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Are Sales Taxes More Regressive Than Income Taxes?
Science, Tech, Math › Social Sciences
Income Taxes vs. Sales Taxes
by Mike Moffatt
Mike Moffatt is an economics writer and instructor who has written hundreds of articles and taught at both the university and community college levels.
Q:: I'm a Canadian who has been following the Canadian elections. I heard one of the parties claim that a reduction in sales taxes help the wealthy not the middle class or poor. I thought sales taxes were regressive and were mainly paid by low income people. Can you help me out?
A: Great question!
With any tax proposal, the devil is always in the details, so it's hard to analyze the exact impact a policy will have when all that exists is a promise that could fit on a bumper sticker. But we'll do our best with what we have.
First we should determine exactly what we mean by regressive taxation. The economics glossary defines a regressive tax as:
A tax on income in which the proportion of tax paid relative to income decreases as income increases.
There's a couple things to note with this definition:
Even under a regressive tax, higher income earners pay more than lower income earners. Some economists prefer to use the term regressive rate taxes to avoid confusion.
When looking at taxes, 'progressive' or 'regressive' refers to levels of income, not wealth. Thus to say a progressive tax is one where 'the rich pay proportionately more' is a bit of a misnomer, since we usually think of someone as 'rich' who has a lot of wealth. That's not necessarily the same thing as having a high income; one can be rich without earning a dime in income.
Now we've seen the definition of regressivity, we can see why sales taxes are more regressive than income taxes. There's typically three main reasons:
Wealthier people spend a small portion of their income on goods and services than poorer people. Wealth is not the same thing as income, but the two are closely related.
Income taxes typically have a minimum income level at which you do not have to pay taxes. In Canada, this exemption is for people who make around $8,000 or less. Everyone, however, is forced to pay sales taxes, no matter their income.
Most countries do not have a flat tax income rate. Instead the income tax rates are graduated - the higher your income, the higher the tax rate on that income. Sales taxes, however, stay the same no matter your income level.
Policy makers and economists realize that the, on average, citizens are not in favour of regressive rate taxation. Thus they've taken steps to make their sales taxes less regressive. In Canada the GST is exempt on items like food, which poorer people pay a disproprtionately larger portion of their income on. As well, the government issues GST rebate cheques to lower income households. To their credit, the FairTax lobby proposes giving every citizen a 'prebate' cheque in order to make their proposed sales tax less regressive.
The overall effect is that sales taxes such as the GST is more regressive than other taxes, such as income taxes. Thus a cut in the GST would help low- and medium-income earners more than a similar sized income tax cut. While I am not in favour of a cut in the GST, it would make the Canadian tax system more progressive.
Do you have a question about taxes or tax proposals? If so, please send it to me by using the feedback form.
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Filing T5 Tax Slips for Investment Income in Canada
How Do Higher Taxes for The Rich Ultimately Hurt The Poor?
How to Calculate Federal Income Tax
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Unimpeachable source reveals Trump’s Turkey conflict of interest
It is a revelation that, when it comes to Turkey and Erdogan, Trump has a towering conflict of interest.
Unimpeachable source reveals Trump’s Turkey conflict of interest It is a revelation that, when it comes to Turkey and Erdogan, Trump has a towering conflict of interest. Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: http://wtrne.ws/2pGtNjo
Martin Schram, Columnist Published 9:21 a.m. CT April 20, 2017 | Updated 2:03 p.m. CT April 20, 2017
(Schram, Martin) Martin Schram. (SHNS file photo)(Photo: Scripps Howard News Service)
A huge clue — doubly huge, in fact — has surfaced in the global mystery behind President Donald Trump’s bizarrely timed, effusively toned congratulatory call to Turkey’s now-stronger-than-ever strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It is a revelation that, when it comes to Turkey and Erdogan, Trump has a towering conflict of interest. And this time, attention must be paid. Because Trump himself would be the first to concede our source is not just believable, but downright unimpeachable.
“I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” then-presidential candidate Trump said in a Dec. 1, 2015, interview when asked if Turkey can be a reliable partner. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers — two towers, instead of one. Not the usual one, it’s two.”
Today we don’t really know what, if anything, Erdogan or Turkey may have done to help Trump build or profit from his Turkish twin towers. But we do know Trump raced to telephone his congratulations to Erdogan Monday after a referendum expanding the Turkish leader’s powers, even as international observers were declaring the voting occurred “on an un-level playing field” that included a state of emergency that prohibited opposing campaigns and jailed would-be campaigners.
And we know that Trump succumbed to a burst of startling candor when his interviewer questioned Turkey’s and Erdogan’s trustworthiness in another context.
It needs to be noted here that Trump wasn’t being interviewed that day by one of my old-school news pals. He was a guest on the Sirius XM radio show hosted by Stephen Bannon, who was then running Breitbart News, the very rightwing and sometimes alt-rightwing website. (Bannon is, at this writing, still Trump’s White House counselor, though he has fallen from grace as Trump has fallen in polls.)
On that day, Bannon’s show was pushing a hardline slant that cast Erdogan as a “middleman” who was “making money off ISIS oil” that was to be delivered to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, a setup that supposedly displeased Putin. So there was Trump, in the position of being pressed to choose between two of his favorite authoritarian strongmen, each having a fondness for being bloody-tough with opponents.
Bannon asked his future White House boss: “What do you do with Turkey? … Is Turkey a reliable partner?”
Trump began by praising Erdogan. He said Turkey has “a strong leader.” Also: “Turkey has been a reliable partner.” But, he said, “Things are getting complicated.”
That’s when Trump confessed (but never really explained) his pro-Erdogan “conflict of interest.” He added: “I’ve gotten to know Turkey very well. … They’re amazing people.” Trump then began talking about Syria, a place loaded with conflict but in which Trump clearly had little interest.
Bannon got it about Trump’s discomfort and set about asking leading questions designed to help steer Trump back to his comfort zone themes. “Isn’t your selling point” that you’re a commander-in-chief and “a lot of these guys are munchkins?”
You bet. “I’ve been saying to you and everybody else for years attack the oil,” — and Trump was galloping. “… Attack it but keep it because I want to keep the oil. … We’ve got nothing because we have stupid leadership. … We have to hit the oil and hit the banks. … And who knows more about the banks than Trump? Nobody!”
Bannon momentarily forgot himself and slipped into a journalistic follow-up: “When you say you have a conflict of interest,” he began, ending by asking how Trump would “stand up to Turkey?” But Trump was back on his game and ignored his future strategist’s question: “You don’t want to have World War III over what we’re talking about.” He of course attacked his opponents, adding: “I have a great temperament. … I’m tougher than all of them put together — times ten! … I will get Russia, I will get Turkey and we’ll all get along.”
The Breitbart website article about the interview omitted any mention of Trump confessing he’d had a conflict of interest over Turkey. The progressive magazine Mother Jones listened and reported it. But Trump’s base doesn’t dig Mother Jones. And the mainstream media mainly missed it.
So that’s how we wound up being led by a president who praises both Putin (the KGB alum whose cyberattacks helped Trump become president and whose opponents have died suddenly and strangely) and Erdogan (who survived a coup, jailed a reported 45,000 people, fired or suspended 130,000, and silenced media coverage of opponents). That helped Erdogan win his referendum by a bare 1.3 percent.
And that won Erdogan a call of congrats from the rich man whose name shines down today upon Istanbul from not one but two towers.
Martin Schram, an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service, is a veteran Washington journalist, author and TV documentary executive. Readers may send him email at martin.schram@gmail.com.
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Why are Titleist contests/sweepstakes U.S. only?
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October 01, 2010 at 02:39 PM By Team Titleist
"Why are your contests/sweepstakes only for U.S. residents?"
We hear this question a lot and we certainly appreciate the concern and feedback we receive around having contests/sweepstakes that are open to all of our Team Titleist members including individuals who live outside of the U.S.
So we wanted to provide our Team Titleist members with a little more detail and information on why our contests/sweepstakes are only for current residents of the U.S.
Unfortunately, every country has specific laws, rules and regulations that govern contests such as the sweepstakes we typically offer, ranging from laws that require governmental registration to laws that forbid these types of contests altogether. Because of the wide range of rules and regulations, it is not possible to create a contest that is universally available to all of our valued Team Titleist members.
However, from time to time, our websites in certain countries sponsor contests for residents of those countries. If we host a website in your country of residence, we suggest visiting it for further details.
We hope this is helpful and we thank you for your support of Titleist.
• Click here for complete Community Policy and Sweepstakes Rules
Geoffrey B
Celina, OH
thanks for all the info
you should include canada in this. me and all my friends use your products
Steen R
Wasserbillig, 0
Hmm... You want our money, but will not allow us to win any prices due to a small extra fee in some countries.
I start to think that my next set of clubs will not be Titleist (I'm now on my 3rd set)
Mike D., Titleist Staff
Ashland, MA
Steen R said:
Hi Steen,
I apologize for any disappointment but the primary challenge we encounter in making sweepstakes that originate in the U.S. available to all of our valued Team Titleist members is the various rules and regulations that are specific to every country and region.
However (as noted above), from time to time, our websites in certain countries sponsor contests for residents of those countries. If we host a website in your country of residence, we suggest visiting it for further details.
adrian l
capetown, 0
we understand that sweepstakes are only for the USA, but just remember many countries around the world have golfers that play with only your brand name.i am a golfer with a 6 handicap and i am fully kitted titleist products and only play with pro v's so its quite sad to think that the agencies in South Africa cannot pass on the option to its ambassadors. we also stage the nedbank challenge at sun city, had the presidents cup and many international tournaments, so its time the suppliers here also give back to the players as a token of good and fair games-menship. yours for ever putting adrian linden RSA
chris b
Team Titleist said:
"Why are your sweepstakes only for U.S. residents?"
We hear this question a lot and we certainly appreciate the concern and feedback we receive around having sweepstakes that are open to all of our Team Titleist members including individuals who live outside of the U.S.
So we wanted to provide our Team Titleist members with a little more detail and information on why our sweepstakes are only for current residents of the U.S.
Unfortunately, every country has specific laws, rules and regulations that govern contests such as the sweepstakes we typical offer, ranging from laws that require governmental registration to laws that forbid these types of contests altogether. Because of the wide range of rules and regulations, it is not possible to create a contest that is universally available to all of our valued Team Titleist members.
Fairfax, IA
evie c
derby, 0
Thank you for the information i understand where you are coming from. But it really disappoints me how I don't have the opportunity to win any prizes from my favourite golfers Rory Mcilroy and Adam Scott because I live in the U.K.
Thank you for your time Evie :)
Hi Evie,
Make sure you check out the UK site as they run sweeps as well. One recent sweeps provided a TT member with the opportunity to caddy for Rafa Cabrera-Bello at the BMW PGA Championship. Here's a post featuring the sweeps winner:
http://www.titleist.co.uk/teamtitleist/gb/b/weblog/archive/2012/05/31/team-titleist-on-the-bag-with-rafa-at-wentworth.aspx
Rafael J
Caguas, PR
You should include all USA territories(Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, ETC.). Most of the people that live on these territories are USA citizens. And as territories they are USA also. Keep up the good work with your products, I'll buy them cause I believe in them and I like to think of myself as a "Serious Golfer". Thanks
I can absolutely depend on the consistency and feel of the Pro V1 and Pro V1X. Distance off the tee and "stopability" on iron shots is outstanding. I cannot say the same for other balls I have tried. Titleist always comes out on top!
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Roberto E
I made the switch to the Pro V1 this year, I loved the Pro V1X but as my swing speed had started to slow down over the past few years the black Pro V1 is much easier for me to compress and touch around the greens hasn't changed with this ball.
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Kevin A
I think Canada should be added as they are our neighbors and are kind as well as friendly. Also there are some incredible courses in Quebec. If you haven't played North of the boarder I would strongly suggest that you make it a point to do so.
Richard W
Saugus ma. I favorite spot is myrtle beach a.c. just love golf
Note, Pro V1X is the ball of choice!
Grindelwald,
Fully understand that the contests can only be limited to several countries due to the various laws.
Never the less, would it be possible to receive some of your bag tags or other stuff you are sending to people in the US also in Switzerland?
I already asked the question several times to Titleist UK, but didn't get any reply
Richard G
Pro V1 is the ball for me. I get the most distance and control using this ball and it has helped me improve my short game and reduce my handicap.
Love my AP3 irons. I will be heading down to FL to practice on my short game as I await the Vokey new wedges.
Richard A
St Neots, Cambs
Golf is a game played all over the world and lots of Titleist equipment is purchased all over the world by a lot of enthusiastic dedicated golfers. So for a small fee other countries should also be included in your sweepstakes. Stop making the US look elite in this field it won't do you any favours.
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Your adventure begins with an overnight flight to Germany, arriving in Frankfurt on Day 2. Upon arrival, we have the remainder of the day to rest up after our journey.
Willkommen! Embark ship in Mainz and begin your river cruise
If you purchased your airfare from Vantage, a Vantage representative will meet you at the Frankfurt airport and assist with your transfer to the pier in Mainz. This is where you will board your Deluxe river ship and officially begin your European river cruise. You can also begin your journey earlier with an optional pre-trip extension.
Deluxe Vantage River Cruise Ship
Sip Kölsch while exploring the historic cultural center of Cologne
This morning, take a walking tour of this historic German cultural center. This evening, we'll enjoy a Welcome Reception and Dinner as well as some onboard entertainment.
Culinary feature: Enjoy a tasting of Kölsch beer, a signature brew that is only made here in Cologne.
Biking Opportunity: Enjoy this scenic path along the iconic Rhine River, with terrific views of the Cologne Cathedral and Hohenzollern Bridge, during this easy 5-mile route. Click here for details.
Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner
Rhine Valley views; Rüdesheim personalized for you
During the morning's cruising, join your Cruise Director in the lounge for a lively German lesson — pick up a few key words and phrases, to use when interacting with locals. We'll then arrive in Rüdesheim, where you'll have your choice of three tours. The first is a cable car ride to the historic Niederwald Monument, which overlooks the Rhine Valley and commemorates the unification of Germany in the late 19th century. You can also embark on a mini-train ride to Siegfried's Musikkabinett, an amusing museum dedicated to self-playing music and its instruments. Wine Feature: Your third choice of tours is a newly added wine tasting walking tour, where you’ll sample three different regional vintages.
Day-trip to romantic Heidelberg, a UNESCO site
Today, set off from Frankfurt for a full-day excursion to Heidelberg, a UNESCO site that is home to Germany’s oldest college, Heidelberg University. Unforgettable Moment: In Heidelberg, you’ll tour 15th-century Heidelberg Castle, one of the most famous of European castles, an imposing Gothic-Renaissance ruin of red stone that illustrates the history of Germany. Ride the funicular from the castle to the town center, where you’ll enjoy lunch at a local restaurant and then have free time to explore. Cultural Connection: Tonight, convene in the lounge for an onboard performance by 4 Virtuosos.
Discovering village life in Wertheim and Marktheidenfeld
Unforgettable Moment: The highlight of our day today will be a delightful half-day tour of a local German village, during which we’ll savor a BBQ lunch and take in some traditional live music. Back on the ship, a glassblowing demonstration introduces us to the artistry of this age-old craft.
Culinary Feature: This evening, your interactive cooking lesson option includes Käsespätzle or another regional specialty.
Tour and wine tasting inside the Würzburg Residenz
Arriving in Würzburg, set out on a half-day tour of the Würzburg Residenz, a baroque European castle and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your tour includes a visit to the wine cellar for a tasting and lecture. Alternatively, you may join an optional tour of medieval Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Cultural Connection: Late this afternoon, attend a lecture on “Germany in the 21st Century: Changes & Challenges.”
Optional Tour: Full-day Rothenburg Tour with Christmas Museum
Full-day Rothenburg Tour with Christmas Museum
Approximate Time: 8.5 hours
Location: Würzburg, Germany
Picturesque Rothenburg ob der Tauber features winding cobbled lanes lined with half-timbered houses, as well as massive towers and intact city walls around the Old Town where one can take in views over both the city and the Tauber valley. Known for its “eternal Christmas” atmosphere, the town’s various shops sell beautiful, handcrafted Christmas gifts and souvenirs all year round. Come December, the area comes to life with the famous Christmas Market, one of the most romantic markets in Germany. You’ll take a walking tour and pay a visit to the Christmas Museum; plus, you’ll enjoy some free time to explore the shops and take in the stunning views.
Note: Christmas Museum is not available during holiday season departures.
Altmühl Valley sailing, walking tour of Bamberg, wine tasting dinner
Cultural Connection: While we cruise this morning, attend a lecture on the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, one of Europe’s greatest engineering feats. Later, we’ll pass through the locks of the canal and enjoy a day sailing through the lovely Altmühl Valley. Arriving in Bamberg, we'll embark on a fascinating walking tour of the historic center of town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is also an opportunity to partake in a cooking demonstration today, one of several available on your journey. Wine Feature: Tonight’s delicious dinner onboard includes a pairing of wines with insights on their local production.
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This morning you'll have your choice of two city tours of Nuremberg. Choose “Nuremberg and World War II” to explore the city’s World War II history and visit the Documentation Center, or take the “Highlights of Nuremberg” tour that includes a visit to the delightful Toy Museum.
Cultural Connection: This evening, attend a lecture on Bavaria. Then chat with your fellow travelers during cocktail hour in the lounge and enjoy a delectable dinner onboard.
Regensburg: Roman architecture and Bavarian charms
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Cultural Connection: Later, back on the ship, enjoy some local entertainment.
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Today, join a walking tour of baroque Passau, known as the "town of three rivers" because it's located where two tributaries join the Danube river.
Biking Opportunity: Follow the beautiful Ilz River along a scenic 10-mile route (moderate level). Click here for details.
Painting Lesson: Join a local artist to learn how to capture the scenery with a brush.
Waltzing into Vienna, a private Kursalon concert, plus a wine tasting dinner
Relax as your ship cruises the Danube River through the scenic Wachau Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Landscape. This afternoon, an apple strudel making demonstration awaits in your Captain's Club.
Cultural Connection: Be prepared for what awaits you later this evening with an insightful onboard lecture about Musical Vienna. Once in Austria’s capital, you’ll be treated to a delightful evening filled with tunes and revelry at an exclusive Kursalon music hall concert. Later onboard, keep the party going with dancing onboard; local dancers will show you their fancy footwork and teach you a few steps.
Wine Feature: Tonight’s dinner will be further enhanced by a pairing and tasting of local wines with commentary.
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This morning you’ll be treated to a city tour of Vienna, whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among the many highlights are Liechtenstein Palace, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
Wine Feature: Wine enthusiasts should treat themselves to a fun evening with a Viennese Heurigen dinner, cozy family-style affairs with wine and music.
Culinary Feature: Tonight’s culinary demonstration features mouthwatering Styrian pot roast.
Biking Opportunity: Enjoy the architecture of Vienna, including panoramic sights of the city’s skyscrapers, during a medium 8-mile route. Click here for details.
Water Sport Opportunity: Alternatively, ask your Concierge about renting a boat or kayak during your free time.
Please note: The heurigen optional tour is not available on the 8/5 departure.
Optional Tour: Viennese Heurigen Dinner, Wine & Music
Viennese Heurigen Dinner, Wine & Music
When: Evening tour, including dinner
The congenial atmosphere of cozy, family-style wine taverns, known as heurigens, is perfectly complemented by hearty food, lively music — and locally produced vintages, of course. Heurigens traditionally have rustic decor, open courtyards with outdoor seating, and an accordion player playing traditional Viennese songs. You’ll visit an authentic heurigen for dinner, music, and wine! You can look forward to a fun and festive evening!
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Begin the day with a panoramic city tour of regal Budapest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Unforgettable Moment: You’ll take in the spectacular panoramic views of the city from Fisherman’s Bastion, a magnificent terrace overlooking the Danube. The rest of the day you’re free to explore Budapest at your own pace, or opt for a Hungarian Horse Show.
Biking Opportunity: Enjoy the most magnificent sites of Budapest, including Freedom Bridge, Chain Bridge and the Hungarian Parliament Building during an easy 5-mile route. Click here for details.
Optional Tour: Hungarian Horse Show
Hungarian Horse Show
Enjoy the romantic scenery of the countryside as you visit the Equestrian Park of the Lázár brothers, who have won several world championships in carriage riding. Hungarian horsemen will welcome and accompany you to the inn’s yard where you will enjoy the famous Hungarian “pálinka” (brandy) before going to the show. The horse show features varied styles of dressage and fun competition with guests. After the show, a carriage awaits you for a scenic ride through the surrounding area.
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Enjoy a day at leisure, perhaps taking advantage of our onboard bicycles to ride along the Danube pathways, or to do some shopping on the Váci Utca, Budapest’s most famous shopping street. You can also join our delightful full-day optional tour to the Hungarian village of Hollókő, a "living village" of early rural life that has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Optional Tour: Hollókő: A Step Back in Time
Hollókő: A Step Back in Time
Approximate Cost: $109 USD per person
When: Full-day tour, including home-hosted lunch
A scenic journey back in time, into the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, takes you to the medieval UNESCO World heritage village of Hollókő. Here life follows the same patterns it did centuries ago — the houses are built in a medieval style with whitewashed walls and red-tiled roofs, and the locals still honor age-hold customs and dress in traditional embroidered clothing on special occasions — such as your arrival! You'll be greeted with singing, dancing, and a snack of Hungarian cheesecake. Then, in small groups, we'll be invited into a home for lunch — a truly wonderful way to meet people of Hungary. Afterwards, you'll take a walking tour through the village's cobbled streets.
Delving into Hungary’s musical heritage
Today you'll tour the Hungarian State Opera House, an opulent masterpiece of neo-Renaissance architecture where greats such as composer Gustav Mahler performed. A statue in front of Ferenc (Franz) Liszt reminds you of Hungary's storied musical heritage. Much of the structure was destroyed by American bombing during World War II, then restored afterwards. Cultural Connection: You'll also sample some amazing cake and coffee at the famed Café Hauer, an atmospheric landmark of Budapest's legendary coffee culture.
Exploring Hungarian traditions and cuisine in Kalocsa
Today, you’ll visit the town of Kalocsa, where you’ll enjoy a city tour that includes workshops on folk painting, folk embroidery, and the making of traditional Hungarian paprika bread, as well as an organ concert. Sample Hungarian specialties during lunch on board. Enjoy an afternoon at leisure. Cultural Connection: You'll take part in an insightful Folklore Workshop today. After dinner, enjoy more onboard entertainment with folkloric dancers.
Optional Tour: Puszta Tour
Puszta Tour
Location: Kalocsa, Hungary
When: Afternoon tour
Get a glimpse of Hungarian country life with a visit to a working horse ranch that maintains a herd of up to 120 horses. Upon arrival, you’ll be welcomed with wine, bread, and onion slices. Watch authentic Hungarian csikós (cowboys) display their prowess on horseback. Next, take a carriage ride into the puszta, Hungary’s scenic great plain. As a special treat, a shepherd’s wife will provide homemade scones (pogacsa) and brandy (palinka). Before leaving, you’ll be able to visit the animals, including the Hungarian grey cattle, the long-haired “mangalica” pig herd, and the cheeky, clamorous donkey foals.
Trek to the Croatian border on an exploration of historic Pécs
From our berth in Mohacs we’ll set out on an excursion to Pécs, a multicultural city where Hungarians, Croatians, and Swabians have lived together in peace for generations. Our tour will reveal the city’s ancient and religious significance with a visit to the magnificent Basilica of St. Peter and the Roman Necropolis — together recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Those who enjoy additional walking can also visit the Museum Quarter. Savor lunch in Pécs at a local restaurant.
Hello, Croatia: Exploring Vukovar and Osijek
Today we’ll enjoy a tour of Vukovar, Croatia’s largest river port whose history dates back to the 6th century, when Slavic tribes first settled here. Cultural Connection: You’ll also discover the vibrant university city of Osijek, where you’ll meet a Croatian family while enjoying lunch in their home. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about Croatia’s independence firsthand. If you’re around Osijek when school is in session, you’ll also visit an elementary school classroom and meet the children, or you’ll attend a guitar concert in a church courtyard. Cultural Connection: Tonight, more evening entertainment gives us a look inside each region's culture and artistry.
Inside Belgrade and Kalemegdan Fortress
Cultural Connection: Following an informative lecture on modern Serbia, discover the country’s 2,500-year-old capital, Belgrade, on a half-day tour. Belgrade’s recent history has left the city somewhat disheveled — yet you’ll be impressed by bold redevelopment and the positive outlook of the residents. You’ll also visit Kalemegdan Fortress. This afternoon, you may want to take advantage of the optional tour to Tito’s Memorial and Royal Palace. If you're up for something a bit more adventurous, speak to your Concierge about where you can rent a canoe or kayak on the river. Tonight, join your fellow travelers at the Captain's Gala Dinner, followed by more onboard entertainment.
Water Sport Opportunity: Rent a boat or kayak during your free time.
Optional Tour: Tito's Memorial and Royal Palace
Tito's Memorial and Royal Palace
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Start your tour at the Royal Compound in Dedinje, a fashionable district of Belgrade. King Alexander I Karađorđević built it for his family in the 1920’s, before his assassination in 1934 changed the course of Yugoslavian history. Today, the Crown Prince Alexander Karađorđević and his family live in the Royal Palace. You’ll enjoy a guided walking tour of the grounds, the Royal Palace, and the Church of Saint Andrej the First-Called, along with a welcome drink. Your next stop is the memorial to former President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito and the museum showcasing tributes he received during his rule.
Cruising the Iron Gates of the Danube
Scenic sailing: Relax on deck and enjoy the views as your river cruise passes through one of the most dramatic and beautiful stretches of the Danube river, the series of gorges known as the Iron Gates of the Danube. As your ship passes through two sets of locks, you’ll hear commentary from the bridge describing the process.
We'll enjoy a morning walking tour of Donji Milanovac where we'll visit a local school for a fascinating introduction to the Cyrillic alphabet, the script invented by a Byzantine monk in the 9th century that is now widely used throughout the Slavic world.
Amused in Ruse, Europe’s “Little Vienna”
Cultural Connection: As you cruise, take in a morning presentation on the “Bulgaria, Romania, and the Expansion of the European Union.” You'll also enjoy a Balkan-style BBQ party on the sun deck, weather permitting.
You’ll arrive in the Bulgarian river port of Ruse, nicknamed “Little Vienna” for its attractive baroque architecture. Cultural Connection: Enjoy a charming dance performance by Bulgarian children. Later, witness a fascinating icon painting demonstration on board and more after dinner entertainment, featuring the Contemporary Bulgarian Trio.
A day Veliko Tarnovo, with choir performance in Arbanassi village
Step ashore for a full-day tour to Veliko Tarnovo, a 12th-century Bulgarian capital where colorful houses perch above the winding Yantra River.
Cultural Connection:
While in Veliko Tarnovo, you’ll have lunch with university students. You’ll continue to the 16th-century village of Arbanassi, where you’ll be treated to a heavenly Eastern Orthodox choir performance at the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel.
This morning we’ll disembark ship and transfer to Bucharest, Romania’s largest city and capital, where we’ll embark on a panoramic tour and have lunch. Afterwards, explore Bucharest’s grand monuments and leafy, old-world boulevards on a city tour that includes a choice of entrances. Unforgettable Moment: You can visit the infamous People’s Palace, the grandiose, sprawling, and never-completed administrative building initiated by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Alternatively, take a fascinating walking tour of Manuc’s Inn, Bucharest’s oldest hotel building, which was built as a way station for caravans and surrounds a large open courtyard. Tonight, we’ll savor a delicious dinner at the hotel.
*Please note, for the best airport pacing, passengers on the post-trip extension will enjoy all of the same features from the base tour in a different order. Extension travelers will complete the final Bucharest portion of the base itinerary on their last day.
Today we’ll venture into Transylvania, the mountainous, legend-haunted region in central Romania. We’ll visit fairy-tale Peles Castle and then stop for lunch in Sinaia, a former royal summer retreat. As we enter Transylvania proper, you’ll see why it’s known as the last medieval landscape in Europe. You’ll return to Bucharest in the afternoon. Dinner is included at your hotel.
Depart Bucharest and fly home
Transfer to the airport for your flight home.
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*Please note that for pre- and post-trip extension passengers to enjoy the best pacing and airline routing, two days of base tour features will be listed in the itinerary below as noted (Days 25 and 29 for the post-extension). For post-trip extension passengers, your price includes:
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Bible - Epic Miniseries
Breathtaking in its scope and scale, The Bible features powerful performances, exotic locales, and dazzling visual effects that breathe spectacular life into the dramatic tales of faith and courage from Genesis through Revelation. This historic television event is sure to entertain and inspire the whole family! Widescreen.
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Breathtaking in its scope and scale, The Bible features powerful performances, exotic locales, and dazzling visual effects that breathe spectacular life into the dramatic tales of faith and courage from Genesis through Revelation. This historic television event which premiered on the History Channel in March 2013 quickly became one of the top rated shows in its time slot, a fact that confounded the Hollywood entertainment industry. Produced by husband-wife team, Mark Burnett (Survivor) and Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel) two professing Christians, The Bible Miniseries is sure to inspire the whole family! The DVD features multiple extra features that shed light on both the production and on the Bible itself. Widescreen.
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The Bible: Genesis
The Cast of The Bible
The Bible: Creation
Scoring the Bible
Believing in Miracles
The Bible: Visual Effects
Mary Did You Know? Music Video
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Jeff Dollar - Too Much Left Out or Added
This miniseries on the Bible had great potential, but was squandered by straying from the details. True, it is a daunting task to try to portray an immense work such as the Word of God in 10 hours, but a little more care to the truth would have made a great difference. TV producers never seem to understand that they are dealing with the revealed truth of God, and not just another script that can be molded for emotional effect. The very beginning sets the course for the whole series Noah, who is busy plugging holes in the leaky ark, is telling the creation story to children. Anyone who has read the story knows that only eight entered the ark; Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Nothing is said about children, and nothing is said about leaks. Nearly every story of the Bible is ruined by overzealous editors. The angels who came to Sodom to rescue Lot don't just lead him out of the city, they are ninjas who attack Lot's enemies. The story of the three Hebrews in the fiery furnace has Nebuchadnezzar burning himself getting too close the fire, while the Bible tells us the men tossing them in were killed by the heat. Daniel comes across as a brown noser. I could go on and on, for each episode has additions which detract from the greatness of the story. Even the Passion messes up what was said and where, at crucial points. If any good comes out of this, it will be because it drove some people to actually read the Bible instead of allowing professional filmmakers to botch it up.
Rene Saucier - Just Awesome!!!
My wife and I watched every episode of, "The Bible MiniSeries" and loved it very much! Awesome work by everyone involved and we really believe that God was right there inspiring everyone at every moment! I would recommend to anyone to buy the DVD, especially if you haven't seen it! Just Awesome!!!
Michael Phelps - An Excellent Series of Bible Stories
If only educational material could also be entertaining... Well, in this case it is! The movie is very well made and the effects are excellent. At first, it was jarring how quickly they jumped from one character to another, and how much material was left out, but then I realized it would be impossible to put all the details into a series just under 7.5 hours. Despite leaving many details out, this series is a great way to become familiar with the stories in the Bible. After watching half of the episodes so far, both my children, my wife, and I are anticipating watching the next episodes. My only disappointment is the the DVD does display the reminder of the last episode and the preview for the next one.
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Mata pisca in a limestone landscape
Mata pisca or Mata di pisca (Jacquina armillaris) is a common tree on Aruba, but unfamiliar to many. An evergreen shrub that is wind resistant, it has typically a single straight trunk with a compact canopy and does not grow higher than 9 feet. The leaves are thick, spongy and about one inch long. The small flowers are white, fragrantly and the fruits are yellow pellets grouped together at the end of the branches. The tree flowers at the end of the dry season. Mata pisca means fish killer in Papiamento and applies to the use of the plant to render fish unconscious in water. A chemical present in the whole plant but concentrated in the leaves procures this use. It works best in enclosed water and the desired effect mostly depends on the amount of leaves used. Therefore, it is not useful in the open sea.
As mentioned above Mata pisca is an unfamiliar plant to the locals. That is because it grows predominantly on the uninhabited side of Aruba, on middle limestone terraces. According to the geological map of Aruba from 1996, these terraces originate from the Pleistocene and are actually eoleanites, petrified sand dunes. They lie more landwards from the lower terraces, which are part of the coastline and have shallow soil development. However, they are different from the older limestone terraces, which are also landwards located. The terraces with Mata pisca vegetation are rocky with pockets of eroded material, where the trees grow from. The vegetation also consists of other well-known tree species, like Brasil (Haematoxylon brasiletto), which were historically useful and documented. Brasil was useful as a provider of a dye for textiles and therefore logged. Mata pisca was not useful for the timber industry and few knew of its chemical capabilities; therefore, it was not historically documented, adding to its relative unfamiliarity under the local population. Probably its poor usefulness caused the difference between the vegetation of the middle terraces of Aruba and those of Curaçao. In Curaçao, the vegetation consists mainly of Brazil with a few Mata pisca among them, while in Aruba Brazils are scarce among Mata pisca.
Mata pisca is also present outside its core habitat, but than more in individual specimens. For instance, the park visitor can see a large specimen growing near the entrance on non-calcareous soil, which is an unusual sight. Several individual trees are also found at Sabana Basora, Spaans Lagoen and Colorado hill. There is also one specimen at the garden of the Department of Agriculture, Husbandry and Fisheries (DLVVM).
The Department of Agriculture, Husbandry and Fisheries (DLVVM) has reproduced several specimens, as part of a conservational effort and these are for sale to the public. Although it is preferable that the specie survives in its own habitat as this has proven to be most suitable. DLVVM is located at Piedra Plat # 114, between the Piedra Plat Protestant Church and the bridge across the rooi at Piedra Plat. The gate is open from 7 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 1 to 4 'o clock in the afternoon. Sales until at 3'o clock in the afternoon.
For more information call +297 585 6473 or email Department of Agriculture, Husbandry and Fisheries directly.
[Information courtesy of Mr. Facundo Franken of the Department of Agriculture, Husbandry and Fisheries (DLVVM) - Nature Management]
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
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See L.A. County’s natural wild side at this vast, free-admission park
Think there’s no wide-open countryside left in Los Angeles? Think again. The Santa Monica Mountains stretch for 80km across the northwestern boundary of the Los Angeles basin. Within the range lie more than 60,000 largely undeveloped hectares of grassy swales, rock-studded hillsides, tree-shaded glens, and windswept beaches. A mosaic of state, local, and federal preserves protects this land, all managed under the umbrella of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, the nation’s largest urban national park.
One of the few mountain ranges in the United States to run east to west rather than north to south, the Santa Monicas can claim big nature bragging rights. Considered to be a “botanical island” in L.A.’s urban corridor, the slopes that run straight down to the Pacific are covered in chaparral, coastal sage, springtime wildflowers, and oak and sycamore forests. More than 20 species of endangered plants and animals thrive here. This is a place where you might see a bobcat stalk its prey, a coyote lope across the grasslands, or a golden eagle fly overhead.
With dozens of possible access points to the area, the hardest part of visiting the Santa Monica Mountains is deciding where to go. The range is bisected by scenic roads, so you can witness some of its charms through your windshield: Cruise along Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway from Hollywood west to Malibu, or drive Kanan Dume Road north from Malibu to Agoura Hills.
To enjoy the beauty at a slower pace, get out and take a hike. More than 800km of trails lace these mountains, including the 107km Backbone Trail, an unbroken footpath that makes it possible to backpack for a week in L.A.’s wilderness. There are plenty of shorter treks, too: From the Circle X Ranch trailhead, climb 984m Sandstone Peak, the highest point in the recreation area, where the vista from the summit takes in a wide expanse of island-dotted Pacific and a sweep of downtown’s jagged skyline. In Solstice Canyon, take an easy walk along an oak- and sycamore-shaded creek to a picturesque waterfall and the Roberts Ranch stone ruins. At Paramount Ranch, stroll through Western Town, a movie and television set where stars including Bob Hope and Gary Cooper acted out scenes for 1940s classics. At King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, visit the national park visitor center for maps and information, then take a short, steep tromp to Inspiration Point for views of Malibu Creek State Park’s volcanic rock formations.
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[Spoilery speculation ahead.] Huh! Variety is reporting that TNT and Frank Darabont are in the early stages of wooing Jon Bernthal for Darabont’s newly green-lit period series L.A. Noir. Bernthal, however, is currently playing the ethically questionable, shorn-haired Shane, the second male lead on AMC’s The Walking Dead, the show that Darabont created and recently — not so peacefully — parted ways with. While there is a remote possibility that Bernthal could pull double duty on both series, it seems more likely that this piece of news is actually a pretty big spoiler about what’s to come on The Walking Dead, which begins the second half of its second season on February 12. Consider the evidence: Not only would it be very hard to have lead parts on shows simultaneously shooting in Atlanta and L.A., but TVline recently ran a blind item about a TWD lead leaving the show. If Darabont et al are considering Bernthal for L.A. Noir, that’s a pretty strong indicator that his days in zombieville are numbered. In the comics, Shane does indeed die fairly early on in the series — another sign pointing to Bernthal’s exit. And to some continued bad blood between AMC and Darabont.
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Many incredible people have passed through the VACorps internship program since we first started hosting interns in 2006. “Oh the places you’ll go” is a series where our alumni share updates about their careers and life accomplishments. In this latest post, Lauren Blodgett (Refugee and Human Rights Internship, 2013), checks in from New York City, where she [...]
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Airlines must refund bag fees for lost luggage
Federal rules tightened to aid passengers
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By David Eldridge - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Airlines can’t lose your luggage and still expect to keep the bag fees, the Obama administration said Wednesday.
Responding to appeals from consumer groups and some leaders in Congress to make flying more passenger-friendly, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced several new regulations, including a rule that will require airlines to refund bag fees if they lose luggage.
The new Department of Transportation rules also increase compensation for passengers bumped from flights, require airlines to publish “hidden” fees in their advertisements, and expand a rule to prevent international passengers from being stranded on tarmacs for longer than four hours.
The new regulations, which take effect in August, are intended to address a chorus of complaints from air travelers frustrated with rising fees, overbooked flights and long delays.
“It’s just common sense that if an airline loses your bag or you get bumped from a flight because it was oversold, you should be reimbursed,” Mr. LaHood said.
Consumer advocates welcomed the changes.
“There’s always more we would have liked, but today we are gratified,” activist Kate Hanni said. She became a leader of the passenger rights movement after she and her family were stuck for more than nine hours on a tarmac in Austin, Texas, in 2006.
She brushed aside criticism from free-market proponents who contend the regulations will hurt the airllines.
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If you want to be asked out on a date again, you'll have to learn how to be a good date. Make sure you leave the door confident, cool, and ready to go out and have fun!
Learn how to get ready for a date. Dress in a way that you feel comfortable. If you normally wear conservative clothing and think a low-cut shirt will make him want you more(and vice versa), it will probably just make things more awkward because you'll be uncomfortable, which will cause you to act out of character.
Realize that all guys are different! One might like a lot of enhancing makeup, while another might enjoy you more natural. One might think that your crop top is cute, another might think it makes you look too over the top. A lot of people don't go on blind dates, so you should get a feel for what they like. It is okay to wear a V-Cut shirt if you think he might like it, but be careful to follow the step above as well.
Be conversational. Make an effort to hold a conversation with him, or else he will feel like it's his responsibility. Don't force conversation, but don't let him keep it up alone. Dripping over his every word is fine, but don't be such a ditz that you can't pick up the topic yourself and move with it.
Make eye contact. Avoiding the gaze of your date may be cute or flirty in your eyes, but he may see it as discomfort on your part. Staring is a little creepy, but looking into his eyes often is a good thing.
Learn about the guy's interest and use it as a topic. Guys love it when you pay attention to them. Talk about his classes, any sports he's involved in, his friends, and anything else you can think of.
Learn how to flirt correctly. This isn't too hard. If you really like the guy, little things like smiles, glances, and touches will come naturally if you overcome shyness.
Be confident. Guys love confident girls, for a lot of reasons. One is because a girl who is always isn't confident, or just acts that way, gives a lot of mixed signals. A confident girl who speaks up gives guys a good idea about what she wants. Don't mix up confidence with heavy independence. While you should say what you want, be careful that you don't seem too independent. It might turn a guy off if you always want things your way, or if he thinks if you will never really need him.
Imitate low-maintenance girls. Don't be too demanding on your choice of food or items if the guys is buying for you.
Do not insult yourself. The first time you look at your reflection and say, "Ugh, my hair will not work today!", he'll see one of those people. The kind that always primp in the mirror, always need to lose just three more pounds, or are always shopping for a cute new top. It will make you seem shallow and not worth it.
Don't worry about goodnight/bye kisses. Perfectly romantic dates are rare. If you really want to date the guy, kissing will come soon enough.
The most important thing to remember is that he likes you enough to agree to go on a date with you, so relax and be yourself! Don't change to impress him. That's not the person he took an interest in.
If he asks for your mobile number give it to him (if you don't have a mobile, tell him that you will call him).
Admitting that you're nervous may actually help. If you feel like you're not yourself, just say that you're really nervous because you're so excited. He will feel better because you're so into him, and you'll feel better because he knows why you're not yourself.
Do not let him pressure you into things you don't want to do.
Eye contact can sometimes be intimidating and confrontational. It is better to talk to the guy side to side! If you are eating across from each other, or front-to-front eye contact is unavoidable, do not avoid his eyes. Look at his eyes and follow manners - don't stare, undress him with your eyes, or giggle too much.
Corny as it sounds, it is very important to be yourself. If the guy who asked you out saw a cute, natural, freckled girl in jeans and a T-shirt and he picks up a primped, preppy, girl with revealing clothing and a half a pound of makeup, he might back out of it( and vice versa).
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Most startups fail. Here's how to successfully grow your business
From sourcing talent to finding customers, managing company culture to assembling a board, these are the best ways to grow your startup
By James Silver
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Your technology startup will fail. The cold, harsh reality is that 75 per cent of venture capital-backed new companies never return cash to their investors – while according to one prominent VC only about five per cent ever fall into the "truly interesting" category. So where do these new businesses typically come unstuck? The answer lies in arguably the most fraught moment on the startup rollercoaster: the aftermath of raising early-stage Series A investment. That’s when entrepreneurs must start scaling their business, from a bunch of mates in a co-working space to a team of 100-plus - often scattered around the world.
From sourcing talent to finding customers, managing company culture to assembling a board, the barrage of problems founders encounter can at times resemble an endless game of whack-a-mole, played while juggling the everyday stresses and strains of running a business without burning through cash. Over the past year, author James Silver interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs and investors for Upscale, a new book on how to scale a tech startup. Here are a few of their tips.
Try to be aware of your limitations
“Founders, along with other key people, can sometimes be a limiting factor in a company's growth. People who are right for a certain phase may not be right for the next. It works in both directions – there have been plenty of cases where a startup has brought in a highly experienced person with a glittering CV, but they've failed to make an impact. But equally, you’re going to also have leaders who were brilliant early on, but at some point just don’t scale with the needs of the company.”
Balderton Capital partner Suranga Chandratillake on why some leaders need to step aside as a company scales.
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Find out who makes the decisions
“Always find out who the decision-maker in a corporate is. There’s no point in taking meeting after meeting with people who can’t say yes. Aside from creating that sense of fomo about your product or service, find out where the sign-off will come from. Then work out how to get in a room with that individual. Too many people are just too nice and tread carefully. Ask up front about a corporate’s processes, and if the person you’re meeting isn’t the decision-maker, then quickly find out who is.”
lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman on how to partner with – and sell to – major corporations as a startup.
Go for home-grown talent over experience
“When you’ve raised a lot of money, it’s very easy to go on a hiring spree. We made precisely this mistake; we were so excited to fill the [new] roles that we just started hiring people because they had experience. But before you decide you need someone with five years’ experience from a large corporate or tech platform, give your home-grown talent a chance. Our best hires have been our interns. When you watch people like that rise up, it gives everybody confidence because they know they’re in a meritocracy.”
Sarah Wood, co-founder and chair of Unruly, on hiring.
Don’t sell umbrellas to camels
“One of our team says: ‘Don’t sell umbrellas to camels’. What he means is make sure you understand who your ideal customer is and focus almost exclusively on them. They are far more likely to become referenceable customers, who can then provide air cover for your sales leads, [by giving your company] a great reference. If you’re an enterprise business, then referenceable customers are huge. So over-index on keeping them happy. It should get markedly easier the more of them that you have.”
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Partnerize CEO Malcolm Cowley on why B2B startups should focus on ‘referenceable customers’
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid
“Founders have to pull off a near-impossible trick: they have to distort reality – because they are selling a vision of something that doesn’t yet exist – but not bullshit themselves. As the Americans say: ‘Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.’ As an investor, I look for entrepreneurs who can describe their strategy in level-headed terms and articulate the steps they need to take. I’m asking what their insight or unfair advantage is that makes me believe they are the ones that can achieve what they say they can.”
Wendy Tan White, co-founder and CEO of Moonfruit, and adviser to the British Growth Fund (BGF), on the dangers of hype.
Always be ready to get your hands dirty
“If you've done the operational processes yourself, it gives you credibility internally - and even if they can do it better than you, your team will respect the fact that you've had a good go at it. Throughout all my time as a CEO and four years as a public CEO, there were many occasions when, even though I was no longer doing those tasks, if someone told me something about any aspect of operations, I instinctively knew whether what they were saying was rubbish or not.”
David Buttress, co-founder and ex-CEO of Just Eat
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Weed out the wrong investors
“Try to weed the ‘wrong’ investors out of the fundraising process as quickly as possible. Fundraising is like running a sales process: you need to work out fairly quickly who your runners and riders are, and not waste time on people who aren’t going to get to completion. In an ideal world, founders want to end up with no more than three or four term-sheets [investment offers]. That’s three or four VCs you’d be happy to work with. Then you’ve got something you can use to try and generate the best deal for yourself.”
Cherry Freeman, co-founder LoveCrafts, on fundraising.
Upscale, published by Tech Nation, is out on 27th November.
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Scientists Are Using AI to Painstakingly Assemble Single Atoms
Author: Sophia ChenSophia Chen
An image of single atoms placed on a surface using the scanning probe microscope. Researchers use the machine's fine tip to create bespoke single atom patterns.
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Forget ruby-encrusted swords or diamond-tipped chainsaws. The scanning probe microscope is, quite literally, the sharpest object ever made. Hidden under its bulky silver exterior is a thin metal wire, as fine as a human hair. And at one end, its point tapers to the width of a single atom.
Scientists wield the wire not as a weapon, but as an intricate paintbrush—using its needlelike tip to position single atoms on a tiny semiconductor canvas. Ever since scientists at IBM invented the scanning probe microscope some 35 years ago, researchers have used it to create designs both goofy and groundbreaking. They’ve written nanometer-sized letters and Chinese characters. They’ve produced a stop-motion film out of individual carbon monoxide molecules. And they’ve used the machine to make the tiniest transistor of all time—out of a single atom.
A tungsten wire, a quarter milimeter at its base, sharpened to a single atom wide.
But it’s hard to use the scanning probe microscope. Single atoms are finicky, so using the machine requires patience and precision. Over the last few years, Bob Wolkow has been working to tame this temperamental tool—and now, he thinks he’s streamlined its operation enough for manufacturing. His grand plan: use the machine to make new types of chips that could usher in a new era of computing.
His chip design involves assembling minute circuits, atom by atom, on conventional silicon computer chips. These circuits offer many perks for the next generation of computers, says Wolkow, a physicist at the University of Alberta in Canada—including energy efficiency.
Currently, transistors in computer chips represent binary information by holding onto electrons (a “1”) or dumping them to ground (“0”). This means that as you write and record information, your computer has to shuttle a lot of electrons around, which uses a lot of energy. Wolkow’s circuit design encodes information by altering the single atoms in the circuit.* For example, some atoms would have electrons attached to them ("1") and others would not ("0"). By making atoms exchange electrons back and forth, you can represent different binary numbers. So to record data, you just need enough energy to rearrange the electrons, which is much less than what you’d need to move around torrents of them.
They know how to perform most of the steps for efficiently assembling these circuits now. So here’s Wolkow’s pitch: Give his team $20 million to buy a fleet of scanning probe microscopes, and they’ll put all the steps together, plopping single atoms on chips at scale. “For the first time, I’m openly saying that I think I can manufacture a million chips per year,” says Wolkow, who also serves as the chief technology officer at an Alberta-based company, Quantum Silicon. “I couldn’t make one per year a few years ago.”
So what’s changed? Wolkow has, in some form, worked to make single atom circuits for 30 years now—studying promising materials to death, tinkering with his microscope, and making incremental progress. But in the last few years, researchers have developed tools to streamline the scanning probe microscope. Wolkow’s group has developed what they call “atomic whiteout,” a technique for correcting errors when laying single atoms. Dallas-based company Zyvex Labs has created software packages for automating the atom-plopping. And publishing in ACS Nano on Wednesday, Wolkow’s research group has developed an automated method for sharpening the machine’s wire tip using machine learning. This moment, he says, could be a turning point where companies could actually start to make viable products, atom by atom.
Wolkow's machine learning algorithm distinguishes between a wire tip that is a single atom wide (left) and a blunted tip (right).
Wolkow’s not alone in his excitement. European scientists have used scanning probe microscopes to construct computer memories from single atoms. Australian researchers have made quantum computer components by precisely positioning phosphorus atoms on a silicon chip. Chemists want to use the machine to manufacture catalysts from individual atoms. And in the last few years, the Department of Energy has singled out projects that use atomically precise technology for funding. “People are taking this much more seriously,” says engineer John Randall of Zyvex Labs.
These automated processes could benefit other realms of science, too. In addition to its atom-arranging capabilities, the machine can capture high-resolution magnified images when you hover its delicate wire tip over cells and molecules. But it’s boring work, says physics graduate student Sara Mueller of Ohio State University, who uses the machine to research properties of new materials. She spends a lot of time examining the end of her microscope tip, to make sure it’s a single atom thick. An automated sharpening process would speed her work significantly.
The scanning probe microscope.
But not everybody is convinced that single-atom mass manufacturing is imminent. Chemist Paul Ashby of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who studies molecules with scanning probe microscopes and works on the machinery itself, says that the instrument has some significant hardware limitations. Right now, with a single wire tip, you can only arrange atoms on a tiny 0.1 millimeter square. To draw a circuit bigger than that, you’d need multiple wire tips next to each other in close proximity, which would interfere with each other and lower the precision of the entire machine. Researchers don’t know how to fix that yet, and it’s the key bottleneck, says Ashby. “Automation does not address this at all,” he says.
Still, Wolkow is optimistic. “People still say, ‘Bob’s crazy,’” he says. “But we have so much single atom control now, and the tools have advanced so much.”
And even if Wolkow doesn’t pull off his manufacturing vision, he’s making it easier for other researchers to use scanning probe microscopes. Right now, Mueller has to keep checking—and double-checking—that the machine tip is operating properly before she can trust the data she takes. “There’s no high-level thinking involved,” she says. “It’s just tedious.” Automation frees researchers from the most mind-numbing tasks—so they can focus on the cool stuff.
*Correction at 4:25 p.m. on 5/23/2018: An earlier version of this story misstated how single atom circuits store information.
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Meet Trinity Likins, the Newcomer Who Will Play Cole Sprouse’s Sister on Riverdale
Katherine Cusumano
October 7, 2018 12:51 pm
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Riverdale is about to return for its third season, and with it, the titular town is getting a little bit bigger: On Sunday, it was announced that Gina Gershon and Trinity Likins would be joining the cast as the scam-artist mother and sister of Cole Sprouse’s Jughead.
Gershon and Likins will make their entrée into Riverdale in December; on the series’ continuum, until now, Gladys and Jellybean “JB” Jones, played by Gershon and Likins, respectively, have been living (and running scams) in Toledo, Ohio. Gladys, according to Variety, is a “businesswoman and a biker who runs a salvage yard that doubles as a Southside Serpent compound”; her younger child has inherited her mother’s con-artist ways and is described as “wise beyond her years.”
Gershon, a renowned character actress, is an alumna of Rescue Me, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the truly bonkers Nicolas Cage and John Travolta film Face/Off; she’s also appeared on Glee, Elementary, Younger, Empire, and Ugly Betty. Likins, by contrast, has been plucked out of relative obscurity—though that obscurity is sure to change with this announcement, which has already prompted her Instagram follower count to soar by several thousand. Consider the sudden fame the likes of Camila Mendes and Lili Reinhart have been thrust into since the show premiered. So here, get to know Riverdale’s newest resident—Trinity Likins is about to be a name you’ll want to know.
She’s a native of Squamish, in British Columbia.
Likins has primarily appeared in local Canadian productions and has gone up for some commercial work. With her collarbone-length red hair, she bears something of a resemblance to another previously unknown, now-everywhere young talent: Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink.
She has just two credits to her name.
Per Likins’s IMDb, she has appeared in the made-for-television movie Christmas in the Air and the CBC and Sundance TV miniseries Unspeakable, which depicts the AIDS crisis in Canada in the ’80s. She has said she’d like to do more movies, though.
She’s wanted to be an actor since she was practically an infant.
According to an interview with a local paper in Squamish, the young star had been begging her parents for agency representation from a young age—but it wasn’t until she won Premiere, a talent show, that things finally got underway.
She’s a bit of a francophile.
Though Likins’s Instagram feed, where she posts as @trinity_may6, is relatively short—dating back less than two years—a solid number of those posts depict Paris, where Likins has taken in the Eiffel Tower and some croissants (in between adventures in Monaco and Biarritz, just a short trip away).
She loves her dog.
One of Likins’s saved Instagram stories is titled “My fur baby.” Need we say more?
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County looks to sell 23 surplus properties
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Oxford County council took the first steps in potentially selling 23 properties totalling 92 acres by making them surplus.
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Published on: June 17, 2019 | Last Updated: June 17, 2019 5:04 PM EDT
Oxford County council took the first steps in potentially selling 23 properties totalling 92 acres by making them surplus. County staff underwent a review process of 635 county owned properties to see which lands could be deemed surplus and eventually sold and put into OxfordÕs housing reserve. Handout
Oxford County council took the first steps to potentially selling 23 properties – a total of 37 hectares (92 acres) – by declaring them surplus.
County staff underwent a review process of 635 county-owned properties to see exactly which lands should be deemed surplus and eventually sold and put into Oxford’s housing reserve.
Melissa Abercrombie, manager of engineering services in the county’s public works department, said staff selected the 23 properties because there was no current operational use for them so they only had value to adjacent landowners.
“We believe these properties have no further value to current or future operations for the county,” Abercrombie said.
She noted the majority of the properties are fairly small, with some no larger than a cubicle. The largest, however, is a 22-hectare (56-acre) plot of land at 403205 Robinson Rd. in South-West Oxford Township. In total, nearly 87 per cent of the now-surplus land is found in South-West Oxford.
While reviewing the properties, county staff looked to find possible parcels that could be used for potential housing developments, particularly affordable housing.
A one-hectare (2.62-acre) site at 1235 Nellis St., which is being leased by Hydro One, was selected as the lone eligible property.
Oxford County council took the first steps in potentially selling 23 properties totalling 37 hectares (92 acres) by declaring them surplus. County staff underwent a review process of 635 county-owned properties to see which lands could be deemed surplus and eventually sold and put into Oxford’s housing reserve.Handout
The staff report noted the county will hire an environmental firm to update the 2015 environmental site assessment for the Nellis Street property in Woodstock.
If the assessment provides acceptable findings, Hydro One will be given notice to end the lease. The updated findings will determine if a request for proposal will be issued to turn the property into a residential development with affordable housing units.
There was some concern of the potential sale of the large plot of land on Robinson Road in South-West Oxford. A local resident, Sean Van Alphen, pointed out the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority had an aquatic biologist take samples from streams in 2011 and 2014, and found it was home to brown trout and brook trout.
The conservation authority also found that land is home to several different species of birds and wildlife.
Oxford County council took the first steps in potentially selling 23 properties totalling 37 hectares (92 acres) by declaring them surplus. The largest parcel of land is 22 hectares (56 acres) on Robinson Road in South-West Oxford Township.Handout
Warden Larry Martin noted the county is still early in the process with the decision to declare the lands surplus, and is not near finalizing any sales.
Abercrombie said the majority of the pieces of land have the most value to adjacent landowners, and the county has already received interest in some properties.
She also said area municipalities have the first right of buying land, followed by the general public. The county hopes to sell the land in batches to avoid producing a report for each individual sale.
“We anticipate bringing those common interests back to council for decision making in the near future,” David Simpson, Oxford’s pubic works director, said.
Simpson added it should take several months to complete the process after gauging public interest before bringing potential sales back for council approval.
Abercrombie said if there’s no interest in certain parcels of land, they will remain in county hands.
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Home » Coast to coast » Trial of Rasmea Odeh set for Oct. 21
Trial of Rasmea Odeh set for Oct. 21
By Workers World staff posted on May 30, 2014
We publish below an article from Fight Back! News giving an update on the trial of Rasmea Odeh.
May 29 — Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian American organizer from Chicago, appeared in U.S. District Court here for a status hearing, May 28, along with her new attorney, Michael Deutsch of the People’s Law Office.
Deutsch filed an official appearance as Odeh’s representative and was granted a continuance on her trial until Oct. 21. Judge Paul Borman also ruled that the deadline for pre-trial motions had passed, and seemed reluctant to budge on this issue, but Deutsch stated afterward, “As the case develops, hopefully, he’ll be more flexible.”
Odeh is being charged with Unlawful Procurement of Naturalization, but strongly asserts her innocence. Deutsch, who has represented political activists and victims of police and government civil rights violations since 1970, was pleased with the ruling for a continuance and has begun working on a strategy for the defense.
The prosecution was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel, the Chief of the National Security Unit.
The Rasmea Defense Committee, since Odeh’s arrest and release on bond last October, has been demanding that the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, Barbara McQuade, immediately drop the charges.
Rania Shkairat, a member of the Rasmea Defense Committee in Chicago, said, “We are extremely happy that such a prominent attorney as Michael Deutsch is on the case and that we now have more time to continue our organizing to pressure the government to drop the charge. Rasmea is a wonderful role model for women like me who have dedicated their lives to social justice, and we will do everything in our power to clear her name.”
Mick Kelly, of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, urges activists to check the United States Palestinian Community Network (uspcn.org) and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression (stopfbi.net) websites for updates and action steps.
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[July 11, 2019]
Papaya Competes in Visa Fintech Challenge as European Champion
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Papaya Global, a leading automated payroll and workforce management platform, participated in the Visa Everywhere Initiative – Women's Global Edition as the champion of the European region.
This year's competition, held in Paris this month, was open to companies founded by women. Papaya, based in Israel, was co-founded by noted HR and payroll expert Eynat Guez, who serves as the company's CEO.
Papaya won the European competition earlier this year. The final featured six regional representatives in the Fintech Challenge and six in the Social Impact Challenge. Nearly 1,300 companies from 107 countries competed for those final 12 spots. The overall winner of each challenge received a $100,000 cash prize and mentorship directly from Visa.
"We are thrilled that Visa recognized Papaya's ability to facilitate payments at a high level and wanted learn more about our payment process," said Maayan Karstaedt, Product Expert at Papaya Global, who represented the company at the competition in Paris. "The world of payments is changing quickly, and Papaya is perfectly positioned tofacilitate payments of all kinds and at all levels."
In addition to pitching Visa on Papaya's services, the event included networking with other finalists and a trip to the Visa sponsored Woman's World Cup taking place in Paris.
Ms. Karstaedt said Papaya is helping solve the problem of scale encountered by many companies looking to build an international workforce.
"They can find the talent. That's never been easier, with 40% of today's workforce working remotely and distributed globally," she said. "But employing and paying them- that's the problem they are facing and we are solving - by dragging payroll – kicking and screaming – to automation and greater efficiency."
Ms. Karstaedt noted that it is already possible to see the first signs of the future of payments - workers will be able to access their earnings on a daily basis rather than have to wait for payday at the end of the month or even every two weeks. But while technology is creating new opportunities, the field of payroll overall is still lagging well behind, resisting changes that could make payroll cheaper, faster, and free of errors.
"Global workforce today is as manual and low-tech today as the transportation industry was just before the Uber revolution," she said. "We are at the cusp of a monumental change. And Papaya is already there, making payroll smarter, simpler, and more secure than ever."
About Papaya Global
Papaya Global provides enterprise with a global, cloud-based SaaS platform to automate payroll and workforce management, an EOR solution to hire workers in over 100 countries, and innovative technology to streamline the payroll process, eliminate errors, and save operating costs. The system gathers all employee information into one place, creating a highly visible system, all backed by local and global experts to ensure compliance with local laws and benchmarks.
For more information, contact Ryan Newman at Ryan@Papayaglobal.com.
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Ford's F-550 Wins Commercial Truck of the Year
March 5, 2019 • by Lauren Fletcher
Ford's F-550 was named the 2019 Commercial Truck of the Year by Work Truck magazine readers.
Photo courtesy of Ford.
The Ford F-550 Super Duty chassis cab was named Work Truck's Commercial Truck of the Year.
Selected from a field of 11 contenders, Work Truck readers selected the Ford F-550 as the truck that best fit their fleet requirements, including application effectiveness, durability, quality, servicing, maintenance, and lifecycle costs.
“We are honored to win the Work Truck Commercial Truck of the Year award for our F-550 Super Duty chassis cab. And, we’re excited to accept the award on the same evening that we unveil the 2020 Super Duty chassis cab trucks including the all-new F-600 — a medium-duty truck with the right size, power, and technology to tackle the toughest jobs. We know that hardworking men and women around the country rely on F-Series trucks to do their jobs every day. That’s why it’s our job to keep making America’s best-selling trucks even better,” said Mark Buzzell, director, Ford North American Fleet, Lease and Remarketing Operations.
The award was presented at The Work Truck Show during Ford's press conference.
"Ford’s F-550 Super Duty is a hardworking truck and incredibly deserving of the 2019 Commercial Truck of the Year award. Our Work Truck readers spoke up, naming Ford once again No. 1 in 2019," said Sherb Brown, publisher of Work Truck magazine.
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Calgary to Kona, Hawaii (The Big Island) - $379 CAD roundtrip including taxes
United Airlines is showing flights from Calgary to Kailua Kona, Hawaii (aka the Big Island) in the fall for $388 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
The flights have 1 stop in San Francisco each way.
The Big Island went through some pretty Big changes in 2018, thanks to the Kilauea volcano. This L.A. Times article from earlier this year has some info on what has changed with the island.
It's pretty easy to find an Airbnb on Kona with great reviews for $100-$150 CAD per night. There are a ton.
Update 6/26 - Westjet has now dropped the price of their flights from Calgary to Kona, Hawaii down to $379 CAD roundtrip for travel in December 2019 and January, early February 2020. See update below.
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Google Flights: Calgary to Kailua-Kona (KOA)
- click on the departure date box to open up the calendar view and browse for cheap date combinations
- look for the dates that are $380 CAD roundtrip.
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Update 6/24 - Flights from Calgary to Kona, Hawaii are available again for $388 CAD roundtrip in September and early October
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Update 6/26 - Westjet has now dropped the price of their flights from Calgary to Kona, Hawaii down to $379 CAD roundtrip for travel in December 2019 and January, early February 2020.
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LinkedIn: S'pore workers dislike people who don't take accountability
Dirty common areas and whiners also among top pet peeves of 1,000 Singapore LinkedIn users polled on their views of things that irk them in the office, reveals executive social network.
By Eileen Yu | September 29, 2011 -- 03:55 GMT (20:55 PDT) | Topic: Tech & Work
SINGAPORE--Professionals here are an angry lot, having the second most pet peeves in the office where they are irked by colleagues who skirt around taking responsibility for their actions.
According to a survey released Thursday by executive social network LinkedIn, Singapore professionals indicated they were most infuriated over people who did not take accountability for their actions. Filthy common areas such as dirty microwaves and constant whiners were listed next, respectively, as their top pet peeves in the office.
The global survey polled 1,000 professionals in Singapore, who emerged to have the second most number of pet peeves, behind India, while the Italians had the least number.
Worldwide, the LinkedIn respondents expressed the same frustration over professionals who did not take responsibility for their actions--the No. 1 pet peeve selected by 78 percent of over 17,000 surveyed globally.
There were, however, differences between the countries and gender surveyed, LinkedIn noted. Some 57 percent of Singaporean female professionals, for instance, were bothered by "clothing that was too revealing for the workplace", but only 29 percent of their male counterparts felt likewise.
And Americans were more irritated, compared to the other nationalities, by colleagues who hijacked other people's food from the office refrigerator, while Brazilians were most annoyed by excessive office gossip.
The LinkedIn survey also revealed that, compared to their global counterparts, Indians were most bothered by mobile phone ringtones and Japanese expressed the highest distaste for office pranks.
Job seekers in Singapore should also take heed that 74 percent of hiring managers were annoyed when candidates showed up late for meetings.
"Some of the seemingly harmless workplace habits, such as people not taking ownership for actions can result in conflicts in the workplace," Chan Ngee Key, career coach and Strategist at YourOwn360, said in the press release. "Most of these can be easily resolved. For example, taking ownership is not just about doing your task well, but also about ensuring that your whole team works collaboratively."
Survey respondents were from countries that included Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and United Kingdom. LinkedIn currently has a network of over 120 million members across the globe.
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MPs urged to overhaul Computer Misuse Act
MPs will be told to consider major surgery on the aging Computer Misuse Act when the All Party Internet Group publishes its report on cybercrime next week
By Munir Kotadia | June 23, 2004 -- 13:25 GMT (06:25 PDT) | Topic: Security
The Computer Misuse Act -- which became law many years before the Internet entered the mainstream -- is a failure and needs a major overhaul, according to some analysts.
But the All Party Internet Group (APIG), which will publish the result of an investigation into cybercrime next week, has indicated that it is likely to recommend just a "tweak" to bring the Act up to date.
In April, APIG held a number of public hearings at the House of Commons to listen to evidence from law enforcement agencies and members of the security industry.
During the hearings, APIG's chairman Derek Wyatt said his initial impression was that the law would only require an amendment rather than a major rework. But one week before the report is due to be published, some analysts are hoping that after months of deliberation, the MPs will recommend a complete overhaul.
Alan Lawson, a researcher at analyst firm Butler Group, said the CMA has "in recent years become a failure" because it is "not seen as a viable tool for prosecution".
According to Lawson, the CMA does not address enough computing issues and is being ignored in favour of more traditional legislation. Additionally, he said that because computer crimes are evolving at a furious pace, the law should be "as flexible as the criminals it is targeting".
"IT law in this country is now being seen as being weak. In fact, the recent anti-spam law has proven so poor that spammers are actually moving to the UK because we are now seen as a safe haven for their activities," Lawson said.
John Cheney, chief executive of email security firm BlackSpider Technologies, said the CMA and the European anti-spam laws have not been very good at solving the spam problem. He suggests that combining the CMA and anti-spam laws would be a good start.
"None of the spam legislation has made any difference, so it would be good to try and bring the CMA together with some of the other aspects of IT security, such as the spam laws, and deal with them together," Cheney said.
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Windows firewall: Good enough?
Is it time to hail Microsoft's Windows-bundled firewall as a worthy competitor to commercial firewalls yet? David Berlind provides some answers as he examines the features and future of the product.
By David Berlind | May 28, 2004 -- 02:40 GMT (19:40 PDT) | Topic: Security
If your business has turned the use of personal firewalls into a required countermeasure, now's a good time to start thinking more strategically before buying any more personal firewall technology from a third party.
Although it still has a serious flaw that Microsoft will have no choice but to fix, the morphing of Windows XP's built-in personal firewall from a toy into a more serious security technology means that now's also a good time for the remaining independent personal firewall vendors like Zone Labs to be thinking about long term survival strategies. For the cottage industry of personal firewalls that includes giants like Symantec and McAfee (a division of Network Associates) and smaller players like Zone Labs, Sygate, Internet Security Systems (makers of BlackICE), and Panda Software, this was an inevitable turn of events.
They say history repeats itself.
Back in the mid-1990's, Microsoft was dogged by memory management problems in its Windows operating system products. Sure, there were third party products for getting the job done, like Quarterdeck's QEMM-386, Qualitas' 386MAX, and Helix's NetRoom. But, so fragile was Windows when it came to handling memory that the slightest change to the operating system (for example, an update) or even the introduction of a new third party software product could destabilize the operating system and send the memory management vendors back to the drawing board to restore the delicate balance that had existed before. With IBM's OS/2 -- which many considered to be technically better than any graphical operating system Microsoft had to offer at the time -- still lurking in the market, Microsoft couldn't afford to leave its "memory" in the hands of others. And so, another cottage industry disappeared as a result of Microsoft's controversial decision to building memory management directly into its operating system.
Before building QEMM/386MAX/NetRoom-like functionality into Windows, Microsoft first included a trimmed-down version of Helix's NetRoom with Windows. By doing so, Microsoft was telegraphing its plans to eventually handle memory management on its own; I remember asking then-Qualitas CEO Mary Stanley what her company was going to do when and if that day came. Although the expression on her face changed from enthusiasm to distress, Stanley held her head high as she spoke of forthcoming enhancements that would keep Qualitas one step ahead of anything Microsoft would be building into its operating systems.
In spite of the wishful thinking on behalf of Mary Stanley and her contemporaries, those memory management companies are gone now.
Beyond that, the current market conditions in the personal firewall market are eerily reminiscent of the pre-collapse market conditions of the memory management market.
Instead of OS/2 lurking about, the desktop version of Windows has a similarly minor threat (including motivated backers) in Linux which, in the enterprise-ready distributions, happens to come with an industrial strength firewall (IPTables). Whereas Microsoft in the mid-1990's made a conscious decision to tackle memory management on its own, today almost all of Microsoft's forces have been marshaled to the cause of security. Microsoft has already bypassed the NetRoom-esque step of including a trimmed down version of some third party firewall provider's product in Windows by building its barely usable Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) into current versions of XP. By all accounts, the next version of ICF -- simply called Windows Firewall (due when XP Service Pack 2 is released later this year) -- will draw it much closer in functionality to third party stalwarts such as ZoneAlarm and BlackICE.
Want the icing on the cake? Although I'm rather certain the executives at the various personal firewall companies have privately lamented Microsoft's increasingly serious attitude about personal firewall technologies, at least some of the third party firewall makers (in a bout of Mary Stanleyism?) are downplaying Microsoft's double-down on ICF as though it presents no threat. According to Zone Labs marketing vice president Fred Felman, "Having to [develop and include a personal firewall] and being able to are two different things. Look carefully around the Net and notice that the new firewall over-promises and under-delivers. Usability, functionality and security are all at issue."
Even Greg Sullivan, lead product manager for Microsoft Windows, is careful not to oversell Windows Firewall. "It's still very rudimentary," he told me. But compared to version 1.0, Windows Firewall is a huge step forward. And while it may not have all the bells and whistles of the more mature third party offerings, most observers agree that Windows Firewall will have what it needs for the price to stifle demand for the more mature products. For example, using either network login scripts or Active Directory, businesses will find a modicum of centralized manageability in the new firewall (a feature found in some of the more advanced third party offerings).
According to Sullivan, between the new firewall and many of the other ultraconservative security settings in SP2 that address network security, browsing, protection from buffer overflows, and safer e-mail and instant messaging, the new Windows will cover a lot of security bases that were never covered before without the addition of third party products.
But Dan Ingevaldson, director of research and development at Internet Security Systems (makers of both consumer and enterprise-class desktop firewalls) gives Microsoft some respect. "How Microsoft's firewall will affect personal firewall vendors is a valid question," said Ingevaldson. "The same question goes for the antivirus market now that Microsoft has acquired that European signature-based antivirus solution provider (Romanian technology developer GeCad). The vanilla personal firewall is in danger of going away. Microsoft has a track record of making technologies like this disappear. [Microsoft] only needs to have 95 percent of the functionality [of leading third party products]."
Ingevaldson said the one-trick pony personal firewall and antivirus providers, of which he claims ISS isn't one, should be worried. Based on what he knows of the forthcoming Windows Firewall with its default-to-on-position, wizard-driven configuration, and improved help, Ingevaldson expects a shakeup in the consumer firewall business where ISS' BlackICE PC Protection plays, but he sees less vulnerability for the more enterprise-targeted offerings such as ISS' RealSecure Desktop.
In contrast to its position on firewalls, Microsoft seems content so far to leave antivirus to third party companies. As a part of its security dashboard, SP2 uses some hard-wired code to determine whether a workstation is running any of the third party firewall and antivirus products. But sources tell me that beyond SP2, antivirus vendors will be asked to support a standard, API-like function that will make it easier for the operating system and other software (applications, network interfaces, and management consoles) to retrieve information about a system's current state of protection.
Ingevaldson feels ISS' diversity into enterprise security, where the company's products are more deeply integrated and centrally managed, gives ISS a measure of protection from Microsoft's moves in the firewall market that other companies like Zone Labs and even Symantec may not enjoy. "We're not concerned about this eating away at our bottom line," he said.
I'm not so sure. While secure computing is of great import to consumers, the biggest challenge to Microsoft's largess is on the enterprise front where corporate patience with the seemingly never-ending onslaught of Windows' vulnerabilities is running thin. To hope that Microsoft will rest on the various laurels of its Trustworthy Computing initiative as long as critical enterprise needs remain unmet is an underestimation of how determined Microsoft is to not only lock down the enterprise, but also to beat back Linux, Unix or any other would-be contenders. Although Microsoft's Sullivan wouldn't comment on plans beyond SP2, he conceded that "contrary to what many people may think, [Microsoft] is pretty paranoid. It's fair to assume that we'll continue to evolve our products in a way that makes them competitive."
Patrick Hinojosa, CTO at security solution provider Panda Software, agreed that Windows Firewall will probably be good enough; and where it's not, Microsoft will make improvements (more on that in a moment). Panda's main focus is antivirus, but both of its offerings -- Platinum Seven and Internet Security -- include a firewall. Hinojosa told me, "Looking at SP2 and the specifications and from what is being touted, I would try to use that as my sole [personal] firewall." Hinojosa concurred that as Windows Firewall penetrates more of the user base, the need for third party personal firewalls would begin to wane. However, he wouldn't hazard a guess as to whether a penetration threshold existed that would cause Panda to stop including a personal firewall as a part of its products.
ISS' Ingevaldson asks if Microsoft, whose priorities include a plethora of issues beyond security, can lead the market in the way that smaller, nimbler, security-focused vendors can. My answer: Microsoft may not provide the ultimate checklist that an independent developer can, but it's likely to provide enough--eventually.
Where's outbound filtering?
One reason I say eventually is because the new Windows Firewall in SP2 is missing something that all third party firewalls have: outbound filtering. Outbound filtering is important because it can prevent an infected workstation from spreading whatever it has caught to other workstations on an enterprise network.
The omission is surprising since, during a demonstration of SP2 at a recent RSA conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates emphasized quarantining as an important factor of enterprise security. SP2 adds a type of inbound quarantining technology that, by default, prevents Internet Explorer and Outlook users from downloading or launching certain files that can't be traced back to trusted sources.
For example, if an executable file arrives via e-mail from a domain in the "Internet Zone," a zone which inherently shouldn't be trusted (and isn't by default), the technology in SP2 will prevent the user from opening it. Since many infections like Sobig are e-mail borne, the result is a form of quarantining that prevents a virus from spreading itself after a user double clicks on an attachment. But if an infection somehow gets by this first line of defense and onto an enterprise workstation - which is not unlikely to happen in corporate situations where telecommuters and mobile workers may not always be behind the corporate firewall or may be opening infected files through other means -- then that workstation's membership in the trusted zone will cause SP2's quarantining technology to overlook communications from it as a potential source of infection and allow files from it to be opened.
Gates' mention of quarantining makes it clear that Microsoft understands that containment can be equally if not more beneficial to enterprise security than providing the sort of shielding from outside threats that firewalls are also typical of. Indeed, in an interview with Chris Blask, vice president of business development for security startup Protego Networks, I learned how a network that can autonomically respond with a quarantining action is the key to stopping outbreaks dead in their tracks.
Microsoft's Sullivan said the company has no plans at this time to add outbound filtering to Windows Firewall. This is a big mistake. It's hard to take Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative seriously when the company is excluding a technique that's so fundamental that even Bill Gates is talking about it. When I explained the aforementioned scenario, where infections could be caught and spread by a trusted source, Sullivan agreed that Microsoft may need to give the matter more attention.
If Microsoft is as paranoid as Sullivan says it is, then Microsoft will undoubtedly have to address the omission. Once it does, history is assured of repeating itself.
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Grand Bargain Taking Shape? U.S. To Pull Out Of Al-Tanf
Authored by Tom Luongo,
If you’ve followed my work for the past year you know that my default position has been there is a potential Grand Bargain for Peace in the Middle East. From the moment President Trump first berated the Arabs in Riyidh last year on his first foreign trip for supporting terrorism, I’ve felt that the final outcome over Syria would culminate in such an agreement.
Elijah Magnier is reporting now that the framework for a U.S. pull out of its position at Al-Tanf near where the borders of Jordan, Syria and Iraq come together has pretty much been agreed upon in advance of Trump and Vladimir Putin’s Summit on July 16th in Helsinki.
Russian advisors visiting the Syrian capital Damascus are confident that the US forces will pull out of al-Tanf and will also aim to completely withdraw from north of Syria (al-Hasaka and Deir-Ezzour) in the next six months.
According to top decision makers based in Damascus, the US President Donald Trump is pushing his administration to approve an already prepared total withdrawal plan. Despite Trump’s limited knowledge of foreign policy and being unaware of the consequences of his decisions in the international arena, however, he found no convincing elements – said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous – in the presentation by his administration where US forces could benefit from the continuation of their presence in such a hostile environment and without suffering hits in the future. Trump’s biggest fear to see the US special forces deployed in the north of Syria and in Iraq returning to the country “in plastic bags”. He would certainly find it hard to offer any explanation for the US occupation of the Levant after the defeat of ISIS (the “Islamic State” group) or what remained of it in Syria and Iraq.
What Putin and Trump will work out is whether they can trust each other enough to allow each to do the job they need to do to make this work. By the time the summit happens, the SAA Tiger forces should have taken back most of the province of Dara’a up to the Golan Heights, effectively restoring the 2011 border.
The Grand Bargain I’ve been proposing has been, simply put, the U.S. and the Russians acting as guarantors of the local actors behavior. It requires Russia to remain in Syria indefinitely, supporting the Assad government’s rebuilding of the country.
And it requires the U.S. to remove its military presence, by declaring victory over ISIS and leaving. But, in its wake leave an explicit guarantee of Israel’s and Saudi Arabia’s defense in the case of future Iranian adventurism.
The Russians act as a buffer to break up the Shia Crescent concerns of the Israelis, Turkey goes home, the Kurds negotiate a settlement with Damascus and the Saudis get to live a few more years before their domestic troubles overwhelm them.
I said on May 24th of last year just after Trump’s Speech in Riyadh:
Russia’s alliance with Iran and China is unbreakable at this point. They have designs to build a trade empire across Asia that the world hasn’t seen in centuries. Putin has the means and the respect by all parties on both sides to remove Iran’s troops from Syria and get Hezbollah to stand down if the right deal is signed.
He has the military might to make it all stick.
The Turks and President Erdogan have over-played their hand and have been abandoned by both Putin and Trump. He will behave himself or be removed from power. His days of playing both sides against each other are over…
… He [Putin] and Trump are in opposite domestic positions. Trump needs this win to shut up the loony left. Putin doesn’t, even though he’s facing a re-election campaign in 2018.
So, setting the table for Trump to come in, statesmanlike, and broker an historic peace deal is exactly his style.
We’re not there yet, but the pieces are in place. As long as Trump doesn’t make another mistake like the al-Shairat bombing and keeps a lid on his military commanders he will eventually gain Putin’s trust.
This story has not been without it twists and turns. There have been the multitude of false flags, provocations and prevarications from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try and scuttle this deal.
It even survived another colossal Trump mistake in responding to another false flag attack on civilians with chemical weapons this year.
But, over the course of it all, Trump has held firm while Putin made deals with everyone to give them a little of what they want. The Saudis are going to get slightly more market share in oil to help with their fiscal situation. Israel will likely get to keep the Golan Heights in perpetuity, much to the pleasure of the board of Genie Energy.
Trump and Netanyahu still wants regime change in Iran as part of this deal, but Trump is in no real position to get that concession from Putin. That is exactly what the U.S. media is trying to position him to demand.
Bloomberg is trying to make this deal sound like Putin is betraying Iran by making deals over oil production caps, while offering up Iran’s withdrawal from Syria as some ‘big win.’
For Iran, the overriding goal is to maintain its influence inside Syria and keep supply lines open, said Ehud Yaari, an Israel-based fellow at the Washington Institute.
“Russia has an interest to bleed Iran in Syria, to weaken Iran but not collapse Iran because it may lose the Assad regime, which is its major card,” said Sami Nader, head of the Levant Institute for Strategic Studies in Beirut. “They want Iran in check and under control.”
This is pure Netanyahu-esque spin. Russia doesn’t have the goal of bleeding out Iran in Syria, Israel does. And every one of Bibi’s little lies have been calculated to convince Trump to extend the U.S. presence there indefinitely for his reasons.
If Magnier is correct then this strategy has failed completely.
Assad isn’t going anywhere and Iran has no desire to stay in Syria once the U.S. leaves. As the Western media keeps trying to tell us, there’s a revolution happening back home. IRGC forces are needed there, which is why Netanyahu is abjecting against any deal with Putin before said overthrow of the mullahs takes place.
Too bad Putin and Trump have both put the kibosh on that. Trump needs another major geopolitical win to crush his deep state and Democratic (I repeat myself) opposition in the mid-terms while also changing the mandate for NATO.
Russia has Iran’s back when it comes to sanctions, fuel marketing, oil exports and the like. Iran is key to the success of uniting Central Asia under China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, which includes making India and Turkey partners in the project.
For Putin to get a restructuring of NATO, border security in Syria, draw-down of U.S. troops there and probably in Afghanistan as well and potentially recognition of Crimea, there has to be something else on the table.
The bargaining chips are Jerusalem, Yemen, Nordstream 2 and Iranian regime change. Nordstream 2 and regime change are off the table. The big question is are the other two within their purview to negotiate.
Doubtful, certainly at this point in time.
For now, the Grand Bargain is taking shape. Phase one is the hardest part, the trust part. Since U.S. and Russian military commanders have been in communication for nearly three years coordinating around each other it seems plausible the trust is there.
The work’s been done. Now, just sing the deals and remove/reposition the troops. It is the next phase that is murkier. Trump wants explicit guarantees from Putin that Iran won’t develop a nuclear weapon.
For him to get that guarantee means removing the regime-change threat from the table as well as allowing Tehran to develop trade relations without the U.S. stifling them. This is why I think the most likely casualty in this situation will be Yemen. Iran will have to withdraw support from the Houthi rebels like Trump will remove the U.S. troops from Syria.
As one of my readers said to me privately, the other day, this is beginning to feel like 1945, the only difference is that Trump and Putin aren’t meeting at Yalta, to remake the world.
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Russia in Search of its Future
Amin Saikal, University of New South Wales, Sydney
William Maley, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Amin Saikal, William Maley, A. V. Obolonsky, Archie Brown, Robert F. Miller, Stephen Fortescue, Leslie Holmes, Sergei Serebriany, Peter Sawzak, John Miller, T. H. Rigby
Russia's renewal since the collapse of Communism has proved extraordinarily disturbed, and was marked by escalating conflict between President Yeltsin and the Congress of People's Deputies inherited from the Soviet era. This culminated in insurrection and violence on the streets, and when the main rebels were given amnesty in February 1994, the situation remained as uncertain as ever. The contributors to this book analyse a Russia which is searching for its future amid a maelstrom of complex forces - political, economic, socio-cultural, and international. They examine each of these elements of Russia's situation and investigate the role that each may play in shaping Russia's fortunes into the twenty-first century. Their overall conclusion is that, whatever the exact shape of the future, it will be determined both by elements embedded over many generations, and the influence of seven decades of communist rule.
Up-to-date (mid 1994) picture of Russia's political, social and economic prospects, and relations with its former empire
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Joins a very successful team of books on the transition from communism: Dawisha, Bremmer and Taras, White (x2), Graeme Gill
1. Introduction Amin Saikal and William Maley
Part I. Politics:
2. Russian politics in the time of troubles: some basic antinomies A. V. Obolonsky
3. Political leadership in post-Communist Russia Archie Brown
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4. The shape of the Russian macroeconomy William Maley
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6. Privatisation of large-scale Russian industry Stephen Fortescue
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9. Russia and Central Asia Amin Saikal
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11. Reconstruction, deconstruction and the restoration of literature in Russia Peter Sawzak
12. Alternative visions of the Russian future John Miller
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Desktop Backgrounds Free Biography
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg an American software developer was born on May 14,1984 in White Plains ,New York created the social networking site Facebook.He is CEO and President of Facebook . Zuckerberg was born to Karen and Edward Zuckerberg and has three sisters Randi, Donna and Arielle.Originally called The Facebook website was founded by Mark Zuckerberg while he was Harvard undergraduate .Mark was good in computers and at very early age he created several computer programs and games.He created the Facemash ,while he was in Harvard ,which let students to choose the best looking students among the group of photographs.
Facebook initially was connecting only Harvard students but later expanded to other colleges such as Stanford,Yale etc.Facebook was founded by Zuckerberg along with his classmates Dustin Moskovitz,Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard university .In the year 2005 The Facebook was officially called Facebook and domain Facebook.com was purchased for a whooping price of $200,000.Seeing Facebook initial success at Harvard, Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools with the help of his roommate Dustin Moskovitz .By the end of year 2004, Facebook had over one million users.The wirehog site was created as file sharing site for Facebook users.In 2006, Facebook was opened to anyone who wish to join and by the year 2011 Mark has a user base of 600 millions, which is growing rapidly.
CONTROVERSIES:
Zuckerberg was reprimanded by the Harvard administrator for downloading private ID pics for his Facemesh website from the university's network .
Mark former classmates Cameron, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra sued him claiming that he stole their idea and source code for his Facebook ,when they asked him for his help in the year 2003 to build a social network called Harvardconnection.com.The case settled for $65 million.
Aaron Greenspan claimed that Zuckerberg stole some of his idea for Facebook.The dispute was settled for unknown amount.
In 2010,Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the year. His personal wealth is estimated to be $13.5 billion.
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Intersectional Disability Arts Manifesto by Alice Sheppard
Disability is more than the deficit of diagnosis. It is an aesthetic, a series of intersecting cultures, and a creative force. I hold myself accountable to the lives and loves from this definition of disability.
Drawing on the language used by South African disability activists, the North American disability rights movement proclaims “Nothing About Us, Without Us.”
As a queer disabled artist of colour working in a similar context, I declare, “For Us, By Us” as the guiding principle of my work. I do not prioritize or erase any facet of my identity in my work.
My work is neither educational nor transformative for others. It does not reiterate or confirm familiar stereotypes of disability. I am driven to create art that connects to the beautiful complicated histories and cultures of disability, race, gender, and sexuality. I do not work in a vacuum; I am part of a complicated, contentious, exciting community. I want my work to continue our conversations, honour our pasts, and open a vista to our futures.
I hold myself accountable to the following questions:
What does art look like that does not justify itself or the existence of disabled people?
What are the intersections of disability and race in dance?
What do racialized disability aesthetics look and feel like?
How do we move to realize them?
What do I know of the cultures associated with my racial and ethnic heritages when they are not tied to racism?
And how is my racial and ethnic heritage connected to my disability history? My queerness? My gender?
How do disability and race encounter technology and design?
I do not always engage each question in every piece, but these questions have anchored me in my work.
Here is my stake: Disability is more than the deficit of diagnosis. It is an aesthetic, a series of intersecting cultures, and a creative force.
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Former bank regulator Sheila Bair warns against debt ceiling ‘nuclear bomb’ – Amanpour
The former head of a top U.S. financial oversight agency issued a stark warning over the upcoming, déjà vu battle over America’s debt ceiling.
“As sympathetic as I am to some of the Republican concerns about our fiscal situation,” Sheila Bair, former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday, “those are nuclear bombs that you can never actually use.”
Bair served under both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama as head of the FDIC, which guarantees the deposits of Americans’ bank accounts.
The mystery over who will lead the most important regulatory and financial body in U.S. government, the Federal Reserve Bank, was significantly elucidated Sunday when Lawrence Summers, former economic adviser to Obama and former president of Harvard University, withdrew his name from consideration.
“I think what Larry did was good for the president and good for the country,” Bair said of the outspoken candidate. “I don't think he could have gotten confirmed; he was quite controversial.”
Sunday also marked five days since the shocking collapse of Lehman Brothers, a day on which investors and regulators alike stared into the abyss of financial ruin.
Half a decade later, American lawmakers tout their actions to shore up the system.
Wall Street is booming and corporate profits are up, but the income for the average American family actually dropped since 2008.
Bair told Amanpour that the U.S. needs “a complete financial reform.”
“I don't think we are on the right track at all,” Bair said. “The economy is still very sluggish. A lot of the improvement in the unemployment rate, about half of it has become from people just dropping out of the workforce, getting discouraged. When the jobs do come back they're lower paying; income inequality is getting worse.”
And while banks are less leveraged – they have more cash on hand for each dollar they have invested – the situation is still “not nearly as safe as it should be,” she said.
“We had a pretty low baseline prior to the crisis,” Bair said. “So saying there's less leverage now isn't saying a lot.”
In the long run, it is against the banks’ interest to oppose more complete reform, according to Bair.
“It's self-defeating for them to oppose their regulatory process that has credibility,” she said, “because the public will not trust them unless they trust the regulatory process, and they don't trust the regulators now, either, unfortunately.”
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Constitutional Sheriffs have an Ecclesiastical “lawyer”
I recently wrote about the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association holding a Las Vegas convention that, among other things, taught sheriffs they could and should “stand tall against the tyranny of the federal government.” http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_19946455
Some readers did more homework on the organization and alerted me to the interesting background of the Constitutional Sheriffs’ legal advisor.
Judge Navin-Chandra Naidu’s bio, which is displayed prominently on the the Constitutional Sheriffs website, includes some lofty-sounding credentials – Chief Legal Counsel for the Sultanate of Sulu, International Affairs Advisor for the Nato Indian Nation in Utah, Founder of the Word In Action Ministry Law College in Seattle, Wash. (where it’s possible to get a law degree in 18 months) and Special International Counsel to the Kayan Dynasty in China.
Among his accomplishments, he lists the establishment of the Ecclesiastical Court of Justice and Law Offices. Naidu’s website for that august body states that Believers (with a capital B) can basically operate outside the laws created by men as long as they follow Biblical law.
A little Internet digging on Naidu turns up the facts that he was arrested in Fiji in 2001 for forging a law degree. That degree showed he graduated from the University of London, but the Fiji Law Society found that he supposedly graduated two months after he enrolled there. Naidu was deported to the United States where he appears to be an American Bar Association member but is not currently licensed to practice law in two states where he has lived or in Texas where the Constitutional Sheriffs organization is based. Naidu also made headlines in Kuala Lumpur for lodging a complaint against George W. Bush for murder and genocide. His complaint asked for a settlement of $150 billion.
This is the legal advisor who is helping to direct the causes espoused by the Constitutional Sheriffs organization that was founded by former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. The major point of that organization is that county sheriffs hold supreme power in their counties and that they need to protect their citizens from interloping feds, whether they be Forest Service rangers or FBI agents.
After looking at the information out there on the sheriffs’ legal advisor, all I can say at this point is “hmmmm.”
Grand Junction Gains More Medical Kudos
Grand Junction’s by-now-well-known health care system is about to get another shot of favorable national publicity in a Rocky Mountain PBS documentary scheduled to air next week. The documentary, “U.S. Health Care: The Good News,” showcases three communities to illustrate how some have managed to stay on the low-cost end of the huge discrepancies in health care spending. Grand Junction has been cited as one of the best communities in the country when it comes to providing good health care while keeping costs lower than most places.
That distinction has come from the Dartmouth Atlas Project which studies and publishes information regarding the disparity of how medical resources are used across the United States. Grand Junction’s difference is attributed to physicians and community leaders forming a nonprofit insurance company nearly 40 years ago. The Rocky Mountain Health Organization, now called Rocky Mountain Health Plans, created a collaborative system between health care facilities and providers that rewards doctors for holding down costs by decreasing unnecessary medical procedures. It also includes the formation of health-care programs for low-income and uninsured patients.
The PBS documentary by former Washington Post correspondent and health-care writer T. R. Reid, will air at 9 p.m. Feb. 16 on PBS stations.
Dems go through internal strife, too
GOP State Rep. Laura Bradford’s feud with her own party following her now famous traffic stop last week isn’t the only current inter-party controversy in Colorado.
Silverton resident and Democrat Patrick Swonger was disqualified from the race for House District 59 when state Democratic leaders convened a “controversy committee” meeting last week to respond to complaints about Swonger’s eligibility as a candidate. The committee determined that Swonger is not qualified to run because he did not register with the Democratic Party at least a year in advance of the primary. The deadline to register was Nov. 6, 2011. He registered on Monday, No. 7, 2011, thinking he would have a one-day grace period because the deadline fell on a Sunday.
Swonger had been a lifelong Republican but was voted onto the Silverton Town Council six years ago as an independent. He said he has a “nonpartisan mindset” that aligns more with Democrats than Republicans.
Swonger announced Thursday he plans to travel around his southwest district and collect 1,000 signatures to petition onto the June primary ballot – as a Democrat. The seat he is campaigning for is currently held by Republican J. Paul Brown of Ignacio. Speculation on the rumor mill in southwest Colorado is that state-level Democrats have a different candidate in mind to run against Brown.
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Tour of the Moon Redux
The US Pro Cycling Challenge may have gotten the cold shoulder on any plans to take the 2012 pro race over the Colorado National Monument. But a new citizen tour has been approved for next October. The single-day tour slated for Oct. 6 has been dubbed the Icon LASIK Tour of the Moon Hell of the West Cycling Classic. (Saying that name in one breath might be considered part of training for the event).
Two groups that have partnered to do other Colorado races, including the Copper Triangle and the Annual Optic Nerve 24 Hours of ERock, are jointly organizing the new Tour of the Moon.
The ride will be limited to 2,000 cyclists and will include either 41-mile or 62-mile rides over the monument. Both will be followed by a “Harvest Moon Celebration” in downtown Grand Junction.
The Colorado National Monument’s Rimrock Drive is a favorite with cyclists. More than 15,000 ride its serpentine twists every year. In the 1980s it was part of the Coors Classic International Bicycle Race and was also the location for the filming of the cycling cult-classic movie, “American Flyers,” starring a young Kevin Costner.
The monument has been in the crosshairs of a cycling controversy in the past year because U.S. Park Service officials turned down a request to let the pro race go over Rimrock Drive. Park Service rules no longer allow for such large commercial events.
For more on this not-so-large leisurely tour visit TourofTheMoon.com.
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Immigration cases now add up to 59% in fed courts
Immigration cases are filling the dockets more and more in federal courtrooms. Immigration and customs cases now account for 59 percent of federal criminal prosecutions, according to the latest U.S. Justice Department data. Government records show 8,038 of 13,628 new prosecutions in October – the latest month available – were centered on Department of Homeland Security matters.
The latest figures were obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research arm at Syracuse University that obtains records from the Department of Homeland Security by filing Freedom of Information Act requests.
TRAC’s latest analyzed figures show that immigration cases in Federal District Court have jumped 36.4 percent in the past five years. If cases filed in U.S. Magistrate Courts are added in, the increase in immigration cases is 119 percent. The records show the Justice Department brought 127 prosecutions into court in October for every million people in the United States.
Most of the cases filed in October deal with Illegal entry into the United States or with illegal re-entry.
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TSA can’t/won’t talk about controversial GJ airport security
As city and county officials, general aviation pilots and aiport officials work to sort out a controversy (http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19578618?source=rss) that has erupted over a security fence at the Grand Junction Regional Airport, one important player in the fray has stayed mum. The Transportation Security Administration, which has a regional office behind the gates at the airport, is citing a federal listing called SSI (Sensitive Security Information) as a reason wny TSA can’t participate in the public debate over the controversy. That refusal came to light recently when Mesa County Commissioner Janet Rowland advised other officials that the TSA has refused to take part in any meetings where the media is present.
Carrie Harmon with the TSA said that is because discussions about the airport fence would be “detrimental to transportation security if released publicly.”
SSI rules require that only “covered persons with a need to know” can be privvy to what kind of security regulations are in place at any given airport.
That tickles some general aviation pilots who have been complaining that a new security fence with biometric gates on several airport roads have made it tough to get to their facilities and have hurt business at the airport. At the same time general aviation is fenced off, the fence only surrounds about two-thirds of the airport. The backside of the operations area is open to anyone – or any critter – who crosses through several strands of barbed-wire.
Airport officials have said they will seek federal funds to finish the fence in the future.
President Foster Goes to Congress
Colorado Mesa University President Tim Foster testified before a Congressional subcommittee this week about how a small Western Colorado university’s frugality, responsiveness to students, and financial aid policies could help curb rising college costs across the country.
Foster, a former state legislator, was the only representative from Colorado higher education institutions invited to speak before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Foster said he talked about how one institution has managed to hold down tuition costs. Colorado Mesa’s tuition went up less than 5 percent while average increases at other colleges and universities were 13 percent.
“We stay focused on what we are doing,” is the way Foster summed up Colorado Mesa’s smaller-than-average increase.
Foster said efforts include attracting first-generation students and financially needy students. The university gave out $4 million in the past year for academic scholarships, with about 60 percent of that going to students with documented financial need. The university has also promoted work study as a way to help students with financial need while also increasing retention of students.
The university also cut costs by eliminating the dean positions and a dozen academic programs. Faculty members carry a teaching load that is nearly double that of some other universities and colleges.
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Feds set new record for Cyber Monday busts
While online retailers are still counting their blessings with a record $1.25 billion in sales on Cyber Monday, federal law enforcewment agencies are touting their own record for that day with 150 “busts” of counterfeit merchandising websites. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Justice and the FBI were all in on the act as websites were seized for illegally selling and distributing counterfeit merchandise. Banners went up across the 150 offending sites this week proclaiming that the domain names had been seized and the sites were no longer operating.
The sites had been hawking everything from sports jerseys to handbags and sunglasses. Some of the counterfeit items were shipped to buyers directly from overseas. The domain names for the sites were cleverly disguised with web addresses like officialpumashop.com, jerseygreatdeal.com and cheapjerseysite.us. In fact, “cheap” and “official” seemed to be popular components of many of the offending sites.
Last year, the feds knocked out 82 sites. So for those scoring Cyber Monday results, the feds bump in online busts outshone the 22 percent increase in online spending on Cyber Monday.
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Bridge to Nowhere to go somewhere
Two years after the Bridge to Nowhere earned its infamous nickname, CDOT is taking new steps to make it go somewhere. The bridge – actually an overpass spanning Highway 160 – is now the focus of a public comment period designed to lead to federal approval that would hook the bridge up to a still-to-be-built interchange across a historic Durango-area ranch.
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_19329686#comments
When the impressive, three-lane overpass was built in 2009, it had motorists intantly scratching their heads because one end of the bridge dead ends into a hillside. It turned out that CDOT officials had put the cart before the proverbial horse, or in this case, the bridge before the access to a connecting road. CDOT planned to cut a road across the Webb Ranch, but the ranch owners don’t care for that idea and have a gang of lawyers and engineers to try to convince the Colorado Department of Transportation that their bridge connection should do somewhere else. So, in the meantime, it has continued to go nowhere.
While locals laugh about Durango’s newest unnatural wonder, CDOT is seriously trying to move ahead on the bridge that is part of a $455 million project that will create an improved 16-mile corridor that will link Highway 160 to Highway 550 between Durango and Bayfield and do away with the steep and hair-raising section of road known as Farmington Hill. Watch for a decision on the bridge connection in the spring.
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DOE turns uranium to solar
Those big piles of radioactive waste have long been the bane of communities where uranium mining and milling tailings serve as a dirty reminder of the atomic era. Now, one of those piles in Colorado is going to lend itself to a solar project.
The Department of Energy Legacy Management program is seeking bids to put solar collectors on top of the 42-acre tailings pile southwest of Durango. DOE figures there is enough space on the pile to create enough solar energy to power about 1,000 homes. A DOE spokeswoman said 14 entities have expressed interest in bidding to carry out this unusual project.
It’s not unheard of to make lemonade out of lemons when it comes to radioactive waste. DOE has also turned some tailings sites into grazing lands or hay fields around the country. In the future, other DOE-managed sites in Colorado have the potential to house solar collectors or be remade into greener pastures for livestock.
Stay tuned. DOE hopes work on turning Durango’s tailings pile to solar could begin as soon as March.
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Masks at a Montrose Bank – a Bad Prank
Still no clues in 30-year-old Cedaredge disappearance — 5 comments
Welcome to the Hindu Kush of Western Colorado — 3 comments
Telluride gives prairie dogs a reprieve — 2 comments
Bumper sticker leads to Delta deputy firing — 1 comments
Dog attacks increasing near GJ parks — 1 comments
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277: Stephanie Chung - You Are a Salesperson and You Are an Interior Designer 0
Welcome to another episode of Power talk Friday! Today LuAnn has Stephanie Chung with her on the show. Stephanie has a company called Stephanie Chung and Associates, where she offers Sales Training, Executive Coaching and also Small Business Mentorship, to companies nationwide. Stephanie also has a course, called High Ticket Selling Made Simple which has been designed to help business owners sell more and make more. Listen in to find out more about Stephanie and her company.
Stephanie used to work as a Sales Executive in the Aviation and Private Jet Industry, where she mastered the art of high ticket selling. She has mentored and coached numerous people, including some of the highest paid, most elite Sales Professionals in the country. She serves Business leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Sales Professionals, using her proven Executive Coaching and Sales Training. Stephanie is a contributor on ABC, CBS, and NBC and she's authored Profit Like A Girl- A Woman's Guide To Kicking Butt In Sales And Leadership and also Embrace The Suck- How To Grow And Succeed In Business. LuAnn is really beyond tickled with all of this, so listen in now, as she and Stephanie discuss the mindset moves that are necessary to really scale your sales.
What it all really comes down to is your own version of your own self-worth. Your financial beliefs play a role in the whole equation and sometimes people tend to struggle with that when selling their intellectual property. Stephanie digs into all the factors that contribute to that struggle.
Financial self-worth and your mindset- why you should be very careful to never let your own financial beliefs creep into any sales conversation.
It's never about you- it's always about the buyer in front of you.
Stephanie explains how you can break out of a limited mindset. Remember that it's not your concern how much your customer can afford. You need to ensure that your presentation of your product (your digital footprint), or service actually aligns with your product or service.
Run your business with excellence.
If someone agrees to meet with you, it means that they've already done some research about you and they have already decided that you are going to be worth their time.
Always approach a conversation with a buyer by looking at what it is that they want or need.
Ask the buyer questions that go a little deeper, because sometimes the buyer can't really articulate what it is that they need.
Use the power of silence.
Really knowing your stuff and getting results will help build your confidence.
Stephanie shares a technique that she uses with her VIP clients, called Pre-emptive Strike. Know the objections that are going to come your way and bring them up in advance, so that you can control the message.
Remember to never bring your price down, if the buyer can't afford it. Rather take something away. This way you keep your price integrity.
Only ask the buyer questions that you don't know the answers to. This will help you better understand how to solve their problem.
After setting your agenda with a client, mention that you're not necessarily the Designer for everyone.... Great for getting the right
If you really want to become a better salesperson, there is ample information out there, for you.
Stephanie has done courses before, specifically for Interior Designers. (For example, High Ticket Selling Made Simple)
Stephanie's website: www.stephaniechung.com You can find loads of free resources there.
To get a free download of Stephanie's book, go to: www.profitlikeagirl.com
276: Judi Kieffer: Steps to Build a Hospitality / Commercial Interior Design Firm 0
My guest today is Judi Kieffer, who has over 24 years’ experience in hospitality, luxury residential, and restaurant design. Her portfolio is full of top-tier projects and satisfied clients. In our conversation, she shares advice about how she built and now manages her design firm in Boise, Idaho. Judi is involved as an advocate for the personal and professional development and for sustainable products and developments.
She participates in several local philanthropic and civic groups and is a mentor for women’s and children’s organizations. She was recently appointed as a spokesperson for the American Society of Interior Designers and is a certified Green Globe auditor. Her passions are yoga, fine wine, riding horses, hiking, and inspiring other designers to run more profitable and enjoyable businesses. Join me for this conversation with Judi!
What you’ll hear in this episode:
How Judi’s career began, working for three different companies before opening her own firm
The benefits of experience, classes, and various job positions before going out on your own
What it’s like to build your own design firm in the beginning: cold calling, mailings, projects, and referrals
What the builder or architect needs to hear from the commercial designer: how our services can fit into your project
How to use directories for leads on upcoming commercial projects
How to find free top sheets in your local area
The benefits of long-term relationships in the design business
Judi’s recommendations for software, including Quickbooks, Studio Designer, and MORE!
The challenges as your business grows: having systems in place and using personality profiles as you add more people to your team
Day-to-day running the firm: journals and calendars
Judi’s superpower? Using the interior as a marketing tool
Clear practices for charging fees
Judi’s advice to a new designer with no portfolio: show your passion and excitement, have confidence, ask questions, and present solutions
Judi’s interest in green building products
The recent surge in green products
Advice Judi’s received that is still with her:
Be absolutely true to your passion
Honor yourself
Allow yourself time to breathe, renew, and relax
Be transparent in communication
What’s ahead for Judi? Hiring an office manager and hosting eco-glamping retreats
Website and social:
http://www.kiefferdesigngroup.com
https://www.instagram.com/kiefferdesigngroup/
https://www.facebook.com/Kieffer-Design-Group-92036290457/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kieffer-design-group/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/judikieffer/
For the free WindowWorks newsletter, text 444-999 and enter “designbiz”
www.usgbc.org (Find out more about green building products)
Search the GreenWorks or Green Standard group in your local area
Judi recommends the following books:
ECO-preneuring by John Ivanko
The Northwest Green Home Primer by K.L. Smith and Kathleen O’Brien
The Philosophy of Sustainable Design by Jason F. McLennan
Women in Green by Kira Gould and Lance Hosey
Value Pricing for the Design Firm by Frank Stasiowski
A Guide to Principles and Practices for Interior Designers by Harry Sigel
Marketing and Selling Design Services by Mary V. Knackstedt
Interior Designers Business Handbook by Mary V. Knackstedt
275: Replay: Andrea Schumacher: Managing a Mid-Size Interior Design Firm 0
Welcome back! Our guest today has been in the interior design business for 17 years! Andrea Schumacher started her own eight-person firm, Andrea Schumacher Interior Design, including herself in Colorado in 1999. Andrea has experience in commercial and residential spaces and she has set design for television at Days of Our Lives and Columbia Pictures! She has a BA in interior design from the F.I.D.E.R. accredited Colorado State University and a certificate in Universal Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Today she is going to share with us how she does things at Andrea Schumacher Interior Design and how she makes everything more efficient and successful and how you can too.
She can have how many projects in the pipeline at one time?
How are the positions broken down at Andrea Schumacher Interior Design?
Did she work for anyone before she started her own firm?
How was Andrea Schumacher Interior Design started?
Explain how everything is broken down up front!
What about the customers that can’t be pleased?
When does the “process” go into the project manager’s hands?
Why doesn’t she like to hear a budget before the design project begins?
What was her aha moment that there needed to be a change with her accountant to get her books straightened out for her design firm?
Who is Chandra and what is her role in Andrea’s firm?
What are some ways that Chandra has increased profitability for Andrea’s firm?
How much has her profitability increased since Chandra has started working at Andrea Schumacher Interior Design?
Keep yourself as humble as possible and own up to your mistakes!
What is the next big thing for Andrea Schumacher Interior Design?
What is Design Leadership Network?
274: Power Talk Friday: Kae Whitaker- Part 2 of Email Marketing for your Interior Design Firm 0
We have Kae Whitaker with us once again on today's Power Talk Friday- this time for her fifth appearance on the show! She appeared previously on episodes #26, #66, #114 where she discussed branding, how to hire and train interns, how to conduct a proper year-end review of your business and last month on episode #259 she spoke about the subject and content of a typical sale funnel email sequence for interior design firms. Today she's back to talk some more about email marketing and she will be explaining how to set up an email marketing system, with some great tips for doing it really effectively. She will also be discussing the main idea of email marketing, the difference between broadcast emails and triggered emails, how your blog actually connects and supports your email marketing and how to segment your list and what to do with the different lists. Listen in to find out more.
Kae is the owner and CEO of Kae Whitaker Solutions. She uses her more than ten years of experience in retail sales and marketing development to really focus on helping small businesses to stay competitive in their respective markets and to surpass their revenue goals.
Having worked with some of the nation's largest retailers, Kae has now utilized her expertise in retail sales and marketing development to create her premium coaching programs that really assist small business owners to tune into what matters most in their marketing efforts and to streamline their processes while maximizing on their clientele. Kae's highest achievements come through helping others to reach their goals, and she would love the opportunity to help you to take your brand to the next level, so listen in to find out what she has to share with you on the show today.
How LuAnn initially found Kae through her online reputation.
Understanding the type of emails that you're going to send and the categories of emails that exist within those types.
The importance of using a different approach when purchasing leads or email lists.
Kae's advice is for everybody regardless of the size of your email list.
The role of email marketing in the customer journey.
Sending different email content to the groups of people who are at different points in the customer journey.
The difference between broadcast emails and trigger emails.
Segmentation campaigns- what they are and when and how to use them.
An example of a trigger email for interior designers.
What you need to look for in your email provider.
Why segmenting is really so important.
How to avoid becoming a victim of the spam monster.
What the engagement would look like if you hire someone to set the process up on your behalf.
When to use re-engagement campaigns.
Ways to grow your email list through intentional engagement.
How to target growing your email list geocentrically through the content that you're putting out on social media.
Where email marketing fits into marketing funnels.
Why it would even be worthwhile to create just one funnel.
Farrha Hyman #43
Cheryl Janis #41
Kae's email: kaewhitaker@kaewhitaker.com
Kae's website: http://kaewhitaker.com
273: Dixie Willard: Visibility and Your Interior Design Firm 0
Welcome to today's show! We have Dixie Willard, of Dixie Willard Design in Tennessee, with us today. Dixie is a co-host of the Design and Style Podcast with Rachel Moriarty, of Rachel Moriarty Interiors and today we will be talking to her about the Design and Style Community and about how her partnership with Rachel and their podcast came about. Today, Dixie also discusses her own business and she talks about the Community Projects that she's involved with too. Listen in, to find out more.
Dixie got her Design Degree at the Chaminade University of Honolulu, where she graduated with honors. She has worked for an Architecture Firm as well as having worked as a Designer and a Bookkeeper, for a high-end furniture store and she has done e-design for Pottery Barn Kids, PBTeen, and West Elm. In the middle of all of that, she also managed to earn her NCIDQ Certification.
After traveling around the world, Dixie and her Air Force husband have finally settled down in their forever home, in East Tennessee. Dixie loves taking continuing education classes for fun and reading Design Blogs, to keep up with all the latest trends. Listen in today, to find out more about Dixie, her Podcast and how she's really changing lives, out there, one Designer at a time!
Dixie talks about what it took for her to obtain her NCIDQ Certification.
Dixie's work with Ethan Allen.
Dixie's experience of being a Bookkeeper for a high-end furniture store.
The skill she's learned from first being an Air Force brat and then an Air Force wife.
Their move from Oklahoma to Tennessee, where they knew absolutely no-one.
Dixie talks about how she and Rachel met, at a Mastermind in Oklahoma.
How the Design and Style Podcast came about.
All about Rachel and Dixie's Visibility Challenge.
To join the Visibility Challenge, go to Design and Style on Facebook and ask to join.
The hardest part of the Visibility Challenge and the fantastic results that inevitably ensue, as a result of doing it.
What's going to be happening in Dixie's community, at The Visibility Lab.
The very exciting and special episode planned for the first Visibility Podcast for 2018, on the Design and Style Podcast.
Moonshine tasting in the Smokey Mountains with Rachel.
What happened at the Visibility Conference.
The fantastic Community and Service Projects that Dixie does and how she assists, design-wise, at the Restoration House of East Tennessee.
How you, as a Designer, can get involved with the Dwell With Dignity
The service work that Dixie does, for Kingdom Design Ministries, for children who have suffered a trauma, or tragedy in their life.
What it takes to rappel down a twelve story building!
The awesome gains that you could enjoy, as a result of being a part of a networking group.
The Design and Style Podcast website: www.designandstylepodcast.com
Design and Style can also be found on:
Remya Warrior #266
272: Laura Thurman: Tips for Building Relationships with Industry Peers & Leaders 0
Today’s guest is Laura Thurman of Laura Thurman Design Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. She specializes in a global aesthetic that is filtered through a modern lens influenced by her upbringing in Los Angeles, as well as her world travels. Laura Thurman Design Studio services include custom interiors, re-design, weekend styling, and in-field developer selections. Laura talks about the importance of educating clients about the interior design process. To that end, she explains on her website to clients and potential clients the difference between “off the shelf” and “custom made.” We also discuss how she is harnessing the power of building meaningful relationships with peers and industry leaders in helping to grow her firm. In fact, our meeting is a direct result of her commitment to getting out her “box,” reaching out and asking for advice, and for remembering to return the favor. Laura is always thinking of ways to give value back to the new colleagues and mentors she has met. Laura is a delight, and I’m sure you will like her and learn much from what she has to share about intentional networking.
How doors have opened recently because of networking and building professional relationships
What Laura has learned from Amy Flurry’s book, Recipe for Press: Designer Edition:
How to pitch an idea
Why you need to do your homework
How each project has multiple offshoots
Giving serious thought to your WHY
How to tactfully cultivate peer relationships, beginning with being intentionally present
Why “thick skin” is important for entrepreneurs to cultivate
How social media helps with networking
How doors open when you “put it out there”
Educating the client:
Mainstream and retail = “off the shelf”
Quality and exclusive = “to the trade”
Episode 108, Amy Flurry
Episode 203, Darla Powell
Recipe for Press: Designer Edition, by Amy Flurry
271: Power Talk Friday: Husband & Wife Teams- This Week is LuAnn & Vin Nigara 0
Welcome to today's episode of Power Talk Friday! LuAnn has a really special treat in store for you today - her husband, Vince will be joining her on the show! LuAnn has recently had a lot of people asking her to address the topic of husband and wife teams, working together.
She recently interviewed Syd and Shea McGee, of Studio McGee (#270) and there are also a few more interviews scheduled with husband and wife teams, which are to be aired in the near future. Vince has already appeared on the show once before, where he talked to LuAnn about the kind of advice that he would give to new entrepreneurs just starting out in their business. He discussed establishing a mission, core values and also systems. So if you're interested in finding out more about any of that, please go back and listen to episode #78. Today, LuAnn and Vince will be talking about how they've managed to be in business together for so many years, and still, like (let alone love) each other! Listen in to find out more!
Vince is the brains behind the finances at Window Works, with a degree in Accounting and also an MBA in Business. He has been the fearless leader at Window Works for thirty-five years this December and he has achieved a very recognizable level of stature within their Window Treatment and Awning community. He has served on a number of Marketing and Operations Advisory Boards, for Window Works and for Dorosol (The Awning Company that they use most often) and he served for just less than two years as the Vice President of Franchise Sales, for Decorating Den. Listen in today, to find out more about how Vince and LuAnn have managed to work together, really successfully, for so long.
Vince shares some of the core reasons that he thinks they have managed to work so happily and successfully with each other and with their third partner, Bill.
How the Universe has really gifted them with their different yet clearly defined roles within their business.
Recognizing their very different strengths and skills, which really blend well together, for the benefit of their business.
Not micromanaging each other or their staff really works well for Vince and LuAnn.
What makes a really great Salesperson.
Their 'code' of who gets the final say if there's a disagreement about something in the business. (Unless it's a money decision).
Letting go of your inner 'control freak' to find harmony in your business relationships.
The importance of moving on after a deal has been done and signed off, regardless of what may transpire later.
The importance of having a basis of respect in any relationship to avoid issues.
It's so much easier to be in business with your spouse when you really do love and care for one another.
Observing the fine line of respect/familiarity.
Always keeping the bigger picture (the business) in mind when disagreements arise.
The benefits of using rationality rather than emotional manipulation.
Delineating responsibilities yet allowing people to grow by allowing them to work within their strengths and to run with what they do really well.
It really helps to curb disagreements if you can actually feel the pain of your partner.
Always keeping what's best for the business uppermost in mind.
Vince Nigara #78
Syd and Shea McGee #270
270: Shea & Syd McGee: Building a Design Empire Involves a Lot of Hustle 0
Welcome to today's show! We really have the most amazing surprise for all of you today- we have Syd and Shea McGee, of Studio McGee on the show with us! Shea was on the show about a month ago, (episode #236) where she talked about how Studio McGee was created in a spare bedroom and then, after many late nights of brainstorming and sharing their dreams, Shea and Syd decided to turn what was a small business for a stay at home mom, into something way beyond that.
Today, you will hear Shea discuss how she always knew that she wanted to do high-end Design. She also talks about two business decisions that Syd was instrumental in making very early on, which allowed them to attract the kind of client that they really wanted to work with and she explains how Syd has also really helped her to approach certain problems in business with the right perspective. Listen in to find out more about this dynamic duo and their approach to running a really successful business.
Studio McGee has been featured in House Beautiful, Domain Home, Design Sponge, Apartment Therapy, SMP Living and One Kings Lane, as well as many others. This show will also appear as a video on LuAnn's Youtube channel. (Go to Youtube for A Well Designed Business.) Listen in today and experience the really tangible love, respect, and admiration that these two have for one another and discover how Shea's dream to build a Design Empire is fast becoming a reality.
What was going on in Syd's mind when they made the decision to move to Utah.
Shea explains how Syd got involved bringing his really valuable perspective to the business.
How Syd managed to figure out a way organize the operations side of their business by assessing the problems and then finding solutions.
How Syd managed to streamline their systems by building their own internal software.
Syd's initial focus was really on allowing the Designers to get on with their designing.
The sacrifices that they made initially to ensure that there was enough content for their business to grow.
The great pay off they've had from consistently investing the time in putting out really high-quality photos on Instagram.
How to know when it's the right time to start charging more.
How Shea and Syd have pushed each other, to create their Design Empire.
The time it took for them to afford to create their own catalog.
Attracting the type of clients that they have now.
The financial risk that they took and what they put on the line to keep going forward to create their dream.
The kind of support that Shea and Syd give one another.
How they came to be doing their Webisodes on Youtube.
Some of the actionable things that they have done, to really grow their business.
All about McGee and Co, a website that they started about a year ago where you can go online and order from their really great product line.
It's really demanding to be a very good mom and a great entrepreneur, but it can be done!
Shea and Syd's website: www.studio-mcgee.com
You can do your purchasing from: www.mcgeeandco.com
Shea and Syd on Instagram
Shea and Syd on Facebook
Shea and Syd on YouTube
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269: Nina Magon: Building a Team For Your Design Firm 0
Welcome to today's show! We have Nina Magen, the Principal of Contour Interior Design, on the show with us today. Nina is a very savvy lady, who has a lot going on, on both the business and the Design side. The fact that she is driven is evident in the nine-year rise of her Design Firm and it also shows in the way that she runs her business. Today we talk to Nina about the significant impression it made on her and her business when she was on American Dream Builder TV show. We also talk to her about her staff: how she hires and what she looks for when hiring someone. So listen in to find out more.
Contour is an international, full-service Interior Design firm, with offices both in Houston and Miami. There is a long list of award-winning interiors in the Contour portfolio, which have received recognition from NBC, Bravo and HGTV Networks, as well as acknowledgment for Best Interior Architecture and Best Commercial Interior, by Paper City. ASID also awarded them Best Commercial Interior. The work of Contour has been featured in Rue, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Interiors Magazine and Lux Interiors and Designs, to name just a few. Listen in today, to find out more about Nina and her approach to running Contour Interior Design.
Nina explains how she came to have such an international team.
What Nina does to encourage her team to learn from each other and to think outside of their comfort zone.
American design and architecture, as compared with the more modern, forward-thinking European design.
Nina discusses her approach and what she looks for when she's ready to hire a team member.
The criteria for advancement, that Nina looks for in her team members.
What it takes to be a really successful Designer.
Nina discusses where her interest in being on a TV show came from.
How Nina managed to get onto American Dream Builders TV show in 2014.
Nina's harrowing experience on American Dream Builders.
How Nina leveraged her life-changing experience on the TV show.
Nina's constant growth, personally and business-wise, since being on the TV show.
The things that Nina is looking forward to doing, in the future.
How to get to be the Designer for celebrity homes.
Connect with Nina:
Go to www.mydomastudio.com/awelldesignedbusiness to find out how MyDoma Studio can help you to run your firm more efficiently. There's a special offer there for you too, as a podcast listener.
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268: Power Talk Friday: Ashley Faulkes- Maximizing SEO for Your Interior Design Firm 0
Welcome to another episode of Power Talk Friday! We have Ashley Faulkes, the CEO of Mad Lemmings with us on the show today. Ashley creates Wordpress websites and he also is an SEO expert, which is one of the main reasons that LuAnn invited him onto the show. She knows that there are many of you out there, wondering about the merits of blogging and wanting to find out how to go about doing it. This is a topic that we really can't seem to get enough information on, so listen in and learn from Ashley, who is an expert when it comes to blogging and creating websites.
Ashley, whose company is fourteen years old, is an Australian who is now living in Switzerland. After skiing one time, on the last run of the day, Ashley fell, twisting his leg and breaking it in thirty-seven places. He then had to spend three days immobilized in hospital, waiting for the weekend to be over and for the surgeons to get prepared to operate. It was well worth the wait, however, and he was also really lucky because they ended up doing a first class job and getting excellent results with his leg. The spin-off of this was that it brought Ashley to blogging, which then brought him to a whole new endeavor, which he became really good at, through getting educated and also teaching. Listen in now, to find out what Ashley has to share with you about SEO and Website Creation.
Ashley's opinion on the difference between a Square Space site and a Wordpress
Migrating to a new website with all of your current content.
How to attract people to your website, if you're doing the website yourself.
Optimising your Home Page and your Services Page.
Making a habit of getting reviews on your website for SEO- you can even set up a link for that.
Getting onto your local listings, to create SEO links, when starting out.
Leveraging social proof, through getting your business listed with The Chamber Of Commerce, or Government Institutions.
Finding the biggest bang for your buck, for SEO rankings.
How to find out, rather than guessing, if there are any people searching for a particular topic, before writing a blog post.
Thinking about reasons that people would need your services, for effective blogging.
How to create links to your website.
Getting access to Google tools.
Using the right keywords for great rankings.
Pictures can be worth a thousand words.
Using Youtube for great rankings.
The value of re-purposing your content.
Ashley's website: www.madlemmings.com
Ashley on Youtube: Mad Lemmings
Lisa Escobar #258
267: Rasheeda Gray: A Pipeline With Over 20 Interior Design Projects in Under 2 Years 0
Welcome to today's show! Our guest for today is Rasheeda Gray, the Principal of Gray Space Interior Design, which is located in the Philadelphia Metro area. Gray Space is still a side hustle for Rasheeda at this point in time and yet in just under two years, she has already had more than twenty projects! You're probably wondering how she has managed to do this, so today she shares three strategies that she has used, to land these twenty plus projects and also her thoughts on what it takes to succeed in the field of Interior Design. Listen in now, to get some really actionable tips from Rasheeda, to fill your pipeline.
Rasheeda holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing and International Business, as well as a Master's Degree and she currently works full time, in a corporate position. She also has a husband and two kids. Rasheeda brings her business skills to her Design Firm, so listen in, as she explains how she's managed to achieve as much as she has, in such a short time.
What led to Rasheeda starting Gray Space Interior Design, as her side hustle.
Rasheeda is a strong believer in Vision Boards.
How Rasheeda managed to obtain her first two projects.
The way that Rasheeda made use of social media to get herself known, as an Interior Designer.
The magic mix for Rasheeda's success on social media.
The secret to Rasheeda's success on Instagram.
Rasheeda's way of growing her business intentionally to attain the kind of success that she has, in such a short time.
Taking full advantage of any opportunity to speak at events as a great way to get yourself and your business known.
What Rasheeda did to get to know five Realtors.
All about Rasheeda's Consultation Special for Cyber Monday.
Using Loss Leaders to attract more business.
How referrals and testimonials have helped Rasheeda to fill her pipeline.
The way that Rasheeda leverages her reviews on Howz, to get more business.
How Rasheeda found Cheryl and then selected her to be her mentor.
How mentorship has contributed to Rasheeda's success.
Why it could be tricky to have a mentor from the same area as you.
Why it's important to be upfront with your clients about your working a full-time job.
The questionnaire that Rasheeda has her prospective clients complete right in the beginning.
Assessing the needs of your clients, then providing solutions for them.
The logistics of running a Design firm, a full-time job and a family.
To take advantage of the special incentives that are being offered to you, as a listener of the podcast:
From My Doma Studio, go to: www.mydomastudio.com/awelldesignedbusiness
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266: Remya Warrior: How To Network in 7 Steps 0
Today we have Remya Warrior on the show with us and she's a New Jersey Interior Designer with a Master's Degree as well as fourteen years of experience in the field. She is active in both the WCAA (Window Coverings Association of America), where she is currently the Vice President of the New Jersey chapter, and also in ASID in New Jersey, where she is the featured Tech Talk host. Listen in today, to hear all about what that is and also to find out about Remya's very actionable Seven Step Process that she uses to really knock her networking right out of the park.
Remya really loves to cook for her friends and family and she firmly believes that the kitchen is the heart of the home and it is this that has her specializing in Kitchen Design. Being an active member of the WCAA has led her to her falling in love with window treatments and specializing in that area as well.
On Remya's website, there is a line that says that she helps busy, middle-income families create a home that they love and this is something that LuAnn found very interesting because she really enjoys finding out what makes you, as an Interior Designer, different. LuAnn loves researching and finding out what really sets certain Designers apart, for the purposes of the show, and she points out that your clients also want to find something on your website, that really sets you apart as a Designer. Listen in now, to find out more about Remya and the really interesting things that she does with her business, to set her apart from the rest.
Koffee Break- the Video Resource that Remya used to have on her website.
What Remya learned from doing Koffee Break for two years.
What Tech Talk is all about and who Remya has connected with, through doing it.
How Remya has really managed to up her game, through doing Tech Talk.
How Remya selects the people that she interviews on Tech Talk.
You can go to the ASID channel on YouTube, to see the library of resources that Remya has created there with her webinars.
If you'd like to attend one of Remya's Tech Talk Live Webinars, you will need to friend her on Facebook. (Remya Warrior)
Remya gives a detailed explanation of her Seven Step Process designed to help you to network most effectively.
The heartfelt and personal messages that Remya sent to only five special people on Thanksgiving.
What it takes to create a really effective Sales Conversation.
The three separate email sequences that Remya has on her website to put business leads into her pipeline.
Building your referral strategy, through Remya's Seven Step Process.
Remya's website: www.rwarriordesigns.org
Remya on Facebook-Remya Warrior Designs
Remya on LinkedIn-Remya Warrior Designs
Remya learned this networking technique from her friend Paul McManus!
You can also search for Remya on YouTube and Ted Talk.
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If you'd like to be in one of LuAnn's Masterminds, email her at info@luannnigara.com to see if you're a good fit.
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265: Power Talk Friday: FreshBooks for Your Interior Design Firm 0
Welcome to Power Talk Friday! We have an interview with FreshBooks today. A few months ago, FreshBooks and LuAnn started talking about them becoming a regular sponsor for this show. As pretty smart business people, they both wanted to find out more about one another before joining forces, to see who they would be getting involved with.
FreshBooks asked to do a trial of two or three thirty second ad spots. Before LuAnn agreed to do any commercials for them, however, she wanted to know if they really were right for you, her listeners. And what better way for LuAnn to know if they are the right fit than to apply her ninja interview tactics to them? Listen in to find out more.
LuAnn wanted the chance to ask any and every question that she thought would be helpful, for you to decide if FreshBooks is right for you because she thinks they really are a terrific platform for helping you to track the money side of your Design business.
Today she talks to Julie Kerr, the Marketing Communications Strategist at FreshBooks, about FreshBooks and how she sees them as the perfect side companion to My Doma Studio. Listen in now, as Julie explains how this platform was designed, specifically for the small, serviced-based industry, to take the fear out of accounting and to help you to efficiently input, track and analyze your operations, your projects, and your business.
Julie explains what FreshBooks is all about.
Who the ideal client for FreshBooks is.
Julie explains why this is the Accounting Software for non-Accountants.
FreshBooks have built templates that actually help you to get paid faster.
How FreshBooks helps you to track and operate your business seamlessly.
You can take a picture of the receipts of money you spent, on gas, lunches or even hotel stays and the information will be automatically uploaded- and even sorted, for tax time.
Your company credit cards can be linked to FreshBooks, to have all the transactions automatically uploaded.
How FreshBooks helps you to easily assess the health of your business.
Julie explains how the whole invoicing process of FreshBooks works.
How well FreshBooks would work, as a side companion to My Doma Studios.
The really beautiful design of the way that of FreshBooks looks.
You can have your questions answered right away, by the Toronto based support team, at their call center.
The way that the pricing structure of FreshBooks works.
How FreshBooks helps you to track the exact number of hours that have been worked on a project.
The different ways that you can stay connected to FreshBooks.
You can get a free 30 Day Trial with FreshBooks! All you have to do is go to www.freshbooks/LuAnn to sign up!
If you still have any questions, you can email their Support Team at support@freshbooks.com, or you can give them a call at 1-866-303-6061.
264: Design Biz Live: How to Manage Not Being the Project Manager 0
How many times have you, as a Designer, felt like you were caught between your client and the Contractor? You know the kinds of situations where you have created a floor plan for space, only to find, on your next visit to the site, that a wall has been moved... So, what happens when this happens? Listen in now, to find out.
Judith Neary and Corey Klassen have some terrific insights and advice for you around this subject, on today's Design Biz Live feature. On today's show, Corey and Judith will be talking about how to manage not being the Project Manager. The diversity of the Design Industry is your strength, but sometimes also your weakness, as a Designer, so listen in, as we pick this topic apart a bit and go through the nuances of it, so that you can find out how to avoid being in this kind of situation.
The definition of Project Management.
Judith's concept of the three legs of the stool.
The challenge that Corey faced recently, around having to manage a project.
The role of the General Contractor, as compared with that of an Architect, or a Designer.
The different elements that need to be pulled together, to create cohesion in a project.
What a really good Project Manager looks like.
Where Designers tend to fall down in a project.
What the initial Sales Process should cover.
Judith's way of preventing the pain factor in a project.
Educating the client about the costs of Project Management.
When to say 'no' to a project.
263: Amanda Evans: Creating Growth in Your Interior Design Firm 0
Welcome to today's show! Our guest for today, Amanda Evans, is someone you may know through Instagram. She is the Founder and Principal of Amanda Evans Interiors, which is based in Vancouver. Amanda opened her business in 2009, before the birth of Theo, her first child. Today Amanda talks to LuAnn about what work looked like for her before Theo came into her life, what it looked like after Theo began pre-school and what it looks like now, after their daughter, Marlee, who is now just three months old, was born. Listen in to find out more.
On the show today, Amanda gives a detailed explanation of how she grew and then filled her pipeline, so that now, only three years later, she already has three employees. If you have been battling with ways to give your new (or existing firm) a boost in getting new leads, you're going to really enjoy today's show. Listen in now, to find out from Amanda some ways to handle the transitions in life, both from a business standpoint and when things come at you personally.
Some of Amanda's observations about the transitions in her life, over the last few years.
Amanda's really intentional way of creating relationships with the Builders and Realtors that she wanted to work with.
What it was like for Amanda, and how she coped, when she first joined the mostly male Builder's Association and started going to networking meetings.
Amanda's way of initiating a first meeting, to connect with the Builders and Realtors that she wanted to build relationships with.
Some lessons that Amanda learned, and how her thinking changed, while making the transitions in her life.
How Amanda was able to up-level her work and take on even more, by hiring people to assist her.
Taking the pain out of developing new relationships with Builders or Contractors.
How Amanda managed to get ideal team together.
Some advice to help you to hire the right people for your business.
Amanda's way of growing her Instagram, to get over 12 000 followers.
Some things to watch out for, when tagging people on Instagram.
You really do need to credit your photographer!
Winning ways to work with Instagram.
Some tips for engaging with your Instagram Community.
Website: www.aeinteriors.ca
Instagram: @amandaevansinteriors
Facebook: Facebook.com/amandaevansinteriors
Twitter: @amandaevansinc
Nancy Ganzekaupher #256
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262: Power Talk Friday - Dezignwall- What is it? With Joseph Haecker 0
Welcome to another Power Talk Friday! Today LuAnn is really excited to have Joe Haecker, The CEO and Founder of Dezignwall, with her on the show. Listen in to find out more about this awesome social network platform, created specifically for the Design community.
Dezignwall is the fastest growing network for Design and Architectural professionals, worldwide. It is the very first social platform to address the specific needs of the international Design community and it blends the features found on top social media platforms with the ability to produce products. The goal of Dezignwall is to unite the International Design and Products community, in order to help the industry to compete in a constantly changing and growing global marketplace.
Joe's background is in Custom Lighting, for hotels, casinos, high end residential and Daylight Tubular Skylight Industries. He has been responsible for setting trends, developing innovations and also coordinating world-class projects internationally, for more than seventeen years. He has served as Head Of Design for Triton Chandelier, Alger Lighting, and Solatube International. He has also consulted for many custom lighting companies, including iWorks, Spectrum, 3Form Light-Art Schonbek and lots of others. Joe has a passion for the success of the industry and he serves as an Industry Advocate, fostering a focus on global communication, collaboration and restoring the value of luxury in the industry. Joe is a single Dad of two sons and he is very involved in Business Consulting, Mentoring and establishing an ecosystem for startups and Tech Companies in the Antelope Valley and Kern Country areas of Southern California. Listen in now!
Joe explains how Dezignwall came about, what it is and why you, as a Designer, should care.
The difference between Dezignwall and Instagram.
Dezignwall is a place for one of a kind artisans.
The multiple angles that a product can be viewed, on Dezignwall.
The awesome features to be found on Dezignwall.
Why a Designer would want to upload their projects onto Dezignwall.
How Dezignwall works as a sales efficiency tool.
How Dezignwall works for Designers and how it works for consumers.
Joe's motivation in creating Dezignwall.
Dezignwall is the only social network platform that features Podcasts.
Joe explains the value of having your Podcast featured on this platform, to tell your Design story.
Dezignwall is a tool that has access to analytics, so it can really help you to cater to the specific needs of each client.
Everything on this platform can be accessed via a keyword search.
The benefits of this platform, for reaching and connecting with a global market.
Dezignwall as a system for coordinating the Trade Shows that you attended.
The goal that Joe had in mind when creating this platform.
Website: www.dezignwall.com
FB LIVE Talkshow: https://www.facebook.com/events/502777173434577/?ti=cl
Social Handle: @Dezignwall, Inc
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCycMyaEpwYZVOg0D7pfIfA/featured
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261: Shannon Tate: The Road to Interior Design isn’t Always Straight 0
Welcome to today's episode! We have Shannon Tate, a real go-getter, with us on the show today. She opened her business, Shannon Tate Interiors, in 2012, after having worked in a very diverse range of artistic fields, such Acting, Fine Art, Fashion, Writing, Lifestyle Coaching and even spending some time working as a Private Chef. Shannon, who is also a Certified Holistic Health Coach, loves to pair her artistic vision with her sense of empathy, her Reiki training and her knowledge of Ayurveda and Feng Shui.
In addition to her Interior Design Services, Shannon designs and creates custom furniture, art and home décor for her projects. After being in business for only five years, Shannon has been featured in Home Polish three times, Apartment Therapy twice, Design Sponge, Domino, The Nest, New England Home, and Modern Sanctuary. Listen in now, to find out more about Shannon's artistic approach to her Interior Design business.
Shannon grew up both in New York and Los Angeles. On today's show, she shares the story of how she, her husband and their daughter ended up in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, so listen in, to find out more.
Shannon talks about her earlier career, which eventually brought her to Interior Design.
A funny story about why Shannon left Design School when she was still very young.
The food business that Shannon and her husband ran together.
How Shannon has managed to incorporate her Lifestyle Coaching with Interior Design.
Their crazy move to Massachusetts, which prompted Shannon to hire a Coach.
How Shannon got featured in so many top Design Publications, after opening her business only five years ago.
How Shannon works to get what she really wants.
The nuts and bolts of how Shannon Tate Interiors is run.
Shannon explains her recent change in the way that she charges her clients.
How Shannon deals with clients who want to negotiate her contract.
Offering excellent Customer Service, without compromising your own principals.
What's coming up for Shannon in 2018.
Connect with Shannon:
www.shannontateinteriors.com
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Ren Miller #12
Fred Berns #174
Claire Staszak #166
Amy Flurry #108
Lesley Myrick #37
Marina Umali #248
Kerry Leskowitz #98
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260: Chaney Widmer - A 100% E-Design Interior Design Firm 0
A special 'hello' to all our new listeners and a warm welcome to the show! Today we are really happy to introduce you to our guest, Chaney Widmer, the Founder of Mix And Match Design Company. Chaney is a very smart lady, who saw a need in the market and created a really innovative way to fill it. She offers One On One Decorating Services, through her E-Design and Online Interior Design and on her Mix And Match Blog, she shares her decorating tips and inspiration. Listen in, to find out more about E-Design and how to make it work profitably for you.
Today, Chaney explains how she created Mix And Match Design, in order to provide affordable and accessible Interior Design to everyone. After many years of writing a Design Blog and helping her friends and family to put together beautiful homes that they loved, Chaney decided that the time had come for her launch her own internet-based Design Business. Chaney is fully committed to taking the intimidation out of Interior Design, whether her client is starting from scratch with a brand new home, adding a few pieces to pull a room together or even just looking for a way to take their space from looking good to looking really great! Listen in now, to hear Chaney's poised and intelligent approach to her carefully designed business model.
Chaney explains why she chose to focus her business on E-Design.
What motivated Chaney to deal with the specific market that she has chosen to focus on.
The demographics of the market that Chaney focuses on.
The really reasonable cost of working with Chaney.
The number of hours that Chaney typically spends on a $300 project.
The time that it takes for Chaney to complete her average project.
How her processes have evolved, over time.
Chaney's detailed, but not overwhelming survey that she gives her clients to complete.
How Chaney created the contract that she currently uses with her clients.
How Chaney makes her money through affiliate links.
Great resources for an affiliate networks, as a way to earn money through their affiliate programs.
The type metric that is sought after, for Affiliate Programs.
What creating an Affiliate Link would involve- it's really easy!
The kind of service that Chaney offers her clients.
How Chaney does her follow-ups.
The eDesign Course that Chaney is going to be launching soon.
The target market for Chaney's upcoming eDesign Course.
Resources for Affiliate Programs:
Reward Style Network – An application based Affiliate Network.
Shop Style Collective – Have a pay per click affiliate program.
J. Affiliate.
Sign up for “How To Launch An E-Design Business" online course email list signup: bit.ly/launchanedesignbusiness
Connect with Chaney on social media:
Website: com
Blog: com/new-blog
Instagram: @mixandmatchdesigncompany
Facebook: com/mixandmatchdesigncompany
Christina Perry: #5
Danielle Liss #179
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259: Kae Whitaker - Get New Clients with the Right Email Sequence 0
Welcome to another episode of Power Talk Friday! Everyone can start doing their happy dance today because we have Kae Whitaker on the show! After doing her really great series all about Facebook, LuAnn was considering doing another series, about landing pages, click funnels, email responders etc. She was out there, in Podcast Land, listening and looking out for the right person to have on the show- someone who could really relate to you, as Designers, as well as having all the necessary know-how, when out of the blue, she got a notification that Kae Whitaker was going live on Instagram. She went on over to have a look and there was Kae, talking about click funnels and email sequences... It was like hitting the jackpot for LuAnn because she knows that Kae really talks our language, so listen in to find out what Kae has to share with you today, about Email Marketing.
If you're a new listener and you haven't yet been introduced to Kae, this is the fourth time that she's been on this show and she is really well loved by all who listen in. She was on episode 26, 66 and 114. In the past, we have discussed branding, how to hire and train interns and how to conduct a proper year-end review of your business. Today Kae is here to talk about Sales Funnels. What they are, why we need to know about them and how we can apply them to our individual interior design firms. Kae answers the questions: What kind of content should be in an email sequence and how often should I send a potential client an email?
Kay is the Owner and the CEO of Kae Whitaker Solutions and she has more than ten years of experience in Retail Sales and Marketing Development. Now, her focus is on helping Small Businesses to stay competitive in their market and helping them to reach and surpass their revenue goals. She has worked with some of the largest national retailers and she now leverages her expertise in Retail Sales and Marketing Development to create her Premium Coaching Programs, that really help Small Business owners to tune in to what matters most in their Marketing efforts, by streamlining their processes and maximizing on their clientele. Kae's highest achievements come from helping others to reach their goals and she really loves having the opportunity to help people to take their brand to the next level. So, listen in now, to find out how to tune in to what really matters most for your business.
Kae explains what a Sales Funnel
Why Sales Funnels are really important for Designers.
The major difference in the number of conversions, and also the ability to predict revenue, that Kae has experienced in her firm, since starting with Email Marketing.
Where to start, with developing your Email Marketing.
Thinking about what you could offer for free, in return for an email address.
You're really not interrupting anyone, with Email Marketing, because they only opt-in if they're interested.
Why video works so well, as an opt-in.
What to do, right after getting your first opt-in.
How to build a great, trusting relationship, through your emails.
The whole point behind Email Marketing.
What the content of the sequence of emails, following the opt-in, should include.
The right time to schedule a chat with someone.
Working with an Automated Email Responder. (Like Acuity Scheduling)
Not stopping after the first 'no' can really set you apart from other Designers.
If you can muster up the courage to get in front of a camera, do it! The video really converts well!
Some alternative ideas, if you don't want to appear on camera.
All about what's to be expected from Kae's soon to be launched Email Marketing Bootcamp. It will be live on Tuesdays at 8 pm (Central Standard Time) and it will be recorded, so you can still catch it if you miss the live broadcast.
Why Kae designed her Email Marketing Bootcamp- and who it's for.
The importance of spending the time to learn something new.
Kae's course will cost $949 retail, and you, as listeners to A Well Designed Business Podcast will get a hefty 25% discount. Go to kaewhitaker.com/luanneemail to find the check-out form on the website. You can either pay it all at once, or you can even split it into three monthly payments.
Kae will be back on the show soon, to talk about the more technical side of Email Marketing.
Kae’s course, Email Marketing Bootcamp is open and teaches everything you need to know in order to develop your own pipeline filling email strategy — A Well-Designed Business podcast listeners can get 25% off the $949.00 course by going to
www.kaewhitaker.com/luannemail
http://kaewhitaker.com
258: Lisa Escobar - When Your Ideal Client Isn’t Who You Thought it Was 0
Today we have Lisa Escobar on the show and she has a Design Firm based in Las Vegas. Lisa was initially connected to LuAnn through Christie Leu (episode #182) and Darci Hether (episode #220). Lisa, Christie, Darcy and another Designer, Jessie Cooney, met at an Interior Designer Workshop Summit. They really hit it off and decided to all meet again, for a weekend retreat. Today, on the show, Lisa discusses the value of getting together with other Designers and having some quality one on one time together and she also talks about her firm, Lisa Escobar Design. Listen in to find out more.
Lisa is from Las Vegas, and growing up in the 'Entertainment Capital of the World' has really had an impact on her career, where she has managed to complete a vast range of projects in an impressively short time. She has consulted on and managed high-rise condo transformations, high-end residential spaces, and new build designs, both locally and beyond. She has shaped concepts and designs for Commercial and Hospitality projects alike, collaborating with the best of the industry's Design Professionals. The influence of the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas has helped Lisa to add flair and high style comfort to everything she's touched. Travelling to places such as China, Spain, and France has offered her inspiration to draw from daily, to shape her vibrant and polished style. Lisa is steadily gaining recognition from the Design Community and well-respected brands such as HGTV, Houzz, International Market Centres and the High Point Market Authority view her as a sought after tastemaker and a rising star. Lisa's ten-year history of working alongside Hotel Executives, Nightclub Owners and high profile clientele at top resorts has led her to create a business that really encompasses some very important principals. Lisa was left ingrained with some vital key service values, from the Five Star Five Diamond environment of the Wynn and Encore Resorts. Listen in today, to find out more about Lisa's approach to her Design Business, which really sets her apart from the rest.
The great benefits of spending quality one on one time with other Designers.
The 'secret sauce' behind the really valuable time that Lisa spent at the weekend retreat with three other Superwoman Designers, Christy Lou, Darcy Heather and Jessie Cooney.
Lisa discusses how her typically high level, CEO, high performer, mostly male, niche market came about.
The way that Lisa leverages her previous work experience in the Hospitality Industry, for her current business.
How Lisa evolved towards realizing her niche.
Looking at your strengths, to find your ideal market.
An unintentional marketing tactic that really worked!
Lisa's experience of being at Cambria's Residential Style-makers Summit, in Minnesota and how she got to go there.
All about Lisa's Firm.
The secret to how to ask for money.
Paying attention to your gut feelings.
257: Dionne Gardner: A Conversation About Landy Gardner Interiors 0
Welcome! Today, we're really happy to introduce you to Landy Gardner Interiors, which is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Landy Gardner Interiors have a really unique philosophy with which they approach their diverse clientele, where the focus is on individual needs and on combining the comfort of familiarity with new and fresh elements, using techniques both proven and untried. The way that a client works, plays, entertains and relaxes must all be considered, according to the Landy Gardner way of designing. Today, we're really privileged to have Landy's daughter, Dionne, on the show with us.
We originally arranged to have both Landy and Dionne on the show, however, due to some technical hitches on their end, the recording of the interview had to be rescheduled twice. Sadly, in the interim, Landy Gardner passed away. He was a man bigger than life and a great, kind soul and even though LuAnn had very little exchange with him, he made a really deep impression on her.
Today, Dionne talks about how she started working her Dad, the lessons that she learned from him and also about how she will continue to lead his company and carry on with his legacy, with the help of her team. LuAnn is really so very glad that Dionne decided that she still wanted to go ahead and do the interview with her today, so listen in now, as Dionne shares her memories of her father and the inspiration that he was to her.
In 2001, Landy Gardner was named South East Designer Of The Year, by the Atlantic Decorative Arts Centre and he has been named Designer Of The Year by Nashville Magazine. He has been published in Southern Living, Southern Accents, Traditional Home, Nashville Lifestyles, Showcase Of Interior Design, Southern Edition, Better Homes And Gardens, Boulevards, Southern Rooms, Interior Design From Miami To Houston, Spectacular Homes Of Tennessee, Atlanta, the cover of Veranda and a feature in Veranda's twentieth anniversary edition- Twenty Years Of Memorable Rooms. Landy has also been on HDTV's Interior By Design.
Landy Gardner Interior's design projects include private residences in Tennessee, New York, California, Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and also The Bahamas. He has designed rooms for the Tennessee Governor's Mansion, the Junior League Of Nashville's show houses and the Judd House, in Dalton, Georgia. Landy's commercial work includes Health Spas and Executive Offices in Nashville and office buildings for Hospital Corporation Of America, across the country, and also restaurants and bars for strategic hospitality. Both Landy and His Daughter, Dionne, are rare and extraordinary individuals, as well as being really talented Designers, so listen in to this bittersweet interview, to find out more about Landy Gardner Interiors.
How Dionne first came to work for her Dad.
What it was like for Dionne, when she started working for her Dad.
How Dionne got to know and admire her Dad much more deeply, after working with him.
How it was all about the client, for Landy- something that really made him remarkable.
The really great, collaborative dynamic that existed between Dionne and Landy.
How Dionne now finds herself selecting fabrics in the way that Landy would have done it.
Landy's amazingly integrated left brain/ right brain approach to his work.
Dionne explains how she learned to shop for clients, using Landy's mindful method.
Why Dionne and Landy were able to work together, so successfully.
The way that Dionne intends to go forward with her Dad's business and honor his legacy.
Landy's mindblowing process of installation, for a project.
The importance of being clear about the methods that you use, in your Design process.
http://landygardner.com
https://www.instagram.com/landygardnerinteriors/
https://twitter.com/LandyGardner
256: Nancy Ganzekaufer- A Powerful Strategy to Attract More Clients 0
Welcome to Power Talk Friday! We have Nancy Ganzekaufer with us today and if you're a new listener to the show and you're not familiar with her, she has already been on the show twice before, first on episode #15, where she spoke about Niche Markets and then again, on episode #159, where she had a very actionable conversation with LuAnn about getting clear and confident about who you are and what you offer. Today we are going to be talking about your business, in words. This will be the kind of show where you may want to take down some notes, so please have your pen and paper ready. Then, listen in, to find out about a fantastic, non-salesy way of having people really want to work with you.
Nancy and LuAnn are eight weeks through their fantastic ten weeks Premiere Online Coaching Program, Money, Mindset, And Sales, with an awesome group of people, who are all working really hard, to get themselves to the next level. So far it's been really interesting and also very rewarding and because this Program has been such an all-round success, they have decided to do it again, so they will be launching their new program, Six Weeks To Success, in January. Listen in to find out more.
Nancy has developed a powerful step by step exercise called Your Business in Words. She guides you in crafting the perfect description of your values, your interior design services and your process all with the goal of attracting more of your ideal client to you. If you have ever struggled with networking, promoting yourself or just need a proven way to make a memorable introduction of yourself, Nancy has the answer for you.
Nancy takes you, step by step, through what their Six Weeks To Success Program, starting on January the 4th, will include. Go to www.luannnigara.com/6weeks to get the details. Registration is open!
Nancy's take on the six clear and actionable steps that LuAnn and her husband do for their business, every year in January, or at any time that they're ready to start something new.
Really understanding what it is that you do, in your business.
Nancy explains her business, in words.
The goal of having your business, in words.
An exercise to help you to put your business into words. (You can go to www.nancyganzekaufer.com/ybiw for Nancy's free, twenty-minute webinar, to walk you through this process.)
Being who you are, and not who you think people want to hear that you are.
Adjectives to help you to get past the obvious traits that most Designers are going to bring to the table.
Identifying your ideal client and also, the particular problem that you help them to solve.
Using directed sentences, to describe your particular uniqueness, in your line of business.
Explaining how people can work with you.
Saying what the flow of your process is.
Saying what your consultations consist of.
How to add the enthusiasm for your last sentence.
Becoming attractive by showing your passion.
The more information that you give to people, the more relatable points they will have, to really connect with you.
When it would be appropriate to use your description of your business in words.
Sign up for Six Weeks to Success - luannnigara.com/6weeks
Grab Nancy’s Freebie - Your Business in Words at www.nancyganzekaufer.com/ybiw
Nancy’s website
http://nancyganzekaufer.com
Nancy on Twitter:
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Nancy on FB:
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255: Anne Rue: Coaching Helped Identify Her Ideal Client and Her Business Value & Worth 0
Today we have Anne Rue on the show. Anne is the principal of Anne Rue Interiors and she has more than twenty years of experience in the world of Design, having worked with both high end residential and also commercial clients. Today, Anne shares tons of insights, from her vast experience as a business owner, for you to enjoy and appreciate. Listen in, as she talks about the complete turnaround in her eighteen-year-old business after she hired a Business Coach and also about the reality of doing Reality TV.
Anne has been creating inspired living spaces for everyone, from professional athletes, multi-family housing properties, model merchandising, senior housing and even luxury motor coaches and yachts. Anne's work has been featured in Florida Design, Orlando Magazine, Orange Appeal Magazine and she's been a Design Expert on Orlando's WESH News On Sunrise and Good Day Orlando, on Fox News. You may even know Anne as the Season Eight Fan Favorite, on HGTV's Design Star, or possibly as the Designer on the hit show, Hotel Impossible, on the travel channel. Listen in now, to find out more about Anne and her fabulous Design Work.
What drove Anne to seek help for her business, after nearly eighteen years.
The benefits of working for a really great Designer in your area, regardless of the kind of work you may be required to do.
The consequences of moonlighting on super luxury motor coaches and yachts.
Utilising the genius of two women and their teams.
Where Anne would like to be in her business, in ten years time.
Some of the things that Anne learned from her two genius mentors.
A book that Anne highly recommends: The Values Factor, by John Demartini.
The importance of knowing who you are and where you want to be.
The niche market that Anne is currently focusing on.
Why Anne is currently cultivating her Builder Relationships.
Working out if a project is really worth the time that it will take.
The importance of working out your values- both personal values and those relating to your business.
Anne's whole experience of getting onto HGTV's Design Star show. (HGTV Star)
A view in hindsight of the true reality behind Reality TV.
Why Anne is not pursuing a career in TV, even though she does really well with it.
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254: Design Biz Live: How to Price Your Interior Design Services 0
Welcome to part two of Design Biz Live 3, with Corey Klassen. The last episode of Design Biz Live (#246) was the interview with Judith Neary, about the Self Assessment Evaluation, (which you can still find at www.windowworks-nj.com/designbiz2) that Judith and Corey put together for themselves and also for you, so that you can learn to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of yourself, as an Interior Designer and also of your staff. They created this because just like many of you, they battled to structure their fees. Because Judith and Corey really are pretty brilliant, they worked out a way to figure out what you're really good at, what you're not so good at, what you don't like doing, what you're not going to do... the whole thing! In the last episode, LuAnn talked with Judith, who runs a One Man Show, in Vashon Island, off the coast of Seattle, about how she used this evaluation to enable her to work in her particular zone of genius and to structure her projects and fees to best coincide with the things that she does really well and that she really likes to do. Please go back and listen, if you missed that episode.
Today, we have Corey Klassen with us on the show. Corey has his Interior Design firm in Vancouver, Canada and he has a staff, so when he took the evaluation, it was not only for himself, it was for his staff too. Today, Corey will share the results that he learned from his evaluation and also the way that he utilized the information from these results, about himself and also about each of the people on his staff. Then, using that information, he moves into the best way to structure the fees for his Design firm, in order to best serve his clients and also the firm, itself. Listen in to find out more.
One of the key things that Corey recognized from his evaluation.
The way that Corey has utilized all the information that he got from the Assessment, without deviation.
All the work that Corey does, whether it's for a kitchen, bathroom, or anything else, it all follows exactly the same process.
Looking deeper into the data, to figure out where the biggest strengths and weaknesses of himself and his staff were and to align his fees accordingly.
Core shares some graphs, demonstrating the conceptual phase of his and his staff's assessment.
What the graph demonstrating the execution phase of Corey's Assessment says to him.
The importance of documents being communicated correctly, on time, with the right information and all complete, together.
A process to ensure that the documents are being communicated correctly, on time, with the right information all complete and together, with MyDoma Studio.
Flipping over to using Quickbooks to easily manage accounting systems, to save time.
Some key solutions to invite the vendor into the project.
Managing punch lists.
Using tracking sheets for orders, to really work well as a team.
A formulated process that Corey used, to help him to determine the appropriate fees to charge.
Addressing, and then utilizing failures to their best advantage.
The three phases of the evaluation are also the same three phases of a project.
Corey's formula for structuring flat fees.
Why Corey charges for each phase, before moving on to the next.
The difference between General Contractors and Designers.
The importance of really good communication.
When product sales come into the picture.
The importance of having a Termination Clause in your agreement with a client.
Making use of a Design Retainer, which remains retained until the final invoice is done. (Then the balance is refunded.)
If you have any questions, either for this section or for the section that Judith covered, please email them to LuAnn, to be answered on the next episode of Design Biz Live. (info@windowworksnj.com and please put Design Biz Live Question in the subject line.)
253: Katie Krimitsos - Discussing the Common Struggles of Entrepreneurship 0
Welcome to today's episode of Power Talk Friday! LuAnn is thrilled beyond belief to introduce you to today's guest, Katie Krimitsos! Katie is the founder of the Facebook Community Biz Women Rock, and she uses this platform to educate and bring women entrepreneurs together, from all around the world. When you listen to Katie on her show, she is so real, so empathetic and so willing to share what she's learned and she's really on the ball with her on-air Coaching too, so listen in today, to find out more about Katie and the way that she manages to do so many different things really, really well!
Katie, who has a Masters Degree in Communication, has a great depth of experience in helping and teaching her fellow women entrepreneurs how to get their businesses on track. Within the platform of Biz Women Rock that Katie has created, she has the Biz Women Rock Podcast, she teaches a course on how to create a rocking Facebook Community, she has the Mompreneur Series, she has a blog, she has her Money Moxy Series and she also has the Biz Women Rock Academy, where you get education, support, mindset and strategy training, community challenges, hot seats, goal setting and so much more! Listen in now, to find out what Katie has to share with you on the show today.
A huge and really common pain point around mindset, that most women entrepreneurs tend to experience.
How Katie helps entrepreneurs with their mindset.
The way that women's roles and responsibilities are really so deeply entwined with how they show up for business.
How Katie helps women by reflecting their light back to them.
How your own personal development impacts everything about your business.
The journey of entrepreneurship never really ends (just like being a parent)- you will constantly be challenged to do things better.
Some of the things that make the entrepreneurial journey a bit easier, down the line.
How Katie helps people whose backs are against the wall, to get their businesses back on track.
What Katie did to help her husband get his business back on track.
The steps that Katie took to create a major transition in her business, in order to really make it work.
Why you really need to be super clear about what you're doing in your business.
Katie explains all about the Biz Women Rock Retreat that she's planning, between the 1st and the 3rd of December.
Katie's website: www.bizwomenrock.com
Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/biz-women-rock-with-katie-krimitsos/id818183720?mt=2
Twitter: @katiekrimitsos
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiekrimitsos/
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July 17, 2014 by Uju Leave a Comment
London is hot hot hot this weekend (with a few rain breaks, apparently) and we’ve got found lots of fun things to do with kids all across town:
Family Fun Weekend on Tower Beach (top pic), Poetry Festival on South Bank, Lambeth Country Show, Whitecross Street Party, King’s Cross Sports Day, Opera Holland Park Family Day, Something Happening for Kids at The Place…
Thu-Sun: Poetry International Festival at Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX (Waterloo/Embankment tube)
One of my favourite Southbank Centre events was the Rain of Poems when helicopters ‘rained’ down bookmarks filled with poetry from around the world. Now you can indulge in a weekend celebration of the word, with two action-packed days of poetry for young people including nursery rhymes and poetry dance workshops for under 5s, and slam poetry and performance for primary school kids and up. Festival dates, times and prices vary: School of Poetry for young people (Fri from 10.30am) and We Will Not Be Silent family event (Sat, 12pm) are both FREE (Jul 17-20)
Thu-Sun: Barbican Centre: Digital Revolutions at Silk St, EC2Y 8DS (Barbican tube)
This sounds super cool: an immersive exhibition exploring new digital culture and technology, bringing together the worlds of gaming, film, architecture, design and music. Works and new commissions by artists as varied as Bjork, Tim Webber and Framestore (the visual effects team behind the film Gravity) and will.i.am. 10am-6pm (Sat-Wed); Thu-Fri (10am-9pm); adult £12.50/child 5-16 £5/under 5s FREE. Advanced booking essential (until Sep 14)
Thu-Sun: Moominsummer Madness at Polka Theatre (pictured), 240 The Broadway, SW19 1SB (South Wimbledon tube)
The fabulous Moomins arrive at Polka Theatre in puppet form (with music and humour) in a collaboration with Little Angel Theatre, celebrating the 100th birthday of Tove Jansson, creator of the classic picture books. Ages 4+ (plus special All Ages welcome shows for babies). From 11am (dates & times vary); £13.50/concs £9 (until Aug 16)
Fri-Sat: King’s Cross Family Sports Day on Granary Square and King’s Boulevard, N1C 4AB (King’s Cross tube)
Get your kit on for a weekend of tug of wars, egg and spoon races and ‘general bonkersness’ as this sporting event combined with an immersive theatrical performance takes over Granary Square. Just show up ready to play! There’ll be street food from the Kerb collective to keep you fuelled on Saturday. 5pm-8pm (Fri), 11am-4pm (Sat) (Jul 18-19)
Also at King’s Cross: a chance to view the exhibition Quentin Blake: Inside Stories at House of Illustration (10am-6pm daily until Nov 2, adult £7/child £4)
Fri-Sat: The Elephantom at New London Theatre, Drury Lane, WC2B 5PF (Holborn tube)
We absolutely loved this critically acclaimed production that transferred from National Theatre to the West End. A little girl makes friends with a ghost-elephant in her bedroom, and it’s the start of a very messy adventure. Puppetry, music and laughs for ages 3+. 11.30am & 2.30pm (Tue-Fri), 2.30pm (Mon) & 10am (Sat); £13-£20 (Jun 30-Sep 6)
Read our review of The Elephantom
Sat: Something Happening for the Kids at The Place, 17 Duke’s Rd, WC1H 9PY (Euston/King’s Cross tube)
A family festival featuring live dance theatre performance from Bo Diddlers and tons of playful activities for the kids, from Morris Dancing to Windibops, family improv and drop-in events like film screenings of Mission Dance: Secret Agents, Brilliant and Breakfast. 10am-5pm, £8 (Jul 19)
Sat-Sun: Fun on the Foreshore at Tower Beach, The Wood, Queen’s Stairs, HM Tower of London, EC3N 4AB (Tower Hill tube)
Go beachcombing with the City of London Archeological Society at this rare opportunity to visit Tower Beach. At this weekend of family fun at the Tower of London you can dress up as a Roman Briton, play ancient board games, search for artefacts and explore the shore at low tide. 11am-4pm daily: beachcombing activities around 12.30-2.30pm (Sat) & 1.30m-3pm (Sun), FREE (Jul 19-20)
Sat-Sun: Whitecross Street Party, Whitecross St and Fortune St, EC1Y 8QJ (Barbican/Old St Tube)
It’s gonna be a big weekend on Whitecross Street as our favourite East End family rave DJs from Disco Loco get the annual party started with tunes and good vibes (and doughnuts!). There’s a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, a kids activity zone, street art and of course tons of stalls from the Whitecross Street Market crew. 12-6pm, FREE (Jul 19-20)
Sat-Sun: Lambeth Country Show, Brockwell Park, SE24 (Brixton tube/Herne Hill & Tulse Hill rail)
One of the most popular events on the summer calendar returns for the 40th year, bringing a country bumpkin vibe to the urban cool of south London. There will be on site stalls, horticultural shows, sheep dog and owl displays, pop-up farms and more to explore. Plus an eclectic mix of roots, reggae, dub and world music from a variety of bands on the live music stage and in the Village Green Zone. 11am-7pm, FREE (Jul 19-20)
Sun: Opera Holland Park Family Open Day, Stable Yard, Holland Park, London W8 6LU (Kensington Olympia/Holland Park/High St Kensington tube)
All are welcome at this free day of fun where you can join in Alice’s tea party, become part of the OHP chorus, explore backstage, dig into the dress-up box or take conducting classes to become a ‘Minute Maestro’. And don’t forget to book for Alice in Wonderland playing through the summer at Opera Holland Park. 12-5pm, FREE (Jul 20)
Sun: Keats House Family Day, Keats Grove, Hampstead NW3 2RR (Hampstead Heath overground/Hampstead tube)
Enjoy a leisurely Sunday in the glorious gardens of Keats House at one of their monthly Family Day activities. Bring a camera for an afternoon of summer fun and creativity. 1pm-4pm, FREE (Jul 20)
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Habibi From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets A triumph for the genre Library Journal a highly anticipated new graphic novel Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts harems and modern
Title: Habibi
Author: Craig Thompson
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets A triumph for the genre Library Journal , a highly anticipated new graphic novel Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between themFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets A triumph for the genre Library Journal , a highly anticipated new graphic novel Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world not unlike our own fueled by fear, lust, and greed and as they discover the extraordinary depth and frailty of their connection At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.
Urban Dictionary Habibi A famous Arabic word common between classical and spoken used in most of Arab countries Habibi is either a friend, a boy girl friend, husband or wife, a relative, or a familiar person to you whom you like in different way Even if you are calling a person of the same gender, you may use it. Habibi This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Habibi If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Habibi What Does habibi Mean Slang by Dictionary Habibi is frequently used in songs to give them a romantic feel and usually both men and women are habibi in music. In everyday speech, however, habibi can be used from a parent to child and between friends In some places, including Lebanon, it s even common to use the word to soften interactions between strangers kind of like the usages of hon, baby, and sweetie in some parts of Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye Books Naomi Shihab Nye is an award winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older Than You Are Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The Space Between Our Footsteps Poems and Paintings from the Middle East.Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and Words Under the Words. Habibi Home Facebook Habibi , likes talking about this rahill lenny erin karen leah Habibi by Craig Thompson, Hardcover Barnes Noble From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets A triumph for the genre Library Journal , a highly anticipated new graphic novel Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. Dolly Style Habibi Lyrics Genius Lyrics Habibi Lyrics Habibi, habibi Habibi, habibi Come on and dance with me My Caramella, Caramella Hear me when I say You re everything for me, ey Don t need a ella, umbrella I really Habibi by Craig Thompson From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets , a highly anticipated new graphic novel Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them We follow them as their lives unfold toget Habibi graphic novel Habibi is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson published by Pantheon in September The page book is set in a fictional Islamic fairy tale landscape, and depicts the relationship between Dodola and Zam, two escaped child slaves, who are torn apart and undergo many transformations as they grow into new names and new bodies, which prove to be obstacles to their love when they later reunite. Habibi Pantheon Graphic Library Craig Thompson Habibi Pantheon Graphic Library Craig Thompson on FREE shipping on qualifying offers From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets A triumph for the genre Library Journal
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Craig Thompson says:
Craig Ringwalt Thompson b September 21, 1975 in Traverse City, Michigan is a graphic novelist best known for his 2003 work Blankets Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package.
747 Replys to “Habibi”
I don't usually read graphic novels, but on the recommendation of my roommate (and the fact that this is one beautiful-looking book) I started reading this. At first, I wasn't sure how to review it, because frankly I had a lot of conflicting feelings about it. Some parts I loved, some parts I hated, some parts I wonder if I just misunderstood. But it's okay, because that just means I was given an opportunity to write a review in what is, personally, my favorite reviewing style, which is:THE GOOD [...]
Seth T. says:
A couple weeks ago, I read and reviewed Chester Brown's Paying For It, a book singularly concerned with separating love from sex. Brown forwards the idea that fewer problems arise if we segregate sex as completely as we can from the relational sphere. He does this to such an extent that he proposes that sex is a pleasure best paid for and made entirely transactional. It's not spoiling anything to say that Brown, as he represents himself in the book, is more wholly concerned with sex than he is w [...]
digital says:
It's just too bad. This book is conceived in a truly spectacular way, and visually, it succeeds and succeeds and succeeds. Even at its most whimsical and farflung, the stories of the prophets and the references to mysticism thread elegantly through the narrative. Thompson has a knack for portraying themes through symbolism in an elaborate, poignant manner. The book was at its best, actually, during these side-stories. The basic narrative is, rather literally, fucked. The theme of the story is co [...]
Deena says:
Yay for Orientalism!"My beef with Thompson is about his staggering Orientalism, which I’ll get to shortly.Themes of longing and survival permeate Habibi. The protagonists, Zam and Dodola, long for each other, likening this to a yearning for the Divine – Middle Eastern poets have done this for centuries. Zam and Dodola endure horrible events in the name of survival, perhaps tying in with Thompson’s conservationist theme by implying that our disregard for the earth is tantamount to rape and [...]
I picked up this mind-boggling graphic novel on a whim, and I'll forever be grateful for that. My head felt like a spaceship right after finishing. Prepare for this to change your perception and the way you think about everything.Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (no [...]
Wow. I guarantee you've never read anything like this book.
Algernon says:
Habibi means Beloved in Arabic.Which made me think of Toni Morrison when I first laid eyes on the graphic art album. By the end of the journey it turned out that my initial fancyful association was not so far-fetched and random as I expected. Because this is a story about pain and suffering among the dispossessed, the persecuted, the enslaved. It is also a story about strength and faith in the most cruel circumstances, about the things that unite us and help us make it through the night. Religio [...]
K. F. says:
Habibi is a laboriously gorgeous comic, with beautiful drawings, inks and atmosphere. Ever since Craig Thompson announced it on his blog years ago, I had been really excited. I had loved Goodbye Chunky Rice, liked Blankets, and was sure that Thompson would craft a beautiful story with all the care that it would require. It's a real shame that it's a hopelessly orientalist narrative with virtually every other *ism you can think of added in with bonus writing that really isn't that great. We spend [...]
Ferdy says:
SpoilersAbsolutely awful, one of the most rage inducing things I've ever read. I don't even know where to begin, there were that many fucked up things about it. Random, rambly thoughts:-Habibi was a ridiculously offensive graphic novel filled with nothing but racist, sexist, orientalist, misogynistic rubbish. Then there was the glorification of abuse and rape running throughout, the main character couldn't go at least a couple of pages without being naked, raped or victimised.-The story itself w [...]
Huda AbuKhoti says:
I am just sad and very upset, ignorant and shallow orientalism go through this book from start to finish. The artwork is amazing, although I hate it when arabic calligraphy is misused as a decor and with random meaningless letters. The elaborate usage of religious stories that had nothing to do with the ideologies in the book and its storyline that were furthermore exploited sometimes by misinterpretations was just too much for me. Overall it's overwhelming and not in a good way, as a Muslim wom [...]
Nnedi says:
I can’t recommend this book enough. This graphic novel is a testament to the fact that the physical book should never die. Habibi is a work of art full of Arabic calligraphy, bleeding pages and detailed imagery that is both Arab and African, modern and ancient. And equally as exquisite, compelling and daring is the book’s story of two slaves, one African and one Arab and how the world shapes, destroys, and evolves them. THE Best Book of 2011.
Richard Derus says:
I tried, really really hard I tried, but Habibi has defeated me. I simply cannot help myself, I put Richie Rich's face on the men and Veronica's on the women. Graphic novel remains, for me, a term of art without substantive affect on my vision. To me, they're comic books, and I didn't ever like comic books.So sorry. I'll go now. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
This is a gorgeous book, from cover to cover and all the illustrations (and calligraphy) in between. I wasn't sure in the beginning that I would like it, but I quickly found I did, and then the pages turned quickly as well.In the beginning, because of the age of one of the main characters at the start, I (naively?) thought the story was set in the past, but not too far into it, I realized the time is now. And because of that, the story is relevant, as regards the treatment of females, of those w [...]
Nicholas Karpuk says:
I couldn't review this book until I came up with a suitably convoluted metaphor:This book is like being hit by a pillow shot by artillery at great range. There's a lot of noise on delivery, it takes forever to hit you, and when you do there's a lot of mixed feelings, but mostly just confusion, annoyance, and uncertainty about what exactly the point was.In opposition to what Craig Thompson may or may not be discouraging you from doing (maybe?), I'm going to make a broad stereotype. A person raise [...]
This is a difficult book to rate. If I were rating on the artwork alone, I would give it four or five stars. Thompson's penwork is outstanding. He has grown as an artist over the course of his career, and he started at a pretty decent level too. Gorgeous design work, beautifully composed panels. Not Thompson's, but the hardcover edition is itself beautifully designed and a pleasure to hold.Unfortunately, I don't think the story is quite equal to the art. It's very good, probably better than my t [...]
In an interview Craig Thompson told his audience that artists must become vulnerable if their work is to mean anything. This dark and agonized work has a great deal of nakedness in it, both literally and figuratively, and a lot of staring directly at human experience and trying to make sense of it. It also looks with a colder, more dispassionate and assessing eye at the overlap in the religious teachings of Christianity and Islam.This is Thompson’s fourth published work, and one glance inside [...]
I can’t remember the last time my thoughts were divided so cleanly in half when considering a book I’d read. For every “so,” I had a “but” to countermand it. The synthesis of these opposing opinions, it seems, is a middling rating – but I wouldn’t say that it’s any sort of mediocre book.So. The initial reaction I have, at a gut level (said gut having been conditioned by too much school and cultural theory), is to go running to find Edward Said’s ghost and show him what this g [...]
Liz Janet says:
Triggers in this wonderful book. Habibi means many things in Arabic, a term of endearment to others, but I like to use it to mean “beloved.” And this book is habibi to me. This novel is set in an Islamic state, but not historical, rather current, but more of a mythical place, and it follows Dodola and Zam, child slaves as they escape ad try to find each other once more. It is basically a love story, but with so much more depth, and what humanity causes,suffering, faith, and culture and its d [...]
Licha says:
Wow! I am speechless at the talent Craig Thompson has. One review called this a masterpiece and I have to agree it truly is.There's a lot of nudity and sexual situations, including prostitution, rape, and castration, so this is a warning for people who are not okay with that. There is also what I would consider mental incest between the two main characters.Although of the two, I think I still love Blankets more (although at the time I believe I gave it four stars), Habibi is epic in proportion: [...]
Katiarai says:
I thinkthe review from The Guardian really explains my reaction to this book the best. The artwork is beautiful. But the lack of a specific location and time period really weakens the story and characters allowing neither to fully take off nor grow. So instead as I read I kept waiting to fully understand the scope of all that was happening and the reason it was written/drawn as it was only to find nuggets and glimmers without the satisfaction that existed in Blankets' fully developed concept.Tha [...]
Oriana says:
#20 for Jugs & Capes!Holy balls, this book is so phenomenal. I put it on my CCLaP best-of-2011 list, and here's what I said there:My hopes for this one were pretty low, as I'd found Blankets to be flaccid and hokey and saccharine and generally pretty boring. Habibi, though, is downright spectacular. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, complex and inventive and enthralling. The story is huge and sweeping, a sad tale of two people with insanely awful lives who find each other and save e [...]
David Schaafsma says:
Whereas Blankets is sort of sweet and simple and anguished, a story of a summer love and all its complications, religious and philosophical and aesthetic, Habibi takes place over decades, and deals with the relationship between Christianity and Islam, environmental disaster and yes, love. What this arthritic genius had to do to learn and enact Arabic art and language. to delve into deeper aspects of religion, so impressive. Sometimes I felt he was biting off more than he could chew, as I always [...]
Tatiana says:
Gorgeously drawn, but the story itself is bloated, unfocused and occasionally melodramatic and exploitative.
Alja (alyaofwinterfell) says:
Habibi has 672 pages and yet I've read it in one sitting. Is there really anything more to add?It was poignant, heartbreaking, horrifying and breathtakingly beautiful at the same time.The story isn't linear but it's relatively easy to follow the jumps in narrative and time. Thompson adds a lot of side stories from The Quran, which were interesting and added to the story and to the message it carries. Here religion plays a vital role, but it is shown as the way of healing and hope, rather than in [...]
William Galaini says:
Habibi is perhaps the greatest example of beautifully executed trash. It is the Prometheus of graphic novels. Never have I seen such a detailed and intricately presented comic that appears to have been conceived and written over a matter of ten drunken, ethnocentric minutes. It is a delicious Swedish pastry with crumbly, honey drizzled walnuts on top filled with dog-shit. Blacking out the lines of dialogue in this book would help it IMMENSELY.Why? Well, here's why:First off, the setting is a com [...]
Krista Regester says:
Every inch of this was beautiful - the art was perfect - and each character was imperative to the story. I appreciated all 655 pages!
Negativni says:
Thompson je već s Dekicama pokazao da je odličan pripovjedač, a ovdje je sam sebe nadmašio.Habibi je priča o odrastanju Dodole i Zama koji pokušavaju naći sreću u okrutnom svijetu ropstva, zlostavljanja i eksploatacije. Thompson je priču začinio mistikom i u nju upleo mitove iz Kurana. Uz šaljive opaske istaknuo je i kako se priče o Noinoj arki, Jobovoj sudbini i Abrahamovoj žrtvi vlastitog sina opisane u Kuranu razlikuju od onih u Bibliji.Priča je to i o tome kako je cijena napret [...]
Didi says:
Read this graphic novel in one day - half of it in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. In essence it's a love story of sorts, with a very heavy religious theme which is a little forced into the story. I wasn't convinced of its role. I didn't find it as spectacular as I had heard. The graphic novel is well drawn and it's a beautiful hardcover book, however the story was meh, too repetitive. It has too much rape and poor treatment of women in it for my taste. So if you are sensitive t [...]
Ivana Nešić says:
Prvo sam mislila da ostavim Habibi bez rivjua pošto se u strip ni malo ne razumem, ali sam se onda setila da u šta se pa i razumem, sve su samo lični utisci pa evo.Habibi je jedna od najčudnijih stvari na svetu. Toliko je kompleksan da mi uopšte nije jasno odakle je autor krenuo da bi na kraju završio sa ovako jednim delom:Priča stalno ide napred-nazad kroz vreme, sećanja, priče, snove, mitoveObjedinjuje i miri hrišćanstvo i islam, moderno i tradicionalno, crno i belo - ljubavlju. E s [...]
Sam Quixote says:
Set in a fictional country in what seems to be the Middle East, a 6 year old girl called Dodola is sold by her poverty-stricken parents to a calligrapher to be his wife. The man is brutally murdered and the girl is stolen and sold into slavery. She saves an infant boy from certain death by claiming him as her own and then later escaping with him to live on an abandoned ship in the middle of the desert. She names him Habibi. The two of them manage to survive for a few years by Dodola prostituting [...]
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Letter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
The Guardian, Monday 3 March 2014 21.00 GMT
Anti-Atos protest, Manchester, 19 February 2014. Photograph: Steven Purcell/Demotix/Corbis
We are beginning to see the results of several years of campaigning against unjust welfare reforms that target disabled people. But Atos attempting to pull out of its contract (Report, 22 February) represents only a partial victory.
Other private corporations are already lining up to take over. So long as the work capability assessment (WCA) regime continues, so will the misery it causes to disabled people and their families, and to the workers involved in implementing a system they don’t agree with.
The WCA should be replaced immediately with a rigorous and safe system that does not cause avoidable harm to disabled people or those with chronic health issues or terminal illnesses.
The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government’s pledge* (see footnote ~ BTC) that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.
This area of public policy belongs firmly within the NHS and the public sector.
The PIP contract must be removed from Atos with immediate effect: targets in its handling of the WCA have affected thousands of disabled people, leading to hastened deaths, waits of up to a year, and leaving people without income or food.
Linda Burnip Co-founder, Disabled People Against Cuts
Tracey Lazard CEO, Inclusion London
John McArdle Co-founder, Black Triangle
Mark Serwotka General secretary, PCS Union
Frances O’Grady General secretary, TUC
John McDonnell MP
Len McCluskey General secretary, Unite
Francesca Martinez WOW petition
Pat Onions Pat’s Petition
Rosemary O’Neill CarerWatch
Sean Vernell National secretary, Unite the Resistance
Eileen Short Chair, National Anti Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation
Rev Paul Nicolson Taxpayers Against Poverty
Claire Glasman WinVisible (women with visible & invisible disabilities)
Ariane Sacco WinVisible
Mark Harrison CEO, Equal Lives
Kevin Caulfield Chair, Hammersmith and Fulham Coalition Against Cuts
Rahel Geffen CEO, Disability Action in Islington
Lyla Adwan-Kamara Merton Centre for Independent Living
Shaun O’Regan Southwark Benefit Justice Campaign
Barry McDonald Chair, Bromley Experts by Experience
Ian Hodson National president, Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union
Ronnie Draper General secretary, Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union
Mick Carney National president, Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association
Manuel Cortes General secretary, Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association
Sean McGovern Unite executive councillor
Rob Murthwaite Equalities rep, UCU London region
Mike Cox Norfolk Disabled People Against Cuts
Dr Stephen Carty Medical adviser, Black Triangle Campaign
Debbie Jolly Co-founder, Disabled People Against Cuts
Andy Greene Islington Disabled People Against Cuts
Ellen Clifford Croydon Disabled People Against Cuts
Paula Peters Bromley Disabled People Against Cuts
Conan Doyle London Disabled People Against Cuts
Bob Ellard National steering committee, Disabled People Against Cuts
Anita Bellows National steering committee, Disabled People Against Cuts
Ciara Doyle National steering committee, Disabled People Against Cuts
Roger Lewis National steering committee, Disabled People Against Cuts
Jane Bence WOW petition
Rick Burgess WOW petition
*Scotland’s Future Chapter 4, PART 3 Health, Wellbeing and Social Protection ~ Foot of Page 166~ (Pdf) and Private firms’ role in creation of disability assessment regime The Guardian, Wednesday 12 September 2012
I read with increasing queasiness the story of Mark Wood, an employment and support allowance (ESA) claimant with mental health problems, whose death by starvation was largely attributable to the Atos assessment of his being fit for work and the subsequent stopping of his sickness benefits (Vulnerable man starved to death after cut to benefits, 1 March).
Years after the Holocaust, ordinary German citizens were called upon by the younger generation to justify themselves: Surely you knew what was going on? Why didn’t you put a stop to it?
I hope I may crave an indulgence to use your paper to put on public record that I was one of those opposed to this government’s policy of abscission against the vulnerable.
I submitted to the Harrington reviews on ESA and its assessment processes.
I inveighed against the callous manipulation of public attitudes against claimants by the popular press that has driven many people to turn a blind eye to the real agenda.
And it is in vain that I now look towards other political parties to protect the weak, when they so obviously realise that the propaganda battle has been lost.
The benefits system has failed those that have most needed help for decades, but it has not until now sought to eradicate them entirely.
Simon Wagener
Wallasey, Merseyside
• Your article quotes a DWP spokesman stating:
“A decision on whether someone is well enough to work is taken following a thorough assessment and after consideration of all the supporting medical evidence from the claimant’s GP or medical specialist”.
But the DWP does not itself request medical documentation, and it is up to the ESA claimants to produce it.
Reasons for claimants not doing this include them assuming the DWP has requested medical records, claimants not realising the importance of such records, and disability such as depression or psychosis resulting in default.
Assessors rely on claimants to say what their medical illnesses are, but claimants sometimes give the wrong diagnoses and often don’t understand the complexity of their illnesses.
Although Atos assessors fill in a “medical report form”, Atos nurses and physiotherapists far outnumber medical practitioners. Even when hospital records are obtained, the nurse/physiotherapist may not understand important details eg that an eGFR of 17 means that renal function is severely impaired.
Without medical records, the Atos medical practitioner assessors also make decisions having woefully inadequate information.
On appeal to first-tier tribunals, a significant proportion of sessions are adjourned to get medical evidence covering several years. A “thorough assessment” it is habitually not.
Morris Bernadt
• Following the death of Mark Wood, who starved to death after his benefits were withdrawn, it is surely time for a citizen’s arrest campaign targeting Iain Duncan Smith.
The death of Mr Wood, who was disabled, follows the call for a woman in a coma to attend job training, and cuts to benefits after letters were sent to a blind man that he could not read.
The responsibility for these appalling infringements of basic human rights lies squarely with the minister who designed and implemented the system.
Could legal experts please advise on the case for charging him with manslaughter? I would be happy to place a hand on his shoulder.
Nicola Grove
Horningsham, Wiltshire
• Our twin 41-year-old sons, who have learning difficulties, epilepsy and other problems, have just been informed that they will have to reapply for their welfare benefits through a process conducted on behalf of the coalition government by the French-owned private company Atos.
Dr Giles Youngs, who wrote a letter to the Guardian (19 February) about his recent resignation as a medical assessor for Atos, in which he referred to “unrealistic criteria, set by the DWP, for a claimant being awarded employment and support allowance”, is absolutely right in expressing his concerns that people with disabilities are unlikely to be given even a job interview, never mind a job.
Despite the Disability Discrimination Act, discrimination still continues, eg in February 1999 we arranged for one of our sons to meet the North Wales personnel manager of the Benefits Agency, requesting that he give our son work experience in its Wrexham office.
At the interview the manager said that although they had given work experience to physically disabled people, they had never done so for a person with a learning disability. We heard no more from him.
What confidence, if any, should all disability welfare claimants now have of the work capability assessment in light of Dr Youngs’ revealing and damning indictment of both Atos and the DWP?
Ken and Mary Mack
(72-year-old unpaid carers), Wrexham
The Guardian – 3rd March 2014
SEE ALSO: Private firms’ role in creation of disability assessment regime The Guardian, Wednesday 12 September 2012 21.00 BST
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Stepping Razor March 4, 2014 at 7:18 am
Link to the The Guardian page – could not find it above:-
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/grim-toll-fit-for-work-tests
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jed goodright March 5, 2014 at 12:28 pm
interestingly, the article is on the inside pages if you can find it – with no comments allowed – the guardian is a crap outlet which has done as much as the telegraph to persecute disabled people – the british media is our enemy not our supporter
Humanity2012 March 4, 2014 at 5:01 pm
All Degrading Assessments Need to be Scrapped
When Politicians are Millionaires whilst Claiming Expenses
it is Not too Much For the Poor and Vulnerable to have Some
Money to Live On and some Moral Support
It is a Test of the Decency of Society to Support the Poorest
and Most Vulnerable of Society Instead of being Nazi Boneheads
and Instead of Warmongering in other Parts of the World
Nazi Persecution of the Poor and Vulnerable Needs to be
Remembered
GEOFF REYNOLDS March 4, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Whilst the ATOS medical examination was used to steal your initial benefits, the courts and tribunal service work in tandem to make sure they make it as difficult as possible to overturn the assessments.
They are neither, fair, impartial or independent, just another corrupted tool of the state………….
They deny you the chance to question the accuracy of the examination, skipping onto other issues rather than the claptrap medical opinions of a non recognised, imaginary expert in both physical and mental issues. A charlatan.
The magistrates treat the appellants as though they are something on the sole of a shoe, not a disabled, fighting to reinstate the benefits they have had removed by underhand tactics, theft.
Don’t kid yourselves, the other firms are chomping at the bit to take over ATOS’S dirty work……….
Disability denial is big money to the tentacles of the UNUM Corporation who are controlling prominent government posts thanks to the crooks of the lobbying circles and the members of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, who enabled the groundwork.
The government ranks are totally corrupt with over two hundred members of the Lords having links to health and private health insurance.
Each and every time a government minister takes a vote, your interests come secondary to their greed. The conflicts of interests would be totally staggering if they were ever investigated.
How many more of us, have to die, before the big picture of Eugenic extermination is realised……….
Heads should roll, and inevitably will. Only time will tell.
Meanwhile, it’s same old shit, different uniform………
HIDING MORTALITY FIGURES IS THE ACT OF COWARDICE THAT YOU WOULD COME TO EXPECT OF THE DWP.
NOTHING CAN MASK THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN ILL THOUGHT OUT ATTACK ON THE MOST VULNERABLE.
THE FIGURES ARE SO EMBARRASSING AND SO ARE THE ASSOCIATED STORIES OF THE CRIMES THAT HAVE BEEN UNLEASHED AGAINST PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS.
THEY CARRY THE SHAME, WE HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG WHATSOEVER…………
OUR HANDICAP SEEMS TO UPSET THEM MORE THAN IT DOES US!
“THEY CAN TAKE ALL OF YOUR DISABILITY BENEFITS BUT THEY CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY OUR DISABILITY”
…………WE ARE SPECIAL BUT THEY CANNOT ACCEPT THIS, THEREFORE THEY MEDDLE.
ARE THEY JEALOUS IN SOME, SICK SORT OF WAY?
Ian March 17, 2014 at 5:33 pm
I think you are right Geoff Im sure they get a perverse pleasure everytime one of our appeals fails.Sick,sick country we now live in !
Humanity2012 March 5, 2014 at 11:02 am
The Tawdry Litany of Public Spending Cuts whilst the Public
Sleepwalk in a Trance has Got to Stop
We Need an End to this Mayhem and We Need Social Justice
stitchedupanbroken March 6, 2014 at 3:54 pm
Geoff Reynolds. Respect! You mirror my own thoughts.
IDS will sleep like a top,tho’. Read books on the Nazis? It woz the jews and the undesireables who had the nightmares. The governors slept without pills(read,they have no conscience)
There’s still lottsa milkin’ to be done tho: lottsa jobs and investigations into the ‘alleged wrongs’ done by ATOS and their like. Those jobs are for the legal boys,themselves related to the monsters who want the ill put down. Remember,they’re all in it together!
Luv to Cheltenham xx
PS See how our masters got the slaves to infiltrate the Lawrence family,spy on the protesters at Notts power station. Me suspects they may around here…looking,listening,recording,documenting…and we have the nerve to lecture other countries!!!! Give me a break!!!!!
Anyone seen Bestboy? A documentary film around 1980(?) Very moving. I think o the folk around where I live,those with disabled sons or daughters. When the old folk become disabled and die,what happens to their offspring? The young,now growing old,disabled children…soon to be left to fend for themselves. Some(parents)realizing this top ’emselves…and their kids. Wotashame!! High fives all round for Toff Totty: ‘at last,we’re rid o ’em!’
Surviving mum and das demise,guess mum and dads home can be sold off and said individuals outsourced to private care firms: ready to be plucked dry!! You’d think the new allocated care workers might speak up for abuse against these vulnerable folk. Forgetaboutit!! The chief milkers on 150k salaries may cry their eyes out on tv and preach from the highest pulpits about ‘upholding individuals rights…but their number 1 prority is securing their own salaries and positions. The messenger if s/he brings bad news is shot: investigated for wrongs done,tortured and shot. Key message: if you see wrongs done,look through Nelson’s eye. Or be prepared for your own burial!
I think it was here before that someone said they quite liked Hitler: the guy was at least honest. He didn’t like you,you were going for your final shower! Now we have the crying crocodiles…those crushing onions in their pockets whilst the other hand is behind their back pocketing £££££££££££££££££
More Money For Welfare Spending to Help the Poor and the
Vulnerable and Adequate Public Services Helps to Make the
UK a More Caring Society unlike the Poor and Vulnerable being
Victimised by the Media and Left to Suffer whilst the MPS
Expenses Gravytrain Rolls On
Wow! just finished reading how the armed forces veterans are being stitched up with their applications with regard to injuries received. Nothing new here tho…if you read history.
Those ATOS assessors…how are they sleeping at night.
Lets console ourselves folks: the money that the DWP is saving by those disabled is going to the public schoolboy toffs tuck shop tho. The schoolkids are those of our esteemed leaders…already planning the next war…and looking forward to recruiting the next lot of ‘no-hopers’ who will come back in coffins and wheelchairs. Whatawheeze!!
Tally Ho!
……….imagine a world where the value of your life is measured by the wealth you have.
A world where you must decide whether to feed yourself or keep warm.
A world that continually taunts you for having a physical or mental disability.
A world where having a spare bedroom in your home decides if you are made homeless and destitute.
A world that penalizes you for not having a full time job or no job at all.
A world where the only option to stay alive is to visit a foodbank.
A world where social hatred is beamed across the media networks.
A world where someone behind a desk has the power to remove the money necessary for you to survive.
A world where the monarch supports the downgrading of it’s citizens.
A world where the leaders try to extinguish the dissent of it’s members………………………
……………no need to imagine, this is the reality of the world where i grew up, a world that taught me right from wrong, the distinction of us all being created equal.
A world accelerating backwards at such a pace that all we have achieved, from evolution is being erased before our very eyes.
A world controlled by multinationals who have the minions in their pockets………….
A world fueled by greed, obsessed by greed, riddled by greed.
A sewer contaminated by the vision of the few to the detriment of the many.
A world on the brink of collapse, where money and common sense are at loggerheads.
………..they say good always wins over evil, but the evil we are seeing will be a long time healing.
I would like it if the good and right survived and benefited. Not so! The cunning and the devious,the poisonous and the greedy do. Darwinian rules .Look at the serpents who hold power now. How did they get to the top? Not by helping others, that’s for sure.
Like MLK…I have a dream…a full crowd at Wembley…when the tumbrils come in…with the monsters who are behind all this shivering and shaking and s….ing in their pants. Guillotine ready. Am will to pay £500 a ticket to be at the front with my knitting…as the heads roll.
AL March 8, 2014 at 6:51 pm
That is Yuck! Keep it as your own happy dream. A world that approves killing for sport isn’t one I want to live in. This War on the poor is bad enough, if we too abandon right then we have nothing real to guide us.
stitchedupanbroken March 9, 2014 at 9:14 am
AL: Thus fightin’ the Nazis was wrong? Yuk!
AL March 14, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Stitched…, I meant doing it for sport.
Frankly I may have changed my mind. What the Govt is doing via the DWP, the courts, and private companies like ATOS capita etc is giving a lot of sadistic people a lot of satisfaction. Is there now any point in being honest and decent?
Had a really bad day in their hands and am pretty messed up by it.
World seems insane, I can’t reason with insanity and I am seen as the one who is BAT CRAP CRAZY!
The horror of the paradigm we are living in is truely sickening. No-one should be in any doubt of the damage the benefits system and rules are doing to human beings. And at what cost to the public purse.
Thank goodness the HARD working tax payer has deep pockets. I suspect the kind of help I’m getting to help me get over it doesn’t come cheap.
I keep thinking of all the folks who didn’t get help and became a statistic.
Not ready to laugh about it yet but one day I’m sure I could tell it funny and you would have tears in your eyes as your sides split. Then you maybe would have a funny twinge in your heart as you remembered that the story was true and someone got hurt.
People please be careful out there. None of us are safe.
Humanity2012 March 10, 2014 at 10:40 am
This Country Need’s to be a Land of Social Justice and
Compassion Not a ConDemnable Nazi Hellhole
Hands Off the Poor
People Need to be Out Demonstrating En Masse in Support of
Welfare Benefits and the Protection of the Poor and Vulnerable
Boycott the Media ” Newspaper ” Hate Rags with their Victimisation of the Poor and Vulnerable Pandering to
Ignorant Boneheads
Benefits that Recognise Disability Emotional Mental Physical
More Important than Soap Opera Idiot Rubbish on TV Oblivion
Annos March 11, 2014 at 1:48 pm
“Two thirds turned down for new disability benefit”
http://www.localgov.co.uk/Two-thirds-turned-down-for-new-disability-benefit/35597
Humanity2012 March 11, 2014 at 4:58 pm
People being like Zombies is Not the Answer
Wake Up Britain and Demand Social Justice
The Masses at Large have to Stop being in a Daydream Fiddling About and being Oblivious and Stand Up For the Underdog
Namely Welfare Benefits and Moral Support is what the Poor
and Vulnerable Not Neo Nazi Victimisation and Media Demonisation
Welfare State Not Oppression State
“List of countries by life expectancy. I am surprised to find that the USA is now only in 35th place and the UK in 29th place. It is just another example of the great inequality that takes place in the two countries.”
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=90d50a111301ab517506858985589cbb&showtopic=21084&hl=
The Gulf between Rich and Poor is Diabolical and show’s the
Need For Constitutional Protection for Welfare Benefits and
For the UnderDog to have a Voice
Political Revolution
GEOFF REYNOLDS March 14, 2014 at 10:24 pm
From: Georgina Smith
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Can you tell me the number of allegedly sick and disabled ESA
claimants who, after having been found fit for work via a HCPs
report made after a WCA, were subsequently prosecuted by the DWP
for making a fraudulent claim?
Rather than go back indefinitely, could you provide the figures for
the period 2012 to 2013? To make it easier and less costly for you,
please feel free to use figures from a set period you already use –
for example, if you normally would keep figures from April to April
based on the tax year. Likewise, if Scotland and/or Wales fall
outside data collection and retention for the purpose of this
query, I would still like the information for England – although
the whole of the UK would be preferable, if you have that
Furthermore, if there were few or no prosecutions of said
claimants, could you explain why this is? I ask because when I
completed an ESA50 I was warned:
“I understand that if I knowingly give information that is
incorrect or incomplete, I may be liable to prosecution or other
I had to sign the document to declare that the information I
provided was true – like an affidavit. It was my sworn testimony,
if you like.
I provided information that, on face value and in line with the
DWP’s regulations, would have placed me in the WRAG (or Support
Group if my GP’s information had been taken into account), yet I
was found fit for work. And this happens to thousands of people
every year. So, as far as the DWP are concerned, I, and thousands
of other claimants, must have given incorrect or incomplete
I know I wasn’t prosecuted, but I would like to know how many other
people have been prosecuted under these circumstances?
Georgina Smith
Link to this
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/number_of_esa_claimants_prosecut#incoming-492925
GEOFF REYNOLDS March 15, 2014 at 2:05 pm
MY MESSAGE TO ALL THE READERS IS KEEP SMILING………..
DON’T LET THIS CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AND IT’S BULLY BOYS, THE DWP, BRING YOU DOWN.
NOT FOR ONE MOMENT DID THEY EXPECT THE FIGHT THAT YOU, THE DISABLED, ARE PUTTING UP.
BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU ARE AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH.
THE DWP ARE SHITTING THEMSELVES, THEY KNOW THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS AND WHEN THE WRITS START FLYING, WATCH THEM COWER………………
WE ALL KNOW THAT USING NON PROFESSIONAL, NON QUALIFIED PERSONNEL TO STEAL YOUR BENEFITS IS NOT LAWFUL.
THEY ALSO KNOW THIS AND ARE TRYING TO FIND A WAY OUT OF THE MESS THEY CREATED.
HOW CAN A NON MEDICALLY TRAINED DWP DECISION MAKER, MAKE A DECISION ABOUT YOUR CAPABILITY TO WORK?
THIS IS ALSO UNLAWFUL!
YOU MIGHT BE DOWN AND OUT AT THE MOMENT BUT JUST WAIT TILL THE BACKLOG OF THE MONEY THEY STOLE HAS TO BE REIMBURSED.
IT WILL HAPPEN AS THE PRESSURE MOUNTS FROM ALL THE AGGRIEVED PARTIES STARTS TO POUR DOWN ON THEM.
UNUM HAD TEN CANS OF SHIT KNOCKED OUT OF THEM IN THE STATES, THE SAME WILL HAPPEN HERE………
THINK POSITIVE, YOU HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL, WRONG.
THE DWP AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM ARE THE AGGRESSORS, THE BULLIES, CORRUPT AT EVERY LEVEL!
I KNOW THAT AND YOU KNOW THAT AND SO DO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONERS……………..
ETHNIC CLEANSING, EUGENICS, NAZI IDEOLOGY, CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL, HAS BEEN PERPETRATED AGAINST US…..
THE TRUTH HAS A WAY OF SLOWLY UNFOLDING BEFORE OUR VERY EYES.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS ARE HIDDEN FROM THE EYES OF THE POPULUS. IT’S NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH CORPORATE CONFIDENTIALITY AS THEY WOULD MAKE YOU BELIEVE, IT’S ALL ABOUT HIDING CORRUPT PRACTICES AND THE PUPPETEERS OF THE MULTINATIONALS WHO PULL THE STRINGS, THE LOBBYING CIRCLES……………
THE LIKES OF SMITH AND MCVEY WILL DISAPPEAR INTO HISTORY AS THE BASTARDS WHO ROBBED THE WEAKEST WHILE THE RICH PROSPERED.
YOUR BENEFITS HAVE BEEN SQUANDERED ON THE IDEOLOGY OF A CLOWN. COUNTLESS MILLIONS HAVE BEEN TIPPED DOWN THE DRAINS AS YOU STARVE AND THE KNIFE OF AUSTERITY TAKES AWAY YOUR SOUL…………..
“THESE BASTARDS WILL PAY, IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME”
David Moynagh March 15, 2014 at 8:06 pm
The number of sick and disabled people driven to utter despair and suicide by Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith does warrant investigation for crimes against humanity. If like me, you wish to see justice, then please write to The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at… CRPD Secretariat, UNOG-OHCHR,CH-1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland. You will be helping to stop some poor soul being driven to suicide. It MUST stop.
jed goodright March 16, 2014 at 11:01 am
done it – several times – guess what – not even an acknowledgement
Stepping Razor March 16, 2014 at 10:52 am
DWP on verge of meltdown over big welfare projects – Margaret Hodge: Friday 14th March 2014 – The Guardian: –
Department for Work and Pensions has particular problem with private firms says damning report on government contracts
Iain Duncan Smith’s Department for Work and Pensions is facing “meltdown” over three of its biggest projects, Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Commons public spending watchdog, has said.
Ahead of a damning report on government contracts with private firms, Hodge singled out the DWP as a department particularly struggling with the delivery of welfare changes, which involve managing a relationship with private IT contractors, back-to-work providers and benefit assessors.
The public accounts committee report turns up the pressure on ministers to allow all government contracts to be subject to freedom of information (FOI) laws and examined by the National Audit Office (NAO).
Given that half of all spending on public services now ends up in the hands of private providers, departments must stop hiding behind “commercial confidentiality” when people want to know more about how these contracts work, it said.
The committee said two examples of contracts that the public deserved to know more about were the scandal of G4S and Serco charging for the electronic tagging of offenders who were in prison or dead, and the “complete hash” that G4S made of supplying security guards for the Olympics.
Following a stretch of negative publicity, the major outsourcing companies – G4S, Serco, Atos and Capita – are now willing to be subject to FOI laws when it comes to public sector contracts, but the government is still resisting, it said.
Time and again when we see failures … it’s a failure of government to manage contracts,” Hodge said, adding that departments “simply have to up their game and get a grip”.
The committee said the DWP is particularly bad when it comes to private firms’ involvement in public services, including Universal Credit, its new IT system that will deliver an overhaul of benefits, the Work Programme, its back-to-work scheme, and the personal independence payment (PIP), the replacement for disability living allowance.
“All their programmes are on the verge of meltdown,” she said at a briefing to launch the report.
On Monday, a leaked internal review from the DWP said the government’s ambitious welfare strategy is at risk because of the speed and depth of the cuts imposed on the department, while a recent NAO report said the new PIP payment will cost almost three and a half times more to administer than the existing scheme.
Hodge said it was deeply ironic that if the DWP had been more open about the Universal Credit scheme – which she said was a “good policy” – there would have been a far better chance of the programme being implemented. Instead, she said, it was being “appallingly handled”.
A spokesman for DWP said the department has a “track record of delivery”. “We’ve already successfully launched the benefit cap, Universal Credit and the new personal independence payment. The industry tells us that the work programme has got almost 500,000 of the hardest to help into jobs. We are bringing in our reforms safely and responsibly,” he said.
John Cridland, director-general of the CBI, a business lobby group, said the report notes that the the private sector “plays an increasingly important role in running public services”.
“The public has a right to know how its money is being spent and the industry has pledged to meet a higher bar on transparency,” he said. “Businesses running public services agree that open-book contracting should become the norm. The National Audit Office should also be able to audit government contracts as long as this is done in a systematic way with the triggers for inspection, like missed performance targets, agreed from the outset.
“Rather than relying on individual Freedom of Information requests, we think FOI should be built into contracts when they are agreed.
The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/14/dwp-meltdown-welfare-projects-margaret-hodge
“while a recent NAO report said the new PIP payment will cost almost three and a half times more to administer than the existing scheme.”
MELTDOWN !!
There is no Data Protection Officer at the DWP any more. The DWP have brought in a private sub contractor to hold the DWP data.
Admin errors – Admin appeals !!
AL March 16, 2014 at 11:33 pm
Think it’s time to name and shame. Those responsible for assessing and deciding sick people are fit to work need to be named for the deaths they are resonsible for. Do those grieving families have the stomach to do this? If people knew the result of their work perhaps they might feel sorry and quit. If people published the names who knows how much blood will be on some peoples hands? I have been treated without a shred of care and compassion, I don’t want to hurt anyone but I can’t continue seeing the destruction of vulnerable people lives by those who for money are too ignorant and callous to care.
Wake Up Britain and Stop the Sleepwalk
Constitutional Protection For Welfare Benefits and an End
to Domination of Politics by Rich Peoples Supremacist Parties
No to Nazi Forced Labour Yes to Social Justice in a Caring
Socialist State
Protests Demonstrations Lobbying For Social Justice are Needed
Challenging of Media Demonisation of the Poor and Vulnerable
ie Boycotting ” Newspapers ” and Responding to Claims about
the Poor being ” Scroungers ” and Yet Not Rich MPS
Not a Nation Fiddling About but Standing Up for Social Justice
to Help and Protect the Poor and Vulnerable
A Caring Socialist State Not a Crazy Slavery State
Those no affected too busy to care, those who are too worn down and poorly. Need a plan pronto.
stitchedupanbroken March 20, 2014 at 9:13 am
Visit countries as diverse as the USA and Pakistan and you get a picture of how it is going to be here soon. USA: the broken and unlucky,the vulnerable and the not-s-quick…out on the road with their possessions in shopping trolleys,and the trailer-trash mocked on shows like Jerry Springer. Now Pakistan: the country overloaded with nuclear weapons,high army generals and aircraft carriers…whilst the people are living in mud huts. We have a long way and much more suffering to go,yet. It is really surprising how much people will take(and put up with)before some ‘revolution’ takes place. I think back to the Shah…and when the British army and the British government were supporting this man…with his ‘electrical beds’…thousands had to die before the people got rid of him. The BBC hated the theocracy that took over,but the mullahs invited the people into his gold filled palaces to look at the tens of thousands of shoes and wotnot his wife and family had filched from the people and said…you want this(meaning graft,corruption,filth),or would you rather have us! We might not think it a very good choice,but I’d go for the mullahs.
We have a gold-plated elite whose aim(whether calculated or no)are self selecting. Incompetent or not they are determined to keep their place at the front of the hog-trough. You may not think they are evil,but they are evil. I dare say no one reading this would want to kill another…but there are people who will do just that,and some who would enjoy doing that,or do it get want they want,or keep what they have. These people sit on the front benches in parliament: they are both masters and puppets of others who want more power and $$$$$$. These people aren’t nice people. Also,they don’t leave the table when you ask them to go. They will use everything they can to stay at that table: deception,fraud,torture…the lot.
Luvin’ you spymasters!!
“Shadow Warfare: The History of America’s Undeclared Wars”
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Featured_Shadow_Warfare_Coming
Annos March 20, 2014 at 9:30 am
stitchedupanbroken,
Excellent post, excellent.
http://cryptome.org/cia-iran-all.htm
Annos March 20, 2014 at 12:45 pm
“The Tories have learnt the lesson of Thatcher, that if you keep 42% of the English happy and feeling economically secure, and advantaged over the rest, then you can stay in power through the first past the post system.”
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/03/six-more-years-of-tory-rule/
WHOEVER PICKS UP THE MANTLE OF FALSIFYING CLAIMANTS MEDICAL REPORTS, NEEDS TO HAVE THE BACKING OF THE BEST JUDICIAL BRAINS IN THE BUSINESS………………
AND IN REALITY, THEY HAVE!
OUR COURTS, OUR MAGISTRATES, OUR JUDGES ARE CORRUPT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, REFLECTING THE VALUES OF THEIR PAYMASTERS, THE GOVERNMENT, AT EVERY TURN.
IT IS NOTHING NEW, MONEY AND PRIVILEGE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STEPPING STONE TO JUSTICE.
YOU ARE NOT, AT ANY STAGE, BEING GIVEN A FAIR CRACK OF THE WHIP…………………
FOUND GUILTY BY DEFAULT ON THE INSTRUCTION OF CORRUPT PARLIAMENTARIANS ACTING OUT A FANTASY OF THE PRIVATE HEALTH INDUSTRY WHO LOBBY AND PULL THE STRINGS BEHIND THE SCENES.
NONE OF US ARE SO NAIVE TO THINK WE HAVE BEEN CURED OF OUR DISABILITIES OVERNIGHT, OUR BENEFITS HAVE BEEN STOLEN.
THE DRAMATIC CHANGES TO OUR LIVES SINCE OUR LIFELINES WERE STOLEN, CANNOT BE PUT INTO WORDS. IT IS A NIGHTMARE OF PROPORTIONS UNKNOWN TO THOSE WHO ARE ABLE BODIED.
HAVING A DISABILITY, HOWEVER CAUSED, IS A BURDEN THAT WE HAVE HAD TO CARRY.
BE IT MENTAL OR PHYSICAL, THE BURDEN IS NOT SHARED BY THOSE NOT HAVING IT, HENCE THEIR RELUCTANCE TO HELP OR SPEAK OUT……..
DIVIDE AND RULE IS NOTHING NEW, YET THE COLLUSION OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS IS!
EVEN OUR OWN DOCTORS HAVE BEEN BLACKMAILED INTO A CONSPIRACY TO RENDER OUR LIVES WORTHLESS. THEY SIT BACK AND SAY NOTHING AND DO NOTHING.
SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO UPHOLD THE VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH HAVE BECOME SECONDARY TO THE FEAR OF THEIR OWN POSITIONS.
YOU, THE DISABLED, ARE A PRICE WORTH PAYING……………
THEIR SILENCE STILL SHOCKS ME.
ANIMALS ARE TREATED BETTER THAN HUMANS. HURT AN ANIMAL AND THE STATE INTERVENES. HURT AN ALREADY DISADVANTAGED HUMAN BEING AND THE STATE SUPPORTS THE ACTION USING EVERY POWER POSSIBLE.
ATOS HAVE NEVER BEEN THE CAUSE OF ALL THE SUICIDES, JUST A MANUFACTURED SCAPEGOAT OF THE REAL KILLERS, THE DWP……….
MORTALITY RATES ARE CAREFULLY HIDDEN BY THESE OBSCENE MURDERERS IN THE HOPE THEY CAN CARRY ON THE BIGGEST EUGENICS CULL ON BRITISH SOIL.
FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES IT IS WORKING, BUT HOW LONG CAN THE DECEIT GO ON?
HOW LONG CAN THE GOVERNMENTS BLOOD COVERED HANDS BE KEPT FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONERS?
……….AT EACH AND EVERY LEVEL, MONEY IS CHANGING HANDS IN ORDER TO BRIBE PROMINENT PEOPLE TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY. THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY HAS THE WEALTH TO PROMOTE THESE ACTIONS, CORRUPT AT EVERY TURN………
LEGALISED STATE MURDER WITH THE BACKING OF THE MONARCHY, FALSIFIED MEDICAL REPORTS WRITTEN BY CHARLATANS, JUDGES PERVERTING JUSTICE………….
IS THIS THE ACTION OF A DEMOCRACY OR THE LUNACY OF A FEW CHASING WEALTH?
WHOEVER PICKS UP FROM ATOS WILL CARRY THE HALLMARKS OF THEIR PREDECESSOR,
………”THE UK GOVERNMENTS HAND PICKED ANNIHILATION OF THE DISABLED ASSESSORS”
DO YOUR DIRTY WORK AND PICK UP THE WAGES OF EVIL, FOR YOU ARE NOTHING BUT SCUM!
“In the matter of the investigation into the employment of Betsy Duncan Smith”
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmstnprv/476/476we17.htm
“FOUR PEOPLE A DAY ARE DYING WITHIN SIX WEEKS OF BEING DECLARED FIT FOR WORK”
THOUSANDS of sick benefit claimants are dying within six weeks of being wrongly assessed as “fit to work”, a North-East MP claimed yesterday.
Ian Mearns, the Gateshead MP, blamed the Government for the misdiagnosis at least 10,600 sick and disabled people in just ten months, who then quickly died.
It is the fiercest criticism yet of the controversial tests being carried out on incapacity benefits by French firm Atos, for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
During a Commons debate, the Labour MP said: “Four people a day are dying within six weeks of being declared fit for work under the work capability assessments. It is scandalous.
“I’m told there was a story doing the rounds, that when the bones of Richard III were discovered in Leicester, that Atos carried out an assessment and judged him fit for work.
“It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. It’s a sad truth faced by 12,000 plus families, who every year have to face their own personal tragedy of this nature.”
Mr Mearns said the figure of 10,600 deaths, after unsuccessful claims for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), covered the period January to November 2011.
And he added: “This Government has repeatedly refused to release updated 2013 figures for deaths within six weeks of an end of an ESA claim.”
The comments came during a debate in which calls were made for an independent assessment of the impact of the Coalition’s controversial welfare changes.
A petition started by comedian Francesca Martinez, who has cerebral palsy, attracted 104,741 signatures, sufficient to trigger a Commons discussion.
It was co-sponsored by Grahame Morris, the Easington MP, who accused David Cameron of breaking his pledge to make cuts “fairly”.
jed goodright March 25, 2014 at 6:29 pm
1. The government have claimed these ‘requests’ as scaremongering and hide behind this
2. FOi’s have been deemed ‘abusive’ by the powers that be and will not be investigated because they are not in the ‘public interest’
3. the Tories and Labour are not interested in the well being of disabled people, merely in saving money off their backs. Today in parliament Rachel Reeves and Labour were shown up for the fools they are regarding the Benefit Cap
4. There will be no impact assessment
It’s time for people to get real. This tyranny will not end at the next election
But still try these methods anyway,if a petition can get up their noses then start one!FOI request,then make it!they cant be allowed an easy ride.
FOI = Foul On Insiders !! Forget poll a tricks, they only play snakes & ladders.
You can appeal at any time about anything. = Nothing moves forward having 8 appeals on the go at the same time. Shame about the DWP admin skills full of mistakes. Another admin appeal.
FOI – How many admin appeals are live at the moment ?
What medical !! Too caught up with admin appeals – Every things stalled before the sanctions have started.
You have to keep up with the new rules every month or two – New rules, new goal posts. It would be better changing the rules every 3 days really !!
So who does the 1 year appeal time help !! Turn the unfair system on it`s head !!
GEOFF REYNOLDS March 26, 2014 at 9:10 am
“239 POOR SOULS LOST IN AN AIRCRAFT DISASTER THAT HAS FEATURED ON EVERY MEDIA PLATFORM ACROSS THE GLOBE”
……………and yet the murderers at the DWP and ATOS, who have jointly, caused the deaths of countless thousands, go virtually unnoticed as they withhold the mortality statistics of their sick, twisted assault on the most vulnerable………
disabled-dave March 26, 2014 at 6:57 pm
My submission to the Government’s committee of enquiry into the effects fo the changes to ESA and WCA has been accepted and will be read by all members.
My submission was headed “Suicide or starvation, the horrific choice faced by the disabled in Britain today.” And gave details of some of the most horrific cases of Atos assessments.
Unfortunately a word limit prevented me from listing all of the cases of which I am aware.
My recommendations were:
1. End this inhuman system before there are any more unnecessary deaths.
2. Charge those responsible with crimes against humanity.
I hope that I get called before the committee to give evidence in person and that Idiot Dunked in Shit will be there so I can have a go at him.
Our voice will be heard.
i actually think it won’t be heard as submissions from disabled people will only be taken as ‘background’ – ask the wonderful chair of the DWP Select Committe Anne Begg why?
I figured they wouldn’t listen to ordinary individuals so I submitted my report as “a disabled freelance investigative writer” reporting on the results of my investigations over a number of years. For obvious reasons the Government tries to avoid upsetting investigative journalists, particularly ones with loads of evidence…
Stepping Razor March 26, 2014 at 10:15 pm
It all works perfectly at the DWP !! DWP letters with phone numbers that don`t work, given another number [secret service]
that is like an automated switchboard. Press 1 for … press 2 for …. & so on. After hearing all of these, which had no bearing to me I just pressed any of the numbers. What ever number you press you get through to the same gamble line [lucky dip] for what DWP office you will get. Main General Information. There is no manager of that office that you can talk to. Forms are like gold dust, apply within to get a form.
It is not confusing when you keep up with the rules the DWP keep changing every 2 months. What is confusing is when different DWP departments are contradicting themselves about sanctions. It may seem confusing to the DWP but not to me.
All DWP Data is with a Private Company sub contracted by the DWP. The DWP can not confirm medical data I have submitted over 20 years ago without giving the DWP permission to free these data files from the Private Company. When pressed further, the DWP says they doubt any data files exsist because they tend to not keep medical data for more than 18 months if lucky. So I say – What use is it giving any medical data [evident] if the DWP only keeps it for 6 months is the norm !! Answer – silence of confusion !! Hope that helps you tape recording the phone conversation !!
Why wait to appeal on the WCA !! Get the appeals in early before the WCA. The DWP admin skills are very appeal like. Oh dear if I appeal it could take one year & you are stuck on what money you are getting at that time of starting an appeal. What about having 8 admin appeals going at the same time. There is nothing stopping me appealing about any thing at any time. Because the DWP rules prevent the DWP from getting appeals done quicker maybe the DWP can fast track my 8 admin appeals through !!
1 appeal one year – 8 appeals 8 years !! So that should keep the DWP busy until 2022 !! [that`s 2 elections time]!! I can put another admin appeal in if you want DWP, but haven`t you still to sort out the ones already started. The DWP find the DWP rules work against them !!
The DWP may stop WCA appeals but the DWP can`t stop admin appeals !!
In an effort to illustrate the levels of complicity, collusion and corruption within our government departments, you have to look no further than the frenzied cull of the disabled in the UK today……………
This mornings news announced that a man, a single entity, had been arrested in Salford Manchester, on the suspicion of causing deaths and falsifying documents at Stepping Hill Hospital.
One person has warranted an investigation into 3 deaths, yet DWP and the assassins they chose to do their dirty work, ATOS,walk away unscathed…………….
Between them they have overseen the murders of countless, thousands of innocent people they perceived as a burden on the states purse.
Not just any person at random, just the weakest, those most unlikely to fight back.
Those who already had the burden of having a physical or mental ailment, namely the disabled.
The state has all the evidence it needs to bring these natural born killers to justice, but so vast is the iron cordon of complicity, they seek to protect each other at every turn………………
It has been recently reported that police have been actively shredding evidence that implicates them in years of corruption within the force. How becoming of them to seek to hide the evidence midway into an investigation.
Ask yourselves, what is the difference between shredding evidence and withholding mortality statistics on those that have died due to welfare reforms?
Suppression of evidence is a crime whichever way you look at it!
We don’t need evidence to put ATOS, the COURTS SERVICE and the instigators, the DWP, in the dock.
The evidence is listed amongst the coroners reports of those that succumbed to suicide or died within a short time frame of being found fit for work by unqualified charlatans masquerading as fully qualified health care professionals….
Health Care Professional is an oxymoron in itself, they neither care or are professional and are not interested in your health, one iota…………………
So the DWP are bent, as are the Police, the Courts and our MP’s and heads of government departments………
You are governed by the most corrupt people in the world who have no thoughts for the people they are supposed to represent, secondary to the needs of the corporate multinationals who freely bestow them with gifts and promises, hidden from prying eyes.
………….A HUGE SEPTIC TANK THAT FEEDS FROM WESTMINSTER DOWNWARDS…….
Who will be the new villain, killing the disabled as it feeds it’s greed from the souls of the departed?
Money has no bounds when it comes to compassion, greed tramples everything in it’s path, a blind, one eyed carnivore that takes from the many to the pockets of the few………………
THE KILLING WILL CONTINUE, ALBEIT IN A DIFFERENT NAME AND A DIFFERENT UNIFORM………….
Nick Dilworth Mylegalforum March 29, 2014 at 10:43 pm
The appalling injustice which surrounds the Work Capability Assessment has been allowed to continue for far too long. I have consistently pointed out error after error in the way the DWP have wilfully misreported their supporting statistics to convey to the public a false sense of confidence that their work is justified by results.
In my ‘day job’, I see day in, day out, the damage this inhumane treatment of claimants causes. Yes, it’s true injustices can be rectified if a claimant has the energy to seek justice. Sadly the withdrawal of legal aid had made it nigh on impossible to access the right degree of help required to navigate the complex appeals process. However, as in the case of the late Mark Woods, righting a wrong comes too late. That Mr Woods’s erroneous decision has now been rectified will come as little consolation to his grieving family. The Prime Minister has, in the case of Mr Woods conveyed words of apology, they are hollow words, they are also the usual shifting of blame.
Tragedies such as those of Mr Woods are an everyday occurrence, the media should apologise for failing to report this national scandal with the same vigour that they do when it comes to alleged NHS failure. Atos should apologise and pay the family substantial damages as should the DWP who are those really at fault for the disgusting way they have inflicted this atrocity upon the vulnerable and those unable to fight the system.
Perhaps those, who have turned a blind eye, should also apologise to the families who have suffered grief and sorrow, perhaps they should question why they allowed themselves to be taken in by a Government which has chosen to pick upon the poor, rather than be brave enough to challenge those who have really corrupted this ailing society we live in?
GEOFF REYNOLDS April 7, 2014 at 11:48 pm
Atos to lose monopoly after ‘flawed and unacceptable’ disability benefit assessments
More than 40 per cent of the reports carried out on disability benefit claimants by the back-to-work assessor Atos are flawed and unacceptable, according to an audit commissioned by the Government.
Following months of complaints about allegedly unfair and slapdash decisions made by Atos, the Department for Work and Pensions audited around 400 of the company’s written reports into disability claimants, grading them A to C. Of these, 41 per cent came back with a C, meaning they were unacceptable and did not meet the required standard.
The lowest grade does not necessarily mean the decision was wrong, but that a serious error or omission occurred, such as no evidence to justify the recommendations, or inconsistencies in the evidence provided.
The findings mean the company will be stripped of its monopoly on deciding whether people with disabilities are fit to work. The DWP said the poor quality of the company’s written reports were “contractually unacceptable” and announced on Monday it would be inviting other companies to bid for fresh regional contracts by summer 2014 to help reduce waiting times. Liam Byrne, the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: “This is a direct consequence of three years of appalling contract management by Iain Duncan Smith.”
“THE STAGGERING MORTALITY RATES HAVE FORCED A U TURN, IT SEEMS, BUT DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH”
By Dailyrecord.co.uk
UNPOPULAR face-to-face interviews are to be axed as part of a Government shake-up of their Work Capability Assessment following recommendations set out by a chief medical officer recruited to review WCA testing.
Dr. Paul Litchfield has branded the face-to-face interviews a waste of time
DEMEANING interviews designed to force sick and disabled people back to work are set to be scrapped after experts branded them a waste of time.
The unpopular face-to-face interviews will be sidelined in a shake-up of the Government’s controversial work capability assessment.
The move aims to streamline the application process, address a huge backlog of claims, reduce the number of appeals and cut taxpayers’ costs.
If the plan goes ahead, the system would mean less input from companies such as Atos, who last month pulled out of a £500million contract to carry out WCA tests. The new system would give a bigger role to civil servants who will gather written evidence from applicants and their doctors.
The plan follows recommendations made by Dr Paul Litchfield, chief medical officer at BT, who was asked by the Government to review the WCA process.
In his 100-page report, he blamed the face-to-face tests for delays in processing claims. The Department for Work and Pensions, said: “Expediting the process will reduce the uncertainty faced by claimants, improve outcomes for those not eligible for employment and support allowance and reduce the consequent burden on taxpayers.”
Four out of five applicants currently have to attend interviews in which they are asked intimate details in order to assess if they are fit to work.
Labour MP Tom Greatrex, a fierce critic of Atos, said he still has reservations about any new scheme.
He added: “The WCA process hasn’t worked for years and the Government have failed to address it.
“The experience is demeaning, causes anxiety and 40 per cent of the tests are overturned on appeal which demonstrates it’s not fair or accurate.”
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Cyprin,
Color: Gunmetal Blue, Black Ombre
Genetic Abilities: Animation
breed: Mustang Hybrid
age: <1 year
genetic traits: Animation
played by: Aeris
04-24-2019, 09:41 PM (This post was last modified: 04-24-2019, 09:41 PM by Cyprin.)
An old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind
”You aren’t like the boys,” Nayl murmurs to her daughter as she tousles her forelock. Cyprin merely stares out from their mountainside cave, her eyes roving across the open expanse of Loess. From afar, she has watched father and her brothers take flight, their bodies seamlessly shifting between horse and dragon. ”No,” she murmurs, torn between jealousy and pride. Their blood is of dragon, and yet she has no wings, no fire.
Eyes, mother once said. Cyprin’s eyes administer enough a reminder of the lineage thrumming in her veins.
They dart from the distant cacti to instead regard Nayl in a moment’s silence. Mother doesn’t stand out like them – like the boys – but there is an air about her, a quiet strength. ”I’m like you,” she whispers with a soft grin peeling back her lips. Mother nods, her expression melting in fondness before ushering a nod. ”Yes, now go explore.” It would be easier to seclude the child and tuck her into the cave until adulthood, but she no longer has enemies to fear; her children are free to roam.
Cyprin offers an agreeable nod before turning away and clambering down the mountainside. Figments of her power reach out like tendrils, but they are weak, unpracticed. Unknowingly, she gives life to surrounding pebbles, but they only tumble as though knocked by her own feet. Paying them no mind, Cyprin descends until the sparse grass takes place of gravel and rock. A final glance searches the lip of the cave above her, but then she moves farther away with curious eyes darting back and forth. Her siblings are elsewhere, practicing and flirting with gravity, while she remains grounded and alone.
Cyprin
lior and nayl
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Okay, so meeting his dad for the first time hadn’t gone over too well, butt Mer isn’t completely turned off of Loess yet. Ophanim’s wife hadn’t seemed all too excited about his existence, but the troubles slip the young boy’s mind as he parts from them, and by the next day her anger is all but forgotten. He is not excited to cross paths with her again, but so far, he has not come across the pretty, angry star-mare again. There are a lot of horses here to get lost in, and that’s what he’s been doing for the past few days – just observing everyone.
His sharp eyes fall upon a girl a few hundred yards away, his reptilian eyes tracing curiously over her coat that is so dark blue it is almost black. He watches as she traces her way down the mountainside, pebbles that are nowhere near her hooves tumbling down with her. She is pretty – so much prettier than father’s star-wife – and he smiles as she reaches solid ground and begins to explore. A new friend? Why not?
At least he won’t be completely alone here if he makes a friend or two.
He whinnies as he approaches her at a confident trot, his gold-and-white head lifted high as his clawed feet tear up the ground beneath his hooves. “Hi!” he exclaims as he gets within earshot, grinning broadly. She may be jealous of her brothers, and unable to fly, but the young dragon-child is also flightless, so maybe he can help her feel not so alone, too.
“I’m Meraxes, what’s your name?” he asks her as he stops, his stubby tail flicking back and forth. He wants to show her the cool trick he had shown his father, but he’s not sure how well she’ll take it, so he resists. Perhaps showing off to a pretty girl by trying to slice a limb off isn’t such a good idea.
bite my glass, set myself on fire; can't you tell i'm crass?
All Cyprin has known thus far is the dragon’s den – her family. Outsiders never scale the mountain or disturb the monsters lying within the gaping cavern. Castile is certain to maintain seclusion and privacy for his family by steering meetings far from the eastern border. While it provided comfort, it has in turn borne an uncertainty within the girl when faced with new faces.
Her heart leaps when the molten boy closes the distance between them, blurring the lines of stranger and acquaintance. Instinctively, Cyprin glances over her shoulder toward the rocky trail that leads to the nest. Her slit pupils contract as the sun dances across her during the seconds of contemplation before a steadying breath is drawn to face him courageously. ”Hello,” she says, her voice airy and light as an innocent smile wrinkles the edges of her mouth. Truthfully, she wants to be as exuberant as him, but her ignorance and reclusive history betray her. Unfortunately, she isn’t as bold as her niece and siblings.
Perhaps one day.
Meraxes, he offers in the kindest of tones that is matched by a softened expression. Curiosity lures her a step closer as she notices his own reptilian eyes. Her own flash to a vibrant lavender as she breathes him in for the first time. ”Meraxes,” she repeats with a broadening grin before her eyes simmer to an attractive shade of teal, ”I’m Cyprin.” Everyone has simply known her name since the first time mother uttered it, and so it is strange to say it with her own tongue. He, Meraxes, is obviously doesn’t belong to their brood and yet his reptilian discrepancies say otherwise. She says nothing of it, not yet. Instead, she simply asks, ”Do you live here, too?”
@[Meraxes]
Despite having dragon’s blood himself, he can’t say that he’s ever wondered what it would be like to take to the skies. He is more reptilian than draconic, he thinks, with his slitted pupils and the fact that he’s bound to the ground. The talons on his feet and the firebreathing tell him otherwise, and the fact that his father is very much draconic, but he almost thinks of himself more like one of the many snakes he has seen about Loess than the dragons that take to the skies, like Castile and Ophanim and so many others.
He has also never dreamt of a day where he would be shy, or even uncertain around new faces. He’s never had to be careful so far in his life, so why should he start now? He can see the uneasiness on her face so so he doesn’t step to close, but grins as her eyes shift color and she repeats his name before offering her own. “You have a pretty name!” he tells her, for lack of anything else to say, then ducks his head briefly in embarrassment before flinging it upwards, practically prancing in place.
She asks if he lives here and Mer nods exuberantly, his own icy blue eyes twinkling. “I do,” he explains with a smile. “My dad, Ophanim, lives here, so I came to live with him, too! Starsin isn’t too happy about it, but she’s funny anyways.” He doesn’t take the time to explain the mechanics of it – he was born of a one-night stand with the golden angel boy, not out of love like she probably was. He doesn’t know how naïve to the world she is, but he doesn’t want to ruin it if she truly doesn’t realize.
Taking a step back, he glances around to the whole of Loess surrounding them. “Do you wanna go play?” he asks her, eyes gleaming. Please say yes.
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Comesa explores ways to reshape policy
STAKEHOLDERS in port management and policymakers in Africa are exploring ways to reshape policy and harness benefits that accrue from maximising the comparative advantages of landlocked countries.
Participants met in Livingstone, Zambia recently to discuss this during a caucus meeting organised by the Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa (PMAESA).
The association seeks to uphold the role and competitive advantage of dry ports and inland waterways within the region to drive intra-Africa trade and regional integration with the aim of reducing the cost of doing business.
In this context, Zimbabwe through the Road Motor Services is building a dry port in Walvis Bay, Namibia and the facility is expected to start operating next year.
In a statement, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) said the meeting targets land linked countries as key facilitators of trade, investments and development of the maritime sector in East and Southern Africa.
Addressing the delegates, PMAESA chairperson Mr Gerson Bisey Uirab who is also the Namibian Ports Authority chief executive officer described land-linked countries as part of the architecture of the maritime sector, which must be fully integrated.
"The maritime sector offers several opportunities and a future that can support the transformation of African economies.
"However, this demands that the region develops a comprehensive view of what the maritime sector could be and what it could offer," he said.
The caucus meeting whose theme was "Raising the profile of land linked countries in the logistics and maritime value chains" provided an opportunity to discuss in detail and reshape the policy, said Comesa.
In recent years, the PMAESA meeting has revised its approach to focus on the total value chain in response to global competition. The organisation was founded in 1973 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa to promote and nurture best practices among sea ports and the logistical industry in general.
It is an inter-governmental body comprising port authorities, terminal operators, government line ministries, logistics and maritime service providers drawn from 25 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa with 11 land-linked countries under its jurisdiction.
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The technical explanation about deadlines (and inkers) being of course the historical truth, the interpretations by writers and readers coming second.
Comics have a long tradition of presenting us with colors not found in nature. Trying to explain them is too much like forcing "reality" into these fantasies.
(When I started 3D modeling, one of the first things I discovered was a setting called "Specular" in the color controls. This actually allowed the creation of comic-like coloring, as I could make a surface shiny black and give it a blue specular setting, and, lo and behold, the highlights were blue. Or green. Or yellow. Whatever I wanted!)
BTW, what color is my dog?
Michael Penn
Bruce Wayne's hair and Batman's costume: the same color on the comicbook page but not "really" the same color -- that's as clear as possible. Did any kid reading these comics over many decades truly have any problem with the use of black/blue? If you grow up and do grow troubled by it, then drop the hobby and leave comicbooks to the kids.
The dog:
I see it as black.
I even see the grey highlights as back.
Because i know it's black, and don't understand the highlight as a different colors until i think about it, and maybe even more until i think, "if i had to paint it, what colors would i use."
Here, probably one "color", black, for the darker parts, and two different ones for the highlights.
one would be a lighter black, that would go in dirrection of the white, which would be a dark grey. So according to modern conventions, we're not talking of colors, but of light.
And one that rather would go in dirrection of violet, but a very dark, almost black violet.
And i would have them to be close enough to each other to work together, while being reconizable (perceived, but not necessary conciently, actually preferably not conciently) as slightly different.
Did any kid reading these comics over many decades truly have any problem with the use of black/blue? If you grow up and do grow troubled by it, then drop the hobby and leave comicbooks to the kids.
Granted, organized fandom did not exist when I was a kid, so I had no way of knowing what other readers were thinking. When I had my mother make a Batman costume for me for Halloween, I chose blue for the cape and cowl, etc. That was the color in the comics, and I had no access to the history that would show me it was really black. Even the reprints in the Annuals (which I did not know were reprints) had his costume blue and grey.
Spider-Man, tho, I "met" when he was wearing red and black. My introduction to the X-Men had them in yellow and black.
But I understood that Superman's hair was not blue, and it was not until I was an adult and entering the business that I started hearing people ask why "everyone couldn't tell" that Clark and Superman were the same, since "they both have blue hair." Lois had blue hair, too, but nobody seemed to be bothered by that.
I quickly realized it was something that had become an affectation in the aging fans. Those ennui-engorge losers who were addicted, so could not quit, but had to proclaim their superiority to their addiction by mocking it.
It seems indigo/violet (similar color to the dog's leash) but I suppose your dog is really black.
John Popa
I always saw Cyclops's costume as blue. My intro to Spider-Man was the 60's cartoon where his costume was blue so that's how I've always seen it.
I guess I should throw myself off a cliff.
Only a little one.
You've been caught by the changes that happened, rather haphazardly, to various characters over the years. When I returned to reading comics, in the early Seventies, I was surprised to find the non-red part of Spider-Man's costume had turned blue.* When I was assigned to draw the character, I made those parts black, and no one objected.
Many characters have been sucked into that same swamp that has affected movies like PLANET OF THE APES, STAR WARS or THE MATRIX. Later iterations so altered the story/characters that the originals no longer fit.
The most outrageous example was when I was getting ready to do Captain Marvel, at DC. A young artist asked me what I was working on, and when I told him he said "Oh, I'm a purist. I call him Shazam."
* Actually, blue over the standard caucasian flesh tones, so more of a deep purple.
This can make for embarrassing moments for our friendly neighborhood webslinger. I recall one panel in which the blue was left out, and Spider-Man was widdout pants!!
I wanted Northstar and Aurora to have very shiny black hair, so I asked that no color be put on the hightlights. Fine--except other artists started drawing them with white hair, and, in one case I saw, the colorist made this yellow/blond!
Years later, at DC, when I was working on GENERATIONS 2 I happened by chance to be in the editor's office when the coloring came in for one of the covers. As some of you may recall, in G2 I had a Supergirl with black hair, and a Robin with blond. The colorist had "fixed" this, putting yellow highlights on Supergirl's hair, and making Robin's hair blue. Luckily there was still time to fix it, but the editor, whose job it was to catch such things, had not noticed.
Never had doubts about Norhstar and Aurora having black hair.
When afer your time they were sometime drawn with white hair, and yes in one occasion me too i remember the blond hair, i was really bored by that. It just felt wrong.
When I heard Randy Bowen was doing busts of Northstar and Aurora I called him to make sure their hair would be black. "Of course!" he said. "What else?"
David Schmidt
When I started reading the original X-Men I assumed they were in blue costumes.
It was a reedition published in France at the same time as your run on X-Men. I understood the costumes were black by reading #138...
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SWCID to Rename Administration Building After First Leader
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, the SouthWest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf will rename it's administration building after the college's first leader.
Dr. Douglas Burke was not only the first leader of SWCID, he was the first deaf individual to lead an institution of higher education.
The building will now be known as the The Douglas Burke Education and Administration Building.
Burke's early work in the establishment of a community college for the deaf was a huge milestone in the world of higher education as it created new opportunities for the deaf not only in the State of Texas but on the national and world-wide scene as well.
A second building naming took place as the residence hall - the Burke / Mehan Residence Hall - now serves as a special honor to Douglas's wife Beatrice.
She played a significant role as a deaf leader in the early envisioning of SWCID and has provided ongoing leadership in the advocacy of deaf education.
A ceremony to unveil the new building names honoring the Burkes will be held this summer.
B.J. Relford February 17, 2010 at 3:47:00 AM PST
I would like to attend the ceremony to honor the Burkes this summer and let me know the date .
Let me know the date of the ceremony to honor the Burkes
ocdac February 18, 2010 at 12:37:00 AM PST
http://www.howardcollege.edu/swcid/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125:burke&catid=1:whats-new
"A ceremony to unveil the new building names honoring the Burkes will be held this summer as part of the ongoing 30 year celebration at SWCID."
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Poker Legend Puggy Pearson, Ivey v Bilzerian, Gambling Fun Facts
Hey High Rollers, hope you are winning at the tables and the cards have been kind. Bubbled a few events as well recently but had a nice score this past weekend, chopped the daily $25 Omaha Hi Low for $447. Sweet!
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Puggy Pearson Quotes
Hall of Famer and WSOP main event world champ.
“I’ll play any man from any land, any game he can name, for any amount he can count…provided I like it.”
“Ain’t only three things to gambling; knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management and knowing yourself.”
“Losing is like smoking, it’s habit forming.”
“The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willing’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gambler’s know that.”
Implied Odds = The estimated amount of money that you can expect to win if you complete your drawing hand, regardless of the immediate odds the pot is currently laying you.
Value Bet
A bet made with the intention of being called in order to extract more money or chips from a likely worse hand. Value bets are made when a player’s hand has a positive expectation.
“Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.”
Gamers Spend Money
A new report says nearly half of all social gamers spend money on the activity rather than just continuing to play for free. Most are men between 21-and-35 but 41% are women. The social gaming market is $2.9 billion in the US.
Fun Casino Facts
It’s thought Roulette was invented by the well-known scientist Blaise Pascal as a result of his attempts and numerous tests to create a perpetual motion machine.
Alec ‘Traheho’ Torelli
Alec Torelli is a high stakes cash game terror, who recently crushed his opponents on Poker Night in America Florida for close to $60,000 over two days. He’s a regular in Macau at nose bleed stakes and writes for Card Player magazine. Listen now to our fantastic chat:
For his ‘Hand of the Day’ check out his blog site www.alectorelli.com
Phil Ivey versus Ban Bilzerian
Dan Bilzerian is currently estimated to beworth around $150 million while Phil Ivey has a net worth of around $100 million. While Ivey has the inferior net worth, the majority of Ivey’s worth can be attributed to poker while much of Bilzerian’s wealth allegedly comes from his family.
Dan Bilzerian recently signed a sponsorship deal with the fantasy sports site DraftKings. Bilzerian has a whopping 1.25 million followers on twitter and 11.5 million on Instagram.
NOTE: Phil Ivey has over $23 million in live tournament earnings, 10 WSOP bracelets, a WPT title.
Soccer Star Hits Royal Flush
Neymar da Silva Santos Jr, the Brazilian football star who represents PokerStars, has generated a lot of buzz online for the hands he’s been getting. In August, 2015, Neymar Jr hit a royal flush in spades on a board reading K 5 4 10 Q during a €50 Super Stack tournament. He later went on to make the final table, though it was completely insignificant money for him. He makes at least $30 million a year. He posted a photo of the hand on Instagram and it was liked more than 510,000 times. Good publicity for PokerStars.
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This entry was posted in Did you know? and tagged Casino news, gambling quotes, implied odds, Poker Fun Facts, Puggy Pearson, value bet, WSOP History on September 4, 2015 by HighRollerRadio.
46th Annual World Series of Poker Highlights, Bracelet Winners, Poker History
Hey High Rollers, sorry it’s been a while….busy summer with the World Series of Poker, watching the WSOP Live Streams. Congrats to David Tuchman and all of his co-hosts, another fantastic offering of poker variety, thrills and spills, great action with bad beats and remarkable feats. Below you’ll find all the bracelet winners and some highlights from the 46th annual WSOP.
Mississippi Grind Trailer
Be sure to check out the new trailer for the gambling road movie Mississippi Grind, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendohlson…looks great, and got awesome reviews at the film festivals. The greatest since Rounders? We’ll see.
Dogs Playing Poker
A Bold Bluff
This is just one of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s 16 pieces in his famous American Classic painting series. Did you know they were originally painted to sell cigars?
John Reading Interview
This Minnesota Native cashed 7 times at the WSOP, made two final tables and won a bracelet in the first ever Hyper Hold’em event that saw 20 minute blind levels. It took just 11 hours to reach a final table.
Full Q&A
46th Annual WSOP
– The first ever WSOP.com online bracelet event drew 909 runners. Players had to be competing from an IP address in Nevada. Once the final table of six was reached play was suspended for a day so that the contestants could meet at the Rio and battle it out live for the bracelet. One of our former guests, Hunter Cichy finished runner-up. Another former guest Dutch Boyd cashed.
– Event #60, the 25k High Roller, won by former lawyer turned poker pro Anthony Zinno, was the richest PLO tournameny in history, generating a prize pool of more than $4 million.
2010 World Champion Jonathan Duhamel topped a stacked field in the $111,111 buy-in Big One for One Drop. He defeated businessman Bill Klein heads-up for the title and his 2nd bracelet. Bill Klein donated his entre 2nd place winnings, $2,465,522, to charity.
Trivia: Who finished 6th in the main event and plays on the same dodgeball team as Jonathan Duhamel?
– Christian Pham, a Minnesota poker pro, accidentally signed up for the wrong event ($1,500 No Limit Deuce-to-7) and ended up winning it. Pham previously won a the WSOP circuit main event at Caesars Palace in 2013. Thinking he was signing up for the next day’s NLHE event, Pham was stunned to learn he was playing Kansas City Lowball, a form of poker he had never played before:
“They had started dealing already, so I couldn’t do anything. If they had not started dealing, I would have told the floorman and asked to be unregistered.”
– Christian Pham
– Jeffrey Tomlinson, a 51 year old football coach from Florida, upset a stacked field in Event #25.
“I don’t have any fear. I mean, I’m here to play my game. It doesn’t mean I’ll win ten gold bracelets, but from the moment I sat down I knew I could win.”
– Seven years after his first gold bracelet, Phil Galfond picked up his 2nd in the world championship of Kansas City lowball single draw defeating Nick Schulman, a two-time winner of this very event, heads-up. It was his 15th career cash, bringing is WSOP earnings above the $2 million mark.
– Max Pescatori became the first Italian to win three gold bracelets, taking down the $1,500 Razz for $156,000.
– Keith Lehr needed just 24 hands to beat Paul Volpe in the final of the $10k heads-up world championship. It’s his 2nd bracelet. His first? Twelve years ago in pot limit hold’em.
– After min-cashing in the Colossus, Germany’s Paul Michaelis took down Event #8 for his first bracelet and close to $200,000.
“I was running insane basically. I had a straight flush against a nut flush, I had a couple sets. My bluffs worked out. Everything worked perfectly actually,”
– Paul Michaelis
– The Colossus was exactly that! It broke the record for the biggest live poker tournament ever by more than 150%! The prize pool? More than $11 million, more than double the advertised guarantee. Nolan Dalla, longtime poker writer and unofficial WSOP historian, compared it to Cal Ripken breaking Lou Gehrig’s record for consecutive games, Barry Bonds eclipsing Hank Aaron for career home runs, and Joe DiMaggio setting the record for consecutive games with a hit.
WSOP Bracelet Winners 2015
Event #1: Casino Employees Championship, Brandon Barnette ($74,704)
Event #2: $5,000 NLHE, Michael Wang ($466,120)
Event #3: $1,500 Omaha 8 or Better, Robert Mizrachi ($251,022)
Event #4: $3,000 NLHE Shootout, Nick Petrangelo ($201,812)
Event #5: The Colossus, Cord Garcia ($638,880)
Event #6: $1,000 Hyper Turbo, John Reading ($252,028)
Event #7: Deuce to 7 World Championship, Taun Le ($322,756)
Event #8: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em, Paul Michaelis ($189,818)
Event #9: $1,500 Razz, Max Pescatori ($155,947)
Event #10: Heads-Up World Championship, Keith Lehr ($334,430)
Event #11: $1,500 Limit Hold’em, William Kakon ($196,055)
Event #12: $1,500 6-Handed NLHE, Idan Raviv ($455,057)
Event #13: $2,500 7-Card Stud/Omaha 8 or Better, Konstanin Maslak ($269,612)
Event #14: $1,500 NLHE Shootout, Barry Hutter ($283,546)
Event #15: Pot Limit Hold’em World Championship, Shaun Deeb ($318,857)
Event #16: Millionaire Maker
Event #17: Razz World Championship, Phil Hellmuth ($271,105)
Event #18: $1,000 Turbo NLHE, John Gale ($298,290)
Event #19: $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Handed, Matt Elsby ($230,799)
Event #20: $1,500 NLHE, Benjamin Zamani ($460,640)
Event #21: $10,000 World Championship of Omaha 8 or Better, Daniel Alaei ($391,037)
Event #22: $1,000 NLHE, Sam Greenwood ($318,977)
Event #23: $1,500 No Limit Deuce-to-7 Lowball, Christian Pham ($81,314)
Event #24: $1,500 HORSE, Arash Ghaneian ($239,750)
Event #25: $5,000 8-Handed NLHE, Jeffrey Tomlinson ($567,724)
Event #26: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha, Aaron Wallace ($226,985)
Event #27: $10k World Championship 7-Card Stud, Brian Hastings ($239,518)
Event #28: Monster Stack,
Event #29: $10k World Championship Deuce-to-7 Single Draw, Phil Galfond ($224,383)
Event #30: $1,000 NLHE, Franco Ivan Luca ($353,391)
Event #31: $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better, Jeff Madsen ($301,314)
Event #32: $5,000 NLHE 6-Handed, Jason Mercier ($633,357)
Event #33: $1,500 Limit Deuce-to-7 Lowball, Benny Glaser ($136,215)
Event #34: $1,500 Split Format Hold’em, Andre Boyer ($250,243)
Event #35: $3,000 HORSE, Dan Idema ($261,774)
Event #36: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha, Corrie Wunstel ($266,874)
Event #37: $10,000 World Championship 6-Handed NLHE, Byron Kaverman ($657,331)
Event #38: $3,000 NLHE, Thiago Nishijima ($546,843)
Event #39: $1,500 10-Game Mix, Brian Hastings ($133,403)
Event #40: $1,000 Seniors Championship, Travis Baker ($613,466)
Event #41: $10,000 World Championship 7-Card Stud Hi Lo, Max Pescatori ($292,158)
Event #42: $1,500 Extended Play NLHE, Adrian Apmann ($478,102)
Event #43: Super Seniors Championship, Jon Andlovic ($262,220)
Event #44: The Poker Players Championship, Mie Gorodinsky ($1,270,086)
Event #45: $1,500 NLHE, Upeshka De Silva ($424,577)
Event #46: $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha, Vasili Firsau ($437,575)
Event #47: $2,500 NLHE, Matt O’Donnell (551,941)
Event #48: $1,500 7-Card Stud, Eli Elezra ($112,591)
Event #49: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha 8 or Better, Young Ji ($231,102)
Event #50: $10,000 World Championship Limit Holdem, Ben Yu ($291,456)
Event #51: $3,000 NLHE 6-Handed, Justin Liberto (640,711)
Event #52: $1,500 Dealers Choice, Carol Fuchs ($127,735)
Event #53: Ladies Championship, Jacquelyn Scott ($153,876)
Event #54: $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha, Alexander Petersen ($927,655)
Event #55: $1,500 Draft Kings, Brandon Wittmeyer ($200,618)
Event #56: $5,000 Turbo, Kevin MacPhee ($490,800)
Event %57: $1,000 NLHE, Takahiro Nakai ($399,039)
Event #58: $111,1111 Big One for One Drop, Jonathan Duhamel ($3,989,985)
Event #59: $1,500 NLHE, Alex Lindop ($531,037)
Event #60: $25,000 High Roller Pot Limit Omaha, Anthony Zinno ($1,122,196)
Event #61: $1,111 Little One for One Drop, Paul Hoefer ($645,969)
Event #62: $1,500 Bounty, Jack Duong ($333,351)
Event #63: $10,000 World Championship of HORSE, Andrew Barber ($517,566)
Event #64: Online Bracelet Event, Anthony Spinella ($197,743)
Event #65: $1,500 7-Card Stud 8 or Better, Gerald Ringe ($180,943)
Event #66: Lucky 7’s NLHE, Connor Berkowitz ($487,784)
Event #67: $10,000 World Championship Dealers Choice, Quin Do ($319,792)
Event #68: World Championshp Main Event????
Who’s your November 9?
Seat 1: Zvi Stern — 29,800,000
Seat 2: Pierre Neuville — 21,075,000
Seat 3: Joshua Beckley — 11,800,000
Seat 4: Max Steinberg — 20,200,000
Seat 5: Thomas Cannuli — 12,250,000
Seat 6: Joe McKeehen — 63,100,000
Seat 7: Patrick Chan — 6,225,000
Seat 8: Federico Butteroni — 6,200,000
Seat 9: Neil Blumenfield — 22,000,000
Gambling Quotes
“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”
– Heywood Hale Broun
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Padraig Parkinson Q&A, Ultimate Slow Roll, Poker Funnies & the HRR T-Shirt
Hey High Rollers, great interview with Irish legend Padraig Parkinson today, well actually at midnight last night our time, 6 a.m. his time in Paris, but edited today and on the website now at www.highrollerradio.net (give it a few minutes to load.) Padraig was 3rd at the 1999 main event, won Late Night Poker across the pond, which made him a household name in the UK, and he’s got a new book out, Rebel Without a Pause, and believe me you’ll want to pick yourself up a copy. He is a funny guy and dynamic storyteller; we spoke about the passing of Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliot, the Irish Open and that classic slow roll gone wrong. What was the German thinking? Slow rolling the Grandfather of Irish Poker Donnacha O’Dea, at the final table no less. He got what he deserved. If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the commentators reaction, obviously Irish and fans of O’Dea:
Crazy! “Justice is done! Justice is done.!” Padraig has heard one possible reason for the slow roll, but you have to listen to the interview, Part 2, at www.highrollerradio.net
Luck of the Irish?
Stable boy turned millionaire. In March 2012, 29-year-old Irishman Conor Murphy placed the luckiest bet of his life at Cheltenham. He wagered $75 on all five of his boss’s horses to win and, guess what, they did. Murphy scooped a stunning pot of $1.5 million in the accumulator.
This guy’s a High Roller!
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Longest of Longshots
The 1913 Kentucky Derby produced the longest long-shots in the history of the race when 91-to-1 outsider Donerail claimed victory. One hundred years ago, those putting $2 on Donerail would have collected $184.90.
Incredible! Jockey Frankie Dettori left bookmakers with their jaws dropped in 1996 when he won all seven races at the Ascot Festival in the United Kingdom at odds of 25,000-to-1. Darren Yeats placed a £59 ($89) accumulator bet on all of Dettori’s races and it paid off, big time. Yeats took home £550,000 ($830,000) richer.
Scotty Nguyen Baby! (Pronounced ‘winn’)
• 5 WSOP bracelets
• 1998 World Champ
• 1 World Poker Tour title
• 8 final tables on the WPT
Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow, one of the best players on the planet, wrote in his book, Check Raising the Devil, that a few days before the 1998 Main Event had a dream, which vividly depicted Scotty Nguyen as the Champion. Despite his friends and mother’s objection, Matusow decided to opt out of the tournament and instead give his entry fee to Scotty for 33 per cent of any prize money. One week later, Nguyen became World Champion and ‘The Mouth’ was $333,333 richer – his share of the $1 million payday.
Tidbit: One day after the 1998 World Championship, Scotty Nguyen’s brother was killed in a car accident back home in Vietnam. To this day, Nguyen does not wear his Main Event gold bracelet.
A Putt for his Life?
Once, during a discussion about golf, Doyle Brunson said that if he had to pick one guy to make a 10-foot putt for his life it would be Puggy Pearson. Wow. Not Nicklaus, nor Palmer, nor Watson. Puggy Pearson! “He’s the greatest pressure putter I’ve ever seen,” Brunson said.
Akio Kashiwagi
Biggest Gambler in the World? At one time, in 1992, yes he was! This Japanese property developer liked to play baccarat and holds the world record for the biggest loss EVER playing that game – a whopping $10 million in one session at the Trump Casino. Soon afterwards, he was stabbed to death outside his home.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged . Famous Gamblers, High Roller Radio, irish Poker Open, Paddy Power Poker, WSOP History on April 16, 2015 by HighRollerRadio.
WSOP History & Ryan Laplante Interview
Hey High Rollers, sorry it’s been a while since we’ve blogged….but we’ve got a ton of great stuff for you tonight; interview with ‘young gun’ Ryan Laplante, who had 6 cashes and a final table (his 3rd) at the World Series of Poker this summer. He’s cashes more than 3300 times online and has won more than a million dollars.
Ryan Laplante Q&A HERE
During the month of September, Laplante expects to play some 1,500 tournaments at the World Championship of Online Poker over the course of three weeks. His buy-ins will total between $70,000 and $100,000. The life of a dedicated pro!
Laplante says playing a 1¢/2¢ cash game online is the equivalent to sitting down in a $1/$2 game at the casino. He says a 2¢/5¢ game is about the same as a $2/$5 game live. Online poker is tough!
Visit Ryan’s website for coaching:
www.pokerprotential.com
2014 WSOP Cashes
Event #49: 56th, No Limit Hold’em, ($10,794)
Event #45: 106th, No Limit Hold’em, ($2,253)
Event #39: 5th, No Limit Hold’em ($113,796)
Event #29: 38th, No Limit Hold’em ($11,449)
Event #23: 23rd, No Limit Hold’em ($7,370)
Event #8: 636th, Millionaire Maker, ($3,446)
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WSOP History
Aces get cracked against Aces in the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop:
This is what they’re palying for…
It is considered the most coveted non-monetary prize in poker – the bracelet! Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual World Series of Poker. In the early years only a few bracelets were awarded each year. In 1990, 14 bracelets were handed out. By 2000, that number jumped to 24. In 2014, there were 65 bracelet events at the RIO. Bracelets are also handed out at the World Series of Poker Europe, the WSOP National Championship and the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific.
Tidbit: As of the 2013 WSOP APAC, there have been 1008 bracelets awarded in the torunament’s 45 year history, 462 of which were won by 140 players who have won at least two bracelets.
Jason Arasheben, famed jewelry designer and owner of Jason of Beverly Hills, was chosen as the official bracelet manufacturer in 2012. Arasheben has designed championship rings for the 2009 & 2010 Los Angeles Lakers and the 2011 Green Bay Packers, among others. The 2012 main event bracelet featured each suit in the deck in either rubies of black diamonds. It featured 160 grams of 14 karat gold and 35 karats of flawless diamonds.
* At first, the WSOP bracelet didn’t have much prestige. 10-time bracelet winner Doyle Brunson says his first one “didn’t mean anything” to him and admits he didn’t even pick two of them up.
* “Better than an Oscar,” Jennifer Tilly, on winning her WSOP bracelet in the 2005 Ladies Championship.
* “Not too many players try to bluff me. If there’s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I’m going to be the one doing to it.” – Johnny Chan
“Look honey, I was supposed to go broke on that hand. But, they forgot one thing; I can dodge bullets baby.” – Phil Hellmuth
More POKER QUOTES
Moneymaker & Gamble?
Chris Moneymaker sold a 20% stake of himself for the 2003 World Series of Poker main event to his friend, David Gamble. Moneymaker and Gamble? Really? A tidbit that got lost in the shuffle.
Sammy Farha played a big hand at the end of Day 2 at the 2003 main event, losing to Barry Greenstein when he hit a straight on the river. Farha was crippled with only 5000 chips left. He played and won every remaining hand of the evening, seven of them, including the first two ‘in the dark’, boosting his stack to 54,000. He eventually finished 2nd losing to Chris Moneymaker in their classic heads-up duel.
In a bid to prevent men from playing in the WSOP Ladies Championship, and men have in the past played it on principle, organizers charge men $10,000 to play. Women only have to play $1,000. Some men believe it’s unfair women have their own event, where a bracelet is awarded.
* Nolan Dalla has presided over EVERY bracelet ceremony at the World Series of Poker since 2002. Every single one!
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a series of poker tournaments held each year in Las Vegas. Its origins date back to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker players to the Horseshoe Casino for a single tournament, with a set start and stop time. The winner, Johnny Moss, was determined by secret ballot.
Legend has it…
The modern day World Series of Poker originated from a two-person poker match between Nicholas Andreas “Nick the Greek” Dandolos and Johnny Moss between January 1951 and May 1951. Set-up as a tourist attraction, the two played nearly every variation of poker in existence. Both were inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979.
In 2012, Gaelle Baumann of France and Elisabeth Hille finished 10th and 11th respectively, what is known in poker circles as ‘Bubbling’ the final table.
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CNS' Selective Reporting Censors Sessions' 'Lock Her Up' Chant
The only reporting, as it were, that CNSNews.com did on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' speech last month to the right-wing group Turning Point USA was a blog post by Craig Bannister highlighting Sessions mocking speech codes and other alleged pampering of students purportedly designed to "create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes."
In doing so, Bannister and CNS censored the actual news from Sessions' speech: his joining in a crowd chant of "lock her up" --"her," of course, meaning Hillary Clinton -- which, as it happens, came right before the student-mocking section of his speech, meaning that there was no way Bannister could not have known about it. Perhaps realizing that it's not a good look for the nation's chief law enforcement officer to endorse the imprisonment of a political opponent, Sessions was forced into some damage control afterwards, lamely declaring that "I perhaps should’ve taken a moment to advise them on the fact that people ... are presumed innocent until cases are made."
Apparently, that's not news at CNS, despite the fact that it still claims as part of its mission statement that it "endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story." If it makes a Republican administraton look bad, it must not be a "legitimate" story at CNS.
WND Lamely Fearmongers Over 'Allahu Akbar' Chant At A Muslim Religious Observance
Just because Leo Hohmann is no longer a WorldNetDaily reporter doesn't mean that WND has stopped indulging in its usual fits of anti-Muslim fearmongering.
WND's Art Moore takes a crack at it in an Aug. 21 article under the intended-to-be-scary headline "Muslims chant 'Allahu akbar' at Vikings stadium." The very first part of his story is a Twitter post from Laura Loomer, the far-right, stunt-prone "journalist" who has been banned from Uber and Lyft for racist tweets. It's not a promising start. Ultimately, though, Moore just complains that a large group fo Muslims gathered in a single place to celebrate a religious holiday:
Amid chants of “Allahu Akbar,” or “Allah is the greatest,” broadcast over a loudspeaker, thousands of Muslims gathered Tuesday at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis for a massive rally in celebration of the Islamic Eid Al Adha holiday.
KMSP-TV in the Twin Cities reported Minnesota’s various Islamic centers previously have held their own individual prayers for Eid, “but this year with more than two dozen mosques all coming together at U.S. Bank Stadium, they’re calling it Super Eid.”
US Bank Stadium was the site of the 2018 Super Bowl.
Moore, of course, is not-so-subtly suggesting that all Muslims are terrorists because they say they phrase "allahu akbar" and are even more prone to being terrorists because they are chanting it in a group, that that it was likely that "death to America" would be chanted next.
In reality, actual Muslims point out that "allahu akbar" is a phrase uttered by every Muslim and has no malicious intent whatsoever.
Moore then highlighted a call from the Council for American-Islamic Relations to increase security for the event due to "increased hostility toward the Muslim community" with the usual attacks on CAIR as "founded by Hamas" and an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a long-ago case.
So, something of a middling grade for Moore on the fearmongering stuff, far from WND's best work on the subject (that would probably be falsely and maliciously blaming Islam for a measles outbreak when the real culprit was WND's anti-vaxxer buddies).
Yes, WND's diminished financial state has left it so it can't even hate Muslims the way it used to.
Posted by Terry K. at 12:48 AM EDT
MRC Lectures Liberals On The Exceedingly Narrow Limits Of Its Bogus Study
Topic: Media Research Center
We've documented how the Media Research Center's potrayal of news coverage of President Trump as relentlessly negative is utterly bogus because it is so narrowly defined -- a specific set of statements on 3 news shows, as opposed to an analysis of all coverage on all news shows and channels -- that its only purpose is to provide Trump and Republicans a meaningless talking point.
The MRC's Nicholas Fondacaro inadvertently demonstrates just how meaningless that talking point is when he uses an Aug. 7 post to lash out at CNN anchor Don Lemon for purporttely misrepresenting it:
Speaking of being unable to say anything nice about someone; at the top of his show following the handoff, Lemon attacked a Media Research Center study that found 90 percent of broadcast network evening coverage of the President was negative.
“It always gets me when people say, ‘There's 90 percent. This study shows that 90 percent of the reports about this president are negative,’” he opined in a mocking voice. “But they don't talk about the things that come out of his mouth and the policies he proposes. And what he does and says to people.”
Lemon emphatically argued that reporting negatively was really the only way the media could cover the President. “How are we as media to report positively on something that’s negative,” he shouted. “If that is indeed true, then you need to counterbalance that and weight it against what comes out of this President's mouth and what he's doing.” Clearly, Lemon didn’t do his homework or else he would know exactly how we conduct our studies.
As MRC Research Director Rich Noyes explained in the study, “our analysis of ‘spin’ tracks only explicitly positive and negative statements from reporters and non-partisan sources; it excludes neutral statements as well as statements from partisans such as Trump praising himself or Democrats criticizing him.” It’s the evaluative statements from what’s supposed to be a neutral press that’s counted.
But "a narrow tracking of 'explicitly positive and negative statements' on just three TV shows that deliberately excludes the vast amount of neutral coverage" isn't how Fondacaro first described the study; he said it "found 90 percent of broadcast network evening coverage of the President was negative." It's only when a non-conservative pushes back against that bogus, overbroad talking point -- which, again, was crafted to be spread in the way Fondacaro first described it -- is he forced to concede how narrowly drawn it actually is.
And, as far as we know, nobody at the MRC has ever lectured Trump or any conservative for misleadingly extrapolating that talking point the way Fondacaro lectured Lemon. After all, Brent Bozell and Co. want that misrepresentation coming out of the mouths of conservatives -- but they don't want anyone to read the fine print.
Jesse Lee Peterson White Supremacist Lecture Watch
It's been a while since we've seen WorldNetDaily columnist Jesse Lee Peterson lecture blacks like he was a white supremacist and praise President Trump as the "great white hope." Take it away, Jesse!
Naturally, young black men with physical talents for music and sports are brought up and trained to support their ongoing self-destruction. Most had no fathers growing up – and the few fathers around were usually weak beta males. Black parents bring up children in the mass delusion of hate, blame and victimhood, creating ghettoes everywhere they go. Even “successful” blacks are very destructive.
Now blacks are hell-bent on destroying football. Black athletes dependent on the sport for their careers support its downfall! In anger, you can’t see what you’re doing.
And it’s true: Blacks just don’t care! Blacks today are very destructive. Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It’s not in them to show respect to anyone – they don’t have love. They don’t have God. They’re angry at their mothers and disconnected from their fathers. They call good evil and evil good. In anger, lies look like “truth,” and darkness “light.”
Unfortunately, whites are so beaten down with false guilt, fear of facing angry people and accusations of “racism” that they won’t say anything to blacks! They’re unwilling to lose physical things for love of truth and fellowman.
The NFL owners and leadership are too cowardly and selfish to enforce discipline on out-of-control black thugs who turn their back on the flag, the country, the military. So younger generations watch this madness, and follow in the black thugs’ footsteps — with kids as young as 8 kneeling for the anthem, over a lie of “racism” and “police brutality” which don’t even exist.
Fortunately, President Trump is one white man with the courage and love to correct black people, calling them to be better, to return to respect for fellow Americans, which blacks had at one time. He suggested that NFL owners fire anyone who kneels for the anthem. He also decried the NFL’s compromise that allowed players to stay in the locker rooms – saying it’s worse than kneeling.
If more white men had the strength, character and love of truth that President Trump has, blacks would not be in the total darkness they’re in – and they would not be dragging the rest of the country down with them.
White people, and those of you who watch these games: it’s in your hands. You can continue to support your own destruction by supporting people who hate you. Or you can stop this evil nonsense, the decline, division and destruction of America. It’s time for repentance and unity of all decent people, to save our country.
Interestingly, Peterson somehow restrained himself from making "great white hope" reference. Perhaps he finally figured out that the racist origin of the phrase might be a tad offensive to the audience to which he's condescending.
CNS Gives Its Buddy Levin A Free Pass On His Falsehood
Trump White House officials aren't the only people whose falsehoods and misleading claims CNSNews.com lets stand without challenge or fact-checking. Mark Levin -- whom CNS has promoted in 75 articles so far this year -- gets the non-treatment in an Aug. 10 blog post by Michael Morris:
On his nationally syndicated radio talk show Thursday, host Mark Levin said that if the Israeli government had their own Special Counsel, a Robert Mueller, they could’ve indicted then President Barack Obama and then Secretary of State John Kerry for election meddling.
“Now if the Israeli prosecutors had, or the Israeli government had, a Robert Mueller, I suppose they could’ve indicted Obama and John Kerry and a whole load of Obama officials for interfering with their election,” stated Mark Levin. “Would anybody have had a problem with that?”
Levin’s comments came in response to a report from The Washington Times detailing the Obama administrations meddling in the Israeli election.
In fact, as we documented when WorldNetDaily made the same charge, the Obama administration did not "interfere" in the 2015 Israeli presidential election. The State Department gave the Israeli group OneVoice $350,000 to promote peace efforts between Israel and Palestine; the intrastructure that money helped build was later used by the group during the election to criticize right-wing President Benjamin Netanyahu. Investigations found no wrongdoing -- no grant money was ever spent in the election, OneVoice complied with the the terms of the grant, and there was no limitation on post-grant uses of the resources. Nobody has ever proven that Obama gave the money to the group for the specific purpose of influencing the election, which is what Levin is alleging.
But, like the White House press office, Levin has a special relationship with CNS and its Media Resarch Center parent, so fact-checking his work is optional and likely discouraged.
Newsmax Columnist: Trump Endorsed A Black Candidate, So He Can't Be Racist
Topic: Newsmax
John James, a West Point graduate, stormed to victory in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate [in Michigan] this week and will now face three-term incumbent Democrat Debbie Stabenow for the seat November 6. His stature in conservative circles has been rising for months and his victory was fueled by an endorsement by President Trump who said James is a future star in the Republican Party. In his race with businessman Sandy Pensler, James secured nearly 55 percent of the vote with well above 500,000 ballots cast for him.
Where is the racist GOP we have all been told so much about? I mean after all John James is an outspoken conservative, combat veteran, and notably he is black.
The left has been trumpeting a message for a very long time that the president is a racist and is a supporter of white nationalists. How could that be true with his enthusiastic support for John James? It is just as likely that if the president had thrown his support behind Pensler the outcome would have been different, but he didn’t. The president lined up to push James to victory in what otherwise appeared to be a toss-up.
This should sink the notion that Trump is a racist but of course it won’t and the left leaning national media outlets will simply ignore James' impressive victory.
-- Steve Gruber, Aug. 10 Newsmax column
MRC Combines War On Acosta, Callousness Toward Journalists In One Post
The two main agenda items for the Media Research Center over the past year are unhinged hatred of CNN's Jim Acosta and callousness toward the safety of the journalists who cover President Trump. The MRC's Nicholas Fondacaro combines both in one Aug. 1 post:
During an obnoxious appearance on the Wednesday edition of HLN’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta opened up and showcased his true disdain for Trump supporters after they booed and heckled him at a rally the night before.
According to Acosta, when he was surrounded by those Trump supporters in Tampa Bay, Florida, “Honestly, it felt like we weren't in America anymore. I don't know how to put it any more plainly than that.”
Americans should not be treating their fellow Americans in this way. But unfortunately what we've seen and this has been building for some time since the campaign,” he whined. The hypocrisy was breathtaking for two main reasons. First, there had been many a CNN employee that had condemned Trump supporters as racist rubes. Don Lemon is one name who fits that title.
Second, Acosta followed up by seeming to insinuate that those Trump supporters were ready to attack him like animals. “[Trump] is whipping these crowds up into a frenzy to the point where they really want to come after us,” he proclaimed. “We have these bike rack-like barriers around the press cage, as we call it, to protect us essentially from people who might take things too far. It's unfortunate.”
As someone who used to work on large stage productions in college, those barriers are primarily put up to protect the equipment.
After being teed up by host S.E. Cupp, Acosta worried that one day, one of those Trump supporters would snap and try to hurt a journalist, or worse. “I think it's been dangerous for some time. I was worried during the campaign that a journalist was going to get hurt and it has been building,” he opined. “But when you refer to members of the press as the enemy of the people, you're essentially putting targets on our backs.”
The smears against those hard-working Trump supporters weren’t just coming from Acosta. Cupp decried the pro-Trump “mob” and how a mother at the rally put an anti-CNN button on her baby. “And not even children are safe with parents using their babies as props in Trump’s war against the media,” she spat. “The fever pitch of Trump’s rhetoric and the mob-like dispositions of his supporters at these rallies has become downright scary.”
Following a clip of former Fox News commentator Lt. Col. Ralph Peters ludicrously comparing Trump’s rhetoric to Soviet purges, Cupp suggested it “might not be quite that bad, yet.”
It’s generally understood that the elitists at CNN and their affiliates look down their noses at Trump supporters in the heartland, but this level of open discontent is not too uncommon. And yet they're still struggling to rack their brains with why people dislike them.
Fondacaro also huffed that "Acosta asserted that the reason those Trump supporters hated CNN was that they were essentially brainwashed by Fox News and other conservative media outlets." But since he and his employer are are among the chief instigators of anti-CNN hate, he had no further comment.
WND's Farah Asks A Question He Fails To Answer
All month long, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah has been spouting conspiracy theories (which, of course, he has no direct evidence to support) about how the "Digital Cartel" of Google and Facebook are running WND out of business (and not, say, WND's history of publishing fake news) while also begging for money to keep WND alive. His Aug. 20 column starts off with yet another anti-Google screed:
How much does Google hate WND?
It’s hard to underestimate the vitriol.
I understand. I’ve been a long-time harsh critic. Before most of the world caught on to Google’s racket, some 11 years ago, I publicly called Google “evil,” primarily for its coziness with the tyrannical brutes in Beijing. (See video above.) A decade later, knowing that Google has a better working relationship with the totalitarians in China than they do with Republicans in the U.S., my own level of respect for the search giant has only plummeted.
Because it’s killing freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion – in the U.S.!
Even if Farah's rants about Google are true -- that it's suppressing WND content because of a double-secret policy of discriminating against right-wing content or retaliation for Farah's unhinged anti-Google rants -- he's making the anti-capitalist argument that Google shouldn't be able to run its business as it pleases. (He's already demanded that Google and Facebook be subject to effective net neutrality.) At the same time, he's suggesting that WND should suffer no consequences in the marketplace for its history of fake news and conspiracy-mongering -- that WND should continue to exist by some kind of divine right, not that it has earned that right. (We would argue that it hasn't.)
The meat, as it were, of Farah's column is based on its headline: "Guess how many hits WND gets from Google search." He takes a stab at answering his own question:
How many visitors do you suppose are referred by Google?
Would you suspect the biggest most powerful search engine in the world might send over maybe 10 percent?
Guess again. Not even close.
Seven or eight years ago, it was not unusual for WND stories to be among the top breaking news stories in the main Google News display. In at least the last five years, I can’t recall ever seeing one WND story cited on its first page where daily, hourly, you will find the left-wing editorials of Huffington Post and Daily Beast topping the referrals, along with the New York Times, CNN and Washington Post.
You won’t see the Daily Caller or Breitbart up there, either.
In other words, it’s a systematic boycott of the independent media that is not sold out to the fake news left, the Democratic Party and the conspiracy mongers of global warming, Russian collusion and anti-Trump hysteria.
Note that Farah doesn't answer his own question -- he never actually says how much traffic Google sends WND, other than that it's somewhere less than "10 percent." Nor does Farah explain why WND deserves more traffic from Google, whose function is to serve up relevant links to its users. Does Farah think Obama birther freakouts, Seth Rich conspiracy theories, fawning pro-Trump stenography and warmed-over press releases are relevant to people seeking fair, balanced newsworthy content?
In his usual column-ending pitch for cash, Farah implies that WND somehow represents the best of America: "If the 'Speech Code Cartel' wins, America loses." We suspect America will continue to do just fine if WND doesn't survive.
Posted by Terry K. at 1:11 AM EDT
CNS Still Spreading the 'Fungible' Falsehood About Federal Funding to Planned Parenthood
We've documented how CNSNews.com has spent the past decade promoting the bogus claim that federal funding to Planned Parenthood is "fungible" and thus, somehow, pays for abortions despite the fact that the money is earmarked to specific women's health programs that have nothing to do with abortion. CNS is certainly not about to stop spreading the lie now.
An Aug. 1 CNS article by Max Augros cheering "the Trump administration’s plan to reapply a rule first introduced by the Reagan administration to ensure that federal Title X funds go solely to family planning offices that are separate from abortion providers" uncritically quoted anti-abortion groups and the Trump White House spreading the "fungible" falsehood:
In a press release, the [Susan B. Anthony] List stated that “the abortion industry has used Title X as a slush fund,” and thanked President Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar for “putting a stop to this abuse.”
The Protect Life Rule “would ensure compliance with the [Title X] program’s existing statutory prohibition on funding programs in which abortion is a method of family planning,” the White House said in a statement.
“The new proposed rule would not cut funds from the Title X program,” reads the statement. “Instead, it would ensure that taxpayers do not indirectly fund abortions. Contrary to recent media reports, HHS’s proposal does not include the so-called ‘gag rule’ on counseling about abortion that was part of the Reagan Administration’s Title X rule.”
“The American people have repeatedly and clearly voiced their opposition to taxpayer funding of abortion, but for years, their will – expressed in the statute itself – has been ignored,” the SBA List said in a joint comment with the Life Issues Institute.
“We wholly support the Protect Life Rule, which draws a bright line between abortion and family planning in the Title X program,” the press release stated.
And for good measure, Augros furthered the falsehood by stating that Planned Parenthood's "latest annual report (2016-17) shows that it received $543.7 million in federal government reimbursements and grants, and performed 321,384 abortions that year" -- as if juxtaposing those numbers prove that the money directly pays for those abortions.
The next day, in an article complaining that Planned Parenthood has received Title X funding, managing editor Michael W. Chapman stated the falsehood more directly: "However, money is fungible and grants for one purpose can free-up funds for another purpose. As House Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) has said, 'Today, hundreds of abortion clinics are co-located at Title X family planning facilities. For example, 266 of Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers in the Title X program to the tune of about $56 million each year.'"
Just because a Republican congressman said it doesn't mean it's true. Chapman offered no evidence to back up the claim, nor did Smith in the Catholic News Agency commentary to which Chapman linked.
WND Promotes A Fawning Huckabee TV Interview, Calls It An 'Exclusive'
Because of its diminished state as a result of its money woes, WorldNetDaily publishes a lot less original content generated by its own writers; there's now a greater proportion of rewritten press releases and barely disguised promotions masquerading as "news." A sad example of the latter is an anonymously written Aug. 18 article presented as a "WND Exclusive":
WASHINGTON – Sarah Sanders got grilled tonight – but not by Jim Acosta of CNN.
It was her adoring father Mike Huckabee in a long-format interview on his TBN show.
After an big welcome from the studio audience, Huckabee remarked, “Well, obviously you’re not in the Red Hen Restaurant in West Virginia, right now.”
If you missed the first segment, here it is.
But, just so you know, she’s not finished…
There’s more tonight on “Huckabee.”
That's the entirety of the article.
Did Huckabee or TBN pay WND for this fawning promo about a fawning interview? WND certainly needs the money, and it certainly reads like a paid ad.
In other words, this article is lazy at best and unethical at worst. And it doesn't exactly help make the case that WND deserves to live.
Updated: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 3:23 PM EDT
NEW ARTICLE: Tom Blumer Gets NewsBusted
Topic: NewsBusters
The blogger was fired from the Media Research Center-operated NewsBusters after white nationalist links were discovered in his posts. But what about the MRC editors who let those links go through in the first place? Read more >>
Newsmax's Ruddy Finds A Trump Action He Disagrees With
Apparently, even Newsmax chief Christopher Ruddy -- who's been using his friendship with President Trump to raise his own profile and that of the news operation he runs, as well as serving as a Trump apologist -- has his limits on Trump sycophancy.
Ruddy declared in his July 29 column that "I strongly disagreed with the White House's decision this past week to remove a CNN reporter from the press pool covering the president," even though "the president is justified to be angry with the press. The billions of earned media in negative attacks on candidate Trump never ended upon his assumption of the presidency."
Still, Ruddy does offer some defense of Trump, as well as some surprising praise for President Obama:
As Jefferson predicted, President Trump has benefited by this overly aggressive media.
Informed citizens see through it and are making a "public judgement."
Trump's approval ratings are up and rising in the wake of these incessant media attacks. His strong record speaks for itself.
But it is never easy to turn the other cheek, especially when questioned about personal matters relating to close friends facing prosecution.
The president is much more empathetic than is acknowledged. His emotions and reactions can be raw.
The banning of the CNN reporter, however temporary, is not a wise move. In fact, it is potentially a dangerous step.
Early in the Obama administration, President Obama sought to permanently ban Fox News from the White House press room. The press corps, including CNN, banded together to oppose this authoritarian urge. [Obama, I believe was a patriot, and over time became less hostile to Fox and the press in general. He ended up being an exemplary role model as president, though I strongly disagreed with many of his policies.]
The CNN ban may seem small to some. Still, the press was right to sharply criticize the move by the Trump White House.
Most of Ruddy's right-wing media comrades -- or even most other people at Newsmax -- would never concede the idea that Obama was a patriot.
CNS Promotes Jordan's Speaker Bid, Censors Abuse-Related Allegations Against Him
CNSNews.com managing editor Michael W. Chapman wrote a ridiculously fawning Aug. 10 piece touting how "A new poll by the grassroots organization Tea Party Patriots shows that 98.4% of its supporters would like to see conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, should the Republicans hold onto Congress after the mid-term elections in November." After copiously quoting sycophantic quotes about Jordan from the Tea Party Caucus, Chapman then made his own appeal, noting that "Some of the Republicans who say they support Jordan for Speaker include Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (N.C.), Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Rep. Dave Brat (Va.), Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. The conservative group FreedomWorks has also announced its support for Jordan." Chapman also promoted Jordan's platform: "In a July 26 letter to Republican members of the House, Jordan said the GOP members should push for 'actually repealing Obamacare,' reforming welfare across-the-board, building a real wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, making the 2017 tax cuts permanent, ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, and 'enacting meaningful, immediate spending cuts to ensure that we never see $1 trillion deficits.'"
Chapman declared in his final paragraph: "Jim Jordan, 54, is in his sixth term in Congress. He is married to Polly Jordan." Never mind that Jordan's first name and length of service in Congresshad already been established earlier in the article; apparently Chapman simply copied-and-pasted that from elsewhere and didn't bother to edit it.
What Chapman didn't report: the fact that several former athletes at Ohio State University, where Jordan served as a wrestling coach, have accused Jordan of knowing about sexual abuse of athletes by a team doctor but doing nothing about it -- despite those accusations being around for a good month before Chapman's article appeared.
In fact, CNS has never published a story -- "news," blog or otherwise -- regarding the allegations against Jordan. It has, however, published numerous articles featuring Jordan, mainly in his role as member of a Republican-dominated House committee looking into links between Russia and President Trump -- including a separate July 27 article on Jordan announcing he planned to seek the House speaker position. The only thing that even alludes to it is an Aug. 17 post (again, well past a month after the accusations first became public) that is only a headline, a video and a link to a post at sister website NewsBusters complaining about a Democratic ad likening Jordan to Joe Paterno, who also allegedly turned a blind eye to abuse allegations.
In other words, CNS is very much attuned to Jordan's importance in the current political scene. Which means that the only possible reason CNS has failed to report on the abuse allegations regarding Jordan is that it is deliberately censoring them from its readers.
WND's Farah Gets Desperate As Another Money Deadline Approraches
For most of this month, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah has been railing against the "digital cartel" of Google and Facebook that he claims is running out WND out of business. (He has spent zero time explaining why WND's shoddy, fake news-laden editorial practices are in no small part to blame for that.) In the process, he's turned even more conspiracy-obsessed than usual.
WND has seized upon a "confidential, 49-page memo for defeating Trump by working with the major social-media platforms to eliminate 'right wing propaganda and fake news'" to blame for WND's woes. Art Moore, one of the few remaining WND employees, declard that "The recent wave of censorship of conservative voices on the internet by tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple mirrors a plan concocted by a coalition of George Soros-funded, progressive groups to take back power in Washington from President Trump’s administration."
Of course, Moore never makes any explicit, credible connection between the memo and the current practices of Google and Facebook to fight fake news. The only "George Soros-funded, progressive group" he names as behind this memo is Media Matters; president Angelo Carusone has claimed that his organization received only one donation from Soros, in 2010, while others claim other donations exist. (Disclosure: We used to work for Media Matters.)
Naturally, Farah ran with it:
Never, even in my fertile imagination, would I have guessed that we would find a smoking-gun 49-page memo revealing how George Soros operatives, including David Brock, were there at the genesis, the planning stages, with their hands on the ignition key, of the most concerted, well-funded, diabolical attack on free speech in the history of America.
But there it is.
Millions saw it on the DrudgeReport – including, no doubt, President Trump, Vice President Pence and Republican congressional leaders. But most Americans still know nothing of its existence – because it was not reported among the Big Media. They don’t want you to know about it. They would be embarrassed if America found out how they have been used and manipulated – from their focus on “Russian collusion” to other wild conspiracy theories targeting their No. 1 villain, President Trump.
It was nothing short of a plan to turn Google, Facebook and other social media into hyper-partisan Democratic Party activists, promoters, cheerleaders, and off-the-books donors in an effort to turn the country into a one-party state.
The timing of this insidious plot is key. When did it begin? Right after Trump was inaugurated. That’s when the attacks on the independent, alternative media – WND, Breitbart, et al. – began. We’ve been feeling the squeeze ever since – through politically skewed algorithms and speech codes.
The Google-Facebook-YoutTube-Twitter-Amazon-Apple cabal is trying to ensure we never have a free and fair election again in America. The “Russian-collusion” hoax is meant to take your eye off the real collusion by un-American, anti-free speech radical political activists.
Of course, Farah has been making stuff up -- in the form of the copious amount of fake news WND has published in the past couple years alone -- and that is one big reason why WND is in its current, ongoing fix.
Farah continued his conspiratorial ranting in his Aug. 23 column: "You think it ends with Alex Jones being muzzled? Forget about it! This insidious cabal is already coming after WND, Dennis Prager, Breitbart.com and individual voices you’ve heard about like Diamond and Silk, for crying out loud. We have Democrat members of Congress trying to ban the sale of certain books at Amazon.com. Where does this insanity stop?"
When Farah admits to the error of his ways and WND stops publishing fake news, maybe?
Farah, however, sounded a little desperate in his plea for to raise $100,000 this month in that column: "We’re hunkered down and many are working without pay. I’ve subsidized WND with all the money I have and there is no more left. We thank you for getting us nearly 50 percent of the way to our total so far – but it’s not what we had hoped for with just a few days remaining. Please pray for us and shower us with your most generous donations to keep us alive and fighting for truth."
Farah was even more desperate, and a little jealous, the next day:
Traffic is down, revenues have plummeted 75 percent since January 2017. We’re hanging on by a thread.
Almost daily since August 1, I have brought you these reports and pleas for help in the form of prayer and financial sustenance. I’m so grateful to those who have answered the call. Yet it’s unlikely we will reach our goal of $100,000 this month. It alarms me that Peter Strzok, the disgraced FBI agent so instrumental in the Deep State attacks on President Trump, set a GoFundMe goal of $150,000 after being fired less than two weeks ago, and has raised more than $450,000 in that time, with a revised goal of $500,000.
Has this country gone insane?
No, not really, Joe. Strzok is getting funding because he is being correctly seen as the victim of a political attack led by the president of the United States that cost him his job and career because Trump needs a scapegoat to distract from his own behavior. WND is not getting support -- Farah conveniently omits that it has already taken in more than $200,000 in donations in a fund drive earlier this year -- because Farah and Co. cling to conspiracy theories instead of fixing what's wrong with their editorial product. Also, remember that Farah also apparently lowballed numbers in the last drive in an apparent effort to create some urgency for people to donate, so things might not actually be as dire as he's portraying.
Ultimately, Farah's problem that for all his begging and conspiracy-mongering, he has yet to offer a compelling reason why WND deserves to live. If he can't -- and as long as he takes refuge in conspiracy theories and refuses to take responsibility for all the fake news WND has published -- then it doesn't.
MRC Loves It When Media Conform To Its Pro-Trump Agenda
We already know the Media Research Center attacks any media outlet that lacks a sufficiently pro-Trump bias. Butit also hands out gold stars on occasion to news stories told in a way that supports the MRC's pro-Trump agenda.
In a July 27 post, Julia Seymour was delighted that some outlets properly, in her view -- credited Trump for a high GDP increase last quarter:
CNBC’s Squawk on the Street and Bloomberg.com viewed the latest U.S. GDP report as good news for the Trump administration.
The 4.1 percent second-quarter GDP estimate announced July 27, was the best quarterly pace in almost four years. Bloomberg.com called it a “Win for Trump” that same day.
Squawk on the Streetco-anchor Sara Eisen said, “Though, look, he is right to take a victory lap here because there are places in this GDP report he can point to to show that his policy is working.”
Seymour was disappointed, however, that it "remained a question for CNBC" that the economy would achieve the 3 percent annual growth Trump has predicted.
In an Aug. 9 post, Nicholas Fondacaro ranted that NBC covered the story of Melania Trump's parents becoming citizens, having "speculated that they received special treatment in the process and possibly used chain migration, a program the President opposes, even though the process still exists and still legal."Fondacaro pretended he could divine the purported emotions and agenda of the reporter and anchor involved, calling anchor Lester Hold "seemingly offended" by the story and insisting that the reporter"gloated" while reporting it and is "often resentful."
Fondacaro then described another network's coverage to show how NBC should have behaved:
In sharp contrast, CBS Evening News was congratulatory to the First Lady’s parents. “Melania Trump's parents became U.S. citizen today! Viktor and Amalija Knavs, natives of Slovenia took the oath at a ceremony in New York City. They had been living in the U.S permanent residents,” reported anchor Jeff Glor.
Not only was CBS welcoming to the Knavses but they completely separated them from their story on Trump’s immigration policy. They kicked off the broadcast by reporting on a federal judge who blocked the administration from deporting asylum seekers who were already in the judicial process. The news brief on Melania’s parents was the second-to-last story they covered that evening.
So that's what the MRC wants -- uncritical praise of Trump. Remember that the next time it offers what it claims to be "media research."
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An Exhibition of Conservative Paranoia
Exhibit 72: CNS Obsesses Over Peter Strzok's Sex Life
CNSNews.com doesn't want you to forget that the ex-FBI agent involved in Trump and Clinton investigations had an affair. But President Trump's extracurricular sex life and paying hush money to a porn star? CNS had trouble even saying her name.
By Terry Krepel
Susan Jones
One could say that CNSNews.com is a tad obsessed with Peter Strzok's sex life.
Strzok is the former FBI agent who was in charge of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. Because the FBI brought no charges against Clinton -- and because Strzok was having an affair with a fellow agent, Lisa Page, and was exchanging messages critical of Donald Trump -- he became an enemy of now-President Trump ... and, thus, CNS.
Oddly -- or maybe not so oddly, given its reputation as a self-proclaimed arbiter of other people's morality (if your last name isn't Trump, anyway) --CNS really, really doesn't want anyone to forget that Strzok had an affair.
This started early. A June 2018 article, anonymously written by "CNSNews.com Staff," highlighted FBI director Christopher Wray being asked whether "engaging in adultery was a “significant vulnerability” for an FBI counterintelligence agent, making sure to note that Strzok was having an "extramarital affair" with Page.
When Strzok testified before Congress in July 2018, he was never going to get fair treatment from the pro-Trump stenographers at CNS. But what started out as a relatively straightforward accounting of his House committee testimony unsurprisingly ended obsessing about his sex life.
CNS' coverage began with an article by Susan Jones that, shockingly, uncritically presented Strzok's defense of his professional actions regarding his work in the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. This was followed by Melanie Arter taking the lazy way out and simply copying-and-pasting an exchange between Strzok and Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy.
Then it was time for CNS to denigrate Strzok by portraying him as defensive and a weasel about facts. Jones complained in one article that Strzok faced "friendly questioning from a fellow anti-Trumper" under the headline "Strzok: 'I've Done Nothing Wrong. Uh, Let Me Rephrase That'." Another Jones article featured questioning from a committee Republican, but she did not identify him as a "pro-Trumper" offering "hostile questioning" (y'know, just to be fair and balanced). By contrast, Jones cherry-picked a Democratic committee member in order to write dismissively about her statement that Republicans should thank Strzok for not speaking out about pro-Trump Russian influence in the campaign (since FBI agents are not allowed to speak publicly about ongoing investigations) because that silence helped Trump get elected.
From there, it was a quick move to the sex obsession. One article carried the headline "Strzok Says FBI Agents Are Permitted to Engage in Some Adulteries" (a theme that will come up later) and the other screams "Adulterer Strzok Swears Under Oath He Oversaw ‘Every Espionage Case in the FBI’" -- both of which stated that Strzok "engaged in an adulterous affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page"; the latter also referenced "this adulterous inside-the-FBI couple."
Tellingly, both of these articles are credited only to "CNSNews.com staff" -- which tells us that no CNS employee wanted their name to be put on their boss' obsession with Strzok's sex life.
Funny, we don't recall CNS ever referring to thrice-married adulterer Donald Trump as such in the headline of any article.
CNS returned to that well-trod obsession territory yet again in an April 4 article by Susan Jones:
The man once responsible for all FBI counterintelligence investigations, including the Clinton email and Trump-Russia probes, told Congress in a closed-door session last June that the FBI has no policy forbidding agents from having adulterous affairs.
"There is no FBI policy that prohibits somebody from having an affair," FBI Assistant Director E.W. "Bill" Priestap told House Judiciary and Oversight Committee investigators on June 5, 2018. "There's no FBI policy that says you can't have an affair, and if you do, you're going to be punished."
A transcript of Priestap's remarks was released this week.
The subject of extramarital affairs arose several times in Priestap's interview, in connection with Priestap’s deputy, Peter Strzok, who was having an extramarital affair with FBI attorney Lisa Page. Strzok and Page were part of the Clinton email investigation and immediately afterward, the Trump-Russia investigation, both of which Priestap was overseeing.
Priestap told congressional investigators he heard from others that Strzok and Page might be having an affair, but he never asked them if it was true, nor did he report it to the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
“[Y]ou make reports to OPR when you believe somebody has violated FBI policy. There is no FBI policy that prohibits somebody from having an affair,” Priestap said. “So I had no information that Mr. Strzok, if he was engaging in an affair, that that was against FBI policy. So, no, I didn't have any information that I thought was reportable to OPR.”
So obsessed is Jones with Strzok's sex life that she rewrote this story a week later:
FBI Assistant Director E.W. "Bill" Priestap, the head of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, told investigators from the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees on June 5, 2018 that the FBI does not prohibit adulterous affairs.
"There's no FBI policy that says you can't have an affair, and if you do, you're going to be punished," Priestap said, according to a transcript of the closed-door hearing. The transcript was released last week.
Priestap told the committees he heard from other people that FBI Counterintelligence Agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page might be having an extramarital affair, but he never asked them if it was true, nor did he report it to the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
The main difference between the two articles is that in the latter, for some reason, Jones felt the need to waste the FBI's time and seek clarification on policies regarding agents "engaging in adultery":
CNSNews.com asked the FBI two questions:
--Were Bill Priestap's statements to these congressional committees--that the FBI has no policy prohibiting extramarital affairs--correct?
--Does the FBI have a policy that prohibits FBI personnel from engaging in adultery? Yes or no?
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At CNS, Stenography Marches On
Jones then linked back to a June 2018 CNS article recounting how "FBI Director Christopher Wray declined to tell Congress on June 28, 2018 if engaging in adultery was a "significant vulnerability" for an FBI counterintelligence agent," then copied-and-pasted from the FBI's Ethics and Integrity Policy Guide and its Code of Conduct.
The day before this rehashing, Jones published another article referencing the infamous texts between Strzok and Page, making sure to add that "Strzok and Page were having an extramarital affair." Jones later complained that a congressional interview with the FBI's former general counsel "switched to another subject and nothing more was said about the Strzok-Page text messages. The subject of their extramarital affair was not discussed at all."
Jones did not report in any of these articles on what the FBI thinks about a president of the United States who is not only adulterous to at least a similar level but also pays hush money to porn stars to cover up their adulterous activity.
CNS and Stormy Daniels
Fun fact: The words "Stormy Daniels" did not appear in early CNS story in relation to her alleged relationship with Donald Trump.
The name of the porn star showed up only in a couple videos ported from sister Media Research Center site NewsBusters and in a 2009 Associated Press article when she was considering a Senate run against David Vitter at a time when the Republican senator was linked to a prostitution scandal. And even a CNS article that touches upon her alleged affair with Trump refuses to use her name.
A March 2018 article by Jones took great pains avoid using Daniels' name even when directly discussing the affair, dismissing criticism of Trump as nothing but a liberal media narrative:
Should Congress look into allegations that President Trump had an affair with a porn star 12 years ago? A reporter asked House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) about that at a news conference on Thursday.
"Let me just say that I'm more concerned about the president's policies, which undermine the national security of America's working families," Pelosi responded.
Speculation about Trump's rumored consensual relationship in 2006 -- rumors fueled by a porn star who wants to tell her story -- continued to dominate the headlines Thursday on cable news channels that have opposed Trump, and actively undermined him, since his first day in office.
We're pretty sure that nobody at CNS or its Media Research Center parent ever dismissed right-wing obsession about Bill Clinton's sexual peccadilloes as coming from media outlets that opposed him and "actively undermined him since his first day in office."
Five days later, Jones finally decided that She Who Must Not Be Named has a name after all, albeit while dismissing MSNBC's Joe Scarborough as a "Trump hater" for bringing up the story:
To Trump haters, anything the president does lately is done with one goal in mind: to knock the Stormy Daniels story out of the headlines.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday morning questioned why Republicans on the House intelligence committee abruptly announced on Monday that their investigation into Russian interference has all but ended, with no evidence of collusion found on the part of either the Trump campaign or the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Jones then added her pithy summary of the scandal:
Stormy Daniels is a porn star who says she was paid $130,000 by one of Trump's attorneys to keep quiet about an affair she claims to have had with him in 2006. Trump was married to Melania at the time.
Trump has denied the affair, and Daniels did too, for a while but then Daniels changed her mind and now insists it really did happen.
She launched a strip club tour in January on the anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration.
Daniels is now suing to void a nondisclosure agreement she reportedly signed before the 2016 election. Her lawyer has told various cable outlets she's not doing this for the money...
You know who else denied a sexual incident with a politician and then "changed her mind and now insists it really did happen"? Juanita Broaddrick. But you'll never see Jones or anyone else at CNS report it that way.
In a later item -- presented as a blog post even though its partisan tone is no different from the above "news" article -- Jones huffed: "Making the rounds of liberal cable channels Friday morning, Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti said he was not there to hype an upcoming "60 Minutes" interview with the porn star -- even as he hyped the upcoming interview." She huffed even further that "Rarely has a porn star been accorded such credibility."
Jones ended the article by complaining:
Trump's womanizing hardly comes as a shock to the American people, so the question for people on both sides of the Trump divide is whether and how any of this matters to anyone, anyway -- except as a means of further undermining Trump's presidency.
Starting 14 months ago, the politics of personal destruction has become a daily spectator sport in Washington, with liberal media outlets leading the charge.
Jones has a conveniently short memory if she thinks the "politics of personal destruction" began only 14 months ago. Bill Clinton's womanizing didn't come as a shock to Americans either, despite CNS parent the Media Research Center's pearl-clutching over it in the 1990s. Using Jones' argument, this means that the MRC was never motived by any sense of morality but as a means of trying to undermine his presidency -- which would seem to be a violation of its nonprofit tax status.
Finally, in an article written after Daniels' interview on "60 Minutes," Jones makes sure to identify Daniels as an "aging porn star," then huffed that she "assured America she's not in it for the money -- then talked about all the "job offers" she's getting by going public with her claims about Donald Trump." And in a companion article, Jones complained that Daniels' attorney, Michael Avanetti, was trying to "discredit Donald Trump" by trying to get a deposition from Trump regarding Daniels -- as if Trump hasn't already discredited himself long before now.
We already know Jones is a slavish pro-Trump loyalist, but she's just embarrassing herself her with her aggressive defense of Trump over something she'd be in attack mode over if Trump were not a Republican -- and her obsession with someone's sex life that's far less tawdry than Trump's.
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Guild Wars 2 Audio Director James Ackley
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SoundandVisionMag.com has a great interview with James Ackley, Audio Director for Guild Wars 2. The video below shows a glimpse of the audio tools and workflow used by the team during production. Find out more about the sound design process and how the Guild Wars 2 audio team plays with fire here!
Two of the biggest challenges in an MMO are both the diversity and amount of soundscapes. Previously, with most of the FPS games I’ve worked on, we put a lot of effort in to creating a single soundscape for the game. With Guild Wars 2, we have many different types of regions that need unique new sounds for each area. It sometimes feels like having 10 normal sized games all in one. The art teams work very hard to make each region look entirely different and have an artistic style that suits the climate and or inhabitants. We spend a lot of time working to match that feeling.
Some of our races are very mechanical, some are magical, some are small and some are big. The ambience in each area needs to match the lore so you feel like it is a real place. I love it when you can just wander through the game, listening to the environment and it all seems natural. Sounds weird to say, but sometimes when we do our job right, no one ever notices.
A chemist turned technical sound designer, Roel has a passion for all things game audio. With a fondness for programming tools and implementation, he recently landed a position at Volition, Inc. (Deep Silver) as an in-house audio designer where he works with a talented audio team, making kick-ass audio for open world AAA games. He looks forward to collaborating and sharing his enthusiasm with the audio community.
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Coaching The Library > Asian History > Get An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress PDF
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By Paul R. Brass
This quantity lines the process improvement of Charan Singh's discontent within the Congress, which aided by means of the antagonism at the a part of Nehru and his daughter in the direction of him, and the decline of the Congress because the dominant get together in Uttar Pradesh, led finally to his defection to shape a brand new political social gathering and, ultimately, to accomplish his aim of changing into leader minister of UP.
Like the sooner quantity, this booklet is predicated totally on the author's own dating with Charan Singh in the course of his political profession and early entry to his giant political documents and the author's personal own interviews with politicians, different public folks, peasants, and others over 50 years, as much as the current. It additionally presents an account of the executive ministership of Sucheta Kripalani—a political outsider catapulted to the head through the facility struggles of fractious factions—and even as explores opposed to the backdrop of regionalism in UP the substantial but little-known position performed through Charan Singh in problems with states reorganization for northern India.
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Tea Time Thursday: Thought Bubble 2009
Published on November 26th, 2009
So last Saturday I went to the annual ‘Thought Bubble’ comic convention in Leeds closeby to where I live. This year’s event was the third since it started. I went last year, so this was the second time I’d been to this specific convention, and I’m going to give the lowdown on what happened, and my experiences from the day. It was a long day, let me tell you that!
So the convention opened at 10am, but I did not arrive until bang on midday, as last year I got there at 10 and had seen everything by 1pm. So I went a bit later and got around everything at a good steady pace. This year’s con was much bigger in the amount of people walking around, there were many many more cosplayers than compared to last year’s event. I think the popular boom in the superhero and manga world of late has given way to a wider audience and the appeal this year was probably greater.
You had so many different stalls, just like any convention I suppose, where you have the writers and artists alley, the small press boothes, the comic and manga sellers and also the figure and toy sellers. This year I saw some really amazing small press comics and managed to pick a few up, I was looking at the comics in the horror genre this year and managed to pick up one specific comic which looks really amazing, called ‘Gothic’ by David Hitchcock, which I will review at some point soon! I also managed to pick up a copy of Iron Man #128, which you Marvel fans should realise is an iconic cover for the Iron Man character. I picked up a whole bunch of cool new Timb Bomb Comics, and got an interview with friend and creator at TBC, Steve Tanner which you can catch on Comic Impact next week!
With big names like Frank Quietly, Ben Templesmith, Cameron Stewart, Mike Carey and many more attending, it was a great opportunity for fans to meet their comic book idols and to get stuff signed, for example I got my copies of Batman & Robin signed by Frank Quietly who was a really nice guy. Mike Carey I managed to catch a few words with, and he was excited for his upcoming projects with the X-Men at Marvel, and says good things about upcoming stories with his Vertigo series, ‘The Unwritten’.
There were panel discussions going on throughout the day, and even though I didn’t manage to catch any, I heard they were decent from talking to people I’d met outside the con at various intervals.
All in all this is a great convention, and talking to some creators, stall owners and fellow comic fans, it’s regarded by many as one of the best UK conventions. I’d agree, because to me, the social aspect of this convention is so great, you meet so many great people who share a common interest for all things comic related and it only adds to the awesome experience. I suppose most cons are like this, but the Leeds con is apparantly (and in my opinion) one of the best in the UK.
Tune in next week when I’ll be posting an interview with creator and writer for Timb Bomb Comics, Steve Tanner, who kindly gave up some of his time at the con to share a few words. We talk about his upcoming books, his experiences at the convention, and his influences in books such as Dick Turpin & The Restless Dead, and Ragamuffins (which I’ve reviewed on Tea Time Thursday in the past). I’ll have a review of David Hitchcock’s ‘Gothic’ comic soon as well for your reading pleasure!
I cannot wait for next year’s convention, and apparantly, to make it even more exciting, there is meant to be a huge guest at next years convention. Rumour has it, it’s one of the following three people… Grant Morrison, Alan Moore or Brian Lee O’ Malley. Who knows? They are just rumours, but we’ll have to wait and see!
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Sources: Ravens to trade Flacco to Broncos
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Ravens to trade Joe Flacco to Broncos
Schefter: Broncos in win-now mode with Flacco trade (2:01)
Adam Schefter says the Broncos were not interested in building around a rookie QB and believe their defense puts them in a win-now position. (2:01)
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The Baltimore Ravens have an agreement in principle to trade former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco to the Denver Broncos, league sources told ESPN on Wednesday.
The trade cannot officially be processed until the new league year begins March 13.
The teams are prohibited from commenting on the deal or the terms. When the deal is completed, it likely will be for a midround pick, sources told ESPN.
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The agreement means that Baltimore is officially committing to Lamar Jackson as its quarterback. When the deal is completed, the Ravens will save $10.5 million in cap space. However, they will carry $16 million in dead money on their 2019 cap.
Meanwhile, the Broncos, who have the 10th overall pick in this year's draft, are addressing their biggest need as the NFL's offseason quarterback carousel is beginning to spin.
Trade talks between Baltimore and Denver commenced Monday and culminated Wednesday morning, when the Broncos agreed to the deal for Flacco, the MVP of Super Bowl XLVII.
This trade is the first domino to fall this offseason, with other quarterbacks such as Nick Foles, Ryan Tannehill, Tyrod Taylor and Blake Bortles expected to change teams. The Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins are among the teams expected to add new quarterbacks.
Joe Flacco, Since Winning Super Bowl
Since winning the Super Bowl, Joe Flacco has fallen on hard times for the Ravens.
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Cash value $124M 4th
TD-Int ratio 1.4:1 34th <<
1st down pct. 31% 35th <<
Yards per att. 6.5 35th <<
>> Out of 36 QBs with at least 1,000 att.
-- ESPN Stats & Information
The demand at the position is one reason Denver pounced on Flacco. The Broncos began to study him during Super Bowl week, sources told ESPN, and agreed to a deal before the combine.
Flacco, 34, has no more guaranteed money on his contract. His contract carries base salaries of $18.5 million for 2019, $20.25 million in 2020 and $24.25 million in 2021.
New Broncos coach Vic Fangio was in Baltimore for Flacco's first two seasons, so he knows what he'll be getting. Former Broncos executive Gary Kubiak also was a noted Flacco fan, and his opinions were a strong starting point to selling Denver on the deal.
The trade means the Broncos are moving on from quarterback Case Keenum, who started for the team last season after signing a two-year, $36 million contract in free agency. He is due $18 million in 2019, with just $7 million guaranteed. The Broncos will carry $10 million in dead money if they cut him.
Keenum tied for the second-most interceptions in the league this past season with 15, and his 6.6 yards per attempt was 29th.
This marks the first trade for new Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta, who replaced Ozzie Newsome at the conclusion of last season.
Denver does have two fourth-round picks -- its own and the one acquired from the Houston Texans in exchange for wide receiver Demaryius Thomas.
Whatever the compensation turns out to be, Flacco will be playing in Denver, where he had a huge role in the "Mile High Miracle" in January 2013 -- a 70-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones that sent an AFC divisional playoff game into overtime. The Ravens went on to win the game in double overtime, followed by victories in the AFC Championship Game and the Super Bowl.
Broncos executive John Elway has consistently said since season's end that he would consider any and all options to repair the team's quarterback struggles. The Broncos used four different starting quarterbacks over the last two seasons and cut Paxton Lynch, their first-round pick in 2016, last summer.
ESPN's Jeff Legwold contributed to this report.
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Food Bank offers a lifeline to single mum Devi's hungry brood
Food Bank offers a lifeline to single mum Devi’s hungry brood
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by Mary Ann Tan
An accident is always a cause for worry and pain for families but for single mother Devi Shamala*, 36, when her 15-year old son was incapacitated in a road accident, it was devastating indeed. Sharmala had only known a life of pain and suffering since her marriage to a man who beat and abused her until her left hand was severely fractured till this day. Fearful for the safety of her six children she fled from the marriage and was eventually divorced. That was 10 years ago and although it wasn’t easy trying to raise the kids on her own, she has managed to do that, until August 2015.
Everything went downhill for Devi when in August 2015, her son broke his left leg in a motorbike accident on their way back from school. She was unable to keep her regular job of cleaning houses because she needed to nurse her son back to full health even while she continues to care for the other children as well. Finances were really tight. Unable to pay her rent, she was forced to move into her cousin’s flat where she and her 6 children were crammed into a tiny room. Her children were aged 19, 18, 17, 15, 14 and 10.
However, the room didn’t come free and neither was her cousin willing to feed her children for free. All Sharmala had to survive on was the RM300 she got from the Social Welfare for her three younger children. At her wits end to feed her ever hungry children, Sharmala couldn’t believe it when Food Bank stepped in to assist with monthly groceries that included a bag of rice, cooking oil, sardines, biscuits and other items.
Where before Sharmala despaired of getting enough funds to pay both her overdue rent of 4 months and feed her kids at the same time, now Food Bank’s monthly donation of groceries was a miraculous lifeline that greatly helped to ease the hunger pangs of her growing brood. To Sharmala, the fact that Food Bank is there to assist her month after month with food necessities until her older children can complete their studies and start working, is an unbelievable miracle indeed, and her smile says it all! END
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India’s tier II and III cities are on the verge of a major change. Active deployment of Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA) is less than a year in the future, and greater transparency and corporate governance will be required of developers in these cities too. This will help established developers operating there to attract private equity funding.
Many of these cities are already working towards tackling existing challenges like poor infrastructure and connectivity as also the lack of skilled manpower and IT-friendly policies. By the year 2020, 25 out of every 100 IT professionals will hail from these cities.
Office rentals in Delhi and Mumbai are anything between four to ten times higher than in tier II, III cities, and housing is two to three times more expensive. However, there are advantages beyond the huge differential in wage costs and cost arbitrage. For example, the attrition rate in tier II cities is slightly more than 11% compared to about 35% in the tier-I cities because of the more limited opportunities and the increasing preference to work in hometowns.
Tier-II, III cities currently lack in IT infrastructure, hospitality options and international connectivity (only a dozen have international flight connectivity, and only five have major sea ports). Barely 10 out of every 100 IT professionals currently emerge from these cities, and about 40% of the talent migrates to tier-I cities in search of better opportunities and career growth.
However, this scenario will change by 2020-22 as the Central Government’s flagship programmes like the Smart Cities mission, Digital India, Skill India, Housing for All by 2022 bear fruit. Moreover, more IT-friendly policies will see some of these cities pull rapidly ahead.
By 2020, 45% of Indian engineering graduates are expected to come from these cities, with two out of five engineering colleges will be based there along with eight out of the nine upcoming IITs and nine upcoming NITs.
India’s economic outlook is now very favourable, and the country is poised for stronger growth in the coming years. It will all boil down to which of these cities manage to become more attractive for IT/ ITeS companies as well as start-ups. Developing a ‘pull-factor’ to make such companies migrate from their current favourites – Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad – will dictate the level of success with which India’s tier-II, III unfold to their full potential.
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Birding Checklist
In Port Colborne it is possible to view all of the following birds throughout the year. Bring your binoculars and good luck!
American Bittern
American Redstart
Belted Kingfisher
Black/White Warbler
Blackburian Warbler
Bobolink
Brownhead Cowbird
Brown Thrasher
Canvasback
Chipping Sparrow
Common Gallinule
Common Grackel
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Field Sparrow
Green Heron
Grosbeak
House Wren
Myrtle Warbler
Purple Martin
Red-eyed Vireo
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Rufous-sided Towhee
Scarlet Tanager
Slate-coloured Junco
Swamp Sparrow
Whistling Swan
Wood Duck
Yellow Warbler
Because of its location on the north shore of Lake Erie, Port Colborne offers good opportunities for birdwatching during spring and fall migration periods.
Local wetlands are nesting areas for waterfowl and stopping points for Whistling Swans. Significant numbers of gulls, terns and cormorants nest on the shoreline near Nickel Beach. The nearby eastern breakwall has been designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because of its colonies of Common Terns, Ring-billed Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Double-crested Cormorants and Black-crowned Night-Herons. Local stands of Carolinian forest are popular with songbirds.
Observation Points
Port Colborne is a useful starting point for some of the birding areas along the Lake Erie shoreline. The city itself lies at the entrance to the Welland Canal and is served by Highway 58 from Welland to the north and by Highway 3 paralleling the shoreline.
From the Highway 58 intersection, Mud Lake is east almost 1km on Highway 3 to the light at Elm Street (Regional Road 80). Turn north here and drive 3.5 km to a small parking lot on the east side of the road. From this drive-off are two paths, one around the lake, and the other along the south side of the lake to connect with a boardwalk and trail running around the east side of the lake and into the cattail marsh.
Mud Lake is noteworthy for all the usual marsh species in summer and breeding records of several species of duck, including Ruddy. There is a controlled hunt here. On the other side of the road from the above parking lot is the local landfill site, which may yield interesting gulls.
The remaining sections of Wainfleet Bog, a massive peat bog now much reduced by drainage and development, can be reached from two points. Again taking the intersection of Highways 58 and 3 as a departure point, drive north on Highway 58 for 1.4 km to Barrick Road on the west. Turn and drive 1.3 km to the point the road dead-ends at a peat farm, currently called F.A.Y. Farm. Ask for permission at the office to go in and drive north across a small bridge about 1 km on a dirt-peat road, which leads to a small drive-off on the left side near some dense shrubs. A trail starts here and runs north, eventually into open untouched bog. Be sure to mark or otherwise note the point you enter the open bog, as it is easy to lose track of your position. Northern Harrier, Short-eared Owl, and Lincoln's Sparrow have all nested in this area.
To reach the second access point drive west on Highway 3 from the Highway 58 intersection 5.4 km to Wilson Road, which crosses the bog to the north. On the east side of Wilson there is a trail which runs through the poplar-willow woodland. After several hundred metres this comes out into mostly open bog, and eventually arrives at untouched areas of bog. This trail has to be watched for as it grows over. It runs east off Wilson near Garringer road that comes in from the west. Whip-poor-wills breed adjacent to Wilson.
Just 0.8 km west of Wilson Road is the intersection of Highway 3 and Regional Road 30. To visit Morgan's Point turn south on 30 and drive 3.1 km (the road turns and runs west) to Morgan's Point Road on the south. Turn left and drive to the end (1.6 km), where the point attracts shorebirds and other waterfowl.
Farther west along Highway 3, the flat farmland in the area west of the village of Wainfleet in Haldimand-Norfolk has sod farms that can attract numbers of plover and other shorebirds in the fall (mid-September is best). Specific locations vary; currently farms at Winger and Mount Carmel are the best. It is a matter of driving the roads in the area, most of which are laid out on a grid pattern, and watching for suitable fields.
East of Port Colborne (some 14 km east of the Highway 58 intersection) is the Point Abino Road. This runs south some 6 km to Point Abino, a privately owned point with wooded hills that have some Carolinian species in summer (Acadian Flycatcher is regular in woods at Abino Hills west of the point reached from Holloway Bay Road) and which concentrate migrants. Access to the point road is uncertain - permission may or may not be given at the gate - and parking is difficult.
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Next Minnesota injuries, summer edition: Man's cabin falls on him
Duluth cops are called as a woman asserts her right to sunbathe topless
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 by Hannah Jones in News
Michelle Bennett of Duluth got 20 minutes into her usual sunbathing routine when a woman told her she was "making her children uncomfortable." Fox 21
About two weeks ago, Michelle Bennett, a photographer in Duluth, went down to Park Point beach with some friends. It was the first really warm day of the summer, and the beach was unusually crowded.
They chose a less frequented access point and settled in. Bennett – just as she has done at the beach for about two years now – took her top off.
About 20 minutes into sunbathing, a woman approached and asked her to cover up. She said Bennett was “making her children uncomfortable.”
Bennett politely told her “no,” and pointed out there was a large umbrella between their group and the woman and her children. It would be fairly easy, she said, to avoid looking at her if they didn’t want to.
What if Bennett decided to get in the water? the woman countered.
“I don’t know what to tell you,” Bennett shrugged.
Shortly after their exchange, the woman took out her phone. About a half-hour later, a Duluth police officer showed up, told Bennett this wasn’t a “nude beach,” and told her to cover up.
“Well, nobody here is nude,” she said. She only had her breasts showing.
What followed was about an hour-long back-and-forth between the officer and Bennett in which he had to call in for legal expertise and find out what the statutes actually said about breasts. As it turns out, they say very little.
It’s considered indecent exposure in Minnesota to show your “private parts,” but nowhere does it say a woman’s breasts count as “private.” There are also laws about nudity that do count breasts, but it’s only considered wrong if you’re “lewdly” showing them to an audience.
Bennett says she wasn’t being lewd. She was trying to enjoy her day at the beach without “two wet triangles” of swimsuit material covering her chest, making “big, stupid boob marks” in her suntan and otherwise doing nothing to contribute to her experience.
While this lengthy discussion was going on, the woman and her family were smiling and playing and enjoying their sunny day, she says, largely unperturbed by Bennett’s breasts.
The officer didn’t hit her with a citation, but he told her she had to put a shirt on – which she did.
Still, the whole thing left “a bad taste” in her mouth. A lot of women she knows go topless at the beach. Just because they do doesn’t mean they’re doing it for attention, or because they want to have their “tits out” at “restaurants and banks.”
“I just want to be topless anywhere a man can,” she says.
She shared her story on social media and with local news stations, and she’s been overwhelmingly bolstered with support. A lot of people are asking the same questions she is – like, what’s the difference between a male breast and a female breast, and what about gender fluidity? What about people who neither identify as men nor women, or women who have had double mastectomies, or trans men who have breasts? Whose chests are okay to view in public, whose aren’t, and why?
If you examine Fox 21's Facebook post about the story, you’ll find a few people not particularly sympathetic, arguing that Bennett was being “indecent,” that she was “looking for her 15 minutes of fame,” or that she was one of purportedly many “needy women always rocking the boat.”
Either way, Bennett wants answers more concrete than online sniping. She called city officials and got limited responses back – mostly to verify she hadn’t been issued a citation. What she really wants is for statutes to be clarified so police know whether this is actually okay and aren’t asked to litigate on the spot.
She hasn’t been back to the beach since the incident, if you don’t count the interviews she’s done. She says she will, eventually – and she will be topless when she does.
“You can’t sexualize someone’s body without their consent.”
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Boskovic powers Eczacibasi to Club World Championship semis
Tijana Boskovic of Eczacibasi VitrA Istanbul smashes the ball past Monique and Carol of Rexina Sesc Rio de Janeiro.
Manila, Philippines, October 20, 2016 - Eczacibasi VitrA Istanbul progressed to the semifinals after turning back a hard-fighting Rexona-Sesc Rio de Janeiro 3-2 (25-27, 25-19, 22-25, 25-18, 15-11) in the second match of Day 3 in the 2016 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship at the Mall of Asia Arena.
It was a carbon-copy repeat of the reigning South American champions' previous match, a few hours earlier to end Day 2 against Pomi Casalmaggiore, when they also led 2-1 and went on to lose in five.
The Brazilian side had the upper hand at the beginning of the tie-break, but a 5-7 lead quickly evaporated to 12-7 as Eczacibasi blocked their way to victory.
Eczacibasi put up with Rexona's shorter but highly athletic lineup by bringing in its big guns Tijana Boskovic, Jordan Larson-Burbach and Tatiana Kosheleva.
They helped Eczacibasi string up 62 total attacks against Rexona's 59 spikes that got the Brazilian powerhouse busy defending their turf.
But the most telling was Eczacibasi’s 22 total blocks, seven of them coming from Boskovic, which sealed off much of the scoring lanes for Rexona who in turn made seven blocks. The Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist with Serbia bagged a total of 28 points to emerge top scorer of the game.
Rexona relied heavily on Monique Pavao, who banged in 24 points, and Gabi Guimaraes who unloaded 14 points. Rexona completed pool play at 1-2 in Group A and can only hope for a miracle gift by hosts PSL - F2 Logistics Manila against Pomi later in the day.
- FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship Manila 2016 - Website
- FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship Manila 2016 - Results & Schedule
- FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship Manila 2016 - Teams
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Canepa Is Rebuilding 959s With Almost 800 Horsepower, And No You Didn’t Read That Wrong
4/29/2018 11:45 est Filed to: Porsche 959By: Bradley BrownellComment
As I rounded a corner at Luft5 this Sunday to see a gorgeous deep blue 959 sitting there with gunmetal grey wheels and an interior the shade of Marilyn Monroe's lipstick, I felt like the bottom had fallen out of my brain. I had known it would be there, and I even knew what color the Porsche would be beforehand, but the visual I'd crafted in my head wasn't 10% the clarity and reality of seeing the thing sitting there in front of me in the hardwood aisle of Southern California's most Porsche-filled lumber yard. When you see a 959 in your mind's eye, it's usually a muted shade of silver, perhaps white. A small handful were painted Guards Red, but that's about as ostentatious as Porsche's iconic '80s near-200MPH supercar got. It was reserved and very German in that way, but seeing this incredible blue vision first hand completely changed the look of the 959 for me.
As you may know, Bruce Canepa and his business have been inextricably linked with the story of the 959 here in the US since the beginning. They were involved in the show and display legislation allowing significant cars like the 959 to be brought into the US on a limited basis. They were involved in gaining 50-state federalized street legality for 959 buyers with the Canepa Gen I, back in 2001. Not only was the Generation I car emissions compliant, it managed to produce 576 horsepower (up from ~450 as delivered by Porsche). Canepa has three decades of direct, hands-on experience with 959s and building this incredible Porsche to be better-than-factory new. This new 959sc (stylized lowercase as Canepa himself writes it) is the culmination of that experience. The zenith of the old-school Porsche experience.
Canepa reached this level of visual perfection by spending hundreds of hours stripping the 959 down to bare bones and rebuilding it from scratch. Over 500 hours of preparation work are done to the car before it even sees a paint booth. Canepa has committed to building as many as 50 of these Porsche 959sc, and no two will be the same. Each is prepared for its specific owner, and Canepa will paint it in any color from Porsche's long history, excepting any color that has already been used. Allegedly, the next car on order will be painted Tangerine, which sounds incredible. The959's simple five spoke wheels were originally built with a special 'Denloc' bead design to keep the original Dunlop tires in place during hard launches. Canepa, years ago, developed a machining process to allow the original wheels to accept a traditional tire bead and modern compounds. The current crop of 959sc have been fitted with these modified 17" wheels, but Canepa has produced a visually identical wheel in an 18" diameter (at great expense, it should be mentioned), and will be fitting them to all 959sc models, with Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires, naturally.
Similar to the exterior, each 959sc will feature a different interior color combination as well. The car shown at Luft5, swathed in gorgeous bright red inside, even features a dark blue deviated stitch to extend a little splash of the exterior color inside. The interior is similarly upgraded over a standard 959 with a Canepa-exclusive extended leather package, hand crafted and assembled by Canepa's in-house master trimmer. Some 300 hours go into the process. It begins by removing the aging original leather and carpet from these largely low-mile classics, and measuring each piece for replacement with the newly crafted facsimile. Everything from the dashboard to the steering wheel is expertly stitched in new high-quality leathers. It looks a good bit better than anything Porsche could have done in 1987. Even the front trunk is re-trimmed in matching color, and a set of matching tool bags (and leather shock tower covers) is added. The final step is the addition of a Porsche Classic radio navigation system and an all-new high fidelity sound system.
Okay, so the car looks unique on the inside and the outside, but what kind of performance benefit does Canepa bake into a Porsche 959 'SC'? Following on from the Generation I cars, Canepa built a Generation II which produced 640 horsepower. Not one to leave well enough alone, Canepa made use of modern performance parts and hot rodding know-how to create the Generation III cars with just shy of 800 horsepower. As it turns out, the 959s motorsport-derived 2.85-liter flat-six engine can handle a whole lot of boost, and pump out prodigious levels of power. If you can reliably craft almost 800 horsepower, why exactly wouldn't you? The new high-po Porsche now features a pair of no-longer-sequential Borg-Warner turbochargers, as well as modern engine management software, uprated fuel injectors, an advanced ignition system, equal-length headers, and a unique stainless-steel exhaust system all conspire to deliver huge performance numbers.
Porsche's 959 has never been considered a lightweight car, being that it was around 3500 pounds in the late 1980s (a late Carrera 3.2 with a G50 gearbox is around 900 pounds lighter than the heaviest 959 Komforts, by comparison. Each of the Canepa-built cars have been retrofitted with the coilover 959S suspension, dumping the Komfort's traditional hydraulically actuated suspension (even the suspension fluid filler door is covered over to be flush with the bodywork as 959S were delivered), which knocks hundreds of pounds from the car's curb weight. While they don't have exact weight figures, a 959S was quoted as being just a smidge under 3000 pounds, making one of these Porsche 959sc units about 700 pounds lighter than Porsche's 918 Hybrid hypercar. While it's down about 100 horsepower on the 918, it's got the performance chops to hang with a car thirty years its junior. Bruce Canepa himself claims an unofficial 0-60 time of 2.5 seconds, and he 'ran out of road' at 223 miles per hour. They're working on getting a pro driver out to verify these claims. I offered my talents, but they politely declined.
If you're a tragically wealthy Porsche enthusiast with a desire for something to combine your dual passions for incredible speed and unique visual aesthetic, then a Porsche 959 Sport Canepa is the one for you. If your neighbor has a 918 Spyder, you can show them up with your one-off, 4,000 hours+ hand-assembled, 1980s icon with a similar propensity for speed, but without all the fancy computers. This is a truly analog hypercar assembled from original German components in Northern California. Four have been claimed, more are in the works, and the wait list is allegedly as long as my arm. Get your name on it before the spaces are all gone.
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I don't always write about the London Underground, honest I don't. But sometimes when I don't, readers nudge me via email and ask "you have seen this, haven't you?" And usually I have, I just haven't told you that I have. Tube-y things are announced in all sorts of places online, and I have no intention of simply rebroadcasting a stream of news items and latest developments published elsewhere. On this occasion, however, I'm capitulating before anyone else sends me an email about item number 1 below.
Underground-related stuff you could have seen elsewhere on the internet before you read it here, and probably did
1) Live train map for the London Underground: Ooh this is clever. TfL recently made available, in web-designer-friendly format, detailed information regarding where tube trains are and where they're going. So a friendly web designer called Matthew has knocked together the aforesaid information into a dynamic London tube map. It's a Google Map, so it's not beautiful underneath. It's rough and ready, so the trains move in straight lines between stations rather than along precisely correct tracks. It's not perfect, because sometimes TfL's data has big holes in it. And it's a bit rough and ready, because it was knocked up at a Science Hack Day over the weekend and was never meant for mass consumption. But enough of the caveats, it's great. Little yellow blobs move around town in approximate real time, with timing and destination information apparent if you click on them. You can spot gaps in the service, and bunching, and the fact that some lines are considerably busier than others. Watch for longer and the entire network shifts around, giving some idea of the complexity TfL face in keeping Londoners moving every day. Clever innit? And it's only the start.
2) API Beta: I mentioned above that TfL had recently made available lots of detailed tube-running information in web-designer-friendly format. Well, that information is here, on the london.gov.uk website, as part of a GLA initiative to release as much of the data that it holds as possible. As well as the "Train Predictions Service" there are also datafeeds for "Station status" and "Line status" which any budding codemonkey is free to turn into online applications galore. Here, for example, is the datafeed for District Line line trains due to pass through Earl's Court in the next half an hour. Change D to P and you get Piccadilly line trains instead. Change the line to N, and ECT to CTN, and you get Northern line information for Camden Town. Works for any line and almost any station, so long as you're using the correct codes (which are listed here). Even if you can't make the output look nice, you might relish the opportunities this raw data provides.
3) Aldwych station reopens: If you're a proper tubegeek, those are three words you'll have been longing to hear since 1994. The abandoned Piccadilly line station at Aldwych is high on the list of unattainable Underground destinations, although occasionally used by film crews and exceptionally fortunately mortals. Well, TfL are opening up Aldwych station for a fortnight, starting on Monday, and you'll all be able to take a look inside for free. Before you get too excited, you'll only be allowed into the ticket hall, not down to the disused platform. And it's only being opened to tempt you inside to view an exhibition on how the Tube is being transformed. But hey, this is Aldwych, and it's opening up next week. If your trousers are damp at the very thought, I suggest you change them now.
4) Tube strike: Oh my God there's a tube strike on. The world may end, there's a tube strike on. Bob Crow has said angry things. TfL have said conciliatory things. Panic, oh Londoners, because transport Armageddon is underway! Except, hang on, travelling passengers haven't thus far been excessively disrupted. This is merely union arm-flexing designed to make waves. It's media-filling bluster. I apologise for not mentioning it earlier.
5) Cheap rail tickets: OK, this isn't Underground-related, but it is a top tip for London rail travellers. If you're planning on taking an off-peak return trip out of the capital over the next month, there are some huge savings to be made. You have to travel off-peak, you have to start at a participating London terminus station, and you have to have an Oyster Card or Freedom Pass. But if that fits, simply pick a destination off the agreed list, pick a day to travel, and print out a voucher off the website. How do you fancy Chichester for a fiver, Warwick for £10, Liverpool for £15 or Cardiff for £20? Or all four, because there's plenty of time to fit in several return journeys before 25th July. Hell, you could even upgrade to First Class for not much more money. Here's the full list of possible destinations. Here's a map showing prices. And here's the voucher. Don't forget to tick the 'no publicity' box before you send your information. But, blimey, where to start?
and 6) Off The Rails: London author Christopher Fowler has just published his eighth Bryant and May mystery. It's the latest in his series of quirky crime novels featuring two octogenarian detectives at the Peculiar Crimes Unit, and this time the main action takes place in the deep recesses of the Underground network. Maybe even Aldwych station, you never know, I haven't read my copy yet. The hardback's not cheap, so you could always wait a year for the paperback, but where Bryant and May are concerned I can never hang on that long. The previous seven books come highly recommended, as does the rest of Mr Fowler's mystery-packed oeuvre. And I'm particularly looking forward to discovering whether the latest novel does indeed feature an obstructed 'next train indicator' at some crucial moment in the plot, because if so the inspiration started right here.
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Children lived in the England and returned every summer holiday to Spain to be with the mother. An order for return (to Spain) of four children had been ordered in the lower court under the Hague convention. The father appealed on the basis that the children’s views had not been given sufficient consideration on what they considered to be habitual residence. The children adamantly refused to go back to Spain. Appeal granted and the case was sent back to consider the children’s views with them now being joined as party to the case.
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Case of a mother abducting a child to Russia to frustrate a contact order to the father. The child and mothers’ whereabout being unknown. The rest of the family was brought to court and ordered to reveal the mother’s location. On failing to do so, they were threatened with contempt of court and imprisonment.
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The Human Body Essay, Research Paper
Before the portrayal of the human body can be critiqued, you must understand the artist’s culture.
As man evolved over centuries, his views of the body also transformed. Our tour definitely showed
the drastic changes in different cultures’ art. Each culture and era presents very distinct
characteristics. Through time and experimentation, we have expressed our views of the human
body clearly with our art. Egyptians were the first people to make a large impact on the world of
art. Egyptians needed art for their religious beliefs more than decoration or self-gratification. The
most important aspect of Egyptian life is the ka, the part of the human spirit that lives on after
death. The ka needed a physical place to occupy or it would disappear. Most of the important men
of Egypt paid to have their body carved out of stone. That was were the spirit would live after the
man dies. They used stone because it was the strongest material they could find. Longevity was
very important. The bodies are always idealized and clothed. Figures are very rigid, close-fisted,
and are built on a vertical axis to show that the person is grand or intimidating. Most of the figures
were seen in the same: profile of the legs, frontal view of the torso, and profile of the head. Like
most civilizations, Egyptians put a lot of faith in gods. The sky god Horus, a bird, is found in a
great amount of Egyptian art. Little recognition was ever given to the artists. The emphasis was on
the patron. Early Greek art was greatly influenced by the Egyptians. Geography permitted both
cultures to exchange their talents. The beginning of Greek art is marked by the Geometric phase.
The most common art during the Geometric phase was vase painting. After the vase was formed
but before it was painted, the artist applied a slip (dark pigment) to outside. Then the vase was fired
and the artist would incise his decorations into the hard shell. It was important to incise humans
into the fired slip and not paint with slip. The people in the pictures needed light colored skin,
which was the color beneath the slip, because Greeks wanted to make their art as realistic as
possible. Much like Egyptian art, the Greeks idealized the bodies of the people in their works. As
the Archaic Period evolved, Greek sculptures were almost identical to the Egyptians’. Unlike
Egyptians, the Greeks refined their techniques. Greeks used marble to construct their sculptures. It
was considered more valuable and beautiful than any material available. They softened the lines of
the body. Greek sculptors slowly perfected every contour in the human figure. Greek people
viewed the human body as something beautiful and so they depicted nude men. Women were
eventually nude but only when there was a reason, they needed to be bathing or something where
they would be naked. They people that are sculpted are always young and their bodies are still
idealized. The Greeks invented contrapposto, the relaxed natural stance of a sculpture. A figure that
is standing in contrapposto becomes a sculpture in the round, meaning that the emphasis is not
only on a frontal view but also from all angles. The Hellenistic Period emerged as the Romans
began to produce some of the finest art in history. This new revolutionary style was incredible.
Figures weren’t confined to the unnatural or boring positions they had for centuries. All body parts
were in perfect proportion. These statues came alive as their limbs reached out into space. Vacant
stares evolved into human emotions, which were easily recognized on their faces. I think this
renaissance portrayed the way people were thinking. They were exploring philosophy, religion, and
politics. This was a time for rebirth. Christian art was introduced during the middle of the second
century. In many cases the only difference between Christian art and Hellenistic art is the religious
subject matter. After a slow start the Christians introduced something new, the mosaic. Mosaics
became a favorite medium for decorating churches. Man was viewed in religious scenes due to the
spread of Christianity. Byzantine and medieval art was very representative. The artists’ ability to
produce lifelike figures had regressed. The emphasis was not on man anymore. Their art was made
to glorify God. The fifteenth century marked the arrival of the Renaissance. Artists have finally
recaptured the amazing detail and realism that the Greeks and Romans perfected. Artists pushed
the limits with new exciting mediums and bright colors. Filippo Brunelleschi, allowed artists to
determine the relative size of each figure by inventing the vanishing point perspective. With that
tool it was possible to put everything in perfect proportion. Humans were not always idealized as
they were in earlier centuries. Many elderly people are found in the paintings. Neoclassical
paintings commonly showed contemporary garments and scenes. History painting became very
popular. A larger transition was made when color was used to set a mood or express inner feelings.
Nothing like this had ever been considered. Man viewed his experiences as important stepping
stones. To assure that experiences aren’t forgotten they were preserved in artworks. Humans are
often used in modern art. Although the people may appear very large or important, they are usually
just vehicles used to convey a message to the audience. In Segal’s Red Light, we saw a man
walking alone in front of n old truck. The man was not colored at all. He seemed to be sauntering
across a street at night. A feeling of depression or sadness surrounds the man. The human is not
important but the emotion is. Most of the modern art uses the human body to portray a feeling or
emotion. Rarely will you find any new art that displays a humans because they extraordinary.
Romantic landscaping is incredible. The idea of most of these pieces is to show how insignificant
man is. Before humans were always the center of attention but now here they are almost trivial.
Artists like Thomas Cole show us what is pure and simple. The paintings use a lot of color to
create very natural, unaffected scenes. It seems that we come upon these landscapes almost by
accident. They depict ideal settings that are unscathed by the injustices of the world. In my opinion,
the beauty of these works is unsurpassed by any other art. Through the ages each culture had its
own interpretation of what the human body means. I have briefly explained a few of the broadest
views of the human body. In order to explain one in great detail would take volumes. I thoroughly
enjoyed Mona’s tour of the museum and I hope to see her there again.
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How To Get Into Zoology
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The Diary of A Young Girl is exactly that and much more
11:48 pm 1 March 2018
I reread this for the Catch-up Book Club on Goodreads, and I'm glad I did. The last time I read Anne's diary I was younger than she was while writing it, and again, I'm annoyed at myself for being such a dumb kid. Also, it's changed since my initial read. There's more and we get more background in the newest editions.
I hate using stars to "rate" a journal that itself says how boring, juvenile, tawdry, silly and personal it is repeatedly, but I'm going to if only to keep the rating I gave it earlier and reinforce it.
As an older reader I felt for Anne's parents early in the book. She is oblivious to the many goings-on in preparation to go into hiding. She's living a child's life with her new birthday diary, while her parents have moved the family more than once to avoid Hitler only to get stuck in Holland. Nonetheless, they prepare for hiding by taking things piece by piece to the annex and preparing as much as possible before being forced to flee. I was impressed by her father Otto's ability to allow her as much carefree childhood as he could during what must have been incredibly terrifying days.
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One moment really stood out to me. While discussing the war, Anne notes that despite nationality, she believes that after the war "We can never be just Dutch or just English or whatever, we will be Jews as well." This is, to me, a remarkable statement. While Zionism had already begun, it becomes very clear that Anne - isolated and sheltered from the worst thus far - has figured out something absolutely vital about the world post WWII and about identity when someone is part of a marginalized group in a larger society. Much earlier she had started wrestling between her German identity and her Jewish identity and she will begin to include her Dutch identity too.
The Diary of A Young Girl is exactly that and so much more.
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Attack vs. Defense
Started by david06, March 2
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2 minutes ago, jwilly said:
Oh, I assure you I've read them all at least twice.
In my experience of the science world, "arbitrary, subjective and situational" is just another way of saying "we haven't figured out metrics and an analytical framework for this, so even though a cross section of practitioners tell us it's important, we're assuming it doesn't matter."
But good luck. I've put a few thousand hours into this enterprise, partly from the semi-inside as you're doing now, so I do hope it doesn't fail.
You're assuming too much. We discussed at length how to measure unit value and how to attain the mythical balance - which has never existed, because spawnlists were either infinite or heavily biased (again according to the best model we could create). And as Scotsman have said repeatedly, even the US Army couldn't come up with a "combat efficiency" value for their real world kit despite years of data gathering and deep thinking: how do you expect us to best them? If you have the magic bullet, don't sit on it but share the love.
choad 484
8 minutes ago, aismov said:
That's exactly how they do it. Scotsman looked up historic data and found how much these things cost to produce. Each side has an equal "budget" to spend, so things like a Tiger are more expensive than a Panzer II, hence you can't have as many of them.
Noting the differences in equipment cost and factoring that into the game ... but ignoring pre-war military budgets and total dollars spent ..... well that is the root of the issue it seems to me. So ... saying the UK had a 37% disadvantage i guess was prob more historical in 1939 than assuming they had ....
a) the same GNP
b ) allocated the same % of their budget to the military.
I am not advocating that you bake GNP and such into the game. Just pointing out that it is a game ... we are already fudging the numbers here and there. CRS chooses to reflect history in one respect, but not the other. So .... the argument of not being able to break from this cost bugetimg approach in certain areas is pute non-sense.
I get it this is a ww2 simulator. Yeah use budget costing as a guide ... but gotta be flexible. And no .... the whole game will not crumble to the ground if certain allowances are made for gameplay. That's all i am saying.
10 minutes ago, choad said:
but ignoring pre-war military budgets and total dollars spent
We're also ignoring that the Allies out-produced Germany on the order of 3:1 to 5:1. We're ignoring Russia. We're ignoring things like pilot training, where Allied aircrew in 1944 had up to four years of training whereas German pilots got thrown in with a few months of basic training - if they were lucky. We're ignoring almost ALL of the historical stuff, except for bare production in equal currency (then-year dollars). We're just looking at the metal and the quality of work. All countries are equal in budgetary terms, or it wouldn't be fair. If you think Germany has a right to win the Blitzkrieg because they did duh, then you will have to accept that the Allied powers have a right to win anything post 1942. That's not how we operate.
Just now, BMBM said:
I agree with all of the things you pointed out! But ... the one measurable and historical truth that you are latching on to, and resisting any fudging on, is unit production costs. Do you understand how planting your stake in the ground on this and steadfastly using the budget cost argument to justify problematic toe disparaties is laughable to some? Given all of the other areas of the game where historical accuracy was cast asside in the name of gameplay and some other reason.....
The strategic element of this game should not be underestimated in its importance, or popularity. My guess is the number is far north of '20'.
if it was at all popular then I wouldn't see constant begging for people to join HC
the game is a MMOFPS, at the moment it does not have good pop beacuse the FPS experience is not good
insufficient roleplaying elements or inaccurate dollar cost values of spawnlists or whatever are not the reason for low pop, I have no idea why people are talking about these things when the thread is about the FPS game
when the unique strategic game here can get 1% of the concurrent players of Hearts of Iron then it might be labled "extremely niche", but it can't even get that (100+ HC officers per side at once would be unfathomable)
8 minutes ago, choad said:
Do you understand how planting your stake in the ground on this and steadfastly using the budget cost argument to justify problematic toe disparaties is laughable to some?
Sure, and I'm waiting with bated breath on an alternative model. This is the best and fairest we can do. If you have a better idea and can quantify it, be my guest. What is laughable, is the constant unsubstantiated sniping based on what "feels" right. Define and quantify your feeling and we shall listen.
Remember also that even with this model the Axis is favored because the one thing that the Allies had IRL which we can't provide here, is quantity over quality (except in marginal terms). Equal budgets does that. Thus the Axis have, in general, a qualitative, a quantitative and for the most part, a numerical advantage, relative to historical events and to in game realities.
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1 hour ago, BMBM said:
quality costs because quality kills.
LOL so much for all your pontificating about historical production costs, now you say it is down to "quality" and quality is not an exactitude, it is a subjective judgement.
Incidentally I agree with you (as do so many others posting in the umpteen threads that keep referring back to spawnlists), and am delighted that we can now discuss spawnlists based on the quality and in game performance (killing power) of the modelled equipment, after all, quality kills.
6 minutes ago, ian77 said:
You don't want to see me when I pontificate
I've been saying the same thing throughout. Higher production cost = greater quality. If you're opposed to that I don't know what to tell you. And no, it's not subjective - you'll have to ask Scotsman for the objective factors that went in the statistical model. Off hand, weight (more armor, greater weight), gun caliber, optics, number of engines, stuff like that. That's why an R35 costs more than a Vickers and a Heinkel more than a Stuka. These are all HARD scientific facts. We're not putting any mushy human factors in there, because they can't be quantified.
56 minutes ago, BMBM said:
We're also ignoring that the Allies out-produced Germany on the order of 3:1 to 5:1. We're ignoring Russia. We're ignoring things like pilot training, where Allied aircrew in 1944 had up to four years of training whereas German pilots got thrown in with a few months of basic training - if they were lucky. We're ignoring almost ALL of the historical stuff, except for bare production in equal currency (then-year dollars). We're just looking at the metal and the quality of work.
All countries are equal in budgetary terms, or it wouldn't be fair.
So you/CRS choose to ignore what suits you and insist that the base economic cost cannot be ignored. You can make the BEF be 40% of the deployed ground troops in WWIIOL, when they were less than 20%. You can deploy fantastical numbers of matildas, because your economic model allows it, whether or not the UK had manufactured them by T0 or not. You give allied ground troops non historically accurate doctrine SMGs and Autos, because the game is broken without them (and thank God CRS did a U-Turn on that one).
You keep saying every country has an equal budget. Presumably the French plus the British plus the Americans equals the axis budget? Just checking in case there is another typo like 4 Pnz 3s or no pak36s etc etc etc.
2 minutes ago, BMBM said:
And according to HMG the Matilda cost £18,000 to build. That puts it 300% more than the figures I have seen for the Stug IIIB. When we ask you to justify your figures you always respond with we did the research and it is top secret.
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Off hand, weight (more armor, greater weight), gun caliber, optics, number of engines, stuff like that.
this is how you're arriving at the silly numbers and how you're claiming a stug3b 'costs' the same as a matilda.
first, you're taking the cost of it, then you're attempting to define a combat effectiveness in a vacuum and I'm guessing weighting 'optics' very high in that calculaton. how else can a short barrel 75mm AFV with no turret nor MG cost the same as a matilda when the real world costs don't even come close to 'the same cost'? the optics are ALREADY accounted for in the total cost. to apply them again after the fact is arriving at a bias conclusion.
the fact you continue to justify this continues to erode your position. how many more threads do we need before this over matches your mental armor block?
let me guess, 'you come up with the solution' ... uh huh. let's say someone did, how many threads would it take to actually get through? the answer - about as many licks as it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
@XOOM - this doesn't make sense to many of your players. this topic has come up in many many threads, most get locked at some point as there is no apparent meeting of the minds. the model mostly works but falls down in certain edge cases that need some resolution.
14 minutes ago, ian77 said:
the logical fallacy here is know as appeal to authority. you can't crack this nut as scotsman has X years in the real world with real weapons systems design. you won't ever be able to convince them as they've bought into this lock stock and barrel. in order to 'win' you'd have to out credential scotsman, since that isn't possible, 'the model' wins by default despite the obvious edge case issues we're dealing with on an otherwise pretty solid foundational model.
Apologies to the OP, the thread has been derailed by yet another spawnlist debate.
Attacking is tough in this game. Defending is easier.
Attacking needs teamwork, leadership, morale, and numbers. Axis have this more of the time than the allies, therefore Axis win maps.
I saw Hamza trying to get an allied AO going yesterday, he used three accounts to set three frus to the AO to Lier, allies were overpop early T1, and he couldn't get anyone to join his attack. My excuse is I was in one of the spawnables on the DO.
Whatever man .... after this i'm just done arguing the point with you. Your knee-jerk reflex when discussing this it to get hyper-defensive and ignore the substance of the argument. I will say it one more time..... I am all for historical introduction dates, all for your unit costing approach and even for your historic brig composition. What i am not for is an unwillingness to modify equipment numbers and brig composition when the disparity causes some pretty substantial imbalance issues.
Don't sit there and act like you are the target of naysayers in the back row throwing stones but not offering solutions. That simply isn't true. Many, many people have brought forward ideas or tweeks to the spawn list that they would like to see .... to balance it out a bit. I have not heard people advocating that you should take your work, wipe your rear with it, and light it on fire. Yet to me ... many of your responses seem to characterize any criticism as just that. The fact that you curl up in a defensive shell and refuse to hear any of it so as to defend the whole unit cost concept ... not my problem.
BTW .. i am an exclusively Allied player so don't write me off as an Axis blitz apologist.
in this threads derailed topic, sacrificing FPS gameplay (gameplay balanced spawnlists) in the name of reenactment/simulation gameplay (real life $$$ spawnlists).
aspects of the tactical layer has been sacrificed by the new ToE; 8 matties and the removal of panzers from the axis inf flags while removing panzers from axis inf, and the complete dismissal of basic game functions, like axis need 2x the supply$ for half track, as well as ignoring the capabilities of every single unit. for the sake of a simulation based ToE
there are more examples of sacrificing needlessly and ignoring the consequences. this isn't the first time the devs sailed full speed into an iceburg a mile away. they've proven themselves blind man, saying there is no iceburg isn't helping their ship stay afloat.
Changing the spawnlists does not sacrifice FPS gameplay---it alters it, makes it more challenging, makes it more re-playable, by giving MORE variables to consider when attacking or defending. You have seen Bmbm's posts where he has pointed out ad nauseum that the spawnlists were NEVER properly balanced. They may have been in your opinion, but they weren't, and part of the effort at moving towards a more historically accurate spawnlist is to correct the imbalances that have existed in this game for years and years. Imbalances that arguably are the root cause of problems existing on the Allied side for well over a decade, that received crickets from you, help-wise. Where was your outrage at the imbalances that existed before? Were they as vociferous as they are now, when imbalance isn't the issue, but 'balance' that doesn't favor you is?
You say that game issues caused the Luftwaffe to arrive somewhere between nonexistent and severely degraded in effectiveness, and you have cited ahistorical performance issues, to which I and others have pledged their support in finding remedies for.
You claim that without putting panzers in every brigade (some are even advocating having them in every blessed town), that 'attacking is too hard, and defending is too easy', and yet every night I play TZ3 the germans are taking towns without using any tanks at all, sometimes from towns/brigades with panzer brigades IN them.
'Nobody is going to bring tanks from another town because it is too much effort and the game is flawed for thinking otherwise', but yesterday, an Allied attack on Anhee (that I participated in) was a scintilla away from taking the town, until, wait for it.... axis players brought tanks from the town behind Anhee, and crushed the attack, (S! to those involved, btw, it was a fun fight, and though the Allied attack failed it was a blast).
You claim the AOs are dead, but when I spawn in 5 minutes after you post it, the AOs are packed with activity.
Relatively historically accurate spawnlists do not equal reenactment, and do not sacrifice FPS gameplay. They cause adjustments at the strategic and tactical layers of this game. Adjustments that are perfectly capable of being made by the players involved, on both sides, and will result in better campaigns and better overall gameplay. All that and CRS is perfectly willing to make changes if/when errors and/or imbalances occur.
All that and we're probably 2 months away from 1.36, which will throw all of these discussions into the weeds, (no doubt replacing them with others).
I believe if you took a step back, you would be at significant risk of seeing that you and I are not enemies (except in-game when you are playing for the dark side), and that you and CRS are not enemies, either. Neither is the playerbase the enemies of CRS----we ALL want the game to succeed. We ALL want more players in-game. We all want the Allies to win every campaign... wait, that's just me.
1 hour ago, david06 said:
Your assertion fails to note that most of the veteran players HAVE served in the respective HCs, some for years and years, (many multiple times, and most returning for additional tours of 'duty' from time to time), and it fails to understand that even players (like myself) who do enjoy the strategical layer of the game do not always have the time necessary to properly serve in the HC(s).
Your conclusion that the population is where it is due to the 'FPS experience not being good' is an opinion, just like some others in the thread are of the opinion that the population is due to the current spawn lists.
HOI is a great game, no doubt, and it has a lot of loyal players, no doubt. (I'm still debating whether to continue sticking with HOI2, or move up to HOI4). HOI's strategic layers are deep, effective, and awesome----and they aren't as challenging as the strategic layer in WWIIOnline is. In HOI, when I send a division onto the attack, it attacks no questions asked. My 'leadership' is not questioned, and has zero bearing on how the division's attack will go beyond whatever enemy forces are awaiting their arrival. In WWIIOnline, it is a whole different animal. Having a strategical 'plan' is just the very beginning of the challenges involved in leading in WWIIOnline. Having been in real world military, and being a huge fan of HOI, I can say that without question leading in WWIIOnline is far more difficult than HOI, and it is far more difficult than leading in the real world military, (caveat/qualifier being that I never had the responsibility of leading troops into an actual battle, which would have a significant chance of changing my conclusions). Players have every right to not follow your plan, your 'orders/requests', and so on. Players spawn what they want when they want, and use the equipment how they want. Making an attack and/or defense work effectively in WWIIOnline's environment requires a special level of leadership abilities that doesn't exist/isn't required for HOI, or for that matter, the real world.
1 hour ago, madrebel said:
the optics are ALREADY accounted for in the total cost. to apply them again after the fact is arriving at a bias conclusion.
The cost of the optics is only applied once and yes it's included in the total cost. I fully understand that you don't like the model, particularly since you're not privy to its details, or its effects - I get that. But until someone comes up with a better model, this is it. And no, I'm not saying the current budget disposition is final - there may yet be tweaks. All I ask is try to keep this constructive and civil.
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That's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it
3 hours ago, BMBM said:
Read again. Combat effectiveness (QV) isn't factored in because it can't be objectively defined. Production costs IS impartial and objective, and funnily/bizarrely enough also to some degree reflective of what we as general players (subjectively) perceive as a unit's combat effectiveness.
Yet wargames have done this for decades.
And somehow Trevor Depuy did too and created a working predictive total force model.
Hmmmm. HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
1 hour ago, choad said:
What i am not for is an unwillingness to modify equipment numbers and brig composition when the disparity causes some pretty substantial imbalance issues.
There is no such unwillingness.
4 minutes ago, Kilemall said:
There's no game like our game. If you, by your own devices and/or helped by Depuy or whomever you may want to call on for support, can define a formula that takes human and situational factors into account - go for it. I am, sad to say, not brainy enough to devise such a thing.
I fully understand that you don't like the model
then you're fully wrong. the model is mostly fine, as ive said countless times. the edge cases though aren't being addressed. worse many comments indicate you don't even think its a problem cause, you know "the model" is fair and balanced. in most cases it is that, in others due to whatever factors, it isn't.
fix those and the arguments go away. dig your heels in and you'll continue to have this conversation.
38 minutes ago, madrebel said:
the edge cases though aren't being addressed.
Like the Matilda, the B1bis, the Tiger and what else? I have a hard time artificially pumping up the $ value of these units, or any unit in isolation, based on what factors exactly? The same X value would have to apply to any such edge case - and where does one draw the line? How come the Churchill is absent from the equation? What happens when the Tiger II, the Panther, the PzJ IV, the Ferdinand, the Lee/Grant, the various flakvierlings, the M16, the Sherman Jumbo and the Lancaster gets into the game?
Show me the math here, because I simply can't see it. Not trying to be obtuse but we have to use something else than our gut feeling in defining balance.
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6 hours ago, Capco said:
While this is true to a point, it's also true that having an AO up is not a negative if it is drawing in a lot of defenders that would otherwise be attacking. And with everyone's propensity to freak out at the first sight of light EWS, it frequently works. Even if the AO has no attackers and just few defenders going to bust the FB, that's 3 fewer guys that could be capping at the DO.
AOs always have a purpose imo, even if it's just the threat the AO itself imposes. And Allied TZ3 players are some of the best guys to work with.
I am going to respectfully disagree, but that all comes down to just how Underpop and low pop you are. It doesn't take a rocket scientist on the Axis side to figure out they have the advantage in numbers (cap timers do that for them). So if Axis is trying to defend a town with 7 people and Axis are attacking with 14, losing two people on the allied side to go setup a fms, etc etc, wait to cap, etc, is all just wasted time while the DO town gets overwhelmed. They could get the same interaction (the players that wanted an AO, and at least serve some purpose, if they instead attacked an EFB that was supplying the town that was under attack.
I am not going to claim it never works as you suggest, but I will claim it is much more often a liability than it is an asset.
Well, I am not personally acquainted with him and he's dead, but his institute lives on and plenty of books about. I expect Scotsman is conversant with his work, since if nothing else Trevor would have probably messed with acquisition pitch justifications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_N._Dupuy
https://www.amazon.com/Trevor-N.-Dupuy/e/B0034OOF4G%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AT+N+Dupuy&s=relevancerank&text=T+N+Dupuy&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
Dupuy (darn was spelling it wrong) developed the QJM, Quantitative Judgement Model, which using principles from ancient warfare until modern, predicted the lopsided victory in Desert Storm. It Rocks.
Here's a simplified look at the QJM- it takes entire books to do properly, but you can get the idea here-
https://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Planning/Simplified_Wargaming.htm
Oh lookie there, terrain. Who knew.
It's bigger younger brother, TNDM, is a professional analysis set for sale. Obviously beyond CRS' budget and certainly mine, and I'm sure the references to diskettes date the software. But the underlying process is still functional.
http://www.dupuyinstitute.org/tndm.htm
The wargamer faction in the think tank wars are not popular in weapons acquisition and force building policy as they have a tendency to not really care about institutional politics and 'not invented here', but results independent of whose skin is in the game, or gets burned.
In a wargaming forum some pros watch, we set off a USAF officer that was NOT happy about characterizations of what happened in the Balkans, even though the facts are there. Same thing with QJM, which involves (GASP SHUDDER) human judgement for the inputs. But damn, it yields better results.
Anyway, ya, this is where I'm coming from, along with decades of wargames with point values for units in scenarios. Even if it's not a straight up scenario but by points of how 'well you lose', even in historical scenarios forces have to be quantified to judge how to balance victory conditions.
This isn't new. And, the wargaming approach WORKS. Professionally.
https://www.strategypage.com/wargames-handbook/chapter/9-7-iraq.aspx
you're not trying to be obtuse, but you're doing a great job. "show me the math" when you know we can't as we don't see the back end. you're asking us to do the impossible while standing on your appeal to the authority of the infallible model.
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pretty spot on.
fix it or don't - i'm done arguing and supporting the game.
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Anil Ambani lost $30bn in 2008: Forbes
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Industrialist Anil Ambani continues to be on the focus of US magazine Forbes but this time around for topping the list of Billionaire blow ups of 2008 by virtue of turning the biggest loser of wealth in less than a year of being touted as the biggest gainer in the world.
Besides ranking him as sixth richest person in the world with a net worth of 42 billion dollars, Forbes had credited him for having added maximum wealth in its last annual rankings in March. Since then, his net worth has declined to 12 billion dollars, the magazine said in a news report titled "Billionaire Blowups of 2008".
"The biggest loser of all was Anil Ambani. Touted on the cover of our 2008 billionaires issue for having added 24 billion dollars to his fortune in one year, Ambani has dropped 30 billion dollars since then," the report said.
The report further added that three of "his fellow countrymen--estranged brother Mukesh, steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Indian K P Singh, all of whom ranked earlier among the world's 10 richest--lost more than 20 billion dollar apiece."
Noting that 2008 was "a dreadful year for the world's wealthiest as markets and currencies around the world tumbled," Forbes said that over 300 of the 1,125 billionaires have lost at least one billion dollars since March.
While several dozen have lost more than five billion dollars, the 10 richest from annual 2008 rankings have lost about 150 billion dollars.
This is primarily driven by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, estranged brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani and property baron K P Singh together losing 100 billion dollars.
The publication has also listed out its top "10 Billionaire Blowups," noting that "even in such an awful year, the stories of a few billionaires and now former billionaires stand out as particularly dreadful."
"The biggest billionaire gainer last March is now the year's biggest loser. Ambani lost 30 billion dollars in the past nine months, more than anyone in the world.
"Stock of his telecom company dropped after his estranged brother helped scuttle a deal with African telecom MTN."
Forbes, however, noted that with 12 billion dollars worth of fortune, Anil Ambani "remains quite wealthy... That is something many others can't claim".
The list of 10 billionaire blowups includes two more Indians -- wind power major Suzlon's chief Tulsi Tanti and online gambling firm PartyGaming's founder Anurag Dikshit.
"Dozens of the world's wealthiest lost billions in recent months, yet these 10 distinguish themselves for some of the biggest flops. But they lost more than money. Some lost board seats. Several faced margin calls. A couple got in trouble with the law. All suffered hits to their reputations."
Tulsi Tanti's wealth dropped by 2.5 billion dollars to stand at 500 million dollars, while Dikshit's current net worth is about one billion dollars, down from 1.6 billion dollars in March 2008.
Others among these 10 include Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, Iceland's Bjorgflur Gudmundsson, Spain's real estate player Luis Portillo, China's Wong Kwong Yu and Larry Yung and Ukraine's Konstantin Zhevago.
On Tanti, it said that the wind was knocked out of Tanti and his wind firm, Suzlon Energy, amid reports about the poor quality of its wind turbine blades, some of which cracked.
"The company's 25 million dollar provision to fix faulty blades didn't do much to boost investor confidence.
The stock has plunged 80 per cent since March," it added.
Dikshit, the designer of the software for PartyPoker game recently pleaded guilty for violating American web gaming laws and also agreed to forfeit 300 million dollars.
"He could face up to two years in jail but apparently won't be sentenced until 2010. He has already paid 100 million dollars of his fine and will pay the rest in two instalments next year," the magazine said.
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bad year for him !
and the investors in his company
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Nobody can be blamed.
After world war II this scenario has come and it totally due to devloped countries messed financial system.
Things started year ago in the U.S., Subprime loans and all huge wealth has vanished.
I think now almost every people who keeps the interest in business and finance, knows the real facts, that even Greenspan (former FED Chief) has admitted error which happened in their financial system.
So it is natural disasster, which happened like all of sudden earthquake or Sunami, so it is so called financial sunami.
Revival will take place but it may take further 1 and 1/2 year.......
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones every dog that barks.
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Jun 29, 2015, 3:35 pm
The single-night rates for the two-bedroom Grand Suite start at $1,139 and the three-bedroom starts at $1,300. Courtesy of Hyatt Regency Houston
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The downtown Hyatt Regency Houston bills itself as the city's only hotel to feature two-story hotel suites — and now they're gotten better.
The two Grand Suites, located on the 29th floor of the 34-floor hotel, not too far below the Spindletop revolving rooftop restaurant, have recently been refurbished.
One suite features three bedrooms, including an upstairs master suite with a sitting area, dual walk-in showers, double vanity and spacious closet with a private makeup area.
The other suite has two bedrooms, as well as the other features of the larger suite, including a large sitting area, a dining/conference table with room for eight, as well as a wet bar and serving space. The two Grand Suites also feature large HDTV’s, desktop computer and printer in master bedrooms, Keurig coffee center, walk-in closets and refrigerator.
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A single-night rate for the two-bedroom Grand Suite starts at $1,139 and the three-bedroom starts at $1,300.
UPDATE: While the Hyatt bills itself at the only hotel with multi-story suites, a representative for Hotel Icon and Hotel Sorella tells CultureMap that both properties have multi-story suites. Hotel Icon has featured a two-story and three-story suite since opening in 2004 and Hotel Sorella in CityCentre recently added two, two-story suites to its inventory of 22 penthouses.
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by Arno Maierbrugger - Aug 13, 2014
Singapore Airlines and Tata Sons Ltd. said on August 11 that they have named their new airline Vistara and plan to start flights in October.
The new full-service airline – which will compete with Jet Airways India and Air India Ltd. – should have up to five Airbus 320 single-aisle jets by December, Phee Teik Yeoh, chief executive of Tata SIA Airlines Ltd. said at a news conference.
He said the plan is to increase the fleet size to 20 planes in five years – which would include seven A320-200 planes and 13 A320neo jets.
“We believe that there is an immense potential in the aviation sector in India,” Yeoh said.
The name Vistara is derived from the Sanskrit word Vistaar, which means limitless expanse, the company said. Its logo is built around an eight-pointed star which the company said is a symbol of the unbounded universe.
Tata SIA Airlines is owned 51 per cent by Tata Sons, and the remainder by Singapore Airlines.
Tata has another new airline, AirAsia India Pvt., a joint venture of Malaysia’s AirAsia and India’s Telestra Tradeplace which started offering flights in June.
The entry of Vistara comes as most airlines in India are losing money because of rising fuel prices, high airport charges and intense competition that hasn’t allowed to them to increase fares.
Despite the current challenges, companies and analysts predict that Asia’s third-largest economy will grow to become one of the biggest aviation markets in the world by 2020.
“We are confident about the timing of the launch of this joint venture and it will stimulate demand,” said Mukund Rajan, member of the group executive council of Tata Sons, and director of Tata SIA.
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Rihanna Is Now Officially Dating Drake: Report
Posted on: May 15, 2016 Last updated on: October 14, 2018 Written by: admin
Well, whether you do or don’t, it seems like she definitely did, and perhaps now is the time that baggage ain’t as heavy. Drizzy and RiRi have been at the top of couple speculation and fan-shipping for years now, with their musical collaboration only fueling the flame, and although they’ve taken a crack at the love game before, it never stuck—until now? News has learned that the two stars are dating again, and that the feelings never faded on Drake’s end. Rihanna is the one that’s been not wanting to settle down in the past,” the insider tells us. Their music together got them close again. In fact, the OVO rapper made a surprise appearance during her concert in Manchester to perform the hard-to-understand-but-undoubtedly-catchy track, and the chemistry was undeniable.
Rihanna Calls Jennifer Lopez “Desperate” for Dating Drake (EXCLUSIVE)
Rihanna and Drake Dating News: The two were reported to have split and now, reports say that Rihanna doesn’t want a serious relationship, and she just wants to have fun. Rihanna and Drake may not really be dating, but multiple rumors hint otherwise. Nevertheless, RiRi could be watching out for “possible” competitors for her alleged beau, such as Jhene Aiko. There were rumors that stated Aiko got close with Drake while they were on the tour this year, but “The Worst” singer denied all allegations.
He heard her sing and knew she was going to be incredibly successful.
Brown allegedly flew into a rage after Drake taunted him by returning a bottle of champagne he’d sent over as ‘peace offering’ with a note reading: Drakes crude response was clearly a reference to Brown’s ex-girlfriend Rihanna. Scroll down to see the video Best of enemies: Drake, left, and Chris Brown, right, seen partying on opposite sides of club WiP before the night ended in bottle throwing with Chris sustaining a cut to the chin The aftermath: Broken glass can be seen strewn across the bar following the Chris and Drake fight Clash: Drake allegedly threw a punch but before the singer could retaliate, another man hit Brown in the face with a bottle.
A source told the New York Post: The source said someone from Drake’s entourage, possibly the singer himself, threw a bottle. Police were already at the scene because it was closing time and that they ‘were on it in seconds and began getting everyone out of the club. Brown was pulled out of the situation by his own security and helped out of the club while Drake was pulled to the back of the club, the source said.
An Australian tourist, Hollie C, 24, and Brown’s bodyguard Big Pat were among the five people injured according to the NYPD The New York Police department confirmed to the Global Grind that the two singers’ crews got into a fight at Manhattan nightclub – 5 people were injured in the melee including Chris’ bodyguard who suffered a serious cut to the head, two other men and two women suffered minor cuts.
At least three were hospitalised. Police were looking at surveillance footage and talking to patrons who witnessed the melee. No arrests have been made and no complaints filed.
Rihanna & Drake cement their love on stage (and “with a tattoo”…)
December 17, After reportedly dumping Matt Kemp for cheating, has Rihanna moved onto a relationship with Drake? It’s not the first time rumors have surfaced about Rihanna and rap’s flavor of the month Drake better known to teenybopper types as a Degrassi star back in the day. And now that she may be parting ways with baseballer Matt Kemp, she could be strutting back into Drake’s waiting arms once again.
She would sell clothes in a street stall with her dad, who was addicted to crack cocaine.
Instagram obsessed follow me: Getty Images Advertisement This week they shared a kiss on stage in Miama and then, whilst performing her hit Work, he dropped down and put her crotch in his face on stage. Instead of walking away, RiRi gripped his head and flashed the crowd a sneaky smile. The pair have been constantly linked over the years but it seems they’re together for real this time. Apparently she’s even cemented their relationship with her new tattoo of a shark.
Supposedly the new camo shark was choosen as a reference to one of their dates, where he took her to an aquarium in Toronto and bought her a stuffed animal shark. A post shared by Bang Bang Tattoo bangbangnyc on Sep 1, at On 29th of August , we wrote Rihanna and Drake have occupied our thoughts for a while now – we just wish that he’d declare his love for her on stage or something. Getty Images Advertisement Drake, looking very nice in a a tux, was presenting Rihanna with the Vanguard Award at the VMAs, recalled his first time meeting Rihanna in while she was shooting a video at a Toronto restaurant where he worked.
Drake and Rihanna
Drake dedicated a billboard in Los Angeles to Rihanna. While RiRi is yet to receive the award in hand, celebrations have already started, at least for Drake. Drake wrote a congratulatory message on the billboard. Such an extraordinary gesture from Drake has, for all the right reasons, sparked the dating rumors once again.
Apr 11, Getty Images Ever since Drake took to the VMAs stage in a tuxedo and pronounced his undying love for Rihanna to the entire world , the internet has been obsessed with trying to figure out whether they are lovers or just insanely close friends.
She works hard, plays harder, and never apologizes for anything. Rihanna is ready for her close-up. Now back up off her. In between bites, she explains how to take a flattering selfie for Instagram. Her heavy gold necklace slinks around the front of her black adidas sweatshirt as she turns to order spaghetti semplice from the server. Rihanna enunciates every word and hits every consonant, her hands dancing as she talks.
After putting in work all week in L.
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By Cady Lang Updated: September 1, 1: Here, a comprehensive review of their non-relationship relationship. Rihanna tells radio personality Angie Martinez during a Hot 97 interview that she and Drake are strictly friends. The song he wrote for her, however, never got released and he spoke in less than glowing terms about their relationship.
Jay-Z and Ne-Yo also feature on the album and Justin Timberlake co-wrote ‘Rehab’ and sang backing vocals for the track.
And yesterday Rihanna appeared to clear up exactly what she has been smoking by quoting some lyrics from rapper Drake’s song Up All Night on her Twitter page. I prefer the better things! Rihanna was spotted smoking a suspicious looking cigarette for the second day running on her Hawaiian holiday Is that the best idea? Rihanna took the cigarette with her for a dip in the ocean
A Definitive Timeline of Drake and Rihanna’s Relationship From the minute he first fell in love with her to this very day. Apr 11, Getty Images Ever since Drake took to the VMAs stage in a tuxedo and pronounced his undying love for Rihanna to the entire world , the internet has been obsessed with trying to figure out whether they are lovers or just insanely close friends.
The two have been notoriously tight-lipped about putting a label on their relationship, but it just takes a quick look at their history together to see that they’ve always been soul mates. According to Drake’s VMAs speech , he was “introduced to her as the kid who played background music as people ate their dinner. Drake and Rihanna are spotted making out at a Lucky Strike bowling alley in New York, two months after her split from Chris Brown and three months after Brown assaulted her.
A Page Six report quotes an onlooker saying, “She was drinking whiskey and apple juice and making out with him all night.
But it was like a dinner after Kimmel, everyone that was there came.
She was presented with an area of land in Appes Hill, St. James, Barbados, in a tribute to her work. In Combermere Schoool, she formed a musical group with two of her classmates. In , she was crowned Miss Combermere in a local beauty pageant, as well as performing in the ‘Colours Of Combermere’ school show. She received her big break aged 15, when a friend introduced her to Evan Rogers, a music producer who was on vacation on the island. Rogers and his partner, Carl Sturken recorded Rihanna’s material in the U.
One of these copies reached Jay-Z, who eventually signed her to his Def Jam label. Rihanna has named Beyonce, Brandy Norwood and her upbringing in the Caribbean as the major influences on her music. Music Of the Sun was Rihanna’s debut album, released in The track was co-written by Rogers, Sturken and Rihanna and reached number two in the U. Billboard Hot and the UK singles chart. The album itself received platinum certification for selling over 2 million units worldwide and Rihanna promoted the album by touring as Gwen Stefani’s opening act.
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Melodee Coda
Subject: Melodee Coda Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:58 pm
Name: No given name known, but real last name is Coda.
Nickname/Alias: Melodee Coda, or just Mel. It was a nickname given to her by the counselors at the facility, due to both having relations to music.
Age: Appears to be around 16. Hormonal imbalances that she has been observed to have may indicate she is older than she appears, and is actually 18.
Affiliation: Wastelander. Her affiliation is currently to Karl.
Relations: One adoptive mother, Penelope Murphy, known to be deceased. Any other family relations are unknown, as her biological parents disappeared shortly after her birth, the information of them recorded is their last name 'Coda'. She is currently travelling with Karl Shanks, the badass cowboy.
Height: Stands fairly short a 5'4".
Appearance: Melodee has long and dark chestnut brown that ends at around her waist, tied back in a single pigtail. She has deep and dark eyes coloured similarly to her hair, and has the appearance of being perpetually wide-eyed, which constantly stares at people and rarely seems like they are actually blinking. Her body is small and seemingly underdeveloped, due to the lack of curves, and almost seems frail if one were to ignore her constant output of energy. But that appearance is deceptive and non-indicative of her actual strength, rather, it being a side-effect of hormonal imbalance. Her body is surprisingly muscular upon closer inspection, something which many think does not correlate with her normal appearance. She is also heavily scarred around her torso and arms, with some down at hers legs, and only one large scar on her forehead, most of which are hidden fairly well by her clothing. Her presence is also something which creeps people out when paying attention, due to her face being locked into that of a childish smile and her lack of blinking, which many counselors have noted 'her eyes looks like a dead fish, despite her usual cheerfulness, as if she's just a soulless husk'.
As far as clothing goes, simplicity and ease of movement is all she cares about. She generally wears a brown and baggy button t-shirt, with two font breast pockets, tucked into dark brown trousers with a belt, which was normally meant to be casual and light clothing. The most noticeable thing about her clothing is how it is way too large for her stature, and she deals with this by tucking her shirt way into the trousers, and rolling up her sleeves and pants. She wears worn brown leather boots that she was surprised to actually find in her size. She stole all of these from some dead guy.
Weapons: Melodee's main weapon is a red fire axe which has had half of its handle sawn off for ease of use, and to make it lighter to carry around. Melodee is fairly proficient with most small melee weapons, and makes extensive use of her near acrobatic agility. But due to experimentation is methods of killing people, she also carries around a sawn-off double barreled shotgun -- mainly due to the absolutely devastating effect it has upon close range, but she is less than adept at using it, much preferring to just use it in emergencies. She keeps both of these tucked into her trousers.
Personality: The most basic way to label Melodee would be to call her sadistic and psychotic, with several psychopathic tendencies and an almost disturbing disposition for being childishly cheerful no matter what the situation be. However, while she does take great pleasure in torturing and killing people in horrendous ways, even having been seen singing upbeat songs and nursery rhymes right in the middle of a battle with a giant grin plastered on her face, it goes much deeper than just being a wanton and indiscriminate murderer. Melodee abides by a bizarre and almost alien system of principles and morality, which dictates who she wishes to harm and who she wishes to protect and abide by. Anybody that Melodee dictates upon first impression as being 'boring', then she sets herself to kill that person, at least eventually. Similarly, if she meets someone who she deems the opposite of that, as being 'interesting' or 'fun', then the very concept of harming a single hair on that person's body is the most horrendous act one can perpetrate, and will be fiercely loyal in protecting that person to best of her ability. There is no middle ground in her labeling a person, they are either one of the two, with varying degrees of interest and hatred.
From this, comes the 'contract' system. When Melodee finds a person which she feels to be especially 'interesting', then she 'signs' a mental 'contract' with that person. She'll do whatever that person asks her to, she'll fight for them, protect them, almost whatever they ask she'll do without a hint of hesitation. To her, it is considered as a form of expressing some bizarre type of 'love', but to anyone else it is considered to be deranged and outright emotionally co-dependent. It should be noted that she more or less has no concept of 'normal' morality, ideas like what is 'good' or 'evil' are completely foreign to her, she has no idea that what she does is considered horrendous. When she holds a 'contract' with a person, then their morality, is her morality.
For a clinical psychopath, Melodee is surprisingly affable. Whilst in the facility, she was described once as being akin to a "cheerful, yet astonishingly polite, child -- who just happens to be absolutely insane". However, how sincere that cheerfulness varies on whether or not she likes that person. When around a person she likes, she will be genuinely considerate and friendly, remaining consistently polite. When around one she doesn't like, then she'll appear to be very similar, but only superficially, as she'll be planning hundreds of different ways for her to brutally murder them. Apart from this, Melodee rarely thinks through many of her decisions and seems completely unable to see the consequences of her actions, and to many can seem nigh suicidal in her sheer disregard for her physical well-being, despite her agility.
Sexuality: Asexual (at least currently), due to hormonal imbalance. Sexuality is almost an unknown concept to her. As far as romantic relationships and the idea of 'love' go, that is not a foreign idea to her, but is still one that can confuse her greatly.
Preferences: Not applicable, due to asexuality. However, when it comes to determining who she classes as 'interesting' or 'boring', it is a rather superficial affair. She bases people solely on emotional first impressions, from people that have some kind of strikingly 'different' feature, or due to having an aspect of which she feels she can relate (which is rare, due to her lack of empathy). This can mean anything from wearing a piece of clothing that she considers 'cool', to just behaving in a manner which surprises her.
Likes: - Cake!
- Soda!
- Hats!
- Cute fluffy creatures!
- Bloody mass murder! Yay!
Dislikes: - Boring people!
- Boring people talking!
- Boring people walking!
- Boring people being boring!
- Boring people not splattered all over the wall!
History/Biography: If it were not for her sociopathic adoptive mother, Melodee's life may have actually played out fairly normally. For unknown reasons, her parents gave her up for adoption instantly after having been born -- no information about them are known apart from having told the adoption center that they were too young to be parents, and that they hoped she would have a happy life, and that they wished whoever adopted her would be the one to name her. The little girl, who caretakers just referred to as the parents last name, Coda, and stayed at the adoption center for little under than a few months before being adopted by a young couple, both in their late twenties. Both seemed normal enough, even if the man was a bit nervous, and was given Coda with very little opposition.
The man was found dead two months later, and the woman, ay as well have disappeared off the face of the planet with the child. In actuality, the woman went into hiding several states across, and enacted upon her deranged obsession with creating a 'perfect modern-day warrior'. Being years in the making, the woman had planned and put into action an underground fighting arena, building up a secret base, having contacted several people to help, and made sure to only tell people who were, within a reasonable doubt, trustworthy to not contact the authorities. At first, several years prior, the fighting arena was a simple, particularly violent fight between two consenting adults, but Penelope wanted to expand into something larger.
More people became aware of it, and bets began to take place. The arena expanded out into allowing the use of melee weapons that were accepted as being ‘fair’. When someone was finally killed in the arena, which was when Penelope adopted the small girl, putting her plans into motion to expand into more ‘interesting’ avenues. Penelope and her associates began kidnapping people and forcing them into fighting until they were killed, all the while ‘preparing’ little Coda. At the ridiculous age of four, she began physical training, although Penelope still recognised her age and the limitations of that, the amount of exercise the child had was still pushing it way too far, and for a child, it was hellish.
Coda killed her first person in the arena at the age of six. It was a seven year old boy that Penelope had kidnapped, forcing him into the arena with the girl and telling him that freedom was simply ‘killing the girl’. The boy, instead, broke down crying, refusing to do so. But Coda, having been indoctrinated by Penelope from since she was adopted, viewed killing the boy as being something of a rite of passage – something normal.
This went on normally for quite a while, Melodee fighting more and more people, and the arena growing in members. It soon became impossible for the existence of such as place to go unnoticed, that the police and those associated had to be heavily bribed for them to 'ignore' it. But after another eight years of fights, Coda turning 14 and still having never seen the outside of the arena and the cage she was kept in, the arena was finally exposed to a part of the police that wouldn't be bought, and was subsequently raided by them. Many people were arrested, but some people, including Penelope, fought back and were killed in self-defense.
An interesting thing they found was a large group of children, each contained in cages that were big enough for them to at least sit up in, one of which was several meters away from any other cage, as if it were dangerous to them. There they found Coda, a perpetually smiling young girl wearing rags and covered in scars. As she regarded the first officer to open the cage rather politely, he didn't really expect anything from her, but as the second officer at the scene describes "as the cage opened, the girl leapt at me like she was a cat who saw a ball of thread!" and bit him directly on the neck. They managed to subdue her, the man surviving, albeit severely injured, and she was quickly deemed heavily mentally unstable, being sent to a high-security part of a psychiatric facility for evaluation.
Results, to say the least, were interesting. While labeling her as psychotic and psychopathic would be accurate, they found it was disingenuous to just leave it at that. If anything, they found her behavior differed greatly depending simply on who she was with. When one psychologist was sent to talk with her - under proper safety restraints, of course -, he recorded actually having a rather friendly conversation with her -- if with somewhat childish topics brought up by her. When a different one was sent, she was quieter, yet seemingly polite, and then brought up the question of whether or not the would kill himself so she "wouldn't have to somehow break out to do it herself", and expressed interest in seeing what he would look like with his skin inside out.
When asked by the former psychologist of why she wanted to kill the other one specifically, the following conversation happened, as recorded:
"Why? Welp, uh... A-ain't is obvious? I mean, he's pretty boring."
"No, I'm afraid I still don't quite understand. You seem fairly nice to me, yet you wish to kill Dr. [NAME OMMITTED]. Do you know why this is?"
"You ask some pretty interestin' questions, Sir. I-I mean... When there's say, somethin' that annoys you, like... I dunno, a bug that keeps flyin' round ya', ain't it normal to try an' get rid of it? That... that seems pretty normal to me."
"Considering this is a human being's life we're talking about and not that of a bugs, so no."
"... The difference bein'?"
"He's like a borin' little fly, while you're... like a butterfly. Do ya' kill butterflies?"
"Do ya' kill flies?"
"When I can."
"See?"
Four more years passed without much progress in her psychosis, although she still had constant sessions with her psychiatrist, and was allowed to exercise in a secure area. While nothing dangerous happened, there were other issues Melodee was shown to have had. There would be occasions in which her mood would swing heavily for seemingly no apparent reason, usually when on her own. She would range from cheerfully attempting to converse with the guard outside the door, to prolonged and subdued depression, to random and violent outbursts of rage, usually expressed in the form of self-harm and attacking the door, often with a sheer disregard for the well-being of her knuckles and feet. She also seemed to suffer from chronic insomnia, with recorded restlessness while attempting to sleep, and reported nightmares upon the moments she actually managed to, leading to bed-wetting and emotional outbursts in the middle of the night upon waking up. She was in fact nicknamed Melodee by the night guards, due to her tendency to sing out nursery rhymes in the middle of the night, which they found correlated with her also music related last name.
While the facility did manage to somewhat mitigate her problems sleeping with that of medication and therapy, it became apparent that there really wasn't any progress to be made with Melodee. She was too far submerged in the beliefs she was brought up with, and not smart enough to actually think about them too hard. She seemed like a tragic lost cause.
And then the bombs fell. The building shook and she heard shouts and gunshots from outside the door, and couldn't quite make out what was happening from the small peek hole. The doors all opened about thirty minutes after that, her stepping out into the corridor without guards for the first time. But the other doors were opening too, seemingly all at once from some control area. She wasn't quite sure what to do. Could she actually walk around? Apprehensive about the whole thing, she stood there thinking for about ten minutes, as other patients escaped, some attacking each other for seemingly no reason. Coming to the conclusion that this was actually the most amazing thing to ever happen, she shouted joyfully into the air at the top of her lungs: "COOL! THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!" Apparently, this brought attention to her, from that of a small group of inmates who banded together, the one's being a large cause of the discourse that was happening, and simultaneously attacking her.
Melodee, being a person who's fight or flight response seemed constantly locked on 'fight', instantly jumped into battle with the four people, two men and two women. Pretty much instantly getting her ass handed to her, and for a second, seemed as if she'd be dead before actually being able to do anything, if it weren't for the gunshots ringing out, and everyone falling in spurts of blood.
'Twas but a modern day cowboy who had come to save the day. Taking one look at the man, she concluded he was the most fascinating person she was seen for quite a while. Perhaps it was because he saved her life, or because of his prowess with guns, but really?
It was the hat.
After that, she just followed the man. Seemed like the best course of action.
Location : Sitting on the Iron Throne
Subject: Re: Melodee Coda Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:08 am
Well done, Dis. I thoroughly enjoyed reading that.
It was very interesting, albeit highly disturbing.
Well, I look forward to role-playing with you! Or maybe not, if Melodee finds Dany "boring"...
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Sat Nov 15, 2014 4:01 pm by Delta
Hey guys, Delta here.
Due to a recent bump in re-activity, spirits have been rather high. At the same time, however, so have the skeptics of some- Hell, maybe all of us. I'm not gonna lie and say that building this place back up is gonna be easy, but that doesn't mean it's gotta be hard, y'know?
We all had fun, be it posting some badass fight scenes, or dickin' around in the Chatbox or any number of the miscellaneous threads.
And I'd like for it to be that way again, because I missed all of ya.
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HEY SLACKERS, (including us admins)
I don't know if this is a good idea, but I figured we could set a date and time to get online and chat and think of ideas for the forum, together.
So, I hope you all decide to check the forum before the certain date/time I choose.
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I think Iris and I have a telepathic connection together. She gets back on the forum, and seven days later I have the urge to check out the forum. That can't be a coincidence. There's some syfy shit going on there.
Just as soon as I thought every piece of my life had been put into place, BAM someone came along and set all the pieces on fire. And then put it out. And set fire on it again.
Just kidding, nothing dramatic has happened in my life at all. Anyways, I apologize profusely for my absence. School has been all-consuming and I feel like a zombie. I feel for Iris' pain; some of my friends who are in cheer are exhausted from all of the stuff they do. I have been so busy I haven't …
ADMIN UPDATE!!?!?!
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Indeed. It is so. Your eyes are not fooling you.
Iris is back.
And is very sorry.
Im so busy with cheer, its insane. I have practice every monday and wednesday, and games Thursdays and we sometimes cheer at varsity games on Fridays.
Plus, my cables been out for at least a month, and with the new ios7 update, my phone
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Logo/Color for the Warui and Survivors Update
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Thanks to Daenerys, she has put together an appropriate logo for both the Warui and Survivors.
The logos are shown on every page, in the right corner, as if it wasn't already obvious.
The Warui's logo is a phoenix, and I was thinking that on the soldiers, it could be in a badge type form, like that of police badges that they hold up in shows or movies, but instead of holding it up, it'd be on a sleeve of the Warui soldiers uniforms and such.
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Jewish Oxygen
Both Shevuos and Simchas Hatorah celebrate our connection with, or better, love, for the Torah. Two explanations differentiate between them. One is the Dubner Maggid’s well-known mashal of the young man who agreed to marry the king’s daughter without having seen her. Once he found out how beautiful and intelligent the princess was, he asked the king to make a second party. Similarly, we accepted the Torah on Shevuos without knowing what was in it. Within a few months we came to appreciate how much wisdom is in it. Therefore we celebrate a second time on Simchas Torah. Another explanation is based on the two reasons we appreciate a gift. One is its value; the other is the importance of the giver. On Shevuos we celebrate because we have received the most wonderful gift of the Torah. Then on Simchas Torah we celebrate because of the Giver of the Torah is the Creator of the World, Himself. That He gave us the Torah is a very great honor and source of great simcha for us. All this, coming after the beautiful festival of Sukkos, makes it truly a zman simchaseinu – a time of great spiritual and physical elation.
A dilemma I had this year was based on a halocho in the first section of Shulchan Aruch (1:3). “It is correct for all G-d-fearing people to be distressed by the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash.” Mishna Berura (1:9) discusses the importance of saying Tikun Chatzos, the special supplications for the speedy rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash. Pious Jews wake up shortly before midnight to bewail the Churban HaBayis. We break a glass at every chuppa in memory of the Beis Hamikdash in fulfillment of the promise of Tehilim (137:6) that we shall never forget Yerusholayim, even and especially at our most joyous moments. Simchas Torah is so joyful with apparently unrestrained dancing and celebrations that I wondered how to fulfill this contrasting obligation at the same time – mourning over the destroyed Beis Hamikdash. Am I supposed to be thinking about Galus as I’m dancing with a Sefer Torah?
We have a parallel, if contrasting, conundrum at another time of the year. Tisha B’Av is a day of mourning devoted to pleading with Hashem to bring us out of Golus and to rebuilding the Beis Hamikdash. If we can’t cry on Tisha B’Av because of the Churban Habayis and our long painful exile, we should cry that we are not crying. About our two most serious days of fasting, Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av, it was once said that on Yom Kippur “We haven’t got time to eat” and on Tisha B’Av, “Who wants to eat?” And yet we have a mitzva to be b’simcha, every day. “Ivdu es Hashem b’simcha“ makes no mention of Tisha B’Av being an exception. The famous statement of Chazal is that “From the beginning of Av we have to reduce our simcha.” It does not say that we should have no simcha at all. But what room is there for simcha on such a day of mourning?
Kiddushin 31b helps us in this second conundrum in. There we learn that while Avimi was waiting for his elderly father Rav Abohu to wake up so he could give him the drink he had requested, he had an insight into Tehilim: “A song of Asaf. G-d, the nations have come into Your inheritance. They have impurified Your holy Temple.” [79:1] How can this be a song? Surely it was a great tragedy. A dirge of Asaf would seem to be more appropriate. In the merit of the mitzva of honoring his father, Avimi suddenly realized the answer to this question which Rashi explains. Hashem poured out his wrath on wood and stones. The Jewish People were not worthy of the Beis Hamikdash. Had Hashem not destroyed it, He would have had to destroy them. Hashem, in His mercy, decided to keep the Jewish People alive and give them a chance to improve their behavior. Therefore the Beis Hamikdash had to be destroyed instead. Asaf thought of this positive aspect of the destruction when he wrote, “A song of Asaf.” This can also be in our minds even as we mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash on Tisha B’Av. We can be b’simcha even as we mourn. “He poured out His wrath on wood and stones.”
But our first conundrum remains. How can we remember the destroyed Beis Hamikdash as we dance on Simchas Torah?
My colleague and co-writer Rabbi Yitzchok Rubin of Manchester once wrote about a tiny Sefer Torah in a small shtiebel in Brooklyn. What was the history of this Sefer Torah and how did it end up in this particular stiebel? An elderly Jew, a Holocaust survivor, would explain to anyone who asked, that he was amongst thousands of barely living Jews in a concentration camp. He heard that a fellow inmate who had a trade was allowed to return to his town from time to time. He implored him to do a great favor and rescue a tiny Sefer Torah which he hoped was still in his home. Amazingly this Jew risked his life and hid the minuscule Sefer Torah under his clothes when he returned to the camp and secretly gave it to the first Jew. Equally miraculously, the Sefer Torah was never discovered and it brought comfort, hope and strength to its owner and all others who were aware of its existence. This Jew survived and came to live in Brooklyn, bringing the Sefer Torah with him. He donated it to the stiebel where he davened. This Sefer Torah, now in the Aron Hakodesh of the stiebel, literally gave many Jews in the camp the will to survive and with it, life itself.
Not just during the Holocaust but throughout our long exile, the Sefer Torah and what it represents have given us life, both spiritually and physically. Even if, on occasions, our enemies managed to destroy scrolls of our Torah, “the letters flew in the sky.” It was our ‘oxygen’ whenever we were forced to flee. There were rings on the sides of the Aron Hakodesh in the Mishkan, with poles placed through them for easy transport. These poles were never allowed to be removed,(Shemos 25:15) symbolizing that even if we have to flee, we must take the Sefer Torah with us to ensure our survival.
Therefore, in the midst of the celebration of Simchas Torah, holding a Sefer Torah adds greatly to our simcha because we grasp its wisdom and beauty and that it was given to us by the Creator of the World. At the same time, however, we remember the destroyed Beis Hamikdash because it is precisely the Sefer Torah and what it represents which has enabled us to survive our long Galus.
Posted on October 3, 2018 October 10, 2018 Author levseltzerCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Simchas Torah, שמחת תורהLeave a comment on Jewish Oxygen
Extracts of “Do You Know Hilchos Chol Hamoed?”
1. Q. If melachos are necessary for Yom Tov but not for food or other personal needs are they allowed?
A. They are allowed but only if they do not involve skilled or heavy work, and you did not deliberately wait until Chol Hamoed to do them. If a melacha will probably be needed over Yom Tov but not definitely, it is also allowed. Also there has to be a need, not just a whim. If the melacha is done in public, it should be clear that it is for the purpose of Yom Tov. If the melacha is purely to benefit a non-Jew, it is not allowed unless this would cause a chillul Hashem.
2. Q. So there is no problem washing the floors or vacuuming the carpet?
A. Correct, assuming you do it usually at least once a week or when it’s necessary.
3. Q. And changing a light bulb?
A. Also permitted, if it’s needed.
4. Q. And spraying insecticide on wasps which are troubling us?
A. Yes. These are good examples of melachos which are not allowed on Yom Tov but are allowed on Chol Hamoed if they are needed and are not skilled jobs.
5. Q. We have a new picture of the grandchildren. May we hang it on the wall?
A. That’s really nice and I wish you much nachas but the issue of knocking in a nail in a wall to hang up a picture is controversial. Is it a Yom Tov need or not? Does it make enough of a difference to the beauty of the house to permit it? Whether a picture adds to the beauty of a house is subjective. In a house where there are already twenty pictures on the wall, it is doubtful whether one more will make a difference. If there is a bare wall and you suddenly obtain a beautiful new picture, it could make a difference. So if this is your first picture of your grandchildren and you can’t just put the picture on a sideboard for now, and you’re like most grandparents who get a lot of joy looking at their grandchildren, you can put it up.
6. Q. Does the same apply to putting up pictures in the Succah?
A. Putting up nice pictures in a Succah fulfills the mitzvah of zeh keili v’anveihu – beautifying a mitzvah and is definitely allowed. Making decorations is also allowed as long as they aren’t on a professional standard.
7. Q. What about ironing?
A. If it wasn’t deliberately left until Chol Hamoed, normal domestic ironing to remove creases from clothes which are needed on Yom Tov, is allowed. Pleating is regarded as a skilled job and is not allowed.
8. Q. My kids love baking even though we don’t need any more cakes. Can they bake?
A. Seeing that they enjoy baking it is considered a Yom Tov need and permitted. It is better that their cakes be eaten during Yom Tov. The same applies to children writing and drawing because they enjoy it.
9. Q. Is there any question in going to fetch Bubby and Zeidy in the car?
A.There are some questions about driving a car if there is no need, but to fetch old people is certainly allowed.
10. Q. What is the halacha about driving a short, perfectly walkable, distance?
A. Fortunately for the less active amongst us, Rav Moshe Feinstein said that today we are used to going even short distances by car even if we could walk, so it’s considered a “need.”
Having said that, I would still encourage people to consider the fact that doing melachos on Chol Hamoed even if, strictly speaking, they are allowed, takes away from the Yom Tov atmosphere. It may be worth making the effort to walk and it may be very enjoyable, especially if we walk with our family. The very fact that we have made the effort to do something differently from a weekday helps us feel more yomtovdik.
11. Q. According to what you have said, we shouldn’t use a lift if it’s not necessary. Is that so?
A. Good point. To go up a few floors in a lift instead of walking is allowed. Someone who is old or weak can certainly use a lift, even to go up or down a single floor. But for a healthy person to take a lift to go up one floor or to walk down a few floors is not a problem, so in these cases it is not allowed. If he is carrying something heavy, it will be allowed.
12. Q. What happens if the car breaks down?
A. Repairing a car is probably a maaseh uman which is only permitted for food, other personal needs and to avoid a loss. Therefore if a journey is important and you’ll have to hire a car, repairing the car would be permitted to save you the loss of money. If use of the car would just be helpful, but not strictly necessary, only a simple repair like changing a tyre would be allowed.
13. Q. Is fixing a flat tyre is a skilled job?
A. Fixing a car tyre is a skilled job but fixing a bicycle tyre is not.
14. Q. I think my smartphone needs a service. I can’t ask my rav because he says I shouldn’t have one in the first place. So what do I do?
A. If your rav says you shouldn’t have a smartphone, how can I give you any leniency to so that you can use it? However in case someone is reading this whose rav has allowed him to use a smartphone or a laptop or desktop computer for parnoso purposes with suitable filters, I can give an answer. First of all there has to be a Yom Tov need. Browsing the internet, even on permitted sites, is not a need unless you are so hooked that you can’t manage without the internet, in which case you certainly shouldn’t have it. But as we have learned, even if there is a need, only a non-professional job would be allowed. If not using your computer would cause you a loss, for instance you need it for work and you can’t take time off as discussed in the next chapter you could fix it, even if it required a skilled job.
15. Q. Unfortunately, my cousins know nothing about Judaism and are therefore totally unobservant. May I invite them over to my Succah during Chol Hamoed and cook a meal for them?
A. Although we said that we may not do a melacha for a non-Jew on Chol Hamoed and a Jew who has totally rejected the Torah has the same halacha as a non-Jew for this purpose, seeing that your cousins have clearly never had a Jewish education, you may do melachos for them if necessary. You are probably hoping that you can use this invitation to introduce them to the beauty of the Torah and therefore it is certainly permitted. Hatzlacha.
The whole sefer, Do You Know Hilchos Chol Hamoed? is available your local sefarim shop.
Posted on September 23, 2018 October 10, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Chol Hamoed, חול המועדLeave a comment on Extracts of “Do You Know Hilchos Chol Hamoed?”
Until Fatigue Overcomes Us
Some years Parshas Ha’azinu falls on Shabbos Shuva when we are preparing for Yom Kippur. If we are beinonim, neither complete tzaddikim nor complete rashaim, our lives are in the balance during those days. We may be written in the Book of Life on Yom Kippur if our teshuva is accepted, but we cannot be sure. Our trepidation will be palpable. Our davening will be intense –the posuk says about these ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur that, “Dirshu Hashem behimatzu – Seek Hashem when He can be found,” as the Rambam brings in Hilchos Teshuva. (2:6) With this in mind, we will concentrate on the warnings in Ha’azinu about improving our behavior, beginning with the first posuk – ‘Ha’azinu hashomayim va’adabeira vesishma ho’oretz imrei fi – Listen Heavens and I will speak, may the earth hear the words of my mouth.” Rashi comments, “Moshe said, I am flesh and blood. Tomorrow I will be dead. If the Jewish People will deny having made a covenant with Hashem, who will contradict them? Therefore he made the Heavens and Earth to be witnesses to testify that the Jewish People had indeed committed themselves to a covenant with Hashem. If we keep the mitzvos they will reward us by giving us dew, fruit and other produce but if we don’t keep the mitzvos, the Heavens will punish us by denying the rain, and the Earth will punish us by not growing its produce. Furthermore we will be liable to be exiled from Eretz Yisroel by idol worshippers.”
However, when Haa’azinu falls after Yom Kippur the atmosphere is different. We are confident that we have been written for life, that Hashem has accepted our teshuva and forgiven our sins. We ponder the amazing gift Hashem gave us in creating the concept of teshuva before he even created the world. “There is no tzaddik in the world who does only good and does not sin” (Koheles 7:20) That includes all of us. So without teshuva we could never start again with a clean slate. We would always have our sinful baggage with us. With Hashem’s gift of teshuva, if we are sincere, we can uproot our sins retrospectively. Amazingly, if we do teshuva out of love of Hashem, not out of fear of punishment, our aveiros become mitzvos. We begin again with our new ‘mitzvos’ to help us on our way.
We look at Ha’azinu with newly optimistic and joyful eyes. Hashem’s teachings are like rain which gives us life, like dew which delights everybody ; like wind on grass which enables it to grow and like drops of rain which strengthen each individual blade.(Rashi) In the Beis Hamikdash, Ha’azinu was read every Shabbos(Rosh Hashana 31a) because it strengthens our emuna. It describes the history of the world, dividing it into different eras. First we are told how Hashem brought us lovingly out of Mitzrayim as an eagle loves her young. He carried us out as on eagle’s wings, protecting us from the pursuing Egyptian army. He brought us into Eretz Yisroel where we enjoyed delicious fruit and honey, with meat in abundance. Unfortunately we failed to live up to the standards required and Hashem had to discipline us. A period of exile followed when Hashem will appear to have hidden His face but this too will come to an end when the nations of the world will be punished for their cruelty. How can we lose emuna even in golus when we see that it is all forecast, including the joyous end?
This brings us into Succos, Zeman Simchaseinu. Hashem’s great love empowers us. Our flimsy succah, vulnerable to the elements, represents our understanding that our survival is impossible, from a natural point of view. It is only through Hashem’s love for us, and guidance that we have survived throughout history, despite it seeming at times that He has hidden His face. We rejoice in the presence of the Shechina and strengthen our determination to be loyal to Him and love Him. And on Simchas Torah we will dance with the Torah either with our feet or in our hearts until fatigue overcomes us and we start the cycle of the Chumash yet again.
Posted on September 21, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Ha'azinu, האזינוLeave a comment on Until Fatigue Overcomes Us
Manny Fekete’s Dvar Torah
In chapter 32 verse 48, Hashem tells Moshe to go up onto the mountain to die. Why are we ending off the Torah with something so sad?
The answer can be found in these words:
וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה בְּעֶ֛צֶם הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃
That very day the LORD spoke to Moses.
Rashi says that this phrase is only found in three other places: In the description of the people who went onto Noach’s Ark, when Avraham had his bris, and when the Jews left Mitzrayim.
The link between these 4 moments is that they all end one chapter in Jewish history and start another. We could translate “בְּעֶ֛צֶם הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה” as “on that momentous day” or “on that fateful day”. The phrase is used to tell us about moshe dying because it’s the end of one chapter, but at the same time the beginning of something incredible, we’re going into the Land of Israel! It is the perfect way to finish the torah.
We’re coming to the end of the torah, but we’re also celebrating the start of a new Jewish year and a new school year, so we have a new opportunity for learning torah, and working hard.
Posted on September 21, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Ha'azinuLeave a comment on Manny Fekete’s Dvar Torah
A Holy People
In Pirkei Avos (3:1) we learn: Akavya ben Mehalalel says: “Consider three things and you will not come to sin: know where you came from, where you are going to and in front of Whom you will have to give a reckoning. You came from a putrid drop; you are going to a place of dust, worms and maggots and you are going to give a reckoning before the King of Kings, the Holy One Blessed be He.”
Akavya ben Mehalalel’s sharp directive to consider one’s very inauspicious origins will bring a person to humility, which is a prerequisite to acquiring yiras shomayim and sanctity according to the famous Braisa of Reb Pinchas ben Yair quoted by the Mesilas Yesharim. Likewise the prospect that one’s physical destination will be in a place of dust, worms and maggots should dispel any vestige of pride. And the knowledge that we will have to give a reckoning in front of the King of Kings should make us afraid to sin.
A later mishna (3:18) quotes Rebbe Akiva. ‘He used to say: “Beloved is man because he was created in Hashem’s image. It shows a greater love that he was told that he was created in Hashem’s image. Beloved are the Jewish people who are called the children of the Omnipresent. It shows a greater love that they were told that they are called the children of the Omnipresent. Beloved are the People Israel who were given a precious utensil (the Torah). It shows a greater love that they were told that they were given a precious utensil.”
This Mishna make a person feel his own importance. “I am created in the image of Hashem. I am from a People who are children of Hashem and we were given the Torah, the precious utensil of Hashem. This is strange. Was Rebbe Akiva unaware of the evils of pride, alluded to by Akavya ben Mehalalel in the first mishna? Or that humility is the prerequisite to sanctity? It is even stranger because it was precisely Rebbe Akiva’s humility which enabled him to become so great as a previous essay explained.
In his commentary on Pirkei Avos, the Abarbanel explains that there is a dispute between the two mishnas. Akavya ben Mehalalel felt that the best way to avoid sin is by encouraging extreme humility. We should know our gross origins, our disgraceful physical destination and that each puny man, is going to have to stand up in front of the King of Kings to give a reckoning. Without a shred of pride we should inevitably become obedient and G-d-fearing. This view is borne out by the behaviour of the young nazir from the south, described in Nedarim 9b who defeated his yetzer hora by telling him “Why are you so proud in a world which is not yours; in one who is going to become insects and worms?”
However Rebbe Akiva felt that this approach may work for some people including himself but many other people will respond negatively. They will be unmoved by such a warning and are more likely to say “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die” (Yeshaya 22:13). He held that it is more effective to show people how great they are and what good stock they come from. ‘Tell them that they are aristocracy, Hashem’s children and then they won’t want to sin.’ And Rebbe Akiva could bring a precedent for this attitude from the words of Yirmiyahu Hanavi, when he had to rebuke the people and tell them to do teshuva. He prefaced his words with the most beautiful praise of the people. “Zocharti lach chesed ne’urayich… I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love you showed to Me by coming after Me into the wilderness, a desolate and unsown land.” (Yirmiyahu 2:1). Yirmiyahu clearly felt that if the people were to improve they must think positively. They come from such good stock ‑‑ it is such a shame that they are sinning. Their sins are only skin deep. Such a great people who showed such faith in Hashem earlier will surely want to reclaim their noble heritage and their loving closeness to Hashem so they will do teshuva without delay. My late rebbe, Reb Moshe Schwab זצ”ל of Gateshead Yeshiva said that today we have to use the approach of Rebbe Akiva.
Yom Kippur is the day for teshuva from all our aveiros bein adam l’Makom and bein adam l’chaveiro. Amongst those who are shomer Torah umitzvos most aveiros are from the bein adam l’chaveiro category – between man and his neighbor. It has been said that most of those aveiros are between spouses. Within a marriage the possibilities of not honoring each other, not being always sensitive to each other abound. Sometimes a facial expression can upset a spouse. We may be tired or pre-occupied and we don’t always listen to each other as well as we should. These are all aveiros bein adam l’chaveiro for which we have to ask forgiveness and do teshuva.
This itself is remarkable and a source of pride. At a time when murder and cruelty are so common that they are not even reported in the newspaper, when even mass murder only gets a few lines on the back pages, we are doing teshuva for a lack of sensitivity to another human being! Who is like Your people, Israel? A unique nation on Earth. But this is our heritage.
The Gemara in Taanis 10b says that a person who goes from a place where they are not fasting to a place where they are fasting, in response to a local danger, has to fast with them. It may not concern him personally but he should empathise and fast with those at risk. Besides, it would show a lack of sensitivity to eat in front of others who are hungry. The Gemara goes on to say that if a resident of a town which was fasting forgot and ate, he should not join the other residents of that town for the rest of the fast. Why not? It is not derech eretz. People who are feeling weak and hungry will feel worse, when they see this one who looks and feels well because he has eaten. The Gemara says that Yaakov Avinu had enough food for his family even during the famine. But if the Canaanites were suffering from hunger and they had to go to Egypt to buy food, it would distress them if Yaakov’s family did not go as well. So he sent his sons to Egypt, even though was no real need, and despite the danger, to prevent any extra anguish to the local population. The Gemara also says that in a famine one should eat the minimum even if one has ample food. We have to feel the pain of others. Even though those other people are unaware of what we are doing, the Torah teaches us to train ourselves to suffer if others are suffering. To do otherwise reflects a lack of concern for another person’s plight and is unacceptable.
Chavivin Yisroel shenikra’u banim l’Makom, shenitan lohem kli chemda – how beloved are the Jewish people that we are called the children of the Omnipresent and that we were given this precious gift of the holy Torah. We have such wonderful sources to learn from and be inspired by. We have such high standards to aspire to. We want to try harder. We want to increase our bein adam l’chaveiro and the place to start is in our own homes with those nearest and dearest to us. This will inevitably lead to greater sensitivity to others, even strangers.
Rebbe Akiva said, “Ashreichem Yisroel …In front of whom are you becoming pure and who is purifying you? Our Father in heaven, as it says, “And I will sprinkle on you pure water and you will become pure.” (Yechezkel 36:25) and it says, “Hashem is the mikve of the Jewish people. Just as a mikve purifies the impure, so does Hashem purify the Jewish People
Posted on September 18, 2018 September 21, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Yom Kippur, יום כיפורLeave a comment on A Holy People
A No-Brainer
One of the key points of the machzor on both Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is Unesaneh Tokef followed by BeRosh Hashana yekoseivun BeYom Tzom Kippur yechoseimun. Tears flow as we contemplate whether we will be among those who will be written down for life or, chas vesholom, among those who will not survive the year. Some will die at their predestined time, others sooner. We are under no illusions that such things ‘never happen’ because we all know of people who have unexpectedly died of illnesses, in accidents or even at the hand of criminals or terrorists. We daven to be written in the Book of Life but there are no guarantees. However there is a way to ensure that we will be written down in the Book of Life? Do you want to discover the secret? Read on.
I must admit to having a particular interest in cats. I don’t own one but do see them regularly in the streets of Ramat Beit Shemesh. At any time of the day or night you’ll see one crossing the road, emerging from under a parked car or occasionally making an emergency exit from a trash bin after being surprised when someone tosses in a bag. What was the cat doing in there? Presumably looking for some discarded fish or some other edible item which would have kept it going until its next hunger pangs. All in all, cats do not enjoy a particularly intellectually stimulating or satisfying existence.
A dog doesn’t fare much better. If it is not looked after by some friendly human, it roams the streets, usually at the dead of night, looking for discarded bones. And if it gets reported, it might find itself caught by the municipal dog catcher who will take it out of our way to the nearest kennels to be disposed of.
The lives of cows, sheep and goats are much the same. They munch grass and provide us with milk, leather or wool but is this a life? At least cows can be happy that they don’t have to plow anymore but they probably never spoke to their bobbies and zeidies to realize their good fortune. If a person chances on a lion’s den, he might well live to tell the tale according to Yevomos (121a) because lions only go back to their den to sleep, waking when they feel hungry again to look for supper. So lions look for food, eat and sleep, look for food, eat and sleep and so on ad nauseam. Monkeys enjoy swinging from branch to branch –give them a banana and they are happy. But I don’t envy them. I don’t even envy their slightly more advanced cousins, the chimpanzee or gorilla. We see them in the zoo pacing their enclosures. In the wild, I’m told that they sleep about thirteen hours a day and eat for another six hours, after they searched and found some food. What a life! Nebuch for them.
Now let’s think about humans. Hashem gave us a neshomo as well as a body. Our body wants to do exactly the same as the animals – look for food, eat, look for other physical pleasures, enjoy them temporarily and go to sleep until the next day when the same program is repeated — look or work for food, enjoy eating and other physical pleasures and then go to sleep until the next day etc. etc. True, we have a neshomo and can choose to pursue spiritual and other worthwhile pursuits, but our physical urges are strong and it’s tempting to just surrender to them. The problem is that if we do so, our lives become as humdrum and meaningless as that of our animal cousins. Eating, sleeping, eating, sleeping in just a slightly more sophisticated form than that of animals. And at the end of the day our satisfaction with life will be less than that of animals because they are programmed to feel satisfied when they have had enough but we are always looking for even more tasty foods, even more enjoyable physical pleasures. If we would succeed, it would be only a halbe tzara but we don’t succeed; we are never satisfied. We quickly get used to whatever we have and look for more, leaving us dissatisfied. We are never satisfied because the neshama part of us is not interested in physical pleasures. It needs us to be alive, so we have to eat and sleep but it wants so much more. It wants a connection to its spiritual source. A pizza or hot dog just doesn’t achieve that. And forbidden pleasures take us even further from our spiritual source.
Chazal have a strong word for this kind of glorified animal existence, They call it death. “The wicked even during their lifetime are called dead.”(Medresh Tanchuma). The posuk (Yirmiya 2:14) spells it out. “You have deserted Me, your source of fresh water, for broken vessels which can’t even contain water.” A posuk in Tehilim is equally dismissive. “I said that you are gods and the sons of the Most High but you shall die as men do and fall like any prince.” (82:5-6) We could have lived a neshama-centered existence – connecting with Hashem, the source of life, but we lived a life of an overgrown monkey. How sad. What a waste.
The posuk spelled it out: “I have given you a choice – life or death, good or evil.” We have the option and mitzvah of clinging to Hashem (Devarim 10:20) — learning His Torah, keeping His mitzvos, walking in His ways. This is life in the true sense. This provides us with spiritual, meaningful and eternal satisfaction. “The righteous, even in death are called alive.”(Medresh Tanchuma ibid).
We look for inspiration to do teshuva before Yom Kippur. Isn’t it obvious? Do we want to live the life of cats, dogs and other animals whose concern extends no further than satisfying physical urges? Or do we want to live on a more elevated level, looking to Hashem and clinging to Him? Is it even a question? It’s a no-brainer.
Yes, we have the power to inscribe ourselves in the Book of Life. No matter how much time we will still be granted in this world, we can write ourselves in the Book of Life, living in the image of Hashem. As the posuk says, “You, who are clinging to the L-rd your G-d, are all alive today.” (Devarim 4:4).
Posted on September 18, 2018 September 21, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Yom Kippur, יום כיפורLeave a comment on A No-Brainer
The “Accident” Which Saved the World
The posuk in parshas Vayelech, (Devarim 31:18) “ I will hide My face on that day,” forces us to remember the Holocaust which took place nearly eighty years ago, what happened and what could have happened.
Shortly before the Second World War began, a young talmid chochom learning in the Brisk Yeshiva in Europe was threatened with conscription to the Polish army. He had great potential; how could he waste time in the army? Every legal method was attempted to earn him an exemption . Although these efforts bought some time, they were not permanent solutions and the draft still loomed over him. The only possible loophole was to get married. With the deadline approaching, a shidduch was sought for this young man. A suitable match was suggested — but for some inexplicable reason the shidduch did not go through. Then, just a few days before the deadline, the young man was recommended for a job in a Yeshiva in Switzerland. With bittersweet emotions, he left his whole family and became a rebbe in a Swiss yeshiva. He could well have thought of the great shame that the shidduch did not go through, causing him to go into virtual exile. However he soon saw Hashem’s hashgacha. The Holocaust claimed the lives of the rest of his family and so many more. He was the sole survivor from his family. The name of this young talmid chochom with great potential was Aaron Leib Steinman zt”l who became a leading Godol and guiding light for Klal Yisroel over his long life.
About the same time another young rav was on a ship which sailed from Europe towards Eretz Yisroel. The British authorities refused the ship permission to dock in the Haifa port. The captain directed the ship southwards along the coastline, but there was no safe landing- place. The ship was low on fuel, the captain said, and told his passengers there was nothing he could do to help them. Their only hope was to attempt to swim to the shore, a considerable distance away. Only six people made it to the beach, including this young rav and his wife. His name was Rav Shmuel Wosner, another great Godol and guiding light for Klal Yisroel over many decades. Both these Gedolim, who were a hairsbreadth from death, lived over a hundred years.
At Mincha of Yom Kippur the haftora is Sefer Yona, about another survivor. He was thrown into the sea and was swallowed by a great fish but miraculously remained alive in the stomach of the fish until Hashem instructed the fish to spit Yona out on to dry land. The commentators say that Yona’s survival was not assured until he said that, if he lived, he would bring korbonos to Hashem (2:10) implying that he would henceforth follow Hashem’s command and rebuke the people of Nineveh. After a life-saving miracle what response is there but to devote the rest of one’s life to Hashem, as done by these Gedolim?
Bamidbar (8:17) shows that a recipient of a miracle has to devote himself to Hashem as a payment for that miracle. “All the Jewish firstborn, since the day that I smote the Egyptian firstborn, are mine.” Rashi explains: “Since I protected the Jewish firstborn that they weren’t smitten with the Egyptian firstborn, they are mine by right.”
Having been born in Manchester, England to English-born parents, I never considered myself to have been involved in the Holocaust, let alone to be regarded as a survivor; now I realize that my understanding was flawed. This month is the 78th anniversary of the day that the Germans were to have invaded Britain. The plan was that British air defences were to be destroyed and then German ground forces would invade and conquer the country with the same speed that they had already conquered Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and France. Their headquarters were to be set up in Manchester where the self-styled English Nazi leader, Oswald Mosley had managed to form his strongest base of local sympathisers. In the summer of 1940, the Battle of Britain began. The Luftwaffe attacked the RAF’s airfields and by the end of August seemed to be on the verge of victory. But in early September 1940, a German aircraft was short of fuel and needed to return to Germany. The pilot wanted to jettison his bombs to reduce the plane’s weight and quite by “accident” the bombs landed on London, which had been studiously avoided up until then. Churchill reacted by bombing Berlin. Hitler was so annoyed that, with tactical stupidity, he stopped attacking the English airfields and started attacking English cities. This gave the battered British air force enough respite to regroup and eventually take command of the skies. What I now realize is that if it weren’t for that ‘accident,’ Mosley’s Blackshirts based in Manchester would have quickly rounded up my grandparents and other Jewish Mancunians and this essay would probably have never been written. I am, together with the rest of Anglo-Jewry, therefore, also a survivor with all the responsibility that that status brings with it. Also, if Britain would have been conquered, the allied invasion of Europe in 1944 , could not have taken place and Nazi rule could well have continued unopposed. Therefore this “accident” can be said to have saved Europe and much of the free world. Even American Jews, many of whom, or their parents, had also not long before immigrated from Europe can also consider themselves survivors. So we, the post-Holocaust world Jewish community, are all survivors and as survivors, we have responsibilities.
This is yet another moral imperative for us to do teshuva before Shabbos Shuva and Yom Kippur. After being saved by Hashem’s hidden hand, how can we focus our lives on our personal successes or our material achievements? Is this why Hashem saved us? Rather, we have to focus on Hashem’s priorities. What can we do to bring honor to Hashem? What can we do to rebuild the Jewish people? Yom Kippur can bring about a realignment of our priorities; to accept upon ourselves our responsibilities, the responsibilities of survivors. No less than the Jewish firstborn in Mitzrayim, we all owe our continued existence to Hashem.
Posted on September 13, 2018 September 16, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Vayeilech, וילךLeave a comment on The “Accident” Which Saved the World
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WHAT I LEARNED FROM OUR PASSIFLORA
Passiflora, otherwise known as passion fruit, grows in our neighbour’s garden in Ramat Bet Shemesh. It has grown and grown until it reached the first floor, where we live. It ‘spotted’ our balcony and climbed on to the railings around the top. It never stops growing. Once it has attached itself to one bar it sends out ‘feelers’ in different directions until it finds another bar to attach itself to. My wife and I enjoy the pretty greenery which gives our balcony some privacy, not to mention the delicious fruit which in shemitta year is hefker. With a bit of encouragement from us, it has even wound itself around a corner and it is still growing. When will it stop? After all it must be at least a hundred yards long by now but no. It is never satisfied. It grows, grows and grows some more. As Elul began this year, I realised what the passiflora can teach us.
The minhag to say L’David Hashem Ori twice a day from Rosh Chodesh Elul is clearly designed to guide us during this month of preparation for the Yamim Nora’im. What is the theme of this mizmor?
The first section sounds rather warlike. “ Hashem is my light and salvation. Whom shall I be afraid of? Hashem is the strength of my life. Whom shall I fear? When the evildoers are advancing towards me to devour my flesh, these are my enemies, they will stumble and fall. If a troop is encamped against me, my heart will not fear. Even if they wage war against me, I will put my trust in this.”
How does it relate to us ordinary Jews, who are not facing our enemies on the battlefield? Why is this a preparation for Rosh Hashana? Did Dovid Hamelech really feel no fear when he faced his enemies? A few quotations from Nach should at least answer the third question.
In Shmuel Alef (17) we find a giant from the Pelishtim, Golios taunting the Jewish army asking for any Jew to fight with him and if Golios would vanquish the Jew, the Jews would be slaves to the Pelishtim. If the Jew would vanquish Golios, the Pelishtim would be slaves to the Jews. However all the Jews were afraid and no-one volunteered to fight Golios. Eventually young Dovid, not even a soldier, stepped forward. When Golios saw Dovid, he mocked him and invited him to come towards him so that he could offer Dovid’s flesh to the fowl of the heavens and the beast of the field. Dovid replied,(17:45) “You come to me with a sword, spear and javelin but I come to you in the name of Hashem….On this day, Hashem will deliver you into my hand ….and I shall offer the carcass of the Philistine camp to the fowl of the heavens and the beast of the field.” And, of course, that is exactly what miraculously happened.
Another, lesser- known event, gives even more clarity in Dovid’s attitude to his enemies. Shmuel Alef (21:13) tells that Dovid was captured by Achish, king of Gat and was at his mercy. Dovid feigned madness and the king was convinced that he was a mentally ill person who merely looked like Dovid, and let him go. What was Dovid thinking when he stood defenceless in front of a sworn enemy? A pasuk in Tehilim reveals Dovid’s inner thoughts at that moment. “By Dovid, a michtam when the Pelishtim seized him in Gat. In Hashem … I have trusted. I shall not fear. What can mortal flesh do to me? (Tehilim 56:5) The lashon hakodesh is even more direct, even derisive. “Ma ya’aseh basar li? For Dovid there wasn’t even a question. Whatever Hashem decides, that’s what will happen. Achish, king of Gat, with all his armed soldiers, was a mere mortal. Dovid focussed entirely on intense tefila even as he did his hishtadlus and escaped unharmed.
We asked earlier what we ordinary Jews who are not fighting on the battlefield, can learn from these first pesukim in L’Dovid Hashem Ori and how it is a preparation for Rosh Hashono. The answer is that it can transform our davening completely. When we say hagibor in the beginning of the Shemone Esre, what are we really thinking? We can say the word gibor, thinking of a powerful king. Or we can learn from Dovid Hamelech that Hashem is the ultimate unstoppable power. Nothing stands in the way of His will. A powerful king is still only human. Even powerful kings and dictators are sometimes overthrown. But Hashem is in a league of His own. No mortal can lift a finger against the will of Hashem, never could do and never will do. We may ‘know’ this. If asked, we believing Jews, would all say that Hashem is all powerful. But do we feel it? Do we live it? Do we really think it as we are saying the word gibor? If we would do this, our Shemone Esre would be much more intense.When we make our requests in the intermediate Brachos we would’t just mouth the words.We would appeal to Hashem from the depths of our hearts. Please Hashem. If You agree to do as I ask, nothing can stand in Your way. Shema Koleinu.Listen to our voice, our prayers and our supplications.
Kol hachoshvim olai ra’a, meheira hafer atzasam vekalkel machshevosam – Annul the plans of all those who are planning evil against me.
One of our challenges every Elul is, what can I do to prepare for Rosh Hashono? We are shomrei Toah umitzvos, we keep Shabbos, we daven, we do chesed. What extra can I do? The answer is that we can learn from the passiflora. It is already long, very long. But it continues to grow. We too can always grow in our shemiras hamitzvos, our tefila, our madreiga. The lesson we are learning here about Hashem’s gevura is only one of many. But realising the depth of every word in our tefilos can be a springboard for increased kavana in our tefilos. A meaningful tefila brings us closer to Hashem which in turn strengthens our resolve in general shemiras hamitzvos. There is always room to improve and grow. After all, should we less determined than our passiflora?
MAD DOGS AND JEWS
Recently in Beit Shemesh, a wild dog somehow found its way into a block of flats near the edge of the town. The residents were petrified. No-one could get in or out. The dog wasn’t even barking but no-one was prepared to challenge it. Maybe it hadn’t eaten supper yet! Frantic calls were made to the municipal authorities to send the official dog-catcher. Yishai arrived eventually and calmly captured and removed the animal, to the cheers of the residents. Was this an incident best forgotten or can we learn something from it?
The later sections of Mesilas Yesharim discuss aspects of avodas Hashem which are way beyond the spiritual level of most of us, in the area of fear of Hashem and in particular fear of sin. This applies both to the past and to the future. We find that some of our greatest ancestors were never satisfied with their level of avodas Hashem, thinking that perhaps they had fallen short in some way. This section about fear of the past is probably not for us at all. We would be continuously worried and would not achieve simchas chaim which is so necessary for us and our children. However, we can aspire to the concept of fear of sin in the future, even if we don’t reach the highest levels.
Let’s talk about the ideal first and then discuss some practical ramifications for our lives. The concept of sinning against Hashem should be abhorrent to us. After all, He provides us with everything; how can we possibly think of going against Him? Our vulnerability is clear. He can turn off the supply of blessings in a moment and then where would we be? To challenge Him would be akin to an ant defying a human. We can blot out its life in a moment. It is laughable even to think of defying the Source of our life. The stupidity of challenging our Creator is multiplied much more if we think of the punishment we could incur. An ant might die instantly and that is the end of its existence. But Hashem can punish us in this world or the next while we continue to exist. We could be liable to severe punishments in untold ways. With this in mind, logic would tell us to run a mile from any risk of sin.
How can we bring this concept to life? We could imagine meeting a wild animal in the street. How terrified we would be. Running away is not an option but if there was a chance of taking refuge in a nearby building, what a sigh of relief we would give, especially if there was a door we could lock behind us.
To really feel such horror at the possibility of sinning may be a high madreiga. But we should at least feel the importance of avoiding coming close to sinning. If we know that a certain group of people are constant loshon hora speakers, we should look for another circle of friends. Another group discuss politics bein gavra l’gavra. We should move to another part of the shul or maybe a different shul altogether. It is natural to want to be one of the crowd. One who fears sin may have to consider changing his or her crowd.
Clear sources in the Torah warn us to stay far away from the possibility of sin. A nazir who is forbidden to drink wine may not even go near a vineyard. (Shabbos 13a). Tzitzis are supposed to remind us to keep all the other mitzvos of the Torah. (Bamidbar 15:39). The posuk says (Vayikra 18:6) “Do not come close to immorality.” Hilchos Yichud forbid a man to be alone with a woman who is not his wife. This is a vital fence against immorality. Although there are certain leniencies in halacha, they should only be used in emergencies and with the guidance of a rav. Parents should warn their daughters, who may not realise how vulnerable they are, never to be alone with a man other than a father or brother.
The residents of the block of flats in Beit Shemesh who felt up close the fear of a wild dog can use the experience to strive towards feeling the same fear when they are close to sinning. One must escape and lock the door securely, to make sure to keep far from sin even if others are unfortunately succumbing. And the rest of us, who just read about it, can also imagine the fear of being there, in order to strive towards this madreiga of yiras cheit. For Jews, no experience should be wasted – not even an encounter with a mad dog.
“LIKE THE RISING OF THE SUN”
We all want Hashem’s blessings. We all want to be inscribed in the Book of Life this coming Rosh Hashono. We wouldn’t claim to be tzaddikim gemurim who are written immediately in the Book of Life. On the other hand we are not resho’im gemurim. We’re somewhere in the middle. Are there any short cuts to meriting a good outcome this Rosh Hashono? Is there a hint or a clue as to what finds particular favour in Hashem’s eyes that will earn us a place in the ‘right’ Book even though we’re not tzaddikim gemurim?
In Parshas Re’eh (15:7-10) we read, “If there be a destitute person among you, of one of your brothers in any of your cities, in your land that Hashem your G-d gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shall you close your hand against your destitute brother. Rather you shall open your hand to him and give to him whatever he needs. Beware lest a wicked thought comes into your heart saying that the seventh year is approaching and therefore you do not want to give to him. He will call out to Hashem and you will be deemed to have sinned. You shall give to him and not feel bad when you give to him because on account of this, Hashem will bless you in all your deeds and in all your undertakings.”
The background to this warning not to be reluctant to lend to the poor when the seventh year is approaching is because the Jewish calendar is divided into cycles of seven years. Every seventh year is the shmitta year. During this year not only is it forbidden to cultivate the Land of Israel but any loans which are outstanding at the end of the year are cancelled. Therefore if a person lends money just before the shmitta and the borrower is unable to repay on time the lender is liable to lose his money. Hence a possible reluctance to lend at this time and it is against this ‘evil’ thought that the Torah warns us.
The question is asked why this would be such an evil thought. A person may have enough money to lend but not to give outright. It can happen that a borrower is late in repaying. So why is it so wrong to be reluctant to lend at this time. Isn’t a wise man ro’eh es hanolad (anticipates the future)?
In the Sefer Hachinuch ‘s explanation of this prohibition of the Torah, he mentions a detail which makes the question less strong. He says that the Torah is talking about a lender who is reluctant because he is afraid that some unforeseen event might prevent a timely repayment. The Torah is not talking about about someone who admits that he has no way of returning the loan. He is hoping that a miracle will occur and he will acquire the means to repay. It may well be that a person is not even allowed to borrow under such circumstances even for Shabbos needs (Shaar Hatziun 242:12) and certainly a person is not obliged to lend to him. The Torah is warning about being reluctant to lend to a person who in the normal course of events will have the means to repay but the lender is worrying that the borrower will suddenly, for some unforeseen reason, lose his ability to repay on time. This is even before the shmitta year has started, leaving over a year for the loan to be repaid and the lender has the money available and has no need of it. Further there is no prohibition of repaying a loan after the shmitta year (unlike the laws of interest). An honourable borrower will presumably repay even after the shmitta year. Therefore it is clearly a very uncharitable act to refuse this borrower a loan which he needs, possibly, very urgently.
But the Sefer Hachinuch then continues with a very powerful statement. “Anyone who has any knowledge of the Torah will know that Hashem judges a person according to his deeds and blesses a person according to how near he is to Him. An uncharitable person builds a mechitza shel barzel (an iron separation) between himself and Hashem’s blessings. A generous person is very close to Hashem and is very close to receiving Hashem’s blessings.”
This is, therefore, one direction we can be looking in as we approach Rosh Hashono; to train ourselves to be as generous as possible. Generosity, however, is not limited to the giving of Tzedoko or even lending money to a person in need. We can acquire generosity of spirit which includes thinking well of others, hoping for their success, rejoicing at their simchas, giving freely of our time to help others, looking for ways to bring pleasure to other people and more. In loshon hakodesh this is called nedivas lev , which also falls into the category of people who are close to Hashem and his blessings as described by the Sefer Hachinuch.
One form of nedivas lev is the ability and desire to see beyond another person’s actions and words to understand what the person is really ‘saying.’ Sometimes his words may seem harsh but really they reflect an inner hurt. He doesn’t mean to be confrontational but because he is upset, the words come out the way they do. Many an argument could be avoided if we would recognize this human characteristic. Someone with a generous spirit will have the patience and self-control not to react to another’s words but will dig deeper. “Why did he say that?” “Why did she say this?” At the very least we don’t react with similar confrontational words from which an argument can often escalate. The blessings of this form of nedivas lev do not have to wait until Rosh Hashono but will be immediately felt in enhanced sholom bayis in the home and more friendship with others outside.
Chazal say (Gittin 36b) “Those who are insulted but do not insult back are like ‘the sun as it rises with great strength.’ (Sefer Shoftim 5:31).” What does this comparison mean and what strength does the sun show when it rises? The answer could be based on another statement of Chazal (Nedorim 39b) that the sun does not want to rise in the morning because it knows that the sun-worshippers will immediately begin their avoda zoro. The sun does not want to initiate avoda zoro. However it does so because of the many Jews who rise early to daven vasikin. The sun looks at the positive and rejects the negative. Similarly, when we are insulted, our immediate reaction is to answer back in kind. If, with great inner strength, we can look at the positive by thinking that the person is in pain for some reason or simply by recalling that despite this fault he has many good points, we can be compared to the sun which overcomes its initial feelings and rises every morning.
Generosity of spirit is within reach for all of us. If we can take a step back during Ellul and consider the wonderful blessings we can acquire with it, as the Sefer Hachinuch says, we can be more confident that come Rosh Hashono we will indeed be written in the ‘right’ Book, the Book of Life.
LOOK DOWN…..AND BLESS YOUR PEOPLE”
In the parsha of Ki Sovo, we read about the vidui maaser, the declaration that one had observed the halachic requirements of mitzvos connected with tithing one’s produce.
“I have removed all the consecrated food from the house, I have given to the Levi, the stranger, the orphan and the widow….I have not transgressed Your commandments nor forgotten to praise You….I have done all You commanded me.” The next pasuk continues with a request. “Look down from Your Holy abode and bless Your People Israel and the Land which You gave us as You swore to our Fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey” (Devarim 26:13-15). Rashi comments on this last pasuk, “We have fulfilled our obligations, now You fulfill Your obligations as it says, “If you keep my statutes, I will provide rain in the right time.”
These pesukim and this Rashi are very difficult to understand. Who can stand before Hashem and declare “I have done all You commanded me?” And if this is not enough chutzpa, as Rashi said, we then come with demands on Hashem. “We’ve done our bit, now You do Yours.”
The Mesilas Yesharim in his chapter on humility, (Chapter 22), seems to warn us strongly against just such an attitude. No matter how much we achieve we should not forget that we have certainly not fulfilled all our obligations. Even what we have achieved has been only through the kindness of Hashem who gave us the means to do what have done. Pirkei Avos (2:8) says “If you have learnt much Torah, do not praise yourself for it because this is what you were created for.” There is never an excuse for arrogance. The Mesilas Yesharim brings the case of Nechemyiah ben Chachalya who was very successful in fighting intermarriage, Shabbos desecration and social injustice. Yet the Gemara Sanhedrin (93b) finds fault with Nechemyiah for the words which he said (Nechemyiah 5:19), “Remember in my favour, O my G-d, all that I have done for this People.”
We can perhaps lighten our question slightly with a comment by the late Rav Yosef Dunner zt”l the revered former Rav of the Addass Kehilla of London in his sefer Mikdash Levi. He points out that in the text of the Pasuk (26:14) “I have done what You commanded me” the wording is “osisi kechol asher tzivisani.” (not chol but kechol). Indeed, writes Rav Dunner, a person cannot say that he has done everything (chol) that he has been commanded but approximately everything (kechol). We are still astounded, however, by the brazenous and arrogance of making demands on Hashem based on our apparently faultless observance as brought in Rashi: “We have done what we are supposed to do, now You do what you are supposed to do.”A friend of mine from Ramat Beit Shemesh, Reb Yaakov Schoeman (n.y.) suggested the following possible answer.
There is a difference between the way we must look at ourselves and the way we should look at others. The Mesilas Yesharim is talking about the way we should look at ourselves, with humility. We should never think that our deeds are perfect. Surely we made mistakes, perhaps we could have done more. If we learnt Torah this is because Hashem has given us the possibility to do so in the form of our mental abilities, memory, a supportive enviroment etc. If we have given Tzedaka this is because Hashem gave us the means to do so and we have merely fulfilled our responsibilities. Good characteristics are probably inherited, we perform mitzvos because of the good education we received or good influences which we have been in proximity to, etc. We do not have to negate our achievements but we should put them in context.
However we should not look at other people’s achievements in this way. If they have learnt Torah we should try to be inspired by them, learn from their diligence. If they have good characteristics we should try to emulate them. Whatever others have achieved should be played up not down. Even if there are imperfections with others we should assume they are done by mistake. If we are not sure, we should give the benefit of the doubt, etc.
The Jew who asks Hashem for a blessing in the pasuk, is not talking about himself. Rashi uses the words “We have done what we should have done” Concerning himself he would have spoken with more humility. But he is looking at the achievements of the People as a whole. Concerning others, he sees only perfection. He sees Jews faithfully tithing their produce and bringing the first fruits to Yerusholayim. He sees Jews making sure that orphans and widows are looked after. He sees Jews rising early go to a shiur and learning again in the evening after a hard day’s work. He sees acts of kindness, bikur cholim, hatzala, chaveirim, misaskim. He sees Jews in the midst of serious challenges living with emuna and bitachon. He sees a Jewish People loyally keeping details of halacha despite a galus of two thousand years. He sees holiness. And that is enough reason to beseech Hashem, “We have done so much, we have continued to believe in You and to keep Your mitzvos despite persecutions, pogroms and a Holocaust. Now, please, keep the promises You wrote in the Torah and in the Prophets and bless the Land You gave us that it should flow with milk and honey. May all the wickedness disappear like smoke, may the Tzadikim see and rejoice, may You give honour to Your People
and may the time finally come to witness utzemichas keren l’Dovid Avdecho, bimhairo beyomeinu, omein.
POMEGRANATES AND BANANAS
Parsha of Nitzavim begins with Moshe Rabeinu talking to Bnei Yisroel. “You are all standing today before Hashem Elokeichem: the heads of your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, your children, your wives, the convert, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water.” (Devarim 29:9-10) Nitzavim very often falls on the Shabbos before Rosh Hashono when all of us too stand before Hashem to be judged.
Rashi on posuk twelve brings an extraordinary medrash. “Why does the parsha of Nitzavim follow the ninety-eight curses mentioned in Parshas Ki Sovo? Because the people had heard these ninety-eight curses plus the forty-nine of parsha Bechukosai and their faces turned green. They said, “Who can possibly survive these?” Moshe Rabeinu attempted to calm them. “You have caused Hashem to be angry with you many times and still you all standing here today.” Reb Mattisyahu שליט”א once quoted Reb Elya Lapian זצ”ל who was amazed by this medrash. Was Moshe Rabeinu destroying the whole purpose of the warnings of the Torah? Surely the curses were to warn the people of the severe consequences of transgressing the Torah and the people were right to be terrified. Yet Moshe Rabeinu seems to be saying that their fear is unnecessary. They are standing here today despite their sins and they will apparently always survive, no matter what, so the people could heave a sigh of relief. Why should Moshe Rabeinu, Hashem’s most trusted servant, seem to negate the Torah’s warnings?
Reb Elya’s explanation is highly relevant for us. He says that Moshe Rabeinu saw that the people were terrified of Hashem’s judgment. The consequences of sin are a frightening threat. He reassured them, “You are standing here today with a fear of punishment. That is good. If you always have this fear of sin and punishment, you will always survive.”
We are optimistic on Rosh Hashono. We dip our challoh into honey hoping for a sweet year. The simonim express our hopes that all our enemies will disappear. Some French Jews eat bananas hoping for a bonne année. But nothing is guaranteed. We need to earn Hashem’s blessings. If we fear the consequences of our wrongdoings, we will live as we should and do teshuva for our aveiros. But if Rosh Hashono means no more than tasting the sweetest honey, luscious dates, the reddest apples, maybe bananas, and of course, pomegranates, but our lives continue as before, who knows what next year will bring?
One of the most shocking examples of Hashem’s punishment for sinful behaviour is found in Melochim Alef Chapter 21. “There was a vineyard belonging to Novos the Yizre’elite, next to the palace of Achov, King of Shomron. Achov spoke to Navos and said that he wanted to buy the land this vineyard occupied, for a vegetable garden.
However Navos refused. He said to Achov, “Far be it from me before Hashem that I should give you my ancestors’ heritage.” Achov’s wife Izevel then committed a heinous sin. She arranged for false witnesses to testify that Novos had “blessed” Hashem and Novos was duly stoned to death. Achov went down to the vineyard of his former neighbor and inherited it. “Problem solved,” he might have thought. Wrong. “Hashem sent Eliyohu Hanovi to tell Achov, You have murdered and now you inherit? Thus said Hashem, “In the place that the dogs licked up the blood of Novos, the dogs will lick up your blood as well.” Hashem spoke concerning Izevel. The dogs shall eat Izevel in the valley of Yizre’el. Anyone of the house of Achov who dies in the city, the dogs will eat. Anyone who dies in the field, the birds of the heavens will eat.” The posuk (22:37) tells us later this is what happened “…the dogs licked up Achov’s blood and immoral women bathed in it.” Achov the king who is described in Megila 11a as being one of three men, (the others were Nevuchadnetzar and Achashveirosh) who at one point ruled the whole world, came to an ignominious end. The day he walked into Novos’ vineyard, he might have been congratulating himself on the removal of someone who didn’t grovel before him. However Hashem made clear to him and us that sins have consequences. Incidentally, the Gemara in Shabbos 149b says that Novos the innocent victim, merited, in the World to Come, to be in the inner mechitza of Hashem. Everyone gets what is due to them.
There is a mitzvah never to forget Amolek. There is another mitzvah to destroy utterly all memory of Amolek. These two mitzvos seem mutually exclusive? However the Sefer Hachinuch explains that the mitzvah is not to remember Amolek himself but to remember that “anyone who does harm to the Jewish People is hated by Hashem. And according to the evil of his act so shall be his fall, as we see with Amolek who, because he did a great evil to Israel, Hashem commanded that he should be utterly destroyed.” Again, sins have consequences.
The Gemoro in Kesuvos 30a says that although there is no Sanhedrin to carry out capital punishment today, those who need to be punished, will be punished. Someone who would have been stoned to death will fall from a roof and die or an animal will crush him to death. Somebody who would have been burned to death will die in a fire or from a snake-bite. Someone who would have been beheaded, will be beheaded by a criminal or by the government. One who would have been strangled to death will die by drowning. This does NOT mean that somebody who has tragically died in one of these ways was guilty of any sin. There are many other reasons why such a tragedy might have occurred. But we have to know that just because there is no Sanhedrin or Beis Din to exact the punishments certain people deserve, it does not mean leis din veleis dayan – there is no judgment and no Judge.
Before Rosh Hashono, before Yom Kippur and throughout the year we should be afraid. Fear of sin and fear of Divine punishment will prod us to reflect on what we might have done wrong and encourage us to improve. If we have wronged someone we have to ask their forgiveness. Only if we do this can we be confident of what will be. Only if we are “nitzavim kulchem hayom” all standing here today with a fear of possible punishment can we optimistically look forward to a sweet year and a bonne année. Only then can we truly enjoy our pomegranates and bananas.
TOWARDS A SUCCESSFUL ROSH HASHONO
The best-known section of Ki Sovo is the Tochacha – warning us what will happen if we do not keep the mitzvos of the Torah. The low voice of the Baal Koreh hints to our trepidation of the fulfilment of the prophecies, many of which we have already witnessed. It would appear to be a timely preparation for Rosh Hashono, when we will again accept on ourselves ol malchus shomayim. The severe consequences of failing to keep Hashem’s commandments is surely the best incentive we could have to accept all our obligations. However, is this really the case?
Megila (31b) asks why Ezra arranged that we read Parshas Ki Savo before Rosh Hashana. Abaya answers, “Tichleh shana vekloloseho – that the year with its curses should end.” We want to look forward to a new year of blessings. Why didn’t Abaya answer that Ezra wanted us all to feel fearful of transgressing Hashem’s Torah and therefore be ready to accept Hashem’s kingship on Rosh Hashono?
The answer can be found on small cardboard boxes which we sometimes see. “SMOKING KILLS” is written in bold letters on every packet of cigarettes yet we see people, who presumably don’t want to die, calmly smoking cigarettes. Why do people still smoke? Why do so many of our teenagers begin smoking? The answer is because people say, “It won’t happen to me.” Hundreds of thousands of people die from lung cancer but “it won’t happen to me.” We can read the pesukim, hear the baal koreh reading the Tochacho, in hushed tones, we can know that such things have happened to others in our lifetime, but none of this impinges on our preparation for Rosh Hashono. Why? Because we say, “it won’t happen to me.”
What will make a difference? Perhaps a more positive approach – Tichle shana vekloloseho – May next year be full of blessings and not curses… Blessings encourage us. We like blessings
Perhaps concentrating on the section before the tochacha would be more effective. “If you will keep My mitzvos, you will be the foremost nation. You will be blessed in the city. You will be blessed in the field. I will bless your children, your cattle and your produce.” “Now this would be useful,” we think. “Our children certainly need a brocho. An increase in salary together with growth in our investments would help pay a few bills. And if everybody treated us with great respect when they see that we are members of the Jewish People, that would be the icing on the cake.” And if it costs me the effort to resist listening to some juicy loshon hora, it’s well worth it.
The concept of reward is a constant theme in Sefer Devorim. Parshas Ekev (7:12-16) speaks at length about the reward for even minor mitzvos and, again, later in the section which we read as part of our krias shema (11:13-15). In Parshas Re’eh (12:25) the pasuk says that we and our children will be greatly rewarded for not drinking blood. Rashi says that if we merit a great reward when we desist from drinking blood which we consider disgusting, how much more so if we desist from sins which we have a desire for. In Parshas Ki Teitzei (22:7) the pasuk says that if we send away the mother bird before taking the eggs, we will be blessed with long life. Rashi again expounds: If we receive a great reward for a mitzvah that costs us nothing, how much more so for more significant mitzvos. And in this week’s parsha of Ki Sovo, the section about reward precedes the section about punishment.
The reward of observing Hashem’s mitzvos is given to us both in this world and the next. The Rambam (Hilchos Teshuva 9:1) explains that the real reward is in the World to Come but, if we keep the mitzvos, Hashem will grant us an interim reward of peace, good health and financial security to enable us to keep more and more mitzvos. Thus we will earn more and more reward in the World to Come. And one hour of reward there is more pleasurable than all the pleasures of this world. (Pirkei Avos 4:17). Michtav M’Eliyahu (1:4) explains that this means that one moment of pleasure in the World to Come is greater than all the pleasures of this world compressed into a single moment.
Just think. For saying brochos with more care, for a friendly hello to a lonely stranger, for counting to ten and calming down rather than getting angry, the rewards are literally out of this world. It’s a no-brainer. Let’s go for it!
The currency of the interim reward may not be pounds, shillings and pence. It may come in the form of physical and mental health, a reasonable income and protection from people who would be happy to harm us, given half a chance. But these are just what we need to enable us to do more mitzvos. According to some mefarshim, the rewards mentioned in the Torah are physical forms of spiritual pleasures which we will enjoy in the World to Come. All in all, keeping mitzvos is the best investment we could possibly make.
Someone might argue that this acceptance of mitzvos is lo lishma – not for pure motives. Our response would be that firstly, we shouldn’t think we are wiser than Moshe Rabeinu who did encourage the Bnei Yisroel with promises of reward, as we have seen. And secondly, Chazal say, “Mitoch lo lishma ba lishma.” From doing mitzvos for insincere reasons one will come to do them for sincere reasons. So let’s put at least put one foot forward – towards a successful Rosh Hashono.
BUILDING THE KING’S PALACE
Nissan is commonly known as the month of redemption, but the Gemoro in Rosh Hashono (11a) brings another opinion that Tishrei is the month of redemption. This seems to be confirmed by the tefila on Rosh Hashono in which we plead with Hashem, “Ten pachdecho Hashem Elokeinu al kol maasecho” – Put fear of You on all the nations. We long for the final redemption, when Hashem will give due honour to His People, praise to those who fear him … speedily and in our days.
Rav Mattisyohu Salamon shlita asks in Matnas Chaim. Why should we focus on the subject of the Geula on Rosh Hashana? We can do this every day and we do. On Rosh Hashono there are other priorities. Our future is being decided on Rosh Hashono. Mi yichye, mi yomus – Who will live; who will die, who at his appointed time; who not at his appointed time. Beitza 15a says that our income for the year is fixed on Rosh Hashono. Surely, asks the Matnas Chaim, the main focus of our tefilos should be pleading for Hashem’s mercy for ourselves. Yet instead, we concentrate on accepting that Hashem is the King and on our hopes that soon everybody else will also accept Hashem as King. Our personal tefilos, zochreinu l’chaim etc are squeezed in at the beginning and end of the tefilos. Would not the reverse emphasis be more appropriate?
The Matnas Chaim answers with a parable. A king once employed a builder to build a magnificent palace for himself and his household. He wanted it to be ready as soon as possible and sent the contractor to the builders’ merchant for the bricks, timber, screws and all the supplies for the new palace. Knowing that there would be a queue, he wrote a note to the manager to give priority to this particular builder because he was working for the king. The other builders protested when he jumped the queue but the manager explained that they needed materials for their own needs but this builder is working for the king. He must be served first.
We all have our own needs, explains the Matnas Chaim. We all want to live and to enjoy good health and a comfortable income. If we want these things for our own benefit and enjoyment we will not receive preferential treatment. However, if we want health and strength in order to learn Torah, to do mitzvos, to sanctify Hashem’s name in the way we live our lives, we can hope for a better reception. If we argue that it is a chillul Hashem when resho’im who don’t even believe in Hashem seem to rule the world, our tefilos are even more likely to be accepted. And if we express our desire for a world where every person is G-d-fearing, so that Hashem’s name is magnified and sanctified, that we want the world to be a huge palace appropriate for the King of Kings, then like the royal contractor builder in the parable, we will move to the head of the queue. We all need life, health and material goods. But if we need them to build Hashem’s palace we will be granted priority in obtaining all the materials we need to do our job.
And if we realise that the day when Hashem’s glory is revealed and the whole world accepts Him as the Creator and King of the Universe is very close indeed, we will daven even harder. The Chofetz Chaim in Tzipiso LiYeshua says that we have already arrived at the stage of world history when the final redemption is imminent. He says that all the signs of the time of redemption mentioned in the last Mishna in Sotah have been fulfilled. “Chutzpa will be in abundance, truth will be lacking, those who fear sin will be despised, Jews will leave the way of the Torah.” The Chofetz Chaim asks, however, that the Mishna seems to contradict the pesukim in Parshas Nitzavim (30:1-3). There we read, “When all these things happen to you, the blessing and the curse … and you return to Hashem Elokecho with all your heart and with all your soul … Hashem will gather you from among all the peoples where He has scattered you.”(30:1-3) These pesukim indicate that the redemption will occur only after we do teshuva! The Chofetz Chaim answers that there will be two groups of Jews. One group will be as described in the Mishna in Sotah – lacking any fear of sin, ridiculing loyal Jews. The second group will be those Jews who despite everything still cling to the Torah. Even if they could enjoy an easier life elsewhere, they live in those places where they can best educate their children to Torah. It is precisely their determination despite all the challenges and mockery from anti-religious Jews and non-Jews, that Hashem will notice and consider this to be the best possible fulfillment of “Returning to Hashem, you and your children with all your heart and with all your soul.” The Chofetz Chaim says that the conditions for redemption, both in the pesukim and the Chumash are not contradictory but complementary. They have now all been fulfilled and the time of the redemption is imminent.
This is what we must remember as we daven on Rosh Hashono. Our deepest desire is to devote our lives to building “Hashem’s palace.” This is why we need all the materials necessary such as life, good health etc. And this new epoch in world history may already be within a hairsbreadth of happening. Our sincere and heartfelt davening might just make the difference so that it will be during this New Year of 5779 that the “Tzaddikim will see and rejoice, the Yeshorim will exult and the Chassidim will sing in joy” and Hashem’s will rejoice with all of us as He rejoiced with our fathers as written in our parsha. (ibid :9).
CHILDREN OR SERVANTS
In every shul in the Jewish world, at one of the most sublime moments of the Rosh Hashono service after the blowing of the shofar during Musaf, we all sing the following paragraph with great intensity each shul according to its custom.
Hayom haras olom, hayom yaamid bamishpot…..
“ Today is the birthday of the World. Today all creatures of the World stand in judgment whether as Your children or Your servants. If we stand before You as Your children, may You have mercy upon us like a father has mercy on his children. If as Your servants, our eyes look toward You until You will be gracious to us and judge us favourably, O Awesome and Holy One.”
It seems that there are two possibilities: to be judged like children or servants. But there is a huge difference between the two possibilities. The chances of a favorable verdict are clearly much higher if we’re judged like children. We can look forward to love and mercy. Kerachem av al bonim- like a father has mercy for his children. But if we’re judged like servants, we will be judged with midas hadin – strict judgment. Is there any way we can opt for one option rather than the other? Is there a way that we can ensure that we will be judged like children to increase the chance of a favourable outcome?
Our desire to be judged like children takes on even more urgency if we look at Gemoro Taanis (23a). The Gemoro is discussing the famous Choni Hame’agel who, in a time of famine, made a circle round himself and swore that he wouldn’t move from the circle until Hashem sent rain. When a few drops came down he argued that it wasn’t enough. When torrential rain began, he complained that it was too much until Hashem sent gishmei bracha. Reb Shimon ben Shetach was not pleased with Choni.
“ If you weren’t Choni, I would have put you in nidui but what can I do, since you are like a ben bayis of Hashem. He has mercy on you like a father for a son. If a son says to his father, “Wash me in hot water, wash me in cold water, give me nuts, almonds, peaches, pomegranates, the father gives him…
If this is how we would be treated if we are judged like children, it’s imperative to be judged this way. Our year and our whole future may depend on it.
We’ll be delighted to discover that indeed we ourselves can choose how Hashem will be judging us this Rosh Hashono. It’s up to us. But what do we have to do?
Let us consider the following. What is the difference between how a child responds to a request from his parents and how a servant responds to his master? If parents ask their child for a drink the child jumps up, only too happy to help. They ask “ Do you want a cold drink, a hot drink, with sugar, milk?” They serve it with a smile and enthusiasm, full of love for their father and mother. When a master asks his servant for a drink, he’s likely to respond grudgingly, knowing that he has no choice. In fact he was hoping that the master would have asked another servant. He really can’t be bothered. But he wants to escape without a wipping and he brings the drink.
When we have a mitzva to do, maybe getting up early for selichos, learning, Shabbos, kashrus, do we comply because we have to, because we’re afraid of eternal punishment etc or is it with simcha? “Baruch Hashem, I have the opportunity to do another mitzva” The first response is to be expected from somebody who is serving Hashem like a servant serves his master whose only interest is to receive reward and avoid punishment. The second response is to be expected from someone who is serving Hashem out of love.
Of course we are warned by the Tana in Pirkei Avos not to serve Hashem like a servant who serves his master for the purpose of receiving a reward.
The Gemoro in Brochos (29b) says that our prayers should not be like a burden and Rashi explains that this means that a person should not think as he davens that he is just fulfilling his obligation. The Mesilas Yeshorim (Chapter 7) extends this to all mitzvos. “When we are fulfilling any mitzva, we should not try to finish it as soon as possible as if we were carrying a heavy burden”. Rather our attitude should be like Dovid Hamelech said in Tehilim (42) K’ayol taarog al afikei moyim, kein nafshi saarog eilecho, Elokim.Tzomo nafshi lelokim, lekail choi, mosai v’eroeh pnai Elokim. Like a hart yearns for streams of water, so my soul yearns for you, Hashem. My soul thirsts for you, Hashem, the living G-d. When will I merit to see the face of Hashem.”
If our attitude to mitzvos is that we do them because we have to and we try to finish them as quickly as possible as if they are a heavy burden, our relationship to Hashem is like a servant to a Master and we’ll be judged accordingly – with midas hadin. We can can only hope, in the words of the machzor, that Hashem will be gracious to us and judge us favourably.
But if we are really happy to do our avodas Hashem, and we try to do it in the best possible way, like a hart yearns for streams of water, so our soul yearns for Hashem, our relationship with Hashem is like a child to a parent and we’ll be judged with love and mercy, kerachem av al bonim,like a father has mercy on his children. We can even ask for nuts, almonds, peaches and pomegranates and b’ezras Hashem, He’ll give them to us.
“REJOICE IN FEAR”
We can’t say we weren’t warned. The shofar has been reminding us loud and clear that Rosh Hashana is coming. It is another of Hashem’s great chassodim that we know about the Day of Judgment. At least we can prepare. We can be ready to re-accept Hashem as the King of the Universe, hopefully on a higher level than last year. And we can prepare our request list for the next year; what we are hoping to achieve and how to approach Hashem with our requests. We all know the value of preparing for a job interview — what to say and how to say it. The results of our ‘interview’ with Hashem are not just going to affect one detail of our life like whether we get a particular job but every aspect of life; in fact life itself. Are we going to be alive this time next year? We are optimistic that we will be blessed, but it still depends on how this Rosh Hashana goes. As the famous response to being asked how Rosh Hashana was, goes, “I’ll tell you next year.”
Do we really have confidence that our judgment will be favorable or is it just bravado? Let’s follow the Jewish custom of answering a question with another question. “Is there a mitzva of simcha on the Yom Tov of Rosh Hashana?” The Shulchan Aruch (597:1) says there is: “On Rosh Hashana we eat and drink and rejoice.” But isn’t this inappropriate on days when we are being judged? Mishna Berura (581:25) on the statement in the Shulchan Aruch that we prepare clean clothes and have a haircut on erev Rosh Hashana comments: “We are confident that Hashem in His kindness will find us to be righteous in our judgment.” “Nevertheless,” adds the Mishna Berura, “we shouldn’t wear our most elegant clothes on Rosh Hashana because we should be in fear of judgement.” Isn’t this a contradiction? We are confident about our judgment and yet we should be in fear of our judgment. How do these two statements fit together?
A posuk in Tehilim ( 2:11 ) is equally perplexing. “Gilu b’raada – Rejoice in fear.” Rejoicing and fear would appear to be incompatible. Yet this is precisely how we are supposed to daven according to Brachos 30b . What does the posuk mean?
A look at the mizmor we say during Elul, L’Dovid Hashem Ori, also reveals yet another apparent contradiction, this time between the first half and the second. Dovid Hamelech apparently starts with total confidence. “Hashem is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? Hashem is the strength of my life, whom shall I dread? When evildoers approach me to devour my flesh, my tormentors and my foes against me – it is they who will stumble and fall. Though an army would besiege me, my heart would not fear, though war would arise against me, in this I trust.” However later, a different tone emerges. “Hashem, hear my voice when I call. Be gracious to me and answer me. Do not hide Your presence from me, do not turn Your servant away in anger…do not abandon me, do not forsake me.” How can we account for this change in Dovid Hamelech’s attitude, from confidence to apparent fear?
The Chumash tells us, “Eretz Yisroel is a land that the eyes of Hashem are continually fixed on from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.” (Devarim 11:12) Rosh Hashana (16a) points out that the word for the beginning of the year, “reishis” is spelt, in the Torah, without the letter aleph at the beginning which hints to the word rash —a poor man. This indicates, says the Gemara, that every year that we begin like a poor person we will be like a rich man by the end. Rashi explains that the Gemara is not referring to lack of money. One should approach Hashem like a poor man approaching a potential benefactor as we learn in Mishlei 18. “Tachanunim yedaber rash.” A poor man speaks to a potential benefactor with great humility. He cannot demand; he just appeals with great self-effacement. “Similarly,” says Rashi, “the Jewish people daven on Rosh Hashana standing humbly in front of Hashem, making no demands, just appealing that Hashem should look kindly at our requests. We have not done enough good deeds to feel that Hashem is somehow obliged to answer our tefilos as we would like. Even if last year Hashem blessed us, this does not mean that He needs to do so this year. An oni knocks on the door of the oshir hoping that he will have some success but realizing that the baal habayis could just as easily totally reject him. He might hope to make eye contact in the hope that the oshir will have rachmonus on him. Similarly we have to stand in front of Hashem on Rosh Hashana hoping that Hashem who is– “rachamov al kol maasav” will have mercy on us. With this attitude at the beginning of the year, of being like a rash – poor man, Chazal tell us, we will be blessed at the end by being like a rich man at the end, with our requests having been accepted.
This way of davening, of making humble supplications rather than demands, is a requirement not just on Rosh Hashana but every day. The Shulchan Aruch (98:3) says explicitly: “A person should speak to Hashem as a poor man speaks at the door of a potential benefactor, hoping to be shown mercy.” The Shaarei Teshuva brings from the Ari that a person should think of this when he says the words “ozer dalim” just before the beginning of the Shemone Esre. Perhaps we can have that same intention when we say the words of Anim Zemiros, “Tikar shirash rosh be’einecho k’shir yushar al korbonecho – May the song of the poor man be as precious to You as a song sung over Your korban.”
There is no contradiction between the two halves of L’Dovid Hashem Ori. In the first section Dovid Hamelech is expressing his complete trust in Hashem. Dovid Hamelech was not afraid of his enemies. “They trust their cavalry and their horses but we put our trust in Hashem.” (Tehilim 20:8 ) The whole of the Egyptian army is like one horse to Hashem. (Shemos 14:23, Rashi). In a moment Hashem can destroy an army as He did at the time of krias Yam Suf, with the army of Sancheriv and on many other occasions. Even though success is not always guaranteed, “Habote’ach b’Hashem, chessed yesovevenu, – one who puts his trust in Hashem, will be enveloped by Hashem’s kindness.” (Tehilim 32:10)
But in the second half, Dovid Hamelech is davening to Hashem, “Hashem, hear my voice, do not hide Your face from me … like a poor person at the door of his potential benefactor with humility, begging for mercy. This is how everyone should daven, rich and poor.
On Rosh Hashana we have to show eimas hadin –fear of judgment. We have to be subdued. It is not appropriate to appear in our most festive clothes. We are appealing for Hashem’s mercy. But we are quietly optimistic. If we approach Hashem with humility, conscious of our imperfections, with true acceptance of Him as our Ruler and the Ruler of the whole universe, we have confidence that He will indeed look favourably upon us, extend His great kindness and send His blessings to us for a successful year ahead. And we can even be b’simcha as the posuk tells us – Gilu b’raada – Rejoice in fear.
TO BE INSCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF LIFE
One of the most dramatic and soul-stirring moments of Rosh Hashana is when the Baal Shacharis calls out with great emotion, “Hamelech,” and continues in the traditional tune “yoshev al kisei rom venisa – who sits on His most high and exalted throne.” We have prepared for at least a month for this moment, blowing the shofar throughout Ellul in anticipation of crowning Hashem as our King on Rosh Hashana. Our eyes water with emotion, our neshomos expand at this most moving acceptance of Hashem’s Kingship. Questions that troubled us during the previous year, when life did not proceed as smoothly as we had anticipated are all forgotten as we announce that Hashem is the King who knows what is right for each one of us. And at the same instant we relive the blessings received during the previous year, bestowed generously and mercifully by our Almighty King, Ruler of Heaven and Earth and the source of everything. But at this pivotal moment, perhaps another thought enters our minds. What could it be?
Every morning and evening when we say the Shema, we accept upon ourselves ol malchus shomayim – the yoke of the kingdom of Heaven. That is why, according to the Mishna in Brachos ( ), we say the first paragraph of the Shema and then the second. First we accept Hashem’s kingdom and His mitzvos, then we read of the reward for keeping the mitzvos and the punishment for transgressing them. But one difficulty is the very first mitzva mentioned, “You shall love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength.” Why this mitzva? Surely we should be first told about more down to earth mitzvos like learning Torah, wearing Tefilin and fixing a mezuza. Why put what is arguablythe most difficult mitzva first?
In Parshas Vayishlach we read of one the most upsetting episodes of the Chumash—the violation and abduction of Dina the daughterof Yaakov. We read how Shechem the son of Chamor was infatuated with Dina. The pasuk says that his soul clung to Dina, he loved her and wanted desperately to marry her. Thereafter negotiations began between Shechem and his family and Yaakov Ovinu and his sons whether such a marriage could be agreed by both sides. Why bring in this gruesome and distressing episode into our Rosh Hashana preparations?
Henry Smith is a politically aware citizen and he supports a particular candidate for president of his country. This candidate seems to be more capable than the rest and so, on election day he gets up and casts his vote for this candidate who is duly elected. Henry then concentrates on his own affairs and doesn’t involve himself in politics for the next four years. Another person is slightly more involved and wanting to make some kind of contribution, becomes a member of the party and pays his annual dues of $50. Another person is quite enamored by the president and becomes a donor to the party but still devotes most of his time to his own projects unconnected to politics. Another person is even more supportive; he speaks to his friends about how good the president is and why they should consider joining the party. Another person even arranges occasional evenings to bring in new supporters for the president. Another person is so supportive that he applies for a full time job in the party so that he can devote much more time to enlarging the president’s voter base. He is busy from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm working for the good of the president. Of course after 5.00 pm he is involved in other matters, sport and entertainment. Another person has largely given up other pursuits and even after 5.00 pm he spends his evenings speaking in front of large audiences in praise of the president hoping that his enthusiastic support will rub off on others. But another person still is as supportive as anyone could possibly be. He loves this president and spends all his time, all his thoughts, trying to think of ways that will increase people’s honor for the president so that other people will also begin to love and honor him. Both he and Henry Smith, come election day, support the president and cast their vote for him but there is a huge difference between the two.
When we say the Shema and accept the kingship of Hashem we can do it in a very minimal way. Yes, I agree that He is the King and I will serve Him. But we can also accept His kingship with great enthusiasm and love. We can spend our whole day keeping all the mitzvos in the best possible way. We can act in a way that others will be influenced to serve Hashem as well. Our thoughts can be so full of love for Hashem that nothing else is important to us. This is why the mitzva of loving Hashem is mentioned first, even though it is arguably the most difficult, because we are being reminded that kabolas ol Malchus Shomayim is not a static concept. We can grow in the level of our acceptance of Hashem as our King from the very minimum, to the level of loving Hashem with our heart, soul and strength and with every fibre of our being. It may not be achievable in one day but is rather a level to strive for throughout our lives.
The Mesilas Yesharim says that our aim should be that our devotion to Hashem should be at least at the level of Shechem’s love for Dina. Let us imagine that just as Shechem was busy negotiating with Yaakov for his permission to marry Dina, his friend came in and started telling him about some political news in their community. Shechem would dismiss him in a moment. “Not now,” he would shout. “I’m busy with Dina.” Another friend came in with news of a cheap offer on Egyptian horses. “Not now,” he would shout even louder, “I’m busy with Dina. Nothing else interests me.” “Is our love and devotion to Hashem as great as Shechem’s devotion to Dina at that moment?” asks the Mesilas Yesharim.
This could be our third thought as the Baal Shacharis calls out, “Hamelech.” Has our level of crowning Hashem improved since last year? Are we just card-carrying subjects of Hashem or are we loyal, active supporters? Do we turn up to crown Hashem just on Rosh Hashana or is He constantly in our thoughts? At this moment, a decision to try to love Him and honor Him even more than before, might just be the reason that Hashem will inscribe us immediately in the Book of Life.
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Our Greatest Comfort
This final haftora of comfort envisages the highest possible level of simcha – rejoicing with Hashem. Sos osis B’Hashem tagel nafshi b’Elokai. (Yeshaya 61:10). I will rejoice deeply with Hashem, my soul will exult with my G-d. He has dressed me in the clothes of salvation… like a bridegroom who exalts himself with splendor, like a bride who bedecks herself with her jewelry. The imagery of profound love is used a few pasukim later: “As a bridegroom rejoices with his bride, so will Hashem rejoice with us.” (62:5)
We anticipate this formidable simcha every month when we say kiddush levana. We look forward to the time when the moon will again be an equal partner with the sun and compare this to the renewal of the close relationship between Hashem and Knesses Yisroel after the years of estrangement in golus. This is why we dance after kiddush levana as we dance at a wedding.(Rama 426:2).
During Kiddush Levana we quote Shir Hashirim: “The voice of my beloved, behold it came suddenly leaping over mountains, skipping over hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or young hart. Behold he was standing behind our wall, observing through the windows, peering through the cracks.” (2:8-9) The pasukim testify that even during golus, the connection between us and Hashem was never broken. Even when we couldn’t see Him, He was always watching over us, observing through the windows, peering through the cracks. Yeshaya also said in our haftorah(63:9), “Bechol tzorosom lo tzar – in all their troubles He was troubled. He sent messengers to save them and with love and compassion He redeemed them.”
“Lemaan Tzion lo echeshe, leman Yerusholayim lo eshkot,” says Yeshaya in our haftora (62:1). “For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, for the sake of Yerushalayim I will not rest.” Hashem ensured that the nations of the world would not live in peace as long as Yerusholayim was bereft of her children. The eighty years’ war for Dutch independence from Spain, the Hundred Years’ war between England and France, the two hundred and fourteen years of war between the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, the first and second world wars and many others have regularly punctuated history. Many wars still continue in Africa and South East Asia.
Why has the golus been so long? No-one can say for sure. But the survival of the Jewish People despite the length of the golus is possibly the greatest miracle. Reb Yonason Eibeschitz famously said that the miracle of the survival of the Jews despite the golus is greater than the miracles of Yetzias Mitzrayim. In the Hagada we say that in every generation, the nations rise up to destroy us but Hashem saves us from them. What greater proof could there be that the love between Hashem and His People has never ceased? While it is not possible to interpret current events without ruach hakodesh, we see today how millions of Jews have come to live in Eretz Yisroel; so many beautiful communities of religious Jews exist and are growing. We see the words of the navi coming to life: “Old men and old women sitting in the streets of Jerusalem each with his staff in his hand because of advanced age and the streets of the city are filled with boys and girls playing.” (Zechariah 8:4-5).
Every day in times of success or failure, good health or illness, peace or troubles, we affirm our love for Hashem. Ve’ohavto es Hashem Elokecha bechol levavcho, bechol nafshecha uvechol me’odecho. We are prepared to give up our lives in loyalty to Hashem and His Torah and many have done so. Ironically our love for Hashem has deepened precisely because of the long golus and many trials and tribulations. This is because a love which is based on constant blessings is more likely to be superficial. It could well be a form of self-love. “I love G-d because He is always giving me things.” Someone with such a shallow ‘love’ of G-d will change if he is faced with difficult challenges. But we have gone through slavery in Egypt, exile in Babylon, persecutions and pogroms. We know that Hashem sometimes rebukes us, sometimes tests us. We do not always see a positive response to our tefilos. But our love of Hashem remains deep because we appreciate that “His thoughts are not our thoughts.” What He sees as good for us or what is good for the world is not necessarily within our grasp. And we remain loyal to Hashem even at the darkest moments.
This haftora of parshas Nitzavim, the last of the shiva denechemta is always read just before Rosh Hashana. Just as we prepare to accept Hashem again as our King, we are reminded by the navi of our deep and ancient connection with Hashem. Blowing the shofar reminds us of our emuna that the ingathering of the exiles will happen. Hashem, who has been caring for us for many centuries “through the cracks,” will soon be visible to us and the whole world in all His resplendent glory. “Soon,“the fear of You will be upon all peoples”. Soon, “Your people will be honored, those who fear you will be praised.” Soon,“the tzaddikim will rejoice, the yesharim will exalt and the chassidim will rejoice in song.” Soon, “all wickedness will evaporate like smoke.” Soon Yeshaya’s prophecy will be fulfilled that ”Your grain will no longer be plundered as food for our enemies and strangers will no longer drink the wine which you have toiled for.”(62:8). We will be a crown of splendour in the hand of Hashem and a royal diadem in His palm. (62:3) Just as the sun will rejoice again with the renewed moon after their long estrangement, Hashem will soon rejoice with us, His loyal People, with unparalled love, as a chosson celebrates with his kalloh.. And this is our greatest comfort.
Posted on September 6, 2018 September 12, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Nitzavim, נצביםLeave a comment on Our Greatest Comfort
Vezos Habracha – The Key to Simchas Yom Tov
Vehoyisa ach same’ach (Devarim 15:15) is an explicit source in the Torah for the obligation to be b’simcha throughout Succos. The Vilna Gaon famously described this as the hardest mitzva of Succos – to rejoice constantly throughout the eight days of Yom Tov. How can we fulfill this mitzva?
Of course, sitting in our succa is always a delight, assuming that we could build it close to home and the weather is reasonable. Our nashim tzidkanios prepare delicious seudos and if the rest of the family co-operate, everyone can enjoy them. But we are still looking for other reasons to be b’simcha. There are many, of course, but in this particular essay, I am looking for a path to simcha which we can learn from the final parsha of the year, Vezos Habracha, always read at the end of the week of Succos. I can already tell you that our source will be the very first letter of the parsha – the letter vav and why Moshe is called an Ish Ho’Elokim, a man of G-d, in the first posuk.
There is a non-Jewish song (and I am now giving my age away) made famous by Harry Secombe, which starts with the line, “If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of Spring.” If we ruled the world, what day would we want every day to be?
In “L’Dovid Hashem Ori”, which we are still saying twice daily, Dovid Hamelech asserts, “Though an army would besiege me, my heart would not fear; though war would arise against me, bezos, in this I trust. The commentators grapple with what bezos refers to.
If you’ll excuse the intrusion, may I ask what you were thinking about a few days ago when you prostrated yourself on the floor three times during Musaf of Yom Kippur. If you were mainly concerned about how to avoid getting your kittel or skirt dusty, that is not an acceptable answer.
I will tell you what I was thinking about. The first time, it was about the amazing miracle which took place in the Beis Hamikdash when, despite the fact that people were standing shoulder to shoulder, there was suddenly ample room when everyone prostrated themselves. I was imagining myself being in the courtyard of the Beis Hamikdash when this was happening. It must have been a mind boggling, unforgettable experience.
The second time, I was aware of my face being close to the dust of the ground and I thought of the posuk in Hallel, “Mekimi me’ofor dol – Hashem raises a poor man from the dust.” How Hashem has provided us all with whatever we own today. Our health, our family, our possessions, any achievements are all due to Hashem’s kindness. Without Him we would be utterly destitute.
The third time, I concentrated on the words we were saying, “Boruch shem kevod malchuso l’om vo’ed – Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for ever.” I pondered on the words, “for ever.” Of the people who lived a few generations ago, how many have we heard of? Maybe a few very famous people. The rest are no longer. We manage without them. And in a few years (120 iyH), we’ll also be gone and the world will carry on without us. What are we? Like a “passing shadow, a dissipating cloud and fleeting dream.” We are like “clay in the hand of the potter, curtain in the hand of the embroidered and silver in the hand of the silversmith.” Hashem is forever. The world is His.
Parshas Ha’azinu ends with what appears to be a great blow to Moshe Rabbeinu on the last day of his life. Hashem tells him, “Go up to Har Nevo and see the Land of Canaan which I am giving to the Children of Israel as a possession. You will die on the mountain…because you didn’t sanctify My Name amongst the Children of Israel. You will see the Land but you will not enter the Land which I am giving to the Children of Israel.” For forty years Moshe Rabbeinu gave his life to the Jewish People. On one occasion the people provoked him into a momentary lapse, he made a mistake, whatever it was, failed to sanctify Hashem’s Name as he could have. His punishment was that he would not be allowed to complete his life’s mission of leading the People into the future Eretz Yisroel. It seems to be a great tragedy. And Hashem reminds Moshe of this on his final day. What a sad end to forty years of leadership. They’ll be going in; he won’t. We would feel shattered; decades of superhuman effort coming to a humiliating end. We might entertain thoughts of unfairness, injustice and certainly great sadness. But Moshe Rabbeinu accepted everything, even this last message from Hashem, with simcha. How could he do that? Because he was an Ish Ho’Elokim. He recognized that Hashem is the fairest Judge and ultimate Merciful One. Whatever He decides is for the best. Moshe Rabbeinu knew that he was a mere mortal, fulfilling a certain role for a few years until others take over after him.
The letter vav of Vezos Habracha combines the last posuk of Ha’azinu with the first posuk of Vezos Habracha, as the Ohr Hachaim points out. This realization that Hashem rules the world, and we do not, is a blessing and a source of simcha. Confusion, filling our minds with what, in our opinion, could have happened and should have happened, leads to depression. Instead we should have full trust that Hashem, whose world it is, knows exactly what He is doing and it is all for the best. We are a mere passing shadow and a fleeting dream, as I was thinking on Yom Kippur, prostrated on my shul floor.
Perhaps this was what Dovid Hamelech was referring to when he said “Bezos ani vote’ach.” Facing battles, wars, sudden danger or potential disappointment, he put his trust in the “Zos” of Vezos Habracha that we don’t rule the world and it is pointless and indeed heretical, to consider what, in our opinion, should be changed for the better. The world is Hashem’s; we can rely on Him to do the right thing.
With this in our minds throughout Succos we can increase our simchas Yom Tov. We earned exactly what we were supposed to have earned last year. Our health is exactly as it should be. Every frustration was in exactly the measure our great and kind Judge decided was appropriate for us. Vezos Habracha – this understanding and belief is our blessing and the key to our simchas Yom Tov. Enjoy!
Posted on September 2, 2018 October 10, 2018 Author Rabbi Michoel FletcherCategories Rabbi Michoel Fletcher on the ParshaTags Simchas Torah, שמחת תורהLeave a comment on Vezos Habracha – The Key to Simchas Yom Tov
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The Daily Ghost #76 06/20/2004 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
End Seven Below Jam>Ghost->Twist 06/20/2004
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Background (Set: 2 of 2 – Song: 3 of 4 – Show Gap: 4)
Ghost is placed right in the heart of a monster second set at SPAC. Placed after Seven Below and before Twist. The segue from Seven Below and all of the outstanding Twist have been included.
Composed Section (0:15-4:11)
Ghost starts with Trey and then receives some Mike feedback. It is not until Fish comes in that Ghost starts to truly take shape. A dark dirty spacey tone from Mike makes things sound very cool before the vocals come in.
This version takes on an average pace. The solo section gets another heavy dose of Page on the clav, and then some fantastic Mike. The two play well off of each other and it makes for a great solo section.
The pause has more Trey playing during it. The drop in lags behind a bit, and is certainly not perfect. Not a train wreck but not a thing of beauty either.
Floating Away Noodling (4:12-10:27)
Mike lays down a thick groove early into the jam. Trey starts to let some solo notes ring out and Page provides some piano melodies. Fish is giving a slow beat and moving this towards a groove.
After a couple of sectioned off measure, things settle down and a full band groove takes shape. Mike’s bass and Page’s piano grab most of my attention to start. Mike’s bass has some oomph behind it during this jam. Page plays a particularly nice passage at this point, and seems to gather steam from it.
Trey’s playing although he is soloing, is not the dominating factor in the beginning of this jam. Instead at times, I feel he is providing background. This is a good solid initial groove.
Around the 6:08, both Trey and Mike start to repeat some notes adding tension to this jam. They both start moving up the scales, and the jam turns to more a floating style. That is… when I hear this style of jamming I start to float from whatever I am doing. My wind wanders all over the place. There is certainly some noodling going on after the 6:45 mark.
By the 7:30 mark, I am half in space, half wondering if this jam will take shape. This is a jam you can sway to, but not one you will be clearing space for your funk dance party. It doesn’t do a whole bunch for me. I do appreciate a lot of the work from Mike and Fish, but Trey’s playing is nowhere near my favorite.
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It is has some good ideas but untimely falls flat on its face. I am not saying this is the worst jam we have seen, just one that floats you away. As Seinfeld would say “Not that there is anything wrong with that…”
Now We Have Something->Twist (10:28-12:30)
The jam breaks down around the 10:28 mark, as Fish slows things wayyy down. Trey finds a great lick at the 10:42 mark, and Mike’s bass explodes around him. Then at 10:48, Fish brilliantly picks the pace up at that exact moment.
The next part is the best part of this Ghost. From 10:48-11:15, they bring the funk police. Man is that a hot groove, but they move away from it WAY too soon.
What follows is actually very good. I just crave more of that sick beat Mike and Fish were laying down.
The jam starts to fade out with more spaced out Trey playing. Fish infuses parts of the Twist drum beat as early as the 11:30 mark. The rest of this jam is used to set up the segue into Twist. Things break down again around the 12:00 mark for a while.
Then at 12:24, Trey plays the lick for Twist and it takes full shape by the 12:30 mark. Great segue and what follows is a legendary version of Twist.
In what is one of my favorite Phish sets, Ghost might actually be the weakest link. It is important to understand its place in this set however. After a smoking Seven Below, Ghost is actually used as the cool down portion of the set. It continues the energy, while providing a launching pad for an exceptional Twist. This version is a nice one to space out to, it just doesn’t do it for me on its own. When you stack it up compared to the other 2.0 versions, it just doesn’t measure up well.
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Very strange Ghost. You are totally right in that its used as the cool-down piece; I think its pretty clear that they wanted to keep jamming, but needed a chill breather before another rager. Trey seemed to struggle playing that slow at first, but they weave a pretty unique jam throughout. It certainly doesn’t sound like ANY other Ghost out there. Its more of a “fabric” jam, the way Mike and Trey weave lines around each other super slowly.
I thought the drop-in was pretty good, actually. They were on time, and it was interesting that they kept the low-key vibe for the way that they yell the refrain.
The most impressive thing about this piece, for me, is the way that Fish was the instigator (unless this setlist was pre-planned) of the change and that Trey fought his way to make a smooth transition, which was accomplished.
Now for the stratosphere with this Twist jam…..
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Brazil: Another Mining Dam Disaster
Search for Brazil dam survivors renews as death toll hits 58
BRUMADINHO, Brazil—Brazilian rescue crews returned to mud-covered flats Sunday to resume the search for hundreds of people missing in the wake of a dam collapse after the operation was suspended for several hours over fears that a second dam was at risk of breach.
The Civil Defense office in Minais Gerais state raised the confirmed death toll to 58, with up to 300 people still missing following the avalanche of iron ore waste from a mine Friday.
Earlier Sunday, authorities stopped the search and evacuated several neighborhoods in the southeastern city of Brumadinho that were within range of the second B6 dam owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale. An estimated 24,000 people were told to get to higher ground, but by the afternoon civil engineers said the second dam was no longer at risk.
“Get out searching!” a woman yelled at firefighters near a refugee set up in the center of Brumadinho. “They could be out there in the bush.”
Areas of water-soaked mud appeared to be drying out, which could help firefighters get to areas previously unreachable. Late Sunday, more than 100 Israeli soldiers and other personnel arrived with plans to join rescue and recovery efforts Monday.
Even before the brief suspension of rescue efforts, hope that loved ones had survived a tsunami of iron ore mine waste from Friday’s dam collapse was turning to anguish and anger over the increasing likelihood that many of the missing had died.
There was also mounting anger at Vale and questions about an apparent lack of an alarm system Friday.
Caroline Steifeld, who was evacuated, said she heard warning sirens Sunday, but no such alert on the day the dam collapsed.
“I only heard shouting, people saying to get out. I had to run with my family to get to higher ground, but there was no siren,” she said, adding that a cousin was still unaccounted for.
Several others made similar complaints when interviewed by The Associated Press. In an email, Vale told the AP that the area has eight sirens in the area, but “the speed in which the event happened made sounding an alarm impossible” in the dam that collapsed.
“I’m angry. There is no way I can stay calm,” Sonia Fatima da Silva said as she tried to get information about her son, who had worked at Vale for 20 years. “My hope is that they be honest. I want news, even if it’s bad.”
Da Silva said she last spoke to her son before he went to work Friday, when around midday a dam holding back mine waste collapsed, sending waves of mud for kilometers (miles) and burying much in its path.
She was one of dozens of people in Brumadinho who desperately awaited word on their loved ones.
Romeu Zema, the governor of Minas Gerais state, said that by now most recovery efforts will entail pulling out bodies.
The flow of waste reached the nearby community of Vila Ferteco and an occupied Vale administrative office. It buried buildings to their rooftops and an extensive field of the mud cut off roads.
Some residents barely escaped with their lives.
“I saw all the mud coming down the hill, snapping the trees as it descended. It was a tremendous noise,” said a tearful Simone Pedrosa, from the neighborhood of Parque Cachoeira, 5 miles (8 kilometers) from where the dam collapsed.
Pedrosa, 45, and her parents dashed to their car and drove to the highest point in the neighborhood.
“If we had gone down the other direction, we would have died,” Pedrosa said.
“I cannot get that noise out of my head,” she said. “It’s a trauma … I’ll never forget.”
In addition to the dead, 23 people were hospitalized, according to the Minas Gerais fire department. There had been some signs of hope earlier Saturday when authorities found 43 more people alive.
For many, hope was evaporating.
“I don’t think he is alive,” said Joao Bosco, speaking of his cousin, Jorge Luis Ferreira, who worked for Vale. “Right now, I can only hope for a miracle.”
Vanilza Sueli Oliveira described the wait for news of her nephew as “distressing, maddening.”
“Time is passing,” she said. “It’s been 24 hours already. … I just don’t want to think that he is under the mud.”
The rivers of mining waste also raised fears of widespread environmental contamination and degradation.
According to Vale’s website, the waste is composed mostly of sand and is non-toxic. However, a U.N. report found that the waste from a similar disaster in 2015 “contained high levels of toxic heavy metals.”
Over the weekend, state courts and the justice ministry in the state of Minas Gerais froze about $3 billion from Vale assets for state emergency services and told the company to report on how they would help the victims.
Neither the company nor authorities had reported why the dam failed, but Attorney General Raquel Dodge promised to investigate it, saying “someone is definitely at fault.” Dodge noted there are 600 mines in the state of Minas Gerais alone that are classified as being at risk of rupture.
Another dam administered by Vale and Australian mining company BHP Billiton collapsed in 2015 in the city of Mariana in the same state of Minas Gerais, resulting in 19 deaths and forcing hundreds from their homes. Considered the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history, it left 250,000 people without drinking water and killed thousands of fish. An estimated 60 million cubic meters of waste flooded nearby rivers and eventually flowed into the Atlantic Ocean.
Sueli de Oliveira Costa, who hadn’t heard from her husband since Friday, had harsh words for the mining company.
“Vale destroyed Mariana and now they’ve destroyed Brumadinho,” she said.
The Folia de S.Paulo newspaper reported Saturday that the dam’s mining complex was issued an expedited license to expand in December due to “decreased risk.” Conservation groups in the area alleged that the approval was unlawful.
On Twitter, new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said his government would do everything it could to “prevent more tragedies” like Mariana and now Brumadinho.
The far-right leader campaigned on promises to jump-start Brazil’s economy, in part by deregulating mining and other industries.
Environmental groups and activists said the latest spill underscored the lack of environmental regulation in Brazil, and many promised to fight any further deregulation.
Marina Silva, a former environmental minister and presidential candidate, said such tragedies should be deemed “heinous crimes,” and that Congress should bear part of the blame for not toughening regulations and enforcement.
Brumadinho collapse uncovers desperate situation of Brazil’s dams
Photo: Aerial view of a destroyed house being washed away in the sludge surging from the collapsed dam near Brumadinho, Brazil. Source: André Prenner/AP.
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California woman cat found waiting on a wildfire-ravaged house: ‘you made it!’
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Courtney Werblow was in tears when she returned to Paradise, Calif. property where her childhood home stood. But it was not the economic goods, that made her cry. On the contrary, it was the sight of her beloved cat, Wood.
“Come on Wood! Come on girl! Hello baby girl, come on!” Werblow can be heard saying in a now-viral video, as she shakes a bowl of food for the hesitant feline.
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“You look so good,” she says, breaking down in tears like Wood approaches.”You have made it. You have made it. It’s okay baby. We are here. We are there for you!”
Wood, a woman with beige color and a brown face, “special” Werblow told ABC10. The California woman said Wood came into her life after she and her husband married and she was pregnant with their second child.
Wood was living with Werblow parents at the time that the Camp Fire was burning by the Butte County area, because her house was not possible cats.
“NEVER LOSE HOPE! A month today since the fire, we received an escort to my parents’ property and my cat Wood was discovered!! She is still alive. Praise God!!” she wrote alongside the video, which was more 720,000 views as of Wednesday morning.
“Amen, this is absolutely amazing news, praise God, I am so glad that I am all choked up,” a Facebook user wrote in a comment.
“I am so touched by this story. I had to watch. I hope that things get better & better for your family and others added.
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Werblow told the news station find out of living Wood was a “much-needed moments of hope” for her family after the Camp Fire burned more than 150,000 acres, destroyed almost 14,000 structures and killed 86 people, according to the Cal Fire destroyed everything they had.
Werblow the story of Wood echoes that of another pet owner in the Paradise of which the dog was found waiting on the scorched property a month after the wildfire ripped through the area.
Courtney Werblow not immediately return Fox News’ request for additional comment Wednesday.
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Local film-makers attend Clermont-Ferrand film festival
The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (Jampro) is currently leading the 2018/19 Jamaica Film and Television Association (JAFTA) PROPELLA finalists on a film promotion mission at the 41st annual Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival being held in France. JAFTA Propella is a national film development programme designed to bring attention to local film-makers and promote their work to audiences around the world.
The delegation began their mission to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival on February 1, 2019. The festival attracts over 3,000 international film industry professionals including producers, buyers, and distributors who are seeking new content for various platforms.
Leader of the delegation, Jampro Film Commissioner Renee Robinson, underscored the importance of the trip.
“Clermont is one of the most important short markets on the festival circuit, bringing us into contact with buyers, distributors, and agents from all over the world,” she said. “In the 2019/20 cohort we will be opening up the opportunity for corporate partners to get involved in the international components, now that we've fine-tuned the programme and documented its successes. This is a new mode of operation for us, but one which will strengthen our global competitiveness as we exchange more deeply with the international market.”
The delegation includes Jamaica Film and Television Association (JAFTA) President Analisa Chapman; Going Down film-maker, Mezan Ayoka; Flight film-maker Kia Moses, and Ina Sotirova, who is promoting her film Agwe.
They will be meeting various influencers in the international film industry including sales agents, Video on Demand (VOD) platforms like Netflix and Hulu, financiers and potential producing partners. The mission to France is part of the JAMPRO, JAFTA and CHASE Fund collaboration to promote Jamaican film-makers and screen-based content internationally.
This is the second JAFTA PROPELLA delegation to the festival, as the programme continues to see success. Previous participants have enjoyed significant success since their participation in the programme including one short under development towards feature status, one short under development towards TV series, and several being accepted and winning awards at various international film festivals.
In addition to the premiere of the JAFTA PROPELLA films at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, local filmmakers have participated in workshops focusing on script development, directing and producing, and the business of film to prepare for the international industry. Market attendance at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival indicates the final stage of the 2018 cohort.
JAFTA President Analisa Chapman said the programme has provided excellent support for local film-makers.
“At its core, JAFTA Propella is a developmental programme, and with the financial support of the CHASE Fund and facilitatory and promotional support from Jampro, our aim is to help develop and showcase more local creative content and skill sets,” she said.
“We are extremely grateful to Jampro for facilitating and sponsoring representatives from the selected projects, and JAFTA to go the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival as it not only further exposes our local talents and stories to the world, but exposes our participants to other film markets as well as the practice and importance of the business of film. It will be an experience that the participants will undoubtedly learn from and share on their return.”
JAFTA, with support from Jampro and CHASE Fund, is engaged in an ongoing commitment to foster a spirit of togetherness, community and advancement for the Jamaican film and television industry. The Jampro film commissioner spoke to the need for continued exposure at the international level.
“The world is curious and eager to see what is being produced in Jamaica, and what type of cinematic aesthetic is emerging from the region,” she stated. “Ongoing annual market attendance continues to be crucial to entrench the message that Jamaica is ready to do business on the global film festival circuit.”
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Tag Archives: Sister Perpetue
Dak Reads Les Misérables / FANTINE: Book 7
BOOK 7: Remember That Guy Who Stole That Bread?
So, now we are going to learn about some events in which nobody really actually knows exactly how or what happened. They must, however be described in very great detail anyway. This is not conjecture on my part due to the verbosity of previous chapters…that is the actual text in the first paragraph. So, let’s get detailed all up in these mysterious events! Settle in!
Fantine has two caretakers in the infirmary, Sister Perpetue and Sister Simplice. To Sister Perpetue being a nun was just a job. Apparently for many this is the case these days. It just seems like the thing to do. Sister Simplice on the other hand was devout, pure and good, fragile in appearance, but strong, neither young nor old, and above everything else she cannot tell a lie.
Let me stress this, because apparently it is something that needs stress: No lies detected. Lying is not within this woman’s capabilities. Never shall her pants be alight. I have some foreshadowy feelings right now.
In any case, Fantine is still dying and waiting for Cosette. She’s not getting better. M. Madeline comes to visit her everyday to reassure her. She no longer hates his guts, and his visits are now the highlight of her days. She asks for Cosette, he says soon, my heart breaks a little, because there is no Cosette forthcoming and Fantine is fading fast.
Later, M. Madeline goes to see a man about a horse. He is really careful to avoid the door to the rectory and the curé that lives inside for some reason. I wonder why? Anyway, he needs a horse that can travel an exactly calculated distance in a short time at a fast clip without dropping dead in the street as horses are apparently wont to do in these days. M. Scaufflaire, the horse renting dude, has the perfect candidate, but he has all sorts of provisions that Madeline must follow if he’s going to be working the poor thing that hard. After haggling for a while, Madeline procures the ride which will arrive early the next morning to his place of residence.
M. Scaufflaire and his wife have a little back and forth about where the mayor is going in such a big hurry, because of course they do. Everybody talks about everybody’s business here, don’t they? She thinks he’s off to Paris naturally, but he has the exact distances that Madeline outlined for him. He’s going to Arras, which just so happens to be the place Champmathieu is being tried.
Meanwhile, Madeline avoids the rectory again on the way back and returns to his room where, according to the dude who lives below him, he paces back and forth all night long.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re just going to spell it out for you right now that Champmathieu is not the ValJean they are looking for. M. Madeline is indeed the Jean Valjean of legend, and right now he’s having a massive internal crisis over what he should do with the info that Javert has just laid upon him. It’s the reason he avoided the rectory earlier in the afternoon. He was hoping he had left Jean Valjean behind him for good.
He vacillates between the two options: A. Turn himself in and B. Do nothing.
First he thinks he ought to do nothing because clearly God wanted Champmathieu to go to prison in his place, and who is he to go against God?
After that he thinks he should turn himself in, because to remain hidden and let this other man take the fall for him would be a crime unto itself, and it would undo all the good he’s done in his life after turning over his new leaf. He could either be a good devout man in public but secretly a sketchy bad dude or vice versa.
Then he thinks of Fantine and everybody else in town. what would happen to all of them if he goes back to the slammer? And, I mean, Champmathieu was born with his face after all, and he did steal those apples, didn’t he? So he should be going to jail anyway. Of course there is a world of difference between a while in Jail for a first time apple stealing offence and the remainder of life on the chain gang for breaking parole and stealing from a chimney sweep.
He decides again that it would probably be best for everyone if he just let nature take its course and stay put instead of going to confess his identity. So, he opens up a secret cupboard where he has been keeping all remnants of his former life. His old walking stick is there, his old convict clothes are there. That 40 sou piece he stole from the chimney sweep is there. He throws all that in the fire. All vestiges of Jean Valjean are gone, save one… The Bishop’s candlesticks. The most valuable of all the silver and the only pieces that Valjean did not sell. He has kept them as a sort of souvenir, to remember his goal to turn his life around. He can’t decide whether or not he wants to pitch those into the flame as well. You see, he’s only had two goals since he came to that crossroads those years ago: #1 Live his life as a better man, doing good works and such. He’s basically been following in the Bishop’s footsteps all this time. and #2 Self preservation, and he’s been willing to sacrifice #2 for #1 in the past. See: going into mourning for the Bishop, and keeping his candlesticks on full display in his room instead of hiding them away with the rest of his past, and lifting that cart off Fauchelevent despite Javert standing around practically calling him out right there.
It is at this point while he’s pondering the melting point of silver that he hears voices. They might be the voices of his conscious at work, which I imagine sound like a certain Bishop, telling him that it’s wrong to let an innocent man take the fall for something he didn’t do. And his mind continues to go around and around in these circles all night long.
Madeline remains undecided until 5am when the cart arrives. He does manage to write a letter to his banker and get a wink of sleep in which he has an insane dream during this long night of reflection. He writes down the dream so we can relive it in vivid detail, because these are the most detailed events that nobody knows about ever:
He’s walking around chatting with his brother that he hasn’t thought about in ages in a place that he thinks might be Romainville by way of a desert road. They’re talking about a neighbor that used to leave her window open, because that is the sort of thing that happens in dreams. It is probably symbolic in some way that I can’t parse right now. There’s also a hairless grey skull man riding a brown horse that doesn’t talk to them. The brother disappears and leaves Valjean in this mysterious town with mysterious men around every corner who just stare at him and don’t answer his questions about where he is.
He decides to leave this city, and as he’s out walking in the fields he realizes that all these men are following him. They overtake and surround him and tell him that he’s been dead for a while. When he tries to speak they have all disappeared.
He wakes up in a kind of daze to the coach waiting for him. His one and only servant comes to get him. He’s really confused at first until he gets his bearings back and he decides to go ahead to Arras.
He takes off out of town at quite the pace, according to the guy delivering mail…a process which is described in great detail down to the color of the mail cart and when the mail is delivered. M. Madeline is a man with a purpose! He brushes by the mail cart on his way, and he stops at the agreed upon intervals to rest his horse, and doesn’t realize that he’s been running on a broken wheel the whole time until a wheelwright there happens to notice and inform him that he was lucky to make it as far as he had.
M. Madeline attempts to get the wheelwright to fix the wheel, but he’s told it will take the rest of the day, but it’s alright, he can make it to Arras in the morning. Of course, this won’t do, because the trial is supposed to be that day. Madeline then tries to buy a whole new wheel, but he can’t drive on mismatched wheels. He tries to buy two new wheels, but they won’t fit on the axle on his particular cart. He tries to buy a whole cart, but all the available carts are too heavy for his poor horse that is really tired already. The wheelwright isn’t going to rent him a new one either, because he’s worried about what condition they might come back in judging by Madeline’s current horse and cart situation.
I’m really worried about this horse at this point, and also wondering why Madeline just doesn’t buy a riding horse from someone since he’s flinging money around for carts and wheels all over anyway. (In retrospect, a day after reading this I realize that he can’t ride his current horse because Scaufflaire specifically mentioned that this speedy creature doesn’t like riders. It likes pulling the cart though.) In any case, he’s actually really rather grateful to be running up against all these obstacles, because the longer he’s delayed the less he has to confess his Valjeanness to the world. He’s just about ready to feel relieved about the situation when he’s accosted by another citizen who just so happen to have a rickety old cart he could use.
On the road again. Eventually his new cart is too rickety and his horse too tired to go the final miles which have increased because of road construction and he now would have to navigate a new route through unknown country in the dark. Once again the townsfolk try to convince him to stay the night, and again he tries his best to continue on his way, because if he tried his best then at least he can get a gold star for trying. He considers that maybe God is trying to tell him that he shouldn’t be going to Arras after all, but he manages to procure a new cart, a supplementary horse to help pull it, and even a guide to help him on his way. He makes it to the trial by 8 o’clock. He thinks maybe they have finished and he missed it, because he’s really late and his trip took ten more hours than he was expecting it to take. He asks after the verdict and someone happily tells him that it was an easy guilty call.
He’s sort of relieved until he finds out that it was the trial before Champmathieu that’s being referred to. A woman, an infanticide. Open and shut. The guy he’s talking to seems to think the apple stealing, chimney sweep robbing, former convict case will be just as easy, but that trial is still ongoing.
At first they won’t let Madeline into the trial, but he calls on his mayoral renown to get a seat in the packed room. He’s still roiling in his internal conflict and very nearly runs away, but he’s drawn back and takes his seat in the poorly lit room where he can see what is going on, but they can’t really see him.
I would like to take this moment to point out that jerk, Bamatabois, is a juror in this trial. If you don’t remember, he’s the fierce mustache that Fantine almost got arrested for attacking. I wonder if he just randomly keeps popping up everywhere for no reason.
Anyway, there Madeline finds himself, facing himself in the form of Champmathieu who is quite bewildered at the whole situation and denying everything, even his ‘name’, because it’s not his name. We know that, of course, but everybody else is quite convinced otherwise, what with so many witnesses including one Inspector of unimpeachable moral character. Madeline spies his former convict buddies, but he can’t see Javert anywhere even though he knows the Inspector is supposed to be there testifying. Right now Champmathieu is only being charged for the apples, which they’re only certain he stole because he’s this former convict. Otherwise there is no proof. If they prove he’s Jean Valjean then that is enough. He’ll be tried for the other things (the parole breaking and chimney sweep robbing) at a later time, and the punishment will be much harsher for being a second time offender.
Well, what’s a mayor to do now? He’s had every obstacle thrown in front of him, and here he is facing his fate anyhow. Maybe God is trying to tell him something after all, but it’s not the thing he wanted to hear.
Meanwhile, Fantine is in a terrible state. She’s withering away and her illness has made her old. She’s weak and watching the click for any sign of M. Madeline, but we know he is off carting himself to Arras at this point.
In fact the sisters have only just found out from the servant guy that Madeline is gone out and they have no idea where to. So what to tell Fantine when the time of Madeline’s regular visit has come and gone and still there is no sign of him?
This is where Sister Simplice’s lie comes in.
It’s pretty much a lie of omission for not telling Fantine everything about M. Madeline’s trip…not that she knows much to tell. She lets Fantine believe that he has gone to Montfermeil to fetch Cosette and she’ll be there in the morning. This thought makes Fantine’s spirits soar. Where she was tired and haggard before, she is now bright and alert.
Oh, Fantine.
As we know, Madeline has actually gone in the opposite direction from Paris. He’s still watching Champmathieu denying any wrongdoing over in Arras. The poor old guy denies even stealing the apples! He claims to have found the branch lying on the ground, and he’s never heard of this Jean Valjean character.
In the face of these denials, the witnesses are called again. Except for Javert. The reason Madeline hasn’t spotted him isn’t because he’s lurking somewhere in a dark corner, but he had to return to work.
His previous testimony is read aloud, where he recounts his time working at Toulon and seeing Valjean there, and his suspicion that Valjean did steal the silver despite what the Bishop told the gendarmes, and of course the matter of the forty sous.
Then the convicts are paraded in one by one. They can’t be sworn in officially, but they testify to Champmathieu’s identity as well.
So the trial is about to end and poor Champmathieu is pretty much a goner at this point despite his only crime being nothing actually, when there is a cry from Madeline as he enters the courtroom floor. Gasps of surprise from Bamatabois and all around.
Madeline reveals himself as the real Jean Valjean right there at the last possible second. The judge wants him to be taken into medical care because clearly he has come down with a case of the crazies. Nobody believes his confession. He even confesses to the silver theft and wishes Javert was there, because Javert would believe him for sure.
I’m not gonna lie, I wish Javert was there too. I’m sure the look on his face would be priceless.
Madeline finally has to prove himself by revealing details about his convict buddies that only the real Valjean would know.
In the end Champmathieu is found not guilty and Valjean walks right out because everybody’s too stunned to do anything about it. Where’s a wolf puppy when you need one!
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Today, the two day hearing in the cases between government and the Aschroft Alliances, Caribbean Investment Holdings and Courtenay Coye LLP concluded. Both cases were heard jointly by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin and submissions were made by all parties yesterday and today in relation to the criminal penalties in the Central Bank Immunities Act of 2017. Attorneys for the Ashcroft Alliance are seeking for the act to be struck down. This was passed in January this year to protect the Central Bank’s Foreign Reserves, to prevent the Ashcroft alliances from claiming these as part of an arbitral award that was granted to the claimants in the sum of fifty million US dollars. Senior Counsel Eamon Courtney along with Attorneys Iliana Swift and Angelin Welch represented Caribbean Investment Holdings while Senior Counsel Magali Marin Young and Iliana Swift represented Courtenay Coye LLP. Solicitor General Nigel Hawke represented the Government.
NIGEL HAWKE
“The most I will say we advance our arguments as to the constitutionality of the legislation. Some of the things that they have argued in relation to _________ attack and whether it was for the improper purpose we’ve basically submitted to the court that the final court has pronounced on those matters already and the thrust of our submission is that they are fundamentally seeking to enforce a judgment that our final court has pronounced, that its not enforceable because it is against our legal order the constitution of Belize.”
EAMON COURTENAY
“The law specifically says that if you act as an advisory to a person who attempts to do the things that they find in the legislation you commit a criminal offence. The government has rather strangely written a letter saying that they don’t interpret advisor to mean a law firm or attorneys, well a lot of my work and a lot of the work of attorneys is in advising people so that is a bizarre position to take for the government but that is their position. We have no confidence in that Mr.Hawke the Solicitor General Says that he is not aware of any attempts to go after any attorney that may be the position today it may not be the position tomorrow and so we need the court’s decision of what the legislation says. You heard the Chief Justice at the very end seek an undertaking from Mr.Hawke that the government will not act to prosecute or take any steps pursuant to the legislation until he gives his judgment. So that undertaking that was given to the court gives us some comfort in the meantime.”
Senior Counsel Courtenay also explained their submissions as it pertains to the arbitral award to Caribbean Investment Holdings.
“That amounts to arbitrary deprivation of your property you might as well tear up the judgment because you can’t enforce it so we say that there is a violation of the right to property by and arbitrary deprivation when the legislation is implemented. We say secondly that a party who is in Belize has a right to due process of law to pursue his issues in the courts of this jurisdiction and the courts of other jurisdictions. We relied on a case from Trinidad and Tobago where the Privy council said that you are entitled in Trinidad and Tobago to be protected by the constitution even in respect of something you are pursuing in Washington D.C. This is very similar to what is happening here, that is to say that a Belize company has a judgment and an arbitral award in its favor, it went to the United States seeking to enforce it and whilst it is in the process of enforcing it the government passes legislation which criminalizes further attempts to enforce it. We say that that is a denial of the right to the protection of the law and the right to due process.”
LOCAL REPORTER
“Are your clients giving an indication that they will not go after the Central Bank’s assets in trying to seek enforcement of this award?”
“I think you are being humorous so I am going to laugh and that is my answer to that.”
The case was closed today and Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin has reserved his decision for a later date.
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June 20, 2019 Education Issues, Ethics, Exploring Ethics Series, Higher Education/Academic Research, Humanities, UC San DiegoBig Data, personal data, social scienceUCTV
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Vanier signs with Bellator
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Vanier is currently 7-2; he's won six straight and has started training with Greg Jackson's camp down in New Mexico.
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For more on Vanier, here's a link to the mmajunkie.com story.
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The stunning launch trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda
Mass Effect: Andromeda releases on the 21st of March in North America and on the 23rd of March in Europe. He and his strange-looking kin are not part of Andromeda and, for some reason, want to murder you.
Jennifer Lopez Is Reportedly Dating Alex Rodriguez
It is certainly one match made in heaven as the two rumored couple shares Latin roots, their love for NY and with having kids. A-Rod 41, was also backstage recently at one of J.Lo's Las Vegas " All I Have " residency concerts at Planet Hollywood.
Vince Young arrives in Regina amid contract rumours
The Riders signed Kevin Glenn, 37, for his third stint with the CFL club and also have Canadian Brandon Bridge and Americans G.J. I'm so excited to play the game again. "This was a good move for me because I still have the fire to play football".
Duke comes back to beat Louisville in ACC Tournament quarterfinals
The Louisville Cardinals lost to Duke, 81-77 Thursday afternoon in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals. Allen was fouled shooting a 3 with 8:58 left, a call that got about equal parts boos and hoots.
Akzo Nobel Rejects PPG Bid
The specialty chemicals business had sales of 4.8 billion euros past year , accounting for 34 percent of revenue. Akzo said it didn't initiate, nor encourage, or entertain any conversations with PPG.
AT&T: Outage preventing 911 calls has been repaired
This comes after law enforcement agencies across the US are reported that AT&T customers experienced an outage Wednesday evening. However, Longview dispatchers say they have not experienced any reports from local citizens of problems with 911 so far.
Google grows out cloud partner programme
Meanwhile, developers can leverage HANA and HANA Express to build the next generation of applications on the Google cloud. The firm is positioning itself as the champion of big data in the future via their Google Cloud Platform.
Turkey PM: 'Unfortunate' Our Allies Are Allying With Kurds Against ISIS
And as a Turkish official admitted to Reuters, the United States is committed to conducting Raqqa with the SDF , not Turkey. In January, the SDF was provided by the US with armored vehicles for the first time ahead of the planned Raqqa offensive.
Rep. Cummings asks Trump to soften talk about black communities
Trump was "enthusiastic" about the topic of drug pricing, Cummings told reporters after the meeting. Trump was in the works for several weeks.
Hawaiian Flight Diverted to LA After Beef Over Airline Blanket
Officials said there was a dispute between a 66-year-old male passenger and the flight crew over the charge for a blanket. In January, an Alaska Airlines traveler verbally bashed a Trump supporter - and was bounced from the plane.
Colts trade Dwayne Allen to Patriots
Allen, an effective blocker and big-bodied redzone target, has three years and just over $17 million remaining on his contract. Gronkowski has been injured often during his seven-year career and Allen is more than a suitable insurance policy.
Shiv Sena's Mahadeshwar is new Mumbai Mayor
He defeated his lone opponent, Congresss' Vithhal Lokare, by bagging 171 votes against his rival's 31 in the 227-member BMC house. In the civic elections conducted last month, the Shiv Sena had won 84 seats, while the BJP had come in a close second with 81.
Amazon CEO Bezos reveals launch deal with Eutelsat
Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the space company Blue Origin are aiming for such a "difficult and worthy objective". The deal between Eutelsat and Blue Origin calls for a launch of a geostationary satellite sometime in 2021 or 2022.
Joshua finds emphatic answer to Povetkin challenge9/23/2018
Prince Harry sneaks samosas from Meghan's cookbook launch9/21/2018
Trump says we'll make decision if Kavanaugh accuser credible9/21/2018
Courtney Hadwin: British teen came sixth in America's Got Talent9/21/2018
Emmys overdose on 'SNL,' as 'Game of Thrones' breaks up streaming party9/19/2018
Everything We Know About That Tom Arnold-Mark Burnett Tussle9/18/2018
Woodward: Key Trump Official Said Book Is ‘1,000 Percent’ True9/14/2018
Cynthia Nixon Calls On Cuomo To Apologize For Mailer Calling Her Anti-Semitic9/14/2018
Brett Kavanaugh confirmation: Kavanaugh testifies following Ford's questioning on sex assault allegations9/28/2018
Trump assails Boulder woman accusing Kavanaugh: ‘She admits that she was drunk’9/26/2018
Meghan Markle Reveals Romantic Royal Wedding Secret9/26/2018
Brett Kavanaugh responds after 2nd woman accuses him of sexual misconduct9/25/2018
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Naomi Loomis
World Traveler, Motorcycle Rider, Family Woman
Naomi Loomis was born in Columbus, Ohio and developed a strong work ethic at a young age.
Naomi Loomis spent some time with her kids in the sand while vacationing at Huntington Beach.
At age 15 she did not have many hobbies as she spent most of her time working to save money for college. Despite working many hours at her part-time job, she still managed to graduate in the top 2% of her 500+ member graduating class at Grove City High School. She then enrolled at Ohio State University (OSU). Once in university, she continued to devote most of her free time to working to pay for her classes. In 1995, she was one of the few grads to achieve cum laude honors.
After graduating from OSU and completing an internship in Columbus, Naomi Loomis became a researcher and advocate for osteoporosis prevention.
Many years ago, she took a trip with her daughter Taylor to Anaheim.
She would hold multiple positions in Columbus before moving to Orlando, Florida. As her career continued in Orlando, she established herself as an expert in female hormone replacement and built a business from nothing to more than $26 million in revenues over a 7-year period.
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‘Gotham’ Season 2 to Include Joker and Mr. Freeze; Adds Dr. Thompkins Full Time
05-12-15 • TV Posted by Adam A. Donaldson
Gotham season one was a success for Fox, the Batman-prequel series brought in enough viewers to guarantee not just a full-season order, but an early renewal for the second season. But while audiences seem to be at least satisfied with what Gotham‘s doings, critical and fan reaction has been decidedly mixed. If there is a gripe to be had that’s universal, it’s the series’ obsession with skating on the hype of doing prequel versions of every last single member of Batman’s rogues gallery, but there’s still some members who haven’t got their time in the spotlight yet. On deck for season two, according to the producers, The Joker and Mr. Freeze. (more…)
‘Gotham’ Director Cannon Wants a Young Freeze
06-25-14 • Comics, TV Posted by Adam A. Donaldson
The highly anticipated new series Gotham is already promising to go into excruciating detail about the origins of many members of Batman’s rogues gallery. The Penguin, The Riddler and Catwoman all already have a part to play in the show, and so far only the pilot’s been shot. The producers have also alluded to another big bad saying that “the seeds for Joker have been planted” in the series set-up. So are we to take this as an indication that every Dark Knight villain is going to get an origin story in Gotham? According to series director and executive producer Danny Cannon, the answer is maybe. (more…)
Donal Logue Talks About Bat-Fans and ‘Gotham’
It’s not easy being one of Gotham City’s top cops, there’s more scrutiny, second guessing, and editorializing by the media than the average person can handle, and that’s just from the Batman fans. Actor Donal Logue is going to have to get used to all the naval gazing since he’s playing the role of Detective Harvey Bullock in the new Fox series Gotham, but from the sounds of it, he’s already prepared for the passion Bat-fans will bring to bear on his new series should it not meet their high expectations. “That fan base is the most ardent, loyal — sometimes super-critical,” the actor said, “but they think critically about it because they care about it.” (more…)
‘Gotham’ Serves Up Press Pic of Alfred Pennyworth
The jury’s still out on whether fans should get excited about this new Batman project or ready themselves for a disappointment on par with “Batdance,” but when it comes to the Caped Crusader, it’s pretty hard to screw up Alfred. Really, just cast an older British dude and your job’s half done. So on that level, congratulations Gotham producers, you’ve won this round. Scan below to see the first publicity picture of actor Sean Pertwee as (future) Batman’s most trusted ally. (more…)
Danny Cannon Joins DC/Fox’s ‘Gotham’ Series as Pilot Director
01-08-14 • Comics, TV Posted by Jason McAnelly
In yet another move to dominate the super hero television market, DC is creating a series based on the adventures of James Gordon back when he was a younger and more virile cop. Titled Gotham, the show is just getting started and one of the first steps is to find a director that can make the pilot interesting enough that people will tune in to watch. Well, it looks like they’ve found their director in the form of one Danny Cannon. (more…)
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Alexander, Donald A. -- Sergeant, Army Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Cheyenne, Wyoming; Denver, Colorado; Fort Lee, Virginia; Australia; Hollandia (New Guinea); Leyte Island (Philippines); San Francisco, California
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Ames, Thomas P. -- Staff Sergeant, Army Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Fort Missoula, Montana; Fort Lewis, Washington; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Ord, California; Camp Pickett, Virginia; North Africa; Morocco; Salerno, Monte Cassino, Italy; Oran, Algeria; Charleston, South Carolina
Bama, James E. -- Corporal, Army Air Forces/Corps Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Fort Dix, New Jersey; Keesler Field, Biloxi, Missouri; Spence Field, Moultrie, Georgia; Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama
Becker, Edna M. -- Civilian War Relocation Authority
World War II, 1939-1945 - Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming
Bell, Donald L. -- Sergeant, Army Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - England; Wales; France; Holland; Denmark; Belgium; Switzerland; Germany
Beyeler, Ken A. -- Staff Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Norfolk, Nebraska; Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; Chanute Field, Illinois; McClellan Field and Alameda, California; Burtonwood Air Base, England
Bovee, Robert Dale -- First Lieutenant, Army Air Forces/Corps Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Kearns, Utah; Sioux City, Iowa; Santa Ana, Santa Maria, Chico, Stockton, California; Albuquerque, Clovis, New Mexico; Guam (Mariana Islands)
Bright, Harley Lawrence -- Master Sergeant, Army Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Trinidad and Craig, Colorado; Camp Kohler, California; New Zealand; New Caledonia; Luzon (Philippines); Nagoya, Japan
Brittain, Raymond Albert -- Fire Controlman Second Class, Navy Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - San Diego, California; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Attu Island (Aleutian Islands); Coral Sea; Midway; Tarawa Atoll (Gilbert Islands); Kwajalein Island (Marshall Islands); Washington, DC; Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands); Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Manila Bay (Philippines)
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Brunckhorst, Robert W. -- E-5, Navy Veteran
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - South China Sea; San Diego, California
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Christoffersen, William Wilder -- Private First Class, Army Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Camp Barkeley, Texas; Lawson Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia; Oran, Algeria; Florence and Bologna, Italy; Alsace, France; Mannheim and Strasburg, Germany
Cox, James Tipton -- Captain, Marine Corps Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Pacific
Dabich, George N. -- Gunner's Mate Second Class, Navy Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - South Pacific; Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); Hollandia (New Guinea); Manus Island (Bismarck Archipelago); Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands); Philippines; Long Beach, San Pedro, California
Davis, Paul Eugene -- Aerographer's Mate First Class, Navy Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Ohio; Wenatchee, Washington; California; Corpus Christi, Texas; Illinois; Lakewood, New Jersey; Pacific Theater; Iwakuni, Japan; Buckner Bay, Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Pescadore Islands, Taiwan
Donohue, John Robert -- First Lieutenant, Army Air Forces/Corps Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; Ladd Field, Alaska; Santa Ana, Visalia, Lemoore, California; Luke Field, Arizona; Mokuleia, Bellows Field, Hawaii; Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands); Iwo Jima
Draper, Nancy-Carroll -- Civilian Navy Headquarters Motor Corps, 6th Naval District
World War II, 1939-1945 - Charleston, South Carolina
Elgin, John W. -- Petty Officer Second Class, Navy Veteran
Korean War, 1950-1953 - Guam; Japan; Philippines; Korea
Feyhl, Clarence E. -- Corporal, Army Veteran
Feyhl, Robert E. -- Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Salt Lake City, Utah; Chicago, Illinois; Pacific Theater; Karachi, India; China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater
Fordham, William Robert -- Staff Sergeant, Army Veteran
World War II, 1939-1945 - Camp Phillips, Kansas; Camp McCall, North Carolina; Arkansas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Scotland; England; France; Belgium; Germany; European Theater
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Barry White – Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
by admin | Mar 1, 2012 | Artists, Barry White, Disco, Funk Classics, Old School Songs
“Your Sweetness Is My Weakness” is a track performed by Barry White in 1978. The smash hit record came from the 8th hit platter The Man. Incoming search terms:funk classics...
The Ohio Players – Sweet Sticky Thing
by admin | Feb 29, 2012 | Artists, Funk Classics, Old School Songs, The Ohio Players
“Sweet Sticky Thing ” is a hit record released by The Ohio Players in 1975. The hit record appeared on the #1 hit record Honey. [wpaudio url=”http://oldschoolsongs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Ohio_Players_-_Sweet_Sticky_Thing.mp3″...
Rose Royce – Car Wash
by admin | Feb 29, 2012 | Artists, Disco, Funk Classics, Old School Songs, Rose Royce
“Car Wash” was a 1976 chart topping track sang by Rose Royce. The smash hit song was on the double platinum platter Car...
Barry White – You’re My Baby
by honeyb | Feb 28, 2012 | 70's R&B, Artists, Barry White, Funk Classics, Old School Songs, Soul Classics
“You’re My Baby” was a song sang by Barry White in 1973. The tune was featured on the acclaimed platter Stone Gon’. Get All of Barry White’s Greatest Hits Amazon.com Widgets Incoming search terms:barry white your my baby...
Barry White – Honey Please, Can’t Ya See
by honeyb | Feb 28, 2012 | 70's R&B, Artists, Barry White, Funk Classics, Old School Songs
“Honey Please, Can’t Ya See” is a 1973 single performed by Barry White. The chart topper came from the acclaimed album Sone Gon’. Get All of Barry White’s Greatest Hits Amazon.com...
Parliament – Flash Light
by admin | Feb 27, 2012 | 70's Dance Music, Artists, Funk Classics, Old School Songs, Parliament
“Flash Light” is a track recorded by Parliament in 1977. The record was on the platinum platter Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome. Incoming search terms:70s dance music (27)old school dance songs 70s...
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Anti-dumping internasionale handel
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This handbook was prepared by _____ Catherine DeFilippo Director of Operations This document is a staff publication of the Office of Investigations. UNDERSTANDING THE WTO: THE AGREEMENTS Anti-dumping, subsidies, safeguards: contingencies, etc. Binding tariffs, and applying them equally to all trading partners (most-favoured-nation treatment, or MFN) are key to the smooth flow of trade in goods.
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Home » Science » 99-million-year-old Rain Forest Frogs Found in Amber
99-million-year-old Rain Forest Frogs Found in Amber
This lump of amber from Myanmar holds a tiny frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Photograph by Chen Hai-ying By John Pickrell
More than a third of the 7,000-odd living species of frogs and toads are found in rain forests around the world. But the fossil record for amphibians from these kinds of wet, tropical environments has been almost nonexistent, leaving paleontologists with few clues to their early evolution. Just recently, 99-million-year-old Rain Forest Frogs were found in these deposits of amber.
Now, lumps of amber dating back to the Cretaceous period have revealed a set of four tiny tropical frogs that lived alongside the dinosaurs, making them the oldest frog fossils of their kind. The specimens include the remains of an ancient frog complete enough to be described as a new species, called Electrorana limoae .
In life, all of these frogs would have been less than an inch long, according to a paper describing the fossils today in Scientific Reports and led by National Geographic Explorer Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences in Beijing. (Recently, scientists found the origins of the disease that’s wiping out modern amphibians .)
“Lizards and frogs in amber are certainly not unheard of, but ones this old are exceptional,” says Marc Jones , an expert on fossil frogs based at the Natural History Museum in London, U.K. “The frog fossil record remains biased and patchy but does include the occasional gem, like this, that helps us appreciate what we are missing.” ‘Miracle’ Donation
The 99-million-year-old frogs come from the same amber deposits in northern Myanmar that have produced many exquisite fossils, including a dinosaur tail , a couple of baby birds , intact bird wings, and countless insects .
Ref: news.nationalgeographic.com
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New City Agenda are delighted to invite you to “The Future of the UK’s Cash Machine Network” with LINK, Which? and Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP (Chair, Treasury Select Committee)
The UK currently has 70,000 cash machines of which 55,000 are free-to-use. Some predict that the rise of contactless cards, mobile payments and online shopping will lead to the decline of the use of cash to make payments and that in 30 years using cash will seem as old as the horse and cart. But 2.7 million people rely on cash to make payments with older consumers and those on a low-income more likely to do so. Banks have closed over 1,500 branches over the past 3 years, increasing the importance of consumers being able to access free-to-use cash machines. Cash use for payments by consumers has also declined by 40% in the last decade, and ATM usage is declining.
LINK, the organisation which sets the rules for the UK cash machine network, has proposed changes to the way the free cash machine network is funded. This will reduce the amount that banks pay cash machine operators when consumers make cash withdrawals. LINK says that it will also make the network more sustainable in the face of declining consumer usage.
Consumer groups and politicians have sought assurances that widespread access to free cash withdrawals will be maintained. LINK has responded that this will be the case and added that the changes will not apply to the 2,000 free-to-use cash machines which are more than 1km away from another machine. It is expected to announce its final package of reforms by 31st January.
The decline of cash and the proposed reforms raise a number of questions:
What should be the long-term future of the UK’s free cash machine network?
What principles should drive reform of the system?
How can we ensure that we maintain access to free cash withdrawals and promote financial inclusion?
What should be the role of the new Payment Systems Regulator?
At the event LINK will outline the results of their consultation, followed by reaction from a Panel including Which, Nicky Morgan MP and Duncan Faithfull (Cardtronics – Independent ATM Operator).
Do join us for what we expect to be an insightful event. Please could you confirm your attendance by emailing dominic.lindley@newcityagenda.co.uk
Dominic Lindley January 23, 2018 Uncategorized
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"Swamp Rat: The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion
Everyone living in Louisiana knows the damage nutria; a non-native rat-like rodent (but not a rat) is doing to the marshes protecting state's coast from storms and hurricanes rolling in from the Gulf of Mexico.. Nutria eat the grasses that hold the marshes together. Without the grass the marshes wash away leaving only open water; with nothing to dissipate the fury of dangerous storms.
Nutria have prodigious appetites. And they are prodigious breeders. These two traits make nutria well deserving of the tag; the rat that ate Louisiana.
This is a bad thing, a very bad thing, Theodore G. Manno points out repeatedly in is new book "Swamp Rat: The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion," University of Mississippi Press/Jackson, 2017. The furry rodent from South America with the voracious appetite for native swamp grasses, is largely responsible for a massive loss of land along the Gulf of Mexico-land that protects the populated parts of the Bayou State, many claim. And all attempts to stop them have failed.
At least that is the gloomy overview. But there is so much more to the story of the nutria and how a 15-pound furry rodent with yellow front teeth, surviving only on plant matter became a major concern for the future of Louisiana, and to a lesser extent, the Gulf South.
Manno fills in the fascinating backstory of how nutria made their way to Louisiana (and at one time 39 other states in the U.S.) They were invited.
The trapping, skinning and export of pelts has always been big business in Louisiana. While nutria were still in South America, their native habitat a huge fad for beaver hats swept Europe beginning in the 1600s. After almost all beaver in Europe were harvested to make the hats, the supply of beaver began to come from the colonies in North America. But in the 1830s demand for beaver hats suddenly dropped in favor of hats made from silk. At the same time over-trapping in North America caused the beaver market to crash. Nutria began to be imported from South America to shore up the valuable fur market but nutria hats never caught on. (See Seinfeld episode # 142 for an interesting take on the "rat hat.")
But the market for fur pelts for clothing, gloves and wraps to sell to the luxury market was still strong. Nutria fur is nice fur and remained in demand for coats and other fur goods. But it ws not the favorite of furriers. Muskrat, of which there were many in Louisiana, became the popular pelt of choice in the early 20th century. Louisiana was a muskrat Mecca. All of Canada could produce only 60% of the muskrat pelts that Louisiana did. Muskrat fur pelts peaked in 1945. Five years later the fur market in Louisiana was a bust.
The nutria harvest increased to replace the dwindling muskrat population but the fur harvest just limped along for a decade or two as the fad for wearing fur (unless you were born wearing it) died.
But not the nutria. The harvest of nutria by trappers had kept the nutria populations from expanding, despite their prodigious breeding ability. And while the non-native species had very few natural predators, alligators would eat them. But by the 1960s alligators had been hunted for their skins to the point there was a fear they might be trapped to extinction. So with the nutria's two major predators, man and alligators, out of the picture, nutria populations exploded.
Manno shows how the fortunes of the nutria intertwined with that of other major Louisiana economic foundations such as sugar cane. He writes with great detail about how and when the nutria came to North America. (Nutria can be found or have been found in 40 states in the U.S., though are now mostly in 16 states, Europe, the Middle East, South Korea, southern China, India and Japan.)
A chapter of the book goes into detail about one of the most famous nutria legends: That all the nutria chewing up the state now are from several nutria pens on Avery Island, LA that were destroyed by a hurricane in the 1930s releasing the hearty herbivores into the wild. To discover what this nutria expert thinks of this venerable Louisiana tale, buy the book to find out.
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The 1 Thing Jordyn Woods Never Told Khloe Kardashian After the Scandal
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We Don't Deserve Rihanna Day Drinking With Seth Meyers
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Prince Charles visits ‘Bond 25’ set with Daniel Craig
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Cardi B Indicted on Assault Charges Stemming From Strip Club Altercation
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Cardi B Forced To Perform In Bathrobe After Bonnaroo Wardrobe Malfunction
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New Game Stuff (3/5/2011)
Featured, Games, New This Week, Roleplaying Games
GOJIRA! RUN, RUN! Wait. ALIENS! RUN, RUN!
If you find yourself in a similar situation of being caught between a giant dinosaur and a hard space ship, you might be playing Ticket to Ride with the new Alvin & Dexter Expansion. Being an alien and a dinosaur, respectively, what these two fellas add to the game are chances to mess with your opponents. They are playable with any version of Ticket to Ride, also. But what do they actually do? Well, at the start of the game the last two players to go randomly place them on cities. Whatever cities these monsters are destroying are not available to be built through; makes for a good way to block opposing players. If you love the Ticket to Ride series, like we do, I’m sure, also like us, you’d think it rocks to have giant monsters stomping all over the board.
Last week we scoped out the zombie restaurant business by looking at Give Me the Brain. This week, and another restock, brings us Lord of the Fries, Steve Jackson’s companion game to Give Me the Brain. Same theme, different rules, though. This time around, players are zombie chefs attempting to complete disgusting cuisine at various undead eating establishments. Attempting to beat the clock, players hustle to assemble items listed on menus with ingredients like “cow meat”, “sauce” and “drink”. Think Wasabi with zombies.
London is calling. Calling you to play London. Yes, the game is called London (not the most original name, but apt) and it follows that particular city through an extended period of time as it recovers from the Great Fire of 1666. Basically a resource game, London involves players balancing and controlling workers, money, businesses, and building materials as you work to restore the city. But not only are you handling resources, you also have to balance workers and the poor to help assist the city in the rebuilding process.
Arriving from “ole reliable” Z-Man games is Hansa Teutonica. A solid bidding/bartering/trading game, Hansa has gamers taking on the role of merchants in medieval Germany working to build prominence by improving their trading skills. With improved skills come more actions, higher income, new privileges, and improved prestige which, in turn, improves your chances of besting the other players. If you’re into games like Samarkand and Chinatown, this should tickle your fancy.
Battlore adds a new expansion this week with Code of Chivalry. It’s raining humans with this set, as it combines all the previously released human units with foot and mounted versions of Knight Long Swordsmen. Many and varied cards are also included, including the inclusion of summary, specialist, and deployment cards. Four new adventures are also jammed into this box of glorious-ness.
Put your fedora on, ladies and gents, Cargo Noir has slinked into the room. Created by the same dapper fella who laid some scribbles down on Mare Nostrum and Mystery Express, Cargo Noir hunkered down in the dark, smoke-filled corner of trading games. Anywheres between two and five wiseguys can swindle and swap in ports of call from Rotterdam to Bombay, dealing in contraband and other hush-hush products. Once you’ve sided with a family, players race against their opponents for a prime spot at various ports from around the globe and then commence bidding for the goods they desire.
Le Havre is a involved game. If you’ve played Agricola (made by the same folks) you know how strategic and diverse the game play can be. Le Havre, the town, only contains a finite amount of buildings and ships, so players race to control, alter, and purchase resources in the hopes of completing these buildings and ships. Buildings, once finished, can be entered by any player (though non-owners must pay to do so) and the kilns, furnaces, and other equipment inside can be used to alter resources. And so it goes, in the city of Le Havre. Or is it? Pick up the Le Grand Hameau booster pack we have in stock and you add 30 new buildings to the game.
The commies are no longer coming, they’ve arrived. Tide of Iron: Fury of the Bear is an expansion to the base Tide of Iron boardgame, but what an expansion it is. This hefty box (could be a dumbbell for how weighty it is) contains, deep breath, 90 plastic figures, armor, AT-guns, eight scenarios (including winter and summer), 55 new cards (including new sabotage cards), and new munitions specializations for vehicles. Whew.
Weird coincidence on this next one, I just watched the original Dracula for the first time this week. Crickets? Okay, that was pointless. Anyway, Van Helsing is a new co-op game where players team up to battle the Count in his own castle. Each player controls a specific character, similar to Last Night on Earth. Sounds like Fury of Dracula on a smaller scale. Equipment and armor is hidden around the building, though, so grab it when you can because Dracula can show up out of nowhere.
Trollhalla, another dandy from Z-man, is the first true kid’s game we’ve had on here in a bit. Colorful cartoony artwork adorns a game board displaying, wait for it, Trollhalla. Each player (2-4) carefully chooses where to place their trolls, in boats or in the sea. The sea trolls tell the boat trolls which islands to go to and pass out action cards while the boat trolls go to the islands an pillage their massive hearts out. Simple, lively fun for families and friends.
You’ve wanted to be a superhero before, right? Come on, admit it. Well, you have two options. Make a costume out of a bathrobe and patrol the city in your Ford Focus or purchase Mutants and Masterminds 3rd Edition. In this beautiful book you will find all the stats, skills, powers, setting, and adventures that you need to run a D20 based game. And thanks to the new upgrade, new players can learn faster than ever before. Seriously, the bathrobe thing will turn out badly. Go with the book.
Thunderstone: Dragonspire lands with a powerful smash this weekend. Within its fortified box sides are 500 new cards, new settings, new rules, and a whole new game to be played. Yes, you can use this expansion for stand alone play or combine it with any of the previous Thunderstone releases. Now is the time to crawl in the dungeon.
Right now, you’re probably wondering to yourself, “how long have I been reading this thing? When will it end?”. Well…NOW!
Sort of. Mansions of Madness is finally out this week and we have got to talk about it. We’ve run demos of the game here at Pulp two Sundays in a row (Sunday game night, folks. It’s the place to be) and players have walked away satisfied. Combining elements of roleplaying, boardgaming, and Lovercraftian horror, Mansions delivers an experience similar to Arkham Horror or Betrayal at House on the Hill. Players band together to explore the mansion in one of the pre-designed story settings. Monsters and items involved are dependent on which story is chosen, so replay value is high. To complete the adventure, players are tasked to battle creatures, solve puzzles, and locate items while rolling dice and keeping their health and sanity in check. As the game is released from Fantasy Flight, the miniatures contained within (24 of’em) are highly detailed just as the board is beautifully designed.
Posted by Jayson at 10:21 pm Tagged with: Agricola, Alvin & Dexter, Arkham Horror, Battelelore, Battlelore: Code of Chivalry, Betrayal at the House on the Hill, Cargo Noir, Chinatown, Code of Chivalry, Fantasy Flight, Fury of Dracula, Fury of the Bear, Give Me the Brain, Gorjira, Hansa Teutonica, kid's games, Last Night on Earth, Le Grand Hameau, Le Havre, London, London boardgame, Lord of the Fries, Mansions of Madness, Mare Nostrum, Mutants and Masterminds, Mystery Express, resource games, Samarkand, Steve Jackson, Steve Jackson games, Thunderstone, Thunderstone: Dragonspire, Ticket to Ride, Tide of Iron, Tide of Iron: Fury of the Bear, Trollhalla, Van Helsing, war games, Z-Man Games
Comic List Highlights (3/9/2011) Comic List for March 16th
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TRON: Legacy Reconfigured
Label: Walt Disney Records
Listeners who found Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy soundtrack wanting for techno are better served by the remix comp. Big-room denizens like the Crystal Method, Paul Oakenfold, Kaskade, Avicii and Sander Kleinenberg busy themselves with the buzzing electro synths, hi-NRG beats and hands-in-the-air snare rolls that are their stock in trade, while Moby, former junglist Photek, newcomer Com Truise and The Glitch Mob go for woozier, slo-mo vibes inspired by New Wave and Italo disco. As an album, it suffers from a focus-group mentality, but dance fans will find plenty to cherry-pick.
- Philip Sherburne
Various Artists - TRON: Legacy Reconfigured 2011-05-05
Derezzed (Remixed by The Glitch Mob)
Fall (Remixed by M83 VS Big Black Delta)
The Grid (Remixed by The Crystal Method)
Adagio for TRON (Remixed by Teddybears)
The Son of Flynn (Remixed by Ki:Theory)
C.L.U. (Remixed by Paul Oakenfold)
The Son of Flynn (Remixed by Moby)
End of Line (Remixed by Boys Noize)
Rinzler (Remixed by Kaskade)
Encom Part 2 (Remixed by Com Truise)
End of Line (Remixed by Photek)
Arena (Remixed by The Japanese Popstars)
Derezzed (Remixed by Avicii)
Solar Sailer (Remixed by Pretty Lights)
TRON Legacy (End Titles) (Remixed by Sander Kleinenberg)
2011 Walt Disney Records
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Pachinko Industry Web Reference
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Pachinko Basics
Pachinko Industry Systems
Pachinko Parlor Operations
Industry Soundness Initiatives
Service Improvement Initiatives
Measures Against Scams/Cheats on Game Machines
What Is Gotokoi?
Gotokoi refers to any illegal actions by players to use cheating devices and other scams to obtain more pachinko balls.
Examples of making unauthorized modifications to the game machine fall into two major types. One typical example is a gang called gotoshi, who “robs” the pachinko parlor of its money by tampering with game machines (installed in the pachinko parlor). The other example is the pachinko parlors themselves, who modify the pachinko machine to change their original features.
In Japan, there has been a long history of gotoshi, which is comparable to the history of pachinko. From 1945 to 1954 there was the so-called “yamidama” (fake ball) problem resulting from the use of commercially-available cheap bearing balls, instead of “official” balls, to play in pachinko parlors. At that time, the pachinko parlors introduced a system for sorting balls by size or had identification marks engraved on their balls. They had long been concerned about this problem. Nowadays, cheap bearing balls are not used any more. However, even now, some players get balls or tokens at a lower price in a pachinko parlor and use them in another pachinko parlor; or they try to use lots of balls obtained from abandoned pachinko parlors at current establishments. The “jishaku-tsukai“(use of magnets to move balls to the winning hole) trick, which appeared between 1945 and 1954, is still used; some pachinko parlors have suffered financial damages due to such tricks.
Goto (rigging) tool, which appeared in the mid ’90’s. Initial “rigged” parts used for “Hi-Tech goto,” which was used to replace the original ROM or wiring of the game machine with an unauthorized one.
Such gotoshi scams/cheats continue to change shape as game machines become more sophisticated and computerized. Initially computerized game machines experienced denshi-goto (electronic trick), which was based on the response of the Start Chucker (start gate: rotation for main digital is started) to the operation of an electronic lighter or transceiver. Thereafter, gotoshi tricks became even more aggressive and sophisticated with the advancement of technology. Over the last 20 years, many scams/cheats on game machines, such as replacing game machine chips with unauthorized ones after business hours or forcing (or enticing) pachinko parlor staff to help install unauthorized chips, have been reported. There are other tricks: causing false operation of the discharge port of the game machine using electronic tricks or wiring, hitting an oatari (jackpot) fraudulently by using imperfections in the structure of the enclosure or in the program. Almost all parts of the pachinko parlor are subjected to scams/cheats such as those on ball counters/receipts and removal of cash from Ball Lending Machines between game machines.
Furthermore, it has been reported that some pachinko parlors themselves made unauthorized modifications to their game machines to increase sales by offering an excessively uplifting feeling among players for a quick and easy profit. Even if scams/cheats on game machines were carried out by pachinko parlor staff in the shadows without being seen by their manager, the fact would remain that there were such scams/cheats in the pachinko parlor, from the viewpoint of players. If such scams/cheats were rampant in the pachinko parlor, it would be forced to go out of business. A complete security system must be established to eliminate all forms of scams/cheats from pachinko parlors and game machine distribution networks. In addition, all game machine handlers are required to be engaged in daily operations observing high ethical/moral standards.
Measures Taken by the Pachinko Industry to Eliminate Gotokoi
In the pachinko industry, pachinko parlors, pachinko manufacturers, dealers, ancillary device manufacturers, and their industry bodies are exchanging information and taking specific measures against gotokoi. For example, the Pachinko Pachislot Security Information Organization (PSIO) collects information on scams/cheats, such as the “alleged manipulation of ball/token count” and “exaggerated advertising of more balls from a specific game machine,” from both inside and outside the industry. The PSIO consists of two communication networks: one is for receiving scam/cheat information both from the public and industry participants and the other is for exchanging information among related bodies. Information on scams/cheats received by the PSIO is summarized on a monthly basis and is then reported to each prefectural police department. Such information is processed in the form of a database and is collected in such a manner that it can be analyzed and examined at any time.
On the other hand, all information on scams/cheats is summarized, examined, and verified by committees/communications conferences organized by pachinko industry bodies, in order to develop specific measures. These organizations constantly make discussions in the pursuit of developing game machines immune to scams/cheats early in the development/design stages. The “person responsible for handling game machines” system is intended to prevent game machines from being subjected to potential scams/cheats from production until delivery to pachinko parlors. The person responsible for handling game machines, who has gained knowledge and skills of game machines as a result of training and testing, is supposed to visually check game machines for potential scams/cheats during transport and installation.
Outside organizations also keep an eye out for scams/cheating in the pachinko industry. The third-party Organization for the Sound Development of the Pachinko & Pachislot Industry (OSDPPI) has organized a routine inspection system to get rid of tampered gaming machines and peripherals such as calculators, etc. and conducts unannounced on-site inspections of pachinko parlors throughout Japan during or after business hours. In 2015, it started a “gaming machine performance survey” by checking for tampered game nails by planting investigators amongst ordinary players at pachinko parlors. An organization established in 2007 has inspected more than 20,000 pachinko parlors total over the last 10 years. In addition, on-site inspections are also conducted mostly by each prefectural association of pachinko parlors. Furthermore, some pachinko parlors have independent security companies take measures or have a specialized unit. Thus, the pachinko industry is taking measures to eradicate scams/cheating on multi-layers and from different perspectives.
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Author: Pauline Obrien ; Last update: 23 April , 2017 05:31:21
The stated goals of the march are to affirm science as a crucial part of a strong democracy, show support for the scientific community, and highlight the value of fact-based inquiry and policy-making.
The Washington event featured speakers and several large teach-in tents on the National Mall where scientists, educators and leaders from a variety of disciplines discussed their work, effective science communication strategies and training in public advocacy.
"Their inclination is misguided and in no one's best interest".
Michael Mann, a climate scientist who regularly clashes with politicians, said: "We didn't choose to be in this battle, but it has come to the point where we have to fight because the stakes are too great". They are fed up with numerous current administration's policies, such as the proposed $5.8 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health and proposed $2.6 billion cut to the Environmental Protection Agency.
"Unfortunately, right now in this country valid, realistic scientific research is threatened", Palmer said.
Marchers held signs with slogans such as, "The oceans are rising and so are we", and, "Denial is not a policy", CBS New York reports.
"That guy over there", the musician and producer said from a stage north of the Washington Monument.
In Raleigh marchers gathered at Shaw University in the morning and walked through downtown to Moore Square, where there was a science fair and rally.
Joni Wright, a neurophysiology graduate student at the University of Florida, cited the Trump administration as a reason why she was in the crowd.
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There was union participation, from nurses to San Francisco's engineer and scientists' union. Coinciding with Earth Day, the March for Science aims to "defend the role science plays in our health, safety, economies, and governments".
Many scientists have been grilled on just how much humans have affected the climate.
"In general, more people are accepting of science", she said.
It wasn't only major cities where scientists and their supporters came out.
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Meike Weltin is a doctorate student at an environmental institute near Berlin.
Demonstrators also turned out in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and other cities as well as Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand. One marcher carried an erasable lab-room whiteboard for posting his signs, so he could erase them and update as warranted.
Marches were also held in Durban and Cape Town, South Africa, and in Tokyo.
Marchers said they're anxious about political involvement in science that rejects, for instance, climate change, environmental concerns and the safety of vaccines.
There are cancer survivors and doctors with signs that say "science saves lives", she said, and estimated that 90 percent of the signs are not political. Organizers of the march listed 610 satellite marches around the world, from London to Guam. "And we really need a culture change".
"If we don't support our science, we're going to lose it", Zurawski said in an interview.
Castoldi said it felt good to be around likeminded people.
US President Donald Trump himself passed dozens of protesters on his way to visit wounded soldiers at a military hospital. "Hopefully we reach them in some way to tell them that science is apolitical".
It might have been ignited by Trump, but it's not about Trump.
"With an administration that deals in alternative facts, supporting objective science is more important than ever #MarchforScience #EarthDay", Sen.
Andrew Freedman contributed reporting.
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Dinamo Zagreb confirm Liverpool FC midfielder bid
March 15, 2017 20:26·
Liverpool star Marko Grujic
Liverpool on the other hand have held a keen interest in Dinamo Zagreb attacking midfielder Ante Coric and the news that the Plavi are keen on signing Grujic may open a window of opportunity for the Reds.
He was the first signing Jurgen Klopp made when he joined the club in October 2015, but has failed to make an impact after a string of injuries.
"I wanted to bring Andrija Zivkovic in from Benfica for €5million, but I failed", he told Blic.
Grujic joined Liverpool from Red Star Belgrade in January 2016, remaining there on loan for the rest of the season.
Despite Dinamo's public admiration, Grujic's agent has finally commented on his client's situation and has quickly shutdown any thoughts of a move away from Anfield by stating that Liverpool want to keep him.
Grujic featured for Liverpool Under 23s on Monday night in a 2-0 win over Chelsea, but in order to really prepare him for a more prominent role in Klopp's side moving forward, perhaps regular first-team football at senior level elsewhere will stand him in better stead for the future.
With things yet to work out for him on Merseyside, Grujic has recently been linked with a move away and Dinamo Zagreb's advisor Zdravko Mamic has fuelled speculation about a possible loan deal by stating that the club were interested in the player.
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Kitsap Flooding 2007: FEMA Noticed, One Business Pays
Rudy Swensen, owner of Rings & Things jewelers, wants to expand his store at 710 Bay and turn the showroom into a destination even for those not in the market for rings and things. The project is the first the city will permit under new rules aimed at promoting downtown redevelopment.
Swensen, a native of New Orleans, proposes to remake the front of the building in the style of the Big Easy’s French Quarter, with brick walls, arched windows, wrought iron sconces and hanging flower baskets.
Swensen’s choice of motif is ironically appropriate, given that his showroom floor was under six inches of water on Dec. 3, 2007, the day a deluge caused flooding of historic proportions throughout Kitsap and Mason counties. While not on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, Kitsap’s December storm was an event those who endured it will tell their grandkids about.
Bay Street has been prone to flooding over the years as a result of the city’s forefathers building it on fill about 10 feet too low, according to city engineer Mark Dorsey.
Swensen secured financing for the project, on which he expects to spend more than a quarter million, through a Small Business Association loan. Because Bay Street is officially a flood zone in the Federal Department of Emergency Management’s books, Swensen is required to pay an annual premium of around $3,900 for the life of the 30-year loan. He hopes to be able to pay the loan off in 15 years, but even so that’s a considerable chunk of cash.
“Given that Bay Street was mostly fill during the 1940s and 1950s or even earlier, the Federal FEMA Flood Maps still consider much of downtown as within the Flood Zone and would require additional flood insurance and/or requirements for new construction,” explained James Weaver, the city’s development director.
Port Orchard, like other jurisdictions, is developing a stormwater utility under updated federal and state guidelines. The improved system for managing run-off, now in its infancy, will be phased on over the next decade. Swensen (and FEMA) can’t expect a quick fix. Swensen doubts that even when the system is in place FEMA will promptly remove the Flood Zone Scarlet Lewtter. Give it a 100 years or so to see how it holds up, officials are likely to say.
In the meantime, he’ll pay extra on the loan.
“Let’s say this, for everything you do in the world, you’re going to get tagged,” Swensen said.
Here’s the city’s flood zone map. Is your property on it?
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Over-irrigating to quickly recharge aquifers. An abuse of science?
The other side of the almond orchard story
Earlier this year a scientific study showed that during California's severe drought, farmers in the state's Central Valley agriculture belt pumped enough groundwater to fill Lake Mead, which can store the average flow of the Colorado River for two years. Or, as Capital Radio's May 2017 report put it, enough to drown the state of Pennsylvania in a foot of water.
One reason for all the pumping was the high temperatures during the drought, which increase the evaporative rate of water. Another reason was greed taken to the point of self-destruction. Farmers were able to make greater profits by substituting high-value orchard crops for row crops -- the problems being that orchards unlike row crops must be watered year-round, and that many tree crops are water hogs. The most infamous example is the almond tree; it slurps up a gallon of water per almond. One consequence was that thousands of acres of almond trees were lost.
But in January 2016 Capital Radio reported on a scientific experiment to flood almond orchards to restore depleted aquifers in California:
On Nick Blom's farm in Modesto, water pours out of an irrigation valve. Pretty quickly, it begins to cover six acres of almond trees in standing water. Blom says normally he wouldn’t water the trees this time of year.
"I did have some concerns. You do risk root damage and other kinds of things that can happen to your trees," says Blom.
An aquifer lies about 45 feet under the surface. Blom had to use that water this summer when surface supplies were cutback in the drought. Now, he’s trying to restore it.
Blom says he's over-irrigating right now. "The trees aren’t using it. So you’re basically putting water on the soil," says Blom. "So you’re getting 100 percent of that water percolating down and it goes into the groundwater and now it’s in your water table."
Scientists at UC Davis are studying whether flooding almond orchards during the winter time can help pull California out of a chronic groundwater overdraft, at least in some areas. UC Davis hydrologist Helen Dahlke says soils have to be suitable for it – but researchers have mapped that out.
"There are between 3.6 and 5.6 million acres where groundwater recharge could be done most likely," says Dahlke.
Coincidentally it’s pouring rain on Blom’s orchards. But it’s these El Nino rains that farmers hope to use to deliberately flood fields. Blom says water from Modesto’s storm drains feed into a canal system that he can use on his orchards.
“If we weren’t doing this experiment all the water would just end up in the river,” says Blom.
It would end up in the Tuolumne River. But recharging groundwater this way is no easy task.
“It’s a great idea using agricultural fields to recharge the groundwater, but there’s a lot of ducks that need to be in a row and the first duck is that we don’t want to kill the trees,” says Ken Shackel with the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.
Shackel says he’s set up underground cameras to observe the tree roots. He’ll monitor for potential damage or disease.
Another risk is that fertilizers could also seep into the groundwater. Shackel says farmers may need to change the way they operate.
“They may need to change the way they fertilize the trees so that by the time we get to the wintertime and the recharge events, then the water is fairly pure that’s in the ground," says Shackel. "Trees will use nitrogen. Nitrate is the big issue, but there’s a lot of other things too.”
This is the third time researchers have flooded Nick Blom’s almond orchard as part of the experiment. Helen Dahlke says they’re getting a good idea how quickly the water seeps into the aquifer.
“The first one has happened roughly two weeks ago and the water had infiltrated within 24 hours, it was gone from the surface,”says Dahlke.
By the end of the experiment, Blom’s almond orchard will have received nearly two feet of water. The Almond Board of California is funding the research, which involves three different orchards. Nick Blom says he’s hopeful the experiment will only bring benefits.
“It’s helpful. It’s a benefit to everybody because we do sit in a basin of water. So if we can put water into that basin throughout our area, it’s going to help everybody’s groundwater. So all the wells will be fine,” says Blom.
Researchers are hopeful too. Previous tests on alfalfa, grapes and pistachios showed it didn’t harm the crops or affect drinking water.
If the monster drought in California was a thousand-year event, I'd have no problem with the clever way that scientists hit on to recharge aquifers provided it really did keep fertilizers out of the water supply. But no amount of recharging will reverse subsidence -- land sinkage, which was profound in the Central Valley due to overpumping during the drought.
I am concerned that a relatively easy way to recharge aquifers will allow and encourage farmers there to continue with practices that are very destructive to the land.
And subsidence isn't the only issue. Since the drought developed there has been a debate, still unresolved when last I checked, about almond farming. It's the scale of the crop industry that is most troubling; 80 percent of the almonds sold globally are raised in California. This has meant that almond orchards have gobbled up a lot of land; in September 2016 Forbes published a report that pointed to perhaps the worst downside of the land conversion:
Watson, an assistant professor of geosciences at Eastern Kentucky University, is an expert in remote sensing. She uses satellite images to study agriculture, specifically the interactions between honeybees and industrial agriculture. At the beginning of this year she started a project with one of her graduate students, Larissa Watkins, looking at aerial photos of California almond farms. The goal was to predict how the rapid increase in almond orchards would affect demand for honeybee pollination.
But when they started processing satellite photos of California’s agricultural region taken between 2007-2014, they noticed a surprising trend.
Many areas that were classified as natural land cover—things like grasslands, wetlands and forests—were being converted to almond orchards.
“We were really shocked when we started looking at the data,” Watson says. “I was surprised this is happening in California with all the attention on the drought.”
So Watson and Watkins pivoted, deciding to put honeybees aside and instead quantify the land use changes and how they affected water use.
What they found was shocking: based on their estimates, 23,000 acres of natural land have been converted to almond farms. 16,000 of those acres were land previously classified as wetlands.
At the time of the Forbes report the research by Watson and Watkins hadn't been peer-reviewed and Watson qualified the findings by noting:
... aerial images can only paint broad brush pictures of what’s going on. Individual pixels in a satellite photo cover almost 1,000 square feet, making it hard to get a detailed understanding of the landscape. The USDA and the state government verified the land classifications in Watson’s data, but wetlands are notoriously difficult to identify via satellite and it’s possible that some of what looks like wetlands in aerial photos are actually flood-irrigated farmlands.
But her preliminary results show that the soaring demand for almonds, and the ensuing boom in almond farming, has had profound impacts on California’s agricultural landscape and water use.
It's not only cropland that's impacted. Wetlands are an important line of defense against the encroachment of ocean water on the land and against storm surges, a defense that had been failing at an alarming pace in California due to several factors, and even before the satellite study:
... more than 80 percent of intertidal habitat around the [San Francisco Bay] that might have been useful as a buffer to rising tides has been lost to development. It has been diked and drained for salt production and farming, or filled, paved and turned into highways, railroads, and sewage treatment plants. ...
From this side of the story, large-scale conversion of California wetlands to almond farming is another straw on the camel's back, and maybe a big straw.
By the way, a "storm surge" has the same impact on coastal land as a tsunami, the only difference is that "tsunami" is the name given to a tidal wave that results from an earthquake, whereas a storm surge describes waves from a storm at sea/an ocean.
I think all this and much more needs to be weighed before a clever scientific solution risks encouraging farmers to the idea they can have their cake and eat it too: routinely over-pump aquifers and later compensate by flooding fields and orchards.
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ESG White paper: Modernizing IT infrastructure to Empower Business
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There’s no denying that today’s workforce is “mobile.” Inspired by the ease and simplicity of their own personal devices, today’s workforce relies on a variety of tools to accomplish their business tasks — desktops, smart phones, tablets, laptops or other connected devices — each with varying operating systems. The specific tasks they need to accomplish? That depends on the person. But it’s safe to say remotely logging in and out of legacy, desktop, mobile, software as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud applications is a given. And the devices on which they work? They could be owned by the enterprise or the end user, with varying levels of company oversight, security and management. The result? An overabundance of “flexibility” that leads to fundamental IT challenges of security and manageability.
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To achieve efficiencies in today’s turbulent economic climate, government entities need to integrate legacy applications with modern systems and web services. Orchestration between multiple systems across various departments and municipalities is needed to deliver quality public services. At the same time, public sector agencies face aggressive timelines and budget constraints, changing constituent needs, and open source policies. Learn how utilizing a lightweight, standalone Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) enables government entities to meet these key challenges and deliver vital public goods while cutting costs. Evalute important decisions: Achieving efficiencies in today’s turbulent budgetary environment Time to Delivery and Budget Constraints Constituent Needs and Public Value Open Source Policies & Initiatives The Software Architecture for Government Learn to deliver projects within tight schedules and fiscal constraints - download now.
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