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ZRP starts equipping police to deal with rioters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has started equipping police to deal with rioters in fulfilment of recommendations made by a Commission of Inquiry led by former South Africa President Kgalema Motlanthe, a senior officer said yesterday.
The seven-member Commission of Inquiry was appointed by President Mnangagwa last year to look into post-election violence that broke out in Harare resulting in the death of six people.
The commission submitted its report containing recommendations to the President last December. Officially opening the 6th Rebranding and Refresher Training Programme for junior officers at Ntabazinduna Training Depot in Matabeleland North yesterday, Deputy Police Commissioner-General (Human Resources) Mind Ngirandi revealed that police are now being equipped.
The week-long training is being attended by 68 junior officers who hold ranks of Inspector, Chief Inspector and CID officers from Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South. Dep Comm Gen Ngirandi said the rebranding and refresher training is part of the organisation's plan to transform itself into a people driven service.
"In the same vein we have already begun implementing recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 2018 post-election violence, which was chaired by His Excellency Kgalema Motlanthe, which include equipping the police with necessary skills and capacity for dealing with rioters and further training of the police in order to be professional and non-partisan in the interests of national cohesion and the protection of all citizens," said Dep Comm-Gen Ngirandi.
"Resultantly, training and supervision of police officers shall be ongoing in order to ensure that strategies to rebrand and transform the organisation dovetails with Government's national trajectory and above all people's expectations and needs."
The Motlanthe Commission also recommended that police should aim to prevent corporal failings in the future. Dep Comm-Gen Ngirandi said police officers should strive to gain the public's trust. He said officers should be cognisant that in whatever they do they are under public scrutiny while executing their duties.
"Remember that this is a critical moment for all of you because the eyes and ears of the nation are upon your next step as you seek to discharge your duties. You must therefore embed yourselves in the people, engage them, understand their daily challenges and social ills. The old villager in Zezani must have peace of mind knowing that his cattle in the kraal are safe from rustlers," Dep Comm-Gen Ngirandi said.
"In the same breadth the middle-aged vendor in Chinotimba must also have confidence that her teenage girl can safely walk from school without fear that she might be raped or kidnapped. Find out how people want to be policed."
Dep Comm-Gen Ngirandi said the police have a duty to defend the aspirations of peace and prosperity of citizens. He said the ZRP rebranding exercise is aimed at ensuring that the organisation embraces 'policing by the people and for the people.'
"In our context, this training programme comes at a time His Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa has underscored the urgency and imperativeness of all Government entities, the ZRP included, to engender a new work ethic and servant leadership. This clarion call became inscribed in our planning processes, in view of the chasm and disconnect that had characterised our services with the needs of the majority of Zimbabweans from whom we derive our legitimacy," said Dep Comm-Gen Ngirandi.
"It became clear to all of us that action was required as a matter of urgency in order to regain public confidence in the ZRP. We thus embarked on a reform and restructuring exercise in order to re-align our systems and processes with the demands and expectations of the people." He said police officers should be guided by professionalism as they execute their duties.
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Tags: ZRP,
ZRP impounds 5 000 unregistered vehicles
ZRP commander allay fears of vote rigging by police officers
ZRP to abolish senior positions
More heads to roll at ZRP
ZRP to undergo overhaul
ZRP bosses in tight spot
ZRP caught offside
ZRP goes digital
Another shake up at ZRP
ZRP Masvingo projects collapse
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India's most potent missile Agni 5 successfully tested
Agni V long-range ballistic missile being flight tested. A file photo
BALASORE, ODISHA (PTI): India on Monday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable, inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni 5, that has a range of over 5,000 km covering whole of China, from the Abdul Kalam island off Odisha coast.
Defence sources said that the successful test-firing will pave the way for user trial of the most potent Indian missile and its eventual induction into the country's Strategic Forces Command (SFC).
The three-stage, solid propellant surface-to-surface missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at about 1105 hours IST, DRDO sources said.
About 17-metre long and weighing over 50 ton, the nuclear-powered ballistic missile majestically rose from the confines of its canister flawlessly and achieved all targets, the sources said.
It is the fourth developmental and second canisterised trial of the long-range missile.
While the first test was conducted on April 19, 2012, the second was on September 15, 2013 and the third on January 31, 2015 from the same base.
Among the missiles of Agni series, the latest Agni-5 is the most advanced having some new technologies incorporated with it in terms of navigation and guidance, warhead and engine, the sources said.
Lot of new technologies developed indigenously were successfully tested in the trial. The very high accuracy Ring Laser Gyro based Inertial Navigation System (RINS) and the most modern and accurate Micro Navigation System (MINS) had ensured the missile reached the target point within few meters of accuracy.
The high speed on-board computer and fault tolerant software along with robust and reliable bus guided the missile flawlessly, said a DRDO official.
The missile is so programmed that after reaching peak of its trajectory, it turns towards earth to continue its journey towards the intended target with an increased speed due to the attraction of earth's gravitational pull and its path precisely directed by the advanced on-board computer and inertial navigation system.
The atmospheric air rubbing the skin of the missile during the re-entry phase raises the temperature to beyond 4,000 degree Celsius.
However, the indigenously designed and developed carbon-carbon composite heat shield continues to burn sacrificially protecting the payload, maintaining the inside temperature below 50 degree Celsius.
Finally, commanded by the on-board computer with a support of highly accurate ring laser gyro based inertial navigation system, the most modern micro inertial navigation system (MINS), fully digital control system and advanced compact avionics, the missile hit the designated target accurately, meeting all mission objectives, they said.
The ships located in midrange and at the target point tracked the vehicle and witnessed the final event. All the radars and electro-optical systems along the path monitored all the parameters of the missile and displayed in real time, the sources said.
The first two flights of Agni-5 in 2012 and 2013 were in open configuration and had already proved the missile.
The third test in 2015 and Monday's launch from a canister integrated with a sophisticated mobile launcher were in its deliverable configuration that enables launch of the missile with a very short preparation time as compared to an open launch, they said.
It also has advantages of higher reliability, longer shelf life, less maintenance and enhanced mobility.
At present, India possesses Agni-1 with 700 km range, Agni-II with 2,000 km range, Agni-3 and Agni-4 with 2,500 km to more than 3,500 range in its armoury of Agni missile series.
India Agni V DRDO ICBM SFC Missile
Chandrayaan-2 launch called off due to technical glitch; ISRO to announce new launch date
India, Russia hold talks to boost space cooperation
Indian Army places order for procuring Spike missiles
Indigenous Aircraft Carrier-1 likely to go for basin trials next year
The work on Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)-1 is currently moving at a brisk pace and it is likely to go for basin trials in February-March next year, a senior Indian Navy official has said.
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Montebello Unified Families in Need Receive Gifts and Cheer in Time for the Holidays
The holidays are a little brighter for dozens of Montebello Unified students and families identified as homeless, as parents picked out gifts of toys, books, school supplies, dental kits, gift cards and canned hams to give to their children as part of MUSD’s inaugural Families in Transition Gift Giveaway on Dec. 9 at Laguna Nueva School. The Families in Transition Program mission is to provide MUSD’s 972 identified homeless students and their families with support services to promote academic achievement.
Bell Gardens High Revalidated as AVID National Demonstration School; One of 5 LA Schools with Distinction
Montebello Unified’s Bell Gardens High School has been revalidated by AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) as a National Demonstration School, which recognizes schools that have successfully implemented the AVID College Readiness System as models for other schools. AVID was brought to BGHS in 1998 and served 32 students. The school was first deemed a National Demonstration School in 2004 and now serves about 600 students annually. BGHS has a 100 percent AVID graduation rate, conferring diplomas to all 112 AVID seniors in the Class of 2016. The AVID system has impacted the entire student population at BGHS by creating a college-going culture supported by schoolwide AVID instructional strategies and practices.
MUSD Students Learn About Education, Career Future Through Young Men Conference
More than 600 intermediate and high school students from Montebello Unified learned from professionals about higher education, careers and personal development during the sixth annual Adelante Young Men! Conference (AYM) at Pasadena City College. The AYM Conference offered intermediate and high school boys the opportunity to take part in interactive, educational workshops related to issues that affect their lives now and in the future. Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Anthony J. Martinez served as the AYM 2016 Conference Chair and presenter while Applied Technology Center students Christian Osorio and Mark Hernandez also presented during the Nov. 12 event.
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Montebello Unified Diá de Los Muertos Event Raises Hope, Scholarship Funds
Follow-up Story: Students painted their faces like skulls and danced classic folkorico ensembles at Montebello Unified’s Applied Technology Center during the fifth annual Diá de los Muertos Scholarships for Scholars celebration and harvest festival, which raised scholarship funds for graduating students. The event sought to ensure that all local high school students, including those with immigrant status, have access to higher education. The Oct. 14 night featured colorful altars memorializing loved ones, calacas necklace and calavera spoon crafts for children, and dance performances by Montebello Unified students.
Eighth Annual ‘War on Hunger’ Food Drive Kick-off Event Marks Time of Giving at Montebello Unified
Follow-up Story: Joining forces with its community partners, Montebello Unified kicked off its eighth annual War on Hunger food drive on Oct. 12 to assist local families in need. Since 2009, the food drive has generated about 50,000 pounds of food to help several thousand students and families. The community may donate through Friday, Nov. 4 at the District Office, 123 S. Montebello Blvd., Montebello. Families will be able to pick up food items at the Heart of Compassion Distribution Center or may contact Program Liaison Rose Hernandez at 323-887-2133.
Pop Star Performs Anti-Bullying Themed Concert for Montebello Unified
Follow-up Story: Wilcox Elementary School briefly resembled the Staples Center on Sept. 29, as pop singer and anti-bullying advocate Meredith O’Conner came to perform a short four-song concert for more than 200 enthusiastic third- through fifth-graders, many of whom sang along. The concert comes as schools prepare to spread awareness during anti-bullying week, which runs Oct. 3-7. O’Conner took time to speak to the students about how to recognize and combat bullying, answered questions from the audience and, after the show, signed autographs and took selfies with her new fans.
State Superintendent Torlakson and Southland Districts Unite Behind Prop. 51
California State Superintendent Tom Torkalson will join representatives from Lynwood Unified, Montebello Unified, Los Angeles Unified and Lennox Elementary school districts at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5 to highlight local school facilities needs and why Proposition 51 funds are vital. The event will take place at Lynwood Unified’s Washington Elementary, 4225 Sanborn Ave., Lynwood. If passed on the November ballot, Prop 51 would provide state funds to help school districts boost health and safety standards, renovate aging facilities, including seismic retrofits, upgrade classrooms and build new schools. California last passed a state school facilities bond measure in 2006, but that funding is effectively depleted. Attendees include Torlakson, superintendents of Lynwood, Montebello and Lennox school districts, LAUSD officials and Jesus Holguin, the past president of the California School Boards Association. For more information, contact Erin Shaw at 916-685-7067.
2,000 Students to Participate in Montebello Unified Farmers Market
Fresh, natural produce is on the menu as 2,000 student gardeners from 28 Montebello Unified schools gather from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 24 to sell their bounty of fruits and vegetables at Rosewood Park School, 2353 S. Commerce Way, Commerce. The Montebello Unified Farmers Market provides a low-cost alternative to supermarket fruits and vegetables. Students will sell tomatoes, celery, onions, leafy greens, fruits and herbs and school spirit items to support their gardens, while ballet folklorico, Zumba, tap and ballet performers entertain the crowds.
Assemblywoman Presents Bell Gardens High with $5,000 Grant from Barona Tribe for College Center Technology
Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia will present Bell Gardens High School with a $5,000 check from the Barona Band of Mission Indians during Back to School Night at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in the Bell Gardens High School auditorium, 6119 Agra St., Bell Gardens. The grant will fund new technology for the school’s College Center, where students receive guidance from counselors about college applications, prerequisites and more.
Montebello Unified School District Announces National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
The Montebello Unified School District (MUSD) announces its policy for providing free and reduced-price meals for children served under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. A copy of the policy is available for review by any interested party at the Nutrition Services Department office, located at 1518 Mines Avenue, Montebello. The 2016-17 “Application for Free and Reduced-Price Meals” forms are distributed to households of all enrolled children in MUSD. Additional applications are available at school offices and the Nutrition Services Department office. Filing an online application may be done at www.montebello.k12.ca.us.
Montebello Unified Welcomes Back Nearly 53,000 Students for 2016-17 School Year
Montebello Unified School District, the third-largest district in Los Angeles County, welcomed back nearly 53,000 students from kindergarten through adult school on Aug. 18 as Superintendent Susanna Contreras Smith and the Board of Education greeted students at Bella Vista Elementary School. With gardens now at all campuses, MUSD is strengthening its prestigious Globally Responsible Environmental Education Network (GREEN) Pathway to teach students about sustainability in producing crops. New athletic fields have also opened for use at Bell Gardens, Montebello and Schurr high schools. Photos are available.
Montebello Unified Students Raise Awareness of Social Justice Issues
When Bell Gardens High School students return to campus later this month, they will be greeted by a drought-tolerant garden and a video on Latino heritage designed to foster a positive and tolerant outlook among students. Both projects were created by 40 students who attended the first Rise Up for Humanity youth conference, held for 200 students to raise consciousness on societal issues and build a progressive youth network in Los Angeles County. Photos are available.
Montebello Unified AVID Teacher Wins $10,000 for Bell Gardens High
Elizabeth Lowe, a teacher at Montebello Unified’s Bell Gardens High School, has been named one of just five California winners of the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Teacher Advocacy Award, an honor that comes with a $10,000 prize for expanding the program at her school. Lowe was honored in front of 3,000 educators on July 12 at the Sacramento Summer Institute, where winners were celebrated for showing leadership in supporting AVID’s mission to help students prepare for college. Lowe oversees 650 students, seven teachers and all course sections for Bell Gardens’ AVID program. Photos are available.
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Buffett's rail earnings estimates lower than consensus (BRK.A; BNI)
From the Financial Post's Trading Desk blog:
If Warren Buffett has it right, then analysts have it all wrong when it comes to future earnings for the North American railways, says a new report from Scotia Capital Markets.
Based on a new SEC filing associated with Berkshire Hathaway's US$100 bid to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., analyst Cherilyn Radbourne said consensus profit estimates for the Big Six Class I railroads look inflated and may need to be adjusted downward.
Ms. Radbourne said that according to the filing, financial advisors to Berkshire's board responsible for determining the fairness of the deal relied on financial forecasts prepared by Burlington Northern management based on four economic scenarios: Recovery in 2010; recovery in 2011; no recovery; and lastly a deeper recession case that assumed a general worsening of economic conditions over the next five years....MORE
Transmission: "France Said to Pick Alstom-Schneider for Areva Power-Grid Unit " ($6 Billion Bid)
The French government is set to recommend a joint 4 billion-euro ($6 billion) bid by Alstom SA and Schneider Electric SA for Areva SA’s transmission and distribution unit, two people familiar with the matter said.
A final decision will be made by Areva’s supervisory board, which meets tonight, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision hasn’t been disclosed. General Electric Co. and Toshiba Corp. also made bids.
Areva is 91 percent owned by the French government, which had the final say in choosing a winner. Paris-based Areva became the third-largest provider of power transmission and distribution equipment behind ABB Ltd. and Siemens AG after buying the unit in 2004 for 920 million euros from Alstom. French President Nicolas Sarkozy orchestrated the sale as finance minister to avert Alstom’s breakdown.
Areva is selling the unit again to fund expansion in the global nuclear power market. Alstom, which makes high-speed trains and energy-generation equipment, and Schneider, a maker of circuit breakers, have said they would create a common structure which would bid for Areva T&D and, if successful, transfer the transmission activities to Alstom and the distribution activities to Schneider.
GE spokesman Jim Healy declined to comment....MORE
"People don't trade carbon because they are good people" CEO, ICE European Climate Exchange
And anyone who pretends otherwise is a liar or a fool.
The reality of what traders spend their time doing puts the lie to the argument that "we need offsets to 'lower the cost'" of implementing cap-and-trade.
The entire purpose of C&T is to raise costs and the entire purpose of offsets is wealth transfer with a government imprimatur.
From The Telegraph:
European Climate Exchange chief Patrick Birley defends the carbon trading system
"Why should it be different as a commodity to the way people trade oil or gas?"
As the man in charge of the world's biggest exchange for companies, banks and hedge funds to trade permits to emit carbon dioxide, Birley is fed up with the environmentalists' charge that dirty capitalists should not profit from the global effort to tackle climate change.
Ahead of the Copenhagen summit next week, campaigners such as Friends of the Earth have argued that the entire system is so flawed it may need to be demolished in favour of a straightforward tax on polluters.
Firstly, they insist, the European system has failed in its fundamental aim to reduce emissions, meaning its only effect is to redistribute wealth among companies and traders. Secondly, the market is a magnet for derivatives that few people understand, brewing up a second sub-prime bubble. Lastly, the opportunities for fraud are vast, given the intangible nature of the product. .
These well-worn concerns are resurfacing as the whole concept of carbon trading stands at a crossroads. This totally invented $126bn (£76bn) market has the potential to flare into a $2 trillion green giant over the next decade, if US President Obama manages to push his carbon trading bill through the Senate early next year.
The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission even believes that within five years, carbon could surpass crude oil as the world's most traded commodity. Mr Birley is the first to admit that the European system "hasn't actually reduced emissions" so far. But having run exchanges throughout his career, he has faith in the ability of the market to deliver in its own good time.
"The goal of the system is reducing emissions: why should it matter how we get there?" he asks.
With weariness, he debunks the idea that policymakers can control who makes money from reducing emissions. The point of a market mechanism is that the market decides.
"Carbon-related products are probably the most profitable part of trading for any of the investment banks right now, because the margins are so good," Mr Birley admits. "Because it's such a specialist area, a little bit of knowledge goes a very long way."...MORE
Well actually policymakers can go with cap-tax-and 100% rebate, they can go with 100% auction combined with annual minimum and maximum prices (thus recreating a tax), they can ban financial intermediaries and permit trading only among energy producers, they can... well, you get the idea.
Here's the truth of the matter from a post three weeks ago:
Senators Call for Financial Reform Before Cap and Trade (BRK.A)
Ain't gonna work. A quote we've posted a few times:
The whole reason for the existence of traders is to make as much money as possible,
consistent with what's legal...I lived through this:
if you didn't manipulate the market and manipulation was accessible to you,
that's when you were yelled at.
-Former Goldman Sachs trader
New York Times, May 8, 2002*
From the junk bond caused S&L bailouts to Long Term Capital Management to the Dot.bombs to the California electricity frauds to sub-prime and credit default swaps the lesson is:
Wall Street can not be trusted. Period.
If we let the camel's nose under the tent flap it is too late. The Wall Street banks will game any system the regulators can think up.
Remember, this is an entirely artificial "market" that Wall Street is "helping" to design.
What the hell do you expect?>>>MORE
American International Group: AIG Reserves Deficient - Sanford Bernstein (AIG)
In very early pre-market trade the stock is down $1.38 at $33.30.
From Notable Calls:
Sanford Bernstein is out with pretty negative comments on American International Group (NYSE:AIG) lowering their target to $12 from $20 after loss reserve analysis. Firm maintains their Undeperform rating on the stock.
Firm notes they conducted a segmented industry loss reserve analysis to see if it revealed any possible competitive issues that could emerge in the coming years. The main result is a letdown for the possibility of near-term pricing improvement. Every company subgroup—large publics, mutuals, reinsurance & international, and small privates—shows strong and relatively comparable loss reserve adequacy to the other segments. This means that no subgroup is more likely than another to outlast the soft market.
− In particular, average industry reserve adequacy of about 8 points of 2008 earned premium ($26bn dollar adequacy) ranged 4-14% across 4 industry subgroups they looked at. For the large US public companies in their coverage (excluding AIG), the average adequacy is about 11 points, concentrated in commercial lines and specialty businesses.
But they did reveal a very unexpected result that could have major ramifications in coming year. It appears that AIG's loss reserves are significantly deficient again, much sooner that they would have forecast 2 years ago....
...Notablecalls: AIG appears to be vulnerable here. I don't think people were ready for what Sanford Bernstein has to say this morning. If AIG's loss reserves are significantly deficient again, some odd $2 billion asset sales (as reported today by Financial Times) ain't going to help much.
This is negative for the whole financial system, I believe.
I expect AIG to trade down today. Could trade to $32 or possibly even lower.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (and "Economic Tips for Limiting Your Pumpkin Pie Intake")
A repost from last year:
Half day on Friday. A couple pictures at other websites.
From Environmental Capital:
Serve yourself (AP)
From Dealbreaker:
(I was creeped me out the
first time I saw it on the show,
now it's kinda grown on me)
And from Economix:
Matthew Moore (Creative Commons license)
On Tuesday we posted a neat video with Dan Ariely, a Duke behavioral economist, about tips for limiting your spending. As it turns out, Ezra Klein at The Washington Post wisely asked Professor Ariely how to apply those same economic principles to help readers limit another kind of consumption: Thanksgiving food.
Professor Ariely had a few suggestions for ways to reduce your turkey intake. They include:
1) “Move to chopsticks!” Or, barring that, smaller plates and utensils....MORE
Dollar Sliding Into New Trading Range
From MarketBeat:
The euro hit a fresh high for 2009 at $1.5144 as selloff in the greenback took another big jump in New York afternoon trading....
Making this pronouncement from a week ago look a bit silly:
I don't have anything concrete I can point to but 1.50 EUR/USD almost feels as if someone has drawn a line in the sand. As more and more money piles into the trade without movement past that line you start to lose the mo-mo traders and the psychology can shift fast.
If the buck were to turn and head back to say, 1.20, the results for equities and gold would be painful.
I'm just sayin'...
It's either one of those "I may be in error but never in doubt" statements a rookie would never refer back to or it's a Maxwell Smart moment: "Missed it by thissss much".
[or it's like spring '08 when you said $1.53 and we went to $1.59 in July -ed]
I'm leaning toward Humble Student of the Markets' interpretation:
As good market analysts know, when the public gets on board a story, chances are everyone is already in the trade and the trend is likely to reverse soon. So it is with interest that I got the following viral email entitled "What good is a Dollar?"
The answers: Make a penguin
A dragon:
Butterfly:
Scorpion:
You get the idea. With investor bearishness on the US Dollar at an extreme reading, who is left to sell?
Goldman Sachs on Track to Lowest Closing Price Since November (GS; BRK.A) and "Hedge Funds Beating Warren on Big Bet"
I know Mr. Buffett said he'd hold the warrants until the day before expiration but still...
From Bespoke Investment Group:
While there probably aren't a lot of people shedding tears over it, the stock of Goldman Sachs (GS) can't seem to get out of its own way. We've highlighted the relative weakness in this stock several times over the last few weeks, so this shouldn't come as any surprise, but GS is now on pace to close at its lowest levels since early November. Politicians in Washington and conspiracy theorists may be rejoicing in Goldman's misery, but if there's one thing Goldman employees can be thankful for it is that with the stock lagging the overall market, the intensity of public backlash directed towards the company seems to have abated. Next thing you know, the conspiracy theorists will claim that 'evil' Goldman is purposely making their stock weak just so they can buy back the stock at lower prices.
From CNBC:
Hedge Funds Take Early Lead in Warren Buffett's 'Big Bet'
Warren Buffett is losing his "big bet" against a collection of hedge funds, but it's still early in the game.
Buffett and Protégé Partners LLC of New York City started a 10-year wager last year.
With a Treasury bond that will be worth $1 million at stake, Buffett has put real money behind his contention that an S&P 500 index fund will outperform five funds-of-hedge-funds over a decade, after all fees and expenses. (The money goes to the winner's favorite charity.)
Buffett is represented by Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares (VFIAX). Protégé chose the five funds-of-funds. (Buffett knows the names of the five funds, but they are not being publicly revealed.)
Now, Fortune's Carol Loomis writes, the results for 2008 are in (it took awhile for all the funds to submit audited financial statements) .. and .. the hedge funds "soundly whipped" the index.
They fell, on average and net of all expenses and fees, only 23.9 percent. That's not great, but its still much better than the Vanguard index fund's 37 percent plunge, even with the index fund's much smaller fees and expenses....MORE
How Carbon Bill Would Hit Valero Energy (VLO)
From our Aug. 4 post "U.S. refiners see shakeout under climate change bill (TSO;VLO)":
...It would appear that the House climate bill was a disguised gasoline tax with the political advantages of being opaque and outsourcing the actual tax collection to mercenaries (i.e. carbon traders).
Oops, don't want to forget the grab-bag of goodies to every special interest that could get their snout in the trough, which of course will be recycled into campaign contributions.
A perfect bill!
You probably recognize the snarker as yours truly.
Valero Energy's Bill Klesse says a carbon permit system will hasten the demise of America's oil refiners. It sure won't help any
William Klesse, chief executive of oil refiner Valero Energy, is riled up. "I think cap-and-trade is ludicrous," he says. "The whole bill is a hidden tax." The so-called climate bill wending its way through the Senate aims to create a cap-and-trade regime covering emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If it passes in anything close to its current form, the bill would milk more carbon cash (payments to the government for the right to pollute) out of refiners than any other industry--somewhere between $30 billion and $110 billion a year. Valero, as America's biggest refiner (2.4 million barrels a day), would pay on the order of $7 billion a year.
The numbers are massive because the bill would hit refiners twice. First they would have to pay for allocations covering the carbon emissions from their factories (roughly 5% of total U.S. emissions). Then they would also be responsible for the tailpipe emissions from the combustion of all the automotive fuels they sell (roughly 40% of U.S. emissions). Klesse, 62, moans that politicians are "picking winners and losers" in figuring emissions allocations.
One problem with this analysis: It's motorists who will pay, as refiners simply tack carbon costs onto the price of gasoline. Valero Energy ( VLO) admits as much: Placards posted atop each pump at Valero's 5,800 branded gas stations feature the iconic illustration of a finger-pointing Uncle Sam and the words, "You will pay the price." The sign says that cap-and-trade "will cost you 77 cents or more a gallon."
One thing Klesse does not need is yet another reason for people to buy less of his product....MORE
Valero Chief Klesse Bets All on Beating Climate Bill (VLO)
VeraSun clears Valero's $477 million ethanol bid (VLO)
The Summer Of Algae
Handy-Dandy Bubble Checklist
Lifted from Kedrosky:
A handy-dandy bubble checklist, where "EM" is the current "emerging markets" fun.
The post I was actually going for was "Tail Risks II: Extreme Events in Society and the Economy":
Great new Watson Wyatt report on extreme risks in society and economics...
Robert Prechter on Monday moved to 200% short
UPDATE: (Dec. 15) From Elliot Wave International:
Popular Culture and the Stock Market
The following article is adapted from a special report on "Popular Culture and the Stock Market" by Robert Prechter. Although originally published in 1985, the report remains so timeless and relevant that USA Today described its insights in a recent Nov. 2009 article. For the rest of this revealing 50-page report, download it for free here.
Both a study of the stock market and a study of trends in popular attitudes support the conclusion that the movement of aggregate stock prices is a direct recording of mood and mood change within the investment community, and by extension, within the society at large. It is clear that extremes in popular cultural trends coincide with extremes in stock prices, since they peak and trough coincidentally in their reflection of the popular mood. The stock market is the best place to study mood change because it is the only field of mass behavior where specific, detailed, and voluminous numerical data exists. It was only with such data that R.N. Elliott was able to discover the Wave Principle, which reveals that mass mood changes are natural, rhythmic and precise. The stock market is literally a drawing of how the scales of mass mood are tipping. A decline indicates an increasing 'negative' mood on balance, and an advance indicates an increasing 'positive' mood on balance....MORE
Back in August I started a post on Prechter with:
Be very skeptical when speaking to an Elliotician. Their "alternative wave counts" mean that they can go back to any prognostication and say they just misread the waves. Sometimes I think I should just stick with my yummy chicken entrails and tea leaves recipe, but then the wavers go and get one right. Who knows?...
That was Aug. 31 and he was calling the end of the bull rally. Here he is again, doubling down.
From MarketWatch:
It might not exactly be news that Robert Prechter, the famous follower of the Elliott Wave theory, is bearish on the U.S. stock market.
That's because he has been playing the equity market from the short side for quite some time now.
But what is news is that, earlier this week, he became even more aggressively bearish than usual: He is now recommending that traders allocate 200% of their stock trading portfolios to shorting the stock market.
What should be your response to Prechter's latest advice?
There is no easy answer, unfortunately.
But this question does raise a whole range of fascinating issues having to do with how best to interpret not just his, but any adviser's, track record.
On the one hand, Prechter's advice over the last couple of years has been top-rated. It's not just that he was bearish during the financial meltdown -- he also did a good job of playing the various intermediate-term corrections along the way.
Consider, for example, the issue of the Elliott Wave Financial Forecast that was sent out at the end of August 2008, some 15 months ago. This issue, edited by Prechter colleagues Steven Hochberg and Pete Kendall, appeared just two weeks before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. Soon thereafter, of course, the entire financial system came dangerously close to becoming completely unraveled, and the stock market went into a free-fall from which didn't finally stop until March of this year.
Hochberg and Kendall wrote: "The stock market is building up the necessary reserves for its next major move, a third wave decline at multiple degrees of trend. This should be the strongest decline of the bear market to date."
Right on target, as we now know.
Furthermore, only a couple of weeks after the March lows earlier this year, Prechter and his colleagues reduced their short-side exposure, anticipating that the rally would continue for some time....MORE
Energy Push Spurs Shift in U.S. Science
Friends and regular readers know that I am a fan of really fast computers.
The U.S. National Laboratories are well represented on the "Top 500" list, with the new heavyweight titleholder being the Jaguar-Cray monster at Oak Ridge which clocks in at 2331.00 TeraFLOPS (Rpeak). Los Alamos has the world's second fastest with Lawrence Livermore, Argonne and Sandia also making the Top10.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- The Obama administration's push to solve the nation's energy problems, a massive federal program that rivals the Manhattan Project, is spurring a once-in-a-generation shift in U.S. science.
The government's multibillion-dollar push into energy research is reinvigorating 17 giant U.S.-funded research facilities, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory here to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. After many years of flat budgets, these labs are ramping up to develop new electricity sources, trying to build more-efficient cars and addressing climate change....
...These efforts mark a third wave of spending at national labs such as Oak Ridge, a vast complex of woods and research facilities not far from Knoxville, Tenn. Oak Ridge was one of three labs set up to help build the atomic bomb during World War II. It boomed again during America's energy-independence push in the 1970s.
Oak Ridge plans to increase its staff by 25%, or 800 positions, over the next 18 months -- even as its neighbor, the University of Tennessee, has lost state funding and pared back faculty searches.
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"We have a renewed sense of mission and urgency," says Oak Ridge's director, Thom Mason.
Critics of big government say the Obama energy plan gives politicians too big a role in how the nation conducts science, just as they fret about the government's increased role in the financial sector. They also question whether the government's funding push is sustainable amid mounting budget deficits.
Others, in academics and industry, say that while government-funded research has made big gains, including advances in DNA mapping and magnetic-resonance imaging, the cost of administering such research is unnecessarily high. University-funded pure research has its own string of successes in areas from physics and chemistry to biomedicine and genetics, they say, including breakthroughs that led to the laser, pacemaker, ultrasound technology and rocket fuel.
"Most of our great breakthroughs have not been through [top-down government] funding," says Michael Witherell, a former head of the government-funded Fermilab and now vice chancellor for research at the University of California in Santa Barbara....MORE
HT: The Big Picture
Last week the Journal's Environmental Capital had a Post "Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?" that intrigued the heck out of us.
Commodities: "Is China preparing for a vampire attack?"
How the heck did I miss this trade?
[maybe you were preoccupied with all the babbling about the grease/tallow/lard complex? -ed]
From FT Alphaville:
We’ll get right to the point: garlic has outperformed gold and stocks in China becoming the country’s best performing asset this year, according to a Reuters report.
And no, the trigger has not been a sudden fear of vampire squids in China, but the idea the bulb could be used to ward off H1N1 flu, according to Morgan Stanley economists cited by the news wire.
Bear with us because the story does get weirder. As Reuters reported:
That chimes with some anecdotal evidence. The China Daily reported last week that a high school in Hangzhou, a prosperous city in eastern China, had bought 200 kg of garlic and forced students to eat it every day for lunch to stay healthy. “I don’t know about H1N1, but it can prevent ordinary colds,” Zhang Ping, 74, told Reuters at a vegetable market in Beijing. “Take me. I’ve not had cold for many years and every year I buy several dozen pounds of garlic.”
Others have been looking for darker forces behind the surge. China Business News said coal mine bosses — who are often depicted as being both extremely rich and nefarious speculators — had been playing the garlic market, hoarding bulbs and hauling them between storehouses.
Dark forces in the form of rich and nefarious coal-mining speculators? (Sounds like - ahem - vampires to us.)
Nevertheless, there is a serious note to all this garlic madness....MORE
Speculators Turn From Oil To Gold And Copper
Last Friday I had a comment on the MarketBeat post "Gold Prices: $6,300 by 2065?":
Climateer wrote:
Better gold than oil.
I’ve got no problem with non-consumables being all the rage.
If someone wants to bid 2500 guilders per bulb for their tulips, have at it.
The standard reference for gold is Professor Roy Jastrom’s “The Golden Constant” originally published by Wiley.
Here’s a quick overview by Jill Leyland, currently a Vice President of the Royal Statistical Society
http://www.gold.org/assets/file/pub_archive/pdf/GoldCons_Summary_Final3_US_med.pdf
You could’ve done what I did to research the behavior of gold under deflation: head out to the Homestake mine the month Barrick was boxing up HM’s records for the archivists. Since you can’t do that now, the next best thing is the May 1, ‘09 reprinting of Jastam’s classic by Edward Elgar Publishing, updated by the above mentioned Ms. Leyland.
Amazon is sold out, there’s 1 copy being offered on ebay for $176.84.
Today the Wall Street Journal's The Source blog writes:
Something rather odd has happened to all that hot speculative cash that was flowing into oil. It’s drained away and is flooding instead into gold and copper–but that doesn’t necessarily mean you should jump from energy company shares into mining shares.
Take a look at oil first. In the futures market, the price of crude surged from less than $33 per barrel in January to $82 last month, but has since drifted back to around $76.
And in truth that’s no surprise given the glut of crude and oil products that’s sitting in ships around the coast waiting for someone to buy it. Why speculate on something there’s too much of?
So, instead, the money’s coursing into gold and copper. The price of the former is hitting new records by the hour–above $1180 per ounce earlier today, compared with less than $700 little more than a year ago. The latter is hitting new highs for the year on a daily basis too.
At one level, that doesn’t make much sense. There’s no income from gold and copper and, indeed, you have to pay to store and insure the stuff if you dabble in the physical markets rather than futures....MORE
In his gloomiest prediction yet, Marc Faber sees big financial bust leading to war
From BusinessIntelligence Middle East:
Marc Faber, the Swiss fund manager and Gloom Boom & Doom editor, said eventually there will be a big bust and then the whole credit expansion will come to an end. Before that happens, governments will continue printing money which in time will lead to a very high inflation rate, and the economy will not respond to continued stimulus.
Speaking at a conference in Singapore on Wednesday, Faber said: "The crisis has not solved anything. On the contrary there is less transparency today than there was before. The government's balance sheet is expanding, and the abuses that have led to the one cause of the crisis have continued".
"I think eventually there will be a big bust and then the whole credit expansion will come to an end," Faber added.
"Before that happens, governments will continue printing money which in time will lead to a very high inflation rate, and the economy will not respond to stimulus".
In one of his Gloomiest predictions, Faber, referred to as Dr Doom, said "the average family will be hurt by that, and then in order to distract the attention of the people, the governments will go to war"....MORE
HT: Mish who comments:
...Faber: Eventually there will be a big bust and then the whole credit expansion will come to an end. Before that happens, governments will continue printing money which in time will lead to a very high inflation rate, and the economy will not respond to stimulus.
Mish: The economy is not responding to stimulus right now, at least in any meaningful way. 100% of the GDP growth was directly related to government stimulus. The idea that government spending can start a genuine economic recovery is ridiculous. Nonetheless, government spending can start an artificial boom. The housing bubble is an example of an artificial boom. However, for a boom to start, individuals and businesses have to be willing to go along. That is the way it works in a credit based economy. Right now personal credit is contracting, credit card lending is falling, and businesses simply do not want to expand in the face of tax increases and high unemployment. Unless and until the Fed reignites another credit boom, high inflation is unlikely. The fear now should be more of what Congress does than what the Fed does. Yet it seems Congress is getting a bit leery over these huge deficits. Congress will spend of course, but will it be enough to matter much? I doubt it, at least until we have more purging of consumer and corporate debt via bankruptcy.
Faber: US government will increase its stimulus spending should the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fall toward 900.
Mish: Agreed but it will not help for reasons stated above.
Faber: The S&P will not drop below 800 or 900, and eventually will go higher in nominal terms, but not necessary in real terms. A correction is coming in the near term.
Mish: I doubt the bottom is in, but it could be. If it is in, then I expect a retest closer to 700 than 900. It is conceivable the S&P drops to 500, which by the way I think is fair value. Japan had two lost decades and I expect the US will have them as well....MORE
Deere Posts Net Loss; 2010 Forecast Trails Estimates (DE)
In early pre-market trade the stock is down 79 cents at $51.50 after hitting a 52-week high yesterday.
Deere & Co., the world’s largest maker of farm equipment, posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $222.8 million and forecast 2010 profit that trails analysts’ estimates as the recession reduces demand from growers.
The net loss of 53 cents a share compares with profit of $345 million, or 81 cents, a year earlier, Moline, Illinois- based Deere said today in a statement. Profit in the year starting Nov. 1 will be $900 million, less than the $1.15 billion average estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Chief Executive Officer Samuel Allen recorded a $321.8 million charge in the quarter related to a decline in the value of the landscape supply business and to give voluntary separation packages to 800 workers. Equipment sales fell 30 percent in the quarter and will be down about 1 percent in fiscal 2010, Deere said.
“Farmers are expected to be cautious in their purchasing decisions as a result of sluggish overall economic conditions and near-term profitability issues in the livestock and dairy sectors,” the company said in the statement....MORE
From StreetInsider:
Deere's (NYSE: DE) FY10 net forecast equals about EPS of $2.14. The Street is currently looking for FY10 EPS of $2.68.
Talison Lithium Limited Announces Initial Public Offering (Simultaneous Toronto, Australian IPO)
Talison Lithium Seeks Up to A$196 Million in Initial Share Sale
Talison Lithium Ltd., producer of almost quarter of the world’s lithium, is seeking to raise as much as A$196 million ($181 million) in an initial public offering in Canada and Australia to pay debt.
Talison, which mines lithium in Western Australia state, is seeking to sell 35 million new shares at a range of between A$4.10 and A$5.10 each as part of a proposed dual listing in Toronto and Sydney, the company said today in an e-mailed statement. Resource Capital Funds IV LP may sell as much as 3.5 million of its shares in Talison, the statement said....
...Rothschild Australia Ltd. is advising Talison and Macquarie Group Ltd. is managing the sale in Australia, Talison said. The company will soon start marketing the offer to Australian and Asian institutional investors, it said.
The Canadian IPO will be underwritten by a group led by Cornmark Securities Inc. and including Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd., BMO Capital Markets, CIBC World Markets Inc., Paradigm Capital Inc. and Raymond James Ltd....MORE
From The Age via the Sydney Morning Herald:
Talison to mine the market in $197 million float
Mexicans Send Money North To Help Relatives In U.S.
From Boom2Bust:
...And, in a surprising turn of events, Mexicans are now sending money north to family members in the United States who have fallen upon hard times. From the New York Times last week:
During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of whack and his son out of work, Salcedo finds himself doing what he never imagined he would have to do: wiring pesos north.
Unemployment has hit migrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling new phenomenon has been detected: instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States....MORE
How Bad is It? Immigrants Leaving Great Britain, U.S.
Not emigrants, these are immigrants leaving....
In August '08:
Illegal Immigrants Returning to Mexico in Record Numbers
September '08:
California’s doldrums sending some immigrant laborers home
Then in October '08:
Polish immigrants leaving Britain: What the Poles did for us
Britain's Polish workers are heading home in search of a better life – and it's our loss, says Harry de Quetteville.
Finally, in the last month there has been a flurry of stories,:
Decision to return to Mexico becomes a question of family for local immigrants
Tough Economy Making Illegal Immigrants Return to Homelands
New loan program seeks to aid Mexican workers returning home
Immigrants Return Home
Amazing signposts on the road to economic perdition.
It's been going on a while, each recession gets a bit worse, from a 2002 Federal Reserve Board Open Market Committee transcript:
“There is growing anecdotal evidence that this may be due to Mexican immigrants departing the United States in search of a better life in Mexico”
States Mull ‘Plan B’ Carbon Market as U.S. Climate Bill Falters (Money, Money, Money...)
Cash-strapped states in search of new revenue may establish their own “cap-and-trade” program for greenhouse gases covering more than half the U.S. economy if Congress doesn’t set up a federal emissions market.
“Plan A is we get a federal cap-and-trade program,” Judi Greenwald, a vice president at the Arlington, Virginia-based Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said by phone. State-enforced greenhouse gas limits “can be a credible Plan B.”
Ten Northeastern states already have a cap-and-trade program for power plants and raised $432.8 million from carbon dioxide permit sales since September 2008. Two other multistate coalitions plan to start cap-and-trade programs in 2012 that would cover power plants and other pollution sources such as factories, cars and trucks....
...New York Diversion
New York, the largest member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, is considering the diversion of $90 million raised through permit auctions as part of a $5 billion deficit- reduction plan. The auction revenue was originally earmarked for energy efficiency, renewable energy and consumer aid.
Other states working to close their budget deficits could turn to cap-and-trade revenue as “one small piece of the solution,” Nicholas Johnson, the state fiscal project director at the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said by phone.
Instead of coupling “one big revenue piece” with the spending cuts needed to balance their budgets, states are raising taxes and fees “a bit here and a bit there,” Johnson said. “That’s where something like revenue from a cap-and-trade system comes in.”
While each state in the Northeast cap-and-trade program decides how many permits to sell and how many to issue for free, as a group they are auctioning 87 percent of their carbon dioxide allowances. In the Western Climate Initiative, state officials drawing up the rules of the cap-and-trade program want at least 10 percent of the carbon permits to be auctioned.
California Auction
California, the largest member of the Western Climate Initiative, will definitely auction some of its carbon dioxide permits, Michael Gibbs, an assistant secretary at the state’s Environmental Protection Agency, said in an interview. California’s first auction is planned for late 2011, Gibbs said....MORE
A colloquium of esteemed Political Economists on the nuanced issues essential to understanding this complex topic:
"Brown Brother Regarding Banks" and "IMF's Strauss-Kahn Says Half of Bank Losses Are Undisclosed" (FAS; FAZ)
First up, from Across the Curve:
Heightened concerns about the global banking sector are front and center today. There are two press articles to note. The first is the FAZ story warning that the two regional banks that hold a majority stake in West LB indicate they are prepared to let the bank become insolvent. This may be an attempt to force capital injections by the German government. At least 6 bln euros may be needed by the end of the month. The second is an FT article reporting on an S&P study on the financial strength of large banks ahead of the new revised Basel II rules expected early next year. Simply put, some banks are better capitalized than others. S&P says, for example, that Japanese banks are among the least capitalized. Fitch echoed this sentiment noting the weak loan quality and poor capitalization by international standards. The Topix bank share index lost almost 4% today. At 131.12, it is within a few percentage points off the multiyear low set in March near 125.65 and puts the index 30% off the highs set in mid-June...MORE
And from Bloomberg:
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that about half of bank losses from the global financial crisis have yet to be revealed.
“It is our view we are still in the situation where a lot of losses haven’t been disclosed,” Strauss-Kahn said during questions at the Confederation of British Industry’s conference in London today. “How much is a difficult assessment, but let’s say something which is close to half of it.”
Banking systems “remain undercapitalized” in many advanced economies with “far from normal” financial conditions, Strauss-Kahn said in a speech to the conference. The IMF said in September that banks may have $1.5 trillion in toxic debt remaining on their books, which may hurt credit markets and stifle the global economic recovery.
“Probably a little more has been disclosed in the U.S. and a little less in Europe, but it’s almost half and half,” Strauss-Kahn said. “So, we still have a long way to go.”>>>MORE
First Solar sells Riverside County facility to NRG Energy (FSLR; NRG)
More NRG news. Following up on "Q&A with NRG's David Crane: the full version" and Friday's "NRG Energy: 'Wholesale' power play (NRG)" we'll go with Money & Company's early take on the FSLR sale:
Photovoltaics producer First Solar Inc. sold a 21-megawatt Riverside County solar facility to leading power company NRG Energy Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the company said today.
First Solar, based in Tempe, Ariz., is building the project in Blythe and has worked out a 20-year power purchase agreement to sell the electricity to Southern California Edison. The plant is expected to generate more than 45,000 megawatt-hours per year, offsetting more than 12,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in that period.
Construction, which began in September and should be completed by the end of the year, created 175 jobs, according to the company. First Solar will operate and maintain the facility under the agreement with NRG, which is based in Princeton, N.J.
Q&A with NRG's David Crane: the full version
From the Houston Chronicle:
Last week I sat down with NRG Energy CEO David Crane after the company's two-day analyst meeting here in Houston. We ran an abbreviated version of the Q&A in Sunday's Chronicle but we needed to edit it down greatly for space. So here's a lengthier version which includes more of Crane's thougths on electric cars, including his own Tesla.
Q: At your analyst meeting in Houston [last week] all your talk about renewable energy made you sound more a regulated California utility than an independent power producer. Why such a dramatic change?
A: To me there's no doubt that in terms of investor perception there are benefit to us of a significantly greener portfolio, or decarbonizing our portfolio. To paraphrase Bob Lutz at GM, who said he wants to take environmental issues out of the car buying equation, I feel the same way about investing in us. Whether investors know it or not there's a drag on our stock that comes with the fact that a good amount of our revenues come from traditional coal plants. That's the 20th century and we need to be developing a portfolio for the 21st century, which is not 'no coal' but it's certainly a difference balance that it is now.
Q: Why is this now a liability to investors, having this strong, cheap baseload coal capacity?
A: On the political front, this idea of renewable portfolio standards [requiring a certain percentage of energy generation come from renewable sources] has been popular in both red state and blue states. There's no more obvious example than Texas. But certainly the election of the Obama administration in a time of financial crisis just accelerates the trend. Because they start talking about a federal renewable portfolio standard, which could increase the amount of renewable energy output in the country by two or three times.
The stimulus for certain types of technology is the only source of money out there. And the executive branch specifically said there will be $80 billion in loan guarantees through the Department of Energy, the vast majority of which is going to low- or no-carbon. There's no money in there for traditional coal plants. The EPA is also being more assertive in its plans to regulate CO2, so that has focused the mind that that's the way we're going....MUCH MORE
Société Générale's Albert Edwards: "Deep 2010 downturn could yet trigger trade war and yuan devaluation"
I wondered where Albert was. From FT Alphaville:
The perfect riposte to Monday’s equity market rally has arrived: the latest Global Strategy Weekly from Soc Gen’s Albert Edwards.
And while the headline rather gives things away, here are some selected highlights for all the bears out there.
(NB Edwards has just returned from a two week trip to Asia).
I think the next 18 months will see major ructions in the financial markets.The consequences of a double-dip back into recession next year require some lateral thinking. If the carry trade unwind results in a turbo-charged dollar, any collapse in the China economic bubble will be doubly destructive to commodity prices. A surging dollar, coupled with China moving into sustained trade deficit through 2010, could prompt the Chinese authorities to acquiesce to US pressure for a more flexible exchange rate. But why does no-one expect a yuan devaluation?
Imagine we are in the middle of 2010. Imagine the western economies (plus Japan) are sliding back into recession as the lack of additional fiscal stimulus reduces 2010 GDP growth back to its weak underlying rate (deficits need to widen to boost the economy). Imagine also that in 2010 the Chinese economy is beginning to roll over. China’s vulnerability is perhaps far higher than the bulls suppose, having engaged in the same sort of recession defying stimulus as the US in 2003....MORE
Do Corrupt Scientists Produce Corrupted Science?: The Climatic Research Unit E-mails
It's the question I've been asking myself since the University of East Anglia CRU emails surfaced last week. I don't have an answer despite having read about a third of the emails.
For guidance I sought out a bongo player-slash-raconteur.
Here's the musician riffing on science:
"...It is interesting, therefore, to bring it out now and speak of it explicitly. It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty -- a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid -- not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -- to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can -- if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong -- to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.
In summary, the idea is to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another...."
Long time readers will recognize the words of amateur magician and author, Richard Feynman.
He had a wide variety of interests, for example in 1965 he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work in quantum eletrodynamics.
The above snip is from his 1974 Cal Tech commencement address "Cargo Cult Science".
(here's the version at leninism.org)
We've linked to that speech a couple times, most recently in "Gates Puts Feynman Lectures Online"
During the same speech he went on to say:
"....I would like to add something that's not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you're talking as a scientist. I am not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you're not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We'll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.
For example, I was a little surprised when I was talking to a friend who was going to go on the radio. He does work on cosmology and astronomy, and he wondered how he would explain what the applications of his work were. "Well", I said, "there aren't any". He said, "Yes, but then we won't get support for more research of this kind". I think that's kind of dishonest. If you're representing yourself as a scientist, then you should explain to the layman what you're doing -- and if they don't support you under those circumstances, then that's their decision.
One example of the principle is this: If you've made up your mind to test a theory, or you want to explain some idea, you should always decide to publish it whichever way it comes out. If we only publish results of a certain kind, we can make the argument look good. We must publish BOTH kinds of results.
I say that's also important in giving certain types of government advice. Supposing a senator asked you for advice about whether drilling a hole should be done in his state; and you decide it would be better in some other state. If you don't publish such a result, it seems to me you're not giving scientific advice. You're being used. If your answer happens to come out in the direction the government or the politicians like, they can use it as an argument in their favor; if it comes out the other way, they don't publish at all. That's not giving scientific advice...."
When Congress wanted to know why the hell the space shuttle Challenger blew up he was the one they asked. Something about integrity.
Here's a Feynman quote:
Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
-Richard Feynman
Here's one he would have liked:
Feynman joke (okay, a bit deep)
If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft
Interviewer: "Now comes the part of the interview where we ask a question to test your creative thinking ability. Don't think too hard about it, just apply everyday common sense, and describe your reasoning process."
"Here's the question: Why are manhole covers round?"
Feynman: "They're not. Some manhole covers are square. It's true that there are SOME round ones, but I've seen square ones, and rectangular ones."
Interviewer: "But just considering the round ones, why are they round?"
Feynman: "If we are just considering the round ones, then they are round by definition. That statement is a tautology."
Interviewer: "I mean, why are there round ones at all? Is there some particular value to having round ones?"
Feynman: "Yes. Round covers are used when the hole they are covering up is also round. It's simplest to cover a round hole with a round cover."
Interviewer: "Can you think of a property of round covers that gives them an advantage over square ones?"
Feynman: "We have to look at what is under the cover to answer that question. The hole below the cover is round because a cylinder is the strongest shape against the compression of the earth around it. Also, the term "manhole" implies a passage big enough for a man, and a human being climbing down a ladder is roughly circular in cross-section. So a cylindrical pipe is the natural shape for manholes. The covers are simply the shape needed to cover up a cylinder."
Interviewer: "Do you believe there is a safety issue? I mean, couldn't square covers fall into the hole and hurt someone?"
Feynman: "Not likely. Square covers are sometimes used on prefabricated vaults where the access passage is also square. The cover is larger than the passage, and sits on a ledge that supports it along the entire perimeter. The covers are usually made of solid metal and are very heavy. Let's assume a two-foot square opening and a ledge width of 1-1/2 inches. In order to get it to fall in, you would have to lift one side of the cover, then rotate it 30 degrees so that the cover would clear the ledge, and then tilt the cover up nearly 45 degrees from horizontal before the center of gravity would shift enough for it to fall in. Yes, it's possible, but very unlikely. The people authorized to open manhole covers could easily be trained to do it safely. Applying common engineering sense, the shape of a manhole cover is entirely determined by the shape of the opening it is intended to cover."
Interviewer (troubled): "Excuse me a moment; I have to discuss something with my management team."
(Leaves room.)
(Interviewer returns after 10 minutes)
Interviewer: "We are going to recommend you for immediate hiring into the marketing department."
Commodities: "Dr. Copper: Still Rising, Despite Large Stockpiles"
Back in June we wrote "Copper Prices Rise as Dollar Slumps, Auto Sales Soar in China":
So you don't think we're some cupric come lately, we posted "Gold & silver vs. copper & uranium" March 12, the week that Cu started a move which to date has resulted in 11 out of 13 up-weeks (it was also up in January and February but I had other fish to fry)....
Copper soared 5% last week to $3.1050 per pound on Comex. This year, the metal has more than doubled, rising 123%, The Journal reports. But Copper’s ongoing run-up is coming in the face of growing stockpiles of the metal.
The Journal’s Carolyn Cui and Andrea Hotter report that the stockpiles at London Metal Exchange warehouses are at their highest level since April. In China, the world’s biggest consumer of the metal, copper, stocks have risen sixfold at the Shanghai Futures Exchange this year....MORE
Some of our previous copper posts:
Gold & silver vs. copper & uranium
Chinese stockpiling spurs copper price rally
China Goes to Copper Currency Standard
Okay, that headline has not been endorsed by China's Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, but our old pal Ambrose Evans-Pritchard makes a connection in a sharp bit of analysis at our last link....
"Buy Zinc" (Not Really)
With the exception of copper I have not been following the base metals preferring instead the relative tranquility of the lard/grease/tallow complex*.
Any losses suffered as a result of this post should be blamed on Adam Boyer and/or Money Morning Australia.
*See "Volatility Getting You Down, Bunky?":
Maybe it's time you looked into the tallow market.
The tallow/grease/lard complex has been traded for five thousand years:
Honey I'm home!
Hi dear, anything new in tallow?
Nope. Same ol', same ol'.
Here's a long term forecast for tallow:
Figure 1: Tallow and Crude Oil Prices: New Zealand Dollars per Litre...
MYTHS OF ASSET REFLATION EXPLAINED
From The Pragmatic Capitalist:
JP Morgan was out with an excellent piece of research explaining (and defending) their opinions on many of the market myths that are currently swirling regarding the government’s response to the crisis and the reaction by various asset classes. Is the Fed blowing bubbles? Aren’t we repeating the problems of our past? JP Morgan explains:
What is asset reflation? It is the broad rally in all major asset classes—bonds, equities, and alternatives.
What drives it? A record low return on cash and falling uncertainty and volatility are inducing investors to flee into any asset that promises positive returns. We do not need economic data to surprise on the upside. It is enough and even better if data merely come out as expected.
What assets gain most? The higher the yield and risk on the asset, the higher the return from asset reflation.
What will upset it? Uncertainty from either renewed downside risks on the economy, or sudden rises in inflation risks that require premature rate hikes. Several central banks have started hiking rates and will be joined by others in coming months. Will that not upset the asset reflation trade? No offense, but it is only the monetary policy rates of the biggest central banks that matter here.
And what about major central banks starting the normalization process by removing excess liquidity and reserves or the unwinding of money market support measures? By our thinking, it is the price of money, rather than its quantity, that matters most. Hence, mopping up excess reserves without pushing up money rates should not impede asset reflation....MORE
Commodities: "Corn Mountains Growing "
Back on Oct. 2 we got a heads-up from Dr. Hazlett of Kansas' Climate+Energy project and posted "Commodities: "Harvest sure to overwhelm already full elevators". Here's an update from DTN's Market Matters blog:
A million-ton corn mountain has been built at the Central Valley Ag Oakland, Nebraska, and its twin isn't far behind.
They are taking in about 250,000 bushels of corn each day now, Tracy Denton, CVA eastern territory grain manager, told me, and they are drying 7,000 bushels an hour.
Moisture on corn coming in now is running mostly between 18 and 20 percent, about 3 points below a couple weeks ago, but is still an issue, Denton said.
The corn piled on the ground is typical for this time of year, but the big yields are "making it hard on everybody," Denton said. Harvest is no more than about 50 percent complete in this part of northeastern Nebraska, he said, adding that he hopes to be open to receive grain on Thanksgiving.
Supply concerns pushing Zinc's outperformance (Abe Vigoda Is alive!)
From Reuters via MineWeb:
Prices of the metal jumped over 2%, outpacing gains by other metals as speculative buyers jumped into the market
Shanghai zinc futures hit their highest level in 18 months on Friday and LME prices jumped more than 2%, outpacing gains in other base metals, on speculative buying fuelled by supply concerns.
Australia's Century zinc mine, which produces a third of the country's zinc output, was due to run out of concentrate at its shipping port earlier this week, prompting buyers to look for alternative sources.
A potential squeeze in zinc concentrate supply and higher power costs in China may force some smelters to cut production, a trader in Singapore said.
China will raise power prices for non-residential users by around 5.4% from Friday, its first increase since July 2008, to compensate grid firms that lost out from a state cap on prices....MORE
The Abe Vigoda reference is to a website, AbeVigoda.com, devoted to reporting Mr. Vigoda's mortal status (and nothing else).
That came up because I was recalling a story first told in "Buy Tin", referenced in "Climateer's Humiliation "Buy Tin". And: Chinese Stocks Drop the Most in Five Weeks; Dongfang Declines" and again in "The mystery investor who is turning the tin market on its head":
I bring this up because of one of our previous tin posts, "Buy Tin":
That was the cryptic message from a reformed metals trader this afternoon. No rationale, no investment thesis, just "buy tin".
I couldn't help thinking of the Barney Miller episode "Child Stealers".
Time traveler "Adam Boyer" comes back from 2057 and is hounded by Harris for stock tips:
[Harris, acting on a tip from a "twinkie" claiming to be a Sociology Professor from Columbia University who's traveled back in time from the year 2057 (played by the great character actor Richard Libertini), calls his broker to transfer his assets from gold bullion to the financial standard of the future--Zinc!!]:
"...no, no blue chips, either...I was thinking about Zinc!
(pause) Yeah, Zinc! What's it goin for these days? (writing the figure on a notepad)...Thirty seven and a half cents---a POUND??
(The "Professor" gives Harris an encouraging nod)
...Yeah, well, I might be willin' to spring for a coupla TONS!"
Since the episode aired in January 1980 and zinc today is $1.075, zinc didn't do so hot (but much better than gold, which hit $850 that same month). Here's Kitco's zinc chart....
I might be willin' to spring for a coupla tons.
InterContinentalExchange Cancels Dollar Spike
Update: MarketWatch has more via FT Alphaville, "My big fat dollar finger"
From Economic Policy Journal:
File under: Very Curious Event
A London-based official at ICE said that the exchange is cancelling trades on dollar index futures above 76.50, after a spike in the contact that saw it jump to 82.18. The official said they are still investigating the cause for the move. Recent trades showed the contract up 0.7% to 75.89.
Buffett Cuts Sweet Deal for Burlington Northern Loan (BRK.B; BNI)
From DealBook:
It’s no surprise that Warren E. Buffett can command enviable terms when it comes to bank loans. That’s the case with the $8 billion loan he is borrowing to take over the rest of railroad operator Burlington Northern for $26 billion.
Burlington Northern disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is borrowing the $8 billion from JPMorgan Chase (as administrative agent) and Wells Fargo (as syndication agent), paying about 1 percent to 2 percent over the London interbank offered rate, a common base for interest payments known as Libor.
The three-month Libor rate is currently .27 percent, magnitudes better than the 2.22 percent it was one year ago.
How can Mr. Buffett get such a good deal? As Paul Howard, a credit analyst, told Bloomberg News, Mr. Buffett probably has “a Rolodex full of potential creditors,” adding: “If he doesn’t like the terms of one, he’ll call the next one.”>>>MORE (links to Bloomberg story and SEC filing)
Even Iraqi prisoners hate Packers fans
From Foreign Policy's Passport blog:
As if Brett Favre isn't already a source of shame for denizens of Wisconsin, now Iraqi detainees are trying to use the sore spot to their advantage.
Iraqi prisoners at a detainment camp run by the Wisconsin National Guard have learned some English, unfortunately for the soldiers, it is mainly about the former pride of Green Bay.
"They know Favre by name," said First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen, who is from New Richmond, Wis.
"One of the big words they know now is shenanigan. They'll constantly talk about 'Favre shenanigans,'>>>MORE
Analyst Actions on Chinese Solars (CSUN; SOLF; STP; TSL)
From China Stock Analyst:
...China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:CSUN): Barclays Capital maintained Equal Weight rating on CSUN, and raised price target from $4.50 to $5.00. Jefferies & Company maintained Underperform rating on CSUN, and raised price target from $3.50 to $4.00. Cowen and Company maintained Neutral rating on CSUN. Lazarrod Capital Markets maintained Hold rating on CSUN.
...Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:SOLF): Barclays Capital maintained Underweight rating on SOLF, and raised price target from $3.20 to $4.00. Jefferies & Company maintained Underperform rating on SOLF, and raised price target from $4.50 to $5.75. Oppenheimer & Co. upgraded SOLF to Outperform from Perform, and assigned $10 price target to SOLF.
...Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE:STP): Barclays Capital maintained Equal Weight rating on STP, and raised price target from $14 to $15. JPMorgan upgraded STP to Overweight from Underweight, and raised price target to $19 from $8. Piper Jaffray maintained Neutral rating and $16 price target on STP. Macquarie maintained Underperform rating on STP, and raised price target from $13 to $13.50.
...Trina Solar Limited (NYSE:TSL): Barclays Capital maintained Equal Weight rating on TSL, and raised price target from $32.50 to $45.00. Macquarie reiterated Outperform rating on TSL, and raised price target to $55 from $44. Credit Suisse maintained Outperform rating on TSL, and raised price target from $40 to $60. Piper Jaffray reiterated Overweight rating and raised price target to $53 from $37.
Trina Solar Trumps Them All (TSL)
Trina is trading down 2.87% at $44.26. The stock is extended, having risen some 500+% from the March low.
That said. I don't think the headline overstates the advantages TSL has over the competition.
A couple years ago management had a reputation for lousy shareholder relations. No one talks about that now. Their design and execution of the company's business model has been superb.
From an almost fanatical attention to costs to the controversial June '08 decision to change the "functional currency" from the Renminbi to the buck, management has been ahead of the competition.
As I said yesterday:
"Trina is becoming recognized as the class of the field."
They bolstered the balance sheet with a follow-on stock offering that spanked the stock in the short run while setting the company up to deal with the credit crunch with a flexibility that their peers would kill for. You get the picture, I'm impressed.
From Motley Fool:
We've seen a lot of sunny solar reports this season. SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWRA) (Nasdaq: SPWRB) set a positive tone, which has been carried on by the likes of JA Solar (Nasdaq: JASO), Canadian Solar (Nasdaq: CSIQ), and Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE). Strong results, all, but Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL) truly stands out from the crowd this quarter.
Trina is just killing it as a cost leader in the manufacture of solar modules. In the third quarter, the Chinese shop achieved gross margins of 28.5%, well ahead of guidance....MORE
Here's the transcript of yesterday's earnings call.
We have quite a few posts on Trina, here are the results of a quick 'Search Blog". We've been following this one since April 2008, here's a post from September 11 of that year, four days before Lehman failed:
"...Trina has a very odd management style. On the one hand they have made blunder after blunder in shareholder relations. On the other, they have shown some very forward strategic thinking. One example is the move into the Italian market. They started that process a year ago when the rest of the industry was dreamin' Castilian. Trina is in Spain, but their work in developing an Italian business resulted in our July 29 post "Trina, Suntech in supply deals with Italy's Enel (STP; TSL; ENEI.MI)".
Enel is Italy's largest and Europe's second largest listed utility.
And why did we know they would be coming to the U.S.?
You need Underwriters Laboratory certification to sell here. From our June 13 post "Trina Solar Q1 Conference Call Transcript on the Currency Change (TSL) ":
Two points upfront, the currency change was not a one time, first quarter, event.
The change from the Renminbi is looking smart for a couple reasons:
1) TSL's geographic diversification (26% market share in Italy, 25% of projected second half sales see: Solar: Arrivederci Germania, Viva Italia!) includes a push into the U.S. where they are currently one of three Chinese manufacturers with U.L. certification, U.S. business will be 6% of shipments in the second half, up from zero....
This stuff isn't rocket surgery."
One BIG caveat, all the alt-energy companies are currently dependent on politicians for their survival. This means you really have to pay attention to the politics/policy mood or you might wake up one morning to find all the stocks down 60%.
The simple fact is: the electricity they produce is more expensive than the cost of current base-load. As Trina drives down costs they a) become more profitable and b) get closer to the Holy Grail of grid parity. They aren't there yet however.
Here's where they are:
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Founder of African American museum found dead in car trunk
The 75-year-old founder of an African American history museum in Louisiana was found dead in the trunk of a car in what police are calling a “heinous act.”
The body of Sadie Roberts-Joseph — also a community activist who teamed up with police on an anti-drug and -violence program — was discovered Friday afternoon in the vehicle about 3 miles from her home, police said.
“Ms. Sadie was a tireless advocate of peace,” the Baton Rouge Police Department said in a statement. “Our detectives are working diligently to bring the person or persons responsible for this heinous act to justice.”
One of Roberts-Joseph’s 11 siblings, Beatrice Johnson, told The Advocate that her sister came over earlier Friday to bake some cornbread after her oven gave out.
“The bread is still there,” Johnson said. “She never came back to get it.”
According to The Advocate, Roberts-Joseph founded the Baton Rouge African American Museum in 2001 and was its curator.
She also organized an annual Juneteenth festival at the museum, marking the date June 19, 1865, when announcement of the abolition of slavery in the US state of Texas was made.
Louisiana state Rep. C. Denise Marcelle called Roberts-Joseph an “amazing woman” who loved history.
“My heart is empty … as I learned last night that Ms. Sadie Roberts Joseph was found murdered!” Marcelle said in a statement posted on Facebook. “She never bothered anyone, just wanted to expand her African American Museum downtown… loved working with her and am saddened by her death…. whoever knows what happened to her, please contact the authorities and say something.”
Police said an autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.
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Neither male nor female: Why some nonbinary people are 'microdosing' hormones
The goal is to appear "somewhere in the middle" on the gender spectrum, one nonbinary Los Angeles resident said.
July 13, 2019, 1:53 PM PDT
By Julie Compton
Marisa Rivas never felt comfortable living as a woman, but doesn’t identify as a man either.
Last year, Rivas, 30, a college admissions coordinator in Los Angeles, had a mastectomy. This year, Rivas started using gender-neutral “they” and “them” pronouns.
Then, at the end of June, Rivas went to the Los Angeles LGBT Center in West Hollywood to talk to a doctor about going on “low-dose” testosterone, known colloquially as “microdosing.” Rivas hopes to achieve a sharper jawline and a more androgynous physique without overtly masculine features like facial hair. The goal is an appearance that is not clearly male or female.
“I still want to be somewhere in the middle,” Rivas said.
Hormone microdosing is of growing interest to some nonbinary people like Rivas who want to masculinize or feminize their bodies in subtle ways. There is little research on the technique’s prevalence, but doctors who treat transgender and nonbinary people say the medical community should consider the needs of those who want to change their bodies without medically transitioning fully to the opposite gender.
“There’s this kind of assumption with transgender individuals that everyone should get surgery and everyone should get hormones to become as ‘male’ or ‘female’ as possible — and that’s simply not true,” said Dr. Tri Do, an internist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Nonbinary advocates are calling for a broader definition of medical transition as more Americans identify outside the gender binary. Fifty-six percent of “Generation Zers” — those born between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s — report knowing someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns. And more than a third of almost 28,000 adult respondents to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey devoted to the experiences of trans people, reported that they were nonbinary or genderqueer.
Not all nonbinary people seek medical transition, and it’s unclear how many do, since medical systems in the United States typically only track sex assigned at birth. But for those who want to move toward a more gender-neutral appearance, microdosing is an increasingly discussed option. Several YouTube videos describing the experience have received thousands of views.
Do, who has been treating transgender patients since 2001, said he starts all his patients on lower hormone dosages to give them time to adjust and to find a comfortable dose. Low doses have the same effects as higher ones, but it takes longer for those effects — bulky muscles and facial hair in the case of testosterone and increased body fat in the case of estrogen — to develop. The results of a particular dose can vary greatly by person due to genetics, he said, and patients often ask to switch to higher or lower doses as they see changes to their bodies — or, in rare cases, may choose to stop taking hormones entirely.
For Rivas, the appeal is simple: a sense of control.
“The thing about microdosing is that it’s such a little bit at a time that if it’s not something I like doing, I can always stop taking it,” said Rivas, who learned about microdosing through an essay published on Vice in April. “And if it’s something that I feel like at some point I may need more of, then that’s an option.”
Marisa Rivas has lunch with wife Candace Lopez at Casa La Dona in downtown Los Angeles.Jim Seida / NBC News
Doctors and surgeons are seeing more nonbinary patients
In 1979, when the first international transgender health care guidelines were published, trans people who sought treatment were under pressure to identify as either male or female to be taken seriously by providers, according to Dr. Asa Radix, senior director of research and education at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, which provides health care to LGBTQ people in New York City.
Since then, attitudes about gender and sexuality have radically evolved. In the 1980s and the ’90s, words such as “nonbinary,” “genderqueer” and “genderfluid,” which describe identities outside “male” and “female,” started to appear in academic and activist discourse, and have since made their way into mainstream culture.
Over the past decade, some health professionals have shifted away from treating gender identity as a disorder and are focusing instead on dysphoria, which is the distress a person feels as a result of their gender not being recognized. This distress decreases or disappears for many people who take masculinizing or feminizing hormones, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Microdosing hormones is just the latest evolution of this treatment.
Doctors and therapists who specialize in transgender care say nonbinary people have been coming to them for years, though they’ve only recently had the language to explain it.
Dr. Leandro Mena, medical director of Open Arms Healthcare Center in Jackson, Mississippi, estimated that about 100 of his 250 transgender patients are nonbinary, a number that has increased since he opened the clinic in 2013, though the number who take hormones, and dosages, vary.
“In retrospect, if you ask me, I probably gave hormones to my first nonbinary patient probably about 10 years ago,” he said. “I just didn’t recognize it or I just didn’t ask the questions that I should have asked at that time to recognize that that person was nonbinary.”
Labels: Freedom, medicine, Sexual politics
Peter Thiel says FBI, CIA should probe Google.
Peter Thiel says FBI, CIA should probe Google
Peter Thiel speaking at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Peter Thiel, billionaire investor and Facebook board member, on Sunday night said that Google should be federally investigated for allegedly aiding the Chinese military.
Why it matters: Thiel is the tech industry's highest-profile Trump supporter, and one of the most powerful players in Silicon Valley.
Thiel spoke at the National Conservatism Conference, a new event that bills itself as being focused on Trump-era nationalism, with part of his speech focusing on "three questions that should be asked" of Google:
"Number one, how many foreign intelligence agencies have infiltrated your Manhattan Project for AI?
"Number two, does Google's senior management consider itself to have been thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence?
"Number three, is it because they consider themselves to be so thoroughly infiltrated that they have engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military... because they are making the sort of bad, short-term rationalistic [decision] that if the technology doesn't go out the front door, it gets stolen out the backdoor anyway?"
He also added that those questions "need to be asked by the FBI, by the CIA, and I'm not sure quite how to put this, I would like them to be asked in a not excessively gentle manner."
Thiel did not specifically mention Facebook, but it likely will be mentioned by later speakers at the conference, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has agitated against big tech on the air, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who is seeking to strip major web platforms of certain legal protections.
Labels: anti-Americanism, China, technology
Liberals create shortages for everyone's own good, of course. Rationing and government bureaucrats who will decide who gets what.
The green-created natural gas shortage just hit NYC
Shortages of gas for heating have hit the nation’s most important city: New York.
Following moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy to nix a pipeline that could deliver vital gas supplies to the city and Long Island, National Grid can no longer offer new gas hookups or additional service for current customers.
“If you’re looking to expand your natural gas service in Brooklyn, Queens or Long Island, we will not be able to meet your request,” unless both states reverse their decisions and OK the pipeline, the utility warns. Con Ed may have to turn away customers, too.
The govs nixed the pipelines in a pander to climate-change radicals. Yet the shortage won’t only hit well-off developers and businesses: It’ll also threaten projects meant for low- and middle-income New Yorkers.
A local group called Heartshare, which assists New York’s needy with heating costs, is nervous. Its vice president for energy programs, Joe Guarinello, says it’s written local congressmen in support of the pipeline.
“Right now, gas is the most inexpensive and the cleanest for heating homes in our area,” he notes. “We’d like to make sure that the people we assist, both the disabled and the economically stressed,” can continue to benefit from it.
The nuttiest part: These shortages are by no means unintended; they’re exactly what climate-change radicals want — a cutoff in fossil fuel supplies, whatever the consequences. They don’t care that there’s no good substitute now, or who suffers.
Don’t give up yet. The pipeline builder refiled its applications for permits. Sanity can yet prevail — but only if Cuomo and Murphy care about New York’s future.
Labels: Climate Fraud, Energy policy
It seems not all military parades cause outrage
France: Bastille Day parade showcases European military cooperation
German Chancellor Merkel and other European leaders have highlighted their shared defense potential on Bastille Day amid rifts with the US. Troops from 10 countries participated in the annual Paris parade.
Labels: Europe, military
Armed 'anarchist and anti-fascist' attempted to firebomb ICE facility in Tacoma, killed in confrontation with police
A hashtag on Twitter is filled with praise for the "martyr."
(Image source: YouTube screenshot)
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On Saturday, a man armed with a rifle and Molotov cocktails or flares, according to reports, and angered by "factually inaccurate portrayal" of the facility, according to the company operating the facility, attempted to set fire to an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington.
In a subsequent confrontation with police, the Antifa activist was killed. And some of his fellow activists called him a martyr for it.
Nevertheless, the media has not reported any connection with Antifa, nor are they speculating about what may have motivated this man, who made the attempt to set fire to the building amid protests against the building.
On the CNN and MSNBC websites, you'll need to hunt to find the story at all, in fact. CNN's on air report, in particular, is striking in its above-and-beyond effort to remove this bomber from anything even remotely related to objections to ICE facilities or, one can surmise, calling them "concentration camps."
The Seattle Times, however, reported extensively.
Willem Van Spronsen, who has been arrested before during immigration protests at this very facility, was shot and killed on Saturday. Police say the man threw his incendiary devices at the building, striking some vehicles and setting them ablaze, while armed with a rifle. He also attempted to ignite a propane tank.
Police reported "shots fired," although it is unclear who fired first. Emergency responders found Van Spronsen dead when they arrived.
Here's an early report from local station KING 5 News in Seattle.
A friend of the man spoke with the Seattle Times. She believes it was his intent that this end in his own death. And her description of him politically should raise the eyebrows of anyone living in the state of Washington. Because it is a familiar one.
Deb Bartley, a friend of Van Spronsen's for about 20 years, described him as an anarchist and anti-fascist, and she believes his attack on the detention center was intended to provoke a fatal conflict.
"He was ready to end it," Bartley said. "I think this was a suicide. But then he was able to kind of do it in a way that spoke to his political beliefs … I know he went down there knowing he was going to die."
She said he is an "anti-fascist." Yet the press refuses to use the word "antifa" here.
Nevertheless, as Sooper pointed out at The Right Scoop, fellow "anti-fascists" were quick to claim him. And praise him. Here is just one example. But there are more.
ⒶnarchoRaver2.0 @Raver0
Replying to @Raver0
His name was Willem Van Spronsen of Vashon Island, Wash.
Age 69.
History will remember this hero! pic.twitter.com/4m6zBWVvdY
5:18 PM - Jul 13, 2019
In Colorado, protesters against ICE stormed the facility, tore down the American flag, and replaced it with a Mexican flag.
Perhaps their motives are equally unclear to the mainstream press.
Labels: anti-Americanism, illegal immigration
How very French: Macron’s ex-No. 2 spent public funds on gold hairdryer: reports
Macron’s ex-No. 2 spent public funds on gold hairdryer: reports
French President Emmanuel Macron is taking heat over a hairdryer of gold.
Macron, who presided over France’s Bastille Day parade Saturday in Paris, is facing fallout from the lavish spending of his environment minister, Francois de Rugy, 45, according to a report.
The Sunday Times of London reported that de Rugy, formally the second most senior member of the government, and his wife, Severine Servat, a gossip journalist dubbed Lady Gala, spent $563 of public money on a Dyson hairdryer coated with gold leaf.
On top of that, the couple blew big bucks on lavish parties, including giant lobsters and $500 bottles of wine, a weekend apartment and $866 for an exercise bike, according to reports.
De Rugy has denied all wrongdoing, claiming he was the victim of a “grotesque” smear campaign, and did a TV interview in which he declared himself “furious with all these lies.”
Macron hasn’t weighed in yet but is said to be standing by his minister.
What will the Yellow Vest protesters say?
Labels: Government waste
Esteemed CUNY prof quits after allegations of cocaine binges and out-of-control parties
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A star Hunter College psychology professor and sex and drug researcher is accused of snorting cocaine at school events and throwing annual bashes that grew from low-key pizza parties into binge-drinking and go-go-boy bacchanals, according to sources and official documents.
Jeffrey Parsons — the youngest-ever “distinguished” professor at the public college and one of the CUNY system’s highest paid professors — quit July 3 following a school probe that substantiated May 2018 complaints by employees.
Parsons directed the Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training, known as CHEST, which oversaw research on unsafe sex and recreational drug use. He raked in $37 million in federal grant money from 1997 to 2016. His acolytes dubbed themselves “chesticles.”
Every year he’d host a party he claimed he paid for out of his expense account known as the CHEST fest, a former employee said. Last year’s bash is when his alleged bad behavior came to a head.
The May 4, 2018, soirée was held at the iconic Stonewall Inn in the West Village, where Parsons rented out the bar’s second floor. The theme: rebellion.
As he did at past events, Parsons encouraged attendees to imbibe.
“If felt like a hazing frat party sometimes,” a former employee said. “I almost always felt uncomfortable at the office parties by the coaxing to drink.”
The party included a lip-sync contest, and Parsons told two male employees to take off their shirts. He then approached “the sexier of one of the two” and undid the button on his pants, the ex-worker said.
But the evening really went off the rails when Parsons allegedly pressured two people to keep drinking and then lifted the shirt of a worker without permission, exposing the person’s chest and humiliating the employee.
“It was as if the host of a dinner party came down and had taken a pee on a pot roast,” the former worker said. “That’s how shocking it was.”
He said Parsons tried to apologize but to no avail.
Furious and fed up following the party, employees complained to the college which, along with the CUNY Research Foundation, hired a former federal Department of Education official to investigate, said Frank Sobrino, a CUNY spokesman.
The $539,312 probe included more than 70 witness interviews, he said.
Among the allegations raised was that “Parsons engaged in the use, and in the distribution, of illegal drugs (cocaine) at CHEST events,” according to the May 1 “final outcome letter” viewed by The Post.
The investigation concluded that Parsons “violated” CUNY’s policy on sexual misconduct and on “numerous occasions” engaged “in behavior that violated CUNY’s Drug and Alcohol Policy,” the letter said.
Parsons had been on paid leave during the probe, collecting his base salary of $240,000 a year. He could not be reached for comment.
In 2017, his pay came to $363,283 including a $85,817 CUNY grant and $39,200 in retroactive salary. His salary was the fifth highest in the entire CUNY system that year, records from The Empire Center show.
Hunter renamed CHEST and it is now PRIDE for Promoting Resilience, Intersectionality, Diversity and Equity.
The CUNY Board of Trustees last month hired law firm Covington & Burling, at a cost of $1.5 million, to gear up a “complex series of alleged violations of the University’s policy against Sexual Misconduct and other CUNY policies, which involve multiple potential plaintiffs.”
A source familiar with the matter said it was related to the Parsons allegations.
This is the second scandal in a year where taxpayer-funded CUNY professors were accused of misconduct and drug use. John Jay College is seeking to fire three professors over a sex and drugs scandal first revealed by The Post.
CUNY did not publicly acknowledge the latest scandal until Friday, after The Post asked about it. Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez sent a letter to the Hunter community saying a probe had “found multiple violations of CUNY policies by Dr. Parsons.”
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Labels: academia, crime, Dissecting leftism, drugs
JonBenét Ramsey’s former photographer indicted on child porn charges
An Oregon man who reportedly photographed JonBenét Ramsey just months before her unsolved 1996 murder — and was later arrested for walking down a street naked, muttering “I didn’t kill JonBenét” — was indicted this week on child porn charges.
Randall DeWitt Simons, 66, was arraigned Thursday following a year-long investigation by the Oakridge Police Department, according to The Register-Guard.
He had been taken into custody on July 2, with authorities executing a search warrant on his home just days earlier — which turned up four laptops, three camcorders, two bags of writable optical discs and six cameras.
Cops had been tipped off by workers at a local A&W Restaurant back in July 2018, who had noticed that someone was using their WiFi to download x-rated content, the Register-Guard reports.
Investigators traced the activity back to a computer identification address belonging to a man who lived near the restaurant. They reportedly learned that he sold the computer, along with several others, to Simons — who also lived nearby.
Using a special software program, authorities were able to see Simons log into the A&W WiFi system and tracked the activity back to his home. They executed their search warrant on June 27.LES FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM HUSBAND PETER
Simons later told cops that he was a children’s photographer, and they promptly notified local parents to see if he possibly shot their kids or left them alone with him, the Register-Guard reports.
The alleged kiddie porn collector made headlines in 1998 when he was arrested for indecent exposure in Lincoln County, Colorado, for allegedly walking down a road naked.
“I didn’t kill JonBenét,” he told his arresting officer, according to the Associated Press.
The incident happened less than two years after the child beauty queen was murdered.
Simons, who was never declared a suspect, had also drawn attention to himself in 1997 — when he sold a portfolio of glamour shots that he took of JonBenét to a photo agency for over $7,000. The shutterbug claimed that he was only trying to bring more attention to the case.
“My career is done,” he told reporters at the time. “I’ll probably never work again.”
Simons was held in jail after the indecent exposure incident and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, though it’s unclear what happened with his case. Attempts to reach the sheriff’s office in Lincoln County, where he was arrested, were unsuccessful.
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Lies, perjury and Clinton corruption "Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath"
Judicial Watch Releases Testimony of Clinton Email Administrator – Clinton Lawyer Cheryl Mills Communicated with Him a Week Prior to Testimony
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released the deposition transcript of Justin Cooper, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and Clinton Foundation employee who registered the domain name of the unsecure clintonemail.com server that Hillary Clinton used while serving as Secretary of State. Cooper admits that he spoke with Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former chief of staff, one week prior to his deposition and let her know that the deposition had been scheduled. Cooper also said that he worked with Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, to create the private email system, but can’t recall if Clinton had any input in its creation or if he wiped the original server. The entire transcript is available here.
Cooper was recently deposed as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth in response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecured, non-government email system (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)).
Cooper testified that he spoke with Mills the week before giving his deposition:
Q When did you last speak with Cheryl Mills?
A Last week.
Judge Lamberth late last year criticized the DOJ, saying he was “dumbfounded” by the Inspector General report revealing that Mills had been given immunity and was allowed to accompany former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to her FBI interview. The full transcript of that hearing is available here.
I did print out and read that 500-page report when I got it and I was actually dumbfounded when found out, in reading that report, that Cheryl Mills had been given immunity because … I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case. So I did not know that until I read the IG report and learned that and that she had accompanied the Secretary to her interview.
(In an April 28, 2008, ruling relating to Mills’ conduct as a White House official in responding to concerns about lost White House email records, Judge Lamberth called Mills’ participation in the matter “loathsome.” He further stated Mills was responsible for “the most critical error made in this entire fiasco … Mills’ actions were totally inadequate to address the problem.”)
When Cooper was asked who approached him about creating the clintonemail.com account, Cooper answered: “It would have been a discussion with Huma Abedin.” Cooper also testified that Abedin was his primary contact regarding the choice of the domain name that was registered “I believe” in “January ’09.”
Cooper’s testimony is at odds with a 2016 Judicial Watch deposition of Abedin in which she testified that she became aware of the server through “reading in some news articles about a year, a year-and-a-half ago, when it was – it was being publicly discussed.”
Cooper said “I don’t recall” when asked if Clinton herself had any input in the creation of the domain name.
Cooper also testified that there were two servers: an original “Apple server” and then a Windows server, which was “the Pagliano server,” named after Clinton’s top State Department IT specialist Bryan Pagliano. Cooper said he couldn’t recall whether the Apple server was wiped once her emails were transferred over to the Pagliano server in early 2009.
When Cooper was asked to testify how many e-mails accounts he created or setup for Clinton he answered, “To the best of my recollection two or three.” Cooper also said that he and Pagliano set up email accounts for Abedin and Chelsea Clinton.
Pagliano was a Clinton State Department IT official who repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions in a 2016 Judicial Watch deposition.
When Cooper was asked if Clinton or anyone associated with them is paying his legal bills for this deposition or any other matters related to Secretary Clinton’s use of email, he answered: “In relation to [today’s legal expenses] it’s unclear to me if I’ll be reimbursed for these – for legal fees from the Clintons. My previous legal fees about a year after the conclusion of the congressional testimony through my lawyers was negotiated for settlement for the Clintons to make payment.”
He identified controversial Clinton Foundation official and advisor to President Clinton Doug Band as the individual in a redacted FBI 302 report who had conversations with Cooper and Abedin about the Apple server and who thought adding Hillary Clinton to the server was a “bad idea.”
Q Let me direct your attention to the fourth paragraph about four lines up. This is a redacted version, so we don’t know who the interviewee is or some of the names. But I want to direct your attention to the line that starts off with the redaction and says, blank recall the conversation with Huma Abedin and Cooper regarding the addition of Hillary Clinton to the Apple server; do you see that?
A I do.
Q Do you know who that individual would be …
A I suspect it’s Doug Band.
Q The next line says, blank thought it was a bad idea, but the issue had been decided by that point in time; do you see that?
Judicial Watch was granted depositions and written questions under oath of former Clinton aides, State Department officials, and others:
Justin Cooper, a former aide to Bill Clinton who reportedly had no security clearance and is believed to have played a key role in setting up Hillary Clinton’s non-government email system;
John Hackett, a State Department records official “immediately responsible for responding to requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act;”
Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff;
Sheryl Walter, former State Department Director of the Office of Information Programs and Services/Global Information Services;
Gene Smilansky, a State Department lawyer;
Monica Tillery, a State Department official;
Jonathon Wasser, who was a management analyst on the Executive Secretariat staff. Wasser worked for Deputy Director Clarence Finney and was the State Department employee who actually conducted the searches for records in response to FOIA requests to the Office of the Secretary
Clarence Finney, the deputy director of the Executive Secretariat staff who was the principal advisor and records management expert in the Office of the Secretary responsible for control of all correspondence and records for Hillary Clinton and other State Department officials;
Heather Samuelson, the former State Department senior advisor who helped facilitate the State Department’s receipt and release of Hillary Clinton’s emails;
Monica Hanley, Hillary Clinton’s former confidential assistant at the State Department;
Lauren Jiloty, Clinton’s former special assistant;
E.W. Priestap, is serving as assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division and helped oversee both the Clinton email and the 2016 presidential campaign investigations. Priestap testified in a separate lawsuit that Clinton was the subject of a grand jury investigation related to her BlackBerry email accounts;
Susan Rice, President Obama’s former UN ambassador who appeared on Sunday television news shows following the Benghazi attacks, blaming a “hateful video.” Rice was also Obama’s national security advisor involved in the “unmasking” the identities of senior Trump officials caught up in the surveillance of foreign targets;
Ben Rhodes, an Obama-era White House deputy strategic communications adviser who attempted to orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy;”
and one other person to be designated by the State Department.
“Questions surrounding a wiped server, a Clinton lawyer being informed of a scheduled deposition, contradictory testimony – all uncovered recently by Judicial Watch in its court-ordered discovery on the Clinton email scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
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Win over Suffolk was no fluke says Devon team chief Donohue
THERE was nothing lucky about Devon’s nail-biting win over Suffolk in the semi-final of the Unicorns 50-over Trophy.
That’s the unequivocal view of director of cricket Keith Donohue now the dust has settled on Sunday’s drama at Sidmouth.
The game finished tied but the rule book sent Devon through to next month’s final against Cheshire on the Getty family ground at Wormsley near High Wycombe.
Devon made 201 for eight in a game initially reduced to 35 overs a side, due to morning rain, and then down to 33 overs each after a stoppage while they were batting.
Duckworth-Lewis kicked in after the stoppage and back-calculated Deovn’s total to 199 for eight. Bizarre, but that’s Duckworth-Lewis in action!
Suffolk needed 200 to win and finished on 199 for nine. Once the rule book was checked, umpires Attridge and Caldicott confirmed what Devon officials knew all along: fewer wickets lost was the first determiner in the case of a tie.
Suffolk’s players looked crestfallen when they lined up to shake hands at the end, which was hardly surprising.
Suffolk had everything stacked in their favour from the moment they won the toss and for Devon to win, said Donohue, was a triumph over the odds.
“We had the worst of the conditions all the way through yet found a way to win,” said Donohue.
“They stuck us in on a wicket that had been sweating away under a tarpaulin for hours and that will always make it difficult for batsmen,” said Donohue.
“Suffolk had us 58 for five, which was a strong position to be in, and we were batting on damp outfield, which meant we didn’t always get value for our shots.”
“From that position to make 201 was a testimony to the grit, guts and expertise of our batsmen.
“The stand between Zak Bess (78) and Ben Green (38) was critical and gave us a fighting chance of a total.”
Having got to 201 for eight – Scott Barlow chipping in a brisk 29 off 15 balls – Devon then had to defend what they had.
“Suffolk had the best of the conditions to bat in – they had the best of the conditions all day – and it was hard graft that stopped them winning,
“I’ve said before games ebb and flow – and this one certainly did that.
“Four overs out they needed 19 to win with three wickets left and were in the box seat.
“With four balls to go it was two to win with two wickets left and one batsman (Tom Rash) set.
“Ben Green got one out, the tail ender was on strike and his three yorkers to finish were winners.”
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Title RandC_1935b_001
Subject Libraries; Caddo; Board Meeting Minutes; Transcript Policies; Donations; Building; Board
Description Library Commission Board Meeting Minutes, June 14, 1935, page 1
Transcript SHREVE MEMORIAL LIBRARY BOARD. June Meeting. The Shreve Memorial Library Board met in the Librarian's Office Friday, June 14th, 1935 at 4:00 p.m. The members present were: Mr. Dolph Frantz, Mr. A.M. Shaw, Mrs. L.C. Clawson, Mrs. Percy Meyer, Mrs. John P. Hird, Mr. J. Fair Hardin, Mr. John H. Tucker. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The Librarian's report was also read. The Librarian reported the change of the closing hour of the Cedar Grove Branch. This brought forth much discussion and dissatisfaction. After further discussion it was decided to return to the regular hours, 2:00 to 5:00 on Wednesday and 10:00 to 5:00 on Saturday (closed at lunch time). The Librarian reported that the valuable picture which was presented by the ""Peoples' Library Board"" had fallen from the wall and the frame broken. The Librarian was authorized to take the matter up with the city purchasing agent and to have the picture repaired. Mr. Frantz reported that a fence around the town library would be placed to prevent the public from walking across the lawn. The expense would be about $50.00. The city would furnish the labor to erect the fence. Mr. Frantz reported that a flag had been purchased for the Library and suggested that the flag be raised every day. This brought forth a lengthy discussion, and it was decided to raise the flag daily. Mrs. Dickson and Mr. Hardin were to instruct the janitor in flag etiquette. Mr. Hardin presented the resolution to Mr. L.E. Thomas's death. Mr. Hardin moved the adoption of this resolution. This was seconded by Mr. Tucker, carried. Mr. Frantz asked that a copy be given the Press.
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Title William Frazier
Description Report on Frazier's role in the riot and his clemency report. It includes several documents such as the Authority for Confinement in Penitentiary, Petition for Appeal, Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus, and extract of Special Order 29. Frazier was originally given a life sentence. This was reduced to 22 years 6 months, and he was granted parole. He escaped while on parole and was informed in 1957 that he was no longer wanted by the military authorities, as his sentence had been remitted.
Subject African American soldiers; Camp Logan (Tex.) -- History; Houston (Tex.) -- race relations; Courts martial and courts of inquiry; Military Offenses; Trials (Military offenses); United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 24th; Frazier, William.
Identifier Frazier, William_2.pdf
Source Original records found in Record Groups 153 and 393, Modern Military Records Branch, Textual Archives Services Division, National Archives Services Division, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland. This digital reproduction is found on reel 6, images 392-569 and reel 11, images 188-189.
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An orofacial (or-oh-FAY-shul) cleft is when a baby is born with an opening in the lip and/or roof of the mouth (palate). Cleft lip and cleft palate happen is one of the most common birth defects. Both cleft lip and cleft palate are treatable. Most kids can have surgery to repair them within the... The causes of cleft palate and cleft lip are unknown, although hereditary factors sometimes play a small role. Around one in three babies born with a cleft palate or a cleft lip may have a relative with the same or similar condition, or an associated chromosomal or genetic condition. A parent who was born with a cleft has a small chance of passing on the condition to their child. Around two
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A cleft in the roof of the mouth, or palate, is known as a cleft palate whereas a cleft between the two halves of the lip is known as a cleft lip. Since the lip and the palate develop separately, it is possible for a child to have a cleft lip, a cleft palate, or variations of both. This can occur on one side of the face only (unilateral) or on both sides (bilateral).... Cleft lip and palate – infant feeding To feed well, babies need to position their lips and tongue around the nipple or artificial teat, and create both suction and compression during sucking. Sucking is more difficult when a baby is born with a cleft palate or combined cleft lip and cleft palate.
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The Cleft was picked by one of my two book groups as our February read – I don’t think I realised what I was getting into. So The Cleft is many things but for me i So The Cleft is many things but for me i how to get to cinnabar islands in fire red The waters around the island are evidently the most important dolphin breeding ground in the world. The bay is officially known as the Baía dos Porcos (Bay of Pigs), but over time it has come to be known as Baía dos Golfinhos (Dolphin Bay). After feeding in the open ocean at night, the dolphins come here during the day for R&R.
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If you didn't get the Calendar Spark Island Relto page, you can do so now as well. When you get back to Relto, a new cleft book, to both the sunny and rainy versions, will be waiting for you. Note that it cannot be shared with others.
An orofacial (or-oh-FAY-shul) cleft is when a baby is born with an opening in the lip and/or roof of the mouth (palate). Cleft lip and cleft palate happen is one of the most common birth defects. Both cleft lip and cleft palate are treatable. Most kids can have surgery to repair them within the
Cleft lip and palate – infant feeding To feed well, babies need to position their lips and tongue around the nipple or artificial teat, and create both suction and compression during sucking. Sucking is more difficult when a baby is born with a cleft palate or combined cleft lip and cleft palate.
The waters around the island are evidently the most important dolphin breeding ground in the world. The bay is officially known as the Baía dos Porcos (Bay of Pigs), but over time it has come to be known as Baía dos Golfinhos (Dolphin Bay). After feeding in the open ocean at night, the dolphins come here during the day for R&R.
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Walmart announces deals on current, new iPhones; iPhone 4 for 10 cents + $100 gift card
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Walmart is aggressively promoting the iPhone in its stores with a number of sales on the old and new models. The best deal for those after an inexpensive iPhone is an 8 GB iPhone 4 for just 10 cents on a two-year plan, which also comes with a US$100 Walmart gift card. The iPhone 4 deal starts September 16th and runs while supplies last.
Walmart also has a number of deals on the iPhone 4s, the iPhone 5, and the new iPhone 5s and 5c. Check out the details below!
Walmart will sell the Apple iPhone 5s for $189
16 GB; available in all three colors (gold, space gray and silver)
Available Sept. 20 or customers can wait just one day and trade-in their current smartphone and apply the value towards the purchase of the new iPhone 5s - with a two year contract - starting Saturday, Sept. 21
The Apple iPhone 5c will be sold at Walmart for $79
16 GB; available in all five colors (blue, white, pink, yellow and green)
Customers can pre-order the iPhone 5c for free starting Friday, Sept. 13 by visiting the customer service desk at their local store.
Starting at 8 a.m. on Friday, Sept, 20, customers can pick up their phone at the wireless connection center OR wait just one day and trade-in their current smartphone on Saturday, Sept. 21. The trade-in value will be applied to the purchase of a new iPhone 5c with a two-year contract.
Pre-order customers must pick up their iPhone 5c by Sept. 25.
The fulfillment of pre-orders will be processed on a first come, first serve basis, which is subject to manufacturer availability and carrier launch dates.
Walmart will rollback the Apple iPhone 5 to $79 from $98
16 GB; available on a two-year contract; while supplies last.
Available 9/12
The Apple iPhone 4S will rollback to $0.97 cents from $39
8 GB new version also available for $0.97 cents.
Apple iPhone 4 will be available for $0.10 and will come with a $100 Walmart gift card
8 GB; available on a two-year contract; while supplies last.
Apple iPhones will also rollback on Walmart's exclusive prepaid plan, Straight Talk, which offers $45 talk, text and data
Customers can purchase an unlocked iPhone 5 for $549 and the iPhone 4 for $349.
iPhone 5 was $649; iPhone 4 was $449
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MFA: Pashinyan’s proposals impossible without Armenian forces’ leaving Azerbaijani lands
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's statement on “Creating an atmosphere of peace” in the context of settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is impossible without the withdrawal of the Armenian forces from the occupied Azerbaijani territories and the return of the forcibly expelled Azerbaijani IDPs to these lands, the press service of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reports.
"The original cause of all troubles is the aggressive policy pursued by Armenia against Azerbaijan”, the ministry stated.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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National Assembly passes local gov’t bills unanimously
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The National Assembly Wednesday evening unanimously passed the four local government bills ending a 12-year reformation process.
The four bills were seen as essential to the holding of local government elections last held in 1994 but officials from GECOM have said that they would need at least six months from the assent of the legislation to prepare for the polls.
The bills were sent to a Special Select Committee in January ago after talks at a bipartisan taskforce broke down.
However, Committee Chairman Basil Williams said that they had alerted GECOM already to the likely passage of the legislation and it should have been preparing for the elections.
A GECOM official had told DemWaves that a significant amount of public education on the new system would have to be done.
The Fiscal Transfers Bill addresses the equitable provision of resources to the various local government organs and provides for them to generate their own revenue. The Municipal and District Councils (Amendment) Bill updates the fines, fees and other charges within the municipalities.
However, Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud called for the scrapping of five amendments in the Local Government (Amendment) Bill which removed certain powers from the minister and will vest them in an autonomous Local Government Commission. But his plea was rejected by the opposition MPs who dubbed it a return to colonial thinking.
Junior local government minister Norman Whittaker said the bill had been “hijacked” in the Committee by the opposition. According to him, the parties had gone beyond opposing and were now “obstructing” progress.
The debates on the Local Government (Amendment) and the Local Government Commission Bills both saw the government proposing amendments with two being unanimously adopted for the first while the AFC supported the government’s amendment on the latter.
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Home Church Missions Extollo International: Raising and Lifting up the People of Haiti
Terese Belme
Sherm Balch saw first-hand the devastation and destruction of Haiti shortly after a 7.0 earthquake struck in 2010, killing an estimated 250,000 people. Sherm and a group of people from his church, Cornerstone Fellowship in Livermore, CA, traveled to Haiti to determine where they could be of help. Sherm resolved to use his gifts and resources and two years later, in 2012, Extollo International was formed.
Sherm felt a call to help in the rebuilding of Haiti and to do the reconstruction in a way that was going to rebuild a stronger Haiti. Key to this vision was Haitian men and women becoming involved and partnering with Extollo in the rebuilding of their communities.
I recently sat down with Keith Cobell, President of Extollo International. Keith started by saying, “Sherm’s expertise is in the area of construction, particularly in masonry and concrete. So when we saw the extensive damage, Sherm quickly realized the primary reason for all the devastation and so much death was because the infrastructure in Haiti was so weak, particularly the buildings. Very few of the structures were built to any kind of international building standards and the earthquake unfortunately caused structures to collapse crushing many, many people.”
Keith told me, “Sherm felt a call to help in the rebuilding of Haiti and to do the reconstruction in a way that was going to rebuild a stronger Haiti.” Key to this vision was Haitian men and women becoming involved and partnering with Extollo in the rebuilding of their communities.
We will probably always want to bring in outside talent from time to time to maintain a high level of instruction and expose our students to the latest construction best-practices
A ripple effect was created when the Haitian men and women rebuilding their communities began helping their friends and neighbors to rebuild their homes. That ripple effect became, “The genesis of Extollo starting a construction company and a trade school that have a synergistic relationship,” said Keith.
A few years later Extollo acquired property in Haiti to begin building the infrastructure for the trade school and construction company. Extollo is still in the early stages of developing the trade school, which now offers entry-level training courses in four trades most relevant for Haiti: (1) Concrete, (2) Masonry, (3) Welding and (4) Electrical.
Each day the trade school starts with a devotion, walking through Scripture with the students teaching them what it means to be a person of integrity and honesty, and teaching them, as Keith says, “We work for our Heavenly Father first and foremost.”
While there is still a need, experienced construction professionals travel from the States to Haiti to help in mentoring, training and quality control for the classes offered through the trade school.
This year, for the first time, a Welding course was offered and was led and taught by the Haitian staff, “…which is really what we want for the future of Extollo,” stated Keith. “We will probably always want to bring in outside talent from time to time to maintain a high level of instruction and expose our students to the latest construction best-practices.”
Currently the courses offered through the Extollo trade school run for two weeks. One week is classroom instruction and the second week is a hands-on practicum where the students are actually working on a project.
Our goal is that our graduates are so competitive in the job market because of their certification from Extollo that they are able to take jobs from expats [someone living in a foreign country] that are brought in to work on the more sophisticated construction projects being built in Haiti.
Students can currently take any of the four trades in level one while levels two, three and four are being developed. “Our goal is that our graduates are so competitive in the job market because of their certification from Extollo that they are able to take jobs from expats [someone living in a foreign country] that are brought in to work on the more sophisticated construction projects being built in Haiti,” Keith explained. “That part of Extollo’s vision is to establish the Extollo brand as a seal of quality that communicates to the prospective employer that the candidate is capable and competent at a high level of quality in building at international building standards.”
Extollo is in the process of determining where they will seek accreditation in order to provide their students with the most highly regarded graduation certificate. Keith said, “We will initially gain accreditation from the government of Haiti, then an international body.”
Hiring Alert! Keith wants our readers to know that Extollo is in the process of hiring a Foreman to live in Haiti for at least a couple of years to help their construction company get off the ground.
Keith explained, “Part of our mission as a social enterprise is to make a positive social impact in the country along with an economic one, providing jobs for our alums and others we can train. Any earned revenue we generate will be poured back into Extollo’s social mission of building up men and women of character and substance that will impact their neighborhoods, families and communities.”
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Keith shared this story of one student’s ingenuity after taking the level one electrical course through Extollo. The student had gone home to wire his house and soon his neighbors were asking him to wire their homes. Keith told me, “Within a couple of months this former student came back to us to say thank you so much, you helped me start a business. I have more work than I can possibly do. I’ve even hired people to help me with my new electrical business.”
When the local government of Bercy reached out to Extollo for help in dealing with a road that floods during the rainy season and is used by Extollo frequently, Extollo provided some funding and expertise in how to best construct the canal to adequately drain the water. Extollo offered to help but the local city government needed to own, manage, and provide labor for the project.
On a recent visit Keith saw about 30 men working to build a portion of a 350 foot concrete canal to a culvert where the flood waters will be diverted. Extollo is partnering with the local community by asking what their greatest needs are and to what extent the community is willing to put “skin in the game” to support a project. Keith said, “A larger principle that drives us is to not do for others what they can do for themselves.”
One of Extollo’s goals is to help Haitians maintain their self-agency; own their decisions, unleash their ability to help themselves, and own their sense of commitment and accountability to their co-workers, to themselves, to God, and to their communities.
Once perfected, Extollo’s current social enterprise program in Haiti will have a core platform that can be implemented in other parts of the world that need help. However, there is still so much work left to be done in Haiti that Extollo will expand in Haiti before considering elsewhere. Keith said, “We’re not looking at importing a top-down fix for Haiti. We’re looking at it as a grassroots movement from the ground up – Haitian’s building a stronger Haiti, and we’re just giving them the skills and the capacity to be able to do that.”
We in the States have grown up with fantastic infrastructure and all that we know is that everything works. The roads work, the lights work, you can get your double latte frappacino just about anywhere, all these different things work because the infrastructure that was built generations ago we can benefit from now.
I asked Keith some final thoughts about what he wants our readers to know. He told me, “One of the most strategic ways to be involved in a country like Haiti is through strengthening and improving its infrastructure. We in the States have grown up with fantastic infrastructure and all that we know is that everything works. The roads work, the lights work, you can get your double latte frappacino just about anywhere, all these different things work because the infrastructure that was built generations ago we can benefit from now. In a place like Haiti and many places in the developing world, the infrastructure is so tenuous. And that becomes incredibly apparent when you have a natural disaster.”
To learn more about Extollo and how you can partner with them or information to apply for the foreman position please visit https://www.extollointernational.org/
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It is easy to be confused about what impacts minimum wages have on jobs for workers. A "Binding" minimum wage that is set higher than the competitive equilibrium wage reduces job for two reasons. Recent research on employment effects. The earliest studies of the employment effects of minimum wages used only national variation at the U.
S. Minimum wage. An elasticity of 0.1 for teens, for example, implies that a 10 percent increase in the wage floor reduces adolescent labour by 1 percent. Newer research used information in an increasing number of states raising their minimum wages above the federal minimum.
The across-state variation allowed comparisons of fluctuations in youth job between states that did and did not raise their minimum wage. This made it easier to differentiate the effects of minimum wages from people of business cycle as well as other impacts on aggregate low-skill employment. An extensive survey by Neumark and Wascher concluded that nearly two-thirds of the greater than 100 newer wage studies, along with 85% of the very convincing ones, found consistent evidence of job loss outcomes on low-skilled workers. The studies assert that their results differ because comparisons between distant states confound actual wage effects with other associated shocks to low-skill labor markets.
Some follow-up studies indicate that restricting comparisons to geographically proximate areas creates misleading evidence of no job loss effects from minimum salary. Due to evidence that minimum wages have a tendency to be increased when labor markets are tight, but this research suggests that, among nearby states that are similar in other respects, minimum wage increases are more likely to be associated with favorable consequences, obscuring the actual negative effects of minimum salaries. Meer and West found longer-term lively effects of minimum wages on job development; they indicate these longer-term effects arise because new firms are more able to select labor-saving technology after a minimum wage increase than present firms whose capital was "Baked in." How do we summarize this proof? Several studies over the decades find that higher minimum wages reduce employment of teens and workers more generally.
Coupled with critiques of the methods that create modest evidence of job loss, the general body of evidence suggests that the most credible conclusion is a minimum wage results in certain job loss for the least-skilled workers-with potentially larger adverse outcomes than earlier research suggested. Regardless of the evidence of job loss, policymakers and the voting public have increased salary frequently and sometimes substantially in the past few decades. In these states, minimum salary in 2014 averaged 11.5% higher than the national minimum. If these higher minimum wages have in fact lowered employment chances, this may have implications for fluctuations in aggregate labour within this period.
Figure 1. Percent difference between state and national minimum wages. The typical relative to the national minimum was nearly 3 times as high at 32.3%. Nonetheless, this is in part because the national minimum wage has increased 41% because the beginning of 2007. Figure 2. Percent difference between state and national minimum wages. With a 0.1 elasticity and using it only to teens suggests that higher minimum wages have reduced employment chances by about 18, 600 jobs.
Hence, allowing for the probability of bigger job loss effects, based on other studies, and possible job losses among elderly low-skilled adults, a reasonable estimate based on the evidence is that present minimum salary have directly reduced the number of jobs nationally by about 100, 000 to 200, 000, relative to the period just before the wonderful Recession. This is a fall in aggregate labour that should be weighed against increased earnings for still-employed workers because of higher salaries. Weighing employment losses increases the broader question of how the minimum wage affects earnings inequality and poverty. "Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics." Journal of Human Resources, ancient publication online.
Effects of Increasing Minimum Wage on United States Economy
It's a honor to be invited here today to talk about how a fair minimum wage can help families support and also succeed broad-based income increase in our society. Raising the minimum wage and ensuring that its value remains at a reasonable amount with time by indexing it to the price of living will probably establish a stronger initial rung on the ladder to economic protection. The minimum wage is the cornerstone of a group of policies, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Affordable Care......Read More
Many feel they have "sufficient" insurance. Often sited is company provided insurance that provides coverage of up to 2-3 times your salary. Lots of men and women are shorted sited in this regard, not taking into account the requirement to maintain the lifestyle of household member once you are gone. The real benefit and purpose of life insurance would be as a commission replacement. In other words to replace the reduction of your wages or fiscal household contribution until children reach the......Read More
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The earned income tax credit targets poverty better than a minimum wage,. States Ben Gitis, a policy analyst at the American Action Forum. A low-income, working family receives a charge based on a fixed percentage of earnings. As earnings increase, the credit increases, reaching a maximum value that is dependent upon the number of children in the family. If a household's tax liability is smaller compared to their EITC, the household receives the full value of the EITC. The EITC developed in......Read More
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Havas HQ raided in Macron Las Vegas trip inquiry
French President Emmanuel Macron Reuters/Christophe Archambault
French anti-corruption police on Tuesday raided the headquarters of the Havas advertising group and a French business promotion body in connection with a visit by President Emmanuel Macron to Las Vegas when he was economy minister in the previous government.
An investigation into favouritism, complicity and profiting from favouritism was opened in mid-March after the Canard Enchaîné weekly revealed compromising details of the trip.
The visit to the Consumer Electronics Show cost 381,759 euros, 100,000 euros of which were for hotel bills, the paper said.
What is more Business France, which was run at the time by current Labour Minister Muriel Pénicaud, awarded the contract to organise to Havas without a call for alternative bids.
Macron's successor, Michel Sapin, has said that he is in the clear, blaming the problems on a "malfunction by Business France".
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Bayer shares surge as firm tackles legal woes
By AFP Issued on 27-06-2019 Modified 27-06-2019 to 11:07
Bayer shares get a shot in the arm as the giant prepares to fight its corner AFP
Shares in German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer soared early Thursday, after the company's supervisory board announced moves to address a wave of US lawsuits over flagship herbicide glyphosate.
Investors sent Bayer stock shooting up 8.2 percent, to 60.60 euros ($68.90) by 10:40 am in Frankfurt (0840 GMT).
As the group faces more than 13,000 lawsuits related to the notorious weedkiller, "a newly established Supervisory Board committee will intensively monitor these topics, consult with the Board of Management and make recommendations on the litigation strategy," the company said in a statement late Wednesday.
Bayer shares remain more than 30 percent below their price a year ago.
The weak performance prompted shareholders to blast executives at the company's April general meeting over its $63 billion takeover of US-based seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto in 2018.
Some of the rise in Bayer stock Thursday could be down to hints at a change of strategy from the supervisory board.
The company has suffered several high-profile defeats in glyphosate cases, with juries awarding individual plaintiffs tens of millions of dollars.
But executives have until now stuck to their position that the weight of scientific evidence backs the chemical's safety and vowed to fight on in appeals.
In its Wednesday statement, the supervisory board said it had hired US lawyer John Beisner, highlighting his experience in both "successful defenses and settlements".
"Today's statement marks a step change in Bayer's approach," responded hedge fund Elliott, which revealed Wednesday that it holds 1.1 billion euros of Bayer stock.
Beisner "has a proven track record of delivering successful resolutions to high-profile product liability cases," the money managers added.
"Elliott's climbing aboard at Bayer gives investors new confidence that the Monsanto debacle relating to the wave of lawsuits will now be tackled more firmly by the company," CMC Markets analysts said in a note.
"Until now, one had the feeling that Bayer was only reacting to the American mass lawsuits. Now they're acting. That's what the market wants to see."
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Shanghai Disney Resort Gets a Million Visitors
Ana Ablaza | Jul 15, 2016 10:03 PM EDT
Fireworks explode over Shanghai Disneyland park on March 28, 2016 in Shanghai, China. (Photo : Getty Images)
Robert Iger, a Disney executive, reported that over a million visitors have set foot in Shanghai Disney Resort.
The resort is the most technologically advanced in the world and was launched in June 16, 2016. Its land area spans 390 hectares in Pudong, Shanghai. Construction cost reached $5.5 billion, the biggest foreign investment in the country.
During the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference in Colorado, Iger said, "It would be safe to assume almost a million people have experienced the park."
This is the second Disney establishment in China, and a first in the mainland. Disney has six resorts worldwide.
Many amenities are similar to other Disney parks around the world. Chinese elements were added in the Disney castle, which is topped by the traditional peony flower.
Chinese dishes like barbecued pork with rice are sold here. The usual favorites are cheeseburgers, fries and hotdogs. Iger introduced the turkey leg and 3,000 pieces of which are sold daily.
Other attractions were adapted to Chinese tastes with a few American attractions. Major work was put into infusing Chinese culture in the resort's design.
"I very much wanted to avoid being called a cultural imperialist," Iger said.
The Disney executive also admitted that the Shanghai resort was a true test of perseverance. It took Disney 18 years to close the deal with the Chinese government.
Finally, Disney was approved to contruct in 2009. Ground breaking took place in 2011.
Tickets are priced at $76 (499 yuan) during peak days and $56 (370 yuan) on lean days.
Disney remained optimistic that the resort will have continued success. Igor was confident that the rising number of middle-class citizens in China will pull in more revenue.
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Affordable electric motorbike launches in UK to revitalise urban mobility
A new zero-emission, crowd funded electric motorbike has officially launched in the UK and aims to reinvent British urban mobility.
The Super Soco has been specifically developed to revitalise urban mobility and commuting while reducing emissions and noise pollution. The new e-motorbikes, designed and manufactured in China, are the result of a joint venture between Australian electric scooter company V-Moto and a $15m Chinese crowd funded project.
The bikes combine zero-emission electric scooter technology with the visuals of a motorbike, making the Super Soco an option for urban riders and commuters looking for emission-free mobility.
Features include keyless start, anti-theft alarm and wheel locking, lightweight carbon steel mainframe and intelligent LED speedometer.
A removable lithium battery (which can be recharged at any domestic 13amp socket or at on-street chargers) and a rear wheel-integrated Bosch motor combine to help provide improved pick-up and acceleration compared to petrol 50cc bikes. The machine is set to a restricted maximum speed of 28mph and is able to travel approximately 40 miles per charge with maximum torque of 120NM.
Costing £2,349 (inclusive of VAT and government grant), the bikes are being sold nationwide in key cities including London, Manchester and Birmingham.
Richard Jordan, founder at Vmoto UK says: "The Super Soco really is the best of both worlds for urban mobility – it's a high quality, light and agile machine with great riding characteristics. Nothing gets through traffic more quickly. I was involved in the latter stages of development of the bike and believe that it will be a joy to bikers old and new. We at Super Soco UK are very proud to be bringing the bike to UK and look forward to welcoming the next generation of riders to fast, fun and emission free urban mobility."
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Influence of surface on impact shock experienced during a fencing lunge
Greenhalgh, Andrew, Bottoms, Lindsay and Sinclair, Jonathan (2012) Influence of surface on impact shock experienced during a fencing lunge. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 29 (4). pp. 463-467. ISSN 1065-8483
PDF (as accepted for publication) - Final accepted version (with author's formatting)
Official URL: http://journals.humankinetics.com/jab-back-issues/...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sports surface on the magnitude of impact shock experienced during a lunge movement. Thirteen experienced, competitive fencers (age 32.4 +/- 4.6 years; Height 178.4 +/- 7.2 cm; Mass 74.4 +/- 9.1 kg) performed ten lunges on four different surfaces: concrete with an overlaid vinyl layer (COVL); wooden sprung court surface (WSCS); metallic carpet fencing piste overlaid on the WSCS and: aluminium fencing piste overlaid on the WSCS. An accelerometer measured accelerations along the longitudinal axis of the tibia at 1000Hz. The results identified a significantly (P < 0.05) larger impact shock magnitude was experienced during a lunge on the COVL (14.88 +/- 8.45g) compared to the WSCS (11.61 +/- 7.30g), WSCS with metallic carpet piste (11.14 +/- 6.38g) and WSCS with aluminium piste (11.95 +/- 7.21g). Furthermore, the two types of piste used had no significant effect the impact shock magnitude measured when overlaid on the WSCS compared to the WSCS on its own. The results of this investigation suggest that occurrences of injuries related to increased levels of impact shock, may be reduced through the utilization of a WSCS as opposed to a COVL surface, during fencing participation.
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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: HELP OUT!
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Re: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: HELP OUT!
2011-04-13 National campaign Holland helps Japan
http://www.nederlandhelptjapan.nl/
http://www.amsterdamarena.nl/evenementen/531/
A benefit match between Ajax - Shimizu S-pulse (Japanese soccer team) and before the match various artists will perform.
brought out my tears http://youtu.be/-qq6slyZUes
« Last Edit: April 08, 2011, 12:17:43 AM by muppet »
daigong
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Member++
Quote from: muppet on April 07, 2011, 02:12:32 PM
brought out my tears
Totally, give me goosebumps been listening to it nonstop. You knew UFA would step up to the plate, they had to find the right time and project to unite everyone together. Truly a "We are the World" for Japan!
they'll be streaming the show this weekend. check ur local time.
「東日本大震災救援『がんばろうニッポン 愛は勝つ』～From Yokohama with love～」 4/9 11:00 Japan time.
[noembed]http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aihakatuproject[/noembed]
source: http://twitter.com/shuheimiyachi/status/55990237263966208
more info: http://www.up-front-agency.co.jp/aihakatsu-project.php
Ode to LaLuna 1st ALBUM AUG 6 dai-tan 想念你
I just received my "Help Japan" shirt!
The money for the shirts will be donated and hopefully I can raise some local awareness
Kimuuu
strawb3rrykream's girl <3
Just got back home from Raising Hope For Japan, the fundraiser I mentioned in here a while ago.
We got a lot of support and everyone had a fantastic time. At the event tonight, we raised over $1100!!! This doesn't even count the online donations we received through our donation webpage! I'll follow up here with pics and probably talk more about the event tomorrow/today during Happy Hour.
If you want to contribute, you can donate online here: http://www.mercycorps.org/fundraising/zscforjapan
All the money raised is going to Mercy Corps to support their relief efforts in Japan.
GJ Kimmy!! Way to do work girls! looking forward to some stories later today!
Another earthquake just happened in Fukushima. 7.1 one month after the big one. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8442382/Japan-earthquake-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-evacuated-following-aftershock.html
shit yeah, and lotta my peeps in HK all paranoid about the radiation.
From the MKB Threads, bringing awareness to the Earthquake / Tsunami cause brings the girls back together again:
Quote from: kurosawa87 on April 17, 2011, 10:06:20 PM
Melon Kinenbi reuniting..... for relief efforts
http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/04/melon-kinenbi-reunites-for-the-first-time-since-disbanding/
at the event:
they had these messages / signs as well:
just raising funds/awareness and Megumi is saying how much they raised at the locations:
metoice
hitomi-chan my darling
Project: Holding Hands – Popular Characters Cheering Survived Kids
http://asiajin.com/blog/2011/04/14/project-holding-hands-popular-characters-cheering-survived-kids/
Thai For Japan
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twissie
Wildcard, bitches. Yeeeeehaw
澄んだ空で一番光る青い星になりたい
The friend I mentioned earlier, who was selling prints to buy school supplies for his students, just put up a photo essay of his experiences in the days following the tsunami.
http://heymistereric.com/311/
Gacharic Spin - Disneyland
Quote from: twissie on June 11, 2011, 09:02:08 PM
Intense, the waters deeper than I could ever imagine. The textbook pic was eerily ironic.
Thank you for that linkage twiss.
Re: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: one year later...
It's been nearly a year since the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami hit and the nation is still recovering. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake, massive tsunami, and Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, killed more than 15,000 people, and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
The Fukushima nuclear reactor is still recovering.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/energy/nuclear/fukushima-one-year-after
Here's a list of memorial services and events being held: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/03/08/march-11-one-year-on-remembrance-for-some-protest-for-others
among those...
Tokyo and Tohoku, the epicenter of the disaster, will have a number of services, concerts, and protests marking the one-year anniversary of the triple disaster. A national moment of silence will be held at 2:46 p.m. on Sunday, March 11, the moment the magnitude-9 earthquake struck off the northeast coast.
MEMORIAL SERVICES:
TOKYO:
*The Japanese government hosts a ceremony March 11 at the National Theater of Japan. More than 1,000 guests, including the emperor and empress, are expected to attend. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will lead the moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. Companies as well as public offices and schools are expected to hang flags at half-mast.
Time: 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m., March 11
Venue: National Theater of Japan
*Tokyo Sky Tree, the city’s new landmark communications tower, lights up March 11 in memory of disaster victims. (It will also do so on the 10th to commemorate the Great Tokyo Air Raid 67 years ago.)
*Tokyo-based activist group Peace On Earth holds a gathering featuring concerts, as well as a panel discussion featuring guests including renowned musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and movie director Shunji Iwai to honor victims of the disaster.
Time: 11 a.m.-7 p.m., March 10 and 11
Venue: Hibiya Park
TOHOKU:
*Fukushima prefectural government holds commemorative events at seven locations across the area, vowing to create a “newborn Fukushima.” The events will have a large-screen video link to the central government’s Tokyo memorial service. Later, 10,000 candles will be lit while artists from the area perform.
Time: 11 a.m.-8 p.m., March 11
Venue: Fukushima prefecture office and other six locations
*Iwate prefecture hosts a memorial service jointly with Rikuzentakata, the city that suffered the largest number of victims in the prefecture from the disaster. The two-hour ceremony starts at 2:30 pm and is expected to be attended by 2,400 victim families. The ceremony in Tokyo at the same time will be displayed on a large screen.
Time: 2:30 p.m.-4:30p.m., March 11
Venue: Takata elementary school in the city of Rikuzentakata
*Miyagi prefectural government does not plan to hold a memorial service, but will set up places where people can offer flowers for the victims between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Separately, Miyagi Prefectural Library is staging a special exhibition “Testimony of kizuna (bonds): East Japan Great Earthquake documents,” from February 11 to July 20th 2012. The event aims to describe the disaster, its aftermath and the recovery process through photos and documents donated from across Japan.
*Japan’s public broadcaster NHK hosts “One year from the earthquake, concert for the future” on March 10th. The six-hour event will be broadcast from two venues—one in Fukushima, the other in the Tokyo suburb of Chiba —and feature popular musicians and idol groups including AKB48 and SMAP. NHK will broadcast live from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on its BS premium channel, and from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. on its main broadcast station.
Time: 4 p.m. -6 p.m.
Venue: Sukagawa Shimin Bunka Center
Time: 6p.m.-10 p.m.
Venue: Makuhari Messe
I saw this on ustream so I think these events might be streamed too. Tune in.
2012年3月11日、日本は東日本大震災から1年を迎えます。
被災された皆さまに心からお見舞い申し上げるとともに、1日も早い復興をお祈り申し上げます。
Ustreamでは、追悼式やシンポジウム、チャリティーライブなどが、全国各地から配信されます。
【3.11 東日本大震災1周年 番組特集】http://www.ustream.tv/japanquake2011
また、「Japan. Thank You.キャンペーン（観光庁・日本政府観光局主催）」が立ち上がりました。
世界からの様々な支援への感謝として、「ありがとう」のメッセージをお待ちしております。
【Japan. Thank You. アクション】http://www.ustream.tv/thankyou2012
3月11日午後9時より特別番組『日本から世界へ「ありがとう」』配信決定。お見逃しなく。
google translated:
March 11, 2012, will celebrate its one year from the Japan Earthquake East.
Say with heartfelt sympathy to everyone who is affected, I wish you a day early reconstruction.
With Ustream, memorial service and symposia, including a live charity, will be delivered from all over the country.
[Special program an earthquake anniversary http://www.ustream.tv/japanquake2011 East 3.11;
Also, has been launched "(sponsored by Japan National Tourism Agency and tourism) Japan. Thank You." Campaign.
We will wait for the message of "Thank you", as thanks to the variety of support from around the world.
[Japan. Thank You. Action] http://www.ustream.tv/thankyou2012
Decision "delivery" Thank you "from Japan to the rest of the world" special from 9 pm March 11. Do not miss out.
We are extremely proud of everyone's generous donations and support, the Red Cross provided shelter, food, psychosocial support, and many necessities to help rebuild a nation. Here's a snapshot, facts via Red Cross:
Over 2 million registered Red Cross volunteers in Japan
896 Red Cross medical teams and 161,876 volunteers mobilized to support earthquake survivors
More than 87,000 patients treated by Japanese Red Cross medical teams
718 Japanese Red Cross psychosocial workers have provided counseling support to 14,039 people
More than 126,504 sets of electronic appliances distributed to help over 126,000 families settle into their new home
Over 30,000 emergency relief kits distributed to support thousands of families living in evacuation centres
3,500 sleeping kits to provide families with a comfortable place to sleep
Water taps in 9 evacuation centres have provided clean drinking water and improved hygiene for over 2,000 people
959 medical beds have been distributed in 161 facilities throughout the 3 most affected prefectures
14, 787 students supported through a Red Cross lunch program in their schools
735 students are enjoying temporary school gymnasiums and playing areas
but they still need our help so do what you can, chip some money to your local Red Cross (http://redcross.org) and related charities. Natural disasters are impossible to predict and affect us all, this tragic event sure served as a reminder of how life is precious and to care and love life and the people who are a part of it.
Overcoming the Disaster, Gratitude from Japan to the World
Re: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: One Year Later.
approx 1 hour 45 minutes until Japan stops for a moment of silence. God Bless...
According to the Japanese Red Cross site on 12/03/05 they have announced on March 02 that it has extended a donation period until September 30, 2012.
http://www.jrc.or.jp/eq-japan2011/index.html
https://www.ifrc.org/en/donation
As of 27 January 2012, JPY 47.6 billion (USD 598 million) has been donated through National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world.
Couple of ways social media is marking 311, via http://mashable.com/2012/03/10/japan-tsunami-anniversary/
“Children of the Tsunami” documentary by BBC. heart wrenching stuff.
Japan In A Day
Director Ridley Scott’s crowdsourced project, in collaboration with Fuji Television Network, invites people in Japan to submit videos of their lives this March 11 as a way to commemorate the event online. Modeled after Scott’s Life in a Day, Japan In A Day is not asking for any specific views about the disaster — rather, it’s seeking the ordinary, everyday activities that people have been doing since, as they rebuild their lives and move forward. Since the film is asking for users to submit videos on March 11, it won’t be available for screening on the exact date of the anniversary. But, it will be available the day after, on March 12. Check out the trailer below:
“Tsunami Stories”
A project by Voice of America, Tsunami Stories (http://tsunamistories.tumblr.com) is a Tumblr-powered website crowdsourcing content around the web from survivors. With the tagline, “How a nation heals from invisible wounds,” the site looks to find how people affected by the disaster are coping. They can submit pictures, videos, links or text describing their experience. The site just launched on March 8, and the hashtag #tsunamistories is gaining some traction on Twitter to encourage submissions. My favorite post so far is this video of robot seals comforting Japanese elderly:
That's the thing, the traumatic recovery ....grips in the mind, body, and soul. Pray for those and around the world.
And like on Yoko Ono tweeted about this project: http://www.kickstarter.com//projects/324769158/surviving-japan-a-documentary/
The Director Chris Noland is an award-winning videographer, Originally from America, that moved to Japan a year before the earthquake. Chris Noland was a volunteer in the Tsunami Clean-up, food and aid delivery when the disaster happened. He was inspired to make a film about the events when it was clear people were not getting enough help or answers. You can read more about his volunteer efforts on the ImaginePeace website here: http://imaginepeace.com/archives/15129
These little things if each person pitches in, when combined EQUALS GREATNESS!
2012 March 11, 2:46 pm - events were held across the nation of Japan and a moment of silence took place at every venue to remember those who perished during the disaster one year ago, and to show solidarity as the living continue to rebuild their lives.
The AKB48 extended family held events as well at various venues:
ＡＫＢ系、各地で3・11特別公演 {Uploaded by JIJIPRESS on 12 Mar 2012}
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There are several of my family, friends and professional friends that have asked me to post my thoughts about music and this is my first blog to post. It will be a strong attempt to help those folks out there who have hard to find pieces of music, and show them how to go about finding the music they seek. From the folks that have brought me the "one line hummed lines" to my main problem of "three word lyrics" from a song (that people bring me) and try to find the WHOLE song from just a few word hint. That is a challenge.
We here at GMP&A have an extensive collection of 53,500 cds that date back to 1984 (ADD, AAD) and some 8300 78's and or 33 1/3 LP. WE DO NOT SELL THE CD (that is free), we do charge a minimal fee to apply the music you want, don't have (in your current collection) and want, or just want a copy of an unusual performance that I have in the collection.
I love God, my family and music in that order.
God has given me blessings beyond measure.
My Family, again, mostly my son, has bailed me out more than one could think.
Finally music, mainly classical music (my friend too) has taken me to other worlds and has soothed my soul at the same time.
Born in Larisa, Greece put up for adoption in Athens, Greece and apoted by the Gamble's James and Blanche... these people, my parents, who gave me a chance here in the UNITED STATES. To them I owe everything. They will not be able, in this life or in Heaven, understand the joy that I have had here in the United States.
My interest are: Classical Music. Mainly Baroque and Early Romantic. I also collect autographs of composers, conductors and artists. I have about 260 plus and they grace my walls of my small museum. One such artist is George Skaroulis, the very one who is playing this piece you are listening to "Se Ymnumen". (add music here).
First let's discuss why I love classical music. In 1982 I joined the US Air Force and was stationed at Gunter AFS (Montgomery, Al.), there and Maxwell AFB, at night in 1983, I would take several classes to get my BS degree. Night school being what it was I was tired from the day and then go to class was "not really good".
I took a music appreciation class from Dr. Jane Sentell whom taught me how to listen to music, especially classical and more over baroque. Dr. Sentell blog page will be added to this blog soon, you can read about her yourself. Her passion of music instilled in my heart a overwhelming desire to captivate the human essence in the art of music. See she was a musician herself and her love for baroque music lead me to understand her passion so easily, I assume it rolled over into my own heart and mind. Then in 1983, almost 30 years ago, I remember well why I was so attracted to classical music. She taught us DO NOT LISTEN to classical (regardless as to what type or genre), or any music for that fact as "one piece" but in your mind SEPARATE the instruments and differentiate what each instrument is saying to the other. It changed my world, including yes the dreaded OPERA, that most of you love to hate.
This website perhaps will enlighten you to enjoy OPERA and classical music a little more than you do and if you like a certain type of music on this sight it is purchasable.
This website will not be a boring site but one to help you find music and to enjoy music. It will show you if you are musicologist already as to what to do in certain cases (in which you can't find a certain piece of music). Even if you are a professional musicologist, this site may still offer you a remedy to find a piece you've been looking for a long time. Let's start: I married in 1984, money was tight but my wife allowed me to buy cassettes (cd's were just being discovered), and the cassettes that I bought were the "same old" pieces that everyone has in their collection. I would listen to pieces on the radio (and the radio sometimes would have "static" and it would "drive me crazy" to not be able to listen to it in its entirety). We moved to Orlando Florida in 1986, upon getting out of the Air Force and I worked for Disney for about 6 months and then for a major RW (refrigeration wholesaler). While at these places I ran into so many different nationalities, each one "loving" their own type of music. I can recall understanding more and more about different genre and music types during the 3 years that we lived there than any other time in my life. We met so many different friends and were introduced to so many different types of music including but not limited to: Greek, Polish, Italian, American, Iranian, Chinese, Japanese, (at Epcot there were a host of different music to listen to); living in Orlando and going to Disney and the other major theme parks there was always music ALL THE TIME. My point is, I took my "musical life lessons" learned in Orlando and applied them to what Dr. Sentell taught me a few year prior to this point. We would attend the Florida Symphony Orchestra for that 1986 to 1989 year span and be overwhelmed with the different music that one could get exposed to in a lifetime. What better place in the world than going to ORLANDO FLORIDA to get a lesson in musicology. During this time I collected some cassettes here and there and my collection was not that impressive but included some 50 plus cassettes. When my son was born in 1989, we decided to move back to Montgomery Alabama. There too, is a great place to catch a few major lessons in music.
EVERYONE in this world (I do not care who they are, loves a certain type of music), it is instilled in us from the time we are born to the time we die. It is part of our rhythmic and biological clock, that from the time we first hear our mother's heartbeat while laying on their chest just "cuddling", to the symphony of sounds that are gathered daily in our world. Look around, it's all around, the trees sway back and forth to a song of the wind and birds singing, the Maestro in the clouds allows this to happen daily because God does know that we have to have music (one way or the other to survive). I have studied music (as you will continue to read on in this blog) from the earliest forms of music (some 35,000 years ago to what we have current). It amazes me to know that people get uneasy when they don't have music on around them, even in the car/truck they drive or in the homes they live in. Sorry, got on a rant, I will do that from time to time. In 1990 only a year moving back to Montgomery, I got involved heavily with Black gospel music and other types of classical music. I became a season ticket holder for Montgomery Symphony Orchestra and Fellowship Series. Any music that came into Montgomery I went to. My son late 1993 (then, he was only 4 almost five) went to his first classical music event. The Tokyo String Quartet (approached he and afterwards and commented) that they had never seen a child sit through something like that so quietly. He does not care for classical now but then he seemed to love it.
In 1994, I got involved in Afro-American music. OK here is the rub, I had taken music appreciation classes and had audited some as well (because I had friends that were instructors that taught it at Alabama State, AUM, Troy State Montgomery) and would sit in from time to time as a refresher. Hardly in any of those classes was an exclusive class being taught on Afro-American composers and OR Black composers. I looked in my collection and I had NO BLACK COMPOSERS.
This really bothered me and I started one of many quest that would change my life forever. As a musicologist (whether you have a degree it music or not), the study within itself is so gratifying that you will learn other life lessons along the way. Having no black composers in my 1994 collection of almost 600 cds, made me realize that someone had not taught me all there was to know about music or "had" and there was a hidden meaning behind not being taught fully about these composers. Perhaps themselves didn't know about black composers. My search lead to Alabama State University to which Dr. Pamela Burns, lead me to Stephen L. Hayes, artistic director, conductor, choir director for Tuskegee University. Stephen and I became friends very quickly because he could tell I was not black, what was this "white" guy trying to find out about black composers ? It became evident when he saw that I wanted very badly to find out about these composers, whom up until this time only consisted of William Grant Still and William Dawson. I arrived there on campus of Tuskegee University that ceremony day of William Dawson's birthday and went on into the chapel where the event was held. There under the direction of Stephen L. Hayes he directed the choir to sing "There is a Balm in Gilead".
If God was ever present at an event He was there this day. I thought that the angels in heaven had come to earth. Clear and acclimated voices that one only dreams about hearing and then being able to hear it. Absolutely unbelievable to hear such beauty.
After a graveside ceremony behind the chapel standing by the final laying places of William Dawson and his wife, it was time for me to go to class. Stephen asked me why do you want this so bad ? I don't know, I think it's because if I am on a quest to learn music and different types of it, I should be taught EVERYTHING including what some professors don't deem necessary or important. TO ME black / Afro-American composers are just as important as any other nationality. So without question Stephen Hayes believed my gut wrenching truth then he told me this very PROFOUND statement "to know where we are going in music (as black people) you have to know where we've been". WOW. Oh my God, what a slap in the head for reality. Stephen said go across the street to the home of Booker T. Washington (tour it) then to the Cultural Arts Museum and tour there before you come back here for your music lesson. Stephen Hayes and I became lifelong friends that day, I still talk to him from time to time still learning everything I can about the art of black music that I was taught that day. OH WHAT'S RIGHT ? Negro spirituals, black music, "black" composers, how to say that right without offending anyone ? The answer is simple. Stephen taught me that day, black people in general WILL NEVER GET UPSET with you promoting and respecting their lives in calling genre negro spirituals or black composers as to what other people may call it that don't have a clue. YOU ARE talking up their lives. DO IT WITH RESPECT !!!With this I became more aware of my Afro-American friends and their lives, have sang in several black churches and IF I miss a Family and Friends day at Saint Stephens Church in Gordon, Alabama and not sing, my name is mud !!!!! We went on to do a show about black composers and their music in Feb. of 1995 for WTSU 89.9 in Troy Alabama in which I understand was rebroadcasted by popular demand for a couple of years after we aired that show.
Stephen L. Hayes is a Music Educator, Conductor and Expert, his achivements include Assistant Professor and Director of Music at Wiley College in Marshal Texas the home of "The Great Debaters". His prior teaching professions include: Charles A. Tindley Academy of Music (San Franscisco, CA), LeMoyne-Owen Collge and Tuskegee University. For 25 years he has been: Conductor and Performances: 52nd Inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton (US Capitol), Carnegie Hall, JFKennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The White House (East Room), Madison Square Garden, The National Prayer Breakfast, Music Hall (Cincinnati, OH), Capital (Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Beacon Hill), Arkansas State Capital, Presidential Inaugural Gala (Capital Center, MD), Yale University, Mt. Holyoke College
Awards: American Negro Spiritual Festival (2-Time Winner) and Vocal Extravaganza In Black (Las Vegas, NV)
I've been asked to post my autographs. Mind you there are about 30 plus more.... here are about 260
Peter Feranec – conductor of Bolshoi after Lazarev
John Williams – composer and conductor
Basil Poledouris – composer and conductor
Art Reynolds – composer
Rachel Varga – violinist
Emi Ohi Resnick – violinist
Mosie Lister – composer of Christian Music
Glenn Bostick – singer w/ John Paul Walters
John Paul Walters – singer, composer
Alexander Simionescu – violinist
Phillipe Entremont – pianist, composer, conductor
Claudio Abbado - conductor, artist and composer
Ricardo Abbado - conductor, artist and composer (nephew of Claudio)
Tokyo String Quartet – all violinist
Alexander Lazarev – conductor for Bolshoi Symphony
Kurt Masur – conductor
Leonard Slatkin – conductor
Kathleen Battle – opera singer
Janos Starker – violinist
Miami String Quartet – all violinist
American Chamber Players – all violinist
American String Quartet – all violinist
Ying Quartet – All 4
Reiko Uchida – pianist
Peter Mark – operatic singer, composer and conductor VSO
Joann Falletta – conductor, composer
Karl Haas – pianist, conductor, composer, radio host AIGM
Pierre-Laurent Aimord – pianist
Camp Kirkland – Christian composer, conductor, singer, pianist
Squire Parsons – Christian composer
Russell Mauldin – Christian composer
Mikhail Petukhov – pianist
Ray Walker – singer with the Jordanaires
Dwane – autograph on cd
Christopher Timothy – actor (All Creatures Great & Small)
Larnell Harris – Christian Singer & composer
Don Russell – Pianist met on cruise ship (Holiday)
Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio – all 3
Albert Wolff – Vocal and composition
Art Hague – composer “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
Carl Stalling – cartoon music
Yo Yo Ma – cellist and composer
Ramon Vargas – Opera singer (tenor)
Martin O’donnell – Halo 1,2 & 3 composer
Jeremy Soule - composer of Oblivion Elder Scrolls
Stanton Lanier – pianist and composer (Christian)
Mike Hughes Chamberlin – orchestra composer (Floating By)
Zubin Metna – Conductor and composer
Dariusz Skoraczewski – cellist (fellow of MSO)
Heidi Williams – pianist accomp Dariusz
Rachel Portman – composer
BruceBroughton – composer
Elmer Bernstien – composer and conductor
Jennifer Larmore – Opera Singer
Gregory Vajada – conductor and composer
Ben Zander – conductor and composer
George Skaroulis – pianist and composer
Steve Haun – pianist and composer
Tim Heintz - pianist and composer
Richard Pearson Thomas - Murals in Dothan composer
Jamie Eubanks - blues composer and artist
John Masenu - organist, Callaway Gardens
Mei Ann Chen - composer and conductor of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Hayes - composer, artist, teacher, Afro-American Music
Thomas Hinds - conductor and artist for Montgomery Symphony
Eric Whitacre - composer, vocal and artist
Gerald Wolfe - composer, artist of Gospel Music
Jeanne Shaffer - composer, artist, great friend of women composer music
Mike Whetsel - composer, artist, vocal of Gospel Music
Kyle Underwood - composer, artist, vocal of Gospel Music
Richard and Robert Sherman - disney composers and artist
Guarneri Quartet - all four
The Lark Quartet - all four
Will Wiley - artist and composer
Tim Laughlin - male vocalist, composer, artist
Gaither Vocal Band -
James Glass - professor, pianist and composer
Michael Shinn - composer, artist and teacher
Marian McKay - female vocalist
Skillet - all members
Celtic Women - Chole and Lisa
Jennifer Lamore - opera soprano
ASO conductor - Cinderella opera
Tenor - Cinderella opera
Dawn Upshaw - soprano
Harold Rohlig - organist, composer and professor
Thomas Britton - writter, composer and artist
Jane Sentell - Music Appreciation Professor
Pepper Choplin - composer, artist, church leader
George Gershwin - composer, artist
Gearld Wirth - conductor of the Vienna Boys Choir and several members
Andrew Lloyd Weber - composer, artist.
Danny Elfman - composer, artist
Greater Vision - all three including Gerald Wolfe
** Victor Herbert - composer, artist, master of many things (most expensive autograph)
James Horner - composer, artist
Mosie Lister - full autograph studio
Leslie Caron - actress (of movie my fav Lili)
Lukas Karytinos (conductor), Dimitra Theodossiou (Norma), Dimitris Kavrakos (Oroveso), Angelo Simos (Pollione), Nikos Stefanou (Flavio) (all from the National Opera of Greece) June 12th 2010
Charles Édouard Dutoit - conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra
Paul Groves - my favorite tenor. (his autograph the night I heard the Phil Orchestra)
SAKIS TOLIAS - GREEK COMPOSER (I hope to meet in Dec 2011 when I go back)
Helen Bruner & Terry Jones - GRAMMY NOMINEES (I met in Philadelphia @ Phil Intl Records)
Mikos Theodorakis - Greek COMPOSER
Gene Montgomery - organist
Christopher Confessore - Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Robert Merrill - (1917 - 2004) American Opera Singer
Richard Shermann - by himself autograph
Xavier Quijas Yxayotl - Myan and Aztec music
My friend "Music"
by Scott Gamble on Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 1:28pm ·
It speaks but does not listen, it's comforting and not over bearing, it moves the soul and sometimes plucks your heart to do spontaneous things. At the impluse of a fraction of a second, a mind could be changed or decision could be altered. Meet my friend Music, first name Classical. For an estimated 35,000 years ago, (evidence of the first bone flute found in Germany), it has been around. I heard once from musicologist gathered around speaking that in the 12 tonal note system, if with the sharps and flats that combine with A through G, that there are a billion times a billion combinations of music, enough songs to last 675 million years, that is a lot of music. I'll be back to talk up some more music.
>> GERMAN RESEARCHERS have discovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest musical instrument – a 35,000-year-old primitive flute fashioned from a vulture’s wing-bone.
Some 20cm long with five finger holes, the instrument was found in the same cavern in southwestern Germany where archaeologists found a 35,000-year-old Venus figurine, believed to be the oldest sculpture of the human form.
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that music was part of day-to-day life,” said Prof Nicholas Conard, the archaeologist who led the dig team from Tübingen University.
“Music was used in many kinds of social contexts: perhaps religious, possibly recreational, much like how we use music today in different settings.”
Three other flutes were found in the dig, made from mammoth ivory. “It’s really quite a surprise that these flutes were not just made from bird bones, which are hollow and ideal for making flutes, but also from mammoth ivory, a material that’s very hard to work,” he said.
The instruments are not just proof of the age of man’s musical legacy, he said, but an indication that, even 35,000 years ago, our forefathers had leisure time for hand crafts. Humans of the time were no longer merely hunters and gatherers, but artists too.
No one has tried to play the ancient flute – archaeologists assume the player blew through two V-shaped incisions in one end – but Conard said on German radio yesterday that a curious colleague had made a replica from vulture bone. “It sounded awful, really awful,” he said.
Presenting their findings in the journal Nature, the Tübingen team suggested this early emergence of art could be a clue as to why early modern humans survived while the Neanderthals eventually died out.
“Music may have contributed to the maintenance of larger social networks,” the researchers said.
“This perhaps helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans relative to a culturally more conservative and demographically more isolated Neanderthal populations.”
There is little dispute that the instruments found by Conard are the world’s oldest, a title held until now by a group of 22 flutes found in the French Pyrenees and estimated to be 30,000 years old.
The flutes were found in a cave near Ulm in Germany’s Swabia region, where Conard’s team have found dozens of priceless artifacts. Conard said it was “plausible” that the flutes were carved by the same people as the recently presented “Venus” figurine.
>> At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world.
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Scientists say that this bone flute, found at Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, is at least 35,000 years old.
Music and sculpture — expressions of artistic creativity, it seems — were emerging in tandem among some of the first modern humans when they began spreading through Europe or soon thereafter.
Archaeologists Wednesday reported the discovery last fall of a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes that they said represented the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture. They said the bone flute with five finger holes, found at Hohle Fels Cave in the hills west of Ulm, was “by far the most complete of the musical instruments so far recovered from the caves” in a region where pieces of other flutes have been turning up in recent years.
A three-hole flute carved from mammoth ivory was uncovered a few years ago at another cave, as well as two flutes made from the wing bones of a mute swan. In the same cave, archaeologists also found beautiful carvings of animals.
But until now the artifacts appeared to be too rare and were not dated precisely enough to support wider interpretations of the early rise of music. The earliest solid evidence of musical instruments previously came from France and Austria, but dated much more recently than 30,000 years ago.
In an article published online by the journal Nature, Nicholas J. Conard of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, and colleagues wrote, “These finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonized Europe.”
Although radiocarbon dates earlier than 30,000 years ago can be imprecise, samples from the bones and associated material were tested independently by two laboratories, in England and Germany, using different methods. Scientists said the data agreed on ages of at least 35,000 years.
Dr. Conard, a professor of archaeology, said in an e-mail message from Germany that “the new flutes must be very close to 40,000 calendar years old and certainly date to the initial settlement of the region.”
Dr. Conard’s team said an abundance of stone and ivory artifacts, flint-knapping debris and bones of hunted animals had been found in the sediments with the flutes. Many people appeared to have lived and worked there soon after their arrival in Europe, assumed to be around 40,000 years ago and 10,000 years before the native Neanderthals became extinct.
The Neanderthals, close human relatives, apparently left no firm evidence of having been musical.
The most significant of the new artifacts, the archaeologists said, was a flute made from a hollow bone from a griffon vulture; griffon skeletons are often found in these caves. The preserved portion is about 8.5 inches long and includes the end of the instrument into which the musician blew. The maker carved two deep, V-shaped notches there, and four fine lines near the finger holes. The other end appears to have been broken off; judging by the typical length of these bird bones, two or three inches are missing.
Dr. Conard’s discovery in 2004 of the seven-inch three-hole ivory flute at the Geissenklösterle cave, also near Ulm, inspired him to widen his search of caves, saying at the time that southern Germany “may have been one of the places where human culture originated.”
Friedrich Seeberger, a German specialist in ancient music, reproduced the ivory flute in wood. Experimenting with the replica, he found that the ancient flute produced a range of notes comparable in many ways to modern flutes. “The tones are quite harmonic,” he said.
A replica has yet to be made of the recent discovery, but the archaeologists said they expected the five-hole flute with its larger diameter to “provide a comparable, or perhaps greater, range of notes and musical possibilities.”
This week, Dr. Conard began a new season of exploration at Hohle Fels Cave. “We’ll see how it goes,” he said by e-mail. “I never have expectations. One never finds what one is looking for, but one normally finds something interesting.”
Archaeologists and other scholars can only speculate as to what moved these early Europeans to make music.
It so happens that the Hohle Fels flute was uncovered in sediments a few feet away from the carved figurine of a busty, nude woman, also around 35,000 years old, noted Dr. Conard and his co-authors, Susanne C. Münzel of Tübingen and Maria Malina of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. That discovery was announced in May by Dr. Conard.
Was this evidence of happy hours after the hunt? Fertility rites or social bonding? The German archaeologists suggested that music in the Stone Age “could have contributed to the maintenance of larger social networks, and thereby perhaps have helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans.”
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Beyoncé's Unimpressed Face Made Golden State Warriors Owner's Wife Disable Her Instagram
Beyoncé and JAY-Z were courtside for the Game 3 action between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors last night (June 5), but the Carters were involved in their own face-off of sorts in their row of seats.
During the game, cameras panned around the arena showing off famous people in the audience, and naturally the spotlight landed on Jay and Bey. But when the woman beside Beyoncé leaned over to chat with JAY-Z, Mrs. Carter did not look happy.
Jay-Z and Beyoncé are courtside for Game 3 😎 pic.twitter.com/6mmJuN8Odn
— ESPN (@espn) June 6, 2019
Sure, she could have been looking at any number of things in the Oracle — like the Warriors' lacklustre effort (apart from Steph Curry) or one of the handful of Raptors fans in attendance — but fans on Twitter immediately jumped to the conclusion that Bey was unimpressed with the woman sitting next to her.
As it turns out, that woman (hatefully dubbed "Becky" by many online) is Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob. He was seated right next to her on the other side.
Nevertheless, fans weren't letting Curran and Jay get away with their on-camera gab session. They flocked to Curran's Instagram and spammed her with not-so-subtle bee emojis.
LMAOOOOOO THE GIRLS HAVE FOUND HER pic.twitter.com/A1DX6c294c
— The Bitch Formerly Known As... (@LayyyfromThaBay) June 6, 2019
Unfortunately, some members of the Beyhive took things too far, and Curran has since had to disable her Instagram to block out the death threats she's allegedly been receiving.
Just spoke to Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, about the "incident " with Beyoncé last night. She was in tears. Said she had been getting death threats on social media all night this morning she disabled her IG account just to make it stop.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019
For what it's worth, Curran claimed she was simply leaning in to hear Jay's drink order.
Curran says Jay Z asked for a vodka soda. She asked if he wanted lime with that. But it was loud in Oracle and she couldn't hear, so she leaned over. That's where the photos of Beyoncé looking askance at her come from.
Curran said she had no idea anything was even amiss until she got home and started seeing texts from friends and checked her social media. She's invited Jay Z and Beyoncé to the game 3-4 times before. Last night she says she asked if they wanted drinks. Beyoncé asked for water
See some of the wildest reactions to the brief clip of Bey's facial expression below.
pic.twitter.com/lLcMOYC0py
— awkward standing klay (@klaymemeson) June 6, 2019
Hive gonna make sure she's not an issue by the 3rd quarter at the latest pic.twitter.com/t6SexhstfU
— Limearita Papi (@kibirdie) June 6, 2019
Body language pic.twitter.com/YfbsWjOLnx
— L U N A (@JustMoleboheng) June 6, 2019
Bey don't like that girl so I don't like that girl either
— Ashley K. (@AshleyKSmalls) June 6, 2019
Here we have Beyoncé in rare form! If you look closely at her left arm you will see her slightly nudge ole girl, a discrete but mighty signal saying...BACK THE HELL UP! pic.twitter.com/LGaZHJ8rIw
— Kalen Allen (@TheKalenAllen) June 6, 2019
MAN DOWN 😂 #Beyonce pic.twitter.com/rmxIij6dWC
— 🎬H Cineasta (@Hariel_MB) June 6, 2019
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Tuscany trip report
Tuscany trip report: wine towns and exclusive coast resorts
Visit the wine towns and exclusive coastal resorts of Tuscany
One of our most popular Italian region for returning clients, Tuscany suits wine holidays, historic short city breaks, and, though its coastline is often unduly overlooked, luxury beach holidays.
One of our Personal Travel Specialists, Georgie, recently visited Tuscany to witness for herself what makes each aspect of the region particularly popular, and to visit some of our new and much-loved hotels.
Read on to hear Georgie’s own opinions of Tuscany, to discover more of what the region has to offer, and to view our recommended hotels.
“Tuscany is one of Italy’s most treasured regions, and offers delights for every type of traveller; from the famed art galleries of Florence, to the rolling vineyards of Montalcino, the forested hills of Chianti, and the dramatic coast of Porto Ercole. My recent visit to Tuscany allowed me to explore beyond the region’s capital and get to know our hotels, which capture the true essence of Tuscan life.”
“Sitting between Florence and Siena, the Chianti Classico wine region is one of the most beautiful areas I have visited. Small roads weave between the patchwork of green fields and pockets of forest, leading you from village to village. Our hotels in this region are historical buildings and converted villages that have been lovingly restored to give guests a home-from-home experience amongst the vineyards.”
The villages of Chianti are close to both Florence and Pisa, which make for convenient entrances into Italy by air. Both cities have their own iconic attractions: the Torre Pendente of Pisa and the distinctive domed roof of Florence’s cathedral. Perhaps also visit the Accademia Gallery in Florence, where Michelangelo’s original ‘David’ is housed. Florence’s historic rival, Siena, is home to a grand, hauntingly unfinished Duomo and a triangular piazza on which a world-famous Palio is hosted. Some of the most well-known Chianti villages include San Gimignano, Volterra, and Monteriggioni. In San Gimignano, marvel at the many towers; in Volterra, explore Etruscan architecture and Roman ruins; in Monteriggioni, take in the views of the original mediaeval walls. At estates all across the region, you can sample some of the famous red Chianti Classico wines.
“Montalcino is situated in southern Tuscany, perched on a hilltop, overlooking miles upon miles of agricultural land and vineyards. It is a quintessentially Tuscan wine town, and embodies the blend of history and rural peacefulness that the region is known for. The same Sangiovese grapes populate the vineyards of this exclusive wine region, while the higher altitude and dry climate also give birth to the Brunello variety.”
Just as much as in Chianti, a stay in Montalcino is an opportunity to taste some of Italy’s finest wines. Rich Brunello wines are the most popular to come out of Montalcino, and can be tasted at the Fortezza di Montalcino, a castle that stands at the highest point of the town, reached by a long set of steps. Consider also visiting the Castello Romitorio for wine-tastings, as well as tours of the estate grounds, the farmhouse, the fortress, and on-site art gallery. On a Sunday, visit the Abbazia di Sant’Antimo to witness the Gregorian chant mass, and stay for a while after to wander around this huge Benedictine monastery, which dates back to the Late Classical era. We would recommend following the pattern of the surrounding landscape on foot, by bike, or by car, to really get a feel for the majesty of the area. You may stumble across a private wine estate, shady olive groves, or a golf course.
“Leave mainland Tuscany behind and drive across the narrow spit of land that links you to Monte Argentario and the town of Porto Ercole. The scenery here is that of green hills rising straight up from the blue Mediterranean, where yachts and dinghies float around the ports and beaches.”
Porto Ercole has a wholly unique and enchanting location: accessible by car across the strait of Orbetello, but with the exclusive feel and serenity of a private island. Time and time again, it proves to be a stunning example of the beauty of the Tuscan Coast, which calls clients back year after year. To take in the views across the eponymous port and Monte Argentario itself, walk up to Fort Stella. On your way down, navigate the Borgo Antico, taking in the narrow, cobbled streets and quaint houses. From the Piazza Santa Barbara, walk up 80 steps to the Church of Sant Erasmo, where the body of Caravaggio is said to have been laid to rest. For the pleasures of a conventional beach holiday, with the luxury Porto Ercole twist, visit the Spaggia della Feniglia and Riva del Marchese beaches, to relax on the sand, swim in the sea, and enjoy some snorkelling.
From each of these three destinations, Georgie has shared with us her favourite hotel.
Georgie’s favourite Tuscan hotels
Villa le Barone, Chianti
Our favourite Chianti property, the four-star Villa le Barone is an ivy-covered house owned by the charming Count and Countess Aloisi de Larderel, which sits on top of a small, picturesque hill. The Countess herself showed Georgie around the hotel. The guestrooms are scattered throughout the three buildings, and a homely bar in the main house gives the hotel the feel of a private country manor. Outside, a walk through the beautiful gardens reveals tennis courts, a candlelit terrace, and the stunning infinity pool that looks out over the surrounding hills. This is the perfect destination for those looking to experience the charm of this area.
Prices from £960 per person for 7 nights, flights, and hire car.
Find out more about the Villa le Barone here.
Castello Banfi, Montalcino
A golden-hued castle complex set amidst sloping vineyards, the Castello Banfi has been producing the finest wines in the area since 1978, and today offers timeless luxury in Il Borgo – a medieval hamlet next to the Castello di Poggio alle Mura. With just 14 rooms, Il Borgo provides luxurious accommodation in the heart of a 7,100-acre estate. The surrounding region is open, and the panoramic view from the hotel’s pool terrace takes in olive groves, fruit orchards, fields, and woodland. All guests are treated to a complimentary bottle of the estate’s wine in their room upon arrival, and a welcome wine-tasting in the enoteca adds a special touch. The Castello Banfi is an essential destination for any lovers of Italian wine, and guests are encouraged to get involved with hands-on cookery classes, hiking, cycling, and visits to both Montalcino town and Siena.
Prices from £1,660 per person for 7 nights, flights, and car hire.
Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole
Il Pellicano is a quiet five-star retreat hidden away in a remote corner of the Monte Argentario island. Cut into the cliffs, this exclusive resort is a haven of tranquillity, with stunning views, luxurious rooms, and friendly staff on-hand to help with your slightest whim. At the base of the cliff, a sun terrace with loungers allows guests to sun-bathe, before taking a dip in the sea; while, at the top, a beautiful pool terrace seems to sit at the edge of the world. All of the bright, sophisticated rooms come with a terrace or balcony, and the sea views make the most of this beautiful location.
Prices from £1,690 per person for 7 nights, flights, and hire car.
Why not combine these three hotels in an in-depth tour of this iconic region?
Spend three nights at each hotel, with bed and breakfast, scheduled British Airways flights, and a hire car.
Prices from £2,980 per person.
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Banking royal commission: Some questions it should ask the CEOs and regulator
By Daniel Ziffer
Contributed by: Sime ( 14 articles in 2018 )
We've had six rounds of royal commission hearings on banking topics, such as insurance and financial planning, with evidence from experts, regulators, bank executives and victims of misconduct.
Now, after the release of the royal commission's preliminary report, the chief executives and, in some cases, board chairs will sit in the witness box for an under-oath grilling.
The lawyers will have questions about the issues raised in the interim report, ahead of a final report and recommendations due out in February.
I've never fallen asleep in a royal commission hearing, but the warm room and occasionally tedious legal arguments do push you to daydream a little.
In that vein, I'm imagining what I'd do if Commissioner Kenneth Hayne spied me in the back row — having sat there all year — and called me forward to join senior counsel assisting Rowena Orr QC and the team to put some questions to the bosses.
Once everyone had recovered from the shock of an unqualified journalist firing off questions, this is what I'd open with.
For all CEOs and chairs:
Fee for no service is when customers are charged a fee for services that are not provided, were not provided or could never be provided. ASIC believes the total amount taken from Australian customers could top $1 billion. Is it theft?
In most cases of wrongdoing, junior staff — examples include call-centre workers and IT staff in Bangalore — have raised the issue with their superiors. Generally, the problem revolved around customers being charged money incorrectly and any fix was denied or delayed until years later. Why are your junior staff more willing to take action for the customer than your managers?
For Matt Comyn, CEO, Commonwealth Bank:
You run a bank which has had so many public scandals — in financial planning, in insurance, in lending, in relation to anti-money-laundering laws — it essentially forced this royal commission into being. You used to run the bank's largest division, the retail bank, where many of the scandals originated. To what extent are you responsible for the culture that allowed these issues to occur?
Do you feel like this is a royal commission into you?
You charged dead customers fees for no service that the bank wasn't entitled to even if the person was alive. Other institutions did too. Some advisers received warnings about their actions, others nothing. How can living customers expect the bank to treat them with respect, if some staff are willing to charge for 'personal advice' given to people who are dead?
On the fee-for-no-service issue, you had customer complaints from 2008 onwards and then an internal report about how to fix it, followed by a commissioned report from Deloitte in 2012. You eventually notified ASIC of a 'breach' of the law in August 2014. You are meant to notify ASIC of breaches within 10 days. How do you justify staff, at a high level in the bank, treating the regulator with such disregard?
For Nicholas Moore, (outgoing) CEO, Macquarie Bank:
Your bank has a reputation as being tough and aggressive. (Just this year I sat in a Senate hearing where some described being 'Macquaried'). Despite being involved in financial planning scandals and providing a lot of mortgages and credit cards, this is first appearance for the bank in the witness box. Why?
You are the highest paid executive of a listed Australian company. Last year you were paid $18.9 million — congratulations!
The commission has found the root causes of misconduct to be linked to four main factors: culture, governance, remuneration and risk management practices. When you and your staff are paid so much (remuneration), how does it impact on the decisions you make about behaviour (culture), doing the right thing (governance) and working within what's legal (risk management)?
For Mike Wilkins, acting CEO, AMP
The company has lost a chair and CEO. Part of the furore was a supposedly independent report, sent to regulators, which was altered. AMP has also admitted lying to regulators. Is lying to a regulator, or being involved in a report you know to be false, a sackable offence? Is it a criminal offence?
Your company made deliberate business decisions that it knew were wrong, including imposing fees for longer than was legal and charging life insurance premiums to dead people. How can AMP customers have confidence that you will act in their interests?
For James Shipton, chair, ASIC
You're able to prosecute banks if they breach their requirement to tell ASIC of unlawful behaviour within 10 business days. The royal commission has heard about multiple examples where several layers of management knew about issues for years before informing you. Why haven't you prosecuted the breaches?
You generally don't go to court against the big four, preferring to seek 'enforceable undertakings' — negotiated agreements. What impression does that send to the public?
ANZ got tellers to push superannuation products. It was illegal, because the vast majority of tellers are not qualified to sell such products. The bank did it anyway, accruing $3.6 billion in funds, which it continues to profit from. ASIC agreed to fine the bank $1.25 million. How was that figure arrived at? To the larger question, does a fine of millions impact behaviour potentially involving hundreds of millions or billions in revenue?
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-19/banking-royal-commission-what-questions-remain/10503838
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Hilder Pearson Elementary » Staff Sites » Specialists » Nelson, Jennifer - Librarian » Book Awards » Caldecott Medal Award
Caldecott Medal Award!
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
2016 Medal Winner
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, illustrated by Sophie Blackall, written by Lindsay Mattick
Finding Winnie is an incredible account of the friendship and love shared between a soldier and the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. Blackall beautifully interprets this multi-dimensional family story through her distinctive Chinese ink and watercolor art, capturing intimate and historical details perfect for a child’s eye.
2016 Honor Books
Trombone Shorty, pictures by Bryan Collier and words by Troy Andrews
In this autobiography, Trombone Shorty reminisces about his early life in the jazz music scene of his beloved hometown of New Orleans. Through Collier’s paintings and collage illustrations, the story’s authentic, heartfelt tone is masterfully realized.
Waiting, illustrated and written by Kevin Henkes
Waiting delivers an intimate story of five figurines, each anticipating the wonder of everyday moments. Using rich brown lines and a soft pastel palette, Henkes invites young readers to slow down and explore a range of emotions in a world on a windowsill.
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, written by Carole Boston Weatherford
In this biography in verse, Ekua Holmes’ illustrations provide children with an intensely visual encounter with Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer. The repetition of colors and motifs within the richly layered collage create complex images that capture Hamer’s power and bravery.
Last Stop on Market Street, illustrated by Christian Robinson and written by Matt de la Peña,
Readers are transported, along with a young boy and his grandmother, on a journey through the city. Robinson’s illustrations, a colorful mix of acrylic paint and collage, feel both vintage and fresh. The diversity, vibrancy, and beauty of the urban setting are celebrated as CJ and Nana share meaningful moments together.
The 2015 Winner is . . .
Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
Beekle, an imaginary friend, undergoes an emotional journey looking for his human. Santat uses fine details, kaleidoscopic saturated colors, and exquisite curved and angular lines to masterfully convey the emotional essence of this special childhood relationship.
The 2015 Honor Books are. . .
Nana and the City by Lauren Castillo
Nana and the City tells the story of a young boy’s visit to his grandmother, and the reassuring way she helps him to lose his fear and experience the busy, loud city in a new way.
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art, illustrated by Mary GrandPré, written by Barb Rosenstock
Abstract artist Vasily Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds and sounds as colors; he created work that was bold and groundbreaking using colors from his "noisy paint box.” His process is reflected beautifully by GrandPré, whose paint flows across the page in ethereal ribbons of color.
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett
Klassen’s use of texture, shape and earth tones in this deceptively simple book invite readers into the experience of two boys, who, accompanied by their dog, set out to dig a hole. Readers will find an unexpected treasure and be challenged to ponder the meaning of “spectacular.”
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant
Sweet’s inspired mixed media illustrations illuminate the personality and work of a man passionately interested in many things. Her collages combine disparate elements to create a cohesive whole, echoing the ways in which Roget ordered the world into lists that evolved into his groundbreaking thesaurus.
Viva Frida, illustrated and written by Yuyi Morales
Using a unique variety of media - puppetry, printmaking, painting and photography - combined with an intoxicating use of color and unfailing sense of composition, Morales celebrates the artistic process.
Locomotive, illustrated by Brian Floca
All aboard! Accompany a family on an unforgettable weeklong train trip from Omaha to Sacramento in 1869. Brian Floca’s dramatic watercolor, ink, acrylic and gouache illustrations incorporate meticulously-researched portraits of the train, the travelers and the crew as they traverse the American landscape on the new transcontinental railroad.
The 2014 Honor books are . . .
Journey, written and illustrated by Aaron Becker
Finding a magical red crayon, a bored and lonely girl draws a new door on her bedroom wall that leads her to a wondrous but perilous new world. Her drab, sepia-toned, humdrum reality gives way to sumptuous, lushly-hued watercolor and pen and ink landscapes.
Mr. Wuffles! written and illustrated by David Wiesner
Mr. Wuffles finds a new toy that is actually a tiny spaceship in this nearly wordless science fiction tale of epic and miniature proportions. Crisp watercolor and India ink illustrations shine in an innovative graphic novel, picture book hybrid featuring hidden worlds, alien languages and one peeved cat.
Flora and the Flamingo, written and illustrated by Molly Idle
The budding relationship between an awkward young girl and a graceful flamingo is revealed through carefully orchestrated flaps. The minimalist setting, limited color palette, use of white space and page turns create a timeless and joyful visual experience. The call-and-response of this balletic duet is cinematic and comedic.
The 2013 Winner is...
This Is Not My Hat
by: Jon Klassen
When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it’s a good thing that enormous fish won’t wake up. And even if he does, it’s not like he’ll ever know what happened. . . . Visual humor swims to the ...
The 2013 Honor Books are...
Creepy Carrots
by: Aaron Reynolds
The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his favorite treats are out to get him. Jasper Rabbit loves carrots—especially Crackenhopper Field carrots. He eats them on the way to school. He eats them going to Little League. He eats them walking...
Extra Yarn
Extra Yarn is the story of how a young girl and her box of magical yarn transform a community.
by: Laura Vaccaro
How many kinds of green are there? There's the lush green of a forest on a late spring day, the fresh, juicy green of a just-cut lime, the incandescent green of a firefly, and the vivid aquamarine of a tropical sea.
One Cool Friend
by: Toni Buzzeo
On a spontaneous visit to the aquarium, straight-laced and proper Elliot discovers his dream pet: a penguin. When he asks his father if he may have one (please and thank you), his ...
Sleep Like a Tiger
by: Mary Logue
“Does everything in the world go to sleep?” the little girl asks. In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a not-at-all sleepy child and understanding parents, the little girl decides “in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets,” she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger.
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Romney Marsh & Dungeness the last refuge of rare species
An area of Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay has been identified as one of the ten most important wildlife sites in the country by Natural England, the government’s advisor on the natural environment.
The sites, registered as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) which mark the best examples of wildlife and geology that the UK can offer, are the last refuge of some of England’s rarest species. The Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay SSSI being the last place in the South East were the Sussex Emerald moth is found.
The larvae of the moth loves the Dungeness peninsular, where the caterpillar's favoured food – wild carrot – thrives on the free-draining, vegetated shingle.
Helen Phillips, Natural England’s Chief Executive, said: "SSSIs are often all that stand between some of our most threatened species and extinction. By providing essential habitat that may not be found elsewhere, they represent a life support system whose importance cannot be overstated. It’s important that we celebrate these last refuges and the species they sustain, so that we can ensure they receive the attention and support they need."
The Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay SSSI was one of 10 sites highlighted by Natural England without which the organisation says a number of fragile species clinging to survival would disappear from the UK and some would become globally extinct.
The other sites identified are:
Avon Gorge SSSI in Bristol/Somerset,
Derbyshire Cressbrook Dale SSSI,
Cranmore SSSI on the Isle of Wight,
Lindisfarne SSSI in Northumberland,
Windsor Forest and Great Park SSSI,
Upper Teesdale SSSI in Co. Durham.
Two sites Dorset and Cambridgeshire were also identified but remained undisclosed.
The ten SSSIs are among 4,119 across England, ranging from a 4.5 sq m barn in Gloucestershire (home to lesser horseshoe bats) to huge areas such as 37,000 hectares of the Humber estuary (where a colony of grey seals and 50,000 golden plovers are found) which in total cover more than 8 per cent of England.
http://www.romneymarshtimes.com/2011/01/romney-marsh-dungeness-last-refuge-of.html
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Labels: birds, insects, moths, rare, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)
Klamath Chinook Salmon Groups Seek Endangered Species Act Protection
JEFF BARNARD 01/27/11 02:37 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Conservation groups are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for chinook salmon in the Klamath River running from Southern Oregon across Northern California.
The petition filed Thursday with the NOAA Fisheries Service says spring chinook that once were the most prized and numerous of the salmon returning each year to the Klamath are down to between 300 and 3,000 that survive to spawn each year.
Fall chinook are doing better.
If granted, protection would further complicate the tough decisions on sharing scarce water between fish and farms in the Klamath Basin, where coho salmon and two species of suckers already are protected.
The proposal comes as the U.S. Department of Interior studies whether to go through with a landmark agreement to remove four hydroelectric dams on the river to help salmon.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/29/klamath-chinook-salmon-gr_n_815301.html
Labels: endangered species, fish, salmon
Species-proving Kunimasu trout goes on display in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Copyright: © 2011, The Yomiuri Shimbun.
Published: 01/29/11
KOFU, Japan — One of the fish that helped prove the long-lost species of kunimasu trout still exists went on display Saturday as part of a local festival in Fuji-Kawaguchikomachi, Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan.
The specimen put on display at Saiko Wild Birds' Forest Park as part of a juhyo (frost-covered tree) festival in Fuji-Kawaguchikomachi is a male kunimasu trout about 26 to 27 centimeters long.
It is one of nine fish caught in Saiko lake in the prefecture in March that were ultimately found to be kunimasu trout by Kyoto University Prof. Tetsuji Nakabo and Sakana-kun, a TV personality and guest associate professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
Kunimasu trout were thought to have become extinct 70 years ago, but they were proven to be living in the lake in December.
Ice sculptures of kunimasu trout and Sakana-kun also are on display at the park.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/01/29/1507241/species-proving-kunimasu-trout.html
Labels: fish, Japan, new and rediscovered, trout
250 species of birds counted in Berks in 2010
Originally Published: 1/31/2011
By Ken Lebo
Reading Eagle Correspondent
Birdwatchers tallied 250 species in Berks County for 2010, which is also the 10-year average. We did well with ducks, shorebirds, hawks and warblers. One bird that has been seen the last 10 years but was missed in 2010 was the semi-palmated plover, a shorebird that looks like a miniature killdeer.
We had some rare birds for Berks County and a new record, not only for the county, but the state. Here are some highlights of the year:
A male painted bunting visited the feeder of Mary Schmeck of Alsace Township on the afternoon of June 30. It stayed from 2 to 6 p.m. and was not seen again. This is a colorful songbird with a blue head, green wings and red body. It normally lives across the southern states from Arizona to South Carolina and into Mexico. This is the fifth county record.
Larry Koch and Barbara Murse feed ducks year round on the Wyomissing Creek in Mohnton. On Aug. 3, they saw two ducks that were unfamiliar. After studying field guides, they realized they had seen black-bellied whistling ducks. This is a very colorful, tall, long-legged duck with a gray head, reddish-orange bill, brownish-red chest and back with a black belly. The normal range for this duck is from Brazil north through Mexico and just into Texas and Arizona.
Koch called Jack Holcomb on the WEEU-AM radio show "Jack's Back Yard," and local birders were able to see and photograph the ducks. The colorful pair enjoyed the creek for five days before moving on. This is the second record for Berks County.
The most unusual shorebird was a buff-breasted sandpiper, which was was found by Matt Wlasniewski north of Topton on Aug. 30. It was with other shorebirds in a shallow pond off of Long Road until it was chased off by a merlin in late afternoon. This is a medium-sized shorebird with buffy underparts, brown wings, yellow legs, black eye and a short black bill. It breeds in the northern-most parts of North America and winters in southern Brazil. This is the fourth county record.
The bird of the year would be the adult female Anna's hummingbird, a bird that spends its summers along the Pacific Coast and winters in northern Mexico. Due to a glitch in its migrating program, it found its way to the feeder of Renee Gery of Shartlesville. This green hummingbird looks very similar to our female ruby-throated hummingbird but is slightly larger. Gery called Holcomb on his radio show on Nov. 20 and reported the bird. Scott Weidensaul (a hummingbird bander) was called and successfully banded and identified it as an Anna's. Many people were able to see and photograph the bird through the end of the year. This is a new county and state record.
On Nov. 24, Joan Silagy was taking her daily walk at Blue Marsh Lake. Hearing some chirps, she found an adult male yellow-throated warbler. This bird was looking for insects and spiders on the picnic tables, under fallen leaves, up in the trees and around the bathrooms of the beach area. It has a yellow throat, black tear-drop mask, white belly and gray wing with a white wing bar. Many people were able to see and photograph this bird through the end of the year. This species usually spends its summers in the southeastern United States and winters along the Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands. If we see it in Berks County, it is usually in the spring in sycamore trees along Hay Creek.
It has been a busy birding year, and I look forward to seeing what next year brings.
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=283163
Labels: Berkshire, birds, census, rare bird species
Shark-Catching Nations Fail To Protect Threatened Species
NICOLE WINFIELD 01/27/11 03:10 PM
ROME — Two environmental groups on Thursday accused the 20 countries that catch the most sharks of failing to fulfill promises made to the U.N. to better conserve the animals that are increasingly threatened with extinction.
In 1999, more than 100 governments adopted a plan of action at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization to try to stem overfishing of sharks, pledging, among other things, to develop national action plans to ensure that shark catches are sustainable.
The non-governmental groups Traffic and the Pew Environment Group said Thursday that only 13 of the top 20 shark catching countries had developed national plans, and that it was unclear if such plans had done any good where they were adopted.
They issued their report ahead of a meeting next week of government members of the FAO's fisheries committee, which will discuss the state of the world's fisheries in detail.
Some 73 million sharks are killed annually, primarily to meet the high demand in Asia for fins which are used in shark fin soup.
Because sharks are slow growing, late to mature and produce few young, they are unable to replenish their populations as quickly when they are caught. As a result, some 30 percent of all shark species are now threatened or nearly threatened with extinction.
Traffic and Pew analyzed fisheries data and made a list of the top 20 shark catchers which account for nearly 80 percent of the total shark catch reported globally. In order, the top 10 are Indonesia, India, Spain, Taiwan, Argentina, Mexico, Pakistan, United States, Japan, and Malaysia. Yet according to the two groups, Indonesia has only made a draft national plan and India is developing one. Other countries have adopted them but, because reporting is voluntary, it's not clear if they've been implemented or have done any good.
The groups urged governments at the FAO meeting next week to have the U.N. agency complete a thorough review to determine what countries have and haven't done to comply with their pledges to manage their fisheries.
"The fate of the world's sharks is in the hands of the top 20 shark catchers, most of whom have failed to demonstrate what, if anything, they are doing to save these imperiled species," said Glenn Sant, Traffic's global marine program leader.
Jill Hepp, manager of shark conservation for Pew, said sharks play a critical role in the ocean environment.
"Where shark populations are healthy, marine life thrives; but where they have been overfished, ecosystems fall out of balance," she said.
The report suggests that national action plans with lofty goals that are never implemented might not be the answer to saving sharks. Rather, countries that take smaller, incremental steps toward conservation might achieve better results.
It noted that Palau had announced in 2009 it would create the world's first shark sanctuary by banning all commercial shark fishing in its territorial waters and that Honduras had announced a moratorium on shark fishing last year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/sharkcatching-nations-fai_n_815064.html
Labels: aquatic animals, Conservation, endangered species, environment issues, fish, sharks
Wolf sighting is ruled unsubstantiated
By Miles Blumhardt • MilesBlumhardt@coloradoan.com • January 31, 2011
Was it a wolf that Ron Greenwald saw just east of Fort Collins last week, or just a big coyote?
Or could it have been a wandering wolf hybrid?
Greenwald, who lives near Colorado Highway 14 and Larimer County Road 3, is sure he saw through binoculars on Tuesday a wolf on a ridge about 100 yards away from his house catching mice in a pasture with some cut corn.
Mark Leslie, Division of Wildlife area manager for the Fort Collins-Greeley area, isn't so sure.
"I saw a wolf, but I guess I'm just a farm boy, and some people will say I saw a coyote or dog,’’ said the retired Greenwald, who worked for the U.S. Forest Service for 35 years and said he’s seen wolves in the wild in Wyoming. “I guess it could have been a wolf hybrid, but it wasn’t a coyote or dog.’’
Greenwald described the animal as the size of a good-sized dog mostly brown with some black and gray. Coyotes are mostly gray with some buff color and do not possess black coloring. Wolves are much larger than coyotes and usually are gray or black with some buff coloring.
Leslie talked to Greenwald after being informed by the Coloradoan of the sighting. After interviewing Greenwald, who did not have photos of the animal, and not finding any tracks or hair, Leslie said he has a lack of solid information that it actually was a wolf.
“The place where he saw the animal was an area with houses nearby, and that’s not typical wolf habitat,’’ said Leslie, who visited the site where Greenwald said he saw the animal. “I didn’t find anything. With nothing else to go on, the sighting is ruled unsubstantiated.’’
Wolves are classified as endangered in Colorado. The state’s wolf population was largely extirpated in the 1940s.
However, wandering wolves have made appearances from time to time in the state. Most recently, two wolves were spotted in Colorado in 2009. One died of poisoning in Eagle County.
Leslie said that’s the last confirmed sighting of wolves in Colorado of which he is aware. In February 2007, DOW wildlife managers captured brief video of what appeared to be a wolf north of Walden.
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110131/NEWS01/101310333/Wolf-sighting-is-ruled-unsubstantiated
Labels: animal sightings, cougar, grey wolf, mistaken identity, Mystery Beasts
Cross-eyed opossum on diet to improve health and eye alignment
Published: 30 Jan 11 10:47 CET
A cross-eyed opossum from Leipzig Zoo has been put on a diet which will not only make her slimmer and healthier – it may also help her eyes look in the same direction.
Heidi the cross-eyed opossum became an internet sensation after being moved from North Carolina, via Denmark to the east German zoo.
Someone set up a Facebook page for her which has as of Sunday morning, prompted 284,547 people to note that they ‘like this’, and thousands to leave comments on how sweet they think she is.
Click here for a Heidi photo gallery.
Yet her eye problem – likely caused by fatty deposits behind her eyes – is symptomatic of her general obesity which zookeepers in Leipzig now say they are tackling.
“She is making clear progress with mobility, and can now use her tail much better to hold onto things,” said Maria Saegebarth, spokeswoman for the zoo.
She said the opossum’s obesity is thought to have been responsible for her eye problem.
Saegebarth said Heidi is becoming more active as she loses weight out of sight of the public in a private area of the zoo. She will be put in the new giant tropical hall which is due to be opened in July.
DPA/hc
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110130-32759.html
Labels: diets, Germany, marsupials, opossum, veterinarians, Zoos
Coyotes sighted near Manitoba school
Last Updated: Friday, January 28, 2011 | 12:23 PM CST
A coyote sighting near a rural Manitoba school prompted staff to keep kids inside on Thursday.
Officials with the Rural Municipality of St. Francois Xavier called to warn administrators at St. Francois Xavier Community School that some of the animals were seen in the area.
Staff kept an eye out for the animals but didn't see any during the morning, so the kids were allowed to go outside for recess.
But the principal spotted two coyotes in a field near the school grounds in the afternoon, leading to a cancellation of the afternoon recess, said Bruce Wood, superintendent of Prairie Rose School Division.
Although coyotes are typically shy around people, "any wild animal is unpredictable and we certainly don't want any kind of an incident with children," he said, noting that is the first time a coyote has been that close to the school.
Wood said there have been no further sightings since then, and the municipality's pest control officer is on alert.
The school also sent a note home about the incident.
Parent Theresa Montgomery applauded the school's decision to keep the students inside, but said coyotes aren't uncommon in the area.
"It's just one of the facts of living in a rural area," she said.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2011/01/28/mb-coyotes-children-school-manitoba.html
Labels: animal sightings, coyote
Wisconsin DNR says animal sighted not a cougar
Updated: 01/27/2011 12:04:22 PM CST
The state Department of Natural Resources says there is no evidence that an animal sighted in southern Wisconsin last week was a cougar.
DNR Warden Ryan Ellifson says the possible sighting happened last Thursday about 7:30 a.m. in the town of Koshkonong. The animal was seen about 200 to 300 yards away, toward the center of a field.
A motorist — who usually looks for deer — saw something that "did not look like a deer."
A Jefferson County sheriff's deputy went to the scene, but by the time he arrived, there was nothing to see.
The DNR warden who investigated tells the Daily Jefferson County Union that he found "nothing that looked like it could be a cougar or even cat-like." He says it could have been a coyote.
http://www.twincities.com/outdoors/ci_17216492?nclick_check=1
Labels: big cat sightings, big cats, cougar, deer, mistaken identity, out of place animals
Hip cat: Tiger gets landmark artificial joint operation
A tiger in Germany has become the world's first to be given an artificial hip after a three-hour-operation by a team of vets that she only barely survived, Leipzig University said on Thursday.
Girl, as the Malayan tiger at Halle Zoo in eastern Germany is known, had been in visible pain for close to a year because of problems in her right hip joint, the university said.
"Malayan tigers are one of the world's most endangered species, with only around 500 estimated to be living in the wild. This was another reason to operate on Girl," a statement said.
The ferocious eight-year-old feline patient was not that long in the tooth either, with a life expectancy of 20.
During the operation by five specialists, Girl's heart came close to stopping, but anaesthetist Michaele Alef was able to save her.
Girl is now recovering in a separate enclosure back in Halle Zoo, and once a six-week danger period when the new hip could dislocate is over, there is a chance that it will last her the rest of her life.
"We are happy," said Peter Boettcher, another member of the team that also included Italian Aldo Vezzoni, a specialist with a wealth of experience fitting artificial hips in dogs, who worked for free.
Artificial hips of the kind implanted into Girl were first developed by professor Pierre Montavon from the University of Zurich with Swiss firm Kyon, and contain titanium for better performance and durability.
They were first used only in dogs but in recent years have also been implanted in humans.
AFP/rm
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110127-32711.html
Labels: big cats, critically endangered species, endangered species, Germany, surgery, tiger, veterinarians, Zoos
Royal Bengal Tigers Get GPS Treatment, New Plans to Save the Endangered Species
BY Jenara Nerenberg
Fri Jan 28, 2011
Poachers beware--the World Wildlife Fund is armed with GPS tracking devices and far-reaching plans to help tigers re-produce.
Tigers in the Himalayas were a big issue this week, as a study co-authored by WWF scientists was published by Conservation Letters, detailing how the world's endangered tigers--many of which are in Nepal, Bhutan, and India--could triple with proper land management. News also came directly out of Nepal that it had successfully installed a GPS tracking kit on a Royal Bengal tiger and then transported the tiger from Chitwan National Park to Bardia National Park. The goal of the tracking is to place the tiger in a safer, breeding-friendly environment. (At right, WWF-US president and CEO Carter Roberts fits a GLOBALSTAR-3 satellite collar on the wild tiger 'Namobuddha' in preparation for translocation.)
"We have one of the highest densities of tigers. If our landscapes are properly managed, then our number of tigers can triple," WWF Nepal Conservation Program Director, Ghana Gurung, tells Fast Company. "We're committed to doubling our number of tigers by 2022."
The global tiger population has decreased from 100,000 to 3,200 in just a century, due to profit-seeking poachers as well as, in the case of Nepal, war-inflicted habitat destruction.
"Therefore, habitat management is essential," says Gurung. And the most important finding to come out of the study is that by preserving corridors that link breeding areas, tigers will more freely roam and breed.
If, however, they are confined to small areas--and areas that are disconnected from each other--the population begins to decrease.
Of course protecting those breeding grounds is also essential. Poachers throughout Asia hunt in search of high profits from sales to China for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
"We absolutely need to stop the bleeding, the poaching of tigers and their prey in core breeding areas," says co-author Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist at WWF. "But we need to go much further and secure larger tiger landscapes before it is too late."
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[Image: Carter Roberts, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund, with Minister of Forest and Soil Conservation of Nepal, Deepak Bohara (standing, left), fitting a GPS plus GLOBALSTAR-3 satellite collar on the wild tiger 'Namobuddha' before it was translocated to Bardia National Park from Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Courtesy WWF/Min Bajracharya]
http://www.fastcompany.com/1721342/tigers-get-gps-treatment-and-increased-breeding-grounds-in-wwf-push-to-save-endangered-speci
Labels: big cats, critically endangered species, ecology, endangered species, Himalayas, poaching, tigers
'Godzilla-like creature' nabbed in Calif. town
Owner reunited with 5-foot-long lizard that wandered free for a couple days
updated 1/26/2011 9:41:39 PM ET
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Animal services officers often get calls reporting "huge," monstrous reptiles, only to arrive and find an itty-bitty garden snake.
But people strolling along Grambling Way, near Massachusetts Avenue, in Riverside Tuesday got a shock when they found they were sharing the sidewalk with a five-foot-long monitor lizard.
"It was just walking along," said John Welsh, spokesman for Riverside County Department of Animal Services. "People were stunned by the size of this thing. It looks like the size of a small alligator."
Animal control officer Jenny Selter was dispatched to the scene. "She said she saw it and almost jumped back in her truck," Walsh said. "The residents were freaking out because here's the Godzilla-like creature walking down the sidewalk."
Selter managed to get a catch pole — a long pole with a loop at the end that's used to handle vicious dogs — around the animal's neck, Welsh said. It was docile at first, but then it started hissing.
A police officer grabbed the lizard's body while Selter held onto its sharp, lashing tail, and together they put it in a compartment of her truck that's usually used for large dogs.
Black-throated monitor lizards are carnivorous, legal to own in California and native to the African grasslands and parts of Asia. Juveniles go for about $100 in pet stores, but they grow.
Back at the shelter, staff found the reptile was well-behaved for a monitor lizard.
"The last one we had was nasty. But this one doesn't hiss and we were able to walk it around. It was investigating and didn't snap at anyone," Welsh said. "We suspect that it's been someone's pet for a long time, because it's so big. I think they might let it wander around the house. Maybe it sleeps on a bean bag?"
Later Wednesday, owner Tom Casarez Jr. of Riverside was reunited with the lizard, named Elmer, Welsh said on the Animal Services website.
Casarez told officers that Elmer had been missing since Sunday. Elmer's tank was being cleaned, and a door in the residence was left open, allowing the lizard to slip out unnoticed.
Welsh said Animal Services officers visited Casarez's home and determined Elmer was being properly cared for.
Noting that Elmer is a carnivore, Welsh said there hadn't been any reports of missing pets in the neighborhood.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41267913/ns/us_news-weird_news/
Labels: escaped animals, exotic pets, Lizards, monitor lizards, reptiles
5-foot Monitor Lizard, 'Godzilla-Like Creature,' Freaks Out Residents In California Neighborhood
The 5-foot Monitor lizard wandering around a condo complex in the city of Riverside was way bigger than animal control officer Jenny Selter could have imagined.
"She said she saw it and almost jumped back in her truck," said John Welsh, spokesman for Riverside County Animal Services. "The residents were freaking out because here's the Godzilla-like creature walking down the sidewalk."
Welsh thinks the scaly pet might have escaped its cage or gotten loose while its owner was away, and he hoped its owner comes to claim it soon.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/5foot-monitor-lizard-godz_n_814145.html
Ex-policeman in 'big cat' sighting
Sightings of a 'big cat' described
as similar to a puma are being
treated as authentic, a council said
pa.press.net, Updated: 28/01/2011 22:20
Council chiefs have hailed a big cat sighting as the best ever proof the so-called mythical beasts really exist.
A former policeman based in west Wales spotted a "puma or panther-like animal" as recently as Wednesday.
Michael Disney now works for Pembrokeshire County Council's Public Protection Division and his sighting is being treated as authentic. While he gathered no photographic or other evidence, his sighting appears to give greater credence to the so-called big cat myth.
Stories of feline beasts living in remote corners of the UK are so common there is barely a region of the country without one - from the Beast of Bodmin in Cornwall to sightings in Kent and all over the north of England, such stories are common rural legends.
The latest sighting comes days after the government environment watchdog for England dismissed the existence of big cats. Experts with Natural England said in a report that they were confident no breeding populations of big cats exist in Britain.
Pembrokeshire Council begs to differ and is so convinced by Mr Disney that it is urging the public to report any sightings. It published extracts of the statement made by their man, which has been passed to the police.
Mr Disney's encounter happened in broad daylight in countryside six miles north of Haverfordwest, near Treffgarne village. He was driving his council car on a single track road at 15mph when a large black "puma or panther" crossed five metres in front of him.
He said: "I immediately stopped my vehicle and stared at this animal. It had a large cat-like head, muscular build and was approximately three feet tall.
"It was bigger and more muscular than a German shepherd dog. The coat was smooth and looked like it had brown spots on it. I had a clear, unobstructed view of the animal and the visibility was excellent."
He added: "I am 100% certain that this was a puma or panther-like animal and was definitely not a dog, cat or any other domestic animal. It was not something I had seen before other than in a zoo."
http://news.uk.msn.com//uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=155993302
Labels: big cat sightings, big cats, Mystery Cats, out of place animals, puma
'Best-ever' big cat sighting reported in Wales
Rachael Misstear, WalesOnline
A WELSH authority is investigating what it described as the ‘best ever’ sighting of an elusive big cat, after it was reported by one of its own officers.
The large puma-like animal crossed a road just feet in front of a vehicle driven by a county council officer.
Michael Disney, who works for the authority’s Public Protection Division, encountered the animal on Wednesday afternoon in countryside near the village of Treffgarne six miles north of Haverfordwest.
In a statement which has been passed to police, he said he was travelling at around 10 to 15 mph down a single-track lane when a large, black “puma or panther” crossed just five metres in front of his car.
Michael, a former police officer, said: “I immediately stopped my vehicle and stared at this animal. It had a large cat-like head, muscular build and was approximately three feet tall.
“It was bigger and more muscular than a German Shepherd dog. The coat was smooth and looked like it had brown spots on it.
“I had a clear, unobstructed view of the animal and the visibility was excellent
“The animal was in my view for fully five to six seconds, the time it took to cover the width of the road and then disappear into the undergrowth at the side.”
“I am 100% certain that this was a puma or panther-like animal and was definitely not a dog, cat or any other domestic animal. It was not something I had seen before other than in a zoo.”
Michael’s initial concern was for the safety of the public so he drove to a nearby farm and spoke to the owner who revealed she had seen a large puma-like animal near her farm a few weeks earlier.
Chief Inspector Steve Matchett of Dyfed Powys Police said: “We are aware of a possible big cat sighting in the Treffgarne area of north Pembrokeshire, which occurred on Wednesday ( January 26).
“We’re working with all relevant agencies including Pembrokeshire County Council and the Welsh Assembly Government’s Big Cat Sighting Unit has also been informed.
“While the public should not be alarmed by this latest possible sighting, we would urge anyone who does see what they think might be a big cat not to approach the animal, and to stay a safe distance away from it.”
Wednesday’s encounter is the latest in a line of big cat sightings in Pembrokeshire.
The last publicised incident was in November when the carcass of a sheep was reported to bear the hallmarks of a big cat kill.
Pembrokeshire County Council’s Head of Public Protection, Mark Elliott, said the latest sighting was the most definitive yet in the County.“We believe this is the closest anyone has been to a big cat in the wild and is further proof that there is a least one large animal roaming free in Pembrokeshire” he added.
If anyone has actual evidence of the presence of a big cat they should inform the Council’s Contact Centre on 01437 764551.
Experts believe that it is highly unlikely that such animals pose a threat to the public. However if anyone feels they are in immediate danger from a big cat then they should call 999 and ask for police assistance.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/01/28/puma-like-big-cat-reported-by-council-officer-91466-28072811
(Submitted by Jacqueline Wilson)
Rare Moth Thrives in "Last Refuge" on the Island
Thursday, January 27th 2011 07:00
The Isle of Wight is the last refuge for a rare moth.
A report by Natural England, called Protecting England's Natural Treasures, shows the reddish buff species is now confined to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) at Cranmore, one of the three most important sites for rare wildlife in the country.
The insect was previously found in Hampshire and Dorset, but attempts to reintroduce the moth to the mainland have failed.
The report highlights the hard work of landowners, farmers and volunteers who have transformed the fortunes of England's SSSIs, halting or reversing the long process of decline experienced by many SSSIs over recent decades.
Without these wildlife havens, the report says, a number of fragile species clinging to survival would disappear from the UK and some would become globally extinct.
Richard Grogan, from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, told IW Radio: "Cranmore has a number of small areas of land that have not been improved by chemicals or application of fertilizer or ploughing, and so they are very old grasslands. And it is in those grasslands that a plant called saw-wort lives and it's the food plant for this very rare moth.
"We have to keep the grassland open and sunny so we have spent a long time removing small, scrubby thorn trees from the site where the food plant grows. The residents are very keen to help and we call it [the moth] the Giant Panda of the Isle of Wight."
Work to enhance the moth's habitat at Cranmore has been funded by the West Wight Landscape Partnership, of which Natural England is a partner, and Higher Level Stewardship agreements.
http://www.iwradio.co.uk/newscentre/iw-radio-news/rare-moth-thrives-in-last-refuge-on-the-island-1923
Labels: insects, Isle of Wight, moths, rare species
'Large cat fight' sound heard before savaged lamb is found
Reports of a mysterious big cat stalking the valley of the River Axe have been revived following a gruesome find.
John Knott from Henton found the shredded carcass of a lamb behind the village hall on Monday.
Pictures of what remains of the lamb – too gruesome for publication in a family newspaper – show that it appears a large predator has literally ripped the animal limb from limb.
Every scrap of meat has been taken, along with the front legs and head of the animal, leaving just its spine, ribs and back legs.
Mr Knott said that he heard a disturbance in a field near to the village hall on Monday and that there had been disturbances in the village for up to a week before the attack.
He said: "About a week ago I was going to feed the animals.
"There is an area known as the T-Ground of brambles and undergrowth with is too steep to farm, and has been left to go back to scrubland.
"There was a loud sound like a large cat fight. As I got nearer – it was 200 yards away – it got louder and louder.
"It was the same volume as cats fighting around your feet, but the noise came from a long way away.
"The horses panicked and the sheep started to flock."
Then on Monday he found the evidence of the attack.
"The night before I remember the neighbour took her dog out late at night and it was very spooked, staring up at the T-Ground, as if something was disturbing it," he said.
"From where I found the lamb, the cat must have climbed over the wall to bring it in."
The area around Bleadney, Henton and Wookey is home to regular reports of big cat activity each winter, with farm animals and wild deer savaged by an unknown attacker.
There have been suggestions that the predators live on the Mendip Hills but come down to the Axe Valley in winter when pickings become scarce.
Have you seen evidence of a big cat or other predator in the area round Henton?
Call the newsdesk on 01749 832335.
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/news/Large-cat-fight-sound-heard-savaged-lamb/article-3143910-detail/article.html
Labels: big cats, livestock attacks, Mystery Cats, out of place animals
US fugitive 'planned suicide by bear'
# From correspondents in Flagstaff, Arizona
# From: AP
# January 28, 2011
A CONVICTED killer who escaped from an Arizona prison says his plan was to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him.
Tracy Province told a sheriff's detective about his plan after he was captured in August and returned to Arizona.
According to a sheriff's report, Province planned to shoot a gram of heroin and become bear food.
He says he didn't follow through because of divine intervention and because Yellowstone was too cold.
Province told authorities he then tried to hitchhike to Indiana to see his family.
He was captured August 9 in Wyoming, 10 days after he and two others escaped from a minimum-security prison near Kingman, Arizona.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper first reported the interview today.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/us-fugitive-planned-suicide-by-bear/story-e6frfku0-1225995955253
Labels: bears, crime
Bigfoot is real, Idaho researcher to tell IUS audience
The Courier-Journal • January 25, 2011
Jeff Meldrum, an Idaho State University biology professor, will visit Indiana University Southeast to share the science behind Bigfoot in a seminar hosted by the School of Natural Sciences, the university announced Tuesday morning.
Despite sensationalism and hoaxes surrounding sightings of giant apes commonly referred to as Bigfoot or Sasquatch, Meldrum is expected to share scientific evidence that giant ape footprints do exist and warrant evaluation. His seminar will be at 12:20 p.m. Jan. 27 in the Life Science Building, room 235.
Meldrum, whose research has focused about vertebrate and evolutionary morphology, also will sign his book, “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.”
For more information, call the IUS School of Natural Sciences at (812) 941-2284.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110125/NEWS02/301250063/1025/Bigfoot+is+real++Idaho+researcher+to+tell+IUS+audience
Labels: BHM (Big Hairy Men), Bigfoot, Mystery Beasts, Sasquatch, unknown animals
Egyptian jackal is actually ancient wolf
Long suspected by some biologists, genetic research
has shown that the Egyptian jackal is actually a wolf.
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
The Egyptian jackal, which may have been the inspiration for the Egyptian god Anubis, is actually not a jackal at all but a member of the wolf family. New genetic research in the open-access journal PLoS ONE finds that the Egyptian jackal is Africa's only member of the gray wolf family. The new wolf, dubbed by researchers as the African wolf, is most closely related to the Himalayan wolf.
"We could hardly believe our own eyes when we found wolf DNA that did not match anything in GenBank," lead author, Dr Eli Rueness, said in a press release. GenBank is an open-access nucleotide database.
The genetic data also points to an early origin for the Egyptian jackal/African wolf. In fact, researchers believe the animal is older than well-known wolves of the northern hemisphere. According to the study, Indian, Himalayan, and the new African wolf, broke off from the gray wolf before it moved north, colonizing Europe, northern Asia, and the Americas, further subdividing into different subspecies. Ethiopian wolves, which are a unique species of canids, are older still.
The study does not appear to make a recommendation whether or not this new wolf should be considered a unique species in its own right or another subspecies of the grey wolf (Canis lupus). Currently, gray wolf subspecies number in the thirties, and distinction between species and subspecies continues to be debated for a number of them.
However the new African wolf is classified, researchers argue the discovery must change how the animal is viewed in conservation. The authors call for the African wolf to be assessed individually, especially considering evidence that the animal is rare. The animal is not protected in Egypt and is often persecuted as it is considered a threat to livestock.
In good news, the researchers discovered that the African wolf, previously Egyptian jackal, is actually present in the Ethiopian highlands, expanding its known range considerably.
"This study shows the strengths of modern genetic techniques: old puzzles can be solved," Nils Chr. Stenseth, Chair of the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) and an author of the paper, says.
Citation: Rueness EK, Asmyhr MG, Sillero-Zubiri C, Macdonald DW, Bekele A, et al. (2011) The Cryptic African Wolf: Canis aureus lupaster Is Not a Golden Jackal and Is Not Endemic to Egypt. PLoS ONE 6(1): e16385. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016385
http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0126-hance_africanwolf.html
(Submitted by Chad Arment)
See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12298337
(Submitted by Dawn Holloway)
Labels: Egypt, jackals, taxonomy, wolves
Shark nations failing on conservation pledges
27 January 2011 Last updated at 12:18
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
Governments are supposed to "encourage full utilisation of dead sharks" - but fins are targeted
Many countries whose fishing fleets catch large numbers of sharks have failed to meet a 10-year-old pledge on conserving the species, a report says.
The wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic and the Pew Environment Group say most of the main shark fishing nations do not manage fisheries well.
Ten years ago, governments agreed a global plan to conserve sharks.
An estimated 100 million sharks are killed each year, with nearly a third of species at risk of extinction.
Many fisheries target the fins for use in shark fin soup; and a number of countries, inclduing the US, have recently passed measures aimed at regulating the trade.
Neither of the two countries catching the most sharks - Indonesia and India - has yet finalised national plans of action for protecting sharks.
This was one of the main recommendations of the 2001 agreement under the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that sharks needed international management.
Of the top 20 shark-catching nations, which collectively account for 80% of the global catch, only 13 have national plans in place.
"The fate of the world's sharks is in the hands of the top 20 shark catchers, most of which have failed to demonstrate what, if anything, they are doing to save these imperiled species," said Glenn Sant, leader of Traffic's global marine programme.
"They need to take action to stop the decline in shark populations, and help ensure that the list of species threatened by overfishing does not continue to grow."
The whale shark, the world's biggest fish, is shrinking because of overfishing
Sharks are particularly vulnerable to overfishing because they live long lives and reproduce slowly.
As well as intentional fishing, many are caught accidentally in large nets and on the hooks of longline boats targeting species such as tuna and marlin.
Traffic and Pew are asking the FAO to review implementation of the 10-year-old agreement when it meets later this year.
The 10 recommendations to governments agreed back in 2001 include identifying and protecting key habitat, ensuring catches are sustainable, and minimising waste and discards.
Many sharks are top predators; and there is an abundance of biological evidence to show their removal can have major impacts on the rest of the ecosystem.
"Where shark populations are healthy, marine life beneath the waves thrives; but where they have been overfished we see that world fall out of balance," said Jill Hepp, Pew's global shark conservation manager.
"Shark-catching countries and entities must stand by their commitments and act now to conserve and protect these animals."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12297191
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Labels: sharks
Humans 'left Africa much earlier'
By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News
The tools from Jebel Faya (pictured) were made by modern humans, the researchers argue
Modern humans may have emerged from Africa up to 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, a study suggests.
Researchers have uncovered stone tools in the Arabian peninsula that they say were made by modern humans about 125,000 years ago.
The tools were unearthed at the site of Jebel Faya in the United Arab Emirates, a team reports in the journal Science.
The results are controversial: genetic data strongly points to an exodus from Africa 60,000-70,000 years ago.
Simon Armitage, from Royal Holloway, University of London, Hans-Peter Uerpmann, from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and colleagues, uncovered 125,000-year-old stone tools at Jebel Faya which resemble those found in East Africa at roughly the same time period.
The authors of the study say the people who made the tools were newcomers in the area with origins on the other side of the Red Sea.
The researchers were able to date the tools using a light-based technique, which tells scientists when the stone artefacts were buried.
Genetics questioned
So-called anatomically modern humans are thought to have emerged somewhere in Africa some 200,000 years ago.
They later spread out, migrating to other continents where they displaced the indigenous human groups such as the Neanderthals in Europe and the Denisovans in Asia.
DNA from the cell's powerhouses - or mitochondria - can be used as a "clock" for reconstructing the timing of human migrations. This is because mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) accumulates mutations, or changes, at a known rate.
Researchers used a dating technique that relies on when the tools were buried
Studies of mtDNA had suggested a timing for the "Out of Africa" exodus of 60-70,000 years ago.
But scientists behind the latest study argue that the people who made tools at Jebel Faya 125,000 years ago are ancestral to humans living outside Africa today.
Professor Uerpmann said the estimates of time using genetic data were "very rough".
"The domestic dog was said to be 120,000 years old, and now it is 20,000. You can imagine how variable the genetic dating is," he explained.
Commenting on the findings, Professor Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum, said: "This archaeological work by Armitage and colleagues provides important clues that early modern humans might have dispersed from Africa across Arabia, as far as the Straits of Hormuz, by 120,000 years ago.
"This research augments the controversial idea that such populations could have migrated even further across southern Asia, despite conflicting genetic data that such movements only occurred after 60,000 years."
Multiple migrations?
The researchers say the toolmakers at Jebel Faya may have reached the Arabian Peninsula at a time when changes in the climate were transforming it from arid desert into a grassland habitat with lakes and rivers.
These human groups could later have moved on towards the Persian Gulf, trekking around the Iranian coast and on to South Asia.
Indeed, Dr Mike Petraglia at the University of Oxford has uncovered tools in India that he says could have been made by modern humans before 60,000 years ago. Some tools were sandwiched in ash from the eruption of the Toba super-volcano in Indonesia that geologists can date very accurately to 74,000 years ago.
However, other researchers suggest that the people living in India at this time could have died out and been replaced by a later wave of humans.
Anthropologists already knew of an early foray out of Africa by modern humans. Remains found at Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel date to between 119,000 and 81,000 years ago.
But the Skhul and Qafzeh people are generally thought to have died out or retreated south, perhaps because of climatic fluctuations. They subsequently disappear, and their sites are re-occupied by Neanderthals.
Professor Stringer said the fact that the tools found at Jebel Faya did not resemble those associated with modern humans at Qafzeh and Skhul hinted at "yet more complexity in the exodus of modern humans from Africa".
He posed the question: "Could there have been separate dispersals, one from East Africa into Arabia, and another from North Africa into the Levant?"
Labels: early man, out of africa
Bats Use Carnivorous Pitcher Plant as Living Toilet
By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor
posted: 25 January 2011 07:11 pm ET
Birds may bomb cars with airborne droppings, but apparently bats use living toilets made of carnivorous plants, gracing them with their fecal matter, scientists find.
Pitcher plants get their name from the long jug-like structures they form from rolled-up leaves. These pitchers serve as pitfall traps, with digestive fluids to liquefy any hapless victims (typically insects) that fall in.
Scientists recently discovered that small mammals known as tree shrews on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo don't end up as doomed victims of the carnivorous plant — instead, they sit on the rims of one such pitcher plant Nepenthes lowii and then poop inside.
As ignoble as this might seem, this is a win-win situation for both the pitchers and tree shrews. The plants cover the pitcher lids with nectar that the critters readily lick for nourishment, while the excrement serves as much-needed fertilizer. (This is why carnivorous plants normally trap insects — to get valuable nutrients.)
Now it turns out pitcher plants are not exclusive bathrooms. Scientists have discovered the small woolly bat Kerivoula hardwickii uses a different type of pitcher in Borneo, Nepenthes rafflesiana elongata, as a lavatory and home as well.
Bat roosts
Tropical ecologist Ulmar Grafe at the University of Brunei Darussalam in Brunei first started working on the island of Borneo investigating how tadpoles can survive within the fluid of pitcher plants.
"It was a hot and humid day in the peat swamp forest and a student calls out, 'Ulmar, have a look at this — there's a bat in this pitcher,'" Grafe recalled. "We squeezed it out the top, and it was alive and well, obviously using the pitcher as a daytime roost."
Other people had seen bats roosting in the pitchers but they put it off as coincidental. "We were seeing it too often, however," Grafe said.
The pitchers of N. rafflesiana elongata are actually poor insect traps, capturing up to seven times fewer insects than typical varieties and possessing relatively little in the way of insect-attracting scents and digestive fluid. As such, "maybe the pitchers are modified in a way that attracts bats," Grafe said. "Bat roosting may not be coincidental." [Pitcher Plant Eats Rodents]
To learn more about the relationship between the small woolly bats and the plants, the researchers stuck radio transmitters onto 17 bats they found in pitchers.
"We had to use the lightest, custom-made transmitters possible, weighing only 0.4 grams, probably the smallest ones used to track animals so far, to minimize any effect of transmitter weight on bat behavior — the bats weigh 4 grams on average," Grafe said.
Not only was it tricky gluing transmitters onto the bats, "one of my students was in the peat swamp one day checking the roosts with her mother of all people, and she calls me all excited saying that she doesn't dare check one of the pitchers because a pit viper is perched beside it," Grafe said. "I told her not to worry and in just over an hour I arrived at the site and removed the viper, not wanting to be responsible for any mishap. I took the viper home as a pet, to the enjoyment of my two young kids."
Also, "my students from Germany were living with local hosts nearby who mentioned that bats were quite tasty and also healthy for pregnant women," he added. "Needless to say, we did not let them know where 'our' bats were to be found."
After their hard work, the scientists found these bats exclusively used pitchers of N. rafflesiana elongata as their daytime roosts. During the course of a roughly six-week period in 2009, they saw that 64 plants out of 223 they monitored harbored at least one bat in one of its pitchers.
The pitchers lent ample space for the bats to roost above the digestive fluid — the pitchers of N. rafflesiana elongata are up to four times longer than typical varieties of pitcher plant. Indeed, on two separate occasions, young bats shared the same pitchers with their mothers.
The scientists also compared pitchers of N. rafflesiana elongata that served as roosts and ones that were never occupied, which the researchers had monitored since they opened. They found leaves of roost pitchers had significantly higher levels of the vital nutrient nitrogen, with which excrement is loaded.
Mutually beneficial
As is the case with tree shrews and N. lowii, the bat and N. rafflesiana elongata mutually benefit from their relationship. The pitchers get excrement as fertilizer, while the bats gain valuable shelter. Indeed, these pitchers taper distinctly in their lower halves — the bats can thus rest inside by just wedging in their heads instead of trying to cling to the slippery pitcher walls.
It seems likely these different cases of poop-scooping are independent evolutionary events. N. lowii grows in areas where there seem to be low numbers of insects, so they need to get nitrogen from somewhere, and tree shrews turned up as the answer. In the case of N. rafflesiana elongata, small forest bats often find it difficult to find appropriate roosts, and coincidental use of pitchers may have evolved into a regular practice if the pitchers responded by making them more attractive as roosts.
"We believe our study is the most conclusive case to date of a mutualistic association between a carnivorous plant and a mammal," Grafe said. "I hope that more people will become fascinated by the extraordinary biology of pitcher plants. We are still learning so much about these plants and their ecology."
The scientists detailed their findings online Jan. 26 in the journal Biology Letters.
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/bat-uses-pitcher-plant-toilet-110125.html
Labels: animal behaviour, bats, botany, Scientific Research, symbiosis, unusual talents
Mad cow drags police officer along country road
Stand-off as animal now penned inside field ...
A cow ran down four people, including a police officer, after it escaped from a market and ran wild along a busy road in the Republic of Ireland
The animal had escaped from the market on the Quin Road, Ennis, Co Clare, and was so dangerously out of control that efforts by a vet to put it down were abandoned for safety reasons.
The cow was eventually herded back to the mart but it failed to calm down. Several farmers later forced the animal in to a nearby field.
Earlier, a garda who had been trying to corral the cow was knocked over and dragged along the road by the animal.
Several members of the public who had also tried to bring the animal under control were also knocked over.
The garda and three others sustained only minor injuries and did not require hospital treatment. Last night the cow remained penned inside the field but concerns that it could escape and cause further chaos remained.
ISPCA animal welfare officer Frankie Coote refused to rule out the possibility that the cow would have to be put down.
Mr Coote, who was also called to the scene, said: "This cow was rogue and was out of control. This was a serious situation and rogue animals like this can be extremely dangerous. Members of the public should never try to approach an agitated animal like this. I was shocked to see the people ignore warnings from the guards to get out of the way.
"People should consider their own safety first, take cover and raise the alarm."
One local woman said: "I have never seen anything like that in my life. I thought it was a bull but it goes to show that a cow can be just as dangerous. I can't believe no one was killed."
Source Irish Independent
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/mad-cow-drags-police-officer-along-country-road-15064542.html
Labels: animal attacks, cattle, ireland, livestock
Kangaroos invade Hanging Rock races
# AAP
# January 26, 2011 2:59PM
KANGAROOS have forced organisers to abandon the Hanging Rock Australia Day races in Victoria.
The first race was delayed twice and finally cancelled, along with the rest of the day's meeting, after a mob of kangaroos invaded the track.
One roo reportedly bounded down the home straight during the second attempt to run the race.
The Hanging Rock Racing Club holds only two race meetings a year - on New Year's Day and Australia Day - in a tradition going back more than 125 years.
The race track is at the foot of the famous Hanging Rock formation in the Macedon Ranges.
The area is famed as the setting of Picnic At Hanging Rock, a novel and subsequent film about the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and a teacher on an outing at Hanging Rock on Valentine's Day 1900.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/kangaroos-invade-hanging-rock-races/story-e6frfku9-1225994922584
Labels: Australia, Kangaroo, marsupials
Two-clawed and parrot-sized: new T.rex cousin unveiled
By Neil Bowdler
Science reporter, BBC News
A tiny distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in China with only a single claw on each forelimb.
Linhenykus monodactylus weighed no more than a large parrot and was found in sediments between 84 and 75 million years old.
The dinosaur belongs to a sub-branch of the theropods, the dinosaur group which includes T.rex and Velociraptor, and which gave rise to modern birds.
Details are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The new species was named after the Chinese city of Linhe, Inner Mongolia, near where its fossilised remains was uncovered in what is called the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation.
The international team found a partial skeleton, including bones of the vertebrae, forelimb, hind limbs, and a partial pelvis
It is part of the Alvarezsauroidea family of theropods, a group of small, long-legged dinosaurs, known for their strange and tiny arms.
Michael Pittman of University College London, who was part of the team, says the animal would hardly have been intimidating.
"You'd see a very small animal, probably below your hip height, with a very small skull. It's not very threatening because its teeth are very small compared to other carnivorous dinosaurs and there's some evidence it may have been an insectivore," he told the BBC.
What is striking is the animal's unusual claws.
"Non-avian theropods start with five fingers but evolved to have only three fingers in later forms," he says. "Tyrannosaurs were unusual in having just two fingers but the one-fingered Linhenykus shows how extensive and complex theropod hand modifications really were."
Disappearing fingers
The suggestion is that this mono-digit theropod may represent the end of one evolutionary pathway, in which unused digits disappear as part of a process of natural selection.
"Vestigial structures, like legs in whales and snakes, may appear and disappear seemingly randomly in the course of evolution," says Jonah Choiniere of the American Museum of Natural History, who also worked on the find.
"Linhenykus highlights complexity in evolution of these vestigial fingers."
Dr Paul Barrett of London's Natural History Museum said the discovery was a "nice specimen" to add to a sub-group already known for its weirdness.
"Alvarezsauroids are already known to be an unusual group of theropods with very bizarre hands used primarily for digging, and this new find confirms there was some variation in how weird these hands were."
Labels: dinosaurs, extinct animals, fossils, new and rediscovered, palaeontology, prehistoric animals, Scientific Research
Delving Into the Past of a Big Cat: Clouded Leopard Redefined
A photograph of a clouded leopard from Borneo (Neofelis diardi borneensis) taken in 2009 by an automated camera-trap set up by the Conservation of Carnivores in Sabah (ConCaSa) project in Tangkulap Forest Reserve, Sabah Malaysia. (Credit: Photo copyright of Wilting & Mohamed, Sabah Wildlife Department, Sabah Forestry Department.)
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2011) — Using genetic and morphological analyses, an international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, has recently demonstrated that the clouded leopard (Neofelis) should not only be classified into two species, but that one of which even comprises two distinct subspecies.
As shown in 2006, the genus Neofelis comprises two species living with distinct distributions. Clouded leopards from Borneo and Sumatra are genetically and morphologically highly distinct from their relatives on the mainland (Neofelis nebulosa) and thus form a separate species, the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi).
Following up on these findings, a team of researchers led by Andreas Wilting and Joerns Fickel of the IZW collected fur and bone samples of the clouded leopard from natural history museums worldwide, with the aim of elucidating to what extent the spatially distinct populations of the Sunda clouded leopard have followed different evolutionary paths. "Although we suspected that Sunda clouded leopards on Borneo and Sumatra have likely been geographically separated since the last Ice Age, it was not known whether this long isolation had caused them to split up into separate sub-species," explains Wilting.
In the course of their study, the researchers were able to demonstrate considerable genetic differences between the two populations. Dissimilarities between populations were also found with regard to skull morphology, as shown by Per Christiansen of the University of Aalborg, Denmark, a co-author of the study.
In contrast, a comparison of coat colour patterns conducted by Andrew Kitchener from National Museums Scotland yielded only small deviations between the populations -- the authors surmise that this finding could be attributed to the highly similar tropical habitats on Borneo and Sumatra. Based on these distinct patterns of genetic and morphological variation, the researchers have now formally described two subspecies of the Sunda clouded leopard: one occurring exclusively in Sumatra, the other being endemic to Borneo.
"So far we can only speculate about the specific course of events in the evolution of the clouded leopard," says Joerns Fickel. The scientists postulate that natural disasters and global climate periods are responsible for the split into two species and subspecies. The eruption of the "super-volcano" Toba on Sumatra ~75.000 years ago is likely to have played a particularly important role in this process. As Fickel explains, this event unquestionably had extreme consequences for the Southeast Asian fauna and flora. On that account, the researchers conclude that in all likelihood, only two populations of clouded leopards survived the eruption, one in southern China (Neofelis nebulosa) and one on Borneo (Neofelis diardi). In a plausible scenario, the latter recolonised Sumatra via glacial land bridges and subsequently developed into a different subspecies as sea levels rose after the last Ice Age and isolated the two islands.
Both subspecies are classified as endangered by the IUCN, owing to the fact that they, as all other big cats, occur at low population densities and require big home ranges for their survival. In order to save the Sunda clouded leopard, it is therefore of paramount importance to protect large forest areas in Borneo and Sumatra, or at least to manage them sustainably, Wilting emphasises. For this reason, the project is being carried out in close collaboration with Sabah Wildlife Department in the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo. Dr. Laurentius Ambu, director of the Sabah Wildlife Department, adds that the IZW together with his department has contributed actively to efforts for the conservation of the Sunda clouded leopard in Borneo for several years, and last year, this team published the first video footage of a Sunda clouded leopard from the wild.
Labels: big cats, clouded leopard, leopard, new and rediscovered, Scientific Research, taxonomy, Zoos
Polar bear's epic nine day swim in search of sea ice
By Ella Davies
Earth News reporter
A polar bear swam continuously for over nine days, covering 687km (426 miles), a new study has revealed.
Scientists studying bears around the Beaufort sea, north of Alaska, claim this endurance feat could be a result of climate change.
Polar bears are known to swim between land and sea ice floes to hunt seals.
But the researchers say that increased sea ice melts push polar bears to swim greater distances, risking their own health and future generations.
In their findings, published in Polar Biology, researchers from the US Geological Survey reveal the first evidence of long distance swimming by polar bears (Ursus maritimus).
"This bear swam continuously for 232 hours and 687 km and through waters that were 2-6 degrees C," says research zoologist George M. Durner.
"We are in awe that an animal that spends most of its time on the surface of sea ice could swim constantly for so long in water so cold. It is truly an amazing feat."
Although bears have been observed in open water in the past, this is the first time one's entire journey has been followed.
By fitting a GPS collar to a female bear, researchers were able to accurately plot its movements for two months as it sought out hunting grounds.
The scientists were able to determine when the bear was in the water by the collar data and a temperature logger implanted beneath the bear's skin.
The study shows that this epic journey came at a very high cost to the bear.
"This individual lost 22% of her body fat in two months and her yearling cub," says Mr Durner.
"It was simply more energetically costly for the yearling than the adult to make this long distance swim," he explains.
Mr Durner tells the BBC that conditions in the Beaufort sea have become increasingly difficult for polar bears.
"In prior decades, before 1995, low-concentration sea ice persisted during summers over the continental shelf in the Beaufort Sea."
"This means that the distances, and costs to bears, to swim between isolated ice floes or between sea ice and land was relatively small."
"The extensive summer melt that appears to be typical now in the Beaufort Sea has likely increased the cost of swimming by polar bears."
Polar bears live within the Arctic circle and eat a calorie-rich diet of ringed seals (Pusa hispida) to survive the frozen conditions.
The bears hunt their prey on frozen sea ice: a habitat that changes according to temperature.
"This dependency on sea ice potentially makes polar bears one of the most at-risk large mammals to climate change," says Mr Durner.
The IUCN red list identifies polar bears as a vulnerable species, citing global climate change as a "substantial threat" to their habitat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9369000/9369317.stm
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Labels: bears, critically endangered species, endangered, feats of endurance, polar bear
Iran's endangered cheetahs are a unique subspecies
Iran's critically endangered cheetahs are the last remaining survivors of a unique, ancient Asian subspecies, genetics experts reveal.
New analysis confirms Iran's cheetahs belong to the subspecies Acinonyx jubatus venaticus.
DNA comparisons show that these Asiatic cheetahs split from other cheetahs, which live in Africa, 30,000 years ago.
Researchers suggest that Iran's cheetahs must be conserved to protect the future of all cheetahs.
Cheetahs formerly existed in 44 countries in Africa but are now only found in 29.
Historically, they were also recorded across southwest and central Asia but can now only be found in Iran.
Scientists have previously said that cheetahs have low genetic variability, theorising that a "population crash" approximately 10,000 years ago led to inbreeding in the species.
Despite this, five 'different' subspecies are currently described according to where they live.
Genetic studies in the 1990s confirmed cheetahs found in southern Africa (A. j. jubatus) and east Africa (A. j. raineyi) as separate subspecies.
However, it has not been clear whether populations in west Africa (A. j. hecki), northern-east Africa (A. j. soemmeringii), and north Africa and Iran (A. j. venaticus) are genetically different enough to deserve their current status as subspecies.
Aiming to solve the puzzle of modern cheetahs' origins, scientists from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria have been working in collaboration with the Iranian Department of Environment and wildcat conservation group Panthera.
Their findings are published in the journal Molecular Ecology.
Dr Pamela Burger and her team analysed the DNA of cheetahs from a wide geographical and historical range, including medieval remains found in north-western Iran.
"With our data we prove that current Iranian cheetahs represent the historical Asiatic subspecies A.j. venaticus as they share a similar genetic profile with specimen originating from northwestern Iran in 800-900 CE," explains Dr Burger.
The researchers have also been able to distinguish Iranian cheetahs from their nearest neighbours in northern-east Africa which were confirmed as A. j. soemmeringii.
Cheetahs in north Africa, previously considered the same subspecies as those in Iran, were actually found to have more in common genetically with those in west Africa.
By comparing sequences in the DNA, researchers have found that the unique Asiatic cheetahs separated from the rest of the species in southern Africa over 30,000 years ago.
Dr Burger explains that because this split occurred long before the theorised population crash, A.j. venaticus represents a highly distinct lineage.
"The implications of our discovery are that the confirmation of the subspecies is a basis for future conservation management. If the aim is to conserve this biodiversity, subspecies should not be mixed," she says.
Currently estimated at just 60-100 individuals with less than half at mature breeding age, the Iranian cheetah population is classified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List.
Together with the United Nations Development Programme, Panthera and the Wildlife Conservation Society the Iranian Department of the Environment has established a programme to make conservation of the Asiatic cheetah a national priority.
Conservationists are concerned that time is running out for Iran's cheetahs.
"We have been successful in stabilising numbers in Iran but we still have a long way to go before we can consider this unique sub-species secure," says Alireza Jourabchian, Director of the Conservation of the Asiatic Cheetah Programme (CACP) in Iran.
Threats facing the small population include overhunting of cheetah prey, habitat degradation and direct poaching.
Labels: big cats, cheetah, Iran, new and rediscovered, taxonomy
Croc swallows phone and starts ringing
Workers at a Ukrainian aquarium did not believe it when a visitor said a crocodile swallowed her phone. Then the reptile started ringing.
The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like Peter Pan, in which a crocodile happily went "tick-tock" after gulping down an alarm clock.
But Gena, the 14-year-old croc who swallowed the phone, has hardly been living a fairy tale: he hasn't eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.
Gena noshed on the Nokia phone after Rimma Golovko dropped it in the water. She had stretched out her arm, trying to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth when the phone slipped.
"This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said.
Employees were sceptical when Ms Golovko, a mother in her 20s, told them what happened.
"But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said an employee who declined to give her name.
Since then, Gena has been refusing food and has been listless. He also won't play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader of the group.
"His behaviour has changed," the employee said. "He moves very little and swims much less than he used to."
Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but, while Gena smothered one bird, he did not eat it.
Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian Oleksandr Shushlenko said the crocodile would be taken for an X-ray this week if he continued to refuse food. Surgically removing the phone would be a last resort, he said, since incisions and stitches usually take at least three weeks to heal in reptiles and the procedure is dangerous for the animal and the vets.
"Everything will depend on where the foreign body is located," Dr Shushlenko said. "We don't have much experience working with such large animals."
The crocodile with the ticking stomach in Peter Pan was on the hunt for Captain Hook after getting a taste for the pirate's flesh by eating one of his hands. But luckily for Hook, he could always hear the crocodile coming.
Ms Golovko has about as much hope of retrieving her phone as Hook did of retrieving his hand. But she does want to get back the phone's SIM card, which holds her precious photos and contacts.
See video at: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/croc-swallows-phone-and-starts-ringing-20110124-1a1lc.html
Labels: aquariums, crocodiles, reptiles, ukraine
Fossil female pterosaur found with preserved egg
Science correspondent, BBC News
For fossil hunters, it represents one of those breakthrough moments.
A pterosaur has been found in China beautifully preserved with an egg.
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time.
Writing in Science magazine, the palaeontologists make some broad statements about differences in pterosaurs, including the observation that only males sported a head-crest.
David Unwin, a palaeobiologist in the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, was part of the research team.
He told the BBC the discovery was astonishing: "If somebody had said to me a few years back that we would find this kind of association, I would just have laughed and said, 'yeah, maybe in a million years', because these sorts of things are incredibly rare."
Pterosaurs, also sometimes referred to as pterodactyls, dominated the skies in the Mesozoic Era, 220-65 million years ago. Although reptiles like the dinosaurs were plodding on the ground below them, they were not actually dinosaurs themselves - a common misconception.
This particular specimen has been dated to about 160 million years ago.
It was found by Junchang Lü and colleagues and excavated from sedimentary rocks in the famous fossil-hunting grounds of Liaoning Province in China. Liaoning has yielded many of the great finds in recent years, including a series of feathered dinos that have transformed thinking on bird evolution.
The new creature is from the Darwinopterus genus, or grouping, but has been dubbed simply as "Mrs T" (a contraction of "Mrs Pterodactyl") by the research team.
The state of the egg's shell suggests it was well developed and that Mrs T must have been very close to laying it when she died.
She appears to have had some sort of accident as her left forearm is broken. The researchers speculate she may have fallen from the sky during a storm or perhaps a volcanic eruption, sunk to the bottom of a lake and then been preserved in the sediments.
"The most important thing about this particular individual is that she has a relatively large pelvis compared to other individuals of the same pterosaur, Darwinopterus," explained Dr Unwin.
"This seems quite reasonable - females lay eggs, they probably need a slightly wider pelvis. And then the really exciting thing is that she has a skull which lacks any kind of adornment or decoration whatsoever. When we look at other individuals of Darwinopterus, we find quite a few individuals with a large crest on the skull.
"We're very confident now that we're dealing with two genders here - males with big crests and small hips, and females with no crest on the skull and large hips."
More at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12242596
Labels: dinosarus, eggs, extinct animals, fossils, palaeontology, prehistoric animals, Pterosaurs, Scientific Research
Georgetown man shoots creature: Chupacabra or hairless bear?
Dave Marquis
SLIDESHOW: Some images of the animal may contain graphic content
GEORGETOWN, CA - To handyman Frank Gallo, the creature that almost attacked him beside his rural trailer several days ago looked like the legendary Chupacabra.
"Scared the hell out of me," Gallo said. "It crouched and faced me and I shot two warning shots at it - 357-magnum, from 20-feet."
The shots seemed to have no effect and Gallo kept firing during the encounter.
"He looked down at where he'd been shot and let out a cry that sounded like, maybe a six year old girl. Ahhhhhh, really loud," Gallo said.
When Gallo saw the animal up close, it was even stranger.
"If you could feel this thing, if you could touch it, it's skin is like an elephant," Gallo said.
The animal had huge claws, canine-like teeth and almost no fur on its body. However, it was the animal's lack of fur that tipped off California Department of Fish and Game Warden Patrick Foy.
"(It's) probably a juvenile bear and has developed some type of an ailment that's caused it's skin to shed all of it's fur," Foy said.
To Gallo, it looked more like, the supposedly, mythical creature known in Mexico as a Chupacabra.
Gallo scoured the Internet, looking for images and information on the Chupacabra.
"Something like this (animal) will hit an animal, knock it down, grab it and suck the blood out of it. That's where the name Chupacabra comes from, it's Spanish for goat-sucker,"Gallo said.
"Could be a fairly new species, you know. Could be a mutation," Gallo said.
However the pictures told Foy it was more likely a bear. Late Tuesday evening, a game warden picked up the animal and confirmed Foy's suspicions that it was a young bear.
It may take several days to determine what caused the bear to lose it's fur.
"Somebody with an untrained eye would look at this and think that this was a pretty creepy-looking character," Foy acknowledged.
Gallo is not convinced.
"Doesn't move anything like a bear, didn't act like a bear. Doesn't make sounds like a bear," Gallo said. "There are skeptics and there are people that are open-minded."
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=118394&catid=2
Labels: bears, chupacabras, mistaken identity, stupid people
Rare species vulture rescued
This rare species vulture, rescued by locals after its electrocution near Srimongal upazila town in
Moulviabazar district on Thursday, is kept for treatment at the mini zoo owned by Sitesh Ranjan Dev,
a wildlife expert in Srimongal. Photo: STAR
Our Correspondent, Moulvibazar
A rare species vulture was rescued by locals when it was hit by a full voltage electricity wire near Srimongal upazila town on Thursday. The near extinct vulture is now under treatment at the mini zoo of Sitesh Ranjan Deb at Srimongal town. Every day a large number of people are visiting the zoo to see the vulture. Zoo owner Sitesh Ranjan Deb, also an eminent wild life expert said, the right wing of the 10-kg vulture was seriously injured after being hit by a full voltage electricity wire at Uttarsur village near Srimongal town on Thursday. Instantly the vulture fell down the ground. Local people caught the injured vulture. Later, Sitesh brought it to his zoo. The zoo owner is giving treatment to the near extinct bird which is rarely seen in our country. Sitesh said about 15 to 20 days will be needed for complete cure of the bird. Afterwards, the vulture will be freed, Sitesh said.
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=171186
Labels: animal rescue, birds, endangered species, India, narrow escapes, rare, vulture, Zoos
'Newest' cat Sunda leopard has two distinct species
London, Jan 23 : The 'newest' cat species-the Sunda clouded leopard-exists in reality in two distinct forms, scientists have confirmed.
This big cat is so enigmatic that researchers only realised it was a new species-distinct from clouded leopards living elsewhere in Asia-in 2007.
Now a genetic analysis has confirmed that the cat comes in two forms, one living in Sumatra, the other on Borneo, reports the BBC.
Clouded leopards are the most elusive of all the big cats, which include lions, tigers, jaguars, snow leopards and normal spotted leopards.
Until 2006, all clouded leopards were thought to belong to a single species.
As well as the better-known clouded leopard living on the Asian mainland (Neofelis nebulosa), scientists determined that a separate clouded leopard species lives on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
The two species are thought to have diverged over one million years ago.
This leopard is now known as the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi), though it was previously and erroneously called the Bornean clouded leopard.
In 2010, a team of scientists working in the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Malaysia released the first footage of the cat in the wild to be made public.
Led by Andreas Wilting of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany, the researchers captured images of a Sunda clouded leopard walking along a road.
Now Wilting and colleagues have published new research, which reveals even more about this mysterious cat.
They sampled 15 Sunda clouded leopards living on Borneo and 16 living in Sumatra, conducting molecular and genetic studies to reveal their origin.
The researchers also examined the skulls of 28 further Sunda clouded leopards and the fur coats of 20 specimens held in museums, as well as the coats of cats photographed on both islands.
"Although we suspected that Sunda clouded leopards on Borneo and Sumatra have likely been geographically separated since the last Ice Age, it was not known whether this long isolation had caused them to split up into separate sub-species," explained Wilting.
But his team's analysis confirms that the latest 'new' species of cat to be discovered actually comes in two forms, a Bornean subspecies N. d. borneensis and the Sumatran subspecies N. d. diardi.
Their results have been published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
--ANI
http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-130646.html
See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9369000/9369238.stm
Labels: big cats, Borneo, clouded leopard, new and rediscovered, Scientific Research, Sumatra
Alberta researcher makes surprising discovery about ant species
U of A researcher found 89 species
By Hanneke Brooymans, Edmonton Journal January 21, 2011
EDMONTON — Alberta is crawling with more than twice as many ant species as originally thought.
This surprising discovery was made by University of Alberta master’s student James Glasier while he was studying ants and their habitats in the sandhills near Edmonton.
He needed to sort out which ants were there, but quickly discovered there was no handy key on the ants of Alberta to help him identify all the different species. So he thought he’d make one himself.
Glasier, 25, drew on a preliminary survey done in the 1960s by Janet Sharplin, but nothing substantial had been done since then. So he collected ants wherever he went. He turned over rocks, dug through soil, pulled off tree bark, knocked down dead trees and set up traps. He found one species in the 27th-floor apartment of a friend. (That ant happens to be the only known invasive species in the province, called a pharaoh ant.) Other ants were sent to him by researchers doing work in various parts of the province.
Altogether, he has more than doubled the number of ant species in Alberta from 40 to 89.
One of the more interesting species was found inside the hill of another species. These guest ants, as they’re called, take up the chemical scent that the host colony members use to identify each other. That way they manage to fool the resident ants into accepting them and even feeding them, Glasier said.
It’s not clear if these free loaders are benefiting the hosts in any way. Sometimes they’re seen cleaning the larger ants, but Glasier thinks that might be how they pick up the chemicals they need to mask their identities.
Seems pretty smart for a creature only twice the size of the head of a pin. Glasier has a few of these pinned inside his insect cabinet where he has meticulously labelled and stored many of the species he has collected. Others are stored in small vials of ethanol.
In the first summer he amassed more than 20,000 ants. Parked in front of a microscope, he’s developed a knack for identifying ants, a tricky business involving noting the grooves and shape of the body, as well as the number of hairs on the body.
“I’ve looked at them for so long, sometimes they’re really easy,” Glasier said about the identification process. “But if it’s something new, it can take a long time to identify.”
Glasier thinks the province could still yield more species. “I would say there are definitely more out there, especially in southern Alberta, where I haven’t done a lot of work.”
Glasier said it’s important to know what species we have and what they’re doing because ants are an integral part of our ecosystems, not only as a source of food for everything from grizzly bears to woodpeckers, but also because they reduce some pest insect populations and protect some plants from being browsed.
One of Glasier’s academic supervisors is John Acorn, an entomologist and author of numerous books on bugs. Their relationship goes back more than a decade. When Glasier was in Grade 7, he asked Acorn to be a mentor. One of his first projects with Acorn involved ants.
Now he’s adding new species to the Alberta list.
“To me, the big message is there’s so much we take for granted,” Acorn said about Glasier’s new species. “There have been very competent entomologists working in Alberta for 100 years. And ants are not exactly obscure.
“In a way, it’s kind of embarrassing. We really should know this.”
On the other hand, it’s also exciting, he said. As we learn more about the ecology of ants and how important they are in the overall scheme of things, it will be useful to know which species play roles in the different ecosystems, he said.
hbrooymans@edmontonjournal.com
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Alberta+researcher+makes+surprising+discovery+about+species/4147744/story.html
Labels: ANTS, insects, new and rediscovered, Scientific Research
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Harlem shaking the Arab world?
For more Last Look, watch GPS, Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN.
In America, "Harlem Shake" may be the top pop single. In Egypt and Tunisia, there's some serious Harlem shaking going on. And it's causing leaders to tremble as it becomes a potent symbol of protest, revolt and defiance.
Take the kids in the video at a school in Tunisia. They danced en masse to the song and posted their exploits on YouTube. That prompted a quarter of a million hits and reports of an investigation by the country's minister of education and that prompted a backlash. Video after video after video of Tunisians proudly doing the Harlem shake in defiance.
More from CNN: What the Shake has to do with Harlem
And then there's Egypt, where the authorities went further and the backlash was worse. Four pharmaceutical students were arrested for doing this Harlem shake in front of the pyramids, and that set off a big reaction. Late in the week in Cairo, there was a mass shake in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to protest.
Now, who says America's popular culture exports have no value?
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Hopefully it will shake all of the countries that don't allow freedom of expression. Shake Shake Shake.
March 6, 2013 at 10:32 am | Reply
retwqaas
Yet i cant express i dont like gays or the ideas they have ithout being called all sorts of names and a monger.
Let's make this very plain and simple: You have the freedom of expression. You are free to express your feelings about anything in the world. However, you're not the only person who gets this right! I, too, have the freedom of expression. So, if you say that you don't like gay people, and I respond by calling you an ignorant bigot, we are both exercising our rights :). You have the right to express yourself; not the right to be free of criticism.
March 6, 2013 at 3:53 pm |
you can express that, it'll just make you look like a butt hurt loser. something you're hidin'? shake shake shake
ThaGerm
You just expressed it. And though you may look like an azs for doing so, nobody is going to arrest you for it.
mrhapiguy
Just because you are free to express your prejudices does not mean it is smart to do so. Others are just as free to respond. I suggest you keep your hateful views to yourself if you can not handle the criticism.
Gays are gross, immoral, unnatural and in every possible way bad for society and a bad for children to be around. 95% of people feel this same way, gay is a mental health disorder and should be fixed – not encouraged!!! Society is falling apart and some people think it's OK and we should just embrace this people like there's nothing wrong with them.
Please keep your hate speech in church where it is protected.
PinkPistol
You have the right. I am gay and don't care, it doesn't bother me, maybe I am just a strong willed person and don't feel the need to point out displeasure at everything other people say, which usually makes others look like their whining or makes them feel like they are righteous individuals in their own mind.
Stay strong my friends.
Lawless4U
You have the freedom to express whatever thoughts you have HOWEVER, everyone else ALSO has the freedom to express their displeasure at your bigoted thoiughts.
David in NC
Based on the fact that you just expressed what you said you cannot express, you are either very stupid, or a liar, or both.
The wise owl
Retwqaas, you can say you don’t like gays just as we can say that we don’t like your opinion. Freedom of expression goes both ways dummy.
Eric, can you back up any of that hate speech? You say that they are gross, to you, that is fine, but it doesn’t make them bad for society or for children to be around. Can you provide anything that backs up that statement? The vast majority of child abusers identify themselves has being straight. The American Medical Association and the American Mental Health Association would disagree with you calling it a mental disorder. In fact the one and only study that said that it might be able to be cured has since recanted it and apologized for all of the damage that has been done to people who subjected to praying the gay away and other mock therapies. Tell me how society is falling apart and show me how the gays are responsible for it. I double dog dare you!
you are allowed to freely express that you hate gays. but the rest of the population is allowed to freely call you names. and i'm freely allowed to troll the interwebz
Sorry, point is the government can't tell you that you can't say something. Other people (i.e., non-bigots) are not constrained in what they say, they can point out that you're a neaderthal all day. (remember, freedom of speech doesn't just apply to you).
jocr13
@ lawless4u is @ Keep it real being a biggotted, prejudice religionist by assuming the this sub human igoes to church (i.e. Christian)
@ all of you dog piling this "sub human" – why are you not dog piling Keep it Real on this issue as well. I am deeply offended by the assumption the "sub human" goes to church (i.e. Christian) – remember bigotry goes both ways.
Save us from your self righteousness and stop all hatred. by the way, sorry to offend and "sub humans" that may have read this on a blog mistaken for ligitimate news.
ANOTHER GAY CHRISTIAN
I am glad that Christian is deeply offended. Now he can see how we gays feel when some people come in the name of Christ saying we are less than and deserving less rights, etc. We have been deeply offended as a community for decades. I have been called names even before I knew I got aware I was gay (I was however attracted since childhood just not aware). So this name calling and sensitivities go both ways.
Stop worrying so much about your dog and your picket fences and worry more about your neighbors, friends and fellows. I don't know what God wants but I am sure what God does not want and that is HATE. Peace to you all.
Freedom of speech, is not freedom of other peoples reactions to that speech.
March 7, 2013 at 12:27 am |
miss molly o.
YEA WHAT GRIFF SAID!!!!
March 7, 2013 at 2:25 am |
GabbaGabba
What do you mong? Fish? You saying you're a fishmonger who is afraid he'll catch a little something "extra" in your net?
There is nothing wrong with you not liking gays. What is wrong is the way you express your dislike, and your thinking that your disliking gays is reason enough to deprive them of their civil righhts.
Must be super appealing to fish, I bet ya got real "fish appeal"... $5 says retwqaas is a fish him or herself!
mattski
You're joking, right?
ms. maud
I like all people. I don't judge. Even if doesn't agree with my beliefs, I figure it's between God and them. It relieves one of all the negative energy spent not liking someone. As long as they good law abiding citizens who do not infringe upon my rights, let people be the people they are. We are not all made in one mold. That's what makes our world interesting and diverse.
I am not sorry
You sound cute. Maybe we should hang out, I am a power bottom.
Sounds to me like you're ready for the latest edition of "Hand job for dummies" (victim version)
Timodeus
Griff, it works both ways, I think you're an ignorant bigot too.
Gays were born that way(not that some of it would choose it either). They are no different than a child born without an arm, or mentally challenged, or conjoined twins. Something happens in utero at conception, it happens in animals too. We help children with other afflictions they are born with. You need to use common sense, things go wrong sometimes that are not planned. Some people are born to be more prone to other health issues. God loves all of his children, no matter their faith or no faith. No matter their affliction in life. He loves us for not judging and for accepting each others differences. I think a loving God would frown on brothers and sisters hating someone because they are different or are born with a genetic flaw. Gays have to learn to accept that flaw and love themselves, good parents and friends help them fac
Griff – great point
March 10, 2013 at 6:48 pm |
Syed
Your one sentence drew so much criticism and hatred from others, wouldn't it be better if you weren't allowed to say that? That's exactly why many countries don't allow freedom of speech.
March 11, 2013 at 10:20 am |
MarkinFL
Syed, that's ridiculous.
March 11, 2013 at 12:02 pm |
BlueJay
Griff, there is an old saying, better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt. No one here has any doubt about you.
March 12, 2013 at 8:44 am |
PushingBack
^^^Exactly what Griff said!
Right, let's be smug in our :freedom of expression" while we're patted down and probed by the TSA, barred from lawful assembly to protest, have our information collected and sold, have our privacy eroded and be intimidated by daily government "shows of force" vis the DHS. Right, America the great liberator. Everyday we sound more and more like North Korea.
And that's just a tiny selection of the stuff we used to say was what communism was about
You do realize that freedom of speech is just so you can blow off steam and then go home, rather than gather in some basement fomenting the overthrow of a tyrannical government? Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses, here in Amerika the first ammendment is the opiate of the masses.
takemetoyourleader
Yeah right! And now big brother will come to arrest and kill you...just like North Korea.
Yeah! Don't you dare protest Scott Walker...he will shut you down. Koch brothers right behind him...I guess big money is just as dangerous as big government!
@ A, you guys lost the recall election, and it was fair, so don't complain about it
Americans = Sheeple = Stupid (free speech!)
Americans! keep enjoying being lied to and fed illogical virtues by your government and media [read pagan powers] that worship ancient egyptian idols (youtube the "Bhohemian grove" and see why your leaders won't answer questions about it)
Your angry responses to the guy who mentioned freedom to say he hates gays explains why Arabs would respond angrily to whatever the stupid harlem shake is. Some American leaders (controlled by Israeli zioist masters) will keep you busy doing and glorifying the most stupid and vain things. It's freedom of speech if it hurts someone else. It's hate speech if it doesn't agree with you – how convenient!
Sorry, the Egyptian GOVERNMENT responded angrily, the people told them to shove it (good for them). Our gov't does not do that. Personal reaction is protected. Seems some people do not understand our 1st Amendment.
Dance, people of the world!
The Spirit of Elvis Presley is alive & well !
Do Rostum
I hope the authorities in Egypt crack down on this foolishness. People died in the Arab Spring for real reform, not so that students could be caught up in western filth. The MB needs to step in and solve this issue.
Mightaswellbe
Says the Dictatorship of the Mosque.
And I hope you get arrested just for being an a$$hat on the internet for no aparent reason.
i12bphil
People died in the Arab spring with the hopes of being free. They died with the hope of reform and democracy. They didn't give their lives so that others could endure more oppression, especially from the likes of you.
World Yankee
Yet they sure like "Western" tourist income, and Western Foreign aide and Western jet fighters and Western Internet. Hypocite!
tokencode
People died so they don't have to listen to the likes you tell others what is right and wrong. You better get used to it, Western culture and freedom are both very contagious.
March 6, 2013 at 10:30 pm |
Yeah Do Rostum... The middle east justice should behead you for being STUPID.
They are just having fun, not breaking the law. Chill.
The MB believe having fun should be against the law.
Jeffj
As other nation's freedom of expression increases, ours disappear thanks for Dictator Obama
Please illustrate....
Hugh Jass
What a dope you are, Jeff. Nobody's taking away any of your freedoms, except that you are no longer free to say a black man will never be president. Stop listening to Rush and eating your own dogfood. Imagine being dumb enough to think a black guy from Chi-town is going to be anti-gun.
Just look at all the freedoms Obama has removed. Like, for example...
Give me some time...
Hmmmmm....
Oh well, can't think of anything. Carry on!
i think this is overblown. CNN wants to make this a big deal, like how every other story has to be about gays (Anderson cooper, etc.). They stick something so much into your face that it becomes the talk of the town and then you're not as bothered by it.
This will go away on its own if they stop covering it, like the emo girls, against which CNN claimed Iraq was taking action. It's just a bunch of kids playing. They'll stop as soon as the beer intoxication loses its effect. Relax everyone!
This kind of behavior (Harlem Shake) is the epitome of society's dumbing down... Not a measure of freedom or more importantly, intelligence.
Our forefathers got drunk, dressed up as indians, then somehow ended up on a boat and proceeded to throw its cargo overboard. Jus' sayin...
Yeah, because intelligent people never engage in goofy behavior. They are always on task and deadpan serious.
I say to you, go to YouTube and watch "Rock the Casbah." Our music and culture are a direct assault on the restrictions of Muslim culture. They use the authority of Allah Himself to preach against Western music, and guess what? Honey badger don't care. We make it, and they see it, and they make a choice about whether it's good or not. Sharia don't like it? Rock the Casbah.
If a crazy music movement causes these kids to open their minds to the ideals of freedom, then who are any of us to say it should not happen?
Once again the reporter was wrong. The kids were arrested because they were in their UNDERWEAR in front of the pyramids. NOT because they were shaking. If he had been accurate (and not trying to simply add drama) he would have stated that all over CAIRO they are doing this and even the police and military have videos on YOUTUBE. So this guy making Egypt look like a third world country is a pampas ass.
Hey, that's a really good point. CNN never seems to quite get the news right.
That is an interesting article. To bad all the following responses are all about some person's views on gays , really weird. I mean what the hell?
March 10, 2013 at 10:47 am | Reply
For some reason, that's what it always comes down to. Very strange. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014
freedom of expression is a paradox
only to the uptight.
yeah.. shaking baby,,,
http://celanaselebriti.blogspot.com/2013/03/kim-kardashian-hot-wallpaper.html
matslats
Only we can show those backward arabs how to be free!
Go America!
"CON LOS TERRORISTAS!"
LaTuya83
I like that "con los terroristas", lol.
Call me Bwana
Che, pibe! Viva la revolución!
dwelsh
It was actually started in Australia, not America.
lol the song is American. It was started in America.
Todd Michaels
The Harlem Shake started in New York in the early 80's It had a different name then. Australia?? Really??
Backward arabs, or backward americans?
Americans are the ones who are backwards – they stick their things into the back sides to enjoy contact with someone elses excrement. People who do that are cool and are glorified. How free is speech criticizing such backward and disgusting activity? How free is reading and preaching the bible, such verses that are against such backwardness. You know you can't win an argument in this area, but you have power and more guns.
gays are cool
anyone who says gays are not cool should be put in jail for their whole lives
Arabs have been sticking it in people's backside for ever. It is your form of birth control for thousands of years.
What you DONT know it, it does go on amongst them, just behind closed doors,because they will be arrested or hanged(Iran) if someone finds out just as incest happens there. People here do not marry they own relatives as what goes on there because of the chance of problems with their children if they do so. Gays were born that way(not that some of it would choose it either). They are no different than a child born without an arm, or mentally challenged, or conjoined twins. Something happens in utero at conception, it happens in animals too. We help children with other afflictions they are born with. You need to use common sense, things go wrong sometimes that are not planned. Some people are born to be more prone to other health issues. God loves all of his children, no matter their faith or no faith. No matter their affliction in life. He loves us for not judging and for accepting each others differences. I think a loving God would frown on brothers and sisters hating someone because they are different or are born with a genetic flaw. Gays have to learn to accept that flaw and love themselves, good parents and friends help them face judgmental people like you.
There are no personal restrictions on criticizing gays or quoting the bible in public. There are restrictions on quoting the bible or other religious texts on gov't time though.
rightospeak
It has to do with the Internet which is changing the world and the monopoly on power.
I must disagree. The internet is nothing more than a tool – a powerful tool but a tool nonetheless – and to which I think you give it far more credit than it merits. It is the idea being communicated, not the means by which it was communicated – does it invalidate how powerful it is or that it is pivotal in reaching out to so many? No, that is true. But first you must have an idea that people believe in. The right to express ourselves, as your namesake implies, is so fundamentally simple we understand it intuitively – but I think you have to give the people that push that envelope more credit than the technology.
Mark, Mark--It has to do with the internet-you disagree with that asnd then yhou agree with it-It has EVERYTHING to do with the internet-there have been notable and brilliant ideas since mane exited his cave-but he could only share with the guy next to him-ease of communication has changed the world-–hopefuly the best of ideas can be shared -but not only shared -but acted on-a brilliant idea that never gets expressed or acted on is just as thought-dead
disagree..it is far far more important than a tool of protests. The internet allows curious minds to learn about other ideas..this instills curiosity, opens minds and fights brainwashing, and nationalistic upbringing. It is this exposure to information and ideas that changes cultures and empowers people to think independently... this is what caused the Arab spring..this is what is causing these protests and this is what will empower previously ignorant populations to understand just how oppressed they really are.
Mark, an idea will go nowhere with out a means to communicate it. The Internet is a huge media tool that covers the world and spreads ideas instantaneously.
eatmorechicken
Mark, you do not know what you are talking about with all due respect.
I get the feeling that your just saying a bunch of stuff to feel important.
This is the truth:
The idea of freedom has been around forever.
The means to communicate the idea has been around forever. albeit slowly and in more or less a one to one relationship between communicators.
The internet IS the tool that is making all of this possible because it brings multiplicity and speed to the communication of a message. It eliminates the barriers of time, distance and language. it is instantaneous .. and this allows for it to be used to organize and coordinate the message. This is new.
You have a very simplistic grasp on what is happening, I suggest you THINK about it a bit more before you speak.
You are splitting hairs and playing with semantics. The Internet is the most important conduit for information dissemination that has ever been invented. You can't understate its importance.
Correction: You can't overstate its importance.
xZENTIGERx
seems the rightospeak is RIGHT and you are a complex stoopidolostmindoamigoyaeyo
"The Medium is the Message." – Some famous Canadian. anyways. The internet is a tool not to be relied on. much the same with Bank accounts, and other computer databases.
Without the Internet, this "shake" will likely not have been seen/heard/learned in North Africa and thereabouts....nor would the rest of the world be seeing North Africans dance to it....nor would North African govts care. Like "Gangnam Style"....no youtube video, no fame....just ordinary song that wouldn't have gotten airplay beyond Seoul (and a month or two at that).
I don't get it. I guess I am out of touch.
Oh, it is a song.
The current fad is duplicating the video using your friends as actors. They are freaking out because they can't keep it out of their country, along with every other cool thing we make. America in your face once again, world.
HarlemShaker
Shake Shake Shake Tunisa!
Shake shake shake, SHAKE your Burka! Shake your Burka!!!
Mohamiss Shafique-Kaddir
This activity is blasphemy . Anyone acting like a filthy Infidel should be punished . A good whipping should make this issue go away . If it doens't heads will role , literally .
ronmexico99
Don't you have a vest to strap to your body or a woman to stone???
You are a fool and a troll. Go away, nobody cares what you have to say.
I see what you did there.
rock woman
It might be helpful if you explained just why you consider this blasphemy?
Mike H.
100 lashes to the buttocks... in public.
it is only blasphemy to those who believe in your idiot religion...
Religious knuckleheads just don't get that the rest of us don't give a flying $%^& about their stupid rules and regulations. The only reason any of the oppression based religions are still here is due to thier willingness to use violence to coerce the non-believers into falling into lock step line – nothing at all to do with "truth". Believe or die – Christ's motto? Sure was for the enforcers of his church for the last 2000 years. I prey that every single person who has ever killed another in the name of God/Jesus/Allah etc is, or will be, swimming in the lake of fire for all of eternity. Every single one!
jbcal
So if someone murders and it's not in the name of God/Jesus/Allah then you're ok with that?
"Mohamiss Shafique-Kaddir
This activity is blasphemy . Anyone acting like a filthy Infidel should be punished . A good whipping should make this issue go away . If it doens't heads will role , literally ."
What a low life comment. Who died and left your kind in control of the world? Crawl back into your cave and chew on a couple of dry bones.
If this guy's a real Arab, I am a real Alien.
I was waiting for someone with intelligence to pick up on that.
If you look at the mirror you will se Uranus
It is so difficult to tell a Poe from a Troll. If you are a troll, then here is some news for you: Enough of us don't care about your fake god that your monopoly on power is going away. It is coming along quite nicely in the west and is now creeping into the theocratic hell hole that you call home.
Heaven forbid people dance and have a good time.
"Heaven forbid people dance and have a good time." That's Southern Baptist, right? Footloose, etc? Can't do it standing up because someone might look in the window and think you're dancing?
Well I certainly wasn't trying to quote a movie etc. Just can't understand why people get so bent out of shape by people getting together and having fun.
opalbunny
The majority of the videos the people that are doing th Harlem Shake are doing it wrong. No wonder these folks are scared.LOL!. It's actually a cute fun dance.
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Another unit destroyed three cars equipped with heavy machineguns in the villages of Tal Salmo, al-Hamidiye and Oum Jerin and eliminated terrorists in Qeminas, al-Nayrab, Bannesh, Sraqeb, Sahl al-Rouj and Maartamsrin.
Yet another unit inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists in the town of Hish and the areas around Ma'aret al-Nu'man, killing and injuring a number of them.
Armed Forces Eliminate Terrorists from Jabhet al-Nusra in Deir Ezzor
An Armed Forces unit clashed with seven terrorists from Jabhet al-Nusra who attempted to sneak into the city of Deir Ezzor on Monday night through the graveyards in the city's southern side, eliminating the seven of them, one of which was identified as Abdelaziz Fawwaz al-Abed.
Also on Monday night, another Armed Forces unit clashed with a terrorist group which attempted to attack a military point in the 7 KM area in Deir Ezzor countryside, eliminating a number of terrorists inclduign Mus'ab Jamal al-Zeidan.
Army Unit Clashes with Terrorists in al-Sheikh Miskin
A unit of the armed forces today clashed with an armed terrorist group in al-Sheikh Miskin town in Daraa countryside, killing several of terrorists and injuring many others.
An official source told SANA that among the killed terrorists were Ala al-Muhr, Hafez Abdul-hamid and Muhanad Kasem Abu Salou.
.... and your point is????
Didn't this thread start out about a dance? Where di you get that stuff from a 'dance' thread?
Hooray. Little Markie has learned how to cut and paste. He has come of age.
You're all farking nuts if you think this is in the least bit going to change anything. All i read here was a pro-america piece with very little substance. USA! USA! USA!
Sorry, we got out of line there a little thinking anything could change you. Go back to being ignorant wife beating cowards.
Gee Whiz. Looks to me as if a bunch of dictators have their knickers in a twist about how useless Sharia has been at keeping American pop tunes and American ideas out of their subjects' lives. I bet they all know who Lady Gaga is, too, and have opinions about Rihanna getting back together with what's his name. Sharia don't like it? Rock the Casbah!
Tigg
You're just jelly because you're a stick in the mud. SHAKE. Shake shake shake!
Raul Mennendes
Cordis Die!
JASC92
y wonder how they would react if they knew that it says "WITH THE TERRORIST!!!"?
Time to send in Ren McCormick!
Hey, who would have thought that a harmless dance on youtube can create a protest movement – not opposed to it but USES it?
In other news . . . .
Harlem, New York is cringing. >.<'
Sekou Suehn
Yes !!! I am loving it.....:) lol
this is the same as America, people were arrested for dancing at the Jefferson memorial, they are just following our lead.
Vivec
Let this obnoxious meme die. just like The Gangnam Style craze, American pop-culture has become a parody of itself. Time to take it out back and shoot it.
ShakeYourBooty
Someone will take up your suggestion as the next craze, perhaps the NRA will adopt your message.
All smiles
Can't say I'll ever do the Harlem Shake but if it brings happiness to someone then "Shake, Rattle and Roll!" God gave us life to live for only a brief time. Why waste it?
The disco craze era songs that mention shaking body parts predate this latest craze by a few decades and caused no such concerns then. The internet has now taken hold on the youth of the world and the Pandora's Box is now open. What will pop out is anyone's guess.
phearis
This is just as stupid as "Planking", "Owling", "Tebowing" or "Faith Hilling" and hopefully sooner than later, people will realize how incredibly stupid it truly is and will it fade into the Interweb history books to be mocked and ridiculed for generations to come.
wow...have drink and relax...
No Call Me Maybe'ing?
Ask your doctor if 'bitter life' is right for you!
Yes, you are right, it's a fad like owling or planking or streaking or packing phone booths and swallowing goldfish, Gramps. And it will be over, just like they were, and we will make fun of them. The difference is that this is happening in countries where America is supposedly not very popular, and enraging dictators into arresting people for doing silly stuff.
Next up the Cairo shuffle
McFoofoo
I always hated that movie.
This is so stupid.
There's nothing like a good peaceful protest! The particular fad of the time will pass, but the idea of freedom of expression will remain.
ANYTHING BLACK PEOPLE DOES BECOME A WORLD SENSATION
yeah, crap for the crap-seeking world...
Yeah but according to Liberal the whole world hates us and our culture. Word of advise travel out of the state and you'll see how much, in fact, they like us. Especially the poor they love the US and our culture. Take it from someone who has travel the world and doesn't waste time with the cry me a river type but with motivated people who go out and make things happen for themselves.
heliocracy
English was obviously not your first language. Where are you from again?
zbeast
I though this Shake dance thing was dumb.. but if it's upsetting to the middle east i'm now all for it.
The Harlem Shake is so yesterday. We've moved onto GALLON SMASHING.
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Sister, sister: Twin softball players go head-to-head
Published on : March 12, 2014 March 17, 2014 Published by : Haley Brucato
Identical twin sisters Jenny and Katie Obbema both play softball, but attend SF State and Humboldt State. Photo by Becky Obbema / Special to Xpress
For the first time in their entire lives, identical twin sisters Jenny and Katie Obbema went head to head, pitching for opposite teams at Humboldt State over the weekend: Jenny for SF State, and Katie for Humboldt.
At first, they both planned to attend SF State, but for Katie Humboldt State suddenly became an option, and everything fell into place last minute.
“We’ve always been each other’s best friends, always had the same group of friends and did everything together,” Katie said.
When they left to go to different colleges last year, it was the first time since birth that the twins were apart for longer than a single day.
“It was hard for us as parents to think ‘Wow, they are going off into different directions,’ but they went off to become their own people,” their mother, Becky Obbema, said. “As a result, it brought them closer together as twins and as sisters.”
The Obbema’s have always been an athletic family. Their mother played softball growing up and their father played football at UCLA. The twins found their passion for softball during their early T-ball days, following in their mother’s footsteps.
“We’ve grown up doing the exact same thing, playing sports together and going to the same school, but it is a good thing to be apart,” Jenny said. “We are able to do our own things and and not have people assume ‘Oh you’re twins, so you have to do everything together.’”
The sisters’ competitive side really came out when they both got on the mound, this time for opposing sides.
“We definitely both encourage each other to do good,” Katie said. “But it makes the game a lot different — now I’m trying to beat my sister and she’s trying to beat me.”
Jenny echoed her sister’s thoughts, “Even though she’s on the other side, we both want each other to do well,” she said. “But there is always that part of you that thinks, ‘Aw man she’s doing better than me,’ and makes you want to go out and prove yourself.”
As for their parents, they’re not exactly sure what to do about their daughters pitching for different teams now.
“Last year, my parents cut two shirts down the middle with our school colors, then sewed them back together,” Jenny said.
The shirts were half Humboldt, half SF State. But Katie said her parents were definitely quiet during this game.
“When it comes down to it, it is hard,” Becky said. “We’ve chosen to be neutral and not cheer for the team, but for the daughter.”
Their father Rick Obbema said the game was exciting for everyone in the stands. “You don’t see identical twins pitching against each other very often.”
For the game he sported a neutral, gray sweatshirt.
“I had to sit there with duct tape over my mouth — it was hard keeping quiet,” he said. “My palms were sweating, it’s nerve wracking.”
He said he was so nervous that he kept a bottle of Tums nearby to ease his stomach at every inning.
“I never get a break. First one daughter is up there pitching, then the other,” he said. “I’m always on edge — I want them to do well.
But he got through it without any ulcers — yet.
“We’ve still got two more years of this. I’ll go buy stock from whoever owns Tums because I’ll be buying a bunch of those in the years to come,” Rick said.
So far, the sisters have figured out how to make the distance between them work and they said they are seeing each other as much as they can.
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More from Merriam-Webster on selvage Britannica. Non-selvedge jeans require a cleaning stitch to keep the outseam from unraveling. Views Read Edit View history. Also in industry sometimes the selvage is made thicker with a binding thread. US denim mills began modernizing their machinery to speed production as demand for denim grew world-wide.
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A water- or air-jet loom creates a fringed selvage that is the same weight as the rest of the cloth, as by the weft thread is drawn via a jet nozzle, which sends the weft threads through the shed with a pulse of water. The selvage is then created by a heat cutter which trims the thread at both ends close to the edge of the cloth, and then it is beaten into place.
Thus it creates a firm selvage with the same thickness as the rest of the cloth. In the decorative embellishment of garments, especially in decorative pleat or ruffles , a selvage used as a ruffle is "self-finished", that is, it does not require additional finishing work such as hem or bias tape to prevent fraying.
Very often fabric near the selvage is unused and discarded, as it may have a different weave pattern, or may lack pile or prints that are present on the rest of the fabric, requiring that the selvage fabric be cut off or hidden in a hem.
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New paper finds natural ocean oscillations significantly contributed to ocean warming since 1850
A paper published today in the Journal of Climate finds natural variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [AMOC] ocean oscillations has significantly contributed to North Atlantic sea surface temperature [SST] trends since 1850.
According to the authors,
"The surface of the world’s oceans has been warming since the beginning of industrialisation. In addition to this, multidecadal sea surface temperature (SST) variations of internal [natural] origin exist. Evidence suggests that the North Atlantic Ocean exhibits the strongest multidecadal SST variations and that these variations are connected to the overturning circulation."
"we conclude that AMOC [natural] variability contributed significantly to North Atlantic SST [Sea Surface Temperature] trends since the mid-19th century."
Calculations of climate sensitivity to CO2 do not include natural variability of ocean and atmospheric oscillations, and thereby exaggerate the effect of CO2 on climate.
Journal of Climate 2014 ; e-View
How much have variations in the meridional overturning circulation contributed to sea surface temperature trends since 1850? A study with the EC-Earth global climate model
Torben Schmith1
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Shuting Yang
Emily Gleeson
Met Éireann, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
Tido Semmler
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Helmholtz, Bremerhaven, Germany
The surface of the world’s oceans has been warming since the beginning of industrialisation. In addition to this, multidecadal sea surface temperature (SST) variations of internal [natural] origin exist. Evidence suggests that the North Atlantic Ocean exhibits the strongest multidecadal SST variations and that these variations are connected to the overturning circulation.
In this work we investigate the extent to which these internal [natural] multidecadal variations have contributed to enhancing or diminishing the trend induced by the external radiative forcing, globally and in the North Atlantic. We do so in a model study where we combine the analysis of a long control simulation with constant radiative forcing at preindustrial level and an ensemble of simulations with historical forcing from 1850 until 2005. First we note that global SST trends calculated from the different historical simulations are similar, while there is a large disagreement between the North Atlantic SST trends. Then we analyse the control simulation, where we identify a relationship between SST anomalies and anomalies in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) for multidecadal and longer time scales. This relationship enables us to extract the AMOC-related SST variability from each individual member of the ensemble of historical simulations and then to calculate the SST trends with the AMOC-related variability excluded. For the global SST trends this causes only a little difference while SST trends with AMOC-related variability excluded for the North Atlantic show closer agreement than with the AMOC-related variability included. From this we conclude that AMOC [natural] variability contributed significantly to North Atlantic SST [Sea Surface Temperature] trends since the mid-19th century.
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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
by Darryl — Friday, 11/27/15 , 10:22 pm
Lee Camp: Hell frozen over? A CEO is jailed!
PBS & NPR: Are pesticides to blame for the massive bee die-off?
The 2016 Clown Auditions:
The G.O.P. is the party of the past.
The G.O.P. Health Care plan? Repeal ObamaCare.
Sam Seder: Bedtime stories with Ben Carson…the imaginary crafting of the Constitution.
Young Turks: The bizarre “end times” beliefs of Dr. Ben Carson.
Sam Seder and Farron Cousins: Ben Carson’s stupidity is a national security threat
Maddow: Is Cruz courting the violent religious right?
Farron Cousins: Scientists confirm…Ted Cruz is roughly as intelligent as Kindergartners.
Maddow: Ted Cruz embraces religious radicals with violent message.:
Farron Cousins: Ted Cruz could win the nomination…and that should terrify Americans.
Stephen: The all-seeing NostraDonald
Chris Hayes: Trump doubles down on lies and violence.
Harry Shearer: Trump is the O.J. of politics.
Kasich PAC goes after Trump
Lawrence O’Donnell & friends: About that anti-Trump ad
Maddow: New devastating G.O.P. ad rips Trump!
Young Turks: Press now needs escorts for bathroom breaks at Trump rallies.
Sam Seder: Trump Mania—Waterboarding? Torture? Absolutely!
Farron Cousins: Is the Trumphole the most racist presidential candidate ever????
Maddow: Trumphole sticks to 9/11 lie & his campaign takes a dark turn.
David Pakman: Donald Trump calls for “registering” Muslims like animals
PsychoSuperMom: (Trump Can’t Hide) Your Lying Eyes.
Chris Hayes: Many Republicans are now calling Trump the “F-word”.
Jonathan Mann: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler.
Inside the Trump hat factory.
Farron Cousins: G.O.P. wants Trump to disappear before he costs them the presidency
Seth Meyers: A closer look at Trump’s racist claims:
Young Turks: Trump retweets fake statistics from a neo-Nazi.
Thom: Trump’s White Fascist Brigade
Farron Cousins: Trump and FAUX News want to bring back waterboarding.
Sam Seder: Trump Mania—Saw thousands of Arabs in N.J. cheering 9/11
David Packman: Huckabee says there will be no abortion when he is President.
Farron Cousins: Mike Huckabee wants Obama to wipe out Muslims
Minute Physics: Why isn’t it faster to fly West?
Pap: Corporate media wants you to be stupid. Let’s fight back.
Mitch McConnell drinks.
Refugophobia:
Young Turks: Asshat Congressman (R) says refugees just want paid vacations.
Jonathan Mann: Jesus was a refugee.
David Pakman: Obama explains to Republicans that you can’t keep refugees out of your state.
Richard Fowler: Obama calls G.O.P. stance on refugees “shameful”
Young Turks: Game of Thrones author schools Republicans on refugees
Stephen: Presidential Medal Of Honor recipient Gloria Estefan knows what it’s like to be a refugee
Thom with Steven Gaffney: Really! How do you know a politician is lying?
Jimmy Dore: God refuses to apologize for Paris.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (with Bill Maher): Why raise the minimum wage.
Redacted Tonight comedy special with Lee Camp.
Farron Cousins: Corporate media is hungering for a war.
Actual Terrorism That Happened in the U.S. This Week:
Young Turks: Armed masked men intimidate Black Lives Matter protests.
Terrorists strike in Minneapolis
Young Turks: 5 BLM protesters shot
Liberal Viewer: FOX News omits key Planned Parenthood statement on Colorado Springs shooting.
News coverage: Terrorist attack in Colorado.
Congressional hits and misses: Thanksgiving leftovers edition.
John Oliver: Pennies.
Thom: The Good, the Bad & The Very, Very Gallionicly Ugly!
David Pakman: World hunger is a social construction.
Young Turks: Koch brothers building their own CIA to spy on progressives.
Surviving the survivalist game.
Quagmire Happening:
Young Turks: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter plane
Turkey shoots down Russian fighter.
Assad talks peace while chemical weapons become routine.
Jimmy Dore: Not drunk Bill O’Reilly calls about Muslims, responsibility & Muslims:
David Pakman: More Mexicans are leaving U.S. than coming in to the U.S.
White House: West Wing Week.
Maddow: Origin of the “freakin’ Presidential turkey pardon”.
Thom: Why the Kochs really embrace criminal justice reform.
Stop war and start cuddling.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Sloppy Travis Bickle spews:
Friday, 11/27/15 at 11:24 pm
Sending even a short email is estimated to add about four grammes (0.14 ounces) of CO2 equivalent (gCO2e) to the atmosphere.
To put this into perspective, the carbon output of hitting “send” on 65 mails is on par with driving an average-sized car a kilometre (0.6 of a mile).
http://news.yahoo.com/whats-ca.....zcg–
The piece doesn’t delve specifically into cost per keystroke, but I suspect that if YLB employed apostrophes as frequently as the average adult male instead of like a teenage girl, he’d probably reduce his carbon output by about as much as the average California redwood tree consumes in a year.
It’s for the children and their future, YLB. Do it for them.
Better spews:
Saturday, 11/28/15 at 7:05 am
http://junkscience.com/2015/11.....l-warming/
Breathing also causes global warming, if YLB stops email ing would you stop exhaling?
Willy Vomit spews:
The face of the latest Christian American Hero.
I’m sure he’ll be lionized and worshiped in the conservative news media as the latest in a long string of heroic martyrs in their battle for the heart and soul of America.
CNN, updated seven minutes ago:
Planned Parenthood, which delivers reproductive health care and sex education to women and men across the United States, has come under attack before. But the group said Friday night that it didn’t know anything about this facility being “targeted deliberately.”
Might have to do with none of their staff having been injured. Meanwhile, a cop was shot 350 yards away, outside a Chase bank.
Maybe it’s just a typo. Colorado Springs Gazette reports a house in Hartsel being searched, or at least secured prior to search.
Here’s a registered voter
http://coloradovoters.info/by_....._dear.html
in that city, same name, same age as the shooter.
He’s listed as female.
Weirder and weirder.
@ 5
(S)he is not listed as a Republican.
ROBERT LEWIS DEAR, JR.
was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 809 OURAY CT, HARTSEL, PARK COUNTY, COLORADO 80449. Her voting status is: Active. She is unaffiliated.
Darryl spews:
Sloppy Travis Bickle,
You seem to be trying very hard to convince yourself that the Planned Parenthood attack isn’t as it seems. What is it you are feeling? Shame? Horror? Guilt? Self-loathing? It must be overwhelming for you.
Saturday, 11/28/15 at 10:28 am
Right now I am feeling like watching Silence of the Lambs, as the loner female wanna-be status of the guy suggested by what is now known makes me think of Buffalo Bill. Or with the discovery of a twig ‘cross’ on an outhouse the guy once lived in out in NC, maybe Blair Witch Project.
What are you feeling, Darryl? Opportunism? Or are the unsubstantiated Loughner allegations still fresh enough
http://voices.washingtonpost.c.....regis.html
that doing the Roger Rabbit/Willy Vomit thing seems premature to you?
It “seems” to me to be pretty much what it “seems” to you to be. Maybe there’s a manifesto in that house yet to be searched. And yet the guy was interviewed by police, who don’t have a motive they’re willing to share, he managed not to cause physical harm to PP staff (safe room?) while successfully killing others at substantial range, and PP as of last night wasn’t even sure it was targeted.
All of which just might suggest that things are not what they seem.
RR said the bank info came from the right, I pointed out similar info from a left-leaning source. Willy Vomit wants it to be a Christian crusader gone over the top, I point out that he at least isn’t a registered Republican.
What I’m ‘trying very hard’ to do, if anything, Darryl, is provide some counterpoint to other HA commenters based on what’s out there so far. Doesn’t mean you can’t still keep your fingers crossed.
Steve spews:
“Right now I am feeling like watching Silence of the Lambs”
Look at Hartsel on a map. It’s about goats, obviously. In fact, that might be our Mr. Klynical.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@1 We appreciate your concern, Bickle. Now be a good boy and put on this jacket with straps. It’s for your own well-being.
@4 I see Boob has been trolling rightwing blogs for ideas on how to spin this. No, Boob, it wasn’t a bank job gone bad. Nobody robs banks with propane tanks. The reason why no PP staff or patients were hurt is because the PP building is a fortress equipped with bulletproof glass, surveillance systems, and safe rooms. They were in the safe rooms, Boob, where the conservative jihadist couldn’t get at them. So he had to content himself with shooting cops.
Btw, Boob wasn’t the first HA poster to mention the “bank job gone bad” meme. I alerted HA readers to it yesterday after spotting it on “Gateway Pundit,” a rightwing loose brake pad. Parroting such third party idiocy is just so like Boob, who’s never had an idea of his own in his entire life.
@5, @6 This might help explain it, Boob.
“This is a privately owned genealogy website using a purchased copy of the Colorado voter list. … This website is run by Tom Alciere, 67 Technology Way, Nashua NH 03060 U.S.A.”
YLB laughing again at the babbling jackass troll who proclaimed Jim Webb "the best" "winner" who "wrote porn". Who knew? spews:
Hey a blog comment is the same as an email more or less. Less usually because e-mails are relayed between at least two servers.
I’m the third most prolific commenter here. I’ve generated quite a bit of CO2 in my time.
Thanks but no thanks Boob. I’m flattered that you’re honoring me as an always wrong wing hero. The more CO2 the more always wrong!
This might help, too.
“On Friday morning, police identified the suspect as Robert L. Dear, 57, of Hartsel, Colo. Dear owned property in Swannanoa, N.C. in the western part of the state in 2005 and 2007, according to records.”
http://myfox8.com/2015/11/28/p.....s-from-nc/
So, it would seem Boob’s genealogy website is using outdated voter registration records. Maybe you need a bettr genealogy tracker, Boob. Like I said, you get what you pay for.
@8 Don’t try to squirm out of this by attempting to pin the blame on the previous (female) occupant of Dear’s Hartsel residence, Boob. That won’t fly. It’s just like you to rationalize like this, though. Ever since Carson hit the limelight, we’ve realized stupid people can be doctors.
Oh Boob probably refers to Gateway Pundit and HotAir the most of all the always wrong wing fever swamps.
It makes for great laughs, this “counterpoint”. HAHAHAHA! Too funny!
@8 “RR said the bank info came from the right”
Ahh, you remembered.
@17 I imagine the right* is spinning up a frenzy this morning. I can’t wait to read the NRA statement about this: “This incident would have ended much sooner, and without harm to responding officers, if the bystanders in the parking lot, and staff and patients inside, had been armed with .44 Magnums and AR-15s … ”
* Except for (u)SP, which hasn’t posted anything since Jim Miller’s rant against WSDOT five weeks ago.
Ekim spews:
From the Huffpost a little less than 3 months ago…
Is Right Wing Extremism the Biggest Danger Facing America?
"There's an acceptance now of the idea that the threat from jihadi terrorism in the United States has been overblown. And there's a belief that the threat of right-wing, anti-government violence has been underestimated." John G. Horgan, former Director of Terrorism and Security Studies , University of Massachusetts at Lowell
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington state was set on fire over the weekend. Officials determined the cause of the fire was arson.
The fire follows a series of videos released by anti-abortion activists appearing to show Planned Parenthood executives boasting of profits made from the sale of fetal tissue. The videos were later found to be "deceptively edited" by an independent investigator.
Accordingly, such extreme right groups have carried out more acts of terror in the United States than have Islamic militants.
Has FAUX NOISE claimed the shooter to be a left wing supporter of Planned Parenthood yet?
Boob wants to know.
Unlike Boob’s casual trolling of third-rate genealogy websites, this article by professional investigative journalists at Mother Jones may help shed some light on what’s going on:
“Three people were shot dead and nine others were injured Friday at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, the first time since 2009 that anyone has been killed in an incident linked to activity at an abortion clinic.
“The attack comes amid an exponential increase in threats and violence against abortion providers since the release of a series of viral—and widely debunked—videos.
“While police have not discussed the alleged motives of the suspect, who has been arrested, the attack began at the clinic. According to authorities, the gunman entered the facility Friday afternoon and began shooting. During an hours-long standoff, he exchanged fire with police, killing one officer.
“Since the release of the Center for Medical Progress’ videos that purport to show Planned Parenthood selling fetal issue, harassment, threats, and attacks against abortion providers, their staff, and facilities have surged dramatically across the country, according to new numbers from the National Abortion Federation. ‘We have been quite worried that this increase in threats would lead to a violent attack.’
“The clinic attacked on Friday is part of the Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains affiliate, which was featured in the Center for Medical Progress’ videos.”
http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....s-shooting
Again, police haven’t discussed possible motives, and the suspect is cooperating with police, so we’re likely to find out soon, and we probably want to withhold judgment until there’s some sort of official announcement on the subject. But based on what we know so far, I would counsel Boob against running with the botched-bank-job theory just yet.
Ima Dunce spews:
Saturday, 11/28/15 at 12:18 pm
The best way to answer right wing Christian “pro-life” murderers and their cheerleaders is to donate to Planned Parenthood.
@23 Even better is if PP’s lawsuit against the rightwing propagandists who libeled them is successful and they have to pay PP millions of dollars in legal damages.
On a different topic, Ben Carson’s solution to the Syrian refugee crisis is to resettle the refugees in someone else’s country.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....d=35462920
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Back in the 1930s, that was most countries’ policy regarding the Jews, too.
“Walking while Muslim” in Texas.
http://handbill.us/?p=63732
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Do you feel safer knowing these guys are “protecting” you?
Saturday, 11/28/15 at 3:26 pm
The Colorado Springs suspect has a rap sheet that includes domestic violence, animal cruelty, peeping tom, and letting his dogs run at large. A South Carolina native, he moved to Colorado from North Carolina about a year ago.
http://www.reuters.com/article.....jos2TPl.97
“No More Baby Parts”
The picture that’s emerging of Colorado Springs murder suspect Robert Dear is of an eccentric loner who kept vicious dogs, had frequent run-ins with police, was considered “weird” and “unpredictable” by neighbors and relatives, and said to cops as he was arrested, “No more baby parts.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/co.....arenthood/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: So much for the bank-job-gone-bad theory floated yesterday by rightwingers desperate to spin this tragedy as anything but the work of a deranged right-to-lifer.
Teabagged to Death spews:
Roger knocks Boob’s block off in 2 rounds. Way to go Roger!
@20 To be led by Ted Cruz, wake up people.
MarkS spews:
If only Boob would slink away in shame….
Nah, he’ll be back.
Although police aren’t saying much about Dear’s motives, a clear picture is emerging:
“Mayor John Suthers said ‘inferences (could be made) from where it took place,’ the Denver Post reported.”
“Zigmond Post, a neighbor, said one of the few interactions he had was when Dear brought him some anti-Obama pamphlets.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/28/.....-shooting/
Yep, a wingnut with mental issues.
@31 He’s too stupid to know when he’s been humiliated.
I occasionally pick up a Sunday Times at the public libary, where they give them away free (as a promotion, I guess), and I often look at their “Jobs” section out of curiosity, even though I’m not looking for a job. Every time I read about the mental gymnastics people have to go through in job interviews, and what they have to put up with on the job, I’m reminded of how much capitalism stinks from workers’ point of view. Fortunately, I’m a capitalist, not a worker, so I don’t have to put up with any of this chickenshit.
This week’s topic is the “shrinking office,” as in smaller desks and personal spaces. That’s right, employers are going the airline route by cramming more warm bodies into tighter spaces, in order to move a few more shekels to the bottom line.
“That means fewer private offies, more standing desks, open-plan seating, desk-sharing, and — for many of those lucky enough to hang on to their personal space –smaller footprints, with a typical cubicle shrinking from a relatively roomy 8 feet by 10 feet to a snug 6 by 6.”
The label they’re slapping on these cozier offices is “collaborative space,” which is a euphemism for having coworkers in your face (and their elbows in your ribs) all day long.
Meanwhile, while workspaces and paychecks are shrinking, workdays and work hours are expanding: “Mobile technology is untethering employees from the office and extending their workdays, replacing a 9-to-5 job with a ’24/7 work-life blend.'”
I assume that means you work 64 hours a week, and are on call the other 64 hours in a week, but only get paid for 40 hours. The employer gets those other hours out of you for free.
As a capitalist, if you work for one of the companies whose stock I own, I’m not going to get too concerned about it. After all, that’s a lifestyle choice you made. You didn’t have to work for a gluttonous rabbit like me. In fact, you wouldn’t have to work at all, if you became a capitalist like me!
GOP Congressman Demands Apology From Planned Parenthood For Colorado Springs Shooting
“In the wake of the shooting, Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain, which runs the Colorado Springs clinic, … said ‘we share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country.’
“The health care provider drew immediate criticism from at least one conservative, with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Illinois, criticizing the organization’s reaction as ‘very premature.’
“‘We may find out this person was targeting Planned Parenthood,’ Kinzinger said Friday on CNN. ‘If we find out he was not targeting Planned Parenthood, I would fully expect an apology from the Planned Parenthood director for saying that.'”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pr.....-shooting/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I have three things to say to Rep. Kinzinger. First of all, he can go fuck himself under any and all circumstances. Secondly, it now appears rather conclusively that the shooter did target Planned Parenthood. Third, I think he owes PP an apology.
Mark Adams spews:
It appears the local constabulary did a pretty good job with plenty Federal help in the planned parent hood. They got the guy alive. He has rights but he maybe talking. So it maybe possible if he got that morning and just decided to do this criminal act, or there is a whole other level here. It is possible that the uptick in serious crime events at the clinics is coincidence, and people acting negatively to what is in the news. Kinda like that movie that came out before the Libyan embassy fiasco. We can use the Republican game book and plans to go no it’s a terrorist plot, and someone in government didn’t do their job.
Hopefully they won’t pick on Detective Callahan their reverend saint thinks he’s a pretty tough hombre. Though I think he has a way of dealing with this domestic terrorist or the foreign kind.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
Sunday, 11/29/15 at 12:41 am
35) Asking for an apology from PP, when it should be the other way around. Very classy. Will be interesting to see what the group behind the videos has to say.
Distant Replay spews:
Sunday, 11/29/15 at 6:15 am
@35,
we can no longer stand silent and abide while the agents and supporters of terrorism abet the enemies of freedom. They despise us for our freedoms and the threaten civilization and the foundations of western democracy. We must root them all out and destroy them. The fellow travelers in genocide and atrocity are just as evil as the terrorists themselves and we can no longer tolerate their presence among us. The must be destroyed along with the cancer of murderous hatred they represent. Our survival as a civilization is at stake.
“He has rights but he maybe talking.”
He is an enemy combatant in a global war. As such he is not entitled to due process beyond what is described in our international treaties. Furthermore, since our greatest legal authorities have weighed the matter with much sobriety and careful consideration, he may be subjected to great levels of physical discomfort up to, but not including, permanent physical harm, as a means of compelling his cooperation with investigators. He should at least be waterboarded. That’s the law, of course.
Irrelevant. He’s an enemy of the state who engaged in acts of warfare targeting the United States of his own free will. He should be interrogated mercilessly and then executed.
@4,5,6,8, etc.
Lending material support up to and including engaging in calculated disinformation in cases of blatant terrorism cases should be considered criminal acts of treason. I call for the moderators to ban these commenters for having used these threads to advance a criminal enterprise.
“I think I would have thought he was a guy who would go on a rampage,” he said. “We were very wary.”
He was a known threat. He might have been stopped before people died if it weren’t for the bleeding heart, hand-wringing conservative pearl clutching.
@36 “They got the guy alive.”
Of course, it helped that he was white. This won’t have been possible if he’d been black.
This guy shot 5 cops, 1 of whom died, plus 11 other people, 2 of whom died, and he’s not only alive but still in one piece. Meanwhile, black people who commit minor shoplifting and traffic infractions are failing to survive at the hands of the police.
I’m sure the disparity isn’t lost on anyone.
@42 Well let’s see how Bickle’s bank-robber theory is holding up. Here’s his ex-wife describing him:
“He was religious but not a regular churchgoer, a believer but not one to harp on religion. ‘He believed wholeheartedly in the Bible,’ she said. ‘That’s what he always said; he read it cover to cover to cover.’ But he was not fixated on it, she added. He was generally conservative, but not obsessed with politics. He kept guns around the house for personal protection and hunting, and he taught their son to hunt doves, as many Southern fathers do. He believed that abortion was wrong, but it was not something that he spoke about much.”
So what we have here is a Bible-thumping southern Baptist conservative who’s pro-gun, anti-Obama, and a right-to-lifer.
Not looking good for Boob, is it?
@6 Because the gal who sold her Colorado property to the shooter was a registered independent, you can now say definitively that Dear had no political motives when he attempted to rob that bank across the street by pointing a propane tank at the teller, eh, Boob?
Boob is having a bad day. Again.
@37 Let’s hope his constituents give him the Jean Schmidt treatment.
I can already visualize the Democratic campaign ad. In fact, I think the DCCC should take it national.
The wave of global terrorism continues!
They must be stopped. This is war!
Carson Blames Pro-Choicers
“Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson denounced ‘hateful rhetoric’ across the political spectrum in the wake of a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility that left three people dead. … He added that there’s ‘No question the hateful rhetoric exacerbates the situation’ and urged ‘intelligent, civil discussion’ about differences. Asked whether opponents of abortion should tone down their rhetoric, he said both sides should do so.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/af.....-rhetoric/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: It sounds good on the surface, but it’s really the “Democrats do it too” defense wingnuts love so much. No, they don’t. There’s only one side of the abortion debate that blows up clinics and shoots people. There’s no equivalency whatsoever between the actions and rhetoric of right-to-lifers and pro-choicers. Carson is just being dishonest, as he always is.
They wanted to believe this so badly.
“Abortion Opponents Insist The Planned Parenthood Shooting Was Actually A Bank Robbery”
http://thinkprogress.org/healt.....k-robbery/
Terrorism is terrorism. And this movement is global.
So war is war and it’s time for us all to be honest about it.
Shut them down, round them all up, and put them all away for life in a camp in Cuba. They should know better than to go to war with the United States. The barbarians must be taught respect.
Where are the trolls this morning? In church praying for the latest victims of pro-life terrorism?
@49 Yeah, right: “Hand over the money or I’ll detonate this propane tank!”
@49 RedState is doubling down:
“Nothing I have read thus far convinces me that Robert Lewis Dear, the guy arrested for the shootings in Colorado Springs, CO, knows or cares very much about abortion.”
Well yeah, you wouldn’t see that if the only thing you read is conservative propaganda, would you? Continuing,
“Violence is a tragedy and those who perpetuate violence, be they Dear or Cecile Richards — and let’s be serious, here, in terms of mere fatalities, Dear can’t hold a candle to Richards — should be punished to the full extent of the law.”
Richards, in case you don’t know, is president of Planned Parenthood. Which makes her a mass murderer in this conservative’s eyes. I guess this makes logical sense for people who equate abortion with murder. It’s the writer’s next statement that descends into gibberish:
“Richards should be punished to the full extent of the law.”
For what, advocating something that’s already legal? Because the writer thinks it shouldn’t be? Even if you accept the latter argument, this assertion still has problems: What the writer actually condemns, and would punish, is free speech (unless he can prove Richards has personally performed abortions), plus he would do it ex poste facto.
But we expect conservatives to be stupid, don’t we?
They stand defiantly in opposition to our most cherished traditions determined to tear down our civilization, destroy our way of life, and impose their barbaric system of theocratic rule and religious law. They ruthlessly employ the weapons of mass destruction to sow terror among us and weaken our resolve.
These terrorists must be wiped from the face of the earth.
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Sunday, 11/29/15 at 12:24 pm
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Sunday, 11/29/15 at 1:56 pm
So Christie was chosen as the last man standing by the top klownservatic New Hampshire paper.
Why couldn’t the klownservatic rag pick Trump?
‘Cause the jerk is a fatuous klown! And falling in the polls. About time.
Heh. Why couldn’t the klownservatic rag pick Karson?
He’s a kook-a-nut, that’s why! No way that kooky kultist holds up.
@43 It’s only because those blacks aren’t in the more Christian kinder, gentler Colorado Springs, Colorado. If they were they would know black lives matter. Of course they have rodeos and enjoy rocky mountain oysters in Colorado so I maybe blowing smoke here.
@53 I suppose we will find out more at the trial. He will get one. He may plead guilty which will make the whole thing go quietly. Then again it could be the spectacle of a trial that he is after. He may demand a speedy trial in front of his peers, be his own attorney and turn the court into a circus all over abortion. Judge might let him do it. We will find out more tomorrow.
Of course if the Republican’s wanted to end this kind of stuff they could simply allow the Federal government to pay for abortions. That would seem to be a reasonable response to what has happened in other venues. Stop their threats of shutting down the government if PP is partly funded by the government. Heck maybe kick in another few million for more fetal cell research. Do the purchasing outright, and divvy out the material to the researchers. It’s what the government does in marijuana research. Yep Uncle Sam grows Mary Jane when it’s for research.
@55 Absolutely. I personally believe one of the most effective ways of getting people away from drugs is to bring the consequences out of the shadows. Seeing a junkie on the street in Italy is a lot more effective than locking him up. There are of course a lot of junkies just like alcoholics who stumble through life like the rest of us.
Meanwhile we need to be careful about Coors beer as it’s made with that Rocky Mountain water. It could be the water that did it’ Made a man want to rob a bank and it all went awfully wrong. So lets ban Coors or at least boycott Coors.
The two civilians killed in Friday’s rampage are both people of color, and both leave behind young children. One is a black Iraq War veteran, whose actions Friday were heroic, and the other is a Native Hawaiian woman who met her husband while he was serving in the military and stationed in Hawaii.
Roger Rabbit Commentary: So, were these people shot randomly, or were they targeted because of their skin color? We already know the shooter has conservative, anti-abortion, and anti-government political views; is he also a racist? We don’t know that part of it yet.
If you truly believe abortion is wrong and want to save unborn children, how does going to an abortion clinic and slaughtering women there accomplish that?
Having said that, I should point out that the female victim wasn’t there to have an abortion, she was accompanying a friend. But the idea is the same.
No matter what your beliefs are, murdering people doesn’t save lives. It merely makes you a murderer.
The Secret Service is now involved because the suspect reportedly made threats against President Obama “during and after the incident.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/color.....d=35469417
This guy is the anti Christ.
Cruz Calls Planned Parenthood Suspect ‘Transgendered Leftist Activist’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....78950.html
Viva Trump. Cruz is a nut job who pals around with Nazis terrorists.
Bunch of fucking loons.
Robert Dear appeared to solicit sex, rant about Bible online http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2449509
@63 Cruz is going to look pretty damned silly in a few days.
If you want to understand how GOP candidates can get away with such ridiculous statements and still have followers, read this article:
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/2.....ald_trump/
It explains why Republican voters are deaf to facts and reason.
Meanwhile, the GOP’s House Majority Leader acknowledges that America has made progress on carbon emissions, but gives the credit to oil and gas companies — not coal regulations, clean fuel standards, CAFE, and other government interventions in the workings of the “free” market.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great.....the-world/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: One thing that hasn’t changed, and will never change, is that believing something doesn’t make it true. Although you also gotta wonder how much of their own propaganda these whore politicians actually believe.
@63 You know where Cruz got that from, don’t you? Here:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....-activist/
That’s right, Cruz lifted it straight out of a headline in Gateway Pundit. For a quick rundown on who/what Gateway Pundit is, read this:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit
They, in turn, got it from an unidentified “private genealogy website using a purchased copy of the Colorado voter list.” Their website contains an image of a purported record which almost certainly has Dear’s name pasted over that of the previous owner of the Colorado property he purchased in October 2014, with her information still appearing below his name. From this, Gateway Pundit — and Cruz — extrapolated that Dear was a woman, born in 1958, who registered as “unaffiliated” with any party. And made no effort to check out this fantastic story, the reason for that of course being that it says what they want it to, so why mess with a good thing?
Those of you with long memories will recall that after the ultra-close 2004 Washington gubernatorial election, Republicans here and nationally made a great deal of noise about how out-of-date and error-prone voter registration lists are. Those with somewhat shorter memories may nevertheless recall that the inaccuracy of voter registration lists is the justification Republicans have used in state after state to purge hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters from voting rolls, along with a few dead ones (of whom there is no evidence of any of them voting) and a handful of illegitimate ones. For the purpose of preventing American citizens, especially those of color, from voting in their own country, there are no louder complainers about inaccurate voting lists than Republicans.
So, you’d think a Republican senator who wants to be president would have his campaign staff check out the accuracy of this voter record before drawing wild inferences from it and running with that in his campaign speeches, yes?
Cruz isn’t the only rightwing lunatic who will run with this. Bickle and Puffybutt will be on board by tomorrow morning. Wait for it.
Monday, 11/30/15 at 3:38 am
@69 well if that be the case I wonder if Darryl will start censoring or deleting and further banning them for being bigotted for pointing out the transgender part. Otherwise it could start a bad precedence here on calling out all the other murders out there on heterosexual maniacs.
And if Dear was transgender he sure must have been one ugly woman.
Just like Heilary followers are blind and jack book goose step to her?
1) Admitted lying about Benghazi video – William Safire (libtard) http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01.....-lies.html
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.
All the way back in 1996 the smart reporters knew and admitted the truth!
2) Darling of Wall Street – She was the senator from NY remember?
3) Clinton Crime Family Foundation Secret Cash Stash from Shady Individuals – Accepting Large Large from countries and people where wimen have no rights
4) Making promises she can’t keep in the primary to beat Bernie
5) Claimed she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest, butt she was already 6 years old when he made his famous ascent.
6) Reluctantly agreed only #blacklivesmatter under duress
7) Somehow remembered during her and Chelsea’s 1996 trip to Bosnia she and her special entourage had to run “with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base” because of the sniper fire. Unfortunately for her the captured videos display her waving to the adoring crowds and walking calmly across the tarmac.
8) Aided and abetted Bill’s war on other wimens vaginas for her personal gain – http://www.commdiginews.com/po.....men-52604/
9) No real accomplishments in senate or secretary of state
10) Realized her marriage to Bill wouldn’t amount to much so let’s try and join the marines first! Butt butt butt she was anti-war back then!
11) Dead broke when they left the whitey house!
Meanwhile advertisers are realizing The View is just a big time libtard mouthpiece of horsesASS Manure and leaving the show!
The good news for Rush Limbaugh: One month after being notified he was getting dumped by his Boston talk radio host station, the talker has a new AM home in the city.
The bad news: The station currently boasts a 0.6 rating, trails four non-commercial stations in the market, and becomes yet another big-city, cellar-dwelling outpost that Limbaugh is forced to call home.
The ratings have gotten so bad for Rush Limbaugh that radio stations no longer want to carry his show.
The advertiser boycott of Rush Limbaugh brought public attention to the sewer that conservative talk radio has become, but as Republican Daryl Parks wrote when rumors of Limbaugh getting moved to a smaller station in Chicago surfaced, radio station executives don’t want Limbaugh, but literally can’t give him away, “The Chicago rumors come as no surprise to me, as three different Cumulus executives have told me on different occasions they wish they could get rid of Limbaugh’s show and they can’t sell it.”
Parks also explained why these stations are stuck with Limbaugh, “Premiere Networks and its owner Clear Channel Media + Entertainment iHeart Media has crammed down Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck on its talk stations, not allowing local stations to make needed changes to their programming, changes that could provide some hope of staying relevant. It was a great business model…in the 20th century! In business speak it’s called “vertical integration.” The company produces the product and then uses its distribution arm, its radio stations, to broadcast the shows. Guaranteed clearance, plus in Limbaugh’s case and some of Hannity’s stations, the local stations have to pay a “rights fee” in addition to the barter commercial inventory they broadcast from the network. There was no negotiation whether to broadcast the show or what fee was to be paid. Here’s the number you pay was the only conversation during the budget process. This, as you can imagine, affected cash flow and coupled with the increasing demands for talk stations to generate more profit, it forced local stations to lay-off other talk hosts, producers and gut news departments. Talented people left the radio business and the death spiral for talk radio began. It began years ago.”
1) Admitted lying about Benghazi video – William Safire (libtard) http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01…..-lies.html
Quoting a 1996 OP-ED piece by "libtard" Libertarian Conservative William Safire that make no mention of Benghazi proves exactly…what?
@71 Republicans are no help in separating truth from fiction; that said, we recognize Hillary isn’t perfect, but what alternatives do we have? Bernie Sanders or Mike O’Malley, and zero on the GOP side. Hillary on her worst days is better than any GOP candidate on their best days. Mother Teresa isn’t running, and neither is Elizabeth Warren. So there you have it.
@73 How far does the signal reach? 1000 yards?
@74 I’ve heard Goebbels’ once-popular show is off the air, too. Nothing lasts forever.
So here we have Puffybutt twisting his panties in a knot about Hillary’s supposed fibbery while Cruz calls Robert Lewis Dear “a transgendered leftist activist” … whatever. Puffy’s outrage seems a tad myopic to me.
Trump channels Stalin by asking his supporters to spy on their neighbors.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....tail=email
Monday, 11/30/15 at 11:53 am
While patriotic American heroes give their lives to defend our freedoms, Republican Colorado Attorney General traitor continues to permit this nest of terrorist vipers to proliferate. When will these Republicans honor their oaths and protect us from the terrorists?
Monday, 11/30/15 at 12:02 pm
Republican oath breakers erect legal barricades to protect extremist conservative terrorists who continue to plot against our freedoms, easily converting assault rifles to fully automatic operation, formulate ricin bombs, manufacture hand gun silencers, build enormous fertilizer bombs, and target innocent patriotic Americans. The deadly terrorists are here, on our shores, living in our communities. And they enjoy the protection of Republican oath breakers who refuse to allow honorable patriotic law enforcement agencies to round them up and put them away for their treason.
Monday, 11/30/15 at 1:18 pm
@82 E.g., Cliven Bundy and his little band of insurrectionists.
Another *Responsible Gun Owner* (TM; pat. pend.). At least these people can’t buy F-16s or ICBMs — yet. Republicans probably want to legalize civilian possession of those, too.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/co.....ot-infant/
300 million privately owned guns in U.S. (very conservative estimate, about one third of the privately owned guns on the planet) concentrated in 43 million households (about a third of all households), resulting in an mean average of seven guns in each gun owning household in the U.S.
But mean averages can be deceiving.
About 9 million of those gun households contain about 200 million of those guns, averaging over twenty two guns per household. Fewer than eight percent of American households amassing arsenals of over twenty two guns per household.
The trendlines indicate continued reduction in the overall percentage of U.S. households owning guns, continuing increases in the number of guns, and thus, naturally, continuing concentration of large numbers of firearms in fewer households. The demographic trendlines demonstrate clear divisions among gun owning households. A relatively small number of gun owning households amass very large arsenals of guns. The vast majority of gun owning households contain two or fewer guns.
The nearest ISIS held territories are more than 10,000 km away from the United States.
Refugees are not allowed to enter the United States with guns.
@62 At the moment unless there are others involved that is just a bureaucratic requirement, and an investigator will show up, take statements, end up talking to the guys attorney and file a report. Unless this loner is part of a group going after the President there is no reason to do much else. He’s going to be in the hands of Colorado for a very long time. He’s not getting out on bail. He’s in jail. When is the trial? Is he getting a hanging judge? This is a case where justice should be swift, as it should in all cases where someone is facing a trial of their peers per our US Constitution and the Colorado Constitution.
He’s an enemy combatant who willfully engaged in warfare against the United States.
He should be removed to Cuba and detained there indefinitely without trial, regularly subjected to stress positions, deprived of food and sleep, and his book of scriptures should be defiled in his presence.
@71 There is that old lawyer/politician joke. How do you know a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.
Sure it’s cynical, but the American voter knows politicians lie, or they try to avoid telling you anything of substance, which is still lying. Heck we give bonus points and applause for imaginative lies.
Whether or not Hillary Clinton lied in 1996 is not that big a deal to the American electorate.
Now if you tell a lie like George Bush did on taxes and you are a Republican well that can back and bite you in the political ass. Seems Bill Clinton made some noises about not raising taxes during that election, but did later raise taxes, and won a second election. I think you Republicans are jealous about that. Guess that is just an instance it sucks to the a Republican as you have to walk the talk on taxes, maybe doing the math before making those promises would be helpful.
“About 9 million of those gun households contain about 200 million of those guns, averaging over twenty two guns per household.”
We recently removed over 400 guns and a ton of ammo from a friend’s house. He was in the hospital and the SPD would have confiscated them if they weren’t soon “secured”.
@78 Russian sources say a station in the Ukraine are playing repeats.
there appear to be two kinds of gun owner. But Republican oath breakers continue to insist that this isn’t so.
@81 @82 Well there is that thing called the US Constitution and Colorado Constitution. And for some reason the ACLU and others have had a lot of heartburn over the Patriot Act. Could some act passed in a panic by Congress have some constitutional problems, but due to politics and the way the law works it’s difficult to get the courts to do their constitutional duty and to do justice. Darn it’s that whole the ends justifying the means and all.
@85 One would almost think refugees would be issued a gun on entry to the United States. Do you want a Colt or Smith and Wessen? This one fits in a woman’s hand comfortable. This here is a child’s rifle designed for boys and girls 5 to 10 years old. Welcome to the United States from the NRA remember to use those guns safely. You must accept a gun as your new 2nd amendment rights are sacrosanct here in these United States.
@87 At the moment he’s being held by the State of Colorado and appears they have no problem with holding him and trying him. They do have federal courts there too guess they don’t have a problem trying terrorists and it’s a short drive to the max prison. So maybe a bunch of Republican politicians are lying to us. Of course they are since their lips are moving.
No trial. This is well established law after more than 13 years.
More than 800 enemy combatants detained in Cuba alone, of various nationalities, including U.S. citizens. Only 25 trials ever. We have absolutely no legal obligation to grant this terrorist enemy combatant any kind of due process – at least not in any kind of practical or definite time frame. He should be immediately removed to Cuba for indefinite detention and torture.
While it may be true that at one time in America, the constitution granted the rights to due process you assert, this has not been the case for many years. It’s a done deal. I merely argue that we apply the policy where it stands to do us the most good. By locking up the violent extremists who live and organize in our own communities every day.
Leave it to ekim the goat lover to miss the comparison. William Safire called Heilary a congenital liar back in 1996. We saw that congenital lying come full force in 2012.
@96 Who cares?
@96 You lied when you called Safire a “libtard” when he is well known to be a Libertarian Conservative and you lied again when you tied your BENGHAZI!!! crap to Saphire’s 1996 OP-ED.
The ONLY thing you have proven by your own words is that you are a liar. And by the sheer number of times you have lied, you have proven yourself a congenital liar.
And as to BENGHAZI!!! Lord only knows how many hours have been wasted on BENGHAZI!!! hearings that proved…nothing. But one little fact did leak out.
Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) stunningly admitted to Sean Hannity on Fox News that the real point of the House Benghazi investigation is to harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Since Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) admitted that the BENGHAZI!!! hearings were nothing more than a witch hunt AND since the House RETHUGS for years have denied it THEN this proves that the House RETHUGS are congenital liars. Q.E.D.
If Hillary should go because Safire called her a congenital liar, then obviously all of the House RETHUGS should go because one of their own proved they were congenital liars.
Wouldn’t you agree BUTTBOY?
Tuesday, 12/1/15 at 8:34 pm
@48 There’s only one side of the abortion debate that blows up clinics and shoots people.
There’s only one side of the abortion debate that kills cops.
But the #BlueLivesMatter crowd is conspicuously absent.
Must be they think this particular cop killing an unfortunate accident.
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Squad looks to improve skills and advance to the playoffs
By Sam McCabe and Zachary Swartz on January 17, 2017
Despite a 30-27 loss to Chaminade in their first Mission League match, the wrestling team remains optimistic due to multiple individual victories.
Russell Davis ’17 and Jake Kelly ’20 both won by fall, and Calvin Kaleel ’18, John Cahill ’20 and Justin Butler ’19 won by decision.
“We lost by three points but there was a lot of positive progress and we are in good shape to win the next one,” Liam Douglass ’18 said. “Although we are 0-1, we have to not let this affect our mindset when we train and practice, in fact it just motivates us. We are trying to take it one duel at a time.”
With only one experienced senior on the the squad, the team is readily incorporating its newest players.
“This season has been a fun one,” Douglass said. “The team welcomed me with open arms and I cannot be more thankful for them. It is my first year of wrestling and I am just trying to learn as much as I can from my teammates and coaches.”
Also a varsity football player, Douglass is excited to learn everything he can about his new sport.
“The most important thing for my development as a wrestler is to listen to what my teammates and coaches have to say,” Douglass said. “I am gradually picking up how to wrestle from Coach Cartmill, Coach Craig and all of my teammates.”
The team’s first tournament was at Newbury Park Dec. 3.
“My favorite moment of the season has to be the first tournament,” Douglass said. “Just walking in and seeing all the different athletes getting ready to compete, and competing in the tournament myself, was an incredible experience.”
Having 13 players this year compared to only nine last season, the team is hoping to improve from their 0-4 season. In the Blackwater tournament, Calvin Kaleel ’18 finished 3rd, Russell Davis ’17 finished 4th, and John Cahill ’18 finished 5th.
“We’ve really improved both as a team and individuals. We are looking forward to three more duals against Bishop Alemany and Crespi,” Kaleel said. “We have two more tournaments at Santa Ynez and Montclair as we head into Mission League Finals and beyond.”
With only two league games left before Mission League playoffs, the team hopes to win their upcoming meets.
“I am looking forward to finishing out the season on a high note, and we as a team hope to move forward once we finish in the top three in league,” Douglass said.
Kaleel also has a positive outlook on the team’s season.
“Overall, we have done well, and I’m looking forward to the rest of the season,” Kaleel said.
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Ian R Crane Newsletters
UK Sham Election: Trilaterals & Bilderbergers
Originally published & distributed 19th May 2010
The Newsletter may also be viewed HERE
So Princess Dave is belatedly shoe-horned into the ersatz position of UK Prime Minister. Sadly, the UK election process is a complete and utter sham, in place only to conceal the fact that all legislation is now effectively established by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels!
The compliant media did an excellent job of preparing the voters for the pre-planned hung Parliament and then kept the drama going as Clegg was courted by Brown & Cameron, conveniently diverting attention from the Trilateral Commission meeting in Dublin. Chief Globalist and Eugenicist David Rockefeller headed up the event and was stunned into shocked silence when confronted by Dave Darby, editor of the Sovereign Independent who poignantly advised said socio-psychopath that he would never achieve his objective of establishing a
One World Government and that the people would never be subjected into his version of economic slavery!
No doubt the primary agenda item was the acceleration of the global financial and economic meltdown. As those in the know flock to the Gold Exchanges, the precious metal reached $1250 an ounce last week and I conservatively forecast that it will reach $1500 by year end and probably hit $2000 during 2011. This meeting was the pre-cursor to the next meeting of the Bilderbergers, which is scheduled to be held in the Spanish Mediterranean town of Sitges
on the 3rd & 4th of June.
Daniel Estulin, former FSB operative and author of the best-selling book 'The Bilderbergers'
gave two outstanding presentations at the recent Alternative View (AV4) event in London.
In his latest 'The Shadow Masters', Daniel focuses his attention on the International Network of Governments and Secret-Service Agencies who work with drug dealers and terrorists for mutual benefit and profit.
Daniel has been a thorn in the side of the Bilderbergers for over 15 years and told me that he believes the only reason he is still alive is due to his many contacts within the international security services. Daniel Estulin is not only an outstanding researcher, writer and presenter, he is committed to sharing his thoughts regarding the agenda of those who believe themselves to be the rightful rulers of a global fiefdom.
I have a limited number of copies of both 'The Bilderbergers' and 'The Shadow Masters'
and am offering the book and DVD of his respective AV4 presentation at just £27.50
Because I think it is so important to get a full picture, and join the dots . . I have made an extra
offer available on an extremely prescient talk that William F Engdahl gave at The Alternative View in London a few months back.
America's grand strategy was revealed in the 1998 US Space Command document, 'Vision for 2020'. It called for "Full Spectrum Dominance", including the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons. In 2000, the Project for a New American Century released 'Rebuilding America's Defenses'. It said: "...the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbour." Exactly one year later, America got its 'new Pearl Harbour'...
*Only available when you order the Estulin Book & DVD combo.
www.ianRcrane.co.uk
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Ian R. Crane
An ex-oilfield executive who has lived and worked in the Middle East, mainland Europe and the USA, Ian has spent the past ten years studying mythology, alternative history, secret societies, esotericism, … and deep geopolitics! Ian does not represent or speak or write on behalf of any organisation; consequently all views expressed are based upon his personal knowledge and research.
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Appellate Court Affirms Right to Union Representation During Disciplinary Interview
The Appellate Division, Second Department affirmed a transit authority employee’s right to have his union representative present during an interview he believed to be disciplinary. In affirming this right Justice Cozier of the Brooklyn Appellate Court found that this right, first affirmed for private sector employees by the US Supreme Court in NLRB v. Weingarten (and referred to as “Weingarten” rights—no relation to our esteemed president) applied equally to pubic employees in New York.
On April 24, 2001 the New York City Transit Authority received a written complaint from one of its employees alleging that Igor Komarnitskiy, a fellow employee and member of the Transport Workers Union, Local 100 made a racial slur. That same day a supervisor requested that Komarnitskiy prepare a written memorandum, known as a G-2 form, responding to the allegation. Thereafter, Komarnitskiy requested and was allowed to privately meet with a TWU Shop Chair at TWU's office, wherein the TWU Shop Chair assisted him with preparing the G-2 form.
After Komarnitskiy submitted the completed G-2 form to the petitioner, the petitioner requested that he prepare a second G-2 form in the office of its superintendent based upon its concern that the TWU Shop Chair either prepared the initial G-2 form or influenced its contents.
Although Komarnitskiy requested that the TWU Shop Chair be present in the superintendent's office while Komarnitskiy prepared the second G-2 form, the Transit Authority denied such request, requiring him to prepare such form in the presence of management, without any union assistance.
On May 8, 2001, TWU filed with the New York State Public Employment Relations Board an improper practice charge against the Transit Authority alleging that the TA interfered with TWU's ability to represent its members in violation of Taylor Law § 209-a(1)(a) and (c) by failing to recognize the employee's right under such law to have union representation while being questioned regarding an incident which could result in disciplinary action. In response, the TA filed its answer, maintaining, among other things, that a union member has no right to have a union representative present when interviewed by a supervisor regarding an incident occurring in the workplace.
PERB found that the TA had violated the Taylor Law and found that rights guaranteed under Weingarten were equally applicable to public sector employees. Under Weingarten the Supreme Court found that the right to union representation at investigatory interviews was based on the basic right of employees to engage in union and concerted activity under the National Labor Relations Act. It is an unfair labor practice to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights.
The Second Department affirmed the reasoning in the PERB decision. The Court found that despite some cases holding that individual rights are not specifically protected under the Taylor Law the right of representation was basic to the Act.
The Transit Authority can seek permission to appeal to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 12/29/2005 10:34:00 PM 3 comments: Links to this post
Contract Implementation Woes Beginning: Union and DOE Disregard Staff Rights
In blatant disregard of members’ contractual and democratic rights the Union and the DOE, in at least one district, has decided that they know better than the members in deciding how to use the 37 ½ minutes mandated under the new contract.
In a PERB complaint filed yesterday Jeff Kaufman alleges that in the Alternative High School District, the Special Rep and Superintendent fashioned a secret deal that prevented Chapter Leaders and UFT members the right to vote on whether they wanted to change the contractually mandated 37 ½ minute period. They decided that the election, normally required under contract rules, was not “necessary.”
The election, referred to as an SBO election, permits individual schools to modify contract provisions, like the 37 ½ minute period, in a way that better serves the school. Any modification requires 55 percent of school staff to approve it for the modification to become effective.
SBO provisions have always been controversial since they permit changes in a Union ratified contract by a slim majority of staff members. In previous contracts a 75 percent, super-majority was required.
In their secret deal the Special Rep and Superintendent “decided” that the 37 ½ minute period was unnecessary in alternative high schools and forced those schools to accept the extra time added to each teaching period. A number of UFT members in at least two schools wanted the opportunity to decide this contract modification in the democratic process of an SBO election but were prevented from holding the election by this “deal.”
The PERB complaint which seeks immediate rescission of the secret deal alleges as follows:
1. On or about November 12, 2005 United Federation of Teachers (UFT) members ratified a modification of the collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the UFT and the Board of Education of the City of New York (DOE).
2. The CBA was ratified by the DOE on or about November 28, 2005.
3. The agreement provides, in relevant part, for a change in the way the school day is constituted effective February 1, 2006.
4. This change modified the prior CBA by providing at paragraph 7:
“1. Teacher contract Article 6 shall be replaced and amended as follows:
A. School Day
The school day for teachers serving in the schools shall be six hours and 20 minutes and such additional time as provided for below and in the by-laws. The gross annual salary of employees covered by this agreement will be increased in accordance with the salary schedules herein.
The parties agree, effective February, 2006, to extend the teacher work day in “non Extended Time Schools” by an additional 37 ½ minutes per day, Monday through Thursday following student dismissal. Friday's work schedule will be 6 hours and 20 minutes. The 37½ minutes of the extended four (4) days per week shall be used for tutorials, test preparation and/or small group instruction and will have a teacher student ratio of no more than one to ten. In single session schools, the day will start no earlier than 8:00am and end no later than 3:45pm.
Multi-session schools that cannot utilize the additional time in this manner due to space or scheduling limitations will have a 6 hour 50 minute day. “
During the ratification process the UFT engaged upon a campaign to convince its members that the then proposed 37 ½ minute period was not required to be a formal instructional period but rather a time when tutoring and small classroom instructions were meant for struggling students.
Shortly after the ratification of the CBA the DOE confirmed this interpretation by issuing through its labor relations counsel’s office, by Daniel Weisberg, an implementation memo which reiterated that the 37 ½ minute period was not for formal instruction and that formal lesson plans would not be required.
The CBA created three exceptions to this new 37 ½ period. For multi-session schools, schools with different start times for staff and students, the CBA provides that where this period cannot be utilized a uniform 6 hour and 50 minute day without the 37 ½ period will be implemented. Additionally District 75 schools (Special Education district) require a uniform 6 hour and 50 minute day without the 37 ½ period unless the principal and Chapter Leader (local UFT leader) agree to implement the 37 ½ minute period. The third exception is contained in the School Based Option (SBO) provision of the CBA.
The SBO provisions provides at Article 8 Paragraph 4(b) as follows:
“B. School-Based Options
The Union chapter in a school and the principal may agree to modify the existing provisions of this Agreement or Board regulations concerning class size, rotation of assignments/classes, teacher schedules and/or rotation of paid coverages for the entire school year. By the May preceding the year in which the proposal will be in effect, the proposal will be submitted for ratification in the school in accordance with Union procedures which will require approval of seventy-five (75) percent, and effective September, 2002, fifty-five (55) percent of those voting. Resources available to the school shall be maintained at the same level which would be required if the proposal were not in effect. The Union District Representative, the President of the Union, the appropriate Superintendent and the Chancellor must approve the proposal and should be kept informed as the proposal is developed. The proposal will be in effect for one school year.
Should problems arise in the implementation of the proposal and no resolution is achieved at the school level, the District Representative and the Superintendent will attempt to resolve the problem. If they are unable to do so, it will be resolved by the Chancellor and the Union President. Issues arising under this provision are not subject to the grievance and arbitration procedures of the Agreement.”
Upon information and belief no other modification of the CBA is permitted without UFT membership approval.
The undersigned is the duly elected Chapter Leader for Austin H. MacCormick Island Academy, a DOE high school located on Rikers Island serving incarcerated adolescents. Island Academy is a school located within the Alternative High School District. He is also a duly elected member of the UFT Executive Board representing all of the DOE’s high schools.
Chapter Leaders are charged with the responsibility of implementing the CBA at the local school level. Among the Chapter Leader’s responsibilities include implementation of the SBO provisions by conducting elections of the Chapter where modifications are agreed to by the Chapter Leader and principal. Should less than 55 percent of the local chapter not agree to the proposed CBA modification that modification is not implemented and the CBA provisions govern.
On or about December 15, 2005 I received an email from Marc Korashan, UFT Special Representative assigned by the UFT to represent all UFT chapters in the Alternative High School District, District 79. This email stated, in relevant part:
“D79 the schools that are multisited can be seen as multi-session and be allowed to go to the 6 hour 50 minute day. I disucssed this with the Superintendent and we agreed on this. These schools have small classes already and many have pm school where students can earn credits. They will get the most productive use of the time by increasing the day. This also does the least damage to the existing after school programs and the members earning per-sesion dollars for pm school. This does not require an SBO vote.”
Upon information and belief this “agreement” to deprive Alternative High School UFT Chapter Leaders and members of their contractual right to democratically decide what, if any, CBA modifications should be made at their respective schools.
Both the DOE and UFT had ample opportunity to modify school day schedules in the CBA which was ratified as evidenced by the District wide exception in District 75.
Several attempts were heretofore made to void the “agreement” entered into between Marc Korashan and the Superintendent, Timothy Lisante, all with negative results. These included requests to meet with the UFT President, Randi Weingarten and the Secretary, Michael Mendel.
This charge seeks the voidance of the “agreement” entered into between Marc Korashan and Superintendent Timothy Lisante and the restoration of the duly ratified CBA in the Alternative High School District.
No date has been set for further proceedings.
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 12/28/2005 08:46:00 AM 3 comments: Links to this post
From the Teachers at Health Professions
To Transit Workers Union Local 100:
We, the teachers of Health Professions High School are in solidarity with the striking transit workers of TWU Local 100. We recognize that their strike is in the interest of the working class.
We would like to thank you for fighting back against fines, threats, and the power of the MTA, the city, and state governments. Thank you for, as Bloomberg says, “immorally and selfishly” breaking the anti-union, anti-working class, and unjust Taylor Law. By fighting for what is right, you illustrate the essence of justice and morality to all workers and students.
While the strike will cause short term suffering for workers living in New York, it is a sacrifice that benefits and supports workers everywhere in the long term. The strike exposes the underlying problem of the working class’ eroding standard of living due to rent, gas, and food prices rising faster than our wages. Executives use the lowest wage they can pay one union to set the pattern of bargaining for future union negotiations; you are forcing them to raise the wage for all bargaining in future union negotiations.
Thank you, the transit workers of the TWU for not just fighting over the narrow demands of wage increases and pensions, but against dangerous speed ups, toxic work conditions, and the general interests of the working class. Your working conditions are our living conditions, because we must ride the transit system on a daily basis. Your solidarity across racial and gender lines will help all who must work for a living. When unionized workers’ rights erode, the non-unionized workers suffer even more.
Thank you for not “eating your young” so that only one section of the TWU benefits, and illustrating solidarity across age, time, and experience barriers. You are fighting to raise the future wages of our students, as the rights you fight for now will set the pattern of bargaining for them in the future. We will support you by joining your picket lines during our off hours, raising funds for your sacrifice, distributing this letter, and by raising awareness of your struggle among students, parents, and staff.
You are fighting to preserve the legacy of a union’s power by fighting for your own self-interests, as opposed to hoping for the goodwill of the MTA at the bargaining table. You said that “cutbacks means fight back” and you meant it. Thank you for being an example to all workers in this time of unions capitulating to the bosses’ demands and thus sacrificing our living standards. We thank you, support you, and are emboldened by your actions.
The Teachers of Health Professions High School
UFT Chapter
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 12/21/2005 05:10:00 PM 12 comments: Links to this post
WHICH RANDI DO WE BELIEVE?
By James Eterno
The Fighter or the Appeaser
Ever since the membership was convinced to accept a substandard contract that gives away many of our rights, the UFT leadership has been talking tough about the next round of bargaining coming ahead in 2007. President Randi Weingarten has said that her goal is to possibly return the UFT to a “No Contract=No Work” policy. That would mean the October 12, 2007 date when our current contract expires would be a real deadline. There would be tremendous pressure on the city to negotiate a new contract with favorable terms for us because if the city would not settle the contract on time, we would be prepared to go out on strike. (The Transport Workers Union Local 100 has a No Contract=No Work policy in dealing with NYC Transit.) Randi is talking real militancy, right? Well, maybe not.
At the same time that she is telling us we have to be ready to have a credible strike threat and a meaningful deadline, Randi is urging us to send postcards to Governor George Pataki in which we urge the Governor to sign a Taylor Law reform bill passed by the State Legislature that would allow the city to delay for six months after the date that our contract expires. Then, after the six months are over, the impasse procedure that leads to the same mediation and arbitration process that resulted in the horrific givebacks in the current contract (37.5 minute extended time small group instruction sessions, hall and cafeteria duty, longest school year in the region, loss of the right to grieve letters to our files) would automatically commence.
In the last round of bargaining, ICE representatives spoke out strongly at the Executive Board against going to arbitration because we knew we would lose. However, Randi ignored us back then and now she is asking us to lobby the governor for a bill that would get us to arbitration even sooner in the next round and lead to a further erosion of what remains of our rights.
Which Randi do we believe? Is it the tough talking Randi who wants a “No Contract=No Work” militant union? Or is it the conciliatory Randi who wants us to push a bill that would allow the city to stall for six months after our contract expires and then sends us right back to mediation and arbitration where we will lose again? Only in the bizarre world of the UFT could the leadership push militancy and conciliation at the same time. Talk about a contradiction. It leads me to believe that Norman Scott is right and the renewed militancy is a mere facade for the members and there is no true reform going on in the UFT.
New Contract Demonstrates DOE Plan to Pit CSA Against UFT
The current confusion over the implementation of the new contract is turning out to be a first look at just how the DOE will cause principals to absorb all of the blame for the contract’s failure. It is no secret that by shifting an unprecedented amount of discretion to principals the UFT leadership will join in this attack. In the end, no doubt, the teachers and students will suffer.
Two cases in point.
Under the new contract many schools will be starting a 37 ½ minute period for struggling students. The contract states, quite clearly, “The parties agree, effective February, 2006, to extend the teacher work day in “non Extended Time Schools” by an additional 37 1/2 minutes per day, Monday through Thursday following student dismissal. Friday's work schedule will be 6 hours and 20 minutes. The 37 1/2 minutes of the extended four (4) days per week shall be used for tutorials, test preparation and/or small group instruction and will have a teacher student ratio of no more than one to ten. In single session schools, the day will start no earlier than 8:00am and end no later than 3:45pm.”
The leadership’s massive spin machine “sold” this provision to the membership guaranteeing that this would not turn into another class period. The most blatant signal that this is or is not a “teaching period” is whether a lesson plan is required and whether it may be formally observed. As to the lesson plan we were and are continually assured that this is not necessary. No quick answers on formal observations yet but it is hard to imagine how they could be permitted if no lesson plans are required.
Then comes the regional principal meetings in which regional superintendents throughout the city are ordering their interpretation of this period. Are lesson plans required? No, according to at least one regional superintendent.
“But what happens when I walk into a classroom and no learning seems to be taking place?” a principal asks.
“Ask for a lesson plan,” is the reply.
Another issue starting to boil came up in these regional meetings. Under no circumstances may any teacher opt out of the 37 ½ minute period. That includes deans, programmers and other comp time positions. Disruptive students in this period under this plan will, we surmise, be supervised by supervisors.
And we haven’t even discussed Circular 6R. Stay tuned. It gets worse.
Posted by Jeff Kaufman at 12/11/2005 08:15:00 AM 16 comments: Links to this post
Executive Board Report - December 5, 2005
It’s hard to believe that we are on the cusp of a new contract and there is little to do at the Executive Board. One report from districts and one resolution. Of course, there were questions and I took a point of personal privilege to indict the leadership on the way they have handled my case and my school’s chapter. (The sole report was a defense of my accusation).
First, the resolution. We unanimously agreed to support the graduate teaching assistants currently on strike at New York University.
Second, the questions. On October 6, 2005 I was removed from my teaching position pending an investigation to be preformed by the Department of Corrections. At the time I was assured by the Union’s leadership that a PERB charge would be filed with all deliberate speed.
I met with NYSUT lawyers and was assured that this matter has a top priority and would be brought to a hearing as soon as possible. A resolution by the Executive Board and then the Delegate Assembly was passed unanimously in my support and ordered the filing of the PERB charge.
By December 5th, almost two months after I was removed and assured that the charge would be filed expeditiously the charge was still not filed. I asked why not and miraculously the charge was filed today.
The second question dealt with the way in which my Chapter was handled and is being handled by the Union in my absence. I designated two interim Chapter Leaders who have been in constant communication with me. The principal refuses to deal with me about Union issues. When I complained at a previous Executive Board meeting as to why my Chapter was being neglected by the Union, Randi ordered two District Reps, Marc Korashan and Rona Frieser to go to Rikers.
The reports I received about the meeting were appalling. The DR’s met with the principal without the interim Chapter Leaders (who knows what deals were made). When issues were raised concerning a major change in how staff gets to the school at least one member was told to change schools. This after working at Rikers for over 12 years.
Rona Frieser felt compelled to answer my allegations by reporting on a “wonderful” meeting she had with Rikers staff. The security problem was referred to the safety department of the Union and I was not allowed to ask questions of her.
At no time did the DR’s report to the interim Chapter Leaders or me about any of the actions they intend to take or the referrals they allegedly made. No plans to revisit or further report to Executive Board were made.
While I realize these issues directly affect me (and I am reluctant to raise them) I realize that there is no protocol or plan by the Union on how to deal with removed Chapter Leaders.
When a Chapter Leader is removed from a school the whole school is affected. The Union leadership’s complacency with dealing with this issue is further evidence of their disconnect with the membership.
Taking the Initiative in Labor Relations
If our past experience negotiating against a “formidable adversary” as our leadership calls Bloomberg and Klein produced a wholesale erosion of our basic rights as union members the interpretation stage of this new document will lead us further away from our professionalism and our right to be a positive force in the schools.
One of the most basic concepts in any negotiation is setting the parameters or playing field. Once you’ve set the boundaries for negotiation you’ve taken the upper hand. When the infamous “eight page contract” was announced early in our negotiations our leadership fought back proclaiming that our contract evolved from many years of negotiation and we were not scraping it.
Yet our leadership went ahead to fact-finding where the fact-finders set the parameters. We plunged forward and “used the fact-finding as a vehicle” despite the anti-union provisions called for.
Then came the contract with all of its provisions insuring that principals have complete discretion in most of the important issues in the school and eviscerating the grievance procedure not to miss potty patrol.
So the leadership’s public relations spin machine decides to find a myriad of ineffective ways to work around all of our givebacks.
Our leadership was out-foxed again. The DOE issued an implementation memo and set the parameters of negotiation yet again. Where is OUR implementation memo? Isn’t the contract half ours?
Our leadership, despite the years of experience in negotiation, approached and continues to accept the DOE’s lead. The DOE does and our leadership reacts.
When are we going to learn?
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griffin robillard, cracks in the ceiling
by Meredith Schneider | Nov 6, 2017 | wolf tracks | 0 comments
In September, Boston’s folk/indie rock talent Griffin Robillard released his 9 track, full-length album titled Cracks in the Ceiling. Flooded in a sharply nostalgic feeling, the album itself was written while Robillard was living in Copenhagen. You can almost feel the growth he was experiencing while writing the piece, as his vocals are flooded with emotion as he brings you into his world with the mid-tempo, almost anthemic, title track, bouncing into the more upbeat and soulful vibes of “Ghost” before getting slightly more twangy, then bluesy/jazzy, in his instrumentals with third track “Because I’ve Told You”.
“Reel to Reel” slows things down – has the structure of a Ben Folds-type track – weaving a narrative speaking to his significant other that is slightly specific, but still very vague, perhaps for the sake of universality. While “Artifacts” picks things back up exponentially, it is with sixth track “Faithless” that we are brought back out of our seats, encouraged by the sound to move. “In Your Own Way” houses similar surf pop vibes to the instrumentals in Gin Blossoms’ “Found Out About You“, causing us a few moments of reminiscing on our 90s selves.
It is with “Nothing to Show” that things get very serious, both lyrically and instrumentally. It’s like Robillard has decided to rip his heart wide open in this one, simplifying the instrumentals slightly to really showcase the words as he croons the track into a 70s style rock stunner. “Tired of Being Cruel” is your last taste of Cracks in the Ceiling, a lot more upbeat in its composition, though melancholic lyrically as he begins the song with the line “tired of being cruel to you.” Self reflective, honest, raw. That’s what we’ve come to love about Robillard, and – while we’re plenty happy with this release – we’re already excited to hear what comes next from this talented musician.
Cracks in the Ceiling is out now. Keep up with Griffin Robillard here.
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Expenses Not Deductible under the head 'Profits and Gains of Business or Profession (Section 40, 40A, 43B)
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Tax on Non-Monetary Perquisite paid by the Employer [Section 40(a)(v)] -
Amounts Not Deductible in respect of Payment to Ralatives [Section 40A(2)]
Amounts Not Deductible in respect of Expenditure exceeding Rs. 10,000 (Rs. 35,000 if an assessee makes payment for Plying, Hiring or Leasing Goods Carriages) [Section 40A(3)] -
Disallowance in respect of Provision for Unapproved Gratuity Fund [Section 40A(7)]:
Amount Not Deductible in respect of contributions to Non-Statutory Funds [Section 40A(9)] -
Certain Deductions to be Allowed only on Actual Payment Basis [Section 43B]
The following expenses given by sections 40, 40A and 43B are expressly disallowed by the Act while computing income chargeable under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession”.
1. Interest, Royalty, Fees for Technical Services Payable Outside India or Payable to a Non-Resident [Section 40(a)(i)] -
Disallowance of expenditure under section 40(a)(i) -
If TDS default is committed in respect of payment/credit given to a foreign company/non-resident, the expenditure is disallowed in the hands of payer under section 40(a)(i). These provisions are given below –
Case-1 : TDS is Deductible but not Deducted : 100 % of such expenditure is disallowed in the current Year-
If tax is deducted in any subsequent year, the expenditure (which is disallowed in the current year) will be deducted in the year in which TDS will be deposited by the assessee with the Government
Case-2 : Tax is deductible (and is so deducted) during the current financial year but it is not deposited on or before the due date of submission of return of income under section 139(1) : 100 % of such expenditure is disallowed in the current year
If tax is deposited with the Government after the due date of submission of return of income, the expenditure (which is disallowed in the current year) will be deductible in that year in which tax will be deposited
If the following three conditions are satisfied, the assessee (i.e., the payer) is supposed to deduct tax at source (TDS) under section 195—
The amount paid is interest, royalty, fees for technical services or any other sum (not being salary).
The aforesaid amount is chargeable to tax in India in the hands of the recipient.
The aforesaid amount is paid/payable to a non-resident. If the above three conditions are satisfied, the assessee (the payer) is supposed to deduct tax at source and deposit the same with the Government.
2. Disallowance of Expenditure in respect of any Payment / Credit to a Resident [Section 40(a)(ia)]
- If TDS default is committed in respect of the above payment/credit given to a resident, 30 % of such expenditure is disallowed in the hands of payer under section 40(a)(ia). These provisions are given below –
TDS Default Is such Expenditure Deductible in the Current Previous Year Is such Expenditure Deductible in any Subsequent Previous Year
Case 1 - TDS is deductible but not deducted.
30 % of such expenditure is disallowed in the current year If tax is deducted in any subsequent year, the expenditure (which is disallowed in the current year) will be deducted in the year in which TDS will be deposited by the assessee with the Government
Case 2- TDS is deductible (and is so deducted) during the current financial ear but it is not deposited on or before the due date of submission of return of income under section 139(1) 30% of such expenditure is disallowed in the current year If tax is deposited with the Government after the due date of submission of return of income, the expenditure (which is disallowed in the current year) will be deductible in that year in which tax will be deposited
In respect of the following payments/credit to a resident, tax is deductible under Chapter XVII-B of the Income-tax Act (i.e., Sections 192 to 206AA)
Payment in respect of life insurance policy
Payment in respect of deposits under NSS
Payment on account of certain units
Winnings from lottery or crossword puzzles
Winnings from horse races
Payment on purchase of immovable property
Payments to contractors
Technical/professional fees, royalty, fees to a part time director
Commission or brokerage (including insurance
Payment of compensation on acquisition of immovable commission) property
3. Default pertaining to Non-Deduction / Non-Deposit of Equalisation Levy [Section 40(a)(ib)] -
Any consideration paid or payable (to a non-resident for a specified service on which equalisation levy is applicable) will be disallowed from the assessment year 2017-18 in the following cases—
Equalisation levy is deductible and such levy has not been deducted.
Equalisation levy is deductible (and it is so deducted) but it is not deposited [on or before the due date of submission of return of income under section 139(1)].
If, however, equalisation levy is deducted/deposited in a subsequent year, the aforesaid consideration shall be allowed as a deduction in computing the income of the previous year in which such levy has been paid.
4. Disallowance of royalty, licence fees, etc., in case of State Government Undertakings [Section 40(a)(iib)] -
The following shall not be allowed as deduction from the assessment year 2014-15 –
Any amount paid by way of royalty, licence fee, service fee, privilege fee, service charge or any other fee or charge (by whatever name called), which is levied exclusively on a State Government undertaking by the State Government.
Any amount which is appropriated (directly or indirectly) from a State Government Undertaking by the State Government.
What is State Government Undertaking -
For the above purpose, a State Government undertaking includes the following–
a corporation established by (or under) any Act of the State Government;
a company in which more than 50 per cent of the paid-up equity share capital is held by the State Government;
a company in which more than 50 per cent of the paid-up equity share capital is held by the above two entities (whether singly or taken together);
a company or corporation in which the State Government has the right to appoint the majority of the directors or to control the management or policy decisions, directly or indirectly, including by virtue of its shareholding or management rights or shareholders agreements or voting agreements or in any other manner;
an authority, a board or an institution or a body established or constituted by or under any Act of the State Government or owned or controlled by the State Government.
5. Salary Payable outside India without Tax Deduction [Section 40(a)(iii)] -
Section 40(a)(iii) is applicable if salary is paid outside India or paid to a non-resident and tax has not been paid to the Government nor deducted at source under the Income-tax Act.
6. Tax on Non-Monetary Perquisite paid by the Employer [Section 40(a)(v)] -
The provisions of section 40(a)(v) are given below –
The employer provides non-monetary perquisites to employees.
Tax on non-monetary perquisites is paid by the employer.
The tax so paid by the employer is not taxable in the hands of employees by virtue of section 10(10CC).
While calculating income of the employer, the tax paid by the employer on non-monetary perquisites is not deductible under section 40(a)(v).
7. Amounts Not Deductible in respect of Payment to Ralatives [ Section 40A(2)]
For an amount to be disallowed under this Section, three conditions have to be fulfilled:
the payment is in respect of any expenditure;
the payment has been made or is to be made to a specified person in respect of such expenditure;
the payment for the expenditure is considered excessive or unreasonable having regard to:
The fair market value of the goods, services or facilities; or
the legitimate business needs of the assessee's business or profession; or
the benefit derived by or accruing to the assessee from the payment.
If the above conditions are fulfilled, the Assessing Officer can disallow the expenditure to the extent he considers it excessive or unreasonable by the above objective standards or otherwise.
Section 40A(2) is applicable in the following cases (list is not complete, only important cases are given) –
Payment made by an individual to his or her relative.
Payment made by a company to a director of the company or any relative of the director.
Payment made by a firm/AOP/HUF to a partner/member or a relative of partner/member.
Payment made to an individual who has a substantial interest in the business of the payer or a relative of such individual.
Payment made to a company who has a substantial interest in the business of the payer, any director of such company or relative of such director.
Payment made to a firm/AOP/HUF who has a substantial interest in the business of the payer or partner/ member of such person or relative of partner/member.
8. Amounts Not Deductible in respect of Expenditure exceeding Rs. 10,000 (Rs. 35,000 if an assessee makes payment for Plying, Hiring or Leasing Goods Carriages) [Section 40A(3)] -
The provisions of section 40A(3) are given below —
Disallowance is attracted under section 40A(3) if the following conditions are satisfied —
The assessee incurs any expenditure which is otherwise deductible under the other provisions of the Act for computing business/profession income (e.g., expenditure for purchase of raw material, trading goods, expenditure on salary, etc.). The amount of expenditure exceeds Rs. 10,000 (Rs. 35,000 if an assessee makes payment for Plying, Hiring or Leasing Goods Carriages).
A payment (or aggregate of payments made to a person in a day) in respect of the above expenditure exceeds Rs. 10,000 (Rs. 35,000 if an assessee makes payment for Plying, Hiring or Leasing Goods Carriages).
The above payment is made otherwise than by an account payee cheque or an account payee demand draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account. If all the above conditions are satisfied, then 100 % of such payment will be Disallowed.
Exceptions - The above rule i.e. Section 40A(3) is not applicable to a few cases given below –
Payment made to a bank (including private sector banks, co-operative bank, credit societies), LIC, etc.
Payment made to Government.
Payment through banking system.
Payment made by book adjustment by an assessee in the account of the payee against money due to the assessee for any goods supplied or services rendered by him to the payee.
Payment made to a cultivator, grower or producer in respect of the purchase of agricultural or forest produce or product of animal husbandry (including livestock, meat, hides and skins) or dairy or poultry farming or fish or fish products or products of horticulture or apiculture (even if these products have been subjected to some processing provided the processing has been done by the cultivator, grower or the producer of the product).
Payment made to a producer in respect of the purchase of the products manufactured or processed without the aid of power in a cottage industry.
Payment made to a person who ordinarily resides or carries on business in a village not served by any bank.
Payment of terminal benefits, such as gratuity, retrenchment compensation, etc., not exceeding Rs. 50,000.
Payment made by an assessee by way of salary to his employee after deducting tax and when such employee is temporarily posted for a continuous period of 15 days or more in a place other than his normal place of duty or on a ship and does not maintain any account in any bank at such place or ship.
Payment required to be made on a day on which the banks were closed either on account of holiday or strike.
Payment made by any person to his agent who is required to make payment in cash for goods or services on behalf of such person.
Payment made by an authorised dealer or a money changer against purchase of foreign currency or travellers cheques in the normal course of his business.
Following Table showing the Examples towards Nature of Transactions with Disallowed Amount :
Nature of Transactions Disallowed Amount
1. Generally X pays salary to his employees by account payee cheques. Salary of December 2018 is, however, paid to three employees A, B and C by bearer cheques (payment being Rs. 6,000, Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 10,500, respectively).
1. Rs. 10,500, being 100% of salary paid by bearer cheque to C, will be disallowed.
2. X Ltd. purchases goods on credit from Y Ltd. on May 6, 2018 for Rs. 86,000 which is paid as follows—
Rs. 5,000 in cash on May 11, 2018;
Rs. 30,000 by a bearer cheque on May 31, 2018;
Rs. 51,000 by an account payee cheque on May 16, 2018.
Nothing will be disallowed out of the payment of Rs. 5,000 in cash on May 11, 2018, as the payment does not exceed Rs. 10,000.
100% of Rs. 30,000 will be disallowed.
Nothing will be disallowed out of Rs. 51,000.
3. Z Ltd. purchases goods on credit from A Ltd. on May 10, 2018 for Rs. 6,000 and on May 30, 2018 for Rs. 5,000. The total payment of Rs. 11,000 is made by a crossed cheque on June 1, 2018.
3. Though the amount of payment exceeds Rs. 10,000, nothing shall be disallowed. To attract disallowance, the amount of bill as well as the amount of payment should be more than Rs. 10,000.
4. A Ltd. purchases goods on credit from a relative of a director on June 20, 2018 for Rs. 50,000 (market value: Rs. 42,000). The amount is paid in cash on June 25, 2018.
4. Out of the payment of Rs. 50,000, Rs. 8,000 (being the excess payment to a relative) shall be disallowed under section 40A(2). As the payment is made in cash and the remaining amount exceeds Rs. 10,000, 100% of the balance (i.e., Rs. 42,000) shall be disallowed under section 40A(3).
5. B Ltd. purchases raw material on credit from A who holds 20 per cent equity share capital in B Ltd. (the amount of bill being Rs. 36,000, market price being Rs. 9,000). It is paid in cash on July 26, 2018.
5. Out of the payment of Rs. 36,000, Rs. 27,000 (being the excess payment to a person holding a substantial interest) shall be disallowed under section 40A(2). The remaining amount (i.e., Rs. 9,000) does not exceed Rs. 10,000. Nothing shall be disallowed under section 40A(3) even if the payment is made in cash.
9. Disallowance in respect of Provision for Unapproved Gratuity Fund [Section 40A(7)]:
Gratuity is a liability which normally arises according to the length of the service of the employees' of the assessee. The liability would generally accrue year after year. However, due to practical difficulties in computing the deduction allowable on accrual basis, it has been provided under section 40A(7) that deduction on account of provision for gratuity shall be allowed only when:—
the amount of gratuity has actually become payable during the previous year to the employees' (provided deduction has not been claimed under clause (b) below); or
when a provision has been made for payment of a sum by way of any contribution towards an approved gratuity fund.
Therefore, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of any provision made for the payment of gratuity to the employees, even though the assessee may be following the mercantile system of accounting, unless it is a provision for the purpose of payment of a sum by way of any contribution towards an approved gratuity fund.
In other words, any provision for unapproved gratuity fund (for meeting future liability) is not deductible.
The following points should be noted—
An employee retires during the current year. The employer does not maintain any gratuity fund. Gratuity is paid to him during the current year. It is deductible during the current year.
An employee retires during the current year. Gratuity is payable to him. A part of the amount is paid during the current year and the balance will be paid in the next year. A provision is made towards gratuity in the books of account of the current year for making payment in the next year. The entire amount is deductible during the current year (if no deduction was claimed earlier). In this case, deduction is available during the current year even if provision is made for gratuity fund, which is unapproved.
A company has 50 employees. To meet future liability to pay them gratuity at the time of retirement, a gratuity fund is created and the employer makes contribution every year. Employers’ contribution to this fund is deductible only if the fund is an approved gratuity fund.
Table showing the Amount Deductible in different Cases : -
Cases Deductible Amount
CASE-1 :
X retires from the service of Y Ltd. on May 31, 2018. The company pays gratuity of Rs. 1,60,000, according to the provisions of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. Y Ltd. does not maintain any provision for gratuity account.
Where gratuity is paid during the previous year or where gratuity has become payable during the previous year, it is deductible if no deduction has been claimed on the basis of provisions earlier. Consequently, Rs. 1,60,000 is allowed as deduction for the assessment year 2019-20.
Z Ltd. maintains an approved gratuity fund. A sum of Rs. 1,00,000 being the employer’s contribution towards the gratuity fund, is debited to the profit and loss account for the year ending March 31, 2019.
Where any provision is made for the purpose of payment of a sum by way of any contribution towards an approved gratuity fund, it is allowed as deduction. It is assumed that provisions of section 43B are satisfied .
10. Amount Not Deductible in respect of contributions to Non-Statutory Funds [Section 40A(9)] -
Any sum paid by the assessee as an employer by way of contribution towards Recognised Provident Fund, or Approved Superannuation Fund or an Approved Gratuity Fund, is Deductible to the extent it is required by any law.
What is not Deductible -
If the following conditions are satisfied, then contribution or payment is not deductible by section 40A(9) —
The contribution/payment is made by an assessee as an employer.
It is paid towards setting up (or formation of) any trust, company, association of persons, body of individuals, society or it is paid by way of contribution to any fund.
The contribution or payment is not required by any law.
11. Certain Deductions to be Allowed only on Actual Payment Basis [Section 43B]
Section 43B is applicable only if the taxpayer maintains books of account on the basis of mercantile system of accounting. The provisions of section 43B are given below—
Certain Expenses are Deductible on Actual Payment Basis -
The following expenses (which are otherwise deductible under the other provisions of the Income-tax Act) are deductible on payment basis—
any sum payable by way of tax, duty, cess or fee (by whatever name called under any law for the time being in force);
any sum payable by an employer by way of contribution to provident fund or superannuation fund or any other fund for the welfare of employees;
any sum payable as bonus or commission to employees for service rendered;
any sum payable as interest on any loan or borrowing from a public financial institution (i.e., ICICI, IFCI, IDBI, LIC and UTI) or a State financial corporation or a State industrial investment corporation;
interest on any loan or advance taken from a scheduled bank or a co-operative bank other than a primary agricultural credit society or a primary co-operative agricultural and rural development bank;
any sum payable by an employer in lieu of leave at the credit of his employee; and
any sum payable to the Indian Railways for the use of railway assets.
The above expenses are deductible in the year in which payment is actually made. There is, however, one exception given below.
Exception - Certain Expenses are Deductible on Accrual Basis -
If the aforesaid payment is actually made on or before the due date of submission of return of income, deduction can be claimed on Accrual Basis.
Due date of submission of return of income in the case of a company (or in the case of a taxpayer whose books of account are required to be audited under any law) is September 30 of the assessment year.
In the case of any taxpayer (having international or specified domestic transactions) due date of submission of return of income is November 30 of the assessment year.
In all other cases, the due date of submission of return of income is July 31 of the assessment year.
However, in case an assessee follows mercantile system of accounting, the payments covered in items No. 1 to 6 in the Table below can be claimed on 'due' basis as well, provided the payment for the same is made within the stipulated period mentioned against each expenditure:
Nature of Expenses Stipulated Time Period
1. Any sum payable by way of tax, duty, cess or fee, by whatever name called, under any law for the time being in force.
Due amount should be paid on or before the due date of furnishing the return of income u/s 139(1) in respect of the previous year in which the liability to pay such sum was incurred.
2. Any sum payable by the assessee as an employer by way of contribution to any provident fund or superannuation fund or gratuity fund or any other fund for the welfare of employees.
3. Any sum payable to an employee as bonus or commission for services rendered.
4. Any sum payable by the assessee as interest on any loan or borrowing from any public financial institution or State Financial Corporation or State Industrial Investment Corporation like IDBI, IFCI, UPSIDC, Delhi Financial Corporation, etc. in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement governing such loan or borrowing.
However, in cases (1) to (6), if the payment of outstanding liability is made after the due date, deduction can be claimed in the year of payment.
5. Any sum payable by the assessee as interest on any loan or advance from a scheduled bank or a co-operative bank (other than a primary agricultural credit society or primary co-operative agricultural and rural development bank) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement governing such loan.
6. Any sum payable by the assessee as an employer in lieu of any leave at the credit of his employee.
7. Any sum payable by the assessee to the Indian Railways for the use of railway assets.
Topics...on ‘Profits and Gains of Business or Profession’
Define … ‘Profits and Gains of Business or Profession’ and its Computation (Section 28)
Method of Accounting for Computing Business Income (Section 145)
Principles for Allowing Business Deductions / Allowances from Profits and Gains of Business or Profession.
Expenses Allowed as Deductions against Profits and Gains of Business or Profession [Section-30-37]
[Section 37(1)] : General Or Allowable Deductions under Business or Professions
Business Losses Deductible under the head 'Profits and Gains of Business or Profession'.
DEEMED PROFITS Chargeable to Tax as Business Income Under Profits and Gains of Business or Professions [Section 41]
Taxation of Undisclosed Business Income/Investments from Undisclosed Sources
Deduction in respect of Expenditure incurred on setting up of a Specified Business [Section-35AD] :
When Maintenance of Books of Accounts becomes Compulsory (Section 44AA)
Compulsory Audit of Books of Accounts by Chartered Accountant (Section 44AB)
Computation of Income On Estimated Basis Under Sections 44AD, 44ADA and 44AE
Belated Retur, Revised Return, Defective Return, Return of Loss, Processing, Enquiry, Self-Assessement as Amendments made by the Finance Act. 2018
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Retrotopia - A distant scent of blood
SUBHEAD: Gemotek insisted their corn couldn't be the source of the illnesses, and the government backed them.
By John Michael Greer on 18 May 2016 for the Archdruid Report -
(http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/05/retrotopia-distant-scent-of-blood.html)
Image above: Genetically modified corn field. From (http://www.genetwork.info/biggest-gmo-myths-busted/).
[Author's note: This is the sixteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator, having recovered from a bout of the flu, goes for a walk, meets someone he’s encountered before, and begins to understand why the Lakeland Republic took the path it did.]
The next morning I felt pretty good, all things considered, and got up not too much later than usual. It was bright and clear, as nice an autumn day as you could ask for. I knew I had two days to make up and a lot of discussions and negotiations with the Lakeland Republic government still waited, but I’d been stuck in my room for two days and wanted to stretch my legs a bit before I headed back into another conference room at the Capitol.
I compromised by calling Melanie Berger and arranging to meet with her and some other people from Meeker’s staff after lunch. That done, once I’d finished my morning routine, I headed down the stairs and out onto the street.
I didn’t have any particular destination in mind, just fresh air and a bit of exercise, and two or three random turns brought me within sight of the Capitol.
That sent half a dozen trains of thought scurrying off in a bunch of directions, and one of them reminded me that I hadn’t seen a scrap of news for better than two days. Another couple of blocks and I got to Kaufer’s News, where the same scruffy-looking woman was sitting on the same wooden stool, surrounded by the same snowstorm of newspapers and magazines.
I bought that day’s Toledo Blade, and since it was still way too early to put anything into my stomach, I crossed the street, found a park bench in front of the Capitol that had sunlight all over it, sat down and started reading.
There was plenty of news. The president of Texas had just denounced the Confederacy for drilling for natural gas too close to the Texas border, and the Confederate government had issued the kind of curt response that might mean nothing and might mean trouble.
The latest word from the Antarctic melting season was worse than before; Wilkes Land had chucked up a huge jokulhlaup—yeah, I had to look the word up the first time I saw it, too; it means a flood of meltwater from underneath a glacier—that tore loose maybe two thousand square miles of ice and had half the southern Indian Ocean full of bergs.
There was another report out on the lithium crisis, from another bunch of experts who pointed out yet again that the world was going to run out of lithium for batteries in another half dozen years and all the alternatives were much more expensive; I knew better than to think that the report would get any more action than the last half dozen had.
Back home, meanwhile, the leaders of the Dem-Reps had a laundry list of demands for the new administration, most of which involved Montrose ditching her platform and adopting theirs instead. There’d been no response from the Montrose transition team, which was probably just as well. I knew what Ellen would say to that and it wasn’t fit to print.
Still, the thing I read first was an article on the satellite situation. There was a squib on the front page about that, and a big article with illustrations on pages four and five. It was as bad as I’d feared. The weather satellite that got hit on Friday had thrown big chunks of itself all over, and two more satellites had already been hit.
The chain reaction was under way, and in a year or so putting a satellite into the midrange orbits would be a waste of money—a few days, a week at most, and some chunk of scrap metal will come whipping out of nowhere at twenty thousand miles an hour and turn your umpty-billion-yuan investment into a cloud of debris ready to share the love with anything else in orbit.
That reality was already hitting stock markets around the world—telecoms were plunging, and so was every other economic sector that depended too much on satellites.
Most of the Chinese manufacturing sector was freaking out, too, because a lot of their exports go by way of the Indian Ocean, and satellite data’s the only thing that keeps container ships out of the way of icebergs. Economists were trying to rough out the probable hit to global GDP, and though estimates were all over the map, none of them was pretty. The short version was that everybody was running around screaming.
Everybody outside the Lakeland Republic, that is. The satellite crisis was an academic concern there.
I mean that literally; the paper quoted a professor of astronomy from Toledo University, a Dr. Marjorie Vanich, about the work she and her grad students were doing on the mathematics of orbital collisions, and that was the only consequence the whole mess was having inside the Lakeland borders. I shook my head.
Progress was going to win out eventually, I told myself, but the Republic’s retro policies certainly seemed to deflect a good many hassles in the short term.
I finished the first section, set down the paper.
Sitting there in the sunlight of a clear autumn day, with a horsedrawn cab going clip-clop on the street in front of me, schoolchildren piling out of a streetcar and heading toward the Capitol for a field trip, pedestrians ducking into Kaufer’s News or the little hole-in-the-wall café half a block from it, and the green-and-blue Lakeland Republic flag flapping leisurely above the whole scene, all the crises and commotions in the newspaper I’d just read might as well have been on the far side of the Moon.
For the first time I found myself wishing that the Lakeland Republic could find some way to survive over the long term after all. The thought that there could be someplace on the planet where all those crises just didn’t matter much was really rather comforting.
I got up, stuck the paper into one of the big patch pockets of my trench coat, and started walking, going nowhere in particular. A clock on the corner of a nearby building told me I still had better than an hour to kill before lunch. I looked around, and decided to walk all the way around the Capitol, checking out the big green park that surrounded it and the businesses and government offices nearby.
I thought of the Legislative Building back home in Philadelphia, with its walls of glass and metal and its perpetually leaky roof; I thought of the Presidential Mansion twelve blocks away, another ultramodern eyesore, where one set of movers hauling Bill Barfield’s stuff out would be crossing paths just then with another set of movers hauling Ellen Montrose’s stuff in.
I thought of the huge bleak office blocks sprawling west and south from there, where people I knew were busy trying to figure out how to cope with a rising tide of challenges that didn’t look as though it was ever going to ebb.
I got to one end of the park, turned the corner. A little in from the far corner was what looked like a monument of some sort, a big slab of dark red stone up on end, with something written on it. Shrubs formed a rough ring around it, and a couple of trees looked on from nearby. I wondered what it was commemorating, started walking that way.
When I got closer, I noticed that there was a ring of park benches inside the circle of shrubs, and one person sitting on one of the benches; it wasn’t until I was weaving through the gap between two shrubs that I realized it was the same Senator Mary Chenkin
I’d met at the Atheist Assembly the previous Sunday. By the time I’d noticed that, she’d spotted me and got to her feet, and so I went over and did and said the polite thing, and we got to talking.
The writing on the monument didn’t enlighten me much. It had a date on it—29 APRIL 2024—and nothing else. I’d just about decided to ask Chenkin about it when she said, “I bet they didn’t brief you about this little memento of ours—and they probably should have, if you’re going to make any kind of sense of what we’ve done here in the Lakeland Republic. Do you have a few minutes?”
“Most of an hour,” I said. “If you’ve got the time—”
“I should be at a committee meeting later on, but there should be plenty of time.” She waved me to the bench and then perched on the front of it, facing me.
“You probably know about DM-386 corn, Mr. Carr,” she said. “The stuff that had genes from poisonous starfish spliced into it.”
“Yeah.” Ugly memories stirred. “I would have had a kid brother if it wasn’t for that.”
“You and a lot of others.” She shook her head. “Gemotek, the corporation that made it, used to have its regional headquarters right here.”
She gestured across the park toward the Capitol. “A big silver glass and steel skyscraper complex, with a plaza facing this way. It got torn down right after the war, the steel went to make rails for the Toledo streetcar system, and the site—well, you’ll understand a little further on why we chose to put our Capitol there.
“But it was 2020, as I recall, when Gemotek scientists held a press conference right here to announce that DM-386 was going to save the world from hunger.” Another shake of her head dismissed the words. “Did they plant much of it up where your family lived?”
“Not to speak of. We were in what used to be upstate New York, and corn wasn’t a big crop.”
“Well, there you are. Here, we’re the buckle on the corn belt: the old states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and across into Iowa and Nebraska. Gemotek marketed DM-386 heavily via exclusive contracts with local seed stores, and it was literally everywhere. They insisted it was safe, the government insisted it was safe, the experts said the same thing—but nobody bothered to test it on pregnant women.”
“I remember,” I said.
“And down here, it wasn’t just in the food supply. The pollen had the toxin in it, and that was in the air every spring. After the first year’s crop, what’s more, it got into the water table in a lot of places. So there were some counties where the live birth rate dropped by half over a two year period.”
She leaned toward me. “And here’s the thing. Gemotek kept insisting that it couldn’t possibly be their corn, and the government backed them.
They brought in one highly paid expert after another to tell us that some new virus or other was causing the epidemic of stillbirths. It all sounded plausible, until you found out that the only countries in the world that had this supposed virus were countries that allowed DM-386 corn to cross their borders.
The media wouldn’t mention that, and if you said something about it on the old internet, or any other public venue, Gemotek would slap you with a libel suit. They’d win, too—they had all the expert opinion on their side that money could buy. All the farmers and the other people of the corn belt had on their side was unbiased epidemiology and too many dead infants.
“So by the fall and winter of 2023, the entire Midwest was a powderkeg. A lot of farmers stopped planting DM-386, even though Gemotek had a clause in the sales agreement that let them sue you for breach of contract if you did that.
Seed stores that stocked it got burnt to the ground, and Gemotek sales staff who went out into farm country didn’t always come back.
There were federal troops here by then—not just Homeland Security, also regular Army with tanks and helicopters they’d brought up from the South after the trouble in Knoxville and Chattanooga the year before—and you had armed bands of young people and military vets springing up all over the countryside. It was pretty bad.
“By April, it was pretty clear that next to nobody in the region was planting Gemotek seeds—not just DM-386, anything from that company. Farmers were letting their farms go fallow if they couldn’t get seed they thought was safe.
That’s when Michael Yates, who was the CEO of Gemotek, said he was going to come to Toledo and talk some sense into the idiots who thought there was something wrong with his product. By all accounts, yes, that’s what he said.”
All of a sudden I remembered how the story ended, but didn’t say anything.
“So he came here—right where we’re sitting now. The company made a big fuss in the media, put up a platform out in front of the building, put half a dozen security guards around it, and thought that would do the job.
Yates was a celebrity CEO—” Unexpectedly, she laughed. “That phrase sounds so strange nowadays. Still, there were a lot of them before the Second Civil War: flashy, outspoken, hungry for publicity. He was like that. He flew in, and came out here, and started mouthing the same canned talking points Gemotek flacks had been rehashing since the first wave of stillbirths hit the media.
“I think he even believed them.” She shrugged. “He wasn’t an epidemiologist or even a geneticist, just a glorified salesman who thought his big paycheck made him smarter than anyone else, and he lived the sort of bicoastal lifestyle the rich favored in those days. If he’d ever set foot in the ‘flyover states’ before then, I never heard of it.
But of course the crowd wasn’t having any of it. Something like nine thousand people showed up. They were shouting at him, and he was trying to make himself heard, and somebody lunged for the platform and a security guard panicked and opened fire, and the crowd mobbed the platform. It was all over in maybe five minutes.
As I recall, two of the guards survived. The other four were trampled and beaten to death, and nineteen people were shot—and Michael Yates was quite literally torn to shreds. There was hardly enough left of him to bury.
“So that’s what happened on April 29th, 2024. The crowd scattered as soon as it was all over, before Homeland Security troops could get here from their barracks; the feds declared a state of emergency and shut Toledo down, and then two days later the riots started down in Birmingham and the National Guard units sent to stop them joined the rioters.
Your historians probably say that that’s where and when the Second Civil War started, and they’re right—but this is where the seed that grew into the Lakeland Republic got planted.”
“Hell of a seed,” I said, for want of anything better.
“I won’t argue. But this—” Her gesture indicated the monument, and the shadow of a vanished building. “—this is a big part of why the whole Midwest went up like a rocket once the Birmingham riots turned serious, and why nothing the federal government did to get people to lay down their arms did a bit of good.
Every family I knew back in those days had either lost a child or knew someone who had—but it wasn’t just that. There had been plenty of other cases where the old government put the financial interests of big corporations ahead of the welfare of its people—hundreds of them, really—but this thing was that one straw too many.
“And then, when the fighting was over, the constitutional convention was meeting, and people from the World Bank and the IMF flew in to offer us big loans for reconstruction, care to guess what one of their very first conditions was?”
I didn’t have to answer; she saw on my face that I knew the story.
“Exactly, Mr. Carr. The provisional government had already passed a law banning genetically modified organisms until adequate safety tests could be done, and the World Bank demanded that we repeal it. To them it was just a trade barrier. Of course all of us in the provisional government knew perfectly well that if we agreed to that, we’d be facing Michael Yates’ fate in short order, so we called for a referendum.”
She shook her head, laughed reminiscently. “The World Bank people went ballistic. I had one of their economists with his face six inches from mine, shouting threats for fifteen minutes in half-coherent English without a break.
But we held the referendum, the no vote came in at 89%, we told the IMF and the World Bank to pack their bags and go home, and the rest of our history unfolded as you’ve seen—and a lot of it was because of a pavement streaked with blood, right here.”
Something in her voice just then made me consider her face closely, and read something in her expression that I don’t think she’d intended me to see. “You were there, weren’t you?” I asked.
She glanced up at me, looked away, and after a long moment nodded.
A long moment passed. The clop-clop of a horsedrawn taxi came close, passed on into the distance. “Here’s the thing,” she said finally. “All of us who were alive then—well, those who didn’t help tear Michael Yates to pieces helped tear the United States of America to pieces.
It was the same in both cases: people who had been hurt and deceived and cheated until they couldn’t bear it any longer, who finally lashed out in blind rage and then looked down and saw the blood on their hands.
After something like that, you have to come to terms with the fact that what’s done can never be undone, and try to figure out what you can do that will make it turn out to be worthwhile after all.”
She took a watch out of her purse, then, glanced at it, and said, “Oh dear. They’ve been waiting for me in the committee room for five minutes now. Thank you for listening, Mr. Carr—will I see you at the Assembly next Sunday?”
“That’s the plan,” I told her. She got up, we made the usual polite noises, and she hurried away toward the Capitol. Maybe she was late for her meeting, and maybe she’d said more than she’d intended to say and wanted to end the conversation. I didn’t greatly care, as I wanted a little solitude myself just then.
I’d known about DM-386 corn, of course, and my family wasn’t the only one I knew that lost a kid to the fatal lung defects the starfish stuff caused if the mother got exposed to it in the wrong trimester.
For that matter, plenty of other miracle products have turned out to have side effects nasty enough to rack up a fair-sized body count. No, it was thinking of the pleasant old lady I’d just been sitting with as a young woman with blood dripping from her hands.
Every nation starts that way. The Atlantic Republic certainly did—I knew people back home who’d been guerrillas in the Adirondacks and the Alleghenies, and they’d talk sometimes about things they’d seen and done that made my blood run cold.
The old United States got its start the same way, two and a half centuries further back. I knew that, but I hadn’t been thinking about it when I’d sat on the park bench musing about how calm the Lakeland Republic seemed in the middle of all the consternation outside its borders. It hadn’t occurred to me what had gone into making that calm happen.
The breeze whispering past the stone monument seemed just then to have a distant scent of blood on it. I turned and walked away.
Below are the first seven of fifteen previous Retrotopia articles reproduced on Island Breath:
Ea O Ka Aina: Retrotopia - Dawn train from Pittsburgh 8/27/15
Ea O Ka Aina: Retrotopia - View from a Moving Window 9/2/15
Ea O Ka Aina: Retrotopia - A Cab Ride in Toledo 9/10/15
Ea O Ka Aina: Retrotopia - Public Utilities, Private Goods 9/24/15
Ea O Ka Aina: Retrotopia - A Change of Habit 10/1/15
Ea O Ka Aina: Retrotopia - Scent of Ink on Paper 10/15/15
Ea O Ka Aina: Retrotopia - A Question of Subsidies 10/22/15
The other pieces can be found at the Archdruid Report website.
INDEX: De-Industrialize , Disease , Fiction , Future , GMOs , Revolution , Steady-State , Violence
Vermont GMO labeling impact
Judgement against RIMPAC 2016
Fukushima and Chernobyl
Mahaulepu Dairy Farm draft EIS
Vermont adopts Steady State idea
Bad Energy in Hawaii
Aim for 2°C... Plan for 4°C
Clinton breaks debate promise
Media rigged against Bernie
We're past the point of no return
Becoming Bluegill
Lower Away!
Getting off the grid
Prepare for RIMPAC war in Hawaii
End of the bitumen boom
Bernie lead on Trump lead on Clinton
Navy to "take" millions of mammals
The choice of superdeligates
The Economy Should Stop Growing
State court sides with teenagers
USDA clears way for GE mushrooms
Tax breaks for Hawaii organic farms?
Union pension will need bailout
The US and Korea
Chemical Company Troubles
Nuclear Power Zombies
Navy intends to threaten nature
Moderns don't get it!
Trumptopia
Retrospective from the Cthulhucene
Will developers write Kapaa’s future?
No Substiute for Newspapers
EPA uses GMO company studies
Pesticides in Paradise Video
TTIP leaks reveal US position
Send out the Clowns
Introduction to Hawaiian Land Areas
Women Who Farm
The markets are being faked
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Is the Reformation Over?
A Statement of Evangelical Convictions
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The Statement acknowledges the efforts at increasing unity between Protestants/ Evangelicals and Catholics, clarifies the differences that remain between Catholics and Protestants/ Evangelicals, and calls Evangelicals to stand firm with the foundational convictions of the Reformers that our final authority is the Bible and that we are saved through faith alone. You can learn more about the Statement by visiting the website http://isthereformationover.com.
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Stereo Laboratories: An Introduction to
Sound Library & Production Music
Discovering library music is a fascinating thing. This is music that was initially created for commercial purposes (created to be sold or licensed to film, television or radio). Library production music can be the most liberating, genre-bending musical experience, due to its lack of constraints on creativity. It varies from straight orchestral fare, bossa nova pop, quirky electro, disco, demented and moody electro-acoustics, folk, and everything else in between.
There were numerous labels of all shapes and sizes, mostly from France, Italy, Germany and the UK (L’illustration Musicale, de Wolfe, Telemusic, KPM, Selected Sound, Musique Pour l’Image, and Bruton being among some of the larger, more reknown labels), some with wide distribution, and others relegated to obscure status almost immediately. Composers would knock out several albums a month, often for different labels, and even more common, under a different name – leading to very difficult research, and a very tricky time for anyone trying to figure out any sort of discography trajectory. Some examples of aliases include the ever prolific Piero Umiliani, who also traded under Zalla, Moggi, Herbana, The Braen’s Machine (with Alessandro Alessandroni), and a few others. Nino Nardini was another big composer, getting his start in the 40’s as a big band jazz leader, soon becoming one of the towering figures in all of library music, often under his Georges Teperino guise. His friend and recurring musical partner Roger Roger typically issued zany electronics under the name Cecil Leuter. This story is typical among the legions of composers.
I feel the high point of library music vitality was from roughly 1968-1982, though the amount of decent 80’s libraries is scarce. Further into the 80’s the music got increasingly tacky, especially on the British labels Bruton, de Wolfe and KPM, mixing rock elements with fusion and disco, resulting in many failed ideas that neverless ended up gracing many television programs and radio themes.
These are pretty broad statements meant to clue some folks in to library music as a whole, though on the fringes there were numerous small labels who only issued a few albums, and even still, some labels are only noteworthy through rumor, having become so scarce as to not being tracked down at all. Many of these labels produced some very challenging and often avant garde music, some venturing more into the modern interpretive dance music, and less a commercial venture. I’m sure there are so many thousands of stories hidden within those recording studios, television and radio stations, etc… with hundreds of faceless, seemingly selfless composers pushing out the goods to little or no fanfare. Some of these composers were relatively famous through other means and did libraries for a little extra cash (many tracks did in fact became famous themes for TV, radio and film). For some of these composers, it was their sole creative and financial venture, but it’s safe to say that now for many younger people who’ve discovered them anew, they are like rock stars.
Much of this music is a goldmine for sample hungry beatheads looking for “breakz.” I tend to approach it differently. Sure, I love a good solid groover, but I also look for something more cerebral, conceptual, or just plain different, to go deeper than just funky instrumental music.
Picking just several favorites was a difficult task. The ten titles below were chosen to showcase a variety of composers, labels and styles. A quick Google search of a composer or favorite title will quickly put you on your own path of discovery.
1. Sven Libaek Solar Flares (Peer/UK, 1974). One of my favorites! A very solid collection of groovy orchestral pop, but with that Libek twist: lots of dreamy vibes, clever, hooky arrangements, subtle wah-guitar, sneaky Moog, strong brass work, etc… Many fantastic tunes here, with a slight futuristic bent, but more in line with hazy summer days circa 1975.
2. Oronzo de Filippi Meccanizzazione (Leo/Italy, 1969). A stunning library album featuring a strange mix of Morricone harpsichord phrasings, Jobim esque bossanova lounge, and some shifty Dave Brubeck tempos, with little bits of weird sounds thrown in. All in all it’s very sunny, hypnotic stuff. Deserves to be recognized as a solid latin jazz album. There’s a strong resemblance to Dots… era Stereolab in parts, regarding the jazzy latin rhythms and instrumentation.
3. Serge Bulot Les légendes de Brocéliande (Sonimage/France, 1981). Moody and atmospheric, this is a very strong album – veering from ambient synth and folksy acoustic guitars to subtle violin arrangements; all set against a dreamy, swirling early 80’s post-punk haze that’s actually quite effective, recalling at once a sort of Factory records Durutti Column/Virginia Ashley type collaboration with some very slight ambient prog tendencies from the late 70’s. Bulot is a noted multi-instrumentalist with a vast, impressive collection of worldly instruments. From the looks of his myspace page he’s currently quite active composing and performing.
4. Francis Monkman Tempus Fugit (Bruton/UK, 1978). Phonkay space age fuzak! Here the keyboard wiz tears through stellar fantasy lifestyle music, with the terse focus of a falcon and the cheese merchant chops of Rick Wakeman’s little brother (?). Of course, this was on the British late 70’s standard jazz disco funk label Bruton. Here you’ll find plenty of Rhodes massaging, synth-swell galore, and hard clavinet stomping mood pieces that do little to deter your image of spacemen in tight red leather pants, headbands and elbow length white gloves. Run (don’t walk) away slowly.
5. Nino Nardini & Roger Roger Jungle Obsession (Neuilly/France, 1972). Classic moogxotica, though the electronic element is very minimal. This album is a little over-hyped in my opinion, but it’s still a very solid effort. There’s absolutely no weirdo synth filler here (good news for all those weird synth album haters), but elegantly composed lounge jazz with a heavy exotic vibe, befitting the title, and some requisite animal sounds chirping and roaring here and there.
6. Armando Sciascia Sea Fantasy (Vedette/Italy, 1972). A stunning, fully formed album of sea themes from symphonic to light jazz. Beautiful orchestration, use of experimental electronics, and most of all there’s an elegant haze over everything.
7. Jacques Siroul Midway (Montparnasse 2000/France, 1975) A damn good batch of Morricone-esque groovy instrumental pop, with a little Andre Popp and Serge Gainsbourg tossed in. The rhythm section is beefy and flawless, giving the whole “lounge” factor a total makeover. The harmonica (which I typically don’t care for) makes very frequent appearances on this album, though it is in a melancholic “Midnight Cowboy” vein, and not an annoying bluesy-folk one. There are a couple of corny piano pop concertos, but the zig zag moog and top notch compositions make this one very solid and unique overall. I like to call it “elevator prog”. Yes, I just made that up. This has reissue written all over it, from the crowd-pleasing heavy beats to the smart arrangements and generally great tunes. It’s quickly become one of my favorite albums!
8. Stringtronics Mindbender (Peer-Southern/UK, 1972). This is something of a showcase effort from Barry Forgie, Anthony Mawer, Nino Nardini, and Roger Roger, each displaying their own brand of baroque jazz, with the emphasis on furiously sawed strings. [The first half of Mindbender is a 6-track suite composed by UK library legend Barry Forgie. Recorded in one 3-hour session, it’s a unique psych/funk/baroque exploration that’s made this LP the holy grail of library music collectors for years.]
9. Joel Vandroogenbroeck Contemporary Pastoral and Ethnic Sounds (Coloursound/Germany, 1980) Ah, what a beaut’! Joel Vandroogenbroeck (aka: VDB Joel) was the main, only consistent member in Brainticket, and on this album he blends the requisite flute with synths and exotica tinged percussion, and comes up with a winner, an almost pop/mainstream approximation of the exotica-library variety. Surely this era of his work is probably lumped in with the new-age crowd (if it is lumped in anywhere at all!), but don’t let such things deter you from a wonderful listen. Majestic peaks of sound wash around, with an Echoplexed flute zipping all over the spectrum. I’m reminded of some long lost Herzog film, as the pastoral post-hippie vibe here bodes well with mid-period Popol Vuh, though in a slightly more synthetic way. There’s even a funky track with sample worthy “breaks” and some nasty clavinet; a seemingly out-of-place track, but it works well. For the most part, Vandroogenbroeck brings an old school krautrock/prog sensibility to the proceedings. Highly recommended!
10. Various Artists Under Water Vol. 2: Under and Over the Water Surface (Sonoton/Germany, 1978). Absolutely stunning! This is a top notch collection of spooky yet elegant jazz played with beautiful unease. The woodwinds soar alongside the harps, plucky bass, water logged tubas and trombones, and the brief synth vignettes all add up to a great flow. Fans of moody modal jazz would find much to love here. It’s not too out-there like many conceptual libraries, and is a wonderful, darker cousin to Sven Libaek’s stellar Ron & Val Taylor’s Inner Space, though perhaps a bit more cerebral. It fits into the underwater-as-outer space metaphor quite well – both dark places of mysterious power, stifling vulnerability, and utter loneliness. Standout album track for me is “Wet Suit”. Side one is the mostly jazz section, composed by the duo of Sam Sklair and Oscar Sieben (with one short track by J. Fox & M. Prindy), while side two consists of moody electronic ambience courtesy of Mladen Franko. Very highly recommended!
For further listening: A few more of my favorites worth tracking down are Walt Rockman’s space-age fairy-tale lullaby, Biology (Sonoton/Germany, 1978), Simon Park’s prog-ish Electric Bird (de Wolfe/UK, 1974), Romolo Grano’s Musica elettronica 1 (Joker/Italy, 1973) featuring superb, scary ambience and bleep-bloop blast, the disturbingly dark Egisto Macchi Voix (Gemelli/Italy, 1970), and the certified classic Cops, Crooks and Spies featuring some moody crime jazz cues by Eddie Warner.
View my complete list of over 350 library records here. —Norm
Do you have a favorite Sound Library composer or title? Share them in the comments field below:
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One comment on “Stereo Laboratories: An Introduction to
mark on November 17th, 2011 - 8:20am
Thank you for this extraordinary post. I have the feeling this is going to take me on a new musical path.
(Serge Bulot – Euryale is stunning)
greets from the Netherlands, Mark
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Moneron and Other Fictive Creatures as Evidences for Evolution
Ernst Haeckel invented a fictive creature known as the Moneron. He claimed that it was an intermediate form between the living and the non-living. Image: The Swedish translation of Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868). The book’s English translation was entitled The History of Creation.
Evolutionists have seldom been satisfied by merely presenting scientific evidence, but every now and then they have used their imagination to promote their views. The most notorious example is the use of Ernst Haeckel’s fraudulent embryo drawings.
Unfortunately, they are still very much alive on the pages of some biology textbooks. Recently, Richard Dawkins used them as evidence for evolution.
At last weekend’s Darwin Was Wrong Conference, Robert Carter, who has a PhD in marine biology, lectured on the incorrect assumptions behind evolution. Following the example set by Charles Darwin, evolutionists have often thought that life is much simpler than it is.
Darwin assumed that life could have originated in a warm little pond. He did not know anything about the sophisticated structure of the cell.
Doctor Carter also mentioned Ernst Haeckel, who repeatedly used fraud to spread the good news of evolution.
Ernst Haeckel, a German biologist and professor of anatomy, invented the Moneron. He claimed it was an intermediate form, bridging the living and the non-living. He called it Protomyxa aurantiaca.
Thomas Huxley, who was known as Darwin’s bulldog, said he had found the creature in the North Atlantic. Huxley gave it the name Bathybius haeckelii. It later turned out to be gypsum.
Fraud did not end with Haeckel, however. After Moneron there was Nebraska man, then Piltdown man. In 1999 National Geographic magazine made headlines with a feathered dinosaur called Archaeoraptor.
Have evolutionists learnt from their old mistakes?
Probably not very much. Last May we heard of Ida whom they initially introduced as our great-great… great grandmother.
Carter, Robert. 2009. Darwin Was Wrong about The Complexity of Life. Lecture at the Darwin Was Wrong Conference. (14 November).
Grigg, Russell. 1996. Ernst Haeckel: Evangelist for evolution and apostle of deceit. Creation 18(2):33–36. http://creation.com/ernst-haeckel-evangelist-for-evolution-and-apostle-of-deceit
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Marc Liby and Cathy Barnett in "The Humans." (Cynthia Levin)
The cast of "The Humans," from left: Marc Liby, Ellen Kirk, L. Roi Hawkins, Cathy Barnett, Margaret Shelby and Katie Karel. (Cynthia Levin)
“The Humans” at the Unicorn Balances Humor and Dread
by Robert Trussell
Performing , Theater Reviews
Stephen Karam’s “The Humans,” a big hit in New York and London, is a play with an intriguing premise, detailed characters and a palpable sense of foreboding. The production now onstage at the Unicorn Theatre showcases nice work by talented actors who wrestle gamely with material that seems designed to remain just beyond their reach.
On the most obvious level, Karam’s play is a family drama centered around an uneasy Thanksgiving get-together in which anxieties and resentments come to the surface during an afternoon of drinking and feasting. But it’s also a meditation on members of the middle class unable to enjoy the rewards of a stacked-deck economy. In the final stretch it takes on characteristics of a horror tale, as a growing sense of impending doom becomes a smothering (and mystifying) presence.
The Unicorn production, directed by Darren Sextro, makes the most of the play’s central conceit: That the dramatic events unfold in real time. The show runs about 90 minutes without an intermission.
The setup: Brigid Blake (Ellen Kirk) and her boyfriend Richard Saad (L. Roi Hawkins) busily prepare dinner in the basement apartment they’ve just moved into not far from the site of the World Trade Center. The apartment is a two-level affair, with the main entrance and living room on the upper level connected by a spiral staircase to the kitchen and dining area a flight below. There’s only one upstairs window, which looks out on an alley littered with cigarette butts.
We soon meet the family members: Brigid’s parents, Dierdre (Cathy Barnett) and Erik (Marc Liby), her older sister Aimee (Katie Karel) and their grandmother Momo (Margaret Shelby), who suffers from dementia and is mostly confined to a wheelchair. It doesn’t take long for us to get a sense of the burdens weighing on each of them. Brigid, a musician and composer, can’t find work and has a mountain of college loans. Aimee has just lost her job at a law firm and has serious health problems. Erik and Diedre, common-sense members of the working class, have challenges that are only revealed late in the story. Momo, who seems haunted by a reality she can no longer express, is given to sudden outbursts that make little sense. Richard, meanwhile, manages to stay above the fray, adopting a diplomatic pose that allows him to disagree without hostility.
Now at this point you’re probably thinking: What a dreary play. But it isn’t. Karam finds opportunities for bursts of humor, quirky dialogue and odd character traits — especially when Erik and Richard begin comparing their dream lives.
Barnett once again demonstrates an unequaled command of comic timing and Shelby plays Momo with a sense of commitment that is as humorous as it is disturbing. Karel balances deadpan humor with anxiety as Aimee. Somehow the connection between Brigid and Richard just isn’t there, despite the efforts of the talented Hawkins and Kirk. The standout performance is delivered by Liby, who finds all the levels of guilt, anguish and skepticism that coexist in Erik. In a sense, Erik is our guide, although that doesn’t become clear until late in the show.
In the end, this is a play about fear and its ability to push us in directions we don’t really want to go.
David Kiehl’s sound design captures all the ominous thumps, bumps and tortured mechanical sounds reverberating through the building the playwright calls for. Art Kent’s lighting is effective. Jason Coale, a talented scenic designer, does what he can with the available space on the Levin Stage but has two few options to do more than suggest a two-story apartment.
So, yes, there are flaws. But the play and this production — mysterious, comic and evocative — give viewers a lot to ponder.
“The Humans” runs through March 31 at the Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St. Call 816-531-7529 or go to www.unicorntheatre.org.
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About The Author: Robert Trussell
Robert Trussell is a veteran journalist who has covered news, arts and theater in Kansas City for almost four decades.
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KONDRATIEFF AND SOLAR CYCLES
Kondratieff was a Russian economist who argued that there was a long sine wave cycle in the economy lasting around 60 years broken down into 4 seasons each lasting around 15 years. There proposed reason for the cycle is…. other cycles. In other words, cycles of demographics, credit cycles, capital investment cycles and more, generate these long repetitions over time. Clearly that’s slightly unsatisfactory, unless we can explain the cycles of the source phenomena. Today, I am going to argue that Kondratieff cycling actually reflects solar cycling.
Here is the Kondratieff cycle and its subseasons:
Source: The Long Wave Analyst
We should be in a K-winter since around 2000, with gold and treasuries king. With both gold and treasuries having performed handsomely over the last decade and recently reached all time nominal highs, evidence is supportive.
The general theme of the K-winter should be deflation and cleansing. When Kondratieff wrote his theory, central banks did not have the freedom they have now to counter-attack with intervention and monetary inflation. Using Shadowstats data, we can see that the results of their actions in the US: high price inflation rather than deflation.
Source: Dshort
However, when US GDP is netted of this inflation, we can see that the K-winter appears to have fulfilled: a period of shrinkage, or cleansing.
We can measure this another way: stocks have tracked overall sideways since 2000 but when adjusted for inflation have significantly dropped. This is reflected in price/earnings ratios gradually falling since 2000 by more than half.
There has been a lot of debate about which of the two ‘flations is and has been occurring over this last decade, and it’s understandable. There has been major monetary inflation, and this has resulted in significant price inflation particularly in hard assets such as commodities. Yet, there have been characteristics of deflation: real economy shrinkage, a decline in money velocity (cash hoarding), debt deflation (in households and companies), and liquidity traps.
I suggest that some kind of K-winter has indeed been playing out since 2000 as per the theory, and that governments have been unable to prevent that, but they have been able to prevent a social-conflict-inducing depression by tinkering in the economy with what they can (rate cuts, bailouts, money supply increase, balance sheet expansion). The result is two-fold: (i) in nominal terms the economy and asset prices have held up because inflation has offset real declines (a popular illusion) and (ii) a lighter rather than deeper cleansing has been possible in the economy and assets because public balance sheets have been expanded to simply transfer some of the previous excesses rather than purging them. There is no magic to the public balance sheet expansion: this is simply prosperity taken from the future.
So, central bank large-scale intervention in a ‘natural’ period of cleansing (following the excesses of the 1980s and 1990s) has changed the parameters understood by Kondratieff. The result of pushing easy money onto an economy in cleansing is a series of speculative bubbles from real estate to oil to agriculture to bonds to precious metals to equities. Over the last decade we have seen them take turns in making parabolic rises. Be aware though that much of this action is in nominal terms, i.e. net of inflation the gains are much less impressive. Nevertheless, if Kondratieff theory is valid, then our current K-winter is as much dominated by assets that perform well under inflation, such as commodities, equities and real estate, as dominated by gold and bonds as safe havens.
What if there is a K-winter finale ahead, in which outright deflation reasserts itself and just gold and bonds rise (perhaps in a parabolic)? Those who advocate that we are tumbling into recession currently and that this will reveal central banks to be powerless (given rates at zero and stimulus back on) could perhaps buy into that scenario. Let’s compare the last K-winter and see if this happened.
The last K-winter was the late 1930s and the 1940s. As now, equities were in a secular bear market, economies were in trouble following the excesses of the preceding decades. The world war pushed debt to high levels and so governments had to keep rates low. Inflation was problematic accordingly, and we saw a similar inflation/deflation mix to the current K-winter, in that economies shrank but assets such as commodities performed well due to easy conditions. The K-winter did not draw to a close with a deflationary assertion and a huge money flow into just bonds/precious metals and out of pro-risk, but rather a general commodities peak and associated inflation peak in 1947, followed by a gentle coiling of equities and then true secular equities bull momentum as of 1949.
I have maintained that the 1940s is our closest mirror to our current period since 2000, due to the secular commodities bull and secular stocks bear, the combination of ultra low rates and problematic inflation, and by solar cycle timing. The Kondratieff cycle would calculate this too, as it was the last comparable K Winter season. So let me now draw together solar/secular cycling and Kondratieff cycling (click to enlarge):
This diagram is an idealised cycles model, all based around solar. In my previous work I have demonstrated that solar peaks occur roughly every 11 years and that secular peaks in equities and commodities occur close to solar peaks. There is a sine wave in long term real stocks and an opposite-polarity sine wave in long term real commodities, both which have around a 33 year (equivalent to 3 solar cycles or 1 lunisolar cycle) duration, as shown in the charts below. Treasuries (or inverse rates/yields) move in around a 66 year cycle (2 lunisolar cycles) with peaks and troughs converging with secular commodities peaks. The result is we see two different kinds of secular commodities bulls: one set against rates moving to a peak, and one set against rates moving to nothing.
I believe that idealised combined cycles model fits very well with Kondratieff theory. The only adjustments I have made were to slightly shorten the summer and winter seasons by slightly extending the spring and autumn seasons, which doesn’t stray too far from his time ranges for the seasons. The combined model does suggest that there are differences between our current period and the 1970s or 1910s, which were both previous secular commodities bulls and secular stocks bears. They were K-summers where inflation was the only ‘flation in town, whereas today’s K-winter and the 1940s K-winter both had elements of inflation and deflation: a natural deflationary cycle offset by inflationary central bank actions. Regardless, the K-summers and K-winters ended in a similar way: with an inflationary peak and a general commodities peak, and a range-trading for equities.
Picture the current K-winter without central bank intervention. A deflationary depression would likely have occurred. Unemployment and defaults would have been much more severe, cleansing much deeper. Social conflict would likely have been much greater. But the natural process of cleansing would have given way to a new cycle of growth ahead in the same way with or without intervention. What the intervention has done is make the K-winter process less severe all round by some can-kicking (a lot of the ‘bad’ has been absorbed into new public debt, which will have to be paid for at some point, but not now). By keeping rates ultra low and bailing out companies and countries that could have had much wider impacts we are moving towards that new K-spring and cycle of growth with a significant helping hand (putting future generation implications aside).
I suggest that Kondratieff found evidence of cycles that were actually approximations of solar cycles. In other words, he uncovered repetitions in time in the economy and financial markets that ultimately are caused by the sun’s cycle of activity and its influence on humans. The long term sine wave to which he refers is apparent on my charts above for real equities and real commodities due to the speculative pulls into the solar peaks, and there is a similar relation with treasuries/rates. The idealised model that I have produced shows that the relations between these 3 asset classes and solar peaks produces one 66-year cycle within which there are 4 different periods, as the different assets are pulled to the solar peaks with different frequencies and alternations. These four periods fit very well with Kondratieff’s seasons by their characteristics, and the whole cycle likewise. I believe that a few tweaks are needed to K-theory to make it more accurate: the two shorter and two longer seasons per my model, and the K-winter now featuring central bank intervention and a mix of inflationary characteristics as well as deflationary (with associated implications for hard assets).
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Consolidated Statements of Operations - USD ($)
Total Revenue $ 1,703,000 $ 7,551,000
Research and development (7,538,000) (10,279,000)
General and administrative (13,409,000) (10,136,000)
Total operating expenses (20,947,000) (20,415,000)
Loss from operations (19,244,000) (12,864,000)
Other income (expense), net 70,000 23,000
Interest income 10,000 9,000
Interest expense (899,000) (4,000)
Loss before income taxes (20,063,000) (12,836,000)
Income tax expense (154,000) (506,000)
Net loss $ (20,217,000) $ (13,342,000)
Loss per share
Basic and diluted (in dollars per share) $ (0.29) $ (0.36)
Weighted average number of shares:
Basic and diluted (in shares) 68,701,599 36,911,604
Collaboration revenue
Research premium and grant revenue
Total Revenue $ 703,000 $ 1,051,000
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Generally recurring costs associated with normal operations except for the portion of these expenses which can be clearly related to production and included in cost of sales or services. Includes selling, general and administrative expense.
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The aggregate costs incurred (1) in a planned search or critical investigation aimed at discovery of new knowledge with the hope that such knowledge will be useful in developing a new product or service, a new process or technique, or in bringing about a significant improvement to an existing product or process; or (2) to translate research findings or other knowledge into a plan or design for a new product or process or for a significant improvement to an existing product or process whether intended for sale or the entity's use, during the reporting period charged to research and development projects, including the costs of developing computer software up to the point in time of achieving technological feasibility, and costs allocated in accounting for a business combination to in-process projects deemed to have no alternative future use.
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Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' Equity - USD ($)
shares in Thousands, $ in Thousands
Common Stock/Ordinary Shares
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
Stockholders' equity, beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2017 $ 367 $ 360,872 $ 27 $ (279,198) $ 82,068
Stockholders' equity, beginning balance (in shares) at Dec. 31, 2017 36,708
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' Equity
Issuance of common stock $ 35 19,353 19,388
Issuance of common stock (in shares) 3,526
Equity transaction costs (916) (916)
Stock-based compensation expense 1,244 1,244
Net loss (13,342) (13,342)
Stockholders' equity, ending balance at Mar. 31, 2018 $ 402 380,553 27 (292,540) 88,442
Stockholders' equity, ending balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2018 40,234
Stockholders' equity, beginning balance at Dec. 31, 2018 $ 670 461,911 27 (393,978) 68,630
Stockholders' equity, ending balance at Mar. 31, 2019 $ 713 $ 473,562 $ 27 $ (414,195) $ 60,107
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Number of shares issued which are neither cancelled nor held in the treasury.
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Number of new stock issued during the period.
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Equity impact of the value of new stock issued during the period. Includes shares issued in an initial public offering or a secondary public offering.
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows - USD ($)
Net loss $ (20,217) $ (13,342)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Non-cash other expense, net (27) (112)
Non-cash interest income (13) (10)
Non-cash interest expense 227
Depreciation and amortization expense 125 133
Amortization of right-of-use assets 109
Other, net (8) (6)
Changes in long-term receivables (10) (3)
Changes in other receivables and prepaid expenses (2,650) (1,992)
Changes in accounts payable 4,302 (1,413)
Changes in accrued expenses and other liabilities (4,374) (1,311)
Changes in other non-current liabilities (30) 22
Changes in income tax liabilities 18 451
Net cash used in operating activities (20,625) (16,339)
Purchases of plant and equipment and intangible assets (42) (160)
Net cash provided (used in) by investing activities (42) (160)
Proceeds from sale of ordinary shares 9,978 19,388
Proceeds from long-term debt 189
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities 9,679 19,059
Effects of foreign currency translation on cash and cash equivalents 27 112
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents (10,961) 2,672
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period 102,003 86,769
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period 91,042 89,441
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:
Interest paid 483
Equity transaction costs incurred in prior periods and paid in current period 49 28
Equity transaction costs included in accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 20 $ 426
The amount of cash outflow for equity transaction costs included in accounts payable and accrued expenses.
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The amount of cash outflow for equity transaction costs Equity transaction costs incurred in prior periods and paid in current period.
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The increase (decrease) during the reporting period in the amount of long-term receivables due beyond one year.
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Amount of increase (decrease) in receivables classified as other and in the amount of outstanding money paid in advance for goods or services that bring economic benefits for future periods.
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Amount of interest expense or loss included in net income that result in no cash flow.
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Amount of interest income or gain included in net income that result in no cash inflow (outflow).
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Amount of amortization expense attributable to right-of-use asset from operating lease.
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Amount of increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and cash and cash equivalents restricted to withdrawal or usage; including effect from exchange rate change. Cash includes, but is not limited to, currency on hand, demand deposits with banks or financial institutions, and other accounts with general characteristics of demand deposits. Cash equivalents include, but are not limited to, short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates.
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Amount of increase (decrease) from effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents, and cash and cash equivalents restricted to withdrawal or usage; held in foreign currencies. Excludes amounts for disposal group and discontinued operations. Cash includes, but is not limited to, currency on hand, demand deposits with banks or financial institutions, and other accounts with general characteristics of demand deposits. Cash equivalents include, but are not limited to, short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates.
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The increase (decrease) during the reporting period in the amounts payable to taxing authorities for taxes that are based on the reporting entity's earnings, net of amounts receivable from taxing authorities for refunds of overpayments or recoveries of income taxes.
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Other cash or noncash adjustments to reconcile net income to cash provided by (used in) operating activities that are not separately disclosed in the statement of cash flows (for example, cash received or cash paid during the current period for miscellaneous operating activities, net change during the reporting period in other assets or other liabilities).
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Organization and Business Activities
1. Organization and Business Activities
Nabriva Therapeutics plc (“Nabriva Ireland”), together with its wholly owned and consolidated subsidiaries, Nabriva Therapeutics GmbH (“Nabriva Austria”), Nabriva Therapeutics US, Inc., and Nabriva Therapeutics Ireland DAC, (collectively, “Nabriva”, or the “Company”) is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of novel anti-infective agents to treat serious infections. On July 23, 2018, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) for the acquisition of Zavante Therapeutics Inc., (“Zavante”) a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing CONTEPO (fosfomycin for injection). The Company has two product candidates that have been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) for approval: lefamulin, potentially the first pleuromutilin antibiotic available for systemic administration in humans, and CONTEPO, a potentially first-in-class epoxide antibiotic for intravenous (“IV”) administration in the United States. The Company is developing both IV and oral formulations of lefamulin for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (“CABP”). The Company is developing CONTEPO IV for complicated urinary tract infections (“cUTI”) and may potentially develop lefamulin and CONTEPO for additional indications. The Company does not expect to obtain marketing approval for lefamulin before August 2019, if at all. In April 2019, the FDA issued a Complete Response Letter (“CRL”) in connection with the Company’s new drug application (“NDA”) for CONTEPO for the treatment of cUTIs, including acute pyelonephritis, stating that it was unable to approve the application in its current form. The CRL requests that issues related to facility inspections and manufacturing deficiencies at Nabriva’s API contract manufacturer be addressed prior to the FDA approving the NDA. The Company plans to request a “Type A” meeting with the FDA to discuss its findings but the Company cannot predict the outcome of any interactions with the FDA that it may have or when CONTEPO will receive marketing approval, if at all. The Company’s headquarters are located at 25-28 North Wall Quay, Dublin, Ireland.
Throughout these notes to the consolidated financial statements, unless the context requires otherwise, all references to “Nabriva,” “the Company,” or similar terms refer to Nabriva Therapeutics plc, together with its consolidated subsidiaries.
Since its inception, the Company has incurred net losses and generated negative cash flows from its operations. To date, it has financed its operations through the sale of equity securities, convertible and term debt financings and research and development support from governmental grants and loans. As of March 31, 2019, the Company had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of $91.3 million.
The Company follows the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements—Going Concern (“ASC 205-40”), which requires management to assess the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for one year after the date the consolidated financial statements are issued.
The Company expects to seek additional funding in future periods for purposes of investment in its commercial and medical affairs organization as well as investing in its supply chain, including building active pharmaceutical ingredient safety stock for the commercial supply of lefamulin and CONTEPO, in an effort to enhance the potential commercial launch of lefamulin and CONTEPO. While the Company has raised capital in the past, the ability to raise capital in future periods is not considered probable, as defined under the accounting standards. As such, under the requirements of ASC 205-40, management may not consider the potential for future capital raises in their assessment of the Company’s ability to meet its obligations for the next twelve months.
If the Company is not able to secure adequate additional funding in future periods, the Company may make reductions in certain expenditures. This may include liquidating assets and suspending or curtailing planned programs. The Company may also have to delay, reduce the scope of, suspend or eliminate one or more research and development programs or its commercialization efforts.
The Company’s expenses will increase if it suffers any regulatory delays or is required to conduct additional clinical trials to satisfy regulatory requirements. If the Company obtains marketing approval for lefamulin, CONTEPO or any other product candidate that it develops, it expects to incur significant commercialization expenses related to product sales, marketing, distribution and manufacturing. The Company will continue to invest in critical commercialization and supply chain activities prior to potentially receiving marketing approval and making lefamulin and CONTEPO available to patients.
As a result, based on the Company’s available cash resources, the minimum cash required under the Loan and Security Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) with Hercules Capital, Inc., and in accordance with the requirements of ASC 205-40, management has concluded that substantial doubt exists about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for one year from the date these financial statements are issued. A failure to raise the additional funding or to effectively implement cost reductions could harm the Company’s business, results of operations and future prospects.
The Company expects that its existing cash, cash equivalents and short‑term investments as of March 31, 2019, proceeds from the sale of ordinary shares under the our ATM Agreement between March 31, 2019 and the date of this filing of $3.5 million, the $1.0 million upfront payment it received in April 2019 pursuant to the terms of the Sunovion License Agreement and research premiums from the Austrian government for its qualified research and development expenditures, will be sufficient to enable the Company to fund its operating expenses, debt service obligations and capital expenditure requirements into the second quarter of 2020. The interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates continuity of operations, the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.
In December 2018, the Company entered into a Loan Agreement with Hercules Capital, Inc., pursuant to which a term loan of up to an aggregate principal amount of $75.0 million is available to the Company. The Loan Agreement provides for an initial term loan advance of $25.0 million which was funded in connection with the closing of the Loan Agreement. The remaining $50.0 million under the Loan Agreement is available to the Company from time to time subject to conditions further described in Note 5 below.
In March 2018, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity OfferingSM Sales Agreement (the “ATM Agreement”), with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (“Cantor”), pursuant to which, from time to time, the Company may offer and sell its ordinary shares having aggregate gross proceeds of up to $50.0 million through Cantor. As of the date of this filing, the Company has issued and sold an aggregate of 10,316,190 ordinary shares under the ATM Agreement, for gross proceeds of $37.8 million, and net proceeds of $36.9 million, after deducting commissions and offering costs.
In March 2019, the Company entered into a license and commercialization agreement, or the Sunovion License Agreement, with Sunovion. As part of the Sunovion License Agreement, Nabriva Therapeutics Ireland DAC , our wholly owned subsidiary, granted Sunovion an exclusive license under certain patent rights, trademark rights and know-how to commercialize certain products containing lefamulin in the forms clinically developed by the Company or any of its affiliates (“Licensed Products”) in Canada in all uses in humans in community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and in any other indication for which the Licensed Products have received regulatory approval in Canada.
The entire disclosure for the nature of an entity's business, major products or services, principal markets including location, and the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination, including but not limited to, assets, revenues, or earnings. For an entity that has not commenced principal operations, disclosures about the risks and uncertainties related to the activities in which the entity is currently engaged and an understanding of what those activities are being directed toward.
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2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Preparation
The unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) for interim financial information and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regulations for quarterly reporting. The unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The accompanying consolidated financial information as of March 31, 2019 and for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2019 is unaudited. The December 31, 2018 balance sheet was derived from audited consolidated financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by US GAAP. The interim unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual audited consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair statement of the Company’s financial position as of March 31, 2019 and for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2019 The financial data and other information disclosed in these notes related to the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2019, any other interim periods or any future year or period. These unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2018 contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on March 12, 2019.
The Company’s significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. Since the date of those financial statements, there have been no changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies, other than described below related to leases.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the FASB or other standard setting bodies that the Company adopts as of the specified effective date.
Adopted as of the current period:
In February 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) ("ASU 2016-02"), which sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both lessees and lessors. On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the new lease standard using the optional transition method under which comparative financial information has not been restated and will continue to apply the provisions of the previous lease standard in its annual disclosures for the comparative periods. In addition, the new lease standard provides a number of optional practical expedients in transition. The Company elected the package of practical expedients. As such, the Company did not have to reassess whether expired or existing contracts are or contain a lease; and did not have to reassess the lease classifications or reassess the initial direct costs associated with expired or existing leases.
The new lease standard also provides practical expedients for an entity's ongoing accounting. The Company elected the short-term lease recognition exemption under which the Company will not recognize ROU assets or lease liabilities, and this includes not recognizing ROU assets or lease liabilities for existing short-term leases. The Company elected the practical expedient to not separate lease and non-lease components for certain classes of assets (office buildings).
The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets, other current liabilities, and operating lease liabilities on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2019. Operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the remaining lease term as of January 1, 2019. Since none of the Company’s lease agreements provide an implicit rate, the Company estimated an incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at January 1, 2019 in determining the present value of lease payments. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term, subject to any changes in the lease or expectations regarding the terms. Variable lease costs such as operating costs and property taxes are expensed as incurred.
On January 1, 2019, the Company recognized ROU assets and lease liabilities of approximately $2.0 million on its consolidated balance sheet using an estimated incremental borrowing rate of 9.8%. This ROU asset is recorded in property, plant and equipment, net and the ROU liability is recorded in other non-current liabilities.
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3. Fair Value Measurement
US GAAP establishes a valuation hierarchy for disclosure of the inputs to valuation used to measure fair value. This hierarchy prioritizes the inputs into three broad levels as follows:
Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2: Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (as prices) or indirectly (as exchange rates).
Level 3: Valuation techniques that include inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data (those are unobservable inputs) and significant to the overall fair value measurement.
The following table presents the financial instruments measured at fair value and classified by level according to the fair value measurement hierarchy:
Short-term investments:
Available-for-sale securities
As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company held short-term investments classified as both Level 1 and Level 2, and the Company did not hold any Level 3 financial instruments measured at fair value. There were no transfers between Level 1 and 2 in the three months ended March 31, 2019 or the year ended December 31, 2018. There were no changes in valuation techniques during the three months ended March 31, 2019.
As of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company did not hold any financial instruments as liabilities that were held at fair value. Other receivables and accounts payable are carried at their historical cost which approximates fair value due to their short-term nature.
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Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities
4. Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities
Research and development related costs
Payroll and related costs
Accounting, tax and audit services
Total other current liabilities
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5. Debt
In December 2018, the Company entered into the Loan Agreement by and among the Company, Nabriva Therapeutics Ireland DAC, and certain other subsidiaries of the Company and Hercules Capital, Inc. (the “Lender”), pursuant to which a term loan of up to an aggregate principal amount of $75.0 million is available to the Company. The Loan Agreement provides for an initial term loan advance of $25.0 million, which was funded in December 2018, and, at the Company’s option and subject to the occurrence of the funding conditions described below and other customary funding conditions, five additional term loan advances comprised of the following; 1) $10.0 million (“Tranche 2 Advance”), 2) $5.0 million (“Tranche 3 Advance”), 3) $10.0 million (“Tranche 4 Advance”), 4) $15.0 million (“Tranche 5 Advance”) and 5) $5.0 million (“Tranche 6 Advance”). The Tranche 2 Advance will be available to the Company through September 30, 2019 upon the approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) of a new drug application (“NDA”) for lefamulin. The Tranche 3 Advance will be available to the Company through September 30, 2019 upon the approval by the FDA of an NDA for CONTEPO. The Tranche 4 Advance will be available to the Company from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 upon the approval by the FDA of NDAs for lefamulin in addition to CONTEPO and upon the achievement of specified product revenue milestones. The Tranche 5 Advance will be available to the Company from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 upon the approval by the FDA of NDAs for lefamulin and CONTEPO and upon the achievement of specified product revenue milestones. The Tranche 6 Advance will be available to the Company from January 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 upon the approval by the FDA of NDAs for lefamulin and CONTEPO and upon the achievement of specified product revenue milestones. The Company may request a seventh term loan advance of $5.0 million prior to December 31, 2021 subject to the Lender’s sole discretion.
The term loan bears interest at an annual rate equal to the greater of 9.80% or 9.80% plus the prime rate of interest minus 5.50%. The Loan Agreement provides for interest-only payments through July 1, 2020, which may be incrementally extended from time to time upon the occurrence of certain conditions through January 1, 2022, and repayment of the outstanding principal balance of the term loan thereafter in monthly installments through June 1, 2023 (the “Maturity Date”). In addition, the Company is required to pay a fee of 6.95% of the aggregate amount of advances under the Loan Agreement at the Maturity Date (the “End of Term Fee”). At the Company’s option, the Company may elect to prepay any portion of the outstanding term loan that is greater than or equal to $5.0 million by paying such portion of the principal balance and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon plus a prepayment charge equal to the following percentage of the principal amount being prepaid: (i) 3.0% if the term loan is prepaid during the first 12 months following the initial closing, (ii) 2.0% if the term loan is prepaid after 12 months following the initial closing but before 24 months following the initial closing and (iii) 1.0% if the term loan is prepaid any time thereafter but prior to the Maturity Date. The Company is also required to satisfy certain financial covenants, including an obligation to maintain specified minimum amounts of cash and cash equivalents in accounts pledged to Hercules.
The Company’s obligations under the Loan Agreement are guaranteed by all current and future subsidiaries of the Company, and each of the Company and its subsidiaries has granted the Lender a security interest in all of their respective personal property, intellectual property and other assets owned or later acquired. The Loan Agreement also contains certain events of default, representations, warranties and covenants of the Company and its subsidiaries. For example, the Loan Agreement contains representations and covenants that, subject to exceptions, restrict the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ ability to do the following, among things: declare dividends or redeem or repurchase equity interests; incur additional indebtedness and liens; make loans and investments; engage in mergers, acquisitions and asset sales; certain transactions with affiliates; undergo a change in control; add or change business locations or settle in cash potential milestone payment obligations that may become payable by the Company in the future to former security holders of Zavante. Under the terms of the Loan Agreement, the Company and its subsidiaries are also required to satisfy certain financial covenants, including an obligation to maintain specified minimum amounts of cash and cash equivalents in accounts pledged to the Lender.
The Loan Agreement also grants Lender or its nominee an option to purchase up to an aggregate of $2.0 million of the Company’s equity securities, or instruments exercisable for or convertible into equity securities, sold to investors in any private financing upon the same terms and conditions afforded to such other investors for as long as there are amounts outstanding under the Loan Agreement.
The Company incurred $1,290,000 of costs in connection with the Loan Agreement which along with the initial fee of $700,000 paid to the Lender were recorded as debt issuance cost and will be amortized as interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the loan. The End of Term Fee will also be accrued as additional interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the loan.
Long-term debt as December 31, 2018 and March 31, 2019 consisted of the following:
Term loan payable
End of term fee
Carrying value of term loan
Other long-term debt
Total long-term debt
Maturities of long-term debt as of March 31, 2019 were as follows:
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6. Revenue
Research premium
The collaboration revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2018 reflects the amounts recorded from the Sinovant License Agreement (see Note 11) and includes the $5.0 million non-refundable upfront payment received as consideration for entering into the license agreement with Sinovant as well as $1.5 million of variable consideration related a future milestone payment that the Company received in the first quarter of 2019. The $1.0 million of collaboration revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2019 reflects the upfront payment under the Sunovion License Agreement received in April 2019 (see Note 12).
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Share-Based Payments
7. Share-Based Payments
Stock Option Plan 2015
On April 2, 2015, the shareholders, management board and supervisory board of the Company’s predecessor, Nabriva Therapeutics AG (“Nabriva Austria”) adopted the Stock Option Plan 2015 (the “SOP 2015”) and the shareholders approved an amended and restated version of the SOP 2015 on June 30, 2015. An amendment to the amended and restated SOP 2015 was approved by the shareholders on July 22, 2015. SOP 2015 became effective on July 3, 2015 upon the registration with the commercial register in Austria of the conditional capital increase approved by the shareholders on June 30, 2015. The SOP 2015 initially provided for the grant of options for up to 95,000 Nabriva Austria common shares to the Company’s employees, including members of the management board, and to members of the supervisory board. Following the closing of the initial public offering of the Company, the overall number of options increased to 177,499 Nabriva Austria common shares. Following approval by the Company’s shareholders at its 2016 annual general meeting, the number of shares available for issuance under the SOP 2015 was increased to 346,235 Nabriva Austria common shares. In connection with the series of transactions pursuant to which the Company became the successor to Nabriva Austria and redomiciled to Ireland, which the Company refers to as the Redomiciliation Transaction, the SOP 2015 was amended to take account of certain requirements under Irish law and assumed by the Company, with each option to acquire one Nabriva Austria common share becoming an option to acquire ten of the Company’s ordinary shares on the same terms and conditions.
Each vested option grants the beneficiary the right to acquire one share in the Company. The vesting period for the options is four years following the grant date. On the last day of the last calendar month of the first year of the vesting period, 25% of the options attributable to each beneficiary are automatically vested. During the second, third and fourth years of the vesting period, the remaining 75% of the options vest on a monthly pro rata basis (i.e. 2.083% per month). Options granted under the SOP 2015 have a term of no more than ten years from the beneficiary’s date of participation.
The following table summarizes information regarding our stock option awards under the SOP 2015 for the three months ended March 31, 2019:
price in $
Outstanding as of January 1, 2019
Forfeited
Outstanding as of March 31, 2019
Vested and exercisable as of March 31, 2019
Stock-based compensation expense under the SOP 2015 was $0.9 million and $0.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2019, respectively.
The weighted average remaining contractual life of the options as of March 31, 2019 is 7.2 years.
As of March 31, 2019, there was $4.4 million of total unrecognized compensation expense, related to unvested options granted under the SOP 2015, which will be recognized over the weighted-average remaining vesting period of 1.9 years.
2017 Share Incentive Plan
On July 26, 2017, the Company’s board of directors adopted the 2017 Share Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”) and the shareholders approved the 2017 Plan at the Company’s Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on September 15, 2017. Following shareholder approval of the 2017 Plan, the Company ceased making awards under the SOP 2015, and future awards will be made under the 2017 Plan. However, all outstanding awards under SOP 2015 will remain in effect and continue to be governed by the terms of the SOP 2015. The 2017 Plan permits the award of share options (both incentive and nonstatutory options), share appreciation rights (“SARs”), restricted shares, restricted share units (“RSUs”), and other share-based awards to the Company’s employees, officers, directors, consultants and advisers. The 2017 Plan is administered by the Company’s board of directors.
Under the 2017 Plan, the number of ordinary shares that will be reserved for issuance will be the sum of (1) 3,000,000 ordinary shares; plus (2) a number of ordinary shares (up to 3,438,990 ordinary shares) which is equal to the sum of the number of the Company’s ordinary shares then available for issuance under the SOP 2015 and the number of ordinary shares subject to outstanding awards under the SOP 2015 that expire, terminate or are otherwise surrendered, cancelled, forfeited or repurchased by the Company at their original issuance price pursuant to a contractual repurchase right; plus (3) an annual increase, to be added on the first day of each fiscal year beginning in the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018 and continuing until, and including, the fiscal year ending December 31, 2027, equal to the least of (i) 2,000,000 ordinary shares, (ii) 4% of the number of outstanding ordinary shares on such date and (iii) an amount determined by the board of directors.
At March 31, 2019, 7,087,042 ordinary shares were available for issuance under the 2017 Plan.
Options and SARs granted will be exercisable at such times and subject to such terms and conditions as the board may specify in the applicable option agreement; provided, however, that no option or SAR will be granted with a term in excess of ten years. The board will also determine the terms and conditions of restricted shares and RSUs, including the conditions for vesting and repurchase (or forfeiture) and the issue price, if any.
The following table summarizes information regarding our stock option awards under the 2017 Plan for the three months ended March 31, 2019:
Stock-based compensation expense under the 2017 Plan was $0.4 million and $0.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2019, respectively. The weighted average fair value of the options granted during the three months ended March 31, 2019 was $1.08 per share. The options granted in the three months ended March 31, 2019 were valued based on a Black Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions. The significant inputs into the model were as follows:
Range of expected volatility
61.4% – 61.6%
Expected term of options (in years)
Range of risk-free interest rate
2.47% – 2.58%
The expected price volatility is based on historical trading volatility for the publicly traded peer companies under consideration of the remaining life of the options. The risk-free interest rate is based on the average of five and seven-year market yield on U.S. treasury securities in effect at the time of grant.
As of March 31, 2019, there was $7.3 million of total unrecognized compensation expense, related to unvested options granted under the 2017 Plan, which will be recognized over the weighted-average remaining vesting period of 3.4 years.
During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company granted 479,000 RSUs with a grant date fair value of $1.90 per share, which was the closing price of the Company’s shares on the grant date. These RSUs vest over a period of four years with 25% vesting upon the first anniversary of the grant date and on a monthly pro rata basis thereafter over the remaining three years. As of March 31, 2019, there were 479,000 of such RSUs outstanding. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, $38,000 of stock-based compensation expense was recognized for these RSUs.
The Company has granted a total of 371,550 RSUs, with a grant date fair value of $6.13 per share, with vesting subject to FDA approval of the new drug application (“NDA”) for lefamulin. Fifty percent (50%) of each RSU award will vest upon FDA approval of an NDA for lefamulin, and the remaining fifty percent (50%) will vest on the one-year anniversary of such approval. If the FDA does not approve an NDA for lefamulin within two years of the grant date, the RSU award will terminate in full. No compensation expense was recognized for these RSUs as vesting is not probable at March 31, 2019. As of March 31, 2019, there were 383,550 of such RSUs were outstanding.
The Company has granted a total of 35,600 RSUs, with a grant date fair value of $2.56 per share, with vesting subject to FDA approval of the NDAs for lefamulin and CONTEPO. Fifty percent (50%) of each RSU award will vest upon FDA approval of an NDA for lefamulin, and the remaining fifty percent (50%) will vest on FDA approval of CONTEPO. If the FDA does not approve an NDA for either lefamulin or CONTEPO by January 31, 2020, the RSU award will terminate in full. No compensation expense was recognized for these RSUs as vesting is not probable at March 31, 2019. As of March 31, 2019, all of such RSUs outstanding.
The Company has also granted a total of 834,300 RSUs to certain employees with a grant date fair value of $2.16 per share. These RSUs will vest in three six month increments beginning in May of 2019 and ending in May 2020. As of March 31, 2019, there were 780,300 of such RSUs outstanding. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, $268,000 of compensation expense was recognized for these RSUs.
2019 Inducement Share Incentive Plan
On March 12, 2019, the Company’s board of directors adopted the 2019 Inducement Share Incentive Plan (the “2019 Inducement Plan”) and, subject to the adjustment provisions of the 2019 Inducement Plan, reserved 2,000,000 ordinary shares for issuance pursuant to equity awards granted under the 2019 Inducement Plan. In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4), awards under the 2019 Inducement Plan may only be made to individuals who were not previously employees or non-employee directors of the Company (or following such individuals’ bona fide period of non-employment with the Company), as an inducement material to the individuals’ entry into employment with the Company.
At March 31, 2019, 2,000,000 ordinary shares were available for issuance under the 2019 Inducement Plan.
The following table summarizes information regarding our stock option awards under the 2019 Inducement Plan for the three months ended March 31, 2019:
2019 Inducement Plan
The weighted average fair value of the options granted during the three months ended March 31, 2019 was $1.42 per share. The options granted in the three months ended March 31, 2019 were valued based on a Black Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions. The significant inputs into the model were as follows:
Expected volatility
Risk-free interest rate
The weighted average remaining contractual life of the options as of March 31, 2019 is 10.0 years.
As of March 31, 2019, there was $59,000 of total unrecognized compensation expense, related to unvested options granted under the 2019 Inducement Plan, which will be recognized over the weighted-average remaining vesting period of 4.0 years.
Inducement Awards Outside of the 2019 Inducement Plan
In July 2018, the Company granted a non-statutory option to purchase 850,000 of its ordinary shares and 150,000 performance-based RSUs to the Company’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO”). These equity awards granted outside of the 2017 Plan and the 2019 Inducement Plan, were approved by the Company’s compensation committee and board of directors and were made as an inducement material to the CEO entering into employment with the Company in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). The exercise price per share for the share option is $3.53 per share, and the option award has a ten-year term and will vest over a four-year period, with 25% of the shares underlying the award vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date and the remaining 75% of the shares underlying the option award to vest monthly over the subsequent 36-month period. The performance-based RSUs are subject to vesting as follows: 50% will vest upon certification by the board of directors of the receipt of approval by the FDA of an NDA for each of lefamulin and CONTEPO for any indication, and 50% will vest on the first anniversary of such certification by the board of directors, provided, in each case, the CEO is performing services to the Company on the applicable vesting dates. If the FDA does not approve an NDA for both lefamulin and CONTEPO by January 31, 2020, the performance-based RSUs will terminate in full.
Stock-based compensation expense was $109,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2019. The performance-based RSUs had a grant date fair value of $3.53 per share and the options had a grant date fair value of $2.05 per share based on a Black Scholes option pricing model using the following assumptions.
Our stock-based compensation expense has been allocated to research and development and general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations as follows:
General and administrative
The Company’s board of directors adopted, and in August 2018 Company’s stockholders approved, the 2018 employee stock purchase plan (the “2018 ESPP”). The maximum aggregate number of shares of ordinary shares that may be purchased under the 2018 ESPP is 500,000 shares, (the “ESPP Share Pool”), subject to adjustment as provided for in the 2018 ESPP. The ESPP Share Pool represented 0.75% of the total number of shares of ordinary shares outstanding as of December 31, 2018. The 2018 ESPP allows eligible employees to purchase shares at a 15% discount to the then current market price of the Company’s ordinary shares during certain offering periods, which will be six -month periods commencing November 1 and ending April 30 and commencing May 1 and ending October 31 of each year. The first offering under the 2018 ESPP commenced on November 1, 2018.
The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.
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8. Income tax (expense) benefit
In accordance with the FASB Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic No. 270 “Interim Reporting” and ASC Topic No. 740 “Income Taxes” (Topic No. 740) at the end of each interim period, the Company is required to determine the best estimate of its annual effective tax rate and then apply that rate in providing for income taxes on a current year-to-date (interim period) basis. For the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2019, the Company recorded income tax expense of $506,000 and $154,000, respectively.
Deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities are recognized based on temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities using statutory rates. Management of the Company has evaluated the positive and negative evidence bearing upon the realizability of its deferred tax assets, including the Company’s history of losses and concluded that it is more likely than not that the Company will not recognize the benefits of its deferred tax assets. On the basis of this evaluation, as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company has recorded a valuation allowance of $103.8 million and $100.8 million, respectively. The amount of the deferred tax assets considered realizable, however, could be adjusted if estimates of future taxable income during the carryforward period are reduced or increased or if objective negative evidence in the form of cumulative losses is no longer present and additional weight is given to subjective evidence such as the Company’s projections for growth.
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Earnings (Loss) per Share
9. Earnings (Loss) per Share
Basic and diluted loss per share
For the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2019, basic and diluted net loss per share was determined by dividing net loss attributable to shareholders by the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net loss per share is the same as basic net loss per share during the periods presented as the effects of the Company’s potential ordinary share equivalents are antidilutive and thus not included in the calculation.
Net loss for the period
Weighted average number of shares outstanding
The following ordinary share equivalents were excluded from the calculations of diluted earnings per share as their effect would be anti-dilutive:
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Acquisition of Zavante
10. Acquisition of Zavante
On July 24, 2018, the Company acquired Zavante. The acquisition was completed on July 24, 2018 (the “Closing”). In connection with the Closing, the Company issued 7,336,906 Company ordinary shares to former Zavante stockholders, which together with the 815,186 ordinary shares that are issuable upon release of the Holdback Shares (as defined below) constitute approximately 19.9% of the Company ordinary shares outstanding as of immediately prior to the Closing (the “Upfront Shares”).
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, former Zavante stockholders and other equity holders, in the aggregate and subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, will also be entitled to receive from the Company up to $97.5 million in contingent consideration, of which $25.0 million would become payable upon the first approval of an NDA from the FDA for CONTEPO for any indication (the “Approval Milestone Payment”) and an aggregate of up to $72.5 million would become payable upon the achievement of specified sales milestones (the “Net Sales Milestone Payments”), with the first commercial milestone becoming payable when CONTEPO exceeds $125.0 million in net sales in a calendar year.
At the Company’s Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held in October 2018, the shareholders approved the issuance of the Company’s ordinary shares in settlement of potential milestone payment obligations that may become payable in the future to former Zavante stockholders, including the Approval Milestone Payment which will be settled in Company ordinary shares. The Company also now has the right to settle the Net Sales Milestone Payments in Company ordinary shares, except as otherwise provided in the Merger Agreement.
Subject to the terms of the Merger Agreement, 10% of the Upfront Shares (the “Holdback Shares”) will serve as a source for the satisfaction of indemnification and other obligations of the former Zavante stockholders and, subject to reduction in respect of these obligations, will be issued to the former Zavante stockholders following the first anniversary of the Closing.
Former Zavante stockholders who do not comply with specified procedural requirements set forth in the Merger Agreement, and former holders of Zavante options and warrants, will receive cash in lieu of any Company ordinary shares that otherwise would be issuable to them pursuant to the Merger Agreement. As of March 31, 2019 the Company did not distribute any cash in lieu of ordinary shares to former Zavante stockholders. Also, the Company anticipates that cash distributions, if any, will not be material.
The Company accounted for the acquisition of Zavante as an asset acquisition as the arrangement did not meet the definition of a business pursuant to the guidance prescribed in ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations because the transaction resulted in the acquisition of the exclusive rights to IV fosfomycin in the U.S. which is a single identifiable asset and represented substantially all the fair value of the assets acquired.
The Company expensed the acquired intellectual property as of the acquisition date as in-process research and development with no alternative future uses. The Company recorded an in-process research and development expense of $32.0 million in 2018 which represents $26.9 million for the fair value of the Upfront Shares, $4.9 million of transaction costs and $0.2 million of net liabilities assumed.
In addition, the Company assumed certain liabilities and obligations, including contractual liabilities and obligations, that were assumed by the Company upon closing of the acquisition. See “Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Acquisition of Zavante” for further information regarding the agreements that were assumed by the Company.
The entire disclosure for a business combination (or series of individually immaterial business combinations) completed during the period, including background, timing, and recognized assets and liabilities. The disclosure may include leverage buyout transactions (as applicable).
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Sinovant License Agreement
Sinovant Sciences, LTD | License Agreement
11. Sinovant License Agreement
In March 2018, the Company entered into a license agreement (the “Sinovant License Agreement”), with Sinovant Sciences, Ltd. (“Sinovant”), an affiliate of Roivant Sciences, Ltd., to develop and commercialize lefamulin in the greater China region. As part of the Sinovant License Agreement, Nabriva Therapeutics Ireland DAC and Nabriva Therapeutics GmbH, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiaries, granted Sinovant an exclusive license to develop and commercialize, and a non-exclusive license to manufacture, certain products containing lefamulin (the “Licensed Products”), in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (together the “Territory”).
Under the Sinovant License Agreement, Sinovant and the Company’s subsidiaries have established a joint development committee (the “JDC’), to review and oversee development and commercialization plans in the Territory. The Company received a non-refundable $5.0 million upfront payment pursuant to the terms of the Sinovant License Agreement and will be eligible for up to an additional $91.5 million in milestone payments upon the achievement of certain regulatory and commercial milestone events related to lefamulin for CABP, plus an additional $4.0 million in milestone payments if any Licensed Product receives a second or any subsequent regulatory approval in the People’s Republic of China. The first milestone was a $1.5 million payment for the submission of a clinical trial application (“CTA”), by Sinovant to the Chinese Food and Drug Administration. This payment was received in the first quarter of 2019. The remaining milestone payments are tied to additional regulatory approvals and annual sales targets. In addition, the Company will be eligible to receive low double-digit royalties on sales, if any, of Licensed Products in the Territory.
Sinovant will be solely responsible for all costs related to developing, obtaining regulatory approval of and commercializing Licensed Products in the Territory and is obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to develop, obtain regulatory approval for, and commercialize Licensed Product in the Territory. The Company is obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to supply, pursuant to supply agreements to be negotiated by the parties, to Sinovant sufficient supply of lefamulin for Sinovant to manufacture finished drug products for development and commercialization of the Licensed Products in the Territory.
Unless earlier terminated, the Sinovant License Agreement will expire upon the expiration of the last royalty term for the last Licensed Product in the Territory, which the Company expects will occur in 2033. Following the expiration of the last royalty term, the license granted to Sinovant will become non-exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free and irrevocable. The Sinovant License Agreement may be terminated in its entirety by Sinovant upon 180 days’ prior written notice at any time. Either party may, subject to specified cure periods, terminate the Sinovant License Agreement in the event of the other party’s uncured material breach. Either party may also terminate the Sinovant License Agreement under specified circumstances relating to the other party’s insolvency. The Company has the right to terminate the Sinovant License Agreement immediately if Sinovant does not reach certain development milestones by certain specified dates (subject to specified cure periods). The Sinovant License Agreement contemplates that the Company will enter into ancillary agreements with Sinovant, including clinical and commercial supply agreements and a pharmacovigilance agreement.
The Company has identified two performance obligations at inception: (1) the delivery of the licenses to Sinovant; and, (2) the participation in the JDC. The $5.0 million non-refundable upfront payment was allocated to the delivery of the licenses as the JDC deliverable was deemed to be de minimis. In addition, since the first $1.5 million milestone payment related to the submission of the CTA was within the control of the parties, the Company recorded such milestone as variable consideration allocated to the licenses at the inception of the arrangement as the Company believed it was probable to be met. The $1.5 million payment was received in February 2019 upon submission of the CTA. The future regulatory and commercial milestone payments will be recorded during the period the milestones become probable of achievement.
The entire disclosure for collaborative arrangements in which the entity is a participant, including a) information about the nature and purpose of such arrangements; b) its rights and obligations thereunder; c) the accounting policy for collaborative arrangements; and d) the income statement classification and amounts attributable to transactions arising from the collaborative arrangement between participants.
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Sunovion License Agreement
License Agreement | Sunovion Pharmaceutics Canada, Inc.
12. Sunovion License Agreement
In March 2019, the Company entered into a license and commercialization agreement (the “Sunovion License Agreement”), with Sunovion. As part of the Sunovion License Agreement, Nabriva Therapeutics Ireland DAC, our wholly owned subsidiary, granted Sunovion an exclusive license under certain patent rights, trademark rights and know-how to commercialize certain products containing lefamulin in the forms clinically developed by the Company or any of its affiliates (“Licensed Products”) in Canada in all uses in humans in community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and in any other indication for which the Licensed Products have received regulatory approval in Canada. Under the Sunovion License Agreement, Sunovion and DAC will establish a joint development committee, or the JDC, to review and oversee regulatory approval and commercialization plans in the Territory. Sunovion will be solely responsible for all costs related to obtaining regulatory approval of and commercializing Licensed Products in the Territory and is obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to develop, obtain regulatory approval for, and commercialize Licensed Product in the Territory.
The Company has identified two performance obligations at inception: (1) the delivery of the exclusive license to Sunovion, which we have determined is a distinct license of functional intellectual property that Sunovion has obtained control of; and, (2) the participation in the JDC. The $1.0 million non-refundable upfront payment was allocated entirely to the delivery of the license as the JDC deliverable was deemed to be de minimis.
Any future regulatory and commercial milestone payments under the Sunovion License Agreement will be recorded during the period the milestones become probable of achievement.
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The Company leases office spaces in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, San Diego, California, Dublin, Ireland and laboratory and office space in Vienna, Austria under agreements previously classified as operating leases.
The lease agreement in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania expires on December 15, 2023 and does not include any renewal options. The agreement provides for an initial monthly base amount plus annual escalations through the term of the lease.
The lease agreement in San Diego, California expires on June 30, 2019 and provides for one renewal period of 36 months. The Company does not plan to exercise the renewal period. The agreement provides for a monthly base fixed amount through June 30, 2019.
For the lease agreement in Vienna Austria, the Company can terminate the lease without the landlord’s consent and without paying a termination penalty by giving six months’ notice to the landlord. The agreement provides for a monthly base fixed amount. The Company is in the process of determining the appropriate space needed in the building based on its needs. As a result, the Company may negotiate a new lease or evaluate additional or alternate spaces. As such, the Company has classified the agreement as a short-term lease.
For the lease agreement in Dublin, Ireland, the lease term is month to month and the Company has classified the lease as a short-term lease.
In March 2019, the Company entered into lease agreement for office space in Dublin, Ireland which expires on April 30, 2021. The agreement can be automatically renewed by both parties equal to the current lease term but for no less than three months. The agreement provides for a monthly based fixed amount of 7,000 euros beginning on the commencement date which is in May 2019. Upon the commencement date of the lease, the Company recognized an ROU asset and lease liability of approximately $150,000.
In addition to the monthly base amounts under the lease agreements, the Company is required to pay its proportionate share of real estate taxes and operating expenses during the lease terms for the King of Prussia and San Diego leases.
For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company’s operating lease expense was $348,000 which included short term lease expense of $222,000.
As of March 31, 2019 the weighted-average remaining lease term of operating leases was 4.7 years and the weighted-average discount rate was 9.8%.
As of March 31, 2019, other information related to the operating leases were as follows:
Operating Cash Flow Supplemental Information:
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of the operating lease liabilities
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease obligations
The following table sets forth by year the required future payments of operating lease liabilities:
Total lease payments
Less imputed interest
Present value of operating lease liabilities
The following table sets forth by year the minimum expected lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2018:
On May 8, 2019, a putative class action lawsuit was filed against the Company and its Chief Executive Officer in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, captioned Larry Enriquez v. Nabriva Therapeutics PLC, and Ted Schroeder, No. 19-cv-04183. The complaint purports to be brought on behalf of shareholders who purchased the Company’s securities between November 1, 2018 and April 30, 2019. The complaint generally alleges that the Company and its Chief Executive Officer violated Sections 10(b) and/or 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by making allegedly false and/or misleading statements and omitting to disclose material facts concerning the Company’s submission of an NDA to the FDA for marketing approval of CONTEPO for the treatment of cUTI in the United States and the likelihood of such approval. The complaint seeks unspecified damages, attorneys’ fees, and other costs. The case is still in its initial stage and a lead plaintiff has not yet been appointed.
The Company denies any and all allegations of wrongdoing and intends to vigorously defend against this lawsuit. The Company is unable, however, to predict the outcome of this matter at this time. Moreover, any conclusion of this matter in a manner adverse to the Company and for which it incurs substantial costs or damages not covered by the Company's directors’ and officers’ liability insurance would have a material adverse effect on its financial condition and business. In addition, the litigation could adversely impact the Company's reputation and divert management’s attention and resources from other priorities, including the execution of its business plan and strategies that are important to the Company's ability to grow its business, any of which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business.
Other Commitments and Contingencies
The Company has other contractual commitments related primarily to contracts entered into with contract research organizations and contract manufacturing organizations in connection with the conduct of clinical trials and other research and development activities. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, there were no material changes outside the ordinary course of the Company’s business to its contractual obligations as disclosed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, relating to contract research organizations and contract manufacturing organizations.
The Company has no contingent liabilities in respect of legal claims arising in the ordinary course of business.
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The entire disclosure for commitments and contingencies.
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Subsequent Events
14. Subsequent Events
The Company evaluated all events or transactions that occurred subsequent to March 31, 2019 through the date the unaudited consolidated financial statements were issued, and have not identified any such events material to an understanding of the unaudited consolidated financial statements.
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The entire disclosure for significant events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through the date the financial statements were issued or the date the financial statements were available to be issued. Examples include: the sale of a capital stock issue, purchase of a business, settlement of litigation, catastrophic loss, significant foreign exchange rate changes, loans to insiders or affiliates, and transactions not in the ordinary course of business.
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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
Disclosure of accounting policy for basis of accounting, or basis of presentation, used to prepare the financial statements (for example, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting, IFRS).
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Fair Value Measurement (Tables)
Schedule of the financial instruments measured at fair value and classified by level according to the fair value measurement hierarchy
Tabular disclosure of assets and liabilities, including [financial] instruments measured at fair value that are classified in stockholders' equity, if any, that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The disclosures contemplated herein include the fair value measurements at the reporting date by the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the fair value measurements in their entirety fall, segregating fair value measurements using quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1), significant other observable inputs (Level 2), and significant unobservable inputs (Level 3).
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Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities (Tables)
Schedule of accrued expenses and other current liabilities
Tabular disclosure of the components of accrued liabilities.
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Debt (Tables)
Schedule of long-term debt
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Abcam on track to deliver double-digit revenue growth
Abcam, a life science research tools supplier said Tuesday it was on track to achieve double-digit growth for the year.
For the six months ended 31 December 2018, the company expected to report total revenue growth of about 11% on a reported basis and 10% on constant currency.
Abcam said it continued to gain market share in the global research market particularly from recombinant antibodies, immunoassays, and expansion in China.
The group forecasts gross margin for the first half modestly ahead of last year, and in line with the board's expectations.
'Global demand is strong for precision life science tools and Abcam has once again gained market share in these growing markets. Our business is on track to achieve double-digit growth for the year,' the company said.
At 9:43am: (LON:ABC) Abcam PLC share price was +5.5p at 1153.5p
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Municipality ESTD
Term wise Elected/ Nominated Chairman
Sri Saral Sen[C.P.I.(M)]:07.09.1993-26.05.1994
Sri Mihir Dasgupta[C.P.I.(M)]:27.051994-25.05.1999
Sri Rathin Ghosh(A.I.T.C.):26.05.1999-25.05.2004
Sri Sankar Halder (Administrator):26.05.2004-23.07.2004
Sri Mihir Dasgupta[C.P.I.(M)]: 24.07.2004-22.07.2009
Sri Rathin Ghosh(A.I.T.C.): 23.07.2009-22.07.2014
Sri Pijush Kanti Das (Administrator):23.07.2014-1.05.2015
Sri Rathin Ghosh(A.I.T.C.):22.05.2015- Continuing
No. of Wards
Ward Delimitation
23 to 25 (as on 2009) and 25-28 (as on 2015)
Status of the Municipality
Area bounded by
North: Barasat Municipality, South: Uttar Dum Dum Municipality & Rajarhart Municipality, West: Barasat Municipality, Rohanda & Chandigarh G.P, East: New Barrackpore Municipality
Coordinates: 22°42′N 88°27′E / 22.7, 88.45.Madhyamgram is a small town in the district of North 24 Parganas within the Indian state of West Bengal and suburban of Metropolitan City Kolkata, having Calcutta postal code and telephone zone (33). It is under the jurisdiction of Barasat sadar subdivision within the limit of Barasat and Airport police stations and under the local jurisdiction of Madhyamgram Municipality. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It has an average elevation of 15 metres (49 feet). .
The climate is tropical, like the rest of the Gangetic West Bengal. The hallmark is the Monsoon—early June to mid September. The weather remains dry during the winter (mid-November to mid-February) and humid during summer.Temperature :41 °C in May(Max) and 10 °C in January(Min)
Relative Humidity: Between 50% in March & 90% in July
Average Rainfall :1579mm
Madhyamgram City
City Population
Literates
Children (0-6)
Average Literacy (%)
Sexratio
Child Sexratio
Hinduism is majority religion in Madhyamgram city with 89.36 % followers. Islam is second most popular religion in city of Madhyamgram with approximately 9.76 % following it. In Madhyamgram city, Christinity is followed by 0.47 %, Jainism by 0.01 %, Sikhism by 0.19 % and Buddhism by 0.19 %. Around 0.01 % stated 'Other Religion', approximately 0.14 % stated 'No Particular Religion'.
21.56 sq km
7212.57 per sq. km.
Majority of the citizens speak Bengali, Official Language : Bengali, Hindi,Business Language : English
Permanent-174, Others-822 (as on 20.09.2015)
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Our annual lecture at the Museum of Art and History (MAH) in Santa Cruz.
Typically in Oriental carpets, many patterns combine to make the whole. Carol Bier has been exploring and studying the ways that weavers have combined symmetry, asymmetry, and symmetry-breaking in their creation of great works of art.
Other works of Carol Bier :
Mathematical aspects of oriental carpets
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Scandal: A Polish Holocaust denier awarded with Jan Karski Humanitarian Award in New York!
2018-04-11 2018-04-11 Rafał Betlejewski
As we have been informed today, Ewa Kurek, a so called historian and researcher of the Polish-Jewish relatinships, but in reality a Holocaust denier will be awarded with Jan Karski Humanitarian Award in New York in few days. It is hard to express the state of shock and frustration we are in at the moment as the people of democratic Poland and the world.
We must do anything in our power to stop this outrageous act which reverses the sense of the Jan Karski Award and degrades the memory of Jan Karski, a real war hero and a fighter for the truth. We call upon all of you, our friends in Poland and the world, to protest against this nomination. It is a disgrace and a spit in the face of everyone who stands for Holocaust truth in Poland and around the world.
What is even more appalling is that the Award will be handed to Ewa Kurek and two other people on the 18th of April – one day before the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by the Polish Consulate in New York and The Polish-Jewish Dialogue Committee consisting of members of the New York branch of the Polish American Conngress.
Ewa Kurek is infamous in Poland for her books and lectures in which she claims that Jews collaborated with Nazis in creating Ghetos in Poland in order to have their own autonomous states, with their own governments, schools and police, and that Jews were having fun in the Ghettos while the Polish people were starving and fighting for freedom. She also claims that Jewish law allows Jews to sacrifice their children in order to save their own life and that no one is blamed fot that. Se says that Jewish culture excludes them from a civilised cultures of the christian west and they are nothing more but a parasite.
Untill the Law and Justice came to power in 2015 her lectures were happening on the fringes of the Polish public debate limited to provincial churches and youtube videos. Now she is being portreyed as the voice of historical truth and is about to be awarded by a very dear and important award to the Polish democratic society. It is a disgraceful attack on the truth and democracy.
Jan Karski was a true Polish war hero. He is known for letting himself be sent to Auschwitz camp voluntarily only to later escape the camp and report what he saw to the western public opinion and American government. He reported on the situation of the Polish Jews, the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto. After the war he remained in the USA and for 40 years was a professor at the Georgetown University. Among his students was Bill Clinton. He is recognised as the Righteous Among The Nations.
The wife of late Jan Karski said:
I express my immense indignation, but above all, my disagreement with granting the Humanitarian Prize to them. Jan Karski for Ewa Kurek. I am – according to Jan Karski’s last will – the only executor of Jan Karski’s will and the only owner of all intellectual property after him.
Professor Jacek Leociak commented:
This is an absolute scandal that the person who says that the ghettos were autonomous provinces gets the Jan Karski Award, which in such a dramatic way told the world about the macabre of life in the ghetto.
It is hard to imagine in what new ways will the new right wing Polish government choose to disgrace the memory of the Holocaust victims in Poland and the efforts of many Polish heros, historians and journalists in unvailling the truth about the Holocaust. We must stand strong and protest against these hideous deeds.
Rafał Betlejewski and Medium Publiczne.
PS: As we now learn the ceremony in New York was canceled due to common outrage. The Award though was not.
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5 Ways Relocating a Small Business Can Cut Costs
Tuesday Jul 2nd 2013 by Joe Taylor Jr.
Depending on your needs, a strategic business move can help you cut costs and improve revenues.
According to a recent National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) survey of small business owners, American entrepreneurs have started feeling more optimistic about the economy. Some entrepreneurs are even making expansion plans that could include moving their operations.
Business owners cite lower taxes and access to specialized talent as reasons for relocating companies from one town to another. However, the Small Business Administration (SBA) offers five factors that could turn a change of zip code into a way to save money.
5 Potential Reasons to Move and Save
1. Government incentives
Cities and states use tax credits and fee waivers to attract growing businesses capable of creating new jobs. For example, Pennsylvania's Keystone Opportunity Zones have helped revitalize underutilized neighborhoods. Restaurants and retail stores popped up to support workers at subsidized offices.
2. Access to technology
As one of the cities selected for Google's experimental, high-speed broadband Internet program, Kansas City, Kansas has weathered an influx of entrepreneurs eager to expand their businesses over a fiber optic backbone. Your company might consider a move to a city with better access to 3D printers, complex processing equipment, or other tools that can help you innovate in your market.
3. Proximity to distribution hubs
Ecommerce and direct marketing companies gravitate to cities like Memphis, Louisville, Indianapolis, Fort Worth, and Oakland because they house major shipping hubs for FedEx and UPS. Businesses in those cities enjoy expedited distribution at discounted rates, often shaving days from standard delivery times.
4. Access to customers
Recent episodes of the television series Mad Men depicted a New York advertising agency setting up satellite offices in Detroit and Los Angeles to build stronger connections with key clients. Business today isn't much different from that of a fictionalized 1960s. Despite the convenience of the Internet, you could reduce travel expenses and increase your billings by getting closer to a large client, looking for opportunities to serve their neighbors along the way.
5. Mentorship, incubation, and funding
Startup accelerators can lure small businesses and entrepreneurs to unusual places, like West Plains, Missouri. A small town business incubator may not garner headlines, but it can put a growing company in direct contact with regional bankers, investors, and suppliers with more attention to lavish on a "hometown" business.
While investigating a potential move, the SBA suggests checking for potential hidden costs. For instance, a warehouse in an enterprise zone may save on rent, but could require a larger budget for overnight security.
Likewise, moving to another state could slash your cost of living, only to replace your expenses with increased travel costs for visiting family. Check with your attorney, and with business development officials in your prospective new locations to learn about the benefits and the potential pitfalls of relocating your business.
Joe Taylor Jr. has covered personal finance and business for more than two decades. His work has been featured on NPR, CNBC, Financial Times Television, Fox Business, and ABC News. He recently completed a personal finance book entitled "The Rogue Guide to Credit Cards" (Rogue Guide Books, 2012).
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Species of Chameleons
Tag Archives: triceros
Bradypodion Carpenteri or Carpenter’s Chameleon
Bradypodion Carpenteri or Kinyongia Carpenteri is a small species of chameleon that occurs in the mountainous highland region between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its common English name is the Carpenter’s Chameleon in honor of the specimen’s collector Dr. G.D. Hale Carpenter (iNaturalist). Its genus designation has been moved two times from Chameleo to Bradypodion to Kinyongia.
This species can grow up to 30 cm. They have large casques, curved parietal crest and bifurcated canthus rostralis (on males). Little is known about this species and it’s not known to be in the captive market (IUCN Redlist).
1) iNaturalist – www.inaturalist.org/taxa/32971
2) Wikipedia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter%27s_chameleon
3) Reptile Database – reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Kinyongia&species=carpenteri
4) IUCN Redlist – www.iucnredlistassessments.org/about/forum/east_africa_chameleons/32971-2/
5) Chamowners Web – chamownersweb.net/chamfamily/bradypodion/bradypodion_carpenteri.htm
6) Chameleon Forums – www.chameleonforums.com/kinyongia-carpenteri-pictures-35017/index2.html
1) Do you have an image of this species? Would you like to see your image on our website with your name credited?
Email us info@mychameleononline.com
Bradypodion Dracomontanum or Drakensberg Dwarf Chameleon
Bradypodion Dracomontanum or the Drakensberg dwarf chameleon is a small species of chameleon which occurs in South Africa in the Drakensberg mountain range in Kwazulu Natal and the Eastern Free State. Its Latin name Bradypodion means slow-footed and Dracomontanum refers to its home in the Drakensberg (dragon) mountains. It can grow up to 14 centimeters (Arkive) and lives in the bushes of alpine grasslands and small patches of forest at around 1500 meters above sea level.
Its distinguishing features include a prehensile tail, light brown skin, and blue-green tuberclues on ots flanks and upper limbs. Like many in the Bradypodion species, it has an erratic gait. It can be seen on tops of bushes during the day and hides within them during the night.
This species is listed in the CITES II database meaning that trade is limited. According to the IUCN Redlist of endangered species, it is of ‘least concern’ in since its population has not been fully assessed and its range is more than 5500 sq.km. It may be composed of two subspecies and a common name has been proposed for the bright-green individuals (emerald dwarf chameleon) in the southern part of its range (Wikipedia).
1) Arkive – www.arkive.org/drakensberg-dwarf-chameleon/bradypodion-dracomontanum/
2) Wikipedia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakensberg_dwarf_chameleon
3) IUCN Redlist – www.iucnredlist.org/details/176291/0
4) CITES Appendix II – cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php
1) Main image supplied by Jan Sohler
Bradypodion Caffer or Transkei Dwarf Chameleon
Bradypodion Caffer is a species of chameleon belonging to the genus Bradypodion (slow footed). Bradypodions are also collectively known as South African Dwarf Chameleons which places them south of the African continent. This species however is so far found only in lowland forests of Port St. Johns in the Pondoland region of South Africa within a radius of 1950 sq. km. (Encyclopedia of Life).
Bradypodion Caffer is identifiable through its pale brown or brown coloring with white mottling. Its casque points backwards and up and large flattened spines on the dorsal crest. This species is also ovoviparous or live-bearing (Chameleon Forums). Bradypodion Caffer is known by two other names: Transkei Dwarf Chameleon or Pondo Dwarf Chameleon (Wikipedia). It is currently classified as endangered in the IUCN Redlist of Endangered Species because its range is less than 5000 sq. km. Its listing in CITES Appendix II also makes trade of this species illegal.
1) Chameleon Forums – www.chameleonforums.com/species/showtaxa.php?taxa=18
2) Wikipedia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transkei_dwarf_chameleon
3) Encyclopedia of Life – eol.org/pages/454031/details
Bradypodion Damaranum or Knysna Dwarf Chameleon
Bradypodion Damaranum or the Knysna Dwarf Chameleon is one of the most colorful species of chameleon. The base colors or males range from brilliant green-blue to green. This species can be identified by a patch of scale-less skin behind the front legs which can be orange or yellow in color. Their head ridges are also brilliantly colored in a mixture of yellow, blue and black. Like many chameleons, it has a well-developed casque that points backward. This species also has large conical scales from the dorsal crest down to the tail (Chameleons Onlne Ezine).
Bradypodion is a moderately sized genus and the Damaranum is one of the larger species which can grow up to seven inches. Regardless of the scientific name, this species is not found on Damaraland or Namibia but is found in the dense wet forests of Knysna, Western Cape Province of South Africa (Wikipedia). It can adapt to captive environments similar to its native habitat. This is a rare species with limited range thus it is listed in CITES Appendix II (Biodiversity.org) so trade is illegal though there are some kept in Europe (Chameleons Onlne Ezine). Its IUCN conservation status however is yet to be evaluated.
1) Chameleons Online E-zine – www.chameleonnews.com/10JulDeckersAnderson.html
2) Wikipedia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knysna_dwarf_chameleon
3) Biodiversity.org – www.biodiversity.org.na/taxondisplay.php?nr=2706
1) Main image supplied by Francois Strydom
2) Sub image supplied by Francois Strydom
Bradypodion Fischeri or Giant Fischer’s Chameleon
Bradypodion Fischeri or rather Kinyongia Fischeri is a horned chameleon species native to the Nguu and Nguru as well as the Usambara mountains in Tanzania Africa (Wikipedia). Its English name is Fischer’s Chameleon. It is a medium-size species which can grow from 30 to 32 cm (Camaleones.es). Its distinguishing feature is the large rostral scale which can grow up to 2cm from its mouth. They also have unevenly distributed conical scales on their backs. Males can have various colors like various shades of green, yellow, gray, brown and black.
Captive specimens are described to be very active and can live for seven years or more. Based on several Pet Websites (Replilica.de, Luckyreptile), this species is subject to limited trading. However, as of May2014, CITES lists this species as of ‘urgent concern’. Kinyongia Matschiei, Kinyongia Vosseleri, and Kinyongia Multituberculata used to be considered as subspecies for Kinyongia Fischeri but have been elevated as separate species (Reptile Database / Wikipedia) though they are still referred to as Fischer’s Chameleons. True Kinyongia Fischeri are actually rare.
1) Camaleones.es – www.camaleones.es/fefischeri.htm
2) Wikipedia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%27s_Chameleon
3) Reptilica – www.reptilica.de/product_info.php/product/Bradypodion-fischeri-Fischer-s-Chamaeleon
4) Reptile Database – reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Kinyongia&species=fischeri
5) CITES – www.cites.org/sites/default/files/eng/com/ac/27/wg/E-AC27-WG-01.pdf
Gwannon.com – www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEoQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gwannon.com%2Fspecies%2FBradypodion-fischeri%2Fpdf&ei=g04DVOj8OovU8gXqooDgAw&usg=AFQjCNFlxW6xZNnNVSwIPSOW5qDxHWyajg&sig2=LdQ8TfcHIyxu1RNM7a4WwQ
Bradypodion Excubitor or Mt. Kenya Hornless Chameleon
Bradypodion Excubitor or rather Kinyongia Excubitor is a medium-size species of chameleon native to Kenya, thus its English name is the Mt. Kenya Hornless Chameleon (Bio-Ken Snake Farm). There is not much data on this species but based on internet images, its size is approximately 10cm. It is generally green, the head is without horns with a slightly raised casque at the back of its head and no gular nor ventral crest. It also has a dorsal crest where the scales gradually reduce in size towards the tail (Chameleon Forums).
Like the Kinyongia Carpenteri, the species was formerly assigned to Bradypodion but was later reassigned to Kinyongia (Wikipedia). This species live in montane forests in the mountains of Kenya.
There is currently no data regarding population and IUCN has no assessment (IUCN Redlist). There are also no CITES quotas for trade specified though there are rumors of illegal trade and harvesting for pets. This species is also rumored to be harvested as a cure for AIDS (iNaturalist).
1) Bio-Ken Snake Farm – www.bio-ken.com/index.php/reptiles-and-amphibians/lizards/chameleons/item/mt-kenya-hornless-chameleon
2) Chameleon Forums – www.chameleonforums.com/species/showtaxa.php?taxa=162
3) iNaturalist – www.inaturalist.org/projects/chameleons-of-east-africa/assessments/593-kinyongia-excubitor
Triceros Jacksonii or Jacksons Chameleon
Jackson’s chameleon, also known as Triceros jacksonii, is a specie of chameleons most diverse in Madagascar and also found in Europe, Africa, Comoro Islands, India and Sri Lanka (François Le Berre, 2000). They are native to humid and cool regions and inhabit abundantly at elevations above 3000m. However, in 1971, Jackson’s chameleons (Chamaleo (Triceros) jacksonii xantholophus) were inadvertently inhabited on Oahu, Hawaii, and as of today have an established existence throughout the stretch of the Hawaiian Islands.
C Jacksonii species bear easily identifiable features. Typical male Jackson’s chameleon are green and can grow up to a maximum of 10-12 inches in length whereas females are found to be of 7-8 inches on an average (Bartlett, 2001).
Their body consists of a long, prehensile tail constituting for half its length. Males generally have 3 horns protruding from their forehead while females never have horns. Jackson’s chameleons have a prominent dorsal (under) ridge with a very rugged pattern of saw-tooth shaped scales and they do not have a gular crest (Bartlett, 2001).
Although capable of making noticeable colour changes, all subspecies of the Jackson’s chameleon are found to be in shades of green. A narrow to wide, light dorsolateral line, either entire or broken into dashes is generally present. A bright green colour is displayed when the males are involved in territorial fights. The newborns possess a dark-barred tan or are light grey coloured.
Jackson’s chameleons were unarguably the first chameleons to have been successfully held captive and they make up for good pets with an average life span of above 5 years with a few living up to 10 years. Generally, the males are found to outlive the females slightly. But they need to be well taken care of when bred. They need large areas for breeding when in captivity as they are native to forests. The suitable temperature gradient is from 65-80 F with humidity levels ranging between 60-80 %( Fry, Michael).
1) Bartlett, R. D., and Patricia Bartlett. Jackson’s and Veiled Chameleons. Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s Educational Series, 2001. Print.
2) Berre, François Le, R. D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, and François Le Berre. The Chameleon Handbook. Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s, 2000. Print.
3) Michael Fry. “Caring for your Jackson’s Chameleon.”
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Power Rangers Unlimited
Chase Into Space, Pt. 2
Power Rangers: Turbo- Finale
Last time on Power Rangers: Turbo---
Mr. Stewart: “I found out that if I take this new job, I’ll have to leave Angel Grove.”
Justin: “I like Angel Grove, Dad.”
Goldgoyle destroys the Rescue Megazord the the Turbo Megazord.
Zordon: “Eltar is under attack. We have resisted their adances.”
Dimitria: “I will go to Eltar, with the Blue Centurion.”
TJ: “Goodbye, Dimitria.”
Elgar: “We found the Power Chamber. Divatox is gonna flip!”
Divatox: “We attack . . . now!”
The rangers run out of the Power Chamber and towards the hundreds of piranahtrons.
TJ: “Let’s get them, guys.”
Opening Credits Roll
The fight goes on, and Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster join the rangers. “The cavalry’s arrived,” TJ says.
“And just in time,” says Justin.
“Huh?” asks Divatox. “Oh, they’ve brought the cars, how pathetic. Finish them off.”
They fight for a while, but both vehicles are taken by the piranahtrons and captured. Elgar looks at Divatox. “Things are going pretty well, huh Aunty D? Aunty D? Huh? Huh?”
“It’s only a matter of time,” she says.
“Uh-huh.” He agrees.
The rangers are being forced back, closer and closer to the Power Chamber. “There’s just too many of them,” Justin says as more pirahnatrons run up. “We’ve got to get back inside the Power Chamber.”
The rangers reach the door and go in, but TJ continues fighting the pirahnatrons off. “Let’s go,” Cassie says. “Come on!”
“Hurry, TJ,” Carlos says.
TJ rolls inside as the door closes, and reaches for the lock. “Almost got it . . . security lock enable.” The door locks and the rangers run inside as the pirahnatrons reach the door.
Cut to the main room, where TJ asks Alpha, “Alpha, do we still have shields?”
“The shields are totally gone,” Alpha says. “I’m afraid it won’t be long before they break through.”
The other rangers are sitting on the step by the columns of light, and Cassie and Ashley put their arms around each other, touching heads. Carlos lies on the floor quietly. On the viewscreen, the pirahnatrons are bashing at the door, when suddenly they dissapears. Justin wanders to the screen. “They’re leaving?” Carlos gets up and comes over, standing beside him. “Pretty soon, they’ll all come back, won’t they?”
“You scared?” Carlos asks.
“Are you?” Justin asks him.
“Yeah,” says Carlos. “I am.”
“Me too,” he says.
Carlos tries to change the subject. “So Justin, about your dad. He got the new job, right?”
“Yeah, he did,” Justin says. “I’ve never seen him so happy. But he won’t take it. Not if it means I’d have to move, and leave my friends.”
“You have a great dad,” Carlos says.
On the viewscreen, Elgar appears. “Hurry up, you guys,” he says. The scene shifts to outside the Power Chamber, where the pirahnatrons stand with a battering ram.
“Teej,” Carlos says. Everyone runs to the screen, where it shows the pirahnatrons with the ram heading towards the door of the Power Chamber. The rangers all flinch when the ram hits the door.
Cut to outside again, where the battering continues. Another group of pirahnatrons have ropes with anchors on the ends, which they swing up and hook over the edge of the roof, then they start scaling the walls. After a few minutes, they reach the top.
Inside the rangers are trying to locate the source of the noises they hear. “Oh no,” Alpha says.
TJ runs over to him. “They’re on the roof!” On the screen, a group of drones are standing around the roof camera, and one smashes it with a hammer.
“Rangers,” Alpha says. “I may still be able to teleport you to safety.”
“We’re staying with you, Alpha,” TJ says.
Outside, the door finally caves in, and the army rushes into the Power Chamber. “Hey, nice place you got here,” Elgar says.
Back inside, Ashley says, “They’ve broken through the outer door.”
Hammers can be heard bashing at the inside doors, and pirahnatrons are trying to pry through them. TJ turns to Carlos. “You take that door. Cassie, with me.”
“Right,” she says. The rangers put their helmets on and prepare to meet them coming through the door.
“Be careful,” Ashley says.
“We’ve got to stand our ground,” TJ tells them.
“They won’t get by us,” says Carlos.
Suddenly, there is a loud crash and the lights go out. Sunlight streams in through the new holes in the roof, and debris and sparking conduits fall in. Pirahnatrons climb down ropes and into the chambers, and as the rangers turn, more rush in the doors they were guarding.
Justin tries fighting some in the center of the room, already flames are everywhere from the electrical systems. Ashley calls for her auto blaster and takes some on, but it gets knocked out of her hands and flies under a console.
Alpha stands beside Dimitria’s tube, trying to fight. Carlos knocks a pirahnatron out of his way. “Are you okay?” he asks.
“Yo, thanks Carlos,” Alpha replies. The base of the tube is flaming as TJ and Carlos both fight near it. “Yo, be careful, you guys,” Alpha says.
They fight intensely for a while longer, then Elgar walks in, looking around. He spots the tube. “Zordon and Dimitria’s plasma tube,” he says. “If I destroy it, then they can’t come back!” He laughs. “Love it!” He walks along the back edge of the Chamber, amidst the fighting, stepping over a pirahnatron. “’Scuse me. Kiss Dimitria goodbye, rangers.”
Elgar takes aim and throws his sledgehammer, hitting the tube and smashing it. Then he opens a case, where eight blinking devices lie. “Let’s blow this joint . . . up, that is!” He places the devices on the walls as the fighting continues. “It’s the end of the Power Rangers.” A bomb ticks in the corner.
Elgar joins Divatox outside, and they watch the Power Chamber, where smoke rises through the holes in the roof and walls. “Bye, bye, Rangers,” Divatox says. She waves, then presses the detonation device in her hands.
The Power Chamber explodes.
Divatox and her forces are searching the Power Chamber for the rangers. “Where are they?” she asks.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are,” Elgar chants.
“Elgar,” Divatox says. “Are you positive they were inside when it blew?”
Elgar scratches his forehead. “I’m not sure.”
“What do you mean, you’re not sure?” she asks. “Either the rangers were destroyed, or they weren’t!”
“It was smoky,” he says. “I couldn’t see anything.”
Divatox points at him and Rygog. “Find them.”
“Right away,” Rygog says.
Cross to the pirahnatrons searching through the rubble, some coming dangerously close to finding TJ. He lies in hiding, helmetless, his uniform torn. But they are interupted by an explosion. A fireball surges around above the ruins, and forms a face in front of Divatox. All the evil persons run to join her.
“Nice entrance,” Divatox says. “Who are you?”
“I am the messenger form the Cimmerian Planet,” he says. “Zordon has been captured.”
“Ooooh,” she says.
“You, Divatox,” he continues. “Queen of Evil, will leave at once for the Cimmerian Planet.”
“Now?” she asks. Then she laughs. “I think not. You tell whoever sent you, congrats on capturing Zordon, but I’ve just captured Earth, and I’m not going anywhere.” She sticks her tongue out and blows a raspberry, then turns to walk away.
“Dark Specter will not be happy,” the messenger says.
She stops. “Excuse me, did you just say . . . Dark Specter?” She looks afraid.
“The Grand Monarch of Evil,” he confirms.
Divatox turns to Elgar and Rygog. “Load up, we’re going to the Cimmerian Planet.” She turns back to the messenger. “Actually, you know what? A little vacation to the Cimmerian Planet would be just . . .” she blows a kiss. “Um, irresistable right now, really, yes. A little trip, great idea, thank you, really, yes. Thank you so much for the suggestion. Bye bye.” The face dissapears and Divatox spins around. “Don’t you worry, I’ll be back! Viva la Diva!”
Her and her army teleport out. TJ gets up slowly, then runs to the clearing. Ashley and Carlos appear together and Justin pokes his head out from some rubble. “TJ!”
“Over here!” Cassie calls from TJ’s side.
“Is everyone all right?” TJ asks.
“Yes,” Carlos says.
Justin starts to come over to them, as does Ashley, and before Carlos follows, he angrily throws a nearby Divatox flag away from the site. They all stand together, then suddenly they demorph in a flash of light. “Our powers . . .” says Cassie. “They’re gone.”
“Alpha!” Justin calls. They all turn to where the robot is trapped behind some rubble.
“Coming Alpha,” TJ says. “We got you.”
“Oh no,” Alpha says. “The Power Chamber. Yo, what a complete, catastrophe. This was my home.”
“It’s going to be okay, Alpha,” Justin tells him. “We’ll get you out of this.”
“How could this have happened?” Ashley asks. “Dimitria and the Blue Centurion have gone, the megazords are both destroyed . . . and now, the Power Chamber.”
“What’re we gonna do now?” Alpha asks.
“We have to go to the Cimmerian Planet,” Carlos says.
“We promised Dimitria, we’d protect Earth,” Cassie reminds him.
“Protect it from who?” he asks. “Divatox is gone now.”
“She’s gone now,” Ashley says. “But when she comes back, we’ll be sitting ducks.” Alpha starts to walk off, apparently having an idea.
“You’re right,” TJ says. “We need to stop Divatox before she comes back.”
“But without the Power Chamber?” Cassie asks. “Without our powers? How do we expect to chase her, anyway?”
“Yo, I’ve got to get this loose,” Alpha says, struggling to remove a box under some rubble.
“What is it, Alpha?” TJ asks.
“We need the black box,” Alpha says. “It’s under there. That’s it.”
The five of them help, and they retrieve the box. “Alpha,” TJ says. “What is it?”
“This box holds the Power Decoder,” Alpha says.
“What does it do?” Justin asks.
“It has all the secret codes,” he answers. “We’re gonna need it.”
“What we need right now,” Carlos says. “Is to find a way to go after Divatox.”
“Wait . . .” Justin says. “It’s a long shot, but there may be a way.”
Outside a guarded entrance, with a NASADA sign on it, a car stops while a guard checks some papers. He lets the car drive off, and Justin runs up to the entrance. “What can I do for you, young man?” the guard asks.
“I need to speak to the Commander,” Justin says. “It’s really, really important.”
“Is the Commander expecting you?” the man asks.
“No,” Justin replies. “But I’ve gotta speak to him.”
The guards look at each other, then a car pulls up. “I’m sorry, young man,” he says. “No matter how ‘really, really important’ it is, I cannot let you in there. Now you wait right here.” He walks over to the car. “Name please?”
The telephone rings and the other guard goes over. “I’ll get it.”
Justin sees his chance and runs along-side the car as it drives off, slipping by the guards. They look confused as they realize he is gone, and Justin rolls out of view behind a hedge.
Cut. Justin has made it to the car park outside a building. “That’s it,” he says. “Mission Control.” Although it is heavily guarded, he makes it to a small bridge and walks along. As two men below him open the door, he jumps down and sneaks in before it closes.
He runs down a corridor, and stops outside a couple of doors, reading the sign on the door. “Mission Control Room.” He runs inside as some guards yell at him.
“Hey, you there!”
Justin looks in awe at the many computers around him. A man stands a way off, and the guards come in. “Hold it,” one says. “That’s about as far as you go.” He takes Justin’s arm.
“Let me go,” Justin says. “I have to speak to the commander.”
“Sure you do,” he says. “Let’s go, now.” They drag him out of the room.
“But I have a message from the Power Rangers,” Justin says. The man in the room removes his glasses and follows them out unnoticed. “Let me go,” Justin continues. “It’s really important.”
“Hold on a minute, gentlemen,” the man from inside says. The guards instantly stand at attention, and a man and woman follow the man from the room. “I’m Commander Norquist of Mission Control,” he says.
“Sir,” Justin says. “The Power Rangers need your help.”
“What do they need?” Norquist asks.
“They need the Space Shuttle,” Justin says.
The guards laugh a little, and Norquist looks at the man beside him, who shakes his head. Norquist clears his throat, and the guards are quiet. Justin walks up to the Commander, who obligingly lowers his head, and he whispers something in his ear.
“Eltar?” Norquist asks. The woman looks at the man, mouthing the word. “When do they need it?” Norquist asks Justin.
“Right now,” he answers.
“Come on,” he says. They leave, and the others are left standing there, completely confused.
The other rangers, plus Alpha, are hiding behind a bush outside the NASADA building. “Maybe he’s in trouble,” Carlos says.
“Let’s give him a little more time,” TJ answers. The communicators beep for the last time in the familiar chime, and the rangers laugh in relief. “This is TJ,” he says.
“TJ,” comes Justin’s voice. “The Space Shuttle is all ours.”
“We’re on our way,” TJ says. “How did he do that?”
“All systems are go,” Norquist says. “As you requested the shuttle is set to take them to Eltar.”
“Two minutes to launch,” says a voice. “Prepare to switch all systems to computer control.”
The shuttle manuevers into position as the voice talks, and TJ sees it and leads the rangers to the shuttle. “Over there.”
“Pressurizing external tanks,” the voice continues.
“Come on,” Tj says. They run towards the doors.
“Prepare to clear the gantry. Check reserve power supplies.” Cut to the rangers sitting on the chairs in the shuttle and strapping in. “Preparing to pressurize the cabin.”
Ashley straps herself in, then Alpha. “There you go, Alpha.”
“Thanks, Ashley,” Alpha says.
“Readying life support.” Switch to outside view, the doors above the shuttle open, and it rises to ground level. “T minus 60 seconds until launch.”
“Where is he?” Ashley asks.
“Come on,” says TJ. “Let’s go Justin.”
“T minus 30 seconds.”
TJ presses a button on the nearby communication panel. “Justin, we’re missing someone.”
Justin is still in the Mission Control room. “He . . .” he begins. “He can’t go with you. There’s reasons.”
“Justin’s not going with us?” Carlos asks.
“Reasons?” TJ asks. “What reasons?”
Cassie touches TJ’s arm. “It’s his dad. Justin wants to stay with his dad.”
“Justin,” TJ says. “Tell him he has very good reasons, and that we’ll miss him.”
“He already knows,” Justin says.
Focus on Ashley for a moment, looking sorrowful. “T minus 15 seconds.”
Justin removes his headset. “I’ll miss you too.”
“T minus 10 seconds and counting. 9 . . .” The door into the cabin closes. “8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 . . .”
The rangers all hold hands as they reach the end, and Carlos whispers. “Goodbye Justin.”
“ . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .” Thrusters ignite. “We have ignition.” The shuttle moves away. “We have lift-off.” It takes off into the sky.
“Now that’s a perfect lift-off,” Norquist says to Justin. However, when he turns, Justin is not there.
Justin stands outside, watching the launch in person as the shuttle flies up to the sky. “Good luck, rangers,” he says. He turns sadly and walks off.
The episode freezes with the shuttle in midflight.
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You are here: Main » Zion Williamson puts on a show as Duke nips rival North Carolina
Zion Williamson puts on a show as Duke nips rival North Carolina
by Perry Erickson - at March 16, 2019
So, yeah, it turns out the Blue Devils missed one of the most dominant college basketball players of the last decade.
North Carolina spurted out to an early 33-20 advantage with the Blue Devils struggling from the field in the opening 10 minutes.
We know the last game was a tale of two halves with Virginia Tech dominating the first half and the Noles dominating the second half before taking over in overtime. I mean the rivalry lived up to what I expected it to be. Little reached behind him to box out the future No. 1 overall pick, but Williamson had stepped inside to the center of the lane for the rebound and a quick put-back on what would be the game victor.
R.J. Barrett came down with a rebound off a missed UNC three at the other end and was fouled, but he missed both free throws with 13 seconds left to give the Tar Heels a chance to hit a game victor.
Williamson - who sprained his knee less than 40 seconds into the team's first matchup and missed the second with the injury - registered a game-high 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to inspire Duke. "It's such a blend of strength and power and quickness that we couldn't stop him getting the basketball inside and going to the basket". "Instead of [R.J. Barrett and Williamson] giving energy to a teammate, they were getting energy from a teammate". Coby White and Luke Maye each chipped in 19 points in that one, while Cam Johnson and Garrison Brooks each tallied double-figures. "The physicality increases, and probably the game even slows down some, and so you've got to knock down shots when you get them". Three weeks later, he sat out the regular-season finale in Chapel Hill, and again the Heels dominated. The Blue Devils have just one loss with their full starting five on the court, and that makes a strong case for the NCAA tournament selection committee to put them on the top line and send them to nearby Columbia, South Carolina - just down the road from Williamson's hometown of Spartanburg.
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We are pleased as always to send you the latest news from Sifriyat Pijama.
We wish you and your dear ones a happy Pesach.
Galina Vromen
Executive Director, Keren Grinspoon Israel
New Program in Arabic
After five years in Jewish communities throughout Israel, Sifriyat Pijama has leveraged its experience and close partnership with the Ministry of Education to create a sister program in the Arab community - Maktabat al-Fanoos (Lantern Library). Like Sifriyat Pijama, Maktabat al-Fanoos promotes a love of books by gifting high-quality picture books monthly through the school year to children and their families. The program has been culturally adapted and provides books that stimulate conversation on universal human values at home and in school.
We are pleased that in addition to the Ministry of Education, we are partnering in this program with the California-based Price Family Charitable Fund, which has long funded and operated Bidayat early childhood centers and teacher training programs in Arab communities. The Arabic language program launched in January with 48,000 preschoolers throughout Israel and attracted significant media attention in Jewish Week, JTA syndicates and The Jerusalem Post among others. With our partners, we hope to expand the program to ALL Arab preschools next year!
Sifriyat Pijama Graduates to 1st and 2nd Grade
In addition to reaching more than 200,000 preschool children and their families each year, Sifriyat Pijama has “graduated” to 1st and 2nd grade with a pilot program for 3,000 children. Funded by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, the pilot encourages parents to keep reading to their children as they acquire the skills to read themselves, and continue the family conversations on values that Sifriyat Pijama books stimulate. Experts stress the importance of reading aloud to children in early primary grades when their vocabulary and comprehension outstrip their independent reading skills. The 23 schools in the pilot have enthusiastically embraced the program, integrating the books in the classroom and holding events with parents.We hope the Ministry of Education will partner with the Harold Grinspoon Foundation to expand the 1st and 2nd grade program in the future.
Twinning Project with PJ Library in America
Thirty Sifriyat Pijama and PJ Library preschools in Israel and North America have embarked on an innovative classroom twinning initiative, inspired by one of this year's Sifriyat Pijama titles: A Taste of the Holidays, which includes holiday recipes and stories. Each preschool was assigned a "twin" kindergarten class, in Israel or America. The teachers create their own plan for sharing experiences by exchanging photos, Skype calls and/or emailing. Throughout the year, teachers, children and families on both sides of the ocean share holiday recipes, family customs and stories, and school experiences. At the end of the year, participating classes will together create a collection of holiday recipes, family customs and stories - similar to the book Taste of the Holidays.
We believe that the partnerships between the communities will generate professional idea-sharing among educators, encourage a more meaningful connection between the families, and help promote the concept of "K’lal Israel" for children, parents and educators. Be'teavon!
Anne Diamond from Striar Hebrew Academy in Sharon, Massachusetts visits Tally Buksdorf's Lotem Preschool in Gan Yavneh
Sifriyat Pijama Creates 8 New Books This Year
Sifriyat Pijama, in cooperation with Israeli publishers, continues to develop a trove of rich Jewish literature for children and revive Israeli classics. A sampling of this year's new titles includes: A Taste of the Holiday (used in twinning project above), two books of rhymes by famed Israeli poet Leah Goldberg, the traditional Midrashic tale of the Fox in the Vineyard, Concert in the Dunes - an adventure tale surrounding the first concert of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra in the dunes of Tel Aviv, and Sweet Letters - a story based on the traditional practice of sweetening children’s introduction to the Hebrew alphabet by eating Hebrew letter cookies dipped in honey. The latter, written by Jacky Levy, garnered media attention on Educational TV’s Oseem Seder and on Channel 10 news.
Evaluation Shows 100% Active Classroom Use
Sifriyat Pijama annually surveys all teachers in the program to gauge satisfaction and program impact. The results for the 2012-2013 school year (with 56% reply rate) were gratifying: 100% of the teachers reported they read each book to the class at least once, with 82% reading the books two times or more. The vast majority also led additional book-related activities. Satisfaction with the quality of the books was also high (82% rated the books overall excellent or good). Two thirds of the teachers in the program for more than 2 years said they find implementing the program into the classroom becomes easier from year to year, and a similar portion said their enthusiasm for the books and their use in the classroom remains high over time. In general, teachers noted a rise in the “Jewish vocabulary” in the children’s preschool conversations, said values raised by the books found expression in the classroom, and reported that the teacher-parent relationship was strengthened by the program.
We Have Moved to New Offices in Ramat Gan!
We have outgrown our offices. As of April 6, we are located in new quarters in the Diamond Exchange District of Ramat Gan with easy access by train.
Our new address: Betzalel 10 St., Ramat Gan 5252110. Telephone number remain the same.
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Human Rights Watch is 'propaganda' group, can't have workers permit
by Kristina Cox
in World Media
The Israeli decision on one of the world's most prominent nongovernmental organizations in its field emerged after Israeli authorities turned down a visa for its new Israel and Palestine director, Omar Shakir, who is a US citizen, The Guardian reported Friday. And, in 2016, the government requested HRW assist a case in which victims of human rights abuses were Israelis.
"Neither closing Israel's borders to human rights organizations and activists nor other measures by the Israeli government against organizations that criticize the occupation will deter us from continuing to report human rights violations in the territories controlled by Israel", the groups added.
"We have little relations with governments in North Korea, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Cuba and Venezuela where there is zero appetite for human rights engagement", Shakir said.
In response to the request, the Immigration Authority said that it would not grant the request, as the reports issued by the organization "are political in nature and serve Palestinian propaganda purposes, while falsely waving the flag of 'human rights.' As a result we are denying the visa request", the Authority said in a letter to the Foreign Ministry, stressing that it relied on the opinions of the Ministry regarding the organization.
The same letter, the NGO said, had claimed HRW was "not a real human rights group".
"HRW is a credible human rights organization and even though we do not agree with all of their assertions or conclusions, given the seriousness of their efforts, we support the importance of the work they do", Toner said.
The organizations that signed the document were listed as: Adalah Center, Akevot, Amnesty, International Israel, Bimkom, Breaking the Silence.
Microsoft Launches 'Made For India' Skype Lite App
Facebook Lite was one such app launched in 2015, and now Microsoft has made a similar version of its video calling app Skype . The Skype Bot Platform, started previous year , allowed developers to make their own chatbot to serve different requirements.
But HRW also frequently highlights abuses by Palestinians, accusing internationally backed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the rival Hamas militant group in Gaza of arbitrarily detaining journalists and activists and torturing detainees.
Human Rights Watch works on all 19 countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Last year, a new law limited foreign funding for NGOs which Israel considers critical of its policies.
Israel is refusing to issue visas to the global staff of one of the most prominent worldwide human rights NGOs - Human Rights Watch - accusing the group of an "extreme, hostile and anti-Israel agenda". "We reference HRW reports in our own reporting, including our annual human rights reports". By contrast, Human Rights Watch maintains staff who work legally in its registered offices in some 24 countries around the world, including Lebanon, Jordan, and Tunisia. It "could be reconsidered if the organisation appeals against the decision to the interior ministry", he said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said the decision had been taken because of HRW's "extreme, hostile anti-Israel agenda which was working at the service of Palestinian propaganda.in a totally biased manner". Human Rights Watch has retained counsel and intends to challenge the decision before an Israeli district court.
Shakir responded to the denial on social media, slamming the Interior Ministry's decision.
Last year, the government passed a Transparency Law requiring groups that receive more than half their funding from overseas to declare it and Israeli authorities have been accused of doing little to help human rights researchers receiving death threats from nationalists.
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August 29, 2012 Chris Del Castillo
Hyperdimension Neptunia gets an Android app titled, God App Neptunia in Japan
Compile Heart has been busy working on Hyperdimension Neptunia V, the next title in the Neptunia series which releases in Japan today for Android users.
The app features Neptune and Noire, allowing you to improve your relationship with them by visiting them and talking to them similar to a dating simulation style game, by visiting them during different times of the day or not visiting them will give you different results. God App Neptunia also features an alarm clock, photography options, and you have the option to buy different costumes and voice sets for a fee.
While the Android version is releasing the same day of the game, and iOS version is in development with no announced release information yet.
While Hyperdimension Neptunia V still has yet to receive a release date from NIS America for the North America release date, who knows maybe they might be interested in bringing out the smartphone app if enough fans voice their support for it.
Tags Compile HeartiOSNIS America
Chris Del Castillo 2588 posts
Growing up Chris watched a lot of the original Saturday morning cartoons and developed a love for arts and animation. Growing up he tried his hand at animation and eventually script writing, but even more his love of video games, anime and technology grew.
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Che Lingo – “Channelling The Waves”
Samuel Conley, 02.16.16 @ 8:05am EDT
Singles Channelling The Waves, Che Lingo, London, new
South London emcee Che Lingo got massive acclaim in 2015 with the release of his debut T.R.I.P EP, along with the drop of the video for “Knock My Hustle“. Keeping tabs with his impressive...
Vic Mensa – “Danger”
Singles Danger, Music, new, Vic Mensa
After previewing via aux cable at Kanye West‘s recent #yeezyseason3 show at Madison Square Garden, Chicago’s Vic Mensa has shared the official audio for new track “Danger”. It has not been mentioned whether...
New A$AP Rocky Freestyle Over Drake’s “Wu Tang Forever” & More
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Singles A$AP MOB, A$ap Rocky, Music, new, OVO Sound Radio, Wu Tang Forever
Drake’s OVO Sound Radio went H.A.M for A$AP last night, with the 13th episode of the show featuring guest mixes from the Cozy Boys (A$AP Lou & J.Scott) and the legendary DJ Mustard. The...
Mick Jenkins – “Grenade Theory” & “$3000 Advice”
Singles $3000 Advice, Chicago, EP, Grenade Theory, Jenkins, Mick, new, Sip!
Chicago’s biggest H2O fan Mick Jenkins has released two fresh tracks , ahead of a new EP/project (we don’t know much about it yet) entitled Sip! All Jenkins has said of the project...
NewSickMusic Premiere: Alvin Lee Ryan – “What’s Up” Feat. Naala & K-Nastey
Samuel Conley, 12.30.15 @ 6:33pm EDT
Singles Alvin Lee Ryan, K-Nastey, Music, Naala, new, Premier, What's Up
NewSickMusic are proud to premier London drummer Alvin Lee Ryan‘s new rework of a classic RnB banger “U Know What’s Up” by Donell Jones. “What’s Up” features accomplished singer Naala and New York...
NewSickMusic Premiere: Rageouz – “The Gaffer”
Singles new, Premiere, Rageouz, The Gaffer
NewSickMusic are excited to present new track “The Gaffer” from 22 year old East London artist Rageouz. Deriving early influence from Grime pioneers such as Dizzee Rascal, Crazy Titch, Wiley and Kano, Rageouz has been writing lyrics from the age of ten years old after being directly inspired by Dizzee’s classic album Boy In Da Corner. Rageouz released his first project Hells Angel in 2013, following up with collaborative project with peer Ayar for Authentape in 2014 and the celebrated solo project Ethos in 2015.
Kevin Abstract- Echo [VIDEO]
Drew Morgan, 12.01.15 @ 7:13pm EDT
Music Videos , Videos Brockhampton, Echo, Kevin Abstract, Music Video, new, They Shoot Horses
Kevin Abstract, the artist at the helm of Brockhampton, released his new track and the video for it yesterday. The track, titled Echo, is a reflective song, written at the...
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How different would baseball be, if baseball were different?
We’re about to find out.
Baseball’s potential future will be showcased in the independent Atlantic League this year, and it includes robot umpires, a 62-foot, 6-inch distance between the pitcher’s mound and home plate, and no infield shifting.
Those three rule changes are among a wide variety of experiments that the Atlantic League will run this season as part of its new partnership with Major League Baseball. The changes, announced Friday, include:
• Using a TrackMan radar system to help umpires call balls and strikes
• Extending the distance between the pitching rubber from 60 feet, 6 inches to 62 feet, 6 inches in the second half of the season
• Mandating that two infielders are on each side of the second-base bag when a pitch is released, with the penalty being a ball
• A three-batter minimum for pitchers — a rule MLB and the MLB Players Association are considering for the 2020 season as they near an agreement on a smaller set of changes
• No mound visits, other than for pitching changes or injuries
• Increasing the size of first, second and third base from 15 inches to 18 inches
• Reducing the time between innings and pitching changes from 2 minutes, 5 seconds to 1 minute, 45 seconds
While MLB has long tested potential rule changes in the minor leagues, its three-year partnership with the Atlantic League — an eight-team league that features former major leaguers trying to return to affiliated ball — offers the ability to try more radical rules.
“This first group of experimental changes is designed to create more balls in play, defensive action, baserunning, and improve player safety,” Morgan Sword, MLB senior vice president, league economics and operations, said in a statement. “We look forward to seeing them in action in the Atlantic League.”
This story goes into more detail and analyzes how likely it is that MLB could adopt these changes, and how much effect they would have. Most of the proposals have been at least talked about for some time, with the possible exception of the base sizes, which are presumably to encourage more steal attempts. Like many people, I dislike the idea of restricting the ability of teams to field players wherever they want – bring on the weird defensive alignments, I say – but otherwise I am intrigued. And hey, one member of the Atlantic League is the Sugar Land Skeeters, so if I want to see what these changes look like with my own eyes, I can do that. What do you think? Craig Calcaterra and the Effectively Wild guys have more.
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Tagged: Atlantic League · Baseball · MLB · Skeeters · umpires
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N.M. Horwitz says:
I like shifts, and I love how teams have responded to them.
Moving back the pitcher’s mound seems pretty sacrilegious, though. What’s next? 80 foot base paths? Seven innings? Ties?
Three-batter minimums seem cruel. I like cutting down on mound visits and even am open to a pitch clock. Robots calling balls and strikes seems inevitable, but catcher framing is a huge part of that job. Bigger bases are whatever.
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MIPIM | 20th Floor Trees & Astonishing MCR Dreams
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Sir Peter Fahy: Response To King Street Protests
Chief Constable on the pro-Israeli pro-Palestinian clashes outside Kedem
Published on August 5th 2014.
GMP CHIEF Constable Sir Peter Fahy has called on King Street protesters to 'consider their position' as the protests continue to have a detrimental effect on businesses in the area.
"We as an organisation have to balance the powers we have to impose certain conditions on where people can protest and for how long with that fundamental democratic right to protest."
For nearly three weeks there have been protests and clashes outside the Kedem Cosmetics store on King Street between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli supporters.
The store, which stocks products imported from around the Dead Sea in Israel, has been boycotted by pro-Palestinian supporters, with pro-Israeli supporters turning out from Wednesday 23 July to protect the store.
One Palestinian sympathiser told Confidential at the protest on Wednesday 23 July: "We believe that any money sent to the Israel is a penny against peace in Palestine. That's why we're here today."
Kedem responded with a statement, telling Confidential:
"The ingredients are taken from an area of Israel which is Israeli owned and not on disputed territories. Our factory is in Caesarea North of Tel Aviv, which again is an Israeli owned territory and not on disputed territory.
"We are a British limited company employing British and European people."
Sir Peter Fahy
Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy released this statement on Monday 4 August:
"The protests in Manchester city centre over the last few weeks have placed Greater Manchester Police in the invidious and difficult position of being stuck in the middle trying to find a solution for all parties.
"The protests have also highlighted a very real issue about how best to strike that delicate balance between the right to protest and the potential damage to the residential and business community in the city centre and whether there are other means for people to express what are clearly very strong and emotional views rather than targeting one individual shop.
"Greater Manchester Police completely respects everyone’s right to lawful protest. It is the fundamental right of anyone in a democratic society to express their views through protest and we as a police force are committed to facilitating these demonstrations.
"Understandably, the situation in Gaza has provoked strong emotions among communities here in Greater Manchester which has resulted in almost daily protests by pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian supporters in Manchester city centre. We are now facing the very real prospect of tensions in another part of the world spilling onto the streets of Manchester and that poses a risk to community cohesion.
"Protests, by their very nature, can often result in a certain amount of tension and disturbance as people express strong views and emotions are heighted. While protest is a human right those involved should recognise the effect these protests have. But we must also recognise the affect these protests are having on the wider community living and working in the city centre and the disruption caused to local businesses.
"We as an organisation have to balance the powers we have to impose certain conditions on where people can protest and for how long with that fundamental democratic right to protest. We must always be asking ourselves in what circumstances the law actually allows us to impose these powers and whether or not it will either improve the situation or make it worse. We constantly keep this under review but I would say that experience has taught us that the best way to manage demonstrations is through negotiation and dialogue with the protestors, and I must stress that my officers have done a good job in challenging circumstances.
“There is a strong history of protest in Manchester but also a history of people from different races and religions respecting their differences and living peacefully alongside one another. We want, and encourage, healthy debate but the experience from past events is that tension in other parts of the world allow some to justify attacks against individuals, businesses or places of worship and this has affected various minority communities. In the instance of this protest, it is not a good thing that one particular businesses has become a focal point for the protest to the detriment of their business and other businesses in that area.
"We would ask all concerned to consider their position and whether there are other ways to express what are understandably very strong views and recognise the longer term risk to the wider community.
“Officers are monitoring closely the activities of those involved in this protest and will fully investigate anyone we suspect is breaching the criminal law."
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The mistakes customers make that annoy every tradesman!
On the tools team up with children’s charity Simon’s Heroes
Adam Barrie Jul 25, 2016
Heroes Wanted…apply within
On The Tools are working with a Tamworth based children’s charity ‘Simon’s Heroes’ to try and help the family of a local Window Fitter.
Ashley Round’s two year old son Charlie has recently been diagnosed with Neuroblastoma – a rare cancer of the nerve cells.
The condition was only finally diagnosed after constant pressure from Ashley and his wife Rachel after initially being told by Doctors that they needn’t worry too much about a sudden swelling which had appeared on the side of the toddler’s head.
His mother, Rachel, said: “Our baby boy was a fun-loving and happy child and he suddenly changed.
“He developed a lump in a strange shape on the side of his head literally overnight and when he tried to stand he could not stand and support himself.”
Since the stage 4 Cancer diagnosis Charlie has been admitted to hospital where he now faces 12 months of treatment which will include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and immunotherapy.
Both Ashley and Rachel have had to give up work to be with him and their seven-year-old daughter Olivia.
Family and friends of the brave toddler have rallied round to raise cash for the family who face a year of being in and out of hospital with little Charlie.
Tom Parker, a friend of Charlie’s dad Ashley, has set up a JustGiving page in a bid to raise cash for the family, as Ashley is self-employed.
He hopes to raise £20,000 for them – and as of today had hit the £14k mark.
If you would like to make a donation, CLICK HERE
Simon’s Heroes a Tamworth based charity which raises money for children with life limiting illnesses, have already got the family tickets to Harry Potter world and are also looking to support the Round family by revamping their garden for Charlie and his sister to enjoy during times when he is able to leave hospital.
They’ve asked for our help to find tradesmen willing to travel to Measham in Leicestershire to spare a few of hours to lay artificial turf and set up some play equipment (which we are hoping will be donated).
Measurements for the area are 2.1m x 7m
Follow Charlie’s story on Facebook here Charlie Round – My fight against neuroblastoma
If you can spare some time to help and be a hero for Charlie and his family then please message us through our Facebook page.
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Murder Investigation in Poinciana
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Osceola County Sheriff's detectives arrested and charged 19 year old Enmanuel Mendez (DOB 5/13/88) from Poinciana with murder in the death of Hakeem Ahmed Rasheed. A warrant was issued for Mendez on July 21 and detectives located him at a residence on Brixham Court at approximately 10:00 p.m. The investigation is on-going with additional charges pending.
UPDATE 8:14PM:
Osceola County - Osceola County Sheriff's detectives have confirmed the identity of the victim involved in a shooting last night in Poinciana. According to witnesses, the victim, Hakeem Ahmed Rasheed (DOB 3/28/84) from Poinciana was verbally arguing with a passenger in a green Pontiac Grand Prix. Shots were fired and the suspects in the Grand Prix fled the scene. As they were driving away, the suspects hit an unknown white car. Witnesses say the white car has damage. The driver of the white car followed the Grand Prix. Detectives are interested in speaking with the driver of the white car. Deputies recovered the green Grand Prix in Polk County.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Osceola County Sheriff's Office at (407) 348-2222 or Crimeline at (800) 423-TIPS (8477).
POINCIANA, Fla. -- Osceola County deputies are looking for the gunman who shot and killed a man outside of "The Food Spot" convenience store in the Town Center Drive Shopping Plaza in Poinciana. Apparently a man was found dead lying right outside the front door late Thursday evening.
There were early reports of an assault and then gunshots, but it was not clear what led up to the shooting.
"We are not sure at this time. We are going to talk to people in the area and hopefully find some witnesses and release that information as we get it," an Osceola County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said.
It's not clear if the man found dead was a result of a robbery, a fight, or something else that turned very violent. The police are keeping the known facts quiet at this point. "At this time, it's too early in the investigation to release anything about the suspect," the spokesperson said.
Deputies were searching for clues. They are interested in speaking with anyone who was around the store between the hours of 10:00pm and 11:00pm Thursday.
Detectives ask that anyone with information about the killing call the sheriff's office at 407-348-2222 or Crimeline at 800-423-8477.
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Popdose 2010: Rob Smith’s Top 10 Albums & Favorite Track
Written by Rob Smith• December 13, 2010• Listmania, Music
Popdose’s Rob Smith shares his Top Ten albums of 2010, plus his favorite track of the year.
I don’t have much to say as a benediction to 2010. While I enjoy a good disposable pop song as much as the next person, there were so damned many of them this year, it all just became white noise after a while. My moods tended to be a bit darker than usual, for whatever reason, so there were only so many times I could hear “California Gurls” or “Alejandro” or their ilk before tuning out.
That’s not to say I didn’t want to have fun—my album of the year, by the phenomenal Truth & Salvage Co., starts with a chorus about “heads full of reefer and … bellies full of beer.” I bobbed my head to the Roots and the awesome Nas/Damian Marley combo, and looked around for a lighter to hold up when listening to the new Manic Street Preachers record.
But none of these records are as ephemeral as I imagine Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, or others who have commandeered the radio this year. I imagine ten years from now, possibly on my fiftieth birthday, pulling up Truth & Salvage or Oranjuly on whatever we’ll use for music playback then, and listening with a smile. I can’t say I’ll remember any Ke$ha song then. In fact, I’m having trouble coming up with a Ke$ha song right now, as I’m writing this.
Anyway … Fare thee well, 2010. Here’s how I’ll remember you:
1. Truth & Salvage Co. – Truth & Salvage Co.
A marvelous amalgam of the Band’s brown album, the Stones’ Sticky Fingers, the fourth Black Crowes record, and the Eagles’ Desperado. Great songs, great harmonies, and a loose vibe make this one a keeper. I cannot wait to hear more.
2. The Black Keys – Brothers
The expanded sound of Attack and Release was an unexpected pleasure; here, the songs are tighter and catchier, the attack heavier, the overall effect more profound.
3. Nas & Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
They’re spotty on their own; together, they’re unstoppable. This could be the start of a bee-you-tee-ful friendship.
4. Against Me! – White Crosses
“Do you remember,” Tom Gabel asks, “when you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire?” On the band’s fifth studio album, Gabel is still setting things aflame, albeit with a more textured (dare I say Springsteenish) sonic approach.
5. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden – Jasmine
A sequel, of sorts, to Jarrett’s masterful solo set The Melody at Night with You. While not as transcendently beautiful as the earlier album, Jasmine has something special, namely bassist Haden, and the complex interplay between musicians that these masters accomplish effortlessly.
6. The Roots – How I Got Over
The best band on the planet right now—I don’t want to hear any argument to the contrary—delivers possibly their best record, recorded between nightly stints as the best television house band ever. And Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter still has the best stage name of any MC.
7. Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do
Another slice of kick-ass southern rock and roll from Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, and their crew. Hood’s stuff absolutely kills—”The Fourth Night of My Drinking,” “Fuck this Job,” and the heartbreaking “Daddy Learned to Fly” are the latest highlights in what’s become a classic oeuvre.
8. Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man
I’ve never heard consecutive albums as polar opposite as the Manics’ previous (the amazing Songs for Plague Lovers) and this one. Where the Steve Albini-produced Songs was acid-hot and loud to the point of distortion, Postcards is comprised of one expertly produced, radio-ready anthem after another. This is crazy big music, a stadium-sized blast of sound you have to hear to believe.
9. Oranjuly – Oranjuly
Up in Boston, mad genius Brian E. King creates classic American pop music, with knowing and loving nods to his forebears (Brian Wilson, Alex Chilton, Elliott Smith, among others). This concise, tuneful album introduces him to the masses, and, with any luck, will be only the first entry in a long discography.
10. Lucky Soul – A Coming of Age
Harkening back to classic girl group pop, this London-based act’s sophomore album extends the sound and themes of their debut (2007’s The Great Unwanted) and proves that such sounds are still worth making, when they’re made this well.
Track of the Year: Quasi, “Bye Bye Blackbird”
A churning, burning maelstrom of rock, playing with that well-trodden soft-loud-soft dynamic. It’s absolutely mind-melting when played at appropriate volume (really fucking loud). The album from whence it came, American Gong, was spotty, but this song hooked me and kept me hooked from the minute I heard it. Fantastic stuff.
Tags: Against Me!, Best of 2010, black keys, Charlie Haden, Damian Marley, Drive-By Truckers, Keith Jarrett, Listmania, Lucky Soul, Manic Street Preachers, Nas, Oranjuly, Rob Smith, The Black Keys, The Roots, Truth & Salvage Co. Last modified: December 12, 2010
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Quill for BARK 23.07.2003 15:06
Stop Old Growth Clear-Cutting in the Mt. Hood National Forest!
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call for a padded bloc at the Nov. 20-21 FTAA meetings in Miami (updated)
updated information on organizing for a padded contingent for the Nov. 20-21st FTAA meetings in Miami (with endorsers, logistics, and more) This contingent will take action with a determination to disrupt the meetings.
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YouthResistance
The purpose of the Front is to aknowledge that the purpose of the public education system has more to do with the system then it has to do with public education. The purpose of the Front is to organize a student resistance capable of going on strike, of self education, of fighting back. The purpose of the Front is to aknowledge that we're sick of this systematic mass therapy bullshit and to take the school out of the hands of the plutocracy, even if that means abandoning it.
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Dear One, My sweet brother
In the Dark of The Moon
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my prayers
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Lie of the Decade: Depleted Uranium Is Harmless
The American use of depleted uranium munitions in both Persian Gulf wars has unleashed a toxic disaster that will eclipse the Agent Orange tragedy of the Vietnam War. Early indications of depleted uranium hazards leads to coverup; U.S. veterans health problems untreated and ignored.
RedRed is a latina womyn from Portland facing a 5yr sentence on trumped up charges that she broke a window that was not broken until 2 days after her arrest during the Sacramento WTO/USDA protests. She needs our help to fight this outrageous charge! This Bike is a Pipe Bomb show will have ACBC cooking with all proceeds going to Red Red.
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What happens when you try to give congress "a taste of their own medicine"?
Sen. Mark Dayton has many of his colleagues smiling on the outside but fuming on the inside. He dropped an amendment he calls "a taste of our own medicine" on the Senate floor. The amendment requires senators to receive prescription drug benefits no greater than those being proposed for senior citizens. It so happens the benefits proposed for seniors are drastically inferior to those currently enjoyed by our illustrious senators. "I've never had so many dirty looks in my life," Dayton said of his colleagues' reaction to his amendment. "I didn't sense great enthusiasm for anything but to strangle me or have me removed from the building."
Daniel Patrick Welch - posted by Her Pinkness 23.07.2003 12:24
The Fire This Time: Why Kucinich May be the Right Guy at the Right Time
Maybe Kucinich can beat Bush. Here's an article discussing this question. Thoughts, anyone? (I know, I know, some of us think electoral politics are futile or worse ... ;~)
Robert Fisk 23.07.2003 12:17
Guerrilla War In Iraq Is Out of Control
The message of all this information - most of it unreported by the media - is that the Americans are no longer safe anywhere in Iraq.
Maureen Bowd NYTIMES (read this! from a mainstream paper!) 23.07.2003 11:19
Weapons of Mass Redaction
This correspondence from the Office of the Vice President to the ***** ****** ambassador to the U.S. was redacted by the Office of the Vice President for national and electoral security reasons:
DAN WHITE, Santa Cruz Sentinel 23.07.2003 10:59
Santa Cruz, CA Residents Push City Council To Support Bush Impeachment
SANTA CRUZ Angry peace protesters at City Hall displayed a realistic-looking, oversized layoff notice for President Bush on Tuesday, advising him to "vacate your office in 24 hours." "We want a resolution from the city to impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Powell, Wolfowitz and Condoleeza Rice," said Sherry Conable, active in the impeachment movement. She and others also want the City Council to beef up a local resolution opposing the U.S. Patriot Act, by directing the city government not to cooperate with its provisions.
JA 23.07.2003 10:49
10,000 PEOPLE PROTESTED IN L.A.!! -- WHY DIDN'T WE HEAR ABOUT IT!?
Did someone say the Peace movement was dead? Well, it's being reborn as an anti-Bush, Impeach or Pink-Slip the President, anti-Imperialist, End the Occupation, Out of Iraq, anti-Patriot Act, Anti-Corporate Control, Civil Liberties & Social Justice Movement -- and it had it's coming out party Friday evening in L.A.'s Century City Plaza!!
The Silence of the Lambswool Cardigans
Great article by Rebecca Solnit about the increasing separation of consumers from the producers of the products they consume.
Democracy Now! 23.07.2003 09:30
GOP Warns TV Stations Not to Air Ad Alleging Bush Mislead the Nation Over Iraq
Republican attorneys claim that it isn't the Bush administration who is guilty of misleading the country but the Democrats for running an anti-Bush TV spot. Only one station has refused to run the ad, a Fox station.
No Free Lunch 23.07.2003 08:54
FCC/Clear Channel protest today in Beaverton
While Clear Channel delivers a free lunch to listeners today, Code Pink and others will host a street sign protest of FCC Deregulation and Media Monopoly. Please join us at 11:30 at 8405 S.W. Nimbus (Off the 217 and Hall) at Creekside Corporate Park.
Join Code Pink at Creston Park Thursday, 5:30pm
Street sign action around bringing troops back from Iraq as they now appear to have been made into target fodder by Bush's arrogant comment of "Bring 'em on." In addition they are now not allowed to complain about their circumstances or "dis" rumsfeld, lest they be subject to punishment. Nope...no first amendment rights for those poor soldiers. There's another sign...."Free Speech for Soldiers." Sounds like they are the ones who need protecting.
Thursday 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Creston Park is on SE Powell and 42nd and there is shade along the street. It's about 2 blocks up from Safeway.
Come one, come all! We'll have extra signs, or bring your own.
HELP indymedia.org is down 23.07.2003 04:41
HELP indymedia.org is down
please give us the IP numbers.
Venik 23.07.2003 03:20
Uday and Qusey are dead. Again.
From the makers of "Saving Private Lynch" comes...
Dannyboy 23.07.2003 03:00
My investigation into indymedia.org probs
I did a quick investigation into what has gone wrong with the indymedia.org sites and here are the results...
Kristi 22.07.2003 22:18
Video documentary on RAFAH town in PALESTINE and RACHEL CORRIE
A powerful documentary exposing the horrendous violence perpetrated by the Israeli military in the town Rafah in occupied Palestine. It is also maybe the only film to date about the recent killings of three internationals there: Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, and James Miller. Very Powerful. Presented by a friend of Rachel's with discussion afterwards. Benefit for peacework in Palestine.
WHEN: Wed. july 30th 7pm WHERE: Liberty Hall 311 N Ivy St. $5--? sugg. donation (no one turned away)
Pentagon Bu**sh** 22.07.2003 21:40
Saddam's Sons Bodies "Too Shot Up To Identify"
Yet more lies from the Bush administration? I suppose you're shocked...
nevercalm! 22.07.2003 20:49
perle has a posse!
richard perle, chairman of the defense policy board and leading hawk, has a posse.
STEVE ARGUE 22.07.2003 20:21
A Closer Look At The Anti-War Candidates Of the Democrat Party
Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, Carol Mosely-Braun, and Al Sharpton, are painting their candidacies as anti-war.
Janet Biehl 22.07.2003 20:08
In our zeal to condemn the status quo, radicals often carelessly toss about epithets like "fascist" and "ecofascist," thus contributing to a sort of conceptual inflation that in no way furthers effective social critique. In such a situation, it is easy to overlook the fact that there are still virulent strains of fascism in our political culture which, however marginal, demand our attention.
kgw 22.07.2003 19:40
Justice for Women: Uday is dead!
A happy day for women everywhere, especially those in Iraq who were raped against their will by the vile twins.
James Boatwright 22.07.2003 19:40
Full support for the repeal of the "Military Retirement Foreiture Law"
I must reply to the writer who lauded Senator Warner (R VA) for his action in the 107th Congress
reposter: From the Cleveland Scene 3/19/03 22.07.2003 19:26
Reposted: The other Dennis Kucinich
The candidate is depicted as an opportunist and a career polititian. A man who has run for office 18 times in 35 years, voted to support a Constitutional ban on flag burning, and one of just 31 democrats who supported Clinton's impeachment: this is the other Dennis Kucinich.
Dan 22.07.2003 19:12
Concurrent Receipt
Do not water down the Senate amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act regarding Restoration of Retired Pay to Disabled Military Retirees.
Her Pinkness 22.07.2003 19:08
An Evening with Medea Benjamin - Aug. 19 at PSU
Code Pink Portland is proud to cosponsor an evening with Medea Benjamin.
- Tuesday, August 19th at 6pm
- PSU Smith Center Ballroom
- Presented by the PSU Progressive Student Union
- 6pm: video on Venezuela
- 7pm: speakers program
Thom 22.07.2003 19:06
Military Disability Tax
In the Senate it is called S 392. In the House it is called H R 303. In the real world it is called the DISABLED VETERANS TAX
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Remnants of Borg
Last autumn, Thomas Creek Lumber logged half of the units of a timber sale named Borg, a beautiful set of ancient trees located in the Oak Grove Watershed of Mt. Hood National Forest. An injunction has been placed on this timber sale until October. Please visit this sale and other beautiful sales such as Bear, Cub, Solo, Hipo, East & West 5-mile, and Tarzan before the lumber companies cut them this summer or autumn.
Varro 22.07.2003 17:43
Most Serious Charges Against Lynne Stewart DISMISSED
Two most serious charges against Lynne Stewart dismissed - Judge rules application of anti-terrorism statute to Stewart "unconstitutionally vague."
Joanna Macy 22.07.2003 17:14
Joanna Macy - support Dennis Kucinich
Dear People,
I just wrote these words in support of a presidential candidate:
Subcomandante Marcos 22.07.2003 16:18
Some Changes
Marcos' most recent comment on the system.
sorry doesn't cover it 22.07.2003 16:10
Bush Adviser "Apologizes" Over Iraq Claim
Stephen Hadley, President Bush's deputy national security adviser... became the second administration official to apologize for allowing a tainted intelligence report on Iraq's nuclear ambitions into Bush's State of the Union address... "There were a number of people who could have raised a hand" to have the passage removed from the draft of Bush's Jan. 28 address, Hadley said. "And no one raised a hand."
Craft6 22.07.2003 15:49
Should Bush dump Ashcroft?
Republican victories in the past few decades have come with substantial support from libertarians and libertarian-leaning conservatives, who usually view the GOP as the lesser of two evils.
Goedart Palm 22.07.2003 15:42
On the Human Right to Laziness
"Paul Lafargue spoke satirically about the first sinister acceleration thrusts of early industry: "All individual and social misery comes from a passion for work. O laziness, be merciful with your endless misery! O laziness, mother of the arts and the noble virtues, you are the balm for the pains of humanity!" However like all satires this should not be taken seriously." Translated from the German in the cyber journal Telepolis2001
Benefit Movie Showing for Break the Chains Conference
WHat: Slam, starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn
When: Monday, July 28th at 7PM
WHere: The Know, 2026 NE ALberta
Why: Proceeds to benefit the organizing of the Break the Chains Conference in Eugene From August 8-10 at the Univeristy of Oregon
repost from sf.indymedia.org 22.07.2003 14:44
Leading Democrats Go AWOL on Overtime Vote - Except Kucinich, of course
On Thursday, the House of Representativeswith seven Democrats absent, including presidential candidate Richard Gephardtvoted 213 to 210 to approve new regulations that would cut off a universe of Americansanywhere from 1 million to 8 millionfrom guaranteed overtime pay. Under the new rules, backed by the Bush administration and campaigned for heavily by business lobbyists, those employees would still have to put in extra hours. They just wouldn't get any extra pay.
Kucinich v Dean
Where broad agreement exists, I've omitted the issue to save space.
I've also omitted issues where one candidate has no stated position I could find,
even though this is a measure of a candidate's relative concern for and familiarity with issues.
Jayson 22.07.2003 13:56
Private Lynch Returns to Palestine
Firetruck 22.07.2003 13:51
Dean Stuff
Avi Zel-Aviv 22.07.2003 13:50
We are all Palestinians
Avi Zer-Aviv was one of six human rights activists arrested by the Israeli army earlier this month for removing roadblocks in the villages of Iraq Bureen and Tell just outside Nablus.
Post-it Hippie 22.07.2003 13:42
Endorsement search
Looking for endorsers
CNN: Half the News, All the Time 22.07.2003 13:37
CNN: Saddam's Sons Confirmed Dead; Bush, Blair, Cheney Still At Large
CNN is reporting that Saddam's sons,Qusay and Uday, have been killed by U.S. troops. Meanwhile, war criminals Bush, Blair, Cheney, and Rumsfeld are still at large.
portlander 22.07.2003 13:20
Statement from Randy Hayes (president, Rainforest Action Network)
"Economic policy turns out to be the most important environmental policy. Kucinich is the only presidential candidate calling for the elimination of the World Trade Organization. That alone would do more to support nature's needs than any other environmental action. Vote for Kucinich."
PINA 22.07.2003 13:00
Mysterious Diseases Haunt U.S. Troops In Iraq
U.S. soldiers deployed around Baghdad airport started showing symptoms of mysterious fever, itching, scars and dark brown spots on the skin. Three soldiers who suffered these symptoms did not respond to medical treatment in Iraqi hospitals and were flown to Washington for medication.
Kroeker to announce discipline of McCollister - maybe today
from today's Ptld Tribune - Scott McCollister to meet with the chief today to "air his side of the shooting."
Deanna L. Taylor 22.07.2003 12:50
Peace Activists go to Trial for Civil Resistance Act
Eight Utah Peace Activists had their day in court for resisting the Iraq Invasion.
Firas Al-Atraqchi 22.07.2003 12:50
Many Iraqis Reject U.S.-Appointed Iraqi Governing Council
In what has become a nearly daily event, increasing numbers of Iraqis and Iraqi political organizations are voicing their deep criticism and rejection of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
reclaimthemedia.org 22.07.2003 12:06
FCC Orders LPFM Off The Air
In what's believed to be the first case in which a low-powered station has been silenced by the commission, Frank Patterson's WFBP- LP/Taylors, SC has had its "license to cover" dismissed. Additionally, the FCC set aside an amendment filed by Patterson that sought the relocation of WFBP from 106.1 MHz to another frequency.
Middle East Online 22.07.2003 11:46
Perle: Finding Iraqi WMD may take 200 years
"We don't know where to look for them and we never did know where to look for them," he admitted.
Richard Cohen 22.07.2003 11:41
Bu$h the Believer
Is George Bush the Iraq war's "useful idiot"?
U.S. Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners Includes Beatings, Shootings
Now here's a story to shame us all. It's about America's shameful prison camps in Iraq. It's about the beating of prisoners during interrogation.
Green Party Press Release 22.07.2003 11:35
Greens Call for Impeachment of Bush, Withdrawal of Troops by the Winter Holidays
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On the final day of the 2003 national meeting of the Green Party of the United States, delegates from state Green Parties represented in the national party's Coordinating Committee approved two major proposals: (1) The Green Party endorsed a call to Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings and resolved to take political leadership in the growing movement for impeachment. (2) Greens endorsed a "Home by the Holidays" campaign calling for the U.S. to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, and the Philippines, with this year's winter holidays as a deadline for total return of military personnel.
P. M. Carpenter 22.07.2003 11:24
U.S. Citizens Duped by Implausible Denial
As the Bush administration trots out wholly implausible deniability over its commander in chief's detachment from American intelligence findings, something far more troublesome inhabits the land: those millions of Americans who have settled into a state of denial about their recidivist president and his handlers.
BERNARD ESTRADE, The Daily Telegraph 22.07.2003 11:03
Medals for the U.S. Hero That Wasn't
Medals for car collision victim Jessica Lynch, almost as hollow as awarding mass murderer Blair a Congressional gold medal. "Every war needs a hero... the facts don't matter."
Dixie Chicks 22.07.2003 10:58
Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote!
rock the vote launches new online voter registration campaign with the dixie chicks
D0m 22.07.2003 09:50
Who's Unpatriotic Now?
I found this article on the NY times and wanted to share with Portland the link to the picture
Will the U.N. Bail Out Bush?
There is probably only one way that Bush can save his presidency at this point.
But the cost in personnel, policy and pride will be extremely high.
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The NAMM Show 2018: Saturday Report: Andy Grammer, Nolan Neal, others
Another fine NAMM Show drew to a close in Orange County, Calif. this past Sunday.
Over the course of four days, the huge music trade show drew more than 100,000 industry professionals and a couple thousand exhibitors from around the world.
Held annually at the Anaheim Convention Center and adjoining hotels, The NAMM Show was definitely improved by a recently completed expansion that added 200,000 square feet of booth space.
From new product demonstrations, displays, education sessions, training and discussions to artist appearances, signings and live performances, there is always plenty to do. It’s nearly impossible to get everything you want out of NAMM (the National Association of Music Merchandisers) in a single day though. Somehow, I still managed to experience an array of live music and activities Saturday during my dozen hours on site.
The morning started with the NAMM U Breakfast Session at the Hilton Hotel's Pacific Ballroom. Stanton Moore (pictured, below), drummer for New Orleans jazz-rock band Galactic, was the featured entertainment.
photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for NAMM
Joined by a keyboardist, the pair laid down some tasty grooves, including a sumptuous version of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Several music companies were commemorated to mark their 50th anniversary. Marcus Sheridan (AKA The Sales Lion) followed with a talk about the current makeup of the digital consumer.
While briskly making my way through the main convention center floor, I was stopped in my tracks by Dixie Jade at the Sennheiser microphones booth. The Nashville-based female country duo sported some gorgeous harmonies, especially during “Blame it on Me” and “I Can’t Turn You Off.”
As the lunchtime crowd waited in long food truck lines, Street Light Cadence played the Grand Plaza Stage. The Hawaii-bred, LA-based trio played pleasant alternative/folk/pop tunes on accordion, violin and cello. They closed with a feisty cover of the Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
Last year at NAMM, I missed Kenny Charles and the Open Road when a scheduled indoor performance was cancelled (a torrential rainstorm caused problems everywhere), so I was glad to finally see them on Saturday afternoon for the first time.
photo: George A. Paul
Charles is a SoCal native who has received radio airplay on Coachella Valley radio station KIX Hot Country 92.1/96.3 FM for the song “Kiss Me if You Dare.” It was part of a mighty impressive 40-minute set outside at the Arena Plaza Stage.
The band kicked off with a rousing “Drunk Wedding Day” from solid 2016 album “Lightning in a Bottle. The Keith Urban-esque “Cussin’ & Fussin’” and heartland rock vibe of “I Get That” were early standouts. Charles provided background on the songs. He said the outlaw country tune “The Drifter” was inspired by repeated viewings of the 2009 Jeff Bridges music-themed drama “Crazy Heart.”
An appealing “Black Rose” brought to mind the best Goo Goo Dolls material, while the early ‘70s Laurel Canyon country rock scene influenced “Every Bullet.” Later, a party song about Saturday Night name checked Billy Ray Cyrus, Brooks & Dunn and Trace Adkins in the lyrics. Charles and company closed with a credible, spirited take on Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl.”
Back over at the convention center, the Taylor Guitars room hosted Nolan Neal. The bearded rock musician – who has toured or performed with Hinder, Tonic, Saliva and Shinedown – did a compelling 50-minute late afternoon set with several special guests.
Playing acoustic guitar and backed by a percussionist, Neal fared best during the quiet ballad “I’ll Be Fine” and an intense “Lost.” The latter, about past struggles with addiction, saw him really belt the vocal out.
Aaron Gibson, a fellow former contestant on NBC’s “The Voice,” joined for solid covers of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' “Into the Great Wide Open” and R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion.” Dixie Jade contributed sweet harmonies on a tune and Neal finished with his popular song from the TV show: Elton John & Bernie Taupin’s “Tiny Dancer.”
Andy Grammer (pictured, top) headlined the Imagine Party, the big evening show on the Grand Plaza sponsored by the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. “I play a lot of shows and this one is special,” he said, about a quarter way through the 85-minute set. “You are my people. Music is the love we all share.”
The LA-based pop/soul musician was exuberant throughout the concert. Backed by a four-piece band, Grammer played keyboards as they launched with his first two singles from 2011: the infectious platinum-seller “Keep Your Head Up” and insanely catchy “Fine by Me.”
After noting that “Always,” the first of 10 (!) tracks off engaging 2017 album “The Good Parts” was written for his infant daughter while in the womb, Grammer worked both sides of the stage and even played the song’s trumpet break.
There was some fun beat boxing and audience call and response action during the lively “85”; the older selection “The Pocket” had a 1970s Jackson 5 vibe, complete with keytar. Grammer did a snippet of Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars” and playfully demonstrated a vocoder (with a bit of The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love”).
Meanwhile, the musicians often did synchronized moves. The smooth R&B-meets EDM of 2016 gold single “Fresh Eyes” went down well with fans, as did the final stretch of hits like the frantic “Honey, I’m Good” (where many people danced up a storm), a breezy cover of Maroon 5’s “Sunday Morning” and another hit, the sprightly “Good to Be Alive (Hallelujah).”
Andy Grammer, Nolan Neal photos by Bob Steshetz
Elton John's Farewell Tour dates
Kicking off in the U.S. on Sept. 8, Elton John's ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road’ tour will consist of more than 300 shows across five continents, hitting North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australasia before reaching its conclusion in 2021.
These dates mark his last-ever tour. Elton’s new stage production will take his fans on a musical and highly visual journey spanning a 50-year career.
“Performing live fuels me and I’m ecstatic and humbled to continue to play to audiences across the globe,” said Elton. “I plan to bring the passion and creativity that has entertained my fans for decades to my final tour. After the tour finishes, I’m very much looking forward to closing off that chapter of my life by saying farewell to life on the road. I need to dedicate more time to raising my children.”
Tickets for initial shows listed below go on sale to the general public beginning February 2 at 10 a.m. local.Tickets and VIP packages can be purchased at EltonJohn.com.
American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets in advance in North America beginning Thursday January 25 at 10 a.m. local time, through Monday January 29 at 10 p.m. local time. A limited number of exclusive VIP Packages will also be available for sale starting Thursday January 25 at 10 a.m. local time.
These exclusive offers can include premium tickets, on-stage photo opportunities at Elton John’s piano, backstage tours, limited-edition lithographs, custom merchandise and much more.
The ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour’ pre-sale is powered by Ticketmaster Verified Fan (Ticketmaster’s fan-first technology, built to help artists combat ticket bots and get tickets into the hands of fans that intend to go to the event).
Tickets for the tour will be available through registration using Ticketmaster Verified Fan. Registration opens Wednesday January 24 and continues until Saturday January 27. Pre-sale will begin Tuesday January 30 at 10 a.m. and run through Wednesday January 31 at 10 p.m. (all times are local); supplies are limited. Registration is required to participate in the TM Verified Fan Pre-sale.
For more information and to register, visit EltonJohn.com
It was also announced at today’s launch that Gucci will be exclusively designing Elton’s ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road’ tour wardrobe. Elton admires the Italian fashion house which last year unveiled its S/S 2018 collection - designed by Creative Director, Alessandro Michele and inspired by Elton’s inimitable style, referencing original items taken from his iconic style archives.
The Wells Fargo Center
KeyBank Center
XL Center
Capital One Arena
Canadian Tire Centre
Québec City, QC
Videotron Centre
Van Andel Arena
Scottrade Center
Schottenstein Center
Quicken Loans Arena
BB&T Center
AmericanAirlines Arena
Amway Center
Legacy Arena at The BJCC
Taco Bell Arena
Golden1 Center
Oracle Arena
SAP Center at San Jose
Gila River Arena
Valley View Casino Center
Pepsi Center
CenturyLink Center
Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center
U.S. Bank Arena
Times Union Center
PNC Arena
Colonial Life Arena
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
NORTH AMERICA – Fall 2019 - On Sale from December 7, 2018
Anaheim * Baltimore * Bossier City * Calgary * Charlotte * Chattanooga * Des Moines * Edmonton * Eugene * Grand Forks * Green Bay * Greenville * Indianapolis * Las Vegas * Lexington * Long Island * Madison * Manchester * Newark * Memphis * N. Little Rock * Oklahoma City * Peoria * Regina * Salt Lake City * San Francisco * Saskatoon * Sioux Falls * Tacoma * Wichita * Winnipeg * Vancouver
UK - 2019/2020 - On Sale TBA
Plymouth * Cardiff * Brighton * London * Liverpool * Leeds * Aberdeen * Glasgow * Sheffield * Birmingham * Newcastle * Nottingham * Manchester
EUROPE - 2019/2020 - On Sale TBA
Paris * Bordeaux * Marseille * Lyon * Nimes ** Madrid * Zaragoza * Valencia * Palma * Malaga * Seville ** Cologne * Mannheim * Leipzig * Berlin * Hamburg ** Rome * Lucca * Bologna * Milan ** Faro * Lisbon * Oporto ** St Petersburg * Moscow ** Tel Aviv ** Oslo ** Stockholm ** Helsinki ** Vilnius ** Riga ** Tallinn ** Wroclaw ** Budapest ** Graz * Linz ** Liechtenstein ** Bern ** Andorra
ASIA - November/December 2019 - On Sale from November 1, 2018
Tokyo * Hong Kong * Singapore * Seoul * ADDITIONAL MARKETS TO FOLLOW
SOUTH AMERICA - 2020 - On Sale September 2019
Sao Paulo * Rio de Janeiro * Belo Horizonte * Porto Alegre * Buenos Aires * Santiago
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND - Late 2019, early 2020 - On Sale November 26, 2018
Sydney * Melbourne * Brisbane * Adelaide * Perth * ADDITIONAL REGIONAL AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND MARKETS TO FOLLOW
*Markets/on-sale dates subject to change
The NAMM Show '18 news: Taylor Guitars stage performance schedule
Taylor Guitars has released its artist lineup set to perform on the Taylor Stage at the 2018 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.
This year’s showcase brings exciting new acts including rising international singer songwriters, sensational bluegrass stylings, popular US acoustic acts and more.
Leading off the show performances on Thursday, January 24 will be three incredible Japanese singer songwriters - Ai Fujimori, CJ Li, Natsumi Miki. Fujimori is a passionate acoustic performer with a devoted following in Japan. Li hails as a Canadian pop singer songwriter with over 1 million views on YouTube and has performed in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics while Miki boasts a unique playing style and loyal fanbase. Fujimori, Li and Miki all participated in Taylor Guitars “IZU Sessions” video series in Japan in collaboration with Yamano which can be found on the Taylor Guitars YouTube Channel.
Thursday will be rounded out by the sensational bluegrass band, Barefoot Movement by way of Nashville, TN. Winner of the 2014 IMBA Momentum Band Of The Year Award, Barefoot Movement is known for delivering a heartfelt, energetic and down home style that will put a punctuation mark on the inaugural day of 2018 Winter NAMM Show.
Friday, January 25 NAMM goers will be treated to the California country band - Sour Blossom. Based in Los Angeles, members Sean Verchick, Josiah Rosen and Carly Simmons draw inspiration from legendary California artists such as The Eagles, Neil Young and Carole King.
YouTube sensation and San Diego native, Elise Trouw will then dazzle the crowd with her muti-instrumental abilities using loop technology to create an impressive, full band sound from just one person. Trouw’s videos receive millions of views, like her mashup “Everlong” by Foo Fighters and “What You Won’t Do for Love” by Bobby Caldwell.
Closing out Friday will be a joint performance from singer songwriters Will Champlin and Kurt Hugo. Will Champlin is best known for his appearance on NBC’s The Voice while Kurt Hugo is a multi-talented musical YouTube star with nearly 10 million subscribers.
The final day of Taylor Stage performances, Saturday will be kicked off by the 15 year old country music sensation and California native, Brennley Brown. Brennley also appeared on Season 12 of The Voice.
Another The Voice alum and Nashville native, musical artist Nolan Neal will perform next offering up his soulful acoustic act.
Saturday’s performances will end with - Miyavi - a talented Japanese musician, actor and philanthropist with a unique percussive guitar style. He was appointed as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in November 2017 and is also known for his lauded acting performance in Unbroken in 2014.
Fans attending the NAMM Show are welcome to view the performances live by visiting the Taylor Room located at 213 ABC in the Anaheim Convention Center.
Taylor Guitars NAMM Performance Schedule*
● 4pm: Barefoot Movement
● 5pm: Ai Fujimori, CJ Li, Natsumi Miki
● 3pm: Sour Blossom
● 4pm: Elise Trouw
● 5pm: Will Champlin and Kurt Hugo
● 3pm: Brennley Brown
● 4pm: Nolan Neal
● 5pm: Miyavi
*Acts are subject to change
About Taylor Guitars
Founded in 1974, Taylor Guitars is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of premium acoustic guitars. Renowned for blending an innovative use of modern technology with a master craftsman’s attention to detail, Taylor guitars are widely considered among the best sounding and easiest to play in the world. Many of today’s leading musicians make Taylor their guitar of choice, including Jason Mraz, Zac Brown and Taylor Swift, among many others.
Note: The NAMM Show is not open to the public.
Daryl Hall & John Oates, Train to team for summer tour
photo: Kelly Swift
I really enjoyed covering Hall & Oates last year when they played Staples Center with Tears for Fears (see review elsewhere on this blog). Now they'll be hitting the road again. Read on below...
Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train announced a co-headline North American summer tour, kicking off in May in Sacramento and wrapping in August in Seattle, WA. This marks the first time legendary duo will tour together with the Pat Monahan-fronted band. Fans can expect full sets from both acts, followed by a joint set.
Tickets for the tour go on sale to the general public beginning Monday, January 29 at 10am local time in most cities on LiveNation.com. Please see below for full tour itinerary and details.
Daryl Hall said of the summer outing, "This is going to be a tour filled with fun as well as great music. I love Train, and have a close relationship with Pat Monahan, going back to our 'Live From Daryl's House' show together."
"Looking forward to an amazing tour with our buddies from Train and seeing all our fans around the country in 2018," added John Oates.
"I've known Daryl Hall and John Oates for a few years now and after being their fan my entire life, we now get to tour with them and spend time with legends in the world of music. This will be a career highlight for all of us in Train and a show that you won't want to miss," said Pat Monahan.
The 2018 tour also marks the return of Daryl Hall and John Oates' HoagieNation Festival, taking place Saturday, May 26 in their hometown of Philadelphia at the Festival Pier. The annual celebration of food, music and culture will include tour mates Train as well as special guests Fitz and the Tantrums, Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers, and more to be announced. There will also be a pre-party Friday, May 25 at the Fillmore Philadelphia, complete with live music and an exclusive culinary experience. Full festival details at www.HoagieNation.com.
Citi® is the official presale credit card for the Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train tour. As such, Citi® cardmembers will have access to purchase U.S. presale tickets beginning Tuesday, January 23 at 10am local time until Sunday, January 28 at 10pm local time through Citi's Private Pass® program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
Golden 1 Center
SAP Center
Honda Center
HoagieNation Festival
Tue Jun 05
Thu Jun 07
Xfinity Center
Mon Jun 11
Spectrum Center
Wed Jun 20
Fri Jun 22
Chesapeake Energy Arena
Viejas Arena
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The NAMM Show '18 news: John Lennon Tour Bus, party with Andy Grammer
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, the non-profit 501(c)(3) state-of-the-art mobile production facility that provides hands-on experiences for students of all ages, presented by Other World Computing (OWC), makes its return to The 2018 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center with special guests Bootsy Collins, the legendary funk/R&B bass player, and Andy Grammer (pictured), a multi-platinum pop recording artist.
Kicking off at NAMM, and chock full of new gear and equipment, the Lennon Bus will stop in cities across America throughout the year including Sacramento, Texas, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Miami and many more.
Throughout The 2018 NAMM Show, the Lennon Bus will be parked on the central Grand Plaza in front of the Anaheim Convention Center. The Lennon Bus will offer trade show attendees interactive tours and will showcase the updated display of state-of-the-art equipment and gear, advanced recording technology, and innovative capabilities with products provided by OWC – the official presenting sponsor of the 2018 Lennon Bus Tour.
Highlights include:
· Saturday, January 27 from 6:00 -7:30 p.m., Collins will host the annual John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Imagine Party featuring a performance from Grammer. In addition to hosting, Collins will take the stage with local Anaheim students to perform “Together We Can," a song he first recorded on the Lennon Bus in New York City.
· Saturday January 27 at 11 a.m., Collins will host the Funk Off. at OWC Booth 11802. Open to anyone, Collins will judge contestant’s bass skills. The top five finalists will take home OWC gear and move on to the finals, which will take place live on stage at the Imagine Party. The winner, picked by Collins, will win his signed Yamaha bass guitar and an OWC package.
· Thursday, January 25 – Sunday, January 28, attendees will be able to win free, limited-edition OWC / Lennon Bus T-shirts with an onsite game at OWC Booth 11802.
This year, the Lennon Bus will be premiering many new features. The Lennon Bus studios and the demo tent will be powered by the new Apple iMac Pro with additional 5K displays providing an expansive monitoring system for editing ultra-high definition video and photography. OWC’s innovative products provide the bus with fast, dependable and silent storage solutions.
Musicians onboard the Lennon Bus will now get to pair Yamaha electric guitars with Yamaha guitar amps including the THR10C combo and the THR100H dual head with the THRC212 cabinet. The Yamaha MX61BU will be the new featured synth keyboard in the demo tent and all support products are now provided by K&M Stands.
A new feature in the Lennon Bus demo tent is the Creator’s Station. In this space, visitors can participate in an interactive experience using an Apple iPad Pro, Audio-Technica’s iOS-compatible AT2020USBi microphone and ATH-M50x headphones. During select events throughout the year, visitors can participate in a project entitled “What does peace mean to you?” by recording their unique answer in the Creator’s Station. The audio, photos and b-roll captured for this activation, from students of all ages across the country, will lay the foundation for an original short film.
LENNON BUS AT NAMM SCHEDULE
Lennon Bus Interactive Tours
Wednesday, January 24 – 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Thursday, January 25 – 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Friday, January 26 – 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Saturday, January 27 – 10:00AM – 3:00PM
Sunday, January 28 - 10:00AM – 5:00PM
2:00PM - 4:00PM - NAMM FOUNDATION PANEL w/ Lennon Bus - Hilton, Lower Level, Catalina 7
Table 1 - Working with Schools to Advance Music Education
12:00PM - Olivia Millerschin (John Lennon Songwriting Contest NAMM Show Winner) performs on stage in Grand Plaza
2:00PM - Giveaways at Lennon Bus
11:00AM - FUNK OFF w/ Bootsy Collins at OWC Booth 11802
12:00PM - Common Souls (John Lennon Songwriting Contest Song of the Year Winner) performs on stage in Grand Plaza
5:00PM - Press/VIP Badge Pickup at Lennon Tent
6:00PM - 7:30PM - Imagine Party:
Bootsy Collins performs with Anaheim Students "Together We Can"
Funk Off finals - Winner takes home Bootsy's Yamaha Bass & OWC Package
Andy Grammer performs
ABOUT THE JOHN LENNON EDUCATIONAL TOUR BUS
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus presented by Other World Computing (OWC) is a non-profit state-of-the-art mobile Pro Audio and HD video recording facility that provides hands-on experiences for students of all ages. In its 21st year of touring, the Lennon Bus features the latest audio and video technology, gear and products. The concept began as an offshoot of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, dedicated to providing opportunities for both professional and amateur songwriters around the world; proceeds from which help support the Lennon Bus. The Lennon Bus travels across the U.S. and Canada year-round, providing free tours and workshops at schools, retailers, festivals, on tours with headlining artists, and at major industry conferences. Lennon Bus Europe began providing these same opportunities to the young people of Europe when it launched in Liverpool, UK in May 2013.
The Lennon Bus is made possible by Yoko Ono Lennon and the following sponsors and contributors: Apple, Inc., Other World Computing, Canon U.S.A., Inc., Nearpod, Juniper Networks, Yamaha, Securematics, Neutrik, The NAMM Foundation, Ruckus Wireless, Avid, Audio-Technica, Genelec, K&M Stands, Sonnet Technologies, Focusrite, SSL, NewTek, Reflecmedia, Viprinet, Baker & McKenzie, Litepanels, Clear-Com, Anton/Bauer, AJA, Copperpeace, Applied Acoustics Systems, Mobile Roadie, McDSP, Native Instruments, IK Multimedia, Noise Industries, iZotope, Mad Mimi, Ableton, Mackie, Guitar Player, Bass Player, Electronic Musician, Keyboard Magazine, SKB, and LiveU.
ABOUT OTHER WORLD COMPUTING
Having served the Apple community worldwide since 1988, OWC has become the reliable manufacturer and upgrade provider of choice for Apple and PC enthusiasts with its extensive catalog of accessories, storage, and memory upgrades for nearly every Mac made in the last decade. Recognized for award-winning customer service, OWC provides extensive U.S.-based technical support for Mac and PC users around the world and comprehensive step-by-step installation and support videos.
ABOUT THE NAMM FOUNDATION
The NAMM Foundation is a non-profit supported in part by the National Association of Music Merchants and its 10,300 members around the world. The NAMM Foundation works to advance active participation in music making across the lifespan by supporting scientific research, philanthropic giving and public service programs. For more information about The NAMM Foundation, please visit http://www.nammfoundation.org, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
The long-awaited return of Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn just revealed her new single “Queen,” the first song to be taken from her first solo album of entirely original material in seven years. Titled Record, it will be released on March 2.
Watch the Carol Morley-directed video for “Queen” now, and pre-order the album on CD and smoky red Peak Vinyl in the Merge store, where each format can be bundled with a beautiful full-color Tracey Thorn zine featuring 20 pages of handwritten lyrics and photos from the recording sessions. The record is also available for pre-order through your preferred independent record store and digital music service.
Watch & share the music video for Tracey Thorn’s “Queen” now
Describing “Queen,” Tracey says: “It’s a great opener for the album. Driven along by Ewan Pearson’s unashamedly glittering electro-pop production, and drums and bass from Warpaint’s Stella and Jenny, it features me playing electric guitar for the first time in a while, and singing my heart out.”
As ever, the personal has often been political in Tracey Thorn’s work. “Nine feminist bangers,” Tracey jokes when asked to describe Record. If this album is in part about freedom and disenthrallment, new single “Queen” is the opening broadside, all personal fire and desire. Her voice, self-assured and richly textured yet confessional and affecting, spits out the lyrics on Record with a fresh, compelling drive and remains one of the finest female pop voices of the last four decades.
“I think I’ve always written songs which chronicle the milestones of a woman’s life,” she says. “Different ages and stages, different realities not often discussed in pop lyrics. If 2010’s Love and Its Opposite was my mid-life album—full of divorce and hormones—then Record represents that sense of liberation that comes in the aftermath, from embarking on a whole new ‘no fucks given’ phase of life.”
On Record, the synth-driven tracks arrive and leave with a punchy sub-three-minute directness. “I wanted it to be a record you’d listen to in the daytime,” Tracey says. “On your headphones or on the move. Not necessarily in the evening, or in your bedroom.” For all its no-fuss pop brevity, the album rotates around “Sister,” a dubby nine-minute Compass Point-style disco jam where Tracey is joined again by Warpaint’s rhythm section and glorious backing vocals from Corinne Bailey Rae.
Across four decades, Tracey’s songs and writing have offered up a clear-eyed woman’s view of the immediate world around her, from the acerbic teen love songs of her first early-eighties band Marine Girls, through sixteen years as one half of articulate multi-million-selling duo Everything But The Girl, to her recent acclaimed memoirs and journalism.
2. Air
3. Guitar
5. Sister
6. Go
7. Babies
8. Face
9. Dancefloor
Josh Rouse tackles 'Love in the Modern Age'
Singer-songwriter Josh Rouse will release his new album Love in the Modern Age on April 13 via Yep Roc Records. Forbes premieres the 1980's inspired single "Businessman" with an exclusive interview.
Read the full interview at Forbes and stream/embed the track here:
https://youtu.be/Kqn-yZ1Gw7U
Similar to his work on his album 1972 where he captured the aesthetics of a specific moment in time, Josh’s new album Love in the Modern Age takes inspiration from the sound and production of early 1980's releases by The Blue Nile, The Style Council and Prefab Sprout.
Also serving as inspiration were Roxy Music’s Avalon, Leonard Cohen's Various Positions and I'm Your Man. Non-ironic touches like sax, handclaps, reverbed guitar, backing vocals and keyboards give the moody but infectious songs a New Romantic flair.
Josh Rouse has solidified his status as one of his generation's most acclaimed songwriters in both the US and Europe, where he's lived on and off since 2004. Spending the better part of a year touring behind his critically acclaimed eleventh album, The Embers of Time, Rouse was ready for a change.
"Coming off such a heavy record, I wanted to try something different," he explains. "I wanted to explore new sounds and write with a fresh backdrop." Trading in his trusty acoustic guitar for a synthesizer, Love in the Modern Age still bears Rouse's distinct fingerprints even as it pushes his limits and forges a bold new chapter more than twenty years into his celebrated career.
Late last year, Rouse released the title track, "Love in the Modern Age" and Official Video as part of his Pledgemusic Campaign. Listen to the track and watch his epic campaign video at https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/loveinthemodernage. Second single "Businessman" is also available today as an instant grat track.
Album available for pre-order here: https://lnk.to/joshrouse
Josh Rouse will kick off his tour in the UK in April, followed by North America in May.
May 9 - Washington, D.C. @Union Stage
May 12 - Cambridge, MA @Club Passim
May 13 - Philadelphia, PA @World Cafe Live
May 15 - Toronto, ON @Horseshoe Tavern
May 16 - Ferndale, MI @The Magic Bag
May 17 - Evanston, IL @SPACE
May 19 - Minneapolis, MN @Dakota
May 20 - Milwaukee, WI @The Back Room @Colectivo
May 24 - Nashville, TN @3rd & Lindsley
May 25 - Atlanta, GA @Terminal West
Click HERE for a full list of UK/North American dates.
Afghan Whigs, Built To Spill inaugural tour together
The Afghan Whigs and Built To Spill are teaming up for a North American tour in April and May.
This is the first time the two bands have toured together.
Special guests Rituals Of Mine (April 11th – 25th) and Ed Harcourt (April 27th – May 15th) will serve as support. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.
Apr. 11 - Madison, WI - Majestic
Apr. 12 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
Apr. 13 - Indianapolis, IN - Vogue
Apr. 14 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls
Apr. 16 - Providence, RI - Fete Music Hall
Apr. 18 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
Apr. 20 - Boston, MA - House Of Blues
Apr. 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
Apr. 23 - Toronto, ON - Danforth
Apr. 24 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
Apr. 25 - Cleveland, OH - House Of Blues
Apr. 27 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head
Apr. 28 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
Apr. 29 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
May 01 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
May 02 - New Orleans, LA - Civic Theatre
May 03 - Dallas, TX - House Of Blues
May 04 - Austin, TX - Emo's
May 05 - San Antonio, TX - Aztec Theatre
May 08 - Phoenix, AZ - Van Buren
May 09 - San Diego, CA - North Park Observatory
May 10 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
May 11 - Berkeley, CA - UC Theatre
May 15 - Seattle, WA - Showbox At The Market
Rituals Of Mine opens April 11th – 25th
Ed Harcourt Opens April 27th – May 15th
MGMT head into 'Little Dark Age'
MGMT announce the release of their fourth album, Little Dark Age, out Feb. 9 via Columbia Records. The band has released a behind-the-scenes video chronicling the making of Little Dark Age at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, NY. Fans can pre-order the album now. Visit whoismgmt.com for more info. The duo will embark on a North American headlining tour this spring. See all tour dates below. Tickets are on sale now.
WATCH THE BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO HERE
Earlier this month, MGMT released the lyric video for the enchanting track "Hand It Over". Listen HERE. The group previously released the visuals for shadowy title track, "Little Dark Age," watch HERE, and "When You Die", a dream-like journey through the cycles of life. Watch HERE. See full track listing for Little Dark Age below.
Little Dark Age was produced by MGMT, Patrick Wimberly and long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Spoon, Tame Impala). Late last year, the band teased in-studio visuals and snippets of music via Instagram. MGMT has incorporated songs from the upcoming release into their live show at festivals across North America throughout 2017.
She Works Out Too Much
Little Dark Age
When You Die
Me and Michael
TSLAMP
Days That Got Away
One Thing Left To Try
When You're Small
Hand It Over
1/30 Berlin, Germany Huxley's
2/2 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso
2/3 Brussels, Belgium AB Main Hall
2/5 Paris, France La Cigale
2/6 London, UK Electric Brixton
3/2 St. Paul, MN Myth
3/3 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
3/5 St. Louis, MO Peabody Opera House
3/7 Dallas, TX South Side Ballroom
3/8 Austin, TX ACL Live at Moody Theater
3/9 New Orleans, LA BUKU Music & Art Project
3/11 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
3/13 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
3/15 Washington, DC The Anthem
3/16 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
3/17 Montreal, QB MTELUS
3/19 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
3/20Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
3/24Brooklyn, NY Kings Theatre
3/25 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
5/7 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
5/9 Calgary, AB Big Four Building
5/11 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre
5/12 Seattle, WA Showbox SODO
5/15 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre
5/18 Hollywood, CA Palladium
5/19 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre
5/20 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
6/14-17 Dover, DE. Firefly Music Festival
6/29-7/1 Beuningen, Netherlands Down The Rabbit Hole Festival
7/6 Hérouville Saint Clair, France Festival Beauregard
7/12 Madrid, Spain Mad Cool Festival
7/17 Milan, Italy Milano Summer Festival
Formed in 2002, MGMT released their influential, Grammy-nominated, debut album Oracular Spectacular in 2007. This was followed by 2010's Congratulations and 2013's self-titled album MGMT.
Dave Matthews Band to hit the road again this summer
After taking 2017 off, Dave Matthews Band returns with a new studio album - set for release this summer - and a North American tour. The band is currently putting the finishing touches on the album, which will mark its ninth studio release and first since 2012's Away From The World.
Dave Matthews Band will kick off its extensive summer outing in May and will wrap up the tour in September.
An online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is underway now at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com. Every online ticket order for the 2018 summer tour, purchased by May 17 will include a choice of CD or digital download of the new album when it is released.
Citi® is the official pre-sale credit card of Dave Matthews Bands 2018 tour. As such, Citi card members will have access to purchase pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, January 30, at 10 AM local time until Thursday, February 1, at 10 PM local time through Citi's Private Pass® program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 2, at 10 AM local time. For itinerary, see below or visit http://davematthewsband.com.
5/18 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
5/19 Dallas, TX Starplex Pavilion
5/22 Austin, TX Austin360 Amphitheater
5/26 Atlanta, GA Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
5/27 Orange Beach, AL The Wharf Amphitheater
5/29 Brandon, MS Brandon Amphitheater
5/30 Rogers, AR Walmart AMP - Arkansas Music Pavilion
6/1 Burgettstown, PA KeyBank Pavilion
6/2 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
6/5 Syracuse, NY Lakeview Amphitheater
6/6 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
6/7 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
6/9 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
6/12 Gilford, NH Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
6/15 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
6/22 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
6/23 Hartford, CT Xfinity Theatre
6/27 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Amphitheater
6/29 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion
7/1 Milwaukee, WI American Family Insurance Amphitheater
7/6 Noblesville, IN Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
7/10 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage
7/11 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Bluesfest
7/13 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/17 Wantagh, NY Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
7/18 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
7/20 Raleigh, NC Coastal Credit Union Park at Walnut Creek
7/21 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
7/24 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion - Charlotte
7/25 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
7/27 West Palm Beach, FL Coral Sky Amphitheatre at the S. Florida Fairgrounds
8/24 Denver, CO Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
8/28 Bend, OR Les Schwab Amphitheater
8/31 Quincy, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
9/1 Quincy, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
9/7 Stateline, NV Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys
9/8 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
9/10 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Coachella '18 artist update: David Byrne
David Byrne has announced a world tour in support of his forthcoming solo record, American Utopia. Byrne will perform songs from the new album, which is out March 9 via Todomundo/Nonesuch Records, as well as classics from his solo career and his days with Talking Heads.
A twelve-piece band will also join Byrne on stage for a choreographed concert that he has called “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense.”
All online ticket purchases for US will receive a CD of the new album.
Last week, Byrne announced the release of American Utopia during a presentation of “Reasons To Be Cheerful,” an ongoing series he curates of hopeful writings, photos, music, and lectures. The presentation was given at New York’s New School to a live audience and also was streamed via his Facebook page.
He also released the first track from the album, “Everybody’s Coming To My House”— co-written with Brian Eno, featuring contributions from TTY, Happa, Isaiah Barr Leader of the Onyx Collective, Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Mercury Prize winner Sampha, and others. The song’s visual companion piece can be seen here.
“Everybody’s Coming To My House” is available to download instantly with pre-orders of American Utopiaon iTunes and at nonesuch.com. Nonesuch Store pre-orders also include an exclusive print facsimile of an early handwritten lyric sheet to the song.
1. I Dance Like This
2. Gasoline And Dirty Sheets
3. Every Day Is A Miracle
4. Dog’s Mind
5. This Is That
6. It’s Not Dark Up Here
7. Bullet
8. Doing The Right Thing
9. Everybody’s Coming To My House
10. Here
3/3 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre SOLD OUT
3/4 Wilkes-Barre, PA F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts SOLD OUT
3/6 Buffalo, NY Center For The Arts SOLD OUT
3/7 Hershey, PA Hershey Theatre SOLD OUT
3/9 Waterbury, Ct Palace Theater SOLD OUT
3/10 Kingston, NY Ulster Performing Arts Center SOLD OUT
3/16 Santiago, CHI Lollapalooza (Chile)
3/18 Buenos Aires, ARG Lollapalooza (Argentina)
3/19 Teatro Gran Rex Buenos Aires (Argentina)
3/20 Teatro de Verano Montevideo (Uruguay)
3/24 Sao Paulo, BRA Lollapalooza (Brazil)
4/3 Mexico City MX Metropolitan Theater
4/5 Monterrey MX Auditorio Pabellón M
4/7 Guadalajara, MEX Corona Capital Guadalajara
4/14 Indio, CA Coachella
4/15 Tucson, AZ Centennial Hall
4/17 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theater
4/18 Las Vegas, NV Smith Center for the Arts
4/19 Mesa, AZ Mesa Arts Center-Ikeda Theater
4/24 Dallas, TX Winspear Opera House
4/25 Oklahoma City, OK The Criterion
4/27 San Antonio, TX Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
4/28 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall Outside Lawn
5/4 - 5/6 Atlanta, GA Shaky Knees
5/6 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
5/8 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Civic Auditorium
5/9 Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium
5/10 Durham PAC Durham, NC
5/13 Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Center for the Arts
5/15 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
5/16 Madison, WI Orpheum Theater
5/17 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theater
5/19 Saskatoon, SASK TCU Place
5/20 Edmonton, ALB Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
5/21 Calgary, ALB Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
5/23 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theater
5/24 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater
5/27 Portland, OR Keller Audiorium
5/28 Eugene, OR Hult Center
5/30 Salt Lake City, UT Capitol Theatre
6/2 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theater
6/5 Des Moines, IA Des Moines Civic Center
6/7 Kansas City, MO Kauffman Center for the Arts
6/9 Indianapolis, IN Farmers Bureau Lawn Amphitheater
6/14 Oxford, England New Theatre
6/15 Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
6/17 Birmingham, England Birmingham Symphony Hall
6/18 Manchester, England Manchester Apollo
6/19 London, England Eventim Apollo
6/22-23 Prague, Czech Republic Metronome Festival
6/25 Zagreb, Croatia INmusic Festival
6/26 Wien, Austria Museumsquartier
6/30 - 7/1 Ewijk, Netherlands Down The Rabbit Hole
7/5 - 7/8 Werchter, Belgium Rock Werchter
7/6 Roskilde, Denmark Roskilde Festival
7/5 Gdynia, Poland Open'er Festival
7/11 Oeiras, Portugal Cool Jazz Festival
7/13 Bilbao, Spain Bilbao BBK Live Festival
7/13-14 Barcelona, Spain Cruilla Barcelona
7/17 Zürich, Switzerland Theater 11
7/19 Ravenna, Italy Ravenna Festival
7/20 Perugia, Italy Umbria Jazz Festival
7/21 Trieste, Italy Piazza UNita
7/27 Camden, NJ XPoNential Music Festival
7/31 Boston, MA Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
8/1 Shelburne, VT Shelburne Museum - The Green
8/3 Toronto, ONT Sony Center for the Performing Arts
8/5 Canandaigua, NY Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
8/8 Grand Rapids, MI Devos Performance Hall
8/10 Detroit, MI Fox Theater
8/11 Huber Heightes, OH Rose Music Center
8/12 Cincinnati, OH PNC Pavilion at Riverbend
8/16 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
8/18 San Jose, CA City National Civic Auditorium
8/21 Sacramento CA Community Theater
8/24 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
8/28 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater
Editors band news
Earlier this week, Editors unveiled "Magazine," from forthcoming album Violence - the band’s first single in three years.
Frontman Tom Smith says it is "a pointed finger aimed at those in power...some corrupt politician or businessman...a character, and a tongue in cheek poke at the empty posturing and playing to the masses of the power hungry."
Violence is the sixth album from Editors, and follows 2015’s acclaimed top 5 UK charter In Dream. It is produced by Leo Abrahams (Wild Beasts, Florence & The Machine, Frightened Rabbit) and Editors with additional production from Benjamin John Power and mixed by Cenzo Townshend, except "Hallelujah (So Low)," mixed by Alan Moulder.
The "Magazine" video was shot in Amsterdam by photographer, director and long term Editors collaborator Rahi Rezvani. A US tour is slated for spring. Tickets on sale now.
May 8th - Seattle, WA - Neumos
May 9th - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
May 11th - San Francisco, CA - The Regency Ballroom
May 12th - Pomona, CA - The Glass House
May 13th - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco Ballroom
May 15th - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
May 16th - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
May 17th - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
2. Hallelujah (So Low)
4. Darkness At The Door
5. Nothingness
6. Magazine
7. No Sound But the Wind
8. Counting Spooks
9. Belong
Out today: Phillip Phillips' 'Collateral'
Platinum-selling Interscope Recording artist Phillip Phillips' new album Collateral is out now. It is the follow-up to 2014's Behind the Light. The track “Into The Wild” was co-written by Phillips, produced by Ryan Hadlock and came after the release of “Dance With Me,” a song Phillips penned, along with his friend Tim Bruns, for his 2015 wedding to longtime girlfriend Hannah Blackwell. Listen to “Into The Wild” HERE.
A North American headline tour starts next month. Striking Matches will support on the first half of the tour followed by The Ballroom Thieves on the second half. For more information and to purchase tickets visit www.phillipphillips.com.
Since releasing his five-times-platinum debut single "Home" in spring 2012, Phillips has released two chart-topping albums. The Georgia-bred 26-year-old saw his first full-length effort, The World from the Side of the Moon, go platinum after debuting at #4 on the Billboard Top 200. Behind the Light offered up the folk-rock radio hit "Raging Fire." Phillips spent this past summer on tour with Goo Goo Dolls.
Harrah's Cherokee - Event Center
The Neighborhood Theatre
Charlotte, NC*
Norva Theater
Norfolk, VA*
Union Transfer
Philadelphia, PA*
The Sinclair
Cambridge, MA*
The Fillmore
Silver Spring, MD*
Irving Plaza
New York, NY*
Carrboro, NC*
Athens, GA*
Variety Playhouse
Atlanta, GA*
Cox Capitol Theatre
Macon, GA*
3rd and Lindsley
Nashville, TN*
Music Farm
Charleston, SC*
Palladium Theatre
St. Petersburg, FL*
Florida Theatre
Jacksonville, FL*
Revolution Live
Ft. Lauderdale, FL*
Universal Studios Florida – Music Plaza Stage
The Truman
Kansas City, MO^
Ogden Theatre
Denver, CO^
Ft. Collins, CO^
Salt Lake City, UT^
Boise, ID^
Neptune Theatre
Seattle, WA^
Vogue Theatre
Vancouver, BC^
Wonder Ballroom
Portland, OR^
San Francisco, CA^
The Fonda Theatre
Los Angeles, CA^
Belly Up Tavern
Solana Beach, CA^
Dallas, TX^
Houston, TX^
Hard Rock Live Biloxi
Griffin Music Hall
El Dorado, AR^
Wooly’s
Des Moines, IA^
Minneapolis, MN^
Turner Hall Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI^
Chicago, IL^
Detroit, MI^
Toronto, ON^
Cleveland, OH^
Louisville, KY^
Horseshoe Bluesville Casino
Robinsonville, MS
Walker Theatre - Memorial Auditorium
Chattanooga, TN^
*Striking Matches support
^The Ballroom Thieves support
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NAMM '18 news: RME booth performances
German interface manufacturer RME [NAMM 2018 booth 14701] will showcase a new high-end audio DAC and a flexible software mixer, based on its TotalMix platform, for recording and live sound professionals.
During the four-day exhibition, Ferrofish and myMix will also unveil new products including PULSE16 converters and myMix II — an exciting v2 update that includes powerful Dante compatibility, among other features, making it suitable for studio as well as live use.
The RME booth is sure to draw music fans over the course of the exhibition, hosting former Tower of Power lead singer and Ambassador of Soul artist Ellis Hall Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 11 am, 2pm and 4pm, as well as legendary bassist Chuck Rainey and veteran drummer John Martinez both of Rhythm Intensive on Friday and Saturday at noon.
Breaking New Ground at NAMM 2018
RME is set to unveil its ADI-2 DAC for NAMM 2018, a compact and extremely flexible two-channel high-end Digital-to-Analog converter. The best-in-class unit — which also serves as a top quality headphone amplifier — supports up to 192 kHz sample rates, while offering top-notch conversion and a range of connectivity options. All with the unsurpassed stable performance and German engineering that RME users have come to expect over the last 20 years.
Additionally, RME will also highlight its new TotalMix v1.50 update as well as Total Mix Remote, which now supports network remote over TCP. TotalMix Remote, offering full network remote control for all TotalMix and TotalMix FX software, is now available for every RME interface, and will be available for Mac, PC and iOS. The TotalMix Remote is perfectly suited for FOH engineers and recording studios whose workflow requires control of TotalMix from a remote location.
Meantime, myMix, also at booth 14701, is set to unveil its myMix II, a v2 studio modification of its popular myMix personal monitor mixing and recording system. The new system features two local network inputs, which can be mic, line or instrument level. The unit can operated as a self-contained unit, or integrated with any analog or digital mixing consoles. The myMix II also sports brand-new Dante capability connectivity via any format — Dante, MADI, ADAT, analog — and will operate seamlessly with any digital console on the market.
Ferrofish will highlight its new PULSE16 and PULSE16 MX, which both provide an entirely new range of A/D D/A conversion options — and among various formats such as ADAT and MADI. Presented at an incredible price point, both the PULSE16 and PULSE16 MX use SFP technology, making the PULSE16 and Verto series capable of single and multimode MADI by the user. The PULSE16 and PULSE16 MX are the first offerings in the PULSE series.
The Power of Live Music Through myMix
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday during NAMM, composer, producer and former Tower of Power lead singer Ellis Hall will perform at RME’s booth at 11am, 2pm and 4pm. For each of his performances, Hall will be hooked up to the new myMix II personal mixing and recording system.
On Friday and Saturday of the show, legendary bassist Chuck Rainey will perform alongside veteran drummer and Rhythm Intensive partner John Martinez at noon. The members of the paramusic education organization will perform through myMix systems.
For more information on RME, visit http://www.rme-usa.com/
For more information on myMix, visit http://www.mymixaudio.com/
For more information on Ferrofish, visit https://ferrofish.com/en/
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NORMA GENTILE sound shaman www.healingchants.com
Norma is a professional singer (music at iTunes, amazon.com or CDbaby.com) who is also a natural intuitive healer and channel for Archangel Michael, Mary and Hathors.
This is a series of Meditations and Teachings from Norma and her guides, Mary, Archangel Michael, and the Hathor Atamira. They speak and sing through her on Sound, Healing, Energy Awareness and our ability as humans to be channels for Spirit.
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Politics, the Sacred Masculine, the Divine Feminine and the Collective Consciousness
Canada and the USA as examples of Healing our shared Polarized Consciousness
- a message from Thoth and other Ascended Masters through Norma Gentile
www.HealingChants.com
A quick preface – in previous essays my guides have shared this with me:
The inclusion of slavery as an active principle within the founding energies of the United States ultimately caused the collective consciousness of the country to vere off track. Rather than creating a collective consciousness reflecting principles of the Sacred Masculine, its shared consciousness grew to reflect primarily aspects of the profane masculine. In order to move into the Aquarian Age the planet, including the United States, must release the profane aspects of the masculine that many countries and regions have embraced. In order to release the profane aspects of masculine energies, we must first recognize them in ourselves, our lives, and then in the larger context of politics, business, etc.
Canada and the USA: Dancing with the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine
Like many who were born in the northern United States, my family roots reach back to many other countries, including Canada. It is hard for me to imagine due to the current state of border security, but at one time the border between the two countries, whether made by stakes in the land or by one of the Great Lakes, was easily and frequently traversed by my family members. We have found cottages and businesses and homes belonging to recent generations of my family members who lived and worked, nearly simultaneously it seems, on both sides of the border.
Like many people with this sort of history, I spent summers in the north, sometimes in the US and other times in Canada, and became horribly confused about the proper way to pronounce certain words and spell other words. I learned that you could put sugar on tomatoes. But only when certain family members were present.
My guides frequently point out to me that the obvious circumstances of our lives are here for a reason. And so as I’ve grown and explored the energetic context in which I live, I am coming to understand that I was exposed to both US and Canadian cultures not by accident but to support my soul’s journey.
The cultures of the US and Canada are complementary. Each represents an aspect of the male / female polarity. Experiencing life within both, I can feel and appreciate the depth of honor that the shared Canadian consciousness has for graciousness, beauty, honor and those things generally associated with the feminine. As I have created my career path primarily in the US, I have come to appreciate the masculine clarity in action that the collective consciousness here has embraced. I am fortunate to be able to access these two distinct consciousnesses and their respective qualities in my life.
I understand the consciousness of polarity as existing on both microcosmic levels in my daily life and macrocosmic levels in world events. The personal level of judging what is good or bad in my daily experience is my microcosmic experience of polarity consciousness. My immersion into the national consciousness’ of both the US and Canada allows my guides more ease to share through me insights on the balance of male and female polarities related to these two countries on the macrocosmic end of the scale.
As humans we now live in polarity consciousness. In order for one extreme to exist another extreme must also exist. For example, in politics if there are liberals then conservatives also exist. If something is defined as good then something else, probably its opposite, is defined as bad. Eventually this will change – but not yet. In order for us to move out of polarity we must first understand it and create within it both the Sacred Masculine and Divine Feminine. Only then will the collective consciousness of humanity shift.
Chaos, as Piscean and Aquarian Ages meet
The much lauded Aquarian Age, which makes its official entrance on December 22, 2012, began to influence our planet in tangible ways nearly a thousand years ago. In order to complete our exploration of polarity consciousness, we have used a very special energy that is only available during the time of transition between Ages, in this case from Piscean to Aquarian Age, to manifest a series of issues related to polarity.
Imagine if you would the waves of an ocean. They move in succession, one after another, in the same direction as the wind, across the ocean. What if there was another set of waves, created by a wind moving in another direction? What would happen when these two sets of waves met? Chaos. And the energy of both sets of waves would be released into this chaos.
That chaos energy is what we are using to create our reality with now. The waves of the Piscean and Aquarian Ages are bouncing against each other in the sea of consciousness of all Beings related to this region of space. It will not last long according to cosmic time, just a bit more than a few hundred years. But its climax point is right about now. And so humanity, and other beings of consciousness with whom we share this reality, are being tossed about in our little third dimensional rowboats. My guides often remind me that our shared collective consciousness is thrilled to have so much energy with which to create our reality. But our personalities might beg to differ!
I find myself alternating between euphoria (what a great time to be in human form) and disbelief (how could my soul have even considered putting itself into this cauldron of chaos and tumult?) These final energetic waves of the Piscean Age colliding with the new energies of the Aquarian Age are allowing us to create extremes of polarity around issues both microcosmic and macrocosmic. The ferocity of politics, earth changes and weather are some of the visible issues reflecting our desire as humans to clarify what we hold dear to us.
Qualities of the profane masculine such as craving power over others and greed are easily visible now in the US. That visibility is very uncomfortable for some of us. But we can only transform what is visible. The United States will continue to work for nearly another hundred years on opening its collective consciousness to the qualities of the Sacred Masculine.
Masculine qualities expressed in a profane manner wound the feminine. Masculine energies expressed in a sacred manner empower the feminine. Profane energies cannot be expressed through the heart. Our hearts always open in the presence of sacredness, regardless of whether that expression is from the Divine Feminine or Sacred Masculine. What are the qualities of the Sacred Masculine that the United States is working on expressing? That is the question those of us engaged within its shared collective consciousness are working on answering now.
The founding of both the USA and Canada rode in on the Aquarian Age wave. Remember, the energies of the new Aquarian Age have been caressing our planet for many hundreds of years. The date of December 21 2010 is the closing date for the Piscean Age cycle of more than 11,000 years. Cosmic energies don’t turn on and off like a light switch!
Canada and the United States are karmic partners, paired up like the male and female in the YinYang symbol (most countries or regions are paired in similar ways). Because the Sacred Masculine consciousness failed to flower in the US, Canada’s consciousness of Divine Feminine has developed in a wounded manner. There is new power in the expression of the Divine Feminine that Canadian consciousness will step into in the coming decades. The development of new leadership principles based on Divine Feminine values may be one of the first uses of this power.
The Aquarian Age is awakening the Divine Feminine within the consciousness of the entire planet. The chalice formed by the awakened feminine serves as the safe container in which the Sacred Masculine can come to rest. It is only when they are at rest that the profane energies of the masculine allow themselves to be transformed into their sacred natures. And as various awakenings occur in the shared collective consciousness of humanity, all those who are able to create the chalice or fill it with Sacred Masculine energies are stepping forward.
This is part of an ongoing series of articles you can find on my website www.healingchants.com concerning politics, the collective consciousness, Barack Obama, 2012 and our shared Spiritual Journey. My thanks to all of you who pull these essays through me from our Spiritual Masters.
-Norma Gentile
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Wind Power, written by Clive Dobson. Firefly Books, 2010. $12.95 ages 12 and up
"The body shapes of sailboat
hulls, ships, canoes and
submarines mimic the shapes
of fish, porpoises and whales.
Rudders, keels and paddles
function much like fins, tails
and flukes because the
streamlined shapes allow
them to work efficiently in
fluid water by minimizing
turbulence and resistance,
or drag."
First we must understand why wind moves across the surface of the earth. This informed author even helps me to recognize this. He then moves on to explain how a wind vane helps us determine the direction of the wind and how we measure wind force and speed, using the Beauport Scale. With me so far??? Dobson provides a detailed and attention-grabbing short history of wind power. The illustrations that accompany this section are very helpful.
While the turbines that are in use today are becoming more popular and visible, they differ from the earliest windmills which were made of wood or animal hides. Wind power was used in areas where there was no available water to operate a water mill. As the designs changed varied mills were in use. All this design work led to the development of the three blade turbines that we are used to seeing today.
Before telling his audience about the 20 designs and needed materials, he provides the scientific data needed to understand harnessing the power of the wind and discusses both vertical and horizontal axis turbines and their most obvious differences. It is the reason that he researched and wrote this book...'to help further an interest in the development of small wind devices' that might be used in homes.
He then proceeds to give directions for building thirteen horizontal and seven vertical axis turbines that will produce wind power. There are even directions for three other windmills that help readers understand the difficulties faced by design engineers. The directions are clear, the illustrations most helpful and interested young scientists will be thrilled with the opportunity to create something that may impact a move toward a more sustainable lifestyle. He follows it all up with a glossary to help with unfamiliar terms, a list of resources for further learning and an index.
Now, go give it a try!
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In biology, phylogenetics /faɪlɵdʒɪˈnɛtɪks/ is the study of evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms (e.g. species, populations), which are discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices. The term phylogenetics derives from the Greek terms phylé (φυλή) and phylon (φῦλον), denoting "tribe", "clan", "race"[1] and the adjectival form, genetikós (γενετικός), of the word genesis (γένεσις) "origin", "source", "birth".
In fact, phylogenesis is the process, phylogeny is science on this process, and phylogenetics is phylogeny based on analysis of sequences of biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins, in the first).[2] The result of phylogenetic studies is a hypothesis about the evolutionary history of taxonomic groups: their phylogeny.[3]
Evolution is a process whereby populations are altered over time and may split into separate branches, hybridize together, or terminate by extinction. The evolutionary branching process may be depicted as a phylogenetic tree, and the place of each of the various organisms on the tree is based on a hypothesis about the sequence in which evolutionary branching events occurred. In historical linguistics, similar concepts are used with respect to relationships between languages; and in textual criticism with stemmatics.
Phylogenetic analyses have become essential to research on the evolutionary tree of life. For example, the RedToL aims at reconstructing the Red Algal Tree of Life. The National Science Foundation sponsors a project called the Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) activity. The goal of this project is to determine evolutionary relationships across large groups of organisms throughout the history of life. The research on this project often involves large teams working across institutions and disciplines, and typically provides support to investigators working on computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics tasks, including data acquisition, analysis, and algorithm development and dissemination.
Taxonomy—the classification, identification and naming of organisms—is usually richly informed by phylogenetics, but remains a methodologically and logically distinct discipline.[4] The degree to which taxonomies depend on phylogenies differs depending on the school of taxonomy: phenetics ignores phylogeny altogether, trying to represent the similarity between organisms instead; cladistics (phylogenetic systematics) tries to reproduce phylogeny in its classification without loss of information; evolutionary taxonomy tries to find a compromise between them in order to represent stages of evolution.
1 Construction of a phylogenetic tree
2 Limitations and workarounds
2.1 Homoplasy
2.2 Horizontal gene transfer
2.3 Hybrids, speciation and introgressions
2.4 Taxon sampling
2.5 Phylogenetic signal
2.6 Continuous characters
2.7 Missing data
3 The role of fossils
4.1 Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory
4.2 Timeline of key events
Construction of a phylogenetic tree
Main articles: Computational phylogenetics and Cladogram
See also: Molecular phylogenetics
The scientific methods of phylogenetics are often grouped under the term cladistics. The most common ones are parsimony, maximum likelihood (ML), and MCMC-based Bayesian inference. All methods depend upon an implicit or explicit mathematical model describing the evolution of characters observed in the species included; all can be, and are, used for molecular data, wherein the characters are aligned nucleotide or amino acid sequences, and all but maximum likelihood (see below) can be, and are, used for phenotypic (morphological, chemical, and physiological) data (also called classical or traditional data).
Phenetics, popular in the mid-20th century but now largely obsolete, uses distance matrix-based methods to construct trees based on overall similarity in morphology or other observable traits (i.e. in the phenotype, not the DNA), which was often assumed to approximate phylogenetic relationships.
A comprehensive step-by-step protocol on constructing phylogenetic tree, including DNA/Amino Acid contiguous sequence assembly, multiple sequence alignment, model-test (testing best-fitting substitution models) and phylogeny reconstruction using Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference, is available at Nature Protocol[5]
Prior to 1990, phylogenetic inferences were generally presented as narrative scenarios. Such methods are legitimate, but often ambiguous and hard to test.[6][7][8]
Limitations and workarounds
Ultimately, there is no way to measure whether a particular phylogenetic hypothesis is accurate or not, unless the true relationships among the taxa being examined are already known (which may happen with bacteria or viruses under laboratory conditions). The best result an empirical phylogeneticist can hope to attain is a tree with branches that are well supported by the available evidence. Several potential pitfalls have been identified:
Homoplasy
Main article: Convergent evolution
Certain characters are more likely to evolve convergently than others; logically, such characters should be given less weight in the reconstruction of a tree.[9] Weights in the form of a model of evolution can be inferred from sets of molecular data, so that maximum likelihood or Bayesian methods can be used to analyze them. For molecular sequences, this problem is exacerbated when the taxa under study have diverged substantially. As time since the divergence of two taxa increase, so does the probability of multiple substitutions on the same site, or back mutations, all of which result in homoplasies. For morphological data, unfortunately, the only objective way to determine convergence is by the construction of a tree – a somewhat circular method. Even so, weighting homoplasious characters[how?] does indeed lead to better-supported trees.[9] Further refinement can be brought by weighting changes in one direction higher than changes in another; for instance, the presence of thoracic wings almost guarantees placement among the pterygote insects because, although wings are often lost secondarily, there is no evidence that they have been gained more than once.[10]
Horizontal gene transfer
In general, organisms can inherit genes in two ways: vertical gene transfer and horizontal gene transfer. Vertical gene transfer is the passage of genes from parent to offspring, and horizontal (also called lateral) gene transfer occurs when genes jump between unrelated organisms, a common phenomenon especially in prokaryotes; a good example of this is the acquired antibiotic resistance as a result of gene exchange between various bacteria leading to multi-drug-resistant bacterial species. There have also been well-documented cases of horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes.
Horizontal gene transfer has complicated the determination of phylogenies of organisms, and inconsistencies in phylogeny have been reported among specific groups of organisms depending on the genes used to construct evolutionary trees. The only way to determine which genes have been acquired vertically and which horizontally is to parsimoniously assume that the largest set of genes that have been inherited together have been inherited vertically; this requires analyzing a large number of genes.
Hybrids, speciation and introgressions
The basic assumption underlying the mathematical model of cladistics is a situation where species split neatly in bifurcating fashion. While such an assumption may hold on a larger scale (bar horizontal gene transfer, see above), speciation is often much less orderly. Research since the cladistic method was introduced has shown that hybrid speciation, once thought rare, is in fact quite common, particularly in plants.[11][12] Also paraphyletic speciation is common, making the assumption of a bifurcating pattern unsuitable, leading to phylogenetic networks rather than trees.[13][14] Introgression can also move genes between otherwise distinct species and sometimes even genera, complicating phylogenetic analysis based on genes.[15] This phenomenon can contribute to "incomplete line sorting" and is thought to be a common phenomenon across a number of groups. In species level analysis this can be dealt with by larger sampling or better whole genome analysis.[16] Often the problem is avoided by restricting the analysis to fewer, not closely related specimen.
Taxon sampling
Owing to the development of advanced sequencing techniques in molecular biology, it has become feasible to gather large amounts of data (DNA or amino acid sequences) to infer phylogenetic hypotheses. For example, it is not rare to find studies with character matrices based on whole mitochondrial genomes (~16,000 nucleotides, in many animals). However, simulations have shown that it is more important to increase the number of taxa in the matrix than to increase the number of characters, because the more taxa there are, the more accurate and more robust is the resulting phylogenetic tree.[17][18] This may be partly due to the breaking up of long branches.
Phylogenetic signal
Another important factor that affects the accuracy of tree reconstruction is whether the data analyzed actually contain a useful phylogenetic signal, a term that is used generally to denote whether a character evolves slowly enough to have the same state in closely related taxa as opposed to varying randomly. Tests for phylogenetic signal exist.[19]
Continuous characters
Morphological characters that sample a continuum may contain phylogenetic signal, but are hard to code as discrete characters. Several methods have been used, one of which is gap coding, and there are variations on gap coding.[20] In the original form of gap coding:[20]
group means for a character are first ordered by size. The pooled within-group standard deviation is calculated … and differences between adjacent means … are compared relative to this standard deviation. Any pair of adjacent means is considered different and given different integer scores … if the means are separated by a "gap" greater than the within-group standard deviation … times some arbitrary constant.
If more taxa are added to the analysis, the gaps between taxa may become so small that all information is lost. Generalized gap coding works around that problem by comparing individual pairs of taxa rather than considering one set that contains all of the taxa.[20]
In general, the more data that are available when constructing a tree, the more accurate and reliable the resulting tree will be. Missing data are no more detrimental than simply having fewer data, although the impact is greatest when most of the missing data are in a small number of taxa. Concentrating the missing data across a small number of characters produces a more robust tree.[21]
The role of fossils
Because many characters involve embryological, or soft-tissue or molecular characters that (at best) hardly ever fossilize, and the interpretation of fossils is more ambiguous than that of living taxa, extinct taxa almost invariably have higher proportions of missing data than living ones. However, despite these limitations, the inclusion of fossils is invaluable, as they can provide information in sparse areas of trees, breaking up long branches and constraining intermediate character states; thus, fossil taxa contribute as much to tree resolution as modern taxa.[22] Fossils can also constrain the age of lineages and thus demonstrate how consistent a tree is with the stratigraphic record;[23] stratocladistics incorporates age information into data matrices for phylogenetic analyses.
The term "phylogeny" derives from the German Phylogenie, introduced by Haeckel in 1866, [24] and the Darwinian approach to classification became known as the "phyletic" approach.[25]
Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory
During the late 19th century, Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory, or "biogenetic fundamental law", was widely accepted. It was often expressed as "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", i.e. the development of an organism successively mirrors the adult stages of successive ancestors of the species to which it belongs. This theory has long been rejected.[26][27] Instead, ontogeny evolves – the phylogenetic history of a species cannot be read directly from its ontogeny, as Haeckel thought would be possible, but characters from ontogeny can be (and have been) used as data for phylogenetic analyses; the more closely related two species are, the more apomorphies their embryos share.
Timeline of key events
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Branching tree diagram from Heinrich Georg Bronn'swork,(1858)
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Phylogenetic tree suggested by Haeckel(1866)
1300s, lex parsimoniae (parsimony principle), William of Ockam, English philosopher, theologian, and Franciscan monk, but the idea actually goes back to Aristotle, precursor concept
1763, Bayesian probability, Rev. Thomas Bayes,[28] precursor concept
1700s, Pierre Simon (Marquis de Laplace), perhaps 1st to use ML (maximum likelihood), precursor concept
1809, evolutionary theory, Philosophie Zoologique, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, precursor concept, foreshadowed in the 1600s and 1700s by Voltaire, Descartes, and Leibniz, with Leibniz even proposing evolutionary changes to account for observed gaps suggesting that many species had become extinct, others transformed, and different species that share common traits may have at one time been a single race,[29] also foreshadowed by some early Greek philosophers such as Anaximander in the 6th century BC and the atomists of the 5th century BC, who proposed rudimentary theories of evolution[30]
1837, Darwin's notebooks show an evolutionary tree[31]
1843, distinction between homology and analogy (the latter now referred to as homoplasy), Richard Owen, precursor concept
1858, Paleontologist Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800–1862) published a hypothetical tree to illustrating the paleontological "arrival" of new, similar species following the extinction of an older species. Bronn did not propose a mechanism responsible for such phenomena, precursor concept.[32]
1858, elaboration of evolutionary theory, Darwin and Wallace,[33] also in Origin of Species by Darwin the following year, precursor concept
1866, Ernst Haeckel, first publishes his phylogeny-based evolutionary tree, precursor concept
1893, Dollo's Law of Character State Irreversibility,[34] precursor concept
1912, ML recommended, analyzed, and popularized by Ronald Fisher, precursor concept
1921, Tillyard uses term "phylogenetic" and distinguishes between archaic and specialized characters in his classification system[35]
1940, term "clade" coined by Lucien Cuénot
1949, jackknife, Maurice Quenouille (foreshadowed in '46 by Mahalanobis and extended in '58 by Tukey), precursor concept
1950, Willi Hennig's classic formalization[36]
1952, William Wagner's groundplan divergence method[37]
1953, "cladogenesis" coined[38]
1960, "cladistic" coined by Cain and Harrison[39]
1963, 1st attempt to use ML (maximum likelihood) for phylogenetics, Edwards and Cavalli-Sforza[40]
Camin-Sokal parsimony, 1st parsimony (optimization) criterion and 1st computer program/algorithm for cladistic analysis both by Camin and Sokal[41]
character compatibility method, also called clique analysis, introduced independently by Camin and Sokal (loc. cit.) and E.O. Wilson[42]
English translation of Hennig[43]
"cladistics" and "cladogram" coined (Webster's, loc. cit.)
dynamic and successive weighting, James Farris[44]
Wagner parsimony, Kluge and Farris[45]
CI (consistency index), Kluge and Farris[45]
introduction of pairwise compatibility for clique analysis, Le Quesne[46]
1970, Wagner parsimony generalized by Farris[47]
Fitch parsimony, Fitch[48]
NNI (nearest neighbour interchange), 1st branch-swapping search strategy, developed independently by Robinson[49] and Moore et al.
ME (minimum evolution), Kidd and Sgaramella-Zonta[50] (it is unclear if this is the pairwise distance method or related to ML as Edwards and Cavalli-Sforza call ML "minimum evolution".)
1972, Adams consensus, Adams[51]
1974, 1st successful application of ML to phylogenetics (for nucleotide sequences), Neyman[52]
1976, prefix system for ranks, Farris[53]
1977, Dollo parsimony, Farris[54]
Nelson consensus, Nelson[55]
MAST (maximum agreement subtree)((GAS)greatest agreement subtree), a consensus method, Gordon [56]
bootstrap, Bradley Efron, precursor concept[57]
1980, PHYLIP, 1st software package for phylogenetic analysis, Felsenstein
majority consensus, Margush and MacMorris[58]
strict consensus, Sokal and Rohlf[59]
1st computationally efficient ML algorithm, Felsenstein[60]
PHYSIS, Mikevich and Farris
branch and bound, Hendy and Penny[61]
1st cladistic analysis of eukaryotes based on combined phenotypic and genotypic evidence Diana Lipscomb[62]
1st issue of Cladistics
1st phylogentic application of bootstrap, Felsenstein[63]
1st phylogenetic application of jackknife, Scott Lanyon[64]
1986, MacClade, Maddison and Maddison
1987, neighbor-joining method Saitou and Nei[65]
1988, Hennig86 (version 1.5), Farris
RI (retention index), RCI (rescaled consistency index), Farris[66]
HER (homoplasy excess ratio), Archie[67]
combinable components (semi-strict) consensus, Bremer[68]
SPR (subtree pruning and regrafting), TBR (tree bisection and reconnection), Swofford and Olsen[69]
DDI (data decisiveness index), Goloboff[70][71]
1st cladistic analysis of eukaryotes based only on phenotypic evidence, Lipscomb
1993, implied weighting Goloboff[72]
1994, Bremer support (decay index), Bremer[73]
1994, reduced consensus: RCC (reduced cladistic consensus) for rooted trees, Wilkinson[74]
1995, reduced consensus RPC (reduced partition consensus) for unrooted trees, Wilkinson[75]
1996, 1st working methods for BI (Bayesian Inference)independently developed by Li,[76] Mau,[77] and Rannalla and Yang[78] and all using MCMC (Markov chain-Monte Carlo)
1998, TNT (Tree Analysis Using New Technology), Goloboff, Farris, and Nixon
1999, Winclada, Nixon
2003, symmetrical resampling, Goloboff[79]
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Interactive Tree of Life
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UCMP Exhibit Halls: Phylogeny Wing
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Filogenetica.org in Spanish
PhyloPat, Phylogenetic Patterns
SplitsTree, program for computing phylogenetic trees and unrooted phylogenetic networks
Dendroscope, program for drawing phylogenetic trees and rooted phylogenetic networks
Phylogenetic inferring on the T-REX server
NCBI – Systematics and Molecular Phylogenetics
Sydney Brenner's seminars: "What Genomes Can Tell Us About the Past"
Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Who is Who in Phylogenetic Networks research papers related to the phylogenetic network
Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Gene-Order Data
ETE: A Python Environment for Tree Exploration This is a programming library to analyze, manipulate and visualize phylogenetic trees. See: Huerta-Cepas, Jaime; Dopazo, Joaquín; Gabaldón, Toni (2010). "ETE: A python Environment for Tree Exploration". BMC Bioinformatics 11: 24. PMC 2820433. PMID 20070885. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-24.
PhylomeDB: A public database hosting thousands of gene phylogenies ranging many different species. See: Huerta-Cepas, J.; Capella-Gutierrez, S.; Pryszcz, L. P.; Denisov, I.; Kormes, D.; Marcet-Houben, M.; Gabaldón, T. (2010). "PhylomeDB v3.0: An expanding repository of genome-wide collections of trees, alignments and phylogeny-based orthology and paralogy predictions". Nucleic Acids Research 39 (Database issue): D556–60. PMC 3013701. PMID 21075798. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1109.
Lents, N. H.; Cifuentes, O. E.; Carpi, A. (2010). "Teaching the Process of Molecular Phylogeny and Systematics: A Multi-Part Inquiry-Based Exercise". Cell Biology Education 9 (4): 513. doi:10.1187/cbe.09-10-0076.
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President Obama is wrong to equate Tolerant Hinduism with Intolerant, Violent Christianity and Islam- Part II
28 Feb 2015 Save Temples 635 Views
(NOTE: The aim of this paper is to point out that President Obama is wrong to equate Hinduism with Christianity and Islam. In Part 1, we have detailed the mission of Christianity, how it destroyed other civilizations, how millions of people were killed in Goa and how the missionaries are evangelizing the country in the name of service.
Please click on the link for Part I:
https://www.savetemples.org/2015/02/21/president-obama-is-wrong-to-equate-tolerant-hinduism-with-intolerant-violent-christianity-and-islam/
This is part II of the article narrating the mission of Islam and how Islam is brutalizing, torturing, terrorizing and working toward establishing Islam all around the world)
Will Durant said, “The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.”
President Obama failed to identify the root of Terrorism
Not to identify the root of terrorism, beheadings, torture, deception, luring, allurement, tricking, tracking, targeting, etc., is an indication of an empty talk, sign of escapism, failing to call spade a spade, dismissing the real conflict between Islam and the humanity, and hiding behind the ideologies of the two major Abrahamic religions. On February 18, President Obama delivered a major speech on combating violent extremism — while refusing to use the words “Muslim terrorists.” “No religion is responsible for terrorism — people are responsible for violence and terrorism.” President Obama continued by stating that “We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.” Two questions can be raised based on his statement.
If religion is not responsible and only people are responsible, then why did he say that “India will succeed so long as it is not splintered along lines of religious faith, splintered along any lines and it is unified as one nation??” If he believes that religion is not responsible for terrorism, then why did he not say that India will succeed as long as it is not splintered along lines of people who are responsible for violence and terror?”
Second question is why would anybody resort to terrorism and violence? They must have read somewhere, and learned somewhere. Or they must have been taught somewhere. Since Muslims go to mosques and listen to the Mullahs about what is written in their HOLY QURAN, it is only logical to assume that whatever is written in Quran is the source of their belief that translated into action – violence, terror, torture, beheading and killing.
Roger Cohen in The Opinion Pages of The New York Times, detailing the atrocities of Islam in the West, observed, “The Islamists’ war is against freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, freedom of blasphemy, sexual freedom — in short, core characteristics of democracies seen by the would-be rebuilders of the Caliphate as signs of Western debasement.” (Feb 16, 2015). Unfortunately, President is failing to translate his own statement to identify the religions that have crucified and terrorized the humanity. He said, “We see faith driving us to do right. But we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge — or worse, sometimes used as a weapon.” It is time to name the names and call the spade a spade. Both Abrahamic religions have drenched the humanity with blood with their conversion tactics and intolerance toward other reliigions. Hindu Genocide
The genocide suffered by the Hindus of India at the hands of Arab, Turkish, Mughal and Afghan rulers for a period of 800 years is not yet discussed, addressed and assessed. For fear of consequences, the whole Muslim history in India is not only formally unrecognized by the World, but Indian government for nearly seven decades has distorted the history of Islamic atrocities and put the matter under the rug so to speak. Dr. Keonraad Elst also writes in his book "Negation in India":
"The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death. Entire cities were burnt down and the populations massacred, with hundreds of thousands killed in every campaign, and similar numbers deported as slaves. Every new invader made (often literally) his hills of Hindus skulls. Thus, the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. Hindu slaughter." Francois Gautier in his book 'Rewriting Indian History' (1996) wrote: "The massacres perpetuated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish and Portuguese."
“Breaking India” is a groundbreaking work written by Rajiv Malhotra who spent seven years to gather information about the external forces that are planning to break up India. Muslims have vowed to break up India through terror and infiltration into three countries – Mughalisthan, Dalitisthan and Dravidisthan. They are working relentlessly to complete what they call “unfinished business” of converting India into Islamic States. Muslims are inflicting untold misery, terror, and killings on Indian soil to go to paradise as promised in the Quran to enjoy waiting sensate objects. He also mentions that Christians and Maoists e equally waging a war to break up India.
It is worth remembering the agony of Robert D. Blackwill, the former US Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. Before he came to India, he kept a count of deaths that Muslims were causing in Kashmir. “India’s death toll from terrorism mounted as the snow fell and melted in Cambridge … Innocent human beings murdered as a systemic instrument of twisted political purpose. Terror against India that rose and fell with the seasons, year after year after year… All snuffed out by the killing hand of terror.
On September 11 in America. Nearly every day in India….No respectable religion could excuse these merciless acts. No moral framework could sanction these abominations. No political cause could justify these murders of innocents. And yet, they go on.”
Anybody who is familiar with 1400 years of Islamic expansion, anybody who is willing to read about Islamic terrorism with open, objective, and academic mind or anybody willing to visit India and see the destruction of as many as 2000 Hindu Temples would realize the mission of Islam is to subjugate the entire human race and conquer the world. The Muslims deny their roots and their heritage because the fanatic Muslims consider India as “unfinished business” and Jihadists are busy terrorizing the populace in the name of Islam.
Quran and many Islamic leaders openly declared war on infidels. As Ayatollah Khomeini stated: “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! . . . Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! . . . Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! . . . There are hundreds of other psalms [from the Koran] and Hadiths [sayings and acts of Muhammad] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”
It means Islam says kill all the unbelievers such as Christians, Jews, Hinds, Buddhists, Jains, Parsees, Shinto and others. For centuries the Hindus were converted through coercion with the idea of spreading Islam and it continues to date. Few examples of Muslim atrocities and slaughters committed on Hindus.
As many as 80 million Hindus in India were murdered for refusing to be converted to Islam.
In 1947, Pakistan has 24% Hindus, today there are less than 1 percent Hindus.
In Bangladesh, the Hindu population is dwindled from nearly 30 percent to less than 7 percent.
India, Lo and behold, the Muslim population is multiplying day by day to make India a Muslim nation. The percentage of Muslims in India has risen from about 8% in 1951 to 13.6% in 2001 and 14.6 % in 2010.
Hindu Kush Mountains, where Hindus were slaughtered for refusing to get converted to Islam. Blood used to flow all the way from the mountain top to the streets below.
In Afghanistan, the two largest standing Buddha’s were blown up Taliban by a lorry load of dynamites.
Eight Centuries of Atrocities on Hindus by Muslim Rulers
Dr. Younis Shaik observed atrocities of Muslims by saying that “eighty million were slaughtered and millions of women were raped…..it was standard practice for Islamic warlords like Ghori and Ghazni to unleash the mass rape and enslavement of hundreds of thousands of women after the slaughter of all males ….. A large percentage of Muslims in South Asia today are the progeny of forcible conversions and systematic rape campaigns by marauding Muslim invaders.”
Hindu Temples – What Happened to Them?
It is a two-volume book written by Sita Ram Goel, Arun Shourie, Harsh Narain, Jay Dubashi and Ram Swarup. The first volume was published in spring 1990. The first volume includes a list of 2000 mosques that were built on Hindu temples. It includes the names of the original Hindu Temple and the Mosque names – district-by-district and state-by-state. This list is based primarily on the books of Muslim historians of the period or the inscriptions of the mosques and also personal investigation.
Muslims have always targeted the most sacred religious places and Temples by destroying them in order to humiliate, annihilate and mutilate Hindus.
Sri Rama Temple at Ayodhya
On the site of the birth of Lord Rama, a magnificent temple devoted to Him was erected. However, Babur, a fifteenth Mogul invader, brutalized India and also destroyed Rama Temple. He raised a structure in its place, which he called Babri Masjid. The temple complex comprised of the Janmasthan of Sri Rama at Kot Ram Chander, the private
apartments (mahal sarai) of King Dashrath and Sri Rama, and a temple and a kitchen popularly known as Sita Ki Rasoi, where tradition held that Sita (wife of Sri Rama) lived. All three were demolished and a mosque constructed thereupon in 1528 A.D. For centuries Hindus tried to recover this auspicious site. In 2010, somewhat confusing verdict was issued by Allahabad High court accepting Ayodhya as a birth of Rama.
Krishna janmasthala in Mathura
The Keshava Rai Temple at Mathura was built by Bir Singh Deo Bundela during Jahangir’s time at a cost of thirty-three lakhs of rupees. The Dehra of Keshava Rai was one of the most magnificent temples ever built in India and enjoyed veneration of the Hindus throughout the land. Alberuni observed that this temple was approximately 20 times larger than the largest mosque he ever saw in his life.
The next big temple was constructed here during the time of the Gupta Emperor Chandragupta Vikramaditya around 400 AD. This temple was so grand that it was said that neither painting nor description could describe it. Mahmud of Ghazni destroyed the temple in 1017 AD.
Another temple was built here in 1150. It was destroyed in the 16th century during the reign of Sikander Lodi.
The Dehra of Keshava Rai was demolished in the month of Ramzan (13 January – 11 February 1670) by Aurangzeb’s order. “In a short time, by the great exertion of the officers, the destruction of this strong foundation of infidelity was accomplished and on its site a lofty mosque was built at the expenditure of a large sum”. Thus the barbarian Islamic rulers Mohamud Ghazni, Sikander Lodi and Aurangzeb destroyed the Krishna Janmasthala. In fact Aurangzeb not only destroyed the Mandir in 1669-1670 but he built Idgah Qila (mosque) over it. Even today the visitors can still see the mosque on top of the Krishna Janmasthala to prove that the Hindus can be crushed, and made gutless and spineless.
Vishwanath Temple in Benares was the target of Islamic Terror:
Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi Kashi Vishwanath temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is popularly known as the ‘Golden Temple’ due to the gold plating done on its 15.5-meter high spire. One tonnes of gold donated by Maharaja Ranjit Singh has been used in the gold plating of the spire. The temple was destroyed by various invaders and was rebuilt in 1776 by Rani Ahilyabai of Indore. Due to security reasons, metal detectors are placed throughout the temple. The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb who built the Gaynvapi Mosque in its place destroyed the Vishwanath temple. Even today the western wall of the mosque show the remnants of a temple, which had very intricate and fine artwork on it. The original Shiva temple of Kashi finds mention in the scriptures.
The current temple is believed to have been built in the eleventh century, which was destroyed by Muhammad Ghori in the twelfth century. The temple was rebuilt by devotees but then demolished by the slave king QutubuddinAibak. After Aibak’s death, the temple was rebuilt with the permission of his successor, the slave king Altutmish, better known as the father of the first woman ruler of Delhi, Razia Sultana. The temple of Kashi Vishwanath was again destroyed by Feroze Shah Tughlaq in the fourteenth century.
The temple was rebuilt by Raja Todarmal, the revenue minister in the court of the Mughal king Akbar. Aurangzeb, Akbar’s great grandson demolished the temple, built a mosque known as the Gyanvapi mosque in its place, and even renamed the city Mohammedabad from Kashi. In the eighteenth century, the queen Ahilyabai Holkar rebuilt the temple, and in the nineteenth century, Maharaja Ranjit Singh donated 1000 kilos of gold to gold plate the temple spire and the dome. It is believed that the Gyanvapi well is the place where the original Shiva lingam was buried. It is said that the priests of the temple saved the lingam when Aurangzeb attacked the temple, by throwing it in a well. Visible from here, is the Gyanvapi mosque that Aurangzeb had built, the living proof from history of the destructive nature and the uselessness of narrow-mindedness and hatred. What the Historians and Islamic Travelers said about the Brutality Irfan Husain (Pakistani Writer) in his article “Demons from the Past” observes: “Their temples were razed, their idols smashed, their women raped, their men killed or taken slaves. When Mahmud of Ghazni entered Somnath on one of his annual raids, he slaughtered all 50,000 inhabitants. Aibak killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands. The list of horrors is long and painful. These conquerors justified their deeds by claiming it was their religious duty to smite non-believers. Cloaking themselves in the banner of Islam, they claimed they were fighting for their faith when, in reality, they were indulging in straightforward slaughter and pillage…”
Fernand Braudel wrote in A History of Civilizations (1995), that Islamic rule in India was "extremely violent", and "the Muslims could not rule the country except by systematic terror. Cruelty was the norm – burnings, summary executions, crucifixions or impalements, inventive tortures.
Hindu temples were destroyed to make way for mosques. On occasion there were forced conversions. If ever there were an uprising, it was instantly and savagely repressed: houses were burned, the countryside was laid waste, men were slaughtered and women were taken as slaves." V S Naipual has written extensively on the brutality of Muslims and how it wounded the richest, lone surviving cultures, that is Hinduism. Islam is born only to both enslaved and attempted to wipe out other cultures. "It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'."
Fatwas Issued to Slaughter Hindus The Muslims who issue Fatwas against Hindu Deities and Hindus are never prosecuted and brought to justice, thereby encouraging them to repeat their activities with more blasts and multiple bombs killing thousands of people. They have even issued Fatwa against National song, yoga, Bhagavad Gita, Surya Namaskar, etc. The Indian Mujahedeen had circulated an e-mail on July 8, 2008, in which they unequivocally threatened the Hindus thus: “(O Disbelievers). We are guiltless of you and whatever worship beside Allah, we have rejected you and there has arisen between us and you, enmity and hatred for ever – unless you believe in Allah and Him alone” (Quran 60.4).
After quoting verse from Quran the e-mail commanded the Hindus to convert to Islam in English in the following words: “O Hindus! O’ disbelieving faithless Indians! Haven’t you still realized that the falsehood of your 33 crore dirty mud idols and the blasphemy of your deaf, dumb, mute and naked idols of Ram, Krishna and Hanuman are not at all going to save your neck, Insha-Allah, from being slaughtered by our hands”? What action the government has taken against the IM who issued this Fatwa? Nothing. By not taking action against terrorists, Muslims who make hate speeches, Muslims who attack Hindus and Hindu Temples and stop the Temple activities, the central government is encouraging Muslims to openly express their hatred toward Hindu.
ISLAM means TERROR Across Globe
History cannot be ignored, hidden, negated and whitewashed. Nearly 14 centuries of brutality, terror, bombings, killings, rapes, destruction of Hindu Temples, kidnapping Hindu women, enslaving Hindu women should teach us about the brutality of Islam and believers of Quran. Anybody equating the this violent, brutal, vicious, and intolerant with Hindus must be either a Hindu hater, hiding behind his religion, fearful of consequences of his actions, promoting the exclusive religion, encouraging Hindu holocaust, or failing to name the names.
Let us look at what Muslims have done over the last two-three decades and some of the incidents they have engaged in and some of the incidents that have resulted in numerous deaths: The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim; The Beltway Snipers were Muslims; The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim; The Underwear Bomber was a Muslim; The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims; The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims, The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims; The London Subway Bombers were Muslims; The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims; The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims; The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims; The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims; The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims; The Beirut U.S. Embassy Bombers were Muslims; The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims; The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims; The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims; The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims; The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims; The Beirut Marine Barracks Bombers were Muslims; The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims; The First World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims; The Bombay, Mumbai, India Attackers were Muslims; The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims; The Nairobi, Kenya Shopping Mall Killers were Muslims; The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims; The Sydney, Australia Lindt Cafe Kidnapper was a Muslim; The Peshawar, Pakistani School Children Killers were Muslims; Charlie Hebdo killers; Copenhagen attackers; Yezidi killers; Boko Haram killers and numerous other such attacks and bombings were all MUSLIMS. Ignorance or denial of history is not the answer to deal with terrorism and in fact, failure to identify and take appropriate action only encourages the Muslim terrorist to continue their mission to subdue the humanity to untold misery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_terrorist_attacks Major terror attacks in India
Muslims have terrorized, bombed, destroyed sacred places, attacked the Parliament and High Court, torched the hotels, exploded bombs in the train, bombed market places, killed foreigners, targeted Jews, and terrorized the innocent people and sacrificed the lives of these people in the name of Allah. These terrorist attacks spread all over India in such places as New Delhi, Bombay, Pune, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Mumbai, Malegaon, Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Kanpur, Mathura and other places. It is in the name of Allah. It is all according the verses found in Quran and Hadiths. Please click on the link to see the List of Major Terrorist Activities in India:
https://www.savetemples.org/2015/02/24/time-line-of-major-terrorist-attacks-in-india/
Verses from Quran
Now let us look at some of the verses in Quran that might have influenced their violent behavior. For brevity sake only very few verses from Quran are listed.
"And as for those who disbelieved, I will punish them with a severe punishment in this world and the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers". Quran 3:56.
Allah will throw fear into the hearts of the disbelievers, and smite their necks and fingers. The Quran, Sura 8:12
The fires of hell will be fueled with the bodies of idolaters and unbelievers. They will experience an ever-greater torment. The Quran, Sura 72:15-17
Smite the necks of the disbelievers whenever you fight against them. Those who die fighting for Allah will be rewarded. The Quran, Sura 47:4
“So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.” Quran, Sura 9:5.
“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” Quran (9:29)
“And if any fail to judge by the light of what Allah has revealed, they are no better than unbelievers.” (Q 5:47) “Sovereignty in Islam is the prerogative of Almighty Allah alone. He is the absolute arbiter of values and it is His will that determines good and evil, right and wrong.” (Mohammed Hashim Kamali, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, 3d rev. ed., (Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Text Society, 2003), 8.).
These and other similar verses in Quran are used by many radical Muslims to justify their brutal, violent, torturous, and treacherous actions against nonbelievers and declare jihad (struggle). There are many verses in the Qur'an that call for the destruction of Jews and Christians in addition to nonbelievers.
Democracy is illegitimate as per Islam
That means any constitution or any law passed by anybody or any country is considered illicit under Islamic law. If any country fail to the test of Sharia law, they are considered unbelievers. The only law that is accepted by adherents of Allah is Shariah. Any democratic society or any society that would not adhere to Islamic law should be overthrown. That is the reason that the Muslims have massacred nearly billion people in India, destroyed the Temples, converted people with ruthless sword, overthrown many kingdoms, converted thousands of Hindu Temples into mosques, looted the wealth, and raped countless Hindu women.
Sharia law guides all aspects of Muslim law such as marriage, abortion, divorce, dress, inheritance, custody, women’s rights, punishments for the crime, and others. If we fail to identify the roots of the evil, terrorism, beheading, and killings as Quran, we are delaying the agony and torture of people by Islamic terrorists and most likely give more impetus for the ISIS and other Terrorists more time to occupy more and more countries and slowly reach the shores of Western societies and United States, if they have not already in a position strike at will.
Blasphemy against Islam argument may ban Quran itself Raymond Ibrahim
observed that Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) with membership of 57 Muslim countries called on United Nations to criminalize “blasphemy” against Islam. Blasphemy is defines as any act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God or irreverence toward something that is considered sacred. As per OIC request if UN criminalize blasphemy of Islam, that means if somebody defames, or insults Islam, Allah or Mohammad by publishing books critical of Quran like Satanic Verses; criticizes Islam like Geert Wilders and Hyaan Hirsi Ali; and draws controversial cartoons of Muhammad, they will be treated as criminals.
If UN agrees to their request, it would ban cartoons, books, films, and critical speeches because they defame, demean, insult and slander Islam. By the same token, the Quran would be banned as it contains hundreds of verses defaming other religions, their belief system, and their worship places. A number of verses are listed in the article about kafirs (non-believers). There are some verses condemning Christians and Jews by name. Since these statements are hateful, insulting and slander other religions, is it logical that the UN resolution would ban the Quran itself? President Obama falsely Links Poverty to Terrorism
Based on the statement made by Marie Harf, State Department spokesperson, who appeared on Hardball program, it is clear that the Obama administration is operating under the patently false belief that Muslims are joining the Islamic State and engaged in beheading, terrorizing, immolating, crucifying, enslaving, intimidating, and raping “infidels” because they are economically impoverished. These Islamic terrorists lack job opportunities. According to the President they resort to terrorism because they lack educational opportunities, are trapped in impoverished condition, and do not see any path for advancement.
“So if we’re serious about countering violent extremism, we have to get serious about confronting these economic grievances.” It is preposterous, unfortunate and ridiculous to even imply that Islam is the root cause of all the terrorism even since Islam came in to existence. A number of studies have shown that that poverty, economic condition, or job opportunities have nothing to do with extremism, terrorism and torture. Claude Berrebi, Princeton trained economist concluded: “If there is a link between income level, education and participation in terrorist activities, it is either very weak or in the opposite direction of what one intuitively might have expected.”
Similarly, Marc Sageman could not find any correlation between poverty and terrorism and in his book, Understanding Terror Networks, he stated that overwhelming majority of jihadis “were generally middle-class, educated young men from caring and religious families, who grew up with strong positive values of religion, spirituality and concern for their communities.” Egyptian sociologist Saad E Ibrahim also conclude that the Islamist radicals he analyzed “were significantly above the average of their generation” in education, financial background, and motivation. Other studies further buttress these conclusions.
Nasra Hassan, based on her interviews with nearly 250 Palestinians, concluded that "None of [the bombers] were uneducated, desperately poor, simple-minded, or depressed. Many were middle class and, unless they were fugitives, held paying jobs…Two were the sons of millionaires." If poverty, lack of educational opportunities and economic grievances are the root cause of Islamic terrorism, then why do we not see similar terrorism, bombings, beheading, and intimidation in most of the Asian countries, South American countries and some African counties? In the history of India where Hindus are majority, can we imagine Hindu radicalism to the level of Islamic radicalism? Can we imagine Hindus using poverty for justifying the untold torture, brutality, and radicalism on the humanity? Sooner we identify Islam as the root cause of terrorism, sooner we find the solution and better we will be equipped to deal with the enemy. As Ira Straus mentioned that, “Islam is the bottom-floor root cause of Islamic terrorism.” Hinduism
The main thrust of the paper is that President Obama is mistaken to equate tolerant, peaceful, respectful and nonviolent Hinduism with deceptive, violent, intolerant, disrespectful, and terrorist Christianity and Islam. Let us remember the words of Arnold Toynbee, who has written 18 volumes describing all great civilizations, about the survival of humanity, "It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history, the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way.” What is this Hindu way? PEACE ON EARTH.
Mutual Respect is utmost important among all religions and to remain in peace and harmony without being splintered on religious lines.
Rajiv Malhotra argued that by respectful is to acknowledge that all religions are legitimate and equally valid paths to God as long as one religion claims to be exclusive and demean the practices of other religions. He argued that tolerance should be replaced by mutual respect. Tolerance implies inferiority while mutual respect implied equality. President Obama should advocate the mutual respect among all religions so that they would not splinter on the exclusivity and superiority. In 2013,
Pope Francis wrote to Muslims following the end of Ramadan that there should be mutual respect between the two religions. By respect, he meant “an attitude of kindness towards people for whom we have consideration and esteem’ and goes on to say that mutuality is something shared by both sides and this is not a one-way process. Hindus have always displayed the symbols of all religions at homed, Ashrama, Mutts and other places to imply that we respect other religions for what they are. Similar approach to other religions is lacking by Christians and Muslims. One wonders as to why Pope did not address the issue referring to all the religions instead of talking about mutual respect only between Christians and Muslims. Peace on Earth for everybody
Hindus only talk about peace, mutual respect, kindness, and nonviolence. Hindu literature is replete with peace mantra that are chanted in every home, every temple and on every occasion. This is one of the Peace Mantras that passes the lips of millions of Hindus every day to bless the entire cosmos. “May peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the vast ethereal space everywhere? May peace reign all over this earth, in water and in all herbs, trees and creepers? May peace flow over the whole universe? May peace be in the Supreme Being Brahman? And May there always exist in all peace and peace alone.”
Arnold Toynbee was so much convinced about the richness and peacefulness of India, he was asking India to be save the world with its message of tolerance, peace and tranquility. “So now we turn to India. This spiritual gift, that makes a man human, is still alive in Indian souls. Go on giving the world Indian examples of it. Nothing else can do so much to help mankind to save itself from destruction.”
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Did Jesus backpack through India?
Hemis Monastery stands inside a gorge, a lone ranger surrounded by vast swathes of red and brown mountains, bare valleys peppered with poplar trees and a vivid blue sky. I reach the courtyard of the monastery after a steep climb, my city lungs working overtime in the thin Ladakhi air, wondering how it would’ve felt for a young and lost Jesus Christ to have walked this very path more than two thousand years ago.
The rumours of Jesus’s visit to India, which are still being passionately argued upon with a documentary made a decade ago, were started by two gentlemen much before internet became the fighting ground of conspiracies. Louis Jacol
liot, a French barrister who lived several years in India between 1865-1869, wrote ‘La Bible Dans I’Inde’ (The Bible in India) where he compared the accounts of the life of Krishna, one of the prominent Hindu avatars of Vishnu, with that of Jesus Christ in the Gospels and concluded that there were far too many similarities in both these accounts and hence they were of the same person.
Nicolas Notovich, a Russian war correspondent went a step further eighteen years later in 1887 by placing the legend of Jesus bang in the same courtyard I stood in. He told the world that while he was recuperating his broken leg at the monastery, he was introduced to the Tibetan version of a Pali book called ‘The Life of Issa’, which recounts how Jesus at the age of 13, exactly when his unknown years start, leaves home to wander with a caravan of merchants to India, and studies the laws of the great Buddhas and spends six years among them, learning Pali and mastering their religious texts. At twenty-nine, he returns to his own country and begins to preach. The idea corroborated precisely with Jesus’s lost years, from the age of 13 to 30, when he established Christianity. Notovitch’s book caused a significant controversy in his time, with historian Max Muller calling him either a liar or a victim of a practical joke by the monks at Hemis. The story goes that an incensed Muller even wrote to the head lama at Hemis Monastery to ask about the document and Notovitch’s story and the lama replied that there had been no Western visitor at the monastery in the past fifteen years. Notovitch countered this by claiming that he’d been shown 63 documents of various oriental languages by a Catholic priest in the Vatican library that proved as much.
In 1922 Swami Abhedananda, a contemporary of Swami Vivekananda, visited the Hemis monastery to confirm Notovich’s claim. The lamas in his version of the story, confirmed that the Russian had been there for a month and a half with a broken leg and that there was a manuscript on Jesus Christ which was shown to him. They also, Abhedananda added, told him that Jesus Christ visited Kashmir after his resurrection and lived to a ripe old age of eighty to die in Srinagar.
The same story comes in ‘Jesus in India’, a book by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, which was published in 1908. The book gave evidence that Jesus survived his crucifixion and escaped to Kashmir (and not Ladakh) to live until a ripe old age until 80AD. He died and was buried in Rauzabal shrine, located in Srinagar, 450 kilometers away from Hemis Monastery.
The relatively unknown shrine, gained immense importance in the legends of Christ in India post the claim in early 20th century. Till today, legend goes, Rauzabal’s inner sanctum has a stone with the imprint of two feet showing what seems to be nail wounds. And an unnamed body buried along with the two saints.
As is the case in our rather imaginative country, the stories don’t stop there. Collected claims also say Christ visited Banaras, Jagannath Puri, Rajagriha and was hated by Brahmins as he didn’t maintain the caste system and loved everyone equally.
It’s a lazy day, a day made to look at the azure sky and create stories. A group of little monks, in their darker-than-blood habits, giggle together, their easy smiles a sharp contract to the harshness of the cold desert air. I smile back, uncertain, wondering if their predecessors would’ve misled a European or two. The wind starts to whisper in my ears. Whispers turn into echoes turn into rumours turn into legends and tumble into facts. Everything is possible in this valley of surreal calm where the winds sing and the Yetis dance.
First published in Discover India
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Shweta Taneja is a bestselling Indian fantasy and science fiction author best known for Anantya Tantrist series. Her work is described as feminist, horror, experimental and humorous. She’s a Charles Wallace India Fellow (2016) and was shortlisted for Best Writer Award in ComicCon India for her graphic novel The Skull Rosary (2013). Her bestselling graphic novel Krishna Defender of Dharma (Campfire, 2012) in a Must-Read for government schools in India. (Read More)
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Ready to work in a foreign country to qualify for a PhD in an international, interdisciplinary research project? You are an enthusiastic and highly self-motivated team player? 15 PhD positions are offered by the Innovative Training Network “Solar Energy to Biomass – Opimisation of light energy conversion in plants and microalgae” or short “SE2B”. SE2B is a multi-site Initial Training & Research Program of research institutions from the public and private sector in eight European countries. The aim is to
understand the regulation mechanisms important for light use efficiency, and their evolution from algae to land plants, structure/function studies of the key proteins in non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), PsbS and LhcSR, and of the role of xanthophylls in specific LHC antenna proteins in plants and algae will be crucial. This includes the elucidation of the molecular basis for long-term quenching in evergreen trees over winter. Together with the development of an automated phenotyping system these results will be used to exploit the effect of xanthophyll over-accumulation on light harvesting versus photoprotection for biomass production in algae.
elucidate the supercomplex dynamics during regulation phenomena in plants and microalgae to understand (i) how light-harvesting systems together with photosystems are organized in the lipid bilayer environment during NPQ and/or state-transition (ST), (ii) how the polarity of the membrane, determined by the lipid composition and the phosphorylation of the thylakoid proteins, affects the light absorption properties and the structural and functional dynamics of the supercomplexes, and (iii) how these dynamics affect the entire organism at the gene expression level.
to investigate the role of thylakoid membrane flexibility in light use efficiency by characterising the functional and structural reorganization of thylakoid membranes during NPQ and ST in vivo, and by comparing these effects in cyanobacteria, green algae and diatoms, to determine the extent to which NPQ and ST make use of the same underlying physical mechanisms in different organisms.
PhD students participate in an exciting research programme and receive a strongly interdisciplinary training in all scientific areas involved as well as in complementary skills. The program also includes extended stays in partner laboratories (secondments).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675006.
Vacant Individual Research Projects.
4a. Systems for non-invasive monitoring of plant fitness and growth performance.
PhD position, group of Klára Panzarová, Photon Systems Instruments Spol SRO, Czech Republic.
16a. Quantifying photosynthesis in intact photosynthetic algae and cyanobacteria.
PhD position, group of Jan Dekker/Ivo van Stokkum, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.
16b. Develop a target model to analyse measured time resolved spectra in intact photosynthetic organisms.
Individual Research Projects closed.
Structural and functional analysis LhcSR and PsbS proteins regulating photosynthetic light use efficiency.
PhD position, group of Roberto Bassi, Universita degli Studi di Verona, Italy.
Closed – no longer vacant
Changes in energy fluxes during NPQ in LHCII and PS II-LHCII complexes.
PhD position, group of Alexander Ruban, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
The role of certain proteins in quenching mechanisms in evergreens.
PhD position, group of Stefan Jansson, Umeå Universitet, Sweden.
Systems for non-invasive monitoring of plant fitness and growth performance.
Using algal mutants for enhanced carotenoid production.
PhD position, group of Claudia Büchel, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Changes in supercomplex formation related to functional changes (NPQ and ST).
PhD position, group of Roberta Croce, Stichting Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dynamics of thylakoid pigment-protein complexes – consequences on functional genomics of the entire organism.
PhD position, group of Eva-Mari Aro, University of Turku, Finland.
Dynamics of supercomplexes in the thylakoid membrane of diatoms.
PhD position, group of Claudia Büchel, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Mechanisms involving the antenna that regulate the energy flux to reaction centers in cyanobacteria.
PhD Postdoc position, group of Diana Kirilovsky, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, France.
Molecular structure of supercomplexes under different conditions.
PhD position, group of Egbert Boekema, Groningen Universiity, Netherlands in coorperation with group of Roman Kouřil, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Photosynthetic Membranes: from molecular to membrane organisation.
PhD position, group of Bruno Robert, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, France.
Regulation of the photosynthetic membrane landscape in cyanobacteria.
PhD position, group of Conrad Mullineaux, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
Changes at the membrane level during NPQ and state transitions.
PhD position, group of Herbert van Amerongen, Wageningen University, Netherlands.
Improvement of secondary metabolites production in cyanobacteria under external stress.
PhD position, group of Céline Bourcier de Carbon, Phycosource SARL, France.
Quantifying photosynthesis in intact photosynthetic algae and cyanobacteria.
Successful applicants will be employed: 36 months. With the salary (full time EU contract) also a mobility allowance and a family allowance (if applicable) will be granted and educational costs are covered. The salary is between 2.600 € to 3.470.- €, depending on the host country plus 600.- € on mobility allowance and 250.- € on family allowance. These amounts are gross. The net salary results from deducting all compulsory (employer/employee) social security contributions, as well as direct taxes (e.g. income tax), and insurances from the gross amounts according to the regulations of the host country.
Researchers applying for a PhD position are eligible if they are still within the first four years of their career in research at the time of appointment (full time equivalent). This is measured from the date when they obtained the undergraduate degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate until the day of employment. At the time of the employment, applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country where they will be employed or are applying for for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the starting date of employment. Researchers can be nationals of any country. A good command of the English language is essential.
For more detail and regulations refer to:
Annex I – the detailed description of the project incl. management (available soon)
ANNEX-II – regulations of ITN projects (available soon)
ANNEX-III – definitions (available soon)
Applications shall be addressed directly to the according project leader and sent via email (PDF-files) to the address displayed with each project description below. Deadline for applications is „as soon as possible“. Individual deadlines may be given with the detailed project description. For applying please send us
The filled in application form (download)
your CV,
a copy of your PhD certificate (if available), a copy of Master or Diploma, Bachelor, and School certificates including accredited transcript of records (Master, Bachelor – including information on the Grade Point Average of the highest university degree obtained)
a covering letter (1 page) outlining why you are suitable for the position
at least 1 reference letter
a list of publications (if available)
and further documents required to demonstrate your experience (if applicable).
You may refer to the application check-list provided.
PhD Research Project 1
The project focuses on the structure/function of LHCSR and PSBS proteins and their interactions with photosynthetic supercomplexes. The work will include the mutation analysis of recombinant LHCSR and PSBS proteins regulating photosynthetic light use efficiency in unicellular algae and plants upon expression into homologous and heterologous systems. Identification of interactors of these two protein within photosystem I and II supercomplexes. Structural analysis of recombinant LHCSR expressed in Tobacco. –The program can be modulated according to the characteristics of the candidate.
The group of Roberto Bassi, Department for Biotechnology, Plant Sciences, Universita degli Studi di Verona, 15, Strada Le Grazie, 37134 Verona, Italy, roberto.bassi@univr.it, +39 0458027916.
Project specific requirements
Competence in molecular biology and/or biochemistry and/or biophysics.
See advert for details
The goal of this project will be to establish whether the same mechanism of energy dissipation takes place in isolated LHCII and the photosynthetic membrane, and to find out the rate of energy trapping within the quenching carotenoid species.
Expected Results: Time-resolved low temperature fluorescence on thylakoids lacking photosystems will be performed to gain information on energy transfer rates in the presence of non-photochemical quenching in the photosynthetic membrane. Isolated LHCII complexes from various xanthophyll biosynthesis mutants in the light harvesting and energy dissipation state, as well as intact chloroplasts with enhanced stability and sustained non-photochemical quenching will be measured by transient absorption (TA) methods. Modelling of the TA results will yield spectra of the NPQ quencher(s). A coarse-grained model of the eneegy transfer in the photosynthetic membrane comprising the economic nature of the NPQ quencher will be produced.
The group of Alexander Ruban, Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 327 Mile End Road, E1 4NS London, United Kingdom, a.ruban@qmul.ac.uk, phone: +44 (0)20 78826314.
The most conspicuous, intriguing and important trait of spruce is its ability to maintain green needles over the winter, in other words to be an evergreen under extremely challenging conditions. The hypothesis that PsbS or a similar protein transforms the structure into a ‘super-quenching winter state’ that is stable regardless of lumenal pH will be tested.
Expected Results: A combination of mining of the spruce genomic resources, measurements of photosynthetic function in spruce needle leaves over the season, and the use of transgenic spruce, will be used. All genes of the ‘LHC supergene family’ will be identified, their expression studied, and transgenics affected in regulation of light harvesting made.
The group of Stefan Jansson, Umeå Universitet, Department of Plant Physiology, Universitetomradet, 901 87 Umea, Sweden, stefan.jansson@umu.se, phone: +46 70 6772331.
Competence in biophysics, biochemistry and spectroscopy of the photosynthetic membrane.
PhD Research Project 4 – closed
Further development of non-invasive techniques for monitoring plant fitness and growth performance by using the automated PlantScreen Phenotyping platform. The project aims to investigate and validate current technological improvements and develop, optimize and standardize the phenotyping protocols for the given imaging sensors. The insights obtained will be translated into actual applications in basic research and in agriculture research as in targeted breeding programs.
Expected Results: Hyperspectral image analysis – optimization, validation and further development of the imaging pipeline for high-throughout plant phenotyping. Correlation of the results with biochemical analysis and other non-invasive reflectance measurements. Validation of the methodology under abiotic stress conditions. Optimisation and further development of the methodology for 3D reconstruction of kinetic chlorophyll fluorescence measurements.
The group of Klára Panzarová, Photon Systems Instruments Spol SRO, Research & Development, Drasov 470, 66424 Drasov, Czech Republic, Email: panzarova@psi.cz, +420511440037.
We are looking for an excellent student who is a result-driven team player with good communication skills and good proficiency in English (both oral and written). Specific requirements:
A university degree at MSc level in plant sciences or biotechnology
Strong scientific interest in phenotyping and automated image-analysis
Profound knowledge of plant physiology is of advantage
Experience with photosynthesis research is of advantage (gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence)
Knowledge of basic statistical methods and large data-set analysis is recommended
Experience with programming in R or MatLab is of advantage
Capability to operate in dynamic environment between universities and private companies
PhD Research Project 4a
R&D department of Photon Systems Instruments (PSI) is looking for a motivated and skilled candidate for a PhD position on „plant phenotyping and image analysis tools“ in frame of EU international training network (ITN) project SE2B. PSI is internationally recognized and innovation oriented SME company offering application-oriented research opportunity in field of automated plant phenotyping. The PhD project will deal with “Phenotyping methods for non-invasive monitoring of plant fitness and growth performance in controlled and greenhouse environment“ and will focus on development and validation of automated image analysis and data analysis tools.
The successful candidate will focus on the establishment, validation, data analysis and further development of automated image processing tools for high-throughput high-precission processing of plant fitness and growth performance image data. Data will be available from unique greenhouse and controlled environment -based automated multi-sensoric PlantScreenTM phenotyping platforms.
Plant phenotyping refers to a quantitative characterisation of the plant’s anatomical, ontogenetical, physiological and biochemical properties at regular time intervals, non-destructively and objectively. In past years plant phenotyping became increasingly automated by the development of novel imaging technologies and image analysis pipelines that allow for a characterization of plant traits in high-throughput and high-precission. The field of image-based phenotyping has broadened from the initial characterization of single-plant traits in controlled conditions towards greenhouse and field applications and multi-dimensional dynamic phenotyping of morphological, physiological and biochemical traits. In several past years PSI has developped and manufactured range of automated plant phenotyping systems for controlled and greenhouse conditions. The PlantScreen Phenotyping Systems are designed for in-depth phenotyping of small up to large-scale plants ranging from Arabidopsis to crop species by means of RGB, kinetic chlorophyll fluorescence, thermal infrared, 3D laser scanning and hyperspectral imaging systems. The project aims to focus on further development and validation of current image processing and data analysis tools, optimize and standardize the processing and data analysis algorithms with special focus on spectral data coming from the hyperspectral imaging sensor and projectionof the acquired data on 3D structural models. The insights obtained will be translated into actual applications in basic research and in agriculture research.
Project specific requirementsWe are looking for an excellent student who is a result-driven team player with good communication skills and good proficiency in English (both oral and written). Specific requirements:
• A university degree at MSc level in plant sciences, biotechnology, bioinformatics and mathematical biology
• Strong scientific interest in large data set analysis and automated image-analysis
• Profound knowledge of bioinformatics, statistics, programming (Matlab, R-scripting, ..)
• Experience with photosynthesis research is of advantage (gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence)
• Capability to operate in dynamic environment between universities and private companies
Project descriptio
The work will focus on the pathway towards carotenoids, to improve production by direct manipulation within the pigment synthesis pathway. In addition, optimization of the photosynthetic carbon flux, to provide more biomass and thus more pigment, will be examined in collaboration with other partners of SE2B.
Expected Results: Improving the content will be achieved by inhibiting competing pathways using a protein based approach to manipulate the pathway. After successful establishment of an in vivo functionality in plants, constructs will be made to transform Phaeodactylum and/or Chlamydomonas, and those will be assessed for carotenoid yield parameters in comparison to WT strains.
The group of Claudia Büchel, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, c.buechel@bio.uni-frankfurt.de, +49 69 798 29602.
The candidate should hold a master (or comparable) degree in biology or biochemistry. The position requires an interest in algal physiology and pigments. Experience with molecular biology standard procedures like cloning and overexpression of proteins is mandatory, experience with HPLC methods is recommended.
The objective is to elucidate changes in supercomplex composition and organization in plants and green algae grown/acclimated/stressed under different conditions, with the aim to understand the molecular basis of inter-dependent regulation mechanisms (NPQ and ST).
Expected Results: Plants and algae from different habitats will be selected based on physiological measurements, and assessments of the acclimation responses at the level of whole organisms will be conducted spectroscopically at different time-scales from fs to s. The composition of the photosynthetic apparatus of these novel species will be determined under normal condition and during regulation.
The group of Roberta Croce, Stichting Free University Amsterdam, Department for Physics and Anatomy, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, r.croce@vu.nl, +31 2059 86310.
The regulatory dynamics that optimise the function of thylakoid membranes will be elucidated by dissecting how thylakoid protein phosphorylation and the thylakoid lipidome tune the distribution of protein complexes along the thylakoid membrane, how they determine the formation of PS II- and PS I-complexes and PS II/PS I-enriched areas of the membrane, and how such rearrangements in energy transfer are reflected in global gene and protein expression.
Expected Results: Successful supercomplex isolation from selected plant species will allow detailed analyses of the heterogeneity in supercomplexes. The structure of those supercomplexes will be solved by single-particle analysis and the excitation energy transfer elucidated. Direct consequences of supercomplex reorganisations on general plant acclimation by changes in gene expression levels will be obtained for further biotechnological purposes.
The group of Eva-Mari Aro, University of Turku, Department of Biochemistry, Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 C, Turku, Finland, evaaro@utu.fi, +35823335931.
Fulfillment of the project requires excellent theoretical and practical knowledge on molecular biology and biochemistry. Biophysical skills and readiness to multidisciplinary photosynthesis research are highly appreciated. Practical experience with membrane protein complexes and lipids, or alternatively on systems biology methods and genome mining are regarded as an asset.
The precise nature of the thylakoid structure of diatoms is still unknown. Thus, the exact distribution of photosystems and antenna proteins in these membranes will be determined and changes of thylakoid membranes and supercomplexes during regulation phenomena like NPQ will be analysed.
Expected Results: The influence of lipids on antenna and photosystem complexes will be determined and the complexes characterised spectroscopically. The distribution of supercomplexes in the thylakoids will be shown by immunolabelling and electron microscopy, and related to function.
The candidate should hold a master (or comparable) degree in biology or biochemistry. The position requires an interest in algal physiology. Experience with protein purification and protein biochemical standard procedures is mandatory, experience with spectroscopic methods (steady state absorption and fluorescence) is recommended.
“State Transitions” is induced by changes in light quality and involves a rearrangement of the antenna, the phycobilisome and the photosystems. State transitions are triggered by changes in the redox state of the plastoquinone pool; however, the cascade of events induced by these changes resulting in phycobilisome or photosystem movements is still unknown in cyanobacteria. In the framework of this project, we will revisit the most controversial points of the mechanism and we will look for the lacking element involved in signal translation. The interaction between state transitions and other photoprotective mechanisms (cyclic electron transport, OCP-related NPQ) will be also studied.
Expected results: Elucidation of the cyanobacterial state transition mechanism et its interaction with other photoprotective mechanisms.
The group of Diana Kirilovsky, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l‘énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), Institute for Biology and Technology of Saclay (iBiTec‘s), CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France, diana.kirilovsky@cea.fr, +33 169089571.
We are looking for a person with formation on biochemistry and molecular biology. Knowledge on photosynthesis is welcome.
PhD Research Project 10
Structural-functional characterization of photosynthetic supercomplexes will be carried out using single particle electron microscopy and image analysis in order to understand their role and functional significance in photosynthesis of different plants and microalgal species under specific environmental conditions. In addition, the thylakoid membrane architecture in diatoms will be studied using the-state-of-the-art cryo electron tomography.
Expected Results: The structure of Photosystem II supercomplexes in evergreen conifer trees under different growth conditions will be determined for the first time. Structural characterization of Photosystem II and Photosystem I supercomplexes with other complexes of the thylakoid membrane formed under conditions of NPQ and/or state transitions. A 3D model of the thylakoid membrane architecture in diatoms will be established.
A PhD candidate will be appointed sequentially in the two following labs: the lab of Prof. Egbert Boekema (co-supervisor) (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) and the lab of Dr. Roman Kouřil (supervisor) (Palacky University, Czech Republic) (18 month each). The fourth year of the PhD study will be arranged according to actual needs.
The group of Egbert Boekema, Groningen Universiity, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Institute, Nijenborgh 7 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands, e.j.boekema@rug.nl.
The group of Roman Kouřil, Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Biophysics CRH, Slechtitelu 27, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic, roman.kouril@upol.cz, +420 585634837.
The candidate should have a M.Sc. degree in biophysics, biochemistry or related fields.
Photosynthetic organisms must permanently adapt to their light environments to ensure their proper energetic balance. This involves structural reorganizations at different levels, which tune the fate of the absorbed solar energy in the photosynthetic membrane. The ESR 12 of the S2EB network will study the reorganisations accompanying the adaptation of plants and algae to light intensity and quality both at a molecular and cellular level, using advanced spectroscopic techniques.
At a molecular level, highly selective techniques such as resonance Raman and Fluorescence Line Narrowing allow the characterization of the structural changes occurring in the cofactor binding sites in isolated proteins, membranes and organelles
At a cellular level, a novel super-resolution fluorescence microscopy technique, yet never applied to photosynthetic system will give access the details of the organization of the photosynthetic proteins in chloroplasts, live cells and algae.
The group of Bruno Robert, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l‘énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), Institute for Biology and Technology of Saclay (iBiTec‘s), Institute of Integrative Biology of Cell (Gif sur Yvette), CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France, diana.kirilovsky@cea.fr, +33 169089571.
Applications of candidates with background in physics, biophysics, biochemistry and cellular biology with strong interest to research at the physics/chemistry/biology interface will be considered.
We have evidence from fluorescent protein tagging and fluorescence microscopy for a very heterogeneous distribution of protein complexes in the cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane, with microdomains dedicated to specific functions. A better understanding of the composition, structure and function of the membrane microdomains in the cyanobacteria Synechococcus 7942 and Synechocystis 6803 could pave the way to smarter solutions for re-engineering cyanobacteria for biotechnological purposes. The ESR will characterise the composition of the specific membrane zones and their high-resolution structure.
Expected Results: Optimised techniques for affinity pull-downs of intact cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane microdomains. Analysis of the structural configuration of isolated membrane domains by atomic-force microscopy, negative-staining electron microscopy, freeze-fracture electron microscopy and three-dimensional characterisation by cryo-electron tomography.
The group of Conrad Mullineaux, Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 327 Mile End Road, E1 4NS London, United Kingdom, c.mullineaux@qmul.ac.uk, +44 2078823645.
Competence in biochemistry and molecular biology. Prior experience of electron microscopy and/or atomic force microscopy would be an advantage, but is not essential.
It is the goal of this project to study changes in the organization of thylakoid membranes of cyanobacteria, green algae and diatoms upon the induction of NPQ and ST in vivo and to directly relate the observed changes in fluorescence kinetics to spatial reorganizations in the thylakoids examined in WP2, making use of ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopic and microscopic methods.
Expected Results: Super-resolution microscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, FRAP and FLIM on green algae in state 1 and state 2 and on diatoms in the quenched and unquenched state will demonstrate the reorganisation of the supercomplexes of the thylakoid membrane in vivo during regulation.
The group of Herbert van Amerongen, Wageningen University, Agrotechnology and Food Sciences; Laboratory of Biophysics, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands, herbert.vanamerongen@wur.nl, +31 317482634.
We are looking for a PhD student who will use advanced (micro)spectroscopic fluorescence techniques to study dynamic photosynthetic acclimation in plants and algae. Via the Innovative Training Network “Solar Energy to Biomass – Optimisation of light energy conversion in plants and microalgae” we offer a challenging Ph.D. position in the Laboratory of Biophysics of Wageningen University.
Photosynthesis is strongly regulated: The conversion of solar energy to biomass incorporates extremely fast reactions, such as excitation energy transfer on the femtosecond timescale and slower biochemical and physiological reactions occurring on the timescale of milliseconds or more. This process is tightly regulated in order to optimise the use of the absorbed solar energy and at the same time to prevent damage to the organism under constantly changing light conditions. This is extremely important for photosynthetic efficiency, and thus for biomass accumulation in out-door or only semi-regulated greenhouse cultures used for food supplies, but also increasingly for algal mass culture, and has served as a driving force in the evolution of plants and (micro)algae.
The aim of this PhD project is to understand how plants and algae adjust their photosynthetic machinery to function optimally under various light conditions. Resulting changes in the excitation-energy flow will be measured on the pico-second to nanosecond time-scale. To this end you will use ultrafast fluorescence and microspectroscopy techniques to perform in vivo measurements on plants and algae.
We are looking for a talented highly motivated candidate with an MSc degree in (bio)physics, optics, physical chemistry or related fields. You are an ambitious and enthusiastic team player with a fundamental interest in photosynthesis research and (micro)spectroscopy. Research experience is required, preferably in the fields of photosynthesis and/or spectroscopy. A good command of the English language is essential.
In cyanobacteria, temperature, CO2 concentration and light stress can increase the secondary metabolite concentrations, factors that are also involved in the regulation of photosynthesis. The effect of modified external factors on the accumulation of cryptophycin, a secondary metabolite with strong properties against cancer, in Nostoc cells will be related to changes in photosynthesis and photoprotection under different stress conditions. Results of modelling (project 16) will further be used to improve cryptophycin production. Synechocystis and/or E. coli strains synthesizing cryptophycin will be constructed.
Expected Results: Data on cryptophycin production in Nostoc under various levels of temperature, CO2,nutrient starvation and light intensity will lead to an optimization of the production protocol. Synechocystis strains overexpressing the enzymes involved in cryptophycin synthesis will also lead to optimization of its production.
The group of Céline Bourcier de Carbon, Phycosource SARL, Phycochemistry Departement, Boulevard de L‘Hautil 13, 95000 Cergy, France, celinebdec@gmail.com, +33 134487933.
For this position we need a person with formation in microbiology and molecular biology. Some knowledge in photosynthesis and fluorescence measurements is welcome.
PhD Research Project 15/16a/16b
The objective is to combine results from PAM fluorescence and more advanced spectroscopies in a modelling approach to quantitatively describe and interpret regulation mechanisms in intact photosynthetic organisms. Target analysis of high resolution data will result in a model that makes use of the thermodynamic properties of pools of pigments and charge-separated states. Project 16a is more based on the measurement and project 16b more on the development of the model.
Expected Results: A multiple wavelength protocol PAM will be developed and used in experimental set-ups of network partners. In addition, a Target model in cyanobacteria, green algae and diatoms grown in optimal and stress conditions will be realized in collaboration with network partners.
The group of Jan Dekker/Ivo van Stokkum, VU University Amsterdam, Department of Physics and Astronomy, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, j.p.dekker@vu.nl, +31 2059 87931, i.h.m.van.stokkum@vu.nl,
+31 2059 87868.
Theoretical knowledge and practical experience with spectroscopy, modeling and computer programming will be appreciated.
university degree at MSc level in plant sciences or plant biotechnology (biology, chemistry/biochemistry, informatics, mathmatics, biophysics, physics)
Experience with time resolved spectroscopy and knowledge of photosynthesis are required.
Mathematical modelling skills and programming skills in Python and Mathematica are required for project 16b.
Dr. Bernd Märtens
Research Service Center
Goethe-Universität
Max-von-Laue-Str. 9
Phone: 069/798-49418
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Top San Diego Things to Do in December
By Madelyn Harris on November 29, 2017 Blog, recent, recent sd, San Diego Holidays, San Diego Things To Do, San Diego Weekend Events, San Diego Weekend Roundup, SD, SoCal Things To Do
Head to Hotel Del Coronado for ice skating that overlooks the beach.
From holiday festivities and parades to light shows and ice skating rinks, check out San Diego’s top December events.
Edited by Madelyn Harris.
Coronado Holiday Parade and Open House
Dec. 1. Be a part of the annual festivities, which include a nighttime parade along Orange Avenue, the lighting of a 50-foot Christmas tree and holiday concert. Coronado Ferry Landing, 1201 1st St., Coronado. coronadochamber.com
December Nights
Dec. 1-2. Attracting more than 350,000 visitors, Balboa Park December Nights is the largest free community festival in San Diego. Festivities include live music, dance performances, holiday light displays and many museums open their doors free of charge from 5-9 p.m. F 3-11 p.m., Sa Noon-11 p.m. Balboa Park. balboapark.org
19th Annual Little Italy Tree Lighting and Christmas Village
Dec. 2. Families, friends and neighbors will experience Little Italy’s transformation into a winter wonderland and enjoy the community’s festive decor, seasonal vendors, live music and entertainment, horse carriage rides, holiday treats, a tree lighting, a visit from Santa and more. 4-8 p.m. Free. India Street between W. Cedar and W. Grape Street. littleitalysd.com
54th Annual North Park Toyland
Dec. 2. This annual parade features a slew of celebrations, plus beauty queens, dance groups, vintage cars, bands and parade floats. 11 a.m. Free. University Avenue, North Park, 619.269.7880. toylandparade.com
South Park Holiday Walkabout
Dec. 2. Head to South Park for a fun-filled evening festival that showcases all the unique areas and independent businesses. Enjoy complimentary treats, live entertainment, a tree lighting ceremony, pictures with Santa and special offers. 5-10 p.m. Free. Grape St. Square. southparksd.com
Holiday in the Park & Las Posadas
Dec. 2-17. See Old Town decked out for the holidays with extended evening shopping hours and strolling carolers. On December 9 at 5 p.m., join a candlelight procession and celebrate Las Posadas—a centuries-old tradition in which actors re-enact the biblical journey of Mary and Joseph through Bethlehem. Old Town State Historic Park, San Diego Avenue and Twiggs Street. oldtownsandiego.org
Head to the San Diego Botanic Garden for a dazzling winter wonderland.
Garden of Lights
Dec. 2-23, 26-30. After the sun goes down in December, the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas is transformed into a dazzling winter wonderland. More than 125,000 sparkling lights illuminate the flora of this fantastic 37-acre urban oasis each evening for a magical holiday experience. Families will also enjoy nightly entertainment, food, hot coffee and treats and a variety of activities including horse-drawn wagon rides, crafts, marshmallow roasting, snow sledding and more. 5-9 p.m. $10 members, $15 non-members. sdbgarden.org
Latin Nights
Dec. 2, 9, 15, 23. Experience Latin Nights at the Gaslamp’s newest nightlife destination. December’s theme is Cuban-inspired, providing a glamorous, avant-garde, cosmopolitan dining and dancing experience. Grab your dancing shoes and get ready for a night of exotic beats. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. No cover admission. Osetra Seafood & Steaks, 904 Fifth Ave. osetraseafoodandsteaks.com
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
Dec. 3. Treat yourself to an unforgettable and magical experience for the entire family. The beloved film It’s a Wonderful Life will be screened while the cherished score is performed by the San Diego Symphony orchestra live. 2 p.m. $20-$71. sandiegosymphony.org
La Jolla Christmas Parade and Holiday Festival
Dec. 3. Experience the holidays in La Jolla glory, with vintage automobiles, equestrian units, floats, marching bands and a Santa Claus appearance. 1:30 p.m. Free. Girard Ave., La Jolla. ljparade.com
‘The Nutcracker’
Dec. 8-24. Channel your inner sugar plum fairy at two stagings of the timeless holiday classic presented by the City Ballet of San Diego (Dec. 8-24) at the historical Spreckels Theatre (Dec. 9-23), and by the California Ballet at the Civic Theatre. Spreckles Theatre, 121 Broadway downtown; Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., downtown. cityballet.org
Mission Bay Christmas Boat Parade of Lights
Dec. 9. More than 100 illuminated vessels parade along Mission Bay, followed by a fireworks show at 9 p.m. above SeaWorld. 6 p.m. Free. Mission Bay. mbyc.org
Toast of Gaslamp
Dec. 9. Don your festive attire, round up your friends and head downtown for a self-guided walking tour that will have you tasting, toasting and shopping with 20 sips, 20 bites and 20 shopping deals around the Gaslamp Quarter. Wear your favorite ugly holiday sweater to receive entry into the Gaslamp grand prize giveaway. 1-5 p.m. $25 in advance, $30 day-of event. El Chingon, Gaslamp District, 560 Fifth Ave. nightout.com
Dress up your pooch and participate in a festive Christmas parade around the Gaslamp.
Gaslamp Holiday Pet Parade
Dec. 10. Pooches will dress up as Santa, elves, reindeer and more and march down the festive streets of the Gaslamp. After the parade, enjoy a free pet expo. 3 p.m. March starts and ends at MLK Promenade Park, 401 K St., Gaslamp Quarter. holidaypetparade.com
San Diego Bay Parade of Lights
Dec. 10, 17. See San Diego Bay twinkle with more than 100 private boats decked out with holiday lights for a festive night on the water. This year’s theme is “Arrrgh! A Pirate’s Christmas”. 5 p.m. Procession begins at Cesar Chavez Park before making the turn to Coronado. sdparadeoflights.org
Christmas Devil’s Exchange
Dec. 13. Little Italy hot spots Devil’s Dozen Donut Shop and award-winning Kettner Exchange will team up to host a holiday-inspired event. The evening will include a five-course dinner by Kettner Exchange executive chef de cuisine, Nick DeVries, plus beverages, wine and dessert. 6:30 p.m. $95. 2001 Kettner Blvd., 619.780.0914. sdcm.com
‘An American Christmas’
Dec. 14-24. Step back to 1917 for a memorable feast. Lamb’s Players Theatre presents this delectable four-course holiday meal in a unique setting of festive dance and song. Guests are encouraged to dress up in festive attire. View website for complete schedule and pricing. The US Grant, 326 Broadway, downtown. lambsplayers.org
Noel Noel
Dec. 16, 22, 23. The San Diego Symphony is set to deliver a particularly memorable holiday season with four showing of San Diego’s favorite holiday music tradition. The performance will feature your favorite songs of the season and demonstrate the quest for the true meaning of the holidays. Visit website for schedule and prices. 750 B St., 619.235.0804. sandiegosymphony.org
Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin
Dec. 20-Jan. 7. Featuring classic songs such as “God Bless America,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business” and “White Christmas,” this wonderful one-man show celebrates the life and music of famed composer Irving Berlin. View website for full schedule. San Diego Rep, Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza. sdrep.org
‘Black Pearl Sings’
Through Dec. 17. Featuring over 20 folk and spiritual songs, this transcendent tale of an unlikely friendship between two strong women reveals the bridges that can be built through the power of song. San Diego Rep, Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, downtown, sdrep.org
Experience a Dickens classic at the Cygnet Theatre in Old Town.
‘A Christmas Carol’
Through Dec. 24. Expect 19th century tradition with a 21st century twist in this completely reimagined Dickens classic—now a new musical featuring an original score, puppetry and live sound effects. Cygnet Theatre at Old Town Theatre, 4040 Twiggs St., Old Town. cygnettheatre.com
‘Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Radio Broadcast’
Through Dec. 24. San Diego Musical Theatre presents the heartwarming holiday classic retold as a live 1940s-era radio broadcast—with live Foley effects and a score of holiday songs. Horton Grand Theatre, 444 Fourth Ave. sdmt.org
Skating by the Sea
Through Jan. 1. See Hotel del Coronado’s Windsor Lawn transform into an outdoor ice skating rink that overlooks the beach and Pacific Ocean. Visit website for full schedule and pricing. Hotel del Coronado, 1500 Orange Ave., Coronado. hoteldel.com
Rady Children’s Ice Rink
Through Jan. 7. Celebrate the holiday season by lacing up your skates and gliding away at this outdoor ice rink located in the historical NTC at Liberty Station. $14 adults, $12 kids. View website for full schedule. 2640 Historic Decatur Road, Point Loma. fantasyonicesd.com
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Sule has career-best 23 points, Texas State gets 90-80 win
SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) Alonzo Sule nailed 10 of 11 shots from the floor for a career-high 23 points while grabbing 10 rebounds to help Texas State overcome a Houston Baptist rally for its seventh straight victory, 90-80 on Saturday.
Texas State (9-1) is off to its best start since 1952-53. The Bobcats' only loss was to Drake, 75-69, in the third game of the season.
Nijal Pearson drained three treys for 14 points and Alex Peacock scored 11 with six rebounds and four assists. Tre'Larenz Nottingham and Jaylen Shead added 10 points apiece for the Bobcats.
Texas State rolled to a 40-25 advantage at halftime. Ian DuBose nailed a 3-point jumper to open the second half and start the Huskies on a 20-8 run, closing to 48-45 at the 13:52 mark. Nottingham and Pearson nailed consecutive treys to halt the run. Eric Terry slammed home a dunk to give the Bobcats a 66-54 lead with 8:47 left.
Ian Dubose had a career-best 31 points and nine rebounds for Houston Baptist (2-5). Edward Hardt added a career-high 18 points and Philip McKenzie scored nine with 10 rebounds.
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Earlier this week, our office had the opportunity to host our annual appreciation dinner for several of the sales representatives we work with in the cruise, river cruise, and escorted tour industry. Not only is it our way to say thank you, but we receive updates and information on travel trends, new ships, tour itineraries, and offers. After meeting with Ward Wagner from Holland America Line, I could not wait to share what I learned about their newest addition, ms Koningsdam.
The ms Koningsdam made her debut in April 2016. She is a mix of Holland America’s classic service and style with 21st century flair. Her name is contemporary and classic. Koning means king in Dutch and honors King Willem-Alexander, the Netherland’s first king in more than 100 years. Dam is carried forward from the traditional Holland America Line brand. This 2,650-passenger beauty entered service in April 2016.
The ms Koningsdam is currently sailing in the Caribbean with unique itineraries through April, then she will depart on a transatlantic sailing from Ft. Lauderdale to Rome. The spring and summer will feature Adriatic and Baltic itineraries before she returns to Ft. Lauderdale from Rome in October to resume Caribbean departures.
Not only are the itineraries impressive, but the new onboard features are equally entertaining. Music Walk™ consists of three stages featuring diverse live music every evening including Lincoln Center Stage, BB King’s Blues Club, and Billboard onboard. The World Stage is an extraordinary theater at sea with a two-story 270-degree high-definition LED screen. The ever-changing backdrop of sight and sound brings the music to life for the audience.
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Of course, I can’t forget to mention the wide variety of culinary delights. The dining room spans two floors and is anchored by a copper-sheathed wine tower showcasing wines from the cellar. Sel de Mer means sea salt in French and offers contemporary French seafood classics. The Culinary Arts Center is presented by Food & Wine Magazine and is a show kitchen for demonstrations and cooking classes. It also transforms to a dinner venue at night with a farm-to-table concept. The Grand Dutch Café is inspired by Delftware and is a place to enjoy pale lagers, coffees, and Dutch snacks – I can practically taste the Stroopwafel as I type this. A Stroopwafel is a waffle made from two thin layers of baked dough with a caramel-like syrup filling in the middle. I could not get enough of this tasty treat the last time I was in Amsterdam and I packed my suitcase with them before I returned home.
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I was excited to learn about the incredible features on this beautiful ship. After Mr. Wagner left my office, I immediately searched the itineraries that would fit into my schedule as I can’t wait to experience her myself.
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Have You Lost Your Marbles?
1930 Marbles Champion Vincent Sullivan
Marbles is a game that I have never seen anyone play in person in my entire life. When I was a young boy, I had a collection of marbles that my grandparents gave me. I would roll them around and marvel at the beautiful orbs of color, but no one ever taught me how to play marbles. Somewhere among my many apartment moves I did lose my marbles. American children seem to have lost their marbles too, for the game is clearly not popular anymore.
Marbles as a competitive game is still played, but there are probably more collectors of marbles than there are players worldwide. It was, and remains a great way for children to entertain themselves without adult supervision and the game can be played almost anywhere. All you need are some marbles and the ability to draw a circle on some surface other than grass or sand. To be great at marbles, you really need to have skill. Ask Charlie Brown.
Vincent Sullivan was a 13-year-old marbles champion who had a secret.
He had run away from his Massachusetts home in May 1930 to “see the world.” Vincent came to New York City and had been making a living selling newspapers and residing at The Brace Memorial Newsboys Home, 224 William Street. During his time in New York, Vincent had incredibly won the newsboys marbles championship. James Lee the national marbles champion, was going to play Vincent at Ocean City, NJ in an exhibition match on board The Ecuador, a steamship. At the last minute Lee’s managers refused to let Lee play the match, so his title would not be jeopardized. Sullivan’s ability to shoot marbles resulted in the photograph above. Newspapers across the country ran the photo of the freckle-faced boy with the missing front teeth.
The jig would be up for Vincent because of that picture.
His foster mother Mrs. Ebca Philip of Fall River, MA recognized his picture in the local newspaper and had the New York City police hold him at the Children’s Society until she could drive down to get him. On July 5, 1930 she arrived in the city to bring him home.
The notoriety of this story made national headlines and was followed with offers for jobs, trips and even a movie contract for the urchin marbles champion. Vincent and his foster mother left for a tour of South America on July 20, 1930 playing exhibitions in many countries as a guest of the Panama Line, the steamship company.
After winning against the boys of Cartagena, Colombia, Vincent was badly defeated in three straight matches by the Canal Zone marbles champ Robert Oller on July 30, 1930 at Balboa Stadium. Whether it was stage fright or the heat, Vincent was beaten so soundly that one of the Canal Zone boys who had watched the matches said “Gosh! We eat players like him down here.”
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3 thoughts on “Have You Lost Your Marbles?”
Tatiana Sometimes December 4, 2011 at 4:21 am
Cute story. There’s a great, humorous scene in the film Amelie of the hero (as a child) winning all the marbles in and then losing them. I seem to recall all the kids collecting marbles in the late 70s here in Melbourne, Australia, but I can’t remember anyone actually playing with them. We did play ‘knucklebones’ though!
B.P. Post author January 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm
I just watched “Amelie.” Thanks for stirring my interest. That was a really good film.
Fl December 1, 2011 at 6:09 am
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Phoenix: Government risks increase in case backlog with end of incentives for pay staff
The Trudeau government has refused to renew an incentive package for the recruitment and retention of federal compensation advisors, jeopardizing the ability to resolve Phoenix cases for hard working public service employees.
The incentive package, first negotiated by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) in August 2017, ensured that former and current compensation advisors would receive incentives in exchange for remaining in high-stress assignments at the Public Service Pay Centre, which continues to struggle with a massive backlog of cases.
PSAC has repeatedly requested that the government extend the duration of the incentive package until such time as the Phoenix Pay System is stabilized and the case backlog is resolved, but the government has failed to act.
“It’s outrageous that the government has allowed this agreement to expire mere weeks after the Parliamentary Budget Officer stated that public service workers will be stuck with Phoenix until at least 2023,” said Chris Aylward, PSAC National President. “Trudeau says fixing the Phoenix crisis is a priority but these actions speak louder than words.”
“The incentives make us feel appreciated and compensate us for all the extra hours we put in to help people struggling with Phoenix pay problems,” explained Donna Whalen, a compensation advisor at the Miramichi Pay Centre since it opened seven years ago. “It’s stressful, emotionally draining work that requires frequent overtime, but we need to stay focused on resolving everyone’s pay issues. This is a slap in the face to pay staff.”
PSAC is committed to restoring the recruitment and retention incentive package for pay advisors and will be pressing the government to resolve the situation in the coming days.
When the former Harper Conservative government consolidated the federal public service pay system, hundreds of compensation advisors were laid off. The expertise and experience of those workers was lost and when Phoenix went live in 2016, there were not enough staff to deal with the problems it caused.
In August 2017, PSAC negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Treasury Board to address recruitment and retention of compensation advisors to ensure the government has enough staff resources to deal with Phoenix pay problems. Measures included an incentive payment of $4,000 and double-time compensation for overtime. The terms of the MOU expired in June 2019.
Learn more about the MOU.
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by Starscream » Fri Nov 22, 2002 5:11 am
Jimayo Oyamitch wrote: Which is wrong. Those relationships were considered quite valid in that time period. Going by today's standards is not the way to look at why he claimed to be a descendant.
The problem is that not everyone during that era seemed convinced with his claim and they only gave him the benefit of the doubt that he's an imperial descent. Imperial kinship during the end of Han Dynasty is almost like the present day monarchy in some countries, that is, there is prestige but no power. Liu Bei used this prestige to rally troops, but he needed to form his own power and establish his own state. He was not given Yi Zhou nor Jing Zhou by mere title alone, he had to fight for them.
”太慢了。“
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by Lady Wu » Fri Nov 22, 2002 5:15 am
Cai Yan wrote: He was not given Yi Zhou nor Jing Zhou by mere title alone, he had to fight for them.
True, but his hide was saved earlier on only because Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, etc took him in, based on his claim to imperial descent. He hadn't really accomplished enough for people to "give him face", if it weren't for his name.
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by Fan Kong » Fri Nov 22, 2002 5:24 am
Ok, another one......people like to mention how Liu Bei went from a lowly mat weaver to Emperor of Shu-Han, and Guan Yu was selling green beans? and Zhang Fei was only a butcher.
So, did LGZ make up these "humble" beginnings? No matter what any anti-Shuist say, they did achieve a lot in their lives otherwise we wouldn't even be debating about them. It seems that those "humble" beginnings seem to humble for them to turn to the military generals they would become.
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Location: Chasing the citizens of Shu........ChangBan part deux!!! >:)
Lady Wu wrote: True, but his hide was saved earlier on only because Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, etc took him in, based on his claim to imperial descent. He hadn't really accomplished enough for people to "give him face", if it weren't for his name.
You're right on that point, let's look at things this way, Liu Bei's imperial line is like a good resume for job opportunities. Apparently, those people who took him in looked at his "resume" and the imperial line was the reason why they took him in. Besides Liu Bei, there must be some other imperial kins of the emperor but not one succeeded like Liu Bei. Why so? That's because they could not establish their own power like Liu Bei did. They just lived on their titles and died with their titles without any accomplishments. Liu Bei, like it or not, used his imperial line to get around in life.
Am I talking in circles?
Fan Kong wrote: Ok, another one......people like to mention how Liu Bei went from a lowly mat weaver to Emperor of Shu-Han, and Guan Yu was selling green beans? and Zhang Fei was only a butcher.
The Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stories aren't recorded in SGZ, but I kinda like them anyway The two of them achieved what they did only because the tagged along with Liu Bei.
Cai Yan wrote: They just lived on their titles and died with their titles without any accomplishments. Liu Bei, like it or not, used his imperial line to get around in life.
That's true. Liu Bei cashed his lineage like no one else did. There's that Liu Yu in the north, and Yuan Shao even carved an imperial seal for him ready to go, but would he take it? No... Then there's Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, who didn't do much but sit in their territories. Compared to them Liu Bei is a high achiever.
by Mega Zarak » Fri Nov 22, 2002 5:40 am
I think we must not underestimate Liu Bei's political ability. Note that in the beginning, he wasn't the most prominent among the Lius in China. However, none of the others attempted to leverage on their famous surname or their ancestry in their bids to fulfil their ambitions. Perhaps one may say that Liu Bei was not really good at war (Bowang was a simple ambush, Han Zhong was debatable). However, that alone does not mean that Liu Bei was incapable. He had sufficient foresights in all his northern exploits. Although some might look like complete failures, there were more reasons into it than merely incapability.
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so how did a simple mat weaver turn into the Emperor of Shu-Han? SGZ readers claim he was a warrior and general, unlike is SGYY personna, how did this come about from a man who was only a mat weaver?
I wouldn't think poor mat weavers could attend school and military training back then.
by Jimayo » Fri Nov 22, 2002 5:58 am
Fan Kong wrote: so how did a simple mat weaver turn into the Emperor of Shu-Han? SGZ readers claim he was a warrior and general, unlike is SGYY personna, how did this come about from a man who was only a mat weaver?
He was tutored by Lu Zhi.
Jimayo Oyamitch wrote: He was tutored by Lu Zhi.
His mom was really concerned with his education, as was his uncle. Though he was a bad student, not liking to study, but rather go hunting with dogs and horses, listen to music, and... um... getting nice clothes (I didn't make this up! It's in SGZ!!).
Lady Wu wrote: His mom was really concerned with his education, as was his uncle. Though he was a bad student, not liking to study, but rather go hunting with dogs and horses, listen to music, and... um... getting nice clothes (I didn't make this up! It's in SGZ!!).
Couldn't of been too bad considered he became a good general.
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Analyst: OPEC can soften terms of deal on cutting oil production
09 May 2019 [10:12] - TODAY.AZ
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Solidarity of Azerbaijan with other participants of the OPEC+ deal contributes to its sustainability and opens up prospects for attracting new participants, Vasily Tanurkov, director of the Corporate Ratings Group at Russia’s Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA), told Trend.
"It is not only Azerbaijan’s contribution to the overall production cuts that is important, but also the country's solidarity with other OPEC+ members, which contributes to the sustainability of the deal and opens up prospects for attracting new participants," Tanurkov said.
As to the possibility of extending the deal for cutting oil production, the expert noted that currently the most probable and viable solution is to extend the deal while softening its terms by increasing production quotas, in order to compensate for the drop in exports from Iran and Venezuela.
An agreement was reached to reduce daily oil production by 1.2 million barrels at the 5th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting in Vienna, Austria, on December 7, 2018.
As part of the agreement, Azerbaijan has reduced daily production by 20,000 barrels since January 1, 2019.
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Flathead Lake, Montana -- Nothing About The Bakken -- October 8, 2018
Wow, I get tired of misuse of statistics.
From the article that went viral today regarding the homeless in Portland:
In Portland, the police oversight agency is reviewing how officers interact with homeless people - many suffering from drug addiction and mental health issues - after a report suggested they accounted for 52% of the arrests recorded last year, despite being a tiny fraction of the local population of some 640,000.
Here's another statistic regarding crime:
Almost 100% of bank robberies occur in or near banks.
A disproportionate number of those in US prisons are criminals.
Homeless in Portland, and sleepless in Seattle.
Montana.
Flathead Lake.
Autumn. Sun setting early. Cozy, warm kitchen table.
Time to read.
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology, edited by William Kittredge and Annick Smith, c. 1998, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
1,143 pages (does not include a dozen pages of bibliography at the end)
Section 1: Native American Stories and Myths
Section 2: Journals of Exploration
Section 3: Stories of Early Pioneers and Indians
Section 4: Writings About Butte
Section 5: Remembering the Agricultural Frontier
Section 6: Literature of Modern Montana
Section 7: Contemporary Fiction
Section 8: Contemporary Poetry
Hundreds of authors and poets.
One example: George Bird Grinnell, p. 49
Zoologist, anthropologist, and historian of the American West
trained at Yale
first expedition out west: 1870
returned with Custer's expedition to the Black Hills in 1874
explored the Yellowstone in 1875
"Yellowtop-to-Head-Woman" was brought to Grinnell by John J. White, Jr. -- Grinnell said "it was a sacred story and must not be told except at night, and a prayer made for forgiveness for having told it."
Authors and poets featured in the anthology: Native Americans; native Montanans; from many different states in the US; a very few from outside the US; but what surprised me were all the authors and poets from Iowa:
Con Price, p. 430: born in Iowa in 1869
L. A. Huffman, p. 433: born in Iowa in 1854
Joseph Kinsey Howard, p. 524: born in Iowa in 1906
Jason Bolles, p. 673: born in Denison, Iowa, in 1900
Wallace Stegner, p. 675: born in Iowa in 1909
Dorothy M. Johnson, p. 719: born in McGrrgor, Iowa, in 1905
Norman MacLean, p. 765: born in Iowa, in 1902
James Crumly, p. 822: born in Texas in 1939; MFA from University of Iowa
Gary Holthaus, p. 1092: born in Iowa in 1932
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Major Refinery Fire -- Could Affect New England; WPX Reports Two Great Wells -- October 8, 2018
Road to New England, just in time for winter: from Argus Media --
Irving Oil confirmed a "major incident" today at its 300,000 b/d refinery in St John, New Brunswick
it was not immediately clear whether the fire was under control
Irving supplies fuels to the US northeast as well as to eastern Canada
the company's US terminals in Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, and Rhode Island received an average 111,000 b/d of gasoline blends, and 51,000 b/d of distillates
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Eight new permits:
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Fields: Antelope (McKenzie); Cedar Coulee (Dunn)
Comments: WPX has permits for a 4-well Delores Sand pad in NWNE 29-151-94; CLR has permits for a 4-well Carus pad in SWSE 28-147-96;
Nine producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:
27597, 441, Future Acquisition Company, Aaberg 8-5N-1H, West Ambrose, t9/18; cum --
33977, 494, BR, Kermit 5-8-32 UTFH, Pershing, t9/18; cum --
34072, 601, Petro-Hunt, JL Moberg 153-95-18C-20-1HS, Charlson, t9/18; cum --
34059, 379, BR, Rinkurtis 8-1-5UTFH-ULW, North Fork, t8/18; cum --
34058, 541, BR, Kermit 8-8-32MBH, Pershing, t8/18; cum --
31962, 2,366, XTO, Bang Federal 21X-19E2, Lost Bridge, t8/18; cum 17K after 20 days;
31965, 2,446, XTO, George Federal 21X-19A, Lost Bridge, t7/18; cum 48K after 46 days;
33366, 2,940, WPX, Hidatsa North 14-23HZ, Reunion Bay, t8/18; cum 7K 8/18;
33396, 3,051, WPX, Hidatsa North 14-23HW, Reunion Bay, t9/18; cum --
Nine permits renewed:
XTO (4): two Lyla permits and two Roberta permits, all in Williams County
EOG (3): three Wayzetta permits in Mountrail County
Petro-Hunt: one State permit in McKenzie County
Hess: one TI-Beauty Valley in Williams County
Salmon Fishing -- Old School
The Great Gatsby and Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Wow, I am really jazzed. I'm in my Gatsby phase again.
From an earlier post at another blog:
Briefly, J. Gatsby has spent the last five years of his life, ostensibly, trying to "get back" with Daisy, the love of his life. And then this, Chapter 6, about halfway through the book, on page 116, near the bottom of the page. J. Gatsby felt that he had failed up to that point in winning Daisy back. His "friend," his neighbor, the novella's narrator, declares:
"I wouldn't ask too much of her, "I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
That was the climax. Then begins immediately the downward trajectory of the dramatic arc:
"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see."
Or as Cher would say, "I will turn back time."
The other day I mentioned again that time is an important theme in The Great Gatsby:
I have watched Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby countless times. It is amazing how much I missed, symbolically. The rain is particularly interesting. So is the scene in which Gatsby nearly knocks over a clock during the awkwardness of his reunion with Daisy.
That bit about the rain and the clock was from Understanding The Great Gatsby, Dalton Gross and MaryJean Gross, c. 1998.
This morning, having randomly blogged that time is relative, wow, a bolt of lightning. Time. Relativity. The Great Gatsby.
Do the dates work?
When was F. Scott Fitzgerald born? How old was he in 1905 - 1920 when Einstein's theory of relativity came out and was being discussed in mainstream media?
Fitzgerald was born in 1896. In 1905, he would have been nine years old, soon to begin middle school, and would have been a senior in high school around 1913. His coming of age years would have been in the 1910s.
The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. It concerns events in 1922. It is suggested that Fitzgerald began thinking about the novel in 1923 -- tabula rasa.
As one example: the Picasso clock obsession (it came later) but was probably part of the whole phenomenon at the time.
So, now the standard google search: 1920 theory of relativity einstein physics.
And here it is.
Another dot connected.
Every time I watch the scene where Jay Gatsby almost knocks the clock off the mantel, I will think of a Picasso clock painting and Einstein's theory that led people to talk about turning back time.
See also this post.
Great Days
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Morning Note: October 8, 2018
The law of relativity: my sister texted me that Amtrak was on time and she would be here soon. Soon? It's at least a 12-hour train ride.
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It's no longer about transportation: petrochemicals becoming largest oil demand drivers. Rigzone staff.
Saudi's petrochemical project: on track? Aramco and Total have signed agreement on front-end engineering and design (FEED) for a $9 billion giant petrochemical Saudi complex,
Portland, OR: home of the homeless. BBC.
Back to the Bakken
Wells coming off the confidential list over the weekend / today:
Monday, October 8, 2018:
33453, 818, Equinor, Weisz 11-14 XE 1H, Painted Woods, 49 stages; 9.3 million lbs, t4/18; cum 57K 8/18;
Sunday, October 7, 2018:
33529, SI/NC, Hess, AN-Gudbranson-153-94-2215H-12, Elm Tree,
Saturday, October 6, 2018:
33115, 1,950, CLR, Bailey 10-24H, Pershing, a huge well, 50K-month; 4 sections, 66 stages, 16 million lbs, t6/18; cum 94K 8/18;
$73.81↓
RBN Energy: part 4, the pipelines that flow out of the crude oil hub at Cushing.
The crude oil hub in Cushing, OK, is a big numbers kind of place: 94 million barrels of storage capacity, 3.8 MMb/d of inbound pipelines and 3.1 MMb/d of outbound pipes, not to mention a spaghetti bowl of connections between the many tank farms within greater Cushing.
To truly understand the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World” — what it does and how it works — you need to know the hub’s assets and how they fit together. Today, we continue our series with a look at the pipes that transport crude from Cushing to Gulf Coast refineries and export docks, and to inland refineries in the Midcontinent, the Midwest and what you might call the Mid-South — places like Memphis, TN; El Dorado, AR; and Shreveport, LA.
This is the fourth blog in our deep-dive review of the Cushing hub and — given its significance to the oil market as well as the many angles from which it needs to be considered — we’ve only just begun. Previously we discussed the fact that Cushing’s role in the crude oil market has been in flux. Permian oil production has been surging, the ban on U.S. oil exports is long gone, and the Gulf Coast — not Cushing — is the premium market for U.S. crude owing to its concentration of refineries and export docks.
Later we looked at the 94 MMbbl of crude oil storage at Cushing — where it’s located (mostly South Cushing, with some at North Cushing), the companies that own the storage (with Plains All American, Enbridge and Magellan Midstream Partners leading the pack), and how much they each own. We also split the users of Cushing storage into six categories (producers, midstream companies, refiners, marketers, or some combination thereof) and explained how each group uses its storage in different ways (some purely operational, some purely commercial and the rest some mix of the two).
Finally, we put Cushing’s tank farms into one of three buckets: those with “big hubs” and “big spokes” (a lot of storage capacity, plus tie-ins to major inbound and/or outbound pipelines, as well as strong links to other storage within Cushing); “small hubs” and “big spokes” (less storage capacity, big pipes in and/or out — focused on crude oil throughput); and “small hubs” and “small spokes” (relatively small amounts of storage capacity and only limited pipeline connections into, out of and within Cushing). In the last segment, we turned our attention to the pipelines that transport crude oil to the Cushing hub from Western Canada (Keystone, Flanagan South and Spearhead), the Bakken (Pony Express, with assists from Enbridge’s Mainline system), the Rockies (Pony Express, Saddlehorn/Grand Mesa and White Cliffs), the Permian (Basin and Centurion), and within Oklahoma itself (STACK, Glass Mountain and Mississippi Lime).
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Range Rover that transported Prince George on his first journey sells in a charity auction Used by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as their personal vehicle, a Range Rover Vogue SE that collected the newborn Prince George from St Mary’s hospital sold yesterday in a charity auction for £80,000 – £20,000 less than … Continue reading “A Royal Range Rover”
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Workers stand next to a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Police work next to a crushed car under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Workers wait near a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Crushed cars are shown under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
This photo provided by DroneBase shows the collapsed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in the Miami area on Thursday, March 15, 2018. (DroneBase via AP)
A worker uses a saw next to a crushed car under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Workers stand in front of crushed cars under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Workers use a front loader to clear debris from a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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This is my blog for posting material of academic interest (to me). Expect to see stuff about Greek and Roman history, archaeology, Classical literature, the Ancient Near East, historical films, teaching, the reception of the Classics in science fiction, the abuse of history, science fiction criticism, and occasionally other historical stuff. Expect spoilers at all times.
What’s in an alias? (A post about Doctor Who)
A note for anyone writing about the 1972 Doctor Who story ‘The Time Monster’: The pseudonym adopted by The Master, supposedly the Greek form of his nom du guerre, is ‘Professor Thascalos’, not ‘Professor Thascales’.
Just about every published guide to the show (e.g. Lofficier’s 1981 Programme Guide, Howe and Walker’s 2002 Television Companion, Cornell, Topping and Day’s Discontinuity Guide, Miles and Wood’s About Time) prints the name as ‘Thascales’. But against this there are three important points to be made.
First, the cast in the transmitted episodes consistently say ‘Thascalos’. Well, actually, most of them sound like they’re saying ‘Thascalus’; but that’s presumably a typical English failure to enunciate vowels properly (I’m sure there’s a technical term for this, but equally sure that I don’t have time to look it up). Certainly no-one is saying ‘Thascales’.
Secondly, this is the spelling Terrance Dicks adopted in his 1985 novelization. If I remember rightly, novelizers were given copies of the original scripts, so Dicks would have the text by Robert Sloman and the uncredited Barry Letts to work with (and Dicks had in any case been script editor of the show at the time). So the probability is that this was the spelling in the script.
Thirdly, ‘Thascalos’ has the advantage that it is the Greek for ‘master’. ‘Thascales’ sounds Greek, by analogy with such evocative names as ‘Themistocles’ and ‘Pericles’, and indeed, it is a Greek word. But it is a feminine and in the genitive case, so means something like ‘belonging to the mistress’; perhaps not quite the message this particular Time Lord is trying to put across.
The error seems to go back to the episode list in Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks’ The Making of Doctor Who. Certainly it’s there in the second edition of 1976 (perhaps someone reading this with access to the 1972 edition could tell me if the same error is printed there). [Edit 04/09/14: Matthew Kilburn tells me it originates in the 1973 Radio Times Doctor Who Special.] In those days printed material on Who stories was limited, and opportunities to check with the original broadcast all but unknown. So Hulke and Dicks was authoritative, and the mistake repeated in work after work.
There are three other interesting observations to make.
1. When the Brigadier doesn’t spot that thascalos is the Greek for ‘master’, the Doctor berates him for his lack of a classical education, in the same way as he had berated Jo Grant the year before in ‘The Daemons’, when she didn’t realize that magister was the Latin for ‘master’. The thing is, thascalos isn’t Classical Greek; it’s Modern Greek. It’s a contraction of the ancient didaskalos, which form can still sometimes be found. (This makes more sense when one see the two words written out in the Greek alphabet and understanding that the delta has shifted from being pronounced as ‘d’, which is what we think was the case in ancient times - but see James Davidson’s preface to The Greeks and Greek Love, which I’ve cited before - to a softer ‘th’ sound. I can see why Modern Greek has moved away from thithaskalos.)
2. It’s Jo who comes up with the answer to the Doctor’s question, and goes to the top of the class. From this the Discontinuity Guide concludes that Jo knows Greek. This seems unlikely given that only a year before it was established that she doesn’t know Latin. Has she been on an intense ‘Languages of the Mediterranean’ course in the meantime? There isn’t really a need for this conclusion. As the Doctor holds class (in typical Pertwee fashion), Jo is seen thinking, before saying ‘I get it! “Thascalos” is Greek for “Master”.’ To me, it’s plain that, rather than drawing on any linguistic knowledge, Jo has worked it out; she knows that Greek matters are in the air, and that the Master has previously hidden under a classical alias, and that the Doctor thinks that if only the Brigadier knew the classics, he’d know what the name meant. (Of course, if I was in charge of an international intelligence organization and knew that my no. 1 priority threat had an m.o. of using versions of his nom de plume, I’d make very sure that there was a team of analysts translating every name they came across, but that’s another issue.) From these bits of information Jo deduces the answer the Doctor has already reached. In the novelizaton, which may well be working from a script, Jo says ‘I get it! I bet “Thascalos” is the Greek for “Master”’ (emphasis mine), which makes it clearer that she is confidently guessing.
(The Discontinuity Guide has a few odd ideas like this. They are the source of the notion of two Dalek histories, one before the Doctor changed everything in ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ and one after, about which the authors of About Time are rightly sceptical. But then the Discontinuity Guide is meant to be humorous.)
3. ‘I am the Master. You will obey me.’ Such is the evil Time Lord’s mantra. So you’d think that when he used translations of his name into Latin or Greek, he’d take a name that meant ‘master of slaves’. But he chooses not to be the Reverend Dominus or Professor Thespotes. Instead he takes on names which mean ‘master’ as in schoolmaster. Is this an accident on Sloman’s and Letts’ parts? Once might elicit no further comment – but to choose the same meaning twice? It’s worth noting that Letts and Dicks have explicitly stated that the named the Master by analogy with the Doctor – a Master’s degree is the next qualification down from a doctorate. So I think Letts was having a sly joke with the chosen pseudonym.
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2008 University of London Festival of Greek Drama
The University of London’s Festival of Greek Drama has been going on since 1987, and acts as an umbrella for the King’s and UCL Greek plays, as well as lectures and, sometimes, other productions. This year it has afforded the opportunity to see three tragedies in three weeks, representing the three main Athenian tragedians. So I’ve chosen to blog them all in a single entry, rather than separately
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
2008 King’s Greek Play, Greenwood Theatre
Performance seen: 6 February 2008
I had once evolved a theory that student/youth theatre groups couldn’t really do Greek tragedy (and yes, I know I start every discussion of a student production with this theory). Recent productions of Orestes and Medea have persuaded me that this judgement was in error. I realized that it was based on a couple of dreadful productions of the Oedipus Tyrannos (one of which you can read about here), and a couple of ropey Antigones. Against that, I’ve seen some not-too-bad productions of Trachiniae, and one of Ajax which I recall being okay, though it was nearly thirty years ago and I had little to judge it against at the time. So perhaps it is not even that youngsters can’t do Sophocles, but that they can’t do the Theban plays.
Of course, it’s not just students that this affects. The status of the Oedipus as the recognized foremost example of Attic tragedy means it is the first choice of any theatre company wishing to demonstrate that they can tackle the genre, and therefore where many prove they can’t. Not for nothing did the makers of The Band Wagon choose Oedipus Rex when they wanted to poke fun at the dreariest, most portentous production of a play imaginable.
Unfortunately, the 2008 King’s production does little to convince me to change my mind on this point. It’s not that it’s particularly bad, though there are a couple of elements that I really don’t care for. It more that the individual bits of the staging don’t hang together as a whole, and everyone seems to be in a different production to everyone else.
At one end is Bryan Kitch (Oedipus), who gives a nuanced performance. If he is a little muted at times, that’s at least partly because the rest of the cast give him so little to work with, the one exception being Eleanor Hanham as Jocasta, who, after a bit of gurning, finally hits the right emotional note in the last lines before she leaves the stage. Oedipus and Creon are costumed alike, in silk pyjamas and floor-length tunics that are open at the front and expose a lot of bare chest (so nothing slashy there, then), but the difference in tone between Kitch’s performance and Miles Galaska’s as Creon is quite jarring.
At the other extreme is Simon Willshire, as the Priest. His performance is the sort of amateur dramatics that is often parodied, being all about reciting the lines, but with no investment of emotion in the performance.
Then there’s the Chorus. When they first enter, the people sitting next to me are suppressing their giggles. I was at first annoyed at the gigglers, but after a moment I could see their point. The Chorus here are like a parody of the worst excesses of nineteen-seventies arty theatre workshop formalistic interpretive dance expressionism and Significance, all black-clad, Meaningful Looks and exaggerated Expressive Movements. Only Charlotte Murrie, Deianeira in last year’s Women of Trachis, is memorable. She has sufficient stage presence to always draw one’s attention.
But even the worst Oedipus often has some good ideas. The National Youth Theatre ended with a festal scene, reminding the audience that Oedipus’ banishment lifts Apollo’s curse from Thebes. A UCL production concluded with Oedipus crouched at the front of the stage, but lit from the footlights, so that he cast a far larger shadow on the backdrop than the elders of Thebes, symbolizing the shadow Oedipus’ legacy will cast over Thebes’ future.
Here the neat idea is that every time someone recounts prophecy, they do so in song. That’s certainly an interesting notion. Modern productions always have a problem with the role of music in Greek theatre, because modern musical theatre is not generally associated with tragic themes, unless it’s full-blown opera. So credit to King’s for trying that. But it’s one of a number of ideas that don’t quite come off. Another is casting women as the shepherds - it is a little jarring when the Theban old man is neither aged in appearance nor a man.
On the other hand, the production can’t be blamed for the failure of the stage hangings to collapse as they should have; ending on the distraught Oedipus and cutting the final Chorus is probably the right thing to do (though I doubt King’s are the first to do that); and it’s nice to see surtitles back (even if sometimes moderately lengthy speeches are reduced to a handful of words).
I should emphasize, as I usually do, that I know these are not professional actors and director, so it is unfair to hold them to professional production standards. And I did see this on the first performance, so it may have improved over the next two nights. (And my opinion is not shared by everyone.) But in general, student productions can, and should be, better than this.
2008 UCL Classical Play, Bloomsbury Theatre
Performance seen: 12 February 2008
To demonstrate my point, I need look no further than this year’s UCL play. Again I saw this on the first night, but where King’s had yet to form a coherent whole out of disparate parts, UCL hit the ground running. Well, it’s more like a gentle stroll, but at least they know where they’re going.
I’m slightly surprised that UCL have returned to the Agamemnon so soon. Their last, not too bad, staging of it was in 2002, and in between they have only staged one tragedy, Medea. The corpus of Greek drama isn’t that small.
The first thing one notices, as the Chorus enters whilst the audience settles, is that the production is masked. This is a risky strategy, which can come off, but doesn’t always. The UCL Oedipus in 2000 was masked, and that was awful.
But here the masks work. They give anonymity, and uniformity to the Chorus. Members of the Chorus can play the Watchman in the first half, and Agamemnon in the second, and the switch of the cast can be done invisibly in the interval.
I wonder if the masks also allow the cast to leave their own personas behind, and project themselves into their roles more. Certainly, this production is full of good performances. The Chorus enunciate clearly, and perform well. Minor criticisms can be made - Luke Davies as the Watchman may be a bit quiet, Hugh Viney as Agamemnon a bit wooden, and Sam Smullen’s Herald weakest of all (oddly, as he has the most stage experience). But none of these are bad, and on the other hand, there are two staggeringly good performances. Mimi Kroll as an ebullient Clytemnestra has presence that dominates the whole theatre. And Jessica Lazar as Cassandra gives a portrayal largely lacking the sort of psychobabble that mars many interpretations. She does strip down to her underwear, but at least there’s a justification of that in the text.
Which brings me to Jamal Saleh’s new translation. It’s really quite good. The language owes much to Shakespeare and the King James Bible, and manages to be both comprehensible and bring a nobility to what is said. It does tend to be a bit prolix, which emphasizes that Aeschylus’ individual scenes are a somewhat overlong. This, combined with a hesitancy on the part of some cast members in delivering their lines, drags things out rather, so that it took over two hours, including interval, to get through what is not actually a very long play in relative terms. The credit for a script editor suggests that some judicious cutting took place. A little more wouldn’t have gone amiss.
All this - the masks, the Chorus speaking for the most part one at a time, the language, even the net motif on the stage dressing, foreshadowing Agamemnon’s death - shows a production that is very traditional in its approach. It reminds me strongly of Sir Peter Hall’s 1981 version of Tony Harrison’s translation, almost as if it was influenced by that. The Hall/Harrison version was staged before most of the cast and crew were born, but I wonder if they had access to a recording of it.
Very occasionally the traditionalism doesn’t work. Rolling the bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra out on the ekklema was powerful in Hall’s production, because it was in the centre of the stage - here it’s to the side, and easily missed. But overall, there’s nothing wrong with a traditional approach done well, and that is what we have here. It may not be as good as the Medea of 2006, but it’s clearly better than 90% of student/youth productions, and superior to quite a few more lauded professional productions (such as the NT’s Trojan Women).
Since 2006 UCL’s productions have been under the aegis of a Classical Drama Society. I find myself wondering if such a formalized set-up would benefit King’s. Admittedly, last year’s King’s play, though flawed, was better than UCL’s Acharnians. But King’s has never in my experience delivered anything as good as this or the 2006 Medea.
Royal Holloway Classics Students, Jane Holloway Hall
At the very least one has to admire the Royal Holloway students’ courage in tackling Bacchae so soon after the memorable Alan Cumming production. Wisely, they don’t take the National Theatre of Scotland version on directly. For a start, the pyrotechnics of the latter are wholly impractical for RHUL.
Instead, they apply a series of solutions that are often diametrically opposite to those taken by John Tiffany. This may or may not be deliberate. For a start, instead of visual stimulation they go for an aural approach, with an effective music score underlying the action.
At the centre of the play is the ambiguous figure of Dionysus, existing in a zone of indeterminate gender. The National Theatre of Scotland dealt with this by casting an androgynous man, and have him act effeminately. RHUL cast an androgynous woman and have her act like a man. This is a splendid performance by Madeleine Taylor, the best thing about this production. She is confident and commands the stage.
Emphasizing Dionysus’ masculinity allows Pentheus to be rather more camp, which at least makes more readily explicable his willingness to dress in women’s clothing. My companion on the night felt that the male members of the cast shouted, whilst the women rushed, suggesting a degree of nervousness, though I myself thought that nobody was actually bad, and Mirjam Frank as Agave conveyed her madness without making it seem laughable.
This is the most ‘cheap-and-cheerful’ of the three productions. Royal Holloway do not have the same tradition of mounting Greek plays, and where King’s and UCL play in mostly full theatres, RHUL has a half-empty sports hall. That the hall was half-empty is a shame.
It sounds patronizing to say that this has the feel of a school play, but what I mean by that is the sense of enthusiasm undimmed by a recognition on the players’ part that they aren’t the most professional cast in the world. It would be fair to say that this is quite a conservative production, with the cast in Grecian dress, and a three-person Chorus that stands and recites rather than moves. But there’s nothing wrong with a conservative production done well, as this is. If the humour of the play is rather lost, the deus ex machina is not marred, as Cumming’s was, by divine petulance (and RHUL recognize that Dionysus in his full godhood requires a costume change). This wasn’t the best production of Euripides that I’ve seen, but at least I didn’t come out thinking ‘What was the point of that?’
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Labels: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Bacchae, Drama, Euripides, Greek drama, KCL Greek play, Oedipus Tyrannos, Oresteia, reviews, Sophocles, Trojan War, UCL Classics Play
Arthur C Clarke Award 2008
This is off my usual topic, but I feel entitled sometimes to talk about sf criticism here.
The shortlist for the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke shortlist is out. This is usually a sign for collective knicker-twisting by the British sf community, and this year is no exception.
What is interesting is that this year, the controversy is as much about the Administrator's statements to the press as about the choice of novels. Here are a couple of statements from the Awards website that haven't gone down well:
Featuring visions as diverse as a dystopian Cumbria and a future Hackney, time-travel adventures in 1960’s Liverpool and an alternate world British Isles in the throes of terrorist attack, through to tech-noir thrillers and a trawl through subconscious worlds where memories fall prey to metaphysical sharks, the Clarke Award has never been so close to home and relevant to the British literary scene.
The Clarke Award has always been about pushing at the speculative edges of its genre. It’s one possible map amongst many, never the whole territory, and this year’s shortlist stands as both the perfect introduction to the state of modern science fiction writing as well as a first tantalising glimpse of possible futures to come.
Over on SF Crowsnest, he says:
In many ways the Award isn't so much about picking the 'best' book of the year (although we are still very good at that too) and is more about pushing at the edges of our genre.
Taken together, this has generated a lot of comments, complaining about the rejection of looking for the 'best' sf novel (though the front page of the website still said until this morning that it was for the best book, and I don't think the jury have turned their back on that), that pushing the boundaries of the genre wasn't what was understood to be part of their remit, that the emphasis on Britishness is insular.
The thing is, I think there's confusion here. It's easy to assume, that because Hunter is the Administrator of the Award, that these are the criteria that have been set for the jury, or that the jury have set for themselves. I don't think that's the case. As I understand it, the Administrator's job is to handle the paperwork for the award, including press releases. I don't think it's part of the role to set narrow criteria for the jury, beyond the obvious (published in Britain in the preceding calendar year, submitted by the publisher for the award). And what the jury decide amongst themselves is meant to be confidential - so I don't think we can assume that Hunter is passing such information on. In the end, I read Hunter's comments as his personal views, rather than official ACCA policy - they are a reaction to the shortlist, not an explanation for it.
So, the comment on the Britishness of the novels should not be taken as meaning that novels not set in the UK were automatically rejected. Rather, it's Hunter trying to find something that ties the novels together in order to make them an attractive package.
And the remarks about genre-pushing are merely putting into words what everyone has always assumed was the Hidden Agenda of the Clarke Award anyway. It is true that the juries have never felt themselves constrained by what is published as science fiction (though that they deliberately avoid works that are published as sf is a canard disproved by study of the shortlists over the years). And it is also true that members of the sf community have been complaining about this since the Award began (except last year, when people complained about mainstream books that were left off).
And there's another point. People always talk about the Clarke juries as if they are somehow Outside the Community, as if people that we otherwise consider sensible upstanding sf fans degenerate into demented maniacs the moment that they go into that jury room. I think they deserve a bit more respect than that.
As for the shortlist itself, I've known (but have had to keep secret) what was on the list for a few weeks now, as I'm on this year's Not the Clarke Award panel at Eastercon, so maybe I've had a bit more time to consider the whole thing. Certainly, when I saw the list, I was gobsmacked by the absence of Ian McDonald's Brasyl. And there are three novels there which I simply hadn't heard of. But such is always the way with the Clarke. And I assume that the jury had their reasons.
Oh, and of the two novels I've read so far, the MacLeod is glorious, constantly reinventing itself as it goes on. And whilst there has been a bit of fuss about the YA label applied to the Baxter, this seems to be obscuring the fact that it's better than anything else I've read of his since Voyage.
I'll have more to say about this at Eastercon.
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PMG Chapter 506: Confrontation of Fire!
Chapter 506: Confrontation of Fire!
Lin Feng’s silhouette flew into the sky through the mist which enveloped the territory of the Yun Hai Sect.
“Qiong Qi!” Shouted Lin Feng. Then Lin Feng’s winged tiger immediately rushed underneath him in the air. While sitting on the winged tiger’s back, he rushed into the distance while emitting a whistling sound. He was so fast that some people didn’t even have the chance to look up.
Everybody was stunned. The crowd was still looking at the mist as it slowly started to disperse. Once the mist had dispersed, the crowd noticed a body on the ground.
“Phewww…” Many of the crowd inhaled deeply. That was a corpse… The body no longer had a head. Instead, there was only a gaping wound which was pouring out blood. It was gruesome.
“Lin Feng has become so powerful.” Thought the crowd gasping with admiration. Mu Qing’s strength was incredible. They had already seen him display his skill when killing those who left the Yun Hai Sect. Lin Feng killed him without a second thought, he was merciless.
Lin Feng’s strength was obvious, he had already proven his strength many times. They could hear the sounds coming from within the mist which seemed like a great battle, but instead it was only Lin Feng attacking Mu Qing in a one-sided slaughter.
“I wonder where Lin Feng went.”
While the crowd was wondering where Lin Feng was going, his winged tiger was beating its wings madly through the sky. After a short moment, they arrived above the lake.
In the past, Lin Feng became famous across Xue Yue at this lake. This time, Mu Qing told him that some people were looking for him and waiting at the lake.
As expected, when Lin Feng arrived at the lake, he saw a group of people waiting. They slowly rose into the air when they noticed Lin Feng. They were all wearing red and white robes, and staring at Lin Feng. Lin Feng suddenly felt hot, it felt like flames were emerging from those people’s eyes.
Lin Feng was riding his winged tiger and only glanced at them before saying: “Were you all waiting here for me?”
There were more than a dozen people waiting there for him. Besides, the gaze from them seemed extremely dangerous. They were probably very strong, without a single weak link in their group.
“Indeed, we’ve been waiting for a long time.” said a middle-aged man wearing a long fire-red chang pao while nodding. His chang pao was fluttering in the wind, he looked dignified and extraordinary.
“Are you from Tian Feng?” Asked Lin Feng again. He had never heard of them in Xue Yue, so they shouldn’t be from Xue Yue. Also Mu Qing, their messenger was from Tian Feng which made it highly likely that they were too.
“Xie Huo School, from Tian Feng!” Said the middle-aged man coldly before adding: “Lin Feng, it seems like Mu Qing didn’t manage to kill you. It seems that I will have a chance to kill you with my own hands. Killing you will actually be an honour for me.”
“The people of Tian Feng are really pathetic!” Joked Lin Feng.
Since the banquet at the Duan Wu Palace, the people originating from Tian Feng continued to give him a bad impression. The envoys were insufferably arrogant and as an attempt to humiliate Lin Feng continued to insult him. Lin Feng had to kill two of them and humiliate the rest, this was the only thing which made them shut their mouths.
But at that moment, they were even sending people secretly to kill him. First it was Mu Qing, now were these people from the Xie Huo School…
They all had the same goal, to kill Lin Feng.
But Lin Feng’s life wasn’t something easily taken just because someone wanted to.
“How did you know that I would even come here?” Asked Lin Feng. They had been waiting, but how were they so sure that he would come? Nobody could have guessed what he was thinking.
“The prince knew you would.” Said the middle-aged man while smiling and sounding extremely confident. Feng Chan, even though he had only met Lin Feng once, understood the type of temperament Lin Feng had, he knew that Lin Feng would not back down from an open challenge.
“Well then, you must have also known that I would kill Mu Qing?” Asked Lin Feng coldly. Since Feng Chen thought that he knew Lin Feng so well, if he understood that Lin Feng would accept the challenge, he must have also known that Lin Feng would kill Mu Qing.
After all, Feng Chen had seen how strong Lin Feng was, and he also knew how Mu Qing’s temperament was along with his strength.
As expected, the middle-aged man smiled. Lin Feng immediately understood that Feng Chen wanted Mu Qing dead. How ridiculous! Mu Qing actually thought that he was strong enough to act so wildly, but was used instead.
“Telling you now won’t be of any harm. Mu Qing was the best disciple of the biggest sect in the country, the Wan Xiang Sect. However, because they are the strongest, they have a lot of influence and are extremely arrogant. They even look down on the imperial family of Tian Feng. Mu Qing was their best disciple but he was the same as everyone else in the sect who believed that his sect was more important than the country and the seven envoys. That kind of person is useless to the country, therefore the prince, His Highness decided to send him to his death. He borrowed your power to kill his enemy.” Explained the middle-aged man which made Lin Feng frown and then smile.
“It seems like you have absolutely no confidence, you clearly don’t believe that your group has the ability to kill me or else you would have attacked already.” Said Lin Feng which surprised his interlocutor. He looked at Lin Feng and then gave an evil smile.
“Lin Feng, you’re very smart.”
“Feng Chen used me to kill Mu Qing in order to solve his problem. I killed Mu Qing, so the Wan Xiang sect will come to Xue Yue for their revenge, if I don’t die today, the Wan Xiang Sect will definitely come to kill me. But Xue Yue will not let such a strong influential group enter their territory with an army, so a battle will be unavoidable, causing the Wan Xiang Sect to fall from power.” Lin Feng’s eyes filled with a cold light.
The people from imperial families were all like that, Feng Chen was always scheming and so was Duan Wu Ya.
“Xie Huo School, you were sent here to kill me, but you are informing me of Feng Chen’s scheme… You have no grudge against me and have no confidence in killing me, but you have to follow orders. So you came here while planning something else, you came here to inform me of the scheme so I will be able to inform the Wan Xiang Sect of Feng Chen’s scheme. It seems like you people from the Xie Huo School attach no importance to your own lives. It seems like you want the one you address as ‘Your Highness’ to die”.
“You’re incredible.” Said the middle-aged man. Lin Feng was completely correct.
They were treated the same as Mu Qing, they were just Feng Chen’s pawns to be used. Their deaths would anger the Xie Huo School, but they were different from Mu Qing because they wanted to expose Feng Chen. They wanted to inform Lin Feng of the scheme to use it against Feng Chen if they died.
“We, the Xie Huo School, will attempt to kill you as ordered. If we are unlucky and are killed by you, we hope that you will spread the news of Feng Chen’s scheme. It wouldn’t bring you any disadvantages but instead benefits.” Said the middle-aged man. Since Lin Feng had guessed everything, he didn’t need to hide anything and immediately admitted his plan.
“If it is necessary I will share what I know. Feng Chen wants me dead, but that isn’t for him to decide.”
Lin Feng’s eyes were twinkling with cold lights. He then added: “Let’s fight then.”
“Alright.” The middle-aged man while staring at Lin Feng. He had already known Lin Feng’s strength. He had heard what happened during the banquet. Lin Feng had challenged each of the seven envoys that attended the banquet. He had even killed the third envoy and challenged the second, but the ambassador from the Dragon Mountain Empire stopped them.
Even though the people from the Xie Huo School were strong, they still had to be vigilant when facing someone as powerful as Lin Feng.
“Evil Scorching Fire.” Shouted the middle-aged man in the fire-red chang pao in a cold voice. In a flash, all the people’s silhouettes flickered and surrounded Lin Feng. Fire ignited around their bodies, it was a terrifying fire made of pure Qi.
The Xie Huo School were all fire cultivators, they all practiced fire skills and would battle using condensed fire Qi.
Fire was burning around their bodies, the fire was intense. Apart from the fire-red colour, the flames also contained a large amount of white, their flames were haunting.
The people from the Xie Huo formed a circle and joined hands. In a flash, flames began to fill the air to create a ring of fire that surrounded Lin Feng.
“Die!” Shouted the man in the fire-red chang pao in a low voice. A ring of fire then closed in towards Lin Feng. The heat from the flames grew more intense as they closed in on Lin Feng. Lin Feng felt like he was being roasted alive.
“Everything in this world is incredibly mysterious, their fire is very different from mine.” Thought Lin Feng when he compared his own fire with the fire he was confronted with. He looked glum. He then released his sun Qi from his body which caused flames to engulf his body. He started rise into the air while glowing radiantly.
The sun fire suppressed the flames that surrounded him; his cosmos-burning sun was a small sun skill after all. Surprisingly, their fire seemed to be prostrating itself before the sun skill. The people from the Xie Huo School were stupefied. They didn’t know that Lin Feng was practicing a sun skill, because Lin Feng normally used his grim fire, the fact that he practiced a sun skill was not widely known. Besides, Lin Feng’s fire was much stronger than theirs!
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Exposure to Disruptive Technologies and Innovations to Make Youth More Job Ready:Rakesh Bharti Mittal
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Chandigarh 07th Mar, 2019:- V P Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT Chandigarh while addressing CII North India Business Conference at Chandigarh , said that agriculture sector can prove to be a game changer for North Indian industry. He emphasized upon the need of collaboration between government, industry, academia and various technical institutions to conduct research that can be adapted at the grass root levels in order to achieve the envisioned national goals.
V P Singh Badnore also informed the participants about ‘Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster’ which is a body formed with an objective of undertaking industrial research and how such research can be utilized for the improvement Agriculture as well as allied sectors like Food Processing, Logistics, Cold Chain and many more. He urged CII to contribute to this cluster by bringing about critical stakeholders on this futuristic platform.
Rakesh Bharti Mittal, President CII, in his address elaborated upon the various initiatives and activities carried by CII in the past year that especially focused on employment generation and skill enhancement for the youth of India.
He further highlighted that keeping in view the advent of an era of disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things, Big Data, etc. we must ensure that the youth of our country is well trained to understand and use these innovations, which would adequately address issues around skills and employment. He stressed that industry should not only partner with academia for recruitment but should also involve educational institutions while they design their curriculum as to what kind of skillset can make the youth more employment ready.
Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII also addressed the gathering and highlighted that CII wants to partner with the State Governments in Northern Region for setting up incubation hubs for start-ups in collaboration between member firms and higher education institutions. CII also wants to open more model career centres in northern region with the help of member firms. He added that the CII Model Career Centre in Gurgaon created approximately 40,000 jobs last year and the same effort should be replicated in the length and breadth of the country.
Sachit Jain, Chairman CII Northern Region expressed his views by saying that we in CII fully share the vision of ‘New India’ and strive to work closely with concerned state governments and civil society to realize the goals set out under this Mission which is a progressive country in every aspect, be it healthcare, manufacturing, clean cities, energy efficiency and so on.
Sameer Gupta, Vice-President CII Northern Region proposed the formal vote of thanks and louded upon path breaking initiatives of the government such as Jan Dhan Yojana, Ujwala Yojana, Digital India, National Health Protection Scheme, MUDRA Bank, Startup and Standup Programme etc. and added that many of these programmes have started yielding positive results on the ground.
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Aneesh Aggarwal, Director, SS Jewellers said that with the new outlet we are now in a new market space of 'high quality-yet competitively priced ' segment of the jewellery retail industry. We have positioned our new venture as one which provides jewellery across genres of gold, diamond and silver at very attractive rates. The tagline 'Sabse Sasta, Sabse Sundar' encapsulates the vision behind the new venture.
It is noteworthy that before opening of 'S S Jewellers Plus', the S S Jewellers brand has been successfully catering to more of a high end and expensive diamond, gold and kundan jewellery market, mainly meant for wedding and bridal wear. He added further that almost 90 per cent of the jewellery available in the new outlet will be priced below Rs 2 lakhs and almost 50 per cent of this, will be below Rs 75,000 – whether it is gold or diamond. This will bring gold and diamond jewellery within reach of a mass audience.
The new vertical of S S Jewellers will be creating jewellery as well as meeting demand for everyday wear jewellery by young college and office going girls. The designs have specially been made keeping the theme of 'young & trendy' in mind.
Sachin Aggarwal, the other Director of S S Jewellers, said that we have designed a wide range of jewellery sets. There are light weight gold jewellery products for daily wear. An array of inexpensive wedding sets of less than 60 grams for the lower middle class people too is available. We have jewellery that starts at as low as Rs 5000/-. The customers at this price point exist in large numbers in the villages in and around Ambala.
The USP of 'S S Jewellers Plus' is certainly the great variety and attractive price points that the founders have kept for the range available. The same has been made possible by slashing making charges to as less as 8 per cent , which normally for most high end jewellery of SS Jewellers is around 15-20 per cent.
Manish Aggarwal, the third Director of S S Jewellers, said that we have also noticed that the younger generation and even newly-weds prefer buying everyday wear gold and diamond jewellery and this market will also be catered to.
The ambience of this store is done up in such a way that it will suit the taste of the new age buyer who wants good aesthetics, comfortable sitting and great customer service.
Health Conclave & Awards Event Held at PGI
Chandigarh 07th Mar, 2019:- SPEAK India Health Conclave was organized by Society for Promotion of Ethical and Affordable Health Care (SPEAK), in collaboration with Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research at the auditorium of Advanced Pediatric Centre, on Sunday. The theme of the conclave was 'reducing spending on wasteful and unethical medical practices’.
First session was dedicated to ‘laying down of protocols by eminent and senior doctors’. Dr SK Sharma, ex-director, & HOD Urology PGI stated that most cases of Prostate enlargement, a common condition in elderly males can be treated with medicines and lasers and only small percentage require surgery, Dr TS Mahant, of Fortis also endorsed the same view that more than 90% cases of chronic heart disease do not require stenting or surgery,
Padma Shri Dr Harsh Kumar, from New Delhi said that the same thing about glaucoma i.e surgery should be the last resort.
Dr Neeraj Gupta said one third cases of joint replacement surgery is in appropriate.
Dr TS Thakur of PGI said if healthy life style is followed, especially control of obesity most of the deaths due to advanced non-communicable diseases can be saved.
Dr Vinay Sakhuja, emphasized the role of teaching ethics in MBBS as a big step forward in providing affordable patient care.
Dr SS Baijal, of Medanta talked of avoidable interventions in radiology and Dr SK Jindal cautioned about aggressive care in end of life situations.
In the second session Dr R Kumar, President SPEAK advised to focus on wellness. He said that this will obviate the need to set up more AIIMS or PGIs thus saving lot of money of the nation. Dr R Kumar added that the Society also honoured eminent and ethical doctors/hospitals so as to send a message across that the country can usher in ‘healthy India’ only, if we make medical care ethical.
Awards of Excellence were conferred by the Chief Guest, Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal of Punjab and Haryana High Court on Dr Harsh Kumar, Dr Vinay Sakhuja, Dr TD Singh, Dr SS Baijal and Dr TS Mahant. Institution awards were given to Prof Kanchan Bhardwaj Patiala, Dr Neeraj Gupta GMSH-16, Dr Gurinderjit Singh and others, Mohandai Oswai hospital Ludhiana. Prof I. S Jain Memorial Gold Medal went to Prof Amod Gupta, and the Silver medal went to Dr Simar Rajan Singh, for being the best student from Advanced Eye Centre, PGI.
The chief guest admired the efforts of SPEAK India and advised not to waste national resources, when there is no hope of recovery.
Social’s Women Day Comic Offers Insight Into Inequalities Rampant in Society
Chandigarh 07th Mar, 2019:- Women’s Day is upon us, yet again, with offers aplenty available wherever a lady steps out to, contrasted by widespread commentary on the significance of this day and whether women even need a special day or not.
This is why, Social, your friendly neighborhood café bar, and dojo of all things cultural, has decided to focus on the reality of what women have to deal with on a daily basis. To bring into notice the fact that only fraction of a women in this country have a access to menstrual hygiene, Sector 7 Social is asking its patrons to donate towards sponsoring women’s sanitary needs for a year. With a small donation of INR 300, you can cover sanitary needs of 1 woman for around a year, and that is the small step Sector 7 Social is asking you to take so we as a society can take a giant leap forward in ensuring Women’s Health in the city.
In addition, Social, in collaboration with Good Bad Comics (Aditi Mali), has crafted a one-page comic strip depicting what a woman goes through on a regular night out vis-à-vis how it should be.
The concept behind the comic strip is Balance for Better, envisioning a society where the gender imbalance is set right, where women and men are treated the same, & can feel safe, secure and heard. Social will be distributing this comic to everyone who walks into the outlets on the 8th, at a pan-India level, and will be disseminating copies to leading publications, media journals and influencers to ensure that this crucial information reaches as many people as it can. Social believes that the impact lies in making a change from the grassroots level, and starting from the ground up.
Shobita Kadan, Marketing Director, Impresario, said that Social has always been at the forefront of change, and as a brand, it has always stood for empowering people, no matter their gender, age, caste or race. For us, women are equal to men, and it is a sad truth that we are in 2019, and still having to fight for opportunities, safety and to get our voices heard. Our hope is that this comic reaches as many people as possible, and lets them know Social stands for balance.
Sameer Gupta Takes Over as Chairman CII Northern Region: Nikhil Sawhney Elected as Vice Chairman
Chandigarh 07th Mar, 2019:- Sameer Gupta and Nikhil Sawhney have been elected as the Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively of CII Northern Region for the year 2019-20.
The new incumbents were elected during the first meeting of the newly elected Regional Council members held in Chandigarh, today. Sameer Gupta will head the CII Northern Region which comprises Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan and Union Territory Chandigarh.
Elaborating on the priorities for the 2019-20, Sameer Gupta said that our initiatives for the year would primarily focus on enhancing industry competitiveness, fostering ground for favorable industry policies, skill development and inclusivity, adoption of contemporary technology and innovations and working towards provisioning opportunities for industrial growth & development.
Sameer Gupta, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Jakson Group which is one of the Country’s leading diversified power companies. The group is today a business conglomerate with three business verticals–Generating Set Business, Solar Business and EPC Business. Jakson Group also entered the Hospitality business in the year 2012. Sameer Gupta has been associated with the Confederation at Northern Region in various capacities. He has had Chaired the CII Uttar Pradesh State Council and also chaired the Indian Green Building Council, Uttar Pradesh Chapter as well as Regional Committee on Family Business Network for CII Northern Region.
Nikhil Sawhney, is the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Triveni Turbines Ltd and a Director with Triveni Engineering and Industries Limited and GE Triveni Limited. The Companies occupy leadership positions in their respective businesses of sugar manufacturing and engineered-to-order mechanical equipment spanning 14 manufacturing locations in India.
Nikhil Sawhney follows a principle of responsible corporate citizenry and has initiated several community initiatives, including rural community-based self-help programs as well as the Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative covering 250,000 of Triveni’s sugarcane farmers. He has helped found the CII-Triveni Water Institute and is an active trustee of the Tirath Ram Shah Charitable Hospital and the Emmanuel College India Trust, as well as a Fellow of the Aspen Institute of India and the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is the Co-Chair of CII National Committee on Capital Goods and Engineering and was also a member of CII Manufacturing Council for the year 2015-16.
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1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Palmer Report: Rudy Giuliani just nailed himself
For quite awhile now, it’s been clear that Rudy Giuliani was in definite, yet somewhat ill defined, legal trouble. Months ago he essentially admitted that he’s under DOJ investigation for his role in the Trump election conspiracy. It’s not difficult to figure out that he became Trump’s lawyer to try to save himself. Now it turns out Rudy has nailed himself instead.
Tonight we learned that even after Paul Manafort entered a cooperating plea agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller several weeks ago, Manafort and his attorneys secretly shared information about the investigation with Donald Trump and his lawyers. Because no one has ever done something so brazenly stupid before, there has been some question among pundits tonight as to whether this was a crime. But now one of Giuliani’s own former colleagues is spelling it out pretty clearly.
Mary Shannon Little posted this tweet just now: “When I was a prosecutor working for Rudy Giuliani, if a defense lawyer representing a cooperating witness continued to participate in a joint defense agreement, he would have investigated that lawyer and others in the joint defense for obstruction of justice.” This means, in effect, that Rudy can’t try to argue that he didn’t know what he was doing was illegal.
We’ll surely see that particular defense used by Paul Manafort’s attorney, who could potentially face anything from disbarment to felony obstruction of justice charges, and we have no way of knowing how that’ll play out. Perhaps he can successfully argue that he truly didn’t know what he doing was illegal. But when it comes to Rudy Giuliani, he just nailed himself.
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Facebook Is Still Downplaying Its Role in the 2016 Election
But during a hearing focused on the social media platform in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, a top Facebook executive once again downplayed the company’s role in impacting the election and defended Zuckerberg’s controversial stance. … one can go back …
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1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Donald Trump | The Guardian: Climate report Trump tried to bury: key findings No 2 – some action is far better than none
According to the report, even limiting greenhouse gases would substantially reduce the risks of damages, lives lost and health consequences
Key findings No 1: air pollution kills
The Trump administration published a major report on climate change the day after Thanksgiving. We will explore the key findings each day this week.
Donald Trump doesn’t believe his own government’s major report on climate change – which the administration tried to bury over the Thanksgiving break. It warns that rising temperatures are already harming America and will cause huge damage globally. The Guardian will explore key findings from the report each day this week.
48% of the $155bn per year in damages to labor
58% of the $141bn per year in lives lost on extremely hot or cold days
22% of the $118bn per year in damages to coastal property
31% of the $26bn per year in the health consequences from poor air quality
59% of the $20bn per year in damages to roads
47% of the $8bn per year in inland flooding
Related: World must triple efforts or face catastrophic climate change, says UN
1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Donald Trump: S&P, Dow end higher as investors eye trade
1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Lawfare – Hard National Security Choices: UAE Releases British Student Accused of Spying, Saudi Crown Prince Tries to Boost Image on Regional Tour, Yemen Moves Closer to Peace Talks
United Arab Emirates Releases British Graduate Student Accused of Spying
Just days after sentencing him to life in prison, the Emirati government announced Monday that it would pardon Matthew Hedges, a British PhD candidate who has been jailed in the United Arab Emirates since May on espionage charges. Hedges, who is 31 years old and studying at Durham University, was arrested when he tried to leave the country after a research trip. Emirati officials accused him of trying to obtain secret information and recruit Emiratis to spy for Britain, charges which the British government and Hedges’ wife have denied.
An article full of unsubstantiated allegations published in the Emirati paper The National said that Hedges raised suspicions because he “asked too many questions,” in the words of an Emirati former coworker. At a press conference announcing that Hedges would be pardoned, Emirati officials defended his sentencing. Journalists who attended the briefing described an edited selection of clips of Hedges, apparently in a closed court hearing, testifying that he had been operating as a field agent for British intelligence. When asked his rank in MI6, though, Hedges said that he was a “captain”—which, CNN’s Sam Kiley notes, is not a title used by the organization. Though reportedly Hedges shows no signs of duress in the tape that was shown to reporters on Monday, Hedges’ wife has said that he was kept in solitary confinement and “was absolutely broken by such an intense period of isolation and what he described as a very tough interrogation.” (The United Arab Emirates is no stranger to accusations of torture; earlier this year, the allied government in Yemen that the Emirates intervened to support ordered the Emirati government to relinquish control of prisons it was operating in Yemen after released detainees described being subjected to electrical shocks and sexual abuse.)
Hedges “was part-time Ph.D. researcher, part-time businessman, but he was 100 percent a full-time secret service operative,” an Emirati government spokesperson, Jaber al-Lamki, told reporters on Monday. The government said the pardon was just one of 785 being granted in honor of the Emirates’ national day, and that it was a result of “the historical relationship and the close ties between the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.” The British government has made clear that it still denies the charges against Hedges, but is grateful for his release. “Fantastic news about Matthew Hedges,” British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted on Monday. “Although we didn’t agree with charges we are grateful to UAE govt for resolving issue speedily.”
Saudi Crown Prince Tries to Rally Support Ahead of G20 Meeting
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is traveling across the Middle East this week ahead of the G20 summit in Argentina. Stops have included close allies the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Egypt, which has received more than $25 billion in aid from the Kingdom since a coup in 2013 supported by the Gulf states. Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh el-Sisi gave MBS a warm welcome in Cairo on Monday, and Saudi media went even further in portraying Egypt’s hospitality, publishing a doctored image of the Saudi flag projected on the pyramids at Giza that the Atlantic Council’s H.A. Hellyer noted on Twitter was fake.
But in Tunisia, MBS has been less welcome. Hundreds of Tunisians began protesting against his visit on Monday on a main boulevard in Tunis, and continued through his arrival on Tuesday. Protesters made clear that they were motivated by the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, which was orchestrated by the Saudi government, and Riyadh’s ongoing military intervention in Yemen. They chanted that “the murderer is not welcome in Tunisia,” and the journalists’ union posted a banner of the crown prince holding a saw with the words, “No to the pollution of the Tunisian revolution.” The Tunisian government has shielded the crown prince from the press by only allowing photographers to cover his visit and not scheduling a joint press conference.
After trying to shore up support at home with the help of his father, King Salman, MBS is now working to restore his position abroad. He has had some help from the Trump administration. Despite the CIA determining that MBS ordered Khashoggi’s killing—even involving his brother, the U.S. ambassador, in drawing him to the consulate in Istanbul—the Trump administration made clear last week that MBS’ involvement in the murder of a U.S. permanent resident would not change the U.S.-Saudi relationship. Last Tuesday, in a bizarre statement punctuated with six exclamation points, the president again stressed the importance of Saudi arms purchases and Riyadh’s shared opposition to Iran. “Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” the statement read. “As President of the United States I intend to ensure that, in a very dangerous world, America is pursuing its national interests and vigorously contesting countries that wish to do us harm. Very simply it is called America First!” Even the administration’s rationale is rife with inaccuracies, though. The statement cites $110 billion in Saudi purchases of U.S. weapons systems; that number, though often cited by the administration, is false. ABC reported on Monday that the number was inflated in the statement at the suggestion of Jared Kushner, with the support of Defense Secretary James Mattis. (The actual figure is closer to $15 billion. Brookings’ Bruce Riedel debunked the $110 billion claim more than a year ago, when the administration first floated the number after Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May 2017.)
The crown prince still faces pressure from the government of Turkey, which has at times revved up or wound down the controversy with strategically timed leaks to the government-friendly Turkish press. Erdogan has reportedly been using to crisis to pressure Riyadh to replace MBS with a new, less impulsive crown prince, or to secure favorable loans, and the Trump administration may have floated the idea of extraditing Fethullah Gulen, who Erdogan has accused of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt, as a concession to get Turkey to back off (the U.S. Justice Department has denied it was approached about the matter). Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday that Ankara is now considering calling for a U.N. investigation of Khashoggi’s death and that he has already discussed the possibility with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Cavusoglu said that cooperation with Saudi authorities so far “is not at the level we want.” “If there is an impasse here and this investigation only goes so far or there isn’t full cooperation, then we can make the necessary applications for an international investigation,” he said. MBS has reportedly requested to meet with Erdogan during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires later this week.
Yemen Peace Talks Could Convene As Soon As Next Week
Fighting has dissipated somewhat in the strategic port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, over the past week, as the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government prepare to meet for U.N.-mediated peace talks. U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths visited the frontline city last Friday and said that Houthi officials were receptive to the idea of conceding some of the responsibilities for the port’s operations to the United Nations. The goal would be to protect the port, which is a conduit for vital humanitarian aid entering the country, from fighting between Houthi and pro-government forces, but Houthi officials have previously resisted the idea. The World Food Programme, which operates in Hodeidah, said on Tuesday that shipping companies have been deterred from sending new supplies to the city during a recent surge in fighting that has come within a few miles of the port.
Peace talks could begin as soon as next week. Sweden has agreed to host the discussions, and Sky News reports that the only remaining logistical issues are ensuring safe transit for the Houthi delegation and an arrangement to evacuate 50 wounded Houthi fighters to Oman for medical treatment.
A group of influential humanitarian organizations—the International Rescue Committee, and the U.S. branches of Oxfam, CARE, Save the Children, and the Norwegian Refugee Council—has called for the United States to act quickly to end the war. “The stakes in Yemen are shocking and must be stated clearly: 14 million people are at risk of starving to death in Yemen if the parties to the conflict and their supporters do not change course immediately,” they warned in a joint letter last week. The toll of the war has been difficult to assess—the United Nations stopped updating its assessment in August 2016, when it was estimated that 10,000 people had been killed in combat. Unofficial estimates now suggest that figure is closer to 50,000, not including deaths from a cholera outbreak and severe food insecurity. A new report from Save the Children released last week estimates that nearly 85,000 children under the age of five have died of malnutrition since the Saudi intervention in April 2015.
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this week on legislation that would invoke the War Powers Act to end U.S. support to the Saudi intervention. A similar measure was blocked by Republicans in the House last week, but the Senate bill has some support from Republicans and similar legislation in March came fairly close to passing, receiving 44 votes. “I’ve laid in the railroad tracks in the past to keep us from blocking arms to Saudi Arabia,” Sen. Bob Corker told the Washington Post on Monday. “I’m in a real different place right now as it relates to Saudi Arabia.” Corker has been an outspoken critic of MBS and Saudi policy in the weeks since Khashoggi’s disappearance.
But while the Senate is taking the lead in pressuring the Saudis to wind down the war, the Trump administration is backpedaling. CNN reports that the United States is stalling a U.N. Security Council resolution drafted by Britain that calls for a ceasefire in Hodeidah and increased humanitarian aid. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley previously supported the resolution and the language is more circumscribed than even some recent statements from the Pentagon and U.S. State Department. But the resolution is adamantly opposed by MBS, who reportedly “threw a fit” when he saw an early draft, and since reaffirming its support for the kingdom last week, the White House has indicated that it is no longer in favor of the resolution.
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1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Trump’s and Putin’s connections with organized crime – Google News: Donald Trump can tweet all he wants, but Robert Mueller is delivering: Today’s talker – USA TODAY
Donald Trump can tweet all he wants, but Robert Mueller is delivering: Today’s talker
President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Tuesday morning to criticize special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation, calling Mueller “conflicted” and a “damage to our criminal justice system,” marking more than 10 times since the midterm …
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Trump to meet with Putin, Xi, Merkel, Abe and Turkish president at G20 in Argentina but doesn’t have time to sit …
Trump and Putin spoke briefly in France when both men were present for celebrations celebrating the 100th anniversary of the armistice ending World War I but they have not had a formal sit down since their July summit in Helsinki, where Trump made news …
Trump to meet Putin at G20, but not MBS – BoltonRT
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Paul Manafort’s now-murky plea bargain brings challenges to him and the Mueller probe
Robert Mueller’s allegations that Paul Manafort broke his plea agreement by lying to investigators could bring significant challenges to both the special counsel and President Trump’s one-time campaign chairman. The exact nature of Manafort alleged …
The breakdown of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s plea deal means Mueller suspects big lies, experts sayCNBC
Donald Trump assails Robert Mueller as ‘rogue’ prosecutor after Manafort deal breaks downUSA TODAY
Trump attacks Mueller for continuing ‘Phony Witch Hunt’ day after Manafort accused of lyingABC News
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The Latest: Trump to meet with Xi, Putin, Merkel at G-20
President Donald Trump will be holding meetings with a long list of world leaders during his trip to Argentina for the G-20 later this week, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe …
Manafort – Google News: Mueller investigating meeting between Manafort and Ecuador’s president – CNN
Mueller investigating meeting between Manafort and Ecuador’s president
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been investigating a meeting between former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in Quito in 2017 and has specifically asked if WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian …
Manafort – Google News: Corey Lewandowski piles on Paul Manafort after secret WikiLeaks meetings bombshell – Washington Examiner
Corey Lewandowski piles on Paul Manafort after secret WikiLeaks meetings bombshell
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said on Tuesday he wouldn’t be shocked if Paul Manafort, the man who replaced him as Trump campaign chairman, was not truthful with special counsel Robert Mueller or if he met with WikiLeaks …
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White House holds first press briefing in nearly a month – live updates
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has taken the podium for the first such media briefing in almost a month. She has introduced Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, and John Bolton, national security adviser. They are …
Russia investigations – Google News: Mueller investigates Manafort meeting with Ecuadorian president – live – The Guardian
Mueller investigates Manafort meeting with Ecuadorian president – live
Thanks to the one million readers who have supported our independent, investigative journalism through contributions, membership or subscriptions, The Guardian has overcome a perilous financial situation globally. But we have to maintain and build on …
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White House to hold first press briefing in nearly a month – live updates
Trump Investigations – Google News
Mueller’s Russia investigation – Google News: White House holds first press briefing in nearly a month – live updates – The Guardian
A political organization backed by Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the way Georgia’s elections are run, the Associated Press reports. The suit fulfills a pledge Abrams made when she conceded in the race for governor.
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Appeals Court Upholds Most Convictions in ‘Bridgegate’ Case
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia on Tuesday dismissed a count of civil rights conspiracy for each defendant, but upheld convictions for wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and misapplying property of an organization receiving federal …
Appeals court tosses some convictions in ‘Bridgegate’ caseWashington Times
Mueller’s Russia investigation – Google News: Russian firm wants to disclose ‘sensitive’ US government info in court fight with Mueller – ABC News
Russian firm wants to disclose ‘sensitive’ US government info in court fight with Mueller
… national security experts were concerned the Russian government may be attempting to use the normal discovery process, in which the accused is given relevant information in order to mount their defense, to gather intelligence about Mueller’s …
Russian firm indicted by Mueller wants permission to disclose ‘sensitive’ US infoThe Hill
1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Donald Trump | The Guardian: Trevor Noah on Trump: ‘How can one man possess all the stupidity?’
The Daily Show host mocked the president’s denial of a damning climate change report and networks’ coverage of the issue
Trevor Noah took aim at Donald Trump for his refusal to believe a report on climate change assembled by his own government.
Related: Kimmel on Ivanka’s emails: ‘Sometimes the jokes write themselves’
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1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Politics: Timeline: What it would mean if Manafort and Assange met in 2016
A dramatic new report by the Guardian doesn’t answer as many questions as might be assumed.
1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Politics: Gillum, Abrams speak out against controversial judicial nominee from North Carolina
The gubernatorial candidates from Florida and Georgia added their voices to civil rights groups opposing President Trump’s nomination of Thomas Farr.
1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (198 sites): Donald Trump – Google News: The 35 most shocking lines from Donald Trump’s Mississippi speech – CNN
The 35 most shocking lines from Donald Trump’s Mississippi speech
(CNN) On Monday, President Donald Trump traveled to Mississippi to rally support for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) on the eve of her runoff race against former Rep. Mike Espy (D). Trump made two stops in the Magnolia State — first in Tupelo and then in …
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Russia – Mother Jones: Bombshell Report: Paul Manafort Met Secretly With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
Paul Manafort held secret talks with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with one meeting occurring around the time the lobbyist joined President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.
Manafort called the Guardian report “100% false” and WikiLeaks strongly disputed the story, saying that Assange had never met with Manafort.
Remember this day when the Guardian permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper’s reputation. @WikiLeaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head that Manafort never met Assange. https://t.co/R2Qn6rLQjn
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 27, 2018
According to the paper, which cites unidentified sources, Manafort met at least three times with Assange in Ecuador’s London embassy between 2013 and the spring of 2016 It is not clear why Manafort would have met with Assange or what transpired in the meetings, but the alleged sitdowns—and especially the final one, which the Guardian noted occurred in March 2016—are likely to be of intense interest to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In July 2016, WikiLeaks began releasing Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers.
Manafort was convicted in August of tax fraud and other charges stemming from his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and its successor. In September, he pleaded guilty to other charges including money laundering in connection with his Ukrainian work and agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s inquiry. On Monday, the special counsel’s office said in a court filing that Manafort had violated his plea deal by lying to investigators.
“After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement,” prosecutors said in the filing. Manafort’s lawyers said he believes what he has told Mueller to be truthful and has not violated his deal.
*This is a developing story.
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Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told. Sources have said Manafort …
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Questing In The Midge-Ridden Wilderness - Part II
After the sunshine at Reiff the forecast was a bit dodgier, with gale force winds promised, but we reasoned that might keep the midges at bay at least and headed for Diabaig. I'd heard nothing but good things about the place, and once we'd negotiated the tortuous windy road from Torridon we were rewarded with a view of The Pillar looking all ace. We were both dead keen to lead this, but there was somebody on it so we wandered past to the Main Wall, where there was a four star HVS to warm up on. There were no gales, but there was just enough breeze rolling around to keep us safe, and the climbing was outstanding; long pitches on beautiful rough Gneiss, with brilliant gear and cool moves. Route Two was amazing, as was The Black Streak, so we wandered back down to the foot of The Pillar, which looked even acer at close quarters. James ran off to get some water from the car, and the second he left the breeze dropped and the midges swarmed. I spent some of the least pleasant minutes of my life lying in the long grass with my trousers tucked into my socks and a waterproof on, sweating like I was in a Turkish bath and feeling generally miserable about the unfairness of it all. Guttingly the wind didn't return, so as soon as James got back we ran away.
Contemplating the crux of The Black Streak
We had plans to meet Matt (the erstwhile Mr Fiend) in Gairloch that evening, so we managed a quick evening hit on a weird little crag of partially-metamorphosed sandstone (kind of conglomerate-y) called Aztec Tower. We tossed a coin again for the rights to the crag classic HVS, which I won, but was let down by the route being a) not very hard b) not very good and c) not very well protected. James' neighbouring VS was altogether more enjoyable.
After rendezvousing with Matt and spending a night in the ridiculously expensive campsite in Poolewe we had a slow start and needed some caffeine and a giant scone in the frankly awesome Mountain Cafe in Gairloch to get us going. We then decided to brave the gales and pay the craglets around Loch Tollaidh a visit. They were ace (actually I'd been before, but I'd forgotten my rock shoes that time and had to lead a couple of VDiffs in Alistair's giant clown shoes) and much fun was had by all. James in particular had a good day, leading Buena Vista a brilliant E2 slab.
Some pleasant HVS at Loch Tollaidh
That evening we drove down to Skye and set up base camp at Sligachan for a few days. The forecast was still windy and a bit showery, but we took a punt in the morning on Kilt Rock, and we arrived to find it sunny and lapped by a gentle breeze. Perfect. There were a few other climbers around, so I thought it best to get on with the main event as soon as possible before I had time to talk myself out of it, or somebody else got on it. Grey Panther is the easiest route in Extreme Rock, so it was a possibly unique chance for me to get a tick in the book. It had also been top of my mental wishlist for a long time, so I was a bit apprehensive, but a peer down the line from the top reassured me that it looked totally awesome. The route didn't disappoint, with 45m of continuously great climbing, bridging between two jamming cracks. None of the moves felt particularly tricky, and the crux for me was probably trying to conserve my hand-width cams for when I would really need them. I managed this so successfully that I got to the top with them all still on my harness. I even only placed 16 runners, which was very sparing by my usual standards (I'd taken 21 quickdraws). The climbing was actually very reminiscent of routes on The Prow at Fairhead. Mmm, must go back there some time soon.
Afterwards, whilst bathing in the warm glow of self-awesomeness, I tried to egg Oswald into tackling one of the other major E1/2 cracks, but he was afraid. Instead we ticked off a pair of three star routes in the descent gully, an HVS and a VS, which were both pretty stout at their respective grades. This wasn't the spur that the youth needed to get on harder things, so we left and paid a visit to Flodigarry. After hacking over the tedious heather for an age we reached the top of the crag. James had idea that he might try an E2, but we couldn't pick out the line, so we agreed that he should lead the three star HVS I'd been keen on, and then we could run away for a cup of tea, dinner, and the pint that he owed me. The route, Lucy In The Sky, was a little gem, taking a slabby crack with sustained mild interest right to the top.
The forecast the next day seemed more stable, with clear skies in prospect, so we took a gamble on being able to find something out of the wind in Coire Lagan. Our first objective, The Klondyker, seemed to be just about out of the gusts, so we set off. James lucked out and got the two good pitches, whilst I had the easy link pitches, but the route was ace. The crux pitch was a long, sustained 5a wall, with a touch of rather 5b-ish spice thrown in pulling round a small roof. The gear was excellent, but it felt worthy of an E-point. This was later confirmed when we bumped into Mike Lates, who literally wrote the guide but admitted to never having done the route, and he told us he'd heard from reliable sources it was worth an upgrade. The route wasn't over after the second pitch though, with the fourth offering "Space walking on buckets". We had harboured ideas of climbing Vulcan Wall afterwards, but by the time we'd made it back to our bags we were pooped, so we scuttled off to the Sligachan in time for a few (very incompetent) games of pool.
The spacewalk on The Klondyker
The next day brought another dodgy forecast, but I put my faith in the magical microclimate of Neist, and lo, we were rewarded with more sunshine. I led a lovely VS called Midas Touch, and silly E1 direct start to a classic HVS which involved a couple of sketchy moves with only one good RP2 between me and the ground. James led the classic E0 Security Risk, and then set off up a really good looking E2 - Wall Street. He took ages, which was unfortunate as the base of the route was out of the wind, so I started to get quite badly midged. I had a windproof and a midge net, but my ankles were taking a beating, so I improvised some socks by coiling the rope around my legs. I can't recommend this as a course of action. I ended up with slightly numb, but still midge-destroyed feet. Boo. Anyway, the route was brilliant, up until the capping roof, where things went all wrong and overhanging. I managed to get as far as lurching at a jug, but then couldn't find the arms to pull up into the final groove. So I rested on the rope. Except I was in an awkward position whereby I couldn't actually take much weight off my arms without taking a swing and smacking into a wall. Fail. Eventually I got sufficiently uncomfortable that I laid one on and pulled some heinous manoeuvres to reach the finishing holds. A fine lead by Mr Oswald.
After that I couldn't take any more, and it was getting on a bit, so we jumped in the car and motored over to the CC hut in Roybridge, where we availed ourselves of the delights of an oven, and comfy beds. Whoop. The next day was showery, so we took a punt on the "Lethal when wet" but allegedly quick drying Creag Dubh (also known, ominously, as Crag Death). Sitting at the bottom of it eating our lunch it was clearly going to need a bit more time to dry off, so I persuaded James that a visit to the distillery at Dalwhinnie was in order. On our return to the crag it was actually dry, so I racked up to have a bash at Inbred, a steep HVS and apparently Dougal Haston's finest new route. It didn't take too many brief ventures onto the holds to decide that there was the potential to get myself into a dangerous position, as the moves were steep and the gear fiddly, so I handed the baton over and belayed James. He made it look fairly easy, and the moves were OK on second. Not that I regretted backing off for a second, especially since as I was part way up the pitch a rain shower started looming ominously. I just managed to beach myself on the belay ledge when the heavens opened and the rock turned to soap. So we sacrificed my sling of irritating shortness and beat a hasty retreat.
The next day found us climbing at Dunkeld. I did a spot of VS bambering and James led another E2 through some roofs. The climbing wasn't too hard, but the gear for the first roof was pumpy to place, and for the second was a bit weird and uninspiring, so it was just about worth E2. After enjoying my Aunt's hospitality we spent the last day of the holiday climbing at Auchinstarry - Scotland's answer to a Lancashire quarry. It wasn't actually that bad, although my three star VS was a bit underwhelming, and the 2 star VS 4b arete I soloed was quite terrifyingly sandy. And then after one more route it was over and we had to drive back south again. In the rain. Bah. Still, it was an awesome fortnight, we got loads done, and saw loads more that I want to go back for (especially The Pillar). Next on the agenda is Lundy in September. Bring it on...
Promontory Direct at Auchinstarry - A refugee from Wilton in the central belt
Questing In The Midge-Ridden Wilderness - Part I
After a hard week visiting the many and varied distillery-shaped delights of Islay and Jura (and a bonus brewery for good measure) I needed some kind of holiday. Fortuitously the youth had secured the use of his parents' car, and I had a fortnight off work. So we did the only sensible thing and drove 500 miles north (via a couple of quick routes at Loudoun Hill, including the spectacular but bold The Edge) to near Wick. After wild camping by the beach at Latheronwheel we had planned to climb a few routes before catching the lunchtime ferry over to Orkney, but it was raining, so we checked out the sea stack and cool arch at Wick and went shopping in Tesco instead.
I hadn't realised how close to the mainland Orkney is - you can see the Old Man from the ferry port at Scrabster, but the ferry still takes an hour and a half to pootle its way round Hoy (passing the Old Man and the impressive precipitous vegetation of St John's Head) and into Stromness. Confusingly the main island on Orkney is called Mainland, as is the case on Shetland, so it is possible to get a ferry from Mainland to Mainland without going anywhere near the actual mainland. Strange. Anyway, we hung around on the quayside for an hour or so until the little passenger ferry chugged us over to Hoy, where we walked the 5 miles past the northernmost woods in Britain (more of a copse really) to the well-appointed and beautifully situated bothy at Rackwick. There we spent an entertaining evening in the company of an elderly Australian who was en route from The Hague to London via Bergen on his bike, a Canadian magician, a Czech artist who lived on Shetland (and hat the comedy red woollen hat to prove it), a drug-dealing farmer from Portstmouth and an Orcadian fisherman.
We got up unreasonably early the next morning and trekked up to the cliffs opposite the Old Man, then picked our way delicately down the Gogarthian approach path to the base of the stack. The crux pitch looked hard and wide and pitches 3 and 4 looked very green. I was suitably intimidated. I nearly just ceded the crux to James, but managed to man up enough to toss a coin for it. I was secretly slightly relieved to lose, racked up and bambered up the first pitch. James led through, traversing over into the main crack and was soon out of sight round an overhang, leaving me to guess how he was getting on. He took quite a while, but eventually I heard some muffled shouts and the rope came tight, so I set off. I had heard that the rock was softer than the Torridonian sandstone on the west coast, so I was expecting scrittly rock. I was rather surprised, therefore, to find perfectly good, solid rock that somebody had tipped a sandpit down. Excavating the holds took a while, but the climbing was amenable up to a large roof, where James had abandoned his belay jacket on the understanding that he would buy me a pint by way of recompense for my bringing it up with me. Getting through the roof involved a hilarious sequence of contortions (including spending a long time waving a foot at a crucial ledge that I couldn't see but knew was somewhere behind me) and some quality udging, but the sand wasn't really an issue.
James starting up the crux pitch of the Old Man
Pitch 3 was easy until I ran into the fulmars. I had naively hoped they might have buggered off by August, but they hadn't, and they had lovely smelling fishy vomit saved up especially to project at my face. Words cannot express how unpleasant the experience of racing past the fat little bastards, with each new ledge bringing a new feathery bag of stink, was, but I made it (although I was certain I would have to burn my clothes once we'd got down). Pitch 4 was wandering but ledgier than it had looked from below, and mercifully fulmar-free, and pitch 5 was 30m of brilliant, steep VS jug-hauling up a corner to deposit you on the summit. On joining me the youth complained that the summit wasn't as flat and grassy as he'd imagined (there's no pleasing some people), but there was a bottle of beer and a logbook to sign. The abseil back down was faffy, but we took an ethical decision not to add any tat to the huge quantity already there (I'd neglected to bring a knife to clean it up) and just ran the gauntlet of trusting 5 vintage krabs and 15 bits of fraying old rope for each anchor. The final 60m free-hanging abseil back to the ground was exciting (especially for James who wasn't sure whether the ropes would reach or not), and we got back to the bags just in time to race back to the bothy, and then speed back over the hill to catch the last ferry back to Stromness. Sadly this conveniently just missed the last ferry back to the (real) mainland, but we befriended a cheery local on the ferry who we joined for a pint in the pub later. It turned out he had been friends with Mr Crofton of Cumming-Crofton route fame, and had some good tales to tell.
The next morning we high-tailed it off Orkney on the 6:30am ferry and paid the conglomerate weirdness of Sarclet a visit. It was pretty awesome. I led a brilliant VS called Groove Armada, which must be up there with the best single pitch routes at its grade in the country, and then the wonderfully titled Sarclet Pimpernel, a classic E0 romp. James' 3 star E1 lead then turned out to be a bit midgy and not very hard, so we ran away, but I'd be keen for a return visit. The first time I've climbed on conglomerate without spending the whole time worrying about the temporaryness of all of the holds.
Sarclet - The Sarclet Pimpernel takes the right arete
After a long drive south and west, we awoke in the campsite at Ardmair and decided to pay Stac Pollaidh a visit. A certain Jon Stewart had raved about the aceness of Jack The Ripper, an E1 on the west buttress, although he also claimed the walk in to be a mere 20 minutes. Given that you start at basically sea level and the buttress is at 550m that seemed improbable, and it was. A very steep and sweaty hour later we collapsed in a heap at the bottom of the route. It was James' lead, so he raced up the first pitch, and I did the same up the slightly trickier second, but the route is really all about the beautiful groove line on the top pitch. It's a sensational pitch, and well worth the walk up to it, especially when you have the crag to yourselves, top out directly on the summit of the mountain, and have incredible views. Bo. After lunch we nipped up another route before midges drove us to run away. We still had some beans left, so we found some midge-repelling breeze and went to check out the slightly obscure sea cliffs at Rhue. They were quite cool, especially in the evening light. Oswald managed to make a hash of leading an E1 through a roof, resulting in some entertaining diagonal abseils and horizontal dynoing to retrieve the gear, before I led us out up a smart little Hard Severe.
The marvellous top pitch of Jack The Ripper
The next day was sunny and breezy so we went west to check out the Stanage-by-the-sea ambiance of Reiff. I had a little solo-fest and led a VS arete that Oli and I hadn't fancied the look of on my only previous visit. I then took a shine to the E1 next to it, a fun looking crack in a slab. It turned out to be less slabby where it mattered, but after much upping and downing between the crux and a good rest ledge I gave it the beans and managed to reach the top in a state of only mild panic. After that we decided to move on and wandered past a beautiful white sandy beach which looked very appealing in the heat, so we had a quick restorative swim in the sea. The youth the got ideas above his station and set off up a disgustingly overhanging E2 corner. I decided to punish him for this stupidity by making him abseil for his gear. We finished the day with some pootling around on a few weird routes including a bizarre sandbaggy VS and a butch HVS on which I managed to place, but not actually clip, a crucial runner. Oops.
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Masisi: I will be President
Author : AUBREY LUTE
VP says he must prepare himself for Presidency now
Vice President, Mokgweetsi Masisi who is lobbying to become the next chairman of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has pronounced his claim to the throne this week at a meeting organised to launch his bid for chairmanship and announce his campaign team in Kanye on Monday.
Briefing profiled members of the ruling party in the southern region on Monday, Masisi, who was handpicked by President Lt Gen Ian Khama to become his right hand man during his last term of office, told party members that he will be President of the party and country come 2018. Ministers, Councillors, and other former cabinet ministers and veterans attended the meeting.
Ministers who attended the meeting include Minister of Agriculture, Patrick Ralotsia; Assistant Minister of Trade, Sadique Kebonang; and Assistant Minister of Health, Dr Alfred Madigele. All BDP Members of Parliament in the Southern District attended. Ishmael Legwaila was announced as the National campaign manager for Masisi’s bid for chairmanship.
Some BDP members who attended the meeting told this publication that the Vice President did not mince his words when challenged all those who doubt his popularity to stand up now and take him head on. “He made it clear that he is surprised that people are postponing their intentions to challenge him for positions in the party. I am ready for the challenge now, he said,” one of those who attended the meeting explained.
A defiant Masisi probably got provoked by sentiments that he is an unpopular Vice President and that there are BDP members who are supposedly lined up to challenge him for the presidency of the BDP as soon as President Khama vacates the scene.
Masisi’s unpopularity was extensively measured through the Moshupa-Thamaga constituency council bye-election that saw the ruling party lose by a good margin to the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) immediately after a general election in which the latter was associated with the political definition of decline. “If I am very unpopular, why should people wait for 2017,” he remarked, our informer/s said.
According to our informers, Masisi made it clear that being Vice President cannot stop him from being party chairman. “I am going to be president and run the country while at the same time I will be president of the party. I am surprised that people now assume I cannot be vice president and party chairman at the same time,” he is said to have told his listeners.
The Vice President also sold the argument that as a president in waiting, he should fix the party the way he wants so that by the time he is president, he knows every detail of the organisation.
Masisi also had a few musings on reports that Tati East Member of Parliament, Samson Guma Moyo will dent his support for the chairmanship bid. He said there is no need for such issues to be turned into corner politics, “issues must be addressed now,” he said demonstrating his appreciation of the support he is getting from Guma.
The Tati East legislator has been linked to controversy every time there is a BDP internal election. After his victory at Maun congress as chairman, Guma was accused of using his financial resources to entice delegates. He was later fingered in a plot to ditch ‘popular’ BDP heavy weights through the party primary elections in 2014.
He later resigned as party chairman. Guma has made it clear that he supports Masisi for chairmanship and vouches for Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri as secretary general.
On another subject, Masisi is said to have discouraged the idea of lobby lists but told his listeners that they are free to canvass support for any person of their choice for other positions because he is ready to work with anyone. Masisi currently has support from the BDP Youth Wing, while the BDP Women’s Wing may find itself between a rock and a hard place because of Tebelelo Seretse’s candidacy. She was the first person to make her intention clear and she has already done 360 degrees in her campaign trail.
Masisi’s campaign manager, Legwaila is a former councillor for Mathathane ward and also former sub-council chairman. He is assisted by Selibe Phikwe Mayor, Cllr Mojuta who will serve the campaign team as its secretary. Other members of the campaign include Isaac Maforaga from Palapye; Cllr Monageng from Serowe; Former Sua Township Mayor, Cllr Medupi; and former nominated Councillor, Victor Malete among others.
Legwaila confirmed that he has been appointed Masisi’s campaign manager and could not share details of the Kanye meeting.
While Masisi’s entry into the race was indeed a game changer, his campaign team still has stones to unturn because other candidates had already made inroads. All aspiring candidates have been given until June 1st 2015 to make their intentions known in writing to the Secretary General of the BDP. The congress will be held in July from 3rd to 5th in Mmadinare.
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USLAC Protests Custodial Workloads, Demands Hiring of Five Additional Workers
December 20, 2018 , by Jordan Saliby, Staff Writer
Jordan Saliby, Staff Writer
On Nov. 29, dozens of protesters gathered outside North College for a rally in support of custodial workers on campus. Holding signs and chanting, the protesters blocked the entrance to the building for almost an hour.
The rally was organized by the United Student/Labor Action Coalition (USLAC) and addressed concerns from students and custodial staff regarding unreasonable workloads and issues with the staff’s treatment on campus.
The event was part of an ongoing discussion of the treatment of custodial workers on campus. It came in the wake of the firing of María Sarabia, a 55-year-old custodian who had worked at Wesleyan’s Freeman Athletic Center for nine years, in August. Sarabia was employed by Service Management Group (SMG), which Wesleyan contracts for janitorial services around campus.
Sarabia, who is diabetic, was fired when her boss caught her taking a break to regain her energy with a cup of coffee. In early October, students organized to raise money for Sarabia, who has sole custody over her four grandchildren, and demand that SMG rehire her. Members of USLAC drafted a petition and delivered over 1,100 signed papers to a meeting of Physical Plant and SMG employees. As of now, the GoFundMe set up for Sarabia has raised almost $7,000.
In an email sent to USLAC member Emma Llano ’19, an SMG member named Louise Linsky addressed Sarabia’s firing and complaints about understaffing in the campus buildings SMG covers. The letter pointed to inaccuracies in Sarabia’s story, which was published in full in the “story” section of the GoFundMe campaign.
“The details that are currently circulating surrounding Maria’s dismissal are grossly inaccurate,” Linksy wrote. “However, if Maria would sign a Release, SMG would be able to provide the documentation related to her termination.”
Llano has been in contact with Sarabia, who told her that she has tried to call SMG’s HR department in order to sign the release but that the department has yet to answer her calls.
Linsky’s email comes as a response to the over-1,100 petitions that were delivered to Physical Plant and SMG staff in October. These petitions called for Sarabia to be rehired and for SMG to bring on five more employees by the end of the school year in order to decrease the workloads of its current staff.
USLAC members see SMG’s response as insufficient and misrepresentative of the realities of Sarabia’s situation. In a Facebook post publicizing the rally, USLAC pointed out Wesleyan’s failure to comment on the matter and what its members see as the unreasonable workloads thrust upon SMG employees.
“Wesleyan did not respond at all, while SMG responded that custodians at Wesleyan have reasonable workloads,” the post read. “As members of the Wesleyan community, we have witnessed the unreasonable workloads of custodians on this campus in our dorms, dining halls, academic buildings, and athletic facilities.”
When USLAC began working with Sarabia, she had already filed a grievance with her union, SEIU 32BJ. The grievance remains unsolved within the union, though, and is currently in arbitration, a process that can take years.
“The corporation and the union can’t come to an agreement,” Llano said. “So then it goes to what is called an arbitration process where a third party will look at both sides and decide what should be the outcome.”
USLAC member Tomás Rogel ’19 believes that the union contract all members sign does not adequately protect workers from unjust termination. He attributes this to the document’s unclear description of what “just cause” for termination means.
“There’s a section [in the union contract] about discharging employees for just cause, but just cause is never actually defined,” Rogel said.
SEIU 32BJ publishes its union contract online, and the termination clause Rogel mentioned is particularly vague.
“The Employer may discharge a member of the bargaining unit for just cause,” the union contract reads.
What constitutes “just cause” for terminating an employee is never explicitly defined in the contract. Therefore, the power to decide what justifies termination in situations like Sarabia’s is ultimately up to the employer. USLAC hopes to change this.
“We do have concerns, in general, from workers that we would like to address with the union,” Rogel said. “So, it’s a relationship in which we want to keep an eye on the union, and making sure they are functioning in the way that a union should, which is in the interest of the worker not the business.”
Another important matter raised by Sarabia’s firing and the protest is how much control the University has over the treatment of contracted labor. In 2000, the University, prompted by a USLAC proposal, introduced the Employment Code for Service Contractors to exert some form of control over the companies it contracts to fill jobs around campus. This document outlined job conditions, types of labor permitted, and employee protections for contracted labor and established a Code Compliance Board to enforce and monitor the code’s provisions.
The Code Compliance Board has not functioned for the past few years, but USLAC members Joy Ming King ’20 and Indigo Cochran ’21 are working with the administration to revive the board’s activities.
The enforcement and monitoring section of the Code states that service contractors must give a copy of the document to all employees.
“Such reference shall require that the service contractor acknowledge that he/she/it has read and understood the code and agrees to be bound by its terms on behalf of itself, its employees, subcontractors and agents,” the Code reads. “Each service contractor will be required to provide this code to its employees, including providing it in languages other than English.”
Cochran believes that service contractors have not distributed this document to their employees.
“We definitely have been meeting with workers and union stewards and know that this code that is supposed to be the set of rules that service contractors follow has not been distributed and has not been edited in years,” Cochran said.
The document was most recently revised in September when information on wages was updated.
Workers, no matter their contractual status, have always been a part of the Wesleyan community. Olin Librarian Andrew White commented on the wonderful services that custodial workers provide for the library but said that he has heard that some buildings on campus are understaffed.
“I’m very happy with the folks who are assigned to Olin, I think they do a fantastic job and they are well-integrated into our staff,” White said. “But I have heard from my staff who are in the Science Library in Exley that there is not enough custodial coverage.”
Linsky responded to claims of understaffing in the email sent to Llano, writing that SMG has always abided by industry standards in assigning workers to campus buildings.
“SMG’s staffing levels on the Wesleyan campus are well within industry standards for APPA level II cleaning standards in a university setting,” the email read. “On the Wesleyan campus the cleanable square foot levels have remained consistent since the inception of our contract.”
Llano and other USLAC members argue that the industry standards should be disregarded in this circumstance since some workers have expressed dissatisfaction with their workloads. They think that more workers should be hired, even if SMG’s staffing levels are within industry standards.
In a USLAC survey of custodial workers, some workers expressed that the work they are expected to do is unreasonable and requires them to work longer hours than they intend to.
One custodial worker reported that she arrives on campus at 7:00 in the morning and is expected to finish cleaning a large part of a building before 8:30, which she sees as an impossible task. She ends up leaving around 10:00 or 11:00 and is then expected to clean an entire dorm building. This is her routine five days per week.
Another employee cited workloads that leave him without a lunch break on his busiest days. He also stated that he is sometimes expected to be on call when he is not on duty.
Following the protest, USLAC members met with President Michael Roth to discuss their demands that the University hire an additional five custodial workers by the end of the academic year. In a statement released by USLAC on Dec. 10, the organization reported that the University will be responding to their demands shortly.
“On Monday, three USLAC student representatives met with President Roth, who at the meeting agreed to respond to USLAC within a week with a timeline for how the administration will respond to our demands,” the statement compiled by Llano, Sophie Martin ’19, and Maia Reumann-Moore ’19 reads. “Michael Roth has gotten in contact with the administrators in charge of finance who will be investigating the issue over the break. We have scheduled a meeting with him early next semester to discuss the results of this investigation and steps moving forward.”
While the University may be working to address some of USLAC’s demands, Sarabia’s termination and case with her union remain unresolved. As written in the USLAC statement, there is still time for the Wesleyan community and SMG managers to take actions to rehire her.
“As of today, María Sarabia, whose case started this movement, is still out of a job,” the statement reads. “The Wesleyan administration does not have much power over individual employees and their responses are slow. We want to get Maria employed as soon as possible, so we want to urge students, staff, and faculty to call Gisela at SMG Human Resource and demand that SMG hire Maria at one of their open positions.”
Sarabia’s case with her union remains in arbitration, but USLAC points out that there are simple ways in which students can show their solidarity with Wesleyan’s custodial staff.
“A lot of the time, workers would like recognition,” Llano said. “Even starting a conversation, or just being conscious of the workers goes a long way.”
Jordan Saliby can be reached at jsaliby@wesleyan.edu.
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Nobody gets fired for “restoring their energy” with a cup of coffee. USLAC should have more sense than to take that at face value. Sarabia’s filed a grievance, which typically has high odds of reinstatement even for egregious behavior. I doubt she’ll follow through on allowing release of the cause for her firing, but it will be interesting to see if USLAC stands by her if all the facts come out.
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