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Jordan, Jackson to lead Neil Bogart biopic
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(UTV|COLOMBO) – Tony nominee and former “Supergirl” regular Jeremy Jordan is set to play famed American record executive Neil E. Bogart in the upcoming biopic “Spinning Gold” which deals with the rise of Bogart’s Casablanca Records label in the 1970s.
Tony nominee and former “Supergirl” regular Jeremy Jordan is set to play famed American record executive Neil E. Bogart in the upcoming biopic “Spinning Gold” which deals with the rise of Bogart’s Casablanca Records label in the 1970s.
The exec had an ear, signing the likes of Donna Summer, Parliament, KISS, Village People, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield, and many more to his label. He died at just 39 from cancer and lymphoma.
The film will also star Samuel L. Jackson as Parliament’s George Clinton, D.L. Hughley plays Parliament’s Bootsy Collins, Neil Patrick Harris is KISS co-manager Bill Aucoin, Jason Derulo is Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, Kenan Thompson plays Motown’s Berry Gordy, Jazmine Sullivan is Gladys Knight, and Steven Strait is KISS’ Gene Simmons. The casting for Donna Summer has not yet been revealed.
Michelle Monaghan and Caitlin FitzGerald will play Bogart’s first and second wives, respectively, while Jason Isaacs plays his father. Jay Pharoah, Dan Fogler, Chris Redd, and James Wolk also have key roles.
The late Bogart’s son, Timothy Scott Bogart, pens and directs the film with shooting set to begin July 16th in Montreal and will boast an impressive soundtrack full of hits of the era. The young Bogart says he won’t sugarcoat the excesses of sex and drugs that were prevalent in the music business during his father’s heyday.
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[review] Encarmine
Posted on October 18, 2012 by anonl
Encarmine
genre gothic fantasy
creator Project BC
website http://www.projectbc.net/encarmine/
summary Demon hunter duo vanquish human-possessing fiends by killing their hosts.
And then suddenly out of nowhere, a new commercial release. The for-pay release of Encarmine is a more polished version of the Ludum Dare 24 version expanded with a second route. It’s only $5, but let’s see how it stacks up against other commercial releases.
Upon starting, you’re immediately presented with a character selection screen: Lucia or Maurus. The first path (Lucia) is corresponds to the Ludum Dare version and is the only path you get in the free demo. The second path (Maurus) shows the events from a different point of view, and branches off after a while when Maurus and Lucia split up. The entire VN took me approximately one hour to finish including note taking for this review (20 min Lucia, 40 min Maurus).
Something which immediately caught my eye was the odd mismatch between writing style and textbox style. The VN is written in an ADV style (name: dialogue), but the textbox is a NVL style fullscreen one. It doesn’t take advantage of the extra space, so there’s really no point.
Both routes start with the same opening scene. Lucia and Maurus are chasing a fiend-possessed man through the snow when they near upon a village. They find the man they were chasing lying wounded on the ground, apparently dumped by the fiend who jumped to a new target. Lucia carries the possibly possessed man to a bed in town to recover when there’s a sudden explosion.
Lucia runs to the source of the noise, drawing her sword. She finds Maurus staring down a family of three, standing near several burning buildings: husband, wife and daughter. Lucia fights the fiend possessed man, but hesitates to kill him and the fiend escapes. She apparently does this every single time she and Maurus hunt down a fiend. Uhm, why is Maurus partnering with someone worse than useless?
This is the point where the two routes split. Lucia stays in town to fight the fiend and prevent him from making any more victims, while Maurus goes off to chase rumors about a magical binding rod which can seal fiends without killing their host. Wouldn’t swapping roles make a lot more sense? It’s Lucia who’s desperate for a way to fight the fiends without having to kill their hosts…
Side Lucia
this chair. this chair. this chair. this chair. this chair.
Lucia stays in town and suddenly the gameplay changes into a super simplistic adventure game. It’s really just a ‘where do you want to go?’ choice followed by some dialogue options at that location. Selected dialogue options don’t disappear even though reselecting them is entirely useless. The order of actions is also unnecessary, you’ll need to select everything anyway. It’s pretend-interactivity, entirely pointless.
After ‘detective’ Lucia does some investigating, she finds the fiend and has to make a final decision: live or die [spoiler].
Side Maurus
The intro for Maurus’s path is the same as Lucia’s, only now we get to see his thoughts instead of Lucia’s. Turns out Maurus is kind of an asshole. He’s very condescending to Lucia and basically treats her like an ignorant child, merely humoring her silly theories and beliefs.
When they split, Maurus travels to a nearby town to search for the rod of binding. Upon arriving, he finds a seemingly fiend possessed boy battering an old man. He immediately proceeds to incinerate the boy, which should give you some insight into Maurus’s character. The old man is none too pleased with this and prevents Maurus (who’s now using an invisibility spell) from escaping while the town guards come to arrest the horned incinerator. Just to reiterate: The invisible spell-casting fiend hunter Maurus is captured by a battered old man lying on the ground.
Maurus is thrown into jail, the only other captive is a female bandit/killer. In an exceedingly convenient sequence of events, Maurus and the bandit are forced by their captor to retrieve the rod of binding from an underground temple.
From the moment Maurus is thrown in jail, the gameplay changes to adventure game style as it did in Lucia’s route. It’s slightly more useful (you can actually die this time), but also considerably more tedious. There are several redundant rooms and a ‘check status’ option which gives you a rough indication of your hidden HP stat (knowing your HP doesn’t help you in any way). After finding a two-people-required-to-open secret passage, Maurus and the bandit are faced with a sort of trial (the builders probably watched too many Indiana Jones movies).
The trial consists of each of the two pressing one of two panels (they can’t see the other’s choice). Based on which color panel they each press, something different happens:
Red + White: Person who pressed Red double punished.
White + White: Both lightly punished.
Red + Red: Both heavily punished.
Oh look, it’s the prisoner’s dilemma. It’s not much of a puzzle, even if Encarmine treats it as such, and therefore not that interesting when played against a computer ‘opponent’. What’s worse, you have to play four(!) rounds of it. You get the same several pages worth of introduction and result description every round. There really isn’t any reason to change strategy midway so the extra rounds are basically pointless. You can die if you choose the wrong strategy, but it doesn’t lead to anything interesting.
After making his way to the room containing the binding rod, some things happen that make Maurus rethink his stance on immediately killing fiend-possessed humans. He gets possessed by a fiend himself, but he’s saved basically by being cheered up (facing his sins I guess). If that’s all it needs to get rid of the fiend, killing seems a little excessive. It explains Maurus’s strange behavior at the end of Lucia’s route, but otherwise doesn’t expand on Lucia’s ending.
Lucia’s path ends up being the more interesting of the two; Maurus’s transformation doesn’t feel genuine given the cause. He’s not against killing, it just turns out to be unnecessary in this case. The extra length in Maurus’s route is mostly spent on the adventure game segment which, as I’ve mentioned, isn’t all that interesting.
It’s all black and white and screentones. Sprites are used occasionally, but the story is largely told through event graphics. Side characters are never shown and some background images really outstay their welcome. Some scenes conspicuously lack special graphics of any kind, most notably pretty much every action scene. All the action is told through text and sound effects, but the background doesn’t change, there are no sprites and if you’re lucky you get a close-up of someone’s face near the end of the fight.
The characters designs are pretty basic; no coloring or shading and only seven sprite images total divided between three characters. The harsh black shadows help hide dodgy perspective in the backgrounds. The strong contrast also makes the text just slightly harder to read than what’s pleasant.
As mentioned earlier, while there’s barely anything going on visually during the action scenes, sound effects are used well to accentuate the action (sword clashes, etc). The music is also quite good, but very limited: only seven minutes total to cover an hour’s worth of reading. Because the tracks are only a minute long, looping can be quite noticeable.
The textbox covering up the artwork is a strange choice, especially when the text is written in ADV style and sentences rarely span more than a single line.
Encarmine isn’t able to rise above the level of some of the better freeware VNs. The second path adds very little to the story and doesn’t really expand on the ending of the first. The event CG heavy presentation falls apart when the budget runs out and fight scenes are forced to occur off-screen.
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Home » News » General » Mokone sues Govt for unlawful arrest
Mokone sues Govt for unlawful arrest
Author : GODFREY RAMAHOSI
Mokone says he was arrested for Tsimane’s disappearance
Sunday Standard editor, Outsa Mokone is fighting back, on Tuesday through his attorneys Bayford and Associates; he filed a draft order with the High Court to declare that his detention in September 2014 was unlawful.
Mokone’s brawl with the law followed the disappearance of senior reporter Edgar Tsimane after he authored an article published in the Sunday Standard alleging that the President, Lt Gen Seretse Khama Ian Khama was involved in a car accident while driving alone at night.
According to Mokone’s court papers, the decision to arrest him only came when he told the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Marage, that he does not know where Tsimane is. He further highlighted that Tsimane was not his charge as he is an adult of sound mind and thus found it difficult to understand how his arrest could have helped the Police in locating him.
The matter submitted before Judge Letsididi of the Lobatse High Court will establish and determine whether or not the Warrant of Arrest issued on the 2nd of September 2014 by the Chief Magistrate for the Gaborone Administrative District for the apprehension of Mokone was applied for and lawful.
It is also upon the court to determine and decide, in the event it is found that the Station Commander of Broadhurst Police Station had refused to allow the Applicant’s (Mokone) Attorneys access to him, timeously or at all, whilst he was in Police custody on the night of 8th September 2014 and morning of 9th September 2014 to consult him (Mokone) and obtain from him Power of Attorney and get him to depose to an affidavit to enable them to move an urgent application before the High Court on the night of 8th September 2014.
The court also has to decide whether such refusal or delay in granting the Applicant’s attorney permission to him constituted an infringement of the Applicant’s right to legal representation as enshrined under Section 10 of the Constitution of Botswana and access the High Court as it is entitled to in terms of Section 10 as read with Section 95 of the Constitution of Botswana.
Botswana Police Commissioner, Mr. Keabetswe Makgophe, in his response to Mokone’s accusations, through an affidavit said, “there was no denial, had the applicant’s Commissioner of Oath not been impatient, his affidavit would have been commissioned.”
“I am verily advised that it would have been very improbable to find the Honorable Judge still waiting at Lobatse after midnight for a possible urgent application whose documents/papers had not been properly registered and or served on the other party. Arguments will be made by my (Makgophe) attorneys that the detention (of Mokone) was necessary, justified and not unlawful.”
The dispute started in August 2014 when Sunday Standard newspaper edited by Outsa Mokone published a story that President Khama got involved in a car accident while driving alone at night.
Before publishing the article Mokone said he enquired about the credibility and reliability of the source but Tsimane stood by the story insisting that he contacted and for the record noted Dr. Jeff Ramsay’s comments as the President’s Spokesperson. Due to the fact that Tsimane is a senior reporter and the experience he had, Mokone said he also stood by the article.
The Sunday Standard senior reporter later disappeared and sought asylum in South Africa following an alleged tip – off by his elder brother, Clement Tsimane, a Directorate of Intelligence and Security Service (DISS) agent that his life was in danger following a series of offensive stories to those in power.
According to the government’s response to the article at the time of the alleged accident, the president was neither the driver nor a passenger of the involved vehicles in the accident.
It was also alleged by the government and Makgophe in his court filing that the collision took place between a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV not a black Range Rover as alleged by the paper and a private Ford Ranger not a Jeep on the A1 at Dibete.
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BBC iPlayer orders new coming-of-age programming
Staff Reporter | On 28, Jan 2019
BBC iPlayer has ordered a wave of new programmes for 12-15-year-olds reflecting the highs and lows of their lives in the UK today.
The multi-genre offering explores the challenges faced by young people when it comes to important issues like mental health and sexuality. They give an insight into what this age group are talking about with their friends and families, what is important to them, and all the positive outcomes they are capable of achieving.
The new content, which will air exclusively as box sets on BBC iPlayer, will feature established presenters, such as Stacey Dooley, alongside prominent YouTube stars, such as Ali A and Mimi Missfit.
The Nine to Five with Stacey Dooley follows five 16-18 year olds as they experience the rigours of the workplace for the first time. For some it is a complete shock to the system while, for others, it’s a chance to learn some new skills and discover what direction they want their lives to take.
Teen Taxi shines a humorous and engaging light on the daily conversations teenagers and their parents have on life, love, friendships as the engaging teens open up during every day trips in the family cars.
I’m Not Driving That! With Ali-A sees vlogger and petrol head, Ali-A, transforming young drivers’ first cars in return for them improving their skills behind the wheel. But what will the young drivers think when they see their revamped rides? The programme also features a host of celebrity clients dropping into the workshop to pick up their own, newly-customised motors.
Documentary series This is My Life showcases two films focusing on the challenges young people face as they move into adulthood. This is My Life: Leaving Care follows Arron and Sulaimaan as they move from a life in care to living on their own and navigating a series of important first time life challenges.
This is My Life: Boys to Men tells the story of three promising teens, Reuben, Leon and Micha. As members of The Manhood Academy – a community based programme that provides mentorship and empowers young men who lack positive male role models – they are all striving to overcome the challenges and dangers around them.
Dr Chris and Dr Xand Investigate, a mini-series, uncovers the science behind mental health issues as well as exploring the impact that alcohol can have. In the mental health special, they explore the common triggers for mental health issues and four young people, including Jordan Stephens from music duo Rizzle Kicks, share their personal experiences. In the episode on alcohol, the doctors take a look at why alcohol can be dangerous with Dr Xand having one drink too many while Dr Chris performs a revealing range of medical tests on him. Dr Ronx joins the doctors for another episode, Life Fix, as YouTubers Mimi Missfit, Luke Cutforth and BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Yasmin Evans share their life-fixing know-how.
Coming up later in the year are Mimi On A Mission, a mystery drama series Get Even and comedy drama Lauren and Craig.
Mimi on a Mission presented by YouTube star, Mimi Missfit, follows a group of 15 year olds as they travel to Holland to find out how the Dutch teach about sex and everything related to it, from their own bodies, to falling in love and keeping safe online.
Lauren and Craig are much loved characters from Millie Inbetween and this new spin off series, Lauren and Craig, continues their story. It follows the stepbrother and sister as they are forced to take the next big step into adulthood together – independent living.
Also later in the year, mystery drama Get Even follows four teenage girls at private elite school, Vandermere. On the surface the girls appear to have nothing in common except for one passion which unites them – to expose injustice. They form their own secret society, DGM – they Don’t Get Mad, they Get Even – and play anonymous and corrective pranks to expose bullies. But when their latest target ends up dead with a ‘DGM’ card in his hands, the girls realise that they’re not as anonymous as they thought— a mystery enemy is seeking revenge on them.
Cheryl Taylor, Head of Content for BBC Children’s, says: “It is widely acknowledged that 12-15 year olds can be a difficult audience to reach. We feel that there should be more public service content specifically for this age group. This new content bridges the small gap between the top end of CBBC and all the amazing content for 16-34s on BBC Three. We are offering a small but carefully chosen slate of programmes on BBC iPlayer which reflect 12-15s specifically and which adds to the broad appeal content they already love elsewhere on the BBC like Strictly, Would I Lie to You and The Apprentice.”
The first wave of programmes will drop on BBC iPlayer on 10th February.
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Space Below My Feet por Gwen Moffat
Titulo del libro: Space Below My Feet
Autor: Gwen Moffat
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Gwen Moffat con Space Below My Feet
In 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch rider in the Army and went to live rough in Wales and Cornwall, climbing and living on practically nothing. She hitch-hiked her way around, travelling from Skye to Chamonix and many places in between, with all her possessions on her back, although these amounted to little more than a rope and a sleeping bag. When the money ran out, she worked as a forester, went winkle-picking on the Isle of Skye, acted as the helmsman of a schooner and did a stint as an artist's model. And always there were the mountains, drawing her away from a 'proper' job. Throughout this unique story, there are acutely observed accounts of mountaineering exploits as Moffat tackles the toughest climbs and goes on to become Britain's leading female climber - and the first woman to qualify as a mountain guide.
"As a story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains, Space Below my Feet is magnificent." - The Observer"
Gwen Moffat was the first woman to qualify as a mountain guide in the UK and is one of the greatest female climbers this country has ever produced. She is also a prolific writer and novelist, with more than 30 books to her name.
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Wanderlusting Arroyo del Cobre
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Karma is sometimes a lady.
Not quite three weeks ago, I climbed a dome near Polvadera Peak and noted that the view included part of Canon del Cobre, and ruminated that this would be a fun area to get into at some point. Sure enough, the next Los Alamos Geologic Society newsletter mentioned that the September field trip would be to Arroyo del Cobre. No, not quite the same thing, but awfully close.
So I got up early (for a weekend — same hour I usually get on on a work day), ate breakfast, let the dog out, packed my pack with the usuals, and drove out to Sullivan Field to meet the other hikers. A fellow named Tom offered to let me ride with him, and we headed on out to Bode’s General Store in Abiquiu. The ride out was pleasant. It was actually somewhat foggy in the valley, from what amounted to the first fall cold front coming through the area, and fog is a pleasant rarity in northern New Mexico. It was also rather cool, so I found myself wearing a sweater the entire morning.
After a couple more Society members joined us, we headed on to Red Wash Canyon, took the dirt road to the north, and parked in the small parking area.
From here it was north along an old jeep trail to the southern rim of Arroyo del Cobre. Along the way, I noticed that there was a fairly nice view up Arroyo de los Frijoles towards Polvadera Peak, and took a snapshot.
At right is Canones Mesa, which has prominent white exposures of Abiquiu Formation under a cap of basaltic andesite with an age of not quite 3 million years. This basaltic andesite is sometimes assigned to the Tshicoma Formation, which makes up the Sierra de los Valles west of Los Alamos and extends north to include Tshicoma Mountain and Polvadera Peak. However, it’s not typical of that formation, being poor in phenocrysts (large visible crystals in the solidified lava that were present when it erupted) and it is nowadays placed by itself.
The Abiquiu Formation is much, much older, being at least 25 million years old, and is one of the oldest of the rift fill formations of the Rio Grande Rift. It gets its white color from abundant ash, though to originate in the San Juan volcanic field to the northwest and the Latir volcanic field to the northeast.
At left is El Alto, which is underlain by the Ojo Caliente Member of the Tesuque Formation and capped with Lobato Mesa basalt with a radiometric age around 9 to 10 million years. The Ojo Caliente Member is another rift fill formation, but a much younger one than the Abiquiu Formation with an age 5 to 15 million years old.
Through the notch between (Arroyo del los Frijoles) you can see part of the Tschicoma Highlands, including Polvadera Peak, the third highest peak in the Jemez Mountains.
Northwest of the trail, our guides pointed out a small dike.
This is likely part of the Cerrito de la Ventana dike system, which has a radiometric age of about 20 to 25 million years. Because it intrudes the surrounding beds, we know these must be at least this old. These beds are part of the Ritito Conglomerate, which includes beds formerly mapped as lower Abiquiu Formation. The Ritito Conglomerate is a poorly cemented, poorly sorted conglomerate rich in rock fragments from the Tusas Mountains to the north. Our guides told us that dikes in soft sediments like this tend to meander rather more than dikes in more competent rock.
I was struck by the very level surface of Abiquiu Mesa to the east, topped by El Alto basalt that flowed down a valley in the higher El Alto plateau.
The El Alto Basalt is slightly younger than the basaltic andesite of Canones Mesa, since it partially overlaps the latter. In fact, the published radiometric age is slightly older, but this reflects inherent uncertainty in the age measurements.
And then the southern rim of Arroyo del Cobre and the first panorama of the day.
The key feature here is the Canones Fault Zone, whose main strand runs across the floor of the canyon from left to right. This fault zone is generally taken to mark the boundary between the Rio Grande Rift (on the near side) and the Colorado Plateau (on the far side), two major tectonic provinces. The rock beds on the near side of the fault zone are thrown down a considerable distance, so that the Jurassic rocks forming most of the rim we’re standing on are considerably younger than the Triassic rocks forming the far rim. Just how great the displacement is is demonstrated by the presence of the white beds in the center of the valley floor. The main strand of the fault zone runs just beyond them, and they are the same formation (Poleo Sandstone) as the far canyon rim on the other side of the fault.
The cliffs in the foreground in the first frame are Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, with a thin covering younger Tertiary El Rito Formation and Ritito Conglomerate. There was once a bed of Jurassic Toldilto Formation above the Entrada Sandstone, as shown by the yellowish color; this is characteristic of the uppermost Entrada Sandstone, just beneath the Todilto Formation. A few weathered remnants of the Todilto Formation lie between the Entrada Sandstone and the El Rito Formation, and on the far side of the cliffs, as we’ll see later, the Todilto Formatino is much better preserved.
The far canyon wall is underlain by dark red Arroyo del Agua Formation, the upper formation of the Permian Cutler Group. The lower formation, the Canon del Cobre Formation, is exposed in the valley floor and in the Canon del Cobre further north. These are capped by the tan beds of the Poleo Sandstone of the Triassic Chinle Group, with a significant discontinuity (gap in the geologic record) between them.
A little further on, and we came to a view of the upper part of the arroyo.
The mesa in the middle of the panorama is El Puertocita, and Canon del Cobre proper is located beyond. The Canones Fault main strand runs just in front of El Puertocita, and if you examine closely you will see some beds of Poleo Sandstone at its eastern foot corresponding to those capping the mesa.
The “wedding cake” hill in the near distance in the fourth and fifth frame is Entrada Sandstone capped with Todilto Formation, above which are El Rito Formation and Ritito Conglomerate.
This knife ridge was also a good place to get a panorama to the south.
At left, Abiquiu Mesa and, at a higher level, El Alto. On the right side of the second frame, Arroyo de los Frijoles with Polvadera Peak on the skyline. The third frame is filled by Canones Mesa with its exposures of Abiquiu Formation, and Cerro Pedernal, beloved of artist Georgia O’Keefe, stands at the right side of the third frame.
We turned around and began working our way along the south canyon rim. Most of the canyon rim is underlain by Tertiary El Rito Formation red beds.
The El Rito Formation is somewhat difficult to date, having very few fossils, but is probably from the Eocene — in the ballpark of 40 million years old. This is older than the Rio Grande Rift, and the formation was probably laid down in valleys between highlands of the Laramide orogeny. I noticed as we hiked over the outcrops that there were tiny flakes of mica, consistent with samples of the El Rito Formation I’ve picked up elsewhere. Mica is not terribly common in sandstones and so serves as a distinguishing feature of the El Rito Formation.
Beneath the El Rito Formation, across a substantial discontinuity where at least 100 million years of geologic history is missing, is the Jurassic Entrada Sandstone. Here‘s a nice outcrop.
Notice how the lower portions are a deep red while the upper portion is yellow-tan. This is a consistent feature of the Entrada Sandstone everywhere it is, or was, overlain by the Todilto Formation. The Toldilto Formation is limestone and gypsum laid down in a shallow lake or arm of the sea that became cut off and evaporated. The anoxic waters of this sea penetrated the upper layers of the Entrada Sandstone, reducing the red ferric iron in the sandstone and removing it as soluble ferrous iron.
The Jurassic column in this area is beautifully exposed to the south.
The red to yellowish beds are Entrada Sandstone. Atop is a thin layer of limestone of the Todilto Formation. To the left is a pinkish exposure of the overlying Summerville Formation, also of Jurassic age. Though not well exposed, my geologic map shows that the Morrison Formation is present at the top of the hill, and some thin beds of Cretaceous Burro Canyon Formation. I did not notice these at the time, but the Summerville Formation stuck out like a sore thumb.
The dog belongs to our guides on this hike, Shari and Rick Kelley, and is named Yeso. The Yeso Group is a prominent redbed unit south of the Jemez, and the dog (now somewhat elderly) had just about that color of coat when younger.
The woman in the blue jacket also brought her dog, which is about four years old. It was amusing to watch Yeso patiently plodding along with the hoomans while Bandit raced back and fourth smiling at us. However, by the time the hike was finished, Bandit was less smiling than panting.
Shari Kelley is lead author on the geologic map for the Canones quadrangle. It’s nice to now be able to put a face with the map, which I have perused many times before when planning adventures in this area.
Our guides drew our attention to some features in the Entrada Sandstone at the canyon rim.
These are calcite concretions, sometimes called “blueberries” (though the term is more applied to hematite concretions.) I did not think to ask how they form, and I haven’t found much online; it’s not clear to me we actually know.
A few feet away:
The structures in the upper right corner may be rhizoliths, a form of fossilized plant root.
Across the canyon from this point, there is a dike visible in the canyon wall, which apparently intruded along a fault (judging from my geologic map).
You will definitely need to click to enlarge the photo. (You can click to enlarge just about all the photos here, if you haven’t already discovered.)
The rim here is thinly bedded limestone of the Todilto Formation, which is normally devoid of fossils. However, one of the group did find a shard with faint algae impressions on it.
Some mushroom hoodoos in the Entrada. Getting closer would have required significant scrambling and my shoulder is still not up to it.
As we approached the fault zone, the rock beds became increasingly fractured and distorted — particularly the thinly bedded limestone of the Todilto Formation.
To the south, the fault crosses a saddle where the trace becomes obvious.
The fault trace is directly to the right of the yellowish outcrop of Entrada Sandstone capped with Todilto Formation. These Jurassic formations have been thrown down until they are in contact with Permian Arroyo del Agua red beds. This has got to be about the most spectacular fault trace imaginable, apart from freshly ruptured ground above a fault that has just undergone a major earthquake.
We descended towards the fault trace. Some of the Entrada Sandstone along the way was eroded in a cool enough fashion to be worth a photograph.
I mean, what the heck, I have plenty of transistors in my camera …
Man at fault.
The zone of fine red material is the fault trace itself, which is filled with fault gouge apparently dominated by the soft redbed sediments of the Permian side of the fault.
We lingered here for a few minutes. There is a spring arising almost exactly on the fault trace (behind us as we’re facing here) and I stuck in a finger and took a taste. As I was warned, the water is very brackish; it must flow through the Todilto Formation, or some other formation rich in partially soluble minerals, at some point. Because the water is brackish, it does not support a local flourishing of vegetation; the spring is dominated by sparse salt grass instead.
We hiked up the saddle to where we were told there were petroglyphs. The path crossed the Summerville Formation, and I took a close up photograph for the book. I’ve never managed to get this close to the Summerville before. I thought about taking a sample, but nothing here was well enough cemented for me to bother.
Basically muddy sand. It reminds me a little of the much younger Ojo Caliente Member of the Tesuque Formation, and I find myself thinking this would be an excellent source formation for the Ojo Caliente.
One last look north up Arroyo del Cobre.
Arriving at the top of the saddle, we found that, sure enough, there was a boulder well covered with petroglyphs.
These seem somehow different from other petroglyphs I’ve seen. I wonder if they are from a culture different from the Ancestral Pueblo People.
We kicked back and ate lunch. I found myself with a face full of Yeso, who was delighted when I scratched him behind the ears. Alas, since I was reclining on the ground when he came by, this also meant plenty of doggy breath. So it goes.
We elected not to go down the far side of the saddle; the trail goes into somebody’s back yard and it would miss some very nice surprises along the arroyo out. Such as this:
This is a nice contrast of ordinary contact with discontinuity. The yellow massive rock is Entrada Sandstone, and its bedding conforms with the thin capping layer of Todilto Formation at left. At upper right, however, we have an angular unconformity, with beds of Ritito Conglomerate laid down on an eroded surface of the Entrada Sandstone.
Here‘s some Ritito Conglomerate close up.
This is not actually typical of this formation, of which we’ll see numerous more typical exposures in a minute. The conglomerate is unusually well cemented here and the cement has a distinct reddish color. This seems characteristic of the base of the conglomerate.
The guides led us into the arroyo; this was near the level of the Todilto Formation. Some nice thinly bedded limy shale:
The guides took us up the arroyo for a little surprise.
This must be a fun place during cloudbursts.
Bobcat tracks, mingled with more recent dog prints. The dogs were not particular about the quality of their water supply.
The arroyo was now cutting through the Ritito Conglomerate. I thought this was pretty cool. (I hadn’tseen nuttin’ yet.)
Again, the guides led us into the arroyo, for another little surprise.
On the way back to the trail: Worm tubes or, more likely, rhizoliths in the Entrada Formation.
A bank of Ritito Conglomerate I figured was good enough for the book.
But, as the man on the late night commercial says: “But wait! There’s more!”
A slot canyon in the Ritito Conglomerate.
That’s Tom ahead of me.
The clasts in the conglomerate here are varied and interesting, including epidote and garnet-bearing metamorphic rocks.
Local resident:
A small bull snake. This was the second one we met; the first was surprisingly aggressive when one of our party came close, hissing and lunging. I tried taking a video, but that feature of my camera is one I’m not practiced with. It turned out fairly crummy:
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And that was it; up the east bank of the arroyo, and we were back at the cars.
As Tom noted, a perfectly wonderful way to spend a Saturday.
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Kent G. Budge September 25, 2016 Reply
I should clarify that it was the snake that did the hissing and lunging, and not the member of our party.
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RIP: Charlie Louvin, 1927 – 2011
January 29th, 2011 — 01:24 pm
We pay tribute today to Charlie Louvin, long-time Grand Old Opry member and elder statesman of Country music, who passed this week after complications from pancreatic cancer.
Charlie Louvin’s work with his elder brother Ira in the fifties found familiar placement on the Country charts – indeed, until the brothers split up two years before Ira’s death in ’65, the close harmonies of the brothers Louvin, with their mandolin-guitar accompaniment, were arguably among the most heavenly sounds on the radio. And though he was ever-dismissive about his own contribution to the songs for which he was listed as co-author, claiming that he was the music-watcher, who brought titles and concepts, new sounds and instrumental flourishes to his alcoholic, inward-turned brother to turn into songs, it is these self-same connections to the world of music at large which Charlie brought to the table that make his legacy so notable from the folk-watcher’s perspective.
Originally trained in the country gospel tradition, Charlie and Ira started adding secular songcraft to their repertoire early in their career on the advice of a sponsor. In the end, though the broader base of inspiration surely helped bring them further recognition, their songbook remains dominated by hellfire and angels, the core question of how to live in balance between the demands of both the spiritual and secular worlds running throughout. And though his later solo work may have had less of an impact on the overall canon, it, too, continued the thread, marking Louvin as a keeper of the country tradition.
Thanks to its heavy, heady influence on harmony duos from The Everly Brothers to Simon and Garfunkel, and on country rockers The Byrds, Gram Parsons, and Emmylou Harris, it is predominantly their early duet work for which The Louvin Brothers will be remembered – and sure enough, it is that work which we find covered most often, as seen below.
But Charlie Louvin’s continued output in the half-century since deserves our recognition and respect as well. In the last ten years alone, like Johnny Cash before him, he enjoyed a renaissance of sorts, receiving two Grammy nominations – one in the traditional folk category, the other for best Southern, country or bluegrass gospel album – recording with Jeff Tweedy and Elvis Costello, opening for Cake and Cheap Trick, and headlining Bonnaroo. Check out today’s coverage, a set unsurprisingly dominated by bluegrass, country, and americana folk, and then turn your ears to both his older recordings and the final decade of his work for broken, heartfelt takes on a myriad of originals, classics, and traditional country gospel ballads.
Dolly Patron: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
(from Little Sparrow, 2001)
Alison Krauss: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
(from Now That I’ve Found You, 1995)
Alison Krauss and James Taylor: How’s The World Treating You
(from Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’: Songs of the Louvin Brothers, 2003)
Emmylou Harris: If I Could Only Win Your Love
(from Pieces of the Sky, 1975)
Lucy Kaplansky: The Angels Rejoiced Last Night
(from Every Single Day, 2001)
Paul Kelly w/ Kasey Chambers: You’re Learning
(from Foggy Highway, 2005)
Uncle Tupelo: Atomic Power
(live, 1992)
Dreadful Snakes: Cash On The Barrelhead
(from Snakes Alive!, 1983)
Charlie Louvin w/ Andrew Bird: Darlin’ Corey (trad.)
(from Charlie Louvin Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 2008)
Charlie Louvin: Knoxville Girl (trad.)
(from Charlie Louvin, 2007)
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All Folked Up: Frank Sinatra
(coverage from Joshua Radin, Anna Ternheim, Jason Mraz & more!)
My maternal grandfather was a huge Frank Sinatra fan: one of my most powerful memories of him, in fact, is of my grandparents dancing in their Florida living room, strangely graceful and oblivious to the watching world, their wistful smiles and laugh lines framing faces aglow with an otherwise unseen affection, the swell of strings and Sinatra’s voice pouring from the record player like a fog. A year later, they would give up the house, move North, and start their relatively short decline towards death, but it’s here where I would remember them best: gliding in rare partnership, recapturing a lifetime I can only imagine.
Like many of us just now starting to tip over into middle age, I suspect, my awareness of old-school singers like Frank Sinatra is peripheral, and predominantly second-hand. For my generation, the man is more present through satire than anywhere – that, and the fragments of original sound that clutter the stream, the pop cultural echoes that slip into commerce and language, marking class consciousness and an undeniable Americanism. Doo be doo be doo, that Jersey accent, the mafia posturing, the Mia Farrow connection: these things flit like retinal floaters in us all, and need not be rehashed, for they are eternal as our ancestors, are as much a part of who we are together as butterflies, Woodstock, or the fault line which threatens the land mass of California.
But let us give the man his proper due: a self-made man, confident and cool, Sinatra had an incredible impact and meaning for his time. Most relevantly, for our purposes, Ol’ Blue Eyes was known for a particularly stylized vocal delivery - a perfect-pitch power just right for Vegas, easy to parody but hard to get just right, one which always struck me as a bit over the top even in his more tender moments.
To translate these songs in the folk idiom is to attempt a very different sort of success by definition, then: to find the emotional core in a way that seems more authentic, more organic, more about community than performer and performance.
Like Elvis, Sinatra was as much of an interpreter and arranger of song as anything, popularizing and reclaiming strand after strand of the pop, jazz, blues and showtunes canons, weaving them together through his own inimitable approach. From an ethnographic standpoint, this fuzzy, often second-hand ownership of his song is a relatively strong case for the Rat Pack as a branch of the folkways, but it makes it hard to justify using that songbook as fodder for one of our Covered in Folk features, which tend to focus on songs sourced from original performance, not popular performance.
But it does allow us to return to a much more fun lens – one which rears its head but occasionally here on Cover Lay Down, when we turn our attention to those who are often covered with a tongue-in-cheek flavor, even if sincerity results. Seldom-seen explorations in this vein have previously included Britney Spears, Modest Mouse, Punk, and Gangsta Rap, with Rihanna on deck for the coming months. And sure enough, today’s coverage yaws wide, though it leans towards the folkie-gone-crooner side: from a multitude of indiefolk and Americana artists in gleeful lounge mode to Cat Power’s total indie-blues deconstruction of New York, New York to the sweet, gentle strains of Joshua Radin, who – as we’ve learned previously – can make even the Sesame Street theme song sound maudlin and coy.
Listen, and enjoy.
Joshua Radin: Fly Me To The Moon (orig. Kaye Ballard)
(iTunes exclusive, 2009)
Damien Dempsey: Fly Me To The Moon
(from To Hell Or Barbados [expanded edition], 2007)
Anna Ternheim: Fly Me To The Moon
(from Anna Ternheim Sings Sinatra [bonus disc from Leaving on a Mayday], 2008)
Jason Mraz: Fly Me To The Moon
(live broadcast, unsourced, circa 2008)
Priscilla Ahn: I’ll Never Smile Again (orig. Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ft. Frank Sinatra)
Madeleine Peyroux: I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter (orig. Fats Waller)
(from Dreamland, 1996)
Mindy Smith: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (orig. Judy Campbell)
Rufus Wainwright: My Funny Valentine (orig. Mitzi Green)
(from Starbucks’ Sweetheart: Love Songs sampler, 2005)
Fiona Apple: Why Try To Change Me Now (pop. Frank Sinatra)
Patty Griffin: The Best Is Yet To Come (orig. Tony Bennett)
(from The Best Is Yet To Come: A Tribute to Cy Coleman, 2009)
DeVotchKa: Somethin’ Stupid (orig. Carson and Gaile)
(from Curse Your Little Heart, 2006)
Cat Power: New York, New York (orig. Liza Minelli)
(from Jukebox, 2008)
Previously on Cover Lay Down: Hayward Williams covers Fred Astaire original (and Sinatra standard) One For My Baby.
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Single Song Saturday: True Love Will Find You In The End
(A birthday tribute to outsider musician Daniel Johnston)
January 22nd, 2011 — 12:01 am
Yes, we’re posting our Single Song Sunday feature a bit early this week. But infamously bipolar songwriter Daniel Johnston turns 50 today, and I can’t think of a better way to honor his impact on the music world than with this collection of covers of his best-known composition. The hope and pain inherent in the brilliantly simple lyric and melody of this piece and many others have touched a nerve in many artists both well-known and obscure since Johnston’s first cassette hit the streets in 1981, prompting a multitude of covers, and seven full-length tribute albums – making ours a long overdue tribute, indeed.
It’s not necessary to be familiar with Daniel Johnston’s history as a fringe artist and mentally unstable personality to make sense of his songbook and its influence, but it helps. As I noted two years ago over at Star Maker Machine, where I posted the original and two covers of Johnston’s Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances:
If a severe manic depressive with an unhealthy appetite for Mountain Dew, who is known for such manic episodes as throwing an airplane ignition key out the window while the plane was still in the air, gives you advice, should you take it?
Oft-hospitalized indie musician Daniel Johnston is known for being a serious oddball, an outsider in a world of outsiders, but his lyrics and songcraft are celebrated by a significant slice of music world and beyond – from David Bowie to Kurt Cobain to Simpsons creator Matt Groening, themselves a fairly untrustworthy group of advice-givers. His lo-fi production and wavery falsetto first hit the world through a series of self-released cassette tapes recorded on a $59 boombox; according to Wikipedia, common themes in his music throughout his career have included “unrequited love, Casper the Friendly Ghost, and comic book superheroes…a propensity to proselytize for his conception of Christianity, warning about the devil, and a fixation on the number 9.”
Johnston himself, in other words, is one of a kind: a childlike, weird, and damaged soul whose hallucinatory relationship to the world around him has produced a wisdom which has touched numerous artists who see themselves on the fringes of society, or even sanity. And indeed, many artists who cover Johnston’s best works choose to channel the thick haze which surrounds both his incredibly lo-fi production method and his chemical imbalanced personality, resulting in a surprisingly varied set of portraits unified nonetheless by more than just the words and music which make the song what it is.
As with Johnston’s original take on Grievances, it’s hard to listen to the original of this piece: Johnston’s pain is wide open, and it comes through powerfully in his wavering, thin tenor voice and his often arrhythmic performance. But as much as we feel for Johnston’s innate discomfort with a universe that doesn’t always make sense to his fractured, scattered brain, there is something vibrant, enthusiastic, even loving in the way we see his engagement with the world, in the way he paints the foggy glimpses of hope he sees through his cracked mirror, in how both his craft and his very continued existence acknowledge the pain as a necessary condition for appreciating the benefits of life, when they finally arrive.
True Love Will Find You In The End is simultaneously a perfect prototype for this duality, and a manifesto for taking charge of our destiny: True love will find you in the end, he says, but how can it recognize you unless you step into the light? Don’t be sad – you know you will – but don’t give up until true love finds you in the end. And though there are many ways to find the right balance between pleasure and pain – from A Whisper In The Noise‘s drowsy shoegaze opium dream to Alela Diane‘s aetherial voice floating on the heady electro-Americana pulse of one-shot coverband Headless Heroes, from the cheerfully emphatic grungy handclap harmonies of 20 year old identical twins Taxi Taxi! to the ache of Richard Walters‘ gentle guitarplay and tender vocals, with their sudden build into soft acoustic indie-folk in the second verse, from Matthew Good‘s sparse, raspy Americana to the playful, almost carnival-esque atmosphere which Boise, Idaho indie-pop band The Very Most bring us by setting the song at a rapid pace, and using a toy piano as their primary instrument – the genius of Johnston shines through every version, from simple and sparse to rich and atmospheric, reminding us that no matter how slow or muddy or psychedelic the interpretation, under all the syrup and insanity, there is hope aplenty.
So Happy Birthday, Daniel. May you live on, in body and spirit, through your songs and your visions.
Wilco: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from A Shot In The Arm [single], 1999)
Mates of State: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from Crushes: The Covers Mixtape, 2010)
Tom Williams & The Boat: True Love Will Find You In The End
(free web single, 2010)
Richard Walters: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from The Animal, 2009)
Matthew Good: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from Hospital Music, 2007)
Spiritualized: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from Soul On Fire 7″, 2008)
A Whisper In The Noise: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from Dry Land, 2007)
Basia Bulat: True Love Will Find You In The End
(live from Daytrotter, 2008)
Beck: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from Discovered Covered, 2004)
Headless Heroes: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from The Silence of Love, 2008)
Taxi Taxi!: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from the Step Out Into The Light EP, 2009)
The Very Most: True Love Will Find You In The End
(from Lions & Eagles/The Very Most split EP, 2009)
Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett: True Love Will Find You In The End
(live at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 1999)
We don’t usually include bonus tracks in our Single Song Sunday features, but since the songs up at the Star Maker Machine post mentioned above were long since gone, in the interest of letting you follow the threads of his world, I’ve put ‘em back up. Head on over to June, 2008, to listen to covers of Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances from Clem Snide and Dot Allison, and to experience the broken, beautiful original for yourself.
[UPDATE - 1/22/11 12:14 PM: Daniel Johnston is soliciting birthday messages for his afternoon podcast. If you've been inspired by Daniel, tell him. Sing a song, leave a msg or say Happy 50th Birthday! Call (936)-463-4688!]
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Ani DiFranco Covers:
Greg Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs, Nat King Cole & more!
I’ve seen Ani DiFranco live in concert twice – once in a packed concert hall, and once outdoors, at a folk festival – and in both settings, she provided an amazing show, full of passion and pain. But my memories of those two shows are easy to differentiate, and not just because the vast difference in space and time framed her work differently.
In the first, which I attended as a chaperone for a busload of high school students, I remember bright lights and stagecraft, an electrified performer with a back-up band, a hard-rocking duo of an opening act entitled, embarrassingly enough, Bitch and Animal, and a crowd of screaming, bopping teenagers and young folks. In the second, I recall a girl with a guitar, intimate but self-assured, who fit right in amidst both the other predominantly solo acoustic acts who played that year’s Clearwater Revival Fest, and the old folkies and young acousti-punks who peppered the warm summer field that bright afternoon.
Different, indeed, in crowd and tone, space and subtext. And yet both rank up there in my top 50 concerts of all time. Because seeing Ani is a revelation, just as hearing her is.
On paper, Ani DiFranco can be hard to pin down. Two camps – the sensitive-yet-grungy indie-alt-rockers and the hardcore folkies – claim her as their own, in part because her music works both ways, in part because her work as a feminist and a champion of social justice fits neatly into both worlds. She has a child, and she has had two husbands, but she identifies as bi, and thanks to her proudly feminist stance, her most avid fan base includes a disproportionate number of lesbians. Her style is diverse: this is an artist unafraid to evolve, and equally sensitive to the nuances of stripped-down solo work and high-concept rockers. She channels anger and despair poignantly – many of the songs I turn to when I need a good cry are Ani’s – but she also does proud defiance exquisitely, too, as befits her rightful place in the canon of modern feminist music.
But much about the artist and her work is, ultimately, consistent. The utterly crushing emotional core, that gleeful yet determined grin, that slippery, throaty voice, the hanging notes and the punk chordplay, the deeply personal narratives which blossom into critical cultural reflection and biting satire, are an innate part of her charm and her success. Call her what you will: Ani is Ani, and one of the factors that makes her such a powerful voice in the community is, indeed, that ability to be her strong, joyful self, on stage and through song.
Unlike many artists, Ani doesn’t generally place cover songs on her full-length albums – though she did include three on her 2000 EP Swing Set. Indeed, in a prolific career of over 20 albums since her 1990 debut, she has released just one cover, a deconstructed electrofolk take on Amazing Grace, amidst her studio originals, which we first shared way back in our first Single Song Sunday feature.
It’s tempting to suggest that her work is so proud and so personal that it crowds out the songs of others, that the deep, raw soul-delving journey of each of her albums overwhelms influence, that it would make little sense for her to interrupt her own narratives with even transformed takes on the songs of others. And for this, she can be aptly forgiven: her lyrics carry such emotion, and her albums hold together so cohesively, it’s easy to see why Ani would want to keep her narratives closed, though as cover fans, we’re grateful that she often performs a cover or two in concert these days, something which was much less true of her earlier sets.
But over the course of her career, others have clearly sought out the power of Ani’s voice, both as an advocate and as a performer. She’s done two songs with Prince, appears as Persephone on Anais Mitchell’s acclaimed “Orpheus meets the American Depression” folk opera Hadestown, and features as a vocalist on Dr. John’s 2008 New Orleans tribute The City That Care Forgot. Her take on Wishin’ and Hopin’ on the My Best Friend’s Wedding soundtrack is too-cute and best forgotten, but her interpretations of the songs of others with more meaning in their lyrics stand-out on tribute albums for the likes of Springsteen, Greg Brown, Pete Seeger, and more.
Ani has lent her voice to others, too, when she feels they need to be heard: through her label Righteous Babe, which she started at the beginning of her career in order to avoid the artistic compromises which she saw as endemic to major label affiliation, and which has produced the work of similarly strong female voices since its inception, and in partnership with labor organizer and hobo songwriter Utah Phillips, with whom she released two albums, The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere (1996) and Fellow Workers (1999). And she spearheaded ‘Til We Outnumber ‘Em, a Woody Guthrie tribute concert to benefit the Woody Guthrie archives and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Educational Foundation, which was released through her label in 2000, and which you can hear sampled below.
The combination of Ani’s songwriting and her performance are stunning; if for some reason you haven’t heard them, I urge you to seek out mid-career fan favorites Not A Pretty Girl, Little Plastic Castle, Up Up Up Up Up Up, and 1997 live album Living In Clip – which Rolling Stone named one of “The Essential Recordings of the ‘90s” – among other strong albums from her catalog. If nothing else, pick up both her 36-song “greatest hits” package Canon, and the exquisitely produced Knuckle Down, which contains my two favorite tear-jerkers: the moody, jazz-tinged Studying Stones, and the pulsing Recoil, which hides a climbing anger under a language of malaise and ennui so perfectly, it never fails to chill me at its climax.
But this is a cover blog, and we celebrate through interpretation unabashedly – believing, as always, that cover songs provide an easier, more comfortable avenue to connect with the work of a new artist. A collection of Ani’s coverage, then, strong and passionate, with a few bonus tracks to follow by a few others from the folkworld who have tried to do justice to her own masterworks.
Ani DiFranco: Amazing Grace (orig. John Newton)
(from Dilate, 1996)
Ani DiFranco: Used Cars (orig. Bruce Springsteen)
(from Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, 2000)
Ani DiFranco: When I’m Gone (orig. Phil Ochs)
(from the Swing Set EP, 2000)
Ani DiFranco: My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage (orig. Pete Seeger)
(from Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger, 1998)
Ani DiFranco: The Poet Game (orig. Greg Brown)
(from Going Driftless: An Artist’s Tribute to Greg Brown, 2002)
Ani DiFranco: Lord, I Have Made You A Place In My Heart (orig. Greg Brown)
(from Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco [DVD], 2002)
Ani DiFranco: Which Side Are You On (orig. Florence Reece)
(live on Mountain Stage, 2010)
Ani DiFranco: Do Re Me (orig. Woody Guthrie)
Indigo Girls w/ Ani DiFranco: Ramblin’ Round (orig. Woody Guthrie)
(from ‘Til We Outnumber ‘Em, 2000)
Ani DiFranco w/ Jackie Chan: Unforgettable (orig. Nat King Cole)
(from When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You’d Hear, 2002)
Dar Williams ft. Ani DiFranco: Comfortably Numb (orig. Pink Floyd)
(from My Better Self, 2005)
Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco: Pie In The Sky (orig. Joe Hill)
(from Fellow Workers, 1999)
As promised, Today’s Bonus Tracks offer a few covers of Ani’s better-known works:
Alana Davis: 32 Flavors (orig. Ani DiFranco)
(from Blame It On Me, 1997)
Soulive w/ Dave Matthews: Joyful Girl (orig. Ani DiFranco)
(from Next, 2002)
Allison Crowe: Independence Day (orig. Ani DiFranco)
(from Live At Wood Hall, 2005)
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Monday Madness: The Hillbenders cover 80′s hit Talking In Your Sleep
Up-and-coming bluegrass whiz-kids The Hillbenders have just been added to the lineup for this year’s Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, and I couldn’t be happier with their barn-burning treatment of The Romantics chart-topper Talkin’ In Your Sleep – notably, the first 45 I ever bought, way back in 1983. Play it loud while you dream of summer.
The Hillbenders: Talkin’ In Your Sleep (orig. The Romantics)
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Covered In Folk: Phil Ochs
(On songs of social justice in a post-millennial world)
It’s Martin Luther King Day, and I’ve been thinking about social justice, even going so far as to try to explain the term to my eight year old in the car on the way to the dentist. But explaining why I teach in the inner city in the language of a third grader is easier said than done. Two generations after King, Kennedy, and so many unnamed others fell as martyrs to the civil rights movement, we live in a world of twice-removed injustices, deeper, more abstract, more slippery and subtle, harder to name, and harder still to put into words.
That the obvious differences which once separated us are now encoded into law and practice as taboo subjects for discrimination shows just how far we have come since the sixties. That in our pursuit of change and justice and equality we have reached the murky core, where it is harder to name the abstract injustices which still linger deep at the root of society, is perhaps King’s greatest legacy, and it’s a fine legacy, indeed.
But it still leaves us with the problem that that which we have to overcome is much harder to define than it once was. So much of our rhetoric is defined by dissatisfaction and dis-ease, and though it’s easy to rally around such ill- and negatively-defined straw men, it’s almost impossible to leverage that muddy, vitrolic speech as a clarion call to well-defined action. The distance between We Shall Overcome and I Don’t Wanna Be An American Idiot is vast, indeed. And the fatalism which has replaced This Little Light of Mine with the deliberate aloofness of We Didn’t Start The Fire is a constant threat to our ability to live the dream, to stand up and lead the charge for the subtle change we all know, in our deepest hearts, remains urgently at hand.
As a tool of political discourse, folk songs – which spread by word of mouth, and speak of and for the community – play a vital role in cultural change. And though it is his speeches which ring so indelibly in the ears of history, MLK, Jr. was a firm believer in the power of song as a vehicle for freedom, seeing it as a critical tool in the hands of the movement.
Most of the songs King’s followers chose to utilize, of course, were remodded from older sources, in keeping with the folkways approach to song which best characterizes the movement itself. But many of the songs which the civil rights movement has chosen to adopt since then come more directly from the generation of singer-songwriters who grew up in the midst of the struggle.
And though his name is not as familiar as a host of others who survived the era to continue performing, and who spread the gospel through a more diverse collection of songs, perhaps no artist has had more of an impact on the modern protest songbook than folksinger Phil Ochs.
Which is to say: like so many great songwriters of depth and poignancy, Phil Ochs – who came to the Greenwich Village scene from the world of journalism, and never shed the constant search for the truth which this entailed – was haunted and ultimately done in by depression, truncating his canon and corrupting his legacy. And in keeping with the discourse drift described above, his catalog is rife with the kind of songs hardly anyone sings any more.
Indeed, Guthrie’s famous guitar slogan nothwithstanding, there is perhaps no other artists who so deliberately and successfully focused his career on protest through music as Ochs himself. The Ochs songbook is relentlessly political, almost exclusively so, unlike those of the numerous artists who include social justice songs in their work – Michael Franti, the Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco, Guthrie, Seeger, Dylan, and others among them – but also diversify their message to include more generalized narrative tales of love and life.
And as a result, though Ochs hated the term “protest song”, preferring to say that he wrote “topical songs”, most of which he claimed he wrote based on articles in Newsweek, the vast collection of songs he left behind are a legacy of political protest much like that of the words of King himself, and arguably of a scale and scope which rivals that of the fallen Reverend.
There’s an inherent risk in staking your claim on topical song. But the best protest songs merely gain power through metaphor as they lose their direct relevance in the world of the concrete as history moves ever-onward – Biko has been dead for decades, for example, but Peter Gabriel still sings his life story into fervent life on stage. And though several of Ochs’ songs have been updated in recent years, the best live on intact, their potency all the more for their inward gaze.
Today, Ochs’ critical gaze and determined lyrics still ring true in the hands and mouths of artists across the globe, many of them – From DiFranco to Seeger, from Billy Bragg to John Wesley Harding – known for their own association with the continued struggle for rights and justice in modern society. And his prescient anthem When I’m Gone – surely his most covered song – speaks achingly to the need for every one of us to live and fight for today, while we still have breath.
Which is good. Because even as talk radio and Facebook become tools of discourse, rallying spaces are not rallies: as long as there is still injustice, we still need to be able to stand up and be counted in physical space. Facebook may be a great way to organize, but its silent screen is no match for the full emotional power of the spirit uplifted by song.
Singing to make change cannot be done without songs that demand it. We still need songs that give us courage and hope; we still need the deep feeling of standing together, singing loud and strong, to show ourselves what can be done, to keep us strong and whole and connected in the darkness.
And sing we must, in the end. For there is still so much to overcome.
Thea Gilmore: When I’m Gone
(from Loft Music, 2004)
Dick Gaughan: When I’m Gone
(from Outlaws and Dreamers, 2001)
Peter Siegel: Power and Glory
(from The Show, 2004)
Pat Wictor: That’s The Way It’s Gonna Be
Pat Wictor: Changes
(from Sunset Waltz, 2008)
Christy Moore: Changes
(from Burning Times, 2005)
Linda Draper: Flower Lady
(from Traces Of, 2007)
Pete Seeger: Draft Dodger Rag
(from Dangerous Songs!?, 1966)
John Denver: What’s That I Hear?
(from John Denver Sings, 1964)
Billy Bragg: Joe Hill
(from Don’t Mourn: Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill, 1990)
Michael Weston King: Cops of the World
(from I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier, 2010)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: My Life
(from Ask Forgiveness, 2007)
Larry Kirwan: I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore
(from Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The 60′s, 1999)
Sonia Rutstein: Is There Anybody Here?
Greg Greenway: Tape From California
Karen Savoca: No More Songs
(from What’s That I Hear: The Songs of Phil Ochs, 1998)
Previously on Cover Lay Down: Arlo Guthrie covers Phil Ochs’ I Ain’t Marching Anymore
For more coverage and covers of Phil Ochs, check out Life of a Rebel, a blog devoted to news and memories our featured artist.
[UPDATE, 3:50 pm: thanks to reader Dave, who reminds me that the brand new documentary Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune, had its US theatrical premiere just last week. The film, according to fellow folkfan Jeff of Notlob Concerts, "reveals the biography of a conflicted truth-seeking troubadour who, with a guitar in hand, stood up for what he believed in and challenged us all to do the same." Phil's sister Sonny will be a guest on Jeff's Tuesdays 5-8pm, WCUW-fm show In The Tradition on March 8th, just before the Boston premiere of the film. Look for it in theaters near you!]
918 comments » | Holiday Coverfolk, Phil Ochs
Winter Coverfolk, 2011: Snow Songs, Redux
Two Decembers ago, I posted a set of snow songs, accompanied by a short vignette of my children in the first snowfall of the season. Looking back through the archives, I see that darkness was falling by the time the snow was thick enough for much of anything, and the white stuff must have been heavier, too: my account features snowmen, snow angels, and snowball fights, and not much else.
Today, the girls are older, but the snow is higher: three feet and rising since midnight Tuesday, and still falling fast and thick enough to make us wonder if tomorrow, too, will be a day home from school. The patio table looks like a white-frosted birthday cake; the porch comes in level with the yard: it’s an entirely different world, a blizzard world, the kind kids get once in a childhood, if they’re lucky.
And so this time, instead of lingering on the porch, taking pictures and reveling in their play from afar, I chose to suit up and join them.
There’s plenty to do, out here in the whitewash, but we take it on gingerly, afraid at first to sully the majesty of nature unleashed. At first, we merely wade, buried up to my waist and the elderchild’s chest, carving a hedgemaze into the yard as we wander, wondering at a world obscured, watching the ebb and flow of frozen flakes by the billions as they shift the landscape. The pines and oaks which line our little homestead clearing blend into the landscape, their snowcovered branches rippling like waterfalls; every few minutes, the wind puffs the world into whiteout nothingness, shaking an avalanche down from the sky.
The world is too deep for snow angels: I throw the wee one into the air, and when she lands, she disappears, lying perfectly still “to pretend I’m invisible”. But snow invites play, and soon we cannot contain our energy. So we build a slide where the plow came through a foot ago, and then the girls take turns sitting astride my back while we skid down the half-mile driveway on our inner tube, bouncing and laughing as we creep ever-closer to the road. By the time we come in, our noses are frozen, our toes gone numb, but who cares: it’s the best damn day in the world, and I’m proud to have been a part of it.
I originally had something else planned for today’s entry. But as before, my heart is singing, loud and clear in the otherwise-quiet of a snow-hushed world. Here in the warm glow of the pellet stove, hot chocolate in my hands and children’s laughter in my ears, life is present and full of awe. It’s so good to be reminded that, even in a world of high-tech stormtracking and emergency preparedness plans, the universe still has a few surprises in store for us.
To shift the mood away from this peace would be spellbreaking of the worst kind. So here’s an updated list of snowsongs, to celebrate the deep, pure joy of winter.
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem: Snowbird (orig. Gene MacLellan/ pop. Anne Murray)
(from Cocktail Swing, 2001)
Lissa Schenckenburger: Like The Snow (orig. Kristen Andreassen)
(from Different Game, 2001)
Muleskinner: Footprints in the Snow (trad./ pop. Bill Monroe)
(from A Potpourri Of Bluegrass Jam, 1974)
Harry Nilsson: Snow (orig. Randy Newman)
(from Nilsson Sings Newman, 1970)
Thea Gilmore: Listen, The Snow Is Falling (orig. Yoko Ono)
(from Strange Communion, 2009)
John Gorka: Snow Don’t Fall (orig. Townes Van Zandt)
(from Writing In The Margins, 2006)
Robert Earl Keen: Snowin’ On Raton (orig. Townes Van Zandt)
(from Gravitational Forces, 2003)
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Snowin’ On Raton (ibid.)
(from Live In Germany, 1999)
Pat Green: Snowin’ On Raton (ibid.)
(from George’s Bar, 2001)
The Be Good Tanyas: Rain and Snow (trad.)
(from Blue Horse, 2000)
Peter Mulvey: Rain and Snow (trad.)
(from Ten Thousand Mornings, 2002)
Solas: Rain and Snow (trad.)
(from Reunion: A Decade of Solas, 2006)
Del McCoury Band: Rain and Snow (trad.)
(from Live From Bonnaroo, 2002)
Rosie Thomas: Winter Wonderland
(from A Very Rosie Christmas, 2008)
Looking for more? Our pre-Christmas feature on Secular Seasonals & Nondenominational Carols includes several more snowsongs, including Sam Bush’s instrumentalgrass interpretation of Let It Snow, more solid folk versions of Winter Wonderland from A Weather, Joel Rakes, and Laura Cortese, and Fiona Apple’s warm, cheerful take on classic Frosty The Snowman.
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New Artists, Old Songs, Vol. XIX: Kiersten Holine, Hayward Williams, Jubal’s Kin, James O’Malley, and Starlings, TN
cover Springfield, Dylan, Gillian Welch, The Beach Boys, The Kinks and more!
January 9th, 2011 — 04:13 pm
We’re back on the bandwidth wagon after a full week of experimental streamposts, with thanks to all who have already donated to help us keep the music flowing, and a reminder that, until the end of January, 20% of all donations to Cover Lay Down will be paid forward to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, the better to keep our local community fed and healthy. If you, too, enjoy what we do here, we hope you’ll consider helping out.
Now how about a look at some great acoustic and folk coverage from new and still-rising artists worth your time? Here’s some of my newest discoveries, with thanks as always to the musicians, readers, and labels who submit songs and samples for us to share.
First and foremost, though not so new as all that anymore: young Floridian folkband Jubal’s Kin sent me a link to download their self-titled debut back in November, and I’m afraid I got so swept up in the holiday spirit, I never made it to their work – which is a shame, since it’s truly something special, so I’m glad to finally have a chance to tout ‘em.
The nut: Jubal’s Kin is a sibling trio playing every-note-counts appalachian stringband balladry with slight undertones of both bluegrass and indiefolk, sweet harmonies and stellar musicianship, vibrant arrangements with well-placed high and low elements, and an entire album of mostly covers that tackles both tradfolk and the more modern stuff that sounds like it, from Patty Griffin to The Decemberists. The overall effect is highly listenable, full of grace and gravity, innocence and eternity all at once, a sound to steep in that rings the same bell as Sam Amidon, Nickel Creek, Sarah Jarosz, and Joy Kills Sorrow – high praise indeed, from this particular fan. Get it on Bandcamp, but check this out first.
Jubal’s Kin: Everything Is Free (orig. Gillian Welch)
Jubal’s Kin: No Depression (orig. A.P. Carter)
(from Jubal’s Kin, 2010)
I found Kiersten Holine through a combination of serendipity, shrewd self-marketing, and code: because the text she wrote to accompany her video cover of These Days also recommends The Tallest Man On Earth’s take on the same song, her vid showed up atop the “suggested” sidebar alongside his live cover of Graceland, posted recently by Paste online.
I’m glad it did. Holine’s slightly raspy bedroom delivery and soft, tender guitarwork combine to create an environment that’s quite beautiful, revealing influences from modern acoustic sadcore and indiepop (Stars, Bon Iver) to old folkies (Dylan, especially). Turns out she’s made a few songs and videos with Jeff Pianki, who we’ve covered here before, too. And in addition to the vast set of coverage on her YouTube page, she’s got a ten-song set of downloadables at bandcamp: five free covers from the likes of Morning Benders, Stars, and Local Natives, and five solid originals in EP format well worth the $4.95. Here’s two, plus the aforementioned video, with hopes they’ll push you towards the next eight and more.
Kiersten Holine: Heart of Chambers (orig. Beach House)
Kiersten Holine: God Only Knows (orig. The Beach Boys)
(from Bandcamp releases, 2010)
If How Dark It Is Before The Dawn, the newest album from Steve Stubblefield project Starlings, TN, represents a total reinvention of the songwriter and arranger’s core sound, it’s because Stubblefield himself has changed since his last album of original works in 2005: after losing his master tapes, several instruments, and much of his home in the wake of Katrina, the one-time southern bluesrock artist spent three years helping others recover from the storm, moving from Biloxi back to his hometown of Hattiesburg, MS in the process – where he turned back to his early love of gospel music, rediscovered the folk songs of Alan Lomax, and learned to play the appalachian dulcimer.
The newest crop of songs are more intimate as a result, and deliciously rich with the sounds of his native south, though looking back through his catalog, I find they still retain the highly produced Velvet-Underground-meets-the-delta feel which lent so many layers to his earlier albums. But it’s the combination of that same tendency towards fuzzed-out production with a wholly new tone – a slow, syrupy, majestic emocore-meets-americana sound, driven by the drone of the bowed dulcimer – which stands out most strongly as new, exciting, and eminently folk. Indeed, his new version of Reason To Believe sounds wonderful and full, like Springsteen filtered through a psychedelic Robitussin dream. And while they clearly represent an experiment with his new-found tonality, the tracks on last year’s all-covers album Under The Influence are well-chosen, and hold up exceptionally well under the treatment.
Starlings, TN: Reason To Believe (orig. Bruce Springsteen)
(from How Dark It Is Before The Dawn, 2010)
Starlings, TN: Jesus’ Hands (orig. American Music Club)
(from Under The Influence, 2009)
I first stumbled upon gifted feel-good singer-songwriter James O’Malley while searching for Christmas covers back in mid-December; if the name sounds familiar, it’s because his take on Darryl Purpose’s You Must Go Home For Christmas featured prominently in our Holiday Coverfolk feature set of holiday songs with a homecoming theme. Since then, he’s contacted us with two more covers, a hushed, almost mystical bluesfolk turn on a familiar Dylan tune, and a wonderfully weary take on Celluloid Heroes, recorded in 2009 for Ray Davies tribute Kinks UnKovered, which lends a pensive tone to The Kinks’ classic, and I’m very glad he’s decided to pursue our attention: the two cuts show a diversity of style and substance which remind us never to take those single-shot discoveries as the end of the road, lest we miss the good stuff.
James O’Malley: Just Like A Woman (orig. Bob Dylan)
(from Tales To Tell, 2009)
James O’Malley: Celluloid Heroes (orig. The Kinks)
(from Kinks UnKovered, 2009)
Hurrah for readers, who see what we’re doing here and help fill in the gaps. Like John, who sent along a video of Wisconsinite Hayward Williams, and his amazing rendition of Thunder Road. Williams looks fifteen and sounds timeless, like Marc Cohn with a guitar; turns out he’s popular with the Redbird crowd, making me wish I could catch him on the road with Jeffrey Foucault, who provides the quote on his homepage. And though he seems to be at his best live – which makes his newest release Cotton Bell a strong temptation, given that it is built around a set of live studio takes with talented peers – his studio work is dark and exquisitely produced, with crisp and muddy elements swirling around perfectly, so color me impressed, and wondering why the hell I missed him the first time around.
To be fair, the solo video rendition of this signature Springsteen song is even better in many ways – dustier, more raw, and more weary – and there’s a few other covers up from that same session, including a strong rendition of Tom Waits’ Long Way Home with Peter Mulvey and Brianna Lane on harmonies. But the album version is sparse and strong, too, with a broken rhythm and soulfulness that gains strength even as it loses its way in the song before dissolving into bells and mournful keys, making it more than solid enough to share and celebrate. And you get Mulvey on vocals, as a bonus. Here’s both, for comparison’s sake, along with a slow, raw solo take on Frank Sinatra signature tune One For My Baby (And One For The Road) from a gorgeous 2008 Basement Tapes session.
Hayward Williams: Thunder Road (orig. Bruce Springsteen)
(from Another Sailor’s Dream, 2007)
Hayward Williams: One For My Baby (orig. Fred Astaire; pop. Sinatra)
(from Basement Tapes session #10, 2007)
Finally, following the threads from Hayward’s store, I find Martha Berner‘s cover of Sunday Morning, which offers a light, oddly upbeat poppy folkrock take on the old Velvet Underground with Nico standard that really brings new optimism to the song without overdoing it. Berner’s apparently much more well known – her MySpace page lists plays in the tens of thousands for most tracks – and the song dates back to long before the millennium, but presenting the two together offers a nice balance, here. We’ll call it a bonus track.
Martha Berner: Sunday Morning (orig. Velvet Underground)
(from The Ten Tiny Little Pieces EP, 2006)
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(Re)Searching The Cloud:
On Streaming, Bandwidth, Music Apps, and Other Blogger Nuts and Bolts
Confession time, folks: though Sunday’s return to the world of video coverage made for a solid feature, I had an ulterior motive to eschew the usual mp3s. Yes, thanks to a curious combination of both ongoing bandwidth theft and the high demand for cover songs during the holiday season, I’ve been out of bandwidth since Thursday. And my clock doesn’t turn over until the 8th, which means right now, I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to serve the usual demand for coverfolk in ways which best support your needs as fans without costing me a bundle in overage fees.
And though it’s a subject I’ve avoided for a long time, I can’t help but think that maybe – as an experiment of sorts – the best way to balance the books this time around is to tackle the stream head on.
My preferred approach here on Cover Lay Down has always been to provide content in whatever format has the highest potential for you to truly fall in love with the music and artists we feature. And until recently, that has meant a reluctance to utilize streaming technologies, even as most other blogs have long since added those tiny triangular buttons that let you sample before you download. As our Play! page, where you can choose to download a browser-based tool that will let you play our tunes directly from this or any page, notes:
…this preference [for the download-only format] stems from my support for artists first and foremost; these artists work hard to craft songs as entire experiences, and skipping around does their art a grave disservice. As such, rather than encourage folks to make the call based on the first few seconds of a given track, I encourage you to download the music you find here on Cover Lay Down, and let it seep into your consciousness through your preferred listening method.
I recognize that this is an unusual stance. But I know more than most people what I’m talking about when I say that how we listen matters. In my day job, I’m a media and communications teacher, specializing in new literacies, and in the social and personal habits that surround the various modes of communication which different eras of technology have engendered.
My classes spend a full week each semester looking at the rise of the mp3 player and the remix culture, and exploring the broad changes which this has made to everything from how we create music to how we define ourselves through our listening habits. And invariably, year after year, we find that ownership is stronger when we have the most power over where, when, and how we listen.
As a professional, though I still believe that, residually speaking, we are still more likely to think of an mp3 as more “ours” than a mere Soundcloud stream or internet radio station, it’s undeniably true that the margin of experience between streaming and mp3 “ownership” grows smaller every year. Three years ago, when we started this blog, it took downloads to truly make music ours to play with at any moment, but today, streaming on the go is on the rise – and the growing incidence of web-enabled everything-boxes such as the iPhone mean that more and more, we can and do integrate streaming technologies into our daily walkabout experience.
Which is to say: just as the way we use video is changing the audiophilic spectrum, so is the increased ubiquity of the cloud, and our increased access to wireless technology in our hands and ears and pockets, making it possible for us to play music we do not fully own on demand, in the car and in the earbuds. And if we can do that, whether we own the bits and bytes that represent that music or not is increasingly moot when determining how it matters.
To be fair, not posting mp3s did mean a slight drop in readership over the past week – music blog aggregator Hype Machine, which brings us much of our drop-in traffic, doesn’t pick up songs in video format. And it is true that adding play functionality to the blog would raise the demand for bandwidth – studies show that people are much more likely to try everything if they can skim than if they have to download.
But the world of apps seems to be finally catching up with us here. Though I continue to be frustrated about my inability to access Hype Machine on my new iPad, as Duke over at The Late Greats noted earlier this week, the recent appearance of the iTunes app MusicMaven has made it possible for you to take the music posted by your favorite blogs on the go with your portable device – a far better option for those who prefer to surf on the go, too, than having to plan ahead by downloading songs before they leave the house. And MusicMaven lends some pretty nifty functionality to the process of blogsurfing, too: for example, it’s very cool to be able to make playlists directly from your favorite blogs, and play them as you use other apps, without having to use iTunes as a passthrough.
Cover Lay Down is honored to have made the select list which MusicMaven gathers in, though I think you’ll also like the overall set – these guys have great taste in blogs. And as a thank you for all of us, the folks behind the app have given me codes for up to five of you to download the app free of charge – so if you have an iPhone or iTouch, and you’d like to give it a shot, let me know, and I’ll give the first five responders a chance to test it out.
Of course, we’re still left with our little problem of bandwidth limitations – an issue which will only be exacerbated by serving the iPhone community. But I’ve always said that every problem is an opportunity, if approached properly. And today, the challenge provides us an opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade twice over.
First and foremost, the daily emails from our wonderful, solar-powered hosting company iMountain remind me that Cover Lay Down depends on the kindness of strangers to cover its costs. And although I dropped the ball a bit on our last pledge drive – yes, folks, I have your names on the right list, and will be sending out this year’s bootleg series as soon as I get the bandwidth back – we’re a bit overdue for our bi-annual reminder that it takes your donations to keep this place going.
So here’s the deal, folks: it’s winter, and there are plenty of families in my area and yours still struggling in the sluggish economy. So from now until the end of the month, I’m opening up the coffers to pay it forward: donate any amount to help keep our faucets running, and I’ll give 20% of all donations to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, a stalwart group of local heroes who are just now watching the cupboards grow bare after the usual holiday rush.
As always, all donors to the cause will also receive a secret link to a homemade live bootleg mix of covers, with songs taken from this past year’s Grey Fox and Falcon Ridge Folk Festivals, and from the numerous house concerts which we have hosted here in rural America. All tracks on these bootlegs were recorded by yours truly, and are available nowhere else. Featured artists on the 2010 bootleg include Sarah Jarosz, Tim O’Brien, Tracy Grammer, Dala, Chuck E Costa, Eliza Gilkyson and Jimmy LaFave, Red Molly, We’re About Nine, and more.
But for whatever the reason – be it in support of the artists, the writing, the food bank – please, give if you can. And thanks in advance for your support, of us, and of the music.
Second, and back to where we started today, our little bandwidth outage has caused me to consider experimenting with other methods of service. There’s several, but my favorite so far is Soundcloud, which hosts music on its own servers; we’ve used it here and there a bit, and though it, too, comes off as a blank space on the ol’ iPad and on Google’s Feedreader, it does show on Hype Machine, and I’ve yet to hear any complaints.
Today, then, we present part two of our little experiment in delivery methods: a set of songs which have been sent to me via Soundcloud within the last few months, most of which, oddly and unintentionally, speak to the larger theme of need and change which runs like a wire through today’s feature. As part of our little test, since the ability to stream and listen “live” online makes it much easier to sample, I’ve decided to let the songs speak for themselves, rather than go on about them textually, though I hope you’ll remember that we only post that which we think you should pursue here on Cover Lay Down, and act accordingly.
Links below the tracks go to artist and label pages for purchase, as always, and we hope you’ll enjoy both the songs and the foray into new posting territory, as much as I have. And although Sunday will bring us back to the usual mp3-based setlist format, I hope you’ll also let me know in the comments how the switch from privately-hosted mp3s to streaming technologies over the last two features has served your listening needs.
Clare Maguire: Hope There’s Someone (orig. Antony & The Johnsons)
Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Rebellion (orig. Arcade Fire)
Clare Burson: We Used To Wait (orig. Arcade Fire)
Terry Edwards: Lulu’s Back in Town (orig. Thelonious Monk)
Nicole Atkins: Vitamin C (orig. Can)
The Good Natured: For The Widows in Paradise (orig. Sufjan Stevens)
That’s a Freight Train: I Can Change (orig. LCD Soundsystem)
Ruth Bewsey: Sal Paradise (orig. Futures)
Love Darling: Closer (orig. Kings of Leon)
Liam Bailey: I’d Rather Go Blind (orig. Etta James)
Liam Bailey: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (orig. The Smiths)
Pickingsplinters: Cocaine (trad.)
John Velghe: I Wanna Be Your Dog (orig. The Stooges)
Cover Lay Down posts new coverfolk features and song sets twice weekly in a neverending quest to connect artists and fans for the betterment of culture. Wanna help?
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CLD Presents: A Reluctant Video Companion, Part II
(Kina Grannis, Boyce Avenue, Jesca Hoop, The Deep Dark Woods and more!)
January 2nd, 2011 — 08:32 pm
A few years back, I took a stand on YouTube-as-songsource, providing you, the reader, with a purely subjective, typically high-horse audiophile’s argument that music was meant to be heard, not seen:
Some of this is merely about visual distraction. I like concerts – being there is its own form of communion, and seeing an artist’s fingering and facial expression can lend a permanent layer of nuance to songs previously heard. But when unavoidable fascination with the technical nuances of sound production, and the way the light bounces off a varnished guitar to become a splotch of tabletop light, come into play, it takes up a part of me I was using to listen.
Mostly, though, the issue here is distance. Headphone sound is always enveloping; live music is, too, in its own way. But when it comes to screen-based sound, the tiny rectangle of light and motion reduces that all-encompassing feeling of communion to something tinny and contained. Scale and proximity matter: to squint at music is to be apart from it. It’s like smelling flowers while looking at them through the wrong end of the telescope.
Since then, of course, even as MTV has finished the long process of banishing video programming to the wee hours of the morning, a complex of change has shifted our experience with culture: bandwidth has caught up to us, webculture has gotten more visual, and artists continue to look to YouTube and other video companions as both an entryplace into the market and a vital component of word-spreading and fan-base building. As a consequence, YouTube has become more and more viable for me as a listener: not the most important place to find new recordings, by far, and still limited as a frame for experience, but still a valuable primary source for native content produced as audiovisual first and foremost.
And since I have only 17 subscribers to my YouTube channel, and since my hosting company is starting to send me notices about bandwidth overuse on a monthly basis, the time seems ripe for a return to our look at the role of videography in the spreading of the folkways.
As a subjective listener, I still prefer the headphone and darkness approach to music – the better to let the sound envelop me, in its purest form. And just as I eschew the audiobook as something along the spectrum towards the movie adaptation – which is to say, a medium whose tonal addenda makes it an unwelcome thief of at least some of the imaginative potency of the text – as an ideal, I still maintain that recorded music is meant for the ears first and foremost.
But my respect for artists leveraging new media, and my desire to respect their chosen vehicles for that leverage, continues to weigh heavily on my mind, even as I rip the occasional mp3 for us to share, flattening its intended effect in order to isolate the sound of music. And increasingly, I find that the artists I discover come from YouTube performance – via other blogs, artist homepages, emailed links, and those same vibrant video-centric sources which prompted our original look at the world of YouTube artistry and promotion.
We’ve featured many of these artists this past year, in fact. Tom Meny, Matt Ryd, HelenaMaria, Kina Grannis: each uses the videoweb as a primary space for first release, with site-based downloads most often taken directly from performances that came to us via video first. And the strategy works: Pomplamoose, who we’ve mentioned several times on these pages, even managed to leverage their fun cut-up approach to video performance into a series of car commercials over the holidays.
And the strategy is not limited to newcomers. Jill Andrews, pregnant and newly solo after the breakup of the everybodyfields, worked hard to sustain her fanbase via a monthly video series this year. Beck, too, has joined the fray in the last two years, gathering in cadres of friends and fellow performers for one-shot full-album coverage sessions called Record Club, with tasty and often oddly reconstructed takes on everyone from the Velvet Underground to Leonard Cohen to Yanni released song-by-song in full technicolor.
A number of newer sources and sponsors have produced or continue to produce video series worth mention, too. Cases in point include The Black Cab Sessions and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, both of which, in presenting artists in small spaces, prompted both acoustic and stripped-down electric performances whose intimacy translates fairly well to the small screen.
More relevant to our ongoing focus on coverage, The Voice Project, an ongoing series of chain-connected coverage videos which bring us slowly into artist homes and recording spaces in stark black and white, showcase the artist at play, paying tribute to his influences. Both the AV Club’s Undercover and Levi’s Pioneer Sessions presented video cover series this past year, producing several strong entries for our folk archive. Even ASCAP got into the act over the holidays, presenting a page of christmas card covers in tiny video boxes from a strong set of artists – including Dawn Landes, Robbie Fulks, Jill Sobule, and more – in intimate settings. And like the projects we mentioned in our first look at the world of music videos, all of the above are worth the visit, though each also yaws wide enough to caveat the emptor.
So here’s some folks using YouTube and Vimeo well: both as a medium for layered presentation of song as something sensually encompassing, and as a platform for performance, its recaptured relevance distinct from the studio recording I prefer to imagine in my minds eye.
Kina Grannis, who like many of today’s artists we first featured during New Artists, Old Songs Week way back in February, continues to treat YouTube as a primary medium, even after her first album Stairways emerged this year, charting Billboard sans label, sans management, and sans physical product. Here, she pairs with acoustic pop duo Boyce Avenue – equally adept YouTube natives, with some strong covers on their own YouTube page both solo and with fellow YouTuber Savannah Outen – for a gentle U2 cover and a delicious take on Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, released just yesterday.
Kina Grannis & Boyce Avenue: Fast Car (orig. Tracy Chapman)
Kina Grannis & Boyce Avenue: With Or Without You (orig. U2)
Where other coverage-oriented YouTube artists such as Matt Ryd, Danielle Ate The Sandwich, and Jay Brannan have managed to retain their authenticity throughout their online evolution, earning my immense respect and fandom, I have mixed feelings about the most recent work from Alex Cornell, who started covering songs in typical amateur style on YouTube several years ago, but has turned to a slightly overpolished production in his last few videos. Still, the man deserves due recognition for the evolution of style, in keeping with our focus on native YouTube professionalism today. Here’s two covers from Alex – an oldie and a more recent take, for comparison’s sake – plus relatively new coverage from Brannan, Danielle, and Ryd, for comparison’s sake.
Alex Cornell: I’m On Fire (orig. Bruce Springsteen)
Alex Cornell: No One (orig. Alicia Keys)
Danielle Ate The Sandwich: Bad Romance (orig. Lady Gaga)
Jay Brannan: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (orig. Vicki Lawrence)
Matt Ryd: California Gurls (orig. Katy Perry)
As mentioned above, The Voice Project has become one of my favorite places to linger, most especially for the way their home-and-studio-based visits come into the environment slowly, braiding arrival, small-talk, rehearsal, and contextual intro to the song as part and parcel of the whole experience. Here’s two surprises: Andrew Bird covering Cass McCombs on his porch with some help from a friend, and Jesca Hoop taking on Bon Iver in the alleyway behind her studio.
Andrew Bird » Cass McCombs from The Voice Project on Vimeo.
Jesca Hoop » Bon Iver from The Voice Project on Vimeo.
Did we cover the HearYa Live Sessions last time we did this sort of feature? Can’t remember, but their recent all-covers set with Americana faves The Deep Dark Woods, which hasn’t even been fully released yet, includes this solid cover of the tradfolk-via-The Grateful Dead tune Peggy-O, reminding me to remind you to return to both site and artists often.
The Deep Dark Woods: Peggy O – Live Session 9/21/10 from HearYa.com.
Looking for more video coverage? In addition the abovementioned sources and sites, it’s worth remembering that we took on many more video pieces this year than last, most especially as a way to showcase new artists who had little else to offer us by way of coverage. Here’s a few favorites that still linger from 2010: Dan Mills‘ delightful living room playlet, Frank Fairfield‘s back porch banjo-fied countryfolk live on KEXP, and Chuck E Costa playing at our very own house concert series.
Dan Mills: You Can Call Me Al (orig. Paul Simon)
Frank Fairfield: Cumberland Gap (trad.)
Chuck E Costa: No Love Today (orig. Chris Smither)
Cover Lay Down posts new coverfolk features and songsets each Wednesday, Sunday, and the occasional otherday. Y’all come back now, y’hear?
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Man arrested after attempted B&E at Abo Apartments
Artesia man arrested after threatening APD officers with objects
Artesia man arrested on multiple battery charges
Artesia man arrested after brief foot chase
Published: 2:50 pm, Wed. Aug. 30th, 2017Updated: 2:50 pm
An Artesia man was arrested Monday on multiple charges after attempting to flee police on foot.
At approximately 2:52 p.m. Monday, Artesia Police Department officers were notified of an argument occurring in front of the Public Safety Complex between a male and female subject in a black Jeep.
The Jeep had made its way toward town but was located and stopped at the intersection of 26th and Main streets. After the vehicle pulled over, a male subject exited the passenger side and fled east on foot.
Officers gave chase in their patrol vehicles, spotting the subject again running north toward the VA Clinic. He ignored their commands to stop, and as he crossed the sidewalk into the clinic parking lot, one officer activated his Taser, bringing the subject to the ground.
The subject, identified as Jessie Marcus Carmona, 29, of Artesia, told police he “didn’t know” why he was running. Upon emptying his pockets, officers discovered a small, silver metal pipe with a white residue in its ends, as well as a live 9mm round.
As officers were searching Carmona, an anonymous call was received informing police the subject had thrown an object while being pursued. Officers were able to locate a 9mm Ruger handgun.
Carmona, who had three prior felony convictions, was subsequently arrested and charged with resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, being a felon in possession of a firearm, tampering with evidence, and possession of narcotic paraphernalia.
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Issue 241, Volume 23
I'm writing this from my i-Pad, sitting outside waiting for the charcoal to burn down in the grill. That's right, we are finally using the new patio for the first time! I'm quite excited about that! Spring has finally arrived in Georgia. The pollen count is already off the charts, but that is just life in the country for you. Never a dull moment.
There! The coals are ready, at last. I'll just put the burgers on and come back... Oh! These are some good-looking burgers. Bratwurst, too. Looks like I have a few minutes before I need to turn anything. Good...
Yesterday I was in the monthly chat for the Larry Niven e-mail list. Just before everything got started in the chat, someone congratulated me on completing the manuscript for the Mare Inebrium short story collection that I've been working so hard to finish. While I was explaining it to a few of the list members who didn't know about it, Larry himself came in and congratulated me! I was quite boosted by the experience, as you can imagine.
As the chat itself got underway, the group cast about for a topic that we hadn't already talked to death. D.J. Rout, Aphelion's newest Mare Inebrium author and fellow Niven List member, suggested a story idea that Larry got excited about. If you see the news of a new Draco Tavern story coming out, it might just be that very one. So keep a sharp eye out for that announcement next year. Don't ever let anyone tell you that Aphelion writers can't change the world! We can, and do, every day.
Indirectly, that very exchange gave me this topic for my editorial. Namely, chat rooms and why I am sad that they aren't as common as once they were. You see, back in the early 2000s, perhaps 2002 or so, someone thought it would be fun to crash every IRC chat server that they could gain access to, using what was known at the time as a "Bot Net." That is, some huge number of virus-infected computers that the villain had gained control over. This- person, shall we say, instructed their army of zombie computers to tie up every access point that the chat room users needed to join chat networks and talk with their online friends. The network servers became overloaded, everyone attempting to use the service was cut off from the net, and the unprincipled bugger behind the attack surely giggled themselves into a coma over the havoc that they had wrought. The owners of the chat servers attempted to wrest control of their computers back from the bot net, but by the time the good guys had regained control, almost all of their regular customers had given up in disgust at being unable to use what they had been so frequently used to availing themselves thereof. In short, people gave up on chat because they were having so much trouble connecting to a service that had been freely available before. These hackers killed chat, for a great huge number of ordinary people. Oh, some people attempted to move to networks that were better protected from attacks. Others tried to rebuild the channels of communication that the hackers had compromised. To no avail. Most chat users had gone on to other things like Private Messaging, and Flash-based chat applets, and smaller, privately-owned chat server networks. The damage had been done. Chat, as we frequent users knew it at the time, had joined the Dodo and the Passenger Pigeon in extinction. Which was a very dark day, indeed. Aphelion was itself affected, since there were several of us who frequented the networks that had suffered.
But we eventually found a way to continue communicating with one another in groups. We adapted, we survived, and eventually we regrew our lost circles of friends. Some friends we never did find again, but we did try. And all our suffering was caused by some bozo, or group of like-minded bozos who thought that it would give them some sort of "coolness factor" to mess with the rest of the online community. Sad, really. I sometimes wonder how nasty their lives must have been for disrupting world-wide communications to have looked like a fun thing to do.
Time and technology do keep marching on. Every new cyber-threat is eventually met with a deterrent. But how many stories never got written because the putative writers never got to brainstorm their ideas with their online friends? What new adventures of new heroes never came to be because of some hackers deciding to crash the chat networks? The world will never know, and that makes me sad. I wanted to read those stories! Now, I won't get the chance.
BOILERPLATE:
First off, if you do the Facebook thing, feel free to join us on the Aphelion page there. The link is Aphelion Webzine. As an aside, the Editorial Mafia and I have found Facebook to be useful while we transition between e-mailing lists. Given our different locations and schedules, it's come in handy as a way to discuss production details of new issues. Sometimes there are several of us using Facebook at the same time, so it's almost like the old chat room days.
Dan's Music Page This is my promo page here at Aphelion. All the links below, and more information about the albums, are located here.
The Never Bank On A Learning Curve CD on the Create Space website. My first album, with a wide range of styles and genres, covering the past three years of my working with the MAGIX Music Maker programs.
The Second Helping CD on the Create Space website. My second album, with just as wide a range of different musical styles, showing just how much I've learned in the past three years.
Dan's Studio-D Page on the Bandcamp website. Digital downloads of the albums, or each individual song if you prefer it that way. Just click on the album cover thumbnails and you'll see a list of each song on the album. Next to the song titles are links to read the liner notes, or to download the individual song. You can listen to each song for free. There is also a link to download each entire album at one go. I cannot say enough about Bandcamp! This is an amazing website. I have Rob, and many other friends, to thank for finally talking me into checking it out.
Here are some links to pages I have up promoting my music. When my book comes out I'll add those links to the promotion page, too. So far, there are links on that page to the Create Space Preview songs, the Create Space page for each album, the Amazon.com listings, and the link to the digital downloads page.
And here's a link to my Sound Cloud page:
Dan's Sound Cloud Page where all my music has been stored for your free listening pleasure. These are not as high a quality recordings as the ones on the CDs or on Bandcamp. But SoundCloud does have the virtue of having everything collected together in one place.
Check those links out, buy a CD or download if you like what you hear. And once again, thank you for your time,
Dan all my music has been stored for your free listening pleasure. These are not as high a quality recordings as the ones on the CDs or on Bandcamp. But SoundCloud does have the virtue of having everything collected together in one place.
Title: Heavyweight Stars Light Up Nebula NGC 6357
Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain) STScI
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Design Detail: Modern Bridges
Diana Budds
From a striking catwalk to a glass-walled skybridge, we cover walkways and platforms the span great divides.
On a gently sloping lot in the middle of a pine forest at the northern edge of Cuernavaca, Mexico, is a family compound with an addition conceptualized by local architect Alfredo Raymundo Cano Briceño of T3arc. Linked to the 1,300-square-foot main house by a glass-covered footbridge, the addition, which measures just under 500 square feet, includes three bedrooms and one bathroom.
Nestled into the hillside and largely concealed from view, the Richard Meier–designed Douglas House is accessed via a footbridge that leads to the house’s uppermost level. Upon entering, the visitor descends to the lower floors via a winding staircase. Photo by: Dean Kaufman
Dean Kaufman
© Dean Kaufman 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Originally appeared in The Lake House That's a Living Piece of Architecture History
The buildings in an Austin house are connected by a glass-walled hallway that bridges a reflecting pool and water garden and there is an abundance of over-sized sliding windows, doors, and glass panels to blur the line between the built environment and the natural one. Photo by: Denise Prince Martin
Denise Prince Martin
Originally appeared in Red, Wood, and Blue
An heir of the Dow Chemical fortune and a pupil at Taliesin, Alden B. Dow (1904–1983) lived most of his 79 years in Midland, Michigan. Over the course of a career that spanned five decades, he completed over 100 buildings there, including his own house and studio. He designed this ziggurat-like bridge in the surrounding gardens.
Originally appeared in Hometown Hero
Rising to a catwalk above, a huge glass-and-steel central stair envisioned by the architect spans four floors of a renovated farmhouse in the Italian countryside. Photo by Helenio Barbetta.
Helenio Barbetta
Originally appeared in A Renovated Farmhouse in Northern Italy
A skybridge connects two halves of a house designed by late architect David Boone. The house hunches into the hill, perched on metal I-beams and concrete piers, nestled into a hillside with views of Mount Diablo. It’s about 2,800 square feet and consists of two identical slant-roofed boxes: an office, kitchen, and living room (in Boone’s day a bit of corporate entertaining certainly counted as billable hours) in one; bedrooms in the other with a studio below. Photo by Noah Webb
Noah Webb
Originally appeared in You Don't Have to Just Be at Your Desk When Working from Home
To discover more bridges, read our "Bridges We Love" story.
Originally appeared in Bridges We Love
Wald Hi-Lo Plug-In Lamp
Semi Pendant Light
Orbit Two Brass Pendant Light
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Busted Bulgarians Bank Bandits in Bali
Five Bulgarian ATM Skimmers Busted in Night Time Raid by Police in South Bali
Five Bulgarian citizens involved in transnational crime have been arrested in a police raid in Pecatu, South Kuta on Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 4:30 am. The five are part of a skimming ring stealing bank data from bank customers in Bali causing losses to Bank Mandiri in the hundreds of millions of Rupiah.
Beritabali.com lists the name of the five criminal suspects Ivalyo Filipov Trifonov (44), George Jordanov (47), Todor Krasimirov Dobrev (42), Andrey Iliev Peytchev (42) and Varadin Nikolaev Popov (29). A sixth suspect fled during the raid and is still being sought by police.
A spokesperson from the criminal division of the Bali Provincial Police Command, Commissioner Andi Fairan, said the raid and resulting arrests were made challenging due to the fact that police were operating with information from only one bank when, in fact, there were a number of ATMs from different banks involved. Fairnan commented: “Based on CCTV recordings in our possession, there was a perpetrator who took money using a wig and hat.”
Placing the ATM under surveillance for five days police were able to identify vehicles used by the criminals in robbing ATMs located in areas where no security guards are on duty. The information and continuing surveillance led to a raid on a roadside location near an ATM machine on Jalan Tirta Gangga, Pecatu in South Kuta on Sunday, February 3, 2019.
In a scene resembling an action movie, the five men tried to evade arrest by using their vehicle to run over a police officer involved in the raid. The Bulgarians then rammed a wall in a failed effort to make an escape as police fired warning shots and shot out the windows of the gang of thieves before the five men finally surrendered. Meanwhile, another man managed to flee the scene and remains the target of a police manhunt.
Inside the vehicle used by the men police discovered knives and other sharp weapons.
Later, police raided a residence used by one of the men - Vila Garden Uma D'Kampoeng located on Jalan Tirta Gangga. Pecatu Kuta. At that location police found a white ATM Card used to record the ATM numbers of bank customers, Rp. 788 million in cash, three laptops, 4 hand phones used to record the pin numbers of bank customers, wigs, hats, 2 blue “pin covers” used to skim ATM machines, a Internet routers, a hardisk and a backpack.
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The Journal on Baltic Security is a peer-reviewed, twice yearly publication of the Baltic Defence College, focusing on the security and defence issues important for the Wider Baltic region; exploring the current and future challenges faced by its changing strategic environment; proposing solutions for the pressing problems of the day. Previous editions of the journal can be found below:
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Articles should be written in UK English and proofread before submission.
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Baltic Defence Review No 12
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Courting Armageddon
(originally posted April 28, 2010)
The mid-60’s were pretty heady times to grow up in LA, especially for a teenager on the prowl with a fake ID and somebody’s parents borrowed car. You could catch Buffalo Springfield at the Roxy, the Byrds at the Whiskey, with drinks caged at Ciro’s between sets. The world was already starting to go to hell in a handbag, but if you drove down Sunset to the beach to watch dawn break over Santa Monica Bay, youth and the hubris that goes with it softened any nagging doubts a night of great rock 'n roll hadn’t already swept away. And then there was Norm's. Doris’ section at Norm's coffee shop on La Cienega Blvd to be precise, where, for the incredible sum of 99 cents, you could feast on steak, two eggs any style, toast, jam, and unlimited mugs of coffee. 99 cents. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week.
Norm's wasn’t just stoner heaven ~ it was trucker heaven, housewife with screaming children heaven, bus driver and cop on their way to work heaven. No one asked where the beef came from, much less how it had been raised or slaughtered. The endless cups of coffee came out of a metal jug that sat on a warmer, not French pressed from fair trade organic beans. The jams were luridly colored, and, except for a stray seed, you couldn’t tell wheat toast from rye. But hot damn did it all taste good. There was no greater way to spend an early Sunday morning the year I was 16 than to sit in a warm vinyl booth with my best friends, stuffing our faces and laughing hysterically about our antics of the night before. Warm, hospitable, it was actually a meal that hit all the flavor profiles we aspire to serve at the restaurant today ~ salty, sweet, and bitter, all wrapped up in a big umami bow.
Excavating and analyzing significant food memories is quite the pastime around here, as I would guess it is throughout foodie enclaves across the country. And I bet I’m not the only one whose noteworthy food recollections were born in a cheap diner, not some Platonic ideal universe filled with grass fed beef and biodynamic vegetables grown from heirloom seeds.
My personal journey from Norm's to owning a farm to table restaurant in the heart of one of the most extraordinary food sheds in the world started with a baby. He was bald, enchanting, and utterly gorgeous, the most life-affirming creature I’d ever seen. From the day he arrived I went from not paying much attention to what I ate to considering every spoonful ~ simply because the food I put into my body was going to end up in his body too. By his second birthday I was president of one of the largest food co-ops in the country, fighting to establish national organic laws. Four years after he was born, with his little brother in tow, we stuck our first spade in the ground 600 miles away in a rural community where I was a virtual stranger. To quote John Lennon, it was a life that happened while I busy making other plans.
The food I subsisted on before my “conversion” was no doubt the cheap product of large food concerns, but it was still real food. For that Norm’s 99er, the steer and the cow that provided the steak, the milk, and the butter had not been unnecessarily treated with antibiotics. The wheat in the bread and the corn syrup in the jam did not come from genetically modified seeds. The chickens who laid the eggs didn’t have to play a trap door guessing game ~ where if they didn’t figure out which flat panel in the enormous coop was actually a door to the outside within the first weeks of their life meant they were doomed to be stuck inside it until they died.
It’s increasingly hard to know where to begin a discussion of what’s gone wrong with food production since then.
*Do you start with busting the myth of the green revolution that told us that only through genetically modified foods we could help feed a starving world? *Do you question the logic behind dousing the animals we eat with massive amounts of antibiotics, thus rendering those drugs less effective to fight new mutant strains overuse of them has created? *Do you challenge the morality of not giving the animals that feed us healthy lives and a good death? *Do you throw common sense at an agribusiness numbers game that bases profitability on the amount produced per crop, not the nutrition produced per plant?
A few years ago I was fortunate to meet Vandana Shiva when she spoke at Sonoma Country Day School, part of a wonderful series the intrepid Cindy Daniels created to bring passionate educators to our community. Vandana came to dinner at Barndiva after the talk and great skeptic though I am, (another throwback of growing up in Hollywoodland) I had the sense that I was in the presence of a great woman: that I’d better listen up and listen good. If you haven’t ever heard Vandana speak, through the wonders of the internet you can do so. I urge you to do so.
Vandana fights causes in many arenas but none are closer to her heart than the global threat to the seed. Her case, simply put, is this: A seed is not an invention that should be patented. A seed renews, multiplies, spreads, and is shared. It is the essence of life, and belongs to civilization, to history, not to agribusiness, as their property to be sold, and thus controlled.
Yet that is just what is happening today. Using something called The Trade Relationship Intellectual Property Protection Agreement (TRIPP), Pioneer Hi-Bred, Monsanto, Novartis and a handful of other powerful agribusiness corporations have, in the last two decades, laid claim in the form of “patents” to thousands upon thousands ~ some say nearing 80% ~ of open seed varieties in the world today. These are seeds that throughout history farmers have traditionally saved and replanted to feed humanity. Yeah, that’s a Trip all right.
But here’s the best (read: worst) part. The battles being waged in the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the veracity of any “agreement” made between governments and corporations which can affect the human race’s ability to feed itself, even if they are won, will come too late to stop what is going on. By controlling and diminishing the use of wild seeds in third world countries, companies like Monsanto have already ensured the predominance of their own Genetically Modified products. It's hard to fathom the morality of a mindset that seeks to make money out of killing the essential nature of the seed to reproduce, but this is their endgame, make no mistake.
As Vandana succinctly explains ~ when one (wild seed) gives rise to many, there is no money to be made. But when one (GM seed) gives rise to nothing, there is a great deal of money to be made ~ when you control the rights to that seed. He who controls seeds, controls what is grown. A farmer that cannot use gathered seeds to regenerate crops is forced to buy whatever seeds are on the market. And whatever chemicals ~ which in the case of bioengineered seeds is a lot ~ needed to sustain them.
The writing is on the wall. In the Punjab region of India, a third world test case for the so called green revolution, when GT cotton ~ sold to farmers with the promise it would increase productivity tenfold ~ was planted, in one decade it all but destroyed the fecundity of a valley that had been naturally farmed for 5,000 years. 8 million farmers lost their livelihoods in that government assisted debacle, partly as the result of chemical dependence they could not afford. Where traditional bio diverse farming techniques once provided alternatives, when their monoculture crops failed, they left only depleted soils behind. If Vandana is to be believed, and believe her I do, 200,000 Indians farmers in this region committed suicide as a direct result of the GT cotton experiment. Many died by drinking Monsanto Round-Up as a final wake up call to the world.
Yet the world slumbers on.
If you want to wake up, there are still things you can do.
For a start, click on the links below. The link Food Democracy Now will let you voice your concern on a very important, time sensitive issue about GMO labeling. Stand Up for Your Right to Know! Food Democracy Now
Navdanya
Oregon Tilth
Tierra Vegetables
All text and photos, Jil Hales (unless otherwise noted)
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HomeInternationalSouth Africa Cozies up to Nuclear Power, Dismaying Critics
South Africa Cozies up to Nuclear Power, Dismaying Critics
August 13, 2013 The Wilmington Journal International 0
South African President Jacob Zuma and Russian President Vladimir Putin Seen in Photo
Jul 30 (GIN) – President Jacob Zuma and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in three reciprocal working visits this year with nuclear cooperation high on the agenda at the meetings.
Russia is reportedly seeking to provide South Africa with uranium enrichment, supply, reactor technology and localization of nuclear skills. French and Chinese investors will have supporting roles.
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Energy praised nuclear power stations for holding “tremendous benefits” for South Africa.
“Most importantly, it will leapfrog South Africa into the knowledge economy, as well as massive industrial development,” said Energy Minister Dipuo Peters.
But Democratic Alliance MP Jacques Smalle said South Africa did not need new nuclear power plants to complement its energy mix.
“In fact, the program could cost the taxpayer up to one trillion rand,” he told the House. A project of such magnitude was “completely unaffordable”.
“We are certain that the corruption [involved with] such a nuclear build would dwarf the arms deal,” Smalle said. “Instead of building new nuclear power plants, South Africa should increase its natural gas footprint.”
Zuma’s embrace of nuclear power, including taking over the chair of the National Nuclear Energy Coordinating committee, dismayed South Africa’s Greenpeace environmentalists.
“The confirmation of the take-over and the underhanded manner in which Deputy President Kgalema Mothlanthe was replaced both highlight the continued lack of transparency and ongoing secrecy by government when it comes to the country’s nuclear energy plans,” said Greenpeace activist Ferrial Adam.
He warned: “Even putting aside the issues of safety, security, and waste management, South Africa cannot afford new nuclear power plants and the stubbornness of the government on its delusions of grandeur would drive the country to bankruptcy.”
President Jacob Zuma and Russian President Vladimir Putin
South Africa and nuclear power
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Dec 7, 2015:
Los Gatos, CA. December 7, 2015. The Bella Vista League will be hosting a check ceremony on Monday, December 14th at the Wookey residence in Los Gatos. The funds raised from the 10th annual Wonderful Witchy Women with a Cause Luncheon will be gifted to three charities: Heritage Home San Jose, Rebekah Children’s Services and Silicon Valley Children’s Fund. All three of the charities are based in Silicon Valley, and support women and children in crisis. They are able to keep their doors open only through the generosity of donors. The ladies of the Bella Vista League are passionate about supporting these organizations, evident as the event only grows in popularity and raises more money every year. “It is a privilege and a joy to hand over the funds to these organizations” says Lisa Matar, committee member of the Bella Vista League. “Our contribution to these organizations helps people to help themselves and this makes the real impact we are striving for”.
If members of the media would like to attend, please contact Lisa Matar: (619) 742-0315 or via email: misslisamatar@gmail.com.
About the Bella Vista League: The Bella Vista League is a 501c3 collaboration of mostly Los Gatos and Saratoga women who volunteer their time to raise money for Bay Area charities. The charities are nominated by the members then selected by the board every year. Annually, the ‘Wonderful Witchy Women with a Cause” luncheon is the platform used to raise money for the selected charities.
About the Wonderful Witchy Women with a Cause luncheon: The annual fundraising event is held during the Halloween season in late October. Attending women wear highly stylized and glamorous witch hats while shopping from hundreds of silent auction items and enjoying a gourmet lunch at the Fairmont Hotel in Downtown San Jose. Each year, the event brings in roughly $300,000 for charity.
About Heritage Home San Jose: Heritage Home is a Cityteam International program that has been providing compassionate care to homeless, poor, abandoned women who are pregnant and have nowhere else to turn but the streets. Heritage Home works to meet their immediate needs and works out long-term solutions as well.
About Rebekah Children’s Services: The Culinary Academy at Rebekah Children’s Services is a no-cost, hands-on vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Santa Clara County. The Culinary Academy provides sheltered, supportive instruction that enables students to develop life skills and vocational competencies, creating pathways for career opportunities, employment and a successful transition to adulthood.
About Silicon Valley Children’s Fund: The Silicon Valley Children’s fund is committed to improving educational and life outcomes for foster youth. They offer scholarships and direct mentorship support to ensure that the foster youth graduate high school and are able to pursue a higher education and a career path they desire.
Image courtesy of Donna Moore, Kim Cornwall Williamson, Aldrin Dionisio and Maki Oshiro.
Copyright © 2019 Wonderful Witchy Woman. All rights reserved.
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Home > Vol 5, No 2 (2019) > ShahidiAnsari
Quality of Life Therapy on Negative Automatic Thoughts of Female with Multiple Sclerosis (M. S.)
Mojtaba ShahidiAnsari, Fatemeh Bakhshandeh
The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of quality of life therapy on negative automatic thoughts of female with MS in Isfahan. The research has employed a semi-experimental method with pretest, posttest, and control group with one-month follow up. For this purpose, a clinic was selected from the specialized clinics of Isfahan in 2016. 30 female with MS were chosen through the convenience sampling method and divided into two groups of experimental and control (each group had 15 people). The subjects responded to the negative automatic thoughts Questionnaire (Hollon & Kendall, 1980) before and after the intervention and one month later in the follow up phase. The experimental group received the quality of life therapy by Frisch (2005) in 8 sessions of 90 minutes, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The results of multivariate covariance analysis showed that the quality of life therapy was effective in reducing the negative automatic thoughts in post-test and follow up stages in the female with MS (P <0.05). The results of this study showed that the quality of life therapy could be used to improve the psychological well-being of female with MS.
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After Losing EPL to NBC, What Will Happen to FOX Soccer?
Christopher Harris October 30, 2012 beIN SPORT, FOX Soccer, GolTV, Leagues: EPL, NBC 107 Comments
Last week, when news filtered in that FOX Soccer and ESPN’s joint bid to continue showing Premier League soccer for three more years had failed, an insider revealed to EPL Talk that the atmosphere in the FOX Soccer headquarters felt like someone had just died.
Coverage of the English Premier League has been FOX Soccer’s number one priority since the network began as Fox Sports World, which was renamed Fox Soccer Channel before becoming simply FOX Soccer. Without the Premier League in its stable of media rights after May 2013, FOX Soccer’s programming guide looks particularly stark.
FOX Soccer finds itself at a crossroads. They can either try to rebuild by picking up other TV rights to beef up their 2013-14 schedule, or they could decide to dissolve FOX Soccer next year and turn it into a FOX Sports 2 or FOX Sports 3 channel, where they would offer viewers a variety of different sports programming including a limited soccer offering (choosing from the Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup and England home matches, as well as smaller leagues). FOX also has US rights to the Women’s World Cup (2015) and FIFA World Cup tournaments (2018 and 2022), but those are still in the distant future.
FOX finds itself in an uncomfortable position. beIN SPORT has the rights to La Liga, the Championship and Serie A. NBC will have the rights to EPL, as well as the current rights to MLS. ESPN has some USMNT games in addition to FIFA World Cup 2014 and Euro 2016. Other than that, there isn’t much left that’s strong enough to lead or build a channel around.
The channel could try to pick up additional rights such as the Bundesliga from GolTV, but the TV ratings would be far less than what it enjoys with the Premier League.
Additionally, without the Premier League, FOX Soccer 2Go becomes practically worthless after May 2013. And the future of FOX Soccer Plus appears bleak if there’s no FOX Soccer around.
Based on the options available to FOX Soccer, the best decision may be to pull the plug next year and then show what rights it has across it’s anticipated FOX Sports # channels.
While FOX Soccer has raised the bar on its coverage of Premier League soccer in the United States, it has made a lot of mistakes. FOX’s Americanization of FOX Soccer resulted in a far greater expenditure with mixed results:
Tomas Brolin Fatcakes October 30, 2012
Excellent point re: “Being: Liverpool”.
Frankly, i’d rather have seen an EPL match replay. I loved being able to turn on FSC and see an EPL replay, at least more often than not. I could pick up matches I didn’t see live over the weekend. Lately, it just seemed to be ancient CL matches and “Being Liverpool” repeats. Cue the yawning.
Scrumper October 31, 2012
Great name!
Nelson October 30, 2012
They will pull the plug. I bet you anything the channel ceases to exist this time next year and it disappears off your channel lineups. Whoever said everyone at the network acts like someone died is probably an understatement. I’m sure many people at the station, especially the on air talent probably see this as a death sentence or the beginning of the end of their careers. I hope none of them are hired by NBC. They arent good enough. The one person NBC really needs is Ian Darke from ESPN. Many have said that wont happen as he has a contract through 2014. But, what is ESPN going to be paying him to do up untill WC?
Garry Craske October 31, 2012
Agreed on Ian Darke a very good commentator, and know’s his footie history. Fox just got complacent over the new rights bid i feel and possibly thought that they would just need to bid something. Unless they can get the English Championship live then they are a dead duck.
Guy October 31, 2012
Well, beIn Sport has the Championship, so sayonara.
JIm October 30, 2012
YES NO Fox soccer!!!!!!! Can’t wait till NBC starts showing the matches. Hate Fox soccer’s channel and the website.
Bobby October 31, 2012
Fox did a good job over all. Bobby McMahon should have been kept around, lot better than the idiots on now. As for it going out of business, since I hate Rupert Murdoch and what he stands for I will not shed any tears for anything that starts with FOX.
darren November 1, 2012
my concern is that when a match wasn’t on FOX Soccer, it might be on Fox Soccer+ or Fox Soccer 2 Go… so even if the game I wanted to watch wasn’t featured on the “main” channel, I could still go somewhere to see it. With NBC in control, I’m not sure what will happen with multiple matches on at the same time.
The Gaffer November 1, 2012
One 10am ET match on Saturday will be shown live on television. All of the other 10am ET matches will be available online to watch live.
Smokey Bacon October 30, 2012
Its game over for FSC. But to blame it on Being: Liverpool is a bit harsh. Let us not forget, FSC is arguably the main reason the EPL is as popular as it is over here in the United States. FSC was starting to up their game in response to competition from ESPN when the rug was pulled from under them. The fact that even ESPN declined shows you how much NBC has overpaid to get the EPL. I am most disappointed in the Premier League who threw away a 15 year partnership and literally sold out to the highest bidder. Must it always be about the bottom line. NBC has its work cut out and I’m not confident at all that they will be able to pull it off. The Americanization of the EPL has begun and it won’t be long before people are slating it on here.
Matt October 30, 2012
I am convinced that it will become fox Sports 2. There simply isn’t enough content to fill the dead space that will occur during every week that is void of Champions/Europa League for the next 3 years. I can’t imagine that they’d try to go on a rugby overload, right?
I hope that NBC can learn from Fox Soccer. Hopefully they start utilizing BBC America as an outlet for the content. Is it possible that they could arrange Hulu plus as the online mode of distribution? The live functionality is already there, and the app is only rivaled by Netflix in terms of availability. Not to mention that it is infinitely more user friendly than FS2G…
Not too confident on NBC, their sports production is more Hollywood than what a soccer fan expects I fear. Will see. Hope they pick up English broadcasters.
kody November 21, 2012
i’m sure they will just use european english feed. it only makes sense, both financially and aesthetically.
Patrick May 19, 2013
Yes hopefully they use the English feed, instead of baseball sounding commentary (sorry)
Dust October 30, 2012
It was an incredibly poor business decision, the wasted market value, momentum and previous investments will now be for the benefit of NBC.
I still can not understand why fox soccer would invest in the next 2 world cups (which can not be cheap) and not continue to invest in the sports most popular league competition.
Will they now sell off their big competitions and call it a day? 2018 is a quite a ways away. Perhaps they will wait till the net bidding process and just out bid everyone else in the next round.
I was just becoming attached to watching the NCAA game of the week on a Friday too.
I would imagine an executive cull at fox sports. Perhaps they sub license games from bein & NBC? They have 7 months to figure it out.
Oliver Tse October 31, 2012
beIN SPORT LLC has no interest in sublicensing. beIN SPORT LLC is what it is, a “private” company whose executives make their money via “private banking”. beIN SPORT LLC is NOT a traditional media company and should not be regarded as one.
NBC has also made it clear that it wants to keep EPL all to itself. No sublicensing.
FOX Sports Media Group will be healtier than ever after SPEED, FUEL TV, FOX Soccer, and FOX Soccer Plus are converted to FOX Sports 1-4.
College Football (gridiron) and College Basketball make money for pay sports TV channels in the U.S. Pro sports including EPL are now loss leaders.
Not sure how much money they will make off college sports, they paid a lot of money for the rights. Guess they can replay college games over and over again, 3 plus hours long.
Bill Kiehlkopf October 30, 2012
I agree with you completely. Fox Fone-In was great and the replacement was terrible. Bobby McMahon is great. The best U.S. guys they had are Chris Sullivan and Miles O’Brien and they were shuttled off. Eric Wynalda is obnoxious, Brian McBride has nothing to say and Rob Stone is boring. When you fall for the beautiful game you don’t need it Americanized like a bad ESPN program. But NBC Olympic coverage was shaky also. I saw them air a commercial in the middle of a half of soccer-unacceptable. If this is what is in store it will suck.
Don October 30, 2012
I do agree that football phone in show was comedy and entertainment…as much as Liverpool fans chased Seven Cohen out of town I really enjoyed that show…they tried to “Americanize” it (FSC) a little too much..they should realize who is really interested in the channel…I agree brain McBride was an odd choice for on air talent…Barton is knowledgeable but just a bit dry…Macca and Dark on ESPN are mint..not because they’re Brits but they are just funny, have great chemistry and knowledge of the game as well…anyway I won’t kick a dying horse…thanks FSC for the coverage…they lacked in some areas but they tried…I think they lost their way when they tried expanding to FSC+ etc and charging an arm and a leg…more focused on revenue streams…good luck to them..hopefully they can survive in some capacity.
I think Fox Soccer will continue, they will come back into the picture in 3 years, and promote EPL with their coverage of the world WC and other tournaments. NBC is no soccer fan, they wanted to fill their schedule until other sports became available so this is a set back not a death penalty. Fox soccer plus however is dead next may.
SPEED becomes FOX Sports 1, with Major League Baseball and premium NCAA Football games from FX migrating over to join NASCAR to bulk up. 1st choice UEFA Champions League games on weekday afternoons can also air.
FUEL TV becomes FOX Sports 2, with lesser NCAA football games (i.e. Conference USA) and NCAA basketball games (Conference USA, PAC 12) joining UFC and leftover action sports. 2nd choice UEFA Champions League games on weekday afternoons can air on this channel.
FOX Soccer becomes FOX Sports 3, with NCAA basketball filling weeknight evenings during the winter. UEFA Europa League 1st choice games stay here. The 3rd choice UEFA Champions League games will air on this channel.
FOX Soccer Plus becomes FOX Sports 4, with Dutch Eredivisie as the primary soccer product on weekends starting next season to go with Celtic matches from the Scottish Premier League. UEFA Europa League games featuring lesser teams will also stay here. Sky Sports News can move here. If there is no escape clause for the FOX Soccer News contract with Rogers, then FOX Soccer News will end up here.
FOX can sublicense Spanish-language rights to Dutch Eredivisie to ESPN Deportes, as Dutch Eredivisie has practically no value on FOX Deportes.
Yespage October 31, 2012
I thought you said a while ago that FSC was safe, regardless if they had the EPL or not.
The “bandwidth” that FOX Soccer current occupies will live on, likely as FOX Sports 3 in my opinion. FOX Sports 3 will be a healtier business than FOX Soccer.
But you said the channel would be fine… it had the World Cup stuff to keep it going.
Again, the bandwidth will be used more efficiently. The “Channel” will be around, but more likely as “FOX Sports 3” instead of “FOX Soccer”.
I actually prefer “FOX Sports 1”, “FOX Sports 2”, “FOX Sports 3”, and “FOX Sports 4” instead of SPEED, FUEL TV, FOX Soccer, and FOX Soccer Plus.
Yespage November 1, 2012
The channel will still be around, just with another name… and other programming? That is pretty efficient spin there.
A number of people left FOX Soccer between May and August.
They (along with me) originally thought that beIN SPORT LLC would kill FOX Soccer.
Once Phil Mushnick started exposing beIN SPORT LLC for what it really is with 2 attack columns in August: a “private banking” operation that pretends to be a media company, I crossed off beIN SPORT LLC from my list of contenders for EPL rights.
What surprised me was ESPN, Inc. allowing itself to partner with the loser. ESPN, Inc. had the advantage of being a sublicensee.
I will never understand why ESPN, Inc. didn’t shop itself to NBC Sports Group as a sublicense partner.
andrew October 31, 2012
Because ESPN and NBC Sports are direct competitors.
So were Fox and ESPN in that sense. The fact is ESPN only wanted the early games on Saturday, their schedule is generally full after that.
FakeTseTseFly November 1, 2012
Did you cross them off your list just after they put you on their ‘do not hire’ list?
All comments about beIN NOT being a ‘real’ media company smack of sour grapes Oliver – and I’m sorry but any company that has a TV channel is considered a ‘media company’, whether you like it or not.
Time will tell whether beIN succeeds but one thing we know for sure – any predictions you make regarding ANYTHING media-related are likely to be 1000% wrong.
espn’s parent Disney just purchased Lucas Film for 4 billion, so its not like they were strapped for cash. Plus english football is a far more disney / youth friendly sport, you would think they would have jumped at the chance..its all just weird.
Kobashi October 30, 2012
I expect FOX to make a huge big for the next round of TV rights as they build up to the World Cup in 2018. My feeling is that they will make a much bigger bid for the 16-17 to 18-19 contract cycle. By that time the Fox # channels will have been established and they can bring back the Prem.
Oliver was pretty spot on how the Fox # channels will look. Hopefully, the cable companies will reconfigure their lineups so the channels are lined up next to each other when surfing.
dano328 October 30, 2012
I think they could “get by” by purchasing the Bundesliga from GolTV. That would give them quality matches on the weekend even if the ratings aren’t as good. They could argue its a better league (based on recent UEFA results) even though most of us would disagree. Then they still have CL. I just don’t want to see them close up & think German football is a decent alternative. Then they can fight back for the EPL in 2016. As a consumer, I would enjoy having more leagues to watch without getting a dish.
For the Umpteenth time: GOLTV has locked up the U.S. rights to the Bundesliga in English and Spanish through May 2015.
GOLTV has no interest in sublicensing the Bundesliga to either ESPN or FOX.
NewsCorp/FOX will have worldwide rights to the Dutch Eredivisie for the next 12 seasons. I expect Dutch Eredivisie to anchor “FOX Sports 4 (USA)”, the channel we now know as FOX Soccer Plus.
The Scottish league will get more games. With WC also coming as well England home games Fox soccer will remain as is in my opinion. They will bid for EPL again and this time the EPL may divide the packages by tiers and have 2 or 3 bidders for Saturday early games. Sunday early games etc. That is what they are doing in England.
Huw Roma October 30, 2012
The writing has been on the wall for Fox Soccer for some time. How pathetic is the channel when the EPL is taking an international break? Continuous replays of CL and EPL games, with nothing new for days on end. I really don’t think anyone is clamoring for more CONCACAF Champions League matches. They are going to have to revert back to the days of Fox Sports World and incorporate rugby, rugby league and maybe Cricket into their lineup again. It’s the only answer. This means finishing FS+ of course, which when you look at it has more relevancy than FSC in terms of content. I think Fox relied so much on the EPL that they never figured this would happen. Their stunning lack of coverage of just about anything except the EPL, CL and Europa League is stunning. Even internationals are barely touched. Let’s just hope NBC does a better job than the pathetic pundits offered by Fox. They are a true disgrace.
MmMMmmMm October 30, 2012
I need to see what kind of online live streaming/match archive service NBC plans to implement. Or at least they BETTER plan to implement.
Charles Boyer October 31, 2012
Their streaming of other sports has been good in the past and they say that streaming is a definite part of their plans. I would think that in 2014 Internet streaming will be even more integral to the television experience than it is now.
What would be really cool to me is if they sold a package to cable and satellite vendors similar to NFL Sunday Ticket where one could get all the games for $100 a year or so. While streaming is nice, high-def programming with no buffering is even better.
Marc L October 31, 2012
Get the Bundesliga, put it with existing rights to Champions League and FA Cup and hang around based on that. I’d certainly watch that channel and want to have it.
Again, GOLTV has locked up the U.S. rights in English and Spanish to the Bundesliga through May 2015.
GOLTV has no interest in sublicensing the Bundesliga to ESPN or FOX.
FOX will have the Dutch Eredivisie on a worldwide basis for the next 12 seasons.
Earl Reed October 31, 2012
Here’s a thought: as the sport has grown in America (and it has), FOX was peculiarly positioned to limit its audience based on the simple fact it had a dedicated soccer-only channel. Cable & satellite providers were not very motivated to move a soccer-only network into the fore, since traditional thinking belies that soccer has no market.
With the sport growing, moving the most popular league in America to a multisport network (and no, FS+ doesn’t count) is a natural transition, and shame on FOX for dragging its feet in implementing this type of forward thinking while they actually owned the rights. Instead they went with a more conservative approach with their soccer-only platform, extracting every cent possible through forcing people into sports tiers or buying subscriptions.
For those who have DirecTV, NBC Sports Network is on the Choice Xtra package (i.e. no sports tier), and has moved to channel 220 up nearer to the ESPN’s and the NHL/NFL/MLB/Golf/Tennis networks.
Andy October 31, 2012
NBC Sports Network is still channel 603 on DirecTV. I am a fan of this move if it means I can drop the Sports Pack and save a few bucks a month while getting my EPL fix on my regular programming package.
Maybe it’s in the process of moving. I looked at my DirecTV iPhone app the other day and it had 603 saying that NBCSN is moving and 220 as NBCSN.
NBC has taken a bold move here and not something I ever expected from a major US network content on a diet of huge revenues from home grown sports. It would be interesting to see their supporting research. Cash is king, and therefore, there must be sufficient revenue expections for the NBC bid in the first place.
At first I thought if might be to capitalise on the massive fever pitch the Americas will be caught up in as the Brazil World Cup approaches, but according to this article ESPN has the rights. So unless there is a deal in the wings for ESPN to sell their rights to NBC this isn’t the case. So it will be interesting to see how NBC plans to show the EPL.
Anyway I’m glad I should still be able to see my live games each week but cautious how it’s going to be presented. I’ve always hoped for direct feed for all the games and surrounding shows etc from the UK, but I can’t see NBC allowing this. As for FSC how can it continue?
Gary October 31, 2012
Sad to hear about FSC. Despite their downfalls, you at least new that every Sat/Sun morning you could turn to FSC and FSC+ and view live games.
Im worried that NBC is going to fragment the coverage over such a wide variety of channels and platforms (online) that it will become a real pain just keeping up with where the games will be shown. And, until proven otherwise next season, im still concerned about some form of tape delay from NBC on a portion of the games.
NBC sounds good in theory, and I like being able to spend about $20 less a month dropping FSC and FSC+ from my satellite package, but the simplicity of their coverage I fear is going to be missed.
And, watching an EPL match on Bravo just sounds wrong.
I agree, NBC does not know how to broadcast soccer, they are going to use inexperienced American announcers not the SKY announcers we have been used to. No more Martyn Tyleri am afraid. Will have to watch the game without the audio.
Huw Roma November 1, 2012
No more Martin Tyler? I never hear him at all aside from the odd England international, so he will hardly be missed.
Why the thumbs down? We don’t get Sky Sports coverage for the EPL, let alone hear Martin Tyler on a weekly basis? Am I wrong?
FOX often chooses to play the Sky feed for games especially when Tyler is the commentator, so we often hear him for Champions League matches and the big EPL games.
Kobashi November 2, 2012
I never understood why Fox didn’t go out of their way to pick up Tyler’s commentary more. I love Peter Drury and think he might be the most underrated commentators on the planet but when Fox has the option to pick up Tyler’s commentary you do it every time.
It’s a shame that Fox and Sky didn’t hook up more where Sky shared more resources w/Fox in the States to make Fox’s production much better.
Jason Gatties October 31, 2012
I see them eliminating Fox Soccer Plus and rebranding. They still have some soccer rights and a bunch of rugby (and Aussie Rules) options. It will end up being like “Fox Sports World” all over again.
Reid October 31, 2012
I only have Fox Soccer 2Go, so I’ve never seen any of their other programs. For me, I’ll be jumping ship because I have no interest in anything else they offer once the Premiere League is gone.
I’m just glad a company with streaming experience won the rights.
Paul Mahoney October 31, 2012
Fox Soccer did certainly help promote the EPL in the state and make many more games available in the past. But they also did a lot of annoying things to their most loyal viewers. For example, Fox Soccer is broadcasting the Liverpool Anzhi Europa League content today. Problem: that’s games been moved and Liverpool is actually playing Swansea in a Capital One Cup content an hour earlier. Will Fox Soccer cover it? On what channel? And how the heck to I record it when the guide shows the wrong games? This is for a game that will be played in about six hours – and still Fox viewers have no idea what they’re doing. I bought an extra sports tier to be able to see more Liverpool matches and still I have no idea. Lame. Lame. Lame. May NBC suck less.
The Gaffer October 31, 2012
beIN SPORT has the rights to the League Cup, but they’re only showing one game today — Chelsea vs Man United.
Thanks for the info. I was going to record everything on Fox soccer and Fox Soccer Plus and hope I’d catch the game. Sounds like that’s not possible. Sigh.
MmMMmmMm November 1, 2012
Everything i hate about BeIn, in one succinct post.
Tony Butterworth October 31, 2012
It’s hard to see how they continue but what about the World Cup in 2018 and 2022, they won’t even have a channel. Of course they may well have the Prem back by then.
I agree. Look for Fox to get some EPL games when the next bid comes. If the EPL has grown as expected the games will be sold separately some will bid for Saturday game, others for Sunday games etc.
CTBlues October 31, 2012
FOX won the rights to the WC not Fox Soccer. They will be showing the WC on FOX, FX, and probably Fox Sports 1-4.
I like the article but calling Keith Costigan an expat is a major stretch. I think Keller and Harkes know far more about the English game.
Frill Artist October 31, 2012
Gaz October 31, 2012
Huge milestone for the game. I’ll be forever grateful to Fox (FSC, FS+) for bringing live English football to this expat’s TV screen every Saturday and Sunday morning in recent years. As a Utd fan, we seem to be especially blessed as our games are shown every single weekend. Ironically, with these channels I’ve been able to enjoy more live Premier League football on TV on a weekly basis than my family and friends back in the UK.
That said, it seems obvious that Fox has been too slow to embrace the opportunity it had to secure it’s status as THE home of soccer here in the US. It’s great that they recently updated the look and feel of the studio from which pregame, in game and post game analysis was happening. Some would argue this isn’t important but it is. And the fact that they finally got round to showing games on FSC in HD (the picture quality of their coverage on FSC had been so far behind that of ESPN2 it was embarrassing) was another step forward but as a paying subscriber, I have to ask “why did this take so long?”. Speaking of picture quality, I still ask myself on a weekly basis just why the hell I continue to pay $15 a month for FS+. Watching games on there is akin to picking up a dodgy internet feed on my laptop. A fuzzy picture that only fills half my screen…. painful.
So yes, there has been some progress but in truth, not enough. The decision to cut some of the fan-centric programming was a bad one. Yes, the Fox Football Fone-In program was horrible but that was because the personnel involved were wrong – not the concept. A massive part of being a fan is what happens between the games. We want to engage with each other, discuss and argue and without that forum, fans feel less connected to the game they love.
I also have to say the “personalities” (if I can even use that word) that have been at the helm of FSC’s coverage are awful. I know it’s easy to point criticism from the comfort of my armchair but watching Barton, Wynalda and the anchor (whose name my brain hasn’t even bothered to remember) go through their “I want to be a game-show host so bad” routine is nothing short of soul destroying. McBride I have less of a problem with but he plays it so safe he might as well not be there.
I get all warm and tingly when I see my beloved Utd are on ESPN where I know Ian Darke and Steve McManaman will be there to take me through from pre-game to post-game. Those 2 are brilliant both together and as individuals and I hope the folks at NBC manage to buy them out of their deal with ESPN and bring them over.
At the end of the day, I think the move to NBC could be the start of a new era for football fans here in the US. I have no doubt new fans will jump on board and my hope is that those of us who have been here for the last decade or more will have an even better experience. Provided they respect the game (no mid game commercials) and the intelligence of the fan base by bringing in intelligent, interesting and credible people to run their programs, this should be a great move.
Fox Soccer will (and probably should) go away. What happens to it next, I really don’t care. Scottish football means nothing to me. I think they’ll eventually end up selling their international tourney rights to NBC (at a large profit to Fox) who will hopefully grasp the opportunity that Fox let slip away.
Good post, top to bottom 🙂
They were slow in bringing HD, but then the cable companies made it worse by taking so long to carry it. I’m not sure everyone has it, yet.
btw, my FS+ (which I don’t pay any extra for) is also in HD. 😉
NBC should add a few Scots to the mix. They are always insightful and have good comments without any histrionics.
McBride always looks pale, washed out and mumbles like he’s been stricken with dengue fever. Barton peruses Readers Digest for new words – currently “exquisite” – and lately he’s been shouting a lot. Wynalda has become the voice of misery and despair, like a bloke who’s just discovered he’s made his Mother in Law pregnant and the easiest way to get rid of Rob Stone is to put a mirror in his dressing room and he’ll never leave it. And Keith Costigan must be the world’s second luckiest man behind Ringo.
I agree. Just because they use to play soccer it doesn’t mean they can analyze the game. They should bring some from England. I have a feeling NBC announcer will be sitting in the studio calling the games like Fox soccer does on the Europa League early games. That old be horrible.
My take on how FOX Sports 1 – 4 USA might look like:
FOX Sports 1 – Major League Baseball, NASCAR, premium NCAA football games on Saturdays, UEFA Champions League 1st choice matches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, English FA Cup Final, plus the return of FOX Sports News, and a whole bunch of NFL and MLB talk shows
FOX Sports 2 – UFC, 2nd tier NCAA football games on Thursdays and Saturdays (i.e. Big 12, Conference USA), UEFA Champions League 2nd choice matches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, English FA Cup semifinals, and action sports (skateboarding, motocross, etc.)
FOX Sports 3 – NCAA basketball games during the winter (Conference USA and PAC 12), 3rd tier NCAA Football (Big 12 and Conference USA) on Thursdays and Saturdays, UEFA Champions League 3rd choice matches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, UEFA Europa League 1st choice matches on Thursdays, English Community Shield, English National Team, English FA Cup Rounds 3 – 6.
FOX Sports 4 – Dutch Eredivisie on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays; Scottish Premier League, UEFA Europa League 2nd Choice matches, English FA Cup Rounds 1-2 plus overflow matches on Saturdays at 10am ET in Rounds 3-5, Sky Sports News U.K., FOX Soccer News (if agreement with Rogers cannot be terminated), FOX Sports News Australia, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Aussie Rules.
SoccerLimey October 31, 2012
I think what I find interesting is the large gap between what NBC finally bid and the figure that FOX submitted. I would have thought that FOX, with already established structure, would have been more committed to winning the bid.
It seems to me that maybe they found out they were losing too much money and wanted out anyway. The loss of Bobby McMahon was a huge mistake.
Personally, I think ESPN PressPass does a much more professional job of covering news in all the European leagues.
The gap isn’t that large. I had expected FOX-ESPN to go has high as $210 million ($70 million/season.)
NBCUniversal Media bid $250 million.
beIN SPORT LLC did NOT bid and had no interested in bidding (otherwise, NBCU would have gotten blown away, as I expected a bid of $500 million if beIN SPORT LLC were actually interested in bidding.)
Tim November 1, 2012
I wish I could down rate you 100 times. Dude, no one cares what you expected beIN to bid. The bottom line is you are always 100% wrong. And did I mention annoying?
Oliver, you had NO information about beIN’s interest in bidding or not because they refuse to even take your calls.
Please keep your information to the facts…not your trolling heresay.
John October 31, 2012
It’s gotta be a testament to the popularity or perceived popularity in the future that soccer offerings have spread from three channels (Gol, FSC, and ESPN) a little more than a year ago to 5 channels. Idk the state of contracts for the other European leagues but Fox has to do something. They are not going to let their big investments in the World Cup stand alone. If something as bad as Gol TV can hang around, News Corp should be able to prop up FSC, although I think FSP and 2Go are probably dead now.
But ONLY one domestic European league is really worth anything in the U.S. English-language general TV market: EPL.
FOX was correct to let Serie A and Ligue 1 go to beIN SPORT LLC, which is not really a legitimate media company because the two executives in charge (Youssef and Nasser) are more concerned with their “private banking” activities.
beIN SPORT LLC bought the U.S. and Canadian rights to the European Handball Champions League.
The acquisition pattern by beIN SPORT LLC is now clear: overpay for a lot of junk from brokers who are willing to conduct “private banking”, but do NOT bid for products (EPL, Bundesliga) if too many government watchdogs are paying attention.
What government agencies in the US and Britain are actively vetting tv rights deals?
Jesus, you are insufferably stupid.
Evan October 31, 2012
this is what happens when you decide to forget all the other leagues and focus on one.
if they still had MLS and serie a, coupled with champions league and Europa league, they could at least survive.
On the contrary, losing EPL is the best thing that can happen to FOX Sports Media Group, as “FOX Sports 3” will be healthier and more profitable than FOX Soccer because FOX Sports 3 can have live prime time college basketball during the winter to complement UEFA Europa League and CONCACAF Champions League soccer.
Furthermore, FOX can now move the best UEFA Champions League matches off FOX Soccer in order to beef up FOX Sports 1 (SPEED) and FOX Sports 2 (FUEL TV) on weekday afternoons.
(The FOX Sports Net system is dead now that Comcast chose not to renew the affiliation agreement for Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area/Chicago/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Philadelphia.)
I expect “FOX Sports 4” (FOX Soccer Plus) to be the home of the Dutch Eredivisie and Sky Sports News U.S. for the next 12 seasons. If FOX is stuck with having to license FOX Soccer News from Rogers through 2015, then FOX Soccer News can air on “FOX Sports 4”.
I know some like to trash your thoughts/opinions and yes, sometimes they’re wrong, but I enjoy reading your stuff. I can decide after the fact if you’re crazy or not. Keep it up. 😉
Schoen and Hudson are calling the Chelsea-Man Utd League Cup match on beIN SPORT HD (USA) as we speak.
beIN SPORT LLC is “re-inventing the wheel” again, as it does every week.
Kent October 31, 2012
Oliver, isn’t beIN only in spanish? I have it on comcast in boston, they had the barcelona-real madrid match a couple weeks ago, but only in spanish
David October 31, 2012
There’s an English version, but a lot of the Comcast areas haven’t gotten it yet (they said end of the year or early in 2013 they’ll pick it up).
Some of the major matches do have English-language commentary using the SAP option.
Comcast only offers beIN SPORT en Espanol, which has Spanish-speaking on-camera talent and announcers. The on-camera hosts are Ana Cobos, Miguel Serrano, and Carmen Boquin. Ines Sainz makes cameo appearances from time to time.
DIRECTV and DISH both offer beIN SPORT HD, which is in English (with English-speaking on-camera talent) plus Spanish SAP. Phil Schoen and Ray Hudson are the primary commentary team. Ross Dyer and Ian Joy usually call the “B” matches. The on-camera hosts are Terri Leigh and Temryss Lane.
DIRECTV also offers beIN SPORT en Espanol.
Former German national team goalkeeper Bodo Illgner can analyze matches in either English or Spanish on beIN SPORT HD and beIN SPORT en Espanol.
Comcast has SAP on its Spanish broadcast too. They claim the English channel is coming, no date so far. Rumour is it will be done by 12/22/12
Comcast will take beIN SPORT HD as soon as Sheik Al-Thani wires a fat launch fee from Doha Bank.
beIN SPORT LLC has no leverage because the executives have chosen to 1) buy rights to only “junk” products from brokers “in private”, and 2) pay fat launch fees to DIRECTV and DISH (believed to be around $30 million to each.)
Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House, etc. are all waiting to collect launch fees before allocating bandwidth.
Kent November 1, 2012
figured this out last night, you can go to audio options and change the language to English, the same way some one can turn spanish for ABC or something, watched some italian football last night on beIN, must say it is way better than GolTV, pretty good actually
I was so bummed when I heard this on the podcast, I watch most of my games on fox soccer 2 go and DVR others from the soccer channel. Having access to EPL, UEFA and Europa league has been so awesome and like every good thing will be ruined for more money. I would guess that NBC is not going to put out a live and on-demand iOS/Android app out with every EPL game available, that is what hurts the most. It seems like it was really on the cusp of picking up over here and they will kill it. The couple of good games a week they broadcast will be great, don’t get me wrong. But it is an online/on-demand world we are living in.
Now, if they do it like they did with the olympics, making it all available online, I will love them forever.
P.S. Being Liverpool, for someone new to soccer, was great. It is super easy to be cynical and forget the excitement of a new fan.
David November 1, 2012
We will have to wait and see what NBC does with its EPL games. let’s hope they make all the games available via TV channels and online like Fox has. As much as we have all criticized Fox we should at least admit that they did and do make available all the games for viewers be it through Fox Soccer, Fox Soccer Plus or foxsoccer2go.
As for what will now happen to Fox? They still have the Champions League, Europa League and World Cup so they will still be relevant to those that love those tournaments. How they restructure themselves is going to be the interesting thing to watch. I expect them to begin broadcasting more rugby (to attract new viewers) and maybe even buy the rights to cricket matches (presently ESPN3 shows cricket and their viewership is pretty decent). Will they pick up other European or South American leagues is another thing to look out for.
Pakapala November 1, 2012
Well Fox still have 2 very valuable assets Champions League and World Cup. I don’t see FSC going down the way of Gol TV. It might be rebranded into Fox Sports Channel or even retain the Fox Soccer name and gather some 2nd-tier leagues rights.
Oliver Tse November 5, 2012
FOX Sports Latin America has re-branded its channels south of the border.
The primary channel remains “FOX Sports”.
The second channel, previously known as “FOX Sports+” (Pronounced FOX Sports Mas), is now FOX Sports Dos.
The 3rd channel launched on Monday: FOX Sports Tres. FOX Sports Tres will be the home of Formula 1, UFC, and Action Sports. FOX Sports Tres competes head to head against ESPN Tres Latin America.
One would expect Canal SPEED Latin America to be rebranded “FOX Sports Cuatro” once the “Speed” brand goes away in July 2013.
Correction: Canal SPEED Latin America was rebranded “FOX Sports Tres” as of 0900 Buenos Aires Time on Monday.
Ian November 13, 2012
If Fox Soccer gets the Bundesliga they will be fine. They already have the Champions League and the Europa League. The Bundesliga is actually the best domestic league with the largest attendance in the world. The players are younger, faster, more aggressive and more skillfull. It just needs promoted.
The Gaffer November 13, 2012
I’m hoping they get the Bundesliga too, to give the league the accessibility and respect it deserves in this country.
There must be a price where GolTV would be willing to sublicense many of the games to FOX Soccer.
Pat McCurry November 18, 2012
Well first they have to round up their main soccer assets:
They could try getting the rights to stuff like Eredivisie, Primera Liga, and even Blue Square Conference and non-league stuff. Or they can beef up their schedule with non-football assets like rugby and Australian Rules Football.
Next season is very important for Fox Soccer. It will be make or break, but not the end of the world for the channel.
JohnA November 27, 2012
Fox Soccer Channel will survive with Champions league, Europa league, Scottish league, Dutch league, possibly some Budesliga, some FA cup, and some rugby.
sean January 15, 2013
The Bundesliga would be worth it and who is to say the ratings would be low once the new to the Bundesliga spectator finds out how entertaining the league is??!!
Jamie D February 6, 2013
So long as FSC continues to broadcast Sky Sports News I’m in.
The Gaffer February 6, 2013
Its doubtful that FOX Soccer will continue to show Sky Sports after this summer especially if FOX Soccer becomes FOX Sports 3.
MDD March 10, 2013
Can someone please explain why we can’t simply get a straight feed from Sky Sports? It’s not as though we don’t speak the same dominant language, and anyone who’s spent any significant time in England will tell you that the coverage on Sky Sports and BBC is on a completely different level. Say nothing of the fact that the network wouldn’t have to spend the money on studios and on air talent and so forth…how is this option not available? Makes no sense
I won’t even bother commenting about how they’re apparently sending match commentators to England to do the Fox Soccer broadcasts of live matches (today’s United v Chelsea match as an example – again….why?)
The Gaffer March 10, 2013
MDD, the answer can be found in my article at http://epltalk.com/2013/03/07/fox-lowers-the-bar-on-televised-soccer-games-with-american-voice-gus-johnson/
Good news. I still think I’d prefer that we just gain access to the Sky Sports Channels. Surely less expensive from a production/delivery standpoint, and it’s a much better product.
Fuubar March 11, 2013
At least we won’t have to listen to that awful Gus Johnson any more. My 5 year old son said it best: “why is that man yelling?” every time someone even gets near the box. And frankly if he says “in the 6” one more time, I’m going to reach through my screen and pull his tongue out!!
LondonMUFC April 4, 2013
Really think that Fox Soccer should try and pick up other leagues, let NBC have EPL. I would love to be able to watch more Bundesliga as well as get a market in the US where I can watch Porto/Fenerbahce/etc outside of Europa/Champions League. There are so many world leagues that would be awesome to be able to see in the USA. Russia, Turkey, Portugal, Belgium, Ukraine, Croatia…no American channel plays these leagues and the only times we get to see the teams are in the European competitions.
The Gaffer April 4, 2013
Sadly, it looks like FOX Soccer will shut down this summer — http://epltalk.com/2013/03/29/what-will-fox-soccers-lasting-legacy-be/
Kevin May 17, 2013
Most people in the US who say the EPL is better than the Bundesliga are the same types of people who say they like the Yankees, or the Cowboys, and it’s because they like choosing a team with lots of hype. I have watched both leauges for years and I favor the Bundesliga. With the exception of Bayern Munich almost always being a contender, every season I feel like every team has a decent chance of a championship. But in the EPL its almost always comes down to the same 4 teams. Manchester U, Chelsea, Etc. It gets old. EPL is exciting but I like Bundesliga better. I can only hope as a comcast subscriber that Fox picks up the games from Gol TV.
The Gaffer May 17, 2013
GolTV has another year or two under their contract for Bundesliga, so FOX won’t be picking those games up. Plus, they would clash with their NASCAR programming that FOX Sports 1 has on weekend mornings, so it wouldn’t be a fit anymore.
Joe May 30, 2013
Fox should focus on AFL. Australian Football League. It’s a great game an I think they would be a ratings winner. The only thing is the time difference. Games would have to be shown Live and tape delay during normal watching hours in North America. Rugby is another sport they should go all in. Also Fox should pick up up Ligue 1 from France and they should show some Italian Seria B games to fill in some time slots. Concentrate on games from Different Countries. Holland, Portugal, Belgium, ect… FSC and FSC Plus cannot go off the air. There are other things to show. Argentinian and Brazilian Leagues could be shown also.
LSP September 6, 2013
So, now I’m paying for a station I longer receive.
I have to keep Fox to keep Gol. Waste of money.
I like Premiere League and I can’t get it.
Fox, you are supposed to appreciate your customers, not take our pleasure away. I hope you realize what a mistake you’ve made.
EPL-Thank you overly produced NBC TV. (No Great Job Honestly) October 1, 2013
For anyone who’s done a presentation(undergrad, high school, grad school). Remember when everyone was prepared to do a presentation in class and for some reason the order was selected the day off? Remember after the 1st or 2nd person went, everyone had a better sense of what to do better? Well here comes NBC. Right now the EPL is awesome, not to mention, the fact that there is not an overload of soccer ALL WEEK( I wouldn’t mind that) It creates an anticipation like the NFL. not to mention the competitiveness of the first 6 weeks. NBC is has scored a slam dunk(NBA JAM style-slamma mamma). GO EPL and Long Live Arsenal Gunners
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SCJN: Mexico's Supreme Court OKs Warrantless Police Searches
Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: El Universal
Extra Material from: El Economista
By: Leopoldo Hernández -Feb 13, 2018
mailto:justiciaysociedad@eluniversal.com.mx
The Totality of Mexico's Supreme Court , La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, declared the constitutionality of police stops, inspections and / or searches of persons and vehicles without a judicial order, but only when there is a reasonable suspicion or flagrancy, in accordance with the National Code of Criminal Procedures.
While resolving an action of unconstitutionality brought by the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) and the National Institute of Transparency (Inai) there were eight votes in favor and three against, such the action of the Minister Javier Laynez Potisek was endorsed.
The decision ruled against the wishes of the CNDH and the Inai.
The ruling deals with articles 132, Part VII; the third paragraph of 147; Parts III and V of Article 251 and Articles 266 and 268 of the National Code of Criminal Procedures, which the CNDH challenged that it considers the ruling a violation of the rights to freedom of movement of persons, legal security, privacy, violation of personal integrity and private lives.
The Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Javier Laynez Potisek, proposed to declare the Constituitionality valid for the faculty of police elements and security authorities to conduct searches of people and vehicles without prior judicial authorization.
At the beginning of the discussion of two actions of unconstitutionality against various precepts of the National Code of Criminal Procedures, the minister explained to the plenary that they must consider the review of persons and vehicles must be guaranteed as long as there is a "reasonable suspicion" of the existence of an illicit action and not by the physical appearance of a person.
"The police forces, by their very nature, enjoy an empire , ie, it is a public force, it is the public force of the State. It would be illogical to think, as the plaintiffs suggests, that the security agents should obtain the prior consent of the individuals to carry out these inspection actions and, if they fail to do so, they should withdraw without further ado, " he said.
"Reasonable suspicion can not be justified by any abstract circumstance such as the person's physical appearance, manner of dressing, speaking or behaving. It can not derive from a simple suspicion that comes from a subjective criterion of the people, based on the presumption that by the simple appearance of the subject it is possible to determine that the person is a delinquent ".
The ministers debated it and as of now six of them spoke out for declaring Constitutional several of the articles challenged by the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) and the National Institute of Transparency, (Inai) and Access to Information and Data Protection.
One who ruled against was Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea, because his consideration of the code does not establish minimum guarantees in favor of the citizen in the way in which the revision operates. "The minimum guarantees of protection of fundamental rights are not generated in both inspections and reviews, so I will be voting this issue unconstitutional," he said.
Today, the ministers will continue the analysis of other arguments brought forth by the CNDH and Inai. The other points that the ministers will analyze are the arrest of a person or persons in flagrante delicto (legal terminology for "Caught in the Act" ) for crimes that require a complaint, assurance of goods or bank accounts, precautionary seizure, intervention of communications for geolocation in real time and home safeguards.
Also being discussed is the duration of precautionary measures, the Constitutionality, of the arrest of up to 15 days as a measure of urgency and international legal assistance at the request of the accused. All contained in the code.
It emphasizes that the minister's project proposes to declare Constitutional the arrest in flagrante delicto ( Caught in the Act) for crimes that are persecuted by complaint, because the Constitution does not distinguish what kind of behaviors apply for these detentions.
It is foreseen that in order to establish the assurance of bank accounts must be done with the prior authorization of a judge, as well as the precautionary seizure and seizure of assets for a value equivalent to the damage caused with the crime. The minister will propose to invalidate the geolocation in real time.
The Minister José Fernando Franco González stressed in his argument against, that it is " in reality, the problem lies, for me, in a matter of legal security for people who may be subject to these acts of criminal annoyance. The National Code of Criminal Procedures does not even establish basic guidelines that regulate the actions of the authorities in relation to these figures," he said.
For his part, the president of the SCJN, Luis María Aguilar Morales, considered the decision ruled is ideal, necessary and proportional, "because we, ie the Court, seek to protect the human rights of the community for reasons of legal security", as well as to protect the rights of the truth, justice and the reparation of the victims.
The measure, he added, is ideal because the intervention of fundamental rights is likely to achieve the proposed goal, because it allows the police to collect test data that may serve in the investigation of crimes and added that it is "the least invasive option ", because in this case the personal and vehicle inspection is limited to a superficial review.
After discussing the content of article 148 the Ministers unanimously declared the Constitutionality of the detention of those "caught in the act" of committing crimes that require action or intervention, ie, warrantless stops and searches.
According to Laynez Potisek, the arguments of the CNDH were unfounded, since the Constitution does not distinguish between the crimes that are "already covered under the exception of the arrest of flagrant stops. "
"In addition, when the commission of a crime occurs , the person who discovers the offender in flagrant violation, that is not in the right moment, although he or she may be a trained police officer, to determine the exact classification of the crimes and / or know if the criminal acts occurring require a search warrant or requisition of such ", he said.
It will be tomorrow when the full court continues the analysis of article 242 of the Code of Criminal Procedures to consider whether or not the securing of assets or rights over financial operations without judicial authorization is unconstitutional.
NOTE: As of Friday, March 16, 2018 I have found no news update on whether or not the last issues were resolved today. Probable Update soon.
Borderland Beat Reporter Yaqui Posted at 5:36 PM
This is why imbecils living in the U.S. should stfu and stop promoting the death penalty for drug trafickers at the very least since of course asking U.S. citizens to stop consuming is DEFINETELY asking for way to much.
Fucken Mexican government or better yet corrupt police officials can always plant drugs in peoples homes and call them drug dealers!
At least before this stupid law you had you home to hide somewhat and complain about police corruption and or politicians. Now if corrupt police or public officials get tired or a person/people they simply plant drugs in your home and you are guilty of a crime warranted of execution if stupid Americans got their wish!
I lost iQ points trying read that
A worrisome question indeed!
Where it’s well noted that Mexico’s Human Rights standings among world leaders has not been favorable.
With accusations of torture , kidnappings and murder within many official / state departments
One can come to a conclusion of a spike / rise of drug arrests and deaths. Which brings the question of sincerity of these warrant less operations.
The idea of apprehension is honorable when it serves and protects communities. Not a criminal organization or political objective.
Only cops with a mind like yours will do what you are suggesting.
Exactly E42. Mexico already is already known for human rights abuses laws like these only give some people more power. If the death penalty where imposed nobody would be able to stop those already in power from using that power to eliminate others.
11:16 if it can cross one persons mind it can cross a criminal cops mind also.
This will make things interesting for the judiciary. It may help show which judges are corrupt as they will now not be able to throw it out on a technicality. This should help the police immensely.
Can we really entrust police with such authority?
Due process for any human being should not be overlooked.Much less taken lightly.
Imposing / implementing such can lead to a a breakdown of civil structure and order.
Suggest body cameras as a start. Along with an internal review board for checks and balances. If everything was done approximately there no need to fear!
I am old they been stopping me all life without cause
How old is old?
Policia have been doing this for years in TJ, guess the supreme court just caught on ....
Canadiana March 16, 2018 at 9:09 PM
That's really a doubled edged sword.On the 1 hand if it's not abused it should work OK but if it's used for a police shakedown than it's being abused.It really depends on who you get!
This is clearly a catch22. You want ledgit police to have the authority to search a suspicious situation, conversely, the idea that this new authorization will not be overwhelmingly abused is irresponsible and naive.
Ahora si van andar calintes lis compas.
A los compas criminales no les va a pasar nada.
A munchos inocentes se los van a enfriar.
More police will die
--On these times when any motherfaker dressed as a police officer and stop you, kidnap you and deliver you to your torturers and murderers...
--when police officers acting in their capacity as state delictive forces can invade your house and shot you and your 2 month old baby for hiding in the bathroom unarmed.
--when tamaulipas sicarios passing themselves for "peace officers" can call a government helicopter to shoot up your brand new truck because YOU MUST BE UNOS PINCHES NARCOS...
--The motherfacking polessias and milicos should be disarmed and just observing and reporting and never conduct arrests or seizures without calling for citizen witnesses with proof and documents and make sure their "commanders" are putting their nalgas on the line, because Mexican law enforcement workers are so facking corrupt they can't be on their own and the pinchis magistrates have failed their commission for too long already.
So you're basically giving the crooked police force more power to abuse. 🤔...
Blah blah blah,consituonal law, supreme court, article analysis bullshit, YAWN! Meanwhile the Cartels continue their daily extermination and violent slaughter of the innocents.
So cops in MX are going to do what cops in the US do: racial profiling and discrimination against the indefensible...
Sad but true.
U do make a point.
Question is; who will be targeted?
Mexico can’t play the discrimination game based on racial issue here. Since the ethnic demographics of Hispanics outnumber those of other ethnicity groups. Unlike America’s diversity of ethnicity.
Moreover, doubt that those of other countries are involved in drug trafficking. Rather a small percentage if any.
This isn't nothing new in mexico, The policia been ripping off everyone for years
Inspiring story there. What occurred after? Take care!
As opposed to what ? The lawful and righteous activity mexican police engage in now ? Give me a break.
2:06 who needs to be righteous or lawful when the US is paying billions of dollsrs to mexico for the war on drugs and all they need to see is the daily number of killed narcos?...
After hundreds of years the US still kills for scalps, I see.
Maria Soleada March 18, 2018 at 2:02 PM
this permitted policy of warrantless police searching is what is called a Police State -- nice going all you who have brought this down onto your hard-working trajabadores honest family oriented common folk Mexicanos!
Might as well legalize what's already going on anyway for decades. People get set up all the time to take a "criminal" fall and the police gladly play their part as the "refrescos" are handed out. These black pajama guys in their ivory tower in CDMX are just as corrupt as all the rest and have no real intention of protecting fundamental human rights...it's not one of the core tenets of their culture.
Coming to The US soon...
Hell yes! All drug dealers life in prison or death. It works if it's used consistently and carried out immediately .
Well, florida, chicago, new yor' San luis, califas, among others think it has been here for a loooong time already...
There are over 40 000 drug overdose deaths on the US in 2017, or about 115 a day, because nra, big pharmacy and US lawmakers needed to get their pockets full of money...
Maybe the death penalty?
8:39 YES, death penalty OK, but start at the top with the banksters and offshorers, businessmen, lobbyists and the hypocrites that have made billions of dollars from their own illegal drug trafficking.
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Bovine tuberculosis statistics and costs
Are you aware of the following?
In October 2016 the total number of cattle slaughtered in the UK to control TB since January 2001 exceeded that to control Foot and Mouth
Bovine TB in GB
Slaughtered animals123
2016 to end of Oct 32598
Bovine TB in NI
Reactor animals124
2016 to end of Oct 9153
Total no of TB cattle slaughtered in UK up to end of Oct 2016 = 635,052
Please note that Northern Ireland publish the number of reactor animals only.
In Great Britain, Slaughtered animals = Reactors slaughtered + Inconclusive reactors slaughtered + Direct contacts Slaughtered.
Number of cattle slaughtered
2001 GB 581,802125
2001 NI 50,565126
2007 GB 982127
Whilst bovine TB levels in New Zealand have plummeted, levels in Great Britain have soared.
For sources of data shown in the above graphs, please click here.
New Zealand started their TB eradication strategy in 1995 for which government funding for possum control became available from 1 July 1995.119 From this date the number of TB restricted herds in New Zealand plummeted.
England published the first draft of their eradication strategy in July 2011120 and in April 2014121 reported that the aim was to achieve Officially Bovine Tuberculosis Free (OTF) status for the whole of England by 2038 (i.e 25 years from 2013). Data122 upto Feb 2016 released on 11th May 2016 illustrated TB levels in England, South West England and South East England had reached new record highs.
In New Zealand the bulk of the bovine TB budget is spent on pest management (70%). In the UK the bulk of the budget still goes on testing and compensation (80%).
Please click here to see New Zealand's cost breakdown. Numbers are in New Zealand dollars. In 2014 one pound sterling was worth about two New Zealand dollars. This breakdown was extracted from Ref 107.
To see a budget breakdown for Great Britain, please click here . Numbers are in million pounds sterling.
In Great Britain in 2013/14, the forecasted spend on developing methods to cull badgers was 1% of the forecasted spend on developing vaccination options.
Ref 101, which was a reply to a Freedom of Information request dated 18th June 2014, states the following.
The current approved budget for work on alternative culling methods is £61,397 since August 2013 although this budget may be increased depending on the progress of the research.
In 2013/14, DEFRA budgeted £6.1m for research on vaccination.
Ref 102, which is a House of Commons Note which was last updated on 11 June 2014, states the following.
Oral badger vaccine research £2,476,273 £2,127,448 £1,684,948 £2,027,956 £2,008,748 £2,427,390
Injectable badger vaccine research £301,943 £136,178 £87,959 £66,387 £40,000 -
Cattle vaccine and associated diagnostics research £2,683,843 £2,210,441 £2,709,163 £3,994,677 £2,041,706 £1,916,714
Total £5,462,059 £4,474,067 £4,482,070 £6,089,020 £4,090,454 £4,344,104
2013 was the worst year since records began for the number of TB restricted herds in England.
The following table shows TB-restricted, dairy herds with 50 or more cattle which existed between 1990 and 2012.
Data in the above table were extracted from Reference 86.
To see proportions when lesser constraints apply, please click here.
In 2009/10 the tax payer paid £87 million to address bovine TB in Great Britain.
Surveillance activity
By the VLA
HQ and
Overheads
1998/9919 7.3 3.5 2.9 1.9 2.5 6.7 24.8
1999/0019 17.6 5.3 4.6 2.4 3.8 4.5 38.2
2001/0219 5.4 9.2 6 3.7 6.1 0.1 30.5
2002/0319 24.7 31.9 6.6 4.1 6.5 0.7 74.5
2003/0419 33.2 34.4 7.3 5.3 7 1 88.2
2004/0519 36.4 35 7.2 4.9 5.7 1.3 90.5
2006/0719 37.8 24.5 1.63 6.4 7.78 1.7 79.71
2007/0819 32.6 29.7 0.03 7.9 8.5 1.2 79.93
2008/0936 40.3 52.7 0.00 5.9 7.7 1.8 108.4
2009/1058 41.9 28.15830.771 0.00 6.2 8.9 1.9 87.0
Ref 71,72,73 Eng:?
Wales:?
Scot:?
Total:? Eng:27.8
Wales:12.2
Scot:0.2
Total:40.2 0.00 Eng:6.1
Wales:0
Total:6.2 Eng:6.9
Wales:0.2
Total:2.9 Eng:?
Total:?
As you can see, testing and compensation tend to be the largest costs.
To see how the cost of each test and each compensation payment has changed since 1998, please click here.
To see how testing costs in England, Wales and Ireland compare with those in New Zealand and why these costs are so different, please click here.
In 2006, the UK and Irish Republic had an incidence of TB which exceeded that in any other European country by more than 5 times.
The table below shows the top ten affected countries in Europe. In Great Britain, Scotland is a lot less affected than England and Wales. In fact Scotland in 2009 gained Officially Tuberculosis Free (OTF) status. The national herd incidence represents the number of new reactor herds divided by herds tested during the year as defined in the Government Veterinary Journal.
National herd incidence (%)
Northern Ireland 9.17
Great Britain 6.87
Ireland 5.72
Spain 1.11
Greece 0.74
Italy 0.62
Portugal 0.17
Poland 0.04
France 0.03
Germany 0.01
On 30 September 2005 (unless otherwise stated), the following European countries had achieved official TB-free status:
Denmark (2003 data)
France (2003 data)
Luxembourg (2003 data)
Netherlands (2003 data)
All the above data was taken from the Government Veterinary Journal.
In England, Gloucester is the worst affected county.
In Wales, Pembrokeshire is the worst affected county.
Lancashire, Cumbria and North Yorkshire cover large areas with dense cattle populations and indeed are in the top 10 English counties for high numbers of "on" cattle movements per square kilometre. Yet all three counties are low risk areas and have maintained a very low number of TB restricted herds each year since 1998.
In England there is weak correlation between the number of cattle movements and the number of TB restricted herds in counties with high cattle movement.
Please click on the thumbnail below to see the charts clearly.
In 2006 the European Commission issued a guidance report which states alternatives to vaccination should be implemented without any delay and the role of infected wildlife addressed. Under the EU funding agreement, the EU would provide up to 50 per cent of the funding for an effective eradication plan.29
The following is an extract from a report titled Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in the EU.
" An active approach to the removal of TB-infected wildlife and the urgent development of alternative means of preventing transmission of TB from this source to cattle is proposed. It has now been reliably demonstrated that the persistence of an infected wildlife reservoir that enters into contact with cattle is a major obstacle to the eradication of TB. This obstacle should be addressed in tandem with the measures implemented in relation to the cattle population.
While future prospects for the development of suitable TB vaccines for use in wildlife are promising, considerable obstacles remain which make it difficult to foresee the use of such vaccination on its own as the most suitable tool to use to address the persistence of the variety of infected wildlife reservoirs worldwide in the near future. In the meantime, therefore, alternatives to vaccination, in order to address the role of infected wildlife in the persistence of TB should be implemented without any delay so as to allow the progress of the eradication programmes.
Removal of wildlife, either proactively or reactively following outbreaks, has proven to be an effective ancillary, and in certain situations necessary, measure to control and eradicate TB. "
It then goes on to say the following.
"The elimination or reduction of the risk posed by an infected wildlife reservoir enables the other measures contained in the programme to yield the expected results, whereas the persistence of TB in these wildlife populations impedes the effective elimination of the disease."
Regarding short term measures, it further says the following. (The underlined text in the second paragraph is of particular note)
"It is necessary to further explore and assess the impact of certain well-defined recommended measures that can be evaluated and incorporated into TB eradication programmes in the short term.
Those deemed appropriate for the current situation in a particular member state should be applied to a relevant degree and, for those deemed inappropriate, a sound explanation for disregarding or modifying them should be provided."
EU funding received by England from 1998 to 2008, and a request to and response from DEFRA regarding this, is shown here.
Natural England typically received just less than 1,000 applications each year between 2001 and 2010 for licences to address issues relating to badgers76
Since 1998 TB levels have quadrupled in England whilst they have halved in Ireland
Details are given here.
In Great Britain the proportion of cattle reacting to the tb test reduced by a factor of 4 in just 5 years after 1960
The graph below shows the number and rate of tuberculin test reactors disclosed annually in Great Britain from 1956 to 2006. This was reproduced from the Report of the Chief Veterinary Officer 2006, Defra 2007.30
Recorded cattle incidences started to rise during the 'interim strategy' which was a badger culling strategy implemented between 1986 and 1998 largely due to the economic costs of the previous strategy.
Gassing of badger setts took place between 1975 and 1982.
The 'clean ring strategy' was introduced in 1982 and involved cage trapping badgers on land occupied by affected cattle herds, then on adjoining land, expanding outwards until no further infected animals were captured.62
In 1986 this approach was replaced by the 'interim strategy' which involved culling badgers only on land occupied by affected cattle herds. The last 'interim' culls were performed in 1998, prior to the start of the RBCT.62
This 'interim' strategy was recommended because a cost-benefit analysis63 showed the high cost of the clean ring policy could not be economically justified.27
DEFRA does not collate the number of newly infected herds which are closed.
A closed herd is often used to describe a herd in which all stock is replenished by artificial insemination. All cattle movement is recorded by the British Movement Cattle Scheme. In order to continue trading a farmer has to update a document known as a passport whenever an animal is bought, sold or moved. If it was possible to collate the number of newly infected herds which are closed, this would help to reveal the extent to which the disease is being spread by non cattle-to-cattle means. One such source is through badger-to-cattle contact such as occurs when cows ingest grass close to badger setts9 and when badgers enter farm buildings whilst searching for food.10 The following is an extract from a reply made by DEFRA who try to follow the guidelines outlined here when responding to requests.
We do not hold a record of the number of "TB restricted herds which solely rely on artificial insemination for regeneration and growth." Information on `closed herds' as we call them, is gathered during the disease inquiry following an incident of TB in a herd and is recorded on individual files at the time but is not collated to give an overall figure. In addition, occasionally, farmers will be forced to abandon their closed herd policy and buy in cattle because of the losses suffered during the breakdown, hence making our record inaccurate.
There are no restrictions on where 'sick / mended' badgers are released by 'sanctuaries' . These places are not licensed by DEFRA, and although they may use a 'voluntary protocol' to release badgers, this is neither drawn up nor approved by Defra. Animal hospitals are not legally required to test badgers for Tb before release.64
About 70 badgers each year were reported65 in 2007 to be released by the wildlife rescue centre called Secret World.66 In 2003 a voluntary Badger Rehabilitation Protocol67 was drawn up by
Secret World Wildlife Rescue
National Federation of Badger Groups and
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Although it recommends testing badger cubs, it says the following regarding the testing of adult badgers.
An adult badger should not be blood tested for bovine TB for the following reasons:
It will be released to its original location, so eliminating the opportunity for the spread of disease to new areas;
Recent published data show that a single blood test is unreliable (Forrester et al., 2001);
It is unlikely to be held in captivity long enough to conduct three blood tests.
The above extract67 refers to the release of untested adult badgers. The following extract66 refers to the release of badgers raised as cubs which the protocol67 does recommend testing. The RBCT Final Report27 described the ELISA badger test (or Brock test) as having low sensitivity which severely constrained abilities to identify and remove infected social groups. The protocol67 recommends applying this test 3 times to improve the detection rate.
Because badgers are highly social and territorial animals the release is not simple, by the time the cubs are ready for release they will not be able to be returned to where they were found, if that is known, because they will be treated as aliens by the resident badgers, at best being driven off and at worst killed, this means that a release site for the entire site has to be found.
If the badger test is 40% sensitive and is repeated 3 times, one in five infected badgers would be missed. In Gloucestershire when 300 badgers were triple tested each year for 4 years between 2006 and 2009 using a suite of tests with an overall sensitivity which was estimated to lie between 61% and 86%, about half of the tested badgers were found to be infected.109
In releasing badgers back into new areas, badger sanctuaries may be seeding TB into clean areas.
The BCG vaccine was only found to reduce the prevalence of TB in badgers by about 8% when administered for 4 years on a group by group basis
In 2006, infection was detected in 53% of the 112 badgers tested. The sensitivity of the combined test was reported to lie between 61% and 86%. At face value if this sensitivity is taken into account, the actual proportion of badgers infected in 2006 exceeded 70%. After 4 years, infection levels in vaccinates were calculated to be 33.8% compared to 36.8% in controls. This translates to the vaccine reducing badger infection by 8%. (36.8 - 33.8) / 36.8% = 8%. Due to small sample size this percentage should be treated as approximate. In addition to this, badgers were vaccinated on a group by group basis and not across a wide area so the mixing between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups was greater. This presented a greater challenge to those groups which were vaccinated and reduced the force of the infection to the control groups. Both of these influences would cause the impact of the vaccine to be less than if the vaccine were applied over a wide area as it typically would be in practice. However the very small benefit of the vaccine on badgers after 4 years as shown in the above graph gives no reassurance that a noticeable and worthwhile impact will be seen in cattle after 5 years in the Intensive Action Area of Wales.
For a more complete picture of how the vaccine reduced disease levels in badgers in the Gloucestershire trial, please click here.
Some farmers have been spending thousands of pounds on biosecurity to help reduce the risk of cross-species transfer. For example, diseased badgers tend to take up residence close to easily found food sources in the last few months of their lives. Typically this would be in or close to farm buildings. It is probably the smaller number with advanced disease, that result in overspill from the reservoir of infection in badgers, which infect cattle.9 These moribound super excretors are shedding large volumes of bacteria and are in frequent and close contact with cattle so, where buildings are open, perhaps measures should be taken to keep these badgers out.
Click on the thumbnails below to see pictures of a wall and sheeted gates designed to stop badgers entering farm buildings.
The thumbnails below show different views of a third gate with a drop-down which was designed by the farmer and steel worker to accommodate changing clearance with the ground as the gate is opened.
The cost of the above wall and gates came to £9403.81 excluding VAT. This cost breaks down as follows.
Cost (£)
Sand 135.10
Concrete blocks 396.00
Cement 133.71
Labour for wall construction 2092.00
Steel + labour for metal work 6647.00
Total 9403.81
This work was carried out on a small, 100-cow, family-run, dairy farm which went down with bovine TB in the summer of 2008. This is a closed farm in so far as no new stock from outside herds had been allowed on the farm and no stock had been taken off and returned to the farm since 1989. This farmer was fortunate in so far as the layout of the buildings were such that erecting a badger barrier was not prohibitively expensive. Many farm building layouts however are too open to allow effective sealing without incurring massive investment.
Subsequent to sealing his buildings in Sep 2008 this farmer cleared all tests up to April 2012 but failed the test on several subsequent occasions.
In September 2014, a thorough test was performed and thirteen reactors were found. Thumbnails of 2 of the 13 cattle condemned are shown below. The friesian was in calf with sexed semen and was expecting in 3 months time. She and her unborn calf will be slaughtered within the week. 25 reactors were found on 30th January 2015.
Since installing the barriers in 2008, each building was secured using the installed badger barriers at the end of each working day. In addition to allowing no new stock from outside herds to be allowed on the farm and taking no stock off and returning no stock to the farm since 1989, the farmer in March 2012 purchased a brand-new slurry spreader which has been used exclusively on the farm to avoid the risk of using shared, contaminated equipment.
Unfortunately the farm contains a number of badger setts. This may be relevant in view of the following extract taken from Reference 85.
It is known that badgers will roam more than a mile in search of food and although they use communal dung pits, faeces have been found on the surface of pasture and in hedgerows. They also urinate randomly. Pasture can therefore be contaminated by infected badgers and can thus be a hazard to healthy cattle when grazing despite vigorous control procedures within herds at risk.
TB was found to be the major cause of natural death in badgers in the largest study ever undertaken into causes of badger death
During the period 1973 to 1976 inclusive, 1206 badger carcases were examined for evidence of tuberculosis and other diseases. Tuberculosis was the major cause of natural death, killing 39 per cent of the "natural death" cases, followed by bite wounding and starvation. Road traffic accidents were the greatest single cause of death.115
Badger TB deaths peak in the Spring
Badgers push their boundaries most in Febraury / March.113,115 Badgers die relatively quickly from TB caused by bite wounding.114,115 Such wounding may occur when defending territory.114
Farmers should look out for dead badgers when turning out stock
The farmer who had taken all the measures described above to keep badgers out of his buildings (including spending £9000 on badger barriers) found in the week ending 14th March 2014, which was a month after becoming free to trade again, two dead badgers within a distance of 3 small fields apart in fields either side of his secured buildings. These were found whilst repairing fences prior to turning his cattle out to these fields. Pictures of the badgers, one of which was very badly decomposed are shown below. Click on them to see larger views.
Farmers are finding slow moving, moribund badgers in the same field as grazing stock
On 7th Nov 2014 at 11am in the morning the farmer found a very ill and lethargic badger wandering close to a hedge in a field in which cattle were grazing. All the cattle were immediately rounded up and housed for winter that same day. Shown below are thumbnails of badgers photographed on the farm in the same field as the sick badger. Notice that some of these pictures were taken 2 or 3 days before the sick badger was found. It is possible that the sick badger had recently been ejected from a sett which is shown in these photographs.
The farmer then found the following sick badger wandering in a field next to his farm buildings the next day during daylight on 8th Nov 2014.
Slow moving, moribund badgers at pasture will most likely draw cattle in as was found with sedated possums in New Zealand
The following videos show cattle interacting with sedated possums. The first video refers to the use of a stuffed badger to draw cattle in and the second video illustrates how possums draw cattle in.
Inquisitive cattle encountering slow moving badgers moribund with TB may be a route by which TB is being transmitted from badgers to cattle at pasture.
Although biosecurity and measures to keep cattle and badgers separate helps, some farms as illustrated above and below can still be badly affected by bovine TB
Although securing buildings against badger intrusion most likely helps, it is often impractical to achieve separation at pasture. This is probably why farmers who run closed herds with exemplary biosecurity but graze their cattle during the summer still find that their herds are frequently going down with TB.
On 8th October 2013 Farmers Weekly Interactive reported that Christianne Glossop the Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales reported the plight of a farm manager as follows.98
The Gelli Aur college dairy farm in Carmarthenshire was a typical example of the current problem.
Its farm manager, John Owen, has been grappling with TB for the past five years and has seen 400 cattle slaughtered due to TB, she explained.
She was also quoted as saying the following.
"The farm cat died of TB. They have been subject to 60-day testing, been fully compliant with all the rules and regulations and have very good biosecurity. Yet they are dealing with that problem for all that time. That's not unusual."
Farmers are leaving the industry because of bovine TB
Farmers in TB hotspot areas are finding it difficult to survive because of
the disruption, inconvenience and cost of implementing biosecurity such as sealing buildings as illustrated above for which no compensation is received from the government
the rigors of bovine tb testing every 60 days when a herd is infected
loss of irreplaceable bloodlines
the limited market when selling unslaughtered stock from a TB restricted herd
the thought of turning out cattle into summer pastures which may be overrun by badgers
These issues are accelerating the rate at which farmers are leaving the industry.
An annual levy of £1 on each bovine farmed in the UK would raise a revenue of just less than £10m each year.
According to a cattle and calves dataset annually updated by DEFRA, 9.8 million cattle and calves existed in the UK in 2013. If a £1 levy on each bovine each year was raised, this would raise an annual revenue of just less than £10m. If this fund was to be properly managed104,105, this fund could be used to fund substantial and badly needed areas of work which are not currently receiving attention by government ministers who are responsible for the way in which public funds are channelled. In my view one such area in need of better support is in the developemt of a badger culling method which is suitable for implementation.
In 2014/15 a net income of £56.5 million was derived from levy submitted by the agricultural industry.
The following shows an extract taken from the AHDB Corporate Plan 2014/17.106
The forecast total net levy for 2014/15 amounts to just over £56.5m and this is supplemented with grants and other income forecast to be in the region of £2.8m. The funds raised from each commodity sector are ring-fenced to ensure they are used to the benefit of the sectors from which they were raised.
Forecast net levy income 2014/15
Pigs in England
£8.825m
Beef and Lamb in England
£15.160m
Milk in Great Britain
Horticulture in Great Britain
Cereals and Oilseeds in UK
Potatoes in Great Britain
Grants and other income
Total net income
There are no plans to form a team dedicated and answerable to the farming industry regarding the control of bovine TB
In response to a query to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) asking if there was any intention to set up a TB Eradication Group which would advise farmers, the response was as follows.
... Historically levy boards have been discouraged from being involved with the TB issue as the debate has been a political one and best handled by trade associations ...111
The bad press which badger culling is receiving is causing this important and crucial aspect of TB control to be hived off to the National Farmers Union. The NFU have no obligation to respond to Freedom of Information requests. In addition to this, DEFRA may be failing in its duty of care to audit the NFU properly.116
Out of Northern Ireland, Wales, the Irish Republic, New Zealand and England, England's dairy herd numbers have reduced the most rapidly in the ten years leading up to 2008.
The rate at which dairy herd numbers are reducing each year gives an indication of the rate at which dairy farmers are leaving the industry. Out of Wales, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, New Zealand and England, the greatest reduction since 2000 is seen in England.
Data for the above graph was sourced as shown below.
New Zealand Request (Sent 09Apr09) Reply (Received 14Apr09) Received data
Wales Request (Sent 09Apr09) Reply (Received 27Apr09) See reply
Northern Ireland Request (Sent 09Apr09) Reply (Received 27Apr09) See reply
Irish Republic Request (Sent 09Apr09) Reply (Received 29Jun09) Received data
England Request (Sent 09Apr09) Reply (Received 07May09) Received data
At the current rate of decline, the majority of current dairy farmers may have left the dairy industry before the first positive affects of badger vaccination are seen
The British Cattle Veterinary Association14 said in July 2008 that Bovine TB vaccination will not be effective in badgers for the next 12 years. If this prediction turns out to be true, the graph below shows that this will be too late for the majority of farmers at the current rate at which they are leaving the industry.
Between 1994/95 and 20010/11, milk production in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland has increased whereas production in England has clearly reduced
England has approximately 10,000 dairy farms. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland there are a further 6,000.38 Between 1994/95 and 2010/11 milk production in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland has increased whereas production in England clearly reduced.
To see a graph of how England's milk production has reduced in relation to that of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, please click here.
Such data was sourced as shown below.
Milk production Request (Sent 15Apr09) Reply (Received 05May09) Received data
Out of England, Wales and Scotland, milk production to the economy makes the least contribution in England as shown in the table below.
Milk production
(Billion litres)32
Gross Value Added
in 2008 (£bn)59
Contribution which
made to GVA
assuming an average
milk price of 25 ppl(%)
England 8.7 1081.4 0.20
Wales 1.4 45.6 0.77
Scotland 1.3 108.8 0.30
In March 2009, milk production in the UK reached a 35-year low.31 In October 2008 Ireland, Germany and Italy were heavily fined for over producing whereas production in England was well under quota.13 The milk quota deficit in the UK will present export opportunities for neighbouring countries, particularly in the case of Cheddar cheese39.Cheese is the UK's largest dairy import category. In fact the UK is one of the largest markets for cheddar in the world and UK cheese production is expected to decline over the next 5 years (to 2015). Reference 39, which was published in September 2009, presents a revealing and detailed picture of the state of world markets in dairy products.
In 8 years since 2000, the UK's trade deficit in milk and dairy produce has steadily increased from £500m to £1,200m.
trade deficit = imports - exports
The following graph shows how the UK's trade deficit in milk and dairy products has increased since 1990.
The figures were reported by DairyCo50 to be sourced from Customs & Excise and are shown in the following link labelled "Received data".
Trade Deficit Request (Sent 10Jun11) Reply (Received 13Jun11) Received data
Good questions to ask
Why is the incidence of bovine tb in the UK and Ireland more than 5 times23 greater than in any other European country?
In all but 3 years in the last 20 years (up to 2006), the incidence of bovine tb in Great Britain has significantly increased each year and there has been a very large increase in the last year (2008). Why did the proportion of cattle reacting to the tb test in Great Britain reduce by a factor of 4 in just 5 years after 1960? How was this achieved and why can we not do this now?
How has New Zealand been able to reduce the number of infected herds from 1500 to 150 in 10 years since 1994? (These numbers were read off a bar chart in the Government Veterinary Journal.)
Until recently, out of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, England was the only country which was not looking at reducing badger numbers as part of its bovine TB eradication plan.
On 7th July 2008 Hilary Benn issued a statement saying that badger culling cannot meaningfully contribute to the future control of cattle TB. Prior to making this statement Mr Benn referred to the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) which was overseen by the Independent Scientific Group. He observed that bovine TB increases outside a culled area due to disturbance and movement of badgers. Work which followed on from the RBCT, and which was funded by Defra and published on 9th April 2008 continued to monitor herd breakdown incidences after culling stopped in October 2005. This work11 found that breakdown incidences were 54% lower in culled areas, instead of 23% lower as reported in the RBCT, and that in neighbouring areas where the negative affects of perturbation were seen, incidences were actually 23% lower instead of 24% higher. In other words, after culling ceased, incidence reductions were sustained. In fact radical benefits were seen in both the culled and adjacent areas. In fact data published in April 2011 showing data up to February 2011, which is 5.5 years after culling stopped, shows that in the treatment areas herd incidence is still 37% lower than that in the survey-only areas.60
In view of this, how can it be said that badger culling cannot meaningfully contribute to the future control of cattle TB?
In the Final Report of the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB27 it says "we have concerns, previously expressed, concerning the capacity of Defra policy groups to translate scientific findings into policy. This we consider stems, in part, from Defra's own organisational structures which we believe enforce a separation of policy development and the scientific evidence on which policy should be based."
Is the decision on badger culling an example of where scientific findings do not properly translate into policy? Please click here for more detail.
In South Devon, a farmer found in 2008 that his whole herd cleared the test for tb only then to find that cattle slaughtered after clearing the test exhibited tb lesions. Conversely, it was reported18 in May 2008 that a farmer of pedigree guernseys suffered the slaughter of 80 cows to then find that only 5 showed symptoms during examinations after slaughter. How much is the government spending on improving the sensitivity and accuracy of testing techniques compared to the bill of £ 60m19 which the tax payer is paying each year for routine testing and compensation? It should be noted however that if the disease is not found in a post-mortem examination the animal may still be infected. Click here for an explanation why.
The proportion of false negative and false positive results when TB testing, and a request to and response from DEFRA regarding this, is shown here.
Why is the cost of a TB test three times greater in England than it is in New Zealand. Please click here for details.
Milk production in the UK in March 2009 was the lowest it has been for 35 years.31 In addition to this the average age of dairy farmers is now 60.20 Has the government properly looked into the repercussions should the supply base shrink further, processing plants close and hard-to-create infrastructure is lost?
Vaccination of badgers by injection will be difficult and expensive to administer. An oral vaccine for badgers is not expected to be available until 2014. [Editor note added on 13 January 2015: This did not happen.] In fact the National Trust in the BBC April 2011 announcement to vaccinate badgers on its estates said that it will be injecting the vaccine. Although in theory the vaccination of cattle may offer the most expedient solution, it is illegal by European law. In fact, EU legislation currently prohibits the use of bovine tuberculosis vaccines, as the use of injectable BCG vaccine for bovine tuberculosis in cattle interferes with the current tuberculin skin test. Changing such legislation will require successful negotiation with the Commission in Brussels and other member states.26
How does the government believe it is going to be able to legalise the vaccination of cattle when 11 European countries have in recent years been bovine tb free?23
In 2009/10 the tax payer paid £87 million58 to address bovine TB in Great Britain. By how much does this cost need to rise or what disease development needs to occur before it is universally accepted that a comprehensive and robust set of measures is needed to reduce bovine TB?
When did things start to go wrong?
Farmers in high incidence areas of England are now being asked to foot the bill for culling badgers when in 1986 it was decided not to continue funding the clean ring strategy because it was deemed to be too expensive.
The 'clean ring strategy' was introduced in 1982 and involved cage trapping badgers on land occupied by affected cattle herds, then on adjoining land, expanding outwards until no further infected animals were captured.
In 1986 this approach was replaced by the 'interim strategy' which involved culling badgers only on land occupied by affected cattle herds. The last 'interim' culls were performed in 1998, prior to the start of the badger culling trial known as the RBCT.
This 'interim' strategy was recommended and implemented because a cost-benefit analysis showed the high cost of the clean ring policy could not be economically justified.
What a mistake!!
Many farmers in high incidence areas are now leaving the industry partly due to the expense and lingering hardship associated with bovine TB.
In 2000, according to Customs & Excise, the annual UK dairy trade deficit was less than £0.5b. In the ten years since then the deficit has steadily increased so that in 2010 the deficit exceeded £1.2b.
What is seen as the future for farming in South West England and what are the reasons behind this distinct lack of willingness to allocate the necessary resource and commitment to address bovine TB in this country?
There are two reasons why the burgeoning badger population is not being addressed to achieve TB free status. One is the government's unwillingness to make a commitment and put serious investment into achieving a long term aim. The other is loss of votes in the face of a misinformed public who do not understand the reasons why UK field trials of cattle vaccination are being stalled and why badger vaccination is currently seen as an unproven, distant solution for which the first stage in badger trials on an oral vaccine in the Republic of Ireland have yet to be published [This was current on 13 January 2015].
Current strategies are not working. Bold measures are needed to bring benefits in a timescale which will help the current industry.
If disease eradication is the goal, one option would be to change the legal status of badgers to match that in the rest of Europe.74 This will bring about a large reduction in the size of the badger population. As the size of the problem continues to grow, pressure to remove protection status will increase.
The farming industry must take on more of the financial burden. In tackling bovine TB, New Zealand are widely regarded as being world leading. However New Zealand did not start to get on top of their problem unitl farmers took control of the problem. In order to achieve this, the farming industry must be prepared to take on more of the financial burden as was done in New Zealand,83 and become less dependent on state-financed compensation. More importantly, the government needs to review how TB is funded and transfer these costs.
Potential for recovery
Cumbria was by far the worst affected county for Foot and Mouth. In fact so many cattle were slaughtered in 2001 in Cumbria that cattle number was about half what it was in 2000.82 Suspension of TB testing and subsequent restocking to fill the void caused strains of TB which were specific to Devon to appear in Cumbria. The test interval in 2000 throughout Cumbria was 4 years and in 2004 measured levels of TB peaked.82 Disease levels then dropped each year for the next 3 years as a result of annual testing in affected areas. In fact disease levels had largely recovered by 2007 and in Cumbria at the time of writing this (Jan 2015) most of Cumbria in terms of geographical area is still tested only once every 4 years.84 This gives an indication of how effective cattle measures can be in the absence of a wildlife vector and why it is so necessary to eliminate the wildlife vector in the South West of England and Wales.
Future prospects, the need to act now, and lack of support from DEFRA
Bovine TB has the potential to cripple cattle farming in the UK. More than 95% of commercial dairy herds which have existed since 1990 have been TB restricted in the worst affected counties in South West England.86 Dairy enterprise setups depend on the continual sale of young stock to maintain running financial capital. If a restricted dairy herd fails to go clear after the minimum 4-month period, mounting pressure due to overstocking can lead to formidable stress. The combined impact of
inability to sell stock at unrestricted markets,
escalating feed prices from over-stocking,
increasing workload as unsold stock accumulates,
reduced income, and
inability to plan due to uncertainty over the next test result
is having a truly devastating impact on thousands of farming businesses in the West of England.95
Both DEFRA and the NFU exclusively quote the results of the RBCT badger culling trial from which it is estimated that at best a 16% benefit in terms of reduced TB can be expected over a 9-year timescale if the cull takes place in a 150km2 area.92 In the last 9 years, TB in terms of both cattle and herd incidence has increased by 65% as shown in Fig 100 below. As such, for a cull area of 150km2, if no other factors change except for the culling of badgers, TB incidence can be expected to continue to climb substantially even if the expected benefit of culling is achieved. It should be noted that the 2 pilot areas in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset measure 311km2 and 256km2 respectively.99 However if account is only taken of what happens inside the cull area with no account for the negative impact outside it, the upper limit to the benefit is still only limited to about 27%.92
Fig 98 below shows how the total number of TB-infected herds in the South West and the Thornbury district has changed since 1981. Unlike the partial culling carried out during the RBCT, badgers were cleared from the Thornbury district between 1975 and 1981 and then allowed to recolonize from 1981 onwards. The data was supplied by DEFRA, and it can be seen that bovine TB levels dropped substantially and have remained low relative to levels across the whole of South West England for at least 30 years. If this relative difference is due to the culling of badgers, this is an enormous payback for just 6 years of culling effort.
It should be noted that Fig 98 below shows total herd incidences (confirmed + unconfirmed). In order to reveal more clearly the impact of culling, results presented in the RBCT analysis use confirmed incidences only.97 In fact if confirmed incidences for the Thornbury exercise are examined only, no incidences occurred from 1981 to 1991 i.e. for 10 years after culling stopped.96
It is believed that this substantial impact was principally due to the culling of badgers. In fact Section 5.77 on Page 114 of the RBCT Final Report27 states that culling was very likely to be the reason for the reduced cattle TB incidence inside the gassing area. Also when questioned by Owen-Paterson in 2004, the then Under Secretary of State for DEFRA, Ben Bradshaw, replied as follows.91
No other contemporaneous change was identified that could have accounted for the reduction in TB incidence within the area.
Further details of the data shown in the above graph are given here.
However both DEFRA and the NFU are ignoring what has happened in the Thornbury district.
When DEFRA quotes expected benefits based on the partial culling carried out in the RBCT it affectively says to the British public, that in future policy, badger culling cannot play a big part in TB control and that bigger gains will be had through looking at other issues. Judging by comments in the media, this is what a large proportion of the public believe, and this is of course very understandable in view of the information which DEFRA and the NFU are putting across to them. In fact in August 2014, Nigel Gibbens, the Government chief vet, insisted that badger culling was only a small part of the overall strategy.112
But how can an area be thoroughly culled and then left for badgers to recolonize when the Bern convention forbids it? Does it forbid it? This is open to interpretation. In the convention, there is an exception that allows for the regulated management of wildlife for the purpose of preventing serious damage to livestock provided this is not detrimental to the survival of the population concerned.93,94
In addition to this, DEFRA are not prepared to take responsibility and play an active part in culling badgers. They are leaving this to farmers who neither have the time, the organisational structure, nor the mustered resource to carry out this challenging role properly. As illustration of a vital role which DEFRA are not taking towards bovine TB control, on 24th June 2013, DEFRA replied to a request90 under the Environmental Information Regulations Act saying there were no research and development projects investigating alternative culling methods to free shooting, and as such no trials of alternative culling methods were being run.
Not all governments are giving their cattle industry low priority. In fact, the Irish government places food at the heart of an export led growth strategy.87 Indeed Ireland are looking to significantly increase milk production in the next 10 years.88 TB can have a dreadful impact not only on dairy farms but also on beef farms and farms with other farmed cattle. However, if Ireland makes a serious attempt to increase its milk production in the next 10 years, the weak measures outlined in DEFRA's recently announced draft strategy89 coupled with DEFRA's drive to redirect CAP funding from Pillar 1 to Pillar 2 will only help to turn Ireland's ambition into reality. This will be helped by the shrinkage of a TB-restricted and CAP-disadvantaged dairy industry in England and Wales.
Governance of strategy for controlling TB is critically important and is very rarely discussed. Governance is important because a game changer is needed to make the government focus on controlling TB and this may never happen. An example of what is needed to make this happen is if cats, dogs or humans start going down with the disease in numbers. If surveillance can be assumed to be adequate (big assumption?), it is fortunate that this is not happening. However this means that very little action is currently being taken to address the current and worsening situation regarding the spread of bovine TB across England.
In essence, effort has to follow the money as is clearly illustrated by the statement made by Dr Christianne Glossop in this link . If there is no money, there will be little effort.
The reason why ministers currently set strategy is because they are responsible for how money in the public purse is spent. As such governance will not change until funding moves away from the public purse. Farmers are the only people who actually need TB controlled and governance will not go to farmers unless they fund the work. If funding was to change, the management network and terms of engagement which are set up in order to manage operations will be critical. As found in New Zealand, until both the funding and network are in place and set up correctly, progress will not be made.
Unfortunately current prospects for farmers in the UK taking control are bleak. The following is a quote100 from Dr Paul Livingstone who is TB Eradication and Research Manager of the New Zealand program.
...from my understanding of the UK situation, UK farmers don't appear to want to be involved - especially don't want to pay. Once farmers accept that they should pay, then they can start having a say in the form of the programme. From the New Zealand experience, it wasn't until farmers started paying and taking responsibility for the programme that it started making progress.
Details of the steps which New Zealand took to cause their TB levels to plummet and the order in which the crucial initial steps were taken are given here.
What the UK needs to do to reach TB free status
Although the UK's problem is somewhat different to that of New Zealand's, not least because the UK's principal wildlife reservoir is in a native species whilst that in New Zealand is in an introduced pest, broadly three things need to happen in the UK before the current worsening situation can be turned around. These are as follows.
Firstly, it is inevitable that farmers will need to contribute a greater share of the finance. It will be impossible for farmers to steer the programme and take politics out of the driving seat if they do not finance it. However cattle farmers are already paying a substantial levy each year. The forecasted levy income from cattle farmers for 2014/15 to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) from Great Britain (Dairy) and England (Beef and lamb) is about £22 million.106 Of this, £36,000 is being used to control TB.108 This is for a long term, partly public-funded project (genetic resistance of cattle to TB) which may be of no, or very little, benefit to farmers who are paying the levy. This situation does not make any sense. TB is currently one of the biggest problems facing the cattle industry. Why are so little of the funds submitted by farmers being channelled into addressing TB and why is the existing program not looking at reducing TB in ways which are more aligned to what farmers need? According to DairyCo, which is a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, this TB program was discussed with the NFU, The Bovine TB Eradication Advisory Group and DairyUK.108 In my view, the TB program needs to be accountable to farmers rather than just discussed with an elite few.
Secondly, a dedicated and properly resourced team needs to be set up which is solely responsible for reducing TB. Both the NFU and individual farmers have other commitments. There is already a Bovine TB Eradication Advisory Group for England (TBEAG) but the job of this group is to advise ministers. This means that the role of the group is to satisfy the aspirations and needs of government ministers who are hamstrung with the need to placate a general public for whom bovine TB is a minor issue. A group needs to be set up which serves the needs of the farming industry who need TB controlled. As such a group is needed which is independent of government in terms of legislation as is TBfree New Zealand. (TBfree New Zealand is a subsidiary of OSPRI). The group in England (or perhaps Great Britain) should report to farmers, set targets, and be responsible for hitting these targets. It should be responsible for monitoring, reporting and reviewing progress, and be accountable in terms of how funds are spent and how targets are met. In order to achieve these goals, New Zealand's TBfree team (formerly directed by the Animal Health Board) from the start included a small number of paid staff whose performance and salary are reviewed each year by an independent outside organisation.
Thirdly, the government's intent must change. Currently much effort goes into pacifying and mollifying the general public. Effort needs to be redirected into actually looking at ways of reducing TB for today's generation of farmers. In order for programmes aimed at developing cost-effective and practical means of controlling TB to come to fruition, the government will need to set up an environment which is conducive to farmers playing a leading role to control TB. For example the government will need to overhaul the way in which TB control is funded. It will then need to play a pivotal role in setting up a TB team which will be responsible for reducing TB. It will finally need to implement a framework which will make it easier to roll out a badger control programme.
The catalyst for change will be when farmers pay the major share and a dedicated TB team is set up whose remit is to reduce TB. The first of these moves will need to be initiated by government and the government will need to be party to the second, so the solution lies with the government. The commitment from UK governments has so far been insufficient to make this happen and the farming industry in each country will only be able to take responsibility when their circumstances allow. This is unfortunate because the New Zealand government took action when the percentage of herds which became restricted at some point during the year due to TB (including unconfirmed) reached 3.5%. This occurred in the mid 90's. In England at the end of 2013 that percentage (which excludes restrictions due to overdue tests) exceeded 13%, in Wales that percentage exceeded 14% and in Northern Ireland that percentage equalled 7.9%. This begs the following question "How bad does the situation need to get in England and other countries in the UK before governments take action?"
Current government advice
The Animal Health and Welfare Board for England (AHWBE) is the principal source of departmental advice to Defra ministers on all strategic health and welfare matters relating to all kept animals in England.117 Michael Seals, the chairman of the AHWBE debriefed the Farmers Guardian118 on what was said in a workshop on TB governance and funding in the Autumn of 2014. The following shows some of the statements which he made.
... not too much should be read into the New Zealand model.
It was necessary to define areas which 'only Government could deliver', such as badger culling.
It has always been about creating what is called the English solution.
Discussions on a compulsory industry levy had not yet taken place.
There is one thing for certain about this particular disease ... ministers are in charge.
When referring to the option of taking out a compulsory industry levy Michael Seals was more enthusiastic about farmers taking out insurance for consequential losses of a TB outbreak.118 Editor note: This outlook is naive and ridiculous because insurers will only be able to cover events over which the person taking out the insurance has reasonable control. After a herd goes through a TB breakdown it becomes very difficult, if not impossible, to take out insurance.
How much will farmers need to pay to fund 55% of the total TB control program?
In England, dairy and beef farmers will now need to pay about £10 per bovine each year. To see how this cost was calculated, please click here. As TB continues to spread, the cost of putting things right will continue to go up.
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The effects of annual widespread badger culls on cattle tuberculosis following the cessation of culling
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Charles Blow Breaks Donald Trump's Media Metagame on CNN
Donald Trump’s ascendance to power over the Republican Party was made possible by how he outmaneuvered the American corporate news media. As I explained in an earlier Salon piece, Donald Trump, with his background in reality TV and professional wrestling, created a spectacle that rewarded him with at least $3 billion in free media coverage. Trump’s sophisticated meta game also allowed him to exploit a risk-averse news-media establishment that operates according to a clear and predictable set of rules and conventions governing “the boundaries of the approved public discourse.”
These rules and conventions consist of maintaining the appearance of “objectivity” and “fairness,” perpetuating a “both sides do it” framework when discussing Republicans and Democrats, and an obsessive need to present “all sides of an issue.” Clear statements of fact and truth are treated as mere opinions though as Paul Krugman once said, “if one party declared that the earth was flat, the headlines would read ‘Views Differ on Shape of Planet.’”
The American corporate news media also prefers to feature generalists who understand these rules as opposed to real experts who will not obey said script. Ultimately, in covering political campaigns and elections, the American corporate news media is more interested in reporting about the “horse race” — because it is an easy story to communicate — than in critically evaluating the specific policy proposals and qualifications of a given candidate.
When confronted by the Donald Trump phenomenon, the American corporate news media was flummoxed by his disregard for facts, inconsistency and willingness to rapidly change his positions on a given issue, overt racism and bigotry of his followers and movement, fascism-fueled hostility and contempt for journalists, and utter disregard for the rules of normal politics. Media elites and other opinion leaders were paralyzed in an act of political rubbernecking while Trump pummeled and mocked them all the way to the literal and metaphorical political bank.
On Monday’s edition of “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon,” New York Times columnist and author Charles Blow refused to comply with Donald Trump’s political con job and an American corporate news media that has acted irresponsibly in aiding and abetting his presidential campaign. In an exchange with Donald Trump’s minion Bruce Levell, Charles Blow did not allow Trump’s clear pattern, habit and strategy of racism and bigotry to be obfuscated or repackaged.
As detailed by a transcript from CNN:
BLOW: And I know a bigot when I see a bigot. And you are supporting a bigot and that makes you part of the bigotry that’s Donald Trump.
LEVELL: I know someone who doesn’t tell the truth on national TV when I see it, sir.
BLOW: Right. And I know this. A bigot is a bigot. You’re supporting a bigot. That makes you part of the bigotry. And you are part of the problem that black America faces. That what black people don’t need is not somebody to solve our problems like we are some sort of algebraic equation. What black people need is dismantling . . .
The exchange continued:
LEVELL: . . . you can’t sit on national TV and call someone a racist, sir.
BLOW: I called him a bigot and I called you a supporter of that bigotry, and therefore part of that bigotry. And you are part of what the problem with African-Americans.
LEMON: Let him get in. Let him get in. Go ahead, Bruce.
BLOW: Yes, I said that to you.
Charles Blow conducted a master class in how best to derail Donald Trump’s news-media con job. Blow was direct, unapologetic, did not concede any territory of agreement or compromise and clearly communicated how Trump’s behavior and policies are racist and that by implication his supporters are as well.
Charles Blow also used the racial optics of his segment on CNN to great effect. Donald Trump, like other Republicans, deploys black conservatives as human mascots to deliver some of his most toxic, offensive and racist policies. This is a cynical attempt to leverage the symbolic moral authority of African-Americans to deflect and defuse any suggestion that Trump and other conservatives are racists or that their policies will have a negative impact on nonwhites. Because Don Lemon, Bruce Levell and Charles Blow are all black men, Levell was not allowed an easy out or pivot.
In social psychology, the bystander effect is a phenomenon whereby a group or crowd of people will often ignore an individual person who is in distress. This dynamic changes when a member of the crowd or group decides to render aid to the person in distress. Other people will then follow the new rule — what is now one of care and concern — instead of ignoring and looking away.
On Monday’s edition of “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon,” Charles Blow established a new rule for how journalists and other commentators should interact with Donald Trump’s agents and rabble. Blow is one of the few prominent voices who have consistently refused to legitimize or excuse-make for Donald Trump’s political campaign of bigotry, racism, nativism and lies. The question now becomes, Will other members of the Fourth Estate follow Charles Blow’s lead and the new rule that he has tried to establish or will they continue to be supplicants for Donald Trump?
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Imagine how great the "progressive" furor would be if the Bush Administration had suddenly denied a visa to an award-winning Colombian journalist because of his reportage on human rights abuses by his American-backed government.
Would we not have heard, rightly, how this draconian action exemplified the administration's tyrannical nature, its use of raw, arbitrary power to throttle any voices trying to shed light on the very murky corners of the Drug War and Terror War operations in Colombia that are armed and funded with billions of dollars from American taxpayers?
Would this not have been added to a long train of similar abuses of power – arbitrary confinement and indefinite detention; concentration camps; shielding torturers; escalating pointless wars and killing countless civilians; running secret armies, assassins and covert operations throughout the world, etc. – and served up as a damning indictment of a lawless regime?
So now let us see what our leading progressive lights have to say about the case of Hollman Morris, “a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting,” who has just been denied a visa by the Obama Administration, preventing him from taking up a fellowship at Harvard University, as AP reports.
Morris – who “produces an independent TV news program called "Contravia," [that] has been highly critical of ties between illegal far-right militias and allies of outgoing President Alvaro Uribe, Washington's closest ally in Latin America" – has been to the United States many times before. In fact, he was free to enter the country under the loathed Bush Administration. But now, in our bright and glorious progressive era, he has suddenly – dare we say arbitrarily – been declared “permanently ineligible for a visa under the ‘Terrorist activities’ section of the USA Patriot Act,” AP reports.
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6. The Barnes Museum
Barnes & Noblesse
Southington (Google Maps Location)
So check this out: Back in the day, some guy named Amos Bradley married some lady named Sylvia Barnes. They had a house built in Southington in 1836, popped out some kids, made some investments, then their kids had some kids, and one of those kids was named creatively named Bradley Barnes. This particular creatively named kid was a rather consciencious child (some would say obsessive -compulsive) who grew up in, added on to, and ultimately donated the very same house to the town to be a museum. That house, formerly known as the Bradley homestead, is now the Barnes Museum. And take it from me – an avowed Victorian-phobe – it’s quite lovely.
It really is. MuseumQuest co-nerd EdHill and I agreed to meet up after work on another freakishly warm winter’s night on Queen Street, just south of Southington’s commercial area. From the outside, this is an impressive manse to be sure. We were greeted at the door by a college age kid who asked what type of tour we were looking for. Did we want the hardcore item-by-item hour-long one, the more palatable half-hour version, or would we prefer to simply walk around ourselves. “Hmmm,” I said, “let’s go for the lazy man’s version and see where it takes us.” Well, as a credit to our young guide and to the museum itself, we ended up getting the hardcore tour. Really, would you have expected any less from MuseumQuest?
After paying an extra dollar admission and apologizing up front to the tourguide Dave for all the pictures we’d be taking and the stupid jokes we’d be making, we were on our way. The house was set up with a Christmas theme beginning out in the enclosed porch area. Here we saw the first of about 10 fully decorated Christmas trees. Unlike the stuffy Butler-McCook Museum, The Barnes was okay with us taking pictures of their Christmas trees, so here’s to you, Butler-McCook! Punks.
Throughout the entire house, there were little 6×9 cards with retyped diary entries from Bradley Barnes. This dude was a bit on the crazy side I think. He saved all the receipts of pretty much everything in the entire house, and wrote on each the circumstances surrounding the item’s purchase. This is great for us 100 years later, but a bit creepy all the same. I’ve come to realize early in this ridiculous venture that a large portion of museums are the end result of one person’s OCD. Whereas MY mentality tells me to donate and discard EVERYTHING I possibly can, Barnes’ told him to save and catalog everything he ever owned. EdHill’s tells him whenever “Battlestar Gallactica” is on the air.
As I said, three generations of the same family lived in the house which was donated to the town in 1973. Bradley Barnes was responsible for making the museum worthy by adding on a rather large addition and bringing in the plumbing and electricity. I never really got the full story as to how the family came to be rich, but there was something about some investments and factory ownership I think. Although, we found a very curious bit of ephemera up in the office – turns out all good people work at Hartford insurance giants.
We checked out the main living room and then it was up the stairs to the second floor. Actually, before we made the trip Ed found a true treasure – an antique television. Not just any antique television, but one that only played his favorite shows!
Leaving the TV to head upstairs, we immediately noticed something; this house is incredibly well built. The floors don’t creak, the walls are flush, the thresholds are level, and the whole joint smells nice. Although MuseumQuest is in its infancy, I can’t believe this will be the norm with all the old houses we have yet to see.
On the second floor, it became clear that this house museum was impeccable. Everything has been so well preserved and documented. Our guide brought us into the bedroom where he showed us a “Lockside dresser.” Instead of each drawer requiring lock and key, there is a sort of bar down the side that takes car of its security in one fell swoop. “Pretty cool,” Ed and I thought, “Why did that idea wane?”
After the bedroom, which contained the first of many Leela Barnes original paintings hung throughout the house, we checked out the bathroom. To be honest, it was just a bathroom. From there we went over to see… hey, where’s Ed?
Oh that Carlos Mencia… Next was another dressing room of some sort, which contained various family artifacts. Stuff like Peanut’s tiny shoes. Peanut? Yeah, that’s what they called Bradley’s diminutive mom. There was an old radio and some pictures and a blanket someone had made out of someone else’s wedding dress. (This is the danger in writing these things 3 weeks after the fact.) Again, everything was well kept and despite my lack of details here, our Tour Guide was very knowledgable. And he was getting increasingly intrigued by these two guys in their 30’s making jokes, having fun, and taking way too many pictures. And that’s half the fun.
At the back of the house was the office which was again another little mini-museum of sorts. Here we saw the best evidence yet of Bradley’s unchecked OCD: A bookcase stacked top to bottom with detailed records of every receipt he or his wife ever received. Every penny spent was documented here and kept for posterity. I love it when I learn about people more obsessive than I. Speaking of obsessive people, Ed had disappeared again…
Mission Accomplished! And thank goodness too, because like the President, we learned that Bradley Barnes never joined the military but fancied himself a tough-guy. He collected Civil War memorabilia and proudly displayed it as if he killed a few Rebs in his day. Hmmmm, rich daddy, born in Connecticut, went to Yale on legacy… very interesting. Once Ed rejoined us, we went back downstairs into the formal living room. There, another beautiful mantlepiece dominated the room – the house has 5 fireplaces afterall. Aside from yet another Christmas tree, this room had a bunch of ribbons strung up on the hanging chandelier. Turns out, in Victorian days this was a Christmas morning custom. The parents would string a ribbon for each child throughout the house – up, over, under, and through everything, leading the child to the most special present. Pretty neat.
Over in the small library off of the living room there was a bunch of “Oriental” art. I guess this was a big thing back in the Victorian day, as I’m learning. As Ed isn’t really into Asian pieces as much as I am, he was back out in the living room belly-laughing at his favorite sitcom now:
I did note a little sign by the television (a 1949 Motorola, the first in town); it turns out that Alabama was the first state in the country to make Christmas an official holiday. At that, I turned to Ed and said, “Wow, Alabama was at the forefront of something?” And our guide finally broke down and had a good laugh. Good for that young man! Old Victorian house museums are HI-larious!
And they also invite good-natured argument. The living room had exposed dark green waxed cypress beams across the ceiling and featured warm, dark tones, recessed seating in the bay window pod, and a fieldstone fireplace. The light fixtures were a bit deco as well – it actually reminded me of some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s stuff which Ed being a huge fan of Victorian architecture, hated. We actually argue modern versus classic all the time. So… Which of you readers want to join us next?
On into the dining room we ventured. Boring. Ok, what about the goblet room? Boring too, but at least it was unique. Leela Barnes enjoyed collecting glass goblets of all colors and here was a very large collection of them. As the room was all glass and at the front of the house, exposed to the very busy Queen Street, I wondered aloud if the Sun ever hit them at such an angle that it produced a focused death ray into the eyes of an oncoming driver. Alas, it has not. Not yet anyways. Mwuh-huh-huh-huhhhh.
The last unseen part of the house was the kitchen. The whole thing was straight-up 1940’s style replete with a working 1949 GE refrigerator. Off the kitchen was the original kitchen from the 19th century – unheated and containing a massive wood-fired cast iron stove. In the summer, the 20th century family would use this space as it was cooler than the house. “Wow, Ed, you don’t see this everyday, it’s a bottle of cider from 1887 – Ed?”
Oh myyyyy, a shirtless Sulu had distracted my partner to the point of no return. No matter, we only had the pantry remaining. And a pantry is, well… it’s a pantry. Actually, there was a display of several old keys and locks. I was immediately reminded of the New Britain Industrial Museum’s extensive lock and key collection. But suffice it to say, once we make it out to Terryville’s Lock Museum, you better believe we’ll make fun of paltry displays like this!
We gave Dave our sincere thanks for the tour. He is actually the groundskeeper of the Barnes Museum who developed an affinity for the place. Such an affinity, the kid knew everything about it. Ok, he didn’t know if the tub was cast iron or not when Ed asked, but really… who cares. The half-hour “speed tour” I requested turned into 75 minutes of fun. As a reward for being his favorite tour group ever (Dave’s words, not mine), he let us in on a secret. Out back (waaaay out back, must have been fun in winter) was the old family outhouse. What made this unique was that there were 5 different seats! One for each family member. This of course conjures up visions of the whole family enjoying a nice post-meal discussion while sitting together, but I doubt that ever happened. Though damn, that is a funny thought.
Dave expressed interest in this blog/future website/future guidebook and seemed genuinely perplexed by our Quest. Meanwhile, Ed and I were wondering why a decent college kid was spending his Thursday nights telling the elderly about colored goblets and 100 year old chamber pots. But then I found out that Dave was a life-long Eagles fan so now we are friends for life.
Alright! 6 down, many hundreds to go!
Every old house museum has to have a portrait of a homely old woman…
And a homely guy…
And a boring dining room…
And a historically racist Mammy doorstop, of course.
My man Dave explains the very smart and savvy lockside dresser
Ed’s foot next to Mama Peanut’s shoe. Whatever happened to footbinding anyway?
Ahhh! More Heads! (Again for ob, Bui, and family only)
Ed’s best joke of the night: “Did the lady of the house work at Friday’s?”
My best joke of the night: Convincing Ed I snuck some 63 year old Chee-Wees because if snack companies advertise “Aged Cheddar” on their Cheetos today, wouldn’t truly aged cheddar be even better?
This old clipping was sent to me by Friend of CTMQ, Irene McHugh.
Hours: M-W & F: 1-5PM, Thu: 1-7. First and Last Sat’s, 1-5. Or by Appointment
Food & Drink? The Wood ‘N Tap a mile north up Queen Street
Children? Yes, but be quick about it
You’ll like it if: You save everything
You won’t like it if: You are Victorian-Adverse
Freebies: None
For the Curious:
All you ever wanted to know about the Bradley-Barnes’s
This site just taught me that the first breakneck rat trap was made in Southington. Awesome.
Explanation of the title pun
The history of Mammy
Stupid Victorian Christmas traditions
This dude loves his outhouses
Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Hartford County, Historic Houses, Southington
Beverly Weeden says
My Mom was a cousin to Leila who married Bradley Barnes..I have so many memories of “Cousin Bradley” and the old home in Southington..As a child I loved his old Pope Hartford car. I have a couple of old photo albums of Cousin Bradley’s with photos of the house and the awsome gardens that Peter used to maintain. AHHH memories…
Bob Upson says
Great little article! Just one FYI: The Barnes Museum isn’t on Queen Street, it’s on North Main Street. (It’s all Rt-10 but Queen Street ends well to the north. :)
Lawrence Bryant says
Several idiot comments on the photos here,very unprofessional.
Please let me know what led you to believe anything about this site was professional.
Gina Consolini says
The woman died @45 yrs old. Her husband was so sad he closed up the house for many years.He died if I remember correctly in his early 90’s.
The library & the hospital were built by this family.
I was in both as a teenager. They gave alot to the town because of their generosity..& community spirit.
Thankyou Barnes.
Robert W Peterson says
We are quite sure there are many families who are eternally grateful to the Barnes/Bradley families for their contributions which led to Bradley Memorial Hospital.
The museum is certainly well worth visting for adults!
Well conducted tour very informative.
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Ok, so I had no idea it had been so long since I had written you a story. None at all. I thought I had missed maybe 2 or 3, but not this long. I apologize for that and will do my best to keep up better. It is a busy time when what feels like one month is actually three. Woops.
I am on a roll. My guitar body is glued together, I am halfway through securing binding onto its sides. While I pull strips of tape from the industrial dispenser, nicking my knuckles on its angry serrated edge in the process, I am planning what I need to do next. Around 11:45am, my dad walks into the shop and says, "I want some breakfast. Want to go to Sarah's?" I check the time and while I have been working for several hours, my breakfast having been consumed at breakfast time, I say yes. I stop what I am working on and go.
I used to say no thanks when my dad asked me to accompany him to get breakfast at his favorite local general store because I didn't want to eat at that odd time between breakfast and lunch. I now understand he goes for so much more than just breakfast. Fox Creek Trading Post has been in operation for generations and one of the things I love about it is that, like Rugby itself, not much has changed. The shelves lining the walls that reach all the way to the ceiling are still piled with goods, clothing, and toys. I found a doll dressed as a nun, some dusty cigar boxes on a top shelf and a sign advertising shoe polish among the dishes, aprons and canned goods lining the dining area in the back of the store. Sarah Teitelbaum runs the old store and while she isn't originally from here, which is typically comparable to sporting a scarlet A in the eyes of locals, she has made herself a spot in the history of this tiny pocket of VA. It doesn't hurt that she's "good lookin'" (my dad says) and that she treats everyone who comes through her door as though they are the most important person in the county, but she has created a gathering place where folks can congregate and hear the scuttlebutt. I love that like generations before us, we still crave that sense of community and we are still fiercely protective of it.
Cigar boxes on the shelves of Fox Creek Trading Post
I remember when I was young Vivian Osborne ran the local store. My Great Uncle Cone, a man who had one of the most wrinkled faces I had ever seen, would sit quietly by the window closest to the wood stove and smoke most of the day away. He and his cronies would gather in the back of the store every morning for coffee and then the guys with jobs would leave only to return as soon as they were finished for a game of Rook or checkers. "My dad used to love to come in here. Every day after he got the farming and drove the school bus, he would come in here and play cards with his friends," my dad told me once. I remember being somewhat frightened of the posse of old men, thinking that their dealings were secret and probably important so I best keep my distance.
Old and new.
When my dad and I walked in to Vivian's, he would ceremoniously present me with one dollar to spend in the store. While he opened his wallet he would always tell me how he had never seen a dollar at my age and then would proceed to point out all the things he could have purchased with a dime. I always wanted a scratch off lottery ticket and my dad would make a big show of saying I was too young and there was no way Vivian would sell me one. While my dad chatted with his neighbors, I would tentatively approach the counter, which obscured my view of what was hidden behind it as it rose to exactly my eye level. The scratched laminated pad sitting atop the counter advertising the tobacco products offered, yellowed with age, curled up at the edges closes to me. Vivian would wait patiently for me to make ask her for a lottery ticket. Eventually I would and she would allow me to choose which one I wanted, usually the most colorful one. I would walk away ecstatic, as though I had gotten away with something, though in hindsight, she probably had a standing arrangement with my dad. He would give me a penny to scratch with, but I never used it, opting for my fingernail instead. It was so much more satisfying, scratching that shiny later away to reveal the prize underneath.
When my dad was young Vivian's husband Van Osborne ran the store. He said it was just the same as when I was growing up, the old men sitting around playing checkers and cards, discussing things like price you could get for tobacco and how high the price for chicken feed had risen. Last night when my dad and I sat by ourselves in his shop I asked him what he remembered about the store when he was young. He said, "When I was young you couldn't go anywhere else but the store because driving to town was reserved for special occasions. You could get whatever you needed there. People would even come in and ask for haircuts. Van would gesture to the barber chair he had sitting in the back room and he would cut their hair. Once a man named Brack Davis, probably some kin to us, walked in and pointed to his tooth. Didn't say anything, not that I heard anyway. Van gestured to the barber chair and Brack walked over and sat down. Van took a pair of pliers and yanked that tooth out! You never saw so much blood. Brack spit a few times into the coal bucket, said thank you to Van, settled up, and left. That was when that store was in the building where my old shop used to be. Another thing folks used to do was have shooting matches. They would get a circle of cardboard and draw lines facing out like spokes on a wheel and attach it to the wall with a nail. Everyone would write their names on the wheel and then someone would spin it so fast the names would blur. Then someone would shoot at the spinning wheel and whoever's name it hit got the pot. Uncle Cone told me that during wartime when there weren't any bullets to shoot and the guys still wanted to play that game, they would do it with a knife. There's a big ol' hole where the knife blade would hit the wall. It is still there in the wall of my old shop."
Sarah needed a table for her coffee pot,
my dad went home and made her one
We pass a few other little stores on the way out to Sarah's. I think the reason for that is because she not only appreciates that sense of community, she builds and nurtures it. She doesn't mind that a fellow with nothing better to do comes in every morning and sits by the counter all day buying nothing but coffee. She is happy to oblige all of our requests from breakfast at noon to a sandwich on her menu that, without prompting, she always remembers exactly how I like it. Guys come in on their lunch break and she offers them the chicken and dumplings she just made from scratch, the barbecue she smokes herself, or a fresh sandwich.
When I asked Sarah about running that store she said, "I love that this store has stood here and served this community for so many generations. Jerry, the guy who drives the school bus came in recently and told me that he bought his first suit in this store with his grandfather in 1945. The other day I found a dusty old ledger on one of the top shelves and I found where he had bought that suit for $15. Now his grandkids come in here. How many generations is that? 6? I think that is just great." It is obvious she isn't in this for profit, though I'm sure she must make some given how many folks she serves every day. She puts thought and love into her cooking and provides excellent service. Those are two things that are greatly lacking around here now that our grandmother's have passed on. Now if you own a freezer and a deep fryer, you're in business. I think most everyone can see how hard she works to serve the community before she serves herself and thats a big reason why, in the time of high mobility, we prefer to drive a bit farther to see her and her helper Judy, her daughter Allyson as well as her parents who live down the street from the store. I hope that one day I will be able to bring my kids in there and present them with some money while telling them what I could buy with the dollar my dad used to give me. It was always worth so much more than the monetary value.
The general loafers.
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Investor cannot sue Greece at home over bond haircut, says EU court adviser
TAGS: Economy, Justice, EU
A retail investor in Greek bonds who wants to sue Greece over a bond haircut in 2012 cannot invoke EU rules to do so at home, an adviser to the EU’s top court said on Wednesday.
The case was referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union by an Austrian court after Leo Kuhn, an Austrian who had bought 35,000 euros ($40,775.00) worth of Greek bonds, tried to sue Greece following a forced exchange into bonds with a lower value at the height of the Greek debt crisis in 2012.
His lawyers argued that under EU rules, he had the right to sue Greek authorities in Austria because the deal was a “civil and commercial matter” for which special rules applied.
Advocate General Yves Bot said this was not the case, as the forced exchange of bonds had happened in exceptional circumstances in which Greece faced default and the stability of the eurozone was at stake.
“Such a case is not a ‘civil or commercial’ matter for the purposes of that regulation,” said the Advocate General, whose views are not binding but are usually followed by the court. [Reuters]
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BrandIndex tracks Toyota's slow rebound in the Detroit Free Press
Toyota image rebounds, worries linger
Some pollsters see gains, others cite incentives
BY GREG GARDNER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
Despite six months of recalls, congressional inquiries and serving as the butt of late-night jokes, Toyota is recovering so well that it is situated to overtake General Motors as the No. 1 automaker in the U.S. in April.
While GM remains the leader for the first three months of the year, Toyota's offer of no-interest loans and discounted leases is overshadowing consumers' worries about quality issues -- and it's forcing other automakers to discount heavily, too.
"Toyota is making life difficult for everyone, and if you don't respond, you're going to get run over," said John Wolkonowicz, an analyst with IHS Global Insight.
In March, when Toyota launched its aggressive incentives and saw its sales surge 41%, the Japanese automaker came within 1,148 vehicles of outselling GM.
But nearly three of every four of those sales was financed with the expensive no-interest loans that erode profits, according to the consumer automotive Web site Edmunds.com. As other automakers tried to keep pace, a record 22% of all U.S. vehicle sales last month were transacted with no-interest financing.
The deals have continued into April, and Toyota, armed with about $23 billion in cash, could offer them indefinitely.
While expensive, the big deals could be a winning strategy for Toyota. Studies show that Toyota's image is already beginning to bounce back.
Hit bottom
Toyota's good news: the automaker's score on the BrandIndex daily consumer perception survey rose 12.7 points from early March to the end of the month.
The bad news: Toyota's latest BrandIndex score is still -42, which means it is getting less love than either Goldman Sachs (-19.8) or Bank of America (-11.6) -- two primary architects of the nation's financial implosion.
"They have hit a bottom and they are starting to recover," said Ted Marzilli, global managing director of the daily tracking poll. "I still think they are six to 12 months away from regaining the trust they had before the recalls."
The BrandIndex survey is conducted by YouGov Polimetrix, based in Palo Alto, Calif.
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MLS W2W4: Lodeiro, Pity headline superstar showdown in Seattle
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MLS Power Rankings: LAFC, Seattle and Houston continue undefeated
Major League Soccer doesn't really do undefeated teams, at least not for long. There are too many ways to trip in a league where even the worst clubs can sometimes sneak a win through poor opponent finishing and/or a bit of luck.
This year, three teams have made it to mid-April without a blemish following Toronto's loss in Seattle this weekend. All three -- LAFC, Seattle and Houston -- play on the road between now and the end of Week 8. No team made it to May without a loss in 2018, and the two that did proved to be paper tigers by the time the playoffs rolled around.
Making it to May might not indicate anything about how a team's season will end up, but it will convey at least one honor: a top spot in the prestigious ESPN MLS Power Rankings.
What could be better than that?
Previous rankings: Week 6 | Week 5 | Week 4 | Week 3 | Week 2 | Week 1
1. LAFC (6 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses)
Previous ranking: 1
Next MLS match: Wednesday, April 17, at Vancouver (10 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
Herculez Gomez says Carlos Vela isn't even playing the best he can and now he's scoring with his right foot. If the rest of the league wasn't already very, very afraid, now is probably a good time to feel fear of Bob Bradley's black and gold machine as well as what Vela can do if he stays healthy for the balance of the season.
Vela and LAFC are soaring right now, with the Mexico international in scintillating form.
2. Seattle Sounders (5-1-0)
Next MLS match: Sunday, April 21, at LAFC (7 p.m. ET)
It feels like Sounders vs. Toronto FC should be a rivalry game simply because of their competing in MLS Cup finals against each other in 2016 and 2017. Saturday's match had that vibe, with a tight and tense hour-plus giving way to a wild finish. Give the Sounders credit: They executed a comeback and used everything they had to hold on for a win.
3. LA Galaxy (5-0-1)
Next MLS match: Friday, April 19, vs. Houston (11 p.m. ET)
Four straight wins, two straight clean sheets for the Galaxy. Zlatan Ibrahimovic's health might be the biggest factor in just how successful this season turns out for LA, but there's reason to be positive about the defensive direction of the team. Next week should see the Galaxy debut of Giancarlo Gonzalez, a further boost for a back line that's needed it for some time.
4. Houston Dynamo (4-1-0)
Next MLS match: Friday, April 19, at LA Galaxy (11 p.m. ET)
The best team no one is talking about (or going out to see, for that matter) is the Houston Dynamo. Wilmer Cabrera's club is unbeaten this season and extended its winning streak to four with a victory over San Jose. If the Dynamo can weather the metaphorical storms of the season like they did the literal one on Saturday, watch out.
5. D.C. United (4-2-1)
Next MLS match: Sunday, April 21, vs. New York City FC (4 p.m. ET, live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes)
Luciano Acosta's first goal since the season opener against Atlanta (a figurative lifetime ago) helped United overcome an early deficit against the Rapids and bounce back from Tuesday's disappointing draw with Montreal. Keep an eye on Chris Durkin; following reports that United turned down a loan opportunity, there's new pressure to play him.
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6. Columbus Crew (4-1-2)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, vs. Portland (7.30 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
The lack of a finishing touch and a simple mistake at the back were enough to undo the Crew in Montreal. It's the danger of the possession-heavy approach Columbus takes, particularly against a defend-and-counter team like the Impact. No reason to panic for the Crew, though: They were the better team on the day in Quebec.
7. Sporting Kansas City (2-3-1)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, at San Jose (10 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
While other teenagers are getting the bigger spotlight, Gianluca Busio is quietly becoming a crucial part of Sporting's season. The 16-year-old scored the equalizer on Sunday against the Red Bulls and perhaps more impressive, he didn't bother celebrating with more than a first pump: Busio wanted to get back and find the late winner.
8. FC Dallas (4-1-2)
Previous ranking: 10
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, at Atlanta (4 p.m. ET, live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes)
Atlanta's first win of the year might look like it comes at a bad time for FC Dallas, the next team to face the defending champs, but Atlanta's better form will make a win for the Texans more impressive if they can pull it off. Paxton Pomykal and FCD's kids will get a chance to show what they can do on the big national stage.
9. Toronto FC (3-1-1)
Next MLS match: Friday, April 19, vs. Minnesota (8 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
The Reds took their best swing at the Sounders and came up short. On the plus side, "Pozuelo to Altidore" looks to be a phrase TFC broadcasters will be saying a lot this season. Jozy Altidore already has five goals through four appearances after totaling just seven goals in all of 2018.
10. Philadelphia Union (3-1-3)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, vs. Montreal (1 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
The trip out west ended the Union's unbeaten run and winning streak at four and three, respectively. A tough penalty call in the first half put Philadelphia in a hole it couldn't climb out of. Whatever the debate on the call, the Union's lack of firepower doomed them in a game that was likely to demand goals.
11. Minnesota United (3-1-2)
Next MLS match: Friday, April 19, at Toronto (8 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
The Loons home debut at Allianz Field didn't exactly go to plan (much like the debut Allianz Field tifo), but a draw and three goals is hardly a bad showing. The building glittered and Ozzie Alonso's booming volley was a fitting first goal for the new venue. Now to the business of making it a fortress on the northern plain.
12. Montreal Impact (3-1-2)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, at Philadelphia (1 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. That piece of wisdom appears to apply to Remi Garde's Impact, who secured three points in the first home game of the season on Saturday. Things are weird enough in the East that the win launched Montreal up the table and into third place.
13. New York Red Bulls (1-2-3)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, at New England (7.30 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
What a "woulda coulda" game for the Red Bulls in Kansas City. How big would a win at Sporting have been for a team struggling in the early going? How could a team as good as the Red Bulls were last year at protecting leads let two points slip by conceding a late goal?
14. FC Cincinnati (2-2-3)
Next MLS match: Friday, April 19, vs. Real Salt Lake (7.30 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
Cincy walked into the lion's den -- or the falcon's aerie -- and fell to the best team in the league. There's no shame in that, especially considering that Alan Koch's team kept it competitive and nearly managed to steal a point. FCC is still in the "no judgment" zone as an expansion side, so let's call that one a "positive loss."
15. Orlando City (2-2-3)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, vs. Vancouver (3 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
Lions boss James O'Connor rolled out a lineup on the road in Salt Lake City that didn't feature Dom Dwyer and Nani, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. It's probably not right to say Orlando lost just because those two didn't start, but it's probably wrong to say things wouldn't have been any different with the pair in the lineup from the opening whistle.
16. Atlanta United (1-2-2)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, vs. FC Dallas (4 p.m. ET, live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes)
The champs won a game! Frank de Boer's team put more balls into New England's net (2) than New England did into Atlanta United's net (0)! Ezequiel Barco's coming-out party was a major part of the win and will have the Five Stripes faithful dreaming the $15 million man can lead the team in the quest for another title.
17. Real Salt Lake (2-1-4)
Next MLS match: Friday, April 19, at Cincinnati (7.30 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
Sam Johnson's name might not stand out, but the Liberian striker is a DP and does need to score goals for RSL to make noise in the West this season. Johnson's first MLS tally finally happened on Saturday against Orlando after weeks of slowly building into the lineup. Will it jump-start RSL's season nearly two months in?
18. New York City FC (0-5-1)
Next MLS match: Sunday, April 21, at D.C. United (4 p.m. ET, live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes)
NYCFC's fifth point of the year probably should have been three. There might not be a worse goalkeeping moment in MLS this year than Sean Johnson's gaffe, and the last thing Dome Torrent needs as he tries to right the Yankee Stadium clipper is a keeper going through a crisis of confidence.
19. Chicago Fire (1-3-2)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, vs. Colorado (1 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
"Fair" is a word we use a lot in soccer, sometimes to the point of forcing the narrative on games that end up in draws. That said, it seems mostly fair that Chicago earned a home point from a questionable penalty after gifting the Whitecaps a goal when David Ousted mishandled the ball on the edge of his box. "Fair."
20. Vancouver Whitecaps (0-2-4)
Next MLS match: Wednesday, April 17, vs. LAFC (10 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
The Whitecaps blew into Chicago without a win on the season. They didn't blow out any better. The chance at three points was there momentarily, but Vancouver can't have too many complaints about getting a single point out of game in which it had just two shots on target.
21. New England Revolution (1-1-5)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, vs. NYRB (7.30 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
For a team called the Revolution, New England is doing a lot of standing in place. A second straight goalless performance doomed the Revs to a loss on Saturday, but more troubling, the club is dropping games at home in a league where doing so is the surest sign of a season on its way to being lost.
22. San Jose Earthquakes (1-0-5)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, vs. Sporting Kansas City (10 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
The Quakes didn't just suddenly become good with last week's win over the smoking wreckage of the Timbers, so Saturday's loss is not a shock. San Jose does look more competitive by the week, however, so maybe there's reason to hope for soccer fans in Northern California. Small victories.
23. Colorado Rapids (0-2-5)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, at Chicago (1 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
Still no wins for Anthony Hudson and the Rapids in 2019. The new approach -- leaning on MLS vets to make the playoffs -- isn't working. The problems at the back are so bad that Hudson effectively called out every defender in his postgame comments by saying no one in the team has staked a claim to a starting spot.
24. Portland Timbers (0-1-5)
Next MLS match: Saturday, April 20, at Columbus (7.30 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+)
Despite what you might hear from certain figures high up in the administration, it's not the referees who are holding back the defending Western Conference champions. The Timbers are just bad, though when things are going so poorly, the big decisions that go against you can feel like total miscarriages of justice. We get it.
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Search Results: Election 2016
Laudato Si and the Australian election
Neil Ormerod
It is now 12 months since Pope Francis issued his environmental encyclical Laudato Si'. He opined, 'Although the post-industrial period may well be remembered as one of the most irresponsible in history, nonetheless there is reason to hope that humanity at the dawn of the 21st century will be remembered for having generously shouldered its grave responsibilities.' Where are the Australian politicians who can give hope to the coming generation by focusing our attention on this most urgent issue?
Shorten's treaty talk reflects impact of Indigenous activism
For the first time ever, I got the sense that political views on the importance of Indigenous issues had shifted. It was not due to an increase in Indigenous voices in the political discussions nor was it because either of the major parties announced a policy which I found remotely inspiring. Rather it was because, under the glare of the camera, the leaders of the two major parties both attempted to show a greater understanding of the Indigenous political agenda than they have before.
The moral conundrum of casting a vote on 2 July
Sadly, the major political parties have forfeited any claim to govern in their own right because they have caused such disillusionment among so many voters about other policy issues with strong moral overtones. Any voter impressed with Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' or inspired by his visits to asylum seekers on the islands of Lampedusa and Lesbos could not blithely vote for either of the major parties, without first determining how to place some continuing political and moral pressure on them.
'Elitist' democracy not the answer to Trumpism
Jeff Sparrow
Will Clinton defeat Trump? Perhaps - but the polls already show him doing far better than anyone expected. More importantly, an electoral loss might mean the end of Donald Trump but it won't destroy Trumpism. The constituency into which the Donald has tapped will almost certainly grow under the administration of a corporate Democrat like Clinton, even if it manifests in a different form. And what then? How much larger and heftier will the barriers against the popular will have to become?
The long and grimy road
Fiona Katauskas
This week's offering from Eureka Street's award winning political cartoonist.
Australia's little sepia book of dead political tricks
Bronwyn Lay
Living within the United Nations community I've witnessed Australia fall from a well-respected international citizen, to becoming the spoilt, sneaky brat of international relations. Even the most blasé glance at the geo political currents moving through the planet reveal complexities this election pretends don't exist. Australians fighting about jobs and growth in the corner comes across as deeply deluded isolationism. The Great Barrier Reef is dying. The world is watching. Hello Australia? Anybody home?
A closer look at the AFP's shady Labor raid
Justin Glyn
It has puzzled me that the constitutional implications of the AFP's raid on the offices of the official opposition and one of its senators two weeks ago has not been explored in more detail. The uncomfortable fact is that the leaks about which NBN Co is complaining are not damaging because they relate to competition nor to national security, but because they expose cost overruns and reflect badly on the government of the day - the same government which holds all the shares in NBN Co.
Positivity key to the new Shorten's rise
J. R. Hennessy
Labor has built a small poll lead over the Coalition as led by the eminently more marketable Malcolm Turnbull, and in this case the commentariat are willing to give Shorten and Labor the credit. They're the ones controlling the policy conversation and setting the agenda, and it feels like the government are just responding in turn. Who is this Bill Shorten? This is someone who even a few months ago would be largely inconceivable in the top job, but now seems at the very least plausible.
Laughing in the face of climate change despair
People understand that some of the solutions for the problems faced by current and coming generations are likely rooted in decisions made now. Future-proofing is not merely anticipation, but intervention on a scale that goes beyond households. It involves design and culture. It demands an international rather than insular outlook. Perhaps this is why gallows humour has seeped into my conversations about the future. I no longer expect our leaders to do something worthwhile about it.
Reflecting on justice for asylum seekers during an election campaign
'Being in the middle of an election campaign, I will not be making any partisan party political points. However being here in the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro, I will conclude with a critique of both major political parties, and with one piece of political advice for citizens of goodwill seeking a national asylum policy more in harmony with the ideals set out by our bishops in their social justice statement.' Yass Catholic Parish Potluck Dinner, 28 May 2016
We need a grassroots revival to save the reef
Many people have hoped that when global warming manifested itself as a concrete threat, politicians would be forced into action. Yet it's becoming horrifyingly clear that the political class is quite willing to let the Great Barrier Reef, one of the natural wonders of the world, slowly die. If we want to save the reef, we're going to have to do it ourselves. The Franklin dam blockade of 1982-1983 transformed the political climate and preserved an iconic river. We need to recapture that energy.
Engaging with Dutton's rhetoric is a slippery slope
Somayra Ismailjee
The irony of trying to negate these stereotypes is that in doing so, we are still cheapening asylum seekers to political tools, stripping them of their humanity and multiplicity. Aiming to counter such rhetoric as Dutton's with stories of high-achieving refugees plays into a toxic game that legitimises the same negative stereotypes by engaging with them. Just as invisibility dehumanises asylum seekers, so does the hypervisibility we attribute to a select few stories.
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Search Results: Inside Story
Inside the women's lit gender ghetto
Ellena Savage
Women's lit needs a course of its own'. How original to segment women's work into a category of its own so that it has no bearing on the mainstream! Men's work is universal, and women's work is specific to women. Sixty-five years later, and Simone de Beauvoir still nails it. So should we feminise the mainstream? Or continue to participate at the margins, and hope that the old guard takes notice?
Australia should be worried about a Prabowo presidency
Both candidates for Indonesia's 9 July presidential election – Jokowi and Prabowo – have said Australia does not seem to trust Indonesia, but they would continue President SBY’s good neighbour policy. Prabowo later repeated this assurance to the media and diplomats. His message is that Australia and the international community have nothing to worry about from a Prabowo presidency. The prospects are very different.
Hillary Clinton's bloodless memoir
Barry Gittins
This was akin to reading a carefully vetted resume. An intelligent and formidable first lady, senator and Secretary of State, and no shrinking violet, the author presents a largely passionless, desiccated record. There's the odd poignant reflection. Absurd depictions of Mel Brooksian secure rooms (and the reading of documents with a blanket over her head in non-secure rooms). But, overall, Clinton draws pictures without drawing blood.
Why Bishop Morris was sacked
'My one new insight from reading Bill's book is that he was sacked because he was too much a team player with his local church ... the Romans hoped to shatter the morale and direction of those who had planned the pastoral strategies of a country diocese stretched to the limits as a Eucharistic community soon to be deprived of priests in the Roman mould.' Frank Brennan launches Benedict, Me and the Cardinals Three by Bishop William Morris.
Veteran muckraker wrestles with God
Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
When journalist and activist Barbara Ehrenreich was a young woman she came face to face 'with something vast, terrifying and unknowable'. We mustn't take for granted the courage this admission took coming from such a committed atheist. While noting science can 'dismiss anomalous 'mystical' experiences', she wrestles her discontent into submission by boldly declaring that it 'is not unscientific to search for what may not be there'.
Unheard stories of the sex abuse crisis
In Unheard Story, Fr Padraig McCarthy rightly highlights shortcomings in legal-political-media processes like the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation. The future wellbeing of children demands that the spotlight be shone on all equally. But there is no getting away from the fact that in Ireland and Australia, the reported instances of child sexual abuse has been greater in the Catholic Church than in other churches.
The role of the faith based organisation
'Some of us would question Benedict's assertion that the Church "must not take upon herself the political battle to bring about the most just society possible. She cannot ... replace the State." But we would all agree that the Church "cannot and must not remain on the sidelines".' Frank Brennan's presentation at the Jesuit Social Services Symposium on 'The role of faith based community organisations in contributing to a civil society'.
Malcolm Fraser whacks lackey Australia
Fraser was a ruthless, conservative political animal who today is one of our most prominent human rights champions. The elder statesman is quite the angry young man in print. He delights in telegraphing his haymakers and following through with a well-placed elbow or two. Put bluntly, Fraser suggests we need to shed our lackey status. 'We need the United States for defence,' he argues, 'but we only need defence because of the United States.'
The theology of Chris Lilley
Michael Mullins
The jury is out on whether Chris Lilley's new ABC1 comedy Jonah from Tonga gives a free kick to racism and other forms of discriminatory behaviour. The prejudices in Lilley's Jonah are depictions of the wounds of Australian society, not the attempt of a far-right ideologue to promote a stratified nation based on race.
Punk's holy fools still putting it to Putin
Journalist Masha Gessen describes the members of Pussy Riot as 'Putin's ideal enemies'. In recent months, their nemesis has hosted the Olympics, taken control of Crimea and clamped down on media. For a group born out of 'the repressions of a corporate political system that directs its power against basic human rights', Pussy Riot still has much to roar about, even if its signature 'punk prayer' sounds more than ever like a plea.
Freedom of expression for the rest of us
Ruby Hamad
How ironic that, even as Attorney General Brandis ensures the rights of 'bigots', the rest of us find our own rights under threat. Liberal state governments continue to roll out laws that affect the more marginalised and less privileged among us. Victoria's new 'anti-protest' laws and Queensland's 'anti-bikie' laws threaten public protest and assembly, which for most of us is how we exercise our freedom of expression.
Turnbull's bone for the News Corp behemoth
Malcolm Turnbull is unusual among Australian politicians in having a keen regard for the role of journalism in a democracy. That makes his blithe disregard of the prospect of handing Rupert Murdoch even greater influence over Australian politics all the more puzzling. It is unsurprising that some observers see the foreshadowed change to media ownership laws as a pay-off for News Corp's support of the Coalition in the 2013 election.
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Search Results: immigration
John Molony and his Catholicism
'John was Catholic to his bootstraps: Catholic, Irish Australian, a Labor man and a Carlton supporter. He'd have loved the inaugural speech delivered in the Victorian Parliament last month by the new Labor member for Hawthorn.' — Frank Brennan, Great Hall University House, Australian National University, 1 March 2019.
Stateless refugee facing indefinite detention
Shira Sebban
A Faili Kurd, who fled Iran by boat aged 16 with his mother, Shalikhan has been detained since arriving on Christmas Island in August 2013. Suffering from a developmental disorder and mental health issues exacerbated by his father's death in Iran, he has in the past attempted suicide and displayed volatile behaviour.
Indonesian perspective on Medevac
Carolina Gottardo, Nishadh Rego, Lars Stenger
On 7 February in Manado, Sulawesi, Sajjad, a 24 year old man who had just finished a degree in IT, doused himself with petrol and set himself on fire. He died six days later. On the day of his death, Australians woke to the government's claim the passage of the Medevac Bill would restart boats from Indonesia and weaken Australia's borders.
A new standard for asylum seeker policy
We are all gearing up for the third election in a row when boat turnbacks and the punitive treatment of refugees and asylum seekers feature. It need not be so. It’s time voters sent a message that it should not be so.
Medivac: the unneeded bill we sorely needed
Kerry Murphy
During the debates about the bill regarding the transfer of people from Nauru or Manus to Australia for medical treatment, the Prime Minister stated it was 'unnecessary and superfluous'. Legally this should have been the case.
Don't sit and watch antisemitism rising
Na'ama Carlin
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The Forgotten Highway
From 1850 there was pressure to have a steam ferry for horse hauled traffic and passengers across the Thames at Woolwich, but for 30 years this cry went unheeded.
Eventually plans were laid for a free ferry from Woolwich and Greenwich, only the Woolwich one being approved by Parliament.
In October 1880 a public meeting was held in Woolwich to see whether the parish could afford to set up its own steam ferry and a deputation of 60 townsfolk waited on the local board.
However the cost of building the boats and landings proved too great and representations were then made to the Metropolitan Board of Works, forerunner of the LCC and GLC. The people of Woolwich pointed out that their rates had helped to pay for the purchase and freeing up toll bridges in west and central London, and suggested that they too should be able to cross the Thames free of charge.
Original MBW Plans for the ferry
Plan of the ferry.
In 1884, after making a general survey of existing communications across the Thames, the Metropolitan Board of Works agreed to provide the Ferry, and in the "Metropolitan Board of Works (various powers act) of 1815," obtained statutory authority to ferry across the Thames at Woolwich, “Passengers, animals, vehicles and goods, free of all tolls, rates or charges”. A delay of two years occurred, while sites were being acquired.
In 1887 Mowlems were given the contract to build the approaches and Thames Ironworks constructed the pontoons. Just 2 years after, on 23rd March 1889 the Woolwich Free Ferry was opened by Lord Rosebury, Chair of the London County Council. The MBoW had been taken over by the LCC three days before.
Map of the area showing the old ferry terminal (1916)
Five of the famous faces who were to have ferries named after them
The opening ceremony took place with extraordinary rejoicing in the streets of Woolwich. Artillerymen lined the streets and processions of bands and mounted police and trade associations and friendly societies marched. Lord Rosebury drove straight from the procession onto the deck of the ferry. It was the paddle steamer Gordon navigated by a Captain Young that had the honour of taking the dignitaries across the river, where they were met by yet another procession and more celebrations
Half an hour later the party returned to the south shore where Lord Rosebury declared the Free Ferry open to a crowd of 600 people. To end the day there was a celebration dinner for 200 in the Freemasons Hall. The total cost of setting up the ferry was £191,444, 3 boats costing £45,077, pontoons costing £15,907 and land costs of £67,081. The land acquisition figure includes the compensation for loss of income to the Watermen and Lightermen of Woolwich and to the Old Barge House Steam Ferry Company, which went into liquidation. It also paid £27,500 to the Great Eastern Railway Company.
Gordon was named after General Gordon of Khartoum (1833-1885). He was born in Woolwich and studied at the Academy. It worked the first few days alone and over the first weekend carried more than 25,000 passengers. It was built by R&H Green of Millwall, was 164ft long and 42ft wide with a 4ft draught. It cost £15,000 and was 490 tones gross. The ferries were driven by 2 pairs of diagonal surface condensing engines, each being connected to one paddle. The engines were built by John Penn of Greenwich. They were capable of 8 knots and could carry 1000 passengers and had room for 15 to 20 vehicles. Hulls and funnels were painted black and the interiors umber.
Duncan, named after Colonel Francis Duncan (1836-88) author of “The History of the Royal Artillery”, soldier and MP.
Same dimensions and cost and builder as Gordon. The bridge deck was open to the elements
Hutton named after Sir Charles Hutton, Chair of the LCC. The ferry was built by William Simons, Renfrew. 170 ft length. Slightly longer than Gordon and Duncan.
View of the vehicle deck. Its not known which ferry.
Picture of the first sailing at the opening ceremony
Celebrations in Powis Street
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Section: Iran Name /Saturday 11th October 2014
* Yalda *
یلدا ، شب یلدا،شب چله
Yalda Night; What's This Iranian Tradition All About? By Mima Hoda Yalda Night is the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. The occasion has been celebrated by Iranians for thousands of years. Yalda is originally a word in Seryani (Syriac) language which is the original language of the bible meaning time of birth. It's been assumed that it's the night of birthday of Jesus Christ and the origin of Christmas. Yalda takes place at the autumnal equinox (when the sun crosses the celestial equator) which is the last night of autumn and the first day of winter after which days start to become longer. Ancient Iranians observed the sky with great interest believing in their effect in their lives. And they did that a lot probably the night-sky is a real-life television. That's was stars and celestial objects were given names and they became source of thousands of mythological legends. Although Iranians all around the world celebrate the occasion eating prommegrenates, watermelons, dried-nuts and fruits; the Yalda Night is not just about eating and feasting. It's a good occasion to think about the change that's been taking place for millions of years. Questions such as: - Why is the universe designed the way it is? Why is it expanding, it's dark, and so vast? - What is humans' role and intended functions in this huge creation? Yalda is celebrated because it's the time when the light becomes victorious over darkness. Light and darkness are two main elements of dualism in Zoroastrianism, presumably world's oldest organized religion. It's been narrated that three Iranian astronomers predicted (had a vision) about that particular date and traveled all the way to Nazareth to witness the birth of the Savior, Messiah, or Jesus Christ. They are referred to as the Biblical Magi. Iranians celebrate Yalda gathering in the house of an elderly in the family. Everyone brings along some food; Fruits, specially pomegranates and watermelons, dried fruits and nuts are a must. People used to sit around a special table that is heated from underneath with a blanket on top of it called Korsi, and tell jokes and stories until the dawn. The Eve of the Yalda has great significance in the Persian/Iranian calendar. It is the eve of the birth of Mithra, the goddess of the Sun, who symbolized light, goodness and strength on earth. Also known as Shab-e Chelle; Shab-e Yalda is a time of joy. As the longest night of the year, the Eve of Yalda is also a turning point, after which the days grow longer and symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness. In Sassanid era, Zoroastrianism became Persia's official religion, but Mithra's importance remained undiminished. This is evident from the bas-reliefs as Naghsh-e Rostam and Taghebostan. At Naghsh Rostam, Anahita bestows the royal diadem upon Narseh, the Sassanid King. At the investiture of Ardeshir I, Ahura Mazda bestows this diadem to the new King. At Tagh-e Bostan too, Ahura Mazda is again conferring the royal diadem upon Ardeshir 2. Mithra is always present as a witness to these ceremonies. Over the centuries Mithraism spread to Greece and Ancient Rome via Asia Minor, gaining popularity within the ranks of the Roman army. In the 4th century AD as a result of errors made in calculating leap years and dates, the birthday of Mithra was transferred to 25 December (Christmas). According to a legend, Mithra was born out of the light that came from within the Alborz Mountains. Ancient Iranians would gather on heights along the mountain range throughout the night to witness this miracle together at dawn. They were known as 'Yar-e Ghar' (Cave Mates). In Iran today, despite of the advent of Islam and Muslim rituals, Shab-e Yalda is still celebrated widely. It is a time when friends and family gather together to eat, drink and read poetry (especially Hafez) until well after midnight. Fruits and nuts are eaten and pomegranates and watermelons are particularly significant. The red color in these fruits symbolizes the crimson hues of dawn and glow of life, invoking the splendor of Mithra. For low-budget occasions, today many people switch to Iranian Laboo (cooked beetroots) which is a popular steaming-hot sweet treat sold by street-vendors during winter-time in Iran. And for the most, we should not forget that the longest night of the year can be harsh on those without a shelter. Therefore, the Yalda is a great time to help poor people and donate food, warm clothes and best of all; to show them the warmth of our hearts. Children of Labor & Street is an absurd phenomenon which moves the charities and NGO's to provide gifts and help to homeless children in Iran. Nevertheless, care for animals; distributing hope and love might be the real spirit behind Yalda. Because tomorrow will be a better and brighter day. (Wikipedia) - Yaldā (Redirected from Yalda) For the demiurge, see Yaldabaoth
Yaldā یلدا
Also called Çillə Gecəsi Shab-e Chelleh (Persian: شب چلّه); Zayeshmehr (Persian: زایش مهر); Shab-e Yalda (Persian: شب یلدا)
Observed by Iran Afghanistan Azerbaijan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Kurdistan
Significance Beginning of Winter
Date December 20, 21 or 22
2014 date 21 December
Yalda (Persian: یلدا, "birth"), or Zayeshmehr (Persian: زایش مهر) "Birth of Mithra", Shab-e Yalda (Persian: شب یلدا Shabe Yalda), "Night of Birth", or Shab-e Chelleh (Persian: شب چلّه; lit. "Night of Forty") is the Persian winter solstice celebration which has been popular since ancient times. Yalda is celebrated on the Northern Hemisphere''s longest night of the year, that is, on the eve of the Winter Solstice. Depending on the shift of the calendar, Yalda is celebrated on or around December 20 or 21 each year.
Yalda has a history which date back to pre-Zoroastrian times. It marks the celebration of the Persian philosopher Mithra (or Mehr). Followers of Mithra or Mithraists believed that this night is the night of the birth of Mithra, Persian philospher of light and truth. At the morning of the longest night of the year the Mithra was born.
The Persian Mithra or the Indian Mitra represent the "Light-Knowledge" aspect of the immortal divinity. As Love and Patience are integral for knowledge to be imparted, this term "Mitra" literally means friend. The word itself is of Avestic and Vedic Sanskrit origin clearly indicating the historical roots. In later times Mitra was also called Meher. As Zoroastrianism was a reformation of an existing religious philosophy, this term of "pre-zoroastrian" is not relevant; as Mitra/Meher form a vital component of Zoroastrian liturgy.
Khursheed (Khor in Avestan) presides over the Sun. Thus Zarathushtra is called Khordad to indicate his divine radiance; a divine glow achieved in one mortal life time. Similarly the land of Khorasan is so termed as it is that easternmost area of the Persian empire to see first light and the place where most Zarathushtis were originally from. The first Parsis to escape the jihadist genocide and seek refuge in India were also from Khorasan.
Following the Persian calendar reform of 1925, which pegged some seasonal events to specific days of the calendar, Yalda came to be celebrated on the night before and including the first day of the tenth month (Day). Subject to seasonal drift, this day may sometimes fall a day before or a day after the actual Winter Solstice.
The Persian calendar reform of 1925 indicates an implementation of Islamic sensibilities on a Zoroastrian calendar to suit a population that is no longer Zoroastrian. The Zoroastrian calendar is based on scientific astronomy and therefore flexibly aligned to the longest night of the year, which can shift from the 20 to 22 December. "Daena" or "Dayna" is an Avestan word meaning religion specifically Zoroastrianism. It is derived from the term "Day" which means Light (knowledge). As such Dayna means that path or philosophy, weeded to Truth, Justice and Knowledge that leads to excellence.
Following the fall of the Sasanian Empire and the subsequent rise of Islam in Persia, the religious significance of the event was lost, and like other Zoroastrian festivals, Yalda became a social occasion when family and close friends would get together. Nonetheless, the obligatory serving of fresh fruit during mid-winter is reminiscent of the ancient customs of invoking the divinities to request protection of the winter crop.
The 13th-century Persian poet Sa''di wrote in his Bustan:
"The true morning will not come, until the Yalda Night is gone".
Yalda Night has been officially added to Iran''s List of National Treasures in a special ceremony in 2008.
Iranian Azerbaijanis call it Chilla Gejasi, which means the beginning of the first 40 days of winter.
2 Customs and Traditions
OriginYalda setting
The Eve of the Yalda has great significance in the Persian/Iranian calendar. Shab-e Yalda is a time of joy.
Yalda is traced back to Syriac ܝܠܕܐ yaldā, meaning birth. Mithra-worshipers used the term ''yalda'' specifically with reference to the birth of Mithra. As the longest night of the year, the Eve of Yalda (Shab-e Yalda) is also a turning point, after which the days grow longer. In ancient times it symbolized the triumph of the Sun God over the powers of darkness.
Mithra, remained a potent symbol of worship throughout the following centuries. Centuries later, during the Achaemenid era, Mithra became a principal dominant figure emphasizing monotheism in Persia.
In Sasanian times, Zoroastrianism became Persia''s official religion, but Mithra''s importance remained undiminished. This is evident from the bas-reliefs as Naqsh-e Rustam and Tagh-e Bustan. At Naqsh-e Rustam, Anahita bestows the royal diadem upon Nersi, the Sasanian King. At the investiture of Ardeshir I, Ahura Mazda bestows this diadem to the new King. At Tagh-e Bustan too, Ahura Mazda is again conferring the royal diadem upon Ardeshir II.
Over the centuries Mithraism spread to Greece and Ancient Rome via Asia Minor, gaining popularity within the ranks of the Roman army. In the 4th century AD as a result of errors made in calculating leap years and dates, the birthday of Mithra was transferred to 25 December.
It was said that Mithra was born out of the light that came from within the Alborz mountains . Ancient Iranians would gather in caves along the mountain range throughout the night to witness this miracle together at dawn. They were known as ''Yar-e Ghar'' (Cave Mates). In Iran today, despite of the advent of Islam and Muslim rituals, Shab-e Yalda is still celebrated widely.
It is a time when friends and family gather together to eat, drink and read poetry (especially Hafez) until well after midnight. Fruits and nuts are eaten and pomegranates and watermelons are particularly significant. The red color in these fruits symbolizes the crimson hues of dawn and glow of life.
'' The sight of you each morning is a New Year Any night of your departure is the eve of Yalda'' (Sa''di)
''With all my pains, there is still the hope of recovery Like the eve of Yalda, there will finally be an end'' (Sa''di)
During the long night, Iranians also practice bibliomancy with the poetry of the highly respected mystic Iranian poet, Hafez. The poems of Divan-e-Hafez, which can be found in the bookcases of almost all Iranian families, are intermingled with peoples'' life and are read or recited during various occasions like Nowruz and Yaldā Night.
Customs and TraditionsTraditional sweet of Yaldā in Zibad, Razavi Khorasan ProvincePomegranate is necessary for Yalda.Persian Lady recites Hafez poems in Yalda Night
In Zoroastrian and ancient Iranian traditions, the winter solstice was an auspicious day and included customs intended to protect people from misfortune. On that day, people were advised to stay awake most of the night. To commemorate, people have small parties and gatherings and eat the last remaining fresh fruits from summer.
Although Yalda is not official holiday in present day Iran, families continue to hold traditional gatherings Iranian radio and television offer special programmes on Yalda.
The night of the greater Chelleh is called šab-e Chelleh or šab-e yaldā and is the occasion of special ceremonies. Food plays a central role in Yalda celebrations. In most parts of Iran the extended family come together and enjoy a fine dinner. A wide variety of fruits and sweetmeats specifically prepared or kept for this night are served. Foods common to the Yalda celebration include watermelon, pomegranate, nuts, and dried fruit. These items and more are commonly placed on a korsi, which people sit around. In some areas it is custom that forty varieties of edibles should be served during the ceremony of the night of Chelleh.
Light-hearted superstitions run high on the night of Chelleh. These superstitions, however, are primarily associated with consumption. For instance, it is believed that consuming watermelons on the night of Chelleh will ensure the health and well-being of the individual during the months of summer by protecting him from falling victim to excessive heat or disease produced by hot humors. In Khorasan, there is a belief that whoever eats carrots, pears, pomegranates, and green olives will be protected against the harmful bite of insects, especially scorpions. Eating garlic on this night protects one against pains in the joints. Placing one’s mouth near a donkey’s ear and whispering into its ear is certain to cure any ailment, while mixing camel fat and mare’s milk and burning them will protect from insects the place where the smoke from this concoction penetrates.
After dinner the older individuals entertain the others by telling them tales and anecdotes . Another favorite and prevalent pastime of the night of Chelleh is divination by the Dīvān of Hafez (fāl-e Hafez). It is believed that one should not divine by the Dīvān of Hafez more than three times, however, or the poet may get angry.
Activities common to celebration of Yalda include staying up past midnight, conversation, eating, reading poems out loud, telling stories and jokes, smoking "Ghelyoon" (water pipe), and for some dancing. Prior to invention and prevalence of electricity, decorating and lighting the house and yard with candles was also part of the tradition, but few have continued this tradition. Another tradition is giving dried fruits and nuts to family and friends, wrapped in tulle and tied with ribbon (similar to wedding and shower "party favors"). Prior to ban of alcohol, drinking wine was also part of the celebration. Despite the Islamic alcohol ban in Iran, many continue to include home-made and contraband alcoholic drinks in their celebrations.
Another custom performed in certain parts of Iran on the night of Chelleh involves young engaged couples. The men send an edible arrangement containing seven kinds of fruits and a variety of gifts to their fiancees on this night. In some areas, the girl and her family return the favor by sending gifts back for the young man.
Many Iranian-Americans also celebrate Shab-e-Yalda in America. Some go to the extent of dressing up in "mahali" (traditional regional) clothes, and making makeshift Korsi to place the food on and gather around. Others do far less, only wishing each other a happy Yalda in phone calls or on social networks. Iranian-American cultural organizations teach about Shab-e-Yalda and some even have Yalda parties. There is evidence to suggest that the 40 day period is also observed in Kashmir, India
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Extend tax numbers to other economic sectors, government urged
3 Décembre 32 Economie (24307),
Accra, Dec. 3, 2015 GNA – Mr Abdallah Ali-Nakyea, Managing Consultant for WTS Ghana Tax Legal Consulting, has called on government to extend the tax identification numbers to other sectors of the economy to facilitate the identification of tax payers.
He said the proposed reduction of the scale excise duty in the 2016 budget from 4 bands to 3 bands was to improve efficiency in administration.
He said this during a public lecture on the 2016 budget held on the theme: « Implementing 21 national budget to consolidate progress towards a brighter medium term « .
Mr Ali Nakyea said there is the need for an evaluation as to how the country fared when it started implementing the scale excise duty policy since 2012.
He said the excise duty rate on tobacco was increased from 150 percent to 175 percent in the 2015 Budget Statement under paragraph 844 and that it appears the import of paragraph 929 is to maintain the duty rate at 175 percent for the 2016 year,
Mr Ali Nakyea said various tax laws were being reviewed and harmonized as part of the GRA modernization and reforms and that the Income Tax Act has been passed in 2015 to complement the VAT Act, the Customs Act and the Excise Duty Act and the Tax Administration Bill will be laid in Parliament in 2016.
He said a significant improvement is the final consolidation of the long overdue review of the Petroleum Income Tax law,1987 (PNDCL188) which now appears under Division I, Part VI captioned Special Industries in Act 896.
« The challenges in this regarding tax revenue mobilization are the non-retroactivity of legislation in Ghana as provided for under article 107(b) of the 1992Constitution », he said.
He said Article 107 b states that « Parliament shall have no power to pass any law which operates retrospectively, impose any limitations on or to adversely affect the personal rights and liberties of any person or to impose a burden, obligation or liability on any person except in the case of a law enacted under articles 178 to182 of this Constitution ».
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He said the review of tax exemptions is a welcome policy measure as it addresses the huge revenue lost through tax expenditures, being the tax revenue lost through tax exemptions.
Mr Ali Nakyea called for stakeholder consultations in the development and passage of new tax legislations so as to engender enhanced and increased tax compliance.
Mr Patrick Nomo, Director of Budget, Ministry of Finance, said government has introduced a number of expenditure rationalization measures for purposes of achieving the fiscal target.
He said the measures including regular adjustment of fuel and utility prices to achieve better targeting and thereby reduce related subsidies to the barest minimum.
Mr Nomo said progress has been made in addressing the significant economic challenges and the interventions outlined in the 2016 Budget and this will contribute significantly to the realization of the brighter medium term prospects for the country.
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RFC 3998 - Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Job and Printer Adm
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Network Working Group C. Kugler
Request for Comments: 3998 H. Lewis
Category: Standards Track IBM Corporation
T. Hastings, Ed.
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):
Job and Printer Administrative Operations
This document specifies the following 16 additional OPTIONAL system
administration operations for use with the Internet Printing
Protocol/1.1 (IPP), plus a few associated attributes, values, and
status codes, and using the IPP Printer object to manage printer
fan-out and fan-in.
Printer operations: Job operations:
Enable-Printer and Disable-Printer Reprocess-Job
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Cancel-Current-Job
Hold-New-Jobs and Release-Held-New-Jobs Suspend-Current-Job
Deactivate-Printer and Activate-Printer Resume-Job
Restart-Printer Promote-Job
Shutdown-Printer and Startup-Printer Schedule-Job-After
1. Introduction.................................................. 4
2. Terminology................................................... 4
2.1. Conformance Terminology................................. 4
2.2. Other Terminology....................................... 5
3. Definition of the Printer Operations.......................... 6
3.1. The Disable and Enable Printer Operations............... 7
3.1.1. Disable-Printer Operation....................... 7
3.1.2. Enable-Printer Operation........................ 8
3.2. The Pause and Resume Printer Operations................. 8
3.2.1. Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Operation....... 9
3.3. Hold and Release New Jobs Operations.................... 11
3.3.1. Hold-New-Jobs Operation......................... 11
3.3.2. Release-Held-New-Jobs Operation................. 12
3.4. Deactivate and Activate Printer Operations.............. 12
3.4.1. Deactivate-Printer Operation.................... 13
3.4.2. Activate-Printer Operation...................... 13
3.5. Restart-Printer, Shutdown-Printer,
and Startup-Printer Operations.......................... 14
3.5.1. Restart-Printer Operation....................... 14
3.5.2. Shutdown-Printer Operation...................... 14
3.5.3. Startup-Printer Operation....................... 15
4. Definition of the Job Operations.............................. 16
4.1. Reprocess-Job Operation................................. 17
4.2. Cancel-Current-Job Operation............................ 17
4.3. Suspend and Resume Job Operations....................... 18
4.3.1. Suspend-Current-Job Operation................... 19
4.3.2. Resume-Job Operation............................ 20
4.4. Job Scheduling Operations............................... 20
4.4.1. Promote-Job Operation........................... 20
4.4.2. Schedule-Job-After Operation.................... 21
5. Additional Status Codes....................................... 23
5.1. 'server-error-printer-is-deactivated' (0x050A).......... 23
6. Use of Operation Attributes
That Are Messages from the Operator........................... 23
7. New Printer Description Attributes............................ 26
7.1. subordinate-printers-supported (1setOf uri)............. 26
7.2. parent-printers-supported (1setOf uri).................. 26
8. Additional Values for
the "printer-state-reasons" Printer Description Attribute..... 26
8.1. 'hold-new-jobs' Value................................... 27
8.2. 'deactivated' Value..................................... 27
the "job-state-reasons" Job Description attribute............. 27
9.1. 'job-suspended' Value................................... 27
10. Use of the Printer Object to Represent
IPP Printer Fan-Out and IPP Printer Fan-In.................... 27
10.1. IPP Printer Fan-Out..................................... 28
10.2. IPP Printer Fan-In...................................... 28
10.3. Printer Object Attributes Used
to Represent Printer Fan-Out and Printer Fan-In......... 29
10.4. Subordinate Printer URI................................. 29
to Represent Output Device Fan-Out...................... 30
10.6. Figures to Show All Possible Configurations............. 30
10.7. Forwarding Requests..................................... 33
10.7.1. Forwarding Requests
that Affect Printer Objects..................... 33
10.7.2. Forwarding Requests that Affect Jobs............ 35
10.8. Additional Attributes to Help with Fan-Out.............. 37
10.8.1. output-device-assigned (name(127))
Job Description Attribute - from [RFC2911]...... 37
10.8.2. original-requesting-user-name (name(MAX))
Operation and Job Description Attribute......... 37
10.8.3. requesting-user-name (name(MAX))
Operation Attribute - Additional Semantics...... 38
10.8.4. job-originating-user-name (name(MAX))
Job Description Attribute -
Additional Semantics............................ 38
11. Conformance Requirements...................................... 38
12. Normative References.......................................... 39
13. Informative References........................................ 40
14. IANA Considerations........................................... 40
14.1. Attribute Registrations................................. 41
14.2. Attribute Value Registrations........................... 41
14.3. Additional Enum Attribute Value Registrations........... 41
14.4. Operation Registrations................................. 42
14.5. Status Code Registrations............................... 43
15. Internationalization Considerations........................... 43
16. Security Considerations....................................... 43
17. Summary of Base IPP Documents................................. 44
Authors' Addresses................................................ 45
Full Copyright Statement.......................................... 46
Table 1. Printer Operation Operation-Id Assignments.............. 6
Table 2. Pause and Resume Printer Operations..................... 9
Table 3. State Transition Table for
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Operation............... 10
Table 4. Job Operation Operation-Id Assignments.................. 16
Table 5. Operation Attribute Support for Printer Operations...... 24
Table 6. Operation Attribute Support for Job Operations.......... 25
Table 7. Forwarding Operations that Affect Printer Objects....... 34
Table 8. Forwarding Operations that Affect Jobs Objects.......... 36
Table 9. Conformance Requirement Dependencies for Operations..... 38
Table 10. Conformance Requirement Dependencies
for "printer-state-reasons" Values...................... 39
for "job-state-reasons" Values.......................... 39
Figure 1. Embedded Printer Object................................ 31
Figure 2. Hosted Printer Object.................................. 31
Figure 3. Output Device Fan-Out.................................. 31
Figure 4. Chained IPP Printer Objects............................ 32
Figure 5. IPP Printer Object Fan-Out............................. 32
Figure 6. IPP Printer Object Fan-In.............................. 33
The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is an application level protocol
that can be used for distributed printing using Internet tools and
technologies. IPP version 1.1 ([RFC2911, RFC2910]) focuses on end-
user functionality, with a few administrative operations included.
This document defines additional OPTIONAL end user, operator, and
administrator operations used to control Jobs and Printers. In
addition, this document extends the semantic model of the Printer
object by allowing them to be configured into trees and/or inverted
trees that represent Printer object Fan-Out and Printer object Fan-
In, respectively. The special case of a tree with only a single
Subordinate node represents Chained Printers. This document is a
registration proposal for an extension to IPP/1.0 and IPP/1.1
following the registration procedures in those documents.
The requirements and use cases for this document are defined in
[RFC3239].
2. Terminology
This section defines the terminology used throughout this document.
2.1. Conformance Terminology
Capitalized terms such as MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHOULD, SHOULD
NOT, MAY, NEED NOT, and OPTIONAL have special meaning relating to
conformance as defined in RFC 2119 [RFC2119] and [RFC2911], section
12.1. If an implementation supports the extension defined in this
document, then these terms apply; otherwise, they do not. These
terms define conformance to this document only; they do not affect
conformance to other documents, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
2.2. Other Terminology
This document uses terms such as "client", "Printer", "Job",
"attributes", "keywords", "operation", and "support". These terms
have special meaning and are defined in the model terminology
([RFC2911], section 12.2).
In addition, the following capitalized terms are defined:
IPP Printer object (or Printer for short) - A software abstraction
defined by [RFC2911].
Printer Operation - An operation whose target is an IPP Printer
object and whose effect is on the Printer object.
Output Device - The physical imaging mechanism that an IPP Printer
controls. Note: although this term is capitalized in this
specification (but not in [RFC2911]), there is no formal object
called an Output Device defined in this document (or in [RFC2911]).
Output Device Fan-Out - A configuration in which an IPP Printer
controls more than one Output Device.
Printer Fan-Out - A configuration in which an IPP Printer object
controls more than one Subordinate IPP Printer object.
Printer Fan-In - A configuration in which an IPP Printer object is
controlled by more than one IPP Printer object.
Subordinate Printer - An IPP Printer object that is controlled by
another IPP Printer object. Such a Subordinate Printer MAY have zero
or more Subordinate Printers.
Leaf Printer - An IPP Printer object that has no Subordinate
Printers.
Non-Leaf Printer - An IPP Printer object that has one or more
Subordinate Printers. A Non-Leaf Printer is also called a Parent
Printer.
Chained Printer - a Non-Leaf Printer that has exactly one Subordinate
Job Creation operations - IPP operations that create a Job object:
Print-Job, Print-URI, and Create-Job.
3. Definition of the Printer Operations
All Printer Operations are directed at Printer objects. A client
MUST always supply the "printer-uri" operation attribute in order to
identify the correct target of the operation. These descriptions
assume all of the common semantics of the IPP/1.1 Model and Semantics
document ([RFC2911], section 3.1).
The Printer Operations defined in this document are summarized in
Table 1. Printer Operation Operation-Id Assignments
Operation Name Operation-Id Brief Description
Enable-Printer 0x22 Allows the target Printer to accept
Job Creation operations.
Disable-Printer 0x23 Prevents the target Printer from
accepting Job Creation operations.
Pause-Printer- 0x24 Pauses the Printer after the current
After-Current- job has been sent to the Output
Job Device.
Hold-New-Jobs 0x25 Finishes processing all currently
pending jobs. Any new jobs are
placed in the 'pending-held' state.
Release-Held- 0x26 Releases all jobs to the 'pending'
New-Jobs state that had been held by the
effect of a previous Hold-New-Jobs
operation and condition the Printer
so that it no longer holds new jobs.
Deactivate- 0x27 Puts the Printer into a read-only
Printer deactivated state.
Activate- 0x28 Restores the Printer to normal
Printer activity.
Restart-Printer 0x29 Restarts the target Printer and re-
initializes the software.
Shutdown- 0x2A Shuts down the target Printer so that
Printer it cannot be restarted or queried.
Startup-Printer 0x2B Starts up the instance of the Printer
object.
All of the operations in this document are OPTIONAL for an IPP object
to support. Unless the specification of an OPTIONAL operation
requires support of another OPTIONAL operation, conforming
implementations may support any combination of these operations.
Many of the operations come in pairs, so both are REQUIRED if either
one is implemented.
3.1. The Disable and Enable Printer Operations
This section defines the OPTIONAL Disable-Printer and Enable-Printer
operations that stop and start the IPP Printer object from accepting
new IPP jobs. If either of these operations are supported, both MUST
be supported.
These operations allow the operator to control whether the Printer
will accept new Job Creation (Print-Job, Print-URI, and Create-Job)
operations. These operations have no other effect on the Printer, so
the Printer continues to accept all other operations and continues to
schedule and process jobs normally. In other words, these operations
control the "input of new jobs" to the IPP Printer, and the Pause and
Resume operations (see section 3.2) independently control the "output
of new jobs" from the IPP Printer to the Output Device.
3.1.1. Disable-Printer Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to stop the Printer object
from accepting new jobs; i.e., it causes the Printer to reject
subsequent Job Creation operations and return the 'server-error-not-
accepting-jobs' status code. The Printer still accepts all other
operations, including Validate-Job, Send-Document, and Send-URI
operations. Thus a Disable-Printer operation allows a client to
continue submitting multiple documents of a multiple document job if
the Create-Job operation had already been accepted. All previously
created or submitted Jobs and all Jobs currently processing continue
unaffected.
The IPP Printer MUST accept the request in any state. The Printer
sets the value of its "printer-is-accepting-jobs" READ-ONLY Printer
Description attribute to 'false' (see [RFC2911], section 4.4.20), no
matter what the previous value was. This operation has no immediate
or direct effect on the Printer's "printer-state" and "printer-
state-reasons" attributes.
Access Rights: The authenticated user (see [RFC2911], section 8.3)
performing this operation must be an operator or administrator of the
Printer object (see [RFC2911] sections 1 and 8.5).
The Disable-Printer Request and Disable-Printer Response have the
same attribute groups and attributes as do the Pause-Printer
operation (see [RFC2911], sections 3.2.7.1 and 3.2.7.2), including
the new "printer-message-from-operator" operation attribute (see
section 6).
3.1.2. Enable-Printer Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to start the Printer object
accepting jobs; i.e., it causes the Printer to accept subsequent Job
Creation operations. The Printer still accepts all other operations.
All previously submitted and currently processing Jobs continue
Description attribute to 'true' (see [RFC2911], section 4.4.20), no
The Enable-Printer Request and Enable-Printer Response have the same
attribute groups and attributes as does the Pause-Printer operation
(see [RFC2911], sections 3.2.8.1 and 3.2.8.2), including the new
"printer-message-from-operator" operation attribute (see section 6).
3.2. The Pause and Resume Printer Operations
This section leaves the OPTIONAL IPP/1.1 Pause-Printer (see
[RFC2911], sections 3.2.7) ambiguous as to whether it stops the
Printer immediately or after the current job. It also defines the
OPTIONAL Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job operation as following the
current job. These operations affect the scheduling of IPP jobs. If
either of these Pause Printer operations are supported, then the
Resume-Printer operation MUST be supported.
will send new IPP jobs to the associated Output Device(s) that the
IPP Printer object represents. These operations have no other effect
on the Printer, so the Printer continues to accept all operations.
In other words, these operations control the "output of new jobs" to
the Output Device(s), and the Disable and Enable Printer Operations
(see section 3.1) independently control the "input of new jobs" to
the IPP Printer.
Table 2. Pause and Resume Printer Operations
Pause and Resume Printers Description
IPP/1.1 Pause Printer Stops the IPP Printer from sending
new IPP Jobs to the Output Device(s)
either immediately or after the
current job completes, depending on
implementation, as defined in
Pause-Printer-After- Stops the IPP Printer from sending
Current-Job new IPP Jobs to the Output Device(s)
after the current jobs finish.
Resume-Printer Starts the IPP Printer sending IPP
Jobs to the Output Device again.
3.2.1. Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Operation
from sending IPP jobs to any of its Output Devices or Subordinate
Printers. If the IPP Printer is in the middle of sending an IPP job
to an Output Device or Subordinate Printer, the IPP Printer MUST
complete sending that Job. However, after receiving this operation,
the IPP Printer MUST NOT send any additional IPP jobs to any of its
Output Devices or Subordinate Printers. In addition, after having
received this operation, the IPP Printer MUST NOT start processing
any more jobs, so additional jobs MUST NOT enter the 'processing'
If the IPP Printer is not sending an IPP Job to the Output Device or
Subordinate Printer (whether or not the Output Device or Subordinate
Printer is busy processing any jobs), the IPP Printer object
transitions immediately to the 'stopped' state by setting its
"printer-state" attribute to 'stopped', removing the 'moving-to-
paused' value, if present, from its "printer-state-reasons"
attribute, and adding the 'paused' value to its "printer-state-
reasons" attribute.
If the implementation will take appreciable time to complete sending
an IPP job that it has started sending to an Output Device or
Subordinate Printer, the IPP Printer adds the 'moving-to-paused'
value to the Printer object's "printer-state-reasons" attribute (see
section [RFC2911], 4.4.12). When the IPP Printer has completed
sending IPP jobs that it was in the process of sending, the Printer
object transitions to the 'stopped' state by setting its "printer-
state" attribute to 'stopped', removing the 'moving-to-paused' value,
if present, from its "printer-state-reasons" attribute, and adding
the 'paused' value to its "printer-state-reasons" attribute.
This operation MUST NOT affect the acceptance of Job Creation
requests (see Disable-Printer Operation, section 3.1.1).
For any jobs that are 'pending' or 'pending-held', the 'printer-
stopped' values of the jobs' "job-state-reasons" attribute also
apply. However, the IPP Printer NEED NOT update those jobs' "job-
state-reasons" attributes and only have to return the 'printer-
stopped' value when those jobs are queried by using the Get-Job-
Attributes or Get-Jobs operations (so-called "lazy evaluation").
The IPP Printer MUST accept the request in any state and transition
the Printer to the indicated new "printer-state", and it MUST add the
indicated value to "printer-state-reasons" attribute before returning
Table 3. State Transition Table for Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job
Current New "printer IPP Printer's response status
"printer- "printer- -state- code and action (REQUIRED/
state" state" reasons" OPTIONAL state transition for
a Printer to support):
'idle' 'stopped' 'paused' REQUIRED: 'successful-ok'
'processing' 'processing' 'moving- OPTIONAL: 'successful-ok';
to- Later, when the IPP Printer
paused' has finished sending IPP jobs
to an Output Device, the
"printer-state" becomes
'stopped', and the 'paused'
value replaces the 'moving-to-
paused' value in the "printer-
state-reasons" attribute
'processing' 'stopped' 'paused' REQUIRED: 'successful-ok';
the IPP Printer wasn't in the
middle of sending an IPP job
to an Output Device
'stopped' 'stopped' 'paused' REQUIRED: 'successful-ok'
Printer object (see [RFC2911], sections 1 and 8.5).
The Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Request and Pause-Printer-After-
Current-Job Response have the same attribute groups and attributes as
does the Pause-Printer operation (see [RFC2911], sections 3.2.7.1 and
3.2.7.2), including the new "printer-message-from-operator" operation
attribute (see section 6).
3.3. Hold and Release New Jobs Operations
This section defines operations to condition the Printer to hold any
new jobs and to release them.
3.3.1. Hold-New-Jobs Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to condition the Printer to
complete the current 'pending' and 'processing' IPP Jobs but not to
start processing any subsequently created IPP Jobs. If the IPP
Printer is in the middle of sending an IPP job to an Output Device or
Subordinate Printer, the IPP Printer MUST complete sending that Job.
Furthermore, the IPP Printer MUST send all of the current 'pending'
IPP Jobs to the Output Device(s) or Subordinate IPP Printer
object(s). Any subsequently received Job Creation operations will
cause the IPP Printer to put the Job into the 'pending-held' state,
with the 'job-held-on-create' value being added to the job's "job-
state-reasons" attribute. Thus all newly accepted jobs will be
automatically held by the Printer.
When the Printer completes all the 'pending' and 'processing' jobs,
it enters the 'idle' state as usual. An operator monitoring Printer
state changes will know when the Printer has completed all current
jobs because the Printer enters the 'idle' state.
requests (see Disable-Printer Operation, section 3.1.1), except to
put the Jobs into the 'pending-held' state, instead of the 'pending'
or 'processing' state.
The IPP Printer MUST accept the request in any state, MUST NOT
transition the Printer to any other "printer-state", and MUST add the
'hold-new-jobs' value to the Printer's "printer-state-reasons"
attribute (whether the value was present or not).
The Hold-New-Jobs Request and Hold-New-Jobs Response have the same
3.3.2. Release-Held-New-Jobs Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to undo the effect of a
previous Hold-New-Jobs operation. In particular, the Printer
releases all the jobs that it held as a consequence of a Hold-New-
Jobs operations; i.e., while the 'hold-new-jobs' value was present in
the Printer's "printer-state-reasons" attribute. In addition, the
Printer MUST accept this request in any state, MUST NOT transition
the Printer to any other "printer-state", and MUST remove the 'hold-
new-jobs' value from its "printer-state-reasons" attribute (whether
the value was present or not) so that the Printer no longer holds
newly created jobs.
The Release-Held-New-Jobs Request and Release-Held-New-Jobs Response
have the same attribute groups and attributes as the Pause-Printer
3.4. Deactivate and Activate Printer Operations
This section defines the OPTIONAL Deactivate-Printer and Activate-
Printer operations that stop and start the IPP Printer object from
accepting all requests except queries and performing work. If either
of these operations are supported, both MUST be supported.
These operations allow the operator to put the Printer into a dormant
read-only condition and to take it out of this condition.
3.4.1. Deactivate-Printer Operation
Printers (Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job) and to stop the Printer
object from accepting any requests but query requests. The Printer
performs a Disable-Printer and a Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job
operation immediately. If these two operations cannot be completed
immediately, it includes use of all of the "printer-state-reasons".
In addition, the Printer MUST immediately reject all requests, except
for Activate-Printer, queries (Get-Printer-Attributes, Get-Job-
Attributes, Get-Jobs, etc.), Send-Document, and Send-URI (so that
partial job submission can be completed, see section 3.1.1). The
Printer MUST then return the 'server-error-service-unavailable'
status code.
The IPP Printer MUST accept the request in any state. Immediately,
the Printer MUST set the 'deactivated' value in its "printer-state-
reasons" attribute. Note: neither the Disable-Printer nor the
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job set the 'deactivated' value.
The Deactivate-Printer Request and Deactivate-Printer Response have
the same attribute groups and attributes as does the Pause-Printer
3.4.2. Activate-Printer Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to undo the effects of the
Deactivate-Printer; i.e., it allows the Printer object to start
sending IPP jobs to any of its Output Devices or Subordinate Printers
(Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job) and starts the Printer object from
accepting any requests. The Printer performs an Enable-Printer and a
Resume-Printer operation immediately. In addition, the Printer MUST
immediately start accepting all requests.
MUST immediately remove the 'deactivated' value from its "printer-
state-reasons" attribute (whether it is present or not).
The Activate-Printer Request and Activate-Printer Response have the
same attribute groups and attributes as the Pause-Printer operation
3.5. Restart-Printer, Shutdown-Printer, and Startup-Printer Operations
This section defines the OPTIONAL Restart-Printer, Shutdown-Printer,
and Startup-Printer operations that initialize, shutdown, and start
up the Printer object, respectively. Each of these operations is
OPTIONAL, and any combination MAY be supported.
3.5.1. Restart-Printer Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to restart a Printer object
whose operation is in need of initialization because of incorrect or
erratic behavior; i.e., perform the effect of a software re-boot.
The implementation MUST attempt to save any information about Jobs
and the Printer object before re-initializing. However, this
operation MAY have drastic consequences on the running system, so the
client SHOULD first try the Deactivate-Printer operation to minimize
the effect on the current state of the system. The effects of
previous Disable-Printer, Pause Printer, and Deactivate-Printer
operations are lost.
object MUST initialize its Printer's "printer-state" to 'idle',
remove the state reasons from its "printer-state-reasons" attribute,
and change its "printer-is-accepting-jobs" attribute to 'true'.
The Restart-Printer Request and Restart-Printer Response have the
same attribute groups and attributes as does the Pause-Printer
3.5.2. Shutdown-Printer Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to shutdown a Printer; i.e.,
to stop processing jobs without losing any jobs and to make the
Printer object unavailable for any operations using the IPP protocol.
There is no way to bring the instance of the Printer object back to
being used, except for the Startup-Printer (see section 3.5.3), which
starts up a new instance of the Printer object for hosted
implementations. The purpose of Shutdown-Printer is to shutdown the
Printer for an extended period, not to reset the device(s) or modify
a Printer attribute. See Restart-Printer (section 3.5.1) and
Startup-Printer (section 3.5.3) for the way to initialize the
software. See the Disable-Printer operation (section 3.1) for a way
for the client to stop the Printer from accepting Job Creation
requests without stopping processing or shutting down.
The Printer MUST add the 'shutdown' value (see [RFC2911], section
4.4.11) immediately to its "printer-state-reasons" Printer
Description attribute. It then performs a Deactivate-Printer
operation (see section 3.4.1), which in turn performs Disable-Printer
and Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job operations).
Note: To shutdown the Printer after all the currently submitted jobs
have completed, the operator issues a Disable-Printer operation (see
section 3.1.1) and then waits until all the jobs have completed. The
Printer goes into the 'idle' state before issuing the Shutdown-
Printer operation.
The Printer object MUST accept this operation in any state and
transition the Printer object through the "printer-states" and
"printer-state-reasons" defined for the Pause-Printer-After-Current-
Job operation until the activity is completed and the Printer object
The Shutdown-Printer Request and Shutdown-Printer Response have the
3.5.3. Startup-Printer operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to start up an instance of a
Printer object, provided that there isn't one already initiated. The
purpose of Startup-Printer is to allow a hosted implementation of the
IPP Printer object (i.e., a Server that implements an IPP Printer on
behalf of a networked or local Output Device) to be started after the
host is available (by means outside this document). See section
3.5.1 for the way to initialize the software or reset the Output
Device(s) when the IPP Printer object has already been initiated.
The host MUST accept this operation only when the Printer object has
not been initiated. If the Printer object already exists, the host
must return the 'client-error-not-possible' status code.
The result of this operation MUST be with the Printer object's
"printer-state" set to 'idle', the state reasons removed from its
"printer-state-reasons" attribute, and its "printer-is-accepting-
jobs" attribute set to 'false'. Then the operator can reconfigure
the Printer before performing an Enable-Printer operation. However,
when a Printer is first powered up, it is RECOMMENDED that its
"printer-is-accepting-jobs" attribute be set to 'true' in order to
achieve easy "out of the box" operation.
operation (see [RFC2911] sections 3.2.7.1 and 3.2.7.2), including the
new "printer-message-from-operator" operation attribute (see section
6).
4. Definition of the Job Operations
All Job operations are directed at Job objects. A client MUST always
supply some means to identify the Job object in order to select the
correct target of the operation. That job identification MAY either
be a single Job URI or a combination of a Printer URI and a Job ID.
The IPP object implementation MUST support both forms of
identification for every job.
The Job Operations defined in this document are summarized in Table
Table 4. Job Operation Operation-Id Assignments
Reprocess-Job 0x2C Creates a copy of a completed target
job with a new Job ID and processes it.
Cancel-Current- 0x2D Cancels the current job on the target
Job Printer or the specified job if it is
the current job.
Suspend- 0x2E Suspends the current processing job on
Current-Job the target Printer or the specified
job if it is the current job, allowing
other jobs to be processed instead.
Resume-Job 0x2F Resumes the suspended target job.
Promote-Job 0x30 Promotes the pending target job to be
next after the current job(s) complete.
Schedule-Job- 0x31 Schedules the target job immediately
After after the specified job, all other
scheduling factors being equal.
4.1. Reprocess-Job Operation
This OPTIONAL operation is a create job operation that allows a
client to re-process a copy of a job that had been retained in the
queue after processing was completed, canceled, or aborted (see
[RFC2911], section 4.3.7.2). This operation is the same as the
Restart-Job operation (see [RFC2911], section 3.3.7), except that the
Printer creates a new job that is a copy of the target job and the
target job is unchanged. New values are assigned to the "job-uri"
and "job-id" attributes. The new job's Job Description attributes
that track job progress, such as "job-impressions-completed", "job-
media-sheets-completed", and "job-k-octets-processed", are
initialized to 0, as with any create job operation. The target job
moves to the Job History after a suitable period, independent of
whether one or more Reprocess-Job operations have been performed upon
If the Set-Job-Attributes operation is supported, then the "job-
hold-until" operation attribute MUST be supported with at least the
'indefinite' value, so that a client can modify the new job before it
is scheduled for processing by using the Set-Job-Attributes
operation. After modifying the job, the client can release the job
for processing by using the Release-Job operation specifying the
newly assigned "job-uri" or "job-id" for the new job.
4.2. Cancel-Current-Job Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to cancel the current job on
the target Printer or the specified job if it is the current job on
the Printer. See [RFC2911], section 3.3.3, for the semantics of
canceling a job. Since a Job might already be marking by the time a
Cancel-Current-Job is received, some media sheet pages might print
before the job is actually terminated.
If the client does not supply a "job-id" operation attribute, the
Printer MUST accept the request and cancel the current job if there
is a current job in the 'processing' or 'processing-stopped' state;
otherwise, it MUST reject the request and return the 'client-error-
not-possible' status code. If more than one job is in the
'processing' or 'processing-stopped' state, the one that is marking
is canceled, and the others are unaffected.
Warning: On a shared printer, there is a race condition. Between
the time when a user issues this operation and the time of its
acceptance, the current job might change to a different job. If the
user or operator is authenticated to cancel the new job, the wrong
job is canceled. To prevent this race from canceling the wrong job,
the client MAY supply the "job-id" operation attribute, which is
checked against the current job's job-id. If the job identified by
the "job-id" attribute is not the current job on the Printer (i.e.,
is not in the 'processing' or 'processing-stopped' state), the
Printer MUST reject this operation and return the 'client-error-not-
possible' status code. Otherwise, the Printer cancels the specified
performing this operation must either be the job owner (as determined
in the Job Creation operation) or an operator or administrator of the
The Cancel-Current-Job Request and Cancel-Current-Job Response have
the same attribute groups and attributes as does the Resume-Printer
operation (see [RFC2911], section 3.2.8), including the new "job-
message-from-operator" operation attribute (see section 6), with the
addition of the following Group 1 Operation attribute in the request:
"job-id" (integer(1:MAX)):
The client OPTIONALLY supplies this Operation attribute to verify
that the identified job is still the current job on the target
Printer object. The IPP object MUST support this operation
attribute if it supports this operation.
4.3. Suspend and Resume Job Operations
This section defines the Suspend-Current-Job and Resume-Job
operations. These operations allow an operator or user to suspend a
job while it is processing, allowing other jobs to be processed, and
to resume the suspended job at a later point without losing any of
the output.
If either of these operations is supported, both MUST be supported.
The Hold-Job and Release-Job operations ([RFC2911], section 3.3.5)
are for holding and releasing held jobs, not suspending and resuming
suspended jobs.
4.3.1. Suspend-Current-Job Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to stop the current job on
the Printer, to allow other jobs to be processed instead. The
Printer moves the current job or the target job to the 'processing-
stopped' state and sets the 'job-suspended' value (see section 9.1)
in the job's "job-state-reasons" attribute and processes other jobs.
Printer MUST accept the request and suspend the current job if there
is a current job in the 'processing' or 'processing-stopped' state.
'processing' or 'processing-stopped' state, all of them are
suspended.
user or operator is authenticated to suspend the new job, the wrong
job is suspended. To prevent this race from pausing the wrong job,
possible' status code. Otherwise, the Printer suspends the specified
job and processed other jobs.
The Printer MUST reject a Suspend-Current-Job request (and return the
'client-error-not-possible') for a job that has been suspended, i.e.,
for a job in the 'processing-stopped' state, with the 'job-suspended'
value in its "job-state-reasons" attribute.
performing this operation must be either the job owner (as determined
The Suspend-Current-Job Request and Suspend-Current-Job Response have
operation (see [RFC2911], section 3.2.8 ), including the new "job-
4.3.2. Resume-Job Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to resume the target job at
the point where it was suspended. The Printer moves the target job
to the 'pending' state and removes the 'job-suspended' value from the
job's "job-state-reasons" attribute.
If the target job is not in the 'processing-stopped' state, with the
'job-suspended' value in the job's "job-state-reasons" attribute, the
Printer MUST reject the request and return the 'client-error-not-
possible' status code, since the job was not suspended.
The Resume-Job Request and Resume-Job Response have the same
attribute groups and attributes as the Release-Job operation (see
[RFC2911], section 3.3.6), including the new "job-message-from-
operator" operation attribute (see section 6).
4.4. Job Scheduling Operations
This section defines jobs that allow an operator to control the
scheduling of jobs.
4.4.1. Promote-Job Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to make the pending target
job be processed next after the current job completes. This
operation is especially useful in a production printing environment
where the operator is involved in job scheduling.
If the target job is in the 'pending' state, this operation does not
change the job's state but causes the job to be processed after the
current job(s) complete. If the target job is not in the 'pending'
state, the Printer MUST reject the request and return the 'client-
error-not-possible' status code.
If the Printer implements the "job-priority" Job Template attribute
(see [RFC2911], section 4.2.1), the Printer sets the job's "job-
priority" to the highest value supported (so that the job will print
before any of the other pending jobs). The Printer returns the
target job immediately after the current job(s) in a Get-Jobs
response (see [RFC2911], section 3.2.6) for the 'not-completed' jobs.
When the current job is completed, canceled, suspended (see section
4.3.1), or aborted, the target of this operation is processed next.
If a client issues this request (again) before the target of the
operation of the original request started processing, the target of
this new request is processed first.
IPP is specified not to require queues for job scheduling, as there
are other implementation techniques for scheduling multiple jobs,
such as re-evaluating a criteria function for each job on a
scheduling cycle. However, if an implementation does implement
queues for jobs, then the Promote-Job operation puts the specified
job at the front of the queue. A subsequent Promote-Job operation
prior to the processing of the first job puts that specified job at
the front of the queue, so that it is "in front" of the previously
promoted job.
The Promote-Job Request and Promote-Job Response have the same
attribute groups and attributes as does the Cancel-Job operation (see
4.4.2. Schedule-Job-After Operation
This OPTIONAL operation allows a client to request that the Printer
schedule the target job so that it will be processed immediately
after the specified predecessor job, all other scheduling factors
being equal. This operation is specially useful in a production
printing environment where the operator is involved in job
scheduling.
preceding job completes. The preceding job can be in the target
'pending', 'processing', or 'processing-stopped' state. If the
target job is not in the 'pending' state, or if the predecessor job
is not in the 'pending', 'processing', or 'processing-stopped' state,
the Printer MUST reject the request, and it returns the 'client-
error-not-possible' status code, as the job cannot have its position
priority" to that of the predecessor job (so that the job will print
after the predecessor job). The Printer returns the target job
immediately after the predecessor in a Get-Jobs response (see
[RFC2911], section 3.2.6) for the 'not-completed' jobs.
When the predecessor job completes processing or is canceled or
aborted while processing, the target of this operation is processed
If the client does not supply a predecessor job, this operation has
the same semantics as Promote-Job (see section 4.4).
queues for jobs, then the Schedule-Job-After operation puts the
specified job immediately after the specified job in the queue. A
subsequent Schedule-Job-After operation specifying the same job will
cause its target job to be placed after that job, even though it is
between the first target job and the specified job. For example,
suppose the job queue consisted of jobs A, B, C, D, and E, in that
order. A Schedule-Job-After with job E as the target and B as the
specified job would result in the following queue: A, B, E, C, D. A
subsequent Schedule-Job-After with Job D as the target and B as the
specified job would result in the following queue: A, B, D, E, C.
In other words, the link between the two jobs in a Schedule-Job-After
operation is not retained; i.e., there is no attribute on either job
that points to the other job as a result of this operation.
The Schedule-Job-After Request have the same attribute groups and
attributes as does the Cancel-Job operation (see [RFC2911], section
3.3.3), plus the new "job-message-from-operator" operation attribute
(see section 6). In addition, the following operation attribute is
defined:
"predecessor-job-id":
The client OPTIONALLY supplies this attribute. The Printer MUST
support it, if it supports this operation. This attribute
specifies the job after which the target job is to be processed.
If the client omits this attribute, the Printer MUST process the
target job next, i.e., after the current job, if there is one.
The Schedule-Job-After Response has the same attribute groups,
attributes, and status codes as does the Cancel-Job operation (see
[RFC2911], section 3.3.3). The following status codes have
particular meaning for this operation:
'client-error-not-possible' - The target job was not in the 'pending'
state, or the predecessor job was not in the 'pending', 'processing',
or 'processing-stopped' state.
'client-error-not-found' - Either the target job or the predecessor
job was not found.
5. Additional Status Codes
This section defines new status codes used by the operations defined
in this document.
5.1. 'server-error-printer-is-deactivated' (0x050A)
The Printer has been deactivated by the Deactivate-Printer operation
and is only accepting the Activate-Printer (see section 3.5.1), Get-
Job-Attributes, Get-Jobs, Get-Printer-Attributes, and any other Get-
Xxxx operations. An operator can perform the Activate-Printer
operation to allow the Printer to accept other operations.
6. Use of Operation Attributes That Are Messages from the Operator
This section summarizes the usage of the "printer-message-from-
operator" and "job-message-from-operator" operation attributes
[RFC3380] that set the corresponding Printer and Job Description
attributes (see [RFC2911] for the definition of these). These
operation attributes are defined for most of the Printer and Job
operations that operators are likely to perform, respectively, so
that operators can indicate the reasons for their actions.
Table 5 shows the operation attributes defined for use with the
Printer Operations.
Table 5. Operation Attribute Support for Printer Operations
Operation Attribute A B
attributes-charset REQ REQ
attributes-natural-language REQ REQ
printer-uri REQ REQ
requesting-user-name REQ REQ
printer-message-from-operator Note OPT
A: Get-Printer-Attributes, Set-Printer-Attributes
B: All other Printer administrative operations, including, but
not limited to, Pause-Printer, Pause-Printer-After-Current-
Job, Resume-Printer, Hold-New-Jobs, Release-Held-New-Jobs,
Purge-Jobs, Enable-Print, Disable-Printer, Restart-
Printer, Shutdown-Printer, and Startup-Printer.
REQ: REQUIRED for a Printer to support.
OPT: OPTIONAL for a Printer to support; the Printer ignores the
attribute if it is not supported.
Note: According to [RFC3380], the Client MUST NOT supply the
"printer-message-from-operator" operation attribute in a
Get-Printer-Attributes or Set-Printer-Attributes operation;
the Printer MUST ignore this operation attribute in these
two operations. Instead, when it is used by an
operator, the client MUST supply the
"printer-message-from-operator" as (one of the) explicit
attributes being set on the Printer object with the
Set-Printer-Attributes operation.
Table 6 shows the operation attributes defined for use with the Job
operations.
Table 6. Operation Attribute Support for Job Operations
Operation Attribute A B C F
attributes-charset REQ REQ REQ REQ
attributes-natural-language REQ REQ REQ REQ
printer-uri REQ REQ REQ REQ
job-uri REQ REQ REQ
job-id REQ REQ REQ REQ
requesting-user-name REQ REQ REQ REQ
job-message-from-operator OPT OPT OPT Note
message** OPT OPT OPT n/a
job-hold-until n/a n/a OPT* n/a
A: Cancel-Job, Resume-Job, Restart-Job, Promote-Job, Schedule-Job-
B: Cancel-Current-Job, Suspend-Current-Job
C: Hold-Job, Release-Job, Reprocess-Job
F: Get-Job-Attributes, Set-Job-Attributes
REQ; REQUIRED for a Printer to support.
attribute if it is supplied, but not supported.
n/a: not applicable for use with the operation; the Printer ignores
the attribute.
Note: According to [RFC3380], the Client MUST NOT supply the "job-
message-from-operator" operation attribute in a Get-Job-
Attributes or Set-Job-Attributes operation; the Printer MUST
ignore this operation attribute in these two operations.
Instead, when used by an operator, the client MUST supply the
"job-message-from-operator" as (one of the) explicit attributes
being set on the Job object with the Set-Job-Attributes
operation.
*: The Printer MUST support the "job-hold-until" operation
attribute if it supports the "job-hold-until" Job Template
attribute. For the Reprocess-Job operation, the client can
hold the job and then modify the job before releasing it to
be processed.
**: In [RFC2911], the "message" operation attribute is defined to
contain a message to the operator, but [RFC2911] does not
define a Job Description attribute to store the message.
7. New Printer Description Attributes
The following new Printer Description attributes are needed to
support the new operations defined in this document and the concepts
of Printer Fan-Out (see section 10).
7.1. subordinate-printers-supported (1setOf uri)
This Printer attribute is REQUIRED if an implementation supports
Subordinate Printers (see section 10) and contains the URIs of the
immediate Subordinate Printer object(s) associated with this Printer
object. Each Non-Leaf Printer object MUST support this Printer
Description attribute. A Leaf Printer object either does not support
the "subordinate-printers-supported" attribute or does so with the
'no-value' out-of-band value (see [RFC2911], section 4.1), depending
on the implementation.
The precise format of the Subordinate Printer URIs is implementation
dependent (see section 10.4).
If the Printer object does not have an associated Output Device, the
Printer MAY automatically copy the value of the Subordinate Printer
object's "printer-name" attribute to the Job object's "output-
device-assigned" attribute (see [RFC2911], section 4.3.13). The
"output-device-assigned" Job attribute identifies the Output Device
to which the Printer object has assigned a job; for example, when a
single Printer object is supporting Device Fan-Out or Printer Fan-
7.2. parent-printers-supported (1setOf uri)
Subordinate Printers (see section 10) and contains the URI of the
Non-Leaf printer object(s) for which this Printer object is the
immediate Subordinate; i.e., this Printer's immediate "parent" or
"parents". Each Subordinate Printer object MUST support this Printer
Description attribute. A Printer that has no parents either does not
support the "parent-printers-supported" attribute or does so with the
8. Additional Values for the "printer-state-reasons" Printer
Description Attribute
This section defines additional values for the "printer-state-
reasons" Printer Description attribute.
8.1. 'hold-new-jobs' Value
'hold-new-jobs': The operator has issued the Hold-New-Jobs operation
(see section 3.3.1) or other means, but the output-device(s) are
taking an appreciable time to stop. Later, when all output has
stopped, the "printer-state" becomes 'stopped', and the 'paused'
value replaces the 'moving-to-paused' value in the "printer-
state-reasons" attribute. This value MUST be supported if the
Hold-New-Jobs operation is supported and the implementation takes
significant time to pause a device in certain circumstances.
8.2. 'deactivated' Value
'deactivated': A client has issued a Deactivate-Printer operation
for the Printer object (see section 3.4.1), and the Printer is in
the process of becoming deactivated or has become deactivated.
The Printer MUST reject all requests except for Activate-Printer,
queries (Get-Printer-Attributes, Get-Job-Attributes, Get-Jobs,
etc.), Send-Document, and Send-URI (so that partial job submission
can be completed; see section 3.1.1), and then return the
'server-error-service-unavailable' status code.
9. Additional Values for the "job-state-reasons" Job Description
This section defines additional values for the "job-state-reasons"
Job Description attribute.
9.1. 'job-suspended' Value
'job-suspended': While job processing has been suspended by the
Suspend-Current-Job operation, other jobs can be processed on the
Printer. The Job can be resumed with the Resume-Job operation,
which removes this value.
10. Use of the Printer Object to Represent IPP Printer Fan-Out and IPP
Printer Fan-In
This section defines how the Printer object MAY be used to represent
IPP Printer Fan-Out and IPP Printer Fan-In. In Fan-Out, an IPP
Printer is used to represent other IPP Printer objects. In Fan-In,
several IPP Printer objects are used to represent another IPP Printer
10.1. IPP Printer Fan-Out
The IPP/1.1 Model and Semantics introduces the semantic concept of an
IPP Printer object that represents more than one Output Device (see
[RFC2911], section 2.1). This concept is called "Output Device Fan-
Out". However, with Fan-Out there was no way to represent the
individual states of the Output Devices or to perform operations on a
specific Output Device. This document generalizes the semantics of
the Printer object to represent Subordinate Fan-Out Output Devices
such as IPP Printer objects. This concept is called "Printer object
Fan-Out". A Printer object that has a Subordinate Printer object is
called a Non-Leaf Printer object. Thus, a Non-Leaf Printer object
supports one or more Subordinate Printer objects in order to
represent Printer object Fan-Out. A Printer object that does not
have any Subordinate Printer objects is called a Leaf Printer object.
Each Non-Leaf Printer object submits jobs to its immediate
Subordinate Printers and otherwise controls the Subordinate Printers
by using IPP or other protocols. Whether pending jobs are kept in
the Non-Leaf Printer until a Subordinate Printer can accept them or
are kept in the Subordinate Printers depends on implementation and/or
configuration policy. Furthermore, a Subordinate Printer object MAY,
in turn, have Subordinate Printer objects. Thus a Printer object can
be both a Non-Leaf Printer and a Subordinate Printer.
A Subordinate Printer object MUST be a conforming Printer object, so
it MUST support all of the REQUIRED [RFC2911] operations and
attributes. However, with access control, the Subordinate Printer
MAY be configured so that end-user clients are not permitted to
perform any operations (or just Get-Printer-Attributes) while one or
more Non-Leaf Printer object(s) are permitted to perform any
10.2. IPP Printer Fan-In
The IPP/1.1 Model and Semantics did not preclude the semantic concept
of multiple IPP Printer objects that represent a single Output Device
(see [RFC2911], section 2.1). However, there was no way for the
client to determine whether there was a Fan-In configuration; nor was
there a way to perform operations on the Subordinate device. This
specification generalizes the semantics of the Printer object to
allow several Non-Leaf IPP Printer objects to represent a single
Subordinate Printer object. Thus a Non-Leaf Printer object MAY share
a Subordinate Printer object with one or more other Non-Leaf Printer
objects in order to represent IPP Printer Fan-In.
As with Fan-Out (see section 10.1), when a Printer object is a Non-
Leaf Printer, it MUST NOT have an associated Output Device. As with
Fan-Out, a Leaf Printer object has one or more associated Output
Devices. As with Fan-Out, the Non-Leaf Printer objects submit jobs
to their Subordinate Printer objects and otherwise control the
Subordinate Printer. As with Fan-Out, whether pending jobs are kept
in the Non-Leaf Printers until the Subordinate Printer can accept
them or are kept in the Subordinate Printer depends on the
implementation and/or configuration policy.
10.3. Printer Object Attributes Used to Represent Printer Fan-Out and
The following Printer Description attributes are defined to represent
the relationship between Printer object(s) and their Subordinate
Printer object(s):
1. "subordinate-printers-supported" (1setOf uri) - Contains the
URI of the immediate Subordinate Printer object(s).
2. "parent-printers-supported (1setOf uri) - Contains the URI of
the Non-Leaf printer object(s) for which this Printer object is
the immediate Subordinate; i.e., this Printer's immediate
"parent" or "parents".
10.4. Subordinate Printer URI
Each Subordinate Printer object has a URI used as the target of each
operation on the Subordinate Printer. The means to configure URIs
for Subordinate Printer objects is implementation-dependent, as are
all URIs. However, there are two distinct approaches:
a. When the implementation seeks to make sure that no operation on
a Subordinate Printer object "sneaks by" the parent Printer
object (or that no Subordinate Printer is fronting for a device
that is not networked), the host part of the URI specifies the
host of the parent Printer. Then the parent Printer object can
easily reflect the state of the Subordinate Printer objects in
the parent's Printer object state and state reasons as the
operation passes "through" the parent Printer object.
b. When the Subordinate Printer is networked and the
implementation allows operations to go directly to the
Subordinate Printer (with proper access control) without
knowledge of the parent Printer object, the host part of the
URI is different from the host part of the parent Printer
object. In this a case, the parent Printer object MAY keep its
"printer-state" and "printer-state-reasons" up to date, either
by polling the Subordinate Printer object or by subscribing to
events with the Subordinate Printer object (see [RFC3995] for
means to subscribe to event notification when the Subordinate
Printer object supports IPP notification). Alternatively, the
parent Printer MAY wait until its "printer-state" and
"printer-state-reasons" attributes are queried and then query
all its Subordinate Printers in order to return the correct
10.5. Printer Object Attributes Used to Represent Output Device Fan-Out
Only Leaf IPP Printer objects are allowed to have one or more
associated Output Devices. Each Leaf Printer object MAY support the
"output-devices-supported" (1setOf name(127)) to indicate the user-
friendly name(s) of the Output Device(s) that the Leaf Printer object
represents. It is RECOMMENDED that each Leaf Printer object have
only one associated Output Device, so that the individual Output
Devices can be represented completely and controlled completely by
clients. In other words, the Leaf Printer's "output-devices-
supported" attribute SHOULD have only one value.
Non-Leaf Printer MUST NOT have associated Output Devices. However, a
Non-Leaf Printer SHOULD support an "output-devices-supported" (1setOf
name(127)) Printer Description attribute that contains all the values
of its immediate Subordinate Printers. As these Subordinate Printers
MAY be Leaf or Non-Leaf, the same rules apply to them. Thus any
Non-Leaf Printer SHOULD have an "output-devices-supported" (1setOf
name(127)) attribute that contains all the values of the Output
Devices associated with Leaf Printers of its complete sub-tree.
When a configuration of Printers and Output Devices is added, moved,
or changed, there can be moments when the tree structure is not
consistent; i.e., times when a Non-Leaf Printer's "subordinate-
printers-supported" does not agree with the Subordinate Printer's
"parent-printers-supported". Therefore, the operator SHOULD first
Deactivate all Printers being configured in this way, update all
pointer attributes, and then reactivate them. A useful client tool
would validate a tree structure before Activating the Printers
10.6. Figures to Show All Possible Configurations
Figures 1, 2, and 3 are taken from [RFC2911] to show the
configurations possible with IPP/1.0 and IPP/1.1 where all Printer
objects are Leaf Printer objects. The remaining figures show
additional configurations using Non-Leaf and Leaf Printer objects.
----> indicates a network protocol with the direction of its requests
##### indicates a Printer object that is either
embedded in an Output Device, or
hosted in a server.
The Printer object might or might not be capable
of queuing/spooling.
any indicates any network protocol or direct
connect, including IPP.
Output Device
| ########### |
O +--------+ | # (Leaf) # |
/|\ | client |------------IPP-----------------># Printer # |
/ \ +--------+ | # Object # |
Figure 1. Embedded Printer Object
########### Output Device
O +--------+ # (Leaf) # +---------------+
/|\ | client |---IPP----># Printer #---any->| |
/ \ +--------+ # object # | |
########### +---------------+
Figure 2. Hosted Printer Object
| |
+->| Output Device |
########### any/ | |
O +--------+ # (Leaf) # / +---------------+
/|\ | client |---IPP----># Printer #--*
/ \ +--------+ # Object # \ +---------------+
########### any\ | |
Figure 3. Output Device Fan-Out
########### ###########
O +--------+ # Non-Leaf# # subord. #
/|\ | client |---IPP----># Printer #---IPP----># Printer #
/ \ +--------+ # object # # object #
The Subordinate Printer can be a Non-Leaf Printer, as in Figures 4
through 6, or can be a Leaf Printer, as in Figures 1 through 3.
Figure 4. Chained IPP Printer Objects
+------IPP--------------------->###########
/ +---># subord. #
/ / # Printer #
/ ########### IPP # object #
O +--------+ # Non-Leaf# / ###########
/ \ +--------+ # object # \
\ ########### IPP ###########
\ \ # subord. #
\ +---># Printer #
+------IPP---------------------># object #
Figure 5. IPP Printer Object Fan-Out
# Non-Leaf#
+---># Printer #-+
/ # object # \
IPP ########### \ ###########
O +--------+ / +-IPP-># subord. #
/|\ | client |--+-----------IPP---------------># Printer #
/ \ +--------+ \ +-IPP-># object #
IPP ########### / ###########
\ # Non-Leaf# /
# object #
Figure 6. IPP Printer Object Fan-In
10.7. Forwarding Requests
This section describes the forwarding of Job and Printer requests to
Subordinate Printer objects.
10.7.1. Forwarding Requests that Affect Printer Objects
In Printer Fan-Out, Printer Fan-In, and Chained Printers, the Non-
Leaf IPP Printer object MUST NOT forward the operations that affect
Printer objects to its Subordinate Printer objects. If a client
seeks to explicitly target a Subordinate Printer, the client MUST
specify the URI of the Subordinate Printer. The client can determine
the URI of any Subordinate Printers by querying the Printer's
"subordinate-printers-supported (1setOf uri) attribute (see section
Table 7 lists the operations that affect Printer objects and the
forwarding behavior that a Non-Leaf Printer MUST exhibit to its
immediate Subordinate Printers. Operations that affect jobs have a
different forwarding rule (see section 10.7.2 and Table 8):
Table 7. Forwarding Operations that Affect Printer Objects
Printer Operation Non-Leaf Printer Action
Printer Operations:
Enable-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Disable-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Hold-New-Jobs MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Release-Held-New- MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Jobs Printers
Deactivate-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Activate-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Restart-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Shutdown-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Startup-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
IPP/1.1 Printer See [RFC2911]
Get-Printer- MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Attributes Printers
Pause-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Resume-Printer MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
Set Operations: See [RFC3380]
Set-Printer- MUST NOT forward to any of its Subordinate
10.7.2. Forwarding Requests that Affect Jobs
Unlike Printer Operations that only affect Printer objects (see
section 10.7.1), a Non-Leaf Printer object MUST forward operations
that directly affect jobs to the appropriate Job object(s) in one or
more of its immediate Subordinate Printer objects. Forwarding is
REQUIRED since the purpose of this Job operation is to affect the
indicated job, which may have been forwarded itself. This forwarding
MAY be immediate or queued, depending on the operation and the
implementation. For example, a Non-Leaf Printer object MAY
queue/spool jobs, feeding a job at a time to its Subordinate
Printer(s), or MAY forward jobs immediately to one of its Subordinate
Printers. In either case, the Non-Leaf Printer object forwards Job
Creation operations to one of its Subordinate Printers. Only the
time of forwarding of the Job Creation operations depends on whether
the policy is to queue/spool jobs in the Non-Leaf Printer or the
Subordinate Printer.
When a Non-Leaf Printer object creates a Job object in its
Subordinate Printer, whether that Non-Leaf Printer object keeps a
fully formed Job object or just keeps a mapping from the "job-ids"
that it assigned to those assigned by its Subordinate Printer object
is IMPLEMENTATION-DEPENDENT. In either case, the Non-Leaf Printer
MUST be able to accept and carry out future Job operations that
specify the "job-id" that the Non-Leaf Printer assigned and returned
to the job submitting client.
Table 8 lists the operations that directly affect jobs and the
Subordinate Printers.
Table 8. Forwarding Operations that Affect Jobs Objects
Operation Non-Leaf Printer action
Job operations:
Reprocess-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
its Subordinate Printers
Cancel-Current- MUST NOT forward
Resume-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
Promote-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
IPP/1.1 Printer
Print-Job MUST forward immediately or queue to the
appropriate Subordinate Printer
Print-URI MUST forward immediately or queue to the
Validate-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Subordinate
Create-Job MUST forward immediately or queue to the
Get-Jobs MUST forward to all its Subordinate Printers
Purge-Jobs MUST forward to all its Subordinate Printers
IPP/1.1 Job
Send-Document MUST forward immediately or queue to the
appropriate Job in one of its Subordinate
Send-URI MUST forward immediately or queue to the
Cancel-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
Get-Job- MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
Attributes its Subordinate Printers if the Non-Leaf
Printer doesn't know the complete status of the
Job object
Hold-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
Release-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
Restart-Job MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
IPP Set operations: See [RFC3380]
Set-Job- MUST forward to the appropriate Job in one of
Attributes its Subordinate Printers
When a Printer receives a request that REQUIRES forwarding, it does
so on a "best efforts basis" and returns a response to its client
without waiting for responses from any of its Subordinate Printers.
Such forwarded requests could fail.
10.8. Additional Attributes to Help with Fan-Out
The following operation and Job Description attributes are defined to
help represent Job relationships for Fan-Out and forwarding of jobs.
10.8.1. output-device-assigned (name(127)) Job Description Attribute -
from [RFC2911]
[RFC2911] defines "output-device-assigned" as follows: "This
attribute identifies the Output Device to which the Printer object
has assigned this job. If an Output Device implements an embedded
Printer object, the Printer object NEED NOT set this attribute. If a
print server implements a Printer object, the value MAY be empty
(zero-length string) or not returned until the Printer object assigns
an Output Device to the job. This attribute is particularly useful
when a single Printer object supports multiple devices (so called
"Device Fan-Out" see [RFC2911] section 2.1)." See also section 10.1
in this specification.
10.8.2. original-requesting-user-name (name(MAX)) Operation and Job
The operation attribute containing the user name of the original
user; i.e., corresponding to the "requesting-user-name" operation
attribute (see [RFC2911], section 3.2.1.1) that the original client
supplied to the first Printer object. The Printer copies the
"original-requesting-user-name" operation attribute to the
corresponding Job Description attribute.
10.8.3. requesting-user-name (name(MAX)) Operation Attribute -
Additional Semantics
The IPP/1.1 "requesting-user-name" operation attribute (see [RFC2911]
section 3.2.1.1) is updated by each client to be itself on each hop;
i.e., the "requesting-user-name" represents the client forwarding the
request, not the original client.
10.8.4. job-originating-user-name (name(MAX)) Job Description Attribute
- Additional Semantics
The "job-originating-user-name" Job Description attribute (see
[RFC2911], section 4.3.6) remains as the authenticated original user,
not the parent Printer's authenticated host, and is forwarded by each
client without changing the value.
11. Conformance Requirements
The Job and Printer Administrative operations defined in this
document are OPTIONAL operations. However, some operations MUST be
implemented if others are implemented, as shown in Table 9.
Table 9. Conformance Requirement Dependencies for Operations
Operations REQUIRED If any of these operations are
supported:
Enable-Printer Disable-Printer
Disable-Printer Enable-Printer
Pause-Printer Resume-Printer
Resume-Printer Pause-Printer,
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job
Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs
Release-Held-New-Jobs Hold-New-Jobs
Activate-Printer, Deactivate-Printer
Disable-Printer,
Deactivate-Printer, Activate-Printer
Enable-Printer,
Resume-Printer
Restart-Printer none
Shutdown-Printer none
Startup-Printer none
Reprocess-Job none
Cancel-Current-Job none
Resume-Job Suspend-Current-Job
Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job
Promote-Job none
Schedule-Job-After Promote-Job
Tables 10 and 11 list the "printer-state-reasons" and "job-state-
reasons" values that are REQUIRED if the indicated operations are
supported.
Table 10. Conformance Requirement Dependencies for
"printer-state-reasons" Values
"printer-state- Conformance If any of the following Printer
reasons" values: Requirement Operations are supported:
'paused' REQUIRED Pause-Printer,
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job,
or Deactivate-Printer
'hold-new-jobs' REQUIRED Hold-New-Jobs
'moving-to-paused' OPTIONAL Pause-Printer,
Deactivate-Printer
'deactivated' REQUIRED Deactivate-Printer
Table 11. Conformance Requirement Dependencies for "job-state-
reasons" Values
"job-state-reasons" Conformance If any of the following Job
values: Requirement operations are supported:
'job-suspended' REQUIRED Suspend-Current-Job
'printer-stopped' REQUIRED Always REQUIRED
12. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
[RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
RFC 2246, January 1999.
[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC2910] Herriot, R., Butler, S., Moore, P., Turner, R., and J.
Wenn, "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and
Transport", RFC 2910, September 2000.
[RFC2911] Hastings, T., Herriot, R., deBry, R., Isaacson, S., and P.
Powell, "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and
Semantics", RFC 2911, September 2000.
[RFC3380] Hastings, T., Herriot, R., Kugler, C., and H. Lewis,
"Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Job and Printer Set
Operations", RFC 3380, September 2002.
13. Informative References
[RFC2567] Wright, F., "Design Goals for an Internet Printing
Protocol", RFC 2567, April 1999.
[RFC2568] Zilles, S., "Rationale for the Structure of the Model and
Protocol for the Internet Printing Protocol", RFC 2568,
[RFC2569] Herriot, R., Hastings, T., Jacobs, N., and J. Martin,
"Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols", RFC 2569, April
[RFC3196] Hastings, T., Manros, C., Zehler, P., Kugler, C., and H.
Holst, "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementor's
Guide", RFC 3196, November 2001.
[RFC3239] Kugler, C., Lewis, H., and T. Hastings, "Internet Printing
Protocol (IPP): Requirements for Job, Printer, and Device
Administrative Operations", RFC 3239, February 2002.
[RFC3995] Herriot, R. and T. Hastings, "Internet Printing Protocol
(IPP): Event Notifications and Subscriptions", RFC 3995,
This section contains the registration information that IANA added to
the IPP Registry according to the procedures defined in [RFC2911],
section 6, to cover the definitions in this document. The resulting
registrations have been published as additions to the
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipp-registrations file.
14.1. Attribute Registrations
The following table lists all the attributes defined in this
document. These have been registered according to the procedures in
[RFC2911], section 6.2.
Name Reference Section
-------------------------------------- --------- -------
Job Description attributes:
original-requesting-user-name (name(MAX)) [RFC3998] 10.8.2
Printer Description attributes:
subordinate-printers-supported (1setOf uri) [RFC3998] 7.1
parent-printers-supported (1setOf uri) [RFC3998] 7.2
Operation attributes:
14.2. Attribute Value Registrations
This section lists the additional values defined in this document for
existing attributes.
Value Reference Section
--------------------- --------- -------
job-state-reasons (1setOf type2 keyword)
job-suspended [RFC3998] 9.1
printer-state-reasons (1setOf type2 keyword)
hold-new-jobs [RFC3998] 8.1
deactivated [RFC3998] 8.2
14.3. Additional Enum Attribute Value Registrations
The following table lists all the new enum attribute values defined
in this document. These have been registered according to the
procedures in [RFC2911], section 6.1.
Attribute (attribute syntax)
Value Name Reference Section
------- -------------------- --------- -------
operations-supported (1setOf type2 enum) [RFC2911] 4.4.1
0x0022 Enable-Printer [RFC3998] 3
0x0023 Disable-Printer [RFC3998] 3
0x0024 Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job [RFC3998] 3
0x0025 Hold-New-Jobs [RFC3998] 3
0x0026 Release-Held-New-Jobs [RFC3998] 3
0x0027 Deactivate-Printer [RFC3998] 3
0x0028 Activate-Printer [RFC3998] 3
0x0029 Restart-Printer [RFC3998] 3
0x002A Shutdown-Printer [RFC3998] 3
0x002B Startup-Printer [RFC3998] 3
0x002C Reprocess-Job [RFC3998] 4
0x002D Cancel-Current-Job [RFC3998] 4
0x002E Suspend-Current-Job [RFC3998] 4
0x002F Resume-Job [RFC3998] 4
0x0030 Promote-Job [RFC3998] 4
0x0031 Schedule-Job-After [RFC3998] 4
14.4. Operation Registrations
The following table lists all the operations defined in this
Name Reference Section
----------------------------- --------- -------
Activate-Printer [RFC3998] 3.4.2
Cancel-Current-Job [RFC3998] 4.2
Deactivate-Printer [RFC3998] 3.4.1
Disable-Printer [RFC3998] 3.1.1
Enable-Printer [RFC3998] 3.1.2
Hold-New-Jobs [RFC3998] 3.3.1
Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job [RFC3998] 3.2.1
Promote-Job [RFC3998] 4.4.1
Release-Held-New-Jobs [RFC3998] 3.3.2
Reprocess-Job [RFC3998] 4.1
Restart-Printer [RFC3998] 3.5.1
Resume-Job [RFC3998] 4.3.2
Schedule-Job-After [RFC3998] 4.4.2
Shutdown-Printer [RFC3998] 3.5.2
Startup-Printer [RFC3998] 3.5.3
Suspend-Current-Job [RFC3998] 4.3.1
14.5. Status Code Registrations
The following table lists the status code defined in this document.
This has been registered according to the procedures in [RFC2911],
Value Name Reference Section
------ ------------------------ --------- -------
0x0000:0x00FF - "successful"
0x0100:0x01FF - "informational"
0x0300:0x03FF - "redirection" See RFC 2911 Errata
0x0400:0x04FF - "client-error"
0x0500:0x05FF - "server-error"
0x050A server-error-printer-is-deactivated [RFC3998] 5.1
15. Internationalization Considerations
This document has the same localization considerations as [RFC2911].
The IPP Model and Semantics document [RFC2911] discusses high level
security requirements (Client Authentication, Server Authentication,
and Operation Privacy). Client Authentication is the mechanism by
which the client proves its identity to the server in a secure
manner. Server Authentication is the mechanism by which the server
proves its identity to the client in a secure manner. Operation
Privacy is defined as a mechanism for protecting operations from
eavesdropping.
Printer operations defined in this specification (see section 3), as
well as Pause-Printer, Resume-Printer, and Purge-Job (defined in
[RFC2911]) are intended for use by an operator and/or administrator.
Job operations defined in this specification (see section 4) and
Cancel-Job, Hold-Job, and Release-Job (defined in [RFC2911]) are
intended for use by the job owner, operator, or administrator of the
Printer object. These operator and administrator operations affect
service for all users.
Inappropriate use of an administrative operation by an
unauthenticated end user can affect the quality of service for all
users. Therefore, IPP Printer implementations MUST support both
successful certificate-based TLS [RFC2246] client authentication and
successful operator/administrator authorization (see [RFC2911],
sections 5.2.7 and 8, and [RFC2910]) to perform the administrative
operations defined in this document. [RFC2910] requires the IPP
Printer to support the minimum cipher suite specified for TLS/1.0.
The means for authorizing an operator or administrator of the Printer
object are outside the scope of this specification, RFC 2910, and RFC
The use of TLS and Client Authentication solves the Denial of
Service, Man in the Middle, and Masquerading security threats.
17. Summary of Base IPP Documents
The base set of IPP documents includes the following:
Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol [RFC2567]
Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for the
Internet Printing Protocol [RFC2568]
Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics [RFC2911]
Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport [RFC2910]
Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide [RFC3196]
Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols [RFC2569]
"Design Goals for an Internet Printing Protocol" takes a broad look
at distributed printing functionality, and it enumerates real-life
scenarios that help clarify the features that have to be included in
a printing protocol for the Internet. It identifies requirements for
three types of users: end users, operators, and administrators. It
calls out a subset of end user requirements that are satisfied in
IPP/1.0. A few OPTIONAL operator operations have been added to
IPP/1.1.
"Rationale for the Structure and Model and Protocol for the Internet
Printing Protocol" describes IPP from a high level view, defines a
roadmap for the various documents that form the suite of IPP
specification documents, and gives background and rationale for the
IETF working group's major decisions.
"Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics" describes a
simplified model with abstract objects, their attributes, and their
operations that are independent of encoding and transport. It
introduces a Printer and a Job object. The Job object optionally
supports multiple documents per Job. It also addresses security,
internationalization, and directory issues.
"Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Encoding and Transport" is a formal
mapping of the abstract operations and attributes defined in the
model document onto HTTP/1.1 [RFC2616]. It defines the encoding
rules for a new Internet MIME media type called "application/ipp".
This document also defines the rules for transporting over HTTP a
message body whose Content-Type is "application/ipp". This document
defines the 'ippget' scheme for identifying IPP printers and jobs.
"Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide" gives insight
and advice to implementers of IPP clients and IPP objects. It is
intended to help them understand IPP/1.1 and some of the
considerations that may assist them in the design of their client
and/or IPP object implementations. For example, a typical order of
processing requests is given, including error checking. Motivation
for some of the specification decisions is also included.
"Mapping between LPD and IPP Protocols" gives some advice to
implementers of gateways between IPP and LPD (Line Printer Daemon)
implementations.
Carl Kugler
IBM Corporation, 003G
6300 Diagonal Hwy
EMail: kugler@us.ibm.com
Tom Hastings, editor
701 S Aviation Blvd. ESAE 242
El Segundo, CA 90245
EMail: hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com
EMail: harryl@us.ibm.com
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Woolworths grows food sales while clothes suffer.
Woolworths bedeviled by declining sales
By Sandile Mchunu - Jan 18th, 10:35
As Woolworths tries to recover from the impairments of A$712.5 million (R7.02 billion) it suffered last year in its Australian subsidiary David Jones, the retailer continued to experience declining sales in the 26 weeks to end December trading period in South Africa.
In South Africa, Woolworths Fashion, Beauty and Home (FBH) sales slid by 2 percent, while comparable stores were 2.4 percent lower during the period, impacted by a significantly smaller winter clearance sale in the first quarter. However, the group said sales in the second quarter of the year had shown positive growth.
“Price movement was 1.7 percent for FBH and 0.8 percent for Fashion,” the group said in a trading update. It added that net retail space grew by 0.6 percent.
David Jones managed to report a marginal sales growth, up by 1 percent, but the sales performance weakened in line with the rest of the retail market in the final weeks leading up to Christmas.
“Comparable store sales grew by 0.9 percent, with growth from new stores largely offset by sales disruption from the Elizabeth Street store refurbishment,” the group said.
David Jones net retail space grew by 2.7 percent, with further net space reductions to improve the productivity of the store portfolio planned.
Woolworths acquired David Jones for A$2.1bn in 2014.
With the impairment of David Jones put in the past, the group expects its earnings per share (Eps) for the period to increase by more than 100 percent. It expects its Eps to be between 192.6 cents a share and 202.4c, improving on last year’s loss a share of 505.9c.
The group informed the market in November that Eps was significantly impacted by the impairment of the carrying value of the David Jones assets in the prior period.
Its online sales recorded an impressive 46.1 percent growth and now contributes 7.7 percent of total sales.
The group’s share price traded on the negative territory for the better part of yesterday as it was down by 9.21 percent to R49.86 a share, down from Wednesday’s closing price of R54.92.
Woolworths managed to report a 1.9 percent increase in group sales which were up by 2.7 percent in constant currency basis.
However, the group said sales growth was impacted by one day less of pre-Christmas trade, compared to last year.
Woolworths Food reported sales growth of 6.3 percent, with volume growth driven by low inflation, higher levels of promotions and price investment. Comparable store sales increased by 4.2 percent, with net retail space growth of 1.4 percent.
Another Australian subsidiary, Country Road Country, reported an increase of 2.3 percent in sales and these were up by 0.5 percent in comparable stores. Its online sales grew by 20 percent during the period, but net retail space contracted by 1.7 percent.IOL
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Texans Report Flying Humanoid
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“Flying Humanoids” reports are the type of stories that you like reading in some outdated and obscure Reader’s Digest booklet. At least for me, I become enthralled with the possibilities of flying human-like creatures —like the Mothman— being reported throughout the skies. Recently these types of reports occur in the south western United States and parts of Mexico. I’ve written about the “Mexican Man-bat” before, as well as other flying humanoid sightings. The following comes from sacurrent.com and tells of an incident in 2009 in which a family of three witnessed a flying humanoid, complete with wings, gliding through the Texan sky. Strange? You bet.
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Recently, I received an unusual report from colleagues who belong to a leading UFO organization. My associates had been contacted by a San Antonio family who claimed to have had a remarkable sighting near their home in the area around a local airport.
According to their account, it was during April of 2009 when the incident occurred. At the time, the lady of the household was standing in her driveway having a conversation on her cell phone, when she happened to glance up and spotted what appeared to be a huge, dark winged man gliding through the air! Startled and amazed, the woman ran into her house and yelled at her husband and son to come and take a look. All of them were in full agreement that they were in fact watching what appeared to be the form of a man-bat flying by. The strange figure eventually disappeared out of sight. Regrettably, to date the family in question has been hesitant to conduct a personal follow-up interview with me or any other investigators. Perhaps they merely imagined the whole thing, or made it up … or maybe they have come to realize that some subjects are better left alone.
As incredible as it sounds, there have been other documented reports of similar winged humanoids throughout South Texas. According to a newspaper article that appeared in the Houston Chronicle on June 19, 1953, three residents of that city observed a manlike figure perched on the branch of a pecan tree. The Houston Batman as he became known, was apparently adorned in a black paratrooper costume, complete with attached wings and knee length boots. But the strangest attribute, according to the eyewitnesses, was the fact that the batman emitted a dull, gray glow that faded out right about the time he vanished from their sight.
Stories about winged humanoid creatures can be found throughout Texas and Mexico.
In Rio Grande City, there were rumors of a man-bird that haunted the roof of a local tavern during the 1970s, and Robstown near Corpus Christi has a local legend about the pájaro hombre.
In November of 2007, a San Antonio man named Frank Ramirez appeared on a local news broadcast and stated that he had encountered an enormous, winged humanoid on the city’s Southside one evening.
Those who study such phenomena have suggested these may be inter-dimensional time travelers or the like. What do you believe? Are these merely tall tales, or is something taking place that is beyond our comprehension?
— Ken Gerhard
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lmfao…stupid texans. sounds like an episode of supernatural.
Ashma
yeah but supernatural is an awesomme show (:
ashma..you ain’t lyinggg :):)
In Mexico, the flying humanoid is believed to be a witch, like on a broomstick. I think folk beliefs are a waste of my time, but when they’re mixed up with @$%*ing moth man!? I’m not even going go read this one.
Joe the Waiter
Interesting story but just another anecdotal subjective account of ‘something’ that could be explained if we had more information. If this was 2009 and presumably the cellphone had a camera or even a video capture function why wasn’t any footage taken or pics captured?.
I strongly believe I saw this flying humanoid. One night, I stepped out to stretch my legs and looked up to the stars when I saw what I thought was a low flying cloud. But it was a weird shape, like a boomerang. My first thought was that it was a UFO, but then I saw what appeared to be legs. It was a really brief thing that I did not have time to process what exactly it was I saw. When I tell people about it, they always ask me what I was smoking, lol, but I really did see this. The closest I could get to an explanation was that maybe I saw a group of birds flying together in formation, but whatever it was made no sound, and it still doesn’t explain what the legs part could have been. They looked like human legs.
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ive seen the same thang in kuntucky around march 9-16 of 2009 then i saw it again in march 15-20 of 2012 i dont know what it is and nobody believe me but i can say for sure it is humanoid the frist time i saw it thire was a full moon and thire was 2 of them if you wont you can find me on facebook as diablo_daniel666. not sure on the exact day i saw thim but i do believe you…
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OptimizeRx Launches ROI Guarantee to Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Company has Proven ROI on Affordability and Adherence which Enhances the Pharma-Provider Relationship at the Point-of-Care
September 12, 2018 09:00 ET | Source: OptimizeRx Corporation
ROCHESTER, Mich., Sept. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OptimizeRx Corp. (NASDAQ:OPRX), one of the nation’s leading providers of digital health messaging for the pharmaceutical industry, has launched a 2:1 return-on-investment (ROI) guarantee to pharmaceutical manufacturers who invest in the company’s financial messaging solutions.
OptimizeRx’s patient savings messages are real-time medication savings information delivered to providers within the EHR workflow, increasing the likelihood that a physician and patients will understand the true out-of-pocket cost of the prescribed drug.
“In order to succeed in today’s changing health care landscape, pharmaceutical companies must evolve their strategies to directly engage with providers at the point-of-care,” said William Febbo, CEO of OptimizeRx. “We work with our pharmaceutical partners strategically to design affordability and adherence programs, enabling them to run integrated messaging campaigns that deliver tangible value, including increased prescription rates and fill rates.”
In the health economy, there is increasing interdependence in the payer, providers and pharmaceutical value chain. Health care providers are looking to drug companies to partner with them to deliver care that promotes sustainable population health improvement and lower costs. Industry research points to high drug costs as a primary contributing factor to medication non-adherence. With OptimizeRx, providers can empower patients with ways to afford their medications as well as access to methods for addressing health illiteracy and transparency into whether patients are following through with drug therapies.
“The growth of our patient savings solution — a 50 percent increase year-to-date — makes us confident in our ability to deliver the 2:1 ROI guarantee to current and future partners,” continued Febbo. “As long as the programs we co-design meet a minimum set of requirements, we will stand behind this guarantee.”
For more information about the company’s patient savings solutions, visit www.optimizerx.com.
About OptimizeRx
OptimizeRx® (NASDAQ:OPRX) is one of the nation’s leading providers of digital health messaging via electronic health records (EHRs), providing a direct channel for pharma companies to communicate with healthcare providers. The company’s cloud-based solution supports patient adherence to medications by providing real-time access to financial assistance, prior authorization, education, and critical clinical information. The company’s network is comprised of leading EHR platforms like Allscripts, Amazing Charts and Quest, and provides more than half of ambulatory healthcare providers with access to these benefits within their workflow at the point-of-care. For more information, follow the company on Twitter, LinkedIn or visit www.optimizerx.com.
Important Cautions Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the definition of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and such section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934, amended. These forward-looking statements should not be used to make an investment decision. The words 'estimate,' 'possible' and 'seeking' and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which speak only as to the date the statement was made. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted, or quantified. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying the forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties to which forward-looking statements are subject include, but are not limited to, the effect of government regulation, competition and other material risks.
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GMSD moves forward with security camera upgrades this summer
Germantown, Tennessee--July 2, 2018--Germantown Municipal School District is working on security upgrades over the summer. District staff has engaged the architecture firm, Allen and Hoshall, to complete design work for the addition of security fencing and a secured entrance at Houston High School. Principally though, the district is also using this summer as an opportunity to complete its long range goals of security camera upgrades across all five schools. On security walks with the Germantown Police Department, district officials had previously identified where cameras needed to be placed or replaced.
“We’ve been gradually replacing and adding cameras at each school each year since opening in 2014,” said John Pierce, Director of Information Technology for Germantown Municipal Schools. But, with this year's increased security funds will come a full implementation of that plan—and the installation began in all schools this month. “This will complete our work to have full camera coverage of the district, requiring only camera maintenance annually,” said Pierce.
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Bleigiessen
Bleigeissen
Bleigeissen is the sculptural centrepiece of the Wellcome Trust’s headquarters in London. The narrow 30-metre-high atrium space which it occupies reminded the studio of a gigantic gravity chamber and, combined with the pool of water at the bottom, this gave the idea of experimenting with falling liquids to find a form determined by natural forces. After much experimentation the studio found that pouring molten metal into cold water produced extraordinary unique and tiny objects in a fraction of a second. From more than four hundred pieces created, it eventually selected one, just 50 millimetres high, whose proportions and detail best suited the atrium space. The piece was three-dimensionally scanned and enlarged to 30 metres, scaling up its every idiosyncrasy and contortion. It was a shape that could never have been imagined or instinctively formed in clay. Even though this new building had been designed to accommodate a large object, the only way to bring anything inside was through a domestic-scale door. The studio was uncomfortable with the idea of making a huge object out of door-sized pieces bolted together with visible connection lines. A solution was evolved that used the digital data from the original small metal shape to create the sculpture out of 150,000 beads the size of golf balls threaded on 27,000 wires suspended from the top of the atrium. British glass artists Flux Glass designed the beads with an unusual iridescent quality, made from bonding colour-changing dichroic film between two glass hemispheres. Unlike clear glass beads they have a warmth and life as the colour changes within the sphere magnified depending on the angle of the light and the position of the viewer.
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Home > Heritage > Welcome to the Helensburgh Heritage Trust Gallery > Transport — General
Transport — General
First service625 viewsDavid Wilson at the wheel of his own bus. He was the first to run a bus service between Helensburgh and Rhu. Image, circa 1915, supplied by his grand-daughter, Marlyn Ritchie.
Bus service615 viewsDavid Wilson drives the Gareloch Motor Service vehicle run by MacFarlane and Gilmour. Image, circa 1906, supplied by his grand-daughter, Marlyn Ritchie.
Argyll Cars757 viewsCars built at Argyll Motors in Alexandria pictured outside Helensburgh's Queen's Hotel before being driven to London to be sold. Image circa 1910.
Horses and Carriage733 viewsOutside Bellcairn House, Cove, in 1913.
Horse and Carriage672 viewsOutside Bellcairn House, Cove, in 1913.
Shandon Bus Crash1136 viewsA Garelochhead Coach Service double decker bus lies on the beach at Shandon after an accident on the old lochside road in November 1965. Andrew Shirley from Rhu, who is researching the Garelochhead bus companies, believes this bus is MXX 177, one of the former London Transport RT class operated by the firm. It was repaired and put back into service.
The Sugar Ship1178 viewsAn aerial view of the 8,325 ton Greek cargo ship Captayannis lying on a sandbank near to Ardmore Point not long after she was sunk. On the evening of January 27 1974 the area suffered from a terrific storm which blew the vessel from its anchor and caused it to collide with the BP tanker British Light. The anchor chains of the tanker holed the sugar boat allowing water to pour into her, so she was beached in the shallow waters over the sandbank.
Cardross Station884 viewsA picture of a mystery celebration at Cardross Station. The bunting and Union Jacks, the waiting horse drawn carriages — and one early car — and the finery of the people in suggests a very special occasion, perhaps the opening of part of the station, or troops returning from the First World War, or even a royal visit? However it is believed to be the arrival of guests attending a wedding. The station was opened on January 15 1858, the line was doubled in 1883, and the bridge was built the following year.
Central Station1006 viewsHelensburgh Central Station bearing the sign of the North British Railway, circa 1905.
Hovercraft at speed679 viewsThe Clyde Hover Ferries Westland SRN6 hovercraft, which operated a service from Craigendoran pier to Greenock from 1965-6 is pictured. Powered by a Bristol-Siddeley Marine Gnome engine, it was 48 foot long, could carry 48 passengers, and had a maximum speed over calm water of 64 knots. However the service attracted fewer passengers than hoped for, and did not prove viable.
Horse as well as motor transport965 viewsUnknown vehicle in the foreground, with a horse and carriage in front of it as well as one approaching. Craigendoran Station and pier is in the far background on the right. Pre-1909.
Coaches at the pier1082 viewsThree coaches wait at Helensburgh pierhead for the arrival of the next steamer. Date unknown.
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Rodigo Otazu
Rodrigo Otazu is the largest purchaser of swarovsky crystals in the world. This jewelry is absolutely spectacular. Stars and jewelry lovers alike are collecting his treasures.
Hold a piece. Wath the metal flow like water and the stones reflect the light they have gathered on their journey. Each Otazu creation explores a new interplay of water and light, a new dance in celebration of femininity. Otazu jewelry is all handcrafted, incorporating the unrivaled swarovski crystals. His jewelry is like magic in drawing people to the wearer. Many singer and actresses enjoy wearing otazu jewelry because of its dramatic appeal and glamorous radiation.
I am a hopeless dreamer! and a man of the world... when I left home at the age of 17 I wanted to be able to work and see what was happening around the world and to contribute to the beauty and glamour that surrounds us. Jewellery fit perfectly in my small suitcase that was also filled with huge dreams! My love for designing & jewellery was instant and it's never faded.
As a mainstay in the A-list celebrity jewelry box, designer Rodrigo Otazu has come onto the fashion scene with little more than an eye for rare design and a worldly vision. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rodrigo began as a male model, particularly for Calvin Klein, but found his passion in a handful of pearls that inspired his first design. That very necklace was instantly picked up by Australian Vogue, and catapulted his career. Since then, his bold pieces have adorned the likes of Lauren Hill, Beyoncé, Pink, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears - who commissioned him for her MTV awards performance - and many more Hollywood names.
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The French Région Sud and the European Union provide grant funding to Imcheck Therapeutics and its developmentof a new generation of cancer treatments
Through a 717 K€ grant co-financed by the Région Sud and the European Union under the ERDF, ImCheck has received non-dilutive funding for its translational research platform
ImCheck Therapeutics, a biotech company based in Marseille that is on the cutting edge of the next wave of immunotherapies against cancers and autoimmune diseases, has received 717 thousand EUROs in a grant from the Région Sud and the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This non-dilutive funding complements capital ImCheck has raised from a group of premier life science venture capital funds.
This grant has supported in part ImCheck's translational research platform, which discovers and develops a new generation of therapeutic antibodies. These compounds in development target novel immunological checkpoint modulators (butyrophilins) and mobilize γ9δ2 T cells, an important part of the immune system, to target and kill cancer cells. Since inception, the company has created a total of 33 jobs, mostly scientific, supporting the acceleration of its development programs. Starting in 2020, ImCheck plans to initiate the clinical evaluation of one of its first two oncology drug candidates.
"With this new generation of immunotherapies, we hope to provide more options to patients who are in a therapeutic impasse. The joint support from the Région Sud and the European Union is the perfect illustration of our aim to combine our region's excellence in the field of immuno-oncology with ImCheck's objective to improve cancer therapy worldwide," Pierre d’Epenoux, CEO, stated.
"The support granted to ImCheck once again highlights Europe's commitment to our region. It is also in line with the new regional Economic Development, Innovation and Internationalization plan that we implemented in 2017, as well as the Innovative Therapies section of the Operations of Regional Interest," said Renaud Muselier, Member of the European Parliament and President of the Région Sud. "Immunotherapy is driving a revolution in cancer care and we are lucky to be the home of the only European cluster specialized in research and development for these new drugs. That is why the Région Sud has from the beginning supported this amazing reservoir of innovation known as Marseille Immunopole, but also several of its founding members, starting with ImCheck."
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STANIKZAI EDGES DILSHAN ON IMPACT CHARTS
Asghar Stanikzai (6.69)
Rangana Herath (2.91)
Highest Impact Player (Sri Lanka)
Tillakaratne Dilshan (6.58)
Dushmantha Chameera (1.10)
Samiullah Shenwari (1.09)
Defending World T20 champions Sri Lanka beat Afghanistan by six wickets at the Eden Gardens on Thursday (17 Mar).
Although his knock was in vain, Afghanistan skipper Asghar Stanikzai narrowly edged Tillakaratne Dilshan as the highest impact player, and batsman, of the match.
Stanikzai’s 47-ball-62 contributed to nearly 41% of Afghanistan’s total and was scored under pressure, following the early dismissal of Mohammad Shahzad. He also had Partnership-Building Impact , the highlight being a 61-run stand for the fifth wicket with Samiullah Shenwari – who had the highest Strike Rate Impact for his feisty 14-ball-31.
The defending champions entered this tournament as the team with the joint-lowest Chasing Impact , but Dilshan showed why he had the highest Chasing Impact in the XI that took to the field today. He scored almost 54% of the target, built partnerships and stayed unbeaten ensuring there was no hiccup. He therefore emerged as Sri Lanka’s highest impact player of the match, and walked away with the ‘player of the match’ award too.
Stanikzai’s knock, however, had greater body because it came under pressure against a top-tier team.
Rangana Herath, meanwhile, pipped Thisara Perera as the highest impact bowler of the match. Herath took two top/middle order wickets in a tight spell that built pressure on the Afghans as they looked to accelerate. Perera scalped three top/middle order wickets, but was more expensive and had a negative Economy Impact . Dushmantha Chameera, however, finished with the highest Economy Impact in the match.
Both teams had six players apiece who registered a Match Impact of at least one (the minimum for a performance to not be deemed as a failure). Dilshan’s performance proved to be the differentiator.
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Atlas Engine Premieres After the End EP, We Swoon A Little Too Much
Atlas Engine–Nick LaFalce (ex-BRAEVES, Terrible Terrible)– releases his debut EP After the End today, after self recording and producing the entire project. To say this is a labor of love is an understatement, and we are well aware our words won’t do it any justice. We’ll still say something, even if you must ignore what we have to say. But definitely listen to the EP anyway. It just might be your new favorite work of art.
After the End starts off on the right side of the bed if ever there were one, “Everest” being one of those feel good, soul awakening songs. The album rolls right into “This Is The Place”, a song that takes a slower tempo but still makes you breathe deeply, almost longingly. The third track, “Ghost On The Shore” begins with a deep bass line, slowing the pace down to a near crawl. It’s almost got a trance-like quality, and we definitely wouldn’t mind enjoying this track on a relaxing summer night.
“Take Me Away” brings the pace back up, although the vocals stay at the same ethereal place as they have been throughout the EP. While “Wild Orchard” brings more of a folkie/funk aspect to the record (Is that a real statement?), it feels full to the brim with the sentiment of coming home. “Out From The Ashes” rounds out the EP quite nicely, highlighting the warmth in the guitar chords.
Atlas Engine has brought us full circle with this EP, sparing no quality of sound or attention to detail. It’s a high quality work of art, with a feeling of continuity that is rare to find these days. Our feeling of freedom from listening to these tracks is well received, as Nick LaFalce himself admits, “This project has given me total freedom, and that’s what a lot of the record is about in one way or another: a newfound freedom from the past.”
How is it that a band can make you feel so many open-heart emotions? Definitely went a little overboard on the gushing end of things, but that’s how we fair when an album is perfection.
After the End is available now.
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Adventure Playground
Creative Pre-school
Outdoor Pre-school
Family Drop-ins
Out of School Play
Mobile Play
About In2Play
In2play Community Interest Company
In2play is an independent community interest, not for profit organisation established for the benefit of the community.
The company brings together a team of professional and experienced play workers in a focused and co-ordinated way.
In2play CiC is designed to enable and support the development of opportunities for children and young people 0 – 13 years to learn, play and grow.
We aim to achieve:
Improvement in the quality of life of children and young people
Improved well being
A raised awareness and understanding of the rights of the child
Increased skills for participants, parents and staff
An upskilled play work force through provision of accredited and non-accredited training courses and qualifications
The way we do this is to:
Secure funding to ensure a sustainable way of delivering
neighbourhood, community focused play
Establish partnership opportunities
Increase participation
Provide inclusive provision which meets the needs of diverse communities
Enable parents to feel supported in accessing and engaging in opportunities with their children
Provide challenging, stimulating and safe activities and environments
Support national and local events which raise the profile of play and Playwork
The component parts of In2play’s delivery of this are:-
Adventure Playground (see here)
Family Drop ins (see here)
Out of School Play Provision (see here)
Mobile play (see here)
Training (see here)
Consultancy (see here)
East Sussex has been selected as a Play Pathfinder local authority. In2play have worked with Hastings Borough Council to develop the first Adventure Playground in Hastings. The newly staffed Adventure Playground has indoor and outdoor facilities, specifically aimed at improving access to natural and challenging play opportunities for 8 – 13 year olds. The play site is situated in the Ore Valley area of Hastings. The Adventure Playground is open at evenings, weekends and during school holidays. It will be open to all for children and young people who can come and go as they choose. However, schools and community groups from across the county will be invited to use the Adventure Playground as well.
Family Drop – ins
Free, fun play sessions for families with children under 5 years of age. At these sessions we offer a range of age and developmentally appropriate activities. These activities are based on holistic play principles. Alongside the play, children are offered a healthy snack and outdoor play is encouraged.
Some of the sessions are funded through ESCC Children’s Centres and delivered in different areas across Hastings and St Leonards.
In2play ‘Out of School Provision’
A unique, open access free play provision based at 3 community venues for children aged 5-11 years. The purpose of the provision is to provide staffed play opportunities for children in the absence of their parents. Children are not restricted in their movements, other than where related to safety matters and with parental consent are not prevented from coming and going as and when they wish within the session times. Children have the freedom of choice as to what range of play activity they wish to undertake and with whom they play. In2play provides a space where children can learn and develop through play with the freedom of opportunity to play by themselves or with others in environments that are stimulating, exciting and full of challenge whilst being free from inappropriate risk.
In2play Mobile Play Service
‘Play On Your Doorstep’ is a play service funded by the Big Lottery. Play workers facilitate weekly play sessions out on the street in a variety of locations across Hastings. The sessions support innovative play in local neighbourhoods in partnership with local families, enabling the creative use play equipment and materials. In addition we will develop ‘take away’ play at home packs with children and young people. The play sessions encourage an environment, which is inclusive, non-stigmatising, befriending and informative for all involved. The ethos of the project recognises the common characteristics of play- that play is personally directed, self chosen and that it needs to be fun, free and flexible. The funding for this project has ended but we are continuing the service in 3 areas until August 2012 and are looking at ways to raise funds to continue it beyond this time.
In2play ‘Training’
Accredited training centre for CACHE diploma in Early Years and Childcare and other CACHE courses.
We also devise and deliver all kinds of training events: short workshops, full-length courses or larger seminars and conferences’
In2play Consultancy
In2play consultancy concentrates on identifying play and neighbourhood need and helping to meet this need. In2play CiC works with play and early year’s services, statutory sector, community groups, the arts and anyone wanting to work creatively with children. We offer hands-on training, creative children’s consultations and research for agencies, organisations and individuals working with children. In2play work in partnership with others to design projects that encourage expression and participation. We encourage adults and children to work in partnership and we support organisations in developing new approaches to working with children. We actively support children to participate in planning and decision making.
In2play ‘Events and Initiatives’
In2play provides a variety of local community and neighbourhood events and also supports larger events and initiatives which aim to raise the profile of play and its importance.
In2play Staff Team
In2play currently employs 39 staff. We are an equal opportunities employer. We recognise our staff as our most important resource. We see training and staff development as vital in ensuring quality delivery of services.
Like to help local children? Find out about volunteering here. Many thanks.
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Home Events ‘Exotic’ Film Fest Next Month Captures Thailand Through Foreign Lens
‘Exotic’ Film Fest Next Month Captures Thailand Through Foreign Lens
Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter
“Soi Cowboy” (2011)
BANGKOK — Made in Thailand, by foreigners, for foreigners?
Fifteen films about Thailand, shot in Thailand, but directed by foreigners will screen for free July through August at the Thai Film Archive as part of the “Exotic Thailand?” film festival. From early 20th-century black-and-whites to modern Hollywood films, the fest looks at Thailand through a foreign lens – whether idyllic or violent, sensual or monastic.
“The films show a portrayal of Thailand, whether that reflection is true or not,” Putthapong Cheamrattonyu of the Thai Film Archive said.
Putthapong, who curated the program, said that common themes pervade the wildly different films. Early films focus on then-exotic Thai traditions and rural lifestyles, often laced with landscapes of nature. These include the 1940 Swedish film “A Handful of Rice,” which follows an agricultural society through a docudrama format, and the 1927 American “Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness”.
“Then we became a tourist spot and many people came here. We became a tourist heaven, but people also saw the seedy, violent, and dangerous parts of Thailand,” Putthapong said.
In the arguably tasteless Hollywood comedy “The Hangover II” (2011), Bradley Cooper and two buddies get tricked by a capuchin monkey and a kathoey stripper. “Lost in Thailand” (2011), which follows a similar “boys trip” premise, was once the highest-grossing film of all time in China, and is credited with erupting the waves of Chinese tourists we see today.
In darker films, violence, crime, and muay thai are central themes, such as in “Only God Forgives,” where Ryan Gosling plays an American expat running a drug ring.
But Thai women are particularly central to many contemporary foreign films about Thailand.
“Thai women are shown in both a positive light – as beautiful and with impeccable manners – and a negative light, such as in prostitution,” Putthapong said. “The dynamic of the farang man and the Thai woman is also explored a lot.”
If you only have enough time for one film, Putthapong recommends “Soi Cowboy,” a 2008 film about an overweight Danish expat and his Thai girlfriend who he meets – guess where?
A screening of the film at 1pm Aug. 17 will be followed by a panel discussion with the film’s producer, Tom Waller, and Mahidol University film studies lecturer Wikanda Phromkhunthong.
Since the inception of film, Thailand, formerly Siam, has provided attractive shooting locations and subject matter for foreign camera crews. The first film set in the country was the since-lost “Suvarna of Siam” (1922) by American filmmaker Henry MacRae.
All screenings are free and shown at the Thai Film Archive on Phutthamonthon Sai 5 Road. The venue is reachable by public bus No. 515 from Victory Monument in front of Rajavithi Hospital, and the Y70E Microbus. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact the Film Archive for additional information about the screenings you are interested in.
The program is below:
July 4, 5:30pm: “Lost in Thailand” directed by Xu Zheng (China, 2011)
July 6, 1pm: “A Handful of Rice” directed by Pal Fejos (Sweden, 1940)
July 13, 1pm: “Only God Forgives” directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark, France, 2013)
July 16, 1pm: “Yutthana-Siriporn” directed by Hans Berthel (Germany, 1963)
July 25, 5:30pm: “The Last Executioner” directed by Thai-Irish Tom Waller (Thailand, 2014)
Aug 1, 5:30pm: “Ghost of Mae Nak” directed by British Mike Duffield (Thailand, 2005)
Aug 3, 1pm: “Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness” directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper (USA, 1927)
Aug 3, 3pm: “The Forest” directed by British Paul Spurrier (Thailand, 2016)
Aug 7, 5:30pm: “Bangkok Dangerous” directed by Hong Kongers Oxide and Danny Pang (Thailand, 1999)
Aug 17, 1pm: “Soi Cowboy” directed by British Thomas Clay (Thailand, 2009)
Aug 24, 1pm: “Pop-Aye” directed by Kirsten Tan (Singapore, Thailand, 2017)
Aug 24, 3pm: “The Elephant King” directed by American Seth Grossman (Thailand, 2006)
Aug 25, 1pm: “The Hangover Part II” directed by American Todd Phillips (USA, 2011)
Aug 25, 3pm: “The Man with the Golden Gun” directed by British Guy Hamilton (UK, 1974)
Aug 29, 5:30pm: “Butterfly Man” directed by British Kaprice Kea (Thailand, 2002)
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Countryside secrets revealed
MODERN living has cut many of us off from the natural landscape but for many generations flora and fauna were inextricably linked to their spiritual beliefs and social customs.
As a child, I remember finding ribbons with my sisters to put outside on Brigid's Eve on January 31 because of the local belief that, if they were damp in the morning, it meant the saint had blessed them and given them healing protection - particularly good for sore throats.
Farmers used to shake holy water in each corner of their fields on May Eve to protect against bad luck in the coming year and guard against the power of 'piseogs' or superstitions.
You can scoff now, but imagine being completely reliant on your own crops and livestock - no supermarkets or social welfare officers - and living within the narrow constraints of an extremely conservative society and before penicillin was discovered.
You'd take all the help you could get - even a little magic.
Conor McKinney, living landscapes manager for Ulster Wildlife, is hoping that by telling people about the beliefs and traditions of the past and their link to nature he can underline the importance of protecting our natural heritage.
From 4pm to 7pm today, Ulster Wildlife will host an evening of stories, folk tales and reminiscences of Fermanagh's magnificent meadows, their wildlife and old farming traditions.
A traditional storyteller will tell tales from the region to captivate all ages, from the 'fear gortha' or hungry grass that was believed to have been planted by disgruntled fairies, to the screech of a barn owl which gave rise to the legend of the banshee.
There will also be traditional songs and dances provided by the mischievous Marlbank Strawboys (Mummers), who used to disguise themselves in straw or hay to dance at weddings.
The event takes places at an old cottage - where food and drink will be served - on a traditional meadow in Killykeegan Nature Reserve, the largest limestone pavement in Northern Ireland. "This is a beautiful landscape that has a story to tell. The flowers and animals are part of our natural and cultural heritage that is at risk today," says Conor.
Their dedication is such that researchers spent two years visiting nursing homes and day centres chatting to older residents about the traditions and beliefs they grew up with. "We discovered some fascinating stuff by encouraging people to talk. For instance, seeing an Irish hare was bad luck if you were with a pregnant woman because it would place a curse on the child. "You would have to tear the hem of the woman's dress or a piece of cloth to deflect the curse and prevent the baby being born with a harelip. "Stoats were believed to be venomous.
If you disturbed them they would drink from the teat of your cattle and poison the milk, or they could spit on you and cause damage. "I talked to a woman who could remember making a mad dash up the lane on her bike to get away from a stoat."
Farming communities used to come together every year to help bring in each others' crops - no big machinery back then. It was a time of sweat and solidarity. But that didn't stop someone hiding eggs on a rival's land to bring them bad luck.
It was a classic piseog that used to drive panic into the intended target if they discovered the eggs.
In fact, Conor came across a story about two families embroiled in a long-running feud that began with the discovery of eggs on one side's land.
Barn owls are often quoted as the animals associated with sightings of the 'Will o' the wisp' and the 'Banshee'. "These birds can seem illuminated due to their white and golden plumage catching moonlight and also boast hair raising screeches as their call," explains Conor. "Will o' the wisps are often said to lure the unsuspecting away and get them lost in the hills where they would starve. Banshees are tied to old Irish families and are said to warn of impending death,"
There was a strong belief that it was extremely bad luck to cut down or uproot a hawthorn that was a 'fairy tree', which supposedly provided shelter for fairy folk.
I would bet that you could travel to any rural community in Ireland and someone will have a story about a foolish fella whose family was blighted with misfortune after he destroyed a fairy tree.
It's worth having a look at BBC archival footage from 1964 where locals in Annacloy are worried that civil engineers removed a thorny tree to make way for a road (Bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-31447945) Conor is keen to point out that, while life was tough, people didn't live in a constant state of terror in olden days - nature was also cherished for its curative properties. The water from boiled clover was used to wash sores, while meadowsweet was used to cure people suffering from insomnia, hallucinations and ghostly hauntings. Thistles were used as a cure for kidney inflections in Co Donegal and were sometimes used to treat open wounds, and we probably all know that dock leaves can treat nettle stings.
Your humble spud was thought to have wart-healing powers if you buried it in the soil so that both would shrivel up.
Because of their bright yellow flower, Cowslips were associated with the May Day festival, when a variety of yellow flowers were collected by children in order to protect against malevolent beings, believed by many to be more active on quarterly days such as May Day. Cowslips were also used to make an ointment which was thought to cure deafness.
What is incredible is that many of these traditions, beliefs and old cures are found throughout the island. "Not everybody is aware of the landscape around them and you could say that about conservation as well," says Conor. "We want to make people aware that the natural landscape has a story to tell and is worth preserving."
* To learn more about today's event visit Ulsterwildlife.org
21 February, 2015 00:00 Life
What's On: Rallying in Antrim, drama in Down, slime-making in Tyrone and more
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The Art of Wiring
(Ondt & Gracehoper, 2011)
Poems by Christopher Reid, Roisin Tierney, Liane Strauss, Isobel Dixon, Luke Heeley and Simon Barraclough. A sparky selection of poems from six poets, wired into a beautiful multi-circuit pamphlet, published by Ondt & Gracehoper.
The cover photograph is by Simon Barraclough, with design by the late Ron Costley
'Isobel Dixon’s poems have an intense, exploratory feel, chipping away at an idea long enough for it to show its bones. ‘Upopa Epops’ is one such poem, aiming its intense gaze on a bird which, for all its smart “cinnamon-cum-chestnut raiment” is armed with an arsenal of weapons to ensure its survival, including the ability to aim streams of shit at predators. Dixon’s wordplay is joyful here, exposing these “sins” hidden in the sounds of the bird’s own name: “Oop-oop-oops indeed. …But it is ‘Pinball Electra’ and ‘Grasshopper’ where her relentless attention to detail really comes into its own. With the weight of grief behind every word almost crushing, these two poems, with their unwavering focus on details – such as the apparent discovery of a grasshopper in the house of a dying man – are stand-out poems within the collection. I’m not going to spoil it for readers by going over them in detail… You’ll have to seek them out and read them for yourself. …
In summary, serious play is what this pamphlet does. There is a sense of weight throughout The Art of Wiring, from the classy, unpretentious layout to the scale and variety of themes tackled by the writers themselves. It hums with a heavy current, yet in each piece, language is alive and crackling with unexpected connections.’ – Rosie Breese, Sabotage Review
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MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityHamas Vows Revenge After Israeli Strike
Operation Protective Edge
Hamas Vows Revenge After Israeli Strike
Neighbors react to IDF warning by rushing to the scene; Hamas 'ready for long war', says 'all Israelis are targets'.
Ari Soffer, Dalit Halevi and AFP, 08/07/14 17:29 | updated: 20:58
IAF strike on target in Rafah, Gaza, 8th June
Hamas has vowed revenge after an attempt to use Palestinian civilians as human shields resulted in several fatalities, as Israeli Air Force planes targeted the home of a Hamas commander.
Gazan emergency services claim Israeli strikes on Gaza killed 15 people on Tuesday and wounded 80 others, as the military began an aerial campaign against terrorists in the Strip and prepares for a potential ground offensive.
It was the most serious flare-up in and around the Islamist-controlled territory since November 2012, and came as Israel's cabinet reportedly authorized the army to call up 40,000 reservists for a possible assault on Gaza.
The deadliest single airstrike was on a house in the southern city of Khan Yunis belonging to a Hamas commander, killing seven people and wounding 25 others, medics said.
The attack "targeted the house of the al-Kaware family," emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP, saying children were among the injured.
The events leading up to the strike offer an insight into the difficulties facing IDF forces in combating Gaza-based terrorism. It also provides a revealing glimpse into the way Hamas and other terrorist groups violate international law through the use of human shields. Israeli leaders have in the past referred to such tactics as a "double war crime": firing missiles at Israeli civilians, while using Palestinian civilians as human shields.
Witnesses said an Israeli drone launched a warning flare prior to the strike, in a bid to allow innocent civilians to evacuate the area. Instead, relatives and neighbors gathered at the house to act as human shields, but shortly afterwards an F-16 fired a missile which leveled the building.
In response, Hamas said "all Israelis" would be potential targets for retaliation. "The Khan Yunis massacre... of children is a horrendous war crime, and all Israelis have now become legitimate targets for the resistance," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said on Facebook.
Hamas has repeatedly vowed to target Israeli civilians, including in a recent propaganda video aimed at the residents of the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.
Earlier, three terrorists were killed in a separate strike on a car in the Daraj neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, Qudra said.
Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV showed gruesome images of charred body parts being loaded onto ambulance stretchers.
Family members said all of them were Hamas militants, identifying one as Mohammed Shaaban, 32, a senior commander in Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades. He was also head of the group's naval operations, they said.
Israel's army confirmed targeting Shaaban, describing him as "a senior Hamas operative".
In a separate strike near Nusseirat refugee camp, another man was killed, with witnesses telling AFP he was also a Hamas operative.
Later, two terrorists were killed Tuesday in a fresh Israeli air strike east of Gaza City, a spokesman for the emergency services said. Their identities have not yet been released.
"At least two people were killed and several wounded in an air strike on Shejaiya, east of Gaza City," Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri warned Israel was "playing with fire" and would pay for its ongoing operations.
The deaths came hours after Israel announced the start of Operation Protective Edge, a military campaign aimed at stamping out rocket fire on southern Israel and destroying Hamas's military infrastructure.
Army figures show that since midnight, terrorists have fired 130 rockets at southern Israel, prompting the air force to strike 150 "terror targets" in Gaza.
Israel must 'wave the white flag'
Meanwhile, Hamas leader Ismail al-Askar, who serves as a "member of parliament" for the group's Gaza-based government, reiterated previous Hamas demands that the only way they would agree to stop the current barrage of rockets against Israeli civilians would be for Israel to agree to several conditions.
The first would be to end its air strikes against terrorists in Gaza, which he termed "aggression"; the second would be to end the limited blockade on the Strip, which Israel imposed to stop Hamas and other terrorist groups smuggling in weapons. The third condition, he said, was that Israel release the dozens of terrorists who were initially freed during the 2011 Shalit Deal, but rearrested during the IDF's recent operations in Judea and Samaria after they broke the terms of their release.
If not, Askar warned, Hamas was ready for a protracted war with Israel which could last months or even years.
"The resistance will not raise the white flag, and will not put down its weapons until the occupation waves the white flag and surrenders to the terms of the resistance.
Tags:Hamas, Gaza Region, human shields, Op. Protective Edge
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PLAYED ON: Friday 17 April 2015
THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND - ON STAGE 8PM
On stage 8pm
STAGE TIMES -
Doors: 6pm
The Rutles: 7pm
Bonzos: 7.50pm
Curfew: 10pm
These times are just for guidance and are subject to change. KOKO can not be held responsible for
changes to the stage times, please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
Please note, this show is 18+.
The Bonzo Dog Band are back, for one night only. Featuring original members Neil Innes, Rodney Slater, Vernon Dudley Bohay- Nowell, Sam Spoons and Bob Kerr with surprise guests appearing in honour of the late great Vivian Stanshall, the Bonzos will be performing all the hits including Jollity Farm, Urban Spaceman, Mr Slater's Parrot and many more.
For this unique event the Bonzos will be joined on stage live by The Rutles performing their own pre-fab four masterpieces including OUCH!, I Must Be In Love, Cheese and Onions, Piggy and more. Tea bags will be thrown during this spectacular night of British musical comedy mayhem.
Following a tour in 2007 which played to full houses throughout the UK the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band will be hitting the stage again, and tickets are on sale now.
There's a new compilation album to go with the tour so don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to let a treasured British rock institution back into the Canyons of Your Mind.
Early gig offers - enjoy a drink on our roof terrace before the support band
£2.50 Specials…
Becks Vier 440ml
Bulmers Cider 440ml
House Wine 175ml
Vodka & Mix (excl. Redbull)
From 7-8pm Sunday to Thursday and for an hour from doors on Fridays (ticket holders only).
Ticket holders can stay for Club NME for free after the show.
Please note this is an early show, the headliner will be on at approximately 8pm and curfew is 10pm. Times subject to change.
Please note, you may be required to have your ID scanned at the front door.
Live photos by Robert Stainforth.
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Justin Fisher . . . Illustrated
May 17, 2011 / jimmy / 3 comments
The huge success of The Wimpy Kid series was soon followed by a spate of copycat publishing. This kind of “borrowed idea” publishing happens after every bestseller and it’s pointless to complain. But with Wimpy Kid, some publishers seem to have missed the main lesson. So we see countless new books rolled out about dorks and losers, nerds and geeks, whereas I’ve always maintained that a big part of the Wimpy Kid’s success was one of format over content. The books looked great, inviting, funny, accessible. They were illustrated!
I don’t think it’s a mystery: readers, especially reluctant readers, like pictures in their novels. They like the text broken up, with multiple entry points along the way. Witness the line of “illustrated classics,” which have been around only since forever.
We’ve seen it with Captain Underpants. Seen it with the Geronimo Stilton, first published in Italy. But also think of a book like Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Caberet, which effectively used illustrations to serve and deepen an already sophisticated manuscript. The book was a revelation — but it also taught us something we’ve known for decades. Yes, it’s more expensive to illustrate books, but those illustrations can broaden that book’s appeal. Look at the terrific job Matthew Cordell did with Justin Case, written by the very talented Rachel Vail. My point: A book doesn’t have to be a cliche in order for it be illustrated.
After that, let the number crunchers do the math.
Quick story about copycat publishing. I was at a book convention, long ago, and had the opportunity to hang out with the president of a small publishing company. A friendly guy, he specialized in down-market books. That is, cheap, affordable books that came in at the right price point, undercutting the competition. He had recently made a boatload of money by ripping off the Where’s Waldo books. As we drove in his expensive car, he told me with glee about the exact eureka moment when he had the idea for his successful new series of books. I thought to myself at the time, “Wow, he’s telling me with great pride about the day he got the idea . . . to steal the idea!” It was kind of spectacular, and a publishing moment I’ve never forgotten.
I had once hoped that my book, Justin Fisher Declares War!, would be illustrated. It had a funny main character, school-based adventures, and was written on an easy, accessible level for middle-grade readers. Unfortunately, my publisher did not share my view for this particular book.
Which is why I’m so pleased to share these student illustrations. You see, I just spent an incredibly happy week in State College, PA, visiting five different schools along the way. After one such visit to Corl Street Elementary, I was presented with a gift that included a letter from Sue Harter. She explained that two teachers, Mrs. Evans and Mr. Schmidt, had read the book with their 5th grade classes. Under the guidance of ace librarian, Mrs. Davis, the students summarized key points for each chapter and later, in art class, illustrated favorite scenes.
So my wish came true after all.
I don’t have the names to give credit to all the illustrators . . . but you know who you are. And in truth, it’s the entire effort that I applaud, everyone who participated, thank you. I love your work.
The fateful day in the school cafetorium when a plate of spaghetti came down on Justin’s head.
A little graffiti mischief.
It was a fade in the 50’s . . . and a way to get attention in 5th grade. Oh, and by the way, YUCK.
Butterflies in his belly before taking the stage at the school Talent Show.
I see braces in this kid’s future.
Mr. Tripp, a good sport, shows up with a sock stuffed in his mouth . . . in his colorful boxers.
Thank you, Corl Street Elementary!
Category: Justin Fisher Declares War!, School Visits / Tags: Brian Selznick, copycat publishing, Corl Street Elementary, illustrated novels, Justin Fisher Declares War!, Paije Davis, State College PA, wimpy kid copycats, Wimpy Kid series
Liz S. says:
Your illustrators rock! Great art, and very entertaining.
Paije Davis says:
Thank you, Mr. Preller! You have no idea how exciting this is for our school. Thanks again for your WONDERFUL author visit. We all can’t wait to read your latest book.
Miss Sluboski says:
Way to go 5th graders! You did a wonderful job illustrating the book 🙂 Thank you Mr. Preller for such a great presentation at Corl Street!
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Hand-held X-ray device: A review
D N S V Ramesh, Mahalakshmi Wale, R Thriveni, Amit Byatnal
DOI:10.4103/jiaomr.jiaomr_36_18
This is an era of digital revolution where the world is shifting from analogue to digital electronics. This revolution has led to the invention miniaturization of devices and one such invention is hand-held X-ray devices. With the introduction of new technology in dental radiology, there is a need to change or update old guidelines that many states use to regulate the use of ionizing radiation. Currently, there are voluntary guidelines promulgated by the NCRP for dental radiation protection. Many states use the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors Suggested State Regulations for the Control of Radiation to regulate the use of X-ray equipment. Hand-held portable X-ray devices are increasingly used for intraoral radiography. This development introduced new challenges to operator and patient safety, for which new or revised risk assessments must be made and acted upon prior to use.
Pre-antibiotics era to post-antibiotic era
Sadaksharam Jayachandran
Radiographic assessment of apical root resorption in inflammatory periapical pathologies
Lim Xin Wei, Felicia How Pei Min, Syed Zafri Bin Syed Zaharuddin, Elise Khaw Wei Ling, KV Suresh, Khairiyah Bt Abd Muttalib, Daniel Devaprakash Dicksit
Introduction: Apical root resorption (ARR) is a common condition associated with periapical pathologies which is invariably detected by intraoral periapical radiographs. Although it is common, its distribution in different periapical pathologies has not been assessed so far. The aim of this study was to determine the distribution and severity of ARR in common inflammatory periapical pathologies. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional radiographic study was conducted on 333 patients who visited SEGi Oral Health Centre in the 6-month period of the study. Digital intraoral periapical radiographs of patients with clinically established periapical pathologies were taken. Data were collected using a structured proforma regarding the type of periapical lesions, presence or absence of ARR. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 21 and Chi-square test was applied to check the association between ARR and periapical pathologies. Results: During this study period, 333 patients with inflammatory periapical pathologies were reported. Of which 135 (40.5%) showed definite ARR. Among 135 ARR, 97 (71.9%) were moderate resorption and 38 (28.1%) were severe resorption. ARR was significantly greater in periapical granuloma and cyst (72.8%) followed by periapical abscess (35%) and acute apical periodontitis (18.1%) which was statistically significant (P < 0.001). Young adults (40.7%) and male patients (58.5%) had higher ARR compared to old-aged adults and female patients. Conclusion: The presence of ARR is the concern for the infection control in endodontics, as these conditions provide a favorable environment for bacterial colonization and also exact working length determination is difficult as there is altered apical constriction.
Evaluation of Omega-3 fatty acids in management of trigeminal neuralgia
Balwinder Singh, Ramandeep S Narang, Kirandeep Kaur, Soheyl Sheikh, Jasjeet K Narang
Background: Trigeminal neuralgic (TN) pain has been known as the world's worst pain. Omega-3 fatty acids have been recently studied extensively in neuralgic pain. Carbamazepine has been known to be the first drug of choice in treating TN pain. In the present study, the potential benefits of omega-3 fatty acids in addition to the carbamazepine were assessed. Objective: The objective of the study was to evaluate the role of omega-3 fatty acids in the neuralgic pain along with carbamazepine in treating neuralgic pain. Materials and Methods: The present study was undertaken on 114 patients with TN pain. The patients were divided in two groups. The group I consisted of patients who were on carbamazepine only, and group II comprised patients who were on carbamazepine and omega-3 fatty acids. The pain was assessed using Brief Pain Inventory questionnaire, which is the most widely used questionnaire for chronic pain. The patients were evaluated on the day of reporting and on subsequent follow-up at 2 weeks, 6 weeks, and 15 weeks interval. The data obtained was subjected to statistical analysis to assess the additional benefits of omega-3 fatty acids in TN pain. Results: The results obtained showed that the intensity of pain reduction and life quality was better in patients receiving carbamazepine and omega-3 fatty acids by the end of the 15th week compared to the patients receiving carbamazepine alone. Conclusion: The present study demonstrates the reduction in neuropathic pain on long-term usage of omega-3 fatty acids, signifying that omega-3 fatty acids may offer better relief in neuralgic pain.
Efficacy of ultrasound massage therapy as an adjuvant pain control modality in TMDs: A clinical study
Roopika Handa, MK Sunil, Chandini Gupta, Anudeep Raina, Tabiha Khan, Arishah Gulzar
DOI:10.4103/jiaomr.jiaomr_5_18
Background: Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are a collection of medical and dental conditions that affect the muscles of mastication along with transmittable tissue components. Physical modality such as ultrasound (US) therapy is considered to be an important treatment to relieve musculoskeletal pain, to reduce inflammation, and to restore oral motor function. Settings and Design: It was a prospective study and was carried out in the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology at Teerthanker Mahaveer Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad, to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic US massage therapy in management of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders. Aims and Objective: To determine the effectiveness of US massage therapy in patients with TMDs. Materials and Methods: This study included 10 patients with TMDs, according to research diagnostic criteria (RDC), within the age group of 18–50 years. All the patients were treated with US, once a week for 4 weeks for 8 min and pain intensity was evaluated using visual analog scale, at every sitting. Statistical Analysis Used: SPSS version 22 software was used and Student's t-test value was used. Results and Discussion: A significant pain reduction was found in US massage therapy. There was a decrease in pain in TMJ from 7.30 ± 1.70 to 4.00 ± 2.53 and mouth opening improved from 40.40 ± 6.50 to 41.80 ± 5.97 which was statistically significant. This therapy appears to be a valuable physiotherapy method for pain reduction in TMDs. Conclusion: US massage therapy appears to be useful in relieving pain and improves subsequent mouth opening, and hence can be considered as a valuable physiotherapy method. Thus, US massage therapy serves as a potent and independent therapeutic modality in TMDs.
Comparison between conventional and digital radiography in assessing alveolar bone loss: An original research
Hemant Mathur, Junaid Ahmed, Payal Tripathi, Mohit P Singh, S Bhuvaneshwari, Aditi Mathur, Narender Singh Bansal
DOI:10.4103/jiaomr.jiaomr_105_17
Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of conventional and digital radiography in assessing alveolar bone loss. Materials and Methods: The study group comprised 50 participants (25 males and 25 females) between 25 and 45 years of age. The participants were screened for all clinical features of periodontitis. A series of conventional bitewing radiographs of right and left of both maxillary and mandibular posterior region (15,16,17,25,26,27,35,36,37,45,46,47) were taken for each of 50 patients by examiner 1. Similarly, a series of digital bitewing radiographs were taken by examiner 2 for each 50 patients by using RVG of Planmeca Dixi 2 B Series. In digital bitewing radiographs, the measurement was done by examiner 2, using Planmeca Dixi 2 B Digital Software, by dragging the cursor to make a line by joining the linear points. Bone level less than 2 mm from the cementoenamel junction (CEJ) was considered normal while above that was considered bone loss. In case of conventional bitewing radiographs, alveolar bone loss was measured by the same examiner by measuring the distance from the CEJ to the most apical level of crestal bone using a divider and transparent ruler. The above collected data of examiners 1 and 2 were handed over to examiner 3 for statistical evaluation. Results: Comparison of conventional and digital radiographic techniques in left maxilla, left and right mandible, and between maxilla and mandible in the total sample and in females aged 25–35 and 36–45 years yielded a significant correlation while comparison of the two techniques in the right maxilla and between maxilla and mandible in males yielded a nonsignificant correlation. Conclusion: Direct digital radiography provides an edge over conventional radiography in assessing the periodontal bone destruction.
Modified occlusal technique using intraoral periapical film: An alternative approach
Sneha H Choudhary, Lata M Kale, Sunil S Mishra, Narendra B Supe, Nilofar S Zaidi, Narayan D Pandey
Most common and difficult problem while taking intraoral periapical radiographs in the posterior region of the jaw is gagging. Thus, in an attempt to obtain the radiographs of maxillary and mandibular third molar without causing much discomfort and additional financial burden to the patient, an alternative technique was devised. This technique requires a dental chair, intraoral dental X-ray machine, regular size 2 periapical film, and artery forcep. The film is placed parallel to the occlusal plane as in case of occlusal radiography with the embossed dot side facing towards the teeth to be radiographed and exposures are made. The resulting radiographs showed complete image of third molars without causing stimulation of gag reflex and without superimposition of zygomatic process on roots of maxillary third molars. Thus, the present technique can be used satisfactorily for taking third molar radiographs in patients with severe gag reflex.
Estimation of serum lipid profile in patients with OSMF
Anusha , Mithilesh Pratap, Abhishek Sinha, Sunita Srivastav, Anuj Mishra, Haider Iqbal
Aim: This study was done to evaluate the alteration in serum lipid profile pattern in patients with oral submucous fibrosis, with various histological grades of Oral Sub Mucous Fibrosis along with controls. Materials and Methods: The study included 150 participants, out of those 120 were having oral submucous fibrosis, and 30 cases of controls matched for age and sex were selected from the routine patients attending the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology. Serum lipids, including total cholesterol (TC), LDL cholesterol (LDLC), HDL cholesterol (HDLC), VLDL cholesterol (VLDLC), and triglycerides (TG) were analyzed using kit ACCUREX [Bio-medicals limited, India] as per the instructions provided by manufacturer using SEMI AUTO ANALYSER [Tulip Coral 3000 Indian]. Statistical Analysis Used: Data were summarized as Mean ± SD (standard deviation). Groups were compared by Student's t-test. Groups were also compared by one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the significance of mean difference between (inter) the groups was done by Tukey's HSD (honestly significant difference) post hoc test after ascertaining normality by Shapiro–Wilk's test and homogeneity of variance between groups by Levene's test. A two-tailed (α = 2) P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analyses were performed on SPSS software (windows version 17.0). Results: All the cholesterol showed a significant decrease in patients with OSMF than controls, and as the severity of disease increases the decrease in plasma lipid becomes more significant. Thus, this study proves the alteration in plasma lipid in patients with OSMF. Conclusions: This study concluded that the lower serum lipid levels may serve as a diagnostic indicator or marker in the early diagnosis of oral premalignant and malignant lesions.
Knowledge, awareness, and aptitude of general dentists toward dental radiology and CBCT: A questionnaire study
Shalu Rai, Deepankar Misra, Ayush Dhawan, Kuber Tyagi, Mukul Prabhat, Mansi Khatri
Background: This questionnaire study aims to assess the precise knowledge of dental radiography along with cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in dental fraternity. Materials and Methods: The data in questionnaire were completely filled by 500 participants including Master of Dental Surgery and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) working as faculty and/or general practitioners, interns, and postgraduates. It consisted of multiple choice questions on CBCT. Overall assessment of answers obtained for each part was analyzed category-wise, specialty-wise, and qualification-wise. Results: A definite gap in knowledge of CBCT applications exists between different categories of dental specialists. Dental students should be provided with appropriate CBCT education supported by practical experience and guidance of oral medicine and maxillofacial radiologists. It is also recommended that all the CBCT scans should be performed under the guidance of an oral radiologist and the interpretation of these scans should be done by a trained oral and maxillofacial radiologist only. Conclusion: From the study it is evident dental practices are positively affected by high-end quality practice. More efforts for spreading awareness about this imaging modality, through inclusion of CBCT in curriculum of BDS and through lectures/Continuing Dental Education CDEs, should be undertaken to ensure better knowledge among dentists.
Osteonecrosis of jaw bones: A complication of severe dengue
SM Ravi Prakash, Aarfa Nasim, Nagaraju Kamarthi, Swati Gupta
Dengue fever is an acute infection of viral origin caused by female Aedes aegypti mosquito. It has a flu-like illness that can be fatal if left untreated. Several systemic complications such as hypovolemia and circulatory shock with organ failure, oral complications such as post-extraction bleeding, and candidiasis have been reported. Rare complications such as lock jaw and osteonecrosis can also manifest in severe form of dengue fever. Very scanty literature exists to document this association. This case report is an evidence to document and emphasize that these complications develop in severe cases of dengue fever even without any preexisting odontogenic or periodontal etiology.
Oral manifestation of hyperparathyroidism: A report of two cases
Adit Srivastava, Neha Verma, Akhilesh K Singh, GC Shivakumar
Hyperparathyroidism is a common endocrine disorder affecting multiple vital organs. The three types of hyperparathyroidism show oral as well as systemic manifestations, including brown tumor, neurological disorders, nephrolithiasis, and pancreatitis. Oral manifestations form an integral part in diagnosing the underlying parathyroid pathology, which is presented in this case series.
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Validity of Demirjian 8-teeth method for age estimation by orthopantomogram – A prospective study
Nidhi Dehankar, Giridhar S Naidu, Ramanpal S Makkad, Ravleen Nagi, Supreet Jain, Utkarsha Deshmukh
Background: Demirjian et al. (1973) put forth a method of age prediction, which used seven mandibular teeth on the left side. The technique has been widely applied but revealed variations in age estimates in other populations, including Indians. The aims and objectives of our study were to validate the Demirjian 8-teeth method using orthopantomogram to estimate the reliability of age estimation after incorporating the third molar and to predict the accuracy of age estimation using Indian-specific formulae. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on the local population with 49 subjects (mean = 18, f = 31) less than 18 years of age. The soft copies of the radiographs of selected subjects were retrieved from the computer attached to the digital orthopantomogram machine (Orthophos XG5; Sirona Dental Systems). Staging of each tooth of left mandibular side was done using Demirjian 8-teeth method. Dental age was calculated using the modified formula given by Acharya et al. and statistical methods were used to compare it with chronological age. Results: The overall mean absolute error (MAE) of the 49 subjects was 0.911 ± 1.65. The highest MAE was in the 13-year age group (1.82 years) while it was lowest in the 18-year age group (0.43 ± 1.10 years). In all, 15 subjects (30.6%) had an error in age estimation which is less than 1 year and 12 subjects (24.5%) had an error of more than 2 years The accuracy of age estimation was found to be better in 16–18 years age group as compared to younger age group, probably because of better development of the third molar by this age. Conclusion: The reasonably good results obtained in this study assert the use of Demirjian's 8-teeth method with Indian cubic functions in the local population.
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The great leap forward
Ajay Parihar
Attitude and awareness about radiation protection among dental surgeons in North Karnataka: A questionnaire study
Rajeshwari Javali, Raghunath Dantu
Aim and Objectives: To assess the attitude and awareness about radiation protection among dental surgeons in North Karnataka. Materials and Methods: The study participants comprised 200 dental practitioners (general and specialist) in North Karnataka. The information was collected from each participant through structured questionnaires regarding attitude and awareness towards radiation protection. Pearson correlation coefficient test was used to assess the validity and reliability of questionnaire, and any P ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results: Among 200 dentists, 98.5% of the dentists considered clinical examination of patients before taking radiograph, almost 51% of the dentists explained to the patient about radiation risks/benefits before the radiographic exposure, but 56.5% of the dentists did not take informed consent of the patient before acquiring radiograph. Nearly 81% of the dentists were aware that collimator was used in X-ray unit/machine. Approximately 70.5% of the dentists stood behind the lead shield when they were not using lead apron. Majority of the dentists did not use lead apron and thyroid collars during radiographic examination, and 60% of the dentists got the radiography equipment periodically checked. Conclusion: The current study shows the utmost need for further implementation of radiation protection principles among dental surgeons in North Karnataka. Majority of them did not practice radiation protection procedures. Emphasis on radiation safety, mandatory continuing professional education, and development of radiographic selection criteria is recommended.
Knowledge and perspective of dental clinicians toward radiological waste management in dentistry
Shaikh Firdous, Sonia Sodhi, Syeda Shadab Farha
Introduction: Oral and maxillofacial radiology is the daily part and parcel of dental practice. It does contribute a major section to the biomedical waste generated in the dental clinic. Pollution can be controlled only if the clinicians are aware about appropriate waste collection and disposal methods. This study aims toward evaluating the knowledge of clinicians toward this issue. Materials and Methods: A survey was performed for a sample size of 100 dental clinicians. A multiple-choice response type of questionnaire was designed with close-ended questions with a maximum choice of four responses. Responses were evaluated to extract the results. Results: An overall analysis yields total correct results which have been reported to be <50%, almost 14 out of 20 questions. This represents constrain in knowledge of the clinicians. Conclusion: Lack of knowledge may lead to serious health and environmental hazards. A governing body needs to be set-up to provide guidelines and handle proper disposal of radiologic waste.
Compliance of dentists with safety standards of dental radiology
Devika Singh, Abhishek Sinha, Nitin Agarwal, Sunita Srivastava, Anuj Mishra, Nimmi Singh
Objectives: To carry out a survey among dentists to assess the awareness about radiation protection, attitude of the practitioner toward radiation protection, methods of radiation protection being used, and type of radiographic equipment being used in dental practice. Materials and Methods: A research was conducted among 1000 dentists who were using dental radiology. A review of literature of several articles related to the research was done. After analysis of these articles was done, a 33 question-long questionnaire was prepared. The questionnaire was then distributed among the dentists. The dentists were informed about the anonymous processing of the questionnaires. Once the questionnaires were completed, they were collected in person, the answers were tabulated, and were then sent for statistical analysis. Results: A total of 1394 dentists were approached for this study; however, only 1000 dentists returned our questionnaire. The overall correct knowledge of dentists regarding safety standards of dental radiology was found to be 29.9%. The overall correct attitude of dentists regarding safety standards of dental radiology was found to be 76.3%. The overall correct practice of dentists regarding safety standards of dental radiology was found to be 19.8%. Conclusion: On the basis of the result of the study conducted, we concluded that the dentists should be made aware about the adverse effects of radiation exposure, and as the overall compliance of the dentist is low, Continuing Dental Education programs should be conducted in order to educate dentists who are already using X-ray machines and to keep them updated with the latest technology.
Acanthomatous Ameloblastoma: A Rare Entity
Kiran Vallamchetla, Sandhya Chitty, Kotya Naik Maloth, Sridevi Ugrappa
Ameloblastoma is a slow-growing and locally aggressive true neoplasm of enamel organ-type tissue which does not undergo differentiation to the point of enamel formation. It is most commonly seen in the posterior region of mandible, less commonly in anterior region, and rarely crossing the midline. It occurs in age ranging from 20 to 50 years with equal frequencies between sexes. It has a high recurrence rate due to its capacity to infiltrate marrow spaces with pseudopods without concomitant resorption of trabecular bone. As a result, the margins of the tumor are not clearly evident radiographically or grossly during operation, and the lesion frequently recurs after inadequate surgical removal. Here, we report a rare case of acanthomatous ameloblastoma present in a young male in the anterior mandibular region crossing the midline, along with an added emphasis on its review.
Oral malignant melanoma
YC Chaitanya, P Vinil Chaitanya, M Venkat Reddy, B Bhavya
Primary malignant melanoma of the oral cavity is a rare neoplasm. In this article, we report the case of a 55-year-old woman with primary malignant melanoma of the maxillary gingiva. Based on the clinical and histopathological examination, a final diagnosis of malignant melanoma was given. Despite its rarity, melanoma is the most important pigmented lesion of oral cavity because of its deadly nature. Early detection and treatment are essential for better prognosis in mucosal malignant melanoma.
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma at an uncommon location
Reshma Suvarna, Shreyas Sorake, Dipu Vachhani, Vishal Boricha, Prasanna K Rao, Raghavendra Kini, Gowri P Bhandarkar, Roopashri R Kashyap, Devika Shetty
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) usually arises from salivary glands, representing 5–10% of all salivary gland tumors, and rarely arises in the jaws. MEC mainly occurs in the parotid gland; intraorally MEC appears as asymptomatic swellings in minor salivary glands, mostly on the palate, and contributes for 2.8–15% of all salivary gland tumors. Due to its great biological diversity, treatment and prognosis depend on the histological grade, location, and tumor stage. Here, we present a case of MEC in a female patient aged 65 years with emphasis on the importance of early diagnosis and proper management of the disease. Even when its clinical appearance is not suggestive of malignancy, the diagnosis of MEC should be considered in cases of proliferative oral lesions.
Oral lesions in tuberous sclerosis
Lakshmi S Reddy, Tulika Singh, Vinod K Reddy, Sachin Mittal
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal-dominant neurocutaneous syndrome with an approximate incidence of 1 in 10,000–50,000. The cardinal features of TSC are skin lesions, convulsive seizures, and mental retardation. Here, we report a case of TSC in a male patient who presented with oral and cutaneous manifestations without mental retardation or history of convulsive seizures, which is very rarely reported to the best of authors' knowledge.
Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor in mandible: A rare case
Syeda Shadab Farha, Sonia Sodhi, Sneha Patil, Suraj Tambe
Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor is a benign (hamartomatous), noninvasive lesion with slow but progressive growth. It develops from the dental lamina or its remnants. There are two variants of this tumor: Central and Peripheral. Central variant further get classified as follicular and extrafollicular on the basis of its association with the unerrupted tooth. Clinically this tumor has resemblance with other odontogenic lesions like dentigerous cysts, ameloblastoma etc. Thus histopathological examination is an important aid to confirm its diagnosis. Here we report a rare case of follicular type of Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor associated with impacted mandibular premolar.
Clinical spectrum of osteopetrosis with secondary osteomyelitis of the mandible: Report of two cases
Sadaksharam Jayachandran, Manoharan Preethi
Osteopetrosis is an inherited disorder of the bone caused by mutations in gene that encode for carbonic anhydrase. This results in defective osteoclast function leading to resorption defects and formation of bones that are extremely dense and prone to fractures. In addition, it causes a variety of clinical manifestations in endocrine, nervous, orthopedic, hematologic, nephrologic, and dental. Among dental manifestations, osteomyelitis is the most serious complication caused by compromised blood supply resulting from encroachment of the medullary spaces by cortical bone. There are three subtypes of the disease—an autosomal dominant form also known as Albers–Schonberg disease or ADO II, malignant recessive infantile form, and an intermediate form. The ADO II can have an extremely varied clinical presentation ranging from an accidental finding from routine radiographic examination to poor prognosis. Here, we present two cases of ADO II with varied clinical, radiographic, and biochemical manifestations and discuss their management and dental implications.
Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome: A case report with literature review
Manjula Hebbale, Pushkar Gawande, Anisha Maria, Rajsekhar Halli, Versha R Giroh
Nevoid basal cell carcinoma or Gorlin–Goltz syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder that results in numerous basal cell carcinomas (BCC) as well as a number of other facial and skeletal findings. The estimated prevalence varies from 1/57000 to 1/256000 with a male-to-female ratio of 1:1. Main clinical manifestations include multiple BCCs, odontogenic keratocysts of jaws, intracranial ectopic calcifications, and skeletal abnormalities affecting the ribs, vertebra, and skull. Management requires a multidisciplinary approach, with surgical removal of odontogenic keratocysts; surgery for BCCs should be indicated when the number of such lesions is limited. We report a case that was managed surgically, with a follow-up of more than 2 years having no signs of recurrence and relevant literature review.
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Tomiki's Jujutsu: The "Aiki" Art We Never Discuss
Ok, so it's technically called Shodokan Aikido (also referred to as Tomiki Aikido) but of all the Aikido branches, the line founded by Tomiki Kenji is probably the most devoid of any aiki. By aiki, I am specifically referring to the biomechanical processes by which internal power is generated. I am not talking about simply manipulating the opponent's energy and blending with it. You see, while Tomiki Kenji did study under Ueshiba Morihei and attain the rank of 8th Dan, his background in Judo certainly took precedence. Directly contradicting O'Sensei's wishes that "there is no competition in Aikido," Tomiki instituted a type of tanto randori (knife sparring) that is all too reminiscent of a Judo shiai. In fact, the Aikikai urged him to pick a different name for his art because it contradicted everything Aikido taught. So where did it all go wrong, and why do I call it Tomiki Jujutsu?
As we all know, Kano Jigoro formulated his system of Kodokan Judo by removing so-called "dangerous" techniques from practice. Instead, we are left with 40 original throws (now expanded to 67) that use leverage and body mechanics to effortlessly throw an attacker. The problem is that he removed some of the key techniques of jujutsu: small joint manipulation. There is no standing technique in the Kodokan curriculum that attacks any joint. Now, there's nothing wrong with that. It's what Kano wanted, and that is his right as the founder. However, it must be noted that when Kano visited O'Sensei's dojo, he is quoted as saying "This is my ideal Budo."
All Tomiki did was reintroduce the joint manipulation of Aikido to the body movement and throwing techniques of Judo. Well, when you combine joint manipulation with throws, what do you get? Jujutsu!
Very few jujutsu systems are hard and linear, if any. The entire essence of jujutsu centers around circular movement, leverage and off-balancing. These qualities are hardly exclusive to Aikido. What made O'Sensei a force (pun intended) to be reckoned with was the internal power he learned from Takeda Sokaku, true aiki that very few of O'Sensei's students ever attained. His most prominent was probably Shioda Gozo, founder of Yoshinkan Aikido, and even the source of his aiki is not clear cut as he also studied with Horikawa Kodo of the Daito Ryu Kodokai.
Students of Shodokan Aikido like to claim their art is a living art, that it changes and evolves. Therefore, the "innovations" brought into the art by Tomiki are improvements on what O'Sensei was teaching. While I am not the biggest fan of modern Aikido, to say that any student improved upon what O'Sensei was teaching pre-WWII is still sacrilegious. Those were his Daito Ryu years, when he was still focused on true combative application of internal power. If anything is to be improved upon, it's his later years where he had grown such a disdain for conflict that he devolved his art to a moving meditation and used flowery metaphors to describe what he was doing. This was only worsened by his students and most notably his son Kisshomaru who had never seen combat, had never trained under Takeda, and took these flowery metaphors at face value while neglecting the biomechanical processes that made his father so formidable.
But the question is, was Tomiki Kenji an innovator? He stole Judo's randori concept and added a foam tanto, thereby giving each competitor a defined tori and uke role. Was he a formidable martial artist? For sure. But an innovator? I have to say no. As the only person to attain 8th Dan under both Kano and Ueshiba, he had the opportunity to do something great. What does he do instead? He essentially reformulated classical jujutsu and added a competitive element (and we all know how I feel about sport martial arts). After all, we all know what happens when you try to reinvent the wheel. Don't believe me? Let's compare Tomiki style randori with true internal power:
Shodokan Aikido Competition
Daito Ryu Kodokai Demonstration
Obviously the two look nothing alike. You can say the video of Goldberg sensei is fake, which is perfectly fine. But in the aiki world we have a saying: feeling is believing. Until you have felt the subtle power of aiki, you may always be a skeptic. So what is internal power? Unfortunately, there are as many definitions of aiki as there are practitioners of it. Everyone has their own interpretation of it, thanks primarily to how Takeda taught (he modified everything according to the individual student, thereby giving none a complete picture of his art). However, let me attempt to define it based upon the interpretation of aiki in the branch I teach, American Yoshinkan Aiki Jujutsu. Aiki is the systematic process of receiving the force of the attacker, processing it within our body and returning it while exerting little to no force of our own.
Aiki is built around the concept that we all are comprised of energy, so by "blending energy" we refer to when our energies are connected through the point of contact. Rather than through muscular strength, the power of the techniques is derived from three sources: breath, the center line and cohesive movement. By using the body as a cohesive unit (not moving any part segregated from the rest of the body) and projection of the body through the core, power is generated without using any strength.
Timing also plays a major factor in aiki, and aiki can immediately be identified by kuzushi (off-balancing) on contact, as well as spirals and waves that can be seen through the attacker's body although at the point of contact they may be nearly undetectable. All of this is transmitted to the attacker through connection to their internal structure (skeletal and soft tissue). With this understanding of biomechanics, as well as maintaining a relaxed yet focused structure within ourselves, we are able to achieve effortless off-balancing into throws and locks.
So there it is. Is Shodokan Aikido an effective system for self defense? That all comes to down to the training methods, like I'd say about any other art. But is there even remotely a hint of internal power? Absolutely not. Tomiki's art makes modern Aikido look highly sophisticated and advanced in the aiki world, and that's saying something.
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Latest addition to Leeds Building Society intermediary team
Leeds Building Society is delighted to announce that Mark Collar has joined its intermediary team as Corporate Account Manager.
Mark joins the expanding team, as the Society continues to grow its market share of lending through intermediaries, and reports to Louisa Sedgwick, Head of Corporate Accounts.
Mark joins the Society from Defaqto, where he was responsible for banking relationships. Mark has previously worked for Santander in its retail division, and also Mortgage Express as a key account manager.
Louisa Sedgwick said: "I am thrilled that Mark has joined our Corporate Accounts team, he is well known and respected within the intermediary mortgage sector and will be a great asset to the team as we strengthen our growing intermediary proposition."
Leeds Building Society has won three awards for innovation so far this year, having been named 'Innovator of the Year' at the Moneywise Magazine Mortgage Awards 2014 for its Welcome Mortgage. This allows borrowers to pay 0% interest for the first few months of their term so they can free up cash to help them settle into their new home.
The Society also scooped the 'Mortgage Innovation Award' and was named 'Most Innovative Personal Finance Provider' at the Moneynet Personal Finance Awards 2014.
Leeds Building Society has 67 branches throughout the UK, Gibraltar and Ireland and assets of £11.2bn (as at 31 December 2013). The Society has operated from the centre of Leeds since 1886.
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Updated Version of the National Verifier Plan Now Available
Thank you to all who provided feedback during the public comment period for the first draft of the National Verifier Plan. Today, USAC submitted an updated version of the plan to the FCC that incorporates the feedback to our proposed approach.
While reviewing the January 2017 version of the National Verifier Plan, please note that any updated slides have an “UPDATED” label in the upper-right corner. All new and modified text is shown in orange.
We welcome your additional feedback and comments. Please leave your feedback as a “comment” on this blog, or submit it via email to LifelineProgram@usac.org. There is no deadline for submitting feedback about the plan. The National Verifier Plan will be updated throughout the life of its implementation based on new findings and feedback.
The November 2016 version of the plan is available in the Reference Area of the Lifeline Program website.
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Smartphone algorithm combined with paper funnel can detect ear infection
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Researchers at the University of Washington have created a new app that was able to detect fluid in the middle ear in pediatric patients.
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We were given a Groupon voucher for a 5 course tasting menu at Galvin at Windows located in the Hilton at Park Lane, London. Based on our experiences at Ormer, we were very excited and looking forward to tucking in on some amazing food.
Galvin at Windows lies on the 28th floor which offers great views of London at night. Upon entering we were shown to our table but as it has been a very hot day, it seems the air conditioning was struggling a bit and the restaurant felt very hot and stuffy.
We were offered a Bellini and some bread whilst we were waiting which was a mix of brown and onion bread. The onion bread was really nice but the brown bread was tough and a little dry.
Onion and brown bread
An aperitif soon followed which was soft cheese and tomato on crusty bread. The cheese overpowered pretty much everything but it was quite nice anyway.
The aperitif
The first course was described as 'Vichyssoise', truffle cream & gougiere. No idea what this was but no matter, we eat anything anyway. When it came, it was a cold soup which was creamy but lacked seasoning. Adding dill would have enhanced the dish and added an extra flavour but as it is, it was a little dull.
'Vichyssoise', truffle cream & gougiere
Still, on to the next course which was 'Roasted pollock, brandade croquette & watercress veloute'. The fish was very delicate and very subtle in flavour. If mixed with the croquette and the veloute, you couldn't taste the fish at all so best to eat that separately. The croquette was nice but seemed an easy option for the chefs to compile the dish.
Roasted pollock, brandade croquette & watercress veloute
Up next was 'Cornish pie "feather blade", mustard emulsion & pickles. This was the least favourite dish of them all. We couldn't understand why the pickles were there in the fist place, the flavour combination did not work at all. The pie was a bit dry and the pastry was too thick and on the dry side. The mustard emulsion was nice though.
Cornish pie "feather blade", mustard emulsion & pickles
The last savoury course was Baron Bigod, chutney & raisin bread. This was disappointing as it involves no cooking whatsoever and a lazy addition to the menu. A bit of cheese, chutney and bread in a top class restaurant tasting menu?
Baron Bigod, chutney & raisin bread
Dessert was 'Chocolate fondant, caramelised bananas & banana ice cream'. The chocolate fondant was very chocolatey and had the gooey centre however, it completely overpowered the banana ice cream.
Chocolate fondant, caramelised bananas & banana ice cream
The food served here would be befitting of a gastro pub and not what you would expect of a top class restaurant. When comparing the food to Ormer who offer a similar tasting menu at a similar price, this falls way below their standards. Even the presentation of the dishes could have been better.
If you plan to drive in and park under the Hilton car park, be prepared for the astronomical car park prices. For our 2.5 hour stay we were charged £30 so it may be wise to park elsewhere and walk in.
W1K 1BE
http://www.galvinatwindows.com/
Somehow, for reasons that are still unexplained, we won tickets for Cafe de Paris so on a Friday night, we went. Once we were there, unbeknown to us, we were actually entitled the VIP package which allowed us the three courses, a bottle of Prosecco and two free drinks. Unfortunately, or fortunately for me, Mrs Mayochup was pregnant at the time therefore could not drink anything alcoholic so the whole bottle of Prosecco and free Kir Royale was mine. Be rude not to waste it.
Ruby and performing guests
Another picture of the performers
We previously posted about Cafe de Paris and we were pleased to see that Ruby was still the MC who is still at his flamboyant best terrorising the gentlemen who he took a shine to. The acts were truly amazing and it’s hard to comprehend that us human beings can perform like that whether it being balancing on one hand on a raised platform to performing acts with fire. Over the course of the evening, it must have been the first time in its history that there were no hen parties but of course there were other celebrations like birthdays and anniversaries.
For starters, we went for the smoked chicken and papaya on blini. This comes with beetroot & shallot dressing and sweet potato confetti. The other starter was the cured salmon carpaccio with palm hearts, caper berry and rock salt. The salmon is no different to what you have in hundreds of other restaurants, light and refreshing but the smoked chicken and papaya was amazing. Surprisingly light and full of flavour.
Smoked chicken and papaya on blini
Cured salmon carpaccio with palm hearts, caper berry and rock salt
Between meals, we were treated to a magician plying her trade with card tricks and misdirection. One guy on our table thought he had it worked out but the magician had him sussed and got nowhere. We forget her name but she was at the Edinburgh Film Festival, not that narrows it down much.
Magician with her really bright red hair
For the mains, we got the prime rib-eye steak with hand cooked chips and garlic butter. The other was grilled chicken breast which comes with courgettes, potato fondant, girolle mushrooms and parsley. Both were well cooked and well received. Especially as one of us was drinking a lot and needed to soak up the booze!
Grilled chicken breast, courgettes, potato fondant, girolle mushrooms and parsley
Rib-eye steak with hand cooked chips and garlic butter
We thought we were only eligible for two courses so to have dessert was a bonus. We opted for fresh fruit salad and warm chocolate brownie.
Fresh fruit salad
Warm chocolate brownie
We do recommend coming here even if it's not just for the food. The entertainment is fantastic and worth the entry fee alone.
3 Coventry Street
W1D 6BL
http://www.cafedeparis.com/
Tucked away in a side street in Marble Arch, if that's such a thing, is the welcoming exterior of La Porte des Indes which is best described as an Indian restaurant with French influence. The interior is decorated with Indian art, artifacts and huge plants spanning from the lower ground to the ceiling. Reminded us of the greenhouses in Kew Gardens.
La Porte des Indes exterior
We booked the Jazz Sunday Brunch which is £35 per person and is a buffet spread out on two floors. Which is great as you can go up as many times as you like. You can find the starters and desserts on the lower ground floor and the mains (vegetarian and non) on the ground floor. Price also includes 1/2 pint of beer, glass of red or white or a soft drink.
Now, due to it being a buffet, we went a bit wild on the starters. We tried everything they had to offer and did not leave enough room for the main course buffet. Still, can't complain as each of the starters was amazing apart from the Watermelon and Pepper soup. You would think there's a twist on it but no, it's simply cold Watermelon juice with pepper granules floating on the top. Err right... but we'll let that one slide.
Different types of starters available
The Watermelon and pepper soup
We went for the meat mains and there are four choices, or all four, and on offering was Lamb Bhuna, Murgh Tikka Makhni and white fish curry I can't remember the name of.
The main course buffet
Selection of main courses with rice
Unlimited naan bread brought to your table
Whilst we were enjoying our meal, we were showered in light entertainment in the form of a jazz band and the fire alarm a few times. To mix things up, the jazz band played a few well known TV theme tunes.
After a well earned break, we eventually waddled to the desserts and what an offering there was! Fresh fruits, belgian chocolate mousse, Panna Cotta and those really really really sicky sweet Indian sweets plus more I can't remember off hand.
Selection of desserts
What did puzzle me was the lack of French influence. We thought we would find it in the food, and especially the desserts as the French are masters of that, however there wasn't any. Belgian mousse is err Belgian and Panna Cotta is Italian. Thinking back to the mains and starters, there's none there either. Still, that's a small gripe considering the wonderful food we were treated to.
If you love Indian food, and lots of it, then this is the place to come. Make sure you're really hungry to get your moneys worth!
La Porte des Indes
32 Bryanston Street
W1H 7EG
http://www.laportedesindes.com
Date night this month was a trip to Ormer in Mayfair found via bookatable.co.uk which is a wonderful site where you can find posh eateries without the posh prices. There are minor drawbacks as you don't get the full a-la-carte menu to choose from but the choices available to you sound amazing and there's something for everyone.
Shortly after we were shown to our table, we were offered champagne (complementary as part of the package) or a soft drink for those who do not like it.
What was not on the menu is a little aperitif which consisted of pickled cockles with lemongrass emulsion and lobster powder. Reminds you a bit of Vietnam with the British twist of the cockles. Please excuse the photo's as the restaurant area is quite dark therefore the camera struggled a bit.
Pickled cockles with lemongrass emulsion and lobster powder
Oh and the unlimited crusty bread with stylish butter.
Crusty bread with butter
For starters, we went for the Cured Mackerel, which consisted of tartare, avocado, elderflower and dill sour cream, and the Homemade Linguini that contained crab, courgette tomato, parmesan foam and basil. When they came, the food was dressed up in such a way that a Masterchef finalist would be proud of. Food art at its best. The Cured Mackerel was served inside a glass chamber and smoke was poured into it at which gave it a peculiar cool smoky taste that, truth be told, I didn't really like. The Linguini, however, was amazing. Light and full of flavour.
Homemade Linguini
Cured Mackerel
For the mains, we both went for the Braised Pig Cheeks which was served with sweet potatoes, grilled pineapple, aubergine and gem lettuce. This was absolutely delicious and there were two very clean plates afterwards. As you can see below, this is another work of art and although it doesn't look a lot, it was just enough.
Braised Pig Cheeks
Souffle has always eluded me, until now and we were delighted to see that on the menu so it was a no-brainer decision to go for it. The Apricot Souffle was served with jasmine and almond ice cream.
Apricot Souffle
The staff were very friendly and all too willing to chat to the guests. There were a few birthdays and some showed off their singing skills whilst others were offering their advice for those who find it difficult to make decisions on the menu. Our waiter was the more intellectual type however, he did mumble quite a lot and we found it very difficult to decipher what he was saying.
We asked for the bill and we were offered some little chocolates and cakes as a 'thank you' which is a nice touch.
Our leaving gift
If you fancy this, the three courses and a glass of champagne is £35 per person and can be found via bookatable.co.uk
Score: 9.5/10
Ormer Mayfair
Flemings Mayfair Hotel
Half Moon Street
W1J 7BH
For lunch, we were invited to Sen Nim, a Japanese restaurant in Islington, and we couldn't wait as it is another chance to try our favourite cuisine.
We arrived at 12:30 to an empty restaurant but as we were part of a group, that did not matter. In fact, it enabled us to get the best seats right in front of the chef demonstration area.
As we were looking through the menu, we were informed of a few items that weren't available and crucially it was marinated beef therefore they couldn't cook it on the hot plate. I can only assume they had a busy service the day before. The replacement was chicken or beef udon noodles instead.
Beef udon noodles
Most of the group ordered the set menu which consisted of soup and a main and I was the only one that went for the sushi. Luckily enough, and I was not aware of this at the time, the sushi was two for one on Sundays.
California Maki and Volcano Maki
A special mention has to go to the waitress. She was the most forgetful scatty brained individual I have ever come across. She managed to deliver the mains without giving us the starter, forgot about drinks for a few people and I'm pretty sure that all two braincells were being used. Still, on a positive note, she can't get much worse.
Now on to the main event. Our demonstration chef, I forget his name, we here to show off his skills and prepare prawns, scallops and make egg fried rice in front of our eyes. Not before a dramatic cleaning process involving oil and a lot of heat! There was even time for a trick or two to entertain us.
A fire show
Chicken Gyozas were an afterthought but a wonderful addition. And delicious as usual.
Chicken gyozas
Our chef cooking prawns
We all left completely stuffed and struggling to move although some of the group wanted dessert in the patisserie across the road called Belle Epoque. This little place has won awards and served up pastries like this.
Raspberry and Passion Fruit tart
Overall, the restaurant serves up great food. A little improvement on the waitress (or a different one) would have made the experience better but we would definitely return.
Sen Nin
N1 1RQ
http://www.sen-nin.com
The first thing you notice about L'oro Di Napoli is that the restaurant is small, only seating around 20 people, and the second is the shrine to Napoli football club and, in particular, Diego Maradona who is Argentinian. Coincidentally, Maradona is a name for one of their pizzas there. For us football fans out there, we all remember the 'hand of god' goal against England in the 1986 World Cup.
L'oro Di Napoli A-Board
The shrine to Napoli. Diego Maradona in particular
But let's put Maradona to one side and concentrate on L'oro Di Napoli which literally translates to The Gold of Naples. The pizzas are all hand made and they use the freshest of ingredients all cooked in a wood burning clay oven.
As the restaurant is so small, we can peer into the kitchen and it is almost open plan. We got a lovely insight in how are pizzas are made.
Making the dough
Preparing the pizzas
For starters, we ordered the Tomato Bruschetta. Although this is simply made, the ingredients they used makes it stand out from your regular Italian restaurant chains and it was wonderful. The chopped tomatoes had plenty of flavour and it was well seasoned. And it wouldn't be Italian without the lashings of olive oil.
For the mains, the menu offered pizza and nothing but pizza. There was so many to choose from that it is a little overwhelming and they have mixed up white and red pizzas together under the same heading. White pizzas are those without the tomato sauce as a base. If they were to redesign their menu, it is suggested that they create these categories to make it easier.
We ordered one white pizza and one red and went for the Massimo Troisi and Caruso respectively.
Massimo Troisi consisted of mozzarella, parma ham, rocket, cherry tomatoes,topped with parmesan and olive oil. As you can see, these pizzas are huge and we did not finish them nor did we get anywhere close. Thankfully, they allow you to take away the pizza and with L'oro Di Napoli offering a take-away service too, it was easy for them to accommodate.
The Caruso was a real meaty pizza which was tomato sauce based with mozzarella. The meats were spicy salame, sausages, ham, topped with parmesan, fresh basil and not forgetting the olive oil. Both these pizzas were beautifully flavoured due to the freshness of the ingredients and they are certainly generous with the toppings too! A good quality mozzarella makes or breaks a pizza and thankfully L'oro Di Napoli gets that right.
More olive oil. Just in case you don't have enough!
The cost of the pizzas are very reasonable and remarkably cheaper than Domino's, Pappa Johns and Pizza Express. And much much better too. The most expensive pizza is £10.95 and cheapest is £5.50. If you are keen on having a filling lunch and not wanting to spend that much, one pizza is easily big enough to share for two.
We would definitely come back and we can't wait to try different pizzas next time.
L'oro Di Napoli
217 Uxbridge Road
Hanwell
W7 3TH
www.lorodinapolihanwell.co.uk
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Bruce Rimell
They Shimmer Within: Cognitive-Evolutionary Perspectives on Visionary Beings By Bruce Rimell
The use of psychedelic drugs plants is rising, and with it the number of reports narrating encounters with otherworldly visionary beings. Approaches to these experiences have often been literal,... More > archetypal or dismissive. Evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion suggest innate and non-imagistic mental foundations for these phenomena arising from easily-triggered evolutionary functions during emotive periods of high cognitive demand. Such functions include agent detection, social intelligence faculties and metacognition. This wide-ranging book explores how our deepest mental processes predispose us as humans to believe in supernatural agents, and presents a new hypothesis of how these same cognitions facilitate the emergence of those agents to become present when psychedelic drugs and plants are ingested. Bruce concludes that visionary beings shimmer within as awe-inspiring products of the mind, an experience which rests at the heart of what it is to be human.< Less
Liminal Contact: A Cognitive and Anthropological Response to the ‘Death’ of Painting By Bruce Rimell
The alleged ‘death’ of painting has shaped the recent course of art, but the model of the human mind upon which it rests is no longer considered accurate. Cognitive science has shown that... More > the mind is not a blank slate but content-rich, and as such humans bear an array of innate expectations of reality and non-reality, which apply to painting as well as other human behaviours such as religion or music. This creative thesis takes in a series of case studies tracing the prehistory of painting in light of these cognitive propensities, from the beginnings of human culture, to Bushman rock art and the experiences of painters today, to uncover a perennial function for painting which cannot die: the ubiquitous sensation of an ‘otherworld’ beyond the canvas or rock face. This approach to painting demands its rehabilitation as a humanising self-expression in a world increasingly estranged from art, abandoning artistic ideology in favour of an image-based communion with human nature.< Less
On Vision and Being Human: Exploring the Menstrual, Neurological and Symbolic Origins of Religious Experience By Bruce Rimell
Visionary and religious experiences are ubiquitous among human beings, but why do we experience them as coming from a hidden reality beyond the senses? Why should we believe in the existence of... More > deities despite the mundane evidence of our own eyes? Why do we as intelligent primates ascribe any importance to these ‘imaginary’ realities at all? This creative and speculative thesis seeks to answer these questions in a new way, gazing into the content of visions themselves and exploring the various inner realities that gave rise to these transformative and meaningful aspects of our humanity. Focusing upon symbolic cognition as a fundamental organising principle of human experience, a diverse series of musings upon the nature of reality, consciousness, and our evolutionary origins seeks to transcend our modern artificial boundaries to arrive at a holistic, and delightfully playful, human image for the twenty-first century. An original visionary thesis illustrated with 30 beautiful drawings.< Less
Minver Stories By Bruce Rimell
Playful, archaic and confusing, this illustrated collection of bizarre song-chant poems narrates in riddling language the story of Minver, a flashing-eyed sprite who became for the author the very... More > embodiment of ecstasy. Emerging from the dance club culture of the late 90s, but set in an archetypal landscape, Minver Stories is a deeply idionsyncratic take on psychedelic experience. Delightfully designed with 20 illustrations and commentaries.< Less
Eleusis By Bruce Rimell
A visionary and artistic exploration through the greatest of the Mystery traditions of Antiquity, 'Eleusis' follows the winding path that leads from the kidnap of Persephone and Demeter's grief at... More > her loss to the transformation of mankind through the Epiphany of an Ineffable Female Godhead. Drawing from several years of mythological, experiential and visionary research, and delightfully enfolded with 25 colour and monochrome art images, Bruce attempts to move beyond the Eleusinian veil of secrecy to enter into the very Heart of the Mystery. A final illustrated essay also explores the meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries for the modern day.< Less
XIBALBA SONGS By Bruce Rimell
From cosmogonies and half-remembered memories to mythical mandalas from the ancient past, this collection of surreal poetry charts the soul’s journey from the daylight waking world into... More > Xibalba, the Realm of the Dead and Archetypal. But in doing so, it also mirrors the death of mythical and non-rational modes of experience in our modern society: the grey emptiness of Xibalba as experienced here is the bleakness of a society deprived of a mythological heart. Xibalba Songs asks a simple question: can we honestly say that if we let our ancestral mythological heritage pass into permanent nightfall, that we will be able to retain the true depth of our humanity, our experience and our much-celebrated curiosity and inspiration? Should we simply stand by, record its demise, and then move on to a future at best purposeless and at worst pitiless and bleak?< Less
Ink & Marker Visions - Images Of Playful Archetypes 2004-2009 By Bruce Rimell
In 1997, after suffering visionary migraines for many years, Bruce Rimell made the momentous decision to become an artist. This book charts what happened next. Following his artistic development from... More > inspired outsider to professional artist, Bruce narrates his career from nascent shamanic images to the vibrant psychedelic works he now produces, focussing on the ink & marker medium which has become his staple method. Ink & Marker Visions is a journey both visual and textual into this unique artist's world, into the domain of the 'watcher behind the eyes', and is delightfully presented with over 90 full colour illustrations and accompanying texts which capture the essence of his work. Come and see, look within: what will you find?< Less
About Bruce Rimell
Bruce Rimell is a UK-based visionary artist, poet and researcher. His work focuses upon the interplay between visionary experience, mythology, archaeology and human perception, and his books reflect these interests. Each book is a fusion of art and words, his vibrant images illustrating his unique poetry and explorations of archaic worldviews and modern humanity.
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(American, b. 1973; resides in Rocky River, OH)
When Mark Slankard first encountered the suburban high-rise developments pictured in his series Toplu: Landscapes of New Turkish Suburbia, he was a foreigner visiting his wife’s family in Turkey. Since 2008, he has returned several times to photograph budding condominium communities, which are built on cheap land that intersects with existing shanty homes outside of Turkish cities. The visible coexistence of hand-built shelters and high-density residencies parallels a familiar story of globalism, in which large-scale, systematic manufacture looms large over things that are constructed through modest human assembly.
Mark Slankard completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2002 from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Indiana University in 1996. His work have been widely exhibited at venues including the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Columbia University, New York; Texas Tech University, Lubbock, and the Ohio State University’s Wexner Center in Columbus. Currently, Slankard is an Assistant Professor in Photography at Cleveland State University.
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Another version of Delta Dagger kit released
The F-102A(Case XX) Delta Dagger supersonic interceptor was the improved version of the F-102A(Case X). It was put into service soon for better performance. After fitted with advanced equipments like Autocollimator, Infra-Red Search System, Fire Control Computer and Autopilot, it ranked amongst the most significant aircrafts in 1950s-60s with advanced western aviation technology. During its service, F-102 was not only used to intercept Soviet strategic bombers and long-range reconnaissance aircrafts near the Coast of North America, but also received its baptism by fire in Vietnam War. F-102 was no longer the important linking of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system after the F-106 entered service.
We re-release the 1/72 F-102A(Case XX) kit (No.DS-005) after the successful DS-003 F-102A(Case X) kit. The kit (No.DS-005) consists of 100 parts on 6 plastic sprues and 1 clear sprue . It’s 289.4 mm in total length and 161.4 mm in width. Its unique belly weapon bay and weapons have been perfectly modeled. Three weapon bay positions and two types of falcon missiles are provided in the kit. Three paint options (USAF and ANG) are offered.You will enjoy building a Cold War era aircraft with this easy-build and detailed kit.
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The Dugong Show: 24-Hour Webcast Shows Star Thai Sea Cows
by Naharnet Newsdesk 07 July 2019, 18:00
A round-the-clock webcast starring two beloved baby dugongs in Thailand named Mariam and Jamil went live Sunday, allowing a more in-depth look at the celebrity sea cows.
S.California Hit by 7.1-Magnitude Quake, Strongest in Two Decades
Southern California was hit by its largest earthquake in two decades Friday, a 7.1-magnitude tremor that rattled residents less than 48 hours after another quake struck the same area.
Hell in High Water: Braving the Monsoon to Save India's Rhinos
The monsoon may bring respite from the scorching heat, but for the rangers and animals at Kaziranga National Park it also brings danger as poachers take advantage of greater camouflage and flooding.
Beirut Municipality Postpones Waste Incinerator Decision amid Protest
A protest was staged Thursday outside the headquarters of Beirut Municipality in the center of the capital ahead of a session for discussing and approving the terms of reference for setting up a controversial waste incinerator in the city.
The decision on the move was however postponed amid reservations voiced by council members belonging to the Lebanese Forces, the Free Patriotic Movement and other parties.
Jakarta Residents Sue Indonesia Government over Air Pollution
Residents of Indonesia's capital on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the government over the toxic levels of air pollution that regularly blanket the city.
South Americans Marvel at Total Solar Eclipse
A rare total solar eclipse plunged a vast swath of Latin America's southern cone into darkness Tuesday, briefly turning day into night and enthralling huge crowds in much of Chile and Argentina.
Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Chile's northern Coquimbo region near the Atacama desert -- festooned with some of the planet's most powerful telescopes -- which was situated directly on the eclipse's 100-mile-wide "path of totality."
Antarctic Sea Ice in Dizzying Decline since 2014, Says Study
After mysteriously expanding for decades, Antarctica's sea ice cover melted by an area four times greater than France in just a few years and now stands at a record low, according to a study published Monday.
Warming to Slash Equivalent of 80 Million Jobs by 2030, Says UN
As climate change worsens, growing heat stress on workers in agriculture and other sectors will cause a productivity loss equal to 80 million full-time jobs over the next decade, the UN warned Monday.
A report from the International Labour Organization estimated that in 2030, 2.2 percent of total working hours worldwide will be lost because of higher temperatures.
New Zealand Bans Single-Use Plastic Bags
New Zealand officially banned single-use plastic shopping bags Monday, introducing hefty fines for businesses that continue to provide them.
Europe Set to Sizzle again as Heatwave Continues
by Naharnet Newsdesk 29 June 2019, 08:45
Europe was bracing itself for a sweltering Saturday as the heatwave continued across the continent.
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The effect of nifedipine on oral contraceptive-induced hypertension in rats p. 277
LA Olatunji, AO Soladoye
OBJECTIVE: Administration of oral contraceptive (OC) steroids is associated with an increased risk of developing hypertension, although the mechanisms underlying this effect are not well established. This study therefore sought to investigate the effect of L-type calcium channel blocker, nifedipine on OC-induced hypertension. METHODS: Female Sprague-Dawley rats received OC (norgestrel/ethinyloestradiol) and/or nifedipine orally for 10 weeks. . Blood pressure and heart rate were thereafter recorded under anaesthesia from the femoral artery with a Grass Polygraph 7D model, whereas plasma and urinary Na+ and K+ concentrations were measured using a flame photometer. The stable oxidation products of nitric oxide, urinary nitrite/nitrate (NO) were measured in urine by means of the brucine method. RESULTS: OC administration led to significant (p<0.05) increases in blood pressure and plasma Na+, and decreases in body weight, food and water consumption, excretion of Na+ and NO. Concomitant treatment with nifedipine significantly (p<0.05) abrogated the alterations induced by OC administration. CONCLUSION : This study provides evidence that the development of OC-induced hypertension is prevented by calcium channel blockade via improved renal handling of sodium and nitric oxide. The finding confirms the involvement of calcium channels in OC hypertension.
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Interactions between sodium intake, calcium supplement, renal excretion and blood pressure in Sprague-Dawley rats p. 282
CO Oladipo, PE Egbe, JO Ibu, G Pamson
INTRODUCTION: The mechanisms responsible for genesis of salt-induced hypertension and its prevention by dietary calcium supplementation are still not clear. Hence, the effect of salt (NaCl) and calcium supplement on blood pressure and renal excretion were investigated. METHODOLOGY: Daily food consumption, water, salt and calcium intake, as well as urine volume and pH were determined. At the end of the feeding period, animals were anaesthetised and the electrocardiographic and blood pressure measurements were done. RESULTS: Salt-loaded rats (SR) consumed more salt and water but less calcium, and excreted more urine and hydrogen ion than control rats (NR). There was elevation of mean arterial pressure (MAP) in SR (132.63 +/- 2.3 mmHg) compared with NR (94.00 +/- 2.2 mmHg) but there was no significant difference in their heart rates (HR) (395 +/- 11.7 vs. 429 +/- 15.4 beats/min). However, salt-loaded-calcium-fed rats (SCaR) had similar MAP as NR (99.29 +/- 1.8 mmHg) and a lower HR (379 +/- 14.9 beats/min). A reduction in water consumption and an increase in urine output as well as urinary hydrogen ion were noted in SCaR compared with SR. Calcium alone (CaR) did not have any effect on MAP (88.01 +/- 1.3 mmHg) and HR (413 +/- 7.98 beats/min). There was no difference in the organ/body-weight ratios of the aortae among the experimental rats. However, there was renal hypertrophy in SR and SCaR. Also, the hearts of SR were bigger than CaR. The mean electrical axis of hearts showed a tendency towards left ventricular hypertrophy in SR, which was greater than SCaR. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that salt loading caused renal hypertrophy and a tendency towards left ventricular hypertrophy. There are associated salt and water retention resulting in alteration of some cardiovascular function. Dietary calcium supplementation reversed these functional defects.
Prevalence and determinants of erectile dysfunction among people with type 2 diabetes in Ilorin, Nigeria p. 291
JK Olarinoye, SA Kuranga, IA Katibi, OS Adediran, AA Jimoh, EO Sanya
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence and determinants of Erectile Dysfunction (ED) among men with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seventy-seven adult men with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus were assessed for Erectile Dysfunction using the 'IIEF-5' questionnaire. They were also assessed for the presence of certain clinical factors in other to determine their degree of correlation with ED. RESULTS: The mean age of the study subjects was 56.8(+/-2.4) years. Almost all (96.1%) were married. Forty-four (56.4%) men volunteered a history of Erectile Dysfunction. When assessed with the 'IIEF - 5' questionnaire, the prevalence of any degree of ED was 74% while moderate to severe ED was found in 39(51%) of the patients. The only clinical variables that had statistically significant correlation with ED were the age of the patients (p=0.04) as well as the duration of diabetes (p=0.04). CONCLUSION: - Erectile Dysfunction is a very common condition among men with Type 2 Diabetes mellitus in Ilorin, Nigeria and should therefore be routinely sought for by the clinicians. The two clinical factors that confer significant risk to development of ED, from this study are non-modifiable. More emphasis should therefore be placed on treatment rather than the prevention of this condition.
Knowledge of and attitude towards road traffic codes among commercial motorcycle riders in Anambra State p. 297
OU Adogu, AL Ilika
Road traffic accidents (rtas) represent a major epidemic of non communicable disease in the country and has since escalated with the introduction of the new phenomenon of commercial motorcycle transportation such as is found in the two urban towns of nnewi and Awka of Anambra state, Nigeria. making use of a pre-tested, semi structured, interviewer administered questionnaire, relevant data on socio demographic and motorcycle characteristics were collected from a sample of commercial motorcyclists selected by systematic sampling technique. their knowledge of and attitude towards road traffic and safety codes were elicited. The result showed that the all-male commercial motorcyclists had a mean age of 30+8.9 years. one hundred and seventy six (32.6%) possessed good knowledge of road traffic codes and safety, while 35 (6.5%) exhibited good attitude towards them. both knowledge of and attitude towards traffic codes and safety improved with increase in educational level (p<0.005, p<0.001 respectively). the younger motorcyclists also possessed statistically significant better knowledge of traffic codes than their older counterparts (p<0.025). attitude to traffic codes and safety had no association with age of the motorcyclists (p>0.25). the study has provided useful information on the knowledge of and attitude towards road traffic and safety codes among commercial motorcyclists in nigeria. pursuit of knowledge through formal and informal education should run pari pasu with efforts to improve the nigerian economy in order to ensure a sustainable positive attitudinal change towards road traffic codes and safety among commercial motorcyclists.
Pathology services delivery: policy analysis using a Nigerian tertiary institution as a prototype p. 301
ES Idogun, ME Enosolease
BACKGROUND: Laboratory services delivery face criticisms on daily basis by the patients (the beneficiary), the clinicians (the user), and the hospital management (the policy maker). The service provider (the laboratory) is faced with the task of trying to explain her problems. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY: Was to critically do a policy analysis of the problems of laboratory service delivery, with the aim of identifying the causes of these problems and making recommendations to the policy makers. SETTING: The University of Benin Teaching Hospital, a foremost tertiary institution in Nigeria. METHOD: George Kent's normative policy analysis model was used to analyse the laboratory guidelines and procedures of sample collection, transportation, analysis and eventual generation of laboratory results. All the steps in the guidelines are analysed using the fifteen steps in Kent's normative model of policy analysis. RESULTS: The policy analysis shows that problems of laboratory services delivery are triangular with the patient at the center of the triangle. The most important finding of this analysis is that there is no formal laboratory service policy to guide all the actors i.e. the hospital management, laboratory staff and the clinicians. Problems arising from the laboratory are solved through the use of circular letters, likened to administrative incremental model of decision-making. CONCLUSION: There is a need to have a formal policy. A formal policy on laboratory service delivery will guide the provider, the user and the policy makers in solving the problems that originate from the laboratory service on a permanent basis. It will also establish a regular method of evaluating the services that are provided by the laboratory.
Medical students perception of undergraduate ophthalmology training in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Nnewi Campus p. 305
LO Onyekwe, SN Nwosu
AIM: To determine the perception and aspiration of medical students towards ophthalmology. METHOD: Information for the study was obtained through forced-choice questionnaire set to 102 medical students in 2000/2001 graduating class in Nnamdi Azikiwe University. RESULTS: One hundred questionnaires were completed. As a specialty of choice ophthalmology ranked fourth {16.0%} as a first choice; second {21.0%} as a second choice and first {26.0%} as a third choice. Ninety-five of respondents found ophthalmology training useful. CONCLUSION: This cohort of medical students considered ophthalmic training in this institution essential and adequate. Undergraduate ophthalmic course should ensure an understanding of the basic principles of ophthalmology and should be designed to motivate the interest and confidence of the medical students in the specialty. Training period should be at least 4 weeks. With appropriate training ophthalmology can attract reasonable interest as a choice for specification.
Exclusive breastfeeding frequency during the first seven days of life in term neonates p. 309
AA Okechukwu, AA Okolo
SUMMARY The study evaluated the effect of frequent suckling on neonatal serum bilirubin level, weight gain and passage of meconium in exclusively breastfed (Ebfed) neonates in the first week of lactation. These variables were investigated for 358 healthy full-term, EBfed Nigerian newborn, delivered vaginally without complications at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in their first week of life. Their maternal breast problems and time of achievement of let-down reflex were also evaluated. Mothers nursed their newborns on the average of 13.3 + 1.6 times in the first 24 hours. This non-significantly decreased to 13.1 + 1.2 by the 7th day. Significant positive correlations were found between the frequency of EBfing and passage of meconium in the first 24 hours of life ( r = 0.41, p < 0.05), and weight gain by day 7 ( r = 0.34, p<0.001). Inverse relationship was observed between frequency of suckling and neonatal serum bilirubin level on days 3 and 7 (r = -.13 and -.15), time of achievement of maternal let-down reflex ( r = -.43) and their breast problems (r = -.38), P values < 0.05. We therefore concluded that frequent suckling during EBfing has beneficial health effect on both the mother and her newborn in the first week of lactation. BG.
Comparison of suxamethonium and priming with atracurium for rapid sequence orotracheal intubation in a Nigerian adult population p. 313
AH Yusuf, CI Okeke, NA Merah, JO Olatosi, IS Desalu, OT Kushimo
OBJECTIVE: To compare suxamethonium with atracurium using the priming principle, for rapid sequence orotracheal intubation assessing onset time, time to successful laryngoscopy and intubation and quality of intubating conditions. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A prospective double-blind, randomised study was performed in 90 ASA physical status I and II patients aged between 18 and 64 years undergoing elective surgery requiring endotracheal intubation between October 2002 and June 2003 in a university teaching hospital . All patients were premedicated with 5-10mg oral diazepam and randomly assigned to one of two groups to receive either suxamethonium as a bolus dose (group A) or atracurium (priming with 0.05 mg/kg followed by 0.55 mg/kg after induction of anaesthesia) (group B). In both groups, the trachea was intubated when there was maximal muscle relaxation, determined clinically by jaw muscle relaxation. Muscle paralysis using a PNS, quality of intubating conditions, and occurrence of muscle weakness due to the priming dose of atracurium, time to laryngoscopy and onset time were all noted. RESULTS: Onset time was 87.1 +/- 25.60s and 135.8 +/- 46.23s in groups A and B respectively (P < 0.05). Group A had a laryngoscopy time of 73.6 +/- 25.22s compared to 107.7 +/- 41.32s in group B (P < 0.05). Intubating conditions were significantly better in group A compared to group B (P < 0.05). The frequency of muscle weakness from the priming dose of atracurium was 6.6%. CONCLUSION: Atracurium, using the priming principle, is an option in our environment for modified rapid sequence induction when suxamethonium is contraindicated.
Psychosocial profile of cultists in a Nigerian university: a preliminary report p. 319
MA Bamiso
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To help stem cult activities on campuses by identifying motives for joining cult groups and highlighting psychosocial attributes/profile of a potential or already initiated cult member. METHOD: Using snow-balling method, 25 consecutive consenting cult members of University of Ilorin were interviewed over a six month period using a semi-structured questionnaire. Those who had symptoms suggestive of psychiatric disorders were further assessed based on ICD-10 criteria. All patients with previous psychiatric illness were excluded. RESULT: A significant proportion of the respondents were first year, male, previously shy students from high socioeconomic background. There was a significant increase in the proportion of respondents who had palpitation, sweated more, felt bolder, and became current users of alcohol and tobacco after initiation. Also, there was a significant decrease in the proportion of respondents who slept well, felt accepted by friends and performed well in academic activities after initiation. CONCLUSION: In spite of the small sample size and method of data collection, the preliminary findings in this study, could be useful in stemming the increasing menace of cultism among students in tertiary institutions. It was suggested that control of cult activities should be multidimensional with students, parents and university administration taking active parts. Establishment of 'Help Centres' on campuses was suggested.
Pattern of utilisation of eye care services in Benin City, Nigeria p. 323
OA Dawodu, OH Okogie, CO Ukponmwan
Eye care facilities in Nigeria are still not uniformly distributed. Benin City has more eye care health facilities than most other parts of the country. This is probably due to the privilege of having training schools for both Ophthalmologists Ophthalmic Nurses and Optometrists. OBJECTIVE: This study was carried out with the aim of determining the pattern of utilisation of available eye care services in Benin City by the general public. METHODS: This is a cross sectional descriptive study in which 420 staff of ministries were randomly selected. With the aid of a self-administered questionnaire, we determined the previous use of eye care personnel for those who had had eye complaints in the past. The type of services they sought and the eye care personnel involved was documented RESULTS: Nearly 72% of respondents had received eye care services from professionals, that is ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians. About 28% received treatment from sources that could be considered as inappropriate consisting of 14.1% that had self medication, 7.2% from patent medicine shops, 4.8% from traditional healers and 1.2% on advice from friends. CONCLUSION: Though a high percentage of respondents have received treatment for their eye ailments from appropriate professionals, an appreciable number still patronise inappropriate sources considering that the sampled population were privileged to have a minimum basic education
Ultrasonic assessment in pre-operative cataract patients p. 326
TO Bello, CO Adeoti
INTRODUCTION: The ability to examine the posterior segment of the eye accurately in patients with opaque media is essential to good surgical care of the cataract patient. In dense cataracts, the posterior segment is inaccessible to direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy and so adequate evaluation of posterior segment to exclude abnormalities become difficult. There is a risk of poor prognosis in eyes of patients with cataracts who may also have co-existing posterior segment abnormalities. Ultrasonography provides a method of assessing the structural changes in the posterior segment of the eye in such patients. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relevance and prevalence of posterior segment abnormalities in patients with dense cataracts prior to surgery by ultrasonography. METHOD: A 12- month prospective study of patients with clinically diagnosed dense cataracts in either or both eyes, in which the posterior segment cannot be evaluated properly during ophthalmoscopy, and therefore were sent for ocular ultrasonography. B-scan ultrasound was done on 116 eyes of 80 patients. RESULTS: Eighty patients were involved in the study, 116 eyes demonstrated dense cataract. One hundred and ten eyes (94.8%) had a normal posterior segment. Total retinal detachment was noted in 3 eyes (2.59%), a left partial retinal detachment was observed in 1 eye (0.87%), 2 eyes with total retinal detachment in conjunction with vitreous haemorrhage were noted in a single patient, 1.72% CONCLUSION: Posterior segment assessment with ultrasound is advisable and important in the preoperative evaluation of patients with dense cataract prior to surgery.
Seasonal variations in birth weights and gender of infants born in a mission hospital in Benin City, Nigeria p. 329
AN Onyiriuka
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship, if any, between the geographical season in which a baby is born and the baby's birth weight and sex. METHODS: The birth weights and sexes of 6141 babies delivered over a five- year period in a Nigerian mission hospital were prospectively recorded according to the month and year of delivery. The mean birth weights and sexes of infants born in the wet season (May to October) were compared with those of their counterparts born in the dry season (November to April). RESULTS: Comparison of the mean birth weight during the wet and dry seasons showed that for male infants it was 3333 (542)g versus 3197 (566)g (p<0.01), while for female infants it was 3203 (559)g versus 3110 (601)g (p<0.01). When both sexes were combined, the mean birth weights were 3249 (488)g and 3164 (524)g in wet and dry seasons respectively(p<0.01). Slightly more boys than girls were born in the dry season compared with the wet season (p>0. 05). CONCLUSION: Irrespective of gender, babies born during the wet season were significantly heavier than their counterparts born during the dry season. There was a higher probability of a boy birth in the dry season
Prevalence of byssinosis and other respiratory problems among textile mill workers in Asaba, Nigeria p. 333
A Osibogun, MI Oseji, EC Isah, V Iyawe
OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to determine the distribution and severity of byssinosis and other respiratory problems in the different operation sections in a textile mill industry in Asaba. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional and analytic study in which workers directly exposed to cotton dust are compared with those not directly exposed to cotton dust at one point in time. RESULTS: A total of 735 workers were interviewed and 437 workers had respiratory examinations carried out on them. Byssinosis was diagnosed in 8 out of 405 workers (prevalence of 1.98%) who were not directly exposed to cotton dust, and 21 out of 330 workers (prevalence of 6.36%) who were directly exposed to cotton dust. The difference was found to be statistically significant (chi2 = 9.25; df =1; 0.01 < p <0.001). The spinning department had the highest prevalence of 11.5%. The prevalence of respiratory abnormalities which did not necessarily meet the criteria for a diagnosis of byssinosis was 4.9% for persistent cough and persistent phlegm; 8.0% for dyspnoea grade 2 +; 3.3% for dyspnoea grade 4 and 2.59% for dyspnoea grade 5. Smoking was not found to be associated with the disease as none of the byssinotics were current smokers CONCLUSION: Byssinosis and other respiratory problems were found to be more prevalent in sections of the textile mill industry that were directly exposed to cotton dust. These findings form a basis for making suitable recommendations for the prevention of byssinosis and respiratory diseases in textile mills in Nigeria.
Knowledge, attitude and practices of Nigerian anaesthetists in HIV infected surgical patients: a survey p. 339
OT Kushimo, SG Akpan, I Desalu, NA Merahand, IU Ilori
In the light of increasing prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), anaesthetists are likely to see more patients with this virus in their practice. This study evaluated, using a questionnaire format, the knowledge, attitude and practices of anaesthetists in the management of HIV infected surgical patients. The questionnaire sought demographic information, the knowledge of risks involved as well as attitude and practices. One hundred (66.7%) out of 150 questionnaires distributed amongst members of the Nigerian Society of Anaesthetists were completed and returned. Fifty-five per cent (55%) of the respondents confirmed their willingness to be screened but only 45% had had a personal HIV screening test. Even though 23% of all the respondents will transfuse unscreened blood in an emergency, only 1(8.3%) of the consultants will do so. This trend was also reflected in gloving behaviour as 11(91.6%) of consultants will routinely wear gloves whilst only 12(70.5%) of the senior house officers will routinely glove for venepuncture despite the availability of gloves. Other precautionary facilities such as goggles, sharp disposal bins, routine screening of all surgical patients were more available in private than in government hospitals. Ninety- six per-cent of all respondents will initiate an action after a needle stick injury whilst 4% will ignore. General Anaesthesia was the choice of anaesthetic in an HIV/AIDS infected patient by 43% of respondents whilst 22% of respondents would choose regional technique. However, only 85% of respondents were willing to anaesthetise an infected patient. This study suggested a dearth of knowledge and perception of risks of HIV/AIDs amongst Nigerian Anaesthetists. Appropriate training and greater education is highly recommended. Rigorous infection control policy is imperative and hospital authorities must ensure availability of protective facilities.
Endometrial pathology associated with infertility among Nigerian women p. 344
IA Ekanem, AD Ekanem
SUMMARY: One hundred and forty endometrial specimens of women with infertility were examined with oil immersion at X100 magnification for evidence of secretory activity, presence of any inflammatory cells and characteristic features suggestive of specific pathogens. Twenty-three (16.4%) had evidence of chronic endometritis the majority being non-specific. Only two (1.4%) were granulomatous. There was a significant eosinophilic infiltrate in nine cases (6.4%) some numbering up to 55 eosinophils per 5 high power fields (5 hpf). Sensitive immunohistochemical techniques would be needed to correlate findings with specific pathogens for effective treatment.
Acute asthma in a children's emergency room: a clinical audit and management guideline proposal p. 348
CA Okoromah, JK Renner, AO Oduwole, AO Adenuga
BACKGROUND: Adequate asthma control in children includes optimal medical management of acute exacerbations of the disorder. Asthma guidelines provide critical information and serve as quick reference decision-support material for clinicians. AIM: This clinical audit aimed at evaluating emergency management of acute asthma as well as proposing for use a management protocol, with the view of improving quality of care. METHOD: This is a retrospective audit of the management of acute asthma over 18 months (October 2000-April 2002) Relevant data related to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in thirty asthmatics were extracted and examined. RESULTS: There were 20 males and 10 females (M:F ratio 2:1). Mean age (range) was 5.9 years (10 months-12.5 years) and mean (range) duration of symptoms prior to presentation was 1.9 days (2 hours-8 days). Trigger factors, current medications, clinical and functional indices of severity of acute asthma were not documented in 73.3%, 93.3% and 96.7% cases respectively. Diagnostic labels used in 28 (93.3%) did not reflect the acute nature or severity of the acute episode. Although nebulized salbutamol and oral corticosteroids were used for 80.0% of cases, aminophylline was frequently prescribed in addition. Discharge medications and instructions, including follow up in the respiratory clinic were not given in 21 (70.0%) and 28 (93.3%) cases respectively. CONCLUSION: This audit noted that the overall management of acute asthma in the emergency room and the documentation of crucial information vital in the acute and long-term care of asthmatics were inadequate. We propose and recommend for use in the Children's Emergency Room, acute asthma management guideline and protocol-based asthma paper records as well as computerization of patient records.
Histopathologic analysis of epidermal skin tumours and tumour-like lesions in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria p. 354
AH Rafindadi, MO Samaila
OBJECTIVE: A histopathologic analysis of epidermal skin tumours and tumour-like lesions seen between 1991 - 2000 in the Department of Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital [A.B.U.T.H], Zaria is presented. PATIENTS AND METHOD: These tumours were classified according to World Health Organisation's International Histological Classification for Skin Tumours and were tabulated. RESULTS: A total of 350 such lesions comprising 9.9% of all cutaneous neoplasms seen within the study period were collected. Overall, they have a male to female ratio of 1.7:1. Malignant tumours constituted 72.5%; benign tumours 18.3% and tumour-like lesions 9.2%. The commonest malignant lesion was squamous cell carcinoma, which constituted 68.3% of all the lesions with a male to female ratio of 1.7:1. Epidermal cyst comprised 16.3% with a male to female ratio of 1.5:1. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that epidermal tumours and tumour-like lesions are not uncommon in Zaria and they show a male preponderance with squamous cell carcinoma being the commonest epidermal tumour and it also predominantly affects males.
Management of optic neuritis in a developing African country p. 358
AE Omoti, MJ Waziri-Erameh
AIM: To show the value of sub-Tenon's depo-methylprednisolone acetate followed by oral prednisolone in the management of optic neuritis in African patients. METHODOLOGY: Two female patients who presented to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin city, Nigeria and one male patient who presented to the Eye clinic of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Warri, Nigeria with optic neuritis were given a single dose of sub-Tenon's depo-methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg followed by oral prednisolone 60 mg daily and their vision monitored. RESULTS: In all the 3 cases, there was rapid improvement in visual acuity from as low as ? light perception, counting fingers at 1 metre and at 4 metre to 6/6 within 2-3 weeks with improvement in colour vision. After 3 years and 5 years follow-up in 2 cases, there was no recurrence of optic neuritis and no neurological deficit occurred. CONCLUSION: Sub-Tenon's depo-methylprednisolone acetate followed by oral prednisolone is a safe and effective alternative treatment for optic neuritis in black African patients.
Alpha erythropoietin in the management of anaemia of prematurity: a report of three cases in Nigeria p. 361
AU Awogu, AE Abohweyere
Anaemia of prematurity is a common problem encountered in most special care baby units warranting often repeated blood transfusions with its inherent dangers. We present three patients in Nigeria who were very low birth weight premature babies on whom recombinant erythropoietin was used as an efficient replacement for blood transfusions. All three patients showed a progressive drop in haemoglobin concentration from the first to the sixth to eight week of life with development of heamic murmurs and insignificant reticulocyte responses, and were planned for transfusion therapy. The parents of all the patients strongly refused transfusion therapy (one on religious grounds) warranting the use of recombinant erythropoietin to which there was a significant response in all three patients with elevation of haemoglobin concentration, PCV, and reticulocyte counts, and obviating the planned transfusions. No significant side effects were also noticed. We suggest further controlled trials to establish this mode of therapy.
Conjunctival melanoma in a 55 year old male Nigerian: a case report p. 366
CC Anonubi, FB Akinsola, FB Abdulkareem, OT Aribaba, DC Anyiam, AO Daramola, AA Banjo
BACKGROUND: Conjunctival melanoma is a rare occurrence in the Negroid race. PURPOSE: To report a case of a 55 year old security man with right conjunctival melanoma. METHOD: A 55 old man was operated on to remove a pigmented right bulbar conjuctival growth. The specimen was submitted to Lagos University Teaching Hospital Lagos and Harold Wood Hospital England for histopathologic examination and confirmation. RESULTS: Surgery was successful and histopathologic and immunohistochemical studies confirmed a diagnosis of a nodular malignant melanoma. CONCLUSION: The need for the provision of definitive investigative tool (immunohistochemical studies) to facilitate definitive diagnosis and management of such cases in some recognised centres in Nigeria cannot be overemphasised.
An unusual faciocerebellar arrow injury: successful surgical removal in a peasant Nigerian: a case report p. 370
OA Lasisi, AO Malomo, AO Adeleye, OA Sogebi, MT Shokunbi
INTRODUCTION: Reports of penetrating injuries of the cranium have been mainly craniocerebral or faciocerebral, craniocerebellar projectiles are few. CASE: We present a case of a 23 year old Nigerian with a craniofacial penetrating injury by a hunting arrow. The trajectory of the arrow through the facial skeleton across the craniocervical junction into the posterior fossa makes this unique in the literature. Successful operative retrieval by a joint team of neurosurgeons and otorhinolaryngologists, problems of delayed presentation and inadequate diagnostic facilities are highlighted. CONCLUSION: The morbidity-free outcome of surgical removal despite the delay in presentation and management in our practice setting with limited facilities are the salient points of this presentation.
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Prevalence and factors associated with exercise-induced bronchospasm among rural school children in Ilesa, Nigeria
Bankole Peter Kuti, Demilade Kehinde Kuti, Kehinde Oluyori Omole, Lasisi Oluwafemi Mohammed, Busayo Gideon Ologun, Bolanle Idowu Oso
DOI:10.4103/npmj.npmj_46_17 PMID:28762366
Background: Exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) assessed using changes in peak expiratory flow rates (PEFRs) to free range exercise is a relatively cheap way of screening for asthma in resource-poor centres where children with asthma are often undiagnosed and poorly managed. This study sets out to determine the prevalence and factors associated with EIB among rural schoolchildren in Ilesa, Nigeria. Subjects and Methods: Children aged 8–16 years from two middle schools in rural Ilesa were selected by multistage sampling. Their sociodemographic characteristics and personal/family history of asthma and allergies were obtained. The children had their PEFR measured before, 5, 10 and 15 min after 6–8 min of free running exercise to achieve 80% of their maximal pulse rate. EIB was defined as change in PEFR expressed as a percentage of the pre-exercise value ≥15%. The prevalence and factors associated with EIB were determined. Results: The mean (standard deviation) age of the 250 study participants was 12.5 (1.5) years (M: F 0.9:1) None of the children had previously been diagnosed with asthma. The prevalence of EIB was 9.2%, 6.4% and 4.0% at 5, 10 and 15 min post-exercise, respectively. Household poultry birds, personal history of allergies, wheeze in the past 12 months and family history of asthma were associated with EIB (P < 0.05); only wheezing in the past 12 months independently predicted EIB (odds ratio = 6.343; 95% confidence interval = 2.040–8.798; P= 0.020). Conclusion: The prevalence of EIB among rural schoolchildren in Ilesa was 9.2%. EIB was associated with the history of allergies and wheeze and presence of household poultry birds. We recommend routine screening of these children for early diagnosis and good asthma symptom control.
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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors among adults in a semi-urban community of South-East Nigeria
Chimezie Godswill Okwuonu, Innocent Ijezie Chukwuonye, Oluseyi Ademola Adejumo, Emmanuel Idoko Agaba, Louis Ikechukwu Ojogwu
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an increasingly prevalent problem worldwide. Treatment of end-stage kidney disease is beyond the reach of an average Nigerian. The prevention and early detection are imperative to reducing its burden. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of CKD and some of its risk factors among adults in a representative semi-urban Nigerian population. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 400 randomly selected adults. Participants were assessed using the WHO stepwise approach. Urinary protein-creatinine ratio (PCR) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from serum creatinine, among other parameters, were analysed. A PCR ≥200 mg/g was regarded as significant proteinuria while GFR <60 ml/min/1.73 m2 was regarded as reduced GFR. Participants with abnormal PCR and/or reduced GFR were re-evaluated after 3 months to document persistence of these abnormalities. CKD was defined as persistent significant proteinuria and/or reduced GFR for more than 3 months. Results: Data were complete for 328 participants. Persistent significant proteinuria was found in 5.8% while persistently reduced GFR was obtained in 4.6% of participants. Overall, the prevalence of CKD was 7.8%. The prevalence of some established CKD risk factors was old age, 36.3%; hypertension, 36.9%; diabetes mellitus, 7.9%; and family history of kidney disease, 6.4%. The predictors of CKD included old age (adjusted odds ratio = 3.2; confidence interval: 1.10–8.92; P= 0.02), hypertension: 3.5 (1.93–11.90; P= 0.001), family history of kidney disease; 4.5 (3.91–10.23; P= 0.01), generalised obesity 1.3 (1.20–6.21; P= 0.001) and central obesity 3.8 (1.13–12.68; P= 0.003). Conclusion: The prevalence of CKD and some of its risk factors were high. Effective control of the modifiable risk factors identified will assist in reducing the burden of CKD.
Prevalence and pattern of potential drug-drug interactions among chronic kidney disease patients in south-western Nigeria
J Fasipe Olumuyiwa, A Akinbodewa Akinwumi, O Adejumo Ademola, B Akawa Oluwole, E Okaka Ibiene
Background: Management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients often requires the use of multiple drugs due to a high number of cardiovascular risk factors and complications associated with the disease. Multiple drugs predispose to potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) which may be associated with increased morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay and health-care cost. Objectives: This study determined the prevalence and pattern of potential DDIs among CKD patients attending Kidney Care Centre, in Ondo City, Nigeria. Methodology: It was an 18-month retrospective study that involved the reviewed CKD patients' records. The Lexi-Interact database was used to evaluate patients' medications for potential DDIs. Results: One hundred and twenty-three (123) CKD patients, made up of 82 (66.67%) males and 41 (33.33%) females were studied. The mean age of the CKD patients was 53.81 ± 16.03 years. The most common comorbid conditions were hypertension in 103 (83.74%) and diabetes mellitus in 39 (31.71%). A total of 1237 prescriptions were made and the mean number of prescribed medications per patient was 10.06 ± 3.97. A total number of 1851 potential DDIs were observed among 118 patients. The prevalence of potential DDIs was 95.9% while the mean DDIs per prescription was 1.27. Among the potential DDIs observed, the severity was mild in 639 (34.5%), moderate in 1160 (62.7%), major in 51 (2.8%) and only 1 (0.1%) was of avoid drug combination. The most frequent DDI was between calcium carbonate and oral ferrous sulphate. Conclusion: The prevalence of potential DDIs is high among CKD patients. About 63% of these interactions have moderate severity. Clinicians and pharmacists should utilise available DDI software to avoid harmful DDIs in CKD patients.
Socioeconomic status of parents and the occurrence of pelvic inflammatory disease among undergraduates attending Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria
Tijani Idris Ahmad Oseni, Michael Adeoye Odewale
Background: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a major cause of gynaecological morbidity globally. Complications from PID include infertility, ectopic pregnancy and chronic pelvic pain. Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a risk factor for the occurrence of PID. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the association between SES of parents and the occurrence of PID among undergraduates attending Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua. Methodology: The study was a hospital-based, descriptive cross-sectional study. Three hundred and sixty female undergraduates attending the hospital were consecutively recruited and clinically assessed for the presence of PID using the WHO and CDC MMWR 2010 criteria for the clinical assessment of PID. Their SES was determined by Oyedeji social class categorisation. Data were analysed using Epi Info 3.5.4. Descriptive statistics were used to summarise the data, and Chi-square was used to test for association. Results: There was a significant association between SES of parents and multiple sex partners (P < 0.02), previous sexually transmitted infection (STI) (P = 0.05), unprotected sex (P < 0.001), history of induced abortion (P < 0.001) and surgical termination of pregnancy (P < 0.01). There was also association between occurrence of PID among respondents and multiple sexual partners (P < 0.001), previous history of STI (P = 0.02), non-persistent use of condom (P < 0.001), history of induced abortion (P < 0.01) and surgical termination of pregnancy (P < 0.01). There was however no significant association between SES of parents and occurrence of PID (P = 0.14) though PID was highest among respondents from low SES. Conclusion: Occurrence of PID among undergraduates was not associated with their SES. However, identified risk factors for PID among study population such as multiple sex partners, previous STI, unprotected sex and history of induced abortion were associated with the SES.
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Variable presentation of retrocaval ureter: Report of four cases and review of literature
Muhammed Ahmed, Abdullahi Alhassan, Muhammad Abubakar Sadiq, Ahmad Tijjani Lawal, Ahmad Bello, Hussaini Yusuf Maitama
Retrocaval ureter is a rare anomaly in which the ureter passes behind the inferior vena cava due to abnormal embryogenesis. Very few cases have been reported from Africa. Although the anomaly is congenital, patients become symptomatic in the third or fourth decade of life. We reviewed the records of four patients with the diagnosis of retrocaval ureter and managed in our centre between January 2010 and December 2016. Three patients presented with recurrent colicky right flank pain while one was asymptomatic. Two patients each had Type I and Type II retrocaval ureters, respectively. Surgical repairs were achieved in the three symptomatic cases and recovery was uneventful. Retrocaval ureter, though congenital, manifests in young adults and it may be symptomatic. Pre-operative diagnosis may be difficult when the lesion is high and mimics pelviureteric junction obstruction. Thus, a high index of suspicion is required for pre-operative diagnosis. Under-reporting and asymptomatic cases may account for the low incidence.
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Factors associated with antenatal care services utilisation patterns amongst reproductive age women in Benin Republic: An analysis of 2011/2012 benin republic's demographic and health survey data
Justin Dansou, Adeyemi O Adekunle, Ayodele O Arowojolu
Background: High maternal and neonatal mortality persist in Benin Republic despite recent improvements. Numerous women and newborns continue to suffer preventable deaths. Although factors associated with the attendance of at least one antenatal care (ANC) visit are well documented, there is little evidence on factors related to compliance with World Health Organization (WHO) recommended four ANC visits. The present study determined the extent to which reproductive age mothers received the ANC check-ups at a health facility focussing on the WHO-recommended regimen. Methods: We examined factors related to ANC services utilisation patterns amongst 8701 women recruited in the 2011/2012 Benin Demographic and Health Survey data using multinomial logistic regression. Results: The percentage of mothers with full ANC attendance was 59.56%, 27.61% received less than 4 visits and 12.84% had never attended ANC services. Results showed that out of 13 variables assessed, only the place of residence was not associated with ANC seeking. Amongst significant variables, household wealth index, female education and desire for pregnancy were the most important factors related to ANC services seeking, especially for the achievement of WHO recommended four ANC visits. The relative risk ratio of ANC attendance, for the achievement of WHO recommended four ANC regimens was high amongst mothers from economically well-off households (adjusted relative risk ratio [aRRR] for richest women = 10.6, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.16–18.33), educated women (aRRR for primary level = 4.34, 95% CI: 3.00–6.27) and those with desired pregnancies (aRRR = 3.4, 95% CI: 2.58–4.48). Conclusion: To achieve WHO-recommended minimum four ANC visits in Benin Republic, our findings suggest the need to financially support the most economically disadvantaged pregnant women and their families during pregnancy, advocate for reducing unmet needs for family planning, strengthen girls' education, especially by maintaining them in school till completion of at least the secondary school.
Screening for bacterial vaginosis before intrauterine device insertion at a family planning clinic in south-west Nigeria
Opeyemi Rebecca Akinajo, Folasade A Bello, Oluwasomidoyin O Bello, Oladapo O Olayemi
DOI:10.4103/npmj.npmj_8_17 PMID:28762360
Aim: This study determined the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis (BV) among clients before insertion of intrauterine device (IUD) and compared the incidence of complications between participants who were positive and negative for BV. Patients and Methods: This was an observational cohort study that was performed between May 2014 and September 2014. A total of 360 women were recruited and followed up for 1 month. High vaginal swabs were obtained from each participant pre-insertion of the IUD and 1 month post-insertion. BV was diagnosed using Nugent's scoring. Data were collected, collated and analysed using frequency distributions and Chi-square test as appropriate. The level of statistical significance was P< 0.05. Results: The prevalence of BV was 33.3%. The complication rate was 23.9% in which 30.5% complication rate was seen among participants positive for BV and 22.5% among participants negative for BV (P = 0.192). This was done with respect to four primary clinical outcomes. The incidence of BV one month after IUD insertion was 11.5%. Conclusion: The prevalence of BV was within the range reported in other populations. The complication rate appeared high; however, the differences in proportion between women positive and negative for BV were not statistically significant.
Antibiotic susceptibility profiles of non-fermenting gram-negative Bacilli at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Patiala, India
Udhayvir Singh Grewal, Rupinder Bakshi, Geeta Walia, Parth Rajeshbhai Shah
Background: Non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli (NFGNB) have emerged as a major cause of healthcare-associated infections and are innately resistant to many antibiotics. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of NFGNB isolated from various clinical specimens and evaluate their antimicrobial susceptibility profiles. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was done at our Department of Microbiology from December 2015 to December 2016. NFGNB were isolated from a variety of clinical specimens, plated on blood agar and MacConkey agar and incubated at 37°C for 18–24 h under aerobic conditions. Appropriate biochemical tests were done to identify the organisms isolated. Antibiotic susceptibility test was performed using the modified Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method using commercially available discs on Mueller–Hinton agar. Data was analyzed using SPSS IBM version 20. Results: Out of 19065 clinical samples, cultures were positive in 1854 samples. Out of 1854 culture-positive samples, 216 (11.6%) yielded NFGNB. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the most common NFGNB, isolated in 190/216 (87.96%) samples, followed by Acinetobacter baumannii (17/216, 7.87%). Overall, most of the NFGNB isolates were susceptible to polymyxin B (88.4%), imipenem (82.9%) and cefoperazone + sulbactam (50.9%), and a total of 11 (64.71%) multidrug-resistant A. baumannii (MDRAB) strains were isolated in the study. Conclusion: Our study showed a significantly high prevalence of NFGNB. Isolation of multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa and MDRAB in the present study raises the concern of rapidly emerging antibiotic resistance in this group of bacteria in our region.
Routine chest radiograph in pre-employment medical examination for healthcare workers: Time for a review of the protocol
Oluseun Oloruntoba Adeko, Adekunle Joseph Ariba, Ayodeji Anike Olatunji, Oluyemisi O Toyobo
Background: Pre-employment medical examination (PEME) sought to evaluate the ability of workers to work without risk to their own or others' health and safety. This is important especially in a hospital environment where the patients may be at risk in case of employees harbouring infectious lung conditions or as a result of occupational exposure. Although not all healthcare workers are at risk or pose risk, they are expected to undergo chest X-ray (CXR) as part of PEME. Aims: The aim of this study is to determine the number of prospective employees with abnormal findings on routine CXR, describe their characteristics and reassess the value of CXR in PEME. Settings and Design: This was a retrospective study of all the staffs employed into the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria, from January 2004 to December 2013. Subjects and Methods: Of the 633 personnel employed during this period, medical records of 416 staffs were available for analysis. Data extracted included age, gender, and CXR report. Descriptive statistics was used for analysis and presentation. Results: The mean age of the prospective employees was 26.6 years ± 5 with a range of 20–49 years. Three hundred and ninety-six (95.2%) employees had normal CXR report while 20 (4.8%) had abnormal CXR. The only abnormality reported was cardiomegaly which was found in 66% of those aged ≥41 years. Cardiomegaly was significantly associated with increasing age (P = 0.003). Conclusions: Routine CXR as part of PEME for prospective employees into this healthcare institution is no longer necessary. It is suggested that its routine use should be limited to older job seekers.
Brain and spine imaging artefacts on low-field magnetic resonance imaging: Spectrum of findings in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital
Godwin Ogbole, Joseph Odo, Richard Efidi, Richard Olatunji, Ayotunde Ogunseyinde
April-June 2017, 24(2):97-102
Background: Low-field (LF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technology that is widely used in resource-limited settings for clinical imaging. The images produced, even though of low resolution with noise and artefacts, provide valuable information and guidance for patient assessment and treatment. This study shows a spectrum of MRI artefacts that affect image quality during routine clinical neuroradiology practice using LF MRI in a Nigerian hospital and suggests ways to avoid them. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed brain and spine MRI studies performed on a 0.36T MagSense 360 (Mindray, China) open MRI at our hospital over a 2-year period to identify image artefacts. About 90% of MRI studies performed at our facility during the study period were neuroimaging. The pattern and distribution of artefacts that featured during imaging were described and illustrative cases demonstrated highlighting their causes and ways to avoid or limit them. Results: Of 936 brain and spine cases evaluated, 506 (54.1%) had artefacts with 369 (72.9%) seen in the brain. Truncation/Gibbs (37.6%) and motion (20.6%) were the most common artefacts in the series, seen most commonly in T2-weighted images. There was no significant difference in the proportion of artefacts between adults and children (P = 0.736). Conclusion: Artefacts are relatively common in neuroimaging with LF MRI and may potentially degrade image quality and interfere with accurate radiological reporting and diagnosis. Improving the recognition of LF MRI artefacts may assist imaging practitioners to avoid or limit their effect on image quality and interpretation.
Reliability and validity of the Yoruba version of the Oswestry disability index
Ayoola Ibifubara Aiyegbusi, Ashiyat Kehinde Akodu, Eniolorunda Olajide Agbede
Context: Low back pain (LBP) is a major cause of disability, and the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a validated assessment tool for evaluating disability in LBP patients. Cross-cultural adaptation of the ODI is important because not all populations are proficient in English. The Yoruba language is an indigenous language spoken by 40 million people in the Western part of Nigeria and some countries in West Africa and Latin America. Currently, no validated Yoruba version of ODI is available. Aims: The aim of the study was to translate, culturally adapt and validate the ODI in Yoruba language for participants with LBP. Subjects and Methods: The ODI was translated into Yoruba, and this translated version was analysed in terms of semantics and linguistics. Then, the Yoruba version was translated back into English and both versions administered to 160 participants with LBP. The internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, criterion validity and test–retest reliability were assessed using Spearman's rank correlation with significance set at P< 0.05. The inter-rater reliability was evaluated by two different observers and the intra-rater reliability was determined by the same observer, a week apart. Results: The internal consistency of the Yoruba ODI with Cronbach's alpha was 0.97, the intrarater reliability yielded an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.93 and criterion validity assessed using Spearman's rank correlation was r = 0.92 for highest score and 0.63 for lowest score. Conclusion: The Yoruba ODI is a reliable and valid tool for assessing functional disability in LBP patients.
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Ex-miners plan to ‘occupy’ South African embassy in Lilongwe over benefits
June 24, 2016 Tiwonge Kumwenda – Nyasa Times Be the first to comment
Over 150 ex-Teba mine workers in Karonga have planned to hold a vigill at South African High Commission in Malawi on 4 July over the delays of their benefit from South African mining firms.
Mbukwa addressing ex-miners
We want our benefits : Ex-Teba miners in Karonga
According to the document dated 20 June 2016, addressing to the Office of the President and Cabinet, the group shall not leave the office until they get their cash.
They said this is because they have been cheated several times by Karonga district office as well as the ministry of labour.
“We would like to inform the ministry of labour and South African Embassy through your office that we will hold a vigil on 4 July 2016 at SA Embassy office to demand our pension,” said the letter.
The ex-minister has asked ministry of labour to provide toilets, bathrooms and medical facilities for their vigil period.
Secretary for the group Alick Mbukwa said: “We have information that our money is already in but someone somewhere wants to siphon it but this will not happen.”
One of the ex-Theba miners Bernard Mwakatete said “we were told to provide some working documents of which we did, so our question is why the delays?”
Between the 1960s and 1980s, several Malawians trekked to South Africa to work in mines under an arrangement with Teba Limited, which served South African mining companies and mineworkers throughout southern Africa for more than a century.
However, most of Malawians did not get their benefits when the arrangement ended in the 1990s.
Over the years, the ex-miners have been promised by South African mining firms that they would get their benefits, but up to now they have not received their dues.
The total number of ex-miners who were supposed to benefit is 60 000 but only 36 000 were approved by the Ministry of Labour, Youth and Manpower Development and out of those, only 9 400 names have been identified, according to Ex-Miners Association of Malawi president John Dick .
Recently, Minister of Labour Henry Mussa said Malawi government has concluded a bilateral labour agreement with Republic of South Africa about the issue.
Mavuto Kauteka, who is claiming money on behalf of his deceased father, said his father had waited for a long time for the benefits up until he died.
“My father never had a chance to claim what he worked for and I am hoping to finally collect what he deserved,” he said.
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Adree Edmo v. Idaho Department of Correction, et al.
STATUS: Preliminary injunction granted | Idaho
NCLR, along with co-counsel Hadsell Stormer & Renick LLP and Ferguson Durham, PLLC, represents Adree Edmo, a Native American transgender woman in the custody of the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC).
After a three-day evidentiary hearing on Ms. Edmo’s motion for a preliminary injunction, Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued an order requiring IDOC and IDOC’s medical provider Corizon to provide Ms. Edmo with medically urgent healthcare, including gender confirmation surgery.
Click here to read the Order.
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250 Miles Crossing Philadelphia
Dutch visual artists Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum lived 7 months in Philadelphia. New to the city, they invited inhabitants, both human and non-human, to explain their city. Wandering by themselves, the protagonists recorded their trajectories, sounds and private readings of the streets, allowing the artists to access their experiences only afterwards. The film positions the viewer, with the artists, as unwitting voyeurs.
A radical and innovative visual approach introduces a landscape of satellite images and balances between empathic co-traveling and voyeurism. The meditative film questions our contemporary techno-society, where social connectivity and eavesdropping coexist.
The project resulted in an interactive website and a 50 minute documentary (see trailer below) Once we get There
The documentary has been shown in The Abington Artcenter in Philadelphia 2017 and at FIDMarseille IFF in France 2016
And was awarded with a special mention for concept at the 2ANNNAS IFF in Riga, Latvia in 2016
The 17 minute version of the documentairy “A Collision off Sorts” was shown at Rencontres Internationales in Berlin and Paris and had its Dutch premiere at the NFF in Utrecht.
The project has its own website that can be found here
http://www.vimeo.com/132234126
On October 25, 2014 a packed hall in Fishtown, Philadelphia enjoyed a the first results on an Ignite Philly night
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Sukemasa Trust Announces Availability of Institutional Astute Portfolios
News provided by Sukemasa Trust on Tuesday 5th Feb 2019
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New iPhone app Castii puts a group spin on the Pinterest idea, right from users' iPhones
Like Pinterest, but with a group spin, Castii brings many people together to tell a single story through photos, video and audio.
Castii lets you start a story you want to tell—and invite others to pile on with their own bits of the narrative.
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New, free iPhone app Castii aims to turn the idea (and limitations) of photo sharing on its head, while expanding the notion of what's possible with social media apps.
Like Pinterest, but with a group spin, Castii brings many people together to tell a single story through photos, video and audio. More dimensional than the one-to-many model of typical status update and photo sharing apps, Castii lets users start "Casts" on topics or events that interest them, right from their iPhone—and then invite the world (or just close friends) to add their own content. The resulting Casts combine users' content on a single topic, but with multiple perspectives. Because it's all done on-the-fly right from users' iPhones, content has a more immediate, fresh and homegrown vibe.
The more people who engage in and upload content to each Cast, the more perspectives there are, and the richer the experience for everyone in the Cast. (Castii is also available on the Web for non-iPhone users to join and view, like and comment on Casts.) With Castii, users create and join Casts that are meaningful to them, both Casting with existing friends and making new ones along the way. Visit https://castii.com for more details.
"Castii was designed to give users a fun and instantly accessible way to broadcast what's important to them, what catches their eye, what makes them tick," said Taka Suzuki, Castii's co-founder. "Castii lets you start a story you want to tell—and invite others to pile on with their own bits of the narrative."
In addition to public casts, users can choose to make Casts private, offering a new way for families, friends, sports teams, school groups, and even businesses to capture multiple views of the same event—and have all the memories in one place. The app also allows users to share media on Facebook and Twitter instantly, in addition to sharing within the Castii app and website.
Summer is one of the best times to share moments with friends and Castii is enriching the mobile sharing experience by creating summer Contest Casts! Starting (July, 2012), users can join weekly and monthly Contest Casts and upload their content from their iPhones for a chance to win prizes!Check out the full list of Castii Contests.
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With an impressive portfolio of over 100 acres of residential projects, Pharande Spaces has played a significant role in transforming the skylines of Pimpri-Chinchwad. The brand is known for its innovative and high-quality projects, and is one of the most renowned real estate builders and developers in Pune.
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Allison graduated from Florida State University in 2008 with a bachelors degree in fashion merchandising. Allison first found Pilates while she was a dancer, but it was after her dance career that she truly fell in love with all the benefits that Pilates can offer. She continued to practice Pilates while she worked in the fashion industry, but ultimately changed her career and couldn’t be happier. Allison holds a classical certification from Power Pilates and is also certified in TRX, and Real Ryder and holds numerous Barre certifications. Allison was excited to join Classical Pilates Education in 2013 as a Teacher Trainer.
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Kerri holds a Power Pilates Comprehensive Apparatus rehensive Apparatus and Mat Certification. Kerri’s movement background includes competitive gymnastics and ballet. After earning a B.A. degree in History and English from the University of Florida, Kerri lived in Neptune beach for nine years, where she taught English at Fletcher High School. Kerri began taking Pre-Natal Pilates and Yoga during her pregnancy in 2003. After relocating to Tallahassee, Kerri continued to practice Pilates and earned her certification in 2006. Kerri loves the benefits of core strength and flexibility that Pilates has brought her.
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Lynn opened Pilates Pavilion in April 2006. Prior to moving to Tallahassee, she was the Pilates Director for the Athletic Club Boca Raton, where she worked for eight years. Lynn holds two Comprehensive Pilates Certifications from Power Pilates in New York and from Classical Pilates in Fort Lauderdale. She is a Senior Level Instructor and Teacher Trainer for Power Pilates and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Science from Florida State University. She is a former competitive gymnast and coach. Lynn is experienced working with a diverse clientele.
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Robyn has been practicing yoga since 1997 accumulating over 4500 teaching hours. Robyn is an inspirational and dynamic teacher motivated by a sincere desire to offer yoga as a catalyst for personal transformation. Robyn is dedicated to the study and practice of yoga as a path toward wisdom, freedom and compassion for all. She teaches traditional methods that inspire and empower linking breath and movement to create a rhythmic vinyasa flow that awakens the soul and unlocks the fluid vibrancy residing at the core of all beings.
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COZY...Pilates and Barre Instructor
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Mortgages in Costa Rica
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Mortgages are becoming more and more available in the local market for expats who want to borrow money to buy property. There is a lot of money available for financing from local financial institutions. Private parties also have money to lend, but usually the interest rates are higher.
What most foreigners do not know about borrowing money in Costa Rica is how the foreclosure process works if one should default on a loan. Unscrupulous private lenders, attorneys and real estate people take advantage of the ignorance of homebuyers and, in some cases, use this knowledge to steal back properties they have sold.
On the other hand, deadbeat debtors can betray honest creditors with Costa Rican legal magic and procedural sleight-of-hand tricks.
In Costa Rica, a mortgage is a hipoteca. In English, there is a similar word hypothecate. In Roman law it meant the most advanced form of a pledge. Today in civil law it means a lien or a mortgage. A mortgage applies to real property whereas a lien applies to movable property or chattel. In the foreclosure process, the procedures are very similar. However, it is easier to hide chattel, and some debtors do so.
A mortgage in this country is a right granted over a piece of real estate to guarantee payment of an obligation. Mortgages are most common in the purchase of property but can be a source for financial capital for other uses. When the maker of a mortgage cannot pay, the creditor forecloses and goes to public auction, called a remate.
First mortgages are supreme. Any mortgage after the first are usually worthless here. In the case of an auction based on the first mortgage, the judge will erase anything behind it when turning over the property to the winner of the auction.
This is what happens in a foreclosure:
A lawyer files a petition with the court attaching a national registry certification of the mortgage along with providing other requirements based on the country’s civil code. If the court does its job correctly, it should set an auction date and request the lawyer in charge of the case to publish the designated date in the local judicial newspaper.
The court should send a notice to the national registry annotating the property about the foreclosure. Smart lawyers request the court to prepare the documents for publication and the annotation for them to pick up, and they deliver them to their destinations. Otherwise the court will use its snail mail system. In Costa Rica, these snails are slow.
When the auction date arrives, the creditor can suspend the act up to five minutes before the judge starts the auction process. This usually happens when the parties reconcile or otherwise agree to an out-of-court settlement.
If only the creditor shows up, he or she can take
the property back in payment of the debt. The creditor can attach other property of the debtor for interest, legal expenses and court costs. If the creditor does not want the property, he or she can request the court to hold other auctions until there is a successful one.
The starting bid at an auction is the amount due. Each subsequent auction reduces the opening bid amount by 25 percent until the starting bid is zero.
If bidders show up, they must deposit in cash or by certified check 30 percent of the auction base to bid. Creditors cannot bid but can raise the base of the auction upwards to cover interest and costs.
The winner of the auction must pay the balance of a winning bid to the court in three business days after the auction. Shill bidders sometimes show up at the auction, deposit the required 30 percent deposit and then never pay the balance to cause the judge to call a void auction. Debtors can use this ploy as a delaying tactic so they can gain more time to look for funds to pay a creditor.
If everyone plays fair — it does happen on occasions — the highest bidder pays the court, the judge approves the event and prepares the court documents necessary to turn over the property to the new owner. If there are any tenants living in or on the auctioned property, the judge also prepares the paperwork to evict them.
Many auctions happen in Costa Rica on business days. Some of them are real bargains. Others turn into nightmares because there are hidden problems just waiting to show their ugly heads.
When a piece of property is going to foreclosure, it is common that the debtor’s attorney will start a litigious nightmare for the creditor. The first thing a debtor’s attorney tries to do is to look for a trumped up way to file a criminal case against the creditor to suspend the auction. This simple legal ploy can hold up a legitimate foreclosure for years. In other cases, crooked notaries just cancel the mortgage with a bit of flashy paperwork.
There are other financial instruments to borrow against property like mortgage certificates and trusts. Financial institutions prefer a first-degree mortgage. To borrow money, it is best to use a reputable bank. To lend money to others, it is better to use financial experts that know the ins and outs of the game.
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Building on the layout improvements of the third-gen tools, which saw the level tyre removed and also a slimmer kind variable, the Q Venture HR currently likewise harbours some major technology under the bezel.There's now a heart rate display, as the name suggests, for tracking beats throughout the day and throughout exercise, a GENERAL PRACTITIONERS check to stay up to date with your workouts, and an NFC chip to make it possible for Google Pay. Contribute to that the ability to take this undersea up
to 50 metres, all on the top of the rejuvenated Wear OS, and also everything complete as a very full smartwatch experience.One of our top smartwatch choices for females along with the Fossil Q Endeavor is Michael Kors'Gain Access To Path. The apple iphone as well as Android-friendly runs on Google's Put on OS and also constructs on the previous generation Michael Kors smartwatches, going large on looks once again.Its 41mm case residences a charming 1.19-inch 390 x 390 AMOLED touchscreen display screen.
There's your choice of stainless steel and leather straps, and it's also available in a somewhat more costly Ceramic model.On the functions front, the Path brings integrated GPS, a heart price display, a swimproof layout and also Google Pay to make it possible for contactless repayments.
It's maybe not ideal matched to choose a kept up, yet if you respect touching right into Google's fitness tracking features, it even more than does the job.Google's Wear OS naturally runs the software show so you're additionally getting notification support, Google Assistant, the capability to transfer songs to your watch as well as customisable watch faces.
There's custom-made Michael Kors see faces there as well to far better praise that trendy watch body.Battery life is the Wear OS smartwatch norm, so you can expect to obtain you via a day as well as perhaps a little added. Bottom line, you'll need to bill it every day.If you're not preparing to obtain perspiring with it and also you're looking for a
seriously fine-looking smartwatch, the Runway absolutely fits the bill.Luxury smartwatches are a thing and also a few of them are really excellent. It started with Tag Heuer's smartwatches after that the likes of Louis Vuitton signed up with the connected party as well. Now Montblanc wants in.Features such as heart rate displays, and also huge selection of
various other sensors have actually made their way right into the smartwatches, allowing them to absolutely change the wearable experience into something better, and functional at the very same time.Since the marketplace at this point is loaded with smartwatches of all kinds, we took it on ourselves to have a look at the finest smartwatches you can get, yet initially, we are mosting likely to be checking out a few of the crucial details about the smartwatches.Its very first smartwatch was underwhelming yet, in its 2nd coming, the Summit 2 is a watch that delivers on style and also on features.
Montblanc has actually modelled its second generation watch on its 1858 collection offering smooth original watch encounters, a high grade building as well as a leading notch 1.2-inch, 390 x 390 resolution touchscreen display.Google's Wear OS runs the show, however Montblanc handles to leave its mark with added apps and also those watch encounters we pointed out to assist things really feel even more distinct.
It's now loaded with more hardware attributes including built-in GPS, a heart price display and also a fully water-proof layout to include any type of extra layer of durability.This is likewise among the first Wear OS smartwatches to operate on Qualcomm's brand-new smartwatch tech that offers efficiency renovations across
the board including battery life. You're not going to obtain a week out of it, yet it ought to make it via the day as well as maybe a little extra.The new fitness features might not be excellent, yet it's nice for the laid-back fitness center goer
. When you're not sweating it out, it'll sit there looking beautiful.The majority of smartwatches in our checklist have actually been full-screen gadgets, yet
the Withings Steel HR approaches points a little differently-- yet is still an effective linked watch in a bundle that considers simply 49g. The analogue display screen shows the moment on the main dial (with a month of battery life )and also progression in the direction of your action goal on the second dial-- however there's a lot more going on than this.The Withings Steel Human Resources has a 24/7 heart price display that will certainly keep tabs on VO2 Max as well as it will combine up with a mobile phone to track outdoor workouts by means of GPS, although the tech isn't constructed into the watch itself. It's also swimproof to 50m as well as isn't also shoddy in
the pool either, tracking sizes as well as laps What's even more, Withings Wellness Companion app is among the most effective out there for maintaining tabs on all your diverse health data.The rest of the smartwatch field is mainly included variations of Put on OS tools that run Google's actual smartwatch system.
The issue with the majority of these gadgets is they feel a minimum of a generation(or more)behind where Apple and also Samsung are at with wearables. They have fewer attributes, even worse battery life, and commonly thick, awkward styles. Based on our experience, the Wear OS enjoys that fare the very best are ones made by Fossil as well as its steady of brand names (such as Skagen), which are readily available in a range of styles and sizes.It's no slouch as a linked watch either, and also will certainly signal you to alerts on your smartphone utilizing vibrations and the small OLED display construct right into the bezel.
This can supplying fairly crude and also fast informs, yet
can show you when a message/call/calendar notifies are coming with making use of quick icons.It's a stripped back smartwatch experience but one that's loaded right into a trendy, small and comfortable crossbreed that doesn't make as several concessions as you would certainly think.Huawei is still going with its Watch 2, yet in 2018 returned to the table
with something entirely various. The Huawei Watch GT packs a significant set of functions but in addition to a custom operating system-- those are words we normally utter with a massive amount of trepidation, but the Watch GT supplies 2 weeks of battery life, which is an engaging sell.And it doesn't scrimp on tech. Huawei has actually crammed in a 1.39-inch, 454 x 454 AMOLED screen. Which is among the most effective we have actually played with, comfortably pairing up with the vibrancy as well as intensity found on the Galaxy Watch as well as Apple Watch Collection 4. Lite OS might remove some of the deeper aspects formerly discovered in Huawei smartwatches, it's still an excellent activity tracker with heart price tracking and also rest tracking.Sports tracking on the basic
is good, but there is one gripe we do have: data can not be shown to third-party apps. All of your information can just live within Huawei's buddy Health and wellness app. We likewise located the heart price data to delay method behind accomplished sporting activities tracking rivals.Huawei makes huge guarantees in the battery division: approximately two weeks with typical usage, a full day of GPS monitoring and up to a month with attributes like always-on screen and GPS shut off. As well as it delivers. Despite continuous heart rate monitoring switched on, we have actually just had to charge the Watch GT when during our three weeks of use.There's now new Huawei Watch GT Stylish and energetic versions that supplies a much less stylish look yet comes with every one of the exact same functions adding a brand-new Triathlon monitoring mode. For those looking for Pebble-esque durability, yet want to discard the glamour as well as appeal of a fully created operating system and all the apps and prestige-- the Huawei Watch GT is a fascinating choice. And also with its fourth-generation smartwatches, it's produced possibly the most appealing smartwatch on the market, from a style perspective.Sharing some resemblances with the older Michael Kors Gain access to Sofie (our previous best style watch choice ), the Fossil Q Endeavor HR desires to stand out, as well as fans of an extra dressy watch will possibly locate it a much better fit than those who such as to keep their wrist wear understated.Fossil is still maintaining display resolution and also other specs under covers, yet we do know this generation(which consists of the males's Fossil Q Explorist HR)is the most feature-packed we've seen from the company. There's personalized Michael Kors enjoy faces there also to far better praise that elegant watch body.Battery life is the Use OS smartwatch norm, so you can expect to get you with a day as well as perhaps a little additional. Now Montblanc desires in.Features such as heart rate screens, and also myriad of
various other sensing units have made their method right into the smartwatches, allowing them to really change the wearable experience right into something better, and also versatile at the exact same time.Since the market at this factor is filled with smartwatches of all types, we took it on ourselves to take an appearance at the finest smartwatches you can acquire, however first, we are going to be looking at some of the crucial details regarding the smartwatches.Its very first smartwatch was underwhelming but, in its second coming, the Top 2 is a watch that delivers on design and also on features.Montblanc has actually designed its 2nd generation watch on its 1858 collection offering streamlined initial watch encounters, a high quality construction and a leading notch 1.2-inch, 390 x 390 resolution touchscreen display.Google's Put on OS runs the show, yet Montblanc handles to leave its mark with extra applications and also those watch faces we stated to aid things feel even more unique. Which is among the ideal we have actually played with, pleasantly matching up with the vibrancy and intensity found on the Galaxy Watch and also Apple Watch Series 4. Even with constant heart price tracking turned on, we have actually just had to charge the Watch GT once during our three weeks of use.There's now new Huawei Watch GT Active and Stylish versions that provides a much less stylish look but comes with all of the very same attributes including a new Triathlon monitoring mode.
Having a miniature computer system strapped around your wrist is no much longer a pipe desire. The Apple Watch as well as other options from prominent producers, like Fitbit, Samsung, LG, and also Fossil, have been gunning to craft the most effective smartwatch. Now a few years elder, the smartwatch market uses more than ever, whether you seek a specific style, iphone as well as Android phone compatibility, or just a number of features.Smartwatches are in impolite
health and wellness however when it pertains to the very best smartwatch in 2019, it's undoubtedly the Apple Watch Collection 4. However it comes with a rate, and there are a lot of leading smartwatches at more affordable prices and also with equally good health and fitness features.Whether you're looking for an excellent smartwatch for fitness tracking, running or a just taking notices and phone calls-- there are a lot of terrific choices for every budget. What's even more, smartwatches are getting more fashionable too.Today's best smartwatch offers f you have actually got an Android phone, the Apple Watch will not function at all, and
the most effective choice right here is Samsung
's Galaxy Watch. The Galaxy Watch does collaborate with both apples iphone and Android devices, yet it's best with an Android phone, and particularly, one made by Samsung.The Galaxy Watch has most all of the functions you would certainly expect on a contemporary smartwatch: GPS, touchscreen, multi-day battery life, voice control, mobile repayments, and heart price tracking. It has a circular face that's easy to check out inside as well as out, and has a very helpful always-on mode that makes it easy to see the time at a glance.We're roughly 4 years right into the Great Modern Smartwatch Experiment, which implies we've discovered what smartwatches can be helpful for
(health and fitness tracking, notifications )and also what they are absolutely bad for(changing your smart device totally). If you're in the marketplace for a smartwatch, whether that's because you have actually never ever possessed one before as well as are interested regarding them or you're wanting to upgrade your older-generation model, you can expect today's smartwatches to last a bit longer between charges, be a little faster to complete things, and maybe do a number of new tricks you weren't expecting.But the most effective smartwatch is still quite a slave to a mobile phone, as well as also if you shell out for an LTE-connected model as well as pay a service strategy fee for it, it's not going
to release you entirely. Therefore, we don't believe LTE smartwatches are a great buy for lots of people-- it's much simpler as well as more affordable to simply keep your phone with you and utilize your watch as a sort of remote control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you select is going to be based totally on what phone you possess, so our picks are broken down right into the most effective alternative for iPhone customers as well as the very best one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Series 4 is as near smartwatch perfection as we have actually attended day-- it's a flexible and powerful wearable that can provide a substantial variety of functions. While those trying to find a basic smartwatch may discover the Collection 4's significant selection of fitness, wellness and linked attributes to be overkill, it has the ability to change in between health and fitness tracker, sports view as well as significant wellness tool at will, making it a major crowd pleaser.Apple's newest See addition offers us one of the most remarkable style adjustment considering that the original, bringing brand-new 40mm as well as 44mm dimensions (in comparison to 38mm and 42mm). That implies even more area to reveal off all the most up to date software application functions introduced in watchOS 5. It has just the same core fitness as well as sporting activities monitoring as the Series 3, consisting of integrated GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
for tracking of outdoor exercises and a swimproof design. Physical fitness monitoring analysis might lag Fitbit, but Apple's distinct objectives-- symbolized by the closing of Move, Stand and also Calorie rings-- is still an effective incentive. There's still no indigenous rest monitoring
right here, however this can be done by means of a third party app.The headline functions are the new ECG monitor that unlocks the ability for major heart wellness tracking. It's been FDA got rid of, so the attribute can be used to spot heart rhythm irregularities. It's currently readily available beyond the US with Apple adding 19 more nations that can sign in on their heart health and wellness from the brand-new Watch. You additionally do not need to do that manually, and also the Apple Watch continually keeps an eye on for reduced
and elevated heart prices, along with AFib. There's additionally a brand-new fall detection mode that can allow individuals accessibility Siri to get in touch with emergency services or an emergency situation contact.If you are seeking a fantastic smartwatch that does not cost a whole lot of cash, the S928 Sports Watch may be a fantastic alternative. It is one of the cheapest smartwatch on my list, as well as while I am normally adamant when it concerns evaluating such products, it captivated me to the core.The watch is designed rather merely, and rather of having a fancy display screen or high resolution, it utilizes an easy, monochromatic screen. Honestly, I do incline that in all, smartwatches are all concerning being simplified in my opinion, and the S928 Sports Watch does a great job at that.Where it does not have a display, the S928 Sports Watch makes up by providing several of the ideal functions that you can want in a smartwatch. In order to make points less complicated for the viewers, I am note down the features below.Heart Rate Screen: The watch includes a heart rate screen that is able to supply actual time heart rate updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch additionally include a constructed in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, allowing the customers to be able to track every step they make throughout their workout regime.Outdoor Data: The watch is also efficient in keeping a record of the outside information, indicating that you get actual time updates on exactly how the weather is outdoors. Allowing you to be able to intend your workout carefully.These are a few of the innovative or standard attributes that are in the watch. While they may not look sufficient, it is necessary to recognize that these features work throughout the entire community of the
watch, permitting these sensors to take full control of the situation.The smartwatch can be regulated via an app that is available on both iphone and also Android. Truthfully, the application is as fundamental as it can get, as well as can utilize a bit
more polish. There are a couple of more things that I did not comprehend regarding the watch; you can not alter the moment layout to 12 hrs if you desire to.In enhancement to that, the watch itself just sustains English as a language, while the application itself has 12 languages in total. This incongruity can be a concern for people that don't have English as their primary language, as well as also though 12 languages are wonderful to have, they are just enough.The great point here is that the application is being regularly updated by the designer, so I can presume that added
languages will certainly be added sometime in the future. Exact same goes for the watch as the firmware can be updated when released.All in all, the S928 is a decent smartwatch for Android, it is affordable, works as it is supposed to, as well as does not included unneeded features that can drain pipes the battery. I would claim that this smartwatch includes the bare basics, and also absolutely has a market amongst the giants.Sure, the absence of innovative functions, and also languages is worrying, however you additionally require to take price into factor to consider when you are examining a product.Although smartwatches have actually existed for a long, very long time, their venture right into the mainstream is just recent. With firms like Samsung, Apple, Asus, Huawei, and several others are burning the midnight oil to improve the watches, and also genuinely make the experience a great deal better.Amidst all this, there exists the customer attitude that still thinks that the typical, analog watches are means, method far better as they are crafted with fantastic precision, along with excellence. This has actually caused countless arguments just how smartwatches should not exist, or are considered bane of the wrist watch concept.Still, for individuals who actually favor their watches display all the needed information that comes
to their phone, all connected right into one environment actually take into consideration smartwatches to be really valuable, and following that into the marketplace, the smartwatch market at this factor is creating a separate entity for itself.The Series 4 comes packing LTE as soon as again so you can take it out sans iPhone and still make/receive telephone calls, get texts as well as all other alerts you would on your phone. A new audio speaker additionally makes Siri chats as well as phone calls sound louder as well as clearer.Battery life is
the primary gripe still, and for all the improvements, Apple can still just offer 24-48 hours-- which for many simply isn't great enough.The Fitbit Versa is the company's second smartwatch as well as, in addition to a modification in layout direction, it's most importantly available at an extra cost effective price than the Apple Watch-- it can frequently be chosen up for around$179.99. As well as don't forget-Fitbit has actually introduced the Versa Lite Edition(extra on that particular listed below)which appear at $159. The Fitbit Versa can be found in a host of various surfaces and with a huge collection of bands to blend the look. And also many thanks to the runaway success of the smartwatch, there's a busy market of straps to pick from.The Versa provides every one of the exact same physical fitness as well as sporting activities monitoring includes you 'd anticipate from the Fitbit community, though the big noninclusion right here is the absence of GPS. If you wish to track rides and runs, you'll require to take your smartphone with you, and the watch can piggyback your phone's information.
For numerous this won't be a substantial problem, however as serious joggers it's a level of issue we like to avoid.Fitbit OS 2.0 brings a new-look UI that offers much more insights into your day-to-day data and fast reply support for Android phone individuals(iphone assistance coming with a later date). You can still download apps as well as a lot of watch faces, pay from your wrist using Fitbit Pay, and tap into Fitbit Train. At the same time the brand-new ladies's health and wellness tracking has actually also been introduced for the first time, which is likewise readily available for the
Ionic, too.But it's battery life that really has the power to oblige purchasers, as well as the eye-catching cost. You can get five days on a single fee, which indicates less trouble on weekend breaks away, and simpler rest tracking.Fitbit had such excellent success with the first
Versa that it decided to make a less expensive version that strips out several of the smartwatch features.The Lite is practically similar to the very first Versa in looks, conserve for currently simply a solitary physical switch on one's guard body, which indicates you'll be relying more on the touchscreen display screen to navigate the Versa Lite. In our experience, we really did not miss out on the 2nd button too much.In regards to the feature that are lost, you don't obtain a built-in music player or swim tracking (it's still waterproof though). You do get an optical heart price display and also all the basic physical fitness tracking and sporting activities tracking features along with app-based functions like ladies's health monitoring. There's also no more Wi-Fi, with Fitbit introducing a new and simpler way to upgrade your smartwatch with step-by-step background downloads.Sports and also health and fitness monitoring efficiency is not that different from what we found on the initial Versa.
Sleep tracking is still a standout attribute, while the heart price screen still has a tendency to fail for high intensity exercises. As a core smartwatch experience it's suitable, yet it still lacks in comparison to its closest competitors.
Particularly in the app department. If you enjoy watch deals with however, you're well served here.Thankfully you still obtain the exact same four-day plus battery life, which can definitely stretch to five days depending on usage. That's still far better than what Apple and also Google's Use OS watches can muster up ideal now.If you liked the Versa, but favor to spend a little much less, the Versa Lite Version is suitable choice. The swim monitoring is a frustrating omission extra so than the music player, but if you can live without monitoring your swimming pool sessions it's still a wonderful smartwatch to consider at a great price.The Samsung Galaxy Watch is the successor to the Equipment S3 and is still among the very best watches around. Compatible with Android and iOS, it now is available in both 42mm as well as 46mm models.Samsung treads between smartwatch and also health and fitness tracker, additionally cramming in a heart rate sensor along with the GPS as well as its much-improved Samsung Health software program. There's likewise the alternative of LTE, if you desire for an untethered connection, with a standalone speaker for taking contact the watch. It's currently water-proof too, including swim monitoring abilities that are on the same level with the Watch Collection 4. The Galaxy Watch operates on Samsung's Tizen OS 4.0 as well as seems like a better alternative to Google's Put on OS today. You still get that revolving bezel and one of the most effective display screens you can locate on a smartwatch. However, the application option
still lags means behind the Apple Watch and also Wear OS devices. That stated, the Spotify app is excellent and also uses offline playback.Battery life, we should state, is additionally strong, obtaining you 2-3 days on the 42mm model and even more on the 46mm version.
If you're not a fan of Use OS and do not want an Apple Watch, this is the leading option to consider instead.Garmin has actually been producing best smartwatches for sporting activities enthusiasts for a while currently. Running, biking, swimming, golf-- Garmin has had us well as well as really covered. Despite the Leader name, the 645 Music is a lot more in the mould of the Vivoactive 3 Music. It's obtained a comparable look as well as also brings the songs this time. This aids make the Garmin more of a smartwatch rival to the Apple Watch, Samsung Gear or Fitbit Ionic than before.Not only are you obtaining adequate storage for 500 tracks, however you're obtaining the offline playlist assistance for Spotify, Deezer and also iHeartRadio. For transferring your own tracks, start up Garmin Express on your computer, choose the Music tab and pick from your very own songs to port over.That very same appealing stainless steel style is right here. The 240 x 240 pixel display screen at the heart of the body is by no means the brightest or most vibrant you'll discover, however most importantly supplies solid exposure in the majority of exercise conditions, whether you're sweating it out inside or outside. There is no touchscreen or touchpad right here, so you'll have to resort to pushing some buttons.As much as the number of sporting activities readily available to track: while it's more of the exact same, there are some noteworthy exclusions-- like golf monitoring and also open water swimming( pool swimming is there though). Heart price tracking is respectable if not class-leading, as well as it won't maintain you waiting about for a GENERAL PRACTITIONER signal. There's additionally all the anxiety tracking goodies from Garmin's physical fitness trackers. As multi-sport smartwatches go, this is the most effective in our eyes, and also improves all the great Garmin finished with its previous iterations.For iPhone proprietors, Apple's Series 4 Watch is by far the very best option available. The Apple Watch has a big, brilliant screen; sleek, comfortable hardware; fast performance; extremely dependable battery life; as well as a whole host of physical fitness tracking and also health-related features. The Apple Watch likewise has the best third-party Android Watch With Sim Cardenvironment-- there are many straps, accessories, chargers, docks, apps, and also watchface difficulties you can use with the Apple Watch.The Apple Watch succeeds at providing fast accessibility to any notices that can be found in to your phone, and also it lets you respond to messages right from your wrist quickly and conveniently. You can utilize it as a speaker phone whenever you really feel like imitating Cock Tracy, as well as it's wonderful for controlling Android Watch With Sim Card
songs playing on your phone. It also has Apple Pay for getting points without a purse or your gps, heart and also phone price monitoring for exercises, and also even the capability to advise you if it identifies specific heart problems.THE APPLE ENJOY SERIES 4 HAS ALL OF THE FUNCTIONS ANTICIPATED IN A SMARTWATCH Battery life can vary depending upon just how much you make use of the Watch to track activities and the number of notices you obtain, however in our testing, the Series 4 Watch never failed to last a minimum of an entire day between costs, as well as commonly it could go for two days. It's still something you need to charge instead regularly, but you don't need to stress over it dying on your wrist halfway via the day if you've begun with a complete tank.Unlike basically every various other smartwatch on the market, the Apple Watch still does not offer an always-on display screen, nevertheless, so it does not really inform you the moment up until you touch the screen or raise your wrist. It's still extremely ironic that the thing the Apple Watch is the most awful at is being an Android Watch With Sim Card
real time-keeping device.But besides that, there's really little to whine about with the Apple Watch Series 4, and also it's conveniently the finest option for iPhone users.Of training course, we're detailing the Leader right here as a smartwatch, as well as Garmin has actually included good smarts. Fitness tracking is fantastic and Garmin Connect is a respectable ecological community for wellness data from actions as well as For that factor, we don't assume LTE smartwatches are a great buy for many people-- it's far simpler and also less costly to just keep your phone with you and use your watch as a type of remote control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you select is going to be based entirely on what phone you possess, so our picks are broken down into the best alternative for apple iphone individuals and the best one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Collection 4 is as close to smartwatch excellence as we have actually seen to date-- it's a versatile and also effective wearable that can use a massive array of functions. Truthfully, I do not mind that at all, smartwatches are all concerning being simple in my viewpoint, and the S928 Sports Watch does a wonderful job at that.Where it does not have a display screen, the S928 Sports Watch makes up by offering some of the finest attributes that you can desire in a smartwatch. In order to make points easier for the reader, I am providing down the features below.Heart Rate Monitor: The watch comes with a heart rate display that is able to provide real time heart rate updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch also come with a constructed in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, enabling the users to be able to track every action they make throughout their workout regime.Outdoor Information: The watch is also capable of maintaining a document of the exterior information, meaning that you obtain actual time updates on how the weather condition is outdoors. The Galaxy Watch does work with both apples iphone and also Android gadgets, yet it's ideal with an Android phone, as well as specifically, one made by Samsung.The Galaxy Watch has most all of the attributes you would certainly anticipate on a contemporary smartwatch: GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, touchscreen, multi-day battery life, voice control, mobile settlements, as well as heart price surveillance. For that factor, we do not assume LTE smartwatches are a good buy for a lot of people-- it's much less complicated and less costly to simply maintain your phone with you as well as use your watch as a sort of remote control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you select is going to be based completely on what phone you possess, so our picks are damaged down into the best alternative for iPhone customers and also the ideal one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Collection 4 is as close to smartwatch perfection as we have actually seen to date-- it's a effective as well as functional wearable that can supply a big variety of functions. While those looking for an easy smartwatch could find the Series 4's huge range of fitness, health and linked features to be excessive, it's able to morph between physical fitness tracker, sporting activities enjoy as well as serious wellness gadget at will, making it a major crowd pleaser.Apple's latest View enhancement gives us the most remarkable design modification because the original, bringing new 40mm and also 44mm sizes (in comparison to 38mm and also 42mm). Honestly, I do not mind that at all, smartwatches are all about being simplified in my viewpoint, as well as the S928 Sports Watch does a terrific work at that.Where it does not have a screen, the S928 Sports Watch makes up by providing some of the finest attributes that you can want in a smartwatch. In order to make points easier for the viewers, I am providing down the attributes below.Heart Price Monitor: The watch comes with a heart price display that is able to offer actual time heart rate updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch additionally come with a developed in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, enabling the individuals to be able to track every step they make throughout their exercise regime.Outdoor Information: The watch is additionally capable of keeping a document of the outside information, meaning that you get genuine time updates on just how the weather problem is outdoors. Android Watch With Sim Card
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Younger Stampede ride back into town
A fresh, young Southern Stampede ice hockey team launch their 2010 season with two away games against Dunedin Thunder this Saturday and Sunday.
The pressure will be on the Queenstown-based Stampede after drawing 4-4 draw with the improving Thunder in a pre-season match-up.
Stampede left wing Dan Smith, 26 – a New Zealand rep for six years – says the Thunder, who have only been in the New Zealand Ice Hockey League for two years, will put up a tough battle.
It’ll be Smith’s first main game back on the rink after breaking his leg skiing last winter.
Smith thinks the national competition is heating up and with no new international imports in the Queenstown side this year, Stampede will have their season’s work cut out.
With a high number of older players close to bowing out, the Stampede are also gambling on youth with eight under-18 players.
However they’ll present a formidable front-line, with Smith teaming up with fellow Ice Blacks Brett Speirs and Braden Lee (pictured above).
The local lads were in contention for the comp’s top spot last year before losing to Canterbury’s Red Devils in the final.
Kids flock to academy
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They See Obama. They Be Hatin'
My letter to the Inlander in response to George Nethercutt's latest commentary.
I'm writing about Mr Nethercutt's latest contribution to the Inlander (In the End, It's a Tax). His use of words like "exposed", "deception", and "deceit" referring to the government's position that the penalty for not purchasing health insurance is not a tax are carefully chosen. He makes it sound like the Obama administration purposely created 2,000 pages of legislation in order to confuse everyone. He neglects to mention that Republicans played a major in crafting this 2,000 page legislation as 400 of their amendments were adopted.
He claims President Obama would have labeled the Supreme Court "political" had they voted against him. Let's be clear that the Supreme Court was evaluating the arguments placed before them and deciding the outcome based on the U.S. Constitution, not voting for or against President Obama. To say otherwise is to assume the court is political.
Then Mr Nethercutt goes on to claim other presidential deceptions. He has somehow determined that this nation is even more divided than 2009, but he makes no mention of the Republican congressional members who met and decided they were not going to give President Obama anything. Anything. They've admitted their number one goal is to make Obama a one-term president. As a result, in Mr Nethercutt's world, the president is responsible for not uniting with the people who want nothing to do with him.
He continues with a general statement that Obama "directing federal government actions designed to intimidate Arizona and Texas on immigration recently is hardly unifying". The specific actions he refers to are left to the reader to decide so I'm going with my best guess. The Justice Department sued Arizona two years ago stating the Arizona immigration law conflicted with federal law. Last month the Supreme Court agreed and struck down three of the four provisions of the law. Regarding Texas, I can only assume Mr Nethercutt is referring to the Justice Department challenging the voter ID law claiming it would disproportionately affect Hispanics. How all that is "designed to intimidate" and "hardly unifying" may be intuitively obvious to Mr Nethercutt, but is lost to anyone not suffering from confirmation bias.
Mr Nethercutt claims President Obama promised to keep unemployment under 8 percent and failed to keep that promise. The only record of President Obama making such a promise are the many online articles of Republican party members saying he made that promise. Those are based on a report, The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, published on Jan 9, 2009, and written by Christina Romer, the incoming chairwoman of the white House Council of Economic Advisers at the time, and Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser for then incoming Vice President Joe Biden. The report includes a graph showing the effect of the plan on unemployment based on the what was then the estimated future unemployment rate. Their estimate of the future unemployment rate were wrong but that doesn't mean the stimulus plan had no effect on unemployment. And now, in hindsight, we can see how many more people were working as a result of the stimulus plan and that the unemployment rate would have been worse had it not been implemented.
Mr Nethercutt claims that President Obama promised openness and transparency and instead "secretively and regularly collaborates with Washington's lobbying community" and yet provides no examples of this secretive behavior. You'd think that as a member of that lobbying community, Mr Nethercutt would be in a position to provide some specifics.
Next, he highlights President Obama's broken promise--"to the left" as if that's important--to close Guantanamo as another example of deceptive behavior. He neglects to add that most of Congress was against closing Guantanamo. Consequently, this mockery of justice continues to stain America's international reputation.
Mr Nethercutt offers these along with many more unsubstantiated accusations of deceptive behavior and deceit on the part of President Obama within his commentary.
I look at the bright side as to why the Inlander continues to host Mr Nethercutt's so-called commentary. If the reason is to offer a balance of "both sides" then if nothing else, Mr Nethercutt provides a sterling example of how unbalanced one "side" is--even more so if he's the best commentator the Inlander can get. There are no reasoned arguments supporting a position, no point/counterpoint, or food for thought for that matter. This commentary is, in the end, just an anti-Obama diatribe.
Posted by Hank Greer at 12:36 PM
The health law requires individuals to
1) buy insurance from a private corporation (unless otherwise covered) and
2) pay the Federal Government a specified sum if they haven't bought insurance.
The question before the court was "Can the Federal Government require citizens to give money to government-specified corporations."
The court deadlocked on this question. Four justices said this new "mandate" power was disallowed (reserved to the states or individuals); four said the power fell under the Commerce Clause and was not new.
The deciding vote came from the Chief Justice, who changed the question to:
"Can the Federal Government levy a penalty (call it a tax) to enforce a mandate itself of unprobed constitutionality?"
To which he answered, "yes."
Roberts diverted the court from resolving the substantive question with a non sequitur and further failed to build an ideological coalition for his dodge. He achieved an overly clever one-vote majority. The decision left lower courts with no meaningful tools to resolve future challenges to the mandate based on inability to pay.
I suspect Roberts' decision was almost literally political, rather than controlled by legal theories or traditional drafting processes. That is, I suspect the decision was co-written by pols, or ex-pols.
We can assume that the majority opinion wasn't written with much help from Roberts' clerks (who wrote most of the dissent, actually). Roberts apparently had a sort of kitchen cabinet (kitchen chambers?) that whipped up this puff pastry. And it is that kitchen crew, folks, that are the leakers.
Pols leak; law clerks don't.
So, there are three problems ahead for ACA: 1. The decision is flimsy jurisprudence. 2. Even before the states got opt-out on Medicaid, the mandate subsidies were underfunded. Now ACA constitutionality is doomed for reasons of gut-level fairness as the big states opt out and individuals are criminalized by poverty.
And, 3. The shit is still to hit the fan on whether controlling SCOTUS opinions can be written by people who aren't even in the judicial branch, by people who have never served in the judiciary, and who are directly sponsored by private parties with interests represented by the outcome in the decision.
Stay tuned, because it ain't over.
It's hardly begun.
Dread Scot said...
I also think we'll eventually know the names of those "familiar with the drafting process" (wink-wink-nudge-nudge). But I'll wager the individual source "inside" the court is either Roberts himself or a conduit for Roberts, not one of the four dissenters.
When Roberts realized that his collaborators were stupidly telling tales out of school, his only real option was to offer better sourcing to selected media outlets as a distraction. Roberts could rightly say he was the ultimate source anyway.
However that may be, the leaks otherwise came down through Democratic channels, as was obvious in the "predictions." But, I think Thomas Friedman was likely correct that "the team" was bipartisan and analogous to the Bowles-Simpson thing (except of course for the legality, whoops), and Roberts was the mailman. Now all the leakers have stfu, but the cat's out of the pandora's box, as Tom might say.
By my count, the court voted 8-1 to decide the constutionality of the mandate, and I doubt Roberts et al can block the majority forever.
Now, don't be pointing fingers and naming names, you never know when an Idaho judge will declare jihad on your ass.
Changing the topic, I wonder if Tom Daschle has had a chance to download the opinion. So much of it reads like it was written by a bitter DLC-type ex-Senator who now shills for the insurance industry. Just thinking Daschle might have some insights, and who could know more about IRS penalties!
I know the "South Dakotan" got kinda reclusive after losing HHS. I wonder if anyone even bothered to tell there was a court case.
Hank, you have to admit Obama is deceptive on outsourcing. During the last campaign he promised to renegotiate NAFTA, but at the same time sent an envoy to Canada to say he didn't mean it. He not only didn't reopen NAFTA, he signed MORE unfair trade deals to make outsourcing even easier. Onama definitely lied. You're lying if you say he didn't.
Yes, Romney outsourced jobs, that's true. But the structure of unfair trade, deals signed by Clinton and Obama that gutted wage, safety, labor, and environmental ptotections, are what made outsourcing inevitable.
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Headline News : RT : August 8, 2013 1:00pm-1:30pm EDT
by RT
fourteen winter olympics in sochi hit by a storm of calls to boycott the games but the reason nothing to do with the sport the big discussion about the life of just a couple minutes from now we just play with it. i heard you saying that you believe that all environmentalist want is to shut down the last and i wonder who do you believe are the masterminds of these global communist conspiracy it is very clear that when the. the extreme communist or marxist factions had to find somewhere else to get to do the damage to the west they want to do and they found that the environment. science technology innovation the least developed minced from around russia we've got the future covered. this is. my colleagues and i will never shake mr saakashvili as hans i consider him a war criminal. i would rather ask questions of people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. missions three credit patients three in-store charges three amazement three risk free studio time priests. mostly broadcast q
fourteen winter olympics in sochi hit by a storm of calls to boycott the games but the reason nothing to do with the sport the big discussion about the life of just a couple minutes from now we just play with it. i heard you saying that you believe that all environmentalist want is to shut down the last and i wonder who do you believe are the masterminds of these global communist conspiracy it is very clear that when the. the extreme communist or marxist factions had to find somewhere else to...
News Weekly : RT : August 18, 2013 8:44am-9:01am EDT
boycott of the sorts of winter olympics while one of russia's most famous athletes spoke out in support of the law saying its bad ground is rooted in the country's history and culture olympic champion of also said trying to boycott the games would be unfair to the competitors it's on the respect told to our contrary and some respect to our seats isn't because we are russians maybe we are different than european people then there are people from different lands we have our law which everyone have to respect and if some police and if some person who are not and try to make us such a problem as they does. by called the gives because of these because of our law so i think it's unfair front of the. well isn't biased comments drew a widespread media furor a with gay rights activists branding her a homophobe however a bad area squarely from britain it's a bow group think tank really is that the olympics should not be turned into an arena for political games billie her english was was slightly broken she clarified what she was trying to say in that nation's travel to international sport
boycott of the sorts of winter olympics while one of russia's most famous athletes spoke out in support of the law saying its bad ground is rooted in the country's history and culture olympic champion of also said trying to boycott the games would be unfair to the competitors it's on the respect told to our contrary and some respect to our seats isn't because we are russians maybe we are different than european people then there are people from different lands we have our law which everyone...
Headline News : RT : August 11, 2013 9:00am-9:30am EDT
olympics in protest against the new nor against homosexuality propaganda to mind as some even going as far as comparing him to hitler. hello and welcome you know watching that we do you know now see with me here. talk of cold war punishment and a fractured relationship have made this week perhaps the one for u.s. russia ties in years but with washington and moscow have different takes on the situation where obama is talking about reassessing relations the russian side believes it is all being blown out of proportion check out half a story this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have hit a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and we've heard two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov that both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it
olympics in protest against the new nor against homosexuality propaganda to mind as some even going as far as comparing him to hitler. hello and welcome you know watching that we do you know now see with me here. talk of cold war punishment and a fractured relationship have made this week perhaps the one for u.s. russia ties in years but with washington and moscow have different takes on the situation where obama is talking about reassessing relations the russian side believes it is all being...
News Weekly : RT : August 18, 2013 12:44pm-1:01pm EDT
homosexuality to young people some activists even called for the boycott of the sochi winter olympics next year well one of russia's most famous athletes meantime spoke out in support of the law saying its background is rooted in the country's history and culture a live picture is above also said trying to boycott the games would be unfair to the competitors it's the respect told to our country at some respectful to our citizen because we are russians maybe we are different than european people then other people from different lands we have our law which everyone have to respect and if some police and if some person who are not and not just try to make us such a problem as they does. to been called big ears because of these because because of our law so i think it's unfair front of their outlets. well listen by his comments through widespread media furor over with gay rights activists branding or a homophobe meantime ben harris quiney who spoke to from britain's boat group think tank agrees that the olympic should not be turned into an arena for political games . bearly her english was sli
homosexuality to young people some activists even called for the boycott of the sochi winter olympics next year well one of russia's most famous athletes meantime spoke out in support of the law saying its background is rooted in the country's history and culture a live picture is above also said trying to boycott the games would be unfair to the competitors it's the respect told to our country at some respectful to our citizen because we are russians maybe we are different than european...
The Young Turks With Cenk Uygur : CURRENT : August 1, 2013 4:00pm-5:01pm PDT
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, very angry and thinking about boycotting the winter olympics in russia, and spilling vodka in the streets. [ sirens ] [ ♪ music ] cenk: back on "the young turks." now, russia's in the news a lot lately, now unfortunately for laws against -- propaganda that's in favor of homosexuals. laugh along with me. that's absurd. now people are thinking about boycotting the winter olympics. >> i think what we've seen is this inevitable collision course between the escalate be approval in the us and acceptance particularly in the sports world for lbgt people and causes and what is happening in russia, this crazy right wing campaign against gay people. under poo tin, they have passed laws and have terrible clashes. we have footage of protests. they are brutal, bloody. they are not fair. they are not balanced. what you are seeing is very, very brave russians who continue to go in the streets and organize pride marches, kiss-ins and say we are not going to be in tim did id. at the same time, they are passing increasingly extreme laws that will do everything including ban people who do so much a
, very angry and thinking about boycotting the winter olympics in russia, and spilling vodka in the streets. [ sirens ] [ ♪ music ] cenk: back on "the young turks." now, russia's in the news a lot lately, now unfortunately for laws against -- propaganda that's in favor of homosexuals. laugh along with me. that's absurd. now people are thinking about boycotting the winter olympics. >> i think what we've seen is this inevitable collision course between the escalate be approval...
wusa 9 News at 7pm : WUSA : August 22, 2013 7:00pm-7:30pm EDT
say we bring her the olympic games! who is with me?! well, i don't care-- it's my decision. springfield was shocked today to learn it will host the next olympics. economists predict our city will experience the same boom that sarajevo enjoyed after the 1984 games. and it's all because of your letter, lisa. well, actually, i just wrote it for a school assignment. everyone else wrote to the backstreet boys. to honor the arrival of our foreign friends and enemies channel six is sponsoring a contest to find a springfield olympic mascot. the winner will join such other memorable mascots as the atlanta "whazzit" and the montreal "vampire." a mascot contest?! i'm sure to win that unless one of you jinxes me. no one's going to jinx you, homer. in fact, we're rooting for you. yeah! go for the gold, dad! shut up! shut up! shut up! well, you said i couldn't do it but here it is. meet abby, the olympic tabby. bart: how did you get the eyes to move? ( meowing ) you papier mache'd my cat?! just for the prototype, honey. ( meows ) ( hisses ) knowing you always hate my first idea i prepare
say we bring her the olympic games! who is with me?! well, i don't care-- it's my decision. springfield was shocked today to learn it will host the next olympics. economists predict our city will experience the same boom that sarajevo enjoyed after the 1984 games. and it's all because of your letter, lisa. well, actually, i just wrote it for a school assignment. everyone else wrote to the backstreet boys. to honor the arrival of our foreign friends and enemies channel six is sponsoring a...
Headline News : RT : August 11, 2013 6:00pm-6:30pm EDT
boycott of next year's winter olympics in sochi slamming the new russian law against homosexuality propaganda to minors even going as far as comparing. hitler. and learn from our studios in moscow this is our thomas glad to have you with. now us russia times have suffered a major freeze it this week at least that's what washington is claiming barack obama has accused moscow of a cold war mentality and even called for a pause in their relations russia on its part is demanding america like adults and believes there is no sign of hostility or tease. as commentary. this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and we heard two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the
boycott of next year's winter olympics in sochi slamming the new russian law against homosexuality propaganda to minors even going as far as comparing. hitler. and learn from our studios in moscow this is our thomas glad to have you with. now us russia times have suffered a major freeze it this week at least that's what washington is claiming barack obama has accused moscow of a cold war mentality and even called for a pause in their relations russia on its part is demanding america like...
Sport : RT : August 26, 2013 9:29am-10:01am EDT
gold at the sochi olympics. for hard work harder than the hard on hard. oh i have from the season season i come and so on and you better you prepare for season and it's my job and of course it's just looking forward to olympics so more goal to put the looking forward. enthusiasm and i just prepared the words of two weeks common me would be explosions. and russia's top athletic star three time world pole vault champion yelena isinbayeva through in the park for a charity match in fair one hundred sixty kilometers northwest of moscow as the likes of and yevgeny malkin teamed up against a former russian captain that same model is up and friends. prevailed seventeen sixteen but everyone was a winner as the ice hockey extravaganza raised three hundred thousand dollars to help local children. now in less than six months to go before such a twenty fourteen russia's winter sport athletes have stepped up their preparations for the home olympics debut i did on the typical surprisingly won bronze in the skeleton at fun cuba in two thousand and ten and it's hoped the now world champion can tri
gold at the sochi olympics. for hard work harder than the hard on hard. oh i have from the season season i come and so on and you better you prepare for season and it's my job and of course it's just looking forward to olympics so more goal to put the looking forward. enthusiasm and i just prepared the words of two weeks common me would be explosions. and russia's top athletic star three time world pole vault champion yelena isinbayeva through in the park for a charity match in fair one...
Anderson Cooper 360 : CNNW : August 13, 2013 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT
larger than an olympic sized pool. we circled a few more times and focused in on that area and we were able to see it was a blue tent. now the horseback riders reported they saw a blue tent at honeymoon lake which was three miles away from moorhead lake and they reported they saw her and a cat and dimaggio up at moorhead lake. so when we saw the blue tent, we were -- we definitely knew we would have to research further. and then, we were actually able to verify it was a male and a female with blond hair and a small animal. so at that point, we knew we had something extremely valuable. it appears they were just kind of going about their normal activity. they gathered firewood and walked around and it didn't appear like they were doing anything out of the ordinary. but they were the only ones in this -- in that area. we searched the area, and there was no one else within several miles. 10:00 we launched. and we had them located at 10:45. it was extremely quick. there was a lot of speculation they could be there. they could have made it out of the area and made it up to canada. there
larger than an olympic sized pool. we circled a few more times and focused in on that area and we were able to see it was a blue tent. now the horseback riders reported they saw a blue tent at honeymoon lake which was three miles away from moorhead lake and they reported they saw her and a cat and dimaggio up at moorhead lake. so when we saw the blue tent, we were -- we definitely knew we would have to research further. and then, we were actually able to verify it was a male and a female with...
Headline News : RT : August 13, 2013 12:00am-12:30am EDT
competing in the upcoming such winter olympics this was in response to global protests by the gay community who were calling for russia to be stripped of the gangs for introducing what they believe is and let's now cross live to our tease. for north. lucy why was there such a strong reaction to this good morning andrea well the international reaction as well as domestic here reaction here in russia has really been hinged on what this law does and doesn't do and there's been a lot of misconceptions about it so let's really break it down now the bill criminalizes the public expression of support for so-called nontraditional relationships russian lawmakers say that it doesn't outlaw homosexuality it merely discourages the discussion of it among people younger than eighteen now the law doesn't outlaw gay sex which was actually legalized in russia back in one thousand nine hundred three it also doesn't explicitly ban the participation in gay pride parades the problem however is that the definition of propaganda is rather vague and it's based on intent so anyone who distributes informat
competing in the upcoming such winter olympics this was in response to global protests by the gay community who were calling for russia to be stripped of the gangs for introducing what they believe is and let's now cross live to our tease. for north. lucy why was there such a strong reaction to this good morning andrea well the international reaction as well as domestic here reaction here in russia has really been hinged on what this law does and doesn't do and there's been a lot of...
World Apart with Oxana Boyko : RT : August 15, 2013 1:29pm-2:01pm EDT
it is applies to everybody who is in russia so during the search the olympic winter games which will start in a little bit over six months time already it means that all the athletes all their supporters everybody who is dealing with the olympic winter games will be affected by the law if they want to use their freedom of speech and what we see now that russia has legalized this homophobic legislation we see an increase on the internet for instance of groups that try to lure young homosexual people into dates and then they expose them on the internet they put the film on there have me take you up on that again if you refer to that as legalized homophobia and let us be clear that being gay in russia is not illegal the legislation that we are now discussing is a propaganda a homosexual activity and hmong minus and i would like to ask you specifically why do you consider it is to be and in the alley in the bill the right of any athlete if he started preaching homosexuality to minus one that parents for example are against it and as you probably know this law has an all overwhelming
it is applies to everybody who is in russia so during the search the olympic winter games which will start in a little bit over six months time already it means that all the athletes all their supporters everybody who is dealing with the olympic winter games will be affected by the law if they want to use their freedom of speech and what we see now that russia has legalized this homophobic legislation we see an increase on the internet for instance of groups that try to lure young homosexual...
The Colbert Report : COM : August 20, 2013 9:35am-10:06am PDT
the winter olympics. in 2010, the colbert nation sponsored the u.s. speedskaters who took home the gold but, folks, i'm no hero. i'm the guy who funded the hero so i'm more important than the hero. but a new crisis may force me to dust off my red, white and blue nuthugger. jim? >> the winter olympics in russia are just about six months away and there is growing controversy over new antigay laws and about the safety of gay people visiting russia. also gay athletes. >> a russian law unanimously passed in parliament allows for fines and arrests over anything deemed gay propaganda displayed in front of children. >> so how will this be enforced? does this really mean if someone was waving a rainbow flag or peacefully demonstrating or talking to young people about their life that they could be arrested? apparently yes. >> stephen: yes. russia will not tolerate the gays. now this makes sense, folks, because their president is so damned straight. whether he's shirtless hunting, shirtless fishing, shirtless horseback riding or tonguing a 30-pound carp. by the way, that carp he was tonguing,
the winter olympics. in 2010, the colbert nation sponsored the u.s. speedskaters who took home the gold but, folks, i'm no hero. i'm the guy who funded the hero so i'm more important than the hero. but a new crisis may force me to dust off my red, white and blue nuthugger. jim? >> the winter olympics in russia are just about six months away and there is growing controversy over new antigay laws and about the safety of gay people visiting russia. also gay athletes. >> a russian law...
sort she winter olympics will be safe and comfortable for the gay community and everyone else following fury over a new law banning homosexual propaganda. hello there it's good to have you company you're watching our take you live from moscow with me and. now the father of a chechen man shot and killed while being questioned by the f.b.i. in his own home is in the u.s. to demand someone be held accountable for his son's death but him family are convinced he was unarmed while being questioned about his links with the men accused of carrying out the boston marathon bombings there are allegations the man was shot in the back of his head while on the ground artes and see chalk and met the morning father he wants justice for his son. a quaint residential neighborhood in florida and a father who can't hold back his tears. nothing will bring me peace as long as i live from the moment it happened i haven't been able to forget about it even for a second barely containing his grief. takes a moment several times during our interview. a few days ago he arrived in the u.s. from russia to s
sort she winter olympics will be safe and comfortable for the gay community and everyone else following fury over a new law banning homosexual propaganda. hello there it's good to have you company you're watching our take you live from moscow with me and. now the father of a chechen man shot and killed while being questioned by the f.b.i. in his own home is in the u.s. to demand someone be held accountable for his son's death but him family are convinced he was unarmed while being questioned...
saatchi olympics coming up in two thousand and forty and they've been calls today in britain as i'm sure you know for those games to be boycotted in calls in various countries so i think the pressure will be ratcheted up by by enemies of mr putin and by enemies of russia this notion of fair will will turn out to be relatively unimportant i think there's a lot more to come that just final thirty seconds while you're on the line just like to pick your brains about the snowden affair and how if you did america has affected obama's ratings what generally do americans think about snowden. well i think your reporter made the point just now that a lot of them regard him as an honorable man who has a whistleblower and not a traitor you know that nobody likes the idea that their e-mails and internet surfing is being trolled through by federal spy agencies and it's quite clear that snowden has done what he did because he felt that what was going on was wrong he wasn't selling his secrets to a foreign country for personal gain or even selling them to a foreign country for any reason at all he
saatchi olympics coming up in two thousand and forty and they've been calls today in britain as i'm sure you know for those games to be boycotted in calls in various countries so i think the pressure will be ratcheted up by by enemies of mr putin and by enemies of russia this notion of fair will will turn out to be relatively unimportant i think there's a lot more to come that just final thirty seconds while you're on the line just like to pick your brains about the snowden affair and how if...
World Apart with Oxana Boyko : RT : August 15, 2013 5:29am-6:01am EDT
well as well plus there is one very important. aspects to this discussion about the winter olympic games the olympic games are games of freedom and they are to be held without any form of discrimination that's what the international olympic movement is about whether eighty percent of the russians are in favor of or not that's not the point the point is people should not be discriminated because it's not the point eucom to this country and i don't understand why why conduce athletes com to russia compete on an equal basis have you know live after hours day in places where minors are not present nobody thought of them from actually i should quote now a un secretary general ban ki moon who has said on many occasions that human rights are not restricted to daytime or nighttime or for certain groups of people known to be are universal there are there for everybody all time so day and night you cannot say you have human rights but not after six o'clock so that means to freedom of expression the freedom to express yourself in words but also in behavior is there all the time and we cannot
well as well plus there is one very important. aspects to this discussion about the winter olympic games the olympic games are games of freedom and they are to be held without any form of discrimination that's what the international olympic movement is about whether eighty percent of the russians are in favor of or not that's not the point the point is people should not be discriminated because it's not the point eucom to this country and i don't understand why why conduce athletes com to...
The Last Word : MSNBC : August 8, 2013 1:00am-2:00am EDT
lot of concern how it will impact the olympics. >> i think putin and russia have a big stake at making it work. >> we have athletes who have been training for that moment. >> the relationship has to get back on track. >> today it got a lot chillier. >> are we headed toward a modern day cold war? >> cold war mentality. [ playing the russian national anthem ] >> president obama told jay leno he will attend the g-20 summit in russia next month in st. petersburg, but jay carney announced today that the president will not stop in moscow on the way for a scheduled one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin. "given our lack of progress on issues such as missile defense and arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, and human rights in civil society in the last 12 months, we have informed the russian government that we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda. russia's disappointing decision to grant edward snowden temporary asylum was also a factor." last night on "the tonight show with jay len
lot of concern how it will impact the olympics. >> i think putin and russia have a big stake at making it work. >> we have athletes who have been training for that moment. >> the relationship has to get back on track. >> today it got a lot chillier. >> are we headed toward a modern day cold war? >> cold war mentality. [ playing the russian national anthem ] >> president obama told jay leno he will attend the g-20 summit in russia next month in st....
the sochi winter olympics will be safe and comfortable for the gay community and everyone else following theory over a new law banning homosexual propaganda to mind. this is coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the father. died while being questioned by the f.b.i. in his home has traveled to the you asked to demand someone be held accountable ibrahim to family insist he was unarmed while being interrogated about his links with the man accused of carrying out the boston marathon bombings there are allegations that he was shot in the bank of his head he's a sitter can imagine the grieving father who wants justice for his son. a quaint residential neighborhood in florida and a father who can't hold back his tears. nothing will bring me peace as long as i live from the moment it happened i haven't been able to forget about it even for a second barely containing his grief. takes a moment several times during our interview. a few days ago he arrived in the u.s. from russia to seek answers for his son in brigham's tragic death this is the entrance into the condo
the sochi winter olympics will be safe and comfortable for the gay community and everyone else following theory over a new law banning homosexual propaganda to mind. this is coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the father. died while being questioned by the f.b.i. in his home has traveled to the you asked to demand someone be held accountable ibrahim to family insist he was unarmed while being interrogated about his links with the man accused of carrying out the boston...
six time olympic champion powered past america's justin gatlin to regain his crown with the season's best time of nine point seven seven seconds off a full starting debut two years ago the twenty six year old is also off the new world record but he was still with him and. i want to do better but it just. wasn't perfect where are you going to talk about it was there boyd's car win is always what i came here for to remark that folks are going to do so but. while the host nation claims their first goal courtesy of luca alexander even off after the twenty year old prevailed in the twenty kilometer event on double olympic champion mo farah out won the men's ten thousand meters to holding off title holder even him a land of in on the final lap the thirty year old briton also aims to retain his title in the five thousand meters. it is great to win here is the medal was missing for me two years ago second just and this year i was just so it makes it more exciting is great for the school where you. might i don't know or can give away. well meanwhile america took an early lead in the
six time olympic champion powered past america's justin gatlin to regain his crown with the season's best time of nine point seven seven seconds off a full starting debut two years ago the twenty six year old is also off the new world record but he was still with him and. i want to do better but it just. wasn't perfect where are you going to talk about it was there boyd's car win is always what i came here for to remark that folks are going to do so but. while the host nation claims their...
Headline News : RT : August 12, 2013 12:00pm-12:30pm EDT
are split on whether the winter olympics should be the target of protests against russia's new law on homosexuality propaganda to mine. with me a very busy program for you on this monday let's get straight into it. mind what you say otherwise you could end up languishing in jail at best that's apparently the message the saudi authorities are sending to their nationals and the countries prisons are packed with anti regime activists whose numbers by some estimates are now at more than thirty thousand the crackdown has exposed a chasm within the ruling family as well and r.t. arabic spoke exclusively to saudi prince. who became a dissident himself taking a stand against the monarchy is methods. the government is obviously scared of the arab revolutions and they responded as they usually do by resorting to oppression violence arbitrary law and arrest but the easiest thing they can do is deprive you of your salary or fire you altogether so the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is no independent judiciary that has both p
are split on whether the winter olympics should be the target of protests against russia's new law on homosexuality propaganda to mine. with me a very busy program for you on this monday let's get straight into it. mind what you say otherwise you could end up languishing in jail at best that's apparently the message the saudi authorities are sending to their nationals and the countries prisons are packed with anti regime activists whose numbers by some estimates are now at more than thirty...
Headline News : RT : August 7, 2013 5:00am-5:30am EDT
arrive next year in sochi for the winter olympics twenty fourteen the countdown is getting lower the olympic park with its brand new arenas is almost ready and in february next year many of the world's top athletes will compete against each other right here at the skating palace. it's the first time since nine hundred eighty that russia has hosted such an event and with an estimated three billion viewers russia will be in the spotlight once again when all the construction is finished such will boast some of the best and technologically advanced sporting facilities in the world although with many cynics tells of corruption local opposition and concerns with overspending is such an already well the proof as they say is putting. the finishing touches are being added now and the amount of work that has been done in the city is huge the whole area is being improved and made more comfortable. with new pedestrian the underground passage being constructed the city has got a completely new now with its newly built and very beautiful and there cannot be any doubt that everything will be on tim
arrive next year in sochi for the winter olympics twenty fourteen the countdown is getting lower the olympic park with its brand new arenas is almost ready and in february next year many of the world's top athletes will compete against each other right here at the skating palace. it's the first time since nine hundred eighty that russia has hosted such an event and with an estimated three billion viewers russia will be in the spotlight once again when all the construction is finished such will...
News Weekly : RT : August 11, 2013 8:00pm-8:30pm EDT
rights activists in the west for a boycott of next year's winter olympics. even going as far as comparing. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with the weekly. now u.s. russia ties have suffered a major freeze this week at least that's what washington is claiming barack obama accused moscow of a cold war mentality and even called for a pause in their relations with russia in its part is demanding america act like adults and believes there are no signs of hostility. this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and we heard two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war with p
rights activists in the west for a boycott of next year's winter olympics. even going as far as comparing. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with the weekly. now u.s. russia ties have suffered a major freeze this week at least that's what washington is claiming barack obama accused moscow of a cold war mentality and even called for a pause in their relations with russia in its part is demanding america act like adults and believes there are no...
The Last Word : MSNBCW : August 14, 2013 7:00pm-8:01pm PDT
be here. >>> coming up, olympic gold medallist greg louganis will be here. >>> and the republicans are still trying to re-brand themselves. and today for some strange reason they tried to do it in the very same boston hotel where mitt romney delivered his concession speech in the last presidential election. my asthma's under control. i get out a lot... except when it's too cold. like the last three weekends. asthma doesn't affect my job... you missed the meeting again last week! it doesn't affect my family. your coughing woke me up again. i wish you'd take me to the park. i don't use my rescue inhaler a lot... depends on what you mean by a lot. coping with asthma isn't controlling it. test your level of control at asthma.com, then talk to your doctor. there may be more you could do for your asthma. . >>> in 1943, rosanell eaton was 20 years old when she became one of the first african-americans in her county to vote. she had to recite the preamble to the constitution law before she could vote. now, under the new id law she may not be qualified to vote. because the name on her birth
be here. >>> coming up, olympic gold medallist greg louganis will be here. >>> and the republicans are still trying to re-brand themselves. and today for some strange reason they tried to do it in the very same boston hotel where mitt romney delivered his concession speech in the last presidential election. my asthma's under control. i get out a lot... except when it's too cold. like the last three weekends. asthma doesn't affect my job... you missed the meeting again last...
huge international controversy and what does it have to do with the sochi olympics well we'll be discussing that with a pen and i guess a life here on r.t. shortly. but he sees things that sighted people don't notice. things most people never do they call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind doctor of science. professor i think the other civil of. the great life. the odds. on an annual show common in washington d.c. thank you all the face just like you. should have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. to minutes past the hour here in the russian capital another situation concerning gay rights in russia has been making headlines around the world and sparking huge debate among activists politicians and even athletes a new law prohibiting gay propaganda to minors and spark calls for a boycott of the upcoming winter olympics in sochi in february next year culture expert martin andrews has been finding out what impact it's been having in the country. the real rainbow russia fights on the streets and less arrests for many around the world moscow brings images of s
huge international controversy and what does it have to do with the sochi olympics well we'll be discussing that with a pen and i guess a life here on r.t. shortly. but he sees things that sighted people don't notice. things most people never do they call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind doctor of science. professor i think the other civil of. the great life. the odds. on an annual show common in washington d.c. thank you all the face just like you. should have you with...
Headline News : RT : August 7, 2013 11:00am-11:30am EDT
that it's six months until the winter olympics kicks off our correspondent heads to the russian city that's poised to become the world's winter sports capital and gives the brand new venues and once over. its technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the r.p. interviewers intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit our big. welcome back to watching r.t. the u.k.'s health service is under fire from a government sponsored report which is called for sweeping changes to the system the probe was ordered by a long and after a series of malpractise scandals at hospitals under new n.h.s. plans medical staff could be prosecuted for reckless or willful neglect of patients are the boy wh
that it's six months until the winter olympics kicks off our correspondent heads to the russian city that's poised to become the world's winter sports capital and gives the brand new venues and once over. its technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm...
Sport : RT : August 5, 2013 9:29am-10:01am EDT
definitely have retired after the london olympics i notice i suffered a drop in form and my results weren't as good as they used to be however after the games i took a long look at myself and worked on the technical side of my jumps and things and moving forward this imbiber is suffering from something that medal drives the last major title coming the british england picks in two thousand and eight despite sex in the carnival recalled the following year a form venditte and she took twelve months off for the pole vault great now believes she's almost back to our best some of almost the most important thing is my jump is guess and so much better the technical side of my jumping is the past it's been a long while and that's really satisfying for me i've been working towards the world championships with my coach and i'm sure i will be in good form i have to be in good form fittingly want to be some buyer of his last big competitions will be in a very stadium where she competed in one of her first fifteen years ago a she's sixty a promising young star won gold in a world junior event to
definitely have retired after the london olympics i notice i suffered a drop in form and my results weren't as good as they used to be however after the games i took a long look at myself and worked on the technical side of my jumps and things and moving forward this imbiber is suffering from something that medal drives the last major title coming the british england picks in two thousand and eight despite sex in the carnival recalled the following year a form venditte and she took twelve...
Your Money : CNN : August 24, 2013 9:30am-10:00am EDT
away, the olympics. it's a time of celebration and competition and controversial. the nazi regime was in power, and african-american jesse owens wins four gold medals. 1968, mexico city, john carlos give the black power saw hraout on the podium during the national anthem, and they were expelled from the games. 1972, the massacre, israelis kidnapped and 11 athletes and coaches and judges were murdered, and 1980 in moscow, president jimmy carter calls for a boycott, and the soviet union responds by boycotting the 1984 games in los angeles, and next winter's games in russia, already deep in controversial. there is a law that bars the public discussion of gay rights and relationships, anywhere children might hear. it has been condemned as highly discriminatory. and it's putting corporate america in a tough spot. there was an article for the new yorker titled why the olympic sponsors should take an action on gay rights. and richard, i want to start with you. you write the participation of corporate sponsors these companies sign deals before president putin signed that law. why do you think
away, the olympics. it's a time of celebration and competition and controversial. the nazi regime was in power, and african-american jesse owens wins four gold medals. 1968, mexico city, john carlos give the black power saw hraout on the podium during the national anthem, and they were expelled from the games. 1972, the massacre, israelis kidnapped and 11 athletes and coaches and judges were murdered, and 1980 in moscow, president jimmy carter calls for a boycott, and the soviet union responds...
olympics while some want to boycott the games over russia's law against gay propaganda to under eighteen's others called to use the event as a political protest. oh it's twelve noon here in moscow you're watching the weekly this sunday with me and he said now wait good to have you with us egypt is convulsing in bloody civil unrest with more than seven hundred people killed this week alone across the country friday alone saw almost two hundred deaths in clashes in cairo between supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi and his opponents backed by the military probe rather hood activists then barricaded themselves in a mosque the seas later ended in a shootout artie's belt true reports. well the tensions are palpable here in the capital cairo as today marks the start of what the morsy supporters have called departure the coup week which is a week long series of protests and rallies in the capital and across the country particularly yesterday we had this twenty four hour standoff between morsy supporters and security forces which resulted in a very bloody gun battle yesterday af
olympics while some want to boycott the games over russia's law against gay propaganda to under eighteen's others called to use the event as a political protest. oh it's twelve noon here in moscow you're watching the weekly this sunday with me and he said now wait good to have you with us egypt is convulsing in bloody civil unrest with more than seven hundred people killed this week alone across the country friday alone saw almost two hundred deaths in clashes in cairo between supporters of...
The Last Word : MSNBCW : August 8, 2013 10:00pm-11:01pm PDT
threatened olympic athletes about engaging in "homosexual propaganda." >> the story that has just shocked me and i'm surprised it is not bigger. >> russia's gay laws ahead of the olympics? >> is russia literally rounding up homosexuals? >> yes, they crack down on gay rights. >> it is our opposition. >> to me, this is germany in 1933. >> a few even calling for a boycott of the olympics. >> we must get it out of russia. >> suddenly, a rising concern. >> the international olympic committee has dragged its feet. >> he is suddenly going to be put in a very negative light. >> they are holding 14 town hall meetings. at issue is whether republicans force a government shut down. >> republicans in congress can stop obama care. >> you will not fund obama care? >> they simply refuse to fund it. >> funding obama care is a huge mistake. >> the hard right is going to take over the republican party in 2016. and the nomination is going to rand paul. >> i don't think that is happening. >> you watch, this is what i do for a living. >> senator paul is in the middle of a tour in kentucky. >> over, i d
threatened olympic athletes about engaging in "homosexual propaganda." >> the story that has just shocked me and i'm surprised it is not bigger. >> russia's gay laws ahead of the olympics? >> is russia literally rounding up homosexuals? >> yes, they crack down on gay rights. >> it is our opposition. >> to me, this is germany in 1933. >> a few even calling for a boycott of the olympics. >> we must get it out of russia. >> suddenly,...
CNN Newsroom : CNNW : August 3, 2013 12:00pm-1:31pm PDT
, the winter olympic games begin in russia, but now with nsa leaker edward snowden finding asylum there and russia's anti-gay laws, the word boycott is emerging. we'll ask olympic medallist greg louganis what he thinks trussia should do. >>> there are only two doctors for every 100 people, and most can't afford to pay for it. we have a surgeon who is devoted to bringing surgery to the remote junk egles of his countr. >> we like people to dance and enjoy their life. but some cannot enjoy their life. it's a pleasure if i can help two or three people. i was serving people for 23 years. my name is george bwelle. i bring people medical services. they play drums to see things to come. we are starting by kmegs. in the afternoon we have a list of patients that we are going to operate. we are doing our own surgical procedures for free. >> translator: i have no money. that's where he helps me. >> we leave our address to all the patients that if there's any problems, they can come back to us. i help people and they are happy. i'm doing that to give them a restart. ♪ (woman) this place has
, the winter olympic games begin in russia, but now with nsa leaker edward snowden finding asylum there and russia's anti-gay laws, the word boycott is emerging. we'll ask olympic medallist greg louganis what he thinks trussia should do. >>> there are only two doctors for every 100 people, and most can't afford to pay for it. we have a surgeon who is devoted to bringing surgery to the remote junk egles of his countr. >> we like people to dance and enjoy their life. but some...
All In With Chris Hayes : MSNBCW : August 15, 2013 12:00am-1:01am PDT
. >>> also tonight, a growing boycott for the winter olympics in rush why. it turns out harvey fierstein had a real problem with our coverage. tonight he will be here to set me straight. stay tuned for that. we must begin with the horrifying violence unfolding in egypt, in what looks to be a massacre of demonstrators during a military crackdown at two protest camps in cairo. 235 civilians have been killed. according to egyptian health officials, with more than 2,000 people injured. richard engel was there. >> security forces are firing into the side streets. positions between protesters, security forces, all over cairo, and this one looks like it's about to get very ugly [ speaking foreign language ] >> they are lying about >> they are lying about everything. they say we have weapons, we have cannons inside. and if we have weapons or cannons or whatever they said how can we -- we didn't defend ourselves. this is a massacre, do you know how many people have been killed today? i was here about 9:00 a.m. from 9:00 a.m. until now, i was an eyewitness to about 15 killed. and almost 24 injured
. >>> also tonight, a growing boycott for the winter olympics in rush why. it turns out harvey fierstein had a real problem with our coverage. tonight he will be here to set me straight. stay tuned for that. we must begin with the horrifying violence unfolding in egypt, in what looks to be a massacre of demonstrators during a military crackdown at two protest camps in cairo. 235 civilians have been killed. according to egyptian health officials, with more than 2,000 people injured....
. r.t. orlando florida. russia responds to activists seeking to turn the winter olympics into approaches ground against a long homosexuality propaganda to minors the interior ministry says the participants or spectators will suffer as a result of the rich lation will break down the low end here and the rate of opinions on it and if you missed it. and also coming out china may soon surpass the u.s. as the world's top well importer the gas guzzling engines of its industries carried its full speed towards the global political and economic shift to the. u.s. secretary of state is currently on an comfortable trip to latin america where it seems sorry is not soothing the strain created by the spire revelations of edward snowden it was a tough task for john kerry defending washington's far reaching surveillance during talks in colombia and now use walk of shame is continuing in brazil which is apparently thinking twice before proceeding with a hefty four billion dollar deal to purchase american fighter jets more details now from a row need. it's going to be john kerry's first visit t
. r.t. orlando florida. russia responds to activists seeking to turn the winter olympics into approaches ground against a long homosexuality propaganda to minors the interior ministry says the participants or spectators will suffer as a result of the rich lation will break down the low end here and the rate of opinions on it and if you missed it. and also coming out china may soon surpass the u.s. as the world's top well importer the gas guzzling engines of its industries carried its full speed...
RT : August 15, 2013 1:30am-2:01am EDT
olympic games the olympic games are games of freedom and they are to be held without any form of discrimination that's what the international olympic movement is about whether eighty percent of the russians are in favor of or not that's not the point the point is people should not be discriminated cause it's not the point eucom to this country and i don't understand why why conduce athletes com to russia compete on an equal basis have you know private live off their hours day in places where minors are not present nobody thought of them from actually i should quote now a un secretary general ban ki moon who has said on many occasions that human rights are not restricted to daytime or nighttime or for certain groups of people no day are universal there are there for everybody all time so day and night you cannot say you have human rights but not after six o'clock sort of means to freedom of expression the freedom to express yourself in words but also in behavior is there all the time and we cannot say simply because you know we are in russian soil all of a sudden we don't have tho
olympic games the olympic games are games of freedom and they are to be held without any form of discrimination that's what the international olympic movement is about whether eighty percent of the russians are in favor of or not that's not the point the point is people should not be discriminated cause it's not the point eucom to this country and i don't understand why why conduce athletes com to russia compete on an equal basis have you know private live off their hours day in places where...
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A monthly club bringing book lovers together. Some previous titles include The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer, Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, and The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmonhly.
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Temple Sholom’s dynamic and active Brotherhood represents Jewish men of all ages by offering a space to feel welcomed and unique.Each year the Brotherhood stages a dinner keynoted by a notable speaker, mounts a professional dinner-roundtable, runs sports and family events and undertakes service projects to benefit both the congregation and the larger community.
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Temple Sholom’s valuable Chesed Committee is a group of people who provide advice, care, comfort, and other necessities in times of need for Temple members and their families. Chesed means “kindness,” and whether dealing with the loss of a loved one, an illness in the family, or whether somebody in the community has simply fallen on hard times, the Chesed Committee will be there to be supportive in any way possible.
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The exact meaning of Chavura is somewhat elusive in English, but many resources will tell you that the word is frequently translated as “fellowship.” Eco Chavura is a fellowship of Temple Sholom congregants working to create a sacred community of environmental stewards. Our ultimate goal is to develop the “green” conscience of the community, which we’re doing through participation in the GreenFaith Certification Program.
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It's Our Turn
It’s Our Turn (IOT) is primarily a social group: We are not yet old enough to be forever young, but it is definitely Our Turn to enjoy life. The focus is on congregants who are empty and never nesters, and welcome all who identify in that age group. We plan and attend events that are usually off-site; some evenings are purely fun, others combine enjoyment with Jewish tradition.
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Temple Sholom of Chicago’s 20’s and 30’s events seek to help young Chicago Jews glean from their religion a deeper sense of community, connection, meaning, spirituality, inspiration, as well as a context for doing good in the world.
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Join us as we explore the spiritual gifts of life after fifty.
Led by Cantor Katzman, Debra Paskind, Andy Simmons, and Aggie Zarkadas the group meets on a monthly basis. We study, schmooze, eat, sing and investigate this rewarding period of our lives, using ancient and modern texts, poetry, art and music as our guides.
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Often times, families join a synagogue in order to connect with other families with similar values and religious beliefs as well as with a hope of being part of a greater Jewish community.
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The mission of Or Chadash is to foster awareness, outreach, and support for the Jewish LGBTQ community within the Temple, in our neighborhood, and around the world.
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One of our priorities at Temple Sholom is to offer opportunities for our young people to connect with each other and with the synagogue. Noar Shalom is our 6th – 8th grade youth group and Chavrei Shalom is our 3rd – 5th grade youth group. Our senior youth group for teens, Orr Shalom, is led by a youth board and participates in monthly social action projects, social events, and Temple events.
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Insurance Business Canada Names Signature Risk Partners a 5 Star MGA
Wednesday October 3rd, 2018
Signature Risk Partners Inc., Canada's leading independent and non-broker owned MGA, has been named a "5 Star MGA" by Insurance Business Canada. For more information about this prestigious honour please download the attached PDF.
https://issuu.com/keymedia/docs/ibc6.05_lr_ipad
Press Release | Signature Risk Partners Named Finalist for 2018 MGA of the Year Award
Signature Risk Partners Inc., Canada’s leading independent MGA, has been named a Finalist for 2018 MGA of Year Award by the Insurance Business Awards - the leading awards for the insurance sector in Canada and top representation of outstanding service, performance and innovation in the business.
Press Release | Signature Risk Announces Launch of Signature Live!
Signature Risk Partners Inc., one of Canada’s leading non-broker owned MGA’s, is pleased to announce the launch of a new commercial insurance program called Signature Live!.
Selecting the Best Insurance Coverage for your Golf Course | Golf Business Canada Magazine
Wednesday May 23rd, 2018
The attached article from the NGCOA includes current trends affecting insurance premiums for golf courses and some important questions to ask your broker. This is an extremely well written overview of the insurance buying process and it is relevant for every golf course operator.
Press Release | Signature Risk Announces New SMS Notification Program
Signature Risk Partners Inc. is pleased to announce a new SMS Notification Program for our Broker partners. This new technology will provide real time updates as submissions work through the underwriting process.
Press Release | Signature Risk Named Finalist for MGA of the Year Award
Thursday October 5th, 2017
Signature Risk Partners Inc., Canada’s leading non-broker owned MGA, has been named a Finalist for 2017 MGA of Year Award by the Insurance Business Awards.
Signature Risk Launches a New Cyber Insurance Package
Wednesday April 12th, 2017
TORONTO, ON - April 12, 2017 - Signature Risk Partners Inc. is pleased to announce the release of a new Cyber Insurance Program including an online quoting tool providing fast and reliable premium indications.
Signature Golf Official Insurance Provider to the NGCOA
Tuesday December 13th, 2016
OTTAWA, Ontario - December 13, 2016 - The NGCOA Canada is pleased to announce that Signature Golf is the newest company to join the NGCOA’s Golfmax Purchasing Program as the Official Commercial Insurance provider to the NGCOA.
The full press release can be found here.
Signature Risk Partners Inc. Announces the Opening of an Office in Montreal, Quebec
Thursday September 29th, 2016
TORONTO, ON, September 29, 2016 — Signature Risk Partners Inc. (Signature), one of Canada’s leading non-broker owned MGA’s, is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Commercial Underwriter and the establishment of an office in Montreal, QC.
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Too Much Little Bear!
At the risk of sounding like I have some sort of obsession with Little Bear, I need to report that I am again having an issue with this show. First, however, I should say that I need to correct one of my points from my earlier Little Bear post: Mitzi the monkey does indeed talk, so my concerns may be a little less exaggerated than I orginally thought.
Yesterday, a no nap day, O. was watching a new episode of Little Bear while I was trying to get done some of the things I would have done during the non-existent nap. As I was unloading the twelfth sippy cup and its parts from the dishwasher (still soaking wet-- even though I use the "ungreen" heat cycle and the clean dishes had been in the dishwasher for more than a day -- I HATE having to either dry off my plasticware or sit it around on the counter until it air dries. What is up with this?), O. appeared and hid behind my knee with a stricken look on his face. When I asked him what the matter was, he muttered something about a monster and looked frightfully towards our family room. I knew he was watching Little Bear, taped on Noggin, so there should not have been any Spiderman commercials to cause concern. I looked out into the living room to see if there were shadows of some sort causing a disturbing shape, but no. I wondered if the falling Christmas tree incident (another postworthy moment) was causing a postraumatic flashback.
Then I glanced at the TV screen to see a very scary looking monster bear indeed. It seems the episode I had recently taped about "grumpy father bear" involved Father Bear turning into a monster in Little Bear's imagination. While everything works out in the end, and Father Bear morphs back into the loving parent he normally is, I think the subtle fantasy/reality nuances were a bit beyond my two and a half year old. I had to go sit beside him, rewind it, and talk him through it, using words like "pretending," "being silly," "tricking" and "not real." I did not get this episode erased off the DVR immediately, and Daddy played it again unknowingly this morning. He reported that O. watched it from behind the baby swing, so I'm not sure how effective my fear remedies were.
All this after I was starting to think we were making progress on the "scary" front. We've had months of trauma related to a kindergartner in my mom's group waving a Spiderman villain around in O.'s presence, and then later appearing in a Phantom of the Opera mask. O. flees the room in sheer terror anytime this child makes an entrance, even sans mask and action figure.
I know he has a vivid imagination, as we are always discussing invisible animals that have appeared in the room, like "fumas" and "mean wolves" (actually pumas and maned wolves). One of his favorite pastimes is to pretend he has fallen into the "holes" in the carpet made by the legs of furniture, and needs a rope to be thrown to him to get out. So, I've been worried that the nightmares and a runaway fantasy life were only going to get worse.
I should say that I grew up with a younger brother who was terrified of many things -- clowns, Halloween masks, scary movies, picture taking, teenage girls (they all looked like babysitters to him) in his toddler/preschool years. We had to plot our movements carefully in malls adn public places so as to avoid meltdowns. You'd be surprised how often clowns make an appearance in everyday life -- the Ground Round was forever off limits after a balloon sculpture moment, and I mourned the loss of a place where you could go and throw your peanut shells right on the ground, for goodness sakes. I know my brother hates for me to tell these stories, but I have really been bracing myself for a life that involves scoping out the placement of a Spencer store in the mall around Halloween time, and I have not been too happy about it.
But yesterday, we had a good visit with Santa Claus, something I initially wasn't even going to attempt this year. He kept his head bowed down and wouldn't really smile for the camera, but he did manage to let Santa know that he wanted "a top and a ball" before fleeing for the post-lap basket of suckers. So, I thought, maybe we're getting a handle on this and he's starting to gain some interior self-confidence.
Leave it to Little Bear to set us back a few paces.
Ant-y E.M.
We were on our way to the museum over the weekend to see what else, the trains. The plan was to meet Grandma and Grandpa, as well as Uncle A. and E.M. We went despite the meteorologists' dire predictions of possible mayhem due to the first real winter storm of the season. This storm ended up consisting of two or three inches of snow and then heavy rain. While the roads WERE dicey for about an hour, we made it there just fine. And got to look at trains in relative solitude. This was good, for chancing a prime weekend time for visiting a highly popular Christmas experience is also chancing a grumpy Daddy, who doesn't really like crowds (or other people's children). Disappointingly, the permanent exhibit of trains/Cincinnati scene was closed for repairs, causing O. to despair that the "one where you push the button" was off limits. Do you think they should still be able to charge full price when half of a museum is closed?
Anyway, on the way there, we were telling O. who was going to be there: Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle A. and Aunt E.M. will be there too. You can start calling her Aunt E. if you want, because she's going to be your aunt! O. crinkled his nose at this idea. "No, she is NOT going to be a bug!"
What'll we do while we wait?
The advent season has gotten me thinking about waiting, and has caused the above line to run through my mind more often than is pleasurable. Back before O. was a fan of television (was there ever such a time?), his dad and I would try desperately to get a half hour or so more of sleep in the 6:00 hour on weekend mornings by turning on the TV in our room. I'm afraid Blues Clues sunk more into our subconscious than our son's, as I still catch myself singing the music from the "waiting/patience" episode. "We gotta wait, wait, wait. What'll we do while we wait?"
It's been a year of waiting for us. Mostly, waiting for N. to arrive. I found out I was pregnant soon after New Year's, then had to wait through the winter, spring and summer months for her to arrive. We made it through record breaking heat and pounds (mine), and almost a month of being dilated enough to qualify for an epidural. Thankfully, her actual delivery into the world lasted a mere three hours -- we had spend so much time waiting, we were hardly prepared for her arrival, and didn't decide her name until nearly an hour after her birth.
We also embarked on a remodeling project of our lower level at the start of 2007 -- our contractor acted literally offended when we said we needed it done by O's birthday at the end of April. "How slow do you think I am?" he sputtered. He was painting the door frames the same day I was carving mini loaf pans of cake into a birthday train. We got so used to waiting for the basement to be done that O. still acts surprised when he's allowed to go down there to play.
For O., it's been a year of waiting for trains. Not at the station, though we did make an illfated trip to the local railroad when Thomas came to visit. Riding on the inside of a square passenger car looking at cornfields just really wasn't the thrill we had envisioned. More like riding in a car without a car seat. A bonus, to be sure, but not an up close and personal moment with Thomas. No, the waiting for my toddler boy has been for it to be "Christmastime" -- not for Santa, not for presents, but so that he can get his "big train" out to put around the Christmas tree. The "big train" is a real live model train, like the ones on the displays in downtowns and museums -- more a dad or grandpa toy than one suitable for a two year old. J. got a little carried away at the train store last year, and because I grew up with a train platform at Christmas, and the Lionels from my own parents' childhoods, I went with it. O. LOVED it from the moment we unpacked each car from its own box. He knows we have a steam engine (Grandpa's is a diesel), a flat car, two boxcars and a caboose, he has learned how to run it all by himself, and is amazingly careful with it. "You can't run it too fast, or it will jump the tracks, and you have a problem."
We did get it out for a time during the summer, and run it in a ring on the basement floor (this was a moment when the waiting for N. was getting a little unbearable for everyone). But the fake smoke smell is a bit too much for August, it really does take up most of a room, and because it is prone to damage, it has to be guarded carefully around children more used to Thomas and GeoTrax, so playgroups in the Small World are a no no when it's up. So, it's been in its box in the basement, a real torment anytime we have to venture into the storage area for something else. "There's my big train, Mom. Is it Christmastime yet?"
We made it through Halloween, Grandpa's birthday, the arrival of visiting cousins, N's baptism, and Thanksgiving. (This listing of important dates started in early October and was rehearsed at least once a day). So, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the waiting had gone on long enough. O, noting me carrying a load of turkey napkins and plates to the basement said, "Mommy, Thanksgiving is over? Is it Christmas now?" And the big train was brought up from the basement and took over the living room and O's life. He wakes up in the morning and after naps asking to play with the train. We monitor smoke levels, test the horn and bell, and now that the tree is up in the center of the track, make sure no ornaments are in our steam engine's path.
Best of all, Grandpa has also put up his "big trains" at his house, so the railroading doesn't have to end when we go on the road. And come Christmas evening, we'll be heading to "Grandma Choo-Choo"'s house in Cleveland, where an entire train table of Thomas and friends awaits.
So what do we wait for now? Well, ever since the introduction of the advent calendar, the arrival of Santa Claus. "And Santa will bring the presents for under our tree tonight!" "No, bud, not for twelve more days" -- and we count the remaining pockets again, and again later that afternoon, and later that evening, etc. etc.
We're also still waiting for N. to sleep through the night, if you're wondering. And to take a bottle. And for O. to go on the potty. Happy 2008!
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A Kiss for Little Bear
Speaking of playing in the snow, we have recently discovered my own childhood Little Bear books, illustrated (and written?) by Maurice Sendak. This is due to O.'s great current fascination with the animated series, which I'll admit is less grating, and more gentle, than many of the other offerings on our DVR rotation. I was reminded today of Little Bear making his mother give him more and more articles of clothing to go outside and play in the snow, until he remembers he is, after all, a bear, and ends up happily sitting outside in his bear suit. A great happy image.
However, I'm finding myself questioning the world of Little Bear. The line between his fantasy and real life are pleasingly blurred in the animated show, with him happily living out his imagination by say, meeting a mermaid in his bathwater. But, in what is clearly his real existence, it is strange who can communicate and who cannot. Talking cats, ducks, hens, snakes, owls, yes. But Tutu the dog and Mitzi the monkey? Only yipping and hooting. And when Little Bear found a baby deer in the woods, his experience returning her to the wild was as much an encounter with the alien as mine would be. Mother and Father Deer just looked back over their shoulder at the Bear family when they recovered their lost fawn -- no chatting about where she'd been. To add to the confusion, when Little Bear finds a robin egg in the woods, Mother Robin is as chatty as they come. I know, I know -- talking animals require the suspension of disbelief to begin with. But am I wrong to require some consistency of the rules here? I'm only partially kidding about this -- it really kind of bothers me. Help! I've resorted to analyzing children's programming in lieu of true texts.
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Mom says we needed powdered donuts
This is really a post for Uncle A.
Today was our first first snow, and while I can no longer hope for snow days, (something I was able to do well into adulthood, thanks to my job teaching high school English -- the rituals surrounding the hope of a snow day among teachers is a definite postworthy topic) I can go outside to play in the snow. O. ran to the window this morning and proclaimed that the snow was "EVERYWHERE!" So, soon after breakfast, we started the process of getting all the clothes on necessary to play in our Cincinnati snow -- blades of grass still poking through the whiteness. It was a scene out of "Christmas Story" trying to get both kids into their snowsuits/hats/mittens/boots, and involved at least three trips up and down stairs to get all the requisite items. Fortunately, O. had an attention span for the snow play, so we weren't right back in two minutes later. He enjoyed filling his bucket with snow and making "sand castles" and making tracks in the snow with his bubble mower. We also chased Scout around with "snowbulbs" (they really DIDN'T look like balls, I guess). We have not yet mastered the snow angel. Finally, when cheeks were very red and noses were very runny, we headed inside to peel off the wet clothes in the laundry room, and I got to make O. his first post-snow hot chocolate, complete with a small side cup of mini marshmallows, and a twisty straw to drink it from. O. reported "I like hot chocolate. I like to bubble it. See the tower of bubbles?"
Is that a good idea?
Or, more happenings in the world of O-speak:
In the car, Daddy is singing one of his favorite Kindermusik songs, after the track has ended. ("Go Round the Mountain tony-diddle tony-diddle tony-diddle eye day", for those of you in the know and interested) O. says quite emphatically -- "Daddy, that song is over. Don't sing it."
I'm singing to N. on the couch, first Patty Cake which draws no notice from O. playing with his dump truck. Then I start in on Itsy Bitsy Spider, and the dump truck stops in its tracks. "Hey, that's MY song."
After finding his toy pliers, the latest necessary "in the bed while he goes to sleep" object, after they have been missing for several naps and nighttimes. "Okay, put my pwiers on the bed for in the morning time."
Finding a book that has "mysteriously" been "lost" for a while under his bed, O. says, "Now here's the deal. You find the shapes, and then you draw them. That's how you do this one. Vamiose!* We go down on the couch and do this. That's the deal."
On the phone to Great-Grandma, hours after a shopping expedition to Kohls wherein we looked for new slippers as a Christmas gift. "Great Grandma, we bought you something!"
At Ruby Tuesday, to the waitress as we are trying to get our check to leave before N. wakes up. (Yes, I now have one of those babies that stays under the blanket in the car seat during meals in restaurants, like an extra piece of luggage, rather than a squalling extra appendage to my body. Who'd have thought it?)
"I am still working!" He then gives her the very evil eye, complete with raised eyebrow, and looks protectively at his plate of chicken and fries, from which he has only eaten ketchup for the half hour we've been there.
"I am going to put toys in my dump truck and drive them. Is that a good idea?" Sure, and thanks for asking. Except I didn't realize this meant dumping the entire contents of a toy basket into the dump truck, with anything that wouldn't fit spilling out into a pile around it.
Regarding his blanket (which really deserves its own post) --
Finding it in the basket of clean clothes I am folding: "My blanket is clean? I am so happy, oh I am so happy!" A happy dance and an extended period of rubbing of his face into the satiny side ensues.
Wrapping it about his shoulders: "I am the king!"
Wrapping it about his waist: "I am all dressed, now."
Putting it on his head, so that one point protrudes from his forehead. "I have a snout. A tooth. Grrrrrrr..." He then proceeds to poke said snout/tooth into his sister's forehead.
*AKA: "vamonos", courtesy of Dora -- have I mentioned we watch a little too much TV around here?
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Medical Academy Counselor Named Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction
RSA Hosts Code and Coffee During Computer Science Week
Spartans Come Together for a Cause
Med High Students Develop Award-Winning Apps Through Congressional App Challenge
STISD Board of Directors Welcomes Three New Members to Team of 24
Board Elects New Officers
Board recognizes STPA student for earning State Champion title
Board recognizes former members for years of service to the district
South Texas Independent School District » News » Archived News » 2018-2019 » December 2018 » Medical Academy Counselor Named Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction
Luz Zamora, a counselor at South Texas Independent School District’s (STISD) South Texas Academy for Medical Professions in Olmito, was recently selected as a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction by The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS). A role model to pupils, Luz was nominated by a student for outstanding dedication and commitment to excellence in the profession.
Each year, NSHSS invites student members to nominate the educator who has made the most significant contribution to their academic career for the Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction award. According to NSHSS, this honor recognizes exemplary educators whose passion and devotion inspire their students to grow and develop as scholars, leaders and citizens.
This is the second time Zamora, of Brownsville, has received this award. The award means a lot to her, especially given the source of her nomination. “As an educator, the most meaningful rewards one can receive are those earned through recognition from those we serve: our students! I am humbled and honored to have been nominated to receive this prestigious distinction in the short amount of time since my arrival at STISD and my new home, South Texas Academy for Medical Professions.”
The National Society of High School Scholars seeks to advance the goals and aspirations of high-achieving students through unique learning experiences, scholarships, internships, international study and peer networks. From attending the annual Nobel Week festivities in Stockholm, to internships with major corporations and government agencies, pre-college summer study programs, and more than $2,000,000 in exclusive scholarships awarded annually, NSHSS is continually seeking new ways to provide lifetime learning and growth opportunities for academically talented and accomplished student leaders, and the educators who support them.
"Dedicated educators who exhibit a commitment to excellence deserve our highest praise and appreciation," said NSHSS President James W. Lewis. "Through our Educators of Distinction program and the grants we provide to support professional development and enrich classroom instruction, we hope to acknowledge and encourage the vital work of the teachers, counselors and administrators who are shaping the intellect and character of our young scholars."
South Texas Academy for Medical Professions (Medical Academy) is one of six magnet schools in South Texas Independent School District. Medical Academy opened in 2003 emphasizing the various careers in medicine. Students develop medical and clinical skills in area hospitals and doctor’s offices. Many students earn certifications as clinical medical assistants, emergency medical technicians, patient care technicians, pharmacy technicians, phlebotomy technicians, medical lab assistants, certified ophthalmic assistants, and as registered dental assistants. For additional information, visit http://www.stisd.net or call (956) 214-6100.
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Free the Holy Land Five - Day of Action Oct. 25
Thu, 2012-10-25 (All day)
Justice for the Holy Land Five!
Release the Five now!
The Holy Land Five need our urgent solidarity. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide in late October whether their final appeal will even be heard. The Holy Land Five are five Muslim charity leaders wrongly imprisoned due to U.S. government political repression. They are being punished for publicly sending charity to Palestinians, at a time when U.S. domination is being challenged in the Middle East.
The first Holy Land trial ended in a hung jury, but a second one -- using secret witnesses who were never identified to the defense, hearsay evidence and a ‘shock video’ showing protesters in Palestine burning an American flag -- contributed to prejudicing the jurors. The result is that five men, who did nothing wrong, are suffering long sentences, between 15 and 65 years.
The lead prosecutor who used these dirty tricks in court is Barry Jonas. Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas is now in Chicago, conducting the ongoing investigation of 23 Midwest anti-war and international solidarity activists. Jonas is a pro-Israel ideologue, politically motivated and willing to trample on people’s rights.
As thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters learned this past year, the U.S. is becoming a more repressive place. For more than ten years now, hundreds of Arabs and Muslims have faced and are facing unjust prosecutions. Many are already behind bars. Help us turn this injustice around!
Join author Noor Elashi and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression in a national day of action on Thursday, October 25, 2012. Noor Elashi is daughter of U.S. political prisoner and Holy Land Five leader Ghassan Elashi. Now is the time to act for freedom! Justice for the Holy Land Five!
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Parliament debate weaker taxi laws next week
Post subject: Parliament debate weaker taxi laws next week
The House of Lords will debate loosening the rules of taxi regulations next week.
On Wednesday (October 21) peers will consider a government bill to have fewer checks on cabbies and private hire drivers.
Taxi licence holders currently get checked every year, but the new rules would mean they are only reviewed every three years.
The Deregulation Bill and taxi amendments were voted on by MPs on June 23.
Earlier this year it emerged that Milton Keynes Council had given a private hire driver’s licence to a convicted rapist who had four separate convictions for serious sexual offences. The man has since handed in his licence and the council has tightened up its rules, while an internal investigation is being carried out.
http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/crim ... -1-6357521
Post subject: Re: Parliament debate weaker taxi laws next week
Very sad to see lies and rumour being spread
Apart from Nigel do any of us get checked every year?
That will confuse the Bishop.
Sussex wrote:
We renew our licenses every year - and we must do a stat dec each year - medical and CRB every three years
I am against the government on this, because I see the three year license as government removing a council power to issue a one year license.
I also think it will affect councils licensing income - we all know they shouldn't, but how many councils will simply work out the new license cost then multiply by three.
I think the government need to guide councils on how licensing income should be brought in, and what it can be spent on, rather than this thing.
New minicab law 'would put women at risk'
Safety charities, the police and taxi drivers oppose coalition's proposed relaxation of rules
Ministers will come under fresh pressure this week not to ease rules on minicabs, a relaxation that safety campaigners say would endanger vulnerable women.
The Government has quietly dropped one of the controversial measures in its Deregulation Bill, clause 10, which would have allowed anyone, even without a private-hire licence, to drive a minicab when it is "off duty". The change could have enabled sexual predators to pass themselves off as taxi drivers.
Yet, with the bill set to be debated in the House of Lords this Tuesday, ministers are ploughing ahead with two other contentious measures: extending a minicab licence permit from one to two years, which opponents say would make it more difficult for councils to carry out checks on drivers; and a clause that would allow private-hire operators to subcontract a booking to another operator in a different local authority area.
Concerns about the licensing of private-hire taxis have been heightened by the Rotherham abuse scandal, as many of the abusers used minicabs to ferry their victims around the town.
The Shadow Transport Secretary, Mary Creagh, said it was important that the Government dropped the entire package of deregulation of private-hire licensing, because of the increased risk it could cause vulnerable women and girls. The Local Government Association (LGA) added: "Our own opinion polling shows that 80 per cent of women would be concerned if they booked a journey with one firm and a different one turned up."
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, 17 police and crime commissioners from all parties, the National Private Hire Association, the National Taxi Association, Rape Crisis and Women's Aid are all against the measures in the Bill.
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust says that sexual predators commonly pose as legitimate minicab drivers.
Ms Creagh said: "We welcome the Government's climbdown on their disastrous proposal to deregulate taxis, which would have put women's safety at risk. However, ministers are still pressing ahead with their risky plans to loosen taxi licensing and allow cabs to work out of area, which Labour, alongside safety charities, has opposed.
"Ministers need urgently to review these final two measures and we repeat our offer to work with them to get the rogues off the road."
In her report from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham, Alexis Jay concluded that "one of the common threats running through child sexual exploitation across England has been the prominent role of taxi drivers in being linked to children who were abused". She argued against any weakening of regulations.
After clause 10 was dropped last week, Ann Lucas, the chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said: "When people get into a taxi, they put their trust in the fact that the person driving the car has been vetted and licensed and that it is safe to be in a vehicle with them – especially if they are travelling alone. The Government should also now delete the two remaining taxi clauses in the Deregulation Bill."
The Government's clauses do not apply to London, where private-hire licensing is regulated by Transport for London.
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:47 pm
Location: On the move
extending a minicab licence permit from one to two years
Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!
toots wrote:
no not really - its worse than reality
Journalist counting conundrum. They have no concept of "3".
They have never grasped the idea of " Private Hire".
When it comes to "licence/permit", why use one word when two will do (they can grasp the number " 2").
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:09 pm
Chris the Fish wrote:
But these journalists are being briefed by the brain dead that (with one or two exceptions) are currently leading are trade, or so they say.
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Netflix is testing a pop-out floating video player on desktop
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Netflix is testing out a new feature that could mean you never have to stop watching, not even while you work – it’s a pop-out video player, similar to the one you may be used to from iOS and macOS for any website or app that supports Safari’s native video player. Basically, that means you can choose to ‘pop out’ the video and then reposition it anywhere on your screen for a picture-in-picture effect that remains visible over any other apps you might be using.
The streaming company told Engadget, which found this experimental feature, that it’s only a test, but you can see why this might be a useful feature for users. Netflix could offer this already to iOS and Mac users using built-in system tools, but because it uses is own player (in part likely for copyright protection), it instead has to build its own feature. The benefit of this is that it should be coming to both Windows PCs and Macs should it graduate from being an experiment to being a full-fledged product.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite goes live in Canada, Germany, and 23 other countries
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (think Pokémon GO, but with wands and giant spiders instead of pokéballs and Pikachus) officially
Netflix is testing out a new feature that could mean you never have to stop watching, not even while you work – it’s a
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Peppie Sulvaran has taken part in various commissions for the preparation and implementation of Criminal Laws in Curacao & the former Netherlands Antilles.
Outside of his profession. He is a well known activist for a more autonomous Curaçao and in this capacity he is the Chairman of the pressure group known as Kòrsou Fuerte i Outónomo (KFO).
He was admitted to the bar in 1987 and co-founded Sulvaran and Peterson Attorneys at Law in 1990. In the course of time he has been mentor and adviser to different lawyers on the islands practicing in the criminal law field .
Admitted to the Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
Member of the Commission for the review of the Criminal Code of Procedure for Curaçao, Aruba Sint Maarten and the BES islands.
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Athena Sulvaran - S&P Associate
S&P Associate
First name: Athena
Athena Sulvaran.graduated from the University of Tilburg in 2015 with a degree in Criminal Law.
Athena joined Sulvaran & Partners in 2015 and was admitted to the bar in that same year.
As a junior associate Athena has a wide range of practice areas in general civil law and criminal law.
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Write unfolds to fruition
By Dilshan Boange
A labour of love by a young group of passionate lovers of literature came to ceremonial fruition on August 11 as Write, the literary magazine was launched at The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies, amid a distinguished gathering.
In her opening address the chairperson of the Write magazine committee, Shehara Willie described how she was inspired to venture forth to realize a publication dedicated to promote good writing as a result of attending a creative writing workshop.
Together with her dedicated team the Write magazine’s founder paved the way for submissions to come in even from overseas for the upcoming publication. Over 150 submissions had been received, from which 35 were selected. The selected submissions include one from South Africa and another from India.
The composite therefore makes Write an international publication. The majority of submissions had been poetry, mostly from female writers. The editing and filtering process as was explained by the chairperson was mainly to improve lexical and grammatical facets.
However, very little editing and in some instances none at all, admittedly was done of the selected submissions which speaks much about the quality of the submissions. A remarkable aspect of this publication is that it not only features poetry and short fiction, but also one act plays, as well as letters. Therefore, there is space for the genre of ‘epistolary writing’ also to gain expression between the pages of Write.
This project had been sincerely supported by several stalwarts from the academia of letters whose repute speaks widely. Among them are Prof. Maithree Wickremesinghe, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha and also Dr. Amirthanjali Sivapalan.
The chairperson of Write magazine’s committee thanked all those who supported them and requested for support to help sustain this worthy venture which of course requires the patronage of advertisers and sponsors.
The keynote address for the evening was delivered by Gratiaen Prize winning poetess and academic Dr. Vivimarie Vanderpooten.
Her speech looked at the changing face of the literary canon which is near religiously upheld as the province of academia, and how the word literary is broadening to encompass even music, sermons and comics. Touching on how the internet and the advent of social media has provided writers a wide platform to get readers, she stressed on how there is also the disservice that can be done to good writing as people may begin to believe that the number of ‘likes’ posted on a social media site may be seen as a yardstick to determine what is ‘good writing’. She thus pointed out that while social media posts can be good for self esteem as a means to share one’s writing, it can also hinder improvement.
Offering her congratulations to the Write magazine’s team, the keynote speaker concluded her speech, which was followed by the formal launch of the Write magazine which is now available at selected bookshops, including Barefoot and Expographics.
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Brian LaFemina Out Less Than 1 Year In
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Re: Brian LaFemina Out Less Than 1 Year In
Re: the bolded, I completely agree. I can't reconcile those two facts. We haven't been 6-3 in years, and people still weren't showing up. I don't understand that.
That was the game after Norman called out fans if I remember. I was surprised it wasn’t sold out but after the game the local radio shows were commenting that the fans “showed up” for the game and that it was the loudest it was all season. Definitely not what you would expect for a divisional team.
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“SnyderGrinder” is Bruce’s username on the Grindr app. True story.
I would ask for a source, but I know that's one source I'd really not wanna see, not that there's anything wrong with that.
What the... That's it! Einhorn is Finkle! Finkle is Einhorn! Einhorn is a man!
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the skins were 6-3 at one point. They had a mostly healthy team and a 1-1/2 game lead in the division. We had a HUGE game vs the Texans and the fans didn’t show up.
I am not in the area, so attending the game was not an option for me, but i was PUMPED About watching it. The historical dysfunction of the organization is beyond dispute, but this is a game that fans SHOULD have shown up for. But they didn’t.
Just playing devils advocate here, but let’s say i own a company and hire a new head of sales to improve sales. the product is better than its ever been (when’s the last time we started 6-3 and looked as promising as this years team). The new guy i hired dramatically changes the business model. I think he’s crazy, but i trust him and let him do his thing. But then the sales get worse...I’m sorry, but that reflects poorly on my new head of sales. From a purely business perspective, is it really THAT Crazy to fire the guy?
He had a whole offseason to prepare. He pitched a radical new strategy. The team was hot. But attendance got worse.
I’m not upset at Snyder for firing Lafemina.
Im upset that He hasn’t fired Allen.
Agreed. We had the worst drop in attendance in the league, (now how much of that is the organisation being more honest about attendance numbers?), in any other franchise, the firing of a sales guy is not even news.
It's on them though: they over sold his hiring, making his firing big too.
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