector were not imminent because the BRV would prefer to control the sector through regulatory mechanisms rather than try to manage such a critical and technically challenging sector itself. Several contacts, however, believed a major nationalization was imminent because the BRV was seeking to expand its retail banking presence faster than it otherwise could, in order to support its patronage networks. 5. (C) There are likely multiple motivations behind Chavez' announcement, including a desire for greater control over a strategic sector (as with other nationalizations); a belief that control over Banco de Venezuela's network in particular offers opportunities to help Chavista candidates in the run-up to November regional elections; and personal factors such as an apparent falling out with Vargas. (Note: Whether the BRV will take over the bank in time to make a difference for the elections is questionable; the BRV is still negotiating the terms for the nationalization of the cement and steel companies announced this spring. End note.) As with the cement companies (ref B), Chavez played the nationalist card in a misleading way by referring to the bank having been "privatized". (Note: As mentioned above, the government took over the bank during a banking crisis and subsequently arranged for its sale to Santander. While this sale may technically qualify as a privatization, Banco de Venezuela never had a significant history of state ownership. End note.) 6. (C) The impact of this move on the financial system and the larger economy remains to be seen. State-owned banks do not have a good record in Venezuela (dating before Chavez), and banking sector contacts note most Venezuelans prefer to deposit their money with private banks. This move, therefore, will likely cause some depositors to move money to other banks or out of the country via the parallel market. It also comes at a time when some private banks face potential solvency problems due to losses related to structured notes (ref A), and we can only believe bank owners will now be even less likely to inject new capital. Finally, this move will further narrow the space left to the private sector and reduce remaining incentives for new private investment. DUDDY
C O N F I D E N T I A L CARACAS 001061 SIPDIS ENERGY FOR CDAY AND ALOCKWOOD HQ SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD TREASURY FOR MEWENS NSC FOR JSHRIER COMMERCE FOR 4431/MAC/WH/MCAMERON E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/23/2018 TAGS: ECON, EFIN, VE SUBJECT: CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO NATIONALIZE BANCO DE VENEZUELA REF: A. CARACAS 930 B. CARACAS 1042 C. CARACAS 494 Classified By: Economic Counselor Darnall Steuart for reasons 1.4 (b) a nd (d). 1. (SBU) President Chavez announced on July 31 his intention to nationalize Banco de Venezuela, one of Venezuela's four largest banks, currently owned by the Spanish Grupo Santander. According to press reports, Chavez suggested three reasons for this move: first, the government "could use a bank of this size"; second, it was appropriate for the government to take it over given its name (Chavez mentioned it had been "privatized some years ago"); and third, as the owners were looking to sell, it was better for the government to take the bank than for private bankers to buy it. Chavez said the BRV had documentation that Santander was negotiating to sell the bank to a Venezuelan banker but had told the BRV it had no interest in selling when the BRV expressed interest. 2. (U) Banco de Venezuela, founded in 1890, is one of Venezuela's oldest and most respected private banks. It was taken over by the state in August 1994 during the 1993-1994 banking crisis and sold to Santander in December 1996. As of June 30 2008, Banco de Venezuela had assets worth 23 billion bolivars (Bs), or USD 10.7 billion at the official exchange rate, and capital of Bs 2.1 billion (USD 970 million), making it Venezuela's third largest bank by assets and fourth largest by capital. It has the fourth largest retail network in Venezuela, with 270 branches. 3. (C) As noted in ref A, rumors were rife that Santander was negotiating with Victor Vargas, president of Banco Occidental de Descuento (BOD). The BRV issued a resolution effectively blocking the sale, and elements within the BRV had previously directed a related resolution against Vargas and BOD (ref B). A financial sector contact told us July 30 that Vargas had purchased for USD 50 million an option to buy Banco de Venezuela and had been intending to use structured notes worth approximately USD 1.2 billion to make the purchase. This contact said that Santander, which was looking to sell Banco de Venezuela in order to free capital to buy a German bank, had also received an offer for USD 800 million from a group of Chavista investors. ------- Comment ------- 4. (C) Chavez' announcement comes as a surprise to most observers. Most of our financial sector contacts believed major nationalizations in the banking sector were not imminent because the BRV would prefer to control the sector through regulatory mechanisms rather than try to manage such a critical and technically challenging sector itself. Several contacts, however, believed a major nationalization was imminent because the BRV was seeking to expand its retail banking presence faster than it otherwise could, in order to support its patronage networks. 5. (C) There are likely multiple motivations behind Chavez' announcement, including a desire for greater control over a strategic sector (as with other nationalizations); a belief that control over Banco de Venezuela's network in particular offers opportunities to help Chavista candidates in the run-up to November regional elections; and personal factors such as an apparent falling out with Vargas. (Note: Whether the BRV will take over the bank in time to make a difference for the elections is questionable; the BRV is still negotiating the terms for the nationalization of the cement and steel companies announced this spring. End note.) As with the cement companies (ref B), Chavez played the nationalist card in a misleading way by referring to the bank having been "privatized". (Note: As mentioned above, the government took over the bank during a banking crisis and subsequently arranged for its sale to Santander. While this sale may technically qualify as a privatization, Banco de Venezuela never had a significant history of state ownership. End note.) 6. (C) The impact of this move on the financial system and the larger economy remains to be seen. State-owned banks do not have a good record in Venezuela (dating before Chavez), and banking sector contacts note most Venezuelans prefer to deposit their money with private banks. This move, therefore, will likely cause some depositors to move money to other banks or out of the country via the parallel market. It also comes at a time when some private banks face potential solvency problems due to losses related to structured notes (ref A), and we can only believe bank owners will now be even less likely to inject new capital. Finally, this move will further narrow the space left to the private sector and reduce remaining incentives for new private investment. DUDDY
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The Perils of Delisting
Photo: Walla Walla pack wolf. ODFW 2/2014
Yesterday, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife released news that a male wolf from the Shamrock pack in Northeastern Oregon had been inadvertently killed by Wildlife Services. Here is the ODFW release:
Wolf dies in unintentional take in northeast Oregon Dept of Fish & Wildlife
SALEM, Ore.—Wolf OR48, a Shamrock Pack adult male, died on Feb. 26 on private land in northeast Oregon after an unintentional take by the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services.
The wolf died after encountering an M-44 device, a spring-activated device containing cyanide powder. The device was in place as part of Wildlife Services operations to control coyotes and prevent coyote-livestock conflict on private land in northeast Oregon.
“The death of this wolf shows the risk involved when wolves are in areas where Wildlife Services conducts these types of operations,” said Doug Cottam, ODFW Wildlife Division administrator. “This is a situation we take seriously and we’ll be working with Wildlife Services with the goal of preventing it from happening again.”
ODFW and Wildlife Services are evaluating the incident and discussing how to prevent unintentional capture or take of wolves while addressing livestock damage problems.
“Wildlife Services’ specialists care about wildlife and work hard to prevent the unintentional take of animals when addressing human-wildlife conflicts,” said Dave Williams, state director for USDA Wildlife Services in Oregon. “We have begun an internal review of this incident to see if any changes to our procedures are necessary.”
Wolf OR48 was collared on Feb. 10 of this year in Wallowa County and was part of the Shamrock Wolf Pack. At the time of collaring, he weighed over 100 pounds and was estimated to be just under two years old. Wolf OR48 was not the breeding male of the pack.
When wolves were protected in our state, the use of M-44 was not allowed. Now that the state has removed ESA protections, wolves in the northeastern part of the state are clearly at risk for succumbing to harmful actions by Wildlife Services. According to an article in the Capital Press, “The agency’s (Wildlife Services) website describes the M-44 as an “effective and environmentally sound wildlife damage management tool.” “
This “wildlife damage management tool” was set with the intention of killing coyotes on private lands at the edge of the Shamrock pack’s territory. With all the great work being done by Project Coyote and others to educate people on how indiscriminate killing of coyotes does not solve problems with livestock, one would think Wildlife Services would know better.
The loss of this wolf also stands for proof that state and Federal protections for wolves are essential. Currently, wolves in Wisconsin, Wyoming, Michigan and Minnesota are facing removal from Federal protections, which would then allow the individual states to manage their wolf populations. So far, this has not bode well for wolves. Too many states have quickly enacted hunting and trapping seasons, long before science-based studies have shown wolf populations are ready for this.
ODFW staff will discuss their 2016 Annual Wolf Report with their Commission on April 21, 2017 in Klamath Falls. Public testimony will be allowed. Although wolves have already been removed from state protections here, this meeting is a chance to speak up regarding potential chances in the plan that reduce protections currently provided by the wolf plan.
This entry was posted in Coyotes, grey wolf, Uncategorized, Wolves in Oregon and tagged Endangered Species Act, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Bookmark the permalink.
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Beckie Elgin, Freelance Writer says:
Shortly after I posted this, I read this sad news: http://nywolf.org/federal-court-puts-wyoming-wolves-back-in-the-crosshairs-decision-poised-to-impact-wolves-beyond-the-state/
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July 2019 – February 2021 Jul 2019 – Feb 2021
Outdoor Concert: West Seattle Big Band – FREE! @ Hiawatha Park
From Seattle Parks & Recreation:
This is arguably one of our city’s best outdoor productions. The West Seattle Big Band boasts an 18-piece community-based ensemble, playing big band swing and jazz gigs throughout Washington State. Show early and look for our big Seattle Parks & Recreation tent. Bring a blanket, snacks, and drinks. Show starts promptly at 7 pm and ends at 8:30 pm. Please register, so we know to prepare and expect you- You’ll be glad you joined us!
Event #21217
Hiawatha Park
Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies @ Senior Center of West Seattle
Terry’s “The Greatest Movies You’ve Never Heard Of”
Free Popcorn!
Showing 1:00 pm at the Senior Center of West Seattle, second floor, Nucor room. $1 members / $2 Non-members.
Wed. July 10: Will There Really be a Morning? Pt. 1 (1983)
-Susan Blakely, Lee Grant, John Heard, Royal Dano-(90m) ****
Wed. July 17:
Will There Really be a Morning? Pt. 2 (90m) ****
Wed. July 31: Stand-In (1937)
-Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Carson-(91m) ***
Wed. Aug. 7: The Blue Dahlia (1946)
-Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard da Silva, Hugh Beaumont-(99m) ***
Wed. Aug. 14: Big Night (1996)
-Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini, Allison Janney (107m) ****
Wed. Aug. 21: Alice (1990)
-Mia Farrow, Joe Mategna, William Hurt, Elle Macpherson-(106m) ***
Wed. Aug. 28: Armored Car Robbery (1949)
-Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Steve Brodie-(68m) ****
Categories: Films Movie
The Suffering F*&%^heads perform @ Parliament Tavern
Last Tuesdays with the f-heads! Ron and Mike are the punk/jazz duo that redefines the standards. 9 pm at the Parliament Tavern. No cover.
Show Brazil @ West Seattle (Admiral) Library
Explore the exciting rhythms and music of Brazil! Create your own rhythms with Show Brazil’s Eduardo Mendonça! Brazilian instruments will be available as well as buckets, plastic oil pans and anything that can make sound. Learn to play traditional and contemporary Brazilian grooves. And enjoy playing as an ensemble with an instructor who has performed for celebrities such as Nelson Mandela, Pope John II and the 14th Dalai Lama! For ages 7-12.
Library events and programs are free and everyone is welcome. Registration is required. Online registration for this program opens two weeks before the program starts and closes three business days before the program date. Make changes to your registration after that date by calling 206-684-7444 or visiting the branch.
Categories: For Families Kid Stuff Music
Summer Concerts at Hiawatha 2019
As announced by the Admiral Neighborhood Association:
SWAY WILD featuring Mandy Fer & Dave McGraw- Winning over audiences from Alaska to Amsterdam, Sway Wild performs a heartfelt and dynamic blend of innovative folk-rock, pop, and funk.
THE NOT-ITS!- The Not-Its! have rocked kids and families with their up-tempo albums and live concerts for more than a decade!
August 1st
ALEC SHAW– Alec’s Music is a soulful approach to indie rock with a rooted spirit of traditional Appalachian folk, sung through playful vocals, harmonies, warm brass, and a full band of genre colliding instrumentation.
RANGER AND THE REARRANGERS– Seattle Gypsy jazz band Ranger and the “Re-Arrangers” evoke the spirit of a Paris cafe and the raucous energy of a Gypsy campsite with their version of Gypsy jazz.
THE HIGHSTEPPERS– The Highsteppers are a fresh group of veteran musicians brought together by a love of classic R&B, Motown, and soul. Otis, Etta, Aretha… with a full 9 piece band!
CASPAR BABYPANTS– Fear not concert friends, Mr. Babypants will be back to rock Hiawatha between ground level and 48inches (and a little higher too)!
Bad Honey, The Square Feet, Bad Animals perform @ The Skylark
Live music at Skylark Café & Club featuring Bad Honey, The Square Feet, and Bad Animals.
$8 / Ages 21+
Third Thursdays w/Super Krewe @ Parliament Tavern
Second line style brass band brings NOLA jazz/funk to the #wesside. 9 pm at Parliament Tavern.
$8 / Ages 21+ only.
Friday Afternoons at the Movies @ Senior Center of West Seattle
Terry’s “The Greatest Movies You’ve Never Heard Of” – Free Popcorn!
Showing 1:00 pm to 3 pm at the Senior Center of West Seattle, second floor, Nucor room. $1 members / $2 Non-members.
Fri. July 12: Cover Girl (1942)
-Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Eve Arden-(107m) ***
Fri. July 19: Planet of the Apes (1968)
-Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, Linda Harrison-(112m) ****
Fri. July 26: The Lost Weekend (1945)
-Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard da Silva, Frank Faylen-(101m) ****
Fri. Aug. 2: Tonight and Every Night (1945)
-Rita Hayworth, Janet Blair, Lee Bowman-(92m) ***
Fri. Aug. 9: The Heiress (1949)
-Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson, Montgomery Clift, Miriam Hopkins-(115m) ****
Fri. Aug. 16: The Country Girl (1954)
-Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, William Holden-(104m) ****
Fri. Aug. 23: Goldfinger (1964)
-Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Frobe, Bernard Lee-(111m) ****
Fri. Aug. 30: Along Came Jones (1945)
-Loretta Young, Gary Cooper, William Demarest, Dan Duryea-(90m) ***
Michael Prysock performs @ C & P Coffee Company
Michael Prysock performs live at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor). More from C & P:
Michael Prysock: solo singer/songwriter with an occasional mandolin or fiddle accompaniment. www.michaelprysock.com.
Bobby Bridger performs @ Kenyon Hall
Thanks to a hall patron, we heard that this extraordinary artist plans to be in our area in July, and when asked to consider including Kenyon Hall in his Northwest sojourn, he gratefully agreed to honor us with what promises to be a unique and engaging evening of songs and stories.
Bridger is a singer/songwriter/poet/actor/playwright/author and painter who for three decades has traveled the globe performing a trilogy of one man shows for audiences in America, Canada, Europe, Australia and Russia. He brings a rich body of experience to his shows, gleaned from his exploration into the wonders of American history, and is the author of the award-winning book, “Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West.” He’s also the subject of the documentary film, “Quest Of An Epic Balladeer.”
Bobby Bridger has many videos online. Here’s one that’ll give you a preview of his show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp7FETUz8SY
Tickets and Reservations
Tickets for July 19 are $20 general and $18 seniors/students. No table seats for this show.
To make a reservation, please e-mail kenyonhall@earthlink.net. You’ll receive an e-mail confirming your reservation.
For more information and pictures, please visit www.kenyonhall.org.
Water Felon, The Thursday Collective perform @ Skylark Café & Club
Live music at Skylark Café & Club featuring Water Felon, and The Thursday Collective
Shady Bottom performs @ Parliament Tavern
Shady Bottom – Gigantic R&B band brings the party funk! 9 pm at Parliament Tavern.
Marco de Carvalho and Friends perform @ C & P Coffee Company
Marco de Carvalho and Friends perform at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor). More from C & P:
Marco has been a performance guitarist, composer and arranger for thirty years. He plays an extensive repertoire of music from Rio de Janeiro as well as his own compositions. Marco has played with many musicians in Brazil and the USA. He has recorded on numerous CDs and sound tracks also producing and arranging.
https://marcodecarvalho.com/about/
Hans Teuber has been a mainstay on the Northwest jazz scene for over 25 years, working with Wayne Horvitz, Jeff Johnson, Clay Giberson, and others who lean toward progressive jazz.
http://originarts.com/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=27
Jeff Busch is an exuberant drummer/percussionist, vocalist, and composer whose passion for soulful music of varied traditions has led him to perform with jazz, blues, and gospel groups–as well as calypso, samba, and Cuban jazz ensembles.
http://www.artno.com/bongo/bio.htm
Roo & the Few – with Special Friends @ C & P Coffee Company
Roo Forrest and Friends performs at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor). All ages, no cover. More from C & P:
Roo Forrest and Friends plays an eclectic mix of originals and covers. Some of the artists we cover are Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, and Bobby Gentry.
Super Surprise Special Show @ Parliament Tavern
Super Surprise Special Show – I mean, maybe. 9 pm at Parliament Tavern.
Jamtime performs @ C & P Coffee Company
Bluegrass and old-time music with Jamtime at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor) Sunday, 1–4 pm.
All-ages show: OptycNerd, Whiskey Autumn, Levi Double U perform @ Skylark Café & Club
Live music at Skylark Café & Club featuring OptycNerd, Whiskey Autumn, Levi Double U. All ages show!
Categories: Arts and Entertainment Music Teen Stuff
Catch the Triangular Jazztet Sundays at The Alley.
Free Summer Concerts – ‘Music Under the Stars’ @ Seattle Chinese Garden
FREE – Music Under the Stars
Music Under the Stars is back! New location this year: Seattle Chinese Garden.
Each event begins at 7:30 pm with live music performed by a student ensemble and continues at 8:00 pm with a live audio broadcast of the world-class Summer Festival concert from Benaroya Hall, provided directly to the park by Classical KING-FM 98.1.
Additional Information: https://www.seattlechambermusic.org/music-under-the-stars
Categories: For Families Music
Open Mic and Karaoke @ Yen Wor Village
Mondays @ Yen Wor Village:
Open Mike Night: 7: 30 pm – 10:00 pm
Followed by: Karaoke Monday from 10:00 pm – 1:45 am
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood: Songs Inspired By Our Community @ Delridge Library
Write and perform a song inspired by your community. Here’s your chance to learn more about your community and how the environment has changed the world in which we live. We will present a story from someone in your neighborhood, and how the world has changed for them. Then you have the chance to hear music inspired by that story and to co-create a song yourself, with teaching artists from STYLE: Songwriting Through Youth Literature Education. For all ages.
Categories: For Families Kid Stuff Music Teen Stuff
Funk Jazz with Peter Daniel @ Parliament Tavern
Saxaphones get blarin’ with this quartet of big players. 9 pm at Parliament Tavern.
Bradley Palermo & Sim Williams w/TBASA and Pineola perform @ The Skylark
Live music at Skylark Café & Club featuring Bradley Palermo & Sim Williams w/TBASA and Pineola.
Into the Cold + guests perform @ Parliament Tavern
Big rock sound meets sweet harmonies. 9 pm at the Parliament Tavern. $5.
Parliament Tavern is a 21+ establishment.
Band Jam 2019 @ (updated) Memorial Stadium downtown
Standing info from the All-City Band website:
All-City Band is once again hosting the annual Band Jam. The night is going to feature performances by several groups participating in Seafair week activities. This event, which is a non-competitive celebration of the best part of any parade – the bands – gives us an opportunity to share with one another and to celebrate the musical opportunities available in the region. We expect to be finished just after 9:00 pm. Invite everyone you know.
Whateverly Brothers perform @ C & P Coffee Company
The Whateverly Brothers perform at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor).
Whateverly Brothers; Homemade three layer harmonies with instrumental frosting!” The Brothers (Dan Roberts, Chris Glanister & Matthew Moeller) have performed for many years as solo artists and members of obscure folk groups across the Pacific Northwest.
HEX RAYS, The Sky Giants, The Heyfields, The Sharp Teeth perform @ Skylark Café & Club
Live music at Skylark Café & Club featuring HEX RAYS, The Sky Giants, The Heyfields, and The Sharp Teeth.
Lucky Brown & the SG’s perform @ Parliament Tavern
Lucky Brown & the SG’s – Deep funk pioneer w/a tiiiiight backing unit. Not to be missed! 9 pm at Parliament Tavern.
Alki Art Fair 2019 (Sat) @ Alki Beach
Alki Art Fair 2019 will be held on the promenade of Alki Beach on July 27th & 28th.
The Alki Art Fair offers a free shuttle from the West Seattle Park n’Ride parking lot (under the West Seattle Bridge) through the Admiral Junction to Alki Beach. Shuttle will run to and from the Beach from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm both days.
Saturday, July 27, 2019, 10 am–6 pm with music until 9
Sunday, July 28, 2019, 10 am–6 pm
The Alki Art Fair is celebrating its 21st anniversary this summer, and everyone from both the peninsula and the mainland is invited. This event is FREE, kid-friendly, and draws upward of 10,000 visitors each year.
Local bands provide the soundtrack and salty breezes provide the atmosphere as you browse the diverse artist’s displays. (Rain or shine — though our track record is almost 100% for shine.)
Saturday July 27, artist booths are open from 10 am – 6 pm with music until 9 pm.
Sunday July 28, artist booths are open 10 am – 6 pm with music until 6 pm.
The Alki Art Fair’s goal is to advance art education and appreciation while encouraging community involvement and cultural diversity. The Fair is a Washington State nonprofit organization, whose purpose is to continue the annual event and other mission-related activities into the future.
http://www.alkiartfair.org
Categories: Art Arts and Entertainment At the beach Festivals Music
‘Beach Party’ Elvis Tribute fundraiser dinner, with Bret Wiggins @ Senior Center of West Seattle
ELvis will be in the building! Join us Saturday, July 27, as West Seattleite Bret Wiggins brings his Beach Party themed Elvis tribute to the Senior Center of West Seattle. Bret will be performing songs from movies such as Blue Hawaii, Fun in Acapulco, Clambake, and Girls, Girls, Girls. His second set will include songs from Elvis’s Aloha from Hawaii album.
5:30 pm – Doors open, Happy Hour (no host bar all evening) and photos with Elvis by Gail Wodzin, of Gail Ann Photography
6:00 pm – Dinner featuring Kahlua pork; island style rice favored with sausage, egg, and green onion; coleslaw with pineapple; and watermelon
6:30 pm – Show begins!
This is always a sell-out event. Get your tickets now!
Admission is $20 for members and $25 nonmembers. Available by calling 206-932-4044 (ext 1) or pre-register at www.sc-ws.org. Sponsored by Daystar Retirement Village. Hope you can join us for this always fun event!
Categories: Arts and Entertainment Fundraising Dinners Music
John Quinn performs @ C & P Coffee Company
Singer-songwriter John Quinn performs live at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor).
Thee Deception, live in-store – free, all ages @ Easy Street Records
At Easy Street Records in The Junction, 7 pm:
Thee Deception formed in 2017 when Alex Shumway (drummer for Green River now on guitar) brought some guitar riffs he’d written to Regan Hagar (drummer for Malfunkshun, Satchel and Brad). They reached out to Dave Place (Hobosexual, Ex’s With Benefits and FIRES) to play bass, and Samuel Bligh of Buffaloes to provide vocals. Cody Davis of Dark State Lines and Novatone joined shortly thereafter on guitar.
Free & All-Ages!
‘The Best You’ve Ever Seen’ @ Parliament Tavern
Curated evening of music, film and visual effects courtesy of blazinspaces. Sensory overload! 9 pm at Parliament Tavern.
Alki Art Fair 2019 (Sun) @ Alki Beach
Correo Aereo performs @ C & P Coffee Company
Correo Aereo performs at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor), 3–5 pm. More from C & P:
CORREO AEREO, (Air Mail), an award winning Latin American music group, featuring Abel Rocha on Venezuelan & Mexican harp, guitar, cuatro, & voice. Madeleine Sosin on violin, maracas, bombo, jarana, voice, and sometimes Amy Denio on accordion, clarinet, bombo, & voice.
Correo Aereo makes sumptuously soulful music in Mexican, Argentinian & Venezuelan folk traditions and creates original work. Their music has beauty, depth, nuance, complexity and playfulness – It is music of and in love with the Earth. Music which de-colonizes, uplifts and celebrates the solidarity of all Peoples everywhere who love and stand in and for the web of Life and each other! …“Listening to their performance one can unite space and time across cultures”, writes Dr. Juan Tony Guzman, Dean of Jazz Dept., Luther College.
Last Sunday Open Bluegrass Jam @ Parliament Tavern
At the Parliament Tavern: Bring your instruments, bring your voice. Jam with friendly folks playing fun tunes in the big ol’ circle. 7 pm.
Song Swap w/Norman Baker & J Wagner @ Parliament Tavern
Song Swap w/Norman Baker & J Wagner (Austin, TX) Folk/Americana songwriters swap tunes. 9 pm at Parliament Tavern.
The Billy Joe Show @ Parliament Tavern
The roots rock & Americana ambassador brings the traveling dance party to the Admiral District. 8 pm at the Parliament Tavern. Ages 21+
Bill Davie performs @ C & P Coffee Company
Enjoy Bill Davie (Alternative Folk Singer/songwriter/poet acoustic guitar and vocals) at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor).
Jimi Hendrix Revolution with Randy Hansen @ The Sanctuary
Jimi Hendrix Revolution with Randy Hansen
Duos Presents
Randy Hansen Kick Off European Tour.
Special Guest Tim Turner Duos
Live at the Sanctuary At Admiral in West Seattle
Doors open at 8 pm
Cash bar will be open
Aug 5 @ 7:30 pm – Aug 6 @ 1:45 am
Dance Time with live music by Lauren Petrie @ Senior Center of West Seattle
Dance Time with live music by Lauren Petrie, who plays a wide variety of songs on the keyboard. Live music, friendly people, and some darn good dancers. Dance your heart out or come and enjoy the music. All ages, abilities, and skill levels welcome. First Wednesday of every month. $5 members/$7 nonmembers.
No host bar with $3 beer, wine, and cocktails. Join our fun and friendly community of dancers! All ages are welcome to attend, but you must be 21 to buy alcohol.
At the Senior Center of West Seattle
Sponsored by Daystar. No advance registration needed.
Categories: Dances Music Seniors
Aug 12 @ 7:30 pm – Aug 13 @ 1:45 am
Me Gusta Leer (I Like To Read) @ West Seattle (Admiral) Library
At the West Seattle (Admiral) Library: Learn how to talk, listen, read and write through the music and songs!
Discover music, songs, and books while singing, dancing and having fun! Marco Cortes is a beloved and popular performer, musician, teacher and storyteller from Chile. For ages 0-6.
Categories: Kid Stuff Music
Sep 2 @ 7:30 pm – Sep 3 @ 1:45 am
Sep 9 @ 7:30 pm – Sep 10 @ 1:45 am
Sep 16 @ 7:30 pm – Sep 17 @ 1:45 am
Sep 30 @ 7:30 pm – Oct 1 @ 1:45 am
Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm – Oct 8 @ 1:45 am
Oct 14 @ 7:30 pm – Oct 15 @ 1:45 am
Nov 4 @ 7:30 pm – Nov 5 @ 1:45 am
Nov 11 @ 7:30 pm – Nov 12 @ 1:45 am
Siggie the Vintage Man performs @ C & P Coffee Company
Siggie the Vintage Man performs live at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor). More from C & P:
Siggie The Vintage Man; solo acoustic performer in the Americana style that sings 85% covers and 15% originals, some artists covered; Dylan, Prine, Van Zant, Cohen, and the Eagles.
EPK LINK http://www.reverbnation.com/rpk/SiggieTheVintageMan
www.siggiethevintageman.rocks
Dec 2 @ 7:30 pm – Dec 3 @ 1:45 am
Dec 9 @ 7:30 pm – Dec 10 @ 1:45 am
Dec 16 @ 7:30 pm – Dec 17 @ 1:45 am
Jan 6 @ 7:30 pm – Jan 7 @ 1:45 am
Jan 13 @ 7:30 pm – Jan 14 @ 1:45 am
Feb 3 @ 7:30 pm – Feb 4 @ 1:45 am
Feb 10 @ 7:30 pm – Feb 11 @ 1:45 am
Mar 2 @ 7:30 pm – Mar 3 @ 1:45 am
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The Dollar Losing Ground As The World’s Reserve Currency
Australia and China have announced that they will trade with each other without using the U.S. Dollar. China and Russia will chip away at the Dollar’s reserve currency status by establishing direct payment in their own currencies with one trading partner after another. When the world no longer considers the Dollar a necessary reserve currency, we will be in big trouble. We will no longer be able to endlessly print money and kick the can further down the road. That will be the end game for the fiat currency system that has been in place since Bretton Woods.
In a previous article by David Stockton on this blog, he makes the following statement about Richard Nixon, which I completely agree with:
“When Richard M. Nixon essentially defaulted on the nation’s debt obligations by finally ending the convertibility of gold to the dollar. That one act — arguably a sin graver than Watergate — meant the end of national financial discipline and the start of a four-decade spree during which we have lived high on the hog, running a cumulative $8 trillion current-account deficit.”
The following is an article that appeared in zerohedge.com that demonstrates how the world is changing and how the U.S. Dollar is unlikely to remain the worlds reserve currency.
THANKS WORLD RESERVE CURRENCY, BUT NO THANKS: AUSTRALIA AND CHINA TO ENABLE DIRECT CURRENCY CONVERTIBILITY
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/31/2013 12:46 -0400
A month ago we pointed out that as a result of Australia’s unprecedented reliance on China as a target export market, accounting for nearly 30% of all Australian exports (with the flipside being just as true, as Australia now is the fifth-biggest source of Chinese imports), the two countries may as well be joined at the hip.
Over the weekend, Australia appears to have come to the same conclusion, with the Australian reporting that the land down under is set to say goodbye to the world’s “reserve currency” in its trade dealings with the world’s biggest marginal economic power, China, and will enable the direct convertibility of the Australian dollar into Chinese yuan, without US Dollar intermediation, in the process “slashing costs for thousands of business” and also confirming speculation that China is fully intent on, little by little, chipping away at the dollar’s reserve currency status until one day it no longer is.
That said, this latest development in global currency relations should come as no surprise to those who have followed our series on China’s slow but certain internationalization of its currency over the past two years. To wit: “World’s Second (China) And Third Largest (Japan) Economies To Bypass Dollar, Engage In Direct Currency Trade“, “China, Russia Drop Dollar In Bilateral Trade“, “China And Iran To Bypass Dollar, Plan Oil Barter System“, “India and Japan sign new $15bn currency swap agreement“, “Iran, Russia Replace Dollar With Rial, Ruble in Trade, Fars Says“, “India Joins Asian Dollar Exclusion Zone, Will Transact With Iran In Rupees“, and “The USD Trap Is Closing: Dollar Exclusion Zone Crosses The Pacific As Brazil Signs China Currency Swap.”
And while previously the focus was on Chinese currency swap arrangements, the uniqueness of this weekend’s news is that it promotes outright convertibility of the Yuan: something China has long said would happen but many were skeptical it ever would. That is no longer the case, and with Australia setting the precedent, expect many more Asian countries (at first) to follow in Australia’s footsteps, because while the developed world is far more engaged in diluting its currency as a means to spur “growth”, Asian and developing world nations are still engage in real, actual trade, where China is rapidly and aggressively becoming the world’s hub.
More from The Australian:
Former ambassador to China Geoff Raby, now a Beijing-based business figure, told The Weekend Australian: “The value of such a deal would be substantial for exporters to China, especially those that import a lot from China like mining companies, as it would remove business constraints including exchange-rate risks and transaction costs.”
Businesses, like individuals when travelling, have to pay extra to convert currency since there are different rates for buying and selling.
So removing one step also cuts out the cost of paying for such a “spread”.
Australia has undertaken significant lobbying for the deal and the direct conversion of the yuan, also referred to as the renminbi (RMB), is identified as a priority in the government’s Asian century white paper.
“We have held preliminary discussions with the Chinese government to explore how soon direct convertibility can be practicably achieved,” the white paper says.
“We are continuing these discussions, and also exploring other opportunities to work with China to support the internationalisation of the RMB.”
Australia’s banks increasingly arrange trade finance through Hong Kong, which has developed a special role as China’s chief international finance centre.
Needless to say, China is eagerly looking forward to taking yet another bite out of the USD’s reserve status.
New President Xi Jinping, a former Communist Party secretary of Shanghai, is a champion of that city’s development as China’s finance hub, and it is believed that the Prime Minister may fly there to sign the currency conversion deal.
Ms Gillard is expected to go on from Shanghai to Beijing, where she will open the third Australia China Economic and Trade Forum organised primarily by the Australia China Business Council, which will be bringing about 100 people from Australia for the event. Participants are likely to include Andrew Harding, Rio Tinto’s new chief executive for iron ore; Warwick Smith, ANZ Bank’s chairman for NSW and the ACT; Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson and Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten; Gao Hucheng, China’s Commerce Minister; and Gao Xiqing, the acting head of China Investment Corporation, the country’s vast sovereign wealth fund.
The ANZ Bank has been a strong advocate of direct convertibility between the dollar and the yuan. Gilles Plante, the bank’s chief executive in Asia, said in a recent report that in the last financial year, China accounted for 29 per cent of all exports and 18 per cent of imports, but the value of that trade denominated in yuan was less than 0.3 per cent.
He forecast that cross-border flows of funds would be liberalised “to support Shanghai’s plan to build itself as a global financial centre. At the time the whole world is digging out opportunities from the rise of the yuan, Australia should not lag behind.”
It was significant the liberalising governor of the People’s Bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, kept his job during the reshuffle of China’s leadership. He said last year at a conference: “The next movement related to the yuan is going to be reform of convertibility. We are moving in this direction; we need to go further, we will have some deregulation.”
Most importantly, to China, Australia will serve as the Guniea Pig – should this experiment in FX liberalization work out to China’s satisfaction, expect Beijing to engage many more trade partners in direct currency conversion.
Beijing appears to have chosen Canberra as its partner in this next movement for straightforward economic reasons, as Australia has become China’s fifth-biggest source of imports and thus, the appropriate partner for the march of its currency.
Ms Gillard and President Xi Jinping may also during the visit establish a “strategic partnership” between the countries. This will enable Australia to catch up in status with a large range of nations.
Why is this so very critical? For the simple reason that the free lunch the US has enjoyed ever since the advent of the US dollar as world reserve currency, may be coming to an end as other, more aggressive alternatives – both fiat, and hard-asset based – to the USD appear. And since there is no such thing as a free lunch, all the deferred pain the US Treasury Department has been able to offset thanks to its global currency monopoly status will come crashing down the second the world starts getting doubts about the true nature of just who the real reserve currency will be in the future.
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Blackpools Mark Dawes makes the top 16
Blackpool’s Mark Dawes , who yesterday sealed his first ever spot in the World Indoor Top 16 for next season which guarantees him entry to all the World Bowls Tour Televised Ranking events and opens the doors to other events, and had reached the Quarter Finals of the Co-operative Funeralcare to face Nick Brett but in the first set he just could not find the magic against an on fire Brett. Brett only allowed Dawes 1 single in the 2nd end a further double in the 6th to take the first set 10-3. It seemed as if this was deemed to CONTINUE into the second set as Dawes was 5-1 down by the fifth end but he suddenly found a magic wand and denied Brett anything further taking a series of 8 shots over the next 4 ends to whip the set away from Brett and go 9-5 up. Into the tie break and it was Dawes who took the first end but this time it was not to be as Brett rose up and put on a class display and denied Dawes anything further to take the next two ends and match 2 sets to 1 with the scoreline 10-3, 5-9, 2-1. After the match Mark Dawes said,” I had achieved the objective of the week which was to ensure I got into the hallowed top 16 for next season where I hope to increase my ranking points to climb higher on the ladder. Although I am disappointed to lose here against Brett in the Quarter Finals – next season will be my big chance for the future and I intend to do all that I can to maximise where I will start from and I am really looking forward to it”
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China wipes $1b from A2 milk
A new action plan for China's formula market might not be aimed at Australian groups, but it raises some big questions for their investors.
Jun 4, 2019 — 10.42am
The Chinese dragon is breathing fire again at Australia and New Zealand’s infant formula makers, such as market darlings A2 Milk, Bellamy’s Organic and smaller rivals Bubs Australia and Wattle Heath Australia.
Chinese consumers will be encouraged to buy more locally made product under a new action plan. New York Times
The release of a new action plan for China’s strategically important formula sector appears directly aimed at squeezing foreign players out of both ends of the supply chain.
The plan was prepared by the China' s National Development and Reform Commission and six other government departments on May 23, but released in China on Monday.
An English version is yet to emerge, but some in the market appear to have grabbed the key messages, given A2 shares fell 2.9 per cent on Monday, Bellamy’s fell 3.1 per cent, Bubs crashed 7 per cent and Wattle dropped 2.4 per cent.
The stocks slid further in on Tuesday, with A2 dropping more than 7 per cent by mid-afternoon. Almost $1 billion has been wiped off the value of the stock in two days.
Sydney-based Credit Suisse analyst Peter Liu has translated the key messages from the document.
Tougher rules
At the heart of the plan is an increase in the government’s target for Chinese-produced formula, from the current level of about 47 per cent of the market to 60 per cent.
There does not appear to be a time frame placed on this goal and it should be noted the biggest foreign players in this market are European groups Danone and Nestle, ans American giants Mead Johnson and Abbot Nutrition. Australia could be seen more as collateral damage than a prime target of this plan.
But the plan is clearly aimed at helping Chinese producers lift their game and encouraging Chinese consumers to turn back towards locally made product.
At the Chinese end of the supply chain, the plan calls for tougher regulation on cross-border e-commerce sales of infant formula and zero tolerance of importing unregistered infant formula; increased patrols and testing of formula in mum-baby stores. There will also be a tougher quality regime, with a new round of testing over the next three years.
Battling tighter regulation is nothing new for Australian and Kiwi players. Formula imports have been subject to an increasingly strict regulatory framework since 2015, with the biggest change coming into force in January last year, whereby all formula products had to obtain registration before they could be sold in the People’s Republic.
But it appears the new action plan gives the government even greater control of imports.
Push to consolidate
The fascinating part of this plan – and perhaps where some Australasian players might even see a bit of an opportunity – is how it calls for Chinese companies to push foreign players out of the market by consolidation, and then replicating of the overseas’ players strategies.
According to Liu’s translation, the government will “encourage Chinese companies to buy foreign producers and/or set up production facilities overseas, so as to reduce cost of raw ingredients”.
On the surface, at least, this does appear to go to the competitive advantage that Australia and Kiwi players have built in managing supply chains of high-quality and often organic raw materials.
Notably, the plan says the government will “encourage Chinese producers to broaden sales channels and differentiate to compete, targeting mid-high-end market”.
Again, this is the part of the market that the likes of A2 and Bellamy’s have focused on.
All of these initiatives will be supported by funding assistance and tax concessions from the government.
Key points to mull over
A2 and Bellamy’s executives were studying the Chinese plan and its near-term ramifications on Tuesday morning.
An A2 spokesman noted no new regulations had been proposed, or amendments to existing rules.
Industry insiders said three points of context are important.
First, China has long expressed a desire for its local industry to improve its market position, which was badly damaged in 2008 when formula was found to be contaminated with melamine. Indeed, the local sector’s share back in 2007 was about 60 per cent. It’s notable that the plan calls for Chinese media to support local players and build consumer confidence in them.
Second, China won’t want to risk upsetting consumers too much by pushing imports out of the market completely.
Third, there is a trade war overlay at play here. It does appear the plan has been sitting on the shelf for a few weeks, and some suggest the timing of its release – as China and the US struggle to find common ground on trade – is political and not aimed at Australia.
Still, there’s no shortage of questions for investors to mull over.
Are the Chinese groups still far enough behind in terms of quality and technology that Australasian groups have a bit of breathing space?
Will smaller players in Australia and New Zealand, such as Bubs and Wattle, face the most pressure in a market where the Chinese groups seek to get bigger?
How might increased regulatory scrutiny hurt? Bellamy’s, for example, is still waiting for China’s State Administration for Market Regulation to approve its China-labelled organic formula series, and investors may be wary of the idea of even more bureaucracy.
A final and fascinating question is whether this plan could actually work in the favour of some Australasian players, if they emerge as takeover targets for Chinese groups seeking to own more of the supply chain.
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James Thomson is a Chanticleer columnist at The Australian Financial Review based in Melbourne. James was previously the Companies editor and the editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com
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Did The Guardian get its latest spy story wrong?
Updated | Contrary to The Guardian’s latest Snowden “scoop”, the Australian Signals Directorate does not intercept domestic communications because it is prohibited from doing so under the law.
Christopher JoyeColumnist
Updated Dec 2, 2013 — 8.34pm, first published at 2.22pm
Multiple intelligence sources have confirmed The Guardian has got its big scoop on Australian intelligence agencies allegedly shelling out information on local residents badly wrong.
The Guardian reported on Monday that “Australia’s surveillance agency offered to share information collected about ordinary Australian citizens with its major intelligence partners, according to a secret 2008 document leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden".
Other media outlets reflexively recycled The Guardian’s allegations.
But the Australian Signals Directorate (previously known as “DSD") does not normally intercept domestic communications precisely because it is prohibited from doing so under the Intelligence Services Act. And there are currently no “bulk" intelligence snooping operations directed at average Australians, as The Guardian sensationally but erroneously claims. Bulk data is, however, sought by agencies on overseas targets.
Three former ASD and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation officials, who were working inside government at the time the documents were allegedly produced, say the intelligence The Guardian is reporting on would be run-of-the-mill foreign transmissions ASD lawfully intercepts every day.
In describing its mission, ASD says it “collects and analyses foreign signals intelligence, known as Sigint".
Under Section 8 of Australia’s Intelligence Services Act “the responsible minister in relation to DSD [Defence Signals Directorate] must issue a written direction . . . to the relevant agency head [to] require the agency to obtain an authorisation . . . from the minister before undertaking an activity . . . for the specific purpose . . . of producing intelligence on an Australian person, or undertaking . . . an activity . . . that will, or is likely to, have a direct effect on an Australian person".
The “unverified" secret intelligence document The Guardian chose to publish after it was stolen by the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden makes this clear.
One paragraph states that “DSD can share bulk, unselected, unminimised metadata as long as there is no intent to target an Australian national".
ASD allegedly explains that the risk of “unintentional collection", which refers to it hoovering up domestic communications, or an Australian being a party to an exchange situated overseas, is “not viewed as a significant issue".
Ministerial warrant required
ASD reportedly told its intelligence partners that “if a ‘pattern of search’ detects an Australian then there would be a need to contact DSD and ask them to obtain a ministerial warrant to continue".
This refers to an overseas agency scouring the metadata ASD collects through its foreign eavesdropping capabilities and looking for links between legitimate targets.
If the foreign metadata ASD makes available happens to include an Australian in Indonesia making a call to Pakistan, and that person was found to be linked to, say, a terrorist target, there must be an Australian warrant issued before ASD’s partners can make additional use of the data.
Another paragraph in the document states that “DSD do not share Sigint [signals intelligence] metadata outside Comint [communications intelligence] channels as there is no expectation on them to do so". ASD’s website has an entire page dedicated to a definition of Sigint, which states that ASD “provides foreign signals intelligence, known as Sigint, to the Australian Defence Force and Australian Government to support military and strategic decision-making".
This includes transmissions ASD sucks up via its listening posts in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, which target China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Russia, Pakistan and others.
Contrary to The Guardian’s claims, at no point does it present evidence showing that the metadata ASD shares are bulk Australian-domiciled communications in direct violation of the Intelligence Services Act.
Since this writer argued that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation had not remotely satisfied a public interest test when publishing illegally obtained and highly classified information on an Australian espionage operation against Indonesia, which has proven to be damaging to the nation’s economic, security and strategic interests, conservative opinion has shifted against the broadcaster.
At the time I also argued that [ABC boss Mark Scott should be taken to task by the ABC’s board for making the scandalous claim, in defence of his own irresponsible decisions, that lawful communications intercepts programs, which we’ve been undertaking for 70 years, are comparable to corruption at the Australian Wheat Board and $290 million of kick-backs paid to Saddam Hussein’s regime in contravention of United Nations’ sanctions.
Leading conservative commentators, including Andrew Bolt, Greg Sheridan and Judith Sloan, have subsequently made similar points.
Christopher Joye is a contributing editor who has previously worked at Goldman Sachs and the RBA. He is a portfolio manager with Coolabah Capital, which invests in fixed-income securities including those discussed in his column. Connect with Christopher on Twitter.
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Flashpoints emerge across the world economy
The Financial Review’s take on the principles at stake in major domestic and global stories.
As Donald Trump's tax cuts power up the American economy, rising US interest rates are driving the greenback higher and sucking liquidity from the global economy. That's hitting emerging market economies, such as Argentina, Turkey and, to a lesser extent, Indonesia on our northern doorstep. At the same time, Italians are trying to cobble together a bizarre coalition government that wants to both increase public spending and cut taxes. The Mediterranean refugee crisis has devastated support for the European Union among Italian voters who once saw Brussels as a safeguard against their own unstable governments. The result is a re-emerging euro crisis.
Australia's national complacency is now being fed by a commodity price rebound for our energy and iron exports, and by assumptions of an improving global economy. That's feeding the conceit that an capital-importing economy, such as ours, can costlessly maintain a tax penalty on imported capital while the nation squabbles about the "fair" spoils of a stagnating pie. At some stage, this national drift will run aground, perhaps magnifying the next external shock. Australia sailed through the 1997 East Asian economic crisis, the early 2000s US tech-wreck and the 2008-09 global financial crisis. But did anyone mention the alarming build-up in debt in China, which now takes nearly 30 per cent of our exports, compared to only 5 per cent in the early 2000s? Hey, Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe did, just last week.
Emerging market economies had powered through the GFC, too, as cheap central bank money made big potential returns there seem less risky to investors in lacklustre Western economies. But it has also left them vulnerable to changes in US monetary policy. That was clear in the market tantrums of 2013 and 2014 as QE ended, and commodity prices crashed.
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Indonesia, which is fast-growing but with a large current account deficit in a south-east Asian region mostly in external surplus, is raising official interest rates for the second time this month to defend its currency and bond markets from capital flight. The country is run by a practical government of moderate politicians. But it has a young population that needs jobs, and its democracy is recent and perhaps fragile. In Turkey and Italy, the politics are more brutal. Turkey's strongman Recip Tayyip Erdogan has flirted with a currency crisis by staring down markets in an ultimately failed attempt to hold down interest rates ahead of an early election on June 24 to consolidate his power. Italy's President Sergio Mattarella has blocked the appointment of a deeply eurosceptic finance minister, collapsing the new government as the Five Star Movement and League populist coalition tried to test the eurozone's fiscal rules.
Italian state debt is seven times bigger than that of Greece. If a serious debt crisis is triggered, it is too big to bail. If Italy leaves it, the eurozone might crumble. Discounting the risk is all too reminiscent of the time when President Trump and Brexit seemed unlikely to pragmatic observers – until political contagion proved the stronger force. But what all these nations share has been a refusal to undertake any serious reforms to their economies. For Australia, which suffered its own banana republic moment in 1986, the chief vice is now complacency. But the world economy is still full of risk, and we still take too much for granted.
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We must be ready for every opportunity to advocate for Christian principles
ACL’s voice has been heard loud and clear in Canberra – and across the country – during the last six months. Thank you for your advocacy and partnership!
We’ve made good progress, even in the face of opposition to the values of human flourishing, we seek to promote:
Together we reached an estimated 10,000 viewers with our exclusive pre-election webcast video messages from then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott;
We’ve upheld the dignity of the aged and infirm by contributing to the defeat of euthanasia laws in Tasmania;
We achieved bi-partisan agreement in Queensland that action is needed to protect kids from sexualised outdoor advertising;
We secured an election promise from the Tasmanian Premier to reintroduce the right of Christian schools to hire staff in keeping with their beliefs; and
And we helped organise the Victorian March for the Babies, the largest pro-life march in Australia, which was attended by as many as 4,000 people.
However, it’s clear that this is no time to rest on our laurels.
We must continue to take every opportunity to bring Christian principles into government and public policy discussion.
We must be the voice for values our nation desperately needs – because we live at a time when decisions are being made that directly affect the culture our children are part of and will have to contend with.
So, as the end of the financial year approaches, please be mindful of how you can help strengthen this voice through your support to ensure we can step into the opportunities that lie ahead.
Please pray for us as we seek to bring Christian influence to our nation.
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Today I welcome Dawn R. Schuldenfrei to Queering Up Your Bookshelf to talk about how fellow queer romance writers KJ Charles and Jordan L. Hawk inspired her to keep writing, favorite tropes, and her upcoming release, LIMINAL HEARTS.
Welcome, Dawn!
Dawn R. Schuldenfrei (she/her) writes primarily fantasy. She happily fulfills the role of “the quiet one everyone used to think was normal,” surprising family and innocent bystanders with her dark and twisted sense of humor at the perfectly inopportune moment.
She hopes to one day meet all her characters, and those of her favorite authors, since she knows they're out there somewhere. Until then, she'll continue to have conversations with them in her head, and occasionally out loud (but she'll pretend she's talking to the dog).
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.1. What is your writing origin story?
I’ve enjoyed writing for almost as long as I can remember. It was a hobby at first; I planned to be a microbiologist at the time! Then I realized I didn’t like living in the lab, and I’d rather live in my head.
I had a little luck early on with publishing some poetry and nonfiction pieces. Then I got distracted by kids and marriage problems, and took a break for about a dozen years. I wasn’t reading fiction during that time either. But a couple years ago I was in a really rough relationship patch, and looked for an outlet via books. I stumbled onto Jordan L. Hawk and KJ Charles, and it was like the whole world opened up again. They really motivated me to get back into my own writing.
I love excitement and adventure, and I can’t find that in the real world, so I want to create it, for myself and for other people. I get inspiration from reading good books (fiction and nonfiction). Everything goes into my brain and crashes around until fun things pop out.
I think it’s important to show as many different people living their unique lives as possible. I’m panromantic ace, but I didn’t even know asexuality was a thing until I was in my mid-30’s. It would have been immensely helpful to understand that part of myself when I was younger.
Also, seeing depictions of queer people bonding and loving each other, platonically as well as romantically, can give a better sense that there’s community out there for everyone, and if you don’t have that community in your life yet, there’s still hope of finding it someday.
4. How do you balance your writing life with everything else life throws at you?
My balancing act is more like teetering violently from one side to the other while desperately hanging on by my toes. I’m ADD, so my brain likes to leap all over the place and jump on whatever catches its attention at the moment. Plus, I have kids that need me to varying degrees, so my schedule can be erratic. I’ve found putting deadlines on myself and then using other people to enforce them (scheduling with my editor so I know I have to send her my WIP by a certain date, telling everyone what my publication date will be, etc.) helps me get things done, even if it means pulling some late nights.
5. What has your publishing journey been like?
I attended the Odyssey Fantasy Writers Workshop in the late 90’s, and started submitting stories for publication after that. I got a lot of nice rejection letters: “I really like this story, but we don’t have a place for it at this time.” I had some small successes, but when I came back to writing recently, I realized I didn’t want to deal with the gatekeeping and turnaround times of the mainstream publishing world. I want to follow my own schedule, find my own cover art, all of that. So this time around I’m going independent.
6. What are some of your favorite tropes and how do you subvert them?
I really like chosen one and hidden heir type stories. Sometimes I mix things up by adding some weird humor to it (one of my planned series involves a farmer-turned-detective and his psychic chicken). Sometimes by just changing up where the story goes versus where readers expect it to: the chosen one fails, the rediscovered heir walks away, those kinds of things.
7. What advice do you have for new authors?
Write what you like; there are readers for it out there somewhere. Don’t listen to people who tell you there’s only one way to do something, or even worse, that thing can’t/shouldn’t be done. Usually that just means they don’t know as much as they think they do. Over the years they’ve declared horror dead, fantasy done, and so on. And they’re always wrong.
8. What is one thing that surprised you about your current project?
When I started LIMINAL HEARTS, I wanted to write a unicorn story for adults. Where the unicorn was there to rescue a middle-aged woman, instead of some virginal kid. Then it turned out my unicorn needed more rescuing than the human woman did. Maybe now it’s a human story for unicorns?
9. What is one of your favorite scenes or characters that you have written recently?
I have a critter based on a hellbender salamander in my current book. His name is Sal, and he’s pretty adorable. One of my favorite scenes is when the main characters realize the hard way that he likes to get wet whenever he can. Even if he’s inside the house, and the only water around is in the toilet
My current work is called LIMINAL HEARTS, and it’s book one in my RULES OF CHAOS series. I have a prequel short story out already, and five books total planned. LIMINAL HEARTS follows Anaya, a unicorn who can take human form, and Tara, a panromantic asexual human, as they try to save the Lake Champlain monster from an evil unicorn. It’ll be out at the end of June.
Next will be book two, which doesn’t have a title yet. It’ll follow half-fae/half-gnome Elsee, the protagonist from STRINGS ATTACHED, the prequel short. She’ll have to figure out what has the Appalachian Fae Court all stirred up and how to stop her aunt, the queen, from ruining Elsee’s life, and possibly the whole area.
Battle musical chairs!
Half-fae/half-gnome Elsee has avoided the games and power plays of the Appalachian Faerie Court so far. She prefers hanging out with her grandfather in the stony caverns around Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and making music with the local humans.
But then her aunt, Queen Aoife, comes to claim Elsee’s most prized possession. When she can no longer avoid fae rules, Elsee must find her own way around them.
Because even family needs boundaries, and nobody touches this girl’s banjo.
Magic is moving. Things are stirring. Let the games begin…
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Fall in Vermont is lovely: beautiful leaves, cool days, slimy lake monsters, an evil unicorn…
Tara wasn’t expecting to meet the woman of her dreams at her little library in Starksburgh, Vermont. She’s asexual for starters, which makes finding someone compatible a bit hard. She’s okay with that: she has friends and a decent life.
But this woman really stands out. Tara knows she’s found a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and she’s not about to let that get away. Even if it means following a human-looking unicorn into the stranger depths of the backwoods.
Anaya came to Vermont tracking a supernatural killer, one who’s a little too familiar. The human she meets is a pleasant distraction, but could she be more than that? How much can Anaya trust herself? Does she have the strength to save herself, let alone everyone else?
The Loch Ness Monster has been devoured…can Anaya and Tara keep the Lake Champlain Monster from being next?
May 20, 2019 / Alex Harrow/ 1 Comment
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Today I welcome Taylor Brooke to Queering Up Your Bookshelf to talk about authentic representation, juggling multiple projects—and genres—at once, and their experience co-writing their upcoming m/m second chances romance, Shadows You Left, out May 20 from Entangled.
Welcome, Taylor!
Taylor Brooke (they/she) writes Queer books filled with magic and attitude. After an exciting career in Special Effects Makeup, she moved to Oregon and settled in the mountains with her plants and one-toothed cat. Connect with her on Twitter @taysalion.
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Taylor's backlist titles including her critically acclaimed debut FORTITUDE SMASHED
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What is your writing origin story?
I started writing when I was young, but I didn’t get serious until I was in high school. I started creating original stories, roleplaying with friends, establishing rules for worlds and narratives we played in regularly. I probably did most of my writing in the fanfiction space, though. That’s where I built a name for myself and really worked to hone my craft. Without Archive of Our Own, I probably wouldn’t be a published author today.
What inspires your writing and how do you keep that inspiration alive?
That’s a tough question. I’m constantly working on something which both feeds and starves my inspiration, to be honest. If I’m not working, I feel like I’m falling behind, and when I am working, I’m constantly wishing I had less on my plate. It’s this weird game I play with myself where I see how far my creative limits can be pushed before something breaks - usually a scene I’m working on or my sleep schedule. Then I’ll take a step back and slow down. Really though, I think the most important part of my writing regiment when it comes to keeping inspiration alive is having something I’m unapologetically passionate about hanging around in the wings. Right now, that passion project is a book about a sheltered evangelical boy who gets roped into joining a satanic fraternity. It’s different than anything else I’ve got in the pipeline - written in first person, intimate voice structure, personal themes being explored. I know that book will be there if I need a break from something else, and I know I can always put what I’m working on down and go re-read what I’ve written of that manuscript for a self-hype moment. Sometimes just reminding yourself that you’re capable can refill the creative well.
What does representation mean to you and how does it feature in your writing?
Representation means authenticity. That’s a complicated thing I just said and I’m going to do my best to explain it. Representation, like a lot of things in publishing, is marketable to a point. As long as representation is palatable to a certain readership then it is allowed to exist in our industry. Unfortunately, that representation is rarely authentic. So, to me, when we talk about representation as something universal we do a disservice to the authors and creators doing their best to write from their bones. We’re setting them up for failure. Because authenticity is not a one-size-fits-all publishing trend, it’s not something we all experience the same way or twice over. It’s a deliberate, personalized, realized experience of self, culture, sexuality, ethnicity, gender and emotion in a way that only that specific person can express. Does that mean their particular authenticity won’t speak to someone else? Of course not. I relate to a lot of authentic representation out there today, but that doesn’t mean it’s in the same vein of something I’d write. Relating to a story doesn’t always mean significance can only be found in telling stories in its likeness. To me, representation is the effort to diversify the industry by allowing the same story to be written by six different people, from six different backgrounds, in six different ways, and not to call it a dead trend like vampires or werewolves or heist YA books. It’s allowing more voices to tell stories we have heard again in different ways while also being allowed to tell new stories as well. It’s a re-balancing of power. An effort to be inclusive. It’s looking at a bookshelf and knowing there is something for you or me or them or us waiting to be read.
What is your writing process and does it differ between your YA and NA/adult projects?
So, to be honest, my writing process doesn’t differ between my YA and NA projects. But my my writing process does change depending on each and every project. Right now, I’m working through my passion project (a college YA which is what I think the industry is calling NA now, don’t quote me) from beginning to end. But when I wrote FORTITUDE SMASHED, I jumped between chapters depending on what I was feeling like writing that day. With my 2020 book, which I wish I could talk about but I can’t just yet, I wrote it from beginning to end, did a change from first person to third person in a re-write, and also went through four large-scale revisions to change the pacing of the book. It always depends. It’s always a surprise.
What was your experience like, co-writing SHADOWS YOU LEFT with Jude Sierra?
It was a wonderful experience. It was fast. A little messy. Very emotional. I feel like me and Jude were both working through personal things as we wrote what would turn out to be an extremely personal book for us both. We for the characters, I wrote all of Erik’s chapters and Jude wrote all of River’s, but we were both hands on in the editing process which helped smooth out any inconsistencies in our overall voice. We had a rough outline that we built off of as we went, and we were in constant communication about what worked and what didn’t as the story built itself. Overall, I think it was a strange, month-long writing workshop where I learned how to speed write, self-edit and critique all in one go.
What are some of your favorite tropes in YA and NA and how do you subvert them?
If I don’t say Soulmates one of my readers might bite me. I do truly love the soulmate trope. Fate. Destiny. True love. It’s something I’m extremely fond of and I enjoy looking at the trope through the lens or why rather than how. Why do we believe in fate? What does fate mean to us? Why do we react to it so strongly when it’s presented to us in creative outlets? All those questions are powerful driving forces in how I subvert the trope. Instead of looking at soulmates as a way to create a romantic arc, I look at soulmates as a way to unpack our own complex relationship with relationships.
I’m also a big sucker for enemies to lovers and friends to lovers.
Do you have any advice for authors who are writing for different audiences like YA and NA/adult?
Make sure you have an agent on your side who knows the industry well. Also, make sure you advocate for yourself. Look for different publishing avenues and opportunities. Never count yourself out for something unless you truly don’t want to do it. If you can write for different audiences and you enjoy writing for different audiences then do your best to create work that will stand apart from each catalog. YA should feel YA. NA should feel NA. Adult should feel Adult. Granted, sometimes these categories can overlap, but you want to make sure the voice of your books and your brand is strong for each pen name or category/genre you write in. You want people to be able to find you no matter where you go.
Who is your favorite character you have written and what do you love about them? (Yes, this is like picking your favorite child, sorry.)
Aiden Marr is and always will be my favorite character. It’s selfish of me to say he’s my favorite because he’s an autobiographical character, but the journey I went on as I wrote about him in FORTITUDE SMASHED and CURVED HORIZON will stay with me for the rest of my life. We changed, me and him. We grew and healed and lived. That’s something I can’t say I did with any other character - not like I did with him.
You are one of those authors who always seems to have a lot of projects going on. How do you schedule out your day and what do you do for self-care?
I do always have something going on. Truthfully, I’m not the best person to ask because my advice isn’t great. My self-care is having a thick skin and knowing that hard work is what’s getting me to where I want to be. I also like bath bombs, but that isn’t really self-care for my writing. I’d like bath bombs even if I wasn’t busy. I think the best thing you can do for yourself as a writer is to find what works for you. Twitter is full of hot takes and lots of drama at all times, but honestly? You don’t need to be anxious to be a writer. You don’t need to have self-doubt. You don’t need to constantly question your work. You are allowed to exist and be happy about it. You’re allowed to write and be happy about it. Granted, talking about mental illness is important, but I’ve seen a lot of writers online relating the industry to mental illness as if the two are related, and in some cases they might be, but a lot of the time they aren’t. My self-care is knowing that this industry owes me nothing and that I am happy to be writing stories people love. I eat a lot of Thai takeout when I’m on deadline. I also take the weekends off (unless I’m behind). But my mentality, the way I approach what is owed to me and what I can take for myself, is truly the best self-care I give myself.
What are you currently working on? What’s next for you?
Right now I’m working on a few different things, but unfortunately I can’t tell you much about any of them. I will tell you that I’m working on a YA about cats and fate and the complexity of changing love, another YA with a non-binary protagonist, and a NA/College YA about family, faith and new beginnings.
The white picket fence.
The happily-ever-after.
That life was never meant for him.
For years he’s been bouncing from city to city—from one cage fight to another.
That’s his outlet. That’s pain Erik can control.
But in Seattle, everything changed.
River’s an artist.
He’s a pretty boy.
He does yoga.
Someone so soft shouldn’t be intrigued by Erik’s rough edges.
His life was quiet. He had a simple routine.
Designing tattoos, avoiding drama. Well, mostly.
Then Erik comes along—scarred and dangerous, shrouded in mystery.
A mystery River can’t resist trying to solve.
Maybe a secret as dark as his own.
Neither of them expected a relationship so complicated, so intense.
Neither of them expected…each other.
Erik and River are both trying to escape a shadowed past.
But the thing about shadows is: the faster you run, the faster they chase you.
May 09, 2019 / Alex Harrow/ Comment
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Today I welcome Roberta Blablanski to Queering Up Your Bookshelf to talk about inspiration through positive feedback, spreading positivity on social media, and representing asexual characters in nuanced ways without a “cure” narrative.
Welcome, Roberta!
Roberta Blablanski (she/her) hails from The Big Easy: New Orleans, Louisiana. She draws inspiration from her colorful hometown and her former life as a college radio DJ. When she isn’t writing, she spends her days searching for the world’s best Bloody Mary and avoiding people she went to high school with. Her normal habitat is curled up in bed with a good book and a cup of coffee.
Roberta developed a love of books at an early age, spending her summers at the library. Years later, after watching the American version of the television show Queer as Folk, she began searching for books featuring queer characters finding love. Most recently, she began writing queer love stories of her own, drawing from her own personal experiences and creating characters and story lines as vibrant as her ever-changing hair color.
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I never fancied myself as someone who could be a writer. From the moment I could read, my nose was stuck in a book. I was content being a reader and losing myself in the characters and worlds others created. In February of 2018, I was on a search for a funny amnesia story with LGBTQ+ elements. I kept coming up short, so I decided to try to write it myself for fun. As I completed a chapter, I would send to a friend whom I met through the queer online writing community. She encouraged me and provided amazing feedback. The result is far from the initial goal and needs a lot of work, but it was a great experience. The story has good bones and I’m hoping to tackle it and whip it into shape at some point.
For me, inspiration comes from all over. It could be lyrics to a song, a commercial, a random person, a meme, a conversation…My mind is constantly thinking what if this happened instead?
To me, representation means seeing the positive inclusion of characters and people across the sexuality and gender spectrum in books, mainstream media, and every day life. People, especially young people, need to see themselves represented so they know they are not alone.
In my writing, I include queer characters and show them experiencing the ups and downs of life. Normalization is important. Generally, no one bats an eye at MF pairings in books. I want all other pairings to be as accepted.
How do asexual characters feature in your writing and how much of your own experience do you tend to write into your characters?
My project for NaNoWriMo last year was my first attempt at writing an asexual character. It was also my first year participating in NaNo, and I was wholly unprepared…which is probably why I barely managed 10k words. I do have plans to revisit this manuscript upon completion of my current project to flesh it out into a proper story. The asexual character is based very closely to my own experiences, except this character gets a different HEA.
The characters in my other stories, while may not share my sexuality, do have certain aspects of my personality, whether it be changing hair colors, or social anxiety, or a love for the tv show ALF. I also tend to base the family members of my characters on my own family.
Any tips for authors who want to ensure they include positive representation of asexual characters?
There is no “magic cure” for asexuality. Asexuality isn’t a condition or disease that needs curing. To imply such is to equate asexual people with being defective, and we are not. I think that’s the biggest point to keep in mind when writing an asexual character. Asexual people need to be shown as regular people who have relationships just like everyone else.
What are some of your favorite tropes and how do you subvert them?
I love the fake relationship trope! I haven’t tried writing it because there are many other writers who have done a fantastic job. I think it’s a trope I prefer to read rather than write.
What was your favorite part of writing RETURN TO SENDER?
I absolutely loved writing the scenes that take place in the 1980s. It’s my favorite decade and I got to relive bits of my childhood. A close runner up is the letters and journal entries written by one of the characters.
Tell us about #LovePirates and what inspired it?
The Love Pirates hashtag was created by Malini, another friend I met through the Twitter writing community. It started off as random playful tweets and evolved into a movement of sorts to promote positivity (love), support, and respect. There’s so much negativity in the world, and we want people to know that they can find a safe space with us. Malini designed our Twitter banners, we do pirate-themed #FollowFriday, and we post random pirate memes and gifs. We “recruit” new Love Pirates all the time, and anyone is welcome to “join”.
What is one of your favorite scenes or characters that you have written recently?
I wrote a scene based off the tv show The Dating Game, and I had a blast coming up with silly, innuendo-laced responses to questions such as “What is your idea of a perfect date?”.
My latest project is titled is Addiction, and it’s the story of the effects of one MC’s drug addiction on his relationship with his fiancé. It’s full of angst but does have lighter moments like The Dating Game scene. I’m hoping to self-publish in August.
Then next is my asexual F/F college romance that I am determined to finish. Writing an own voices story is something I’m really looking forward to.
College professor and website designer Drew Hampton has had only one great love in his life. A loner as a teen, he found solace in art, his self-styled mullet, and the television show ALF. Then a new boy moved in next door, and he discovered love.
Mechanic Wes Harrison was thrown into adult responsibility at a young age. He’s managed to build a good life through hard work and determination; however, he hasn’t been in a relationship since high school.
Drew and Wes were deeply in love thirty years ago, but then they were torn apart. Unlucky at relationships after their separation, both men treasured memories of their one true love.
Fate intervenes and gives them a second chance. Will they rekindle their once great love and find happiness, or has too much time gone by?
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Since I’m working on book two of the Voyance series and am a definite binge-reader when it comes to series, I wanted to give the discourse of writing series and everything that goes into it, what to consider, dos and don’ts, and different authors’ processes a platform to talk about this, interweaving it with my own posts on the subject. The goal is to make this a bi-weekly series with different posts and perspectives on writing a series.
Today, I welcome r.r. campbell, author of the EMPATHY series to my blog to give us an in-depth look at his series-writing process and what inspired his EMPATHY series.
r. r. campbell is an author, editor, and the founder of the Writescast Network, a podcast collective for writers, by writers. His published novels include Accounting for It All and Imminent Dawn, which debuted as the number one new release in LGBT science fiction on Amazon. Its sequel, Mourning Dove, is now available in print and ebook with most major retailers.
The author has been an invited speaker at conferences and seminars including the University of Wisconsin Writers’ Institute, WisCon, and AllWriter’s Workshop. His work has also been featured in Five:2:One Magazine’s #thesideshow, Erotic Review, and with National Journal Writing Month.
r. r. lives in Stoughton, Wisconsin with his wife, Lacey, and their cats, Hashtag and Rhaegar.
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1. What is the most important thing to consider when writing a series?
I think one really has to have a firm understanding of what the central question of the series is going to be. In the EMPATHY series, for example, our series question is whether Chandra will ever be able to communicate with her wife, but every book within the series has a unique question that in some way ties back into our exploration of that series question.
Except that might not be entirely true. Why?
Because in the EMPATHY series we go from four perspective characters in Imminent Dawn to nine in Mourning Dove, and the third installment, Event Horizon was originally going to have twelve or thirteen. As that book ballooned, however, I realized I would need to separate the book into two concurrent installments, now known as Event Horizon and Rubicon.
The former will meet the criteria established above, namely that its central question will tie into the central question for the series, but Rubicon, since it won’t feature Chandra as a perspective character, will have a central question that is less immediately tied to answering the question hanging over the series as a whole. The events of Rubicon will still have an effect on Chandra’s ability to achieve her overall goal, but we’ll be seeing how matters in a more overworld plot are indirectly—and sometimes directly—affecting her ability to do so.
To tie all of this back into your original question, I still encourage writers to know what their central question for the series will be when they set out to write or outline it. That said, the EMPATHY series is a perfect example of how epic-length tales can require us to play with that advice when the story grows.
2. What influenced your decision to create the EMPATHY series?
The series originally started as a short story, simply titled “EMPATHY.” It was meant to be a retelling of Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon, but with more of a techie twist. After I finished what proved to be an almost novella-length short story, however, I had a hunch there was so much more potential in the internet-access brain implant technology and in the world Chandra inhabits.
With those inklings as my guide, I made Wyatt—our ruthless tech magnate—a perspective character before adding our relentless investigative journalist, Meredith, and the advancement-hungry administrative assistant, Ariel. It took me a couple of years to shape their storylines into the techno-thriller that Imminent Dawn became, but I remain really pleased with how it turned out—and readers seem to be of a similar opinion!
3. How many books do you have planned for the EMPATHY series? Will there be any companion stories or spin-offs?
Right now it’s looking like we will end up with six or seven books in the main series. We have Imminent Dawn, Mourning Dove, and Event Horizon either published or drafted in full, and Rubicon is about a third of the way through its first draft. It’s possible the book following Rubicon will have to be split into two, but if it isn’t, we’ll end up with Conslunarity and Nightshade finishing off the series.
With Mourning Dove just having been released, I’m eager to see how readers feel about the direction the series will take going forward. It’s a bit of a departure from the techno-thriller feel of Imminent Dawn, but I think Mourning Dove is a much more emotionally-grounded adventure than its predecessor in the best way possible. As the series advances, though, we’ll get back to having some of the more in-your-face climaxes readers have come to expect in the forms of heists and high-stakes international techno-troubles.
I also do plan to write a handful of EMPATHY Origins spinoffs someday, which will focus on beloved characters from the main series who don’t get POV chapters in the series itself. I think it’ll be a nice way to continue to explore this world across time and distance in ways we can’t do to the same extent in the main series, however sprawling it might be.
4. How do you handle complex world building and character arcs over the span of a series?
I’m an outliner for everything—except character arcs. I often go into a book with knowledge of a character’s motivation and the path those motivations will lead them down, but it isn’t until after I’ve written a full first draft that I can circle back and zoom out on that journey in a way that lets me see how I might sharpen their arc over the course of that particular book.
Where the series is concerned, I do have a better sense for whether a particular character is likely to be a changer, a stayer, or something in between. The shape that ultimately takes is served by the presentation of their arcs in those individual installments, however, so I imagine Nightshade will require a great deal of attention where it comes to ensuring every character winds up with a satisfying end, arc-wise.
World building is a tough one for me, mostly because I am miserable at maintaining a series encyclopedia. Though I did have a number of documents at one point that helped me keep track of character eye color and the specifications for a given technology, I found it far too cumbersome to keep up with while actually writing. This does mean that I have to break out the old Ctrl + F feature to double back and look for possible inconsistencies as I write the later books in the series, but I really don’t mind doing that. I’ve been living and breathing this series for so long now that it’s nice to swoop back and revisit words I’ve already written.
5. What advice do you have for authors who want to write a series, but don’t have a contract for book one yet? Should they write the entire series first or make the first book a standalone with series potential?
I am a strong advocate for writing a first book that is an actual standalone before writing a full series, particularly if one wants to pursue traditional publishing. So often in trad pub your ability to write a sequel is tied to preorder or early sales volume, so if you do spend years writing an extended series but book one doesn’t do well (critically defined by your publisher and not you), then you’re out a number of years of work.
In my view, it’s best to write book one as a standalone, shop it around, and, while shopping it, start work on a unique project you can keep in your back pocket for later. This is precisely what I did with Imminent Dawn and Accounting for It All, with the latter ultimately getting picked up and published before Imminent Dawn. If I’d gone on to write Mourning Dove while shopping Imminent Dawn, neither of them might have ended up going anywhere since I needed to get my foot in the publishing door with Accounting for It All first.
Another bit of advice I can offer as it pertains to standalones is that if you’re going to pitch a book as a standalone with series potential, that first installment had better really be a standalone. Something I’ve seen come up a lot lately in my work as an editor is a number of manuscripts pitched as standalones that end with a number of newly introduced cliffhangers. When we leave threads dangling like that, we’re not presenting a standalone, but rather a standalone that then runs for five to fifty pages longer than it needs to in order to try to prove to agents and editors that we have series potential.
I’d suggest writers in this position pare back all of those cliffhangers to ensure their manuscript doesn’t leave anything unresolved and, once they have the book on contract, mention to their agent or editor that they do have a version of the book that could set up the series in more detail than the current version.
Again, I’m speaking from experience here, as the version of Imminent Dawn that was originally picked up by NineStar Press was a true standalone. Once it was under contract, though, I approached my editor about shaping the ending a bit differently to set us up for the whole series. Once I had their approval, I just made those changes near the end and some subtle tweaks throughout before—voila!—we had a true book one in a multi-book series.
6. How is your writing process different when writing a series than it is when writing a standalone novel?
With a standalone, I have a pretty straightforward, go-to process—start with an elevator pitch consisting of “[character] must [act] before [deadline] or [consequences],” which I then stretch out onto one of a few different plot structure models. From there, I outline scene by scene to fill in the gaps, and then bam! I’ve got the bones of what I’ll need structurally. At that point, I’m in a better position to know who I’ll need to support that structure aside from my main character, and I can start developing a more clear idea of who they are, what they want, and why. Then it’s more or less off to the races unless I’m writing about something that will require a bunch of pre-write research, as was the case with Accounting for It All.
With a series, particularly EMPATHY, I have to keep much of the above in mind, but I take a slightly different approach for every perspective character and every timeline prior to writing. With Imminent Dawn, for example, I basically used the standalone method described above, but had to constantly be aware of who knows what and when in order to construct timelines that made sense and also heightened the tension as the story advanced.
This became all the more complicated for Mourning Dove, in which we go from four perspective characters to nine. The nice thing about Mourning Dove, however, is that unlike Imminent Dawn, not every perspective character gets full-length novel treatment. That is to say some characters, though they have complete arcs, don’t see those arcs stretched out over ten chapters, but rather four.
To keep track of how everyone’s story comes together, I use color-coded spreadsheets to monitor how often we are or aren’t seeing a given character, as well as to ensure the tension on the page is rising more or less in tandem for every character as the book advances. In this way, we get all of the individual characters’ climactic moments in chapters that are near one another, even if those events would have otherwise happened days or weeks apart on a strictly linear timeline.
Then, once my spreadsheets are ready to go, I can finally start writing a first draft! As I write, I’ll make notes in a Google Doc about questions that come up either about that particular perspective character’s story or what others might be doing at that same time, just so I have notes to double check later. Once a draft is complete, I circle back and focus on those notes first to ensure I’ve ironed out all of the wrinkles, so to speak, before I get into fine-tuning the scene’s presentations themselves.
7. What to you is the hardest thing about writing a series?
Maintaining momentum is proving to be a bit of a challenge, but not for my characters so much as for myself. Once Event Horizon is out later this year, that will make for nearly 350,000 words of EMPATHY-series content released in a calendar year. That is, needless to say, a lot.
I love writing this series and have a clear trajectory for it with each installment, but writing at that pace has precluded me from starting some other projects in the writing world and beyond. Once the manuscript for Event Horizon is out of my hands in the next month or so, I’m looking forward to taking a break from writing this series to focus on promoting it at a number of events and revising or writing at least two other manuscripts before I return to work on EMPATHY book four, Rubicon.
This will likely mean a bit of a gap between the release of books three and four, but I think this will be in the series’ best interest and my own. My goal is to be sufficiently rested to take on books four and five in one fell swoop before taking another break prior to writing the final two installments of the series.
Simply put, there’s certainly a plan in place, but I need to make sure I pace myself along the way if we’re to really stick the landing in a series as sprawling as this one.
8. How do you handle recapping events from previous books in later books in a series?
This is where I very much rely on help from beta readers, critique partners, and my editor. From where I sit as the writer, it’s hard to know which details have stuck with readers from one book to the next, as I’ve had to, at some point or another, really explore all of them in ways that will have more staying power with me as the author.
In Mourning Dove, for example, there’s a scene between Alistair and a new character. My intent in that scene is to demonstrate that he’s making an extremely high-stakes, unforced error due to his total ignorance of the value of what he plans on using as leverage in a negotiation. Based on the draft I circulated to early readers, only one reader really understood that, so I had to revise the scene to give readers a greater hint as to why this is such a big deal, particularly since the consequences for this scene don’t come back into play directly until book four.
That’s a huge gap in the number of pages and the amount of time readers will have in between seeing that scene and the scenes where the consequences really hit home, so setting it up to be a bit more memorable was important, and how I convey the consequences will have to be equally sharp.
Where touching on broader past events is concerned, I rely on brief reflections from a POV character that hopefully avoid becoming too on the nose. My goal is to present these recaps in a way that doesn’t have readers going, “Oh, the author is doing this to help me,” but rather, “Wow, this character continues to struggle with that trauma,” or “Ha! I’m so glad this character can still be happy about that.” By grounding it in character, I think all we need is a tip of the proverbial cap to get certain events, people, and places back on readers’ radars.
9. How do you keep the tension building as your series goes on?
This is where stakes play a huge role. In Imminent Dawn, for example, we have a limited population affected by the book’s events. They’re affected very personally, yes, but most of the book takes place in an intimate, isolated setting that the rest of the world isn’t really privy to until the book’s final chapters.
In Mourning Dove, the tension escalates: we now have a slew of characters who are forced to, sometimes very publicly, confront the ramifications of their actions and inactions with their lives or freedom on the line.
Event Horizon takes this a step further and makes everything about survival—the survival of relationships to others and with one’s self. Rubicon will further play on this by taking survival stories in another direction, exploring the nature of survival as it pertains to legacy, one’s moral compass, and how far one is willing to go to preserve or compromise either in order to achieve one’s goals.
The later books in the series will center around heists, high-stakes personal and political drama, and disasters that will have continental and global impact. There’s a reason the series continues to expand geographically, and despite this expansion, my goal is to have everything collapse back in on itself once we get to Nightshade, the series’ final installment. I really want to build up an immaculate house of cards that can only support its own weight for so long before the inevitability of forces beyond anyone’s control bring it crashing down.
10. What are some of your favorite series that influenced you as a writer?
Where influence as a writer is concerned, Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam series and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire have played big roles in how the events of the EMPATHY series are presented. Hugh Howey’s Silo series and Malka Older’s Infomocracy also helped shape my approach to a handful of matters, but I feel like I’m finally converging on something that feels all my own.
As I put the finishing touches on Event Horizon, I am, for the first time, really accepting that this series can be whatever it needs to be in order to be the best story it can be for itself, and I actually feel well-equipped enough to see it through. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how I approached or presented matters in Imminent Dawn and Mourning Dove and find myself thinking there’s so much I’d do or present differently now.
That’s not to say I feel I did a poor job with either installment; I still stand by them and their stories. What I mean is I think I had to get deep into book three before truly finding my footing and getting a sense for what this series really is. I’m sure that sense will continue to grow and evolve as the series continues, so perhaps it’s just a matter of accepting that, just like my characters, I, too, have much adventure before me. It’ll all just come down to how we meet the challenge together.
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In the aftermath of the calamitous Human/Etech research study, Chandra and Kyra struggle to reclaim the life they shared in a pre-EMPATHY world, while Ty, armed with knowledge of EMPATHY's programming language, seeks revenge on the Halmans for the harm that's befallen his friends.
As a North American Union investigation into the happenings on the compound looms, a grief-stricken Peter works to resurrect the memory of his mother from a harvested nanochip, and Heather scrambles to keep her family--and their company--together. Alistair, having abandoned the family business, plots to save his hide and that of his wife while she strives to stay one step ahead of a husband she has no reason to trust.
Far to the north amid civil unrest, a recently retired Rénald Dupont investigates the disappearance of his friend and former colleague, Meredith, despite grave threats from an increasingly skittish North American Union government.
As old and new foes emerge, spouse is further pit against spouse, brother against sister, and governments against their people. In the end, all must choose between attempts to reclaim the past or surrender to the inevitable, an intractable world of their own creation.
Mourning Dove is an evocative, sweeping symphony of love, revenge, and desperation in cacophonous times. It is the second installment in r. r. campbell's epic EMPATHY sci-fi saga.
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Today, I welcome Brooklyn Ray to Queering Up Your Bookshelf to talk about their writing process and their Port Lewis Witches series of novellas and novels, how they juggle many projects at once, and tips to write great, emotion-packed sex scenes.
Welcome, Brooklyn!
Brooklyn started their career when they developed The Port Lewis Witches, a novella series about a group of Queer witches, necromancers and other magical creatures living and loving in a coastal Washington town. When they're not writing, Brooklyn can be found polishing crystals and offering tarot readings at a metaphysical shop in the Pacific Northwest. They also create ritual items, candles and other magical goods that can be found in their Etsy shop, and work as a developmental editor on various Queer stories. Follow them on Twitter @brookieraywrite for information about upcoming releases.
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Much like most writers, I’ve been writing since I was very young. I didn’t actually start developing stories with substantial plots or movement until I was in high school, writing fan fiction and roleplaying with friends. I think that really started it - fan fiction. I was able to play in a world that wasn’t mine and develop established characters in ways I thought suited them. It was on my own terms. Storytelling within a set universe I loved enough to expand on my own. When it came to Brooklyn Ray, I started writing Paranormal stories that the traditional side of publishing had deemed unsellable. Which is hilariously out of touch, to be honest. I saw the submission call for INTO THE MYSTIC VOLUME ONE and tried to co-write a short story with an old friend of mine. Unfortunately, that friendship came to an end, so I decided to whip something up on my own. Thalia jumped into my head followed by Jordan, River and King. Then Port Lewis. It unraveled this gigantic universe I was desperate to play in. Then came Ryder, who lived like a splinter between my ribs for months and years before I had the courage to write him. He’s the wonderful writer faux-pas, you know? The autobiographical character we’re not supposed to give to readers. It’s too much of yourself, right? It’s too intimate. But if I didn’t write Ryder and his story then I’d be doing a disservice to myself and my gender and the right to explore my own identity freely. Writing him opened doors inside myself I hadn’t known how to unlock. Now I have… So much planned. Too much, if I’m being completely honest. All good, though. All fun. All things I’m ridiculously excited for.
I take inspiration from a few different places, but mostly it comes from my own practice as a witch. I study demonology, alchemy and kitchen witchcraft quite a bit, and I wanted to inject typical Paranormal Romance with actual realized magic. Obviously there are embellishments and exaggerations and straight up fantasy in my books. But the core of the magic--The Orders, the elemental spellcraft and ingredients--those are all based on real magic I’ve experienced and used in my life.
When it comes to keeping that inspiration alive I honestly just… keep practicing. I recently opened an Etsy shop where I offer Tarot readers, custom candle craft and wax melts. I plan on adding some Port Lewis inspired goods soon, a Christy inspired salt scrub, crystal kits inspired by the Port Lewis Witches, personalized crystal kits. I also try to practice in the kitchen as much as possible, utilizing ingredients based on metaphysical merit in my dishes. Energetically enhanced french fries? Perfect writing snack.
That’s an interesting question. Representation is broad, you know? It can be anything and everything, but to me, representation means seeing identities I align with penned with empathy and skill on the page. That doesn’t happen often. To pick one, gigantic area of representation, the Queer community, we have a lot of work to do. I want to see a variety of characters, relationships, character arcs and settings used in tandem with marginalized identities that don’t center marginalization. I also want to see people within the community back off on policing how we all explore our identities. There will ALWAYS be problematic writing, stories and characters, but putting a cork in character creation, especially if those characters are messy and human, because they’re marginalized creates a network of characters that lack depth. I’ve seen anthologies use purity policing tactics to gatekeep their own community. I’ve seen Queer readers and reviewers go after authors for creating characters they didn’t resonate with even though those characters were ownvoices. I’ve seen authors mine representation for diversity cookies instead of writing a good story. It’s a mess. We gotta clean it up.
What is your writing process and how do you balance working on so many projects at once?
This is a good questions, especially for me. I have two pen names. Right now I’m working on five projects under Brooklyn Ray and several other New Adult and Young Adults projects on my other pen name. As for the Brooklyn projects, I’m currently writing CYCLONE, editing BEHIND THE SUN, ABOVE THE MOON, waiting for a response on a contemporary proposal, drafting concept proposals and submission guidelines for an aromantic anthology and running my Patreon. It’s a lot. And to be honest, I don’t have a good answer for you, because my answer is: Hustle. This industry is booming with buzzy authors who are knocking things out of the park on the daily, and it can be super frustrating to watch success lean on everyone else but you. Keep to your hustle. Eyes on your own paper. Work hard. Create, edit, find critique partners and make sure you don’t allow yourself to slip into bad habits.
I say this with love: This industry waits for no one.
You get to set your own pace and you get to take as much time for self care as you need, but to do that and to juggle projects without getting overwhelmed, it’s best to work on yourself and only yourself. No need for comparison games. No need to entertain friendships that are one sided. Let yourself be your own guide. Hold yourself to high standards.
What is your advice on writing great sex scenes?
Emotion, emotion, emotion. There’s so much to explore when you’re writing sex scenes and it isn’t always about who’s doing what and what’s being tossed away or how something feels physically. It’s about how someone feels when they’re engaging in sex with another person or multiple people. Is this sexual encounter a transaction? How does that make your character feel and why? Is this sexual encounter going to influence or move your character to experience emotions they weren’t expecting? (Michael Gates from UNBROKEN can tell you all about this)
Because we all experience sex differently, I encourage writers to look outside their own box. Pleasure and arousal happen in different ways for different reasons with different partners. Positioning your characters to feel certain ways--sexy, vulnerable, uncomfortable, desirable, loving, experimental--is an important aspect to building a sex scene that adds texture to your story.
How do you approach individual character arcs mixed with series arcs in the Port Lewis series?
I kinda cheated. Each character gets their own novella in this series which made it easy for me to move through their arcs. However, this did make influencing other characters and building an overall arc really, really difficult. I have to look at what decisions will ripple into eight novellas with an outcome that might impact every single character I’ve touched on throughout the series. Tethering characters with individual conflicts that serve the overall conflict has helped move the story, that’s for sure. Also, I think it’ really important to allow your characters in a large cast to be selfish. When I’m working on an individual story inside the Port Lewis Witches I’m making sure the POV character at that moment is moving the story based on how they feel, what they want, and how those emotions impact the people they care about.
What made you decide to write The Port Lewis Witches as a series of novellas and add companion novels later?
Accident! I didn’t think DARKLING was going to be as loved as it was. I didn’t even plan to write UNDERTOW. But then I realized how many people wanted to see what happened to these characters and where they went, so I did. Since DARKLING was novella length I decided to stick to that format for the rest of the books in the series. What happened with UNBROKEN… Well, that was a serious, hilarious accident. If you ask my brother and cirlce-mate, he’ll tell you it was quite a humorous three months watching me argue with that manuscript. I intended to write it for Carina’s submission call for short, super sexy stories. It had to be under fifteen thousand words. Well, that didn’t happen. The sex scenes were too long. Michael’s character arc was too personal and too layered. I had to expand it. That’s really the only reason UNBROKEN became a novel, and weaving Victor and Michael into The Port Lewis Witches (Yes, y’all, it’s happening) was something I knew needed to happen. These characters came into existence at just the right time.
I will be expanding the series and doing spin-off books, but not for a while. Right now, everything I write is tethered in one way or another to the universe and rules I’ve established in Port Lewis. No matter where I got or what I write, you’ll be seeing or hearing about characters we’ve already met. This could change, of course. But everything I have planned as a solo author? One universe.
What are some themes in the Port Lewis Witches series? Did you decide on them before writing the series/each book or did they crystalize while you were working on each story?
Ah, yes, themes. I explore a lot of different stuff in the Port Lewis Witches. I didn’t really decide on any of true themes for the books. They happened naturally as I wrote. I knew there would be found family, exploration of identity, resistance to old world rules, healing themes, but I wasn’t expecting those same themes to develop the way they did. Michael’s arc in UNBROKEN was absolutely unexpected and extremely cathartic. I still get shaken up thinking about the work I did internally as I wrote that book. Anyway, each book in the series will push the characters to explore different themes or change the themes that were established in the previous book. In DARKLING the theme is self-acceptance and found family, but UNDERTOW pushes both those themes to explore new territory. It dissects them. Self-acceptance at what cost? How far will a found family go to stay together and what might break them apart? You’ll see these themes continue to stretch and morph as the story continues.
What is your favorite thing about writing a series like The Port Lewis Witches?
It’s pure, selfish, magical fun. I never intended The Port Lewis Witches to grow into what it is now and what it’ll hopefully become, but I’m so thankful I’m able to play in this universe with these characters. Traditional publishing would never make space for a Queer, bloody, sexy series about witches in the Pacific Northwest, and I’m so grateful the indie community has rallied for it.
Right now I’m working on CYCLONE, but I’m not churning out words on the daily for it. It’s a process and I know I need a bit of a break, so I’m focusing on edits for BEHIND THE SUN, ABOVE THE MOON, working on some additions for my Etsy and brainstorming some new content for the future--werewolves, maybe. Vampires, definitely. Angels? For sure happening. Hopefully I’ll be able to get CYCLONE done in time for a Spring 2020 release. Then I’ll get to work on Christy’s book.
Hustle, right? I just gotta keep working on what I love and hopefully the pieces will align how I want them to.
DARKLING (Port Lewis Witches, #1)
Port Lewis, a coastal town perched on the Washington cliffs, is surrounded by dense woods, and is home to quaint coffee shops, a movie theater, a few bars, two churches, the local college, and witches, of course.
Ryder is a witch with two secrets--one about his blood and the other about his heart. Keeping the secrets hasn't been a problem, until a tarot reading with his best friend, Liam Montgomery, who happens to be one of his secrets, starts a chain of events that can't be undone.
Dark magic runs through Ryder's veins. The cards have prophesized a magical catastrophe that could shake the foundation of Ryder's life, and a vicious partnership with the one person he doesn't want to risk.
Magic and secrets both come at a cost, and Ryder must figure out what he's willing to pay to become who he truly is.
Also available as a starter to the series-- PORT LEWIS WITCHES VOLUME ONE (print edition) with the exclusive prequel REBORN and the bonus short story HONEY
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Today, I welcome Chace Verity to Queering Up Your Bookshelf to talk about the importance of explicit and specific queer representation in speculative fiction, inspiration from fanfic, and how an important part of the writing process is always to “think about the tiddies.”
Welcome, Chace!
Chace Verity (she/they) is publishing queer as heck stories with a strong romantic focus, although friendships and found families are important too. Chace prefers to write fantasy but dabbles in contemporary and historical fiction as well. As an American citizen & Canadian permanent resident, Chace will probably never call a gallon of milk a “four-litre.”
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I don’t overly know. I know that I was in love with books before I could really read. I know the adults in my life couldn’t understand what I was non-stop babbling about. I know I was penning stories as soon as I could write.
In my memories, I can see the first “book” I wrote in preschool with a fifth grader at my side. I can see the first AOL chatroom I discovered filled with kids roleplaying. I can see my first website where I posted fanfiction. I can see the look of horror on a trusted adult’s face the first time I confessed I was writing a story about lesbians. I can see the first time I “finished” NaNoWriMo while sitting in the room where my grandfather would pass hours later. I can see the first award I got in college for a short story contest. I can see the first time a publisher accepted my submission. I can see the first tweet someone made about being excited for my debut novella.
Storytelling has always been a part of me. I often wonder when was the first time I decided to take writing seriously, but I think it’s always been serious. Just because I was a kid doesn’t mean I wasn’t crushed when people mocked my stories. Just because I was a kid doesn’t mean I lacked passion.
I like writing. It’s easy to keep doing something I genuinely like doing.
What I don’t like is trying to figure out which of my writer friends are real friends and which ones just think I’m a tool for their success, submitting stories that are my lived truth and being told it’s too unrealistic, promoting my books on social media and websites, coming up with back-of-cover copies/blurbs, trying to understand the new updates to programs I use for writing, and doing my taxes.
There are so many non-writing parts of writing that I didn’t cover up there. I think a lot of us get burned out by those instead of the actual act of writing itself. I get bogged down by the non-writing parts so often. Venting to my trusted friends helps. Taking a break helps. Reading my old stuff and remembering why I’m writing helps.
When I turned fourteen, I realized I was attracted to more than one gender. I started craving those kinds of stories with people like me. I started writing them.
I buy books now solely for the rep - both rep that aligns with my identities and rep for everyone with a marginalized background. I buy indie frequently since indie authors are more likely to tell me what kind of characters are in their books. I don’t know what the plot is sometimes. My hungry brain just sees “aromantic neurodiverse Thai unicorn tamer” and I’m like, “yes, thank u.” (Before I get anyone’s hopes up, I don’t know of any books with an aromantic neurodiverse Thai unicorn tamer. But if you have one, please send me your buy link.)
I make the representation in my books as clear as possible. I think it’s important for my readers to know there are queer folks, people of color, disabled people, and mentally ill characters in my SFF as well as in my historicals/contemporaries. I use modern queer terms in SFF to help signal who a character is for the reader. The first time I saw a reader excited to see the word “nonbinary” in My Heart Is Ready (which, incidentally, is now free forever), I knew I had found what worked best for me.
On the issue of queerness specifically, if I don’t explicitly state a character’s sexuality or gender, it’s usually because the character hasn’t told me. If a reader reads a character in a specific way, they probably saw something I didn’t see. I always hope that however a reader headcanons a character, it will help the reader feel validated.
I love found families in books across all genres. Mentor/mentee relationships, people from broken homes finding a healing reflection in other people from broken homes, lifelong friends realizing they would commit sins for each other, big bad villain accidentally adopting a cute little homeless kid, etc. I can’t get enough of it.
In one of my upcoming books, the first love confession is not a romantic one. It is from one person to another as they realize they had found a family. It makes me cry when I think about it.
- Get a plot bunny
- Let the idea percolate forever
- Maybe outline? Maybe write a back-cover-copy?
- E-mail my CPs, asking if it’s a bad idea
- Think about the tiddies involved if there are any and get thirsty (there are always tiddies; I have sodium bicarbonate desires)
- Draft!!! Sometimes in a few weeks and sometimes in a few years
- Always Be Working On Multiple Projects. There Is Never Just One.
- Work with my CPs on revision plans, revise, revise, revise
- Take frequent breaks from writing, often because my other job needs me to “show up” and “actually earn the paycheck”
- Get a plot bunny and start the process over
Don’t surround yourself with people who won’t let you shine. There are a lot of people who will never be impressed with you for writing 100 words, writing 50k, publishing a short story, hitting the NYT best-selling lists, getting a movie adaptation, etc. Those people are always going to be like “is that it?” or “well, I did this” or “you better enjoy it while it lasts” or...well, I think you know what I mean.
Each of your victories should be celebrated. It’s hard to outline a story, figure out why your villain isn’t villainous enough, send queries, ask people to buy your book, etc. This is a world that doesn’t reward writers for being writers, especially those with marginalizations.
If you did something today in the name of writing, you are amazing. You don’t need someone to tell you that you are less than anything less than a glowing ray of sun.
The events that led to my response for the above question.
Even if they don’t find a character exactly like them, I hope readers will see they are welcomed in the worlds I craft across all genres.
Shelby Eileen’s Goddess of the Hunt is a breathtaking collection of poems centered around an aromantic and asexual Artemis.
When this interview comes out, my 1920s historical m/m novelette, Lucky Charm, will have just been released! Deaf protagonist, swindling childhood best friend, petty heists… I love writing historical fiction from the first half of the 20th century, but I haven’t gotten much of a chance to publish them yet.
May is going to be a contemporary month for me with my m/m novella Team Phison Forever’s release and a cis m/trans f short romance called “The Blundering Billionaire” in the Rogue Ever After anthology.
Later this summer, I plan to release a taboo fantasy romance I wrote last year. The center romance is an enby/f/f triad with a m/m side couple and an aromantic allosexual trans deuteragonist. The villain is queer, too, which I don’t often write because we too often see the only queer rep in media being the bad person. But if everyone else in a book is queer, it’s okay to write queer villains, yes? I guess that’s a topic for a different day.
Once I get that amazing trashy story released, I plan to return to my Absolutes series. The Absolutes are taking a tiny break for now, but it’s the fantasy series I am most passionate about. The prequel novella, My Heart Is Ready, is free to read!
As always, I’ve got other projects going on. Some need more time than others. They’re all diverse and mean so much to me. I hope they will touch other people’s hearts too.
The last thing Corsine ever expected to do was break into a vault and steal some rare seeds. Corsine has a secret magic known as Maje flowing through her veins, but she’s never committed a crime before, and she’s terrified of the other Majerian hoarding the seeds at Rosales. But the risk is worth it if she can successfully prove how far she’ll go for her girlfriend.
Self-proclaimed harpy king Lester loves chasing rumors, but it’s hard to fly around and gossip while molting. However, he doesn’t have time to shed quietly when his best friend Corsine is behaving suspiciously about her trip to Rosales. Plus he’s dying to impress Corsine’s (hot) fearless traveling companion.
For Corsine and Lester, uncovering truths is easy, but revealing secrets is hard when love and friendship are on the line.
My Heart Is Ready is a complete, standalone 30k novella in The Absolutes series.
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Today, I welcome fellow NineStar Press author Sara Codair to Queering Up Your Bookshelf to talk about their writing process, tips for writing nonbinary characters, and how mental health factors into their writing and their debut novel Power Surge.
Welcome, Sara!
Sara Codair is the author over fifty stories and a few poems. They love exploring “what-ifs?” in the fiction they read and write. Their debut novel, Power Surge, which features a non-binary main character, was published by NineStar Press on Oct. 1, 2018. They partially owe their success to their faithful feline writing partner, Goose the Meowditor-In-Chief, who likes to “edit” their work by deleting entire pages. If Sara isn’t writing, they’re probably commenting on student papers, in the lake, on a boat, or hiking a mountain with their spouse and dog.
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1. What is your writing origin story?
As a child, I was perpetually making up stories, but I seldom sat still long enough to write them down. My first attempt to actually write a story with real words happened in first grade. The teacher required students to journal. We were supposed to write about things that actually happened. I wrote about my best friend’s brother putting on a cape, climbing to the top of another neighbor's garage, jumping off, and flying. I don’t remember exactly what my teacher said, but she made me re-do the assignment.
I never stopped making up stories. Mostly, those stories were fan fiction. After watching an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, I would run and dance around the house, mentally acting out a new episode where a super version of myself showed up and turned out to be the real hero.
Overtime, the characters took on a life of their own so that they weren’t me but original creations. My head felt crowded. I started writing. I wrote a lot at the end of high school and through undergrad, but never really finished anything.
It wasn’t until I was an adult, barely coping with undiagnosed anxiety and bipolar disorder, that I found myself writing every single night, no matter what, until I had a 200,000+ word monster of a completed draft.
Since then, I’ve completed five novels and published one.
2. What inspires your writing and how do you keep that inspiration alive?
Fear, nature, my favorite stories, questions, concepts and problems I grapple with, and random word generators spur the ideas for most of my stories.
However, sometimes I think it is my anxiety, or my fear of what it does to me, that keeps me writing and seeking inspiration. If there is not a fictional narrative about fictional characters running through my mind, then there is a more realistic one about all the horrible things that could happen to me and people I care about. When I’m driving, if I’m not plotting out the next chapter of my book, I’m thinking about all the ways I could get in an accident and die or accidentally kill someone else. If I don’t have a story in my head when I am trying to sleep, I’m thinking about all the ways the house could burn down and replaying the most insignificant conversations over and over in my head, making them seem more awkward and hurtful each time.
Writing is my passion, but my therapist and I agree it is also my most successful tool for combatting my anxiety.
3. What does representation mean to you and how does it feature in your writing?
Of all the questions you asked, this is the one I struggled the most with. I apologize if my answer seems rough or jarring in some places.
When I hear and discuss representation, the idea of good representation and bad representation come up a lot. Even though I’ve labeled representation as “good,” I really don’t like looking at it as good and bad.
To me, representation is about accuracy and truth. But sometimes, the truth isn’t “good.” Truth can be dark and ugly, and rather see the ugly truth than false positivity. I think this is especially true for representation of mental illness.
Positive is a term better applied to representation of things identities and ethnicities. There are plenty of positive truths about being non-binary, but something like depression or anxiety? I feel like I would be doing harm if I tried to sanitize and make it positive, even if my intentions were good.
The world is a big, diverse place. All its inhabitants deserve to be represented in fiction, which to me, no matter how fantastical or far fetched, should still seek to explore or expose some kind of truth. The challenge to this is that what is true for one person might not be true for another.
4. Power Surge has a nonbinary main character. What was your favorite part of writing Erin and did you incorporate any of your own experiences into writing them?
Erin is a character a long time in the making. When I first wrote Erin, I had never heard the term non-binary and had no idea how to really describe myself aside from saying that there were absolutely no labels that would ever fit me.
Over ten years of stops and starts with the story I’d eventually call Power Surge, Erin evolved with me. They came out as non-binary when I did. They started using they/them instead of she/her when I did.
Erin isn’t me, but there is a lot of me in Erin. They are my flaws. They are things I fear most about myself. They cross lines I've Never crossed. But they also have strength and bravery and selflessness I’ve never quite achieved.
Writing Erin has helped me develop a better understanding of who I am and who I am not.
5. How does mental health feature in your writing?
More than half my characters have mental health issues similar to mine. It is a way to better understand my own mental health and fill gaps I see in representation.
Writing and doing research for Power Surge and another novel (which is currently shelved) helped me understand my own mental health and was actually one of the things that prompted me to seek a diagnosis and treatment
Each time I incorporate mental health into my writing, I do my best to portray it honestly. I hope my readers gain the same insight from it than I did. I tend to be optimistic about treatment (usually talk therapy and medication) since it has helped me a lot, but I don’t shy away from showing how much of a struggle it can be.
6. What is your writing process?
My process is an inefficient mess, but it works.
I try to plan a little, but usually, the things I plan don’t stick once I start writing.
Mostly I just dump my ideas out during the first draft. As the characters develop, they take on a life of their own and I try to listen to them. I let the story go in whatever direction it wants.
The few times I tried to change this and stick to a more planned plot, I ended up with flat, boring characters.
Once I get a complete draft, I let it rest for a few weeks. I print it and write all over it. Then I type up my changes, and send the draft off to get feedback. I repeat this as many times as I need to.
When I am happy with the content, I download the draft to my kindle and read it on that. I make the font big so I can only see a few sentences at a time. This forces me to actually focus on what is in front of me and is one of the most effective editing strategies I’ve tried.
People like to tell me to read aloud, but because of sensory and attention issues, that does not work for me like it does for other people.
7. What is your best piece of writing advice?
Write what you want to write. Be selfish with your first drafts. Keep it real and true no matter how fantastical it may be. And when you revise? Don’t be afraid to take risks, especially when those risks involving cutting things and replacing them with new ones.
8. What is the hardest lesson you learned while writing?
Characters are subjective. Some people might hate characters I love. I need to accept that and not try to make my characters be people they aren’t because of it.
9. What do you hope readers will take away from your work?
With Power Surge?
Forgiveness. It doesn’t mean you have to like or be friends with people who hurt you, but carrying around a deep, strong hatred for them can turn toxic.
Medication is needed for many mental health problems and not having access to it has consequences. It can result in physical harm. It can fuck up relationships.
Non-binary gender identities are real. And you can be non-binary and be with someone who is the opposite of your birth assigned gender and still be queer.
10. What are you currently working on? What’s next for you?
I’m getting the sequel to Power Surge ready to send to my editor and as it gets closer to the date I said I’d finish it by, I am getting more and more nervous.
After that?
There is a 1940’s novella I’ve been writing random scenes from.
There is a novel about an urban community college for magicians that has been sitting unfinished for years
I want to write a middle grade novel inspired by a childhood spend in Antique stores.
I need to tackle the third and final book of the Evanstar Chronicles.
I have a very rainbow space opera that needs lots and lots of revising.
The list goes on. I’m not sure what order these things will happen it. Right now, I just to finish revising this sequel.
Erin has just realized that for the entirety of their life, their family has lied to them. Their Sight has been masked for years, so Erin thought the Pixies and Mermaids were hallucinations. Not only are the supernatural creatures they see daily real, but their grandmother is an Elf, meaning Erin isn’t fully human. On top of that, the dreams Erin thought were nightmares are actually prophecies.
While dealing with the anger they have over all of the lies, they are getting used to their new boyfriend, their boyfriend's bullying ex, and the fact that they come from a family of Demon Hunters. As Erin struggles through everything weighing on them, they uncover a Demon plot to take over the world.
Erin just wants some time to work through it all on their own terms, but that's going to have to wait until after they help save the world.
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Happy April, everyone!
Let me preface this with a quick note that this is NOT an April Fool’s Joke. I don’t do those and you’ll only get sincere queerness with a chance of explosions from me, so there’s that.
Anyway, a few things to start off this month, which happens to be my Birthday Month (my birthday is April 5), so double yay for that!
First off, I want to make sure to regularly check in with you all in from of monthly goal posts again. This is something I used to do, mainly to keep myself accountable, but also because I feel like it helps making these things public, both for my own accountability and to share more about the writing process and its accompanying struggles. So gear up for monthly goals and recaps on the first of each month.
That said, March has been terribly unproductive for me. I blame putting my all into releasing EMPIRE OF LIGHT in late February, so a lot of my time and energy (both physical and emotional) went into that for the past few months. Which for me basically meant three months of constant Deadline Panic and “Go, go, GO!”, followed by the inevitable crash. March was that crash, which resulted in pretty much zero writing. And yes, figuring out ways to maintain consistent and healthy productivity is definitely one of my priority goals fo the next quarter of 2019. (I’ll talk more about my quarter goals and how I set those up in a post later this week. Be prepared for all the calendaring and BuJo spreads, because this is how I roll.)
Anyway, for APRIL, here are my GOALS:
#1: Draft and edit Weaver of Ink and Stars, my Nonbinary Fullmetal Alchemist in Space story for BEHIND THE SUN, ABOVE THE MOON (early 2020) — Goal: 10,000 words by April 10
This is my priority this month, because I need this story to be on my editor’s desk by June 1st and have spent the past months extensively outlining and researching things, so it’s time to whip this into readable shape. April, and by extension, CampNaNoWriMo, is for that. My goal is to have a first draft done between April 10 and 15 and to have the first round of content edits done by April 30.
#2: Start drafting REPUBLIC OF SHADOWS, Book 2 in the Voyance series — Goal: 30,000 - 40,000 words by April 30
Yes, this is the sequel to EMPIRE OF LIGHT, and yes, this story has been living in my brain for YEARS and I’m beyond stoked to get it all out, so April is when it starts. My goal is to start officially writing this by April 15 or as soon as I finish rough drafting Weaver of Ink and Stars because I want to be in a space where I can draft one project while editing the other. Prepare for 4 a.m. mornings and lots of writing sprints on my part. Connect with me on Twitter or Google Hangouts if you need a sprint or accountability buddy!
#3: Write more flash and short fiction in the EMPIRE OF LIGHT universe and LAUNCH A PATREON to better support my writing habits by April 1
Okay, maybe this is cheating, but the first step in this goal JUST happened last night: you can now support me and my writing via Patreon here. I am going to use this platform to release monthly short stories and flash fiction in the Empire of Light universe, but also to share more targeted and in-depth essays on craft, gender, and all things queer speculative fiction. I’ve been planning to do this for a while now and my birthday month seemed as good as any to finally get that off the ground, so if you want more queerness with a chance of explosions, please consider supporting me on Patreon. Bonus: all new patrons who sign up during the month of April will get a swag packet with a signed bookmark, postcard, and a character art sticker of either Damian, Raeyn, or Aris (your choice).
I’ve already posted the first part of an all-new prequel short story featuring your favorite crotchety space pirate, Iltis, called “All In.” Check out a snippet here and head over to Patreon to read the rest!
Also, if you financially can’t support me right now, please still consider voting on what flash fiction prompt you want me to write for April. This is usually for patrons only, but because I’m just starting out, this post is available to vote for everyone, so get your vote in now.
Okay, one month, thirty days, three goals. LET’S DO THIS. I’m ready for April. Are you? What are your goals and projects you have in the works? Tell me about them in the comments!
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Today, I welcome fellow NineStar Press author Andrew J. Peters to Queering Up Your Bookshelf to chat about the importance of representation and #OwnVoices authors all across the queer spectrum, his writing process, and his upcoming short story collection out with NineStar Press later this year.
Welcome, Andrew!
Author Andrew J. Peters is the third most famous Andrew J. Peters on the Internet after the disgraced former mayor of Boston and the very honorable concert organist of the same name.
He’s an award-winning author, an educator and an activist. His novel The City of Seven Gods won the Silver Falchion award for Best Horror/Fantasy and was a finalist for Sci Fi/Fantasy Book of the Year at the Foreword INDIES. His Werecat series was a Readers’ Choice finalist at The Romance Reviews. He has written two books for young adults (The Seventh Pleaide and Banished Sons of Poseidon), and he is the author of the adult novel Poseidon and Cleito. His latest title Irresistible is a gay rom-com based on the oldest extant romance novel in the world.
Andrew grew up in Buffalo, New York, studied psychology at Cornell University, and spent the early part of his career as a social worker and an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. He has been a contributing writer at Queer Sci Fi, The New York Journal of Books, The Good Men Project, Gay YA, YA Highway, and La Bloga.
While writing, Andrew works as an administrator and an adjunct faculty at Adelphi University. He lives in New York City with his husband Genaro and their cat Chloë.
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Ha! What a great spin on a traditional question. Makes me feel like a superhero. :)
Well then, I was a shy, unathletic, pre-gay suburban boy in the early 1980s who withdrew socially and spent most of my time writing mysteries, plays, and musicals with coded homoeroticism. In sixth grade, I joined up with a friend to write a musical, which we very earnestly presented to the music teacher and the principal as a project we would direct our class to do.
The principal was a nice guy who probably didn’t know what to do with us. Naturally, the musical script was pretty awful. It was something of a rip-off of Annie called Lucy Mckay! and featured show-stopping numbers like “Just Me and My Pets.” Anyway, as a consolation, he told me I could read my mystery novel over the P.A. system during lunch period, which I proudly did as a serial. So I guess that was when I realized my storytelling magical powers. :)
Where do you usually write and what are the top three things you usually have around you when you write?
My husband and I have a two bedroom apartment, and the second bedroom serves as my writing office, a guest bedroom, and--when we want to discourage overnight guests--we tell people it’s our cat Chloë’s room (she does like to sleep on the bed). It’s fairly cluttered but also pretty sunny, which I like, and it has an inspiration board that I made something like ten years ago when I started sending my work out for publication.
This is not at all a recommendation to the young ‘uns out there, but I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t tell you the three things I usually have around me when I write are coffee, cigarettes, and a pad of paper. I write primarily on a desktop, but while doing research, rather than starting a new doc, I take notes by hand.
That’s a huge-ish and important question. I think representation is always present. As writers, we’re representing the world, even those of us who write fantasy because our worldview consciously or unconsciously influences the kind of story and the people we write about. And I agree with feminist literary criticism, and queer literary criticism, and racial justice literary criticism that historically, and still today, stories about white, cis gender, heterosexual, typically middle class men dominate what we collectively call literature, and they don’t fairly or accurately represent the world we live in.
I see that connected to social justice in a broader sense because it’s about who controls the culture and the stories that teach us our position in the world as men or women or queer people or people of color, etc..
I’m also increasingly concerned about representation as it relates to authorship in terms of who gets to create stories about underrepresented groups. I’m often defending #Ownvoices in conversations with writers who say: “You’re taking away my creative freedom.” and “Why should author identity matter? If you’re a good writer, you can write about anything.”
My response to that is #Ownvoices is primarily about uplifting historically marginalized authors, not so much about portrayal, or simply expanding the number of books about marginalized people and communities.
I read about this topic a lot and have done some of my own research. #Ownvoices has focused mostly on children’s books and YA, so that’s where the most data is from. I’d love to see that effort expand to adult books. Anyway, somewhere between seven to 35 percent of children’s books published each year about people of color are actually written about people of color (from https://readingpartners.org/blog/12-diverse-childrens-books-written-ownvoices-authors/). I’d think people would agree there’s a problem there, and it’s institutional. Authors of color are writing stories about people of color, but their books aren’t getting published, or when they’re getting published they’re not getting supported and recognized in the same way books by white authors receive attention.
The same thing is happening in queer literature. It’s been a huge project to undertake, and my data was limited to looking at books ranked as popular or recommended by the ALA or short-lists for awards. But I’ve looked at gay authorship of gay SFF stories for instance and found, in 2017, that between zero and twenty-five percent of gay SFF titles that got voted popular, or recommended, or short-listed for awards were authored by gay men. The two biggest LGBTQIA+ identified presses had gay or M/M fantasy lists that included zero or as much as 14 percent of titles authored by gay men that year.
It’s important to contextualize that issue within a broader queer justice perspective, i.e. trans, non-binary, and queers authors of color are much less represented than gay, white, cis gender authors overall. But I use it as a starting point in the discussion. I mean, it’s wonderful we’re seeing more children’s and young adult books about trans kids, and lesbian mothers, and gay boys, but when you look at authorship, it’s still predominantly hetero, cis gender authors whose books are getting noticed.
I’ll be more succinct with my response to the second part of your question! I write stories primarily about gay men, largely drawn from classic myth and legend. It’s important to me to represent diverse perspectives within that niche, so for example, I have a short story anthology coming out later this year, and I wanted to use it as an opportunity to tell stories about gay men of all ages in addition to using some non-European inspiration points.
What are some of your favorite tropes (or ways to subvert them)?
Well, pretty hard for me to squirm out of using the fantasy trope of the reluctant, unlikely hero, but of course I love to cast the hero as gay and fairly un-hung-up about it. I like flipping the loyal sidekick character and making them a straight best buddy. Generally I approach evil villains with some nuance because I’m not a big fan of stories that are so declaratively good vs. evil. In my young adult fantasies (The Seventh Pleiade, Banished Sons of Poseidon), it was important to me to tell the bad guy, the High Priest Zazamoukh’s backstory, which shows how at one time, he wasn’t such a bad guy and how he became this terrible monster.
It’s hopefully become a lot better and efficient through trial and error. Good gods, my first novel (The Seventh Pleiade) took about ten years if I’m being honest, because I just started writing this story that was floating around in my head, and learned the very hard way, plotting doesn’t just happen magically! So I read all I could about writing craft, started using outlines, participated in critique groups and workshops, and I feel like the lessons learned have fairly well become embedded in my process. I’ll sometimes outline a story first, and sometimes, if I feel like I’ve clearly thought things out in my head, all the way through the end, I’ll just start writing and making some adjustments as I go along.
What is your best piece of writing advice?
Be humble and soak up all the knowledge you can. I do believe that writing is a talent some people are born with, and maybe this advice comes from the fact I realize I’m not the kind of fantasy author who’s a virtuoso of wordsmithery like Gregory Maguire or a genius of fluid, provocative prose like Samuel Delaney (they’re probably my favorite authors). So, to the extent there’s probably a lot of writers like me, I’d say: read, experiment, go to workshops, get feedback as much as you can. Talent can be learned.
What is the hardest lesson you learned while writing?
Ugh. The pain of crickets chirping a lot of the time. There’s something like a million books published each year, and that number is growing with the explosion of self-publishing. It’s hella hard getting your titles discovered.
What do you hope readers will take away from your work?
A smile. A laugh here and there. Maybe recognizing an emotional connection with one of the characters. That’s always my proudest moment when I hear that feedback from readers.
What was your favorite character or scene you’ve written recently?
This is quite an early preview since I’m just polishing up a YA adventure based on The Odyssey. It’s a pretty silly comedy adventure in which Telemachus goes looking for his father and teams up with Theseus and his hus-bull and the mischievous godling Nerites. Anyway, their search leads them to the nymph Calypso who is quite the over-the-top, evil seductress. She charms the hus-bull Asterion, and to get him back, Nerites convinces Telemachus to undergo a glamouring to disarm the nymph, outwitting her at her own game. It requires covering him in whale dung and reading an incantation, and things go terribly wrong.
Look for my short story anthology from NineStar Press later this year! Meanwhile, I’m starting to query the Telemachus novel while looking for a home to my epic fantasy series The Lost Histories.
What if the gods created a man so beautiful, no one could resist falling in love with him?
Brendan thinks he’s won at life when he hooks a guy so gorgeous he parts crowds walking down the street. But he and Cal will have to overcome a jealous BFF, Romanian mobsters, hermit widowers, and a dictatorship on the brink of revolution. Their dream wedding in the Greek isles turns to madcap odyssey in this modern gay salute to Chariton’s Callirhoe, the oldest extant romance novel in the world.
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author interviews, inspiration, queer books, Queering Up Your Bookshelf, writing, community, Andrew J. Peters, Irresistible
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Children and Art
Felicity Fenner
Art and Childhood
Editorial: Indigenous storytelling in a digital world
Larissa Behrendt and Pauline Clague
Editorial: Local colour
Editorial: Ways of seeing
Julianne Pierce
Published 01 December 2018
Editorial: Human Flow
Editorial: Considering the animals
Editorial: Positioning Feminism
Jill Bennett
Editorial, Trans Cultural
Margo Neale
Les Murray when asked what creativity is, says that it is the wound you receive in childhood which never heals
Dennis O'Rourke, SMH Good Weekend, 9/12/00, p.53
This issue of Artlink, devoted to the theme of art and the child, explores the position of children in recent Australian art, as well as the crucial role of art in childhood development. Essays have been commissioned from experts in a number of fields, from visual arts history and criticism, to museology, film, education and psychology.
Children have enjoyed a ubiquitous presence in the history of western art, as chubby cherubs in the religious paintings of the Italian Renaissance, sentimental waifs in Victorian narrative painting and as decorative accoutrements in pre-Modernist European painting.
Yet during the 20th century, the popularity of children as motif and/or subject has diminished. In contrast, children feature disproportionately often in magazine and television advertising, cuteness and vulnerability as persuasive selling tools in the modern media as they were before the advent of photography in the art of previous centuries. As this issue of Artlink reveals, the strongest contemporary Australian art in which subjects of children and childhood remain central is in photo-based and installation practice. Since Charles Blackman's Schoolgirls series half a century ago, the child has been all but banished from the repertoire of Australian painters.
The lost child was a favourite theme of this country's en plein air painters of the late 19th century, symbolising both the idyllic and potentially dangerous quality of the Australian bush. Louise Hearman, one of very few contemporary Australian painters for whom children are recurrent subjects, offers a less innocent viewpoint, her dark, theatrical vignettes conjuring the co-existence of beauty and menace in romanticised visions of childhood.
The issue begins with Robert McFarlane's commentary on the work of Australian photographers for whom the child is a recurrent theme. McFarlane himself is one of Australia's leading photographers: his photograph of Melissa Fisher offers a poignant political twist on the old theme of the innocent child alone in the bush. He took this photograph in 1988 - ironically, the year white Australia celebrated the bicentennial of colonisation. Instead of the vulnerable Anglo child in the bushy scrub found in paintings a hundred years earlier, we see the composed Aboriginal child visiting the cemetery, in a desolate landscape where trees have been replaced with the crucifixes that mark the resting places of her displaced elders.
Artist/writer Brook Andrew's savvy commentary on white prejudices and perceptions of Aboriginal Australia is choreographed in the context of the black child's presence in recent Aboriginal art. Film-maker Phillip Crawford reports on the impact of his film project on the life of the Aboriginal youths with whom he collaborated. Beryl McKenzie and Jennifer Phipps consider the evolving role of child art in Australian art since Modernism, while contemporary curator Russell Storer examines the theme of playfulness in current Australian photo-based and installation practice. K.P. Hall makes a comparative analysis of two recent exhibitions - one in New York and one currently touring Australia - of recent photography that takes the child as its subject.
The other central concern of this issue of Artlink is art presented for and created by children. Elizabeth Ann McGregor and Michael Beckmann write of their experiences working with children in museum settings. Alan Snyder and Lesley Rosenberg discuss children's art in the context of psychological/physical health, while educator Julie Orchard reports on the current crisis in primary school art teaching. As these writers reveal, children use art to interpret and express opinions and feelings about the world that in some cases cannot be made verbally.
Collectively the essays here reveal that, while the child is no longer a ubiquitous subject, child art and childhood themes are assuming an increasingly important position in Australian art.
Promised Land: Nien Schwarz
Perth International Arts Festival 2001 event
The Church Gallery, Claremont
Primary Non-Producers: The Arts in Crisis in Public Education
Julie Orchard
In this article Orchard is looking at the nature of art teaching in primary schools rather than focusing on the debate surrounding the value of arts learning and education. Although art has in the past decade become a formal part of the curriculum across Australia there is still a huge dearth of support material for teachers, particularly those in isolated areas. Orchard introduces some of the support programs which have been implemented in various schools, including the Department of Education & Training & Employment (DETE) and South Australian Living Artists (SALA) programs.
Artrave
Edblog
Focus: No Man is an Island: A Two Part Reading
Radok here recognises the issue of nationality present in the work of German artist Nikolaus Lang, an artist who often visits Australia to make field trips, to research, to make art and to exhibit. Since his first visit as a participant in the 1979 Sydney Biennale, Lang has been collaborating with Aboriginal people, as his work strongly relates to the origins of art and the origins of the materials of art, often literally the pigments that form artworks. Parts I and II discuss these facts and some of the ideas imbedded in his collaborative works with Indigenous artists Dorrie Gibson, Andrew Gibson and John Turpie.
Tense Past - Narratives of Gaps and Silences
Greg Lehmann
Julie Gough
Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
17 23 February 2001
Kidding Around: Children in the Visual Arts
Stephanie Lindquist
Throughout the twentieth century the spontaneous, vibrant art of children has provided inspiration and insight to avant-garde artists the world over. Although artists and educators have acknowledged the potential of childrens art and the importance of nurturing creativity for over a century, it has taken considerably longer for government and the arts infrastructure to realise the needs of young artists. Lindquist looks at some of the international and local initiatives fostering young artists, concluding that a greater respect and nurturing of child art via a shift in the priorities of the Australia Council and other arts funding bodies is essential.
Myth and Machines
Andy Jones
Moonah Art Centre Tasmania
Polemic: Two Myths about Blue Poles
By now - fifty years after the painting was made and thirty years after if was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia - there are two well-established myths about Jackson Pollacks Blue Poles. Brook here outlines and discusses these, but draws particular attention to the myth that the celebrated museum exhibit called Blue Poles is intrinsically, and not merely by fleeting reputation, a great work of art.
Anatomy of a Metaphor
Pat Hoffie
Madeleine Kelly
Modus Gallery
Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
6 22 April 2001
Art of the Sacred Heart
Paul Hoban
Arts Project Australia
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
31 January 25 February 2001
East of Somewhere
Kiersten Fishburn
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
10 March 29 April
Mildura Palimpsest #4
Mildura, various sites
19 April 20 May 2001
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The Favorite (1989)
Directed by Jack Smight
Release Date - Aug 9, 1989 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 104 min. | Countries - Switzerland , United States | MPAA Rating - R
Fact-based tale of a young, 19th-century French woman (Amber O'Shea), who's captured by pirates and becomes a well-liked member of a sultan's harem. F. Murray Abraham. Sineperver: Maud Adams. Selim: James Michael Gregary. Tulip: Ron Dortch. Also known as "La Nuit du Serial." Directed by Jack Smight.
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Partly to mostly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 78F. Winds light and variable..
Partly to mostly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 78F. Winds light and variable.
Tropical Storm Barry Flash Flood Potential Threatens 339,480 Homes, According to CoreLogic Analysis
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 12, 2019--
CoreLogic ® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released data analysis showing 339,480 homes in Louisiana are at moderate-to-extreme risk of tropical storm-driven flash flood damage from Tropical Storm Barry. Within the likely impacted metropolitan and micropolitan areas of Louisiana, 32.6% of homes are located within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). Homeowners are required to purchase flood insurance in these designated areas when their mortgages are backed by the federal government. CoreLogic hydrological analysis of flash flood risk in the likely impacted areas estimates that 26% of the homes have moderate-to-extreme flash flood risk.
Total Number of Residential Properties at Risk of Flash Flooding From Tropical Storm Barry; CoreLogic 2019
In this analysis, CoreLogic data includes only single-family residential properties likely to be impacted by a lower category storm. Based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) forecast, Tropical Storm Barry is expected to make landfall sometime Saturday as a strong tropical storm or a weak Category 1 hurricane. While Tropical Storm Barry has not intensified into a hurricane yet, the focus of this analysis is centered around the rainfall and flooding component, which is expected to be the largest contributor to property loss.
The area along the Mississippi River, where concern is highest, appears to be able to withstand the amount of flooding expected. After Hurricane Katrina, $14 billion of levee and pumping capability improvements were made along the river; this event is not expected to cause catastrophic problems given these enhancements.
The accompanying table shows the total number of properties at risk of flash flood damage—from moderate to extreme—depending on storm size, rainfall and path.
Visit the CoreLogic natural hazard risk information center, Hazard HQ ™, to get access to the most up-to-date Tropical Storm Barry data and see reports from previous storms.
The CoreLogic Flash Flood Risk Score (FFRS) uses watershed hydrology and then extracts hydrologic properties from land information datasets (such as land slope, land imperviousness, soil infiltration, vegetation, land depression, and other factors), incorporating probabilistic characteristics of meteorological factors to simulate precipitation impact. All aspects of flash flooding factors are finally integrated to form an overall projection of flash flood risk. The model can pinpoint granular locations with high risk potential for flash flooding anywhere in the United States. FFRS provides flooding detail in areas where flooding resources are traditionally unavailable. More specifically, FFRS helps assess whether a flash flood component is identified, particularly in areas where flood zones are not mapped. FFRS fills in the flood risk assessment gaps where the previous focus was only on riverine and coastal flooding, and no initial flood insurance studies were ever conducted.
Source: CoreLogic
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Louisiana coroner: Museum founder was suffocated to death
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana coroner has ruled the death of a 75-year-old woman who founded Baton Rouge's African American history museum a homicide by suffocation.
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Louisiana couple say 'I do' in unique venue despite storm
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Family members didn't let Tropical Storm Barry wash out a Louisiana couple's wedding day.
Your daily look at late breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even though Tropical Depression Barry did not unleash catastrophic flooding in Louisiana, many across the Gulf Coast were urged to take heed of tornado and flash-flood warnings Monday as the storm moved north.
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Ingrained in Axolotl
Axolotl Metal continues to deliver the unexpected, with the introduction of its innovative new timber inspired range.
Ingrain fuses the lustre of Axolotl Metal with the natural warmth and beauty of wood to create an unparalleled alternative for flooring and wall panelling.
By bonding the timber with Axolotl Metal fine details of the grain can be read through, creating the appearance of timber cast in solid metal. It delivers a hardwearing surface and is suitable for internal and external applications for commercial and residential projects.
Other possible applications for Ingrain are counters, feature walls, bar fronts, joinery or table tops.
Ingrain flooring doesn't require any onsite finishing and with the patina evolving over time as the metal is polished by passing foot traffic.
The wall panelling pictured here is bonded in pewter, however as with all Axolotl products, Ingrain is available in any Axolotl metal.
Click Here to see the complete range of Axolotl Metal finishes.
Link. Published on April 15, 2010 by axolotlblog.
New brochure from Axolotl Metal
Axolotl Metal has released its new and updated 64 page brochure. It features recently released metals and textures and new examples of completed works. All featured work is categorised by application for easy reference.
Thick Skinned
The team at Axolotl Metal are excited to introduce an inspired new range of metal surfaces.
‘Skin’ combines the raw, natural beauty of leather with the hardwearing qualities of metal, resulting in a unique textural finish that feels as good as it looks.
The new textures, along with all of our finishes, are created using real metal and have the durability to suit high traffic areas. ‘Skin’ can be applied to any surface from flat panels to compound curves. The textures are suitable for a broad range of design elements, from doors and furniture to feature walls and counters.
These images feature the textures in Bronze yet it is just as easy to achieve a 'Skin' texture in silver, copper or brass tones.
Link. Published on October 03, 2008 by axolotlblog.
Axolotl Wins 3 Awards at Designex
Winner: LINK
Company: AXOLOTL
Judges Comments: “The judges were uniformly blown away by the design potential of LINK. We could have spent hours guessing the technology: from designer to inventor to materials scientist: every judge was enthralled.”
We are blown away by the accolades and interest in LINK, but not surprised. ‘Link’ is the perfect integration of science and beauty that can only be delivered by the integration of Axolotl Metal and Axolotl Glass.
This unique product contrasts a traditionally course material with the delicate nature of glass so the rust appears to float in the air. Link can be used for screens, feature walls, doors, signage and balustrades. In fact anywhere you require beauty and durability as the product can be used in and outdoors. As with all our products, the final design can also be custom made to your specifications.
As well as ‘Best New Product’ award at Designex, Axolotl won two awards for ‘Best Stand 30-70m’ and ‘Best Dressed Stand’. Rusted screens formed the walls and ceiling and Axolotl's ‘Miro’ glass laminated floor featured an enlarged clover leaf design. Link was of course included, as columns and external glass panels. The PVC poles were coated in ‘Skin’ by Axolotl Metal. This beautiful stand was created by Philip Chia.
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Narrated by: Steven Weber
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real....
Great Audiobook! Editing Clarification
By jeverett on 10-06-17
21. It
For Susan Green, messy emotions don’t fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic, and an “interpersonal arrangement”....
22. The Cactus
The Alice Network
By: Kate Quinn
In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family....
We are standing on the shoulders of giants...
By Marie on 02-25-18
23. The Alice Network
By: Heather Morris
Narrated by: Richard Armitage
This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
24. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Book 1
By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....
A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
25. A Gentleman in Moscow
The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
By: Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
Narrated by: Claire Danes, full cast, Margaret Atwood
After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women....
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT
By ambER on 04-20-17
27. The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
Series: The Handmaid's Tale, Book 1
Shadowmage
Spellmonger, Book 9
By: Terry Mancour
The life of a knight mage is never easy, but sometimes the gods smile on you and grant you an errand of incredible complexity...without regards to casualties....
5 premature reviews?
By Nori Carter on 06-25-19
28. Shadowmage
Series: Spellmonger, Book 9
H. P. Lovecraft. The Complete Fiction
By: H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: John Miller, Adrian Griffin, Paul Phillips
CONTENTS: 01. The Nameless City 02. The Festival 03. The Colour Out of Space 05. The Call of Cthulhu 08-17. The Dunwich Horror 18-25 The...
29. H. P. Lovecraft. The Complete Fiction
By: Garth Stein
Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs....
Enzo (because he's so wize) for president.
By Lora on 06-17-08
30. The Art of Racing in the Rain
By: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection....
Oh, Calamity!
By L. O. Pardue on 10-07-14
31. Big Little Lies
Daisy Jones & The Six
Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and others
Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's 20, her voice is getting noticed....
A Different Kind of Review
By D. Fields on 03-23-19
32. Daisy Jones & The Six
Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber
Alexander X
Battle for Forever, Book 1
By: Edward Savio
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Alexander Grant is a little too good at a few too many things. Two dozen martial arts. Twice that many languages. Chess, the piano, sports, forging excused absences, you name it. He graduated high school top of his class...seventeen times. Of course, no one knows any of this....
Totally enjoying Wheaton's performance
By Schmeegle The Book Nerd on 06-05-19
33. Alexander X
Series: Battle for Forever, Book 1
By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Polly Stone
An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II....
Heroic & Harrowing Work Of Fiction
34. The Nightingale
The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond....
Could Not Stay With Narration
By Kate on 10-09-18
35. The Overstory
One Good Deed
By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts....
36. One Good Deed
Preorder: Free with 30-day Trial
By: Dean Koontz
On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods....
A stunning masterpiece that leaves you with hope.
37. Watchers
Narrated by: Will Patton
An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens....
Will Patton great - story so so
By Randall on 06-19-18
38. The Outsider
Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
A finely observed, timely exploration of marriage, divorce, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope....
How Disappointing
By Madeleine on 06-24-19
39. Fleishman Is in Trouble
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start....
Loved it even more than the film!
By Bella on 01-23-14
40. The Shining
Series: The Shining, Book 1
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By: Carrie Fisher
Narrated by: Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd
When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford.
Fireworks at Midnight
By Gretchen SLP on 11-25-16
As Colorful as Carrie herself
Carrie Fishers recent passing has bound to create a new interest in her writings. In this, her last book, we get to see Carrie in true form. From her musings as a girl trying to figure out her way as an actress, the reveal of her affair with Harrison Ford and learning how to be Carrie as much as Lea . Each recollection is filled with as much wit and detail you would expect from her. She uses her language beautifully in her writings and still comes off as a relatable woman learning to love herself. I only say to listen to the audio book because Carrie herself reads it. Just hearing her voice again slightly fills the hole left by her passing. This truly is a beautiful book for everyone who loved her as a person, as well as a good reminder that she was so much more than that princess from space. Thank you Carrie, we all miss you so much.
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On Homecoming and Belonging
By: Sebastian Junger
Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians - but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life.
The most profound book on the subject
By joseph on 05-26-16
A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating scientific data about boats and weather systems.
Fact is better than Fiction
By Ryan on 11-26-14
Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat - the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
Great Read
By CWALL on 06-13-10
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Narrated by: Nick Landrum
From the author of The Perfect Storm and War comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face in returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they've suffered but with the society to which they are trying to return.
Phenomenal!
By Caressa on 05-14-19
A Death in Belmont
Narrated by: Kevin Conway
In 1963, with the city of Boston already terrified by a series of savage crimes known as the Boston Stranglings, a murder occurred in Belmont, just a few blocks from the house of Sebastian Junger's family, a murder that seemed to fit exactly the pattern of the Strangler. Roy Smith, a black man who had cleaned the victim's house that day, was convicted, but the terror of the Strangler continued.
Intriguing mystery
By E. Lundin on 05-08-06
Narrated by: Sebastian Junger, Kevin Conway
For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force; here is a cast of characters risking everything in an effort to bring that force under control.
Not as advertised
The Whale Hunters
Narrated by: George Guidall
This piece, which appeared in Outside magazine and was originally recorded for "Rough Water: Stories of Survival From The Sea," is about an old man, a Bequian harpooner, who uses a wooden sailboat to hunt humpback whales. The piece is an elegy of sorts - an unsentimental lament for something lost. Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed author of The Perfect Storm, which spent over three years on the New York Times bestseller list and was the basis for a major motion picture starring George Clooney.
Rough Water
Stories of Survival from the Sea
By: Sebastian Junger, Herman Wouk, Patrick O'Brian, and others
Narrated by: uncredited
This riveting collection of adventure writing includes the work of The Perfect Storm author, Sebastian Junger. Listen as men and women battle the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting sharks, savage storms, rogue waves, mountainous icebergs, starvation, and their own fear and suffering.
Not worth the time
By Sue Y on 11-16-07
By: Sebastian Junger, Herman Wouk, Patrick O'Brian, more
The Secret Society of Demolition Writers
By: Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger, Benjamin Cheever, and others
Narrated by: Alan Sklar, Ellen Archer
In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of The Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these 12 daredevils have each contributed an extreme, no-holds-barred, unsigned story, each shining as brightly and urgently as hazard lights.
Disappointed at best
By John on 02-01-07
By: Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger, Benjamin Cheever, more
3 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
The Adrenaline Series
High, Epic, and Rough Water
By: Matt Dickinson, Sebastian Junger, Greg Child
For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and other T-type personalities, comes this collection of thrill-seeking adventures: Epic takes you to the world's most famous peaks, High confronts Everest and K2, and Rough Water brings you survival stories from the sea.
Great read, but frustrating
By Chris on 01-12-07
Sebastian Junger in Conversation with Henry Weinstein (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
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By: Mr. Sebastian Junger
Narrated by: Mr. Henry Weinstein
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.
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The Secrets of Happy Families
Surprising New Ideas to Bring More Togetherness, Less Chaos, and Greater Joy
De : Bruce Feiler
Lu par : Bruce Feiler
Best-selling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler found himself squeezed between caring for aging parents and raising his children. So he set out on a three-year journey to find the smartest solutions and the most cutting-edge research about families. Instead of the usual family "experts", he sought out the most creative minds - from Silicon Valley to the set of Modern Family, from the country's top negotiators to the Green Berets - and asked them what team-building exercises and problem-solving techniques they use with their families.
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Generation Freedom
The Middle East Uprisings and the Future of Faith
Timely and provocative, Generation Freedom looks at the historic youth uprisings sweeping the Middle East and what they mean for the future of peace, coexistence, and relations with the West. At a time when the world is asking how the Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden will reshape our times, Bruce Feiler, bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham, offers a vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of history in the making. Generation Freedom offers a hopeful vision....
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The Council of Dads
My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
Durée : 5 h et 5 min
Best-selling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. Three days later, he came up with a stirring idea to reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads".
Walking the Bible
An Illustrated Journey for Kids Through the Greatest Stories Ever Told
On a visit to Jerusalem, Bruce Feiler has a revelation: the stories of the Bible occurred in real places, places he could visit today. So he sets out on a perilous 10,000 mile journey retracing the greatest stories ever told.
A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking the Bible vividly recounts an inspiring personal odyssey (by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel) through the greatest stories ever told.
A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
At a moment when the world is asking, "Can the religions get along?" one figure stands out as the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. One man holds the key to our deepest fears and our possible reconciliation. Abraham.
The First Love Story
Adam, Eve, and Us
From the New York Times best-selling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness.
Where God Was Born
A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion
Where God Was Born observes that at the birth moment of the biblical religions, all of the faiths took from one another, exchanged ideas, recognized their commonalities, and were open to peaceful coexistence. Offering a rare vision of God that can unite different faiths into a shared allegiance of hope, this is a brave, challenging, and profound work that addresses the most important issues of our time.
America's Prophet
Moses and the American Story
The exodus story is America's story. Moses is our real founding father. In this groundbreaking book, New York Times best-selling author Bruce Feiler travels through touchstones in American history and traces the biblical prophet's influence from the Mayflower through today.
JPS Tanakh
The Jewish Bible, Audio Version
De : The Jewish Publication Society
Lu par : Michael Bernstein, Theodore Bikel, Bruce Feiler, and others
Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the US.
Lu par : Michael Bernstein, Theodore Bikel, Bruce Feiler, Tovah Feldshuh, Norma Fire, Kathy Ford, Lisa Kirsch, Harold Kushner, MD Laufer
The Book of Joshua: The JPS Audio Version
Lu par : Bruce Feiler, Lisa Kirsch
The JPS TANAKH: The Jewish Bible, audio version is a recorded version of the JPS TANAKH, the most widely read English translation of the Hebrew, or Jewish, Bible. Produced and recorded for The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) by The Jewish Braille Institute (JBI), this complete, unabridged audio version of the Book of Joshua features over two hours of readings by two narrators.
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Listed below are comments made by U14806651 between Wednesday, 17th August 2011 and Monday, 13th January 2014.
Does English sport suffer from its suspicion of maverick talents? 10:37pm on 13 Jan 2014 It's just our English mentality. We're not going to change!
Ashes 2013-14: Where has it gone wrong for England? 12:12pm on 17 Dec 2013 Surely Cook should resign if that much is wrong with the team?
Chelsea can prey on Barcelona's weaknesses 6:27pm on 23 Apr 2012 Park that bus and make sure it's a double decker!
Villas-Boas fails to match high expectations 4:53pm on 04 Mar 2012 What a shame. Let's just hope that Chelsea are knocked out of the F.A. Cup at St. Andrews on Tuesday. They deserve absolutely nothing.
Netherlands defeat shows FA must act quickly 10:26am on 01 Mar 2012 Watching France last night, they were absolutely superb. Disciplined and strong at the back, incredibly quick and skillful on the break. Unbeaten in 18, and although it was a weakened German team, it was still a good German team.
England however, can more than match them. Can't wait for the Euros and one day to hear the back of all the haters.
Netherlands defeat shows FA must act quickly 08:34am on 01 Mar 2012 Shadow warrior.
That's just a poor response. Nothing concrete about that at all. All of those players have experience in those positions.
Netherlands defeat shows FA must act quickly 08:27am on 01 Mar 2012 All of you complaining, non-stop critical fans, what would you have done that was so different to last night's team selection that would have guranteed victory against the Dutch? So pessimistic it's embarassing.
The race to replace Rooney 11:52am on 28 Feb 2012 clummers
Socrates reborn?! So Cleverly is another one who smokes 50 a day and will retire early from football to pursue a career in medicine?!
Legend.
The race to replace Rooney 10:05am on 28 Feb 2012 Guys why are we being dragged into the ceaseless debate between La Liga and the Premier League? Just drop it, we're not even playing Spain in the group stages so who cares. Soul Patch makes some good points, but at the end of the day he has no affiliation to Spain and hence gets nothing from Spain winning. His lack of patriotism for England is frankly embarrassing, but at the end of the day if he's happy then just let it be.
We need to get behind the team for once, it really does work wonders what a bit of optimism can do. The England starting 11 will walk out on Wednesday believing that we all expect them to lose, how can that help in the slightest? We've got some young players coming through and they need to be given responsibilty early.
Definitely need experience in the squad as well though, Terry, Barry, Milner need to be there as experienced heads are invaluable. Whoever says that Rooney shouldnt be in the squad is just plain stupid, are there any better options? I think our strength is the midfield, if we can get the right balance, our wingers could do some real damage whilst Wilshere, Barry, Milner, Parker, Gerrard could control the centre of the park.
The key is that Parker, Barry etc work extremely hard helping the defence, whilst our wingers explosive pace really needs to do the damage on the offensive. We need confidence at the back, a mix of experience and youth. I've got hope for England!
The race to replace Rooney 9:40pm on 27 Feb 2012 Mattress Maker.
Agree 100% with the attitude that we should take to the tournament, but reckon that Pearce should get the job full time.
The race to replace Rooney 9:35pm on 27 Feb 2012 Soul_Patch
I think the combo of Barry and Wilshere would be great. Barry could hold up the ball, and Wilshere is good at charging forward, plus an amazing work rate. Only reservation I would have there would be Defoe. I'd still go with Rooney, or maybe try one of the others. Not sure about Carson as I don't have Turkish tv, but why wouldn't you go for Hart? He has proved a really good goalkeeper.
The race to replace Rooney 9:23pm on 27 Feb 2012 The best thing for us to do is not rest any hopes on the game against Holland being some sort of turning point.
We've got a good crop of youngsters, and that bodes well for the future. It doesn't guarantee any success immediately though, mainly because international games are too few and far between to form a real team gel. The most critical thing to do is start throwing the youngsters into the mix now, which leaves them in better stead for say, World Cup 2014.
If you think about it, we've got some top young players who could all contribute to a successful team in a couple of years if we start experimenting now.
WILSHERE, Cleverley, Hart, Walker, Holt, Welbeck, Sturridge, Richardson, Lennon, Rodwell, Nathan Redmond, Adam Johnson, Ashley Young, Jones, Smalling.
The future looks bright, but we need to start giving these younger guys more responsibility now, and use the likes of Lampard and Gerrard more sparsely. Not because they are worse players than a couple of years back, but because England is our priority.
The race to replace Rooney 9:01pm on 27 Feb 2012 Based on performance level this season, I think that you'd have to go with Sturridge.
Give Stuart Pearce the job FULL TIME as well. Bags of experience already with the England international set up (albeit with the U-21's), knows the players, English, had relatively good success with the U-21's. If we appointed Pearce then I reckon that he might be a another version of Jogi Low of Germany, coming off the back of a big name manager (Klinsmann and Capello), gradually getting rid of the dead wood (Ballack, Lampard, Terry), and bringing in the newer crop (Richardson, Richards, Cleverley). Give the job to Pearce!
Darren Fletcher right to put health ahead of football 3:33pm on 14 Dec 2011 Newmanja 15
I'm sorry but I can't see how Fernando Torres, David Beckham, and Kaka could bring the desired effect to Manchester United. They are all passed their prime, Torres is completely out of form, I've heard nothing about Kaka in ages. Can you imagine the negative press that Manchester United would receive if they tried to resign David Beckham or purchase Torres? Ferguson would be hounded at by the press and people would claim he was losing the plot.
Ferguson needs to be looking at the younger German players. Living in Germany myself currently, all I read about in the German press is praise of their younger plays such as Reus, Goetze, etc. That's who they should look to sign.
Darren Fletcher right to put health ahead of football 7:24pm on 13 Dec 2011 ComeEnglandAway.
I'm no Man U fan, but you underestimate Darren Fletcher. If you'd watch Man U play with him in the team then you'd see how integral he normally is to the team (since when has having 11 world beaters in a TEAM been the way forward?)
United are going to lose a lot more games without him now. Can't see them winning the league this year.
Youthful England give Capello grounds for optimism 9:10pm on 16 Nov 2011 I read earlier that some people are doubting the credentials of Jack Wilshere? Utter tripe. They have clearly not watched him play for Arsenal. A sure starter for the Euro Championships.
Germany to win though, Ozil and Mueller to be players of the tournament.
Realism rules but England have cause for optimism 3:26pm on 13 Nov 2011 Germany will win Euro 2012; probably against Spain.
Man Utd unmoved but Chelsea buoyed 1:45pm on 19 Sep 2011 294
As much as I love Arsenal, I really don't think they'll get a CL spot. Their squad just isn't good enough. Saying that, once Wilshere is back they'll be a totally different team.
Man Utd unmoved but Chelsea buoyed 1:41pm on 19 Sep 2011 Ok Ok so nobody agrees with me about Stoke! Fair do's I might be a bit optimistic about them. I'm just basing my predictions on their squad atm: Begovic, good keeper. Strength and depth in defence, yes all of their centre backs have had their critics at times, but they're all experienced = Shawcross, Huth, Woodgate, Upson. Two quality wingers, Etherington and Pennant (yes not amazing but quick and nimble). Walters up front is a menace, and 3 target men Crouch, Jones and Jerome (although as a Birmingham fan I have nothing positive to say about the latter). I'd say they look a decent bet.
Man Utd unmoved but Chelsea buoyed 1:25pm on 19 Sep 2011 Not sure about QPR, but TP at Stoke (except the anomaly at the Stadium of Light) has been working wonders with the Potters. I reckon they'll definitely challenge for a Europa spot.
Man Utd unmoved but Chelsea buoyed 12:56pm on 19 Sep 2011 TheTrawler.
You've hit the nail on the head. United weren't even out of second gear at some points during the match, you felt that they could've plucked out more if they'd really tried. However that simply wasn't and isn't the case with Chelsea. They put out effectively their full strength squad, and even that is sub-champions standard and too old. United were playing with so many youngsters in the squad (yet still outplayed Chelsea), it's really worrying for all other opposition. You may argue that the likes of Jones and Smalling are better than Ferdinand already, but even so, with the likes of Ferdinand, Vidic, Park, Giggs, Berbatov to fall back on, they've no problem in depth. Chelsea have little to fall back on, little of threatening quality that is.
Somebody questioned Peter Cech's ability earlier on. What a load of tosh. He's Chelsea's best player along with Ashley Cole. Chelsea have a great manager, but he needs to be brave enough to off load Anelka, Kalou, Malouda, Lampard.
Man Utd unmoved but Chelsea buoyed 12:50pm on 19 Sep 2011 I'm sorry, but if we're discussing a 3v1 defeat for Chelsea against Manchester United in optimistic terms with hollow predictions of a brighter future for the Blues, then I'm afraid that this only goes to show how poor Chelsea are compared to years past. 2 seasons ago Chelsea wouldn't be taking this kind of result on the chin, picking out some half hearted 'positives' from the match. They're really going down hill.
Arsenal uncertain and unsettled 12:34pm on 17 Aug 2011 IamGooner.
Well said my man, well said. I totally agree with what you say. And to further that argument, were Wiltord, Pires, or Titi as good as Anelka? No. All that money (£23m ish) spent on those players, who yes did well at Arsenal, but weren't as good as the £500,000 signing of Anelka. I think that that underlines my belief that Wenger is right in looking long and hard for quality, rather than taking a leaf out of Manchester City's book. Money can't buy me love.
Arsenal uncertain and unsettled 12:28pm on 17 Aug 2011 Wenger has said on numerous occasions, and very recently as well, that he is more than willing to match the audacious bids of other big teams. He reiterates that he would be more than willing to spend 30 - 40 million, who wouldn't be with funds at their disposal? But as he says, he only wants to spend that amount of money on players who would significantly IMPROVE the team balance. Not just players who will replace, and are of the same calibre of the current team.
If Manchester City didn't splash out frivolous and excessive amounts of money on players who generally aren't worth the amount that are paid for them, then I bet that half of the haters on here wouldn't be haranguing Wenger to spend money. Wenger buys at a smaller cost and sees the player nurture and grow into world class players.
Because Manchester City spend such a ridiculous amount on average players, the price of average players expected around the world has climbed dramatically and unnecessarily. Wenger can see past the short term and disrespectful spending of Manchester City, he doesn't want to yield to the pressure of naive commentators like most of the people on this website and waste his money on players who aren't good enough for a world class team like Arsenal.
Fabregas had a right to leave, he'd been at Arsenal for EIGHT YEARS. That's plenty of loyalty. Nasri, well, he's a bit naive and money driven it seems.
In five years time Arsenal will be in a better position that City, because they'll still have a world-class Wenger, a new world-beating team that Wenger has developed, and a heritage that outshines City's.
Arsenal uncertain and unsettled 11:45am on 17 Aug 2011 Lay off of Wenger, Jeez. Give him time and let him do what he does best. For 2/3's of last season Arsenal were at their peak and challenging on all fronts, few visible problems. Yes, they trailed off towards the end of the season and ended up trophy-less, and yes, some of the big-name signings that some wishful people hoped for haven't transpired as of yet. BUT, there's now heaps of money (to an extent) in the transfer kitty after the recent sales of Fabregas, Eboue, and potentially Nasri. And furthermore, Arsenal haven't lost yet this season, they've got one foot in the Champions League group stage. There's no other manager for Arsenal, he just needs a bit more time. This is coming from somebody who by no stretch of the imagination is an Arsenal fan.
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Cyclone devastates South Pacific islands of Vanuatu
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-31883712
Image caption Residents in Vanuatu emerged from their shelters on Saturday to take stock of the damage
Cyclone Pam has slammed into the south Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu leaving "complete devastation" in its wake, aid agencies say.
Houses in the capital, Port Vila, were destroyed and "people are wandering the streets looking for help", said Tom Skirrow of Save the Children.
He said eight people were confirmed dead, but UN agencies say dozens may have been killed.
Vanuatu's president said he had a "heavy heart" and appealed for aid.
Pam has brought winds of up to 270km/h (170mph) and torrential rain.
'Entire villages destroyed'
Chloe Morrison, an emergency communications officer with World Vision who is in Port Vila, said on Saturday that streets were littered with roofing, uprooted trees and toppled power lines.
Media captionPhil Mercer reports on Cyclone Pam which has ravaged the pacific nation of Vanuatu. Video courtesy of YouTube/Isso Nihmei at 350.org
She said there were reports of entire villages in remote areas being destroyed.
"It's still really quite dangerous outside. Most people are still hunkering down,'' she said.
"The damage is quite extensive in Port Vila but there are so many more vulnerable islands. I can't even imagine what it's like in those vulnerable communities.''
Mr Skirrow said: "The scene here this morning is complete devastation - houses are destroyed, trees are down, roads are blocked and people are wandering the streets looking for help.
"Communications are down across much of the country with the total extent of the devastation unlikely to be known for several days."
Unicef spokeswoman Alice Clements described the cyclone as "15-30 minutes of absolute terror" as it passed over Port Vila.
"I saw the sliding doors from my three-storey-hotel room completely blow away - it was terrifying," she said.
Image caption The cyclone whipped up huge waves to batter the coasts of the archipelago
Image caption Debris was strewn across the streets in the capital, Port Vila
Image caption Many trees were felled, and houses had their roofs torn off
Unicef in New Zealand warned that Cyclone Pam could be one of the worst ever weather disasters for the region.
"While it is too early to say for certain, early reports are indicating that this weather disaster could potentially be one of the worst in Pacific history," New Zealand executive director Vivien Maidaborn said in a statement.
Vanuatu's President Baldwin Londsdale was attending the World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan, where he appealed for international support.
"I am speaking with you today with a heart that is so heavy," he said.
"I stand to appeal on behalf of the government and people of Vanuatu to the global community to give a lending hand."
Unconfirmed reports said that 44 people had died in Penama province in the north-east of Vanuatu, the UN's Office for the Co-ordination for Humanitarian Assistance (UNOCHA) said earlier in a statement.
Image caption Boats moored in Port Vila bore the brunt of the storm
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the country was preparing to send a crisis response team to Vanuatu if needed.
"There are destructive winds, rain, flooding, landslides, sea surges and very rough seas and the storm is exceedingly destructive there,'' she said. "We are still assessing the situation, but we stand ready to assist."
Although thousands of people spent the night in emergency shelters, many more were forced to ride out the storm in their own homes.
All six provinces of Vanuatu have been under red alert, meaning people are advised to immediately seek shelter.
Located about a quarter of the way from Australia to Hawaii, Vanuatu has a population of 267,000 spread over 65 islands. About 47,000 people live in the capital, Port Vila.
Pam, a category five tropical storm, had already caused major damage on other Pacific islands, including Kiribati and the Solomon Islands.
Tuvalu, a group of nine tiny islands north-east of Vanuatu, has also declared a state of emergency after the cyclone caused flash floods there.
Cyclone Olwyn brings winds to Western Australian coast
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China selected
Mulan: Disney aims to win over China with second take on the legend
By Yvette Tan & Heather Chen BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48904677
Image copyright Disney
Image caption China now has its first real-life Disney princess
There won't be songs or talking dragons, and the film's antagonist will be a Chinese sorceress, not an evil leader of the Hun army - but Mulan is making her return to the big screen.
This week Disney released a teaser trailer for the live-action remake of its 1998 classic, a story based on a legendary female warrior who disguises herself as a man to fight in place of her ailing father in China's imperial army.
It joins a string of Disney hits from the 90s being revived for the 21st Century, including Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.
The animated Mulan flopped in its birthplace when it was released more than two decades ago, but this time Disney is pulling out all stops to win China over with its version of their heroine.
Let's get down to business
When the Disney original first aired, China was not a major market for Disney. Twenty years on, China is the second-biggest movie market in the world.
Around 70% of Hollywood studios' revenue are now generated overseas, compared with around 30% two decades ago. And Chinese audiences today are able to add millions to box office takings.
"Chinese takings can make or break a movie," said writer and cultural analyst Xueting Christine Ni.
Image caption The new Hua Mulan is looking to slay China's box office
And Disney knows this - which is why its spending $300m (£240m) on the film, according to one of its stars, Gong Li.
"Disney is aggressively targeting China," Stanley Rosen, a professor in political science from the University of Southern California, told the BBC.
Recent Disney offerings, like Toy Story 4, failed to see Chinese box office success. In contrast, Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios, which split from Disney in 2016, had a huge hit among Chinese audiences with its Kung Fu Panda instalment.
For that film, says Prof Rosen, "they spent a lot of time in China, investing efforts in researching pandas and talking to experts".
"Chinese audiences are clearly more sophisticated now so if Disney wants to win them back, they have to nail the cultural aspects of Mulan."
That means the new movie can't be a play-by-play of the old one.
Live-action Mulan trailer released - but what's different?
"[The Disney original] was trying so hard to be Chinese, but in a stereotypical way - there's lanterns, fireworks.. they even stuck a panda in there. The humour, the pacing the relationships, are either wholly American, or what America imagines China would be like," Ms Ni told the BBC.
In one scene for example, the emperor is seen bowing to Mulan. It would be unthinkable for the emperor, who was seen as a god-like figure in China at the time, to bow to anyone.
Making it right
Casting was always going to be critical for this film.
Disney banished early fears of "whitewashing" - there were wholly unfounded rumours she was to be played by Jennifer Lawrence - by casting Chinese American actress Liu Yifei in the lead role.
It then upped the show's star power by featuring martial arts legend Jet Li as the Chinese emperor and A-list superstar Gong Li as a villainous sorceress - huge names in China who have also made it big in Western cinema.
Image caption Will Chinese star power aid Disney's quest in winning over mainland audiences?
But casting is "simply one element of better representation and inclusivity in Disney films", said cultural expert Rebecca-Anne Rozario, a professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
So there are other factors that Disney will have to include in order to make the film a success.
Mulan is a national heroine in ancient Chinese legend. Legends of her date back to the Northern Wei dynasty, as early as around 380AD. Think less Disney princess, more Chinese Joan-of-Arc.
So the new film script went back to the original 6th Century source material, the Ballad of Mulan, for inspiration. It was also filmed partly in China, and the female-centred story also has a female director in Niki Caro.
The woman behind the new Mulan remake
"[From the] tone of the [new] trailer, [it looks] much closer to the original legend than the 1998 animation and therefore closer to Hua Mulan as the Chinese know her - the brave young woman who upholds her duty to state and family," said Ms Ni.
Image caption A Chinese depiction of Mulan from the late 19th Century
"I think this time round, the live action will have a much better chance of winning over Chinese audiences."
Who is that girl I see?
The highly anticipated remake has inevitably met some criticism.
"Where is the singing?" complained one disgruntled fan on Facebook. "This isn't the Mulan I remember if we don't hear the songs we grew up with."
Others mourned the absence of wise-cracking dragon Mushu.
"We know Disney is changing a lot of things and dropping many of the original characters but Mushu was hilarious," one said.
The heroine's lucky cricket and sassy grandmother don't feature either. In their place is Mulan's new and younger sister.
And some eagle-eyed people spotted historical inaccuracies in the trailer. Mulan is seen living in a tulou hut, a traditional style of roundhouse. But those are from Fujian, more than 1,000km from Henan, the northern province where Mulan was said to have originally hailed from and were built centuries after her era.
Image caption Mulan's sidekicks sadly won't make it to the 2020 release
But there's been plenty of positive reaction too. People on Chinese social media have praised Liu Yifei's debut as Mulan. An online poll on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo also found that over 115,000 users were "satisfied" with what they knew of the film so far.
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"I would take inaccurate huts over smart mouthed dragons any day," said one person on Weibo.
"China finally has its own Disney princess, which no-one can lay claim on," wrote another.
Another person, who said she did not relate to the original animated film growing up, shared her newfound excitement.
Media captionDisney releases the new trailer for Mulan
"Hua Mulan was the heroine who graced our storybooks in school. I'm happy that the trailer is setting her story up as more of a Chinese martial arts epic rather than an American cartoon."
But high praise came from the voice of the "original" Mulan, Ming-Na Wen, who took to Twitter to praise Liu's performance.
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EPIC!!! Excited to see this #Mulan. Love seeing my friends @rosalindchao & @tzima8 as her parents. #YifeiLiu looks amazing as the warrior! 👍👏😘 https://t.co/JeuEwKIo6X
— Ming-Na Wen (@MingNa) July 8, 2019
End of Twitter post by @MingNa
The full film is scheduled for release in March next year. Disney would not give us any further details on it for now, but said more information would come out as the release date approached.
There are suggestions some of the classic songs from the animated movie will crop up in some form, but that may end up being a secondary issue for Chinese Mulan fans.
As one Weibo user put it: "China's Mulan is back."
Mulan: Disney casts Chinese actress Liu Yifei in lead role
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Stolen passport users 'not terrorists' Jump to media player The two passengers that boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports are believed to be Iranian, says Interpol.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-26527889/malaysia-plane-iranian-passports-used-before-flight
Stolen passport holder suspect named Jump to media player One of the holders of a stolen passport on the missing Malaysian airliner was a young Iranian, not believed to have terrorist links, Malaysian officials say.
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Malaysia: 'Families want answers' Jump to media player The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger plane has been widened amid growing frustration among relatives of those missing.
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How can a plane just vanish? Jump to media player Intensive search efforts are under way to try and find flight MH370, which vanished from radar en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur almost three days ago, with 239 people on board.
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Malaysia 'must intensify jet search' Jump to media player China has urged Malaysia to "step up its efforts" in the search for the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that disappeared on Saturday.
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Missing Malaysia jet 'a mystery' Jump to media player Malaysia says it is widening the search for the airliner that disappeared with 239 people on board a flight to Beijing on Friday night.
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Missing plane pilot 'professional' Jump to media player A massive search and rescue operation involving nine countries has found no trace of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane with 239 people on board which disappeared on Saturday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-26520808/missing-malaysia-airlines-jet-pilot-is-professional
Malaysia plane: 'Iranian passports used before flight'
The two passengers that boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports are believed to be Iranian.
The secretary general of Interpol, Ronald Noble, said both passengers had earlier used Iranian passports that were not reported stolen or listed on Interpol's databases.
Mr Noble warned that more than a billion passports go unscreened as people board planes and cross borders each year.
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Southwark stabbing: Teen knifed to death after chase named
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London violence
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Image caption McCaulay Junior Urugbezi-Edwards was chased before he was attacked
A teenager who was stabbed to death after being chased down a street in south-east London has been named.
McCaulay Junior Urugbezi-Edwards, 18, was chased from Newington Gardens - known as Gaol Park - to Tiverton Street in Southwark where he was stabbed.
Paramedics treated him at the scene at about 21:30 BST on Sunday but he died just over an hour later in hospital.
A post-mortem examination has yet to take place. No-one has yet to be arrested.
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Image caption The teenager ran to Tiverton Street where he was stabbed
The Met Police said the attacker was believed to have been wearing a grey or blue hoodie.
Det Ch Insp Richard Leonard said: "While there has been no arrest at this time, we are following a number of active lines of inquiry based on CCTV, forensic analysis and local engagement, and my team still needs to hear from anyone who has information concerning this incident."
He urged any witnesses to contact officers.
The killing is the 29th fatal stabbing in London so far this year.
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News & eventsMedia roomNews releasesBAE Systems welcomes new apprenticeship trailblazers which set the standard for apprenticeships
We welcome new apprenticeship trailblazers which set the standard for apprenticeships
12 Mar 2015 2015-03-12T13:20:00+01:00
BAE Systems welcomes the launch of seven Aerospace and Airworthiness trailblazer standards for UK apprenticeships, announced today by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The new standards for apprenticeships ensure consistent, high standards for apprentices in the sector.
BAE Systems worked together with other leading employers in the Aerospace and Airworthiness sectors to design and develop the new Aerospace and Airworthiness Apprenticeship Trailblazer Standards. The new standards will shape the future of apprenticeships and meet the needs of large companies and SMEs as well as providing a range of flexible pathways into work and careers in our sector for young people.
Skills Minister Nick Boles MP said:
“Apprenticeships are a real success story. Through giving leading employers such as BAE Systems the power to design and deliver high quality apprenticeships we can give young people the skills our economy vitally needs. I congratulate BAE Systems and members of the Aerospace and Airworthiness Trailblazers on their involvement in designing the new apprenticeships which we have published today.”
A key feature of the new standards is that for the first time they align competence on completion for the Level 3 (A Level equivalent programmes) to the Engineering Council’s Engineering Technician level. They also see the introduction of two new Degree Apprenticeship standards that will allow apprentices to take degree level qualifications as part of their apprenticeships. In this way they provide an innovative alternative to the traditional university route to higher education level qualifications.
Nigel Whitehead, BAE Systems Group Managing Director said:
“BAE Systems has long been committed to delivering high quality apprenticeships and we are delighted the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has announced their approval of all five of the Apprenticeship Standards and both of the Degree Apprenticeship Standards. This places the Aerospace sector in a strong position to offer a range of Apprenticeship programmes to meet the skills and capability needs of the future. Equally, it will ensure that apprentices are learning skills that employers value, thus providing them a great launchpad for their careers”.
Launched in October 2013, the Trailblazers initiative is designed to ensure that every apprentice in England is enrolled on a scheme that has been designed and approved by employers. BAE Systems and other companies in our sector supported the effort by providing short, easy to understand documents that describe the level of skill, knowledge and competency required to achieve the required standard of skill in a specific occupation. As a result, apprenticeships will be based on standards designed by employers to meet their needs, the needs of their sector and the economy more widely.
The apprenticeship standards have been developed as part of the Aerospace Growth Partnership, which is seeing employers in the sector work together to meet the long term skills needs. The new standards approved today by BIS include:
Airworthiness Planning, Quality & Safety Technician Standard
Aircraft Maintenance Certifying Engineer (Fixed and Rotary Wing) Standard
Survival Equipment Fitter Standard
Aviation Maintenance Mechanic (Military) Standard
Machinist – Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Standard
Aerospace Engineer Standard
Aerospace Software Development Engineer Standard
In addition to the 7 Aerospace and Airworthiness Standards, BAE Systems was also part of the Maritime Defence Trailblazer group that had their Maritime Mechanical Fitter Standard approved. The Company also support the development by the Defence Growth Partnership of the innovative Systems Engineering Masters (Level 7) Standard.
BAE Systems worked together with other employers in the Aerospace and Airworthiness sector, along with Professional Engineering Institutions. The employers supporting the Aerospace Standards are Airbus, AgustaWestland, GE Aviation, GKN, Magellan, Rolls Royce, Marshall ADG, GTA England & National Federation of Engineering Centres and Airworthiness standards are RAF/MoD, AQMS, Harrods Aviation, Gama Aviation, NAL Jets, Inflite MRO Services, Saxon Air, Virgin Atlantic, Marshalls ADG, Baines Simmons, London Executive Aviation, Monarch, British Business General Aviation and Civil Aviation Authority.
BAE Systems is one of the biggest employers of apprentices in the UK, with an annual £80m investment in education and skills. In 2015 the Company will recruit a record number of more than 800 apprentices.
BAE Systems Apprenticeship scheme, which has one of the highest completion rates in the engineering sector, was rated Grade 1 – ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED in July 2010 and won the National Apprentice Award for the ‘Macro Employer of the Year’ in 2011.
Many apprentices study for an academic qualification one day a week alongside their apprenticeship, allowing them to gain a university-equivalent degree in a specific specialism.
The Company is actively encouraging more women to apply for apprenticeship programmes this year to improve the gender balance of its apprenticeship populations. In 2014, women accounted for 17 percent of apprentice places and the goal is to improve on this in 2015.
For more information about BAE Systems’ apprentices please visit:
www.baesystems.com/enhancedarticle/BAES_179633/celebrating-our-apprentices
www.baesystems.com/apprentices
Rachael Gordon Head of Media, Corporate Head Office
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Planning Submission - West Gomeldon / February 1, 2017 by Barclay Phillips
We have just made a planning submission for a scheme in West Gomeldon. The proposal is to build 2no. family homes on a sloping site and to form a drop-off car park for the local primary school.
The site is accessed from the existing site entrance and will have a shared access opening into a communal space leading to each dwelling. When viewed from the road the new dwellings take on the appearance of chalet style houses and have been located within the site to respond to the fall of the land to the south. Plot 2 takes advantage of the change in levels through the incorporation of a Lower Ground Floor, invisible from the road, which contains a large study space, snug and the Kitchen/Dining space which opens out onto the garden. Aesthetically the exteriors of the dwellings have been designed to have a contemporary take on a more traditional chalet style house, with traditional materials and timber framed porches off-set by the contemporary glazing features to the rear. By forming bedroom spaces within the roof, the massing and ridge heights of the dwellings have been able to be kept minimum, reducing the visual impact.
The east of the site has been divided off to be used as a drop off car park for the local primary school. Parking around the school is a big issues in Gomeldon, with many parents feeling that the current situation is very unsafe. The inclusion of a parking area in the proposal aims to help improve the local infrastructure of the Gomeldons, increase road safety and improve congestion at peak school times. Gomeldon Primary School has issued a letter of support to accompany our application, along with statements from local residents.
We hope this proposal results in a positive planning outcome to enable improvements in the area for the local community.
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Blackberry Lane Completed / February 5, 2016 by Colin Tomsett
We are excited to reveal some photos of our recently completed new 5 bedroom dwelling in Four Marks, Hampshire.
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Bentley Miniature Railway
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Welcome to the Bentley Miniature Railway website
Established in 1985, Bentley Miniature Railway has developed into one of South East England's hidden treasures.
Whilst we await news on new management for the currently closed Wildfowl & Motor Museum, Bentley Miniature Railway continues to operate within the grounds for the forseeable future and look forward to your continued support during 2019.
The railway comprises a one mile ground-level 7 1/4" gauge miniature railway, with a variety of privately owned steam, internal combustion and electric powered locomotives. All are built to standard or narrow gauge profiles, hauling our public passenger carrying trains every weekend from April-October in addition to extra days during August and other East Sussex school holidays.
Built, maintained and operated by unpaid volunteers, who are all members of Bentley Miniature Railway Ltd., we are proud to be one of Britain's Great Little Railways.
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Meet Emma from Apple Valley, CA.
The one word that best describes Emma's life today is "Scared."
If Emma could change one thing in the world, she would "put an end to bullying." The way she would be part of this change is to be kind to others and stand up for those who are being bullied.
One year from today, Emma would like to be living in Laguna Beach.
If Emma's life were a movie it would be about her life as a competitive swimmer who is pursuing her dream of competing in the Olympics.
I met Emma as she was learning how to SUP for the first time. She was doing her best to stand up as the waves were rocking her from side to side. She had a big smile on her face and even though she was "scared", she was having fun.
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Home » Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (Library Binding)
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (Library Binding)
By Kevin Henkes, Kevin Henkes (Illustrator)
Hardcover (March 2016): $17.99
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her cool teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly brings her purple plastic purse and its treasures to school and can't wait until sharing time, Mr. Slinger confiscates her prized possessions. Lilly's fury leads to revenge and then to remorse and she sets out to make amends.
Kevin Henkes is an award-winning author and illustrator of many books for children of all ages. He received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s First Full Moon; Caldecott Honors for Waiting and Owen; two Newbery Honors—one for Olive’s Ocean and one for The Year of Billy Miller—and Geisel Honors for Waiting and Penny and Her Marble. His other books include Egg, Old Bear, A Good Day, Chrysanthemum, and the beloved Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. Kevin Henkes lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin. www.kevinhenkes.com
“Lilly is one of the great female characters in literature—like Anna Karenina with whiskers or Scarlett O’Hara with paws.”
— USA Today
“In all of children’s literature there is just a handful of characters we think of as family—Madeline, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Charlotte come to mind—and when this young generation is old enough to reflect on the ones it loved, Lilly will probably lead the pack.”
— New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Maximum Age: 8
Minimum Grade Level: P
Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories
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Punta Cana Dominican Republic Apple Vacations
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New Western Colonial Wars
in North Africa and Sahara
by K. Gajendra Singh
What is happening in North West Africa known as Arab Maghreb and down south in Sahel i.e. Sahara region, is the beginning of a new colonial style era to wrest and control vast resources of these poor nations, i.e. Libya, Mali, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger, Chad and others. Still mostly untapped - not even fully mapped - it is a vast region with Mali twice as large as whole of France.
Neo-Imperial power, USA, now fading economically and almost bankrupt, in cahoots with former colonial exploiters of the region, equally bankrupt, are in competition with the Chinese who are using their vast wealth accumulated by hard work to invest in and buy African raw materials. West wants to acquire the resources by military force.
The article at the end by a widely travelled and respected journalist Pepe Escobar very clearly explains what is happening in a region about which there is so little knowledge. He has travelled by road and boat in Mali in early 21 century and knows the area.
I was posted in Algiers in 1964 and 65, soon after a fierce war of independence. It was still very tense and disorganized. When I transited Algiers and Oran in end 1980 it was aglitter with its energy wealth. While posted at Dakar, Senegal (1978-81) I was concurrently accredited to Mali and went by road to Segou and Mopti and then by boat to Timbuktu in 1979.
Way back in 2005 I had written on the “emerging, strategic, nuclear environment”:
“While posted at Dakar in Senegal in West Africa ,I commenced in October 1980 the first leg of my travelathon crisscrossing continents on an Air Algeri flight which after a brief halt at Nouakchott, Mauritania, zigzagged East to Niamey, Niger's throbbing capital (thanks to uranium). Looking down from the plane, the journey across Sahara, crossing river Niger, over Timbuktu and Gao was fascinatingly dull.
I wondered if all these little known places and Bamako (Mali), N’djamena (Chad) and Bangui (Central African Republic) might become household words like Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, once the reportedly buried uranium wealth underneath were mined to fuel energy needs of last decade of this century and early 2lst century.
But in spite of wake up calls in 1970s of hydrocarbon energy shortage, the corporate interests in oil and gas, which is so profitable, did little to develop nuclear or other means of energy. So Niger has become notorious for its uranium mines for weapons use, and sometimes for its famines. President George W. Bush used alleged attempts by Saddam Hussein, proved concocted, to get uranium from Niger for weapons, as one of the causes belli to invade Iraq.
However, it was the Bhopal (India) born Pakistan national and German trained metallurgist and nuclear scientist and a globalizer in nuclear weapons technology, Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan, who last year brought into world focus, Timbuktu, which even the much traveled Indian journalist Khuswant Singh thought was a only a verbal expression, when I told him about it. For in November 1979 after presenting my letters of credence in Bamako, saying now or never, I undertook a journey by road and by boat on river Niger, to sample some romance of the earlier travelers, to the famous Eldorado, where during medieval centuries a pound of salt fetched an ounce of gold, attracting traders, invaders and scholars making Timbuktu a great center of Islamic culture and civilization.
Who would have ever thought in 1979 that Khan would love Timbuktu so much that he would even invest in a hotel there (It appears that Hotel La Colombe (?) has been named for his wife -shades of a minor Shah Jehan). But even Dr Watson would tell Sherlock Holmes why, so that he could travel from Pakistan to Timbuktu and back and supervise transfer of yellow cake to Pakistan and elsewhere. One can easily fly east from Timbuktu to Niger or go by road or river. He went around openly, flying around to Morocco, Mali, Chad, Sudan and everywhere the maker of the Islamic bomb was a welcome hero.”
Do not be fooled by Washington whistling in the dark that US will become an energy exporting nation, which many ill-informed US proxies are hawking in India.
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed in his article “Oil optimism relying on fudged statistics” in Asia Times writes:
“Headlines about 2012's World Energy Outlook (WEO) from the International Energy Agency (IEA), released mid-November, would lead you to think we are literally swimming in oil.
The report forecasts that the United States will outstrip Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2017, becoming "all but self-sufficient in net terms" in energy production - a notion reported almost verbatim by media agencies worldwide, from BBC News to Bloomberg.
-- But all the media attention was on the oil man's oil-funded report. Tverberg's peer-reviewed study in a reputable science journal, with its somewhat darker message, was ignored.
What happens when the shale boom goes boom?
These scientific studies are not the only indications that something is deeply wrong with the IEA's assessment of prospects for shale gas production and accompanying economic prosperity. Indeed, Business Insider reports that far from being profitable, the shale gas industry is facing huge financial hurdles.
"The economics of fracking are horrid," observes US financial journalist Wolf Richter. "Production falls off a cliff from day one and continues for a year or so until it levels out at about 10% of initial production."
The result is that "drilling is destroying capital at an astonishing rate, and drillers are left with a mountain of debt just when decline rates are starting to wreak their havoc. To keep the decline rates from mucking up income statements, companies had to drill more and more, with new wells making up for the declining production of old wells. Alas, the scheme hit a wall, namely reality."
Similarly Pepe Escobar’s piece elucidates on what West is up to in NW Africa and Sahara region in his article “Burn Burn – Africa’s Afghansitan” in Asia Times
One's got to love the sound of a Frenchman's Mirage 2000 fighter jet in the morning. Smells like... a delicious neo-colonial breakfast in Hollandaise sauce. Make it quagmire sauce.
Apparently, it's a no-brainer. Mali holds 15.8 million people - with a per capita gross domestic product of only around US$1,000 a year and average life expectancy of only 51 years - in a territory twice the size of France (per capital GDP $35,000 and upwards). Now almost two-thirds of this territory is occupied by heavily weaponized Islamist outfits. What next? Bomb, baby, bomb.
So welcome to the latest African war; Chad-based French Mirages and Gazelle helicopters, plus a smatter of France-based Rafales bombing evil Islamist jihadis in northern Mali. Business is good; French president Francois Hollande spent this past Tuesday in Abu Dhabi clinching the sale of up to 60 Rafales to that Gulf paragon of democracy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The formerly wimpy Hollande - now enjoying his "resolute", "determined", tough guy image reconversion - has cleverly sold all this as incinerating Islamists in the savannah before they take a one-way Bamako-Paris flight to bomb the Eiffel Tower.
French Special Forces have been on the ground in Mali since early 2012.
The Tuareg-led NMLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad), via one of its leaders, now says it's "ready to help" the former colonial power, billing itself as more knowledgeable about the culture and the terrain than future intervening forces from the CEDEAO (the acronym in French for the Economic Community of Western African States).
Salafi-jihadis in Mali have got a huge problem: they chose the wrong battlefield. If this was Syria, they would have been showered by now with weapons, logistical bases, a London-based "observatory", hours of YouTube videos and all-out diplomatic support by the usual suspects of US, Britain, Turkey, the Gulf petromonarchies and - oui, monsieur - France itself.
Instead, they were slammed by the UN Security Council - faster than a collection of Marvel heroes - duly authorizing a war against them. Their West African neighbors - part of the ECOWAS regional bloc - were given a deadline (late November) to come up with a war plan. This being Africa, nothing happened - and the Islamists kept advancing until a week ago Paris decided to apply some Hollandaise sauce.
Not even a football stadium filled with the best West African shamans can conjure a bunch of disparate - and impoverished - countries to organize an intervening army in short notice, even if the adventure will be fully paid by the West just like the Uganda-led army fighting al-Shabaab in Somalia.
To top it all, this is no cakewalk. The Salafi-jihadis are flush, courtesy of booming cocaine smuggling from South America to Europe via Mali, plus human trafficking. According to the UN Office of Drugs Control, 60% of Europe's cocaine transits Mali. At Paris street prices, that is worth over $11 billion.
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Cambridge United are about to enter a "new dawn" under Paul Barry, says Shaun Derry
Read what the U's boss ahead to say ahead of his side's clash with Lincoln in Sky Bet League Two
Andrew Georgeson
Shaun Derry was speaking to the press ahead of his side's clash with Lincoln City. Picture: Simon Lankester
Shaun Derry said that Cambridge United are about to enter a “new dawn” with the imminent takeover by Paul Barry.
The majority shareholder is set to assume effective control of the club and will make a statement tomorrow morning about the investment.
It will hopefully provide some stability, both on and off the pitch, with uncertainty surrounding many areas of the club ever since Dave Doggett resigned as chairman after the home defeat to Newport County.
Derry steered the team through a potentially tricky festive period – picking up eight out of 12 points – a run which carried on into the new year.
Things have stalled a bit of late, with three consecutive defeats, but the head coach said that he is pleased with the work that he and his coaching staff have done in focusing the players.
“That’s what my job is as head coach – to focus on the field and focus on the dynamics of the players,” he said.
“I think we’ve done that really well so obviously with Paul arriving at the club this weekend it’s going to be a new dawn for the football club.
“Where we are at this moment in time – we’re focussing on tomorrow night.”
In December it was confirmed that Derry’s direct line of communication to Barry, who it is believed will be at the game against Lincoln City, became interim head of football Graham Daniels and the U’s head coach confirmed that they have enjoyed a constructive relationship
“The interim board that has been led by Graham Daniels has been an open board and the dialogue I’ve had with Graham has been absolutely fine so until Paul takes full control of the football club my port of call is Graham Daniels,” he said.
Shaun Derry
Cambridge United FCCambridge United midfielder looks forward to Rangers FC and Hearts testsWe caught up with the midfielder at United's pre-season training camp in Largs
Other SportTown Bumps 2019: Action, pictures and results from Day OneThe first day of the annual event on the River Cam got under way last night
FootballCambridge referee gets international appointmentFullicks will run the line in an England Women's U18s game tomorrow
Other SportCambridge score big but are held at Saffron WaldenHill's side pass the 300-mark for the first time this season
Cambridge United FCMark Roberts on his hopes with Warrington Town, working under two former Cambridge United players and life after footballThe 35-year-old defender gave an in-depth interview to CambridgeshireLive
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Blog › Author: Dave Kroyer
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As the second title in our Nose Work series nears completion, Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Nose Work 1- The Indication has won it's FIFTH International Award! We've both seen and received tremendous accolades for this product. Any dog, any breed, any age, any substance. This title is ideal for sport detection dogs in Nose Work and professional applications like police K9 (narcotics and explosives), border patrol and specialized detection like medical alert and biologicals. In addition to being an award winner, this title, by it's very methodology, circumvents problems created in other methods because of it's logical, linear approach to training. As a backchaining method, each step in the process builds upon the previous so any error in training is incredibly easy to identify and correct. As an immediate byproduct, this title has become the go-to repair manual for "certified" trainers in other methodologies.
This new title is incredibly popular and of the same quality Canine Training Systems is known for! We're pleased with our fifth International Award, a 2015 Telly Bronze Award!
To date Nose Work 1- The Indication has earned:
2015 Hermes Creative Gold Award Winner
2015 Communicator Award of Excellence
2015 Ava Digital Awards Gold Award
2014 MarCom Creative Gold Award
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Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Nose Work 1- The Indication wins a 2015 Communicator Award of Excellence
A heavy package arrived in the mail today! Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Nose Work 1- The Indication has won it's THIRD International Award. More importantly, it's full of detail and clear instructional content for training detector dogs. Any dog, any breed, any age, any substance. This title is ideal for sport detection dogs in Nose Work and professional applications like police K9 (narcotics and explosives), border patrol and specialized detection like medical alert and biologicals.
It's tough to top the 7X International Award Winning prerequisite title, Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn. This new title is incredibly popular! We're pleased with our third International Award, a 2015 21st Annual Communicator Award of Excellence!
We've received tremendous feedback via email and social media. Despite the difficulty in advertising the video anywhere but online, we've had international orders from Canada, Italy, Indonesia, Greece, Hong Kong, England, Spain, Japan, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Belgium, Finland, Chile, Panama, Ireland, Czech Republic, S. Africa and beyond. More importantly, our customers are telling us how incredibly their dogs are performing and how quickly they are learning. They're also talking about it with friends and training enthusiasts the world over!
As always, we truly appreciate your business and revel in your success! Your success through our products is our success.
About The Communicator Awards
The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts, an invitation-only group consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. AIVA members include executives from organizations such as Airtype Studio, Big Spaceship, Conde Nast, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Fry Hammond Barr, Lockheed Martin, MTV Networks, Pitney Bowes, rabble+rouser, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Time, Inc, Victoria's Secret, Wired, and Yahoo! To learn more about the AIVA please visit www.aiva.org.
”The Communicator Awards honors work that transcends innovation and craft - work that made a lasting impact. The Award of Excellence, the highest honor, is given to those entrants whose ability to communicate positions them as the best in the field.” You can learn more about the Communicator Awards here.
Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Nose Work 1- The Indication has won an AVA Digital Awards Gold Award!
The mail has been full of good news lately. Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Nose Work 1- The Indication has won another International Award. More importantly, it's full of detail and clear instructional content for training detector dogs. Any dog, any breed, any age, any substance. This title bridges the gap between sport detection dogs in Nose Work and professional applications like police K9 (narcotics and explosives), border patrol and specialized detection like medical alert and biologicals.
It's tough to top the 7X International Award Winning prerequisite title, Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn. This new title is incredibly popular! We're pleased with the result, a 2015 AVA Digital Awards Gold Award!
We're really happy with the title and so are our customers, we've had international orders from Italy, Greece, England, Spain, Japan, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Belgium, Finland, Chile, Panama, Ireland and beyond.
As always, we truly appreciate your business and hope you enjoy the final product! Thanks for all the feedback, your success through our products is our success.
About The AVA Digital Awards
The Ava Awards recognizes outstanding work by creative professionals involved in the concept, writing, direction, shooting, and editing of audio-visual materials and programs. Entrants include video and film production companies, web developers, advertising agencies, PR firms, corporate and government communications departments, producers, directors, editors and shooters. Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. There were 2500 entries from throughout the United States and 17 other countries in the 2015 AVA Digital Awards Competition.
AVA's Digital Platinum Award is presented to those entries judged to be among the most outstanding submissions in the competition. Platinum Winners are recognized for their excellence in terms of quality, creativity and resourcefulness. About 15 percent won this award. The Gold Award is presented to those judged to exceed the high standards of the industry norm. Approximately 18 percent were Gold Winners and 8 percent received Honorable Mention recognition. You can learn more about the AVA Digital Awards here.
Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn has won an AVA Digital Awards Platinum Award!
Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn has won a 2015 AVA Digital Awards Platinum Award! It's a beautiful production, many of you have told us too. We're proud of it and as more titles near release, it's good news for us to receive word of it's 7th production award. The highest award they offer!
From the AVA Digital Awards website-
"The Ava Awards recognizes outstanding work by creative professionals involved in the concept, writing, direction, shooting, and editing of audio-visual materials and programs. Entrants include video and film production companies, web developers, advertising agencies, PR firms, corporate and government communications departments, producers, directors, editors and shooters. Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. There were 2500 entries from throughout the United States and 17 other countries in the 2015 AVA Digital Awards Competition."
That’s 7 Awards which nearly matches the 8 won by Training Substance Detector Dogs with Randy Hare- Detection 1.
New titles are coming! As always, we appreciate your business and thanks for your feedback.
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The Introduction of Toy Interaction in the Working Dog with Dave Kroyer: Part 3
Phone Interview with CTS President, Doug Calhoun, and Dave Kroyer.
In this third part of a multi-session series on toy interaction, we discussed common problems handlers have, how to schedule prey and food sessions and how to end sessions. Part 1 and 2 can be read here and here.
Q: We’ve discussed starting prey interaction with a tug and establishing rules and contracts for interaction, what problems do you see with handlers?
A: These are a lot of things I see people bypass with their dog, they’re so busy working on things like sit and heel position and all these other things but one day they are going to have to use the toy and if these formal things aren’t put in place they are going to run into a road block when that prey item is introduced.
One of the main problems though is not dedicating enough time to formal sessions or trials of teaching the dog how to play. That’s the #1 problem, the #2 problem is we may have a very large, strong dog that someone who is very small, that maybe doesn’t have the strength of a larger person, will have a very difficult time playing tug. The dog could actually be manhandling the person. It could be a 100-pound person and a 100-pound dog. A lot of times, the dog will win that fight and drag them around. This is where a game of fetch is actually better. So someone that is not strong or mobile may want to play a game of fetch.
Another problem is with impulse control. Let’s assume that the dog performed a behavior and we moment mark it and the handler can’t even reach for that toy without the dog taking our arm or hand or jacket. That stems back to not enough out training and impulse control. If we want to go back even further, it’s basic target training and how to work away from your prey and focus effort into behaviors or even stillness in the presence of prey. The reason it’s based in this is because we’ve taught the dog two things- 1. to work away from the handler and not orient toward the handler or reward source and 2. because the dog understands to work for the mark, the click in my case.
It’s interesting really and timely, because this morning I was working with my pup, a young dog actually this morning. I was working with a toy doing some targeting. The dog was outing his toy and targeting to the table for a mark to return to a dead toy that he would push into me for play. I would tug and then give him the toy and prompt him. He would drop the toy and move to the table for his mark. This is the first thing a dog has to learn, right, if you leave your toy you can have your toy and that’s impulse control.
Q: How do you schedule play sessions with food session in terms of predictability?
So we already know from Training Through Pictures- Learning to Learn how to establish food predictability. Play is really just an extension, initially of those sessions. At the end of a session of work with food, I will get the toy out and play with the dog. I will use a tug and basically begin out training from day 1. So it took like 1 week to 10 days to solidify the out from the tug, to make it very clear. Once I had that then I started working on “out then you can take it back”, and now I’m going to let go of the tug but you have to interact with me. Once I felt I had that under control, at around the 4-week period, I started playing fetch with the ball more.
Now that you understand the rules of the out, I’m going to introduce a new type of game, fetch. You go out and I throw one and I throw one, you come back and go between my legs and we play and you out the ball. I may give it back to you, you may bring it back and push it into me to play and then out, create a behavior and throw it again.
So generally, now that my puppy is 5 months old, I have prey predictability basically done.
Q: At you near the end of a session how do you prepare the dog for the end of play?
95% or more of my play sessions end with the dog taking the prey item off of the field. I still have to get it from him from wherever he’s housed whether it’s in the house or in a crate or a vehicle or dog box or trailer or kennel. But, I’m very careful that when I put the dog away not to steal the toy away. I usually have a minute or so more of work with the dog. So if I’m 5-10 feet away from where the dog is housed, I may work on outs again. An out, moment mark, give it back, out, moment mark and give it back and maybe then an out, moment mark and toss some food into the crate or kennel as a trade.
Sometimes it’s one step further because the dog understands targeting. I’ll ask them to kennel, crate or go into the trailer with the door open and when they enter I’ll click and let them return to me for the toy or ball. At some point, the dog simply won’t receive the toy again as I give a terminal cue “we’re done” and offer a piece of food. It’s never simply taking the toy away with nothing then. I want an element of trust maintained but I do have to remove the toy. It’s a balancing act and can be a bit different for different dogs but what I don’t want is the dog clamping down on the toy and me TAKING it away from him. I want the dog to believe that there is ALWAYS a possibility of him getting it back.
Q: Is there a ratio of trading of items you maintain or how do you know when to adjust things with the dog?
When the dog becomes fluid with interactions surrounding the toy, I know we have trust. With my very highly prey driven dogs, when they will approach the kennel or trailer and simply release the toy and enter, I know I have what I need from them. They know a toy session will happen and understand the lack of finality of releasing a toy- they trust enough to let it go and that it’s done, for now.
Q: What is the big problem with teaching the out from a handler’s standpoint?
There are a number of things that go hand in hand. First, not reading the dog and giving him a chance to be successful. A good dog has drive and the handler needs to consider what the dog wants. He wants his toy. The release is a contradiction initially to the transaction.
What we often see is that the dog will pull on the toy and if it’s a strong dog, the dog gets satisfaction from the pulling. Often once the handler does get the dog to let go, IF the dog willingly lets go of it, the handler is often so quick to snatch it away from the dog- to remove any possibility from the dog’s point of view that he can get it back. He’s actually really lost the toy, not simply released it. We want the dog to make a choice to leave the toy alone, the opportunity to think about what he’s doing in the presence of the toy, to be an actual part of the process, to have some control in the matter.
In the past what a lot of people would do is put a leash on the dog to block the pulling behaviors, maybe do some type of coercion training to stop the pulling. What I’ve found works really well and it doesn’t matter if it’s a puppy or a big dog is I’ll take a chair and place it along a wall close to a corner and work the dog up toward the wall. I’ll sit down in the chair and place the dog so he’s backed toward the wall. With a wall behind him and me in a chair, he can’t pull. What you’ll see very quickly is that the dog will stop pulling because the behavior is taken from him. So without gratification from that sooner or later the dog will let go. We’ve just isolated a release to be clear now. We can moment mark and give it right back to him.
So the pulling behavior is something I see with a lot of people including myself. I’m not a huge person so if I have an 80 pound dog, it can be hard on my back.
Another thing people seem to do almost instinctually is that when the dog let’s go, they move the prey away. Instead of the dog moving away from the toy, the handler moves it away. Movement is a super strong lure for the dog, it’s prey instinct. The goal is really that the dog let’s go and the toy is static. Any prey movement should only take place, if at all, after the moment marker. So in a perfect world, the dog would release the toy, show impulse control, hear the moment mark and then bite the toy again. The dog is showing super clarity here and what we should strive for.
Q: In recap Dave for purposes of this interview, what do you think needs to be emphasized here?
To get the point hit home, we kind of decided the point of this interview was that I was seeing people not devoting enough separate, formal training sessions to any type of play predictability or teaching the dog some kind of game. They just kind of assume that as the dog is older, we’ll start rewarding with a toy but there is no rhyme or reason to the system and then we create a whole other problem with the dog. What is really important is that the rules are clear, we have lots and lots of successful practice and that the dog understands how to toy works in training and that an element of trust is maintained and perpetuated.
Now with dogs with less prey drive, we have to make some conflict with the dog sometimes to really get the dog to want it. A lot of times I will tell people that if your dog doesn’t really want to possess a toy, don’t teach it an out yet. In consideration of both realms, I don’t want to sound like a hypocrite here. For a high drive dog I want to create impulse control but for a lower drive dog I want to create drive and interest in the toy so it’s really quite different than what we’ve discussed here. That will be a great topic to cover in another interview and one I get asked about a lot as well.
Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Nose Work 1- The Indication wins a 2014 MarCom Creative Gold Award!
Habits are hard to break. Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Nose Work 1- The Indication is gorgeous. More importantly, it's full of detail and clear instructional content for training detector dogs. Any dog, any breed, any age, any substance. This title bridges the gap between sport detection dogs in Nose Work and professional applications like police K9 (narcotics and explosives), border patrol and specialized detection like medical alert and biologicals.
It's tough to top the 7X Internation Award Winning prerequisite title, Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn. This new title is on it's way! We're pleased with the result, a 2014 Marcom Creative Gold Award!
The feedback is tremendous and so far, we've had international orders from Italy, Greece, England, Spain, Japan, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The Kiwi's know a good thing when the hear about it!
In this second part of a multi-session series on toy interaction, we discussed the out, play predictability and toy usage. Part 1 can be read here.
Q: What’s Missing for Most People?
A: What’s missing is this really remedial game of picking up a toy and the dog being willing to release that one for a toss of another. I want the dog to release one toy and travel through my legs to get the other one. You can get a 2-3 minutes of repetition with this and maybe 4, 6, 8 throws or more on the field. It becomes a VERY predictable game that I can use for the training. It’s very simple and very remedial but a lot of people don’t use it. So it’s real simple, like what Gottfried Dildei did in his videos, it’s just using two balls instead of two hoses and the dog is moving through the legs. If the dog doesn’t release the ball, you just wait a moment and stimulate him with the other and when he drops it, you just toss the other through your legs and pick up the dropped one while he’s chasing the other. The difference though is that I’m not going to rely on the transfer of the toy for the out.
Q: What do you do differently?
A: Outside of that session, I’m working on the out in a very formal setting. The two balls is a means to an end to get the dog coming back with a tight turn when he gets the first ball with speed and vigilance and going between my legs to understand later where I want to you to go with that first ball that I throw. The second ball can be removed after awhile.
Q: What role does trust play in this interaction?
A: I think it plays a big role because when I watch people, there are conflicting behaviors between them and their dog when they use the toy. I think it all stems from a basic lack of trust.
The dog thinks where am I getting the toy? How am I getting the toy? Should I just molest you for the toy?
I see that a lot because nobody puts in any time to create a predictable game with the dog, they just decide one day that they are going to reward with the toy. Because they have a dog that is very active for the prey, they may not have any impulse control so you see the dog nipping at them, biting at them and grabbing at jackets. You wouldn’t believe the number of jackets and sleeves I see get ripped at seminars.
Another thing I see frequently when using a ball is the dog biting the string. The dog is frantic to get something but he’s never been TAUGHT to bite something or target something and that is another complete exercise itself. You could do formal training sessions with just that but the dog is so anxious to get the toy and possess it, all forethought into a mutual interaction goes out the window.
Q: When you first start the out or release of the prey object, you prefer a tug, why?
A: I don’t want to say it’s more interactive with a tug, but in one way it is. With the ball and a very strong dog, you can’t easily make the ball immobile when you’re trying to work on an inducive out. With the tug I can manipulate and inducive out better because I’ve got two hands on it and I can completely immobilize it when I want the prey to go dead. So that’s the tool I actually use to teach the act of outing.
I teach the dog that the tug is an interactive toy and one I’ve established an out, there are things I do to teach the dog to interact with me and even push into me with the toy and engage with me with the toy and that it’s not something that they want to go lay down in a corner with and covet. A lot of times people will say to me, ‘well my dog won’t bring it back to me’ and they’ll see my young dog who’s actually driving the tug back into me and they’ll say ‘well your dog is different’ and my comment is, “No, my dog was exactly like that but I had to do many, many sessions over days and weeks to teach the dog to interact with the toy with me”.
Q: When do you switch to a ball and why?
A: When all of the rules are in place with the out and interaction with me, I generally don’t use a tug in training any longer I’m going to use a ball on a string. I can tug with the string and throw the ball with the string but the dog has already learned how to out off the tug and to return to me and drive into me and interact with me.
So with the game with two balls and the out itself there are rules and contracts. Once those in place, training with prey can’t proceed but I see a LOT of people start early when the rules don’t exist and they never get the repetitions of behaviors to make them really clear before polluting things with lots of drive and overactivity.
I like to use the ball because I like to play fetch. I can throw the ball down field or across a room and the activity of running helps free the dog’s mind up. Running and action is great for freeing the dog’s mind up. Because with my system we gets lots of repetitions, and maybe a very session of learning something and he did good, I want to be able to reward the dog and free their mind through running a bit.
What goes from 0 to 14 in dog years in two days? Training Through Picures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn, that's what!
It's been a busy week. Really. Really. Busy. A new product release is always an exciting time and this week is no exception. Thanks for the incredible feedback on our new DVD release, Training through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn. We love hearing about the difference a good instructional video makes for a dog-handler team, group instructor or student of higher education. Clarity. Detail. Performance. Results. Yes! It's positive reinforcement (R+) for us and drives us forward. We LOVE what our products do for our customers and we love to hear feedback.
We received a big envelope in yesterday's mail from the Hermes Creative Awards with the judging results of our entry in the 2014 competition. We won a Hermes Gold Award! The Hermes Creative Awards Competition is an International Competition with over 5,500 entries that honors "the messengers and creators of traditional and emerging media". We've gone from 35 industry awards to 37 in just two days. We strive to produce a product that is not only educational but is produced to video production industry standards, is highly marketable and something our vendors have pride in offering. It's also nice to have shiny, heavy objects on our desks to hold down our stack of outgoing order receipts, idea lists, scripts and goals. This makes two awards in two days and it's only been shipping for two days!
Don't worry, we're busy working away on uncoming releases in The Kroyer Sport Dog Series and, as always, we truly appreciate your business. Your patronage let's us continue making a difference through producing titles with the best of the best in dog sport. Thank You.
Sometimes it's all about timing...Training Through Picures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn wins a 2014 Communicator Award!
Sometimes it's all about timing. Training Through Pictures with Dave Kroyer- Learning to Learn is gorgeous. It contains 1,500 clips (video, narration, graphics, overlays etc.) and was, like other projects complicated, labor intensive and like a puzzle that needed carefully assembled. Because it's the basis for Dave's detail-rich system of training, it was critical to take the time to explain what is conceptually broad and underlying to nearly everything Dave does for any dog in any dog sport. At 105 minutes in Hi-Definition, it was a balancing act to keep the editing system healthy with multiple titles in the series in production.
The completion of the title coincided with many award competitions for broadcast producers. We anticipated feedback from consumers first with competition feedback trickling in later. We were wrong. We knew the title was good, Dave previewed a rough cut during a Dave Kroyer Academy class and we sent out production roughs to professional videographers, editors and content creators in advance to get feedback. We're pleased with the result, a pre-release 2014 Communicator Award of Distinction!
Other competitions have accepted our entry and we're excited to hear back from them as well. Most importantly, we hope the video helps the individuals that purchase it and use it's content. We made it because of you, for your dog, but more importantly for your team and for dog sport. That's why we do what we do. It takes a long time. It's expensive to produce. It's not easy. It's gorgeous. The DVD's are en route and will ship this week.
From Dave Kroyer-
"Although the DVD took quite a while to produce, the project was a major undertaking for a few reasons. Up to this point in dog sports, no one has really touched on this type of training and theory and the beginning stages are very 'conceptual'. It's not really a 'this is how to teach sit,down,heel behaviors' project. It's something MUCH greater and has many depths and layers to it. It was crucial my info made a clean transfer from outline to script into narration and video. Doug and CTS hit it outta the park!!! It's a beautiful production and I feel the info is ULTRACLEAR! I am super proud of the work everyone has contributed to the project!"
As always, we truly appreciate your business and hope you enjoy the final product!
An Introduction to Toy Interaction in the Working dog with Dave Kroyer- Part 1
Q: What is the biggest problem you see regarding prey/toy interaction?
A: There’s a number of problems but the first one I’ll mention as the biggest problem is, what is the contract between the handler, toy or prey item and the dog. When I talk about a contract, what I mean is, what are the rules that the dog and handler have to follow to be able to use that prey item in some type of productive way?
Q: What is the ideal contract?
A: There are 2 or 3 things and in no special order. The first thing I need the dog to understand is that the toy belongs to me, the handler. It’s no the dog’s toy or prey item. And a lot of times when I see people reward the dog, they reward the dog with the toy and the dog will alone with the toy, chewing on a ball or a tug getting self gratification with it and that’s where the fun actually ends when the handler doesn’t interact with the toy.
The second thing I see is that the dog’s don’t know how to let go or relinquish the toy. The third problem that I see is that the dog has no predictability of understanding how or where the toy is going to be produced in conjunction with the handler’s body. So you’ll see a lot of displacement behaviors happening. Handler’s getting bit in the chest, jackets being ripped and stuff like that. There are often lots of impulse control problems that go along with this.
Q: What are the obstacles for many trainers to the successful use of prey/toys?
A: One of the things I don’t see enough of when I’m helping people is some type of predictable game or play session with the dog- something that happens where those other three problems can be avoided or worked through. It’s just a random swinging of toys around and the dog can’t predict where it’s going to come from, how it’s going to get it or the fact that it belongs to the handler and that it’s an item that is interacted with through the handler.
So I try to tell people that with the dog’s foundation training, where we’re doing all this very interesting operant foundation work with behaviors such as The Spin and Get In for heeling, but one piece that they’re missing is how we play with the dog. They’re so focused on this other stuff, they don’t have any type of play session or play predictability or any type of anything as far as the toy is concerned.
So as training proceeds, we can’t inject the toy into training until there is some kind of predictable play session as far as logistics go with the toy.
Q: How do you begin?
A: I like to start with a simple game of fetch. The dog offers a behavior you like and you moment mark it and throw the toy. Of course the dog has to understand to bring the toy back. Well bring it back to where? Bring it back to 3 feet in front of me and drop it? Bring it back and slam into me? Run off with it? So it’s important that the dog can understand where to bring it back to. I like my dogs to bring it back to me through the legs. We create this habit through the food toss discussed in DVD 1 Learning to Learn.
The behavior of out, tight turn and back is the precursor to how we are going to play toy. That’s a precursor to the game of fetch which itself will be a reward to the dog. When I give the dog the ball, I don’t want the dog to just lay down and chew it, I want to reward him with a game of fetch. Will talk more about this in a bit in terms of how to structure fetch, strengthen cooperation and build trust in with prey DVD 2.
Q: What’s next?
A: I play a game that I just refer to as two balls. It’s similar to what people have seen before but I don’t want people to mistake it for bribery or to get the dog to come back to you. We are going to address the out elsewhere so the second toy shouldn’t be used to entice the dog. We’ll take the logistics of the food toss game and do it with a ball.
I toss the ball and once the dog has acquired it, I will stimulate the dog with the second ball and encourage him back, I need a tight turn in the backend when they pick up the first ball. The habit in the food toss is critical here. Then just as we lured with food in the food toss, we’re going to lure with the ball to come back and as the dog reaches us, we’re going to toss that second ball between our legs and click that moment. Even though we’re doing a toy transfer, the out is separate and worked on separately with a tug.
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THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple Expected To Blow The Doors Off Tomorrow's Earnings Announcement
Heather Leonard
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AAPL Rising Ahead Of Tomorrow
U.S. stocks are rising, following optimism that the European debt crisis is ending and that Greece will reach a deal despite Moody's downgrade. Shares of AAPL, now twice as valuable as GOOG, are up strong ahead of earnings. Catalysts for the stock include holiday quarter results released tomorrow January 24 at 5:00pm ET; iPhone upgrade cycles and adoption; update to the iPad; continued market share growth of the Mac business line; further penetration in China and emerging markets; the evolution and potential re-conception of Apple TV; and platforms such as Siri, mobile advertising (iAd), books and publishing, gaming, mapping and social ( Ping). Shares of Apple trade at 9.6x Enterprise Value / Trailing Twelve Months Free Cash Flow (including long-term marketable securities).
Apple Reports Earnings Tomorrow After The Close (Silicon Alley Insider)
Join us for LIVE coverage and analysis of Apple's holiday quarter earnings announcement. Consensus estimates are $38.7 billion in revenue with EPS of $10.00.
Analysts Preview The Quarter, Here's What To Expect (Various)
Everyone agrees. The company should exceed Street expectations:
Deutsche Bank: Analyst Chris Whitmore expects Apple to beat Street consensus driven by robust iPhone demand outstripping supply in many geographies. His 28 million unit estimate will likely prove conservative. iPad and Mac strength continues and should more than offset a negative foreign exchange ( FX) swing. He expects gross margins to beat (40%) due to weak commodities and a mix shift towards the higher-margin iPhone. He reiterates his Buy rating.
Jefferies & Co.: Peter Misek believes that iPhone shipments of 35 million are possible during the quarter. He sees a strong product cycle ( iPhone 5, iPad 3, iTV) going into the calendar year and is raising estimates and increasing his price-target to $550. He reiterates his Buy rating.
Bernstein Research: Toni Sacconaghi is looking for $39.4 billion in revenue and EPS of $10.57 driven by sales of 31.9 million iPhones (up 97% year-over-year), 13.6 million iPads (up 85%), 5 million Macs (up 22%), and 13 million iPods (down 33%). The biggest upside swing factors are likely to be iPhone device inventory and gross margins. He advocates investors maintain long positions. Apple remains his top stock pick with an Overweight rating and $550 price-target.
UBS: Maynard Um expects Apple to print its best holiday quarter in history beating Street estimates due to the launch of the iPhone 4S, accelerated international launches (carrier and country), lower price points for iPhone 4/3GS and healthy demand for the iPad. He believes the HDD shortage in Thailand likely had a minimal impact on Apple's Mac supply. He maintains his Buy rating and $510 price-target.
Pacific Crest: Andy Hargreaves agrees that results should exceed Street estimates. Sustained iPhone demand and channel inventory fill will likely drive estimates higher. That said, timing of new iPad launch will be critical to next quarter guidance and estimates. He continues to recommend owning the stock and believes the company's differentiated software and services stack can protect margins. He maintains his Outperform rating and $470 price-target.
And there you have it.
Apple Given The Green Light To Open Retail Stores In India (Livemint)
Apple may open its retail stores in India following the Indian government allowing full ownership of single-brand retail stores by foreign companies. Apple has been in discussions with the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) for some time and is keen to re-enter Indian market after an earlier bid to do so in 2006. According to an official close to the news, "They have not told us how many stores they will open. We have made the policy. The doors are now open."
Apple Bringing Its Store To Another World Famous Store, Harrods (9to5Mac)
Apple is looking to bring the Apple Store within a store to a new region: The U.K. And not just a standard consumer retailer with many locations like Target, but a world-famous and exclusive attraction - Harrods. The Harrods Company covers over 5 acres of land and features over one million square feet of selling space with over 330 departments. The store will be small in physical size compared to Apple's other notable stores, but it will be much larger than the typical Apple store-in-store.
Should Apple Make Its Products At Home? ( The New York Times)
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Chinese factories are far more nimble than American factories. An anonymous Apple executive has said the company "shouldn't be criticized for using Chinese workers" because "the U.S. has stopped producing people with the skills we need." And Apple makes more per employee than Goldman Sachs, Google and Exxon. Apple's products are designed and marketed in America, should it have a moral obligation to put that money to work at home?
New Report Shows Android Market Share Double That Of Apple (iGR)
A new report from market research firm iGR states that 47% of U.S. smartphone owners have Android devices while 24% own Apple's iPhone. That's nearly double. Samsung is the most popular brand among Android users in the U.S. And 27% said Google's reputation was a key factor when they made the decision to purchase an Android phone.
Apple Bringing Out The Big Guns To Battle Android (All Things Digital)
Two important developments in Apple's legal spat with Samsung: First, a German court handed the South Korean company a setback, rejecting one of the seven patent infringement claims it had brought against Apple. Second, Apple has decided to assert its slide-to-unlock patent against Samsung's Galaxy Nexus. This is the first time Apple has fingered the Nexus as an infringing device. Not only is the Galaxy Nexus one of Samsung's hero smartphones, it's also Google's Android 4.0 reference device.
Get the latest Google stock price here.
More: Apple Investor Apple Earnings Valuation
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Justice minister to seek more resources for cash-strapped NPA
Ronald Lamola has highlighted the lack of resources, as well as the need to transform the office of the state attorney given the unprecedented levels of litigation against the state
Companies / Property
Rebosis cuts its losses and sells UK business for just R700
The company will sell its share in UK mall owner New Frontier Properties, believing it to be one of the reasons for a depressed Rebosis share price
12 July 2019 - 13:39 Nick Hedley
UPDATED 12 July 2019 - 14:05
Rebosis CEO Sisa Ngebulana. Picture: RUSSELL ROBERTS
Rebosis Property Fund, which has been offloading assets to cut debt and win back investor support, says it will sell its 49.4% stake in UK mall owner New Frontier Properties for just R700.
“The board of directors of Rebosis is of the opinion that the shareholding in New Frontier has been one of the reasons for a depressed Rebosis share price, due to the challenges New Frontier is facing, being declining shopping mall valuations in the UK as a result of, among other matters, Brexit,” it said on Friday.
The landlord’s shares have slumped to just 74c on Friday from highs of more than R13 in February 2017. In a separate statement on Friday, New Frontier said it would probably be forced into administration if it lost the support of its lenders.
Rebosis said it would sell its New Frontier stake, held via seven of its subsidiaries, for a total consideration of R700, or R100 per subsidiary. The buyers are Edwin Henry Dednam and Orion Hotels & Resorts (Africa).
Rebosis’s carrying value of its investment in New Frontier consists of a direct investment value of R109m, a loan to New Frontier of R180m, and a vendor loan of R65m.
The company said it will fully impair these amounts in its results for the year ending August 31 2019. It will also cancel the remaining cross currency swap.
In 2015, Rebosis bought 62% of New Frontier for R1.2bn. Rebosis was listed by CEO Sisa Ngebulana eight years ago.
New Frontier said separately on Friday it made a loss for the nine months to end-May of £60.1m (R1.1bn), from a £4.3m profit previously.
The loss was mainly due to a fair value loss on the group’s property investments of £63m. The company had net liabilities of £36.8m.
“The board of directors of New Frontier has noted the net liabilities shown on the balance sheet and it believes that so long as the group’s lenders continue to release funds to the group to meet its commitments, the business continues to be a going concern and these financial statements have been prepared on that basis,” it said.
“The lenders are continuing to provide support to the group; however, the board recognises that should this support cease, it is likely that the company would enter administration thereafter.”
hedleyn@businesslive.co.za
WATCH: Why Rebosis plans to sell most of its retail portfolio
Rebosis CEO Sisa Ngebulana talks to Business Day TV about the company’s change of strategy
It may not be all over for Rebosis just yet
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British investment New Frontier creates problems for Rebosis
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Minerals Council takes Mining Charter to court
Steinhoff raises R4.8bn from KAP share sale
Companies / Retail & Consumer
Alexander Forbes plans to offload insurance units
Sibanye considers moving primary listing from JSE
Debt burden fears keep Rebosis shares in free-fall
Rebosis cans interim dividend as it focuses on cutting debt
Rebosis to sell three malls for almost R2bn to repay loans
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Will Chelsea Clinton's Baby Aidan Join The Campaign Trail? He Seems A Bit Young For This Wild Campaign
By Morgan Brinlee
Chelsea Clinton recently gave birth to her second child, a bouncing baby boy the former first daughter named Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky, according to an announcement made on her official Twitter account Saturday. The news has temporarily pulled Grandma, or, er, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, away from the campaign trail despite a contentious general election battle with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump heating up. Many are eager for a glimpse of the Clinton brood's newest member, but will Clinton's grandson join her on the campaign trail?
By the time polls open on Nov. 8, Aidan will be a little more than a week shy of five months old, but that gives the tiny tot plenty of time to get in a bit of campaigning for his grandma, right? I mean, kissing babies on the campaign trail is an American political tradition! And Aidan has already had lots of practice from inside the womb, thanks to how often Chelsea stumped for her mother while pregnant with him. Like it or not, however, Aidan is not likely to join his grandma in a final blitz for votes around the country, at least not in a public capacity.
Although Clinton has often referenced her granddaughter (Chelsea's first child, Charlotte) in speeches during the Democratic presidential primary — she even jokingly attempted to set her up on a date with an adorable toddler at a rally in Fresno earlier this month — the Clintons have kept the 21-month-old away from the crowds and cameras of the campaign trail in an effort to protect the child's privacy, and it's likely they'll do the same for Aidan.
And it makes sense to keep the newborn as far from the campaign trail as possible. Aside from the obvious fact that Aidan has few marketable skills at this point — his next 30 days will undoubtedly be filled with feedings, diaper changes, naps, and spit up — Clinton risks being accused of using her grandchildren as political props if she parades them out at rallies.
One of the biggest roles Charlotte has played in her grandma's campaign came in September when Clinton evoked her new role as a grandparent in a television ad. "When I look at my new granddaughter, I think to myself, 'We are going to do everything we can to make sure she has opportunities in life. But what about all the kids?'" Clinton says in the ad over a picture of her and former President Bill Clinton holding newborn Charlotte. "You should not have to be the grandchild of a former president to know that you can make it in America."
Aidan might not be able to stump for grandma Clinton, because he won't even master holding up his own head for three more months, but we're sure to hear a few tidbits about him at rallies between now and November as Clinton settles for hugging other cute babies along the campaign trail.
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The Employee Experience: Engagement to Energy. Are You Ready?
In times of change, the employee experience helps hold the company together. Whether it be changes to leadership, products, or culture, the employee experience is the one item that should remain constant and strong in order to keep employees engaged.
In this research-based presentation, Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP, will highlight the latest trends in the employee engagement market and explain why citizenship, purpose, meaningful work, and “energy, not just engagement” are the most important business strategies you have.
Recorded Aug 29 2018 63 mins
Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Jim Bell, CMO, Glint
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An Agile Approach to Acting on Employee Feedback Recorded: May 9 2019 46 mins
Archana Ramesh, Senior People Science Consultant, Glint
While most organizations today are leveraging employee engagement surveys, 80% of leaders don't believe their programs are driving meaningful change. This signals something is fundamentally wrong with how we have been approaching employee feedback.
There is a great opportunity to shift away from the traditional focus on survey events and action plans, and instead, adopt a scalable and sustainable approach to using employee feedback to fuel change.
In this webinar, you will learn how to design a measurement strategy that empowers managers to not only listen to feedback, but do something with it.
During with webinar, you will:
- Understand the importance of shifting the mindset around who owns employee engagement results and the simple signals you may be sending that confuse ownership and accountability
- Learn how you can help managers understand where to focus and outline a simple action-taking process (hint: it’s not about a cumbersome action plan!)
- Discover how your role as an HR professional transforms from administrative to strategic when managers are empowered
Archana Ramesh is a Senior People Science Consultant with Glint. Before joining the Glint team, she led People Operations and Technology for a fast-growing mid-size public technology company. Along with holding global roles, Archana has lived and worked in Western and Eastern Europe and is able to leverage her international experience to partner with global customers. Archana holds a M.A. in Social/Organizational Psychology from Columbia University where she focused on leadership development and organization transformation.
From Feedback to Action: The Next Step in Employee Engagement Recorded: Apr 11 2019 56 mins
Employee engagement and retention is the #1 issue on the minds of today’s CEOs and is a top discussed topic in HR. As a result, organizations have implemented solutions and tools that help gather feedback regularly, resulting in greater access to and an accumulation of feedback data than ever before.
But the real challenge is, how can we translate the deluge of data into meaningful action? In this research-based presentation, Josh Bersin, global industry analyst, will discuss how organizations can move from “feedback to action”—and give executives, managers, and employees the tools and information they need to make work better. Join Josh as he explores the role of people and technology as partners in this change, from frequent conversations to AI to action-planning tools, and more.
The Escalating War for Perks: What’s Happening To Employee Engagement? Recorded: Jan 16 2019 62 mins
Today companies spend over $40 billion a year on perks, well-being programs, and other non-cash benefits. The impact of increased investment in benefits on employee engagement and retention is far from conclusive. For example, while overall employee engagement is increasing slightly, nearly one-third of employees are actively disengaged at work.
What are the true drivers of employee success? How can HR and business leaders improve the employee experience?
In this research-based presentation, Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst and author, will share the actual drivers of engagement and retention, as well as best practices on how companies can effectively increase engagement and avoid the guesswork that is prevalent today.
Transforming Culture with Engagement Insights: A Tactical Guide & Case Study Recorded: Jan 4 2019 56 mins
Madhuri Kumar, AVP of Talent Development at JDRF
JDRF is an organization with a critical mission: to create a world without Type One diabetes (T1D). In service of that mission, the organization has been been experiencing significant growth and change, similar to changes that organizations around the world are grappling with today. These include revamping its business model in the digital age, attracting, hiring and retaining world-class talent, while actively engaging the community it serves through awareness and relevancy.
To meet these changing demands, JDRF recognized the need to prioritize people and culture, not just business systems and processes. With a intentional strategy to thoughtfully overhaul the employee feedback and engagement process, and to build a culture that’s stronger, more innovative, and committed to continuous improvement, JDRF is on track to changing its trajectory, putting it on a renewed path to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent and treat T1D and its complications.
In this webinar, JDRF’s AVP of Talent Development, Madhuri Kumar, will share the journey of JDRF and culture transformation, and provide tactical advice for embarking on change at any organization, large or small.
Engage Your Distributed Workforce: Practical Advise, Successes and Lessons Learn Recorded: Jan 4 2019 57 mins
Kurt Oborn, Sr. Manager of Organizational Effectiveness at Post Consumer Brands
In this webinar presented by Lisa Lebow of Glint and Kurt Oborn of Post Consumer Brands, you’ll learn about motivating and retaining a diverse, dispersed workforce. Lisa, a seasoned organizational development consultant, will explain how to overcome the inherent challenges of engaging a workforce that is composed of all types of employees, from strategy and sales to manufacturing or customer service. She’ll provide a framework for understanding the motivations and challenges of all employees and practical advice for empowering local leaders to take simple, impactful action.
Kurt, the Senior Manager of Organizational Effectiveness at Post Consumer Brands, one of the largest cereal producers in the U.S., will share his story — building a program to listen to, understand, and respond to thousands of employees across the country. He’ll provide practical takeaways, best practices, and lessons learned. You’ll walk away with a list of action items to implement immediately, whether you’ve just begun the engagement journey or consider yourself a seasoned expert.
In this webinar, you will:
• Discover a framework for how to effectively engage a diverse and distributed workforce
• Learn how to empower local leaders and managers to take action on engagement
• Hear a real-life case study from one of the largest cereal producers in the U.S. on how they strive to keep each of their distinct employee populations engaged
Navigating a New Path: Linking Employee Engagement with Business Outcomes Recorded: Jan 3 2019 59 mins
Chad Bennett of Glint and Alex Purcell of United Airlines
In this webinar, presented by Chad Bennett of Glint and Alex Purcell of United Airlines, you’ll learn how you can begin to identify the specific relationships between employee engagement at your organization and the outcomes that drive the business forward. Bennett, a seasoned organizational development expert, will explain how you can effectively use engagement data to predict outcomes, identify high-potential course-corrections, and empower leaders to take simple, impactful action and drive the business forward.
Purcell, Sr. Manager, Engagement Technology and Analytics at United Airlines, will relay a real-life case study on how their engagement data impacts their business outcomes. United Airlines’ stated purpose is to help unite the world by connecting people to the moments that matter most. United is delivering on its promise in a complex and dynamic business environment that demands the highest levels of safety, and seeks operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
It’s not easy and numerous factors, including weather, maintenance, air traffic congestion, etc., can impact airline operations and a customer’s experience from the moment of ticket purchase to arrival at the destination. But, because the airline business is a people business, employee discretion can make all the difference. So, United is exploring new linkages that aim to show how employee engagement drives improved safety and customer satisfaction, as well as partnering with internal stakeholders providing insights into the effectiveness of their work. How will United prove these connections? That is a question United is daring to ask.
Fuel Success with a Holistic View of the Employee Journey Recorded: Dec 13 2018 35 mins
Archana Ramesh, Senior People Science Consultant, at Glint
For HR leaders, having a holistic view of the employee journey is critical to developing your people and fueling your company’s success. Unfortunately, with ‘survey platforms’, different surveys never talk to one another and data remains captive in silos.
But what if you could connect survey feedback and understand the full employee experience in just a few clicks?
In this webinar, Archana Ramesh, Senior People Science Consultant at Glint, will delve into Cross-Program Intelligence - a new way to drive organizational effectiveness and optimize every step of the employee journey. Attendees will:
- Learn how to break the survey silo
- Discover how milestones like onboarding, reorgs, and promotions impact engagement over the entire employee lifecycle
- How technology can simplify uncovering insights across multiple data sources
The Employee Experience: Engagement to Energy. Are You Ready? Recorded: Aug 29 2018 63 mins
Optimizing Culture in Times of Change: Evernote’s Deliberate Approach Recorded: Jul 20 2018 57 mins
Michelle Wagner, SVP of People Ops, Evernote. Sara Weiner, Principal organization development science consultant, Glint
Evernote has undergone changes that threatened the stability of the organization’s culture. Yet the fast-growing company continues to thrive. Join Michelle Wagner, SVP of People Ops, as she shares her journey of optimizing culture at Evernote. With input from employees and buy-in from leaders, she has established a new culture strategy— one that’s more intentional, focused, and inclusive.
In this session, you will learn:
- Four critical steps to maintaining a positive and productive culture during times of change
- How to gather — and actually use — feedback from employees to ensure you’re headed in the right direction
- Key considerations for ensuring success of change programs at the organization-wide and team-wide levels
Keeping Employees Engaged in Times of Change: A CHRO Case Study Recorded: Jul 20 2018 58 mins
Melanie Hughes, EVP CHRO, American Eagle Outfitters, Judy Meehan, VP Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Today, many industries are in the middle of transformational changes. These changes can affect the workforce in significant ways.
A longtime executive in the retail industry, Melanie Hughes, EVP/Chief Human Resources Officer of American Eagle Outfitters, has extensive experience in guiding organizations through times of change.
In this on-demand webcast, Hughes discusses:
- What industry transformation typically means for organizations, teams, and individual employees
- What questions HR leaders should ask themselves and their executive colleagues when planning for organizational change
- How do you implement change management strategies that keep employees engaged, productive, and motivated?
- Learn how American Eagle has optimized employee engagement and performance during a period of transformation, turning engagement into the company’s secret weapon.
How Ketchum Became a Best Place to Work: Our Story Recorded: Jul 20 2018 59 mins
Jennifer Dew, Sr. VP Human Resources, Ketchum. Melissa Barry, Sr. Consultant Organization Effectiveness, Ketchum
Clients who choose Ketchum to execute their marketing communications strategies choose us for one main reason: our people. Ketchum people are curious, smart, and passionate - and we consistently rack up accolades for our creativity, execution, and dedication in forums around the world.
Above all, only one driving factor represents the foundation for Ketchum's success: our employee experience. Ketchum holds a steady record of being named a top place to work – we are one of the most awarded agencies in the industry, most recently being recognized as one of the top five agencies to work for in North America by The Holmes Report. We drive our people’s success through a commitment to creating a vibrant employee experience, achieved through a healthy mix of programs and flexibility.
In this on-demand webcast, we will discusses:
- Why it is important to create a best place to work environment
- Ketchum’s award winning programs and talent strategy
- The important relationship between the employee experience and delivering for our clients
- This webcast was recorded during an HCI Live Webinar on June 4, 2017.
High-Impact People Analytics: The Shifting Landscape Recorded: Jul 20 2018 60 mins
Madhura Chakrabarti, Ph.D., Research Leader, People Analytics and Employee Engagement, Bersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP
The latest people analytics industry study by Bersin™, Deloitte Consulting LLP, found that mature organizations go beyond mere technical capability. High-impact people analytics organizations incorporate a much wider set of factors like fostering a data culture, forming strategic relationships with business and influential leaders, enhancing HR capabilities, sharing data and insights, and establishing the right infrastructure.
We invite you to explore Bersin’s High-Impact People Analytics (HIPAN) research and discover the seven top findings that describe the current landscape and key differentiators of mature organizations.
Taking Action to Improve Employee Engagement at Scale Recorded: Jul 16 2018 52 mins
Catherine Garrod, People Involvement Manager, Sky
The most challenging part of improving employee engagement is also the most crucial — taking action to improve the right areas at the right time. Catherine Garrod at Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company, will bring to life how managers and leaders are doing just that: taking the right actions to consistently improve engagement, all year round.
In this recorded session, Catherine will share practical takeaways you can bring to your own organization immediately. Drawing on experiences from two contrasting industries, she will demonstrate how simple actions can have a lasting impact across the whole organization. She will also reveal how to guide managers and leaders to figure out what’s the proper course of action for consistently improving the engagement of their teams. You’ll hear how a utility company achieved double digit engagement improvement in two years, which led to their own employees recognizing the company in the Sunday Times, and how teams at Sky are boosting engagement by doing one thing brilliantly.
Optimizing Engagement in Times of Change: How LinkedIn Maintained its Culture Th Recorded: Mar 14 2018 61 mins
Craig Ramsay Principal People Science Consultant at Glint, Ben Hatch Employee Engagement Program Manager at LinkedIn
Despite our best intentions, organizational change often leads to disruption. Change can cause confusion, discomfort, and frustration for employees, and can lead to consequences such as drops in engagement, lapses in performance, and regrettable attrition. In a world where change is inevitable, how can organizations overcome disruption and thrive in the face of change?
In this webinar, Organizational Development expert Craig Ramsay will share a framework that will help your organization more effectively navigate change, whether the change is a merger or acquisition, an internal restructuring, or a leadership change.
Ben Hatch, Employee Engagement Program Manager at LinkedIn, will join Craig to share his journey of helping LinkedIn preserve its culture and values during a period of significant change and uncertainty: the organization’s acquisition by Microsoft. By listening to employees, communicating effectively, and doubling down on LinkedIn’s unique culture and programs, LinkedIn was able to thrive, coming out quickly on the other side more focused and inclusive than before.
In this recorded session, you will learn:
The critical steps to maintaining a positive and productive culture during all types of change.
How to gather and actually use feedback from employees to ensure they are engaged — making the change a success.
Key considerations for ensuring a successful transition at the organization-wide and team-wide levels during times of disruptive change.
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Title: The Employee Experience: Engagement to Energy. Are You Ready?
Live at: Aug 29 2018 7:00 pm
Presented by: Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Jim Bell, CMO, Glint
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What to Know about Light Pollution
09/01/2014 | By Christopher Curtland
Identify the types, causes, and remedies of this phenomenon
When you think of pollution, you might envision murky, hazy expanses fouled by outside contaminants. You probably picture oceans and landfills. But you should turn your gaze upward – the sky is just as likely a victim.
Awareness about light pollution has increased over the last 20 years, but you may be a culprit without even knowing it. Learn how improving outdoor lighting can make you a better environmental steward and building neighbor.
Consider the Kinds
Light pollution is broadly defined as any emission of artificial light that has an unwanted, deleterious, or nuisance effect on humans and the ecosystem, according to the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), a non-profit organization that offers a third-party rating system for judging the
Turtle Power
If chasing LEED points, complying with codes, or improving efficiency and safety don’t motivate you to limit light pollution – then think of the turtles.
As sea turtle hatchlings leave their sandy shells and venture into the world, they’re often attracted to the brightest part of their environment. This should be moonlight reflecting off their ocean homes.
“But if there is illumination on the coast from condos and restaurants, the turtles climb inland, where numerous threats await,” says Gibson.
The Florida Wildlife Commission now requires amber colored lights because the turtles can’t see that type of wavelength, explains Gibson, similar to how humans can’t see the infrared part of the spectrum.
Blue light can also wreak havoc on natural circadian cycles, but perhaps that’s your guilty conscience about the turtles keeping you up at night. If sea turtles aren’t prominent in your area, consider that excess outdoor light can attract several other pests and critters.
“sky-friendliness” of lighting fixtures.
Lighting can produce pollution in the same way that artificial chemicals in the air and water can sully the quality of those resources, says John Barentine, program manager at IDA. Specific types of light pollution include the following:
Trespass: Light falling beyond the property line from the emitting fixture, such as a neighbor’s porch light shining into your bedroom window.
Overlighting: Illumination exceeding the amount needed for a particular task that does not contribute to wayfinding or safety, like a brightly lit car dealership at night.
Glare: Light that shines directly into the eye rather than on a surface, which creates a safety risk for motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians.
“Glare is something the lighting industry has been trying to get a handle on for over 100 years,” says Eric Gibson, value stream manager of outdoor area lighting products with manufacturer Lithonia Lighting. “Everyone’s perception is different, and the metrics available can’t fully quantify the experience.”
The different kinds of lighting pollution are defined by the symptoms of it, but you need to reflect on the sources.
Contemplate the Causes
In the 1990s, as sky glow began impeding the research of astronomers, cities were the primary offenders because of streetlights. But outdoor commercial fixtures also contributed significantly to the problem.
“Light that goes up is totally wasted,” explains Gibson. “Make sure your products are fully cut off at 90 degrees.”
Sky glow, light trespass, and glare are also created by poor lighting layout and luminaire design, explains Shanna Olson, senior lighting designer at KJWW, an engineering consulting firm. “Consider the adjacency of your property line and the distribution angle of your fixture,” she says.
Lighted signage and architectural lighting are often unneeded at night and can thus contribute to pollution, adds Cheryl Ford, marketing manager at manufacturer OSRAM SYLVANIA.
Pathway lighting is required for safety, but landscape lighting is another example of superfluous design, says Barentine. “Lighting that serves no safety purpose should be significantly limited,” he explains. “Lighting strictly for security purposes should be reviewed. Studies on the connection between lighting and crime show that security lighting may enable rather than deter criminal activity.”
Once you’ve pinpointed the potential problems on your property, the second step is solving them.
Recognize the Remedies
There are several ways you can provide a more effectively lit environment.
“Shields and fins have been the most prominent solutions. They make sure the light is going only where it’s intended,” says Gibson. “Reducing pole height also ensures that the reach of your lighting isn’t as vast.”
Another approach is to incorporate an integrated control system, says Olson. “Occupancy sensors can power luminaires on and off or adjust light levels if the area is unpopulated,” she explains. “A similar strategy would be to deploy a dimming control system tied to a time clock.”
Also pay attention to the spectral content of light emitted, weighing it against the need for accurate color rendition, says
Barentine. IDA recommends lamps of 3000K or less because exposure to blue and violet light at night has harmful effects on humans and animals (for more on color temperature and wildlife, see below).
Motivation for limiting light pollution may result from your own eco-friendliness, but other drivers include code compliance and LEED certification.
“Be driven by lowering electricity use, reducing carbon emissions, and creating a healthy environment,” Barentine says.
“Addressing light pollution means being not only good neighbors, but also good stewards of finite resources.”
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Power Always Attracts Friends and Supplicants
A month ago Politico reported:
Donald Trump is trying to win over a skeptical Republican donor class, but they’ve closed their wallets — and they’re angry.
Today the New York Times reports a different view:
G.O.P.’s Moneyed Class Finds Its Place in New Trump World
In his unlikely rise to the Republican nomination Donald J. Trump attacked lobbyists, disparaged big donors and railed against the party’s establishment. But on the shores of Lake Erie this week, beyond the glare of television cameras, the power of the permanent political class seemed virtually undisturbed.
Though Mr. Trump promises to topple Washington’s “rigged system,” the opening rounds of his party’s quadrennial meeting accentuated a more enduring maxim: Money always adapts to power.
At a downtown barbecue joint, lobbyists cheerfully passed out stickers reading “Make Lobbying Great Again” as they schmoozed on Monday with Republican ambassadors, lawmakers and executives. At a windowless bar tucked behind the Ritz-Carlton hotel, whose rooms were set aside for the party’s most generous benefactors, allies of Mr. Trump pitched a clutch of receptive party donors on contributing to a pro-Trump “super PAC.”
To be sure, a number of individual and corporate donors stayed away from the Republican convention and seem to be unwilling to support Donald Trump. Still, the reconciliation of so many principled conservatives, prudent donors, and former targets of vicious personal attacks puts me in mind, again, of the following headlines that may have appeared in a Paris newspaper, perhaps Le Moniteur Universel, in 1815 as Napoleon escaped from exile on Elba and advanced through France:
Scandals Keep Eroding Our Faith in Benevolent Government
George Will, Michael Gerson, and our own Gene Healy are among the columnists who reminded us – in the wake of the IRS and AP snooping scandals – of President Obama’s stirring words just two days before the IRS story broke:
Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity. . . . They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.
Politics Is Better as Fiction
If the season’s got you thinking cynically about politics and politicians, TCM has the movies for you.
Charles Krauthammer, Rocket Scientist
Pervasive Illiteracy in the Afghan National Army
Matt Yglesias has a lot of smart things to say about the pervasive illiteracy plaguing the Afghan National Army. Upwards of 75 to 90 percent (according to varying estimates) of the ANA is illiterate.
Thomas Friedman’s New Math of Democracy
Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column today would be astonishing in its incoherence if only Friedman hadn’t long ago sapped us of our ability to be astonished by his incoherence.
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After 20 years China has made substantial economic progress, but the ghosts of Tiananmen are restless and will continue to be so until the Goddess of Liberty is restored.
Why the Worst Get on Top
Susan Stamberg reports on Martha Gellhorn, “one of the first great female war correspondents,” whose marriage to Ernest Hemingway is being dramatized by HBO next week. Gellhorn had a healthy skepticism toward power:
In 1983, a British TV interviewer posed this loaded question to Gellhorn, then 75 and still gorgeous: “I.F. Stone once described governments as comprised entirely of liars and nothing they say should ever be believed.”
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The humor site Cracked rounds up some serious social science on the psychological effects of power and authority. The results are sobering—if not entirely surprising.
Liberty, Even for People You Don’t Like
In a conversation about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council admitted that he wants to re-criminalize sodomy:
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Capacity Building Update
Biodiversity E-Learning Platform
Learning Approaches and Tools
Capacity-Building for the Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol
Capacity-Building for the Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol
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The Biodiversity e-Learning Platform was established pursuant to the request made to the Executive Secretary by the Conference of the Parties (decision XII/2 B, paragraph 8e) to promote the use of advanced technologies to further enhance capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation and technology transfer.
It is a customized learning management system designed to facilitate access to a wide range of e-learning opportunities relating to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Protocols. It was established with funding from the Government of Japan, through the Japan Biodiversity Fund, and is maintained in collaboration with the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC).
The Platform hosts e-learning modules and courses, developed by the Secretariat in collaboration with partner organizations, in the following categories:
Access and Benefit-sharing: modules on Establishing Legal Frameworks to Implement the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Biosafety: modules on Mainstreaming Biosafety; Public Awareness, Education and Participation; Handling, Transport, Packaging and Identification of Living Modified Organisms; the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress
Economics, Trade, and Biodiversity: modules on Biodiversity Valuation; Sustainable Consumption and Production
Protected areas: modules on Network Design; Integration; Management Planning; Participation; Sustainable Finance; Implementation; Monitoring and Adaptive Management
Participants can benefit from these e-learning opportunities by signing up for a CBD account and registering for the selected modules.
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Home » Bitcoin Announcements » Diamond Circle Launches First Cashless Bitcoin ATM in Australia
Diamond Circle Launches First Cashless Bitcoin ATM in Australia
by John Weru Maina
in Bitcoin Announcements, Bitcoin Merchants, News
Bitcoin’s first cashless ATM has just gone live in Queensland, Australia. The ATM kiosk was installed at the Bluff Café, which is located in Burleigh Heights. The ATM has been a long time in coming since Diamond Circle announced its development in March this year, but it is now and finally here.
The Diamond Circle ATM works together with its bitcoin debit cards. They cannot be used with any other ATM. In March this year, CCN carried the story about Diamond Circle having developed the first cashless Bitcoin ATM. In explaining how the Bitcoin ATM would work, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, Steve Rowlison said that users would be able to buy and sell bitcoins using a bank or credit card. The money from the sale would then be transferred directly into their pre-registered bank account.
Also read: Diamond Circle develops first cashless ATM”
How the Cashless Bitcoin ATM Works
Image courtesy of Diamond Circle
The Bitcoin ATM employs what is called near field communication or NFC. NFC is a set of communication standards that enables two devices to establish radio communication by bringing them into proximity with each other. To buy bitcoin, a user would have to use a VISA or MasterCard branded ATM to buy a Diamond Circle debit card. The debit card costs only $5 and can also function as an offline storage wallet.
All wallets are further secured using pin codes. They further come with paper receipts that function as a printed record of the transaction. In addition, the system can send SMS notification to smart phones, which can also be used to check balances and send secure transaction messages such as wallet addresses.
NFC is likely to become a standard for communication in the bitcoin industry especially as new rules come into effect in October 2015. The new rules require merchants to upgrade their hardware so as to be able to support EMV cards, and it is hoped that manufacturers will also include NFC. Various players including Apple are betting on the uptake of NFC as a secure standard for making payments.
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Though Diamond Circle have not announced any immediate plans to link to the NFC functionality on Apple devices, the company’s Bitcoin debit cards feature Apple SDK compatibility.
Also read “Apple Pay Rejected by Wal-Mart and Best Buy”
Global Interest in the Cashless Bitcoin ATM
The new cashless Bitcoin ATM is generating a buzz all around the world. Diamond Circle has received substantial levels of interest from places as diverse as the UK, the US, China, Canada and the Middle East. By March this year, the company had already sold two ATMs in Australia and had shipped one to the UK.
The company has also endeavored to reach out to banks, so as to create strategic relationships that will aid in the adoption of the ATMs. The process has had its challenges; however, the CTO is upbeat about it and feels that there is room for everyone in the new bitcoin landscape. It also helps that Stephen Rowlison has more than 30 years experience in finance and technology, and these credentials go a long way in smoothing out relationships with institutions such as the banks. The platform can also be used to comply with anti-money laundering and differing “know-your-customer” requirements around the world.
Images: Diamond Circle / CCN Library
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Home » News » Why JP Morgan’s ‘Bitcoin Killer’ isn’t Even a Real Cryptocurrency
Why JP Morgan’s ‘Bitcoin Killer’ isn’t Even a Real Cryptocurrency
in Cryptocurrency News, News, Op-ed
Barron's proclaimed JP Morgan's new blockchain token a "Bitcoin Killer," but it's not even a real cryptocurrency. | Source: Shutterstock
JP Morgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States by a long shot, shocked the financial community on Thursday by launching its own blockchain product. For the purpose of this article, JPM Coin will not be referred to as a “cryptocurrency.” JPM CEO Jamie Dimon is a frequent target of derision in the crypto community, owing to his outspoken negativity as regards Bitcoin and the wider crypto markets.
Dimon has frequently said that while he’s not a fan of Bitcoin, he believes the blockchain can be a boon to finance. Despite his years-long tirades, JP Morgan has been in the crypto space for years, reportedly handling Bitcoin trades while Dimon goes on television to decry Bitcoin a “fraud.”
JPM Coin Highlights Definition of “Cryptocurrency”
“Cryptocurrency” has many definitions in the world.
Everipedia defines it as “a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of assets.” Notice, nothing mentioned in the base definition about mining. Tokens, apparently even tokens with reversible transactions, can allegedly be cryptocurrencies.
But perhaps this definition doesn’t do justice to the nature and spirit of cryptocurrency. Let’s look at the properties of Bitcoin as opposed to the US Dollar. Bitcoin is meant to be digital cash, as outlined in the whitepaper. Transactions cannot be “pulled” in the base protocol, as they can with fiat bank accounts and credit cards (which is the basis of most fraud). The nature of “cash” is that he who holds it, essentially owns it. It’s really no different with fiat, except you sometimes need lawyers to ensure your ownership. The bank may steal or lose your funds. In Bitcoin, as long as you hold your keys, you own your money. You “become your own bank.”
Two other aspects of the Bitcoin definition are important, as well. Bitcoin is decentralized, meaning there is no central point of control. Instead of a complicated command structure of account representatives and middlemen, Bitcoin operates on a set of rules called consensus. If a transaction meets these rules, it is included in the blockchain, at its heart a record of Bitcoin transactions.
Censorship-Resistance and Immutability Define Cryptocurrency
Which brings us to one of the most important aspects of Bitcoin from early on: it is censorship-resistant. For the purposes of modern banking, a crypto-token which passes this last is actually impossible. “Censorship” as applied to money means, in part, that it complies with money laundering and political requirements. For example, it’s illegal for Americans to do most types of business with Iranians. It’s technically illegal to send money to Iranians using Bitcoin, but quite possible. It’s not easy at all to send a bank wire to Iran, however, which is part of why they’ve established their own cryptocurrency network.
The question, then, is what defines a cryptocurrency? Is it simply the use of cryptographic protocols to secure transactions, or is it the above-mentioned properties which make Bitcoin, well, Bitcoin?
The author is too long in this game to mince words. If your token doesn’t have the above properties – immutable, cash-like, and resistant to the petty despots of the world – then it is not a cryptocurrency. Point-blank.
The use of cryptography doesn’t make something a cryptocurrency. Cryptography is everywhere. You’ve already used some form of cryptography today if you looked at virtually anything online. You’re using it looking at this website. Cryptocurrency is a type of digital asset. There are other types of digital assets, such as bank coins and utility tokens. JPM Coin is not a cryptocurrency. JPM Coin is a bank coin.
Where Was Ripple in This?
The author’s first thought on reading the news of JPM Coin was the obvious: why didn’t they use Ripple? Everything JPM Coin aims to do, Ripple has already done. Why reinvent the wheel?
The fact that the largest bank in the wealthiest country opted to create its own token instead of use Ripple is a chilling reality for Ripple. Much like any software-based product, nothing they’re doing is immune from being replicated or usurped.
If Ripple Labs had any sense, they’d have had an office set up outside of every major JP Morgan headquarters, and been in every possible crevice of the bank’s organization. They’d have worked day and night to become the choice of JP Morgan. Because the dirty secret here is that if JP Morgan can do it, so can the next largest bank, and so on. They can do it without you, Ripple, and you’ll become the token of insignificant banks that can’t afford to do the same.
Or, another possibility arises. Ripple becomes the obvious way for JPM Coin to find its way outside JP Morgan. But Ripple is far from the only player in the bank-friendly space. 2017 saw the rise of several, and then there’s R3, who actively work to help large institutions develop blockchain solutions of their own.
Take a Walk, Ben Walsh
No, Barron’s writer Ben Walsh. No, no, no.
JP Morgan did not just “kill the Bitcoin dream.”
Are you serious right now? You write:
JPMorgan’s coin rollout also says something about the broader state of technology in the current economy. Tech’s promise is no longer about replacing middlemen. It’s about middlemen using technology to entrench their profitable position.
JP Morgan created an IOU for its own clients. Your viewpoint entirely leaves out the fact that, had they done nothing at all, it would have had the same effect on Bitcoin. (No effect!)
More to the point, as we’ve reported here at CCN where we are experts on the subject as opposed to tourists with an anti-crypto axe to grind, JP Morgan helps expose its clients to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
So what hell are you on about, really? JP Morgan decided to use the blockchain to more efficiently move trillions of dollars between clients. They created a token to do so, which is basically a necessity of using a blockchain.
As you said yourself, the “coin” is not for everyday people. It’s not for people at all, really. Thus, its net effect on the health and welfare of the crypto-economy is effectively nothing.
JP Morgan offices, circa 2119. // (cc) editingninja
You too, Jamie Dimon
We’re not even mad at you, Jamie. We just think you’re an asshole. You’ve gone out of your way to decry the “fraud” of cryptocurrency while your firm actively engages in the trading of its futures. In some cases, you’ve probably opened yourself up to litigation on that front. As you know, the SEC has a long history of taking public statements from well-placed individuals and their effects on the markets seriously.
So you want to get into the blockchain game. As illustrated above, there are at least two big players who’ve been waiting to hear from you. Why should your clients trust you to do blockchain, instead of someone like Ripple or R3? Your firm is more than likely unprepared to do this right.
Hopefully, now that you’ve launched your little token, you’ll pipe down a bit. We’re here to stay, if you haven’t noticed, not some passing fad. Long after you’re dead and your firm has finally been supplanted by a technologically superior alternative, blockchains will be used in several aspects of daily life.
Personally, the author believes that something world-changing will derive from the movement. Some aspect like equitable water distribution or public accountability will be the thing that actually makes the blockchain so ubiquitous that society can’t imagine going back.
But you, Jamie Morgan, you’re a non-person in this world the blockchain is building. You are the target of the disruption, and you know this all too well. Preferably, to you, the world of finance should remain the shadowy opaque mess that leads to routine global collapse. Whether you know it or not, your world started ending at Block 0 of the Bitcoin blockchain. Give it time, and, please, take a seat.
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Women and Terrorism
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Council of Councils Eighth Annual Conference
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Health ministry launches online calculator for CareShield Life premiums
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CareShield Life will provide higher payouts for life compared to ElderShield, where payouts are fixed at S$300 or S$400 a month, and capped at up to six years, depending on the scheme. (Photo: Reuters)
27 Dec 2018 04:38PM (Updated: 27 Dec 2018 04:40PM )
SINGAPORE: Some members of the public will now be able to get an estimate of how much in premiums they might have to pay under CareShield Life, with the launch of an online calculator by the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Thursday (Dec 27).
CareShield Life is an enhanced version of ElderShield, the current long-term care insurance scheme for those with severe disability.
The scheme will be compulsory for Singapore residents born in 1980 or later, and will be launched in 2020.
READ: Six things you should know about CareShield Life, the enhanced ElderShield scheme
In its press release on Thursday, MOH said that the online calculator will provide Singaporeans with information on their estimated premiums before and after applicable subsidies and incentives, for the initial years of the scheme from 2020 to 2025.
Users will be asked for their birth year, gender and current ElderShield coverage, as well as their per capita household income and housing type.
The tool can be found on the CareShield Life website.
It will be available for Singapore citizens and permanent residents born between 1946 and 1990, who have either been consistently on an ElderShield policy, or who are not covered by ElderShield.
Other groups of Singaporeans will be able to check their premium figures using other methods.
Those born in 1945 or earlier can call the Healthcare Hotline at 1800-222-3399 for more details on their estimated premiums, subsidies and incentives.
Their annual premiums will be higher, as older cohorts "have fewer years to spread their premium payments over", said MOH.
Meanwhile, those born in 1991 or later will be provided with their premium figures when they are enrolled in the CareShield Life scheme at age 30.
READ: Incentives of between S$500 and S$2,500 for Singaporeans to join CareShield Life
Those on less common ElderShield policy arrangements - such as those who have a paid-up policy, or those who opted out of ElderShield at the age of 40 but subsequently re-joined - will be able to find out more about their estimated premiums closer to 2021, when they are able to join the scheme.
Cohorts born in 1979 or earlier can choose to join CareShield Life in 2021 if they are not severely disabled, while Singaporeans currently insured on ElderShield can upgrade to CareShield Life.
The ElderShield premiums they have already paid will be taken into account when their CareShield Life premiums are computed.
The new scheme, which was designed based on the recommendations of an ElderShield Review Committee, had drawn criticism earlier this year over its gender-differentiated premiums which will see women paying higher premiums than men.
READ: MPs question gender-based premiums, criteria for disability payouts
Several Members of Parliament had argued in July that this differentiation makes the scheme less inclusive.
However Senior Minister of State for Health Amy Khor said that the ElderShield Review Committee had decided that applying gender-differentiated premiums would more accurately reflect the differences in risk between men and women, and result in a "more sustainable" scheme.
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In 2016, a statue of Our Lady from Fatima was traveling throughout the United States. One stop was the Our Lady of Fatima parish in Wilton, CT. We dedicate Team Collin to Our lady and ask for her perpetual intercession of health and well-being to all those Team Collin friends, family & supporters.
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Dancer Gets 15 Years in Prison After Stabbing Childhood Rival to Death in Strip Club
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In a Northeast Portland strip club in June 2016, a woman killed her childhood rival by stabbing her in the neck three times. On Monday she was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to The Oregonian.
Rinita Linell Lowe was 23 when she got into an argument with Shantina Turner at Club Skinn. The argument escalated when Lowe pulled a knife out of her purse and began thrusting it into Turner’s neck. According to deputy district attorney Kevin Demer, the two women knew each other from childhood and had a history of conflict.
Turner was 29 at the time and unarmed. Court documents show that a bouncer attempted to separate the two women, but it was already too late. Lowe’s attorney Jason Lee argued that Turner had a history of violence, and that the stabbing was an act of defense. Lee stated that surveillance video showed Turner choking Lowe moments before the stabbing.
At the time Lowe was a dancer at Tommy’s Too strip club in Portland where she was working before heading to Club Skinn, another gentlemen's club. She was originally charged with murder, but pled down to first-degree manslaughter and unlawful use of a weapon.
Family and friends of both Lowe and Turner attended Lowe’s sentencing on Monday. “I have yet to see Ms. Lowe even look at me,” Turner’s father, Davood Sham-Sundin, said at the time. “I’m the father of the girl that you killed.”
When the judge asked her to give a statement, Lowe apologized to Turner’s family. She claims she had no intention of killing Turner. “I apologize for my actions,” the 25-year-old said. Officials say the murder was not premeditated, and that the two just happened to cross paths that night.
The stabbing became the third murder at Club Skinn within six years.
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A 1937 Mercedes Benz 540 K Cabriolet A is the lead car for the RM Sotheby’s Essen 2019 classic car auction in Germany.
Tim Scott ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s
The most-expensive car on offer at the Essen 2019 sale, RM Sotheby’s first classic car auction in Germany, is appropriately an imposing yet elegant 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Cabriolet A by Sindelfingen (estimate $2,260,000 to $2,700,000). Other top cars include a 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, a 2018 Italdesign Zerouno, and a 1959 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster. The auction consists of more than 200 lots including a large number of youngtimers – a category that performed very well at recent sales.
See also: Top Results at the RM Sotheby’s Essen 2019 Sale.
RM Sotheby’s Essen Car Auction 2019
RM Sotheby’s first-ever Essen, Germany sale, is scheduled for 11 – 12 April 2019 during the Techno-Classica Essen Show. Plans are for Essen to join Paris, Monaco, Villa Erba, and London as regular RM Sotheby’s classic car auction venues in Europe.
Around 200 cars and a select number of automobilia will be on offer with the pre-sale estimates for cars ranging from €15,000 to €2,400,000. Only four cars have estimates exceeding a million dollar while 75 have estimates lower than €50,000 and 125 less than €100,000 – a section of the market that performed well in recent months in contrast to cars costing more than a million dollars.
Top Cars at RM Sotheby’s Essen 2019 Sale
The following four cars are on offer at the RM Sotheby’s Essen sale in Germany in 2019 with estimates exceeding a million dollar:
Year Car Estimate (€)
1937 Mercedes Benz 540 K Cabriolet A 2,000,000 – 2,400,000
2013 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse 1,500,000 – 1,700,000
2018 Italdesign Zerouno 950,000 – 1,500,000
1959 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Roadster 850,000 – 1,000,000
Million-Dollar Cars at RM Sotheby’s Essen 2019 Sale
1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Cabriolet A by Sindelfingen
The lead car for the inaugural RM Sotheby’s Essen classic car auction is a supercharged 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Cabriolet A by Sindelfingen, estimate €2 million – €2.4 million, one of the finest cars built in the 1930s, and with immense performance available from its supercharged, straight-eight engine.
This Mercedes Benz 540 K, chassis number 154078, was ordered by Mercedes-Benz of London in August 1936, shipped by rail to the United Kingdom in light green paint set off by a pale-yellow top, brown headliner and seats upholstered in the finest pig skin. The chassis was delivered in right-hand drive in the sporty Cabriolet A body style, with integrated trunk and covered spare in the elegantly sloping rear deck. The Sindelfingen plant built 32 of these opulent cars and just 18 are believed to remain today.
At recent auctions, Mercedes Benz 540 K Cabriolet A cars have mostly sold for around $3 million, although bidding for 540Ks did not always clear reserve margins.
2013 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse – Dmitriy Bruss ©2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s
2013 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse
Dmitriy Bruss ©2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s
The second most-expensive car on offer at the Essen sale is a 2013 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, estimate €1.5 million – €1.7 million. Only 92 Grand Sport Vitesse versions were ever built.
This Grand Sport Vitesse was built by Bugatti to be displayed at the 2013 Geneva International Motor Show. Chassis number 795027 was shown on Bugatti’s stand alongside a Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport and another Grand Sport Vitesse. The car has numerous custom touches throughout including exposed carbon fiber bodywork. It is offered in as-new condition with less than 550km on the odometer.
Bugatti Veyrons have struggled at several auctions in the past twelve months with several failing to sell. In the Grand Sport Vitesse version, results were mostly above $2 million.
2018 Italdesign Zerouno
2018 Italdesign Zerouno – Tom Gidden ©2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s
A 2018 Italdesign Zerouno estimate €950,000 – €1.5 million, is another fascinating lot for serious collectors. This modern supercar was the last of only five produced and the first in-house produced supercar by the company more famous for its designs and coach building.
The Zerouno is finished in unique stealth matte paintwork. It is presented in virtually as-new condition having never been road registered and thus have only delivery and testing mileage on the clock.
1959 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster
1959 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster – Tim Scott ©2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s
One of the landmark cars that often forms a part of important collections is the 1959 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster. RM Sotheby’s could hardly arrange its first German auction without offering one.
This 1959 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster, estimate €850,000 – €1 million, is a stunning example that recently received over 170 hours of mechanical and cosmetic work by German 300 SL specialists Kienle Automobiltechnik and Walter Pusch. It is offered with its original factory hardtop and a set of matching fitted luggage.
Other Cars at the RM Sotheby’s Essen 2019 Sale
1970 Mazda Cosmo Sport – Dirk de Jager ©2019 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s
Other key lots of interest include a 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo Prototype one of the first 993 Turbo prototypes and featured in Total 911 Magazine (Est. €295,000 – €395,000), a 1994 Lamborghini Diablo SE30 that is virtually as-new throughout a mere 403 km recorded (Est. €395,000 – €495,000), a 1962 Aston Martin DB4 Series IV delivered new to the USA, where it resided for 30 years (Est. €345,000 – €395,000), and a 1970 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Berlinetta, a desirable European example with Plexiglass nose, retaining its original engine and having undergone recent service work by marque specialists and Classiche certified (Est. €550,000 – €650,000).
Interesting lots at the lower end of the price scale include a desirable Series II 1970 Mazda Cosmo Sport (Est. €85,000 – €125,000), a rare 1999 BMW M Coupe in desirable Estoril Blue (Est. €45,000 – €65,000), a raced and enjoyed 1976 Morgan Plus 8 Super Sport Lightweight featuring numerous unique racing modifications (Est. €50,000 – €75,000), an exceptionally well-maintained, German-delivery 1994 Porsche 968 Clubsport (Est. €55,000 – €85,000), a 2015 Land Rover Defender SVX built for use in the James Bond film Spectre (Est. €175,000 – €225,000), and a Classiche-certified 1984 Ferrari 400i (Est. €75,000 – €100,000).
RM Sotheby’s previously announced a number of Lancia Rally cars for the Essen 2019 sale.
Youngtimer Collection at RM Sotheby’s Essen 2019
2007 Wiesmann GT Tom Wood ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s
The varied nature of the Essen entries is enhanced with the introduction of more cars from the much-buzzed-about Youngtimer Collection, with 85 cars offered in Germany, largely without reserve. Cars from this collection sold astonishingly well at the RM Sotheby’s auctions in Paris and Amelia Island earlier in 2019.
There is a broad representation from key marques within the Youngtimer Collection, including 23 Mercedes-Benzes, 11 Rolls-Royces, 11 BMWs, nine cars by Daimler, Jaguar or Land Rover, eight Bentley models and seven Alpina cars. The most valuable cars consigned include a 2011 Porsche 911 GT3 RS that has covered just under 9,300km from new (Est. €150,000 – €175,000), a Japanese-delivery 1998 Mercedes-Benz SL 70 AMG that remains in largely original condition (Est. €125,000 – €175,000), and a rarely-seen, German-delivery 2007 Wiesmann GT powered by a 4.8-litre BMW V8 engine (Est. €170,000 – €200,000).
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Dr. Narayan is a professor of Mathematics at Central Michigan University
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College of Science and Technology Outstanding Research Award, 2009
College of Science and Technology Outstanding Teaching Award, 2004
Central Michigan University Research Professorship, Spring 2004
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1988
M.S., University of Michigan, 1981
B.S., University of Madras, India, 1974
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Kevin Dennis, May 2000
Patricia Egleston, December 2001
Dawn Sadir, August 2003
Animesh Sarker, May 2008
PalRamani Karthikeyan, May 2008
Waleed Al-Rawashdeh, August 2010
Yousra Sharawi, December 2011
Note: An * after a name indicates the co-author was an undergraduate student at the time of collaboration.
(2013) The Koteljanski Inequalities for Mixed Matrices (with C.R. Johnson) to appear in Linear and Multilinear Algebra.
(2013) When the positivity of the leading principal minors implies the positivity of all principal minors of a matrix (with C.R. Johnson), to appear in Linear Algebra and its Applications.
(2013) Maximum robustness and surgery of frames in finite dimensions (with M. Copenhaver*, Y. Kim, C. Logan*, K. Mayfield*, and J. Sheperd*). Linear Algebra and its Applications 439 (2013) 1330-1339.
(2013) Diagram vectors and tight frame scaling in finite dimensions (with M. Copenhaver*, Y. Kim, C. Logan*, K. Mayfield*, M. Petro and J. Sheperd*), to appear in Operators and Matrices.
(2013) Difference of Composition Operators on Hardy Space (with W. Al-Rawashdeh), to appear in Journal of Mathematical Inequalities.
(2013) Bounds for minimum rank problems from superpositions and cut sets (with J. Beagley*, L. Mitchell, E. Radzwion*, S. Rimer*, R. Tomasino*, J. Wolfe*, and A. Zimmer*), Linear Algebra and its Applications 438 (2013) 4041-4061.
(2013) Commutators of Composition Operators with Adjoints of Composition Operators on Weighted Bergman Spaces (with B.D. MacCluer and R. J. Weir), Complex Variables and Elliptical Equations 58 (2013) 35-54.
(2012) Maximum induced trees and minimum semidefinite rank (with R. Cranfill*, L. Mitchell, and Taiji Tsutsui*), Involve 5 (2012) 411-420.
(2012) Subgraph Summability Number of Paths and Cycles (with D. Cochran*, R. Doshi*, M. Larson-Koester*, R. Ligo*, and J. Webster), AKCE Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics 9 (2012), 135-143.
(2012) On Nonsingular Regular Magic Squares of Odd Order (with M. Lee*, E. Love*, E. Wascher* and J. Webster), Linear Algebra and its Applications 437 (2012) 1346-1355.
(2012) Weighted composition operators on weighted Bergman spaces of the unit ball (with W. Al-Rawashdeh), International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 78 (2012) 161-183.
(2012) Commutators of Composition Operators with Adjoints of Composition Operators (with J. Clifford and D. Levi), Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations 57 (2012) 677-686.
(2012) Lower bounds for minimum semidefinite rank from orthogonal removal and chordal supergraphs (with L.H. Mitchell, A.M. Zimmer), Linear Algebra and its Applications 436 (2012) 525-536.
(2011) On the minimum semi-definite rank of a simple graph (with M. Booth*, P. Hackney*, B. Harris*, C.R. Johnson, M. Lay*, T. Lenker, L. Mitchell, A. Pascoe*, B.D. Sutton) Linear and Multilinear Algebra 59 (2011), 483-506.
(2011) Minimum semidefinite rank of outerplanar graphs and the tree cover number (with F. Barioli, L. Mitchell and S. Fallat), Electronics Journal of Linear Algebra 22 (2011), 10-21.
(2011) Robustness and Surgery of Frames (with E. Radzwion*, S. Rimer*, R. Tomasino*, J. Wolfe*, and A. Zimmer) Linear Algebra and its Applications 434 (2011) 1893-1901.
(2010) On the minimum vector rank of multigraphs (with L. Mitchell and I. Rogers*), Electronics Journal of Linear Algebra 20 (2010), 661-672.
(2010) Normal Weighted Composition Operators on the Hardy Space H2(U) (with P.S. Bourdon) Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications 367 (2010), 278-286.
(2010) Lower bounds in minimum rank problems (with L.H. Mitchell, A.M. Zimmer), Linear Algebra and its Applications 432 (2010), 430-440.
(2009) Circular Symmetry of Spectra of Composition Operators (with Dawn E. Sadir), Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences 35 (2009), 281-293.
(2009) Linearly independent vertices and minimum semi-definite rank (with P. Hackney*, B. Harris*, M. Lay*, L. Mitchell, A. Pascoe*), Linear Algebra and its Applications 431 (2009), 1105-1115.
National Science Foundation - Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) site in Mathematics
2012-2014. These sites are part of a 3-year, $283,537 grant from NSF awarded to Narayan as PI.
2009-2011. These sites were part of a 3-year, $199,952 grant from NSF awarded to Narayan as PI.
2009-2008. These sites were part of a 3-year, $175,000 grant from NSF awarded to Narayan as PI and Ken Smith as co-PI.
2002. This was the first NSF-REU site at CMU. The REU site was supported by an NSF grant of $36,000 awarded to Narayan as PI.
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2007-2011. This site was part of a 4-year grant from NSF. The grant supported sites at 5 locations. The other sites were at Coppin State University, Olin College, Sam Houston State University, and the University of Richmond.
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Supervised undergraduate student research of 72 undergraduates since summer 1998. Among the 72 students, 45 came from various colleges and universities outside of Central Michigan University. They were funded by the NSF-REU grant or were international students supported by their home college/university. There were 27 CMU undergraduate students who have worked with me since 1998. 12 of the 27 received Summer Research Scholarships, 7 were supported by an NSF-REU matching grant from CMU, 4 were supported by the NSF-LURE grant, 1 student was supported by a McNair Scholarship, and the Dean of the CMU College of Science & Technology funded 3 students.
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From Farm to Smartphone to Table
Imagine a woman named Vivien. Vivien wants to make a salad for dinner tonight. She stands in front of the long refrigerated produce bin at the grocery store, contemplating her choices. There are loose, dewy heads of Boston lettuce, romaine hearts sold in sealed plastic bags, and clamshells filled with assorted triple-washed greens. She examines one after another, and finally takes out her phone. She scans the QR code on a label of pre-washed torn greens, and with a satisfied nod tosses it in the cart and heads toward the stack of strawberries.
Vivien is part of a growing cohort of consumers who want to be able to trace the sources of the food they feed their families all the way back to the farm. Mintel, a global market research company, named traceability—the ability to see where food comes from, what it’s made with, and by whom—one of the five most important food and drink trends for 2018. According to Mintel, the trend is fueled by “widespread distrust” in how our food is made, the “need for reassurance about the safety and trustworthiness” of food, and the increasing use of natural, ethical and environmental claims on packaging. Other consumer research points out that over half of consumer purchases are driven by health, safety, social impact and experience—all of which require transparency and traceability.
These changes in consumer’s expectations can be seen most vividly in the so-called “locavore” movement. Thanks to a greatly shortened supply chain, when a consumer buys beets at her town’s farmer’s market, she knows just where to turn if there is a problem. The consumer feels good about the purchase for many reasons: local food is perceived to be safer, more environmentally friendly, more supportive of the community—and more trustworthy. While “local” is an undefined term—it can mean anywhere between forty and four hundred miles—it resonates with consumers as being higher quality, fresher and more authentic. The local food market in the U.S. is expected to nearly double between 2014 and 2019, when it is estimated to hit $20.2 billion.
Most consumers, however, are unlikely to buy all their food from local sources. You’d be hard-pressed to find a New Yorker willing to forgo his leafy green salad in winter or a Midwesterner who will do without avocados from Mexico or blueberries from Chile. But the supply chains for these foods can stretch thousands of miles and up to a year or more. And problems like the five deaths caused by romaine lettuce tainted with E.coli bacteria issue this summer only heighten consumers’ fears about the food they buy.
Current traceability practices dictated by federal regulations require each step in the supply chain to generate its own records—and since 2010, every produce industry stakeholder must also track and keep data on “one step forward, one step back.” In its simplest iteration, that requires a farm to have in place a system that allows the grower to track the produce from the field (one step back) to the buyer (one step forward). While the system should make nailing down the source of an outbreak easier, it is still incredibly cumbersome and time-consuming—and often, in the complex global food supply web, far from linear. Streamlined traceability, however, can greatly reduce the need for old-fashioned detective work like physically scouring fields and inspecting supermarkets.
It’s difficult enough to create such a system for domestically grown produce. But it is especially challenging with globally sourced foods; regulations concerning record keeping, allergens, pesticides, and more vary greatly by country, as does enforcement. Our “perfect world” scenario requires a level of alignment and cooperation that spans every step of the food system and has no political borders.
In food we trust
How far away are we from this vision of traceability? Current and emerging technology may actually make it possible to trace produce at a level of detail and accuracy far beyond what we’re capable of today.
The robotics, mobile computing and networks of the Internet of Things (IoT) will ultimately allow us to collect and tie together data throughout the supply chain. All the food we buy would have a transparent set of interconnected tech-enabled checkpoints that consumers could gain insight into. Ideally, each individual unit of produce harvested would be assigned traceable data points indicating the farm and location, a lot number to show the specific field where it was grown, the date of harvest, the workers who harvested it, the date and location where it was packed, the workers who packed, to whom the lot was sold, how and by whom it was transported, the temperature and humidity conditions under which it was transported, and how and to whom the produce was distributed. Did that particular head of broccoli get sent directly to a supermarket, or to a distribution center, where more people handled it?
The question then arises: with whom is all this data entrusted? In fact, the distributed ledger system used to power bitcoin, called blockchain, may be the answer.
Companies including Dole, Driscoll’s, Nestle, and Wal-Mart are betting the farm, so to speak, that consumers’ need for reassurance through traceability will fuel their buying decisions. These industry giants, along with others, have joined forces to create a food tracking blockchain they’re calling the Food Trust. The IBM-built blockchain monitors transactions and keeps records to create one consistent history. Think of it like FedEx tracking a package—the item itself is followed with consistent, accurate data.
A number of agricultural companies are working to engage a variety of partners in the food and agriculture industry to better leverage blockchain for their customers’ benefit. This technology provides a token at the point of food creation and follows it all the way through to the final consumer selling point. By the time a consumer picks up the item in a grocery store, it comes complete with a detailed story—from farm to table.
“Consumers like our imaginary Vivien have grown accustomed to getting fresh fruit and vegetables year-round. New traceability technologies will soon give consumers across the globe renewed confidence to buy what they want, whenever they want it. That won’t just benefit shoppers like Vivien. It will increase the marketability and value of their crops, not to mention giving a boost to other players in the food chain who have a stake in the safety of the food they produce and distribute.”
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Sports Baseball
Wild Betances Costs Yanks In 7-6 Loss To Blue Jays
By RONALD BLUM
| NEW YORK
Yankees relief pitcher Dellin Betances, center, stands on the mound after allowing the go-ahead run in the eighth inning against the Blue Jays in New York, Wednesday. (Kathy Willens/AP)
Dellin Betances threw a full-count breaking ball with no bite to Russell Martin that sailed well high and outside, forcing in the go-ahead run with his fourth walk of the eighth inning.
The All-Star reliever swiped at the toss back from catcher Austin Romine as manager Joe Girardi walked to the mound and fans booed on another long afternoon for the New York Yankees.
"The team is fighting. You can't put the blame on those guys. I'll take the blame," Betances said after Wednesday's 7-6 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
Justin Smoak and Kendrys Morales hit back-to-back home runs in the third inning off Michael Pineda, who also allowed Kevin Pillar's leadoff homer in the fourth that put the Blue Jays ahead 5-0.
Aaron Judge started a comeback with his major league-leading 29th homer, a two-run homer in the fourth. The Yankees surged ahead 6-5 when Ji-Man Choi hit a two-run homer in the fifth and Didi Gregorius' two-run double later in the inning chased Marco Estrada, who was pitching on his 33rd birthday.
Judge's homer tied Joe DiMaggio's Yankees rookie record, set in 1936, and Choi's came in his New York debut.
Martin tied the score 6-6 with a seventh-inning homer against Chad Green, then walked to drive in the go-ahead run in the eighth.
With a runner on first, Roberto Osuna struck out Judge for the final out.
"Our best against their best," Toronto manager John Gibbons said, "and our best won."
Miguel Montero, making his Blue Jays debut, fouled off a pair of 3-2 pitches leading off their eighth against Betances (3-4) before taking an inside curve. Worried about a bunt, Betances walked Kevin Pillar on four pitches, then put on No. 9 hitter Ryan Goins with four more. He started Jose Bautista with another ball — his 10th in a row— before recovering to throw a called third strike past the slugger.
Betances fell behind Martin 2-0, evened the count, and missed with a pair of curves.
"In the short term I'm concerned about him. Long term I'm not," Girardi said.
Betances has walked 17 of his past 55 batters, including 11 of his past 22. He's rushing his lower body, causing him to fly open.
"I'm between two different deliveries, and it's not helping me when I'm out there," he said.
Betances, a 6-foot-8 righthander picked for his fourth straight All-Star Game, admitted he was frustrated.
"It's a big body," Romine said. "It's hard for him to get stuff going the way he needed to go."
Adam Warren relieved, threw a called third strike past Smoak, then retired Morales on a flyout.
Last-place Toronto took two of three from New York and won consecutive games for the first time since June 18-19.
Leading the AL East by four games on June 13 with a 38-23 record, the Yankees have lost 16 of their past 22 and are 0-6-1 in their past seven series.
"You can turn it around and get hot and win a lot of games like we were before," Girardi said.
Danny Barnes (2-2) threw 12/3 innings and Osuna converted his 20th consecutive save chance and 21st overall this season.
Brett Gardner singled with two outs, and Osuna struck out Judge, who unsuccessfully tried to check his swing on a low, outside slider.
"I got fooled," Judge said.
Judge joined Mark McGwire in 1987 (33) and Jose Abreu in 2014 (29) as the only rookies with 29 homers before the All-Star break. He reached DiMaggio's Yankees record in New York's 83rd game.
"Any time you're in the sentence as someone like DiMaggio is pretty incredible," Judge said. "It's quite an honor."
Montero went 0 for 4, two days after he was acquired from the Chicago Cubs.
Choi, who went 1 for 4, was called up by the Yankees from Triple A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after Chris Carter was designated for assignment. Choi's drive into the right-field seats would have traveled 457 feet unimpeded, according to MLB's Statcast. Choi became the seventh player to start at first base for the Yankees this year and 10th to play the position.
Pineda Scuffling
Pineda was 6-2 with a 3.32 ERA in the first two months of the season, but has alternated good and bad performances in his past seven outings. He gave up five runs and nine hits in three-innings plus, raising his ERA to 4.39.
"His slider has not been good," Girardi said. "He needs to find that because that pitch is really important to him."
Blue Jays: C Luke Maile, who went on the DL Tuesday, will need a procedure on his right knee, according to manager John Gibbons.
Yankees: DH Matt Holliday, on the DL since June 28 with a viral illness, took batting practice and could return Friday.
Blue Jays: LHP Francisco Liriano (4-4) starts at home Thursday against Houston and Lance McCullers Jr. (7-1).
Yankees: LHP Jordan Montgomery (6-4) is slated to start Friday's series opener against visiting Milwaukee and RHP Junior Guerra (1-3).
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At Covenant, we love getting questions from prospective students and family. We want you to be as fully informed as possible in order to help you decide whether a Covenant College education is right for you.
On this page we present some basic questions and answers about Covenant, and we've collected links to our more detailed FAQ pages in the "FAQ Central" navigation. If you have questions that aren't answered in our FAQs, please don't hesitate to call us at 888.451.2683, email info@covenant.edu, or fill out our Request for Information form.
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What are the academic requirements for admission?
The average academic profile for Covenant freshmen is listed on the Average Academic Profile page. While this is the average academic profile that characterizes our student body, potential applicants should keep in mind that we consider every application on an individual basis. Transfer applicants are considered in light of this academic profile, as well as academic performance in any college-level coursework. Anyone interested in a Covenant College education should apply.
What do I need to submit in my application?
You must submit a completed application for admission (usually completed online), a $35 application fee, a one- to two-page personal testimony, your high school transcript, SAT/ACT scores, completed academic reference and church reference forms, and if you’re transferring from another college or university, your college transcript.
When do I need to have my application materials submitted?
Throughout the academic year, Covenant College has two specific entry points for admission: early action and regular decision. Early action is for students who wish to receive an early, non-binding admissions decision. The application deadline for Early Action is November 15, and applicants will receive an admissions decision by December 15. Regular decision is for students who submit their application after November 1 or who did not receive a decision in the early action review process. The application deadline for regular decision is March 1 and applicants who apply through this process will receive a decision by March 15.
After March 1, the admissions office will begin accepting applications on a rolling basis and priority for admission will be given to students who applied to Covenant College by the February 1 regular decision date.
If you are applying for a particular scholarship with a November 15 deadline, your application for admission must also be complete by November 15.
Do a lot of students at Covenant receive financial aid?
Yes. In fact, more than 90 percent of our students receive assistance in the form of scholarships, grants, student loans, and/or student employment programs.
What do I need to do to get started?
Two important first steps are to complete Covenant’s application for admission and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (www.fafsa.ed.gov). Also, visit our scholarships section to learn about our competitive scholarships and corresponding application deadlines.
What scholarships does Covenant offer?
We offer academic, leadership, and music scholarships. Particular scholarships that must be applied for include the Maclellan Scholarship, President's Scholarship, and Wilberforce Scholarship.
What makes Covenant’s programs different from those at other top liberal arts schools?
At Covenant, why you learn something is every bit as important as what you learn. Here, you will learn to see God in every facet of your life, and you will be personally taught by acclaimed professors who could teach virtually anywhere in the world and choose to be here.
How do I know if you have the major I’m interested in?
We have a wide range of majors, minors, and pre-professional programs that span the spectrum of academic disciplines. Our most popular majors include English, history, education, business, and psychology.
Are your programs ranked and respected by graduate schools?
Covenant is consistently ranked among the top ten regional colleges in the South by U.S. News & World Report and is ranked among the top ten baccalaureate colleges in the nation by Washington Monthly. You will find our graduates at some of the world’s most prestigious graduate schools, including Cambridge, Harvard, and Princeton.
What are the professors like?
Don’t let the fact that they come from such institutions as Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and Yale give you the wrong impression. As knowledgeable and respected as our professors are, they enjoy nothing more than getting to know their students on a personal level. In fact, our student-to-faculty ratio is 14:1.
What are the students like?
Covenant has about 1,000 students who came from 48 states as well as 23 countries around the world this past year. The male/female ratio is 41:59, and the incoming freshman GPA range (middle 50%) is 3.39-3.96.
Will I have a hard time making friends?
Most of our first-year students actually make close friends before classes even begin. Our orientation program is a great way for you to get to know our campus, our people, and your fellow classmates. Along with that, student clubs, Scots games, intramurals, campus events, and simply living in the residence halls are all great ways to make new friends.
Where is Lookout Mountain, and what’s it like there?
Lookout Mountain is in northern Georgia, just 10 minutes from Chattanooga, Tennessee. The city of Lookout Mountain has a population of just over 1,600. So, our setting is ideal in that it is in a small, caring community, with close proximity to the vibrant city of Chattanooga.
What’s the campus like?
Our 400-acre campus sits atop Lookout Mountain and provides beautiful views of the Smoky Mountains, Chattanooga, and seven states. Our campus is growing and has an abundance of green space so you can enjoy the scenic location.
What kinds of things are there to do outside of class?
Play for or cheer on any of our 13 Scots varsity teams. Work out in Ashe Activity Center. Lead a student club. Join an intramural team. Compete in the Mountain Affair talent show. Take part in a discipleship small group. Attend chapel. Perform in a musical. Watch a movie with friends. Take a hike on one of our many trails. And that’s without ever leaving campus!
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Rock climbing. Mountain biking. Hiking to Cloudland Canyon waterfalls. Cycling. Camping. And when you’ve had your fill of the outdoors, Chattanooga’s revitalized downtown, music scene, cultural offerings, and leisure activities are just 10 minutes away. Visit the Tennessee Aquarium. Catch a concert. Shop at Hamilton Place Mall. Dine at a new restaurant. Dress up for a night at the Tivoli Theatre.
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Why Covenant College? The Urgent Need for Christian Liberal Arts Education
"God is not exalted by lessening your loves. The Christian path is not loving less, it's loving more and rightly...Our goal is not to love less but more."
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“As someone who wants to go into foreign services, Covenant has not only given me a considerable amount of connections through professors and the college’s resources, but has also taught me how to apply a Christian worldview to my fields of study which are, more often than not, part of a secular lifestyle.”
- international studies major Connor McGimsey '20
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Film: The Great Dictator
Lowdown: Chaplin takes on Hitler.
Trivia junkies will surely point at the fact that Chaplin and Hitler were born on the same week. I, however, will gladly settle with stating that Chaplin's take on Hitler (and Mussolini, for that matter, as well as the rest of your average generic dictator) is quite the masterpiece. A dated masterpiece, in certain respects, but still a tour de force of original film making.
The Great Dictator is built on a simple analogy. On one hand you have Charlie Chaplin playing a Jewish barber guy, who just happens to look and behave the way Chaplin's tramp character does. This Jewish guy is a well meaning person who is not that good at fighting - as evident by the opening World War 1 scenes, yet he is truly a hero when it comes to taking care of his friends.
On the other hand you have Charlie Chaplin playing a character that cannot be mistaken for Hitler, even if its name is slightly different. This character is abusive, feeding on hate and fear to build its own power, as well as on the aid of its lieutenants (notably Garbage, who takes the role of Goebbels).
The fact the Jewish barber and the great dictator happen to look pretty similar to one another is well used by the film, both in making its point against fascism and in advancing the film's plot. As the dictator's storm-troopers wreck havoc with the Jewish people and then plot to invade their peaceful neighbor country, the ground is set for some major false identification issues to take place.
There are several key elements that make The Great Dictator a great film. First, I'll concede: It was released in 1940, and it isn't as funny as you might expect, and at a bit longer than 2 hours it is a tad too long and too slow for its own good, and it is obvious that Chaplin has a bit of an issue with doing a talking film (and in the Great Dictator he talks a lot). However, first and foremost, this film will be remembered as the first true stand the free world took in front of Hitler: I mean, yes, the film was released after the war was started (but before the USA joined it), but preparations must have taken place way before it started. Chaplin's ability to forecast some of the events that will take place, at least as far as what Hitler is going to do, is phenomenal. That said, even Chaplin was unable to forecast the lengths through which the Nazis would go in their handling of Jews and other pests.
The next ingredient of this masterpiece is a collection of some truly ingenious scenes. There's the scene in which the Hitler character plays with a globe like ball in a weird dream like context, a scene which has become very famous. There is also the scene in which Hitler and Mussolini sit on chairs that can be adjusted for height, and in their great dictator like foolishness they constantly try to be the one that is taller: this scene has been replicated by so many other comedies it would be easy to ignore Chaplin's as yet another copy, yet this is the real thing.
The film's final scene, though, is its greatest one as well. Chaplin looks at the camera and gives us a heart warming speech about his true agenda, quoting from the bible and appealing to the humanity inside us to knock off this man made evil that is fascism and work together for the betterment of humanity. And how right he is!
Best scene: If I was to ignore previously mentioned scenes, I would say the best scene as far as comedy is concerned is the scene in which, earlier on, the Hitler character gives out a speech to its adoring massive crowd. Chaplin speaks in gibberish, yet through the strategic placement of carefully selected words - say, "Juden" - and through the intonation of his voice, done in a manner so Hitler like it's scary - you understand exactly what he's talking about. And the result is roaringly funny.
Overall: A mighty 4 star effort that would have been much more in the past.
Posted by Moshe Reuveni at 3/11/2007 01:11:00 pm
DVD: Basic Instinct 2
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Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima
DVD: Out of Africa
DVD: Little Miss Sunshine
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Business Policies in the Making (Routledge Revivals): Three Steel Companies Compared
Jonathan Boswell
First published in 1983, this study investigates and compares three leading firms in the British iron and steel industry between 1914 and 1939, analysing their strategies, boardroom politics, and their responses to the problems posed by the Great War and by the vicissitudes of the 1920s and ‘30s.
Jonathan Boswell illuminates certain issues that are of perennial importance for students of business: rationality and ‘error’ in decision-making, ethics, centralisation versus decentralisation, and the question of cyclical phases. The central theme throughout is the pursuit of three partly conflicting objectives: growth, efficiency and social action. The trade-offs between these three pursuits are used to examine significant contrasts in corporate strategies and behaviour, including towards government and public opinion.
Boswell’s rejection of economic determinism; his insistence that managerial influences fall into definable long-run patterns; and his theses on managerial specialisation and long-term policy biases confront fundamental issues for theories of the firm.
Foreword; 1. Management: trade-offs, biases and phases 2. Management: iron and steel 3. Exuberance and caution 4. Miseries and grandeurs of recession 5. The managerial watershed 6. Mergers and investment, liaisons and wars 7. Efficiency and organisation building 8. Labour and local community problems 9. Relationships with public policies and government 10. Conclusions; Source material; Index
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B’WOOD reeks of ignorance and stereotypes
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Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress
The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress
Brian McKenna
Business Applications Editor
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has revamped its web site as part of a digital drive to capture bigger audiences, making its interactions with customers and prospects more personal as it is available on any device.
Richard Adams, consultant digital programme manager at the RSC, came into the arts organisation two years ago to put into effect the beginnings of an ongoing digital transformation effort signed off by its senior management team.
The web team at the RSC – which consists of, in addition to Adams, a content manager, a web designer, a product manager, a head of web apps and two assistants – uses a content management system from Progress, called Sitefinity.
The supplier offers the Sitefinity software thanks to its 2014 acquisition of Telerik. Sitefinity combines content management with digital marketing functionality. Adams says he prizes its “advanced customer insight” capability in particular.
Adams looked at a range of similar technologies, but considers the Progress product, wrapped in the supplier’s Digital Experience Cloud (DEC) software-as-a-service environment, to be “good value for money, which, since we are a charity with public funding from the Arts Council, is very important”.
The RSC is international in its span, with a significant reach into North America. Adams describes how tourists visiting Stratford-upon-Avon will be browsing on their smart phones looking to buy tickets on the spot.
This behaviour contrasts with more regular UK customers searching on the web site on a desktop or laptop computer, perhaps looking to buy tickets in bulk.
The RSC is also looking to expand its audience beyond typical high culture theatregoers, who are middle aged and older. “It’s similar to the challenges facing Radio 3 and Radio 4 at the BBC,” says Adams, whose career includes time at the BBC as a digital producer.
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The RSC puts on such productions as Matilda the Musical, as well as the more traditional fare of Shakespeare – and company: John Webster, Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn and the rest. “We need to meet our audience where they are, not where we think they should be,” says Adams.
And so the RSC did an overhaul of their website, making it mobile and tablet friendly, using Sitefinity. The site launched in November 2015, but Adams stresses the iterative and agile approach the RSC web team has taken, adding features on a monthly basis in response to user behaviour.
“For instance, we’ve learned that the ticket-buying needs to be more at the front for people browsing on mobiles,” he says.
Sitefinity also allows the site’s content to present differently in North America than in the UK. Adams says the RSC has seen a rise in mobile ticket purchases, and it is reaching a “more diverse audience with the mobile and tablet apps”.
He concludes by saying the close alignment of IT and marketing has been very important to the success of the project.
“The management at the RSC have been very enlightened. That’s enabled us to have a balanced team, like a good football team. If you try to do this in silos you will fail. We are probably in advance of other arts organisations with digital customer engagement,” he says.
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ncberns - 14 Sep 2016 8:56 AM
The key here is the word "personal".... When tech is used to improve communications, both the user and the end-product are enhanced. We tech folk sometimes forget that all our amazing technology still needs humans at the end of the chain. The more that companies do to make communication easier, the better the experience is for both consumers and companies. Here, of course, it'll be more than interesting to look through a site made of rhymed couplets.... (Sorry, couldn't resist....)
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Mad Catz Ghost Recon Future Soldier Pro GamePad Review
Published On May 9, 2012 | By Anthony Barker | Reviews
Generous 3m cable length
Combat buttons is a good idea
Features can be used in other games
High price for a wired controller
Combat buttons require change of grip
LED lit thumbsticks can be a little off-putting
Peripheral maker Mad Catz and Ubisoft have come together to bring us gamers a new accessory for the tactical shooter, Ghost Recon Future Soldier. In this review I will be putting the Ghost Recon Future Soldier Pro Gamepad for the Xbox 360 console through its paces. This controller features an array of performance-enhancing features including: PrecisionAim technology, quick-fire triggers and an exclusive Ghost Recon Future Soldier combat button layout. So with thumbs at the ready lets jump in and go hands-on.
First off, the Pro Gamepad is a wired controller, so there are no batteries to worry about and it also reduces any input lag that you may have from a wireless controller. A generous 3 metre long braided cable is attached to the controller with a quick cable release mechanism poised at the other end, should anyone trip on the long-running cable while it is connected to the USB port of your Xbox 360.
The size and shape of the Pro Gamepad mirrors the silhouette of an official Xbox 360 controller, however as you’ll notice from the pictures below the Pro Gamepad is a little more angular at the top side of the pad – where you’ll find the branded game’s logo above the nested main Xbox button and slightly risen Back and Start buttons. The most noticeable feature from this area of the pad is its left and right ergonomic non-slip pistol grips – a bicycle rubber grip-like texture area that spans each side of the pad, which can be ideal during those sweaty-palm gaming sessions.
The Ghost Recon Future Solider Pro Gamepad from Mad Catz
The controller’s flattop face buttons are laid out in their usual location, yet compared to the official controller they have more of a soft padded feel to them, with the X button being more ‘spongy’ out of the four.
The D-Pad has a risen crossface design than the full circle face type found on the original controllers. This kind of design is well suited for selecting modes and weapon types in the game – where you only need four of the eight-way directions to select. This type of crossface style would also suit beat-em-ups should you prefer this kind of D-Pad to easily execute your Hadoukens.
Spanning either side of the D-Pad, in their usual positions, are the two analogue sticks. The striking feature of these sticks is, when plugged in and powered, the clear plastic material of them light up from the white LED sitting inside. Mad Catz state that this is ‘immersive’ for the gamer, but to me I found it can be too distracting. When held the right way, the lights can glimmer right under you nose whilst gaming in a darkened room, and is probably more immersive for the people sitting around you rather than yourself.
Lights off – Showing the Pro Gamepad ‘Immersive’ illuminated analogue sticks
On the very top face of the controller you’ll find the usual L2 and R2 triggers and L1 and R1 buttons. The quick-fire triggers feel like they have less travel in them, even though if you put them next to an official pad they stick out much the same. In practice they do indeed feel faster to press. The L1, R1 buttons have less width than the official controller, this is mainly due to the angular area that they have been designed to sit in. The feel of them is good and because they are shorter in width they feel more responsive when pressed.
When looking underneath the Pro Gamepad you will instantly discover something a little different to other controllers on the market. Beside each grip handle there is a small fingertip-sized Combat button, and above each button are switches that enable you to program the functionality of what each does. The left Combat 1 button can be mapped to a single position of the D-Pad: be it Down, Left or Up. The right side Combat 2 button can be mapped to a single face button: from X, A or B buttons. So whichever D-Pad or face button you use the most, these buttons can be mapped to these two Combat buttons underneath, which in turn allows you to keep your hands more on the analogue sticks, shooting things.
Underneath the Pro Gamepad you’ll find the two Combat buttons and switches
This all sounds great right? Well, sadly not quite. Because of my grip, these Combat buttons were around 2 cm too high to be easy accessible and comfortable to press whilst gaming. I had to alter my grip slightly to keep my fingers on these buttons all the time, which would reduce the overall grip around each side of the controller and also change the feel of the analogue sticks. With that said, this feature is certainly an interesting idea for a controller, and it really isn’t limited to Ghost Recon Future Soldier either, as it can be used in any game to give you that extra special advantage.
Retailing for around £44.99 the Mad Catz Ghost Recon Future Soldier Pro Gamepad comes in at a premium price for most gamers, a price that even surpasses the cost of an official wireless controller, so why should you get one? Well, if you can get past the position of the Combat buttons underneath by changing your grip slightly (should you find your grip unfitting to reach these buttons comfortably) then there are plenty of in-game performance-enhancing features on this controller to give good reason to recommend it to any gamer looking for that extra advantage in-game.
Ghost Recon: Future SoldierHardwareReviewXbox 360
Anthony Barker Anthony is the designer, developer and owner of Console Monster. In his spare time, Anthony is a keen gamer who enjoys playing mostly First-Person Shooters and Racing games. When he is not developing games or tweaking this site, Anthony likes to be on the slopes snowboarding or hurtling down off-road tracks on his mountain bike.
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Masterson Construction Masters Art of Listening to Customers, Employees
Thu September 06, 2007 - Northeast Edition
Commercial or residential, big or small, site jobs or utility work … Masterson Construction has customers across the entire range. When clients were asked about their experience with the 25-year-old Danvers, Mass., company, the assessments were uniform — Masterson adhered to budget, deadlines and requirements.
Jack Masterson, the company founder, said it’s all about listening.
“We incorporate into each bid what the customer told us about their specific parameters, we plan for them and we stick to it. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that people appreciate being heard. We all do,” he said.
The importance of listening is ingrained in the company’s philosophy.
“It works with our own employees as well,” said Jeff Masterson, Jack’s son.
“They do not expect you to react to everything they tell you but they want to know that you are listening, that you respect them and the work that they do.”
In business since 1981, Masterson Construction employs a staff of more than 50.
“We keep them interested, challenged and busy through the year with a wide variety of jobs,” said Jeff, who runs the day-to-day operations.
The Masterson list of customers is a healthy mix that has allowed the company to stay in business even through periods of economic change and uncertainty.
Assessing the Business Environment
“In the 25 years since I started the company, the only constant has been change — new markets have emerged, old ones have disappeared, trends have come and gone, some never to return,” said Jack.
“That’s why I consider personnel my number one investment; first you need to have in place quality people who can learn and adapt; then, you give them top-of-the-line equipment, so they feel safe, excited and proud to be doing the work.”
When he talked about specific business changes Jack said, “Everything is all-inclusive now, down to the landscaping and the signs in the parking lot.”
Developers have become business people who buy properties and permit them, while site managers have really become general contractors who handle everything, beginning to end, he explained.
“Many of our customers want one source, one point of contact that can provide integrated services,” said Jeff.
“This new method of working puts a lot of weight on the vendors that you choose and on subcontractors that you rely on, and of course, planning becomes huge. There are many more variables [that] we’re responsible for,” he said.
Attention to every detail matters, and Jack gives an example.
“Nowadays with fuel prices that can go up 20 cents a gallon in two weeks, we sure keep an eye on machines that incorporate advanced technology for more efficient performance, because fuel costs eat away your profit.”
Both Mastersons emphasize the importance of versatility, flexibility, ability to adapt and function in a wide range of circumstances and environments, taking advantage of core strengths, and adding others as needed.
“Our customers have grown, and we have grown with them, supporting them in their different needs,” Jeff said.
“Having a versatile crew and efficient equipment can help during the tough times, and when business gets better, you are ready to take advantage of new opportunities,” said Jack.
The Mastersons see their staff as their biggest strength and believe in continuing their approach to hire right, respecting and supporting their workers.
Reducing equipment downtime to ensure peak performance is another key issue at Masterson.
“With a fleet our size, you need to have mechanics in-house, but they can’t know everything about every machine. Milton CAT works with us and helps us to avoid problems before they happen. Their diagnostic software keeps our equipment running at peak performance,” explained Jack.
“We really abuse Dave Nelson, our Milton CAT Parts and Service sales representative. Sometimes I am surprised that he continues to show up. We gang up on him and pick his brain. He’s very knowledgeable and teaches us things we would never learn otherwise,” added Jeff.
“We stick to equipment that performs for us day in and day out, and that has good residual value and flexible machines that have pulled us through the toughest times,” said Jeff.
“We know we can rely on Milton CAT because of their range. They can back us up with the right inventory when we need it, whether it’s a new machine, a low-hour, used one, or a particular tool. We value what Ernie Boudreau, our sales representative, brings to the table.”
According to the Mastersons, their biggest challenge as a company is controlled growth. The company is committed to maintaining a resilient core of customers, expanding when it makes sense, and only as far as they can handle the work without changing their philosophy.
“Keeping a firm grip on any expansion plans is key for us,” said Jeff.
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Home / Articles / 2014 / Machine Builders Vs. Integrators
Machine Builders Vs. Integrators
When It’s Time to Install Your Next Production Line, Is It Best to Engage a Machine Builder or an Automation System Integrator as a Partner?
By Dan Hebert
About Dan Hebert
Dan Hebert is senior technical editor for Control, Control Design and Industrial Networking. Email him at dhebert@putman.net or check out his Google+ profile.
Many manufacturing plants outsource all or part of major capital projects, such as greenfield plants or new production lines. When these projects include a number of machines and a high degree of automation, such as a packaging line, the plant owner has a choice of two main types of outsourced partners—an OEM machine builder or an automation system integrator (SI). A third choice would be an engineering firm, but in this case, the main partner would be the automation division of the firm, so this alternative can be lumped in with the integrator option.
Table 1 compares the two types of outsource partners, and there are other factors besides those listed which drive the decision. In the integrator's favor are production lines with machines from many different suppliers because integrators are used to working with many subcontractors and suppliers on their projects, and machine builders may have trouble working with other OEMs, particularly competitors. If the new line has a high degree of advanced automation, then a system integrator may be a better choice.
Also Read: OEMs Focus on Building Smarter Machines
Table 1: When these projects include a number of machines and a high degree of automation, such as a packaging line, the plant owner has a choice of two main types of outsourced partners—an OEM machine builder or an automation systems integrator.
If the production line has many machines from one supplier, then the machine builder partnering option becomes more attractive. Another factor favoring the machine builder alternative is very high complexity of the main machines on the production line. This would tend to swing the partnering choice in favor of the OEM building the complex machines, assuming they also offered integration services, as no one knows machine operation as well as the OEM.
Experts With Machines
OEM machine builders claim to have much more specific application experience than system integrators and are therefore better able to take on an overall project. Paul Strebig, controls engineering manager at USNR agrees. Located in Woodland, Washington, USNR builds machines for wood processing, including everything needed to build an entire sawmill with 30 or more machine centers. "The experience and history that OEMs have in their industry is a great advantage since this knowledge allows them to select the best products and solutions for each individual customer," he says. "Most system integrators have limited history in a particular industry. Machine builders specialize in their industries, know how to be efficient and have fast and effective installations and startup."
Fast Finishing
Figure 1: Headed parts are bowl-fed into OmniTurn lathe for machining. Pins, bolts or hollow or solid rivets can be trimmed, turned or threaded with a load/unload time of about 3.5 seconds.
Deep knowledge of their equipment is also valuable. NC Electronics in Port Orford, Oregon, manufactures OmniTurn CNC turning/milling centers, and it knows how to interface its own systems (Figure 1). George Welch, CEO, explains, "We worked directly with one customer to produce the simplest, most cost-effective solution. The OmniTurn CNC can be configured to interface with various controllers, as well as imaging and gauging systems. Because we're familiar with interfacing the Mitsubishi PLC with our CNC and because we have experience machining parts on the lathe, we saved the customer time and money."
Welch adds that working with an OEM also eliminates finger pointing. "We accept responsibility for the entire system hardware and building the complete system," he says. "In other words, the buck stops with the builder. Also, training, service and repair, as required, are handled directly on a one-to-one basis without needing to train and equip a third-party developer."
John Martin, vice president of engineering at custom machine builder ARC Specialties in Houston, agrees. "Machine and robot builder OEMs that are vertically integrated hold a unique advantage over traditional system integrators. We take full ownership of a project and drive it from conception, design and manufacture to integration and production. There's no mix of hands to point fingers in multiple directions, but instead only one responsible company that understands every aspect of the system." Like many OEMs, ARC Specialties has a large shop, enabling it to test machines and systems prior to shipment (Figure 2).
Stay at Home
Figure 2: In-house machine shops like this one give OEMs an advantage over system integrators when it comes to pre-shipment testing.
OEMs also have more resources available than system integrators, says Strebig. "Machine OEMs are better qualified to provide production line system integration since they are able to have tight control of the mechanical, electrical and controls aspect of a project. This control over design allows an OEM to make changes to optimize a complete solution package, whereas a system integrator will be stuck with the equipment they're required to commission."
Bob Fung, vice president of engineering at Owens Design, a custom machine builder in Fremont, California, adds, "System integrators generally buy existing hardware and put the system together. In general, we have a much stronger skill set and the ability to take on much more complex tools. We can create sections of a tool that a basic system integrator can't."
Tight Tolerances
Figure 3: This turning cell uses immediate, post-process part measurement to maintain tolerances as tight ±0.001 in (0.025 mm). A robot loads the parts for measurement and packs them for shipping if they meet specifications.
Conroe Machine is a manufacturer of high precision metal cutting machines, and it often combines its machines with other OEM products to create all or part of an integrated production line (Figure 3). On a recent project, Conroe designed and installed a hard-turning cell for measuring and sorting mud-motor bearings. The cell also boxes and palletizes finished parts.
This brings up the double-edged sword of equipment selection. Matt Wicks, vice president of controls and software engineering at Intelligrated, a builder of material handling equipment in Mason, Ohio, says, "The argument for independent integrators is they pick the best equipment, regardless of who manufactures it. On the surface, this appears to open up competition and drive down initial purchased prices. In the long run, misapplication of equipment and conflicts between machine builders and integrators can lead to increased costs and project delays."
On the other hand, Bill Savela, product manager at Delta Computer Systems, a supplier of motion control systems in Battle Ground, Washington, offers this observation: "A potential drawback to OEM-managed system integration is the need to use a majority of system elements that are manufactured by that OEM. This can limit accessibility to the industry's best-in-class equipment by other vendors and lock customers in to the OEM's product evolution path."
Integrators Know Automation
While there's no argument that machine builder OEMs know their equipment and have great experience integrating their own machines into production systems, system integrators claim they have experience and knowledge, too. In their case, it's in integrating a wide variety of machines into production lines of all kinds and more knowledge about particular plants.
The experience of system integrators in dealing with advanced systems is a prime advantage, says Joseph Snyder, president of Process and Data Automation, a system integrator in Erie, Pennsylvania. "A packaging machine application that requires a couple of simple in-feed and takeout conveyors would normally fall easily within the realm of an OEM," says Snyder. "But as the system complexity increases along with the number of unique players and parts, an SI might be critical to ensuring smooth connection between the pieces. On a very sophisticated system, the SI's experience in connecting to adjacent process areas and business systems might become very important, as most OEMs have not ventured into those arenas. I feel that the chief advantage of SIs over machine builders when installing new lines is their superior automation system expertise, from using and integrating automation hardware and software from different suppliers to tying the automation systems to higher-level customer software such as ERP systems."
This can even affect equipment selection. "On a larger scale, the multi-platform experience of an SI will be hugely beneficial when selecting vendors because the overall production system may require multiple equipment manufacturers, which, in turn, may mean the introduction of different control equipment suppliers," Snyder adds. "If nothing more, the project management discipline, where most established system integrators excel, might be critical for simply keeping the project moving forward."
Gary Kirckof, system engineering group manager at control equipment supplier Beckhoff Automation, says, "Some OEMs offer integration services just to secure the sale of their primary product. By contrast, the primary product of an independent integrator is integration. Pure integrators are freer to select equipment from multiple vendors. OEMs, on the other hand, may place a higher priority in specifying their own equipment to meet the goals of engineering efficiency, maintainability and spare parts management."
Del Younglas, owner of Texagon Services, an SI in Westlake, Texas, agrees. "Texagon Services can evaluate the project with the customer and make individual decisions of what component parts are to be retained and what should are to be replaced," he explains. "In a majority of Texagon retrofits the customer chooses to retain the existing motors and drives and replace the CNC controller only, which can be a significant savings. Most machine builders and OEMs that do retrofits remove all electrical equipment including the CNC controllers, motors and drives and replace them with their preferred complete system. Economically, this is not the end user's best choice."
OEM Benefits
CMD, a machine builder OEM in Appleton, Wisconsin, designs and manufactures converting machines for the blown-film and flexible packaging industries. Examples include continuous-motion machines for making bags and pouches and various types of automation equipment to package products made by the machines.
Chris White, project manager at CMD, explains, "Our automation systems range from taking finished product from one machine and placing it into another machine to fully customized automation using Cartesian and SCARA type robots."
On the integration front, White says, "CMD provides integration services ranging from integrating CMD equipment for specific product requirements to integrating our equipment with various suppliers of upstream and downstream equipment. Types of equipment we may integrate to complete a line include dosing units, extruders, bag making equipment, conveyor systems, cartoners and case packers. We'll integrate manufacturing lines that contain CMD equipment, or a combination of CMD and other suppliers' equipment—any combination the customer requires to produce the best solution."
White thinks OEM machine builders are better able to perform integration. "OEMs typically have a very thorough understanding of the equipment and processes involved to provide the best solution," he says. "Many times if an outside integrator steps in to integrate multiple pieces of equipment they will not fully understand the manufacturing process."
One example in the bag converting field is how to minimize impact on production if a portion of the line goes down. "If a production line is cartoning and casing rolls of bags automatically, what happens when the cartoner jams?" he asks. "An integrator without experience in the process may say, ‘If the line stops, clear the jam, and start the line back up.' The integrator may not realize the difficulties of starting the line back up, especially if it's in line with an extruder, which may take a half hour or more to get back into production."
He notes, "An OEM integrator very familiar with the process will have provisions to keep the line running and to introduce product back into the system while clearing the jam. Other things the integrator must consider are how to cull defective product; how to handle variances in product size, shape, colors and densities; and how to inspect for some of these items."
And OEMs have better access to non-automation resources. "Typically a machine builder OEM is going to have access to machine tools to make mechanical integration parts," he explains. "The machine builder has purchasing leverage to buy manufactured parts and expedite deliveries of parts. For example, if a controller goes bad during integration, an OEM has access to a wide range of human resources with skill sets in all fields including mechanical, electrical, service and spare parts. System integrators may not have access to as broad of a range of human resources to solve any issues in a timely and efficient manner. These combined resources can be a very powerful tool during the integration/startup process."
End User Opinions
Essar Steel India in Gujarat, India, has used a wide variety of options when installing machines, making them well qualified to speak on the subject. Anil Sharma, general manager, explains, "When Essar builds new or adds to a production or packaging line, we've used all three methods—in-house expertise, an OEM and a system integrator or engineering firm. It depends on the project. If it's a big project, an OEM contributes 90%, while the rest is contributed by in-house expertise and a system integrator. For very small systems, a local system integrator or engineering firm is used."
While Essar uses in-house support when it can, Sharma realizes the advantages and drawbacks of this approach. "If the company uses in-house expertise, there is the advantage of low cost," he says. "Employee knowledge increases, they remain technically updated, and it boosts employee confidence and morale. On the other hand, if we use in-house expertise, there are disadvantages. Many times updated technology may not be adopted, the design may not be proper, it may take longer for implementation, and full technical support may not be there."
Essar definitely leans toward using OEMs for integration in most cases, primarily because of their technical knowledge, but it also uses local system integrators when it can, particularly for smaller projects.
Logical Choice
The decision to use an OEM or an SI can be easy. If it's a simple job involving one machine and some auxiliary equipment, the machine OEM is probably the best choice. The OEM has probably installed dozens if not hundreds of similar systems, giving them economies of scale and the benefit of extensive experience. When projects get complex, involving high-level ERP software, multiple production lines and dozens of different machines and control systems, then a system integrator is probably the best choice. This is particularly true when the integrator is located nearby and local support will be needed long after the project is completed. In many cases, existing relationships with OEMs and system integrators will drive the decision, with the plant owner picking the partner with whom they have the greatest familiarity and trust.
Integrator Advantages
AAA Absolute Automation and Electrical Services, a system integrator in Covington, Georgia, offers services for custom machines and production lines, typically using AutomationDirect products whenever possible to create a supervisory level control system to tie all the machines together.
"We've found AutomationDirect products are priced very competitively, and they've been very reliable," says Bob Swarner, systems engineer at AAA. "Their products are almost always in stock, and we can get them next day with free shipping for all but the smallest orders. We also like the fact that the software for some of their newer products is free, and the software that's not free is very reasonably priced. This is a large advantage over some other manufacturers."
Swarner says his company can start with a set of customer specifications—or just an idea of how they want a new machine or process to work—and then generate a complete set of electrical drawings, fabricate the control panels, install the system, and provide startup support, documentation for the system, and continuing service and support. "Our customer base consists primarily of small to medium sized manufacturing facilities, and we provide system integration services to control machines in integrated production lines."
Swarner says integrators offer several advantages over machine builders. "Typically, machine builders are very familiar with their machines and standard applications for it, but not with the specific production line where it'll be installed," he explains. "Since system integrators normally develop an ongoing relationship with a particular plant, they can be more familiar with the production process and people at a particular plant. This allows us to prevent problems that may arise during commissioning a new machine that's integrated with the rest of the process."
An independent integrator may be able to provide better support and service after the installation. "If an integrator is actively involved in maintaining and upgrading the production process at a plant, they'll generally be more familiar with any changes that take place that can affect the output from a particular machine," he says. Then there's documentation. "A system integrator can provide better documentation for a system," he opines. "Typically, a machine builder will provide good documentation for its machine but many times will not spend time documenting how the machine is integrated into the rest of the process. This can cause major problems down the road, especially if the original people that worked on the machine installation are no longer with the OEM."
Perhaps because of their close relationships with local manufacturers, AAA hasn't competed against machine builders. "We haven't seen machine builders crossing into the system integration territory in plants we service," he points out. "Typically, the machine is ordered with a standard controls package, and we make all changes and interfaces required to integrate it into the production process."
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Star India lands rights to telecast IND v WI T20 series
by Abhijit Editor
Published - Aug 9, 2016 10:35 am | Updated - Aug 9, 2016 10:35 am
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. (Photo by JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Star India Pvt. Ltd. Has been awarded the rights to telecast the upcoming IND v WI T20 series that will take place in Florida later this year. The Star network, who also happens to be the sponsor of the Indian team, has secured the broadcasting rights for the series following an elaborate bidding process.
The subsequent announcement was made by the joint secretary of the Board, Mr. Ajay Shirke. Star India broadcasts the home matches of Indian cricket and is reported to have bargained the deal for INR 34.20 crores for the two matches to be played in Florida.
The Central Broward Regional Park and Stadium in Lauderhill is set to host its first T20 international since 2014. Only four T20Is have been played at this venue with New Zealand featuring in all four matches. The West Indies, however, have won their last two matches at this venue. The venue also hosted a bevy of six matches affiliated with the Caribbean Premier League.
The series will consist of two T20 internationals, both to be played at the same venue. The series will kick-off shortly after the conclusion of the ongoing Test series between India and the West Indies.
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As per the reports of Cricbuzz, BCCI president Ajay Shirke said, “I am pleased to announce that Star India will be the official broadcaster. It will ensure the BCCI is able to guarantee maximum exposure and further increase the visibility of this new initiative.”
Shirke also added that the Board was pleased with the work carried out by Star in terms of the partnership with the BCCI. “Star India has been an excellent partner for the BCCI. They have a deep understanding of the game of cricket, and what it means to the nation. We are pleased to extend our association with them. This agreement also reflects our strategy to develop new markets and fan following.”
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Main page » A-Z Artists » N » Nerell, Loren
Loren Nerell (born 1960) is a composer and performer of ambient American music and Balinese gamelan.
As a composer, Loren has written music for film, theater, dance, and interactive multi-media. He has performed with the Kronos Quartet. Loren Nerell was born in Long Beach, California. His early interest in electronic music began when he heard the Tangerine Dream album Rubycon. With it, he crossed over into a world of music that previously did not exist for him. He studied analog synthesis at Long Beach Community College eventually moving to San Diego State University where he was exposed to tape manipulation and tape composition techniques. He also began performing and studying Balinese gamelan music, and the microtonal composition of Harry Partch. From San Diego, Loren moved to California State University Dominguez Hills where he delved into computer synthesis, utilizing their Synclavier system.
After mastering the techniques he learned in school, he developed his own studio, stocking it with an array of vintage sound modules as well as the latest technology. He has worked in the music industry as a sound designer including a position at Oberheim Electronics, a synthesizer manufacturer, and as a recording engineer.
A Produce + Loren Nerell - Intangible
Artist: A Produce + Loren Nerell
The first collaboration between two artists well-known to Hypnos listeners and fans of ambient & experimental music in general.
While Intangible has a meditative and tranquil drifting quality, it also incorporates more melodic and rhythmic elements than most ambient music of the present day. Listeners who like their ambience musical will enjoy this as much as those who like their drones deep and mystical.
Though it's the duo's first collaboration together, both of them have been releasing music for about a quarter century. These guys are responsible for some of our "Desert Island Disc" listening material here at Hypnos HQ (A Smooth Surface and Lilin Dewa are both long-time favorites). Often at Hypnos we try to introduce new, fresh talent to our listeners, but this is a case of two music-makers who know all the tricks, and yet continue to create work as vibrant and inspired as anything on the cutting edge.
A Produce has released ten albums, including two on Hypnos (Smile on the Void solo, and Altara in collaboration with Hypnos founder M. Griffin). Loren Nerell has released solo work on Amplexus, Soleilmoon, and Side Effects, and collaborated with ambient music giant Steve Roach on Terraform in 2006.
Loren Nerell - Lilin Dewa
Artist: Loren Nerell
Lilin Dewa could very well be the sequel to Robert Rich's superlative 1989 recording, Rainforest. Both are heavily influenced (and in the case of Loren, very directly so) by the gamelan music of Bali. To put this CD in the same league of Robert's is, coming from me, very heady praise. To me, Rainforest is a literally essential CD and may be Robert's best work. That Lilin Dewa stands toe-to-toe with it and even expands on some of that release's work is quite a feat.
Loren Nerell - Slow Dream
Loren Nerell creates a masterful release of deep ambient with SLOW DREAM, field recordings from the world of sleep. On his seventh solo release, Nerell's four lengthy tracks are all-encompassing sonic environments forged mainly from extremely processed location recordings made during his trips to Bali. Rich drones and shimmering highlights skirt over the organic textures, processed and layered into subtle, delicate resonant spaces. Glowing, amorphous drifts of sound create the impression of traveling along the supple contours of subterranean passageways. This SLOW DREAM takes ethereal shape as an exotic but compelling atmosphere that hovers between the waking and sleep state. When experienced at a lower volume and left to repeat play over the course of a few hours, the transportive effect of this soundscape is especially powerful and mind-altering.
"A glowing, amorphous cloud of spine-tingling sound. Two musicians come to mind when listening: Jon Hassell, who popularized Fourth World music, and Brian Eno, the father of Ambient music. While sounding nothing like the work of either artist, Loren Nerell's music takes inspiration from both of them. His music is evocative of mist-covered mountains and slow-motion waterfalls, so it owes something to Hassell. But it also pays tribute to the patient genius of Eno, with its endlessly evolving atmosphere, in which there is no beginning or end, only the present. Djam Karet founder Chuck Oken, Jr. describes Nerell's music as a 'sound pool' that the listener is immersed in. His words couldn't be more accurate. To describe ambient or atmospheric music as 'a soundtrack' is clichéd, but it's really the best way to talk about Nerell's work." -- a review from Forced Exporsure
Along with his ongoing solo releases, Nerell has 30+ years of ethno music studies and performing and recording with gamelan ensembles. Nerell has collaborated with pioneers in the electronic, ambient and new music fields including Steve Roach, A Produce, Kronos Quartet and Paul Haslinger. He continues to compose and record in Los Angeles, California.
Loren Nerell - Taksu
On Taksu (69'18"), Loren Nerell turns in an epic masterpiece of ambient music steeped in the legends and landscapes of Indonesia. The album draws equally from the region's cultural richness and intensely beautiful countryside and aspires to represent the integration of a living breathing art, people and land. A continuous piece, Taksu is less a re-creation of actual traditional forms of gamelan composition than it is Nerell's own free-form adaptation. The lengthy and immersing soundscape is built up out of a collage of ambient sounds, but surpasses the mere anthropologic or geographic ethnicities of conventional albums of Indonesian music through its integration of technology (synthesizers and samplers) somewhat outside of the tradition. A diffuse and continuous synth drone flows through this entire soundworld. Barely perceptible at first, methodically executed metallic tones are introduced and become more prominent throughout the piece's slow evolution. But what animates Taksu, and gives this album its strong sense of place, are the wonderful location ambiance recordings. These exquisite field tapes are mixed in with the layers of humming synths to intensify the main effect of the piece yet remain on the fringes of perception - providing Taksu with its palpable atmosphere. This is classic ambient music but with an undeniable connection to the realms of Indonesia - including its mental, physical and mystical states. Taksu is a vital hi-tech ceremonial performance - First World music of the 21st century.
- Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END 1 November 2003
Loren Nerell - The Venerable Dark Cloud
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More abstractly atmospheric than lilin dewa but less audio-realistic/panoramic than Indonesian Soundscapes, these four cloud-borne tracks hover in a lovely, ethno-tinged dreamworld. Wordless strands of female voice and serpentine flute passages occasionally emanate from the resonant haze of Dark Horizon, which thrums with mysterious energies and sporadic echoey beats. From within the drifting shadows of Eclipse, symmetrical gamelan patterns drift in a diffused latticework of hypnotic brassy tones, backed by slow, hushed percussion.Shifting gong haze takes our ears Within the Cloudwhich is laced with distant metallic clatter, fluttering soundwaves and sweetly somber organ-like drones, all of which become soft but chaotic textures. Crowing cocks, thunder and rain (a' la Indonesian Soundscapes) are surrounded by slowly circling twines of flute sound in Ablution (2:19) While unfortunately brief, The venerable dark cloud is a purely gorgeous immersion into Loren Nerell's subtle ambi-ethnic ear-dreams. The third world musicality is beautifully subdued, so don't be afraid of getting beat over the head with an overdose of World Music.
Recorded between July 1998 and January 1999. Mixed in January 1999 at Earthbound, Los Angeles, CA. Atmospheres used in this recording were recorded in Bali, Java & Los Angeles between 1992-1997. Packaged in oversized A5 folded paper sleeve with a plastic cover. Numbered limited edition of 1000 copies.
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Steve Roach + Loren Nerell - Terraform
Artist: Steve Roach + Loren Nerell
P: 2006 / 2009
TERRAFORM is the first full collaborative album for longtime friends Steve Roach and Loren Nerell. The two composers met in LA in 1981, back in the early days of the electronic music scene. It was a time when like-minded musicians who understood the importance of emerging technology were coming together in local clubs and performance venues to share what they knew and learn from one another. After years of friendship and occasional musical collaboration the two decided to convene in a relaxed setting to see what they could distill from a blending of their collective talents and individual styles to accomplish common aims. TERRAFORM emerged from their mutual desire to create an organic, surreal and deeply ambient environment of langorous humid soundscape enviroments. Through a labyrinth of studio techniques, a kind of audio terraforming was developed. Heavily textured and mood altering, the long uninterrupted flow seemingly slows time down by way of the surreal dark ambient soundforms found in much of Roach's work. Nerell brings the steamy, evanescent blend of his mutated Indonesian sources, a signature sound that defines his previous releases for Amplexus, Side Effects and Soleilmoon. Loren Nerell has studied gamelan music for the last 25 years, expanding and fine-tuning his mastery of Indonesia's unique indigenous musical traditions through performances and field work. During this time he has accumulated a large number of field recordings, many of which he uses in his compositions. This has evolved from simply using the material as-is, to an elaborate processing technique in which the material is taken to a point so far from its original source as to be unrecognizable. Along with their collaborative efforts Steve produced, mixed and provided art direction on this special release.Initial impressions from several listeners have referenced Brian Eno's seminal "On Land" recording.
V/A - Between Sun + Moon
Compilation of the Amplexus Edition releases.
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Here's another excellent ambient anthology for those into the darker end of the genre. Featuring nine artists, the sampler takes from both new and veteran musicians, to deliver up a diverse yet flowing 74 minute CD. Kevin Keller opens the disc with samples of voices whispering. From it he creates a slow 12 minute warm drift similar to musicians like Robert Scott Thompson. Illinois synthesist James Johnson's Closure is at least half as long as Keller's track, yet the style is very similar, with muted and shifting chords gently floating on the air, melodic and peace-inducing. Dean DeBenedictis takes a much different approach, far more abstract and surreal, although there is a similar underlying melodic pattern underneath the Schnitzler like rattling and scuttling. As the tracks progresses along its eight minute length, it grows more fascinating with treated water sounds and voices. It is over far too soon. Ma Ja Le return the focus to melody, and the nine minutes Images Remain is full of crystal, ethereal chords floating up, a far different sound than their CD with Vir Unis. A piece one can lose themself in, with longing and melancholy, this would have fit perfectly on The Ambient Expanse. Rod Modell's Ipperwash Twilight leaps out of the speakers with incredible sonic clarity, and you immediately know you're in the presence of a creative force. Strange, but slightly melodic synths with a wide array of tones and field recordings spread sheets of sound over percolating sequencers, and the strange scaling and effects, successfully create an incredibly alien landscape. This is visionary music, alone worth the price of this disc. Dave Fulton's piece is also odd, with steely sequencer and loads of metallic industrial sounds that starts at a low volume that increases over most the track's length. It's dissonant melody provides sort of a lull in the overall CD flow, and sets up veteran Loren Nerell's Liquid Metal Stasis, an intense drone with microtonal bell sounds, volcanic bubbling, and other rich and colorful tonal shading. We definitely can never hear enough from Nerell. Scott Fraser's Straight Lines is another drone where the subtlety hinges on the changes of tones of the synthesizers. At eight minutes, it progresses through number of colorings, remaining surprisingly dynamic. As he often does, Steve Roach closes the set, his contribution the 7 1/2 minute Bottomless, and here we see the least urban track on the anthology evoking the wide expanses and chthonic depths of consciousness. A more chilly track than Roach usually produces, but no less evocative for it. A strong anthology, and one of the more impressive of the type in recent memory."
1999 Mike McLatchey / Expose Magazine
Various Artists - Dali: The Endless Enigma
Artist: Stearns, Huygen, Walter Holland,
Djam Karet, Loren Nerell, Klaus Schulze,
Bo Tomlyn, Steve Roach, Robert Rich
This is a truly great, moody, mixed up album. I bought it because I am a great fan of Steve Roach, who has the last tracks. All the other artists are great, each track a different aural interpretation of a different Dali painting. It's like looking at Dali through headphones. Try getting a book with images by Dali, and looking at the pictures while listening to the music composed for each one. Moody, creepy, raucaus, dreamy, eclectic...Dali.
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What is “Incoterms”?
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Incoterms is an abbreviation. It is short for International Commercial Terms. These are a set of predefined commercial terms drafted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
Their use is encouraged by trade bodies, shipping firms and legal advisors when importing or exporting.
Incoterms are primarily a set of three letter codes which define trade terms related to roles and responsibilities of businesses involved in a shipping or sales relationship. They form what can be described in simple terms as a “guide to Who Does What” in terms, for example, of freight and insurance under the terms of a shipping contract.
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The full list of Incoterms can be found here but since there are several that are rarely used despite the ICC performing regular revisions, below are the most common and frequently used.
When a business decides to enter international trade, whether that is selling their product overseas or importing either finished goods or raw materials from abroad, it will be faced with numerous hurdles, even after potential customers or suppliers are found. The logistics of physically moving goods can sometimes call into question the decisions that have made to operate in overseas markets that have been made at board level. The level of commitment and investment required can be daunting.
Once a trade has been agreed upon the roles of the various parties must be agreed and clear to all.
Most of the “heavy lifting” falls upon the exporter as he must produce the goods to be shipped, deal with a freight forwarder, confirm the shipment date and vessel with his customer, and comply with the terms of both the sales/shipping contract and the inevitable letter of redit.
The importer must apply for a letter of credit from his bank, transpose the terms of the contract onto his application, contact a freight forwarder in his own country, preferably in the port where it has been agreed the goods will arrive, and possibly (depending on the terms of the shipping contract) arrange insurance.
It is part of the terms of the shipping contract that incoterms come into play and it is vital that who pays for what is fully understood.
Common Incoterms
The three most common are FOB (Free on Board) Incoterms, CFR (Cost and Freight) Incoterms and CIF (Cost Insurance and Freight) Incoterms:
FOB incoterms
This means that the exporter pays all cost up to and including the loading of the goods onto the vessel for shipment. The buyer then is responsible for the cost of shipment, insurance and all costs in country of arrival.
CFR incoterms (often referred to as C&F)
If this incoterm is used in the sales contract, the seller pays for all carriage costs up to and including arrival at the port of import. Importantly, the buyer remains responsible for the insurance of the goods.
CIF incoterms
This is a comprehensive package where the seller is entirely responsible for the goods until the arrive in the destination port.
Banks issuing letters of credit will always want to know who is responsible for insurance of the goods. In the cases of FOB or CFR, they will want to see an insurance document from the importer before issuing the letter of credit. If the Incoterm used is CIF, then a valid insurance document will form part of the documents required to be presented under the terms of the letter of credit.
By far, the most commonly used Incoterm is CFR since most importers pay an annual premium to insure everything they import. The policy will have several exclusions as to vessel flag, port of embarkation, and other parameters.
More unusual incoterms are DFR (delivered at frontier) which covers land transportation (now discontinued by the ICC although still used) and DDP (delivered duty paid) which often covers goods that attract a high level of excise like dangerous items and military equipment.
Incoterms are a reference point for exchange of risk as much as “who pays what”. The following chart shows who is at risk under the three most common incoterms.
Seller Seller Seller Seller
Carrier Seller Seller Seller
Port Seller Seller Seller
On-board Seller Seller Buyer
Buyer’s Facility Buyer Buyer Buyer
Buyer Buyer Buyer Buyer
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Holey portrait found in Italy
This is how Polish designer Roman Cieslewicz saw Pentagram founder Alan Fletcher. Cieslewicz, who died in January, was having dinner with Fletcher at a restaurant in Bolgna after the pair judged a children’s book fair.
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This is how Polish designer Roman Cieslewicz saw Pentagram founder Alan Fletcher.
Cieslewicz, who died in January, was having dinner with Fletcher at a restaurant in Bolgna after the pair judged a children’s book fair.
“We were in this swanky Italian restaurant, and I asked Roman if he’d draw a picture of me on the serviette,” explains Fletcher.
“He asked for some scissors, and the waiter looked a bit surprised but came back with a pair on a silver tray. Roman then cut holes in the serviette and said to me ‘This is you’.”
The mark to the left, apparently, is a scar Fletcher had at the time. Unless he was in the same pose as our photo.
Fletcher has spent 20 years asking “most of the major designers in the world” to draw on serviettes. A selection will be exhibited at the Pentagram Gallery at 11 Needham Road, London W11 from 12 February to 22 March.
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Bill Murray film's use of famed US horse racing phrase draws lawsuit
Published at 09:38 pm March 21st, 2019
FILE PHOTO: Cast member Bill Murray arrives for the premiere of the film St.Vincent in New York on October 6,-2014 Reuters
The lawsuit does not name Murray as a defendant
US horse racing announcer Dave Johnson, who called Triple Crown races for ABC television for two decades, on Wednesday sued the makers of Bill Murray’s 2014 film “St. Vincent” for using his signature phrase “and down the stretch they come” without permission.
Johnson, 77, a Manhattan resident, accused the film’s distributor Weinstein Co, the producers Chernin Entertainment and Crescendo Productions and other defendants of infringing his 2012 trademark in the phrase, one of the most recognizable in American sports.
The lawsuit does not name Murray as a defendant.
Murray’s character Vincent MacKenna, a grumpy retiree who drank and gambled, used the phrase “in the context of a race and in a clear attempt to imitate” Johnson, the complaint said.
Johnson said this would likely confuse the public, tarnishing his rights to a phrase “inextricably linked” with him.
“I’ve spent my whole life calling races, and that’s something I wanted to protect,” Johnson said in a phone interview from New Orleans, where he is attending Saturday’s Louisiana Derby. “It’s obviously mine. That’s my phrase.”
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Plankton Would Kill to Get His Hands on This Copycat Krabby Patty
Spongebob would definitely approve of the starfish-shaped cheese.
By Candace Braun Davison
Admit it: Before you can rattle off the past five presidents' names or recite state capitals, you could probably answer the following question. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
If you can't, you're lying to yourself. Or you've been deprived. That line—the very first in the theme song to Spongebob Squarepants—has played over 238-plus episodes in the past 17 years. It's spawned two movies, multiple theme park rides and countless toys and other swag, and it's still going strong today.
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Throughout the series—which, for the two or three people on the planet who may be unfamiliar, is about a sponge's adventures under the sea—there's one secret kept closely guarded: The formula for the irresistible Krabby Patty. Spongebob makes those burgers every day at his job at the Krusty Krab, and across nine seasons, his nemesis Plankton has tried to steal that secret recipe, so that his fast food joint can be the most popular in the ocean. It's been a running joke, of sorts, with characters regularly referencing what's in the burger without ever giving away the complete list of ingredients.
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Well, we've cracked the case. Or okay, fine, we came up with our own interpretation, based on what we've gleaned from the series. Contrary to what you might think—and Robot Chicken's interpretation of the patty—there's no crab in this at all. It makes sense, though: Why would the company's owner, Mr. Krabs, go all cannibal like that?!
Over the years, we've heard the secret formula includes all of the following:
Meat patty
Land salt
Barnacle shavings
Secret formula
Xuogfeil (1 tsp)
Gdsgehsg (4 cups)
Raspberry (1 tsp)
Who-Hoo-Hoo
A-Ooga
Whee (just a splash)
Jellyfish jelly (optional)
We wound up radically simplifying the recipe, opting for ground beef patties, but we think you'll appreciate the edits. That Maryland staple, Old Bay, subs in for "Poseidon's Powder," a rumored secret ingredient in the burger. And it's got ketchup, mustard, lettuce, pickles, tomato and onions, arranged to match the sandwiches shown in the cartoon, because we were that obsessed with every last detail.
A star-shaped cookie cutter is a must-have here. The Old Bay mayo may bring the zesty flavor, but the starfish-esque cheese is what's really going to make your friends go all, "hold my drink—I need to snap this." Trust.
If you're throwing a Spongebob-themed party, serve up a batch of these babies with some sand dollar cookies and some Squidward Tentacles, AKA calamari (or potato wedges, for picky eaters). Oh, and don't invite Plankton. That creep ruins everything.
Candace Braun Davison Deputy Editor Candace Braun Davison writes and produces videos on a range of lifestyle content, from celebrity interviews to home tours—and the occasional 12-pound cheeseburger.
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Londonderry's Ball nominated for NE-10 Man of Year
Londonderry’s Cody Ball, a recent graduate of Saint Anselm College, was nominated for the Man of the Year award issued by the Northeast-10 Conference in early May.
Ball competed for the men’s basketball team, and was nominated for excelling in all areas of his collegiate career, on the field, in the classroom and in the community.
Ball concluded a four-year tenure with the men’s basketball program at Saint Anselm, serving as a team captain in 2018-19. In the classroom, Ball graduated in May with a degree in Biology. In his senior campaign, he was named to the All-Tournament Team for the NCAA Division II East Region Championship, hosted by Saint Anselm and won by the Hawks.
In 2018-19, Ball and the Hawks won the program’s first-ever NCAA Division II Elite Eight game, downing No. 5-ranked Nova Southeastern, 91-81. He had four 3-pointers and finished with 16 points in the victory, pulling down six rebounds. The two-time All-Conference selection was the Most Valuable Player of the 2016-17 NE10 Championship.
Off the court, Ball served on the College’s Health Committee and volunteered his time at the Manchester Kids Café, the Sununu Youth Services Center, and was active with FAPNO, the Foster Adopted Parents Night Out. He also conducted an internship at Boston Physical Therapy and Wellness, shadowing the physical therapists and assisting patients.
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Neymar to stand trial in Spain as both he and Barcelona lose in appeal over fraud and corruption charges
Neymar, Barcelona and Santos will stand trial on fraud and corruption charges
Case relates to his transfer from Santos to Barcelona in 2013
The case stems from a complaint by Brazilian investment group DIS
By Adriana Garcia, Reuters
Published: 10:21 EDT, 20 February 2017 | Updated: 10:37 EDT, 20 February 2017
Neymar, Barcelona and Santos will stand trial on fraud and corruption charges over the transfer of the Brazilian forward after their appeals were turned down by Spain's High Court on Monday.
Neymar's mother Nadine Goncalves and the family company N&N also had appeals rejected.
'Santos FC, Barcelona FC, Neymar, his mother Nadine Goncalves and N&N, the family company, have lost their appeals to have charges of fraud and corruption dropped,' the High Court said in a statement.
They cannot appeal against the Court's decision.
The case stems from a complaint by Brazilian investment group DIS, which owned part of Neymar's transfer rights and alleges that it received less money than it was entitled to when Neymar joined Barcelona from Santos in 2013.
Investigations were carried out in Spain and Brazil into whether any part of Neymar's transfer fee had been concealed when he moved to Barcelona from Santos.
The Brazilian star (right), had his appeal turned down by Spain's High Court on Monday
Neymar to stand trial in Spain over fraud and corruption
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Inside knowledge: AT&T exec dishes on how your viewing habits are changing
Filed under AT&T at Aug 28
David Christopher, who runs AT&T's wireless and entertainment businesses, has a bird's-eye view of how streaming media and video are evolving.
Dallas-based AT&T recently completed its nearly $109 billion (including debt) purchase of Time Warner, a deal designed to help traditional media companies compete better with nimble tech services such as Netflix. Soon after the deal closed, AT&T launched WatchTV, a $15-a-month streaming service that offers more than 30 TV channels, including Time Warner channels TNT and TBS.
The Associated Press spoke with Christopher about how people are consuming media and what role wireless companies play. Remarks have been edited for clarity and length.
(AT&T Inc. via AP)
Q: Why do you think customers will choose Watch TV over other TV packages?
There's no "one size fits all" anymore for video. Video is increasingly very personal, and we think Watch TV is a great fit for many customers that want a smaller bundle of content.
Q: How else can AT&T use the Time Warner content?
There are lots of opportunities that we envision to drive innovation on behalf of consumers. You could have the ability to share a portion of a TV show that you thought was really funny or really impactful. You could have the ability to create a personalized news channel, or the ability to follow a particular athlete or star with personalized video coming right to your phone.
With its huge TV and movie portfolio, AT&T introduces itself as 'modern media company'
Q: How are people's viewing habits evolving?
There's a dramatic shift toward digital and a dramatic shift toward mobile. The number of hours people are watching linear television is dropping. The number of hours on mobile and digital is rising. It's particularly true among young audiences. It's less about only watching on your big screen and much more about watching what's specific to you on a more personal device.
We think those trends will continue and will be augmented by other technology, like augmented reality, mixed reality, virtual reality. Much more mobile consumption, much more consumption of other ancillary devices. It's why we are excited about the combination of our mobile network plus content.
Q: What about the state of the broadband and wireless industry?
It's a great time to be a consumer in the U.S. Video demand is driving up consumption dramatically, and costs are declining rapidly. According to Recon Analytics, the cost per megabyte has fallen from $1.37 in 2007 to less than a third of a cent in 2017. In the next five years people are going to be consuming more premium content than today, not less. And it's going to be happening more and more over mobile.
When you step back and look at the advent of 4G, people couldn't envision how ubiquitous Airbnb, Uber, Spotify and other things we live our lives by would become. That same thing is true for (the upcoming, faster) 5G, so it's an exciting brand new world.
Mae Anderson, The Associated Press
AT&T raising streaming service DirecTV Now's prices by $5
Why AT&T is eager to buy an advertising tech company
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SHOCK NEWS! — Major Expedition Planned to Antarctica to Prove Earth is Flat
Admin May 4, 2019 May 5, 2019 Articles, Other Writers
This is not an April Fool’s joke. It’s genuine. An expedition to the South Pole is planned for early next year in order to find proof that the earth is flat.
By Guy Walters
with added commentary, pictures, and a 4-minute video
THE EARTH AS A FLAT DISC
LD: Sailing over the ‘Edge of the World’ into the black Abyss of the Unknown has always been a high-risk strategy for Flat Earth navigators, with millions of Ancient Mariners having apparently disappeared into the void since earliest antiquity. According to some modern proponents of flat earth theory, many missing persons each year meet their end in this watery way. But their disappearances are either covered up by NASA or falsely attributed to other causes. [LD]
For most people, a trip to Antarctica would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, a chance to see one of the most breathtaking landscapes on the planet.
But early next year, there could be a journey to the bottom of the Earth with a very different purpose. Its mission could not be more startling: to prove the Earth is flat.
Forget those millennia of geographical research and those millions of photos from space of our globe-shaped planet.
There really are people who think the world is shaped more like a disc than a ball — encircled by a massive perimeter of ice that’s 150ft thick, and 165ft high.
“Beyond the Ice Wall is anyone’s guess,” says the website of the Flat Earth Society. “How far the ice extends; how it terminates; and what exists beyond it, are questions to which no present human experience can reply.”
LD: No photographs exist of the towering Ice Wall. Nevertheless, some claim to have seen it, as they have of the Yeti or the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. (See picture). I am intrigued to read a recent report that “a 68-year old man from California (pictured here) has gone missing in the Southern Indian ocean while attempting to reach ‘the End of the World’, hoping to demonstrate that Earth is flat.”
With their trip down South, the Flat Earthers hope to obtain proof of the Ice Wall and unveil other mysteries. What’s extraordinary about flat-earth theorists is that they maintain their belief despite the testimony of more than 550 humans who have gone into space.
Without access to modern technology, ancient man could be forgiven for thinking the Earth was flat. But even in the 4th and 5th centuries BC, Greek philosophers such as Plato believed the world was a globe.
Fast forward to the 17th century, and the only people who really believed the Earth was flat were Christian zealots.
Artist’s impression (right) : sailing over the Edge of the World.
“They are a whole mix of people,” says Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society, a charity that promotes rational, scientific thinking, and who visited the Flat Earth UK Convention in Birmingham last year. “A lot are people who want to do proper science, but don’t necessarily possess the right tools, or lack the right knowledge.”
It’s hard to determine exactly how many people are dedicated flat-earth theorists — though a YouGov survey last year suggested only two-thirds of American 18 to 24-year-olds “have always believed the world is round”.
At last year’s Flat Earth International Conference, about 650 people attended sessions ranging from one “debunking” the theory of gravity to another titled “Talking to your family and friends about flat earth’”.
What becomes apparent when perusing flat-earthers’ numerous websites and YouTube videos is that many are, indeed, motivated by the Bible, in which they claim ‘evidence’ for the world’s flatness can be found.
Scriptural references to the ‘four corners’ of the Earth are highlighted, as are passages in Psalms, Chronicles and Isaiah that claim the Earth is ‘fixed’ and ‘immovable’ — as if the quality of being static necessitates flatness.
But “evidence” for a flat earth also comes from observations gleaned by performing pseudo-scientific experiments.
Of these, perhaps the most cited is the Bedford Level Experiment carried out in 1838 by inventor Samuel Rowbotham. It was set up on a straight, six-mile stretch of the Old Bedford River in the Cambridgeshire Fens — some of the flattest areas of England.
Rowbotham stood in the river as a colleague rowed a boat away from him to which was fitted a flag raised three feet above the water.
The inventor, who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not A Globe, then observed the boat through a telescope, and noticed he could still see the flag after it had travelled for six miles.
According to his calculations based on the curvature of the Earth, the top of the flag should have dropped 11ft below his line of sight, and be invisible through his telescope. But it was still visible.
There could only be one reason: the world was flat. Unfortunately, he failed to account for refraction, whereby light rays shift direction when passing through an atmosphere. As any surveyor will tell you, near the surface of the Earth, light rays often bend down, with the curve of the rays nearly matching the curvature of the Earth. This means we can sometimes see over the horizon, and explains why Rowbotham could still see the flag six miles away.
Flat-earthers are most persistent when it comes to dismissing hard science.
Challenged with millions of pictures of a spherical Earth, for example, they have a simple response: they are fakes. “We believe that government space agencies are taking creative liberties with your taxes and producing misleading materials,” says the website for last year’s Flat Earth International Conference in Denver in the United States.
“Did you know that all images of Earth which show a curved horizon or a spherical shape are computer generated images (proven with Photoshop programs and analysis), artistic renderings (acknowledged by Nasa), or captured via fisheye/wide-angle curved lens (producing a curved appearance)?”
It is this obsession that is behind the planned trip to the Antarctic.
Flat-earthers are divided as to whether it is possible to drop off the edge of the world, or whether you simply scroll across to the other side in some weird vortex, just as Pac-Man can go from one side of the screen to the other.
Neither prospect is enough to scare off Jay Decasby, a prominent flat-earther who is sure of the trip’s success.
He told Forbes magazine: “All we have to do to shut this debate down once and for all is get the distance of the coast of Antarctica. If we can sail all the way around it, we will . . . prove it’s the outer edges of flat earth and refute entirely every single argument anyone can possibly try to pitch for the sun-worshipping cult of heliocentrism [a belief that the Sun is at the centre of the universe].”
The Flat Earth Cruise, according to the programme of this year’s Flat Earth International Conference programme, is due to set sail next year.
If the mission is to explore beyond the “ice wall” and risk falling off or simply venturing into the unknown, then we can say one thing — they must be very brave.
For all their wacky and ridiculous claims, it seems that flat-earthers will not be convinced that they are wrong. They thrive on social media and in online forums which create a sense of community and comfort that encourage them to think that many others share their beliefs.
Unsurprisingly, as Mr Marshall found, nearly all flat-earthers subscribe to the infamous conspiracy theories: for example that the Moon landings were faked, the FBI tried to cover up the assassination of President John Kennedy, 9/11 was an inside job, and most offensively, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” — an anti-Semitic forgery that claims Jews have a secret plan to take over the world.
(This paragraph is unlikely to impress our readers. LD)
Many have tried to ‘re-educate’ them. But there will always be those for whom the world is not enough.
Artist’s impression of houses built at edge of world
LD: As I post this admittedly weird article for the reader’s amusement, I am nevertheless mindful of J.B.S. Haldane’s famous observation: “The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
It is sobering to reflect that, however bizarre the Flat Earth theory might seem to most people, it is unlikely to be even one-millionth as bizarre as the actual universe in all its magical splendor.
Finally, a brief video below. This will take you into the exciting geocentric universe and mindset of the average Flat Earth enthusiast. Bon voyage!
VIDEO : 4 mins
Flat Earth conspiracy theory theory
166 thoughts to “SHOCK NEWS! — Major Expedition Planned to Antarctica to Prove Earth is Flat”
Dr Jim says:
Dear Dark Moon,
I would encourage you and all your readers to investigate the Flat Earth concept with an open mind.
Look at the physical evidence, and investigate who was and is behind the theory of the heliocentric model of the world around us.
Dr. Jim
If you look at the sky on a cloudy day you can see that it is a sphere.
The ancients knew that.
The earth sucks.
Thunderdolt... says:
Gravity sucks!
Yes, Gravity
Inge Trams... says:
How deep in meters is it to dig on a so called flat earth. And what happens then one break thru down deep. ?
Or is it a turtle to land on.
Also if it is no gravity on earth why do the air stay close?
Also how to explain the day and night .
And what about the moon wandering over the night sky.
If gravity is a fake, how come the ebb,and flood.
Uriah says:
For years I subscribed to the heliocentric theory, like most of my generation. We had no choice but to believe in Kepler, Galileo, Newton and all those Old Fogeys who presented us with their false data and managed to capture our minds with their fake science.
I would say that 99.9% of the people I have met believe in the conventional model of the universe as a result of brainwashing by their parents and teachers. Independent investigators are few and far between. The way I discovered the earth was a flat disc in the center of the universe was a day I will never forget. There’s no going back now.
I feel profoundly sorry for those who persist with the delusion that the earth is round and just one of billions of planets in billions of galaxies. Such false views are dangerous and need to be resisted at all costs. People who share my views must not be held up to ridicule and contempt. That is so wrong. It is very hurtful. It is condescending, disrespectful and demeaning.
How many girlfriends I have lost over this Flat Earth business I can’t tell you! As soon as they find out I am a Flat Earther, they begin to be wary of me. Like I’m some sort of leper.
Fortunately, I met a beautiful girl a few months ago at a Flat Earth Conference in California who agreed with me on Flat Earth theory. In fact, she was even more enthusiastic and into these ideas than I was. She had huge gray eyes full of secret knowledge and wisdom. I fell in love with her at once, feeling like, this is my soulmate.
I won’t say any more. I won’t waste my pearls on swine.
Oink, oink! Hopefully, you and your “soulmate” will not procreate. (This earthen sphere already has its quota of morons…)
Flat earth projection is what happens when Physical Science is gone from schools!!
Here is an easy test to disprove theories by ‘flat earth nuts’ everywhere.
If the earth were flat, every country on the surface of the side where all folks are congregated, would see the sun go down and come up at the same time.
Daytime and nighttime would occur at the same time for all on one side, every day.
I know that does not happen since I have watched Olympics happening live and it would be light in Russia and dark here.
Even when watching the Patriots play when I was in Florida…. it was already totally dark in Boston, and not yet dark in Miami. That was due to the curvature of the earth’s surface and sun in southern hemisphere in winter.
Who lives on the opposite surface of the pancake…. or the other 5 surfaces, if the earth is a cube??? TROJ?? 🙂
Perhaps you could explain how water magically sticks to the outside surface of a big round ball, and a ball that they say is spinning at a thousand miles per hour. Please don’t say it’s because of “gravity”, which is nothing more than an unproven theory by a 33rd degree freemason named Newton.
Ken –
“Perhaps you could explain how water magically sticks to the outside surface of a big round ball…”
I will be glad to do so when you prove to me that the flat planet Earth is shaped in the form of a chip, pancake, plate, platter, chessboard, table-top or disc… your choice; and not a cube or rhomboid with numerous surfaces of equal and unequal sides…. or not one of the flat ends of a cylinder or cone with a diameter of the width of the planet and a length of 100,000 miles or MORE!!
You have MANY hundreds of shapes from which to make your selection.
ALAS!!! I have only ONE!! 🙂
I’m not sure what all you just said, but you didn’t explain what I asked because it’s impossible. The physics of water makes it always find it’s level and it can not curve around and stick to any convex surface.
Here’s a good place to begin some research on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fap8Rtd9IHY
Thanks. I watched the video. I don’t use biblical references. They have been translated to suit the writers.
“The physics of water makes it always find it’s level and it can not curve around and stick to any convex surface.”
That is sorta correct when explaining water’s properties relative to small objects. (Water is the only liquid that will form a concave meniscus in a tube.) It is not the case when dealing with large masses, with huge attractive forces, such as planets.
I am very surprised that my simple presentation of alternative shapes to a ’round ball’ would be too much for you to understand. I am also surprised that you cannot grasp the theory of gravity inherent in huge planetary masses. That is the same force that causes space objects to fall to the ground.
These “space objects” you mentioned fall to the ground, and everything else that falls to the ground for that matter, because they are heavier than the air around them. It’s relative density and buoyancy, If you fill a balloon with helium it goes up because it’s lighter than the air around it, unaffected by this super powerful force called gravity. If you hold a piece of wood under water, it will shoot upwards upon release because it’s less dense than the water around it, unaffected by gravity. But I’m assuming that you believe this “gravity” is the thing that holds all the oceans and everything else firmly attached to the surface of this spinning ball. There is a reason why it’s still called a theory, and I’m surprised you believe it’s real.
Thanks for trying to help me survive here. I believe I’ll make it OK!! 🙂
My religious beliefs are my own.
Please excuse me for not becoming a ‘convert’ into your ‘no-gravity’ cult with TROJ. 🙂
Trytostaycalmreadingglobeahdscomments... says:
Before commenting research flat earth.
TTSC…… –
I did that a few years ago.
It is nothing but a way to discredit the folks who question the real secrets of the numerous fake events they would not want revealed….. when lumped into ‘flat-earth’ craziness. Minimizing label.
I am surprised that such an astute researcher like you would immediately assume that those who disagree have not done due diligence on the subject.
Now, I have an order for you….
“YOU SHOULD”…. keep voting for Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez. She believes in ‘flat-earth’ and that it will be destroyed in 2030 if her ‘Green New Deal’ is not followed, and cows must stop farting!! 🙂
See AO-C – Congress’s bartender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLoHgvBhCI
Donaldo Colina says:
Perhaps the Earth is similar to a pen….s. Regardless of it’s size or shape, it gives or sustains life in the same manner. It’s primary function doesn’t change. 😁 Whether a globe or flat, the realities of Earth’s inhabitants won’t change one way or another. Donaldo would live on a World shaped like a hotdog just as long as there was truth and justice for all. Just thinking.
I have no idea “who lives on ….. the other 5 surfaces”, Pat. I NEVER said the Earth is a cube, never said that. Can you not figure out how to create a strawman argument without putting words in my mouth? I know how much you LERV your strawman arguments but please don’t put words in my mouth is all I’m asking. It’s not alot to ask, it really isn’t. Thanks. 😊
TROJ –
What is the TOTAL shape of the planet where you live on JUST one side??
If you live on one side of a ‘flat earth’….. what is on the other side(s)?
How many sides are there??
Madame Butterfly says:
According the primitive “mind” of TROJ, the flat earth only has one side. The side he happens to be standing on. The underside doesn’t exist. It doesn’t even bear thinking about! Coins only have one side. The side they happen to fall on. “Heads I win, tails you lose!” 🙂
MB –
Seems SO!
I’ll not join this primitive “mind” cult with TROJ & Ken!! 🙂
brian boru says:
I worked in Antarctica for a couple of seasons as a pilot. I can’t say that being there I got the impression that it was the edge of a disc. There are plenty of ice shelves which rise 100′-200′ above the sea all around the continent. Since I didn’t get to the Pole, only 86 degrees south, or travel across, I can’t be absolutely sure that we aren’t on a globe. However, I have spoken to other pilots who have flown across the continent. They came down from South America and went on to New Zealand so I’d say that proves it’s not a disc. One way these guys could convince themselves is to go to Hawaii and get one of the large telescopes on the volcano to deflect and point to California. If they can see the coast there then they have an argument.
Amerikagulag says:
At first I thought this was The Onion.
I would ask about the other planets in the solar system as well. Are they flat also? Are there no spheres in the galaxy? Is the earth the only one or is it part of a family of discs? A shame the moon doesn’t seem to want to cooperate and be a disc also. Then again, perhaps it is and they’re just keeping that a secret as well.
Thanks for the smile.
If comprehensive, the ‘expedition’ will find the driest valleys on earth are in Antarctica… due to 200 MPH winds!!
The winds cause NO RAIN just in that area, which would not happen on a pancake world or one side of a cube called Earth.
https://youtu.be/aOtLCXM8Ox8?t=385
PAT :
What do you have to say about the following Scientific experiments which prove the Earth is stationary/motionless :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7hOjieaoE
I’m curious as to what you have to say about the 5 experiments mentioned in the video. I bring the video to your attention because ADMIN, in the feature piece, for some reason ADMIN didn’t mention the 5 Science Experiments which prove the Earth to be stationary and motionless.
You changed the subject from ‘flat earth’ to ‘spinning earth’ without addressing the TOTAL shape of YOUR ‘flat earth’ with your video. You stated it is not a cube!! What is the TOTAL shape of the planet where you live on JUST one side??
TROJ, Your question here and my first question only get answered with questions because there are no answers that prove the earth is a spinning ball, except to the people still in the dark who think the International Space Station, satellites, and NASA photographs are real things. Yet there are 100’s of proofs that it’s flat and motionless.
It seems there are not but two choices, rather four.
1) Helio with round earth
2) Helio with flat earth
3) Geo with round earth
4) Geo with flat earth
I choose geo with round earth!
“Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
To see such sport,
“Here Sadaputa Dasa (Dr. Richard L. Thompson) discusses in depth the cosmic earth-disc of ancient cultures, known as Bhu-mandala in Puranic texts. He gives several highly sophisticated explanations of this archaic icon, while warning against the naive “flat earth” interpretation, which tends to discredit these deeply philosophical scriptures.”
The cow shaped earth continued…
“Vedic literature divides the visible heavens into regions, which transmigrating souls are said to reach according to their karma. We can think of the constellations of stars as a road map for the soul’s travel after death. First I shall describe this map. Then I shall give some evidence that people in old cultures all over the world had a similar cosmic map, often agreeing with the Vedic map in many minute details.”
Astronomy and Antiquity of Vedic Culture
Yes, the earth is shaped like a cow, everybody knows that. The question is, is the Earth shaped like a Sacred hindoo cow of the hindoos or a Sacred RED joo cow of the jooozzzz? Alex Jones, the MEGA-HELIO, he might as well be a JESUIT and/or a JEW, he’s such an UBER-MEGA HELIO ; Emerick is under the impression that the Earth is shaped like the RED joo cow of his (((ALL-TIME FAVORITE tribe))) who provide him with his salary and tell him what his religious worldview should be. The jews are now censoring him , it’s what you call “Karma”, for Alex Jones himself is VERY CENSORIOUS — he will not allow any Flat Earth Geocentric to share any information at his websites. Jones TOTALLY CENSORS Flat Earth Geocentrics.
I’m opposed to censorship. I believe in Free Speech and the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights but still, it is a hoot to hear censorious webmasters cry and complain when they themselves get censored. When they censor Flat Earth Geocentrics we’re expected to praise them for being “brave truth loving truth tellers” ; When they get censored , when they get a taste of their own medicine, they expect all of us to feel real bad for them and to be outraged they’re getting censored and we’re to believe it’s the end of the Bill of Rights and the end of the world because they’re getting censored. When they censor, they conveniently forget ALL about the Bill of Rights and Free Speech and the free and open exchange of information and they expect everyone to praise them for being censorious. That’s how f*cked-up Alex Jones and his censorious webmaster ilk buddy-buddies in the “alternative” media are, that’s how f*cked-up in their heads they are. They’re very censorious and we’re supposed to praise them for it, but when they get censored we’re expected to be outraged, !Outraged! I tell ya’!!!
Helios are VERY CENSORIOUS and that means Helios are deeply afraid of honest debate, which means their Heliocentrism is NOT as Scientifically solid as they claim. REAL Science is NOT afraid of questions. REAL Science is NOT afraid of Science-based questions, but Helios are deeply afraid of Science-based questions.
The insanity of the Jew. Now featuring the Jews’ ultimate theft in link below. (Only a Jew might have thought this possible.)
The world has lost its mind, but with insane, psychopathic, Jewish inmates running the show, the insane is taken not only as possibility, but probability.
Flat Earth? First and foremost is the fact that, in the absence of gravity, a condition found throughout the known universe, liquid naturally forms a sphere. If the earth had been a gas or liquid (like say water) at any point during its formation, it would go against all known laws of physics to have a flat plate occur in the gravitational void of space. What’s more, there are no other “flat plates” found among known celestial bodies. Apparently, Earth would be the singular example of a celestial body exhibiting this unique condition.
Then there arises the question of why, given the nasty outcome dictated by the church authorities of his day, Galileo would, contrary to ruling Christian dogma, pursue publishing his observations about the spherical nature of the planet. What was in it for Galileo? I note that his questioning the church on this matter resulted in virtually the same outcome as his modern counterparts questioning the mythical Hallowedhoax. Tell you what, I’ll trade you. I’ll believe the Earth is flat when the prevailing idea about the Hallowedhoax is that it never happened and Jews are in fact parasitical organisms, fully culpable for the destruction that got them thrown out of every country they infected.
If anything ever made a man insane, it’s love for a pretty girl. Of course the earth isn’t round, but wait a minute, aren’t pretty girls curved like space?
Like a man with one eye is king of the blind, the man with half a brain is king of those having none. The idea of a flat earth is totally insane. With so many reasons against this particularly virulent form of insanity, what’s truly insane is how it finds play among flat-air-heads on this planet. Yet the idea keeps raising its irrational head just like all other insane ideas, e.g., “diversity is our strength,” “there is only one race, the human race,” given a chance, and plenty of money, the average Negro can grow up to be a rocket surgeon. Muslims are really peaceful in their intent towards Europe. Christianity did not set civilization back a thousand years promoting ideas like a flat earth, instead it advanced man’s scientific knowledge. All those mass shootings were acts of insane, “lone gunmen.” Jews have nebber dun nuttin’ wrong, it’z chust everyone hates them so much, they provide a convenient scapegoat for “anti-Semitic haters.”
Of course, for Jews, the benefit of this insanity is it enables them to hide very real ideas and actions, like those listed above, among other insane, gossamer fantasies now abounding among the gullible, ignorant goyim.
The Hallowedhoax never happened! Six million Jews never died! There were no death camps – Insane!
Planet X/Nirubu is about to collide with Earth – Reasonable.
The attack on the trade towers was actually planned and prearranged controlled demolition – Insane!
Alien grays are living under the Denver airport and are battling humans for control over this flat Earth – Reasonable.
No aircraft hit the towers on September 11th. It was an optical illusion bought about by the use of holograms. – Insane!
Nadzees actually run the American government. They took over with Operation Paperclip. – Reasonable
The recent widespread destruction in California was not due to “campfires.” Instead it was actually a test of the new technology of space bases scalar weapons technology. – Insane!
Nadzees are about to take over the world from bases in the Antarctic – Reasonable
Chemtrails are actually highly toxic particles being purposely sprayed over the planet to destabilize the temperatures and environment, bringing about global climate change previously predicted by “scientist.” – Insane!
The Illuminati/Masons/Alien Grays/UFO’s (your choice, ad nauseum) are the real reasons behind our problems. – Reasonable
Elections are a sham, they are all rigged by a conspiratorial cabal. The people have no voice in government. It is actually a tiny cabal of elite money-men choosing political appointments to office. – Insane!
Hillary actually won the election. Trump stole the election with the help of Russian duplicity – Reasonable.
Conspiracies do exists and are responsible for the problems now being faced around the flat plate we live on. – Insane!
Despite his administrative cabinet, Trump is still a Naaadzee,– Reasonable.
The Earth is flat! – Insane! – Wait a minute, maybe not.
Jews have no real power over governments, our problems are all the white man’s fault – Reasonable
Race exists. There are obvious ,documented differences between races- Insane!
White people have no historical heritage and no racial culture. Only Jews, “Blacks,” “Hispanics,” Chinese, Japanese and other races can develop such cultures. – Reasonable
How “reasonably insane” all this sounds to the “intelligent” man with no brain.
Fill the world with enough bullshit and before long you too will believe all men are equal (except Jews of course) and Trump rules America. Soon there will no longer be any question of what happened to the faces of those insane pigs now disguised as man’s rational visage. It has become impossible to tell who, or what, man is, or if pigs really can fly over this flat plate called Earth.
And now, the closing credit for white civilization.
Toejamicus says:
Arch, You have pretty much covered the water front. But you left off one important concept. Flat earth is for flat heads. Round earth is for round heads. However, and this is very important, the hollow earth, the one you left out, is for hollow heads. These intrepid flat earthers, shipping out to the ends of the earth, may sail into a great big hole at the South Pole. They will be amazed at the wonders of a hollow earth. They may even find some Natzees living in there. Thule Society anyone? And if they keep going may also find a race of giant very pale pygmy people living there who stay well far away from the Natzees. After sailing “a-round” eight thousand miles, meeting all sorts of hominids along the way who speak Darwinese, the flat heads will come out at a great big hole at the North Pole passing a Russian sub chasing down a Natzee sub, thereby proving beyond any shadow of doubt, that not only is the earth round but is also hollow. No less then Jules Verne has said so!!
Sounds exciting! Where do I book at trip for the Hollow Earth?
I first requirement in order book a trip into the hollow earth is a have a hollow head. The hollow earth natzees have booking agents in Israel but alas it’s a one way booking only. Strangely enough one as ever returned to tell about it. Come to think about it, there were couple of Norwegians several years who said they did row through the North Pole opening However, this has not been verified by the Noble Peace Prize Committee.
Alice,
Also, the Norwegian Peace Prize Committee is of very late made up by Muslims who are at logger “heads” of any shape or size, with the Israeli booking agents for trips into the hollow earth domain of Allah.
While getting rid of Libraries from other cultures through “kosher baptism with fire” suddenly new vaults opened for a new superior Worldwide Religion, a newly changed history and with its own scholars of “religious science” and Jewish superiority. What a coincidence! Heresy must be a bitch after all!
Suddenly the Earth goes flat after millennia, has four corners and Christianity takes over the “ dark, flat and unholy square to serve” and rule the world with laws written into stone by a revengeful and murderous kosher God that inserts the chosen ones officially into place as the most important human tribe that ever wandered the “flat”. The “baptism” of the Alexandrian library opened some interesting history changing opportunities for the chosen devilish crooks that are running the world these days not so undercover any more but successfully meddling with all human affairs worldwide since over 2000 years.
RALAN says:
HEY AS
Thanks for bringing the conversation full circle , no pun intended to the flatheads. Almost 30 comments before someone at LD blamed this on the Jews! BTW, the earth is actually a proton spinning around the the sun. The sun is really a nucleus and we are all living on a very round molecule which is part of a large ant. Not to worry because we are about to get stepped on by a giant platypus any second now!
I know it seems like a billion years but in the context of the space time continuum it just feels that way. Perhaps the molecule is flat.
Arch, you say, “Galileo would, contrary to ruling Christian dogma, pursue publishing his observations about the spherical nature of the planet,” and “Christianity…set civilization back a thousand years promoting ideas like a flat earth.” When did the Church ever say the earth was not spherical? It never did, and it didn’t even teach that the earth was the center of the solar system, much less the universe. Many churchmen took it for granted, just like most people did, but it was never a dogma or doctrine of the Catholic Church. Copernicus and others were never persecuted for defending the heliocentric theory. In fact Copernicus dedicated his book on the heliocentric theory to one one of his cardinal friends at the Vatican. Galileo was obnoxious and did all he could to disturb the common man by saying “The Church is wrong” when the Church never said anything about the subject, since it has nothing to do with divine revelation, faith, or morals.
And in case you haven’t heard, the Catholic Church (although heavily infiltrated, subverted and corrupted today, including the present anti-pope Francis), has been the biggest promoter of science in history, and Christian revelation was the source of the rise of modern science in the first place with its teaching on the divine Logos and hence the order and intelligibility of the created universe in time and the reality of linear history, which is also salvation history. That being said, there is a lot of evidence for the geocentric theory (but not so much for the flat earth theory). Readers can see Robert Sungenis, “Galileo Was Wrong” and decide for themselves.
Nothing but the truth says:
Darrel, thanks for the reference!
This is Robert Sungenis’ book, volume 1 of 2, 793 pages (slide share). He built a scientific case on Geocentrim.
https://archive.org/details/GalileoWasWrongTheChurchSungenisRobertA.Bennett4275.o
Maybe (((they))) diverted people off target, which would be Geocentrism, pushing this Flat Earth theory.
We all know the Jews love to exaggerate things!
“…intelligibility of the created universe in time and the reality of linear history, which is also salvation history.”
I take issue with the true Creation being created in time, where “time” in this context implies that there are “passages of time”. As I see it, passages are not a product of Truth, but are instead a source of trouble which ENABLES a reality of Evil.
Having said that, linear history IS salvation history, but, in my view, “salvation” involves a “window of opportunity” within the changing Yugic cycle.
Salvation will come when this coopting of the true nature of “time” ends
barkingdeer says:
“who’s THEY”?
“well, basically, SATAN”…
oh no, not HIM again!!!
afraid so, that’s right, that’s right, it’s SATAN again…
and you know, he’s gotta be there somewhere sooner or later in the magical thinking brain of every benighted blithering idiot fanatical religious fundamentalist… look people, the flat earth is just another religious belief…
now we know what’s wrong with these people.. the question is – how did they get that way?
it is not to say the jesuits, the freemasons, zionists, bilderbergers, cia, the queen, the vatican etc. do not exist as unconscionable conspiratorial manipulators of the world, indeed violent and utterly ruthless, who have been lying to the public about just about everything forever.. they do.. we don’t doubt the government does “produce misleading materials”.. but that doesn’t mean the earth is flat too…
in fact if these people ever do manage to stick their noses too far into antarctica, they’ll probably get em chopped off… because it’s highly likely there’s a lot of globalist activity going on underground down there…
it’s far more likely the whole flat earth fiasco is designed on purpose by those same rulers to keep the public buffaloed about the buffalos, straight from the ministry on bullshit conspiracy theories, to make the real conspiracies a little harder to believe, easier to deny…
honestly my friends, are the flat earthers any wackier than those who claim most of the stuff in the bible and other ‘scriptures’? god flooded the whole planet and drowned everybody because he was mad at the world (failed experiment – trash it all and start over?), lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt, an angel named gabriel cut muhammad’s chest open and poured in a magical powder to help straighten his mind out, god sent jesus to the earth to be tortured to death to make everything ok for everybody? really?
“heliocentrism” only means the sun us at the enter of the solar system, not at the center of the universe…
the flat earthers however, apparently believe the earth IS at the center of the universe…
‘egocentricity’ is the mental derangement, where the egocentrist thinks HE is the center of the universe..
i would speculate egocentricity is a common flaw among religious fundamentalists, who would likely ‘logically’ then prefer to think they’re living on a planet, disc whatever, that is also at the center of the universe…
i don’t believe the earth is a sphere because i was brainwashed, though i do admit brainwashing is common…
one reason i believe the earth is a sphere is because i can see with my own eyes that the moon and the sun are round.. to me that indicates the earth is probably round too, they’re spheres, unless you think the moon and the sun are set on edge somehow… then i guess what, they roll past every day and night? that would be hard to say about the moon, because it has surface characteristics that would be moving in a rolling motion that you could see.. aha, but not the sun.. you can’t tell whether it’s rolling of not.. ok then, the sun rolls and moon slides, on something..
we do have to say though, the moon is pretty weird, since we only ever see one side of it.. for that to happen it means it has to be spinning at only 1/365 the of a turn every earth day, and leap year somehow has no incremental effect on what we see over the millennium… smoke on that for a minute… the other idea is that the moon is a spaceship of some kind, an artifact, with gods, angels, devils, cosmic supervisors of some sort keeping an eye on us…
ok, nobody really knows exactly what gravity is.. or more accurately, where it comes from…
my best guess is it’s the expansion force inherent in the universe, which astronomers say continues to get bigger and bigger, with all its bodies moving away from each other… and that it pushes stars and planets and atoms together, which is why they spin… therein does lay the secret to free energy… the quote goes something like – “man will one day hook his wheelwork to the very force that drives the universe itself”… that’s optimistic…
also, having spent a couple years out in the middle of the ocean, i can tell you the curve of the earth is visible…
and, to me it’s obvious that clouds in the sky appear at lower heights with distance because they’re all at the same altitude… and to me it’s far more likely the earth turns toward the sun, rather than the sun burns across the sky every day, coming from somewhere and going back again? or are there an endless number of suns that go past every day like bullets one at a time? and, why is is the earth is colder at the edges where the ice walls are holding all the water in? wouldn’t the sun warm everything at the same rate, melting the ice walls? if fact, wouldn’t the sun actually be shining right on the vertical sides of the ice walls on the side of the disc for a longer period of time as it made its approach every day? doesn’t the sun cause ice to melt?
you’re right about the telescope.. you should also be able to put one on donnor summit in the high sierra and on a clear day be able to check out the bikinis on waikiki beach… you should be able to see all the ships in the ocean too… you should be able to see all the way to the ice walls… because in telescopic terms it’s no too far..
the flat earthers use airline routes to illustrate their idea.. they say there are only a few flights listed straight across the southern ocean, for example, like from austrailia to south america, with the majority of flights routed up north to the usa than back down to south america… but they don’t get it that it’s done that way for commercial purposes – there is not that much demand for a lot of flights straight across… and they go so far as to say the few straight across flights are actually fake, they don’t even exist…
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=flat+earth+airplane+travel+proof&view=detail&mid=36266A272483481F580136266A272483481F5801&FORM=VIRE
there was something about the transponders going on and off too, what was it?
Yukon Jack says:
Flat earth appeared out of nowhere about 2-3 years ago as a CIA psyop to discredit truthers. Many fell for it. It is incredible that in this day and age that flat earth could even be a theory, yet it is and thus you have to wonder about the sanity of people. Flat earth seems to be the latest psyop to challenge “reality” and destroy truth.
There are hundreds of ways to prove sphere earth, the easiest is a space photograph of the earth turning under the space station. I have my favorites. If earth was a disc the gravity wouldn’t be constant across the surface. Another favorite is geometry of a triangle on a flat vs. a sphere. If a surveyor starts laying out an equilateral triangle on a flat 1,000 miles long, each leg being 60 degrees angle, he will end of a the starting point.
If however you are on a sphere and start off laying down 1,000 mile legs 60 degrees at the end point you will not be at the point of origin because you’ll be laying down a curved line. Every navigator on this sphere planet know this and has to account for this. So I wrote a tongue in cheek essay on just this challenging flat earthers to put their faith (and lives) on the line.
As a test of “flat earth faith” I suggested a contest that flat earthers all get aboard a 747 while sphere earthers get aboard another 747 and take off from Hilo, Hawaii using the navigation of preference. The entire trip will be above the ocean, each 747 has to fly 1,000 nautical miles based on flat or sphere earth. The aircraft will only have enough fuel to reach the destination based on the projected trip. If you get back to point of origin you get a cold beer, if not your aircraft will run out of fuel and drop into the drink (ocean).
Obviously the flat earths will not reach point of origin and end up dropping into the drink and drown. lol
Mariners have always known that the earth is round, because if you sail in a straight line it takes longer to get anywhere. So you sail in an arc. Find the shortest arc, i.e., the one that gets you there the quickest, measure it, and you can calculate the circumference of the earth.
“Flat Earth” is just another example of Jews tricking the dumb goyim into making themselves look stupid.
If it weren’t for this very simple fact, it would not have been necessary for shipping companies to risk thousands of ships and the lives of tens of thousands of passengers by sailing through the ice fields of the North Sea for centuries, instead of simply sailing due west from London to New York and back.
So, no “Titanic”. See also, “THE WRECK OF THE WILLIAM BROWN”, a book about an Irish “coffin” ship that went down in almost the exact spot, a century before. Forget the name of the author. Saw a dramatization of the case on TV when I was a child. It’s on amazon.
The international society of mariners and navigators should issue a white paper of how they navigate sphere earth to put this flat earth nonsense to rest. Goolag, Faceberg, and Jewtube say they are fighting fake news so why is flat earth plastered all over social media?
We are truly facing a new dark age if this campaign of CIA/USArmy cognitive dissonance doesn’t stop.
“…It is incredible that in this day and age that flat earth could even be a theory…”
It’s crazy, but no crazier than the so-called “Holocaust”, in which the evidence consists of between 75 and 95 % pure Communist propaganda. The idiot Americans et al. at Nuremberg fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
We’ve learned NOTHING since the Middle Ages. The witchcraft trials were in fact quite logical by comparison.
@ Carlos W. Porter :
Heliocentrism can be found in the JEWS’ JEW Kabbalah. In fact, that’s where Heliocentrism comes from, the JEWS’ JEW Kabbalah [ the JEWS got ((( their))) Heliocentrism from ((( their))) time in Babylon, the “Babylonian Captivity” ]. Please tell us what you think about that, that your Heliocentrism comes from the JEWS’ JEW Kabbalah. Qua ANTI-Jew that you are, how do you reconcile your belief in JEW-Kabbalah Heliocentrism with your ANTI-Jewism? [ Especially as JEW-Kabbalah Heliocentrism has NEVER been proven using Empirical Science methods and remains a JEW religious concept].
That Heliocentrism comes from the JEWS’ JEW Kabbalah, do you not think that is a legitimate reason to question and scrutinize JEW-Kabbalah-derived Heliocentrism? And if it’s not a legitimate reason to question Heliocentrism, then why exactly is it not a legitimate reason to question JEW-Kabbalah-derived Heliocentrism? Since when do you encourage everyone to accept , and to accept without questioning , JEW religious concepts from the JEWS’ JEW religious book the JEW Kabbalah? ESPECIALLY as you fully well know that Jew religious from the JEWS’ JEW Kabbalah Heliocentrism has NEVER been proven using Empirical Science methods. U snake in the grass u.
According to the ancients, kabbalah is an integral component of a “cosmic tampering” engineered by what the Gnostics call “Demiurge” – the usurpation of the true Creation, at least insofar as this solar “system” is concerned.
It’s said that absent the usurping action the Sun is an aspect of Divinity, and that the planets are its “attending satellites”
Makes me wonder how much ol’ Tom Paine knew about these sun worshippers 🤔
I suppose I should be more clear….
Certainly all manifested existence is of Divinity. But when you entertain the notion of Creation having been coopted by a usurping action, it would imply that aspects of Divinity* have had their Divine nature “interfered” with
*the true nature of what is called the “Sun” could be understood as being an a-spect (from “spectral”) of Divinity, say, in this sector of the galaxy?
All of this of course must call into question what the ramifications are for an entity such as the Sun seen in this context having its true nature circumvented
Joe F. says:
For sure, no one is going to Antarctica, but I think the inquiry into flat earth is being misrepresented by red herring clowns. Legitimate researchers do not claim to know the full physical geography of the earth, but they are asking a wide range of questions and providing copious examples that deserve to be answered and explained. And most of them say they became involved by setting out first to disprove the flat earth theory. Here is one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLl7C5BkmQ
Alan Donelson says:
We have to take time for a good belly laugh or two. I have a sister-in-law who appears a confirmed Flat Earther. I do not beLIEve she visits darkmoon.me. I once sent her an image of “Flat Earth Borne by a Turtle”. She did not respond.
Over the past several days, wife and I butchered 50 meat birds, Cornish Cross variety, the fastest to morph non-GMO, organic feed to flesh on our own flat earth. [NOTE: Relevance!] From Iowa, these chickens arrive here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in a cardboard box via the corpse known as the USPS — 50+ small, fluffy, peeping chicks. For the next six weeks or so, they grow to 6.0 to 8.5 pounds as a “clean bird”, just like you might buy in a grocery store (though, most importantly, with quality added as Joel Salatin teaches).
When we butcher, set-up and clean-up takes portions of bracketing days. Burying awful offals in holes prepared for this season’s tomato crop fell (!) to me today. Gaétane celebrated an early Mother’s Day with another real, true Mom (no relation) at an extended care facility, taking a well deserved break from standing, teaching butchering techniques to a much younger neighbor. Thus, we have lived this week in Nowheresville, a kind of mythical, idyllic oasis found nestled near, unsusally not within, very large, urban deserts lacking auras of spiritual presence, awareness, much less mastery of self.
From here, of course, at an elevation frightening to some, the earth sure looks flat in some places. Not so even-steven in other locales. The Rockies in Canada astoundingly impressive to me, coming across the hills overlooking the Bay Area for the first time (1969) like diving into the (apparently flattened) Milky Way galaxy! Even though I do not beLIEve 550 humans actually traversed the Van Allen Belt and lived to talk about such adventures as “walking on the Moon”, I concede and allow and encourage anyone and everyone to laugh at absurdities so evident that only the heart still functions, not the head. A welcome relief from putatively erudite thinking!
Well said, Alan! You and your wife obviously live in an idyllic universe of your own. Bless you!
And yet … and yet … dear philosopher-mystic with your head in the clouds … living in a remote rural paradise which you describe fetchingly as “Nowheresville” … this comment of yours strikes a jarring note and is unlikely to please the followers of ahimsa, let alone the sensitive vegan:
“Over the past several days, wife and I butchered 50 meat birds.”
Somehow, dear Alan, the idea of a transcendental mystic and visionary poet — which is how you see yourself — does not sit well with the harsh reality of yourself as a “meat bird butcher”. How, pray tell, do you and your wife kill all these full-grown chickens (weighing 6 to 8.5 pounds each)?
Do you wring their necks lovingly or do you chop off their heads tenderly with a carving knife? Have you ever seen a headless chicken running round in circles? And all this cruelty to animals —for cruelty it is by any other name — is done for what? So that you and wife can live an idyllic life in the country? and do gourmet cooking with organic meat?
Hmm, sound a bit strange to me! Not passing judgment, Alan. Just reflecting on the incompatibility of a mystical poet-philosopher and a chicken butcher existing in the same body.
Doesn’t sound right to me. How would you like to be reborn as a chicken in your next reincarnation?
The Madame speaks wisely.
I would suggest that you gather most of their eggs, eat them in preferable ways and allow enough to hatch so the cycle continues THAT way. This is what I do with mine🐣
Let your chickens live out their lives as we would ours
Hail, valiant Warrior of the Wigwam! Big Chief Tomahawk speak wisely! 🙂
Eggs are the most nutritious food imaginable. The best source of protein and containing all nutrients essential to good health. Their role in bad cholesterol production is now dismissed as yet another myth. The multibillionaire art tycoon Charles Saatchi once went on an egg only diet, partly to lose weight. He ate 3 boiled eggs for breakfast, 3 for lunch, and 3 for dinner. That’s 9 eggs a day. He not only lost weight, he remained fighting fit and his cholesterol level didn’t go up at all.
I’m certainly not criticizing Alan Donelson for being a “chicken butcher”. I eat meat myself but very sparingly, preferring fish, eggs and dairy products. (And by the way, I don’t drink alcohol). As long as people need to eat meat, I guess slaughter houses are necessary. The job has to be done. By someone. But I don’t think this is a role best suited to people who present themselves as mystical poets in the tradition of Ezra Pound, as our friend Alan Donelson does. I bet Ezra didn’t spend hours every day writing inspired cantos and the rest of his time chasing chickens round the farm yard with a meat axe! 🙂
Ezra DID chase many ‘chicks’ around the finest cafes and swanky bedrooms in his day. He also introduced his friends to ‘chicks’ as lovers. Set them up. “Me Too” would attack him today. 🙂
Madame B., you speak to a mysterious aspiration and address to me welcome and fair questions. As a dear soul exhorted repeatedly in the longest book I had ever read cover-to-cover both excitedly carefully three times before I reached maturity — Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, confessing here “I was so much older then, I am younger than that now” — Check your premises!
Seeming paradoxes offer doors to perception, re-conception, and, as the Universe always remains in Infinite Balance everywhere all at once, proprioception, too! Long story short, the nickel tour: GOD is ALL, OMnipotent, OMnipresent, OMniescent. If GOD is everywhere, where are we? If GOD is everything, what are we? How can GOD know us if we cannot know GOD?
Yogi Bhajan’s work as a Teachers of teachers guides me. I have not become a “Sikh” any more than I remained a “Roman Catholic” upon my escape from religion at 18 years of age. The spiritual vacuum created drove me, one of little to no faith, helter-skelter from one milepost, one stepping stone, one promising lead to another in search of a viable path to the Divine. I had first studied the MIND-BODY PROBLEM while earning the Ph.D. in Pharmacology. I have never ceased that line of study. YB offers the clearest exposition on The Mind I have ever found (highly recommended). I have come to see that my life’s question, now a CONtention between heart and mind within!
If one wishes to lighten up, brighten up, through diet and discipline and every other means, then, GOD speed! I understand it is not given to me this lifetime to do that trip. Every teacher I have almost met passed on before I could (e.g., Jesus, Yogananda). YB directed eat nothing with two eyes. Eating a fertilized chicken egg denies that soul a reincarnated life as a chicken. Likely, that soul needed such an experience — or NOT! Aborted in the egg may be that soul’s destiny. Certainly we have millions of souls ready to incarnate in human bodies, aborted.
Veganism, vegetarianism, etc., all are religions. Take the one that can take you farthest along the way you go!
Here’s what I’ve come to understand…
Once that shell is cracked, there is no chicken. But there are plenty more “aspiring eggs” who will come to realize their chickenhood. Once they DO, only then can they be killed. This implies that the killer has created a sense of fear for an animal who given the choice would not CHOOSE to die.
Nothing of the sort can be said of the egg
Okay, the flat Earth theory is pure psysops bullshit, but what about flat people?
One of the cleverest and strangest books I’ve ever read is Edwin Abbott Abbott’s Flatland, a Victorian fantasy first published in 1884. It’s about what happens when two worlds collide. One is our own three-dimensional world. The other is a literally two-dimensional world called Flatland, where there are only two dimensions to move in: north-south and east-west. There’s no up-down in Flatland, because there’s no third dimension.
Better to say there’s a psyops ASPECT to it, as with so many things in this infested world. The “Jews” playin it for whatever perceived advantage.
After all, that the “truth is stranger than fiction” became a cliche for good reason
BEAR CLAW says:
1. Flat Earth v. Hollow Earth v. Earth as a globe(ball)
2. Uniformitarianism earth change model v. catastrophism
3. Blind Darwinian evolution v. intelligent design
4. Anthropogenic (CO2 caused) global warming v. geoengineered / astrophysics driven climate disruption
5. Atlantis/Lemuria antediluvian world v. Adam,Eve as genesis of mankind
6. William Shakespeare as the playwright v. Francis Bacon and/or others as the playwrights
7. Jesus as Solar Deity v. Jesus as myth v. Jesus as GOD
8. No Nazi DEATH camps v. purposeful extermination of millions of people
9. U.S. personal income tax as totally, legally voluntary v. 1040 tax legally required
10. NASA faked Apollo space missions to moon v. Apollo moon missions happened
11. Beatles Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced v. the Paul alive today is the original
12. Donald Trump as Nationalist Patriot v. Donald Trump as closet globalist, Zionist, pied piper
13. The spirit behind human beings reincarnates v. no survival v. heaven or hell
14. NDE’s (Near Death Experiences) indicate survival beyond the body v. internal neural brain reactions
No matter what the truth is concerning these controversies, there are the TRUE BELIEVERS that would NEVER be convinced to admit their thinking (understanding) is in need of major modification. So it’s basically a waste of time to engage these types of controversies because either one “is preaching to the choir” or one has to contend with cognitive dissonance … possibly involved in a pissing contest, figuratively speaking. And then confirmation bias raises its head.
Flan O’Brien says:
@Bear Claw
Excellent list. This is:
what happens when Physical Science is gone from schools!!
How many people today have ever performed a geometry proof, a physics or chemistry experiment, never mind understood them?
Armed with these tools there is hope that reason can prevail. Without these tools, the masses are hopelessly lost and endlessly subject to manipulation.
Then there is the deep psychologically seated hatred people have against changing their minds. I once knew a chap who when on an errand in town, if he absent mindedly walked past the target shop, he would abandon his errand rather than turn around and backtrack a small way.
If one is educated in physical science, one is imbued with gratitude when one’s outlook is reoriented towards truth.
When the concepts involve security or death, digging into the trench of ignorance is resolute. Hence attitudes towards socialism or “pension fund” religions (promising a pension in heaven) are almost impossible to change.
Q: “…How many people today have ever performed a geometry proof, a physics or chemistry experiment…?
A: They don’t even know whether the Reformation came before the Renaissance, and think that “classical music” means Elvis Presley! How are they going to do geometry, chemistry or physics?
Mainly, these “flat earth” proponents are experimenting with their argumentative skills. Surely, they’re intelligent enough to know better! They know that if they can convince a skeptic into believing such an absurdity, they’re skilled, indeed! 🙂
GILBERT HUNTLY
You’ve really hit the nail on the head. It’s pretentiousness, manipulativeness.
These people are just smart-asses, like these miserable little philosophy teachers who say “Prove to me that you exist!”
When the miserable little philosophy teacher says “Prove to me that you exist!” one can effectively disabuse him of his scepticism or solipsism or whatever his mental and moral problem is by simply kicking him in the shins or slapping him, or if you’re the gentler type of person, just by touching him.
Until you run into a 21st Century solipsist — which I have in the person of a Ph.D. (Psychology), vegetarian, environmentalist, PROGressive. In which case, an ostensible proffered proof becomes a confirmation of falsity, therefore, an affirmation of the assumed. Drives me ______ [your favorite, most negative epithet here] CRAZY. GOD exists. GOD is dead. GOD is within. GOD is without. Sheeesh! Just be your Self!
It’s all just an illusion.
(but it’s really gonna hurt)
‘pension fund religions’…
right, it’s all subjective now (if that), especially gender…
in california now they teach kindergarteners there are 12 different genders…
absurdity indeed…
“…by kicking him in the shins or slapping him…”
It won’t work. It will never work. You know why not?
Because the smart-asses will always have an answer. They just take one step backward.
Let’s say we take a follower of Bishop Berkeley and we put him on a train track, with a fast train approaching. “I see the train approaching”, he says; “I hear the whistle; I feel the rail bed trembling under my feet”, he says, “but where, apart from my perception of these things, is there any proof of the existence of the train track or myself or any train at all?” No argument will be accepted as valid.
Then what happens? Naturally, he gets off the track and moves out of the way! If you call him a hypocrite, a pompous horse’s ass and a faker, he says, “You saw me standing me on the train track, you saw me get out of the way, but where, apart from your perception of these things, is there any proof of the existence of the train track or that I ever stood on it at all?”
If you took a cricket bat and broke both his legs, he’d say the same things: “I saw you assault me; I felt the pain; I am now unable to walk; but where, apart from your perception of these things, is there any proof that you assaulted me at all?”
Of course, that’s not what he’ll say when it goes to court and you get convicted of felony battery or assault with a deadly weapon. Then he’ll say you assaulted him.
Do you know why this illogical?
Ask and it shall be given unto you.
It’s like this with the Flat-Earthers, Kactologists (Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theorists) and other “idée fixe” groups all the time. Every time you answer a question, they come back with another assumption or another question.
Strange... says:
What is certain is that the earth is not turning.
If we get in a helicopter and we just take off in the air without navigating to a destination you will notice that the earth is not moving. You will see that the helicopter remains circling above the same spot.
Strange –
What causes the ocean tide cycles and resultant swift currents ?
Strange says:
@ Pat, they told me at school the tides are a result of the attraction of the moon to the earth.
Your memory is partially correct.
Tide cycles are the results of the attraction of moon to water on the surface of the planet. As the earth rotates the water bulges on the side facing the moon. That gives high and low tides a few hours apart.
Here is the chart for Boston Harbor:
https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Castle-Island-Boston-Harbor-Massachusetts/tides/latest
Re: attraction of moon to Earth
ME: Let’s hope the moon is heterosexual.
“…If we get in a helicopter and we just take off in the air…”
This is like the old maths problem (and joke) of a fly in a trans-Atlantic air flight. The fly flies 5 feet forward, inside the plane.
“That means the fly is flying at 500 miles an hour!!! No fly can fly that fast!!! ” etc. etc. etc.
More “prove to me that you exist” bullshit.
PS Know how you “prove you exist”?
(Hint: it can’t be done. Tune in next week and find out why not.)
Someone was wondering about the mystery of why water sticks to the earth when rotating so fast: Either like a frisbee disk tossed by the hand of God, or rotating like a beach ball. Well, we have it on no less than the authority of the Holy Bible that it is mentioned that the earth did in fact stand still, (the sun or the earth, flat or otherwise, or maybe both were stationary in the sky) and the oceans did not wash over the continents. Talk about water sticking to the earth rotating or not. We know this because the Bible tells us so and God through his word would not lie to us.
I should take up preaching. So many things can be explained from the Holy Word of God. Even that the earth is flat, round like a pancake or has four corners even to the ends of the earth. I wonder if Ferdinand Magellan was really a good Catholic.
Some people can’t understand that there are three answers to whether you believe in any theory: (1) yes, (2) no, and (3) I don’t know. Of the three, the last is most important for clear thinking.
There’s another, even more succinct answer: Anything beLIEved is a LIE. (Attributed to Rev. Blighton (aka “Father Paul”, the Holy Order of MANS [ cf. http://www.gnostic.org for more on HOOM, with which I studied for several years]).
“…(1) yes, (2) no, and (3) I don’t know. Of the three, the last is most important for clear thinking…”
A very important point. Thank you. Option (3) is very often the safest and best, as you say.
Socrates used to say, “I only know that I know nothing”, etc., and then tie people up in knots just asking questions.
Just like a cross-examiner.
Ben c says:
Well until someone can provide a decent answer to the amply proven claim that we can see much much further than we should based on ball earth math (ie terrestrial point to point observations using known height distance and size variables and line of sight EM waves), the ball earth proponents have a real problem. This, coupled with the fact that standing water lies level (apart from my local pool which tends uphill after several laps), is sufficient to displace the presumption of a ball earth of some 40k km circumference. Against this, no amount of inference from the behaviour of objects in the sky will cut it.
Globe earthers: the ball’s in your court. And please also explain in passing how Mercury can ever be visible from Earth in the heliocentric model.
John Carter says:
Interested folks need to examine the alleged facts themselves, from both viewpoints. This will be a most interesting and even fun experience. This author overlooks much, and get much of the rest wrong. The way to begin is similar to learning about th so-calle “holocaust,” which everybody knows is true. Ask yourself how and why people could doubt such a well known “fact,” supported by so much evidence. What could they have to gain? Find out who supports the holocaust religion and what they have to gain. Your mind will then be clear about certain important things… You will have had an enlightening experience… And you may learn some things, whatever your outcome. THEN, you will actually be qualified to write on the topic!
Some of us have done two or three learning experiences, including the “holocaust”, and, more recently, even more challenging events, including JFK, Oklahoma City bombing, 9-11, the “Federal Reserve” [neither federal nor a “reserve”, preservation of the rich and famous, I’d say].
Tell you what, flat earth or globe, the “truth” of that matter does not make a difference in my flat-footed, well-rounded world! Wasn’t there a John (Jon? Joan?) Carter roaming around in Science Fiction books once upon a time? Surprise, surprise, dear Gomer exclaims!
William s. says:
So many logical fallacies and ridicule when people talk about flat earth. Very rarely do you see people discussing this topic without laughing and adding ridicule…sad really.
Then you post some vice video to generalize people.
Silliness.
In order of duplicitousness, according to certain mystical understanding…
1) The “Demiurge”; co-opter of Divine Reality
2) Its chief agents – the Annunaki; overseers of this coopted reality
3) The elite Jews – Annunaki underlings running the show on this illusive level of existence
ON this “level” the APPEARANCE of spheroidal bodies is perceived, but its coopted nature implies a virtual reality, which conveys the ILLUSION of spheres
Flat-Earthers accept this as theoretical, not in how “flatness” can be percieved, except in brief glimpses which allows the viewer to temporarily see through the illusion
Very superstitious writings on the wall..
As an open minded guy, I got to tell you, the flat earthers have some questions that are difficult to answer, of course we must check if their data are phony. Some guys arranged a camera with a huge zoom and “proved” we can see far more distant than we suppose to.
The first time I came across this subject was when I was researching the experiments TROJ cited above: apparently, nobody can prove the Earth’s movement or its centripetal acceleration. That’s a problem!
If you ever have the displeasure to discuss physics with a philosopher (a guy who studied 4 years in college), he will show you that you don’t know jack s*it about the physical world, we only see “shadows in a cave”. We have a model to fit experimental results, but guess what? A variety of models can fit the same results, depends only on your creativity. I know I’m pushing too hard now, just a provocation: how do we know we are not living in a planetarium, an illusion?
This particular subject, cosmology, is getting more confusing every day. According to theory, galaxies shouldn’t keep together, they should dissipate; a greater amount of gravity forces are needed. Then, cosmologists invented fictitious parameters such as “dark matter” and “dark energy” to make their equations fit, the equations couldn’t be wrong because they were proposed by a Jewish demi-God, Einstein. It’s a spinning world, therefore, a Russian guy named Sergey Orlov invented an interest unorthodox theory called “Vortex Gravity”; but his English is worse than mine. One of his conclusions is this: to launch a satellite the poles are a better location than the equator.
If you think flat Earth is ridiculous, what about “gravity doesn’t exist”? “The space is curved” because if the space is Cartesian my equations don’t add up. These are the things the Einstein’s worshippers are saying. And don’t forget all the contradictions and paradox.
Conclusion: something is wrong, we need a new model!
Of COURSE gravity exists, the question is, what IS it, exactly? (Not a conventional science explanation, but an existential one, i.e., WHY does it exist as it may apply to our existence beyond this material plane. For that matter, why existence on this plane at ALL? 🤔
I’ll say this again and then I’m done commenting in this thread. This thing called gravity was made up by a 33rd degree Freemason. The reason nobody knows what it IS exactly is because it’s a hoax.
The apple doesn’t need Newton’s “invention” to fall to the ground.
The principle of Archimedes, the one that explains floating, needs fluid pressure to work. Gravity (g) is present on all the equations of floating. If you take out gravity everything floats! Sorry, the floating argument doesn’t make any sense on zero gravity.
Gravity is an observable phenomenon in our realm–not necessarily a physical force in its own right. Just because something can be measured doesn’t make it a force. Cold is a measurable absence of heat, but we wouldn’t call it a force. There is no evidence that gravity is an actual force, though we can measure it and include its effect in our calculations.
A good way to clarify things is the analogy between an electrostatic field and gravity. You can’t feel the electrostatic field unless you are electrically charged, and you can’t feel gravity unless you have gravitational mass. The analogy is not perfect because the electrical charge can be positive or negative, meaning attraction or repulsion. Gravity is not a force it is a field; up in heavens high energy state, close to the bottom low energy state. The force is weight, it is only “produced” when you have gravitational mass.
Now, here is the tricky thing: scientists simplified a lot, and they know that, when they assumed that gravitational mass is equal to inertial mass.
Joe F –
Gravity is not a force at all. The mistake is made when folks use “force OF gravity” when there is none.
But there is a “force DUE TO gravity” since F=(k)ma….. where ‘F’ is ‘force’ and ‘m’ is mass and ‘a’ is acceleration. The ‘k’ is a constant provided for adjustments in denoting measuring units such cgs or mks or fps.
Velocity is the change in length per unit time; thus, it has units such as kilometers per hour (km/h) or feet per second (ft/s).
Acceleration is a measure of the change in velocity or velocity per unit time; thus, it has units such as centimeters per second per second (cm/s2) or feet per second per second (ft/s2).
Absent acceleration – there is no force.
Gravity is just a label for a mathematical description of the rate at which objects fall to earth. It cannot be proven as a force or warpage of spacetime because there’s no independent variable. If you think that 2 lead balls suspended by coat hangers in a garden shed can prove gravity (as well as the so-called mass of the earth and planets) you need your head read.
If anything, the heliocentric model tends to show on its face the folly of this theory. Why doesn’t the moon fall to earth, or planets fall into the sun or be pulled out of orbit when passing each other? It’s a total joke, and sufficient for Michiu Kaku to call it the biggest mismatch between observation and theory in the history of science.
I knew a man with a pessimistic bent of mind who questioned the scientific theory of gravity by saying that the world just sucks.
CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan…. “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”?….
TD –
The cabal took out Bill Casey less than 24 hours after the first witness in Congressional hearings on the affair named him as having assisted in providing arms to Nicaraguan rebels after Congress forbade such support.
well, as the ships go out to sea they gradually disappear from the bottom up, the flag on the top is the last thing that’s visible… you get the opposite sequence on approach… easy enough to check out with a good pair of binoculars…
the water and everything else that’s not bolted down doesn’t fly off the earth as it spins at 1000 mph because gravity is pushing it down, its the same force that pushed the earth together in the first place… static electricity/magnetism probably has something to do with it too… it’s why trees grow in cone shapes… besides that, an object as big as a planet spinning at 1000 mph is not the same phenomenon as a much smaller object spinning at the same speed… there’s a lot more to the spin thing too… it promotes weightlessness, or a conditional absence of gravity, which is why the top stands straight up when it’s spinning and why it falls over when it’s not… it’s also why running the cable around one or two pullies makes the log light enough that you can drag it, the weight is still being spun, even though not very fast… apparently edward leedskainin placed magnets, or something, around the pully to increase the gravity displacement effect, when he was building the coral castle in florida, raising several thousand pound stones into position all by himself… the guy was 5 feet tall and weighed 100 pounds…
https://coralcastle.com/whos-ed/
why you exist it totally up to you brother…
That’s a rather simplified answer, doncha think? After all, I DID say “why existence on this plane”, not existence itself. And “on this plane” infers not getting off it alive.
Don’t you ever wonder why you were born only to eventually die?
Why existence on this plane at ALL? We cannot logically say it’s up to each person to decide why they exist. We can only try to discover why we exist. And the only logical answer is that there is a God, and then go on from there to see how much we can know about Him, and know about ourselves in relation to him. I’m totally convinced that the answers can be found not only in nature and in ourselves, but in the four gospels, especially.
I’m not sure that’s what happens…
yes my body will probably die, and yours, but there are tales of angels, which are perfected human beings.. tales of ascension.. not saying i know they’re true… not sure they’re not…
not sure death isn’t a good idea at some point…
supposedly the white gold ormus manna stuff straightens out the dna, so that the body repairs itself forever, or somewhere close… supposedly that can also be done by the power of the mind, why people meditate, pray…
also, there may not always be a reason why…
reason is a survival mechanism we have developed, logic… it doesn’t necessarily mean the universe is reasonable, other than the laws of physics.. after all, assuming you came into being for some reason, ‘why’ does the universe preside over so much suffering, death whatever?
there’s also the idea that people have souls (socrates), that continue on after their bodies die, and that the soul is the center of goodness in humans, given enough truth it will prevail… some say it can be condemned…
from what i’ve gathered, the masons say we all have an inner spark that can’t be extinguished, the pyra-mid…
sounds like basic reincarnation to me, which was supposedly taught by the jesus character originally, but was erased by ecumenical council sometime after constantinople, those councils invented the trinity idea, other stuff…for what it’s worth, i read it somewhere there is no mention of any devil or hell in the old testament, they made that up too… the new testament was written after constantine, for the roman empire…
catholicism is not the same thing as christianity, which was a lot closer to gnosticism…
anyway, this much i do know – we’re only humans and we don’t get all the answers, probably better that way… it’s up to us to peg ourselves for whatever we think we….
i read the carlos castenada book, it was big in the 70s… he says the archons do exist…
“i read it somewhere there is no mention of any devil or hell in the old testament, they made that up too… the new testament was written after constantine, for the roman empire…
The “serpent” as tempter is in the book of Genesis, Satan in in the book of Job, and a demon is in the book of Tobit, to give a few OT examples. Jesus and His apostles expelled many demons.
The NT was written between about 50 A.D. and 70 A.D. except Revelation written in the late 90s.
Catholicism is the original Christianity. The term “Catholic Church” goes back at least to around the year 100 A.D. when used by St Ignatius of Antioch in one of his letters, and most likely earlier, since so many manuscripts were lost during the barbarian invasions of the empire.
As for the question, “‘why’ does the universe preside over so much suffering, death whatever?” the most coherent answer is that a loving God created angels and men with free will in order to be able to return His love, but free will also makes possible the choice of not loving God, of not obeying His will, of rebelling against Him through self-exalting and self-blinding pride, as with both fallen angels and humans, and through sins of injustice and of the flesh (concupiscence) in us as well. But, being infinitely knowing, infinitely loving, and infinitely powerful, God can and does permit evil in order to draw an even greater good from it. The best example is in the greatest evil ever committed, the murder of the Son of God by the jews, which brought about the greatest good, the redemption of the world and the forgiveness of sins, the reopening of the gates of heaven closed by the Original Sin of our first parents, an original sin that we all inherit at the time of our conception and which is removed by baptism, although we still live with its effects. Another example is in Genesis where Joseph, sold by his jealous brothers into slavery, ended up becoming Pharaoh’s viceroy and was able to help his brothers and their families during a time of drought, saying, “The evil you intended for me God has turned into good.”
This is a nonsensical rationalization of things as they’ve occurred. The true auspices of Divinity would never condone evil. Goodness does not need evil to “draw in” an even greater good. It stands alone
As a reflection of certain Gnostic thought, the term “Original Sin” needs to be seen in a proper light. When it is, it is exposed as being a Judaic fraudulence of what constitutes true authority.
To Gnostic thinkers, the ultimate meaning of “sin” is simply this: To be in a restrictive material state. This isn’t meant to denounce materiality in and of itself. The denunciation is directed at being restricted from having a free form experience of Existence, and thus subject to the vagaries of being born, “having a life”, dying, being re-born, having “another life” (all referred to as “lifetimes”), dying….again, being re-born….again, ad infinitum… When these restrictions are lifted, there is nothing to impose upon experiencing the wonders of an ebullient Creation in infinite settings of timelessness.
Never mind the jews in their old “Pale of the Settlement”. All of life on this planet is in a COSMIC Pale
Something’s gotta give….and it will
Brownhawk –
“Sin” is, simply, a violation of The Law. We complicate it too much. The Knights Templar, in the exuberance and heyday of their Papal assignment to be God’s executioners, violated many of God’s Laws in their activities, which later doomed them – especially because of the love of money and power – for which The Church has, also, suffered.
You’re referring to acts of sin, which of course addresses having a conscience; acting in “good conscience”. What I’m talking about is something else, and one way to explain it has to do with the tenets of Christian Science.
On another note, I’m fairly certain that like me, you’re disgusted with what those idiot stewards did at Churchill Downs by DQing the Derby winner who ran his little heart out and was clearly the best horse in the race!
Trump even commented on it, and said it was wrong, and a PC move. I couldn’t agree more
I certainly agree with you about the Derby call! My daughter noted that it was “jockey error” – but I disagree with the stewards’ call, anyway. No horse was injured (but, of course, they COULD have been), but was the stewards’ excuse for the unjust decision (prompted by that goddam Frenchman’s complaint!). Do you recall when the great horse “Barbaro” broke his leg at the start of the Preakness? I was certain he was a Triple Crown horse – almost with the strength and might of another Secretariat. Shit happens. The Kentucky Derby was diminished by that rotten decision!
Yeah, Gil
That jockey showed ZERO class by making that objection. The jockey on the only horse who was impacted in the race didn’t lodge a complaint at ALL! What a disgrace 😝
These stewards have too much technology at their disposal, and as a result feel obligated to rule by the letter of the law, instead of showing better discretion and letting the result stand
IF THE EARTH IS FLAT DOES THIS MEAN THAT ALL GLOBALISTS ARE FLATULENTS
Flat Earth – EPIC – Eric Dubay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mnYzgBk7AI
First – I would never bet my life on ANY youtube. The makers can, and DO, present the opposite of facts..
Second – too much guessing using “probably” and “if” for me.
Third – it is presented as a “belief” system…. as any religion is.
Finally – I disregard that religion.
Everyone has their own truth.
Soooo… If that religion works for you please have it. 🙂
Commentator Mike says:
Didn’t any of the great explorers circumnavigate and map the coast of Antarctica? If that doesn’t prove to the flat earthers that Antarctica is a continent it should at least provide them with the precise circumference of their disc earth model.
Captain Cook reported massive ice walls and a coastline far longer than he expected.
I highly recommend a book entitled “Blue Horizons”, by a mariner named Horwitz. He was aboard a replication of Captain Cook’s vessel, and he and his cohorts replicated Cook’s voyage to Polynesia – along with the same rations, handicaps, and endurances of those same ancient mariners. It was a horrific life, and, an enormous amount of rum was carried, and “grog” was rationed – quite obviously to somewhat keep the seamen numbed against their hard life. Horwitz reported how often hallucinations would overcome him, and he would contemplate abandoning the project. The tar and pitch was ground into his hide to the point of blackness, after two weeks aboard. Nothing but seawater in which to bathe (which doesn’t accomplish anything). It was shockingly miserable for modern-day sailors, and I wonder about what a strong man that Captain Cook must have been to be able to maintain his sanity as master and commander. We, of course, will never really know…
Gilbert the accuracy and detail of Cook’s nautical charts would be a good indicator of his continuing mental acuity. I don’t know if he eventually scrawled them with ‘Exterminate all the brutes’, but I’m prepared to hazard a guess that he maintained QA throughout his plane table charting days. Once returned home, the insanity was left to those boffins in Admiralty to wrap his charts around a ball.
Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out for the Blue Horizons book.
This is the map they believe we should be using.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Azimuthal_equidistant_projection_SW.jpg
NBTT –
HA!! I like the JAGGED edges!! WHEW!! 🙂
Clifford... says:
Whilst l’m not a flat earther (for other reasons than are given in this article) the author is incorrect in claiming there are millions of photos from space showing the Earth as a sphere. There are NO photos from space showing the Earth. What there are are PICTURES purporting to show Earth. All these pictures are composite images composed from satellite overflights of the Earth. There is even an interview with one of the NASA employees responsible who explains clearly how they came up with them and how they fill in the gaps between the satellite images and choose what they think the clour would look like. Some of the cloud formations are obvious repeated copy & paste. NASA does not deny this. The unenquiring mind is however led to interpret these images as being photos from spacecraft. The question then obviously arises that if we have all these spacecraft flying thousands of miles into space why the need for constructed pictures? Surely simpler just to take a real picture. Unless of course…
Clifford,
And don’t forget NASA, supposedly, made a trip to the moon.
I think you have a good point here!
My understanding is that Jesus didn’t “teach” reincarnation, but spoke of it as indicating that individuals have become trapped in an interminable cycle of life and death. That accepting this experience as a reasonable accounting of a neverending existence misapprehends the fact that death, and the kind of material life that sanctions it is not the doing of a Divine Aegis
References of reincarnation were removed at the Nicaea Council because they reflect a component of Gnostic thought. As a result, suppressing the information has led many people over the centuries to finding REASON in it and therefore ACCEPTABILITY.
This doesn’t reflect a proper representation of “Christ”, and goes a long way towards explaining Christianity to be a Judaic wolf in sheep’s clothing.
A few “passages” remain in most versions of the so-called “New Testament” translated from various languages (Aramaic, Greek, Latin), to support views that Master Jesus referred to, and accepted as given, a soul’s reincarnation, especially given an “impossible mission” assigned — if you’re up to it [Elias, Elijah], and accept it, and do it — from GOD. The soul that manifested Jesus certainly seemed up to the task assigned! So did the soul (then known as) John the Baptist. Biblical references upon request.
The persecution of the Gnostics seems like an early echo of the persecutions of “heretics” from then to now. Step outta line, the Man gonna take you away! [Buffalo Springfield, paraphrased from “From What It’s Worth”]. Nowadays, “religion” is not the enforcer of “good thinking”. That’s because the religious, the irreligious, and the UNreligious have become a population non sequitur to GOVERNMENT and CORPORATIONS, merged, integrated, fascism, communism, your worst dreams of UNfreedom come true, in this day and age. Religion a vestigial tool of control, for the most backward among us. Sorry to have to write.
YB — I repeat as but a node in an information network passing Truth along as best I can — said often, “If you can’t see GOD in all, then you can’t see GOD at all.” AND “GOD and me, me and GOD, are one.” YB asserted that all living beings have a soul. A grain of sand is a living being from the viewpoint of GOD. You can see the Universe in toto gazing into a grain of sand — perhaps with the assistance of an Electron Microscope!
Thus, from the perspective of GOD incarnate, what of your “Reality” does NOT have a soul?? And if a child is born, a chick hatched, an egg layed by a Hen fertilized by her Cock, how can you beLIEve not in reincarnation? GOD manifest, a grain of seeming infertile sane, a fertile egg eaten by a self-identified vegetarian. Carrots have a soul, too. So do mushrooms. My first ex-wife (vegan then), when confronted by such an argument, wrote to me, “When I can live on light and air, then I shall give up eating entirely!”
Alan, I might (and will) offer a little perspective.
And maybe even a chuckle or three..
Pat (2) . . . says:
ADMIN: If you intend to continue posting here, please choose another name. We already have a “Pat” posting here. We can’t have two “Pats”.
AD –
“Thus, from the perspective of GOD incarnate, what of your “Reality” does NOT have a soul?? And if a child is born, a chick hatched, an egg layed by a Hen fertilized by her Cock, how can you beLIEve not in reincarnation? GOD manifest, a grain of seeming infertile sane, a fertile egg eaten by a self-identified vegetarian. Carrots have a soul, too. So do mushrooms.”
Writers of Deuteronomy & Leviticus told everyone this MANY centuries ago, but Austrians repeat it as NEW:
New Study Says Vegetarians are Less Healthy Than Meat-Eaters
By Max McNabb | April 9, 2019
If you’re a meat eater, we’ve got good news. If you’re a vegetarian, though, we hate to break it to you, but a new study is causing some controversy after claiming that vegetarians are generally less healthy than meat eaters. The scientists behind the study claim that non-meat eaters suffer a greater risk of physical and mental illness. But is this reason enough to chow down on a juicy burger or cut into a tender Texas steak? Before you head to The Big Texan in Amarillo and order that 72-oz challenge, check out the details behind the claim.
The Medical University of Graz in Austria conducted the study using data from the Austrian Health Interview Survey and featured 1,320 subjects.
According to the independent.co.uk, the study showed that the “vegetarian diet, as characterized by a low consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol, due to a higher intake of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain products, appeared to carry elevated risks of cancer, allergies and mental health problems…” The mental illnesses included depression and anxiety. Vegetarians boasted lower body mass indexes and drank less alcohol, the study revealed, yet they were still less healthy, physically and mentally, on average than meat eaters.
https://tinyurl.com/Noveg2019
Everybody has their own religions – reasons they “beLIEve”!! 🙂
BH, Mark Twain believed in a previous life he was a friend of
Joan of Arc.
“Indeed Mark Twain was a staunch believer in reincarnation and in Lord Krishna as well. When asked about the possibility of rebirth he stated, “I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.” Apparently he believed that in one these previous incarnations he had been a lifelong friend and associate to Joan of Arc named Louis. And as a matter of fact Joan did have a servant named Louis.”
I too believe reincarnation to be real. But you know my take. At this point, I simply view it as being on a hamster wheel inside a cage. Enough of that. Time to get off the wheel and outta the cage.
How about thinking in terms of having the ability to come and go from one reality to another without going through a process of aging and dying before entering into another round where your circumstances could be detrimental and arrived at through no control of your own?
Therein lies the rub 🤨
Flat Earth or round one… 5G is on Earth to stay… NOW!!
Severe Health Risks of 5G Have Been Covered Up
The greatest health hazards of cellphone use are related to the effects on bio chemistry, immune-system response, and DNA replication in humans. Nevertheless, current safety guidelines for the massive roll out of 5G are based on a 1996 study of the extent to which a cell phone heated the head of plastic mannequin.
The public has never before been exposed to the ultra-high electromagnetic frequencies as are used in 5G technology. Over 2,000 international studies show that this type of radiation causes cancer, DNA damage, reduces fertility, and damages neurons in the brain and throughout the body.
https://needtoknow.news/2019/05/severe-health-risks-of-5g-have-been-covered-up/
Is 5G Worth The Risks?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-04/5g-worth-risks
Hence — please, please forgive a broken record’s reprise of “Attention”, so right 24/7 we take it for granted and tune out our natural sensitivity — per Yogi Bhajan, it’s now about the INTERFACE between “brain” [corporal] and “mind” [beyond time and space]. For example, “too much data”, bombarded through all the senses, overwhelms brain’s capacity to allocate, support, coordinate input for interface with Mind! Think LSD as one of the most efficient ways to demonstrate this! Fast forward, think about going for introducing electromagnetic input to brains that TOTALLY interfere with brain’s connection(s) to Mind??! BeLIEve me, (((they))) (aka PTB) have gone for that already! Hence, 5G.
Hence, too, both Zombies and us, dear folks, are under attack, just one more front in the War Against Humanity. Shape up, fortify both brain and mind, meaner times a’comin’. Check out YB, I get nothing in return! 😉
Oh Pat, don’t change the subject now. I’ve really been enjoying reading all the comments by smart people attempting to describe and explain things that aren’t even real. Good stuff! ( :
You wrote you were done with the subject..!!
I believed you!!!
Sooooo…. I posted this JUST for you!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Hoax: to trick into accepting as genuine something false
In a manner of speaking, gravity really IS a hoax, in the sense that it keeps us down, and restricted (in the falseness of this world as constituted) from moving as “free as a bird” 🕊
I know…you got me. But I was enjoying so much reading all the funny comments and I wanted it to continue.
Cheers my friend, even though our worlds are different shapes. 😀
I knew you were just tugging.
Good to go here… on the bottom of a pancake lost in space…. without Will Robinson’s robot!! 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IPPn9t6dyE
Ismail786 says:
Earth is not flat
Its globe..
So pity on people who want to compare everything in religion with science
NASA themselves bluff public with cgi works
Science cannot be used to reason all your practices and belives
Take it easy move on with your religious descendants of adams
I think that regardless of the geometry of the earth, a FANTASTIC EARTH it certainly is. And to highlight that,
this fellow named Corey Goode has had experiences in the Antarctic region. For his back story, search on the Web if interested.
These videos were recently taken at the Cosmic Waves conference in Hawaii by the Edge of Wonders fellows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwLPSwtVsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJdAflG1m-8
idealogus... says:
The whole discussion started in the wrong direction. Who cares if some losers start an expedition to the edge of Earth. They do it on their own money and put their own lives in jeopardy. Who will suffer from them? No one. It seems to me that is 1000 times more dangerous the ideea that we can impose with force what everybody has to believe, think and what to do with his life and money. As long as they do nothing wrong/dangerous for the rest of the world (an atomic bomb or something) it’s all right.
I personally think the Earth is round but in the same time I still think it’s healthy that the few losers who believe something else have the right to start an expedition with their money and time. Against the ideas should not be fought with the tank and the prison. Flat earth people are from a non dangerous kind. In the mean time vaccine people, global warming people, anti-rasist people want to take our money with force, want our people, want to ban as from social media, use tha law as a hammer etc. etc. but everybody is very worry about flat earth.
IU –
“In the mean time vaccine people, global warming people, anti-rasist people want to take our money with force, want our people, want to ban as from social media, use tha law as a hammer etc. etc. but everybody is very worry about flat earth.”
SO TRUE!!
Hey Pat,
The people that know the earth is flat aren’t “worried” about it, simply trying to expose the biggest lie ever.
I know you conveniently dismiss youtube video’s, but this is only 7minutes and quite good. I hope you and others here will watch it.
Flat Earth is Not a Conspiracy Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8aV1wgiB2Q
One small DETAIL.
Again I am a round Earth beliver but I am very annoyed when the round Earth party use misleading information which are easy to prove wrong.
There was never a flat earth dark age in Europe because of Jesus Christ !
When Columbus asked for money for his expedition nobody think that his ships were going to fall of the Earth.
Everybody knew the Earth was round. More than that they new pretty well the circumference of the Earth and they calculated how much food can carry and how many miles they can travel and the ships in the 15 century couldn’t go from Spain to China. Actually Columbus ships run out of food and sailors mounted a mutiny. Blind luck save Columbus. He hardly go to America, directly to China without resupply was impossible.
The story about the smart and enlightened Columbus and the dumb and dogmatic catolic priest is a lie fabricated by Washington Irving in 19 century.
Masonic revolutions were victorious and Christ haters start rewriting history.
Even Wikipedia say I am right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
One question at the end.
Why are so many afraid of this expedition? I can imagine why.
“…Why are so many afraid of this expedition?…”
I’m not afraid of you going to the South Pole, you can go there anytime you want.
You can stay there, if you want. Be my guest. Stay a hundred years if you like.
Ben C
Reading your post prompted another one of my own…
A conventional science explanation of “electromagnetic” leaves me cold. What has this to do with Consciousness, of which quantum physicists are learning constitutes a common thread running throughout the known universe?
In keeping with this discovery, I’ll offer a new definition which ponders on an inclusiveness of experience that would go beyond all things theoretical…
Electro-magnetic: “Electro” to mean “energetic being”. “Magnetic” conveys the connectedness of all manifestation.
This encompasses the true dynamics of experience within the field of attraction. Here exists a unity of consciousness experiencing in full recognition of itself, and not with the vicariousness of a spectator, isolated from the intimacy of its unified field
B-Hawk –
Hell!!!
Men might find themselves to be TOO overwhelmed by ‘unconsciousness’ to stand up or walk…. if they ever got to the moon. Consciousness might be unique to this planet’s electromagnetic and other known harmonic frequencies. 🙂
I don’t know why Man would even bother with a lump of nothingness like the moon. Besides, I like Icke’s idea that the moon is really a base of operations for some Archon-types. Maybe this is where the psychotronics are being beamed down from, in some sort of conjunction with HAARP, or whatever other crapola is going on 😎
P.S. They want me to prove I’m not a robot again…..I’m not sure that I CAN anymore!😳
I seriously doubt quantum physics is delivering anything but science fiction imaginary worlds based on math formulae bearing no relationship whatsoever to reality. Sorry BH, but I’m going the other way on this, meaning with the God of the Bible rather than mystical gnosis. I hope you’ll see the devil’s playing everyone for fools with this occult magick masquerading as advanced science.
Well, all I’ll say is the God of the BIBLE is the master occultist. And consider that “advanced” science can’t help but be a masquerade of a DEEPER reality* albeit one wearing an inadvertent mask perceiving conventionally.
* how can we not put adjectives before the word “reality”?
Lee... says:
No, actually, we’re living in something similar to The Truman Show.
TJ’s 4 postulates: This is the “gravity” of the “matter”.
1. If objects didn’t fall the earth or any other heavenly body where else would they fall to?
2. If the planet earth is not round, in a kind of a round-a-bout way, it would either by a cube with well rounded edges, or a rectangular cube with rounded edges. The lord God may have in the beginning created the planets as cubes and over the billions of years the sharp edges of the Heavenly Cubes were eroded down into round balls in a round-a-bout way.
3. The Holy New Testament at the “ends” of the post Paul written Gospels, the Son of God and/or the Son of Man levitated in defiance of the laws of Gravity into the clouds and on into the Heavens. Now, if this act of “levitation” had accrued on the other “side” of the what ever planetary shape you desire, the Sun/Son would headed off in the opposite direction. However, anyone dead for three days without rigor mortis and coming back to life can lift off in any direction He desires from any other side of the planet.
4. The proof positive of the above stated postulates is the postulate that the Holy Bible is proven by the Holy Bible itself because the Holy Bible says so.
5. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has a “proved” of this submission. She the ultimate postulate.
Could ‘flat earth’ 5G Radiation Cause Weather-Forecasting Satellites to Fail before the South Pole trip is completed? 🙂
5G signal could jam satellites that help with weather forecasting
New mobile system to be launched this year ‘will put lives at risk’….
The introduction of 5G mobile phone networks could seriously affect weather forecasters’ ability to predict major storms.
That is the stark warning of meteorologists around the world, who say the next-generation wireless system now being rolled out across the globe is likely to disrupt the delicate satellite instruments they use to monitor changes in the atmosphere.
The result will be impaired forecasts, poorer warnings about major storms, and loss of life, they say.
“The way 5G is being introduced could seriously compromise our ability to forecast major storms,” said Tony McNally of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading. “In the end it could make the difference between life and death. We are very concerned about this.”
The crisis facing the world’s meteorologists stems from the fact that the radio frequencies the new 5G networks will use could contaminate critical Earth observations made by weather satellites.
https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/health-healing/5g-signal-could-jam-satellites-that-help-with-weather-forecasting/
LD: “No photographs exist of the towering Ice Wall.”
ADMIN: DEFECTIVE LINK DELETED. DAMAGES WEBSITE FORMATTING.
TRY EMBEDDING LINK. THIS MAY WORK.
The link above damages the site view.
Still, one heck of a lot of photo’s of the “towering ice wall”. A simple internet search was all that was needed. I’m sure you saw them, Pat.
“towering ice wall”…!!??
C’mon!!
These photos offer no proof of a barrier on a flat earth.
Photos of glaciers like these have been around for centuries.
Trump could take pictures of the Great Wall of China and say he is done.!! 🙂
Thanks, Pat! The defective link has been removed.
Obviously some of the photo’s on the now deleted page were of regular glaciers, but CLEARLY many of the photo’s were of the 150-200 foot high ice wall exactly as described by those that know the truth about the flat earth and the ice barrier that you believe is the south pole, but you will only see what you want to see.
Any simple internet search for the antarctic ice wall will bring up many photo’s of it, LD.
And Brownhawk, centrifugal force would only be another reason why water would fly off the spinning ball.
Earth dynamics can’t be fully understood in a vacuum, meaning outside its existence in this solar system.
Consider the Sun as a centrifuge with this definition:
“A machine using centrifugal force for simulating gravitational effect”
If centrifugal force is the reason why water flies off a spinning ball, then how do you reconcile this? In what sense then would gravity be seen as being a hoax, except to call it an illusion? But once we’ve called it THAT, then where do we go from there in explaining ANYTHING? 🤔
Speaking as a layman in these matters, it seems to me that the water in the oceans are able to “curve around” the spherical planet because of centrifugal force. Without this dynamic there would be no ordered function inherent in this solar system.
The only reasonable assertion of a “flat earth” would have to reflect the idea of the whole thing being some kind of an illusion…..which it is, but then….. whither “reason”? 🙄
Put those real pics of the fraudulent claims in a ‘tinyURL’…
http://www.TinyURL.com – follow instructions – paste here. No damage.
NO BIGGIE!!
OH Thank You, Pat, Thank You Thank You Thank You, for Saving Us from a Flat Earth Geocentric TRUTH video! Thank you Thank you Thank you Oh Pat you’re a !Hero! Thank You for being a !Hero! Pat! What would WE ever do without Pat Our !Hero! Oh Gawd Oh Thank You Thank You Thank You Pat for being our !Hero! WE can always count on you Oh brave fearless !Hero! Pat to Save Us from the big bad Flat Earth meanies!
Have Ken put it up in a ‘tinyURL’…
NO BIGGIE!! 🙂
200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EGB_o9TZM
Modern physics started with the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887. They expected to measure the Earth’s speed using light beams but they got null results. For years physicists tried to explain it, what was their mistake? They were doing physics with prejudice. They assumed the Earth was moving even facing negative results.
From Robert Sungenis’ book “Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right”, volume 1, seventh edition, page 545:
“The fact that Einstein asserted that the Lorentz transformation equations were the basis of the special theory, and these are, of course, purely mathematical, means that, in so far as the theory is considered to have any physical implications, these implications must be the result of the interpretation of mathematical expressions in physical terms. But in this process there can be no guarantee that contradictions will not arise, and, in fact, serious contradictions have have arisen which have marred the special theory. Half a century of argumentation has not removed them, and the device of calling them only apparent contradictions (paradoxes) has not succeeded in preventing special theory of relativity from becoming untenable as a physical theory.”
“For Einstein and his generation the syllogism was simple:”
“Major Premise: We can’t detect the Earth moving.
Minor Premise: We know the Earth moves.
The Conclusion: We must accept Relativity.”
“The alternative syllogism that was “unthinkable” for Einstein and his colleagues was:”
Minor Premise: The Earth isn’t moving.
The Conclusion: We must accept Absolutes.”
End of the quote.
The Serbian Nikola Tesla opposed Relativity vehemently. And don’t forget the Jewish media was presenting Einstein as a messiah of the new religion of Relativity. These religious guys have the audacity to call Geocentrism “unscientific”.
Don’t get me wrong, but I guess I’m becoming a geocentrist!
My religious beliefs about this planet include…..
….. a belief that the oceans are NOT being held in place within a bowl formed by a continuous ice wall at the edges.
I believe tides are different around the world because it is a spinning ball.
The tide variances in 24 hours are the least at the equator.
Tides are considered the heartbeat of our planet’s oceans. They are the periodic rise and fall of the earth’s bodies of open water, and are a result of the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on the earth, as well as the perpetual spinning rotation of the earth itself.
By far the largest influence is the gravitational effect of the moon as it pulls the water toward itself, making a bulge on the surface of the ocean at the side of the moon (lunar tide).
At the same time, the centrifugal force (caused by the spinning of the Earth-Moon system) acting on the water particles at earth’s surface opposite the moon,creates a second bulge. These bulges are what we refer to as high tide.
As the moon revolves around the earth the bulges shift with it causing a shift in the water level. It’s the combination of the speed at which the earth rotates on its own axis (once in 24 hours), and the speed at which the moon revolves around the earth (in 27.3 days), that dictate the time it takes to go from high to low tide.
Because the moon orbits in the same direction the earth rotates around its axis, it takes a little more than a day—24 hours and 53 minutes—for the earth to fully rotate in relation to the moon (i.e. where from a fixed point on earth the moon appears in the same position in the sky as a day earlier).
Since the effect of the moon is the same when it’s straight “above” us as when it’s straight “underneath” us, one tide cycle (from high to high, or low to low) takes half that time: about 12 hours and 26 minutes. This in turn means that the time between a high tide and a low tide (and vice versa) is, on average, six hours and 13 minutes. This explains why tides arrive at the same location almost an hour later each day.
https://www.bayoffundy.com/about/highest-tides/
Spring Tide Timelapse, Halls Harbour HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbzwzrZXUKA
162 comments so far!!! WOW!!! 🙂
The FACTS in this 15 minute video PROVE that there is NO CURVATURE. Some of you will simply ignore this information and not watch the video or dismiss it as false information because it’s on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbn-W23qZM&feature=em-uploademail
I have watched all of the videos you showed.
I claim that when I sail 4 miles on the ocean’s surface, at 8 inches per mile, the drop is 32 inches = 2.67 feet.
The youtube guy shows the chart where sailing 4 miles has a drop of 128 inches = 10.67 feet.
The difference is that he claims I would have traveled 16 miles…. when I only went 4 miles…. because he ‘squares’ the number of miles ACTUALLY traveled. I know he is wrong there!!
Using his claims… if I sail 10 miles I will have gone 100 miles. Miles are ‘squared’ according to him.
So, using his claims… I could sail 50 miles and be 2500 miles from my staring point!! 🙂
The Old Man in the Sky [*POEM*]
The Victims Of The Holocaust Continue Their Holocaust Of The Palestinians In Gaza
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Microsoft: Worms And Rogue AV Dying, Web Threats Thriving
Conficker finally flickering out, newest edition of Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report (SIR) shows
For the first time in nearly four years, the top malware threat plaguing enterprises is not the Conficker worm: Web-based attacks have taken over, according to new data gathered from more than 1 billion Windows machines worldwide.
IframeRef, a family of iFrame malware that infects Web servers, now holds the No. 1 spot, with a fivefold increase in the fourth quarter of 2012 alone with 3.3 million detections, according to the new Version 14 of Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report (SIR) for the second half of 2012.
"Conficker had been the No. 1 threat for the enterprise since we’ve been tracking domain-joined threats in [the second half of 2009]. In Q4, Conficker was significantly surpassed by IframeRef and was reflective of the overall impact of worms versus Web-based threats," says Holly Stewart, senior program manager for the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
"The prevalence of IframeRef was a bit surprising," Stewart says. "I expected BlackHole [to be at the top]," she says. "But you're more likely to have a browser encounter with an iFrame redirector, so it really shot up over the past year."
The old mainstay worms, including Conficker and Autorun, dropped 37 percent from 2011 to the second half of 2012, mainly thanks to a second quarter 2011 update from Microsoft for XP and Vista and AV detections for Conficker. Stewart says Conficker had kept spreading for a while due to stolen passwords. "In the second quarter of 2012 is when Conficker started to decline, and this is a bit of a success story for IT pros. The changes they were making, [including] password security, are helping get rid of these worms," she says.
Even so, there are still users out there who don't run up-to-date antivirus programs: As a matter of fact, 2.5 out of 10 computers don't run up-to-date AV software, Microsoft's report says. And without updated AV, computers are 5.5 times more likely to get infected with malware, the report says.
"People intuitively understand the importance of locking their front doors to prevent their homes from being broken into. Computer security is no different. Surfing the Internet without up-to-date antivirus is like leaving your front door open to criminals," says Tim Rains, director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft. "With the release of this new research, Microsoft is urging people to make sure they have up-to-date Antivirus installed on their computers."
Interestingly, fake antivirus infections -- most commonly a consumer problem -- also began to decline over the second half of 2012. "For the first time in many years, we see a decline in the incidence of fake AV," Stewart says.
A Web Of Threats
But when one attack vector fizzles, another ignites: Microsoft's SIR shows how Web-borne attacks are on the rise, big-time.
Microsoft's findings on Web threats jives with that of Symantec's, which yesterday released its annual threat report. Symantec says Web-based attacks jumped by 30 percent last year, and the number of phishing sites posing as social networking sites exploded by 125 percent as attackers set their sights on social networks.
"These attacks silently infect enterprise and consumer users when they visit a compromised website," according to Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report 2012. "These attacks are successful because enterprise and consumer systems are not up to date with the latest patches for browser plug-ins, such as Adobe’s Flash Player and Acrobat Reader as well as Oracle’s Java platform. While a lack of attentiveness can be blamed for consumers remaining out of date, often in larger companies, older versions of these plug-ins are required to run critical business systems, making it harder to upgrade to the latest versions. Such patch management predicaments, with slow patch deployment rates, make companies especially vulnerable to Web-based attacks."
Stewart says the wave of Web attacks exploiting SQL injection and cross-site scripting flaws in websites during the past year contributed to some of the spikes in these attack numbers.
Seven of the top 10 threats discovered most on enterprise machines have Web threat ties, Stewart notes. "They are either a Web threat themselves or are known to be delivered through a Web threat in compromised websites, malicious websites, or a combination," she says. "Two are related to iFrame redirection, which is the middleman of Web-based attacks."
After Iframe Ref, the top malware families found in enterprises in the second half of last year were, in order, Conficker, Keygen, Autorun, Blacole, BlacoleRef, Zbot, Sirefef, Dorkbot, and Pdfjsc.
The IframeRef Trojan was found in 2.3 percent of machines in the first quarter of last year, and 13.6 percent by the fourth quarter.
Microsoft's SIR v14 drew data from 1 billion computers in more than 100 countries and regions, up from 600 million machines last year. The full SIR is available here for download.
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Amica Graber 20 September 2017
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