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An ancient mission of Calabria: pro-create Wine!
The same History of the Western world begins, according to Homer, with a divine deliberation about the disagreement to be posed between East and West, with the proud disagreement of the Achaean (the Greeks) from the East of Troy, and with the legendary war of the same name.
The Legendary War of Troy
To seal the decision of the gods intervenes the wine, that which divine Ebe pours to the Olympians, a wine certainly ancient, as immemorial are the traces in Calabria, in the land called “Locride”, of the production, coeval with Homer and perhaps the facts of Troy, of this magnificent vine elixir.
Thus Homer tells how the glass of Hebe, filled with wine is offered to the gods of Olympus, shortly before they decide the fate of Troy and the new world of the Achaeans (the Greeks):
“Sitting around Zeus,
the gods were at
conference / on
a gold floor, and between
their Ebe, venerable, /
poured wine them like the
nectar; those with the
gold cups /
drink a toast, while
turning their
look at Troy “.
Iliad IV, 1 ssg.
The statue of Ebe from Canova
In the classical Greek world Hebe (“Ηβη, Hebe) does not have a well-defined history, it is a” discreet goddess “; however Hesiod speaks of it often and we like to imagine that the ancient archaeological sites, found in Calabria where the must was treated (the so-called “Palmenti”), were the primitive place where wine was for the first time “pro-created” by the ancient Bruzi and then by the Greek colonists. Yes, “pro-created”, born, for the first time in the Western world in collaboration with a creator, ….but not with the Goddess Hebe, but with God himself, who intended to give it to the “land of men”…
Gift of God
FROM THE MYTH TO HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY
The ancient millstones excavated in the rock are the clear material document, in the area of Locride, very close to the site of the “Passito di Bianco”, of the relative flourishing and long-lasting production of wine in this territory, suited for the cultivation of vines from immemorial time.
The abundant presence of rock mills (tanks of sandstone for the decantation of the must), dug into the rock, represents a very important testimony of the flourishing wine culture in Calabria. This phenomenon describes indirectly and in an important way the agricultural landscape of a specific area of the Locride, that is that of the Ionian coast of Reggio included between the municipalities of Bruzzano, Ferruzzano, S. Agata del Bianco, Caraffa del Bianco, Casignana, Africo and Samo, where a massive concentration of over 700 specimens has been found.
Palmenti in Calabria
A RELIC OF ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WINE MAKING
The manufacts made in the rock are part of the oldest production facilities for wine. Some rocky remains of the western Mediterranean date back to the first millennium BC, but since it is a technique used in all historical periods and lacking artifacts that prove its age, their dating is often difficult.
These types of millstones are also mentioned in the Bible [Jeremiah 48.33; Job 24,11] and have been present in Syria and Israel since the Bronze Age, where there are even more than 10,000; they were also found in Greece, particularly in Crete and the small island of Gaudos, used from the Minoan to the Hellenistic age.
The millstones of the area of Locride, instead, express the evident vocation of this territory, since Biblic time or Homeric, to viticulture and to the production of wines that from here were then shipped to the Mediterranean ports.
Near Bianco and Locri
WINE-MAKING AT THE TIME OF HOMER
The “Palmenti” show the primordial techniques in which the crushing of the grapes was carried out with the feet, as the paintings of the tombs of Ancient Egypt describe well.
The name “palmento” derives from the Latin pavimentum: it consisted of basins dug into the sandstone, an upper one called, in actual Calabrian dialect, “buttìscu” and a lower one called “pinàci”, made communicating with each other through a hole. The sandstone is a very friable rock and where this was not present, the stalks were built in mixed masonry and made impermeable with a layer of sand and lime plaster mixed with earthenware of a thickness of about 3 cm.
Palmenti near Ferruzzano, in front of Ionian sea
The palmenti were equipped with a channel that allowed the outflow of the liquid squeezed into a basin for fermentation, both made of clay. Then in the upper basin there were grooves in the side walls, where a large table full of holes ( in actual Calabrian dialect:“la foràta”) was placed, which served to create a narrow passage (“consu”) into which the pomace was poured to be further crushed by a large table of holed oak wood called “chjancùni”.
Once the processing practices were completed in the millstones, the must produced was finally placed in the wine amphorae.
Wine Amphora
A good part of the many millstones of this area of Calabria, which revolved around the prosperous Magna Graecia colony of Locri Epizephirii, are hypothesized to date back to a period between the 7th and 4th century BC, due to some archaeological materials found later, in Ferruzzano and in the towns of the district of S. Domenica and Carruso: some fragments of tiles, in Greek “pithoi”, plus a fragment of a Locrese vase and a fragment of a Corinthian vase, as well as the base of a MGS amphora (Greek-Italic).
OBLIVION AND REDISCOVERY OF CALABRIAN WINE
On various surveyed and studied milestones, Byzantine crosses have also been identified, which therefore indicate that wine production continued to be present and lasting even in the sixth century AD: among them we must remember two extremely important ones since they bear the Justinian cross engraved, unique examples in Calabria.
This area is also rich in Basilian caves and architectural ruins: this suggests that the landscape has been transformed over the centuries, alternating between buildings, destruction, reconstructions and movements from the coast to the hinterland.
Greek Ruins
AN HISTORY REPEATING: OBLIVION OF ROOTS
Until not too long ago, given that the use was ignored, the Palmenti were used even as troughs for the animals; others, unused, were destroyed to make way for the cultivation of the land.
Such oblivion is a symbol of History repeating: Western world and Italy forget origins of wine making as a gift, as a “procreation” of Calabria!
Oblivion of ancient wine making
One of many unique features of Calabria’s Wine Region is its great number of vines, representing the genetic root of all Italian and Western vines. Apart the ancient tecnique of Palmenti, which was “pro-created” here, you cannot count the popular indigenous varietals like Gaglioppo, as well as many that are still being re-discovered today, which gave rise, genetically and archeologically, to the highest number of indigenous grapes of all Italy and the World.
Since first production of a pure wine of vine in Armenia, 6,000 years ago, only Calabria and its Magna Graecia gave to the world a unitary tecnique of production and winemaking.
This is the main reason why the top of global wine list elected Calabria for decades as the land of more interesting wines, not only for the region’s untouched splendor and beauty, but also for the history of its wines!
The golden mask of Agamemnon
Posted on May 7, 2019 July 3, 2019 Categories Company Vision, Gastronomy, WineTags ancient, authentic, calabria, calabrian, culture, delicious, export, food, gastronomy, healthy, history, italy, mediterranean, wineLeave a comment on An ancient mission of Calabria: pro-create Wine!
Map of Calabrian Wines
WINES OF CALABRIA
Calabria is a beautiful region of southern Italy, rich in history and traditions, which boasts a vast material and immaterial cultural heritage. Bathed by the clear waters of the Ionian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is separated from Sicily by the Strait of Messina. The mild climate, the beautiful colors of the sea, the rocky coasts alternating with sandy coasts, its wild and mysterious nature, the intense and genuine flavors of the local cuisine and the testimonies of its ancient origins make Calabria a unique place to admire both in winter and in summer.
The ancient Greeks knew Calabria as Enotria, “Land of wine”, and the Calabrian wines were offered as a prize to the winners of the Olympics. In more recent times, the phylloxera epidemic has given a severe blow to the Calabrian viticulture, in fact for many years the Calabrian wines have been relegated as cutting wines, and it is only in recent years, thanks to the stubbornness of many local winemakers, that the qualitative level has come back to previous times.
Map of Wines Production Areas
The main viticultural areas of Calabria are the Cosentino (near Cosenza, see the map), Lametino (surrounding Lamezia Terme), Cirotano (near Crotone) and Locride (the tiny yellow area of production of Greco di Bianco wine).
The area of Cosentino, located north of the region bordering with Basilicata, is the most extensive production area, where viticulture has recovered the hills between 500/700 meters.
The denomination Donnici wine has been absorbed by the new one, Terre di Cosenza DOC, with its seven Subzones, and it has given a new impulse and reconfigured in 2011 the viticulture of all northern Calabria, merging the historical certifications, DOC and IGT, of this province and putting order in a myriad of vines and ancient areas. For example, in recent years the most widespread vine, Magliocco Canino, has been included in Terre di Cosenza and revalued, which is expressed in a wine rich in color, with a powerful structure and incisive aromas of blackberry and spices of the Crati Hills (called Terre di Cosenza – Sub-hills of the Crati DOC), while lower chromatic concentrations and excellent balance is present in the Valle dell’Esaro wine (Terre di Cosenza Subarea Esaro DOC). Also in this area are produced light rosé wines and ready to drink. In addition, vineyards that reach 800 meters give white wines elegant and fragrant, fresh and young to drink, based on Greco Bianco and Guarnaccia, used in purity or in blends. A gem is the Moscato di Saracena, a sweet wine with toasted hints, traditionally produced with dried Moscatello and reduced must for the concentration of Guarnaccia and Malvasia.
Donnici Village
Along the course of the Savuto, natural border of the province of Cosenza to the south and territory of the denominations Savuto DOC and Lamezia DOC, there is the well known Magliocco dolce – here identified as “arvino” -, to which is flanked Gaglioppo, Greco Nero and Aglianico inside the less known Scavigna DOC, while for the white wines Trebbiano Toscano, Malvasia Bianca, Chardonnay and Traminer Aromatic grapes are used.
The Ionic side, in the province of Crotone, is the realm of the Cirò DOC denomination, first in terms of numbers and diffusion, whose wine is produced with Gaglioppo grapes. The rebirth of this wine – which the ancient Greeks called “Kremisi” – is recent history and is the result of lower yields per hectare and better production technologies. Until a few years ago Cirò DOC was endowed with a strong alcoholic component and aggressive tannins, but today, while maintaining shades that fade quickly in the orange and quite transparent, it offers a warm taste but with an appreciable tannin. Rosé wines obtained from Gaglioppo grapes are also interesting, fresh and fragrant with rosehip and raspberry.
Typical Cirò vine: Gaglioppo
In the area of Reggio Calabria, area of the denomination Bivongi DOC, the blends are obtained from international vines and ancient grapes, among which the Greco Nero and the Nocera stand out, together with Nerelli Mascalese and Cappuccio, which give simple wines and others that, on the contrary, give their best after aging.
Locride is a land of rare wines. From the slopes of the Aspromonte towards the edge of the coast that overlooks the Ionian Sea, the Mantonico is subjected to a slight drying for the production of a sweet and fresh wine, while not far away, in the municipality of Bianco and only in part of that of Casignana, the Greco Bianco di Bianco has found the ideal terroir to give the famous sweet wine, which is almost impossible to find elsewhere. The bunches are greedy for care, but they are stingy with fruits, they dry on trellises in the sun for 10-15 days and give a sweet and soft wine, which gives Mediterranean aromas like orange blossom, bergamot, apricot, honey and sage. This Greco di Bianco DOC is a true enological gem produced in very few bottles.
Greco di Bianco passito, reeds of essication
CLIMATE AND TERRITORY, VINE GROWING SYSTEMS
Calabria is a beautiful region of southern Italy that stretches along an impervious and difficult territory. It is bathed by the Tyrrhenian and Ionian seas and is characterized by narrow valleys modelled by rivers and mountains that divide it into two, making the climatic conditions between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian sides really different.
The climate in the areas around Cosenza is continental, so that the wine-growing areas are subject to intense temperature variations which are particularly favorable for the cultivation of white grapes, which improves the bouquet expressed in the wines.
In the mountainous areas of the Sila the thermal excursions are attenuated by warmer temperatures, influenced by the scirocco winds and the tramontana, which enrich the sugary components of the grapes grown on the hills of the well known Cirò.
Argillaceous-calcareous soil
Along the coast, the Mediterranean climate influences the innermost vineyards of the granite Aspromonte up to those of the Costa dei Gelsomini (near Reggio Calabria), where the historic Greco di Bianco finds the ideal conditions for the production of wines of excellent quality.
Other differences are also found in the composition of the land: in fact, from the vineyards cultivated in the terraces – composed mainly of limestone soils of volcanic origin – we obtain dense and structured wines whose powerful tannins offer optimal conditions for medium-long evolutions. Argillaceous-calcareous formations of the hills of the Ionic side favor Gaglioppo and the production of slightly colored, sapid and mineral red wines.
Vine growing, “Alberello” (little tree) type
The vine growing systems practiced in Calabria are mainly spurred cordon, but the historical cultivation in Alberello is among the most widespread compared to the oldest ones (especially for the Cirò wine).
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Mourners carry the body of a victim of the Friday March 15 mosque shootings for a burial at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Photo: AP
Christchurch, Mar 20 (AP/UNB) — A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for "the safest country in the world" were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for victims of shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that horrified a nation known for being welcoming and diverse.
The funerals of Khalid Mustafa, 44, and Hamza Mustafa, 15, came five days after a white supremacist methodically gunned down 50 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch — a massacre that he broadcast live on Facebook.
Hamza's high school principal described the student as compassionate and hard-working, and said he was an excellent horse rider who aspired to be a veterinarian.
Those present included Hamza's younger brother, 13-year-old Zaed, who was wounded in an arm and a leg. The boy tried to stand during the ceremony but had to sit back into his wheelchair, one mourner said.
"We tried to not shake his hand, and not touch his hand or his foot but he refused, he wanted to shake everybody's hand, he wanted to show everyone that he appreciated them. And that's amazing," said Jamil El-Biza, who traveled from Australia to attend the funeral.
The Mustafas had moved to New Zealand last year, after spending six years as refugees in Jordan. Mustafa's wife, Salwa, told Radio New Zealand that when the family asked about New Zealand they were told "it's the safest country in the world, the most wonderful country you can go ... you will start a very wonderful life there."
She added: "But it wasn't."
Families of those killed had been anxiously awaiting word on when they could bury their loved ones. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said police have now formally identified and released the remains of 21 of those killed. Islamic tradition calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as possible.
The burials began shortly after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern renewed her call for people to speak of the victims rather than the man who killed them.
Ardern's plea against giving him notoriety followed the accused gunman's move to represent himself in court, raising concerns he would attempt to use the trial as a platform for airing his racist views.
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"Look after one another, but also let New Zealand be a place where there is no tolerance for racism," she told students at Cashmere High School. "That's something we can all do."
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About 30 people wounded in the attacks remained hospitalized as of Tuesday evening. About 10 of them were in critical condition, including a 4-year-old girl.
Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder and is next scheduled to appear in court on April 5. Police have said they are certain Tarrant was the only gunman but are still investigating whether he had support from others.
Ardern previously has said reforms of New Zealand's gun laws would be announced next week and she said an inquiry would be convened to look into the intelligence and security services' failures to detect the risk from the attacker or his plans.
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Sheik Taj El-Din Hilaly, of Sydney, traveled to Christchurch to attend or lead some of the funerals. Through a translator, he said he felt compelled to support the grieving. A nationwide lockdown on mosques was imposed until Monday, which Hilaly said had upset Muslims whom he had visited in Auckland. Police continue to guard mosques across the country.
Residents of this close-knit city have created makeshift memorials near the two targeted mosques and at the botanical gardens, where a mountain of flowers has grown by the day.
Janna Ezat, whose son, Hussein Al-Umari, was killed in the Al Noor mosque, visited the memorial at the gardens and became overwhelmed by the outpouring of love. She knelt amid the flowers and wept, grabbing at daisies and lilies as though she might find her boy in them.
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
(This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser May 2012)
“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.” Blaise Pascal
Marcia and I watched the movie Source Code last night and I loved it. I very rarely watch American movies and almost never watch films containing more than a suggestion of violence, and this movie was made by Americans and is full of violence; yet I did not feel I was watching a violent movie, nor did the film seem remotely American. I will not spoil the show by telling you the plot, but I will say that for me Source Code beautifully and skillfully explicates the Buddhist notion of karma and how through our actions and intentions we create our future.
I was thinking about Source Code this morning while walking on Big River Beach, amazed by how vivid everything looked and felt to me, as if the movie had somehow altered my perceptions. And then I realized I was in a state of wonder, that my personal cares and woes were no longer holding sway as they so often do these days, and I was inseparable from the wind and the roaring of the waves and the ravens gliding through the air and the sand underfoot. I was only there, it seemed, because all these other things were enlivening me, and in their absence I would disappear.
When I got home from the beach, I sat down at the piano and played with such ease and fluidity I was in heaven, and I knew the movie was working in me, though I couldn’t say how. I played and played, riding the waves of sound and marveling at the multitudes of harmonies—the entire escapade improvised yet sounding entirely composed—my hands and fingers guided by muscle memory and forty years of learning to be open to what wants to come through.
“One never knows how one’s gifts to the world may brighten it for others and contribute to the ever-changing mystery.” Taylor Stoehr
I correspond regularly with three men, and each is a source of wonder to me. Max is about ten years younger than I, Bob is exactly my age, and Taylor is eighteen years my senior. Max is an artist and musician, Bob a former video producer turned Special Ed teacher, and Taylor is a retired English professor, poet, and translator. I am very interested in these guys and what they think and do, and they are interested in me. I have never met Taylor in-person, only met Max in-person a couple times thirty years ago, and only see Bob once a year, though for fifteen years we lived a few blocks apart and we saw each other every day.
These three men are my best friends, other than Marcia, and when I think about the truth of that I am both amazed and grateful—amazed that we have such rich connections through the words we write, and grateful that these sweet souls care enough about me to stay in touch over so much time and space. Their letters always induce in me a state of wonder in which I become for a time inseparable from their thoughts and feelings—a holiday from inhabiting this separate solitary self.
“‘I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp,’” said the lama, smiling slowly.” Rudyard Kipling
When I was in my early forties, I met a British fellow at a party and we got talking about our favorite authors, and he was wildly effusive about Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and the novels of Russell Hoban. I had never heard of Hoban and had only read a short story or two of Kipling’s in my childhood. Because I was ever in search of great writing, I went to my favorite used bookstore in Sacramento, Time Tested Books, and got Hoban’s first three novels, The Lion of Boaz Jachin and Jachin Boaz, Turtle Diary, and Kleinzeit, along with a beat up paperback of Kim.
You may have heard of Turtle Diary, which was made into a charming movie in 1985 starring Ben Kingsley and Glenda Jackson with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Each of Hoban’s first three novels is quite short, with chapters only a page or two in length. I gobbled those books and liked them pretty well, though the greatest gift I got from them was to be on the lookout for Hoban’s next novel, Riddley Walker, which is Hoban’s masterpiece, though not an easy read. Written in the imagined vernacular of a twelve-year old boy two thousand years after nuclear war has laid waste to the earth and the English language, I needed three determined tries at the book before my brain was able to translate Hoban’s disintegrated English into something I could understand—but I was glad I made the effort.
Reading Kim, on the other hand, was a complete life changer for me. I have now read Kim ten times in the last twenty years, having consumed it most recently a year ago. When I read Kim, I lose myself entirely in the language and the story, and always emerge from the experience deeply inspired to continue my creative pursuits, to amplify my spiritual investigations, and to relish every moment of life I am given.
For some years I urged everyone I knew (and even people I barely knew) to read Kim, but few of those who read the book on my recommendation found it to be the holy book it is to me. And more than a few women said the book was a male fantasy and not for them, and more than a few people said they thought the story dated and the writing florid, and some said Kipling was a racist and a sexist; and so I have ceased to recommend the book to anyone without massive disclaimers. Still, I read Kim every two years and the grand saga never fails to be a fabulous source of wonder and rejuvenation for me.
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” Frederic Chopin
In 1979 I was living in Santa Cruz and frequently attended concerts at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, a small joint in those days where jazz people with weekend gigs in the Bay Area would come down to give Monday night performances. One Monday evening I got to the venue early so I could sit close and watch Roland Hanna play. I had seen Roland when he was the pianist for the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis big band, and I loved his playing on Jim Hall’s Concierto album, but I had never heard him play solo.
Roland Hanna was sometimes called Sir Elf because he was short and because he’d been given an honorary knighthood by the king of Liberia. But he became a giant to me that night, playing so melodically, so thoughtfully, so spontaneously, and with such groovy swing, that I walked out of Kuumbwa feeling blessed and more determined than ever to keep pursuing my own piano explorations.
My favorite Roland Hanna album was Swing Me No Waltzes, solo piano recorded in Sweden in 1979 on a Bösendorfer grand piano. I wore that record out; my favorite tune Roses Not Mums. Fast-forward several years to a jazz joint in San Francisco, Roland Hanna to play solo piano. Once again, I was there early so I could sit close, except there was some snafu with the club manager who didn’t know anything about anything and was insisting Hanna get a trio together because that’s what had been advertised. So Hanna’s manager got on the phone, and while the maestro sat in a booth sipping wine and waiting for a bass player and drummer to show up, I got up my nerve and went over to tell him how much I loved his music.
To my amazement, Hanna gestured for me to sit opposite him in the booth, which I did, and after I blurted something about seeing him at Kuumbwa and loving Swing Me No Waltzes, he smiled and said, “You play?”
“Um…well…yeah, though…”
He shook his head. “No though, man. You play. Own it.”
“Okay,” I said, sudden tears in my eyes. “Okay. Yes, I play.”
“Good. I’m glad you’re here.” He sipped his wine. “I like to play for players. You know? Because you guys get what I’m doing in a deeper way, you know?”
He was talking to me as a fellow musician, miracle of miracles, though he knew nothing about me. And then I realized he did know something about me. He knew I loved his music, especially Swing Me No Waltzes, which was an esoteric and wholly original creation, and my naming that album must have told him many things about me, about my taste and my personality. Or so I decided to believe.
“What’s your favorite tune on that record?” he asked, reaching up to shake the hand of one of three bass players who’d showed up in hopes of gigging with him.
“Roses Not Mums,” I said, nodding. “Such a great tune, such an amazing journey.”
“Oh, man, I’m sorry,” he said, nodding in time with me, “but I don’t play that tune anymore. Wrote it for my favorite bass player, and since he died I don’t play it now. But I will play something you’ll dig, I promise.”
I dug everything he played that night, and when he died ten years ago at the age of seventy, I played his music day and night for three days, thinking of him, loving him, hearing him say again and again, “No though, man. You play. Own it.”
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Who is Namaya
Namaya is an internationally reknowned Jazz poet, storyteller, humorist and sublime improvisational artist. He has performed throughout the US and has toured in Europe, New Zealand, Japan, Asia, the Americas and Palmyra Syria.
Both as a solo artist, with his band the Jazz Beat Blues Poetry Ensemble, and with jazz musicians around the world, Namaya performs an astonishing blend of jazz word, story and improvisation.
Namaya in a reverent performance artist with a trademark style of political satire and humor that addresses themes as diverse as America Uber Alles, the jazz noir detective story of Benny O’Shea, the poignant story of how to make a child to suicide bomber. The free rifting jazz improvisation bills Namaya as the high wire performance artist of the spoken word.
“Namaya held the audience in his hand as he fearlessly created a show of improvisation. It was like watching a magician on stage, but this time with words that would appear and disappear, and seamlessly bringing in the audience.” ~Magnet Theater in NYC,
Namaya has shared the stage with many jazz luminaries like Sheila Jordan, who appeared in his production of the Beatnik Café. Appearing in jazz clubs like No Black Tie in Malaysia, Ben’s Café in Tokyo, on tour throughout New Zealand and Australia.
“Loved the show it was a free wheeling journey of love and play that delighted the audience.” ~The Australian Center for Performing Arts
Other tours in Europe have taken him to Copenhagen, Amsterdam at the famed Winston – where audiences cheered his improvisation rifting with the band on quantum love and greasy fried chicken.
“We loved hearing his band with their marvelous invention of word and jazz.” ~The Apples and Snakes in London
Namaya is one of the most widely traveled performance poets with performances in Central and South America, and in Syria in 2011 shortly before the war in Allepo at Oscars and at the Palmyra Hotel. In Palestine he performed at the Alrowadd Theater. Namaya is a playwright and performance artist who has presented performances at Villa Grimaldi Peace Park in Santiago, Chile with Chilean performers.
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"I was Rasputin's lover!"
Joss to write and direct X-men 3? Hollywood North Report, a Canadian film & TV news site, reports their sources say yes. They state the start date has been pushed back to Summer 2005.
The very brief, one sentence mention is about halfway down the page.
Angela | X-men | 11:57 CET | 27 comments total | tags:
*Closes eyes and crosses fingers*
This would be so great. It's been bandied about for a while now, I'd just love to hear confirmation one way or another.
Willowy | August 27, 12:21 CET
I know - I hesitated posting this because it has been talked about, but up to this point I had heard more that he was a fan choice for directing it and no real rumors beyond that. This seems like the next step in the rumor progression. I think he recently said that he wasn't too keen on directing a movie written by someone else, which was when I started to think it wouldn't happen. Trying not to get too excited while we wait for further confirmation
Angela | August 27, 12:27 CET
Add to �to do� list: remain calm and appear nonchalant.
bloodflowers | August 27, 12:44 CET
And didn't we hear that Halle might not be back as Storm? Because if that's the case, and Joss writes/directs it, then life doesn't get much better (except for a Buffy/Angel spin-off, movie, telemovies, a new tv show from Joss...). She's just not Storm. She's just not. To have a Joss-written & directed X-men movie, minus Halle....okay. Must. Stay. Calm.
Hmm, I'm really not as excited as the rest of you. The recent X-Men movies have been well done and I'm sure a sequel written and directed by Joss would surpass them fully.
However, the time Joss would spend on this would be time taken away from working on a potential Serenity-sequel or potential Buffy/Angel projects. I think Bryan Singer showed that the X-Men can be done well by someone else, but the *only* person who can do Buffy/Angel/Firefly is Joss.
aerelorn | August 27, 13:16 CET
You're right that only Joss can do Buffy/Angel/Firefly, aerelorn, but I'm trying to keep Joss' own wishes in focus. If his first choice is to write/direct an X-men film, ahead of tackling the next Buffy/Angel/Firefly, then so be it. And we have seen seasons of both Buffy and Angel that had less involvement from Joss than others. If he had his creative team around him, those that know the 'verse well and will do justice to the characters, he would not necessarily have to be present for every single step. His direction of a 'verse movie, should he choose to do one, might be delayed, but I frankly want this guy to just do what he wants to do, in whatever order he wants to.
Yes, please. Just give us more Joss.
IMO if he directs this X movie, it'll be the best in the series. That's saying a lot considering the franchise is already fantastic.
This would be so great. (repeato-girl)
I agree with you, aerelorn. I would definitely see anything that Joss writes & directs, even if it were a sequel to Gigli. But the first two X-Men movies just didn't do anything for me, so I'd much rather see Joss focus his efforts somewhere else. Serenity sequels, big screen Buffy & Angel, a new spin-off, or a new series altogether that premieres on HBO. But hey, I'll be first in line no matter what he does, even if it's a sequel in a franchise I couldn't care less about.
MindPieces | August 27, 13:50 CET
Hee hee, sequel to Gigli. Good one. That I'd see. Joss could also make a heck of a fabulous sequel to Battlefield Earth.
Barring Buffy/Angel/Firefly continuation in some form, I second the HBO series idea. Or something entirely new on the big screen. X-Men may be close to Joss's heart but not so much to mine. If he writes and directs, though, I'll be there with bells on and maybe I'll change my mind. I'm open to it.
The skeptics have to realize something about the concept of Joss writing and directing X3. Most directors of comic book movies usually say they love the material, and they were big fans of the original comics--and they usually are. But Joss and X-Men is another level of fandom entirely.
I can't think of anybody out there whose body of work is dominated by the themes of the Claremont/Byrne/Cockrum run on X-Men as much as Joss. Kitty Pryde informs Buffy. Angel is Cyclops and Wolverine is Spike. The Dark Willow plotline IS the Dark Phoenix plotline, with startlingly few alterations.
X3 (if this is the Phoenix movie) is the film Joss was born to make. He'd dive into it with a passion that would be almost frightening to behold. Yes, I'd rather have Joss do Buffy/Angel movies, but to withhold my enthusiastic support for the man when he has apparently been given his dream assignment would be churlish.
Translation: I hope this rumor is true. Becasue I'd be STOKED.
cjl | August 27, 14:01 CET
I know Joss has said that Buffy as a character was heavily influenced by Kitty Pryde, but I actually see a lot more Cyclops in Buffy than Kitty (last name notwithstanding). Especially in the later seasons when she became so driven by her percieved goals that she closed herself off. In Season 7 she was a clone of the humorless and driven Scott Summers.
ringworm | August 27, 14:11 CET
EEEEEEEE! I AM TOTALLY HAPPY IF THIS IS TRUE!
ranchofiasco | August 27, 14:12 CET
I'm not a fan of X-MEN mostly out of lack of exposure to the material, but if there's one thing that Joss cares about it's quality.
Caleb | August 27, 14:20 CET
I think the idea of Joss doing X-3 is fantastic! I enjoyed the first two movies and the prospect of Phoenix in the third installment is really great. Besides the fact that this is a dream project for Joss, who knows, maybe if we�re introduced to some new mutants Joss could help out some unemployed (or poor-role-choosing) Buffy/Angel Alums! =)
Karen | August 27, 14:46 CET
*Fangirl squeal*
Joy! Rapture! Oh please, let this be confirmed soon! :)
I mean, I seriously loves me some Angel and I'm more than ready for a big screen epic, but what Angela said: His direction of a 'verse movie, should he choose to do one, might be delayed, but I frankly want this guy to just do what he wants to do, in whatever order he wants to.
I say rock the X-Men, Joss. Get down with your bad self and show 'em how it's done!
Wiseblood | August 27, 14:51 CET
He would be an excellent choice but I will believe it when I see it.
And Angela excellent first link btw :).
Why thank you Simon! I'm such a dork - all nervous and hesitant to post it. I've never really been involved in a blog before, other than just lurking. Apparently the anonymity of the Internet did not diffuse my fear of looking stupid. Beware...I'm over that now. :)
LOL, Angela! Good for you. =)
Speaking from an entirely selfish point of view, if Joss directed and/or wrote such a huge movie, he could have practically anything he wanted in Hollywood, right? Of course, I am thinking that after he did "X-Men," with the snap of his fingers he could convince any network or studio to do a Buffy/Angel/Serenity project. Perhaps I am too optimistic, but I think something like this would definitely increase his status in Hollywood.
obsessed | August 27, 16:48 CET
It seems quite a few people are complaining that if Joss did do X3, it would take away time he could spend working on a Serenity sequel or a Buffy/Angel project. Let's keep in mind that Serenity hasn't opened yet. A sequel isn't a definate at this point. The future of the franchise sinks or swims on the performance of the movie. If Joss is offered and decides to do X3, it would be a smart move. He loves the characters AND the movie has a built in audience. If (gods forbid) Serenity does underperform, having X3 to balance it out would be a good move to show that he CAN put butts in seats.
thekey1313 | August 27, 19:10 CET
maybe if we�re introduced to some new mutants Joss could help out some unemployed (or poor-role-choosing) Buffy/Angel Alums! =)
::pictures James Marsters as Gambit::
Must.Remain.Calm.
...Aw, heck with it.
SQUEEEEEEEE!!
Ahem. Carry on...
Joss' bitch | August 28, 03:09 CET
I'm with Obsessed in that, for those of us who want to see a Buffy/Angel cinematic release happen, Joss getting to do X3 is the best news ever.
Even at this point in his career he has managed to convince Fox to go ahead with Serenity. With a major movie like X3 under his belt getting a slayerverse trilogy would be a piece of cake. Not to mention it would only increase Joss' exposure so that a slayer type show on one of the bigger networks would be a more realistic proposition.
I'd rather see the next slayer show on a more genre friendly cable channel like HBO or SciFi to be honest but any and all options are welcome.
The Arcane | August 28, 04:26 CET
Hi! I`m new here. I`m from Spain.
For me, Joss is the best choice to replace Brian. I love both X-Men movies, and Brian made a great job, but i`m happy if Joss will make X3.
Angel TheVampire | August 28, 21:40 CET
"Our sources say Joss Whedon is set to Write and Direct X Men 3 with the start date now pushed back to the Summer of 2005."
Once again I arrive to be the wet blanket. Let's not jump the gun here. I think we need confirmation cuz this is a major upset, if Bryan Singer isn't doing the third installment. I'd be all for Whedon taking over if he was given the okay to reboot the franchise. However, if the suits and ties holding the pocketbook on this baby want Whedon to continue on in the third story with things the way they are in the first two Singer movies, that would be like putting Muhammed Ali in the ring, in the prime of his life, with both hands tied behind his back.
The Phoenix Saga, told in one film, is going to be weakened enough. The actual story took years in the monthly published comic books. With the variables and characters the way they are from the first two movies? We're moving so far away from the comic books as to make the third X-Men movie almost unrecognizable from its source material. I recall no annoying Lover's Triangle between Cyclops, Marvel Girl and Wolvie. In fact the first time she disappeared, Wolverine wasn't even there yet. Wolvie getting googly-eyes for Phoenix? That wasn't in the original storyline at all. That's just the tip of the iceburg.
I agree that there's much in common between Buffy and Kitty Pryde. Like Whedon, Kitty is one of my personal favorites. If Whedon can't properly use Kitty, it'll weaken the potential of what he could bring to the franchise. The movies put Rogue where Kitty Pryde was in the days of Claremont and Byrne. The movies made Kitty a cameo in both films. One of the predominant reasons why Storm's character is so weak, is because her support group in the comic books included Kitty, Colossus, and the other younger characters. She was the Den Mother of the X-Men in the comic books, but in the movies she seems out of place, because there's no one to support. Halle's performance has also been lackluster and unfocused. I just don't see how they can pull off continuing things the way they are without a reboot, but that will just upset the following that the first two films have managed to aquire.
Frankly, I'd much rather they keep Bryan Singer for the third film and not stop that horse in mid stride. Simultaneously, I'd like to see Whedon allowed to turn Excalibur into its own film franchise, distantly linked to the X-Men movies but due to the multiple alternate realities, simultaneously entirely separate. Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, Captain Britain, Meggan and Rachel Summers. Now THAT would make a movie. It would be something Whedon could mold and shape into a powerful story told on film.
But heck, I'd settle for Lockheed The Movie.
ZachsMind | August 28, 22:39 CET
ZachsMind, Bryan Singer is out for X3 because he's directing the next Superman movie. That's official.
I don't know as much about X-Men as you do (I've only read the 4 issues of Astonishing X-Men =), but I kind of see your point about the continuity problem between the Singer X-Men and the Whedon X-Men. But as much as Joss loves Kitty Pryde, I'm sure he can do a movie without having her in a major role. I imagine he'd upgrade her from a cameo, but respect the order of things established by Singer.
Point is, I'm sure he can make it work (just like he can make Serenity work for fans who know Firefly inside-out as well as for a new audience). I'll be thrilled if this turns out to be true.
jam2 | August 29, 02:38 CET
For ZachsMind:
First of all, Bryan Singer is definitely out as X3's director. He's jumped ship to Metropolis. If Singer eventually becomes the 34th director to part ways with Warners about the script and casting of a Superman movie, he might be back--but I'm going to presume that X3 will go on without Singer regardless of whether Singer stays on Superman. So who better to fill the gap than Joss? Avi Arad has confessed many times to wanting JW for a big project. Why not X3? To call the fit of artist and subject "a natural" would be to grossly undervalue the term.
As for the differences between the X-Men comics and the X-Men movies, this is hardly a deal-breaker for Joss. Yes, he adores Kitty Pryde, and Shadowkat's reduced role in the movies would no doubt rankle him. On the other hand, he would have the opportunity to work with Oscar-winner Anna Paquin as Rogue, and we all know how much Joss loves frighteningly talented young actresses. Also, there is the prospect of directing the incredible Famke Janssen as Jean Grey and Rebecca Romijn (no longer Stamos) as Mystique. I think I'd jump at that assignment. Wouldn't you? And if Halle decides to bail out, all the better.
On your other objections: It's not necessarily a given that the Phoenix saga would be squashed into one movie. For all we know, Marvel could film X3 and X4 simultaneously, with other master villains (Magneto, Hellfire Club, the Sentinels, etc.) occupying the antagonists' slots. The X-Men could be busy with other matters for most of the two movies, with Jean's increasing instability finally blowing up in the latter half of X4. And I think Joss could do wonders with a Cyke/Jean/Wolvie triangle in the background of the Dark Phoenix plotline. Singer already laid the groundwork for it in X2.
So, in conclusion: I'm skeptical about this rumor. I'll believe it when I see Joss kissing Stan Lee's pinkie ring with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen watching and smiling in approval. But if it does happen? I guarantee that movie will be a wonder to behold.
I would really want Joss to direct the movie.It would be so sad, if Halle doesn't reprise her role.No one could replace her, because she did an awesome job.
TheSlayer246 | August 30, 16:21 CET
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The Pila
an Ablution Basin, Xativa, Spain, early to mid 11th century
Larger images of The Pila, an Islamic Ablution Basin, Xativa.
Detail of the Musicians, Drinker & Servant and People Carrying a Deer on the Pila
Detail of Horsemen on the Pila
Detail of Men Pulling Beards on the Pila
Detail of Bearers on the Pila
Archaeological Museum, Xativa (Jativa), Spain.
Catalan:
Pica Islàmica de Xàtiva, guardada al Museu de l'Almodí de la mateixa ciutat. Del segle XI, 41,9 cm x 169,9 cm x 67 cm, i de marbre de Buixcarró.
[Islamic Pila of Xativa, kept in the Museum of Almodí in the same city. The eleventh century, 41.9 cm x 169.9 cm x 67 cm, and of marble of Buixcarró.]
pp.92-93 The Art of Medieval Spain AD 500-1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
Andalusia, 11th century
Carved marble
16½ x 66⅞ x 26⅜ in. (41.9 x 169.9 x 67 cm)
Museo del Almudín, Játiva (A25)
Unlike the high rectangular marble basins that have been found at various sites in al-Andalus and Morocco (cat. 34.), whose original use has yet to be satisfactorily explained, basins with considerably lower sides most probably functioned as fountains. While the higher basins occur in one form only, the extant Maghribi examples with lower sides exhibit a number of different shapes, and their ornamentation is considerably more varied. In addition to the rectangular variety seen here, square, round, and lobed basins are known as well as basins in the form of a cartouche (see p. 82). Their decoration includes vegetal, geometric, calligraphic, and figural designs. However, the basin from Játiva is the only one known to this author that bears human representations.1
Not only is this the sole basin decorated with human figures, but its figural style is highly unusual for medieval Spain, as is some of its iconography. In fact, the realism conveyed in several of the vignettes to be seen in the decorative band completely encircling this basin as well as certain of the motifs themselves has closer parallels in Fatimid Egypt than in the Iberian Peninsula under the Umayyads or during the taifa period.
One of these vignettes depicts three men eating and drinking beneath a fruit tree while being entertained by two musicians at the right and served by an attendant at the left. The reclining drinker leans against a bolster and supports himself on his right elbow; the second figure in repose, also resting against a pillow, eats a fruit from the tree. Although the iconography seen here is not uncommon in medieval Spain, the realistic handling of it is what sets this scene apart from similar depictions on contemporary ivory boxes. Highly informal poses have been substituted for the more usual hieratic representations.
The scenes of men dancing with large sticks or wrestling, while otherwise unknown in al-Andalus, can be seen on two Fatimid luster-painted dishes made in Cairo during the eleventh century and now in the Islamic Museum, Cairo (see p. 78).2 Another of the realistic vignettes on this basin, that of five men, some of whom lead quadrupeds and others who carry fowl or a basket of fruit or vegetables, can also be found in Fatimid Egypt, particularly on objects of wood and ivory.
This basin appears to be unique among extant Spanish Umayyad and taifa objects, introducing to the Andalusian repertoire a realistic figural style not seen in the peninsula before. Therefore, more important than explaining the iconography chosen to decorate this basin is the need to determine the impetus behind the newfound Andalusian interest in realism exemplified by some of its vignettes.
As has been mentioned, the influence of Fatimid and Abbasid art on that of al-Andalus was strong. Perhaps this new interest in realism in eleventh-century Spain also had spread westward from Egypt and Iraq. Not only do extant Fatimid objects attest to this fashion, but so does literature of the period. Maqrizi (d. 1442) relates the following story in his Khitat:
Yazuri (the chief minister of the [Fatimid] Caliph al-Mustansir [1036-1094]) invited Ibn ʿAziz from Iraq and excited his evil passions, for (the wazir) had sent for him to contend with al-Qasir, because al-Qasir demanded extravagant wages and had an exaggerated opinion of his own work. . . Now Yazuri had introduced al-Qasir and Ibn ʿAziz into his assembly. Then Ibn ʿAziz said, "I will paint a figure in such a way that when the spectator sees it, he will think that it is coming out of the wall!" Whereupon al-Qasir said, "But I will paint it in such a way that when the spectator looks at it, he will think that it is going into the wall!" Then (everyone present) cried out: "This is more amazing (than the proposal of Ibn ʿAziz)!" Then Yazuri bade them make what they had promised to do: so they each designed a picture of a dancing-girl, in niches also painted, opposite one another-the one looking as though she were going into the wall, and the other as though she were coming out. Al-Qasir painted a dancing-girl in a white dress in a niche colored black, as though she were going into the painted niche, and Ibn ʿAziz painted a dancing-girl in a red dress in a niche that was colored yellow, as though she were coming out of the niche. And Yazuri expressed his approval of this and bestowed robes of honor on both of them and gave them much gold.3
Marilyn Jenkins, Curator, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1. Not enough survives of the two fragments illustrated in Gómez-Moreno 1951 (p. 275, fig. 238) and called "trozo de pila" to state unequivocally that they formed parts of basins.
2. Inv. nos. 14516 and 9689.
3. Ettinghausen 1956, pp. 267-68.
Moorish Casket from Cuenca, c.1049AD
Horsemen on an Umayyad Casket from Cordoba, c.966-968
Leyre (or Pamplona) Casket, Umayyad Spain, 1004-1005AD
Other Spanish and North African resources
Other 11th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
Index of Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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Mortal Kombat 11: Ranking Every Character From Worst To Best
Who's worth your time, and who should you avoid?
Arriving on the back of considerable hype - and some of the best gameplay previews NetherRealm have ever put together - Mortal Kombat 11 is one of the franchise's all-time best entries.
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Being that MK 11's sales have been the best in the franchise's history, it doesn't seem like we won't get a Mortal Kombat 12, but if so, MK 11's roster is the most perfected and powerful yet. There's not a single wasted slot, and with gameplay also polished to a mirror sheen, there's every reason to dedicate considerable amounts of time to what's on offer.
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Boobs, Butts, Bimbos Still the Key to Men 18-34
Once again confirming boobs, butts and bimbos can get the human race (or at least mean) to do anything, Heavy has launched its second annual Massive Mating Game which offers guys the chance to win a day with one of four "hottest girls on Earth" simply by watching their videos and becoming their friends on MyHeavy.
Well, Heavy has certainly cracked the male 18-34 code with this one insuring lots of drool and other fluids will hit keyboards as men slather over these videos trying to decide which of the "hottest girls on Earth" is...well...the hottest. It's so easy a caveman could do it. Oh wait, that one's taken.
by Steve Hall Jul-23-07
Topic: Online, Promotions, Racy, Social
Australian Virgin Mobile Campaign With Flickr Photos Stirs Debate
There's a storm brewing over Virgin Mobile's use of a Creative Commons-covered photographs from Flickr users in a recent Australian print campaign. While Virgin Mobile clearly notes in the ads, created by Glue Society, where the photographs came from, some are concerned the people in the ads should have been given the chance to sign a model release and the Flickr users and photographers should have at least been asked permission to use the photographs.
With everything just a right click away, the issue of fair use, attribution, copyright or whatever name you want to apply, is a slippery slope indeed. Three days ago, one Flickr user who, apparently, has legal connections says he's sent a cease and desist letter to Virgin Mobile but has not yet received any acknowledgment regarding the letter. Flickr users, including the older brother of one of the girls who appears in one of the photos, are debating the issue here.
We've contacted Glue Society for comment and will report any response we receive as soon as we receive it.
UPDATE: Following an avalanche of complaints, Virgin Mobile has canceled this campaign.
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Consumer Created, Policy, Social
Adrants Targeted by Miami Serial Killer
Holy shit! It seems we've been targeted by a Miami serial killer according to a WBFX news report. Curiously, all five of the serial killer's victims have been male, in their 30's and work in the media industry. Chillingly, our name has been scrawled in blood on a wall in Miami and on a piece of paper found by the police naming us the killer's next victim. Even more chillingly, we were just in Miami for a conference.
In fear, we've barricaded ourselves into our offices with one inch thick back issues of Vogue and blocked the the windows with the hundreds of Casale Media bags we've collected at ad:tech conferences over the years. The police have been called and we hope the industry's prayers are with us.
OK, OK. It's all just one of those personalized video promotions, this time, for the Showtime series Dexter which will begin airing on FX in the UK.
by Steve Hall Jul- 5-07
Topic: Good, Social, Strange, Video, Viral
Cherry Coke Does Colorful MySpace Page, Back Button Still Useless
In one of the better makeovers of the horrific-looking MySpace, Juxt has created a Cherry Coke MySpace Page Design contest that places the winning design on the MySpace homepage. As part of the contest, there's all sorts of Flashtastic goodies for people to embed within their own sites, screensavers, wallpapers and all the rest of the usual stuff.
Unfortunately, as with most Flash creation, the browser Back button is rendered useless causing one to continuously back off the promotional page by mistake. Would it really be so hard for Flash to enable or for designers to make possible the use of the browser back button within a Flash page? Or to prevent the entire Flashurbation from also rendering useless the right click menu? Flash can make beautiful things but it also has a nasty tendency to fuck with established web navigation methods.
by Steve Hall Jun-29-07
Topic: Online, Social
NBCU Goes Whor- er, Networking to Push Cheadle
These days it's not enough to appear on a social networking site; you have to be, like, married to one.
On that note, NBC Universal has inked an agreement with Going.com to promote Talk to Me, a new Don Cheadle film.
And like all online community courtships, the hope is to build a loyal network of people that will hopefully lift their asses off their ergonomic computer chairs and schmooze at prearranged promotional gatherings in cities like New York, Boston and San Francisco.
But unlike MingleNow, which is pretty loyal to Anheuser-Busch, Going.com is a promiscuous bedfellow. Le gasp.
by Angela Natividad Jun-25-07
Topic: Online, Promotions, Social
Yawn. Blogosphere Up In Arms Over Microsoft Federated Media Campaign
Oh, the horror! Here we go again. It seems the blogosphere - that square, internally mirrored box in which opinionated blowhards spew forth mindless drivel, their commentary ricocheting off the inner wails of the enclosed box for every other blogger to see and respond to while everyone else outside the box ignores it like children in a sandbox at a backyard cookout - is up in arms...up in arms, we say, over...over...wait for it...comments bloggers have made about - and as part of - Microsoft's new "people-ready" slogan.
Topic: Opinion, Social, Weblogs
Samsung Upstage Lip Sync Contest Gets Impressive Entries
Last month, Samsung launched its Upstage Contest which asked people to submit videos of themselves lip syncing Melody Club's Destiny Calling. The judging will begin next week and the lengths to which peole will go to win a video contest is impressive as indicated by these two submissions. Nice work. See them here and here.
Topic: Consumer Created, Good, Social, Video
More Book Publishers Take to Social Media
It seems book publisher are getting in social media more and more every day. Simon & Shuster has hooked up with online video producer TurnHere to create a collection of videos that showcase the authors behind the publisher's books. The videos will live on a dedicated YouTube page and on a newly-created Book Videos site.
The branded channels feature authors from each of the company's divisions, including Adult, Children's and Audio. Viewers will see two minute feature pieces focusing on the behind-the-scenes stories of authors' lives, the content of their books, and the inspirations for their latest works.
Topic: Good, Social, Video
Barely Political's 'Obama Girl' Sexes Up Obama Campaign
Anytime you stick a stunningly beautiful, hot looking, busty girl in a video and have her coo alluringly into the lens, wide viewership is not far behind and that's exactly what happened with this BarelyPolitical-created video featuring Amber Lee Ettinger, known here as "the Obama Girl," lip syncing the song "I Got A Crush on Obama" written and performed by Temple University student Leah Kaufman who also wrote and sung (but did not appear in) the famed My Box in A Box video. The whole stunt was orchestrated by 32-year-old advertising exec and My Box in A Box creator Ben Relles. So far, the song has achieved 56,000 views on YouTube to date with more sure to come.
In the song, the hottie dances, prances and gushes lustfully about her love for Obama, singing, "I never wanted anybody more than I want you" and "you can Barack me tonight" while giving the camera "the look." It all points to ObamaGirl.com where you can drink in even more of Obama Girl's beauty - including ubiquitous bulging bra shot - and more on the spreading story behind the phenomenon that took Obama campaign officials quite by surprise earlier this week which distanced itself from the movement claiming it had nothing to do with the creation of the video.
Topic: Good, Online, Racy, Social, Video
Widgets Measured, Upfront Begins, eBay Yanks AdWords
- Cynopsis reports ComScore will now begin measuring the reach of widgets, used more and more buy brands as a commercial platform.
- Cynopsis also reports the first major upfront deal has been struck between NBC and Group M. The deal is reported to be between $800 million and $1 billion and was based on live plus three ratings.
- There's a bit of a bitch fight going on between Google and eBaby over Google's courting of unhappy eBay merchants who Google would like to have as Google Checkout customers. In an apparent reaction to that, eBay has pulled all its AdWords advertising
- When NBC's Heroes returns this fall, Nissan will be all over the show like Syler on Hiro with increased product placement and exclusive sponsorship of the season opener.
- Ford Models has hooked up with MySpace for its International Model Search. MySpace will be home to the search for both aspiring models and those who just like to look.
- It seems the iPhone is too big for some over at Apple and they want to make it appear smaller in their ads.
Topic: Online, Social, Television
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Smiths Station Quarterback Passes For 433 Yards in First-Game Triumph
on August 26, 2014 in Football by Marvin Chou
Dalton Sinquefield of Smiths Station High School became the first quarterback to crack the 400-yard passing mark with a 433-yard performance in the Panthers’ 38-13 prep football win over Sumter (Americus, Ga.) last Friday.
The 6-foot-1 junior was 24-of-33 passing with four touchdown throws to earn the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Prep Spotlight for Week 1 of the 2014 season.
Sinquefield completed eight passes to Armani Reedy for 127 yards and a 39-yard TD strike, had seven tosses caught by Austin Taylor—two of them for TDs of 9 and 11yards, and delivered TD passes of 6 and 59 yards to Tre Trimble and Marquis Bowens, respectively.
The 433-yard effort was just the 36th 400-yard passing game in AHSAA history and ranks in a tie for 24th all-time. The feat was accomplished twice in 2013.
His performance edged out Spanish Fort quarterback Tyler Johnston’s 353-yard passing effort in in a 42-14 win over Stanhope Elmore at Cramton Bowl in Saturday night’s final Champions Challenge game.
Johnston fired five TD passes including four to receiver Kristian Cotton, who finished with seven catches and 199 yards. His scores covered 90, 26, 16 and 30 yards. The 16-yarder was a spectacular falling grab in the end zone on the last play of the first half. Johnston, who rushed for 101 yards on 12 carries with a 20-yard TD run, added a 74-yard TD toss to LaDarrell Pettway, who had six catches for 129 yards.
Stanhope Elmore quarterback Tanner Anderson and receiver Michael Brown teamed up for two TD connections, including a state-record tying 99-yard score in the second quarter. Brown became just the 10th receiver in state history to haul in a 99-yard touchdown pass.
The first reported came in 1938 and the last in 2011. Receiver Johnny Richardson and quarterback Jack Hill were the first reported duo on record – connecting for 99 yards for Auburn High School’s only score in a 13-7 loss to Selma in ’38. Etowah receiver Darrin Peterson caught a 99-yarder in 2011 in a 21-14 win over Fort Payne. He also had a 93-yard TD catch in that same game.
Sinquefield’s big game also edged out a strong effort by Montgomery Academy’s special teams. Eagles return specialist Sam LaPlatney returned two kickoffs 90 and 85 yards for touchdowns, and place-kicker Jimmy Massey booted a 32-yard field goal in the final seconds of the first half and added the game-winning 27-yard kick in the last seconds of the fourth quarter in a 30-28 win over Montgomery Catholic.
In other highlights from the first week’s regular-season games:
TYRELL PIGROME, CLAY-CHALKVILLE: The first-year starter provided the offensive punch as the Cougars beat Niceville, FL 44-23 in a game televised live nationally by ESPNU. Pigrome rushed 19 times for for 211 yards with three scores, including an 84-yarder. He was also 11-of-14 passing for 196 yards and one TD covering 51 yards to finish with 407 total yards while accounting for four touchdowns.
RaSHAD LOUIE, SHADES VALLEY: The three-year starter had 245 yards passing and 74 yards rushing in a 37-35 win over Florence. Louie completed 11-of-24 passes with TDs of 68 and 9 yards. He also ran 74 yards for a score on the second play of the game.
CONNER KISER, HALEYVILLE: Led Haleyville to a 43-21 win over Winston County, compiling 318 yards of offense. Kiser rushed for 138 yards on 10 carries and passed for 180 yards. He scored on runs of 66 and 38 yards and also threw a touchdown pass.
JAMES RAINES, BERRY: The sophomore quarterback was 14-of-18 passing for 189 yards and three TDs and passed for three 2-point conversions in a 56-22 Class 1A region win over Marion County.
JACOB COOK, OXFORD: Caught eight passes for 213 yards and two TDs as Oxford beat Southside-Gadsden 42-21.
TYLER CRUMPTON, PHILLIPS: Scored three touchdowns as Phillips beat Meek 33-8. Crumpton raced 80 yards for one touchdown and caught two touchdown passes, including a 98-yarder. He finished with 142 receiving yards and also intercepted a pass on defense.
JOSH FREEMAN, COLD SPRINGS: Returned an interception 46 yards and caught a pair of passes for 42 yards in the basketball convert's first-ever high school football game. The Eagles beat Brilliant 25-6 at home.
SHAWN TRAYWICK, VICTORY CHRISTIAN: The running back rushed for 300 yards and a touchdown as VC beat Holy Spirit Catholic 49-17.
JAMARIUS HENDERSON, DALE COUNTY: The senior running back rushed for 250 yards and three touchdowns (30, 73 and 12 yards) on 18 carries in a 48-12 win over Trinity Presbyterian.
BRANDON BAYNES, TALLASSEE: Rolled up 215 yards rushing on 15 carries with touchdowns covering 11, 1 and 66 yards as the Tigers thumped Notasulga 49-0.
TRE’ NATION, LEEDS: The junior running back produced two touchdowns in a 27-24 win over two-time defending Class 3A state champion Madison Academy but carried an even heavier load for the game’s final 14 minutes after his quarterback left the game. Nation took several “Wildcat” snaps, converting an important fourth-down play with a pass and finished the night with 148 yards rushing on 26 carries.
JORDAN JONES, McADORY: Jones, making his first start at QB, totaled 311 yards as the Jackets beat Bibb County 49-31. The junior ran for 201 yards and passed for 110 and accounted for two touchdowns.
KYLE NALL, FAYETTE COUNTY: The senior running back ran for 237 yards and four touchdowns on 22 carries as the Wildcats beat Winfield 35-15. His scoring runs covered 48, 26, 9 and 5 yards.
BRANDON LEWIS, FULTONDALE: The senior had 203 yards rushing and four touchdowns and caught two passes for 75 yards and another score in a 52-31 win over Tarrant.
DEKARLOS BILLINGSLEY, SCOTTSBORO: Rushed for 170 yards and two TDs on 21 carries in the Wildcats’ season-opening 41-21 setback to Dalton, Ga.
BLAIR EDWARDS, GADSDEN CITY: The senior linebacker had 16 tackles and two sacks in the Titians' 34-28 double overtime win over Auburn.
CHANCE DANIELS, BERRY: Had 14 total tackles, two caused fumbles and returned a fumble 38 yards for a TD in the Wildcats’ 56-22 Class 1A win over Marion County.
DEZMOND JOHNSON, SLOCOMB: Slocomb intercepted three passes, including two in the fourth quarter--one in the end zone, during a 21-10 win over Geneva. He also had five tackles. He rushed for 122 yards with a TD and also caught a TD pass while playing both ways.
JOSH MADDEN, TALLADEGA: The senior defensive back snagged two interceptions in his first varsity football game as Talladega beat Talladega County Central 21-0.
KAM PREWITT, CLAY-CHALKVILLE: The senior picked off two passes in a 44-23 victory against Niceville (Fla.) at Hoover High School's Bucs Stadium on ESPNU.
LEVI HAMMACK, ADDISON: Contributed eight tackles (six solo, two assisted with two for loss) and a forced fumble in a 26-23 loss at Pickens County.
CHRISTIAN PATTERSON, BARBOUR COUNTY: Registered 14 tackles in a 18-12 loss to Bullock County.
JUSTIN PATTERSON, CULLMAN: Recorded 13 tackles, including one for a loss and three sacks, in a 21-14 loss at Arab.
STONE COLLINS, WICKSBURG: Led the Panthers defense with 13 tackles in Wicksburg's 34-14 win over Houston County.
ALEX MEDINA, WALKER: The Vikings linebacker had 12 tackles, three resulting in losses, as Walker fell to Pell City 17-14.
A.J. SMOOT, DORA: The defensive end had 10 tackles, including three sacks, and forced a fumble in the Bulldogs' 35-12 win over Cordova.
JORDAN DOLLERSON, FLORENCE: Had three sacks and recovered a fumble for a touchdown in the Falcons’ 37-35 loss to Shades Valley.
RYE SHIVER, VALLEY: Recorded eight tackles and two sacks as the Rams beat Lanett 21-0 for the school’s 16th win in the series over the last 19 meetings. The defense totaled five sacks and forced four turnovers.
SERGIO ALVAREZ, PELL CITY: Booted a 19-yard field to lift the Panthers past Walker 17-14. He was also perfect on two extra-point kicks.
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Arabic Class
A-Z Lectures
Muslim Prisoners
(Notes & Audio) The 70 Major Sins
The 70 Major Sins
By Shaikh Abdullah Faisal
Notes typed live by AT19
Edited and formatted by BintZaki and AT19
Part 1 - September 9, 2015
Part 2 - September 12, 2015
THE 70 MAJOR SINS - PART 1
How do you know when a sin is major or minor?
If the punishment of Allah was mentioned, the sin is major for example, the punishment for theft is to cut the right hand of the thief at the wrist, and the punishment for drinking alcohol is 80 lashes. We know that these two sins are major because their punishments were mentioned.
A sin is major if the Quran or Hadith says "The curse of Allah is on so and so…”. Likewise, a sin is major if the Quran or Hadith says on the Day of Judgement Allah wont look at so and so or speak to him.
It is worthy of mentioning that not every major sin is major kufr, this is where the khawaraj went astray. They didn't fine tune their Tawheed. They paint every kufr with the same brush and claim kufr is kufr.
Drinking alcohol and doing zina are major sins but not major kufr so the Muslim who drinks alcohol or commits zina is still a Muslim. However, if a Muslim does black magic he is no longer a Muslim because black magic is a major kufr that ejects you outside the fold of Islam.
The Khawarij paint every kufr with the same brush and make takfir on Muslims who drink alcohol or commit zina. This is because they are jahil in regards to matters of tawheed.
SIN 1: MAJOR SHIRK
Major shirk is to worship a false deity. Whoever dies in a state of committing major shirk has no hope. Hence, he will be in hell-fire to abide forever. About him, Allah said:
Verily, Allah forgives not that partners should be set up with him in worship, but He forgives except that (anything else) to whom He pleases, and whoever sets up partners with Allah in worship, he has indeed invented a tremendous sin. (An-Nisa: 43)
Because the pagans have no hope in the hereafter, since they die in a state of major shirk, we cannot ask Allah to forgive them, even if they were our parents who died as mushrikeen. Allah forbade the Prophet (saw) to pray and seek forgiveness for his uncle, Abu Talib, who died as a mushrik. Hence, Allah said:
It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allah's Forgiveness for the Mushrikun (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in a state of disbelief). (At-Tawbah: 113)
Also, there is no excuse for the shirk of Ibadah, i.e. worshipping a false deity. According to the wicked scholars, if a person who worships a false deity in the dunya, Allah will forgive him for his shirk in the Hereafter because while he was worshipping a false deity in the dunya, he was ignorant and did not know better. These wicked scholars are promoting the ideology that there is excuse of ignorance for anyone who worshipped a false deity in the dunya. The following Quranic verse refutes this claim of the wicked scholars:
And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam's loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying) : "Am I not your Lord?" They said: "Yes! We testify," lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: "Verily, we have been unaware of this." (Al-A'raf: 172)
Allah Took away the excuse of ignorance in the above Ayah. Therefore, the man who worships a false deity in the dunya will abide in hell-fire forever in the Akhira [hereafter]. The following Hadith about the plight of the Prophet’s (saw) father is another evidence to prove that there is no excuse of ignorance for people who worship a false deity:
Narrated from Anas (RA) that a man said: “O Messenger of Allah, where is my father?” He said: “In Hell.” When he turned away he called him back and said: “My father and your father are in Hell.” [Sahih Muslim (Vol. 1, pg. 191) No. 203]
SIN 2: TO DABBLE IN BLACK MAGIC
The practitioners of black magic are infidels outside the fold of Islam, and this is the ijma of the scholars past and present. The following Quranic verse is the evidence for making takfir on those who dabble in black magic:
Sulaiman did not disbelieve, but the Shayatin (devils) disbelieved, teaching men magic and such things that came down at Babylon to the two angels, Harut and Marut, but neither of these two (angels) taught anyone (such things) till they had said, "We are only for trial, so disbelieve not (by learning this magic from us)" And from these (angels) people learn that by which they cause separation between man and his wife, but they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's Leave. And they learn that which harms them and profits them not. And indeed they knew that the buyers of it (magic) would have no share in the Hereafter. And how bad indeed was that for which they sold their ownselves, if they but knew. (Al-Baqarah: 102)
It is unfortunate that many Muslims in India, Pakistan, and Africa dabble in black magic and the ulama in their communities did not tell them that magic ejects them outside the fold of Islam. The Holy Prophet (saw) has commanded us to kill the practitioners of magic in the following Hadith:
Jundub (RA) reported that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: “The hadd (prescribed punishment) for the practitioner of magic is a blow with the sword (i.e., execution)" [Sunan Tirmidhi (4/60) No. 1460, Sunan al-Daraqutni (4/120) No. 3204, Mustadrak al-Haakim (4/401) No. 8073, al-Sunan al-Kabir al-Bayhaqi (8/234) No. 16500, al-Mu'jam al-Kabir al-Tabarani (2/161) No. 1665]
SIN 3: MURDER
Murder is to kill a person who is innocent.
Execution is different to murder. Execution is capital punishment for the criminal. Murder is a major sin; therefore, murder is haram but execution is halal if it is carried out by the Islamic State. It is haram for a layman to carry out an execution. Only a Qadi in Shariah Court has the authority to pass a verdict for someones execution. About murder, Allah said:
And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein, and the Wrath and the Curse of Allah are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for him. (An-Nisa: 93)
When you kill a believer, you take on his sins. Therefore, if this person use to drink alcohol and commit zina these sins of his will be put on your scales on the Day of Recompense because you killed him wrongfully.
Abdullah Ibn Mas‘ud (RA) narrated the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: “No soul is killed unlawfully, but there is a share of the sin on the first son of Adam, because he was the first one to set the precedent of killing.” [Related by al-Bukhari (3335) and Muslim (1677)]
SIN 4: RIBA
The Arabic word “Riba” means interest. There are two types of interest, quantity and quality. If we swap gold for silver it becomes interest in quality. And if we lend $1000 and charge $1500 in payment it becomes interest in quantity. Allah blesses charity and curses interest. Interest is a major sin because the curse of Allah is on those who charge interest. When you give charity, Allah will increase your wealth:
Allah will destroy Riba (usury) and will give increase for Sadaqat (deeds of charity, alms, etc.) And Allah likes not the disbelievers, sinners. (Al-Baqarah: 276)
Allah will declare war on those who dabble in riba:
O you who believe! Be afraid of Allah and give up what remains (due to you) from Riba (usury) (from now onward), if you are (really) believers. (Al-Baqarah: 278)
And if you do not do it, then take a notice of war from Allah and His Messenger but if you repent, you shall have your capital sums. Deal not unjustly (by asking more than your capital sums), and you shall not be dealt with unjustly (by receiving less than your capital sums). (Al-Baqarah: 279)
When I was in the University, I asked my shaikh how a person could be fought when the Prophet (SAW) is no longer with us? He said it is the job of the Caliph to wage jihad on people who do riba.
Imam Abu Hanifa (RH) said any country who uses riba is dar ul Harb and he uses the above Ayah as his evidence, i.e. 2:279
Many countries do not send troops to fight Muslims around the world but Imam Abu Hanifa has still categorized them as Dar ul Harb. This is because of their riba system. They use the accumulated wealth to cheat the people.This puts them at war with Allah and makes the country dar ul Harb. Imam Abu Hanifa (RH) said you can bank your money in riba banks if you live in dar ul Harb with the intention to collect riba. The following Hadith explains to the Ummah how grave riba is:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (SAW) said: "Riba has seventy segments, the least serious being equivalent to a man committing adultery with his own mother." [Sunan Ibn Majah (3/337) No. 2274 and Mustadrak al-Haakim (2/43) No. 2259]
Abu Hanifa also said it is permissible to sell alcohol to the kuffar in dar ul Harb. Ahmed ibn Hanbal disagreed with Abu Hanifa regarding Muslims selling alcohol to non Muslims.
SIN 5: TO STEAL FROM THE ORPHAN
Orphans are vulnerable. Some adults like to take charge of their wealth so as to rob them. When adults rob orphans they are only gaining the Hell-fire for themselves; hence Allah said:
Verily, those who unjustly eat up the property of orphans, they eat up only a fire into their bellies, and they will be burnt in the blazing Fire! (An-Nisa: 10)
Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said, "The best house among the Muslims is the house in which orphans are well treated. The worst house among the Muslims is the house in which orphans are ill treated. I and the guardian of the orphan will be in the Garden like that," indicating his two fingers. [al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Bukhari No. 137]
Some people only take charge of the orphan's wealth because they have bad intentions. If a person knows that they are weak in imaan and cannot be trusted, they should stay far away from the orphans wealth. They should not expose themselves to temptation.
SIN 6. TO FLEE FROM THE BATTLEFIELD
This is when you flee the battlefield due to cowardice. If you run away to regroup for a counter attack, that's different and permissible. About this, Allah said:
And whoever turns his back to them on such a day - unless it be a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own), - he indeed has drawn upon himself wrath from Allah. And his abode is Hell, and worst indeed is that destination! (Al-Anfal: 16)
To run away due to cowardice is wrong. But you are allowed to run away from the battlefield as a war tactic. Perhaps you are engaged in a war trick that involves you setting up a trap for the infidels to fall into. This is a stratagem of war and is perfectly halal.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “War is deceit.” (Narrated by al-Bukhari, 3029; Muslim, 58).
SIN 7. TO SLANDER A PIOUS BELIEVING MUSLIM WOMAN
In many Muslim communities people like to slander others and accuse them of zina. This is because to accuse a person of zina is an effective way to ruin their image. It is called character assassination. No one is allowed to accuse a Muslim of zina unless he can provide four witnesses to say they saw the pen in the ink. About this, Allah said:
And those who accuse chaste women, and produce not four witnesses, flog them with eighty stripes, and reject their testimony forever, they indeed are the Fasiqun (liars, rebellious, disobedient to Allah). (An-Nur: 4)
Verily, those who accuse chaste women, who never even think of anything touching their chastity and are good believers, are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter, and for them will be a great torment, (An-Nur: 23)
About zina, the Qadi will ask detailed questions, such as, ‘What position they were making love in’ etc etc. Each witness has to have the same story, if not, they will receive 80 lashes for slandering a chaste woman and the case will be thrown out of court. The punishment for slander is 80 lashes. This incident happened during the time Omar when he was the Caliph as detailed in the below Hadith:
The case of Mughirah bin Shu`bah, in which `Umar punished Abu Bakrah and the other two eye-witnesses on the charge of false accusation. A critical study of the entire case shows that this precedent is not applicable to every case where the crime is not proved by proper evidence. The facts of the case are that Mughirah bin Sh u`bah, the Governor of Basrah, did not have good relations with Abu Bakrah, whose house was opposite to his house across the same street. One day the windows of the two houses were opened by a strong current of wind. When 'Abu Bakrah got up to close his window, he saw through the opposite window across the street Mughirah in a state of actual sexual intercourse. He asked three of his friends (Naf`i bin Kaladah, and Shibl bin Ma`bad) who were also sitting with him to stand up and witness what Mughirah was doing. The friends asked him who was the woman. Abu Bakrah. said that she was Umm Jamil. The next day a complaint to this effect was sent to `Umar, who immediately suspended Mughirah and appointed Abu Musa Ash`ari as Governor of Basrah. Mughirah along with the witnesses was called to Al-Madinah. When they were asked about the case, Abu Bakrah said that they had seen Mughirah actually committing sexual intercourse with Umm Jamil, but Ziad said that the woman was not clearly visible and that he could not say definitely whether it was Umm Jamil or not. During the cross examination, Mughirah proved that they could not have seen the woman distinctly from the place where they were standing. He also proved that there was a close resemblance between his wife and Umm Jamil. Besides this, circumstantial evidence also showed that during the Caliphate of `Umar, the governor of a province could not have committed this crime in his official residence, especially when his wife was also living with him. Thus the supposition of Abu Bakrah and his companions that Mughirah was having sexual intercourse with Umm Jamil, instead of his own wife, was nothing but a misplaced suspicion. It was for this reason that `Umar not only acquitted the accused but also punished Abu Bakrah, Naf`i and Shibl as slanderers. It is obvious that this isolated decision was based on the specific circumstances of the case and not on the principle that the witnesses must be' punished when they are not able to prove the charge by their evidence. (For details of this case, see Ahkam al-Qur'an, Ibn al-`Arabi, Vol. II, pp. 88, 89).
Everyday women get killed in Pakistan because people accuse them of zina, they call it honor killing. But no one saw 'the pen in the ink’, so many innocent Muslim girls got killed. Even if a Muslim girl should fornicate, the punishment is 100 lashes, not death. Honor killing is culture and not Shariah.
Stay away from the 7 major sins: Shirk, magic, murder, riba, robbing the orphan, fleeing the battlefield and slandering a pious, believing Muslim woman.
It was narrated from 'Ubaid bin 'Umair that :His father - who was one of the Companions of the Prophet [SAW] - told him: "A man said: 'O Messenger of Allah, what are the major sins?' He said: 'They are seven; the most grievous of which are associating others with Allah, killing a soul unlawfully and fleeing (from the battlefield) on the day of the march.'" It is abridged.
Sunan an-Nasa'i 4012: Vol. 5, Book 37, Hadith 4017
Narrated Abu-Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him); ‘The Prophet (SAWS) said: “Avoid the seven great destructive sins.” The people enquired; ‘O Allah’s Messenger! What are they?’ The Prophet (SAWS) said: To join others in worship along with Allah, to practise sorcery, to kill the life that Allah has forbidden except for a just cause (according to Islamic law), to eat up usury, to eat up the orphan’s wealth, to show one’s back to the enemy and fleeing from the battlefield at the time of fighting, and to accuse the chaste women, who never even think of anything touching chastity and are good believers.” (Bukhari).
SIN 8. REFUSING TO PAY ZAKAH
Zakah is the third pillar of Islam, therefore refusing to pay Zakah is a major sin. Hence, Allah said:
And those who hoard up gold and silver [Al-Kanz: the money, the Zakat of which has not been paid], and spend it not in the Way of Allah, -announce unto them a painful torment. (At-Tawbah: 34)
On the Day when that (Al-Kanz: money, gold and silver, etc., the Zakat of which has not been paid) will be heated in the Fire of Hell and with it will be branded their foreheads, their flanks, and their backs, (and it will be said unto them) :-"This is the treasure which you hoarded for yourselves. Now taste of what you used to hoard." (At-Tawbah: 35)
And let not those who covetously withhold of that which Allah has bestowed on them of His Bounty (Wealth) think that it is good for them (and so they do not pay the obligatory Zakat). Nay, it will be worse for them; the things which they covetously withheld shall be tied to their necks like a collar on the Day of Resurrection. And to Allah belongs the heritage of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is WellAcquainted with all that you do. (Aali Imran: 180)
The Tafsir for Ayah 3:180 is “that which is tied to their necks are snakes”, therefore their wealth will become snakes wrapped around their necks.
We should know that to withhold Zakah is a major sin because Allah is promising a severe punishment in the above Ayahs for anyone who withholds Zakah. The following Hadith explains further:
Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said, ‘Whoever Allah makes wealthy and he does not pay the Zakah due on his wealth, then (on the Day of Resurrection) his wealth will be made in the likeness of a bald-headed poisonous male snake with two black spots over the eyes. The snake will encircle his neck and bite his cheeks and proclaim, `I am your wealth, I am your treasure.' The Prophet then recited the Ayah, ‘And let not those who are stingy with that which Allah has bestowed on them of His bounty think that it is good for them. Nay, it will be worse for them), until the end. (Al-Bukhari and Ibn Hibban)
Allah said there are three conditions to accept a revert as a real Muslim
But if they repent, perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat) and give Zakat, then they are your brethren in religion. (In this way) We explain the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) in detail for a people who know. (At-Tawbah: 11)
In the above Ayah, Allah laid down three conditions to accept a revert as a real Muslim.
Tawbah from kufr and shirk
To perform the salah, and
Give the zakah
SIN 9. REFUSING TO FAST DURING RAMADAN BECAUSE OF GREED
Fasting during Ramadan is the fourth pillar of Islam. Therefore, anyone who is healthy and strong should fast. If a healthy person refuses to fast he is considered a zindeeq [heretic] according to the correct scholarly opinion. The fatwa below explains further:
Whoever does not fast has abandoned one of the pillars of Islam, and is committing a grave major sin. Indeed some of the salaf were of the view that he is a kaafir [disbeliever] and apostate – we seek refuge with Allaah from that.
Abu Ya’la narrated in his Musnad from Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The bonds of Islam and the bases of religion are three, on which Islam was founded. Whoever gives up one of them becomes a kaafir thereby and it is permissible to shed his blood: the testimony that there is no god but Allaah, the prescribed prayers and fasting Ramadaan.”
This hadeeth was classed as saheeh by al-Dhahabi, and as hasan by al-Haythami in Majma’ al-Zawaa’id, 1/48, and by al-Mundhiri in al-Targheeb wa’l-Tarheeb, no. 805, 1486. Classed as da’eef by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Da’eefah, no. 94.
Al-Dhahabi said in al-Kabaa’ir, p. 64.
Whoever does not fast in Ramadaan without being sick or having any other excuse that allows him not to fast is more evil than the adulterer or drunkard, indeed they doubted his Islam and thought that this was zandaqa [heresy].
SIN 10. ABANDON SALAH
Salah is the second pillar of Islam after reciting the shahada. It is not possible for a person to be a Muslim if they abandon salah. The following hadiths explain further:
On the authority of Abu Huraira (RA) that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said, "Fast and you will be healthy". [Related by Abu Naeem in 'al-Tibbun al-Nabawee' (1/236) No. 113]
Jabir (RA) reported that Allah’s Messenger (SAW) said, “Between a man (Muslim) and shirk and disbelief lies neglect of salah.” [Sahih Muslim (1/8 No. 82, Sunan Tirmidhi (5/13) No. 2620, Sunan Abu Dawud (4/219) No. 4678, Sunan Ibn Majah (2/181) No. 1078, Sunan An-Nasa'i (1/232) No. 463, Musnad Ahmad (3/370) No. 15021]
Abdullah ibn Shaqiq Uqayli (RA) reported, saying “The companions of Muhummad (SAW) did not regard neglect of any of the deeds as disbelief as they did (neglect) of Salah." [Sunan Tirmidhi (5/14) No. 2622 and Mustadrak al-Haakim (1/4 No. 12 who said it met the conditions of al-Bukhari and Muslim]
Imam Shafi said that to abandon Salah does not eject a person outside the fold of Islam. However, Ahmad Hanbal said “I beg to differ” so he debated Imam Shaffi on this and brought Surah Tawbah Verse 11 as his hujjah during the debate. Ahmad ibn Hanbal won the debate.
SIN 11. REFUSING TO MAKE HAJJ WITHOUT A VALID REASON
Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam. Hajj is a duty which mankind owes to Allah. Anyone who denies that Hajj is compulsory on him has left the fold of Islam. The following Ayah explains further:
And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka'bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah, those who can afford the expenses (for one's conveyance, provision and residence); and whoever disbelieves [i.e. denies Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah), then he is a disbeliever of Allah], then Allah stands not in need of any of the 'Alamin (mankind and jinns). (Aali Imran: 97)
The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) only made hajj once in his lifetime and he was the best Muslim.
Ali (RA) narrated that Allah’s Messenger (SAW) said: “He who possess enough food for the trip, a means of transportation to reach to Makkah, and yet does not perform Hajj, then he dies, he would then die as a Jew or a Christian...” [Sunan Tirmidhi (3/176) No. 812, Bayhaqi in 'Shu'ab al-Iman' (5/443) No. 3692, Musnad al-Bazzaar (3/87-8 No. 861]
SIN 12. TO DISOBEY OR MISTREAT YOUR PARENTS
Looking after our parents when they become old is a right which our parents have over us. To abandon our parents without looking after them, is a grave sin in Islam. The only time we can abandon our parents is if they declare war on Islam. About our parents, Allah said:
And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour. And lower unto them the wing of submission and humility through mercy, and say: "My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they did bring me up when I was small." (Al-Isra: 23-24)
Today CNN reported that two children tried to kill their parents for insurance money. Car and life insurance are haram. it's called money for nothing. People will kill you for life insurance. they do it everyday to get the money.
911 call: Brothers drugged parents before trying to kill them: "I don't know why they've done this, I really don't. I guess they want the insurance money. I'm not really sure.": http://www.11alive.com/story/news/crime/2015/09/08/911-call-brothers-drugged-parents-before-trying-kill-them/71879306/
It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah (RA) said: The Prophet (SAW) ascended the minbar and said: “Ameen, ameen, ameen.” It was said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, you ascended the minbar and said, ‘Ameen, ameen, ameen.” He said: “Jibreel (peace be upon him) came to me and said: ‘If Ramadan comes and a person is not forgiven, he will enter Hell and Allah will cast him far away. Say Ameen.’ So I said Ameen. He said: ‘O Muhammad, if both or one of a person’s parents are alive and he does not honour them and he dies, he will enter Hell and Allah will cast him far away. Say Ameen.’ So I said Ameen. He said: ‘If you are mentioned in a person’s presence and he does not send blessings upon you and he dies, he will enter Hell and Allah will cast him far away. Say Ameen.’ So I said Ameen.” [Sahih Ibn Hibban, (3/18? No. 907 and Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (3/192) No. 1888]
SIN 13. CUT THE TIES OF KINSHIP
You cannot cut the ties with your parents, even if they are kaffir.
Narrated By Jubair bin Mut'im: That he heard the Prophet saying, "The person who severs the bond of kinship will not enter Paradise." [al-Bukhari (5984) and Muslim (2556)]
Would you then, if you were given the authority, do mischief in the land, and sever your ties of kinship? Such are they whom Allāh has cursed, so that He has made them deaf and blinded their sight. (Muhammad: 22-23)
However, if your kafir parents or family members are antagonistic towards Islam, then it is allowed to cut ties with them because Abraham cut ties with his father when he realized that his father was an enemy of Allah.
And the request of forgiveness of Abraham for his father was only because of a promise he had made to him. But when it became apparent to Abraham that his father was an enemy to Allah, he disassociated himself from him. Indeed was Abraham compassionate and patient. (At-Tawbah 9:114)
SIN 14. TO COMMIT ADULTERY OR FORNICATION
Sex before marriage is called fornication and to have an extramarital love affair is called adultery. Both are considered major sins, but adultery is worst than fornication. Even though the Arabic word zina covers fornication and adultery, the punishments are different because the punishment for fornication is 100 lashes while the punishment for adultery is stoning to death.
And come not near to the unlawful sexual intercourse. Verily, it is a Fahishah [i.e. anything that transgresses its limits (a great sin)], and an evil way (that leads one to Hell unless Allah forgives him). (Al-Isra: 32)
Allah said in the ayah “DO NOT COME NEAR TO ZINA”. Allah did not say do not commit zina. This means we should avoid the avenues that lead to zina. Khalwa [seclusion] is one of the avenues that leads to zina. About this the Rasool (saw) said:
Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab: The Prophet said, "...Whenever a man is alone with a woman the Devil makes a third..." [Musnad Ahmad (1/26) No. 177, Sunan Tirmidhi (4/465) No. 2165, Mustadrak al-Haakim (1/197) No. 387, Sahih Ibn Hibban (12/399) No. 5586, Nasa'i in 'Sunan al-Kubra' (5/387) No. 9219]
Allah Mentioned zina and murder in the Ayah below because whenever a society is filled with zina, murder becomes rife in the society. This is because men kill those who seduce their wives and daughters.
And those who invoke not any other ilah (god) along with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment. (Al-Furqan: 68)
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "An adulterer, at the time he is committing illegal sexual intercourse is not a believer". [al-Bukhari (557 and Muslim (57)]
What did the Prophet (SAW) mean by this Hadith? It means he is not a Mu’min during the act, but he is still a MUSLIM. A Mu’min is on a higher level. There is a difference between a Mu’min and a Muslim. A Muslim may have major weaknesses in his character like zina and khamr, but a Mu’min doesn’t have these major weaknesses as a trait in his character.
“Verily the Muslims (those who submit to Allah in Islam) men and women, the Mu’min (believers) men and women…” (al-Ahzab: 35)
In this ayah, Allah mentions the Muslim and Mu’min together, indicating that there must be a difference between the two. Whenever there is a comparison between Muslim and Mu’min in a single text, then the Emaan of the Mu’min is higher in grades than the Muslim.
SIN 15. SODOMY
Allah created us with the natural instinct to be attracted to the opposite sex. Hence, for us to be attracted to the same sex is an aberration. Homosexuals are enemies of the human race because their lifestyle means the human race will grind to a halt since gays cannot procreate. About the, Allah said:
And (remember) Lout (Lot), when he said to his people: "Do you commit the worst sin such as none preceding you has committed in the 'Alamīn (mankind and jinns)? "Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds (by committing great sins)." (Al-A'raf: 80-81)
The gay community tried to refute the above Ayah by claiming when they go to bed with their gay partner, they don't practice lust, they practice love. They claim this Ayah is not about them.
We say to the gay community we present to you the translation of the Ayah by Sahih International which is the correct translation of the Ayah. So how would you refute this Ayah below?
Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.” (Al-A'raf:81)
It’s impossible for you to refute the above mentioned Ayah because for you to have an erection for another man, you need to have a desire which is unholy.
The word "gay Muslim" is an oxymoron because Allah has made takfir on the gay in the Holy Quran. Hence, Allah said:
So We brought out from therein the believers. But We found not there any household of the Muslims except one [i.e. Lout (Lot) and his two daughters]. (Adh-Dhariyat 51:35-36)
Oxymoron = contradictory words that cannot come together because they clash
For example, a ‘Shia Masjid’, a ‘Qadiani Masjid’ or a ‘Gay Masjid’. Rather, one should use the term ‘temple’ to describe these places of worship. To say ‘Masjid’ is to insult your religion because a Masjid is a place where Allah alone is worshipped. About this, Allah said:
And the Masaajid are for Allâh (Alone), so invoke not anyone along with Allâh. (Al-Jinn: 18)
Many Muslims use the phrase Islamic Democracy. This is another oxymoron that has become popular in the Ummah of Muhammad (saw) to the extent where many Muslims are trying to abandon Jihad and use the democratic process to attain power. These Muslims who believe in democracy got a kick in the teeth in Algeria in 1988. Then they got a kick in the teeth again in 2013 in Egypt. Muhammad Morsi thought the way forward was the ballot not the bullet, so he tried to use the democratic process to establish Islam in Egypt. The Muslims got a kick in the teeth twice, yet the Prophet (saw) said:
"A believer is not bitten from the same hole twice.” [Related by al-Bukhari (6133) and Muslim (299]
Anas Ibn Malik narrated the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "A believer is shrewd, sharp and careful." [Quda'ee (d. 454 H) in 'Musnad al-Shihab' (Vol. 1 pg. 107) No. 128]
The great scholar of Islam, Imam Shawkani, wrote a chapter about punishing gays in his book Nayl al-Awtar. Hence, he said:
There is a difference of opinion concerning the punishment for the one who commits sodomy. The following are the opinions that were mentioned by Imam Ash-Shawkani in "Nayl Al-Awtar" , Vol. 7/p122-124.
1) That he is killed with the sword, then burnt. This is narrated from Abu Bakr and 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib.
2) That a wall should be collapsed upon him. This was the opinion of 'Umar and 'Uthman.
3) That he should be thrown from the highest building in the city, then that should be followed up with him being pelted with rocks. This was the opinion of Ibn 'Abbas.
4) That he is stoned. This is narrated by Al-Bayhaqi from 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Ash-Sha'bi, Az-Zuhri, Malik, Ahmad, Is'haq, and Ash-Shafi'i.
5) That they are burned. This was narrated by Al-Bayhaqi, that Abu Bakr gathered the Sahabah and 'Ali mentioned this, and the Sahabah agreed upon it. It was also mentioned by Al-Munthiri that it was done by Abu Bakr, 'Ali, 'Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubayr, and Hisham Ibn 'Abdil-Malik.
6) That he is stoned, then burnt with fire. This is narrated from the Sahabah agreeing upon it in the time of Abu Bakr.
7) That the punishment is the same as Zina, in that if he is a virgin, he is whipped, and if he is not, then he is stoned.
That there is no prescribed punishment, rather it is left up to the Imam to perform Ta'zir, and this was narrated from Abu Hanifah, and one narration from Ash-Shafi'i, and others.
Ash-Shawkani refutes the opinion of the punishment being the same as Zina, as well as the opinion that there is only Ta'zir, and supports the opinion that he is killed, but does not appear to specify which way of killing is the strongest. [Imam Ash-Shawkani in "Nayl Al-Awtar" , Vol. 7/p122-124].
The reason why the Caliphs burnt the bodies of the gays after killing them was because the families of the gays will argue with you about burying the gay in Muslim graveyards. Abu Bakr and Ali were very wise to burn their bodies.
SIN 16. LYING ON ALLAH OR HIS RASOOL (SAW)
Lying on Allah or His Rasool (saw) is not an ordinary lie because people who lie on Allah or His Rasool (saw) use these lies to make up a false religion. Therefore, these lies are zandaqa and eject the liar outside the fold of Islam. About lying on Allah, Allah said:
And who does more wrong than the one who invents a lie against Allāh, while he is being invited to Islām? And Allāh guides not the people who are Zālimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers and disbelievers) folk. (As-Saff: 7)
Speaking about Allah without any knowledge is also lying on Allah. Speaking about Allah without any knowledge is also zandaqa. Hence, Allah said:
Say (O Muhammad SAW): "(But) the things that my Lord has indeed forbidden are AlFawāhish (great evil sins, every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse, etc.) whether committed openly or secretly, sins (of all kinds), unrighteous oppression, joining partners (in worship) with Allāh for which He has given no authority, and saying things about Allāh of which you have no knowledge." (Al-A'raf: 33)
The following Hadith is about lying on the Prophet (saw). The seat that the liar will occupy in the Hell-fire is a permanent seat because the one who lies on the Prophet (saw) deliberately is a kaafir:
Abdullah ibn Amr (RA) reported that Allah’s Messenger (SAW) said, Convey from me (to the absent) even one verse. And narrate from the Banu Isra’il there is no harm in that. If anyone lies about me deliberately then let him take his seat in Hell.” [Tirmidhi 2678, Ahmed 6496, Bukhari 3461]
17. A LEADER WHO DECEIVES HIS PEOPLE
He who deceives us is not one of us and this also includes a leader who is deceptive and oppressive towards the people
Abu Hurayra (RA) reported that the Messenger of Allah (SAW), said, "Anyone who carries arms against us is not one of us. Anyone who cheats us is not one of us." [Sahih Muslim, Book 1, Hadith #182]
Even though a leader has weaknesses, you are not allowed to topple him only if you see clear kufr. Justice is important for the continuity and success of every society politically, economically and socially. In regards to justice, Allah said:
O you who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allāh, even though it be against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, be he rich or poor, Allāh is a Better Protector to both (than you). So follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest you may avoid justice, and if you distort your witness or refuse to give it, verily, Allāh is Ever WellAcquainted with what you do. (An-Nisa: 135)
When you refuse to give testimony or distort the testimony, you can be charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. When you distort your testimony, it causes the wrong person to be punished for a crime he did not commit. This is the ultimate injustice.
Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah said, “Allah supports the just state even if it is unbelieving, but He does not support the unjust state even if it believes.” [Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmu' Al-Fatawa 28/63]
SIN 18. PRIDE AND ARROGANCE
Luqman was grooming his son to be a dai’e [caller to Islam], and he warned his son against pride and arrogance because this attitude will turn the people away from him and cause his dawah to fail. Hence, Luqman said to his son:
"And turn not your face away from men with pride, nor walk in insolence through the earth. Verily, Allāh likes not each arrogant boaster. (Luqman 31:1
The Holy Prophet (saw) warned his Ummah about pride in the following Hadith:
It Is narrated on the authority of Abdullah b. Mas'ud that the Apostle of Allah (SAW), observed: He who has in his heart the weight of a mustard seed of pride shall not enter Paradise. A person (amongst his hearers) said: Verily a person loves that his dress should be fine, and his shoes should be fine. He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: Verily, Allah is Graceful and He loves Grace. Pride is disdaining the truth (out of self-conceit) and contempt for the people. [Sahih Muslim (1/93) No. 91]
Infidels like Nimrod, the Pharaoh, Abu Lahab and Abu Jahl realized Islam was the truth, but they chose to reject Islam and died as kuffar all in the name of pride. These kuffar are now condemned to the Hell-fire to abide forever because of their rejection of Islam. These four infidels had the privilege to meet the most noble Prophets of Allah like Abraham, Moses and Muhammad (saw). In spite of being blessed to meet these noble Prophets and heard the message of Islam from their Holy lips, they chose to reject Islam and die as kuffar all in the name of Pride. The Pharaoh acknowledged in his heart that Musa brought the truth, but he rejected the message in the name of pride. About the Pharaoh, Allah said:
And they rejected them, while their [inner] selves were convinced thereof, out of injustice and haughtiness. So see how was the end of the corrupters. (An-Naml 27:14)
SIN 19. UNGRATEFUL TO ALLAH OR THE SERVANTS OF ALLAH
Ungratefulness to Allah or the servants of Allah is a major sin that will cause a person to be in the Hell-fire. This is because a person who is ungrateful is denying Allah’s bounties. The following Hadith explains the seriousness of ungratefulness:
Narrated Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: Once Allah's Messenger went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) on 'Eid-al-Adha or al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women)." They asked, "Why is it so, O Messenger of Allah?" He replied, "You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands." [Sahih Bukhari (1/6 No. 304]
The Rasool (SAW) saw women as the majority of the inhabitants of hell because they were ungrateful to their husbands.
SIN 20. TAKING INTOXICANTS
The Arabic word khamr means intoxicants. An intoxicant is anything that befogs the mind. Therefore, intoxicants can be solid liquid or gas. To consume intoxicant is a major sin because the person who takes intoxicants receives 80 lashes. Examples of intoxicants include cannabis, marijuana, alcohol, ecstasy, speed, cocaine, heroin, etc. The hypocrites want to drink alcohol so they claim “as long as I am not drunk at the time of salah I am allowed to drink”. But Allah told us to abstain from alcohol in the following Ayah:
O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, AlAnsāb, and AlAzlām (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are an abomination of Shaitān's (Satan) handiwork. So avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful. Shaitān (Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allāh and from As-Salāt (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain? (Al-Ma'idah 5:90-91)
In the following Hadith the Holy Prophet (saw) told us that whenever a person drinks alcohol he has not Salah for 40 days.
‘Abdullah ibn Umar (RA) reported that Allah’s Messenger (SAW) said, “If anyone drinks wine then his salah over forty days are not approved. If he repents then Allah will relent to him. If he reverts (to it), then Allah will not approve his salah over forty days. If he repents, Allah will relent to him but if he reverts (to it) then Allah will not approve his salah over forty days. If he repents then Allah will relent to him. Again, if he reverts the fourth time, Allah will not approve his salah over forty days and if he repents then Allah will not relent to him and He will give him to drink from the river of Khabal.” Someone asked, “O Abu Abdur Rahman! what is the river of Khabal?’ He said, “The pus of the dwellers of the people of fire.” [Sunan Tirmidhi (4/290) No. 1862, Sunan Nasa'i (8/317) No. 5670, Musnad Ahmad (2/35) No. 4917, al-Mu’jam al-Kabir al-Tabarani (12/390) No. 13441]
If you drink, you have no salah for 40 days and 40 nights
This doesn’t mean he is relieved from praying salah
The person who drinks alcohol still has to perform the prayers on time
If he were to delay any of his prayers, he would be committing a grave major sin, which is worse than the sin of drinking alcohol.
Q: aswr, you mentioned that someone who does not make hajj without a valid reason will die as a jew or christian does this mean they will die as kaffir and be in the hellfire forever?
The person who dies as a Jew or a Christian would have to deny Hajj to be kaafir. The following Ayah explains further:
And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka'bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah, those who can afford the expenses (for one's conveyance, provision and residence); and whoever disbelieves [i.e. denies Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah), then he is a disbeliever of Allah], then Allah stands not in need of any of the 'Alamin (mankind and jinns). (Aali Imran 3:97)
Q: asalam alekum shaikh i saw a video where a kafir couple was doing a dna test to find out if the child was theirs or not, when they got the result that he was not the father they were celebrating, so what is the punishment for adultery in the hereafter and the punishment in this life for it?
Punishment for adultery is hellfire
But if you make Tawbah with sincerity you can be forgiven
Allah Forgives all sins, even shirk
As long as you make Tawbah before you die. Hence, Allah said:
Say: "O 'Ibadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, verily Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Az-Zumar 39:53)
If you are punished for adultery in the dunya, Allah wont ask you about it in the hereafter
If you did not, Allah will give you a double punishment in the hereafter
And those who invoke not any other ilah (god) along with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment. The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace; (Al-Furqan 25:68-69)
Q: is it cutting ties of kinship if your family are far away like if your in the west and your family is in yemen and you can get hold with them?
Cutting the ties of kinship means when you refuse to interact with your family
Living in another country is not cutting ties. Even though Abu Talib was a kaafir, the Prophet (SAW) loved him and didn’t cut ties with him. The Prophet (saw) even told Ali to bury his kaafir father, Abu Talib, when he died. But the Prophet (SAW) did not attend the janaza. About the Prophet (saw) loving Abu Talib, Allah said:
Verily! You (O Muhammad SAW) guide not whom you like, but Allah guides whom He wills. And He knows best those who are the guided. (Al-Qasas: 56)
You cannot cut the ties of kinship unless your relatives are antagonistic towards Islam.
It is worthy of mentioning that when a man killed himself, the Prophet (SAW) told the Muslims to bury him but the Prophet (SAW) did not attend the janaza. He (SAW) allowed the Muslims to pray over him, but he himself did not attend. When a man kills himself, he is still a Muslim - he is a bad Muslim
Q: my question is, i am looking for a wife and i want to know if a a person who doesn’t believe in twheed hakimiyya be married
Tawheed hakimiyyah means Allah is the only Law-giver. When Prophet Yusuf was in prison he taught the inmates four branches of tawheed. See Surah 12:39-40 for the Hujjah.
O [my] two companions of prison, are separate lords better or Allah, the One, the Prevailing? (Yusuf 12:39)You worship not besides Him except [mere] names you have named them, you and your fathers, for which Allah has sent down no authority. Legislation is not but for Allah. He has commanded that you worship not except Him. That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know. (Yusuf 12:39-40)
To deny tawheed hakimiyyah is major kufr because to deny tawheed hakimiyyah is to deny that Allah is the only Law-giver. In this regard, Allah said:
Is not Allah the most just of judges? (At-Tin 95:8)
“And He shares not His legislation with anyone." (Al-Kahf 18:26)
Those who deny tawheed hakimiyyah also claim that to dismantle the Shariah is a minor kufr. This ideology is zandaqa [heresy] because when the Jews tampered with the Shariah, Allah turned them into apes and swine. These people who claim to dismantle the Shariah is a minor kufr are trying to insinuate that when Allah turned the Jews into apes and swine He, Allah, was overreacting. About the Jews tampering with the Shariah, Allah said:
Say (O Muhammad SAW to the people of the Scripture) : "Shall I inform you of something worse than that, regarding the recompense from Allah: those (Jews) who incurred the Curse of Allah and His Wrath, those of whom (some) He transformed into monkeys and swines, those who worshipped Taghut (false deities); such are worse in rank (on the Day of Resurrection in the Hellfire), and far more astray from the Right Path (in the life of this world)." (Al-Ma'idah: 60)
It is worthy of mentioning that those who deny tawheed hakimiyyah are wicked scholars who are cementing the thrones of the apostate leaders for worldly gains. They have sold their religion for a miserable price.
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A young guy from Texas moves to California and goes to a big department store looking for a job. The manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?"
The kid says, "Yeah, I was a salesman back home in Texas." Well, the boss liked the kid so he gave him the job. "You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did."
His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down. "How many sales did you make today?"
The kid says, "One."
The boss says, "Just one? Our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale for?"
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The boss says, "$101,237.64? What the hell did you sell?"
Kid says, "First I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fish hook. Then I sold him a larger fish hook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down at the coast, so I told him he was gonna need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him that twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4X4 Blazer."
The boss said, "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and truck?"
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An Open Letter to Pat Stump
Posted on March 2, 2012 by Brendan Kelly
I feel bad for Pat Stump and I feel bad for him in myriad ways that can’t be easily summed up. A quick background for those of you who are stupid or old: Pat Stump is/was the singer of the uber successful pop-punk band Fall Out Boy. However, he’s not the guy you think of when you think of Fall Out Boy. That guy is Pete Wentz, who is the bassist, lyricist and unofficial face of the band and was briefly Mr. Ashlee Simpson (side note: AshlEE? Nice spelling, hicks). Though Pete was always quick to point out in interviews that Pat Stump was a ‘genius of pop songcraft,’ he never really got much credit in the band that he sang for. And when the world soured on Fall Out Boy, after the release of their album [something French that I’m not gonna look up] the two guys in the back (the guitarist and the drummer) regrouped semi-anonymously (and made a surprisingly decent song with the dude from Anthrax and the singer of ETID), Pete continued on his track of being a tabloid star who’s famous for being famous and Pat Stump lost a bunch of weight, got some hairplugs and put out a record called Soul Punk, which (and I’m guessing a bit here) was not well received.
It’s easy to malign Pat Stump. Lord knows I have, on more than one occasion referred to him as ‘the Pillsbury Doughboy if he shopped at hot topic and wore ridiculous hats.’ And that’s fine. That’s what happens when you’re famous. Dumb shitheads who have it vastly worse than you, who are uglier than you, who are stupider than you, who have no business making fun of anyone at all, make fun of you loudly and often. I don’t think that Pat is unaware of this universal truth. In fact, I know he’s not, because yesterday(?) he published this little piece about why he’s been super bummed out lately. I read it and it made me sad.
Right away, I’ll tell you that Pat’s piece is refreshingly sincere and unguarded while still being self-aware enough to realize that he’s gonna get even more shit for daring to express dissatisfaction with what many consider to be an ideal life. Again, that’s how it is. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you don’t want people being as cruel as they can possibly be to you, mercilessly mocking your looks, your abilities, your dreams, your ideas, your kids, wishing death and worse upon you and your loved ones (and this is if you’re a guy. If you’re a female, god help you. There is no persona that needs to be more bulletproof than a famous female), then you should never, ever attempt to publically express yourself, creatively or otherwise. This is the way the world is, and more to the point, this is the way human beings are. Humans can be nice in close quarters, but consider the fact that even your sweet grandmother has celebrities that she doesn’t like for reasons that she SHOULD be smart enough to understand are frivolous. She doesn’t know the Kardashians. She knows that the show is at least somewhat scripted and sensationalized. She respects the old timey values of maximizing every advantage that comes your way. She’s never met Kim, but she still just doesn’t like her. And that’s your nice grandma who even likes your shithead friends that even your other shithead friends can’t stand. Imagine how crappy the kneejerk reactions of your shithead friends are when they see Pat Stump up there, being rich and famous for doing things that they feel that they do better, completely stinking up the place with his bullshit. They’re ALREADY mean shitheads. Completely remove the humanity of actual interpersonal interaction and they’re talking about pissing on his dead mom’s grave and punching his ugly girlfriend in the stomach so she doesn’t give birth to his retarded baby (I have no idea if Pat Stump has a dead mom or a girlfriend. I’m merely illustrating the cruelty spree that is celebrity shit talking) before the chorus of Dance Dance even kicks in.
And nobody hates you more than someone who loves you. Listen to Yankees fans talk about the Yankees. Listen to linguists discuss modern vernacular. Listen to your mom talk about your hair. Think about how fucking infuriating it is when your best friend slurps their coffee or mispronounces that one word that he always does or whatever and you’ll realize this is true.
By that logic, Pat Stump, no one hates your music more than people who love your music. And you have realized this shitty paradox and it’s broken you for the moment. But you need not feel broken. Here’s why:
Firstly, you are the one that’s in charge, whether it seems like it or not. Here’s what I mean: everyone is an armchair quarterback. Everyone who likes something thinks they know exactly how to make it better or to keep it successful in the face of perceived mismanagement. This is a universal human trait (this is even MORE universal than the notion of people being cruel to public figures, in fact) and it manifests in sports, politics, writing, television and music. But those people (us, because all of us do this), about 99.9999999 percent of the time have NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT. People don’t respond well to change. That’s why, to be successful, you need to not only embrace, but initiate change constantly. It’s the single most important ingredient to success. People have all sorts of fancy words for this, like being ‘visionary’ or ‘out there’ or ‘fearless’ but these are all just euphemisms for being able to anticipate, precipitate and weather the storm of change. That’s all vision is. Ever.
If everyone really knew what Bill Belichick should do, or how Bob Dylan should style his career or what kinds of novels Vonnegut should stick to writing, they’d be able to do the things that these hyper-successful individuals with long, successful careers have done. The people aren’t right. They have no fucking idea what they’re talking about. Anyone who’s truly successful has become successful and maintained their success precisely BECAUSE they’ve confounded people at large over and over again. That’s THE WHOLE THING. If you never buck expectations you’re John Irving, and eventually your fans turn on you and say “that dude never tried anything different over the course of his career. Yawn.”
I’m not saying that there aren’t missteps along the way, but to doubt your own taste, the taste and ability to envision change and weather the inevitable storm that comes with any change, the taste that got you here in the first place, is the kiss of death, because in order to be able to stay relevant, you need to change. And in order to keep changing, you need to be confident. Everyone puts out a dud of a record or has a bad season or accidentally shits during a big double anal scene, but if you don’t fail, you’re not trying very hard. The key is to weather the storm and trust that people around you will some day catch up, and if they never do, well, fuck em. You’re already on to the next thing anyway, Pat Stump. Do you see what I’m saying?
You put out a record and no one liked it. That stinks. Then, you went solo, got your appearance in order and came out with a new record and no one liked the record and no one liked the fact that you’d cleaned up your act either. Yeah. That happens. Nobody likes to see someone else improve themselves, especially when it’s in matters of concretely fixable cosmetic things like hair and weight. No one wants to be fat and bald and when people see someone else taking steps to improve themselves, the kneejerk reaction is to call that person insecure, or to otherwise pooh pooh the results. The truth is, it takes a lot of balls to be the fat guy in the gym. It takes a lot of balls to lay your insecurities bare and face them head on. So fuck those people who said you looked better fat. That’s one of the most transparently wimpy things someone can say to make themselves feel better about not improving themselves. You’ve gotta get a nutsack on you, Pat Stump. Which brings me to my next point:
You made a couple of albums people didn’t like. Boo fucking hoo. Even Willie Nelson has piles and piles of records that are completely dull and forgettable (in fact, I have a pile or two of completely forgettable Willie Nelson albums in my house). If you completely flip out every time you do something that isn’t the next Sugar, We’re goin Down, well, you’re in for a sad life full of disappointments. You’re only 27. You’re not dead, or even thirty, for fucks sake. This is a remarkably cruel business (you know this vastly better than I do) but it’s pretty fucking easy to ignore. So you fucked up. Good. That means you tried something. So people don’t like you skinny. Fuck them. That means they’re dildos. And they’re probably fat dildos.
The one thing that I, speaking as a spokesman for the entire rest of the world who isn’t you, will not tolerate in our celebrities, Pat Stump, is a lack of confidence. It’s the kiss of death. Desperation is the Corey Feldmanian stench that accompanies a sapping of confidence. And that’s when shit starts getting gross. Your open letter/essay deal was actually, (as I stated way back at the beginning of this) a remarkably frank and brave way to grapple with your (sorry to use this word like this) ‘feelings’ but it treads dangerously close to being the death rattle of bravery.
Sure, you can crap out now and say things like “well, I guess I won’t perform anymore because none of you want to see it” which may be true and may be what makes you happiest, but do you see why it’s also kind of pathetic?
You’re better than that, Pat Stump. You got your shit together and did something brave after you put out some record that people hated and apparently booed. You made a weird record that threw everyone for a curve. That’s ballsy. Now you’re sad because your weird album and transformation took people by surprise? What the fuck did you think would happen? Sounds like you’re giving up at the exactly wrong time. You’ve confounded everyone. Nowhere to go but wherever you want, man.
Call me. We’ll rap about this more in person.
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46 Responses to An Open Letter to Pat Stump
Brian K says:
Didn’t you play a show or two with Fall Out Boy?
You’re a real bro, Brendan.
thedollardrafts says:
this is a good entry. solid advice
fart master says:
I saw fob open for less than Jake a long time ago. I had no Idea who they were. I just knew that they played some shitty music. A year or 2 later. My nephew was telling me he was into punk and fallout boy was his fav. I just remember thinking fuck, your idea of punk and my idea of punk are way different. Do you think if they wouldn’t have marketed themselves as a punk band things would have been different. I could care less what they call themselves. I just think if they called themselves a boy band or whatever people wouldn’t have shit on them so hard. Imagine if a band was calling themselves metal and putting out music like Phil Collins people would freak. But if that band came out and said were a soft rock easy listening band they’d be huge with older gay men.
you truly are a fart master
To be fair, I don’t think they ever labeled themselves as a “punk” band.
Like I said I could care less if people call them punk or what. I just know how fickle and weird the punk community can be. And was just questioning if that could have something to do with why people hate this band so much. It might have nothing to do with it.
FranklinStein says:
exactly how much less could you care?
Aww sheeeeit says:
ELs says:
Listen.. ‘I could care less’ does not make sense.. ‘I couldn’t care less’ however definitely makes what you’re trying to say more applicable. By saying you ‘could’ care less means you could care less then you already do. This implies that you at least care a little bit, which goes completely against what you are trying to say! Now I’m not having ago at the American lingo. Of course the trunk of a car looks more like a trunk then a boot which us English people call it.. and yes, the side walk is the bit on the side that you walk on, makes perfect sense. But ‘I could care less’ ? That’s just fuckin’ stupid! Stop it.
Lemony Persnickius Presents What a Fucking Faggot says:
Man, nothing ruins shit faster than spelling out the obvious. Way to go Hedwig McGrinovich.
mg says:
im not into label but I’d hardly call less than jake punk either.
never mind I read less than jake but thought of bowling for soup for some reason.
crookedteeth666 says:
Housewrecker says:
I remember playing a couple shows with Fallout Boy around 2002. I thought the band and the style were absolutely terrible. Not my cup of tea. However, I remember talking to them about touring and whatever…and Patrick gave me his cell number and said, “Call me if you ever need a place to crash in Chicago”. Whether he plays fire halls or arenas, that’s who he’ll always be do me – just a generally nice dude with different musical tastes than me.
Yeah, I thought much the same after reading his blog that BK linked. It sucks when someone does something for themselves and gets shat on, even if you don’t personally like it (unless you hate it, in which case it’s fair game! trololol). I tried to post a comment there saying much the same thing, and link him back to BK’s letter, but I have to use Facebook (barf) and it’s not working; I’m sure he’s been informed about it already, anyway.
matt burke says:
this was absolutely incredible.
“whether the storm of change”
so we know it’s weather, not whether right? it happened like 6 times.
This is very similar to your Bad Religion post from a while back. everyone’s an expert.
muah says:
haha patrick hates being called pat because pat is his mom’s name. nice anal sex poop reference. A lot of people enjoyed Soul Punk and Truant Wave, so yeah…
I know a girl who used to date Patrick Stump. He’s apparently a sweet dude. She just couldn’t handle being attacked by fans and having to frantically run out the back when they were trying to go to the Schaumburg Olive Garden or having Paris Hilton make bitchface at her while she was just trying to pee at the VMAs.
Anonymous Internet douche says:
The more I pay any attention to Brendan Kelly, the more I think he is an absolute knob. This guy is 30 whatever and thinks he is cool because he loves Lady gaga and puts out a shitty pop record. Mate fuck off eh?
You’re ‘new direction’ is shite.
You are an absolute toss-pot.
Nobody but 400 Lawence Arms fans even cares about your opinions. And most of them are starting to give up.
I wish you the best dude, but artistically? You’ve got nothing to offer me.
I think I’ll leave you to your 2000s blog posting, and cherish the genuine beauty that is every single Lawrence Arms album that exists.
Right now though? You’re just some bitter has-been.
I realize the irony of this post, and I’m content with it.
mosh4jeebus says:
In Brendan’s defense, I’d rather be a “bitter has-been” than a douchey never-been.
chupcabrando says:
good lord that’s a lot of hostility. cat got your cock?
Hesher says:
Is that you, punknews douchenozzle extraordinaire ‘EazyD3’? lulz~
Giant Orange says:
Did you really say ‘toss pot’? What are you, fucking retarded?
Hamilton Martin says:
“This guy is 30 whatever”
Man, people aren’t allowed to get older. That’s so not punk rock. Aging, dude, that’s just like the total toss-pottiest thing that can happen to a major dude. You are a total douche
Pontification? (18 Inches reference.) I think I <3 you! 🙂
Josh Rock says:
As far as Brendan being a bitter has been: he’s always been talking and acting this way, so I don’t think it’s because he is bitter, maybe he just has some balls. and as far as the has been, I myself would like the comfort at times in thinking this but the fact is, he’s not. some of my friends describe him as a legend and whether or fact the guy is a dick sometimes or seems conceited maybe. the fact is he is the real deal and respected world wide. He is one of the faces of Chicago punk rock. I’d never call him a has been as long as he lives revolution and making a difference to make the world a better place. I’ll say this, I used to be friends with the subject over 10 years ago. we had a falling out because I believed a false rumor about him. He’ll never talk with me again as I’m sure he thinks im a piece of shit because of it, but no matter what, I’ll never be able to say the guy isn’t someone, he’s made a great impact and that cannot be discredited no matter how arrogant or cocky he may come across with his style of personality and writing. You may be able to accuse him of being a dick from time to time, but the thing is he knows what he’s talking about and is highly educated and should be respected. He’s up there with Brian Peterson with being one of the most important and respected persons in the history of Chicago punk rock. I may not go to his shows or ever talk to him again, but if I was walking down the street and it was 10 guys to 1 against that guy, I’d have his back and you probably should to.
some guy they call Josh Rock
Poindexter says:
Well that was odd
Vonnegut is dead.
Am I the only one who cringed every time he called him Pat? Other then that I think this is good advice.
Heiner says:
A very well written and clever blog entry. I’m neither a Patrick Stump fan nor do I know you or anything you’ve done, but I could none the less enjoy this piece of writing.
The part that bothered me most about Patty Pat Stumpington’s original post was: why does he think he can’t go back to playing basement shows? Everyone can go back to playing basement shows.
Basement Shows says:
No he can’t. We had a major falling out, boy, sometime around 2004 because he played me for a trick when I was the best thing that ever happened to him.
heheh
SB says:
People actually read your blog?
Patented Robert De Niro scruch face says:
Aww. Nice try, you ugly flapjack-titted Canadian bitch
Vegancraig says:
No, just you.
dustyfloors says:
Was “Soul Punk” really that bad? I took a 13 y.o. cousin to the Metro to see this dude’s show and the stuff wasn’t horrible. Was I that drunk?
I totally loved this post. The piece by Pat was really inspiring. I found this article in response to his post and I thought it really spoke to what you were saying as well. http://www.goradio.com/meta/news-trends/an-open-letter-back-to-patrick-stump-1.3310
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dude you are a legend!
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Friday - November 16, 2012
Crushed By The Unions
Twinkie The Kid Gets The Pink Slip
Hostess to Liquidate, Lay Off 18,500 After Crushing Union Fight
Failing to persuade striking employees to return to work, Hostess Brands disclosed plans on Friday to liquidate its assets and lay off most of its 18,500 workers, bringing the 82-year-old maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies to the end of its line.
The painful decision to wind down the Irving, Texas.-based private company follows a nationwide strike that Hostess said severely constrained its operations.
Hostess said delivery of its products, which include Ding Dongs and CupCakes, will continue and its retail stores will keep their lights on for several days to sell already-baked products.
“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,” Hostess CEO Gregory Rayburn said in a statement.
As a result of the liquidation, Hostess said it will “move promptly” to lay off “most” of its 18,500 employees and focus on “selling its assets to the highest bidders.”
The company will now be forced to close its 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers, 5,500 delivery routes and 570 bakery outlet stores throughout the U.S.
This is what OUGHT to happen all the time. Getting screwed by the union? Take your money and run. Shut the doors, go start a new company somewhere else. Fuck ‘em. Who is John Galt? Hostess knows.
Killed by unions. It’s no Wonder any more.
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Help raise USD10K to build a school library in Nepal
Sat, 2007-10-06 14:59 — batgungAdmin
We've set a target to raise US$10,000 by the end of October. That's enough to let the 'Room to Read' charity build a library for a school community in Nepal. And stock it with books. And provide three years' support to make sure it is a success!
Think what that means - the children's current future is to grow up learning in a school without any printed books. Together we can change that. Here's where we need your help:
Donate! It's easy - we've set up an online donations page where you can make payments by Visa or Mastercard (Note that all amounts shown on that donations site are in US$, not HK$). Next month we'll invite the people who've made the three largest donations out to lunch to say thank you. (Now we realise that might stop you from wanting to donate at all - so don't worry, the lunch is optional!!) Please help us reach that target before October 31st.
Advertise on Batgung. So far the only advertising on Batgung has been the Google ads you see around the place. For the month of November we'll turn off the Google Ads, and display your banner adverts instead. The Google reports show that their adverts are displayed about 1,400 times each day, so your banners will get seen by plenty of people.
We'll also allow text adverts to be entered as comments on any of the pages on the site. Many of the pages do well in Google searches, eg Batgung pages are the top result for searches like "hong kong work visa", "digital camera hong kong", etc. The catch? You'll have to make a donation to get your advert displayed!
Read more about advertising on Batgung here.
Spread the word. If you have a local blog or website, please could you ask your readers if they can help?
No blog? E-mail works just as well! Please forward this page to friends that you think would support improving literacy. Do you have friends running businesses? If they'd like batgung's readers as their customers, please could you ask them to take a look at advertising here?
You'll probably want to make sure your money will be well used before making any donation.
First, be sure that none of it ends up in our pockets. The online donations page is run by a company called FirstGiving, that specialises in online fund collecting for charities. Your donation goes from them to the Room to Read charity, bypassing us completely.
Next there's the charity, Room to Read. They are a well-established, effective charity. Visit their website for a full background to their work, but here's a snippet from their overview:
Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift that empowers people to ultimately improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries, and future generations. Through the opportunities that only an education can provide, we strive to break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time.
Finally there's the project itself, to build a library. Some highlights of Room to Read's approach include:
They partner with the local community, so the local community is expected to make a significant contribution of funds, labour, material and security. That reduces the risk of it being built then falling into disuse soon after the pictures have been taken.
The $10K is not just to provide a building, but also to fill it with books, train the librarian, and give three years ongoing support. Again, it's looking for a long-term success, not some short-term feel-good project that fizzles out after the first few months.
We'll also be able to keep you up to date with progress as they'll send:
An Application Report, which describes the community in need, reasons for support, and details of the Challenge Grant
A Progress Report with updates on construction, and
A Completion Report with a summary of the project and photos of the completed library
Their website has more information about library projects, and in particular library construction projects.
If you have any questions, please leave a coment below. No questions? Then we sincerely hope you'll help with a donation, by advertising here, and by helping us spread the word.
MrB & Mr Tall
Mon, 2007-10-08 22:49 — mrb
Why Nepal?
Room to Read are building libraries in Cambodia, Laos, Nepal and Vietnam. Nepal has the lowest literacy rate of the four, so that sealed it for me. Mr Tall has trekked in Nepal and seen the type of place that could benefit from a school library. That made it the preferred country for him too.
How about the bigger question? What's a charity appeal doing on batgung.com?
It started with a shout from our 4-year old daughter "Mummy, come out quickly...". This is usually a sign that our younger 21-month old daughter has got into some sort of trouble. Not this time though, as the sentence finished "... I can read it!" And sure enough, she had picked up one of her sisters simple story books, found she could read it, and full of pride she wanted to show off her prowess to mum.
Ok, cute story, but the point is how important being able to read is to us all, and how difficult it is to imagine life without being able to share information and experiences via the written word. So the next day when I read Tim Ferris' blog, and his 'LitLiberation' challenge, I paid attention. He's asking people to help raise US$1million in October to enable literacy, choosing to support either Donors Choose in the USA, or Room to Read internationally.
John Wood, the founder of Room to Read was in Hong Kong last month, promoting the charity and his book 'Leaving Microsoft to change the world'. You might have read some of the press coverage of his visit? I'd also had a browse through his book at Page One, so again, it all made sense to me that it was a good charity to support.
But how about you? Is it one that you'd like to help?
I could think of some reasons why you might. You may well have young children of your own. And for all our grumbling about the difficulty of the school system in Hong Kong, I think we all realise how lucky we are, especially when the alternative could be a school with no children's books, or indeed no school at all. Maybe you'd like to share some of that good fortune?
Or maybe you've enjoyed reading the batgung site so much you've thought of buying us a beer? (Could happen!) Can we trade it in for a book this time?
There were 16,000 unique visitors to the site last month, so just donate 63 cents and by the end of the month they can start building :)
Cheers, MrB
Tue, 2007-10-09 17:13 — Mr Tall
The power of reading
Although MrB has done a fantastic job of introducing this charity and the project we have in mind, I just wanted to add a couple of words.
I couldn't agree more that giving children a better chance to learn to read is one of the most potent and long-lasting gifts we can give. When I think about the joy that Mrs Tall and I have already been able to share reading with Daughter Tall, I hope that joy can be shared, over and over, by children who can can go into a well-stocked library and have free access to its riches.
Sorry for the rapturous tone, but I've been a voracious reader ever since I learned to sound out words myself, so this project has got me quite excited!
So I also invite all of our reades, regular or casual, to consider giving something. Even a little bit will help!
Wed, 2007-10-17 11:49 — batgungAdmin
Thanks for your support
Thanks to Doris, Sally, Kam, Pamela Ng, Timmie, Dawn Wong, Grace, Batpor, Angela Hou, Fiona, Sarah & Emma for your generous donations.
Thanks also to our first sponsor, Young Face Beauty Day Spa. They are advertising on the Shopping and Things to see and do pages, attracting visitors to Hong Kong to unwind at their spa.
Please help us find more donors, and business sponsors that would like to advertise here. We've passed USD1,400, so we're already one seventh of the way to building that library.
Fri, 2007-10-19 22:47 — batgungAdmin
Making sure your donation is well spent
I mentioned above how Room to Read expect a significant contribution from the local community that receives your donation. That makes sure the community is committed to the ongoing success of the new library.
The book by Room to Read's founder John Wood gives some examples of how this works in practice. First the donations are gathered into half of what they call a "Challenge Grant", then the community is challenged to offer up the other half and so demonstrate their commitment.
In some cases, the local parents make an investment of their own money:
[John decribes listening to the headmaster's speeches at the opening of a new school, and asked what was the long list of names and numbers being recited.]
"He's reading the names of each family who donated one thousand and one rupees to the school construction to honor and thank them for their commitment."
After the ceremony had concluded we were invited into the teacher's room for tea. I sat next to the headmaster and told him that I was impressed by the number of families who had donated money. I asked if he knew the exact amount of donors. With a look of immense pride and a wide smile full of perfect teeth, he informed me that 183 families had contributed.
John notes that 1,001 rupees is about US$14. Which doesn't seem much - until you remember the average person in Nepal earns less than a dollar a day.
Some places the families are even poorer, so they have to be more ingenious:
During subsequent visits to Nepal, I woul continue to hear stories about the power of these challenge grants. One of our projects, Himalaya Primary School, was located on the outskirts of Kathmandu, in a poor community whose economy depended on the local brick factories. The local soil was conducive to brickmaking, and the six soot-belching factories surrounded the village.
On a site visit to check on progress, I met the headmaster. He proudly recounted how he'd visited each factory to ask for support in building a new school. He reminded each factory owner that the workers' wages were so low that parents could not afford to contribute to the challenge grant. But Room to Read required each community to coinvest, so he proposed an innovative solution: each factory owner would donate 10,000 bricks, and Room to Read's money would be used to buy cement, window frames, desks, and to pay for skilled labor to erect the walls. His sales strategy succeeded, and once again I was blown away by the ingenuity of the communities with which we partnered.
And sometimes they are poorer still:
[Two days later our destination was] the village of Katrak, which perched on a hillside overlooking verdant rice fields. Dinesh parked our rented truck along the side of the road, and with a head nod and a shout of "Jhane ho. Orolo" (Let's go! Uphill), he announced to me that we had a steep hike in front of us.
At 8a.m. the sun was already burning down on us, and my pace slowed as I stopped for applications of sun cream and gulps from my water bottle. On frequent occasions women with large bags hoisted onto their backs rushed past me, heading up the trail. I could not hope to match their pace, even though I was carrying only my water bottle and a Nikon. I asked Dinesh if they were returning from the market, He laughed and asked whether I realized that these women were carrying cement. I must have looked perplexed, so he explained.
When the local government of the village requested Room to Read's help, Dinesh and Yadav (our civil engineer in charge of the School Room program) said that they would provide half the resources if the village could come up with the other half. The head of the village development committee told our team that the village was poor, with 95 percent of parents living on subsistence farming. What little economy the village had was simple barter, and as a result few parents could afford to put money into the project.
Yadav explained that contributions other than cash would count towards the challenge grant. As an example, parents could prove their commitment to education and the new school by donating labor.
The women we saw this morning had responded to the call. Each morning, a group of them would wake up before sunrise, walk an hour downhill to the roadside where the cement bags were being stored, and then walk 90 minutes back up to the village. The bags weighed 50 kilos - 110 pounds - and some mothers were making the trip twice in one day. Dinesh reminded me that this was a farming village, and that the women would still have to spend their day in the fields.
After reading these I felt confident that the library we're all donating will go to a community that really treasures it.
Mon, 2007-10-22 14:04 — batgungAdmin
Thanks to the team at GeoExpat, who are very kindly promoting the library fund-raising on their site. The GeoExpat site has been the first link on our 'links we like' page for several years. Their forums host lively discussions on just about everything related to expat life in Hong Kong, plus they arrange regular happy-hour get-togethers - well worth a visit!
Thanks also to the recent donors: Charlene, Shri / GeoExpat.Com, Dawn Wong, Victoria, Peter Lee, Kegral, and Moddsey. You've taken us over the USD2K mark, so we're one fifth of the way there.
Tue, 2007-10-23 21:41 — batgungAdmin
We'll triple your donation
We'll both match any donation you make until we've reached the US$10K target.
eg if you donate US$100, we'll both donate the same amount so the library fund gets a total US$300.
With your help we want to hit the US$10K target by the end of the month.
Wed, 2007-10-24 14:46 — Fiona
Okie Dokie
I'm going in again! Who can resist this level of generosity!
And thanks again!
That's great, Fiona -- you're right; we're getting close, and I think we're going to make it!
Thu, 2007-10-25 08:10 — batgungAdmin
Great to see we've passed the $10K mark - many, many thanks to everyone that's helped.
Dashing out now - more later.
Thu, 2007-10-25 11:39 — Fiona
You Did It!!!!
I was so happy to see the little bar count all the way up to 100% today. Kudos and well done to you!!!
Thanks to individual donors Minnie Ho & friends, Fiona, Goodfood, Isdl, Lina, Andrew Olson, two anonymous donors from the GeoExpat.Com community, May, Joey, Vince and Kaman, as well as corporate advertisers Relocasia and Explorer Publishing for your generous donations.
Kind regards, MrB
If you're still thinking of donating, please go ahead! We'll let the appeal run until the end of October, then set the website back to its normal look. Any extra money raised over the initial $10K target will fund another Room to Read project in Nepal. There are several to choose from, including:
US$ 2,500 : 10-year girl's scholarship
US$ 3,000 : Set up a Reading Room (ie a library) in an existing school building
US$10,000 : Enough to build a second library!
So we'll each put in our last matching donation today, then let's see the final total at the end of the month.
We've also learned a few lessons:
The best results often come from personal appeals. We'll see a donation from one person, then a couple more from their friends. Minnie Ho's donation took us to the $10K mark, but she contacted us to explain it was not just hers, but also included several donations collected from friends. She has a great technique for getting the message across to potential donors: "I read the article on scmp on room to read. It was very good. I would bring the article with me and show friends and tell them to donate...". So, we need to make it easier for people to explain to their friends why this appeal deserves their attention.
Many people aren't happy making paying via the web. For several friends we took payment by cash or ETC transfer, than paid through the web on their behalf. We should have made that option clear from the start.
There are a lot of generous people out there!
Now, what happens to the money?
We've emailed Room to Read to say we've got all the money to build a library. Their auto-reply says they are dealing with a heavy load of inquiries and to be patient. We'll let you know as soon as we hear more.
Regards, MrB & Mr Tall
Grand total raised: US$17,362
It's the end of the month, and with your help we've raised US$17,362.
It's enough to build and stock a standalone library plus two reading rooms. So that's three communities whose children will have a real chance at literacy. Then what's left will be enough for Room to Read to purchase another 1,362 books. I hope you'll agree it's great value for money.
Thank you to the latest group of individual donors: Phoebe, Gweipo, Boots & Engee, and Bauhinia Girl. Thanks also to corporate sponsor Saffron Cruises. And a final thank you to everyone that helped us reach and pass the target.
PS We're still waiting further details on exactly where in Nepal the money will be used. We'll keep you updated.
Sat, 2007-11-10 21:58 — Anonymous@geoexpat.com (not verified)
Please also keep us updated
Please also keep us updated on Geoexpat.
It is a shame that so many people are reluctant to use credit cards online - I really don't understand that: there is no rational reason for it - the is far more credit card fraud from manual copies of card swipes than there is from online "hacking", and in any case one's liability in the case of fraudulent use is very limited.
Nepal library - progress update
We've had the following updates from Room to Read on where the funds you've raised will be used:
Library construction project.
All the projects for 2007 are currently underway, so we've been asigned a project for 2008.
Their team in Nepal will let us know the exact location in Q1 of 2008. The full project can take around one year to complete, so they expect we'll receive the final report and pictures of the finished building around February-March 2009.
We get to choose the text for a plaque that will be fixed on the completed building. We've asked them to use:
This library was established through the cooperation of
the local community, Room to Read, and supporters from
Hong Kong listed at www.batgung.com/library
We hope that by including a link to this website, someone from the school may be able to contact us in future and let us know how the library is being used.
Two reading rooms
These will be completed in 2007. Room to Read don't give out as much information about these, but we've asked them to send us whetever information they can.
For these we are just able to display a single donor's name on a group plaque, so we've asked them to use:
Hong Kong's readers
Thanks to everyone who joined us for lunch yesterday, and to Shri from Geoexpat.com for making it possible.
Thanks also to additional donors Ernest & Cyrus, and Stew, who've brought the total up to $17,562.
There is a 15-minute PBS video which looks at Room to Read's work in Nepal. The section from 5:25 to 6:30 shows what a finished reading room looks like. If you watch the rest of the video, you'll also see examples of their scholarships for girls, and how they are also building whole schools. Good ideas for our 2008 appeal!
The Jan 26th issue of The Economist had a couple of articles that caught my eye. First their briefing on 'The World's silver lining' mentions:
The long march to literacy is nearing an end: three-quarters of people aged 15-25 were literate in 1975; now the rate is nearly nine-tenths.
Then a few pages later a piece on tourism in Nepal, 'From treks to sex', describes Nepal's growing sex industry: Nepali women are trafficked to India, and work in the massage parlours and "dance bars" that are sprouting in Kathmandu's tourist area.
Nepal's literacy rate is still below the 1975 rate quoted above, so has plenty of room to improve. And though I'm not naive enough to think that improved literacy will mean the end of the sex industry, it can be one of the steps towards reversing the recent growth of that industry.
Here's the latest news from Room to Read:
They are still working on identifying the villages that will have libraries built in 2008. We'll learn the location of the library we all funded in Q2, rather than Q1 as originally stated.
The group plaque mentioned previously will be fixed to the reading room at the Shree Birendra Secondary School, located in Parbat, Nepal. And in fact we shall get a completion report for this project, so we'll post that up as soon as we get it.
I ran a search on Google, and I think that the Parbat region is about where the red marker is below:
Progress on the report:
Regarding the 2008 constructed library in Nepal, our in-country teams have just switched to our new SalesForce database system and the transition is causing a few delays in data collection. It looks like the reports will be available around the end of July or early August. I do apologize for that delay but our teams are working feverishly on finishing up site selections and drafting MOUs with the partnering communities.
We'll let you know as soon as we hear more from them.
Better news here - we've received a copy of the promised completion report for this project. On page 3 of the report, the Challenge grant shows the contributions from the local community, and those from Room to Read (ie your donations):
CHALLENGE GRANT
COMMUNITY OR SCHOOL CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT:
1. Room color
2. Room preparation
3. Room carpeting
4. Part time librarian and teacher
5. Transportation of furniture and books
ROOM TO READ CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT:
• 150 English books
• 900 Nepali books
• Educational posters
• Dictionaries and atlas
• Educational wooden materials
• Two days of initial library training for 2 teachers
• Regular follow up and monitoring
3 book racks
2 display racks
4 tables
8 benches
1 teacher’s table
1 teacher’s chair
1 catalogue card box
1 white board
1 soft board
You can read the full report and see photos of the finished reading room here.
Nepal Library is complete
Some good news - at the start of this month we received the completion report for the new library we all contributed too. However, I got a bit of a surprise when I read it, as the school named in the completion report ('Shree Panchamuni Dev Secondary School' - click to download the completion report) was different from the school mentioned in the application report we received last year.
I asked Room to Read to check into it, and now we have received the correct details. I'll attach my questions and their answers below.
It's certainly taken a lot longer than we expected, but it's great to see the finished library in place at last. Thanks again for your support.
Q. Please can you explain why the school in the completion report is different from the school in the application report we received earlier?
A. For the past year or so, our programs teams have been transitioning to a new, Salesforce database under which to house all of our projects. In working through this data and communicating it back to the Global Office, the wrong application report was assigned to you. As you’ll recall, the application report outlines the community that the school is in, the number of students, and other information about the project. In transitioning the data from the in-country teams in Nepal to the new database, you were assigned to and then sent the incorrect application report.
The completion report you recently received from me has been the school that has received your funding and for which you are the supporter for the library. The correct application report for the correct school is attached to this email (click to download the application report). I do want to apologize for this discrepancy and the confusion it may have caused your donors.
Q. The completion report says that there are 702 students in the school, but in the next section it says the region has a population of 630. Please can you explain the difference?
A. You’ll see that in this report the number of students also exceeds the number in the community. This is because there are families that come from farther reaches of the region to utilize the school. The population number reflects those that live in the community directly but does not include those on the outskirts of the area and the children who travel these longer distances to school (because they live outside the town and don’t have access to a school).
Q. Finally it says that the 'Date established" for the new school is March 15, 2009. Can I explain that by saying that the library opened in March, but due to the reporting problems you described earlier, the completion reports were delayed until October?
A. There is always a delay in the “date established” and the date we send the final completion reports. The date established according to our in-country teams is the date that the materials have arrived and been placed in the school. These include the books and chairs and other items. However, we do also work on providing training for the teachers and /or the librarian and there is often a delay from when this happens and students begin to fully utilize the library.
We wait to do the final completion report once the librarian is trained and the school fully operates the library with the children engaged and utilizing the new resource! In Nepal this year, the delay between date of establishment and when final completion reports were completed was more significant than normal due to the political unrest and the difficulty our teams had in visiting and gathering final information on all of our projects. Road closures and intermittent electricity were just some of the challenges the team faced that contributed to the delay in getting all the information for the final report, sending it to our office, editing it, and sending it out to you. This was also in addition to the teams working on transitioning to the Salesforce database.
Again, I want to thank-you for your patience in this process. I know a couple of snags got in the way of getting a more timely and accurate set of reports to you – some of which we couldn’t control but some which were confusing errors – and I very much appreciate your understanding.
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Jeff Horn shocks the boxing world, upsets Manny Pacquiao!
Boxing is full of great stories, and boxing is also full of fighters getting old. Sometimes those stories cross, and that was the case earlier today as we saw former teacher Jeff Horn (17-0-1, 11) score a huge upset over Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38) and claim the WBO Welterweight title, and one of the biggest upsets of 2017.
Horn was supposed to be the next victim for Pacquiao and the start of a farewell retirement tour for the Filipino icon. Horn however fought like a man possessed and showed real energy, determination and confidence from the off, letting his hands go and forcing Pacquiao backwards immediately. The assault and energy from Horn really seemed to shock Pacquaio who struggled to much of note during the first 3 rounds. Though what the Filipino did land was damaging and left Horn with a nasty cut around the right eye.
Horn looked to try and keep the high energy work going in round 4, but seemed to slow a little giving Pacquiao some openings, with Pacquiao landing an eye catching right hook and a solid body shot. The Filipino seemed to begin finding some sort of a rhythm, but Horn was continuing to have his successes as well.
Although Pacquiao had successes in round 4 he didn't seem able to keep it up in round 5 as Horn bullied him and landed some solid shots. Again Pacquiao had his moments, and there was some argument for him winning the round but he failed to make it decisive as he really needed to given the amount of leather Horn was throwing.
Going in to round 6 Horn's eye was getting worse however he wasn't the only one ending the round bloodied as an accidental clash of heads left Pacquaio with a bad cut on the hairline, with blood instantly running down the side of his face. Following the headclash the rest of round 6 was messy, with little clean work of note until late when Horn landed several good right hands and actually seemed to wobble Pacquiao.
With blood running down his face Pacquiao came out for round 7 with bad intentions but struggled to have any major consistency against the Australian, who landed some solid right hands before another clash of heads left Pacquaio with a second hairline cut, this time on the other side of his head. A bloodied Pacquiao seemed like a wounded animal and Horn went hunting his prey, but was caught by a very eye catching uppercut in the final moments of the round.
Pacquiao managed to have a real charge in round 8 as Horn began to slow, and tire. There was a large chant for the local but a huge body shot by Pacquiao and a few eye catching punches late in the round were more than Horn could manae, with the local doing landing little more than asingle notable right hand. Pacquiao built on his success in round 9, a round that saw him batter Horn around the ring in the bouts most 1-sided round, that saw him do everything but drop the Australian. Horn seemed to be running on empty and it looked like a stoppage was on the cards for the Filipino.
Before round 10 the referee went over to Horn, who was sat on the stool following the terrible round 9, and said he needed to see something from the Australian or he was going to stop the bout. The words from the referee seemed to reignite the fire in Horn who struggled early in the round but began to put on a real fight back late in the round as a tired Pacquiao looked like a man who had worn himself out with the big effort in the previous round. It wasn't a clear round for Horn, but it was more than enough to convince the referee that he was fine, and that he wasn't as spent as he had looked in round 9.
The rejuvenating powers of Horn were proven again in round 11 as he seemed to take the fight to Pacquiao again and despite taking some solid shots from the Filipino he was the man pressing the action and forcing the fight. It was clear that Pacquiao was landing the better blows, but Horn seemed to out work him, even if the shots weren't as eye catching as those form the Filipino.
The final round saw Horn again on the front foot, and dragging Pacquiao into a fire fight with the round finishing in a brilliant and eye catching back and forth brawl that seemed to show Pacquiao hurt again. It was a great finish to what had been a unexpectedly great fight, and a great effort from both men.
With the bout going the distance the cards were read out, with scores of 117-111 and 115-113, twice, all of which favoured Horn giving him a career defining victory.
With the win Horn becomes the new champion and potentially lines up some major pay days, such as a rematch with Pacquiao or a bout with Terrence Crawford. For Pacquiao, who never looked even a shadow of his former self, the bout could be the end, and at 38 it may be the perfect time to bow out of the sport. He has nothing left to prove, and seemed to come up against a younger, hungrier and more determined fighter. If it had been the Pacquiao of old there is little doubt he'd have battered Horn, like he did to Miguel Cotto, but this wasn't the Pacquiao of 7 or 8 years ago. Instead it's the Pacquiao of 2017.
Although the decision has been decried by some as controversial, with Dan Rafael and Teddy Atlas both scoring the bout comfortably in favour of Pacquiao,it does seem like father time really has caught up with Pacquiao and that size played a major factor here. Horn seemed, at times, to be too big and too strong, and too hungry for the old, small and battle worn Pacquiao.
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Calvin Volleyball Downs Illinois Wesleyan in Nationally-Ranked Showdown
Ill. Wesleyan
Calvin (8-0) 17 25 25 25 3
Ill. Wesleyan (5-4) 25 23 17 23 1
K: Anna Kamp - 19
B: Courtney VanderHoning - 3
D: Sarah DeVries - 19
SA: Kelsey Smith - 3
K: Burkman, Rachel - 18
B: 2 Players (#14, #8) - 2
D: Juarez, Amber - 17
SA: Brown, Tyler - 3
GREENCASTLE, Ind. - The top-ranked Calvin women's volleyball team improved to 8-0 on the season with a hard-fought four-set win over 11th-ranked Illinois Wesleyan Friday night at the DePauw Tiger Invitational.
Calvin dropped the opening set by a 25-17 count but came back to take the next three sets by scores of 25-23, 25-17, 25-23.
In the deciding fourth set, Calvin overcame a 22-15 deficit with a 10-1 run to end the set and the match.
Senior Anna Kamp (Orland Park, Il./Chicago Christian HS) tallied 19 kills and 10 digs. Kamp had a pair of key kills in Calvin's final fourth set surge.
Junior Sarah DeVries (Grand Rapids, Mich./Northpointe Christian HS) picked up her second triple-double in seven days, notching 10 kills, 25 assists and 19 digs. DeVries had a kill and three assists in Calvin's final run.
Freshman Kelsey Smith was also huge with 10 kills, five digs, three service aces and a pair of block assists.
Freshman Anna Schriemer (Vicksburg, Mich./Vicksburg HS) had 16 assists and eight digs. Senior libero Keilahna Castillo had 15 digs. Junior Ally Fea (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg HS) had six kills and a block assist.
As a team, Calvin recorded a season-high 70 digs.
"We played a very good team with a lot of offensive weapons," said Calvin women's volleyball coach Amber Warners. "We hung tough through some sloppy play to play awesome at times. We were very resilient tonight when we needed to be. I am happy with what we learned from the match."
Calvin is now 3-0 this year against teams ranked in the Top 25.
Calvin returns to action at the DePauw Invite on Saturday as it is scheduled to face host DePauw as well as Rose-Hulman Institute.
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As her teacher rambled on about God knows what, Molly doodle in her notebook. All over the once clean sheet of paper were little hearts filled with phrases like “Molly and Luke 4ever” and “Mrs. Luke Taylor.”
She knew it was such a childish thing to do; she’s only ever met him in person once. But she couldn’t help but find herself daydreaming about him, wishing that he was hers. She silently scolded herself. What was wrong with her? She was a junior in college and had her whole life ahead of her. She should be paying attention to her teacher, not the subject of her fantasies.
Molly bit her lip as she tried to hide a groan. Her thoughts went back to all the images of him she’d seen. He was a fitness model and could be found on the covers of many Indie romance novels. She sighed as she pictured his brown eyes, so brown they were almost black. His spiky, dark brown hair that was always styled just right. Her mind’s eye wandered down lower, to the smirk that always graced his face. His large shoulders, his bulky arms. They weren’t that bulky though, they were just right. She forced herself not to smile as she thought about his six-pack abs that glistened when wet…
Molly shook her head, ridding herself of the daydream. But it was no use. She quickly found herself pulled back in by her latest fantasy starring Luke Taylor…
Molly sighed at the feel of his rough, calloused hands sliding up and down her torso. She was lying naked on her bed, panting with need.
“Luke,” she breathed, her voice raspy.
“Mmm, yes, Molly?”
She shivered as his deep voice covered her like a blanket. “I need…” she trailed off, too embarrassed to say what she wanted.
“You need what?”
Molly moaned. He wasn’t going to make her say it.
“I need you.” Her voice came out like a whine.
Molly trembled at the wet feel of Luke’s tongue circling her earlobe. “Not good enough,” he whispered in her ear, gently biting down.
She groaned again, too shy to say the words. So instead, she grabbed his hand and placed it on her sex, gently pushing his fingers inside her wet and dripping pussy.
Luke’s deep chucked resonated as he trailed his lips down her neck. “Such a greedy girl. You want more?” he asked, pumping his fingers in and out of her.
“Please,” Molly begged, her hips bucking as she tried to feel more of him.
“Well,” he paused, laughing at Molly’s groan of protest as he removed his fingers. “You’re going to have to say it. Tell me, Molly. Tell me what you want.”
“I… I…” Molly stuttered, her face turning red. “I want you to make me come.”
“And how do you suppose I do that?” he asked, his hands moving up her body to cup her full breasts.
“Fu… fuck me, Luke.”
A smirk appeared on Luke’s face. “I believe I can do that.”
Luke had one hand rolling and pinching her nipple, while the other palmed his cock, lining it up at her entrance.
“Say please, Molly,” Luke commanded.
“Please!” Molly shouted, her face tense with desire.
Luke’s lips collided with hers, stifling her moan of pleasure as he thrust himself roughly inside her. “Fuck,” he seethed, going still so Molly could adjust to his size. “Fuck, Molly. You’re so damn tight.”
Molly bit her lip, stifling her protest of frustration. She wanted him to move, needed him to move.
“Oh, someone needs more. Is that right, Molly?” Luke asked.
“Yes,” she breathed, trying to move her hips.
She whined as he moved to pull out of her, but gasped as he plunged right back in. “Oh, Luke! Oh, God,” she cried, her face scrunching in pleasure.
Luke grabbed Molly’s hands, which were starting to travel up his arms. He locked her wrists in one of his hands, bringing them above her head. His thrusts started to get faster and harder, causing Molly to pant with need. She was getting close, she could feel the familiar ache start low in her belly.
“You like this, don’t you? You like being fucked?”
“Yes, oh God, yes. Luke, don’t stop,” Molly cried, the ache growing and growing inside her.
“You want to come, sexy girl? You want me to make you explode?”
“Please,” she begged, her head falling to the side, her hips bucking to meet his every thrust.
“I can help you with that,” he said, leaning over to take a taut, pink nipple in his mouth.
Molly grunted, the extra stimulus taking her almost to the edge. “Luke, I’m so close. So close.”
Luke let go of her hands, bringing his down to her clit. He pressed the sensitive button, rolling it in circles.
Molly screamed as her climax roared over her. Luke groaned, his thrusts becoming even faster, even harder. “Fuck, Molly. You’re so damn tight. You’re so tight for me.”
Three more pounding thrusts and Luke stilled, his face relaxing as he released himself inside Molly. His sweat covered body fell on top of hers, making Molly chuckle. She enjoyed Luke, enjoyed making him feel like he made her feel.
Molly was jolted back to the present as she noticed that the classroom was silent and everyone was staring at her. Her face burned bright red as she noticed that the familiar sensations of an orgasm were fading from her body. Oh, shit. She just climaxed in front of her whole class. And it was all thanks to Luke Taylor.
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Michael J. Seezen
J.D., summa cum laude, University of Tennessee (1998)
B.A., cum laude, Wake Forest University (1995)
Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
Named, The Best Lawyers in America (2012-2019) "Lawyer of the Year," Public Finance Law - Columbia (2016) "Lawyer of the Year," Securities Regulation - Columbia (2014)
Named, Outstanding Young South Carolinian, South Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce (2013)
Named, Outstanding Individual Volunteer Fundraiser, Association of Fundraising Professionals Central Carolina (2012)
Named, "20 Under 40," The State newspaper (2009)
Diversity Leaders Initiative, The Riley Institute at Furman (2017)
Board Member, United Way of the Midlands (2009-2016); Chair (2015-2016), Vice-Chair (2014-2015), Co-Chair of Campaign Committee (2012-2014); Founding Member, Young Leaders Society Steering Committee
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Graduate, Leadership South Carolina (2014)
Graduate, Leadership Columbia (2008)
Graduate, Blueprint for Leadership (2007)
Assisted multiple school districts, cities and counties in utilizing innovative installment purchase revenue bond transactions to finance construction of schools and other public facilities and to refinance debt.
Served as bond counsel for multiple cities and counties, which together issued more than $1 billion of tax-exempt revenue bonds since 2009, to finance or refinance essential water and sewer infrastructure and stormwater improvements as part of larger capital improvement programs.
Served as bond counsel to a municipality which issued a "green bond" certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative, the first of its kind in South Carolina.
Served as underwriter's counsel for multiple redevelopment bonds issued by county to fund mixed-use development in previously blighted, urban areas.
Assisted a rural South Carolina college to utilize a federal financing program designed for historically black colleges and universities, to help restructure its debt and finance much-needed capital projects.
Partner | Columbia, SC
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Michael is a transactional and securities lawyer whose areas of practice include public finance, corporate securities and SEC reporting. Michael principally represents issuers of debt and/or equity securities, including state and local governments (e.g. cities, counties and special purpose districts), hospitals, colleges and universities, manufacturing companies and utilities. He also represents underwriters and banks (both as purchasers of bonds in private offerings and as providers of liquidity and credit enhancement for public, variable interest rate financings).
Michael reviews and provides guidance with respect to annual, quarterly and other special reports filed by public companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission (e.g. Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K and proxy statements), offering documents used in connection with the sale of public finance and SEC-registered securities and documents utilized in investment, swap and other derivative transactions.
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2229 Center Point Parkway
Birmingham, AL. 35215
CENTER POINT FIRE DISTRICT RECLASSIFIED TO ISO CLASS 1
The Center Point Fire District serves the City of Center Point, City of Clay, City of Pinson, and
unincorporated areas of northeast Jefferson County. In 2017, Center Point Fire Department responded
to over 8,516 emergency calls. The Center Point Fire District provides fire suppression and emergency
medical services with 91 employees operating from 4 fire stations. The Center Point Fire District has
earned an ISO Class 1/1X rating through a Public Protection Classification (PCC) survey conducted by the
Insurance Services Office (ISO). PPC classifications range from 1 to 10 with Class 1 representing
exemplary fire suppression capabilities.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR OUR COMMUNITY?
The areas of Jefferson County that are served by the Center Point Fire District have the best
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Most U.S. insurers (including the largest ones) use PPC information as part of their decision-
making when determining which businesses to write, coverage to offer, and pricing. The ISO
Class 1 rating will mean lower insurance rates for many citizens and businesses within the
Center Point Fire District.
Insurance rates based on the new ISO Class 1 rating will take effect on October 1, 2016.
HOW DOES CENTER POINT FIRE DISTRICT COMPARE?
In 2015, only 132 fire departments achieved an ISO Class 1 rating out of the over 48,000 that
were evaluated. The Center Point Fire District is now included in the top 1% of fire suppression
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In addition to Center Point Fire District, there are 4- ISO Class 1 fire departments in Alabama.
The Center Point Fire District is the only Fire District in Alabama to hold an ISO Class 1 rating.
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The Center Point Fire District is headed by Fire Chief Donnie P. West Jr. He oversees the total operations of the Fire, Medical Rescue, and Transport aspects of the department. The District is staffed by approximately 100 employees, who staff four fire stations, with four engine companies, and four advanced life support transport units. Fire/Medics staff the department in a three platoon system, employees work 24 hour shifts with each shift supervised by a Battalion Chief.
The fire district provides service for the cities of Center Point, Clay, and Pinson. We also provide service for unincorporated areas of Northeastern Jefferson County with stations in Center Point, Pinson, Clay, and Chalkville, we are responsible for these areas as well as Grayson Valley, Robinwood, Pawnee, and Ketona. We responded to a total of 8479 calls in 2015.
Center Point Fire District Stations
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5175 Pinson Valley Parkway
6411 Clay Palmerdale Road
5470 Chalkville Mountain Road
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Skipton Street Angels win High Sheriff Award
SKIPTON STREET ANGELS RECEIVE HIGH SHERIFF’S AWARD
Street Angels Skipton have been honoured for their community work by The High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, Peter Scrope DL at a presentation in Skipton.
During his visit in March 2013 to Craven, The High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, accompanied by the Chairman of Craven District Council, Councilor Christopher Harbron, presented an award to Eileen Appleby, Chairman of Street Angels Skipton. The award recognises great and valuable services to the community made by Street Angels Skipton and their contribution in enhancing the life of the community.
Eileen Appleby said
“It was a real surprise and pleasure to hear that the work of Street Angels in Skipton has again been acknowledged and an honour to receive the award on behalf of the Street Angels. Coming up to our fourth birthday next month, this past year has been the best yet for us. Being one of the current Mayor’s chosen charities, receiving a Craven Community Champion Award in 2012 and now receiving this special award from The High Sheriff of North Yorkshire has made it an exceptional and memorable 12 months. It is a great credit to our unpaid volunteers and our supporters for all the hard, yet enjoyable, work they do.”
The Street Angels have become a familiar sight in Skipton every Saturday night as they help people keep safe and bring a friendly face onto the streets. The group was formed four years ago and there will be a special celebration 7.30pm on Tuesday 30 April 2013 at St Stephens Church, Skipton.
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Honduran Congress names provisional president
Honduran Congress strips president of powers, names provisional president
Obama statement: "I call on all ... to respect democratic norms"
Military detains President Jose Manuel Zelaya, flies him to Costa Rica
Zelaya says he plans to continue exercising presidential duties
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNN) -- Hours after the sitting president was deposed by a military-led coup, a new president of Honduras was sworn in Sunday.
Honduras President Jose Manuel Zelaya was detained and sent to Costa Rica, the government said.
But the former president was not ready to give up his powers.
The political developments that swept Honduras over the past weeks and led up to Sunday's coup had the makings of a crisis, but the situation in the Central American nation of 8 million people was calm.
Roberto Micheletti was sworn in as provisional president to the applause of members of Congress, who chanted, "Honduras! Honduras!" Outside the building, supporters of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya protested, but their numbers were limited, and the streets remained mostly peaceful. Micheletti told CNN en Español Sunday evening that he has imposed an "indefinite" curfew.
Micheletti, the head of Congress, became president after lawmakers voted by a show of hands to strip Zelaya of his powers, with a resolution stating that Zelaya "provoked confrontations and divisions" within the country. A letter of resignation purported to be from Zelaya was read to members before the vote.
But the deposed president, Zelaya, emphatically denied in an interview with CNN en Español that he wrote the letter. Speaking from Costa Rica, where he was taken after the coup, he said he plans to continue exercising his presidential duties with a trip to Managua, Nicaragua, to attend a summit of Central American heads-of-state.
Zelaya awoke to the sound of gunfire in his residence and was still in his pajamas when the military forced him to leave the country Sunday morning, he told reporters. He was flown to Costa Rica, where he has not requested political asylum.
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"This was a brutal kidnapping of me with no justification," Zelaya said.
He called the coup an attack on Honduran democracy.
"There are ways to protest without arms," Zelaya said.
The coup came on the same day that he had vowed to follow through with a nonbinding referendum that the Honduran Supreme Court had ruled illegal. Watch details on "curious situation" in Honduras »
The coup was widely criticized in the region, in strongest terms by Zelaya's leftist allies, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. A statement from Venezuela's foreign ministry said Zelaya was "violently expelled from his country by a group of unpatriotic, coup-mongering soldiers."
The Bolivian government also condemned the coup, accusing Honduran troops of kidnapping Zelaya and violently expelling him from his country.
Elsewhere, Jose Miguel Insulza, the secretary-general of the Organization of American States, strongly condemned the coup in a statement. And in Washington, President Obama said in a statement that he was "deeply concerned" by the news.
"I call on all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter," Obama said. "Any existing tensions and disputes must be resolved peacefully through dialogue free from any outside interference."
The president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, called the Honduran military's intervention a "criminal action."
But in Honduras, the Supreme Court said in an official statement that the military was acting in accordance with a court order to put an end to Sunday's scheduled vote, which the court's justices had found illegal.
Micheletti addressed the issue directly in his first remarks as provisional president.
"I did not reach this position because of a coup," Micheletti said. "I am here because of an absolutely legal transition process."
No other countries immediately recognized Micheletti as president.
Zelaya, a leftist elected in 2005, had found himself pitted against the other branches of government and military leaders over the issue of Sunday's planned referendum. It would have asked voters to place a measure on November's ballot allowing the formation of a constitutional assembly that could modify the nation's charter to allow the president to run for another term.
In various interviews Sunday, Zelaya characterized the vote not as a referendum, but as a survey to gauge receptiveness toward a constitutional assembly. He denied that he would have been the beneficiary of any future constitutional changes.
Zelaya, whose four-year term ends in January 2010, cannot run for re-election under current law.
The Honduran Supreme Court had ruled the poll illegal, and Congress and the top military brass agreed, but Zelaya had remained steadfast.
In the end, it appeared the opposition to Zelaya was too great. The military confiscated the ballots from the presidential residence, in effect canceling the disputed vote.
In separate appearances Sunday, Zelaya, Venezuela's Chavez and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the military had also detained Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas, further raising regional tensions.
Speaking in Havana, Rodriguez said that the Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan ambassadors to Honduras had tried but were unable to protect Rodas from a group of masked soldiers who forcibly took her from their grasp. Further details regarding that incident were unclear.
"If they attack our ambassadors, they will be declaring a state of war," Chavez said. "If they have weapons, then we have weapons, too."
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During the past few months and as mentioned in a previous blog post, San Marcos City Council has been reviewing Code SMTX and proposed amendments to a January draft for final adoption. At a recent City Council amendments workshop, there was a sudden move to increase residential parking requirements in the downtown character district, fueled again by fear of changing the status quo. This decision was accompanied by a number of statements that conveyed uncertainty or confusion around parking reform issues, so I've compiled responses to some of these and provided them to City Council members in an effort to encourage them to return to the current parking minimums that apply to downtown.
At the same meeting, copious options for technical stormwater BMP standards were presented by staff to City Council for their vote. Despite there being considerable confusion regarding the various options presented by staff and their cost implications on both residential and commercial development, the council moved forward with considerable increases in stormwater regulations beyond staff's recommendations across large portions of the city. In areas outside the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, there are currently no regulations in place on filtering stormwater and with such costly increases in development, there is a real risk of simply pushing development outside the city limits. My thoughts on how this could be tempered also follow below, in comments as sent to City Council:
1. It was asked if there are other towns and downtowns that have effectively implemented parking reductions. The answer is YES. And many have completely removed parking minimums in their downtowns or even across the entire city, with no sign of reversing this decision.
Above is a map published by Strong Towns (www.strongtowns.org) of towns that have eliminated parking minimums (green), reduced parking minimums (blue) or are discussing changing parking minimums (orange) as of the end of 2016. These towns range in population from very small - Spartanburg, South Carolina, population 38,000 - to medium - Buffalo, New York, population 256,000 which eliminated parking minimums throughout the entire City - to large, major cities. In some instances, these parking deregulation measures were enacted up to ten years ago and this map is growing as cities realize the benefits of a less car-centric development policy, particularly when coupled with other smart parking reform measures like metered on-street spaces and car sharing. Walking, biking and transit use measurably go up, and redevelopment that supports alternative transit and more housing is encouraged.
2. It was noted by a council member that with the current downtown parking minimum, some households that choose to live downtown may get rid of extra cars but would likely still have one car per household. It was then stated that a code that requires 0.75 parking space per bed would not provide sufficient parking for one-car households. However, it was not clarified that one household would occupy ONE UNIT - whereas the downtown code that currently requires 0.75 parking spaces is PER BED.
At 0.75 spaces per bed, the downtown parking requirements would provide 1.5 spaces for a two bedroom household unit, 2.25 spaces for a three bedroom household unit, and so on. Parking PER BED is an issue in itself because by using a different unit of measure, it fails to recognize households with elderly or youth residents that do not drive, or couples or roommates that share cars. There are a diversity of households in the US, many of which would have less cars if parking was not provided in excess and the cost of parking was separated from rent.
3. It was noted by a council member that the cost of using car share apps, such as Uber, is expensive, and provided an example where this was costing someone $12 - $15 per day. However, the average yearly cost of car ownership far exceeds the daily expense with shared transit.
AAA's most recent 2017 study (http://newsroom.aaa.com/auto/your-driving-costs/) shows that when factoring initial cost, yearly maintenance, repair, insurance, depreciation and fuel costs, it costs on average $8,469 annually to own a car in the United States. But if someone spent $15 every day of the year using Uber, a bus pass, or other car share programs, this would amount to $5,475, a net savings to that individual of about $3,000 a year. Furthermore, studies show that the more an individual utilizes modes of shared transit, the more likely they are to also use public transit, own less cars and spend less on transportation overall (https://www.apta.com/resources/reportsandpublications/Documents/APTA-Shared-Mobility.pdf). When people realize they can save money, habits do change - and the success of making San Marcos a multimodal community is all about changing a person's mindset and raising awareness of the cost and health benefits of moving beyond private car use.
4. Higher standards for stormwater BMPs that exceeded staff's technical and researched recommendations were adopted, requiring extremely high standards where none have been in place since San Marcos' founding. However, there was no discussion of how to help encourage the development community to reach for this higher standard, which has a high probability of negatively impacting the creation of new housing, both affordable and market rate in San Marcos and instead lead to increased sprawl outside the city limits where there are less restrictions on water quality.
Extremely high water quality standards pose a serious danger of preventing affordable and market rate housing from being delivered in San Marcos. Staff showed that these higher standards will significantly impact the cost of development and because of this, many developers may look to opportunities to develop outside the city limits, effectively reducing potential tax base and proliferating sprawl in central Texas. Particularly because the issue is extremely technical and can have a large impact on costs, staff's original recommendations should be adopted as a base standard and then instead, incentives should be utilized to encourage higher standards for stormwater BMPs that go beyond these base standards. Incentives help to educate and energize better development and can include mechanisms such as density bonuses, reduced development fees, grants, or trade-offs with other sustainable features. Please refer to the EPA's handbook on municipal incentives for stormwater BMPs for more information: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents/gi_munichandbook_incentives.pdf
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Fairway’s Fromagerie
Jen Spyra
Debris abounds. Not a soul in sight. A rainbow of canned foods glistens in eerie silence. I'm panting heavily.It's not the apocalypse. I'm not locked in a panic room. I'm simply perusing the Fairway Market on 74th and Broadway at midnight. The panting? I'm in the cheese section.
If you commit the egregious oversight of likening Fairway to some other market, don't worry. Millions of strategically placed neon placards will remind you that you're shopping at a site like no other. And it's true: there's something patently other about Fairway. In my assessment, they stock every foodstuff ever conceived by the human mind and sell it cheap. For the Morton-Williams-weary, a trip to Fairway is like coming home.
Fairway's fromagerie is awesome in scope and smell. Even if you're just some bum who likes Cheetos, you're bound to appreciate the vast display, arranged as if to evoke the august grandeur of a pharaoh's tomb. Rounds, slabs, and blocks of cheese are stacked like majestic bullion. The effect is so pronounced that I feel as though if I were to touch a piece of cheese, an evil spirit would slither out of the ether and condemn me to three countless eons of soul-abasing servitude unless I agreed to be its concubine and dance nude for its friends at parties. Fondling some aged Manchego, I notice that it doesn't happen, so I continue to squeeze cheese through plastic wrap. I handle some baked ricotta with lemon. Nice consistency.
Then there's the meat department, where you can ogle plastinated thighs and breasts with abandon. If taxidermy's more your thing, soak up the stuffed rooster nailed to a log on the counter of the meat display case. And for New York's small but demanding Jewish-Native American population, Glatt Kosher bison is always on hand. Turkey meatballs, turkey necks, beef rump roast, and rabbit festoon the shelves in varying degrees of pink. Little D'Artagnon are clarified by the parenthetical aside (Young Chicken). It's as if the Fairway Big Brother is explaining: "No, not that dashing Musketeer. Chicken!" Amazingly, clarification is necessary. It's not altogether inconceivable that Fairway would serve Musketeer, if that's what her customers desired. New Yorkers are, after all, a discriminating bunch. Fairway bends to meet the whims of her patrons with the professional commitment of a lithe geisha.
I didn't make that up; they really do aim to please in the profoundest way. Exclamatory placards above the meat display case reassure me of this fact: "Our counter guys cook. They also bend over backwards to make you happy. You want us to braise that chicky? Done. You want that crown roast frenched? Done." In terse, no-nonsense colloquialisms, Fairway lets us know that she would go to lengths for us, that she wants us to be happy, well-fed, and choosy. Like a loud, Semitic grandparent, Fairway yells at us to pick out the best and enjoy it.
Late Wednesday night, just before closing at 1 a.m., is a fine time to do just that. Free from the quizzical gaze of reasonable people, I have the leisure to fondle as much brie as I please.
// Jen Spyra is a senior English major in the College. Barnard College, that is. She can be reached at js2423@barnard.edu.
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New wrinkle on deubiquitination in B-cell lymphoma
Siegfried Janz
Blood 2018 132:2529-2530; doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-10-878611
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In this issue of Blood, Hussain et al1 shed light on the mechanism by which the deubiquitinating hydrolase, UCH1L, promotes MYC-driven neoplasms of mature B cells and plasma cells. The new findings solve the long-standing conundrum of UCH1L’s ability to maintain high-level protein synthesis despite inhibiting its positive upstream regulator, mTORC1.
Schematic depiction of the key advance reported by Hussain et al in this issue of Blood. UCHL1 is a deubiquitinating enzyme that has been shown in previous work to promote malignant B-cell and plasma cell development (indicated by blue arrow pointing right) despite inhibiting mTORC1 (blue horizontal line with a short vertical “stop” line). The inhibition of mTORC1 has been enigmatic because the protein complex serves as a crucial positive regulator of cap-dependent mRNA translation and protein synthesis: a mandatory requirement for malignant growth. Hussain et al solved the enigma by demonstrating that UCHL1 promotes the assembly of the eIF4F translation initiation complex (red arrow pointing down), bypassing, thereby, the inhibitory impact of the UCHL1-mTORC1-4EBP1 axis on protein synthesis. Hussain et al also show that the enzymatic, deubiquitinating activity of UCHL1 is crucial for MYC-driven lymphoma in laboratory mice. This provided preclinical support for the contention that targeted inhibition of deubiquitination using small-molecule drugs may lead to new treatments for patients with lymphoma and myeloma.
Ubiquitination is a sequential enzymatic process that covalently attaches the 76-residue polypeptide ubiquitin to client proteins. This either targets them for proteasomal degradation or regulates their functional properties, such as enzymatic activity, subcellular localization, and interaction with other proteins in supramolecular complexes. Just like other posttranslational protein modifications, ubiquitination is reversible: a job performed by a sizable family of peptidases called deubiquitinases (n ≤ 100). These can be classified into 6 subfamilies based on sequence and domain conservation, and are able to cleave ubiquitin from target proteins, edit ubiquitin chains on proteins, or process ubiquitin precursors in order to maintain a pool of free ubiquitin necessary for normal cell function. Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1, or UCHL1 for short, is the founding member of the deubiquitinase family, which is currently emerging as a promising molecular target for new approaches to cancer therapy and prevention.2
Previous studies by the investigator team reporting in Hussain et al, ingeniously led for more than a decade by Paul Galardy at Mayo Rochester, established that upregulation of UCHL1 prognosticates poor outcome of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma3 and multiple myeloma.4 Consistent with an oncogenic role in mature B cells and plasma cells, transgenic expression of UCHL1 accelerated neoplastic B-cell development in laboratory mice,5 including MYC-driven lymphoma in strain EμMyc,6 a widely used model of deregulated MYC protooncogene expression consequent to human Burkitt lymphoma t(8;14)(q24;q32) translocation. Interrogation of the mechanism by which UCHL1 promotes malignant B cell and plasma cell development demonstrated that UCHL1 impacts a cellular signal transduction module that is widely considered the master regulator of cell growth: mammalian (mechanistic) target of rapamycin, mTOR.7
mTOR is a serine/threonine kinase that, by virtue of assembling with different scaffold proteins and cofactors, forms 2 principal complexes with distinct biological functions: raptor-bound mTOR, designated mTORC1, governs 5′-terminal cap (7-methylguanosine, m7G)-dependent messenger RNA (mRNA) translation, whereas rictor-bound mTOR, dubbed mTORC2, activates a downstream serine/threonine kinase that is crucial for cell proliferation and survival: AKT (v-Akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog). Interestingly, Galardy and associates showed in earlier work that in B lymphocytes UCHL1 shifts the balance of mTORC1 to mTORC2 activity in favor of the latter. This relies on a mechanism that involves the deubiquitination of the scaffold protein, raptor, and a loss of mTORC1 kinase activity that results, in turn, in reduced phosphorylation-dependent inhibition of downstream substrates such as 4EBP1, which is eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1. 4EBP1 is a negative regulator of protein synthesis that inhibits the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4F complex, eIF4F, that is key for cap-dependent translation and protein synthesis. Increased levels of 4EBP1, caused by UCHL1-dependent suppression of mTORC1, are expected to result in strong eIF4F inhibition and low protein synthesis (see figure).
Although the above-mentioned UCHL1-dependent increase in mTORC2 activity leading to enhanced AKT survival and proliferative signaling provides an obvious advantage for neoplastic development, the inhibition of mTORC1 by UCHL1 presented a conundrum given the importance of protein biosynthesis in cancer in general and in MYC-driven lymphoma in particular. To attack this problem and further our understanding of UCHL1’s oncogenic function, Hussain et al took advantage of proximity-based proteomics to demonstrate that UCHL1 is associated with and promotes the assembly of the eIF4F translation initiation complex. The experimental results show that UCHL1, by virtue of bypassing 4EBP1 and targeting eIF4F directly, is able to drive protein biosynthesis despite suppressing mTORC1 (see figure, red arrow). Another significant advance made by Hussain et al relied on a newly developed mouse model of transgenic expression of hydrolase-dead UCHL1, demonstrating that the enzymatic deubiquitinating activity of the protein is important for MYC-driven lymphoma.
In summary, Hussain et al identified a novel mechanism that permits UCHL1 to drive protein biosynthesis in the face of mTORC1 inhibition. In addition, the authors demonstrate an important role of deubiquitination in MYC-driven lymphoma development. The new results lend strong preclinical support to the design and testing of small-compound inhibitors that target UCHL1 and related deubiquitinating enzymes for therapeutic purposes.8 In myeloma, for example, inhibitors of this sort may overcome acquired resistance to proteasome inhibition.9 This was recently shown for PSMD14 (proteasome 26S subunit, non-ATPase 14), a deubiquitinase that resides in the 11S cap of the 20S proteasome.10 For myeloma and lymphoma patients who are relapsed or refractory to standard therapies, deubiquitinase inhibitors cannot come down the road soon enough.
Conflict-of-interest disclosure: S.J. declares no competing financial interests.
© 2018 by The American Society of Hematology
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The Registry's policy regarding acceptable use of its Services, as may be amended from time to time, located at the Registry Website.
Authoritative Name Server
A domain name server configured to host the official record of the contents of a DNS zone. Each Industry Domains .parts domain name must have a set of these so computers on the Internet can find out the contents of that domain. The set of authoritative name servers for any given domain must be configured as NS records in the parent domain.
The service of automatic renewal allows the customers the convenience of automatic billing for the services ordered through the domain registrar. If the automatic renewal is selected, customer's credit card will be automatically charged for the service, which will avoid the interruption in service.
Available Domain Names
A Domain Name that is not already registered or a Reserved Domain Name.
Available SLDs (Second Level Domains)
SLDs that have not been blocked, reserved, registered, awarded, or otherwise previously allocated by a Registry prior to that receipt of an Application for a DPML Block.
Billing Contact
Majority of the registries require 4 contacts for a successful domain registration: Registrant, Administrative, Technical and Billing. The Billing contact is responsible for the payment of the domain, and is usually assigned to the registrar managing the domain.
Caching Resolver
The combination of a recursive name server and a caching name server.
Cloaking Forwarding
Domains can be forwarded to another URL by using a forwarding service. Cloaking forwarding differs from Apache 301 forwarding by showing the content of the URL being forwarded to, however the URL bar displays the original domain name.
A CNAME record is an abbreviation for Canonical Name record and is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) used to specify that a domain name is an alias for another domain, the "canonical" domain. CNAME has a very specific syntax rule. CNAME can only be set up for the unique subdomain, meaning that it cannot be set up for any subdomain, which has already been set up for the domain. Thus CNAME is most commonly set up for WWW subdomain.
Country-code top-level domain (ccTLD)
A Class of Top Level Domains, generally assigned or reserved by a country, sovereign state, or territory. IANA is the organization, responsible for the ccTLD assignments. Since 2010 there 2 types of ccTLDs: 2 letter ASCII characters TLDs and IDN TLDs, which consist of the native language characters. Each country/territory is able to implement certain restrictions and requirements on the ccTLD assigned to them.
Cross-Registry Information Service Protocol (CRISP)
The name of the working group at the IETF that developed the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS), a next-generation WHOIS protocol replacement.
Any transfer of responsibility to another entity. In the domain name system, one name server can provide pointers to more useful name servers for a given request by returning NS records. On an administrative level, sub-domains are delegated to other entities. IANA also delegates IP address blocks to regional Internet registries.
Deletion of the domain results in the domain record being removed from the registry's database. Domain deletion procedure and availability differs depending on each of the TLD's policy. Certain extensions require additional payment to delete a domain name.
DNS zone
A section of the Domain Name System name space. By default, the Root Zone contains all domain names, however in practice sections of this are delegated into smaller zones in a hierarchical fashion. For example, the .com zone would refer to the portion of the DNS delegated that ends in .com.
A technology that can be added to the Domain Name System to verify the authenticity of its data. The works by adding verifiable chains of trust that can be validated to the domain name system.
In order to prevent unwanted changed to the domain names, customers have an ability to change the locks on their domain names. The domain lock availability depends on individual TLD, and includes clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited, clientDeleteProhibited, clientRenewProhibited.
A unique identifier with a set of properties attached to it so that computers can perform conversions. A typical domain name is "icann.org". Most commonly the property attached is an IP address, like "208.77.188.103", so that computers can convert the domain name into an IP address. However the DNS is used for many other purposes. The domain name may also be a delegation, which transfers responsibility of all sub-domains within that domain to another entity. domain name label a constituent part of a domain name. The labels of domain names are connected by dots. For example, "www.iana.org" contains three labels — "www", "iana" and "org". For internationalized domain names, the labels may be referred to as A-labels and U-labels.
An entity offering domain name registration services, as an agent between registrants and registries. Usually multiple registrars exist who compete with each other, and are accredited. For most generic top-level domains, domain name registrars are accredited by ICANN.
Domain Name Registry
A registry tasked with managing the contents of a DNS zone, by giving registrations of sub-domains to registrants.
Domain Name Server
A general term for a computer hardware or software server, which answers requests to convert domain names into something else. These can be subdivided into authoritative name servers, which store the database for a particular DNS zone; as well as recursive name servers and caching name servers.
Domain Name System (DNS)
The global hierarchical system of domain names. A global distributed database contains the information to perform the domain name conversations, and the most central part of that database, known as the root zone is coordinated by IANA.
Dot or “."
Common way of referring to a specific top-level domain. Dot generally precedes the Top Level domain, such as dot com is written down as “.parts”.
DPML (Domain Protected Marks List)
The service that blocks certain SLDs from Registration across Registries pursuant to the Terms and Conditions.
DPML Applicant
A natural person, company, or organization submitting a DPML Application.
DPML Application
A complete, technically correct request for a DPML Block made with Donuts, which complies with all the respective requirements provided for in these Terms and Conditions, submitted by a DPML Registrar.
DPML Block
The block, under these Terms and Conditions, preventing the Registration of a SLD across all TLDs then owned and operated by Donuts (e.g., a DPML Block for "second" will generally block that SLD from being registered in a Domain Name in participating TLDs, such as "second.top").
DPML Block Request
A request submitted by a DPML Registrar on behalf of an Applicant who desires to block from registration names contained within the SMD File.
DPML Registrar
An entity authorized by Donuts to sell DPML Blocks on its behalf.
DPML Service Agreement
That agreement between Donuts and DPML Registrars attached hereto as Exhibit A, as amended from time to time.
The expiration date determines when the domain registration period ends. In order to avoid downtime for the domain, renewal of the domain at least two weeks before expiration date is strongly encouraged. After the expiration date passes, some registries maintain the record of the domain name under the same owner, however the DNS services are put on hold.
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
A protocol used for electronic communication between a registrar and a registry for provisioning domain names.
Refers to the last portion of the domain name, located after the dot. Domain extension helps determine the registry, to which domain pertains, and allows to accurately classify the domain name.
First Come, First Served (FCFS)
Multiple applications for the same domain name are not accepted. The domain will be awarded to the first registrar who submits a registration request.
File Transfer Protocol does exactly what it says. The standard network protocol allows the transfer of files from one host to another. There are many FTP clients(programs) available, which allow you to connect to your host and transfer your completed content to your hosting provider's space.
Fully-Qualified Domain Mame (FQDN)
A complete domain name including all its components, i.e. "www.icann.org" as opposed to "www".
GAC Principles
A document, formally known as the Principles for the Delegation and Administration of ccTLDs. This document was developed by the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee and documents a set of principles agreed by governments on how ccTLDs should be delegated and run.
General Availability Phase
Domains are awarded on first come first serve basis, granted that the domains are available after the previous phases have concluded.
Generic top-level domains (gTLDs)
A class of top-level domains that are used for general purposes, where ICANN has a strong role in coordination (as opposed to country-code top-level domains, which are managed locally).
Glue Record
An explicit notation of the IP address of a name server, placed in a zone outside of the zone that would ordinarily contain that information. All name servers are in-bailiwick of the Root Zone, therefore glue records is required for all name servers listed there. Also referred to as just "glue".
Hints File
A file stored in DNS software (i.e. recursive name servers) that tells it where the DNS root servers are located.
The name of a computer. Typically the left-most part of a fully-qualified domain name.
HyperText Transfer Protocol serves as the cornerstone protocol for World Wide Web, which allows the transfer of data between clients and servers.
See Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
IANA Considerations
A component of RFCs that refer to any work required by IANA to maintain registries for a specific protocol.
IANA Contract
The contract between ICANN and the US Government that governs how various IANA functions are performed.
IANA Staff
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) is responsible responsible for the coordination of maintenance and methodology of several databases of unique identifiers related to the namespaces of the Internet, and ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.
Internal transfer
Internal transfer refers to a transfer of a domain name within the same registrar. This procedure may be simpler, than starting a domain transfer, which involves 2 different registrars. The internal transfer is possible, after two parties involved in the internal transfer come to an agreement about the terms of the transfer.
Internationalized domain name (IDN)
Internet domain name, which allows the use of a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, and Chinese. Adoption of IDN domain names is a significant step towards including non-English speakers into the world of Internet. Internationalized domain name is stored in Domain Name System as ASCII strings, which are transcribed by the use of Punycode.
Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
The oversight body of the IETF, responsible for overall strategic direction of Internet standardization efforts. The IAB works with ICANN on how the IANA protocol parameter registries should be managed. The IAB is an activity of the Internet Society, a non-profit organization.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
A department of ICANN tasked with providing various Internet coordination functions, primarily those described in a contract between ICANN and the US Government. The functions relate to ensuring globally-unique protocol parameter assignment, including management of the root of the Domain Name System and IP Address Space. ICANN staff within this department is often referred to as "IANA Staff".
Internet Coordination Policy (ICP)
A series of documents created by ICANN between 1999 and 2000 describing management procedures.
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
The committee of area experts of the IETF’s areas of work, that acts as its board of management.
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
The key Internet standardization forum. The standards developed within the IETF are published as RFCs.
Internet Protocol (IP)
The fundamental protocol that is used to transmit information over the Internet. Data transmitted over the Internet is transmitted using the Internet Protocol, usually in conjunction with a more specialized protocol. Computers are uniquely identified on the Internet using an IP Address.
A unique identifier for a device on the Internet. The identifier is used to accurately route Internet traffic to that device. IP addresses must be unique on the global Internet.
Internet Protocol version 4. Refers to the version of Internet protocol that supports 32-bit IP addresses.
Internet Protocol version 6. Refers to the version of Internet protocol that supports 128-bit IP addresses.
This phase allows you a greater chance to obtain a domain name prior to General Availability, typically for an increased fee. The fee generally varies depending on how early you want to register. Priority is either first-come, first-served or will go to an auction if there are multiple applicants, depending on registry rules. A common fee structure that will be in use is the Early Access Program (EAP). Further details on a specific extensions landrush phase can be found under the landrush section for that a particular domain.
Mail exchange (mx) record
MX record determines which server the mail client will be retrieving the mail from. The MX records for individual domains can be set up in the DNS records section of the client's control panel.
New Generic Top Level Domain (New gTLD)
Starting on July 15th, 2013 ICANN has started process of delegating new Generic Top Level Domains, opening up new opportunities for the internet community. New extensions include popular categories like professional domains, IDNs, general interest domains, and brand domain names.
a type of record in a DNS zone that signifies part of that zone is delegated to a different set of authoritative name servers.
Consistent with the Terms and Conditions, the Registration of a Domain Name where a DPML Block currently exists by a Registrant holding an SMD File that contains the SLD String that exactly matches the SLD String in the applied-for Domain Name.
Parent domain
The domain above a domain in the DNS hierarchy. For all top-level domains, the Root Zone is the parent domain. The Root Zone has no parent domain as it is as the top of the hierarchy. Opposite of sub-domain.
Many of the registrars offer a free service of domain parking. This allows the customer to quickly register a domain cpr144449003101 name, and choose the hosting solution at a later date. Very often the registrar's parking DNS servers allow DNS record modification.
Premium Name
A Domain Name designated by a Registry, in its sole discretion, for non-standard pricing.
Paid pre-registration allows you to purchase the domain in the General Availability phase, and the domain will be submitted as soon as the General Availability phase opens.
Primary name server
Practically every domain extension requires minimum 2 DNS servers in order for the domain to be successfully registered. Primary name server is responsible for storing information about the domain routing and making it available for requests.
The representation of a IP address to domain name mapping in the DNS system.
Recursive Name Server
A domain name server configured to perform DNS lookups on behalf of other computers.
Redelegation
The transfer of a delegation from one entity to another. Most commonly used to refer to the redelegation process used for top-level domains.
Redelegation process
A special type of root zone change where there is a significant change involving the transfer of operations of a top-level domain to a new entity.
Redemption Grace Period
Redemption Grace Period(RGP) is a period after the expiration date, in which the domain still belongs to the same client, however the functionality is put on hold. The domain can usually be restored after paying for RGP fee. gTLDs often have a Renewal Period of 30 days before the Redemption Grace Period starts.
Regional Internet Registry (RIR)
A registry responsible for allocation of IP address resources within a particular region.
Registered Name
A Domain Name that has been registered in and is maintained by a Registry.
See Registrant Contact
Registrant Contact
Majority of the registries require 4 contacts for a successful domain registration: Registrant, Administrative, Technical and Billing. The Registrant contact is the owner of the domain, and is the entity that holds right to use the particular domain name.
A Domain Name registrar sponsoring an applicant for a Registration that is (i) accredited by ICANN and (ii) has entered into a Registry-Registrar Agreement with a Registry.
Registrar for .parts
An entity that can act on requests from a registrant in making changes in a registry. Usually the registrar is the same entity that operates a registry, although for domain names this role is often split to allow for competition between multiple registrars who offer different levels of support.
A Domain Name and its associated information (e.g., WHOIS data) submitted копирайт, 101домен by a Registrar that has been accepted by a Registry.
A TLD domain name registry owned and operated by Donuts.
Registry Industry Domains .parts
The authoritative record of registrations for a particular set of data. Most often used to refer to domain name registry, but all protocol parameters that IANA maintains are also registries.
Registry Agreement
The Registry Agreement between Registry and ICANN for the operation of the TLD, as amended from time to time, and as posted on the ICANN website.
Registry Operator for .parts Industry Domains
The entity that runs a registry.
Registry-Registrar Agreement
The agreement between a Registry and certain Registrars, as amended from time to time.
Reserved Domain Name
A Domain Name that has been set aside by a Registry pursuant to the terms and conditions of such Registry.
Reverse IP
A method of translating an IP address into a domain name, so-called as it is the opposite of a typical lookup that converts a domain name to an IP address.
A series of Internet engineering documents describing Internet standards, as well as discussion papers, informational memorandums and best practices. Internet standards that are published in an RFC originate from the IETF. The RFC series is published by the RFC Editor.
The highest level of the domain system.
Root Servers
The authoritative name servers for the Root Zone.
Root Zone
The top of the domain name system hierarchy. The root zone contains all of the delegations for top-level domains, as well as the list of root servers, and is managed by IANA.
Root Zone Management (RZM)
The management of the DNS Root Zone by IANA.
RZM Automation
A project to automate many aspects of the Root Zone Management function within IANA. Based on a software tool originally called "eIANA".
Second Level Domain or SLD
Means second level domain, representing the String to the left of the dot preceding the TLD (e.g., in the Domain Name "second.top", "second" is the SLD).
Secondary name server
Practically every domain extension requires minimum 2 DNS servers in order for the domain to be successfully registered. Secondary server is responsible for copying information from the primary server. The original purpose of secondary server is to take over the requests, if the primary server is down. Some of the registries no longer put an emphasis on which server is primary or secondary, but many international registries still use the old standard.
Signed Mark Data (SMD)
A Signed Mark Data (SMD) is file that will allow you to register domain names during the sunrise period of new gTLD’s and request other services. It validates that you trademark has been verified within the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH).
SMD (Signed Mark Data) File
The file issued by the TMCH proving that the TMCH application data for one or more TMCH-eligible terms - typically a trademark - have been successfully validated and entered into the TMCH database.
Sponsoring organization
The entity acting as the trustee of a top-level domain on behalf of its designated community.
SRS (Shared Registration System)
The system of computers, networking equipment, data stores, software services and network connectivity that allows Registrars to provision objects for the purpose of applying for, registering, modifying and maintaining Registrations and allows DPML Registrars to provision objects to apply for, register, modify and maintain DPML Blocks.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographivc protocol, which is designed to provide communication security over internet. The data entered on the websites, using SSL, is encrypted, thus making it less susceptible to data theft.
A series of alphanumeric characters, including dashes when not preceding or finishing the alphanumeric character set. For purposes of clarity only, this includes Punycode conversions of IDNs.
In the domain hierarchy, or structure, subdomain is a domain, which is a part of a larger domain. For example, "www.icann.org" is a sub-domain of "icann.org", and "icann.org" is a sub-domain of "org". Subdomains can generally be setup through a DNS server management utility as A records or CNAME records.
Sunrise Phase
A phase in which holders of eligible trademarks have the opportunity to apply and register domain names that correspond to their trademarks. To participate in Sunrise for new gTLDs, trademark holders must validate their trademarks with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) first and must provide a valid Signed Mark Data (SMD) file for submission.
Sunrise Registration
A Domain Name Registration resulting from an approved Sunrise Application.
Technical Contact
Majority of the registries require 4 contacts for a successful domain registration: Registrant, Administrative, Technical and Billing. The Technical contact is intended to assist the Registrant(owner) contact in any queries that pertain to the technical aspects of managing the domain name.
This document, including the annexes and any and all interpretative guidelines published by Donuts in relation hereto, as may be amended from time to time.
TLD (Top Level Domain)
Representing the string to the right of the dot (e.g., in the Domain Name "second.top", ".top" is the TLD).
TMCH (Trademark Clearinghouse)
The mechanism made available for the validation and database management of rights protected terms, typically trademarks.
TMCH Guidelines
The then effective guidelines found at http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com.
Top-level domain (TLD)
The highest level of subdivisions with the domain name system. These domains, such as ".parts" and ".uk" are delegated from the DNS Root zone. They are generally divided into two distinct categories, generic top-level domains and country-code top-level domains.
Trademark Claims
The trademark claims period extends for 90 days after the close of the Sunrise period. During the Claims period, anyone attempting to register a domain name matching a trademark that is recorded in the Trademark Clearinghouse will receive a notification displaying the relevant mark information. If the notified party goes and ahead and registers the domain name the Trademark Clearinghouse will send a notice to those trademark holders with matching records in the Clearinghouse, informing them that someone has registered the domain name.
The central database of verified trademarks that was created by ICANN to provide brand protection to trademark holders during ICANN’s new gTLD program. Its' a centralized database of verified trademarks, that is connected to each and every new Top Level Domain (TLD) that will launch.
Most commonly, the term transfer refers to a inter-registrar transfer of registrations. The procedure of the tranfer will largely depend on the TLD, and is most commonly completed by requesting an authorization code from the current registrar and initiating the transfer at another registrar.
Trust anchor
A known good cryptographic certificate that can be used to validate a chain of trust. Trust anchor repository (TAR) Any repository of public keys that can be used as trust anchors for validating chains of trust. See Interim Trust Anchor Repository (ITAR) for one such repository for top-level domain operators using DNSSEC.
An entity entrusted with the operations of an Internet resource for the benefit of the wider community. In IANA circles, usually in reference to the sponsoring organization of a top-level domain.
UDRP
ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Process, as applied and amended.
U-label
The Unicode representation of an internationalized domain name, i.e. how it is shown to the end-user. Contrast with A-label.
A standard describing a repertoire of characters used to represent most of the worlds languages in written form. Unicode is the basis for internationalized domain names.
Uniform Resource Locator(URL), commonly known as web address, is an address to a resource on the internet. The URL consists of two components: Protocol Identifier(i.e. http, https) and the Resource name(i.e. icann.org)
Unsponsored top-level domain
A sub-classification of generic top-level domain, where there is no formal community of interest. Unsponsored top-level domains(.COM, .NET, .ORG, etc.) are administered according to the policies and processes established by ICANN.
URL Forwarding
URL Forwarding or URL redirection refers to the most common type of forwarding offered by domain registrars. Forwarding occurs when all pages from one domain are redirected to another domain.
ICANN's Uniform Rapid Suspension System.
A standard used for transmitting Unicode characters.
In the context of internationalized domain names, an alternative domain name that can be registered, or mean the same thing, because some of its characters can be registered in multiple different ways due to the way the language works. Depending on registry policy, variants may be registered together in one block called a variant bundle. For example, "internationalise" and "internationalize" may be considered variants in English.
Variant bundle
A collection of multiple domain names that are grouped together because some of the characters are considered variants of the others.
Variant table
A type of IDN table that describes the variants for a particular language or script. For example, a variant table may map Simplified Chinese characters to Traditional Chinese characters for the purpose of constructing a variant bundle.
Web host (Hosting Provider)
Web host is a type of an Internet service, which allows users to host content and/or email services by providing hosting space. Most often the hosting providers include control panels and tools for building a website and maintaining mail records.
A simple plain text-based protocol for looking up registration data within a registry. Typically used for domain name registries and IP address registries to find out who has registered a particular resource. (Usage note: not "Whois" or "whois")
WHOIS database
Used to refer to parts of a registry’s database that are made public using the WHOIS protocol, or via similar mechanisms using other protocols (such as web pages, or IRIS). Most commonly used to refer to a domain name registry’s public database.
WHOIS gateway
An interface, usually a web-based form, that will perform a look-up to a WHOIS server. This allows one to find WHOIS information without needing a specialized computer program that speaks the WHOIS protocol.
WHOIS server
A system running on port number 43 that accepts queries using the WHOIS protocol.
The format of data when it is transmitted over the Internet (i.e. "over the wire"). For example, an A-label is the wire format of an internationalized domain name; and UTF-8 is a possible wire format of Unicode.
A machine-readable file format for storing structured data. Used to represent web pages (in a subset called HTML) etc. Used by IANA for storing protocol parameter registries.
Zone (DNS Records)
The zone file, also know as the DNS records is a vital component of DNS system, which contains various DNS records, which point to the location of content and email servers for each individual domain. Editing zone is made possible in the client's control panel.
Renew Your .parts
Renewing your .parts domain is easy if you are already registered with Bluesit.com. You can renew your Industry Domains domain name at the current rates, and you can extend the life of your domain.
1 Year Renewal 32.99 USD
2 Years Renewal 65.98 USD
4 Years Renewal 131.96 USD
10 Years Renewal 329.89 USD
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Is there a grace period for renewal of my .parts domain name?
Grace period is 30 days. You can renew your .parts domain for 30 days after expiration. .parts does not have a grace period, it must be renewed by it's expiration.
Protect Your Industry Domains .parts Domain With Auto Renewing Domain Names?
Auto Renew helps protect you from losing your Industry Domains .parts domain name registration. If your .parts domain name registration is set to Auto Renew, your account will be automatically charged approximately sixty (60) to ninety (90) days prior to the end of your term period. If Auto Renew is not set up in your account, you will need to renew your Industry Domains .parts domain name registration through Account Manager.
How to renew a Industry Domains .parts domain name?
Login in your Account. Select your Industry Domains .parts Domain name and push the button "Renew". You can also select "Auto Renew". The current Domain Renew will be displayed. Please select "Change Auto Renew Settings" and set this on Auto Renew.
Make sure your credit card information is current. Please note Only Account Holders/Primary Contacts and Account Administrative Contacts on the account can purchase or renew services for your .parts domain name. Account Technical Contacts on the account cannot purchase or renew services.
Is there a redemption period for Industry Domains .parts domain names?
Redemption period lasts days after grace period. You can renew your .parts domain for additional fee. (Please contact customer service for restore fee).
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How does the transfer process work?
Your current registrar will provide you with an authorization code (sometimes called a "Transfer Key" or an "EPP Key").
Using this key we can transfer your domain to us. Once the transfer process has begun the Administrative or Registrant contact of your domain will receive an email from us requesting authorization for the transfer. Once authorization has been given it will take up to 5 days before the domain transfer has been completed. Please be sure that you can receive emails for the Administrative and Registrant contacts for this domain!
NOTE: Some registries do not participate in the authorization code process or transfers may be manual. If your domain does not have an auth code for transfer, please contact us and we will assist you in the transfer process. Bluesit.com can assist with all transfers no matter what extension you have.
What is an Authorization Code?
An authorization code is a number that is used to transfer domain names between registrars. It is used to ensure that you are the current domain holder.
How do I find my Authorization Code?
You will need to get this code from your current registrar. Go to the website of the company that currently holds your domain and request the authorization code from them.
Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars
This Policy was modified by ICANN’s Board of Directors on 7 November 2008 with an Effective Date of 15 March 2009. See modified version of Policy.
A .parts domain must also have been registered for more than 60 days before you are allowed to transfer registrars. If, however, your domain happens to be involved in a legal dispute or if you are facing bankruptcy then the transfer of a domain name will not take effect.
Ensure a valid email address for the administrative contact (admin) of your .parts domain name in the Whois database. Both registrars use this email address to send you important information about the transfer. If it is invalid, contact your current registrar to update it.
Unlock your .parts domain name at your current registrar.
Get an authorization code (also known as an EPP code or transfer key) from your current .registrar, if required. Some domain name extensions, primarily country-code top-level domain names (ccTLDs), do not require an authorization code.
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Your .parts domain transfer of your domain name generally takes at least ten working days to complete - this can be shorter or longer depending on the registrar you choose. The cost of transfer will also vary depending on the registrar. Some registrars may be more willing than others to work out a package deal for you. For example, they might offer to provide you with free domain transfer service if you agree to register your domain with them for a period of more than a year. Again, the deal you score will depend on the registrar and on the amount of time you put into finding a package that is most suited to your needs.
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Автор: Frederic P. M.
Издательство: Книга по Требованию
Описание: The 2007- 08 season was Arsenal Football Club' s 16th year in the Premier League. This article shows statistics of the club' s players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the season. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. They hold the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight and are the only side to have completed a Premier League season unbeaten. Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, they have won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups.
Arsenic, Hands of Mystery, Doorway to Danger, and Doodle Weaver-programs which ran during the same period, and which by comparison make such current TV programs as Vega$ and That's Incredible! look like great American theater. Television never really has had a golden age; only successive seasons of sounding brass which vary slightly as to the trueness of the tone. Nevertheless, television has produced isolated spasms of quality, and three of Serling's early teleplays-Patterns, The Comedian, and Requiem for a Heavyweight-form a large part of what television viewers mean when they speak of a "golden age" . . . although Serling was by no means alone. There were others, including Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) and Reginald Rose (Twelve Angry Men) who contributed to that illusion of gold. Serling was the son of a Binghamton, New York, butcher, a Golden Gloves champ (at approximately five feet four, Serling's class was flyweight), and a paratrooper during World War II. He began to write (unsuccessfully) in college and went on to write (unsuccessfully) for a radio station in Cincinnati. "That experience proved frustrating," Ed Naha relates in his fond reprise of Serling's career. "His introspective characters came under attack by . . . executives who wanted their `people to get their teeth into the soil'! Serling recalled the period years later: `What those guys wanted wasn't a writer, but a plow.' " * Serling quit radio and began to freelance ...»
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Loic Duval was the race driver despite his commitment in Super GT and Formula Nippon this season.
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For SS17 Telfar continues his core practice of starting with the most widely available, boring, bland and normal staples of american dress and turning them up: deconstructing their, form reimagining their function, and projecting them into the future.
Rendered in big box fabrics and a suburban palette of brights-basics like the polo, dress shirt and tank top are taken apart and reconstructed: twisted, reversed, turned into pants or strapped with lateral stripes of fabric which act as pockets.
The result is an uniform fir the future-present acting as camouflage for counterculture. Eluding any category, Telfar swears allegiance to no niche consumer typology: It's not for skaters; it's not for goths; it's not for preppies... In the words of the line's own motto: It's not for you, it's for everyone.
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June 30, 2004 Resources 2 Comments
FactCheck.org: Scraped Webfeeds
I love FactCheck.org a nonpartisan project by the Annenberg Public Policy Center that uses journalistic expertise to “monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.”
If ever there was a presidential election that needed such context, 2004 is the year.
You can subscribe to receive free e-mail alerts whenever FactCheck.org publishes a new article. Unfortunately, they don’t yet offer their own webfeed. According to Feedster’s Feedfinder service, three third-party “scraped” webfeeds are available that deliver FactCheck.org headlines.
Yes, I know that scraped webfeeds present an ethical quandary for some people. I’ve written about that issue before. But personally, if I want a webfeed to stay abreast of a site’s content and they don’t offer one, I’ll probably subscribe to a scraped feed as long as it delivers what I want. And when the content provider catches up with the 21st century and implements a webfeed, I’ll switch to the source. But frankly, I prefer webfeeds over e-mail alerts, whether they come straight from the source or not.
June 30, 2004 Feeds (RSS)
“Webfeed” Nickname Continues to Spread
“Webfeed,” the nontechnical nickname that describes the general concept behind both RSS- and Atom-format feeds, and winner of the CONTENTIOUS RSS Nickname Contest, continues to appear in more and more places online.
On May 18 I mentioned the first few appearances of “webfeed” online. Here are several more recent occurrences…
June 30, 2004 Resources
More Misc. Cool Stuff to Check Out
Here are some more items which have caught my attention recently:
At the top of the list: What Do You See Ahead? Seven Questions To Robin Good About Present And Future In Education, Communication Technologies And The Arts, June 20, Robin Good’s Master New Media weblog. I love this blog, it’s one of my favorites.
Here’s the first of seven questions Good tackles thoughtfully: “Can you describe to us what you would consider an end product, or outcome, of education?” Excerpt from Good’s response: “To me the end product of education should be an individual capable of effectively evaluating reality through a refined ability to research, analyze and question information in a critical way. …The more education provides for specialized know-how and weak critical evaluation capabilities in favour of notionistic learning, the more we endanger our fellow [humans] to be dependant on external authority and centralized resources of knowledge to direct the available opportunities in hir life.” Absolutely. Excellent. Do not miss this article!
The rest of today’s recommended reading list…
More on Learning to Roll
Here’s a must-read article: Creative Thinking as a Way of Life, Jan. 23, 2004, Blog News for Bloggers, by Wayne Hurlbert.
Excerpt: “Creativity reduces risk by looking at solutions to problems. Rather than living with problems, …the creative person looks for opportunities for improvement. The glitches, problems, and failures represent challenges, not roadblocks. The non-creative solutions in business often result from acceptance of failure. “
This is an excellent complement to something I wrote yesterday, Corporate Weblogs: Learning to Roll.
June 30, 2004 Amy's Adventures
Update: FeedDemon Minus Explorer
Since my earlier posting about my decision to abandon Internet Explorer and how this has affected my webfeed reader, some new information has come to light. Here are a few updates…
June 29, 2004 Content Style & Business
Corporate Weblogs: Learning to Roll
Back on May 3, Seth Godin wrote in his weblog A Penny For…
“Most blogs are boring, self-absorbed, trivial and not worth remembering, never mind talking to people about. Company blogs are worse, because everyone wants to play it safe. Safe is risky! Safe is invisible! If you want to play it safe, please don’t bother wasting time on a blog. It won’t work.”
Agreed. Blogs are definitely not for the risk-averse.
When you blog, you expose yourself or your organization in a way that opens you to more examination, questioning, re/mis-interpretation, and criticism than you’d otherwise encounter. That can be useful and educational also unsettling and humiliating. It becomes harder to hide the inevitable errors and gaffes that plague us all. To make it all work, you must admit that you’re human (or that your organization is composed of humans) and roll with it…
Bye Bye, Explorer
UPDATE JULY 14, 2004: The information in this article is now largely our of date. I’ve changed a lot of things, after much experimentation and exasperation. Find out what I’m using now. Read: Feed Readers: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.
I’ve finally abandoned Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser altogether in my Internet use. yeah, it was convenient for awhile until it got buggy on me and kept crashing. It’s also a spyware magnet, which is a hassle. But what recently pushed me over the edge was this pointed weblog entry by Gary Lawrence Murphy: How to use MSIE Online: Don’t. See also this article from SpywareInfo.
Result: I’m now a very happy and dedicated user of Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
One issue in abandoning Explorer is my webfeed reader. For a while now, my favorite feed reader has been FeedDemon mainly because I love the interface. The default embedded Web browser that comes with FeedDemon is Explorer. This means that when I click on a feed item, FeedDemon’s preview panel uses Explorer to display the results, thus exposing me to all of Explorers bugs and vulnerabilities.
If you use FeedDemon, here’s how you can change that…
Heads Up: Happy Birthday, FOIA!
Just a little public service announcement here for US citizens… In case you didn’t notice, a nifty US law called the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is about to turn 38. (It was signed into law by Pres. Lyndon Johnson on July 4, 1966.) Not necessarily a milestone birthday, but still I think the fact that it’s still surviving, especially in the current climate of sharply increased government secrecy, deserves some appreciation…
June 28, 2004 Wikis
How is a Wiki Like a Weblog?
Recently I wrote about the concept of the bliki, which combines characteristics of weblogs and wikis.
Along this theme, the weblog Hunting the Muse recently pondered what, exactly, weblogs and wikis have in common, and how they might best be combined in a practical way. Check out Weblogs, Wikis, and Comments.
Also, see Robin Good’s recent weblog entry about blikis: After The Blog Is Gone: SnipSnap Plays Bliki. It’s a bit more technical than the first article, but not too difficult and it’s definitely stuff you’ll want to understand if you want to explore the emerging bliki world.
SEE A BLIKI IN ACTION: Martin Fowler’s Fowler’s Bliki. The topic it covers is fairly technical (software development), but look at it for how it gets used and read his intention for this project. It’s an intriguing format.
Free Shagging Marmots, Courtesy of BBC, This Fall
…Don’t knock it it’s a start.
This fall, the BBC will put its Creative Archive online. According to Wired News, this ambitious project will, “make thousands of audio and video clips available to the public for noncommercial viewing, sharing and editing. It will debut with natural-history programming.”
This online content database will be available under a license similar to the US Creative Commons approach. However, it’s not for everyone. BBC’s Creative Archive will be available only to British citizens who pay the yearly TV license fee. Access will be denied to people who attempt to log on from a non-UK IP address. (Well, hmmmmmm…. A lot of people from all over the world visit the UK and use the Internet there….)
According to Wired News, the UK group Union for the Public Domain has initiated an activist campaign to ensure that this archive eventually offers more varied fare than “shagging marmots.”
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Diabetes, Multivessel CAD, and NSTEMI: Not Enough CABG? Local practice patterns suggested for PCI dominance
Nicole Lou Reporter, MedPage Today/CRTonline.org
Among diabetes patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) presenting with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), only slightly more than a third get coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) as recommended by guidelines, a registry study showed.
Between 2008 and 2014, 36.4% of such patients received surgery, while 46.2% got percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and 17.3% had no revascularization at all during index admission. PCI actually gained during that period, rising from 45% in the third quarter of 2008 to 48.9% in the fourth quarter of 2014 (P=0.0002 for trend), whereas CABG did not budge in usage (36.1% to 34.7%, P=0.88 for trend).
Although guidelines currently recommend surgery over PCI for these patients, “only one third undergo CABG during the index admission, reported Dharam J. Kumbhani, MD, SM, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and colleagues online in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. “Furthermore, the use of PCI, but not CABG, increased modestly over the past 6 years.”
Kumbhani and colleagues added that “there are marked variations in the proportional use of CABG and PCI among participating hospitals, which persist even among angiographic subgroups, a finding that suggests that local practice patterns play an important role in selection of CABG versus PCI in NSTEMI patients with [diabetes] and multivessel CAD.”
Patients were more likely to be directed to CABG instead of PCI if they had:
Left main or proximal left anterior descending disease (odds ratio [OR] 4.26, 95% confidence interval [CI] 4.01-4.52)
Signs of heart failure on presentation (OR 1.31, 95% CI 1.20-1.42)
Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 40% to 50% (OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.13-1.31)
Age 72 years or younger (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.08-1.13)
Body mass index of 25 kg/m2 or less (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.03-1.09)
The study from Kumbhani’s group included 29,769 patients who were voluntarily enrolled in the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get with the Guidelines (ACTION Registry-GWTG).
Factors associated with decisions for PCI over surgery were:
Female sex (OR 0.76, 95% CI 0.71-0.81)
LVEF under 25% (OR 0.81, 95% CI 0.69-0.94)
Medicare versus private insurance (OR 0.87, 95% CI 0.81-0.94)
Current dialysis (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.65-0.87)
History of myocardial infarction (OR 0.86, 95% CI 0.78-0.94)
History of heart failure (OR 0.71, 95% CI 0.64-0.78)
According to the authors, “the choice of optimal revascularization strategy in this patient population is particularly influenced by the severity of underlying CAD.”
“Among high-risk patients (three-vessel CAD and proximal left anterior descending disease involvement), CABG has been the revascularization strategy of choice throughout the study period. Similarly, PCI is the preferred revascularization strategy among lower-risk patients (two-vessel CAD without proximal left anterior descending disease involvement) with no significant change over time,” they wrote.
Furthermore, they noted, the “hospital-level variation in the proportional use of CABG and PCI across participating centers” possibly reflects “a lack of clinical consensus among physicians regarding the optimal revascularization strategy for these patients, rather than a lack of awareness regarding the evidence base.”
As for why CABG seems to have stalled in general use, “the provider’s preferences may also bias the patients to align toward less invasive option,” Kumbhani’s group argued. “Differences in local expertise of interventional cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons and systems of perioperative care could also influence the decision-making process.”
The authors acknowledged that they lacked data on several variables that could have influenced the decision to go with a particular revascularization strategy. For one, there were no angiographic data such as SYNTAX scores and presence of thrombus; and no information on several important comorbidities.
“As a result, real-world complex clinical decision-making could not be elucidated from the database,” they cautioned.
Kumbhani reported receiving research grants and honoraria from the American College of Cardiology.
Various other authors disclosed relationships with industry.
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
http://circoutcomes.ahajournals.org/content/early/2016/05/10/CIRCOUTCOMES.115.002084.abstract
Pandey A, et al “Revascularization trends in patients with diabetes mellitus and multivessel coronary artery disease presenting with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction: insights from the NCDR ACTION registry-GWTG” Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2016; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.115.002084.
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VP R3A
by Fonotec » 17 Nov 2015, 03:22
I noticed too much land at 50 Hz @ +0 VU (ref: 1 kHz = 7 cm/sec peak lateral velocity), even though 200 Hz and higher were being cut with only 20 % land between closest excursions at +0 VU, and nestled, where phase permits. 50 Hz groove modulation with automated expansion was leaving 50% land (i.e., 100% groove width wasted space between each 50 Hz lateral-modulated groove)! So, after consulting some op amp theory YouTubes and looking at the LS-76 schematics, I decided to try to modify the 3 dB point of the automation circuit's reference audio bass-boosting RC network. The values of the components in the drawing showed that the first RC network around the first op amp would have a 3 dB point of either 50, or 38, cycles per second, depending on whether a 100 k Ohm auxiliary resistor was in series with the mandatory 316 k Ohm resistor. Whichever it was, I thought I could reduce the low bass-caused land waste by using a resistor of a higher value than was already packed, since it would lower the frequency of the existing 3 dB point, and, therefore, 50 Hz logical expansions would be more finely spaced, due to 50 Hz getting less of a boost than before by RC network, VP R3A. I wondered if the auxiliary resistor had not yet been packed or if it possibly had been deleted. After looking at the components on the board, I realized that the auxiliary film resistor, R3A (100 k Ohm), was already soldered into its through-holes, allowing it to be used in series with the 316 k Ohm film resistor (a 0.01 µF film capacitor is in parallel around them, and this network is right in front of the non-inverting input of a µA748 op amp.). But R3A was nevertheless not being used by the filter due to its having a bypass jumper attached across both legs on both of these 100 k Ohm film resistors.
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When calibrating the sensitivity of the Variable Pitch control signal inputs, 1 kHz is fed to the card at +4 dBm, which is equivalent to +1.228 volts (RMS) AC. Removing the bypass jumpers from R3A (on both audio channels) apparently moved the 3 dB point down to ~ 38 Hz, as expected, because it made the boosted gain at 50 Hz go down, from 3 volts AC (when the bypass jumper was in place), to about 2.6 volts AC (when it was removed), which causes the feed motor to expand noticeably less than before in response to 50 Hz. So, it tightened up the low bass expansions from ~ 50% land (before the deletion) to around ~ 33 % land, after R3A was restored! - a savings of ~ 15 LPI at my typical Pop/Rock pitch settings, while leaving the midrange groove spacing at 20 % land. That's potentially an extra 1.5 minutes at +0 VU per LP side, just from lifting a jumper on both Variable Pitch channels.
{It should be noted that the low frequency time constant of the RIAA emphasis/de-emphasis network is 3180 µSec, which is approximately 50 Hz, also. However, the main reason for the lathe automation's reference audio input circuit to include a boost around 50 Hz is that cutting heads cause such increased stylus displacement in the presence of low frequency program signals, compared to that of high frequencies, that even after the RIAA emphasis filter, which attenuates low bass by 20 dB, is applied to the drive coil modulation signal, the magnitude of low bass groove modulation ends up being still 4 times wider at wiggling than that of high treble groove modulation.}
In the drawing (from the manual, shown, above), I added the green arrows and also the boxed frequency values, next to the RC networks that straddle the right channel's first op amp. The networks are, of course, identical, for both channels. I'm thinking that 38 Hz is the 3 dB point of the bass boost that is established by these input networks, 2.7 kHz, created in front of the inverting input, is the stop band (?), since higher frequencies could be cut at base pitch (without expansion), and 9.5 Hz, in the negative feedback loop, is a HPF, set below the lowest audio signal likely to be modulating the groove.
There is no mention of this optional modification to the pitch automation in the lathe manual. But the schematic notation for the resistor has the letter, A, after the number, which probably means "auxiliary," which was my clue. Glad I tried it, since only a high quality external equalizer could have accomplished the same result, but that would be "ungainly." );
* On the LS-76, the pitch and depth automation circuit boards, each, take two audio inputs for reference. Ideal pitch expansion (when the base pitch increases, temporarily, to a lower number of lines per inch) is calculated from peak voltage measurements, and their relative timing, during each revolution, using of a copy of the Left Program signal and a copy of the Right Advance signal. The peaks are stored 25 times per turntable revolution and are acted upon every 1/5 revolution. By boosting the bass, the larger expansions will be in response to lower frequency content, as well as the broadband loudness, of the program.
Width is always twice the Depth, due to the right triangle shape of the jewel tip now commonly used. In the days of shellac 78s, a cutting stylus with an included angle of about 110 degrees, rather than 90, was used. This enabled a wide groove to be cut without having to drag the tip as deep into the blank material as would, nowadays, with the 90 degree included angle, be required. Depth is calculated from the difference voltage created by summing a copy of the Left Advance signal with a (separate) copy of the Right Advance signal, but out of phase with each other. When the program is identical on both channels, the difference signal will be 0 Volts, due to the signals nulling, causing the groove width to remain constant, at twice the base depth used. When program is different on one channel than the other, the difference signal needs to be large enough to invoke the necessary depth increase so as to preclude (stylus tip) lift off during impressing, and the Depth circuit will also, then, increase the Feed sufficiently to preclude overcuts, caused by increased groove width from the increased cutting stylus depth. This is referred to as "L/V" and signifies vertical pitch expansion.
The three Advance audio channels (Left, Right, and a Right copy) arrive at the lathe one turntable revolution before the Program signals arrive at the cutting amplifier, since the result of the audio voltage comparisons is done by semiconductors and has to be completed and ready for servo motor control in synchrony with the groove modulation. The inner groove wall (Left channel) lateral excursions and average groove width variation don't need to be acted upon by the feed expansion circuit until the following revolution of the turntable. So a copy of the Left Program channel arrives, in real time, with the cut, but, it doesn't get its peak values acted upon until the subsequent turntable revolution.
by Fonotec » 12 Dec 2015, 01:35
Today, I realized increased space savings by changing the 316 kOhm film resistor (R3) in the Left (Program) and Right (Advance) audio paths used by the Variable Pitch circuit with a 420 kOhm film resistor by Dale, for each. Now, the total resistance in the bass-boosting RC network in front of the non-inverting input of A10 and A1 is 520 kOhm, so, with the bass boosting time constant, now, at 5200 µs (i.e., '30.607...' c.p.s.), 50 Hz expands about 10 LPI less wastefully than when the 3-dB point was recently moved only to 4200 µs (i.e., '37.89...' c.p.s. (from ~ 50 Hz)). After re-calibration, I tried cutting again a side that I had the honor originally to cut last year for Bootsy, since it would make a good obstacle course for the mod, as it's very dynamic and has a loud kick drum. The groove-packing is now extremely tight - like a Zuma or a Compudisk. Side plays very well and was cut 2 dB hotter than before. Love that 1976 disk computer - now improved, again...
420 k - A-OK
Yesterday, I changed the two "R3" film resistors on the Variable Pitch card for LS-76 #660. So, that card now also has 520 kOhms total resistance in its bass-boosting RC networks, just like on the Variable Pitch card for LS-76 #656. The disk computer of #660 was being tested on #656, and all went well and showed a similar improvement in the efficiency of its expansions to that which was seen on #656 when using its own disk computer with the lowered corner frequency on the Variable Pitch automation audio bass ramp. So, it seems to be a valid mod for this lathe. If you operate an LS-76 (Hi Tor, Pete, and Deroy!), you might benefit also from swapping out the 316 kOhm resistor (VP_R3) for a 420 k... (has to be film (precision tolerance and stable value when heated) and can be 1/4 or 1/8 Watt). The exact value of the new resistors is not crucial, but it's important to cherry-pick a pair with as close a match in resistance (to each other) as possible, since they are affecting the lateral excursions towards the inner and outer groove walls, every half-cycle. The ones I matched yesterday were showing about 419.5 kOhms, each.
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In 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice awarded the Gautier Police Department $21,478 to develop an electronic evidence tracking system for rape kits.
In 2019, Mississippi legislators introduced a bill that would require the Mississippi Forensics Laboratory to test kits and upload any DNA profiles into the national DNA database within 120 days of initial receipt, or send the kit to another crime lab for processing within 30 days of receipt. H.B. 460 would also direct law enforcement to, upon the survivor's request, inform the survivor of the status of the kit and respond to the request within 30 days. Survivors would also be granted to the right to be informed if: a DNA profile was obtained from DNA analysis; there was a DNA match in the Mississippi Forensics Laboratory DNA database; law enforcement does not receive DNA analysis of the kit within six months; and if law enforcement intends to destroy the kit, the survivor would be given notification within 60 days of destruction. The bill would also extend the rape kit storage period to 20 years, or if the survivor was a minor, until the survivor’s 40th birthday. Lastly, the bill would prohibit hospitals from charging survivors for their rape kit. The bill failed to pass.
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A dissident group accused of breaking into North Korea’s embassy in Madrid said on Thursday it was temporarily suspending operations, after a Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants for two suspected intruders now believed to be in the United States, Reuters reports.
Cheollima Civil Defense, also known as Free Joseon, acknowledged on its website late on Tuesday that it was behind the incident but said it was not an attack and that the group had been invited into the embassy.
In a statement on its website on Thursday, Cheollima Civil Defense said that while it has “bigger tasks ahead”, it had temporarily suspended work because of “speculative” media reports.
“We ask the media to restrain itself in its interest in our organization and its members,” the statement said, noting that the group’s membership includes North Korean refugees, but that it had not recently contacted defectors living in South Korea.
A judicial source said on Wednesday that warrants were issued for the group’s alleged leader and another suspect after an investigation by a Spanish court found that they broke into the embassy, tried to persuade an official to defect and then stole computer equipment.
The suspected leader has been identified by the court in an official document as Adrian Hong Chang, a Mexican citizen who is a US resident.
The other suspect sought in the arrest warrant is Sam Ryu, who is a US citizen of Korean descent.
According to the court’s official document, which was made public on Tuesday, Hong Chang is believed to have traveled to the United States a day after the raid and contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to pass on information about it.
It was unclear how the court knew that the man had contacted the FBI, which said on Tuesday it is “our standard practice to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation”.
An authoritative US government source said on Wednesday that the FBI received the names of the alleged embassy intruders from Spanish investigators and was looking into the matter at the request of Spanish authorities.
Other Spanish judicial sources told Reuters the two arrest warrants are likely to be the first of several as there were believed to have been ten intruders.
The other suspects include South Korean citizens.
Lee Wolosky, an American attorney who represents Cheollima Civil Defense, said in a statement on Wednesday that the Spanish court “purported to reach conclusions without any input from representatives” of the group.
He said it was irresponsible of the court “to disclose publicly the names of people who are working in opposition to a brutal regime that routinely and summarily executes its enemies”.
The US State Department has said the US government was not involved in the raid and did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Spanish arrest warrants.
Three of the intruders took an embassy official into the basement and tried to convince him to defect. They identified themselves as members of a group who campaigned for the “liberation of North Korea”, the Spanish court document said.
The document gave a detailed account of the intruders’ movements before as well as during the intrusion, including their stay in a hotel and purchases of knives, balaclava masks and fake guns.
The embassy raid occurred shortly before the Feb. 27-28 summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump in Hanoi.
The group kept embassy staff tied up for several hours and then searched the premises for arms before leaving, at which point they separated into four groups and headed to Portugal, the document alleged.
Hong Chang then flew from Lisbon to New York. His current whereabouts was unknown, the document said.
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New UCOR director details changes
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Darlene Weaver, a professor of theology, is the new core curriculum director.
Hallie Lauer | Staff Writer
Duquesne’s core curriculum is getting a makeover.
The university’s core (UCOR) classes will be getting some new changes, thanks to new Core Curriculum Director Darlene Weaver.
“[There are] no major overhauls or things like that, but ways to tweak the core [curriculum] in order to help students complete their requirements,” said Weaver, who was hired at the beginning of July.
The main goal of Weaver and a review committee newly implemented this semester is to create a more open communication system between students and their advisors, making it easier for students to schedule for the next semester.
“We’re currently making sure that there’s consistency between the guides that advisors get about courses that meet core requirements and the list of attributes that the registrar office has,” Weaver said. “We want to iron out any discrepancies.”
Weaver said she wants to create a liaison board to facilitate communication between her and Duquesne students.
“I’d like to create a student liaison board, so that there can be opportunities at least once a semester for me to hear from students about all sorts of things,” Weaver said. “That kind of student outreach, I think, is really important,” Weaver said.
Weaver is working alongside Cheryl Knoch, Duquesne’s assistant vice president for student involvement, to create the board. The goal is to hear suggestions and concerns from the board and then use those to help improve students’ experiences with UCOR.
In addition to making sure everyone is on the same page on what classes meet which requirements, Weaver wants to help students and advisors have “efficient as well as constructive” conversations.
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Weaver also emphasized that students can search for their core classes on DORI by attribute during pre-registration, as opposed to going through each department looking for classes.
Another change being made is the addition of student web pages on the core curriculum web page on Duquesne’s website. These pages will contain a list of courses that have core attributes, according to Weaver. This will make is easier for students to find specific core classes, Weaver said. The webpage will be updated regularly.
The main goal of theses changes is to improve communication with students and to portray the value of UCOR classes.
“I think too often the core curriculum is perceived as a set of boxes to check off or hoops to jump through, but it’s actually so much more than that,” Weaver said. “It’s a really valuable component of the undergraduate education our students receive . It provides the sort of intellectual formation and skill development that employers are really looking for.”
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The Craic
Roadshow Entertainment/Roadshow Entertainment . R4 . COLOR . 85 mins . M . PAL
This Craic is as unfunny as a plumber’s butt crack, with a transfer that’s just as pretty too. Now where else can we find big, gaping cracks – in the toaster, that’ll do pretty things to a DVD*. The Grand Canyon – that’ll get rid of this disc for good. Maybe it’s just me but I never want to see this disc again – once is enough. A crack like the Grand Canyon is definately a must see, but this Craic definately isn't in the same league of must-see 'wonders'.
* note: don’t try this at home
The Craic, starring stand-up comic Jimeoin, failed to hit the spot with this guy – sure, the cow line is funny, but the rest of the film tries to be funny but really doesn’t get there. Even at just shy of 90 minutes, the laughs are too few and far between, especially given the nature of some real Aussie comic gems that throw out the laughs faster than we can take them in. Now, admittedly, not being a fan of Jimeoin probably doesn’t help this cause, but there is just something missing from the comedy – oh that’s right, wit. It’s definitely not the worst comedy ever, but then again it’s no cracker either.
Fergus (Jimeoin McKeown) and Wesley (Alan McKee) are two Irish fellas who get a smidge of trouble back in Ireland and decide to hide out down under in Australia. Ooh, but trouble is looming as their visas reach their expiry date, and no, not the small plastic card variety, so the pair go on the run from the immigration officials. But then, by coincidence, the trouble in Ireland has too decided to hide out in Australia, and the bad guys soon catch a sniff of these Irish blokes running around the Queensland outback, meeting a cast of typically colourful Australian characters including to backpacking Aussies and a psychotic melon farmer.
Presented in the widescreen aspect of 1.78:1, this transfer is very close to the original aspect of 1.85:1, and is anamorphically enhanced. Colours, while richly mastered, look a little sloppy and uneasy, resulting in a rather colourful mess on screen. This not-so-charming appearance is exacerbated by the lack of clarity and detail in the image, something that has been caused by the small budget of the production process. It’s not totally unwatchable, but definitely isn’t going to win “picture perfect picture of the year” or any such award. I think that we are becoming accustomed to clean and clear transfers and the beauty of digital television that these imperfections are just unexpected and heavily frowned upon in our crystal clear visual world today. Most annoyingly though are some rather large reel cue marks that occur consistently and regularly throughout the film, something that should have been cleaned up for the DVD transfer. Maybe it’s a “Roadshow for Australian films” thing, as Priscilla suffered the same fate. Fitting snugly on a single layer, with plenty of room to spare, The Craic is supplied to us with a single English for the Hearing Impaired subtitle track which, to be honest, is used quite constantly throughout the opening of the film due to some rather thick accents, but more on that in the 'audio' area.
The sole Dolby Digital 5.1 English effort is reasonably nice, but nothing that is really aurally exciting. Dialogue comes thick and fast from the centre channel, and is distinguishable for most of the film. They keyword there is most. Some phrases come rather heavily doused in a rich Irish accent and are almost indistinguishable to decipher in a limited time frame, resulting in the aforementioned subtitles being turned on. Synch is, thankfully, spot on – just imagine the mess if that went skew-whiff. Surround and sub action is limited to the odd effect, but generally these are fairly dormant throughout the film, giving the impression of a stereo track rather than a surround track.
The two extra features, presented from a simple menu, are a 40 second letterboxed theatrical trailer and a three minute short film which is totally unrelated to The Craic, similar to the short film found on the DVD for Cosi.
The Craic is ultimately a disappointing film on a disappointing DVD. The story of the film, while interesting enough, tends to be a little tedious and rather unrewarding, with the occasional laugh far to sparse for a good comedy. The transfer too has a few questions to answer for, namely with the rather poor video transfer and ordinary audio transfer. The lack of extra features is expected for such a low-budget film, and the two included are nothing special in the least. Fans of Jimoein may appreciate it more, but there are better comedies out there that are sure to give you more than just the occasional giggle.
P.S.: Apologies to the plumbers out there. You don’t all show your butt crack, but that’s all I’ve seen. And admit it, it’s not all that pretty either.
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Review: Mercenary Kings
Marcus Estrada posted a article in PC Reviews
Developer: Tribute Games Publisher: Tribute Games Platform: PC (Steam), PS4 (PSN) Release Date: March 25, 2014 ESRB: M for Mature You might not remember it, but in 2012, Tribute Games ran a Kickstarter for an awesome-looking arcade action game called Mercenary Kings. It took a while to release but certainly not as long as some other crowdfunded projects out there. Now that the game is out we can appraise how successful it was at meeting its goals, or more importantly, how fun the game is regardless of intent. Mercenary Kings is a 2D action platformer with roots in classics such as Metal Slug and Contra. The spirit of these titles is kept alive thanks to pixelated artwork and similarly fast gameplay. After selecting from a list of missions, you set off to a stage to complete its given goal. Usually, orders are pretty simplistic. Find a certain amount of item, person, or take someone out and then head back to home base to select a new mission. The basics are simple enough, but there“s definitely more to it than that. Between missions the player can upgrade their weapons, get their goods modded, and stock up on other supplies. One weird facet is a simple crafting mechanic which facilitates upgrades. No, it“s not like Minecraft. All you have to do is collect craftable objects during missions and then bring them back. Items are all over the place, either popping out of enemies as they die or locked in easily-breakable chests. Thankfully, there“s no limit to how much of the crafting stuff you can carry. The same is not true for more mission-imperative items. With that said, you can easily ignore most of this stuff and simply get to shooting up everyone in sight. Enemies come in a handful of types such as sniper, robotic snail, and other obvious cannon fodder. Each has their own tactics for efficient termination, but often you can employ the same general ones. For many characters, simply ducking and waiting between bursts of fire is good enough. It“s a shame that "waiting" is at all a part of the gameplay, though, considering Mercenary Kings wants to be a totally frantic experience. When the game is at its best, you feel like a real badass. After getting the basic mechanics down it is easy to work through enemies without a scratch. It“s not too hard thanks to the fact that enemy bullets apparently fly in slow motion. For whatever reason, there is an active reload mechanic, though, which can lead to trouble. During each reload session you can cut down on time by hitting the reload button at the right time with an on-screen prompt. Because the prompt always shifts the "best" spot, you“ll need to keep an eye on it. As such, you might be thrown temporarily out of whack with the rampant destruction around you. This may be just one unfortunate design decision but the more glaring issue is the missions themselves. As previously stated, there are a few types that reoccur a ton. They could effectively be considered "fetch quests" in many instances since you just need to find their markers on the map and head there. With little variety in general gameplay, Mercenary Kings can become a very tiresome experience indeed. It“s a tremendous shame considering the game otherwise has a great deal of visual polish. With art by famed pixel artist Paul Robertson it stands as one of the most attractive pixelated indie games to date. However, there is a weird proclivity to make nearly every female character in game have tremendous, jiggling breasts despite characters“ otherwise chibi-style frames. If you don“t mind (or, instead, enjoy) that then the art will probably appeal as 100% awesome. The soundtrack is also suitably awesome for a modern 2D action game. Although the gameplay is incredibly repetitive, you may find it a ton of fun when getting together a group of friends to play. Local co-op includes slots for four players and amps up everything. As bullets spew all over the screen, you“ll find accomplishing missions much easier than before. This changes them from being chore-like to entertaining experiences. You can also play online but, again, you“ll want to set up a time between friends. Strangely, the online player base seemed quite dead - or I was just online at all the wrong times. There was so much work done to make Mercenary Kings look and feel like a very cool retro game for the modern age. But there are still points where it falters. Those who enjoy (or can look over) repetitive missions cannot ignore the bugginess. On nearly every gameplay session the game would crash. This is purely in regards to the PC version. Thankfully crashes were always upon mission start rather than during one, but it was still an annoyance. In many ways, Mercenary Kings is a polished, entertaining product. It has excellent artwork, imaginative bosses, and fun references to other games. Gameplay is also easy to get a grasp of. However, thanks to the decisions to limit the game in scope via dull missions, the appeal quickly starts to wear off. Those who have the option to should play local or online co-op to enjoy the entire game. Otherwise, you“ll likely find yourself worn out before long. Pros: + Mastering the game feels very rewarding + Lovingly detailed pixel art + Online and local co-op for increased mayhem Cons: - PC version seems prone to crashing - Missions are far too repetitive - Active reload mechanic is an unneeded annoyance Overall Score: 6 (out of 10) Decent Mercenary Kings had a lot of promise and partially lives up to expectations. Just don“t go into it anticipating the next Metal Slug and it“ll satisfy your 2D action platformer needs. Disclosure: This game was reviewed using downloadable Steam code provided by the publisher
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Pixel Previews: Mercenary Kings (PC)
DrPixel posted a blog entry in Pixels N' Stuff
Developer: Tribute Games Publisher: Tribute Games Platform: PC Release Date (of Early Access on Steam): July 22nd, 2013 There's just something about nostalgia that makes us want to go back to older games, games that we played as a kid or in our teens. Games on the SNES or Neo-Geo had vibrant colors, great music, and some addicting gameplay. Mercenary Kings nearly perfectly catches this same vibe of nostalgia and uses it the max with some fresh, more modern gameplay ideas. Mercenary Kings primarily takes from two games about 10 years apart- Metal Slug and Monster Hunter. Is this a bad thing that it copies concepts from two equally classic games? Well, for the most part, not really! Gameplay consists of your slightly customizable character running around, shooting your weapon in the four basic directions (up, down, left and right), killing baddies. Crafting new, fancy weaponry is also a key part of being successful in the currently ~60 missions in the game. If you don't have a bigger gun, you can't defeat the bigger enemies, right? The gun crafting, while not too complex, seems pretty neat from the start. You have a wide variety of "parts" that you can attach to your little base weapon that make it larger and more cool-looking. Do you want to make a pistol that looks like a shotgun? Get a pistol base and put tons of shotgun parts all over it. You can also have different ammo for your gun, but certain guns will only take certain ammo, which makes sense. The way you get different materials to craft parts is through killing enemies and picking up what they drop. Beyond that, the RPG elements sort of stop, which is a bit unfortunate. You have a military rank, which is like a level, but all you do to rank up is just complete missions for a flat XP grab each time. There's 60 missions in the game currently (with a confirmed 40 more to be added by release), and each is fairly long, so the game isn't really lacking in length at least. Depth? Perhaps, but if you play with friends the fun can be endless. It doesn't really feel like a game meant for co-op though, so playing by yourself is perfectly fine. Each mission for example tasks you with a different objective, but if you watch your map it isn't too hard to find where to go. Well, the game is still fairly challenging. You can only take a few hits before dying, but you merely respawn at the last infirmary you passed by. The time limit, however, is your greatest enemy. Can't find all 8 hostages before the 15 minute limit is up for that mission? "Mission failed!" The somewhat low time limit on some of the harder missions and how the game doesn't seem to be meant for co-op are my only two major complaints however. Every other aspect of the game is stellar! The gorgeous SNES/Neo-Geo style graphics are lovely, and the animations are very fluid and sometimes amusing. I swear, Tribute Games and whoever does their art do some amazing retro stylized graphics! The rockin' chiptunes are equally great too though. I made sure to listen to some of the catchy tunes while I worked on this review and sometimes even while just sitting at my computer doing nothing. That main theme on the title screen is gold! The music will not disappoint! One thing I'll say before concluding this look at what will probably be one of the best pixel-art games this year is that the keyboard+mouse controls are pretty bad. The options menu is blocked so you can can't change anything yet, and the default keyboard controls are really strange. I immediately switched to just using a controller because it felt way more natural and not awkward and weird. This is definitely a game that you can only use a controller on for now, so keep that in mind before you check it out! Honestly, Mercenary Kings feels much more like a finished game with a few small nitpicks that can be patched in with "version 1.1", if you get what I mean. This doesn't seem like an early alpha that is barely playable, no, it's a full game pretty much. So, I highly recommend you play it! It's not an insta-buy as is, but if you can wait for the price to drop or don't mind the $15 price tag, this is a fantastic game to check out!. If you aren't into platformers with a lot of shooting in them like the Metal Slug games, this isn't for you most likely. If you're fine with that though, this game is a ton of fun and with friends it's even a bit more. In it's current Early Access state, Mercenary Kings gets a: 8.5/10 "Whether its solo or with friends, move out, cut down CLAW and save the world!"
Steam Early Access Brings Mercenary Kings to Lineup
Marcus Estrada posted a article in PC
Usually Valve unleashes multiple Steam Early Access games each week. For this week though only one game made it through. Perhaps this means Valve are being more cautious with the games allowed on the service? Or maybe they're just taking a little break before hammering users with a million more alpha/beta games next month. In any case, a really promising title just hit Early Access and it's Mercenary Kings. Although the game is still in beta, Tribute Games have already provided a fairly solid product. The current version available already includes 60 missions! According to the developer, they're aiming for over 100 missions in the final release. The 2D shooter looks like a mix of Contra and Metal Slug with really appealing pixel art. Both single and multiplayer co-op are included (local or online). If you're interested in Mercenary Kings then be prepared to spend $14.99. Or, if you are willing to bet that you (and three friends) will love the game then try out the 4-pack for $44.99.
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Ohanapecosh Area, Mount Rainier National Park, WA
Located in the southeastern corner of Mount Rainier National Park is the Ohanapecosh Area. It is a low elevation site full of old-growth forests that date to more than 1000 years old. The trees are big and magnificent and the Ohanapecosh River is a cascading torrent of water that literally seems to give the Cascade Mountains their name.
Ohanapecosh River
The Grove of the Patriarchs is a 1 mile loop trail that takes you across the Ohanapecosh River to a bottomland forest of towering Western red-cedars and Douglas firs, many over 200 feet tall and some dating more than 1000 years old.
The first thing you do to get to this grove is to walk across the suspension bridge over the river
Then it is off to the boardwalk for the loop through the big trees. The boardwalk is there to protect the roots of the giants from being compacted and erosion from toppling them.
Here Linda and Hilina are standing in front of two 1000 year old Douglas firs
Being so ancient means broken tops, rotted cores, and striped branches. Yet, they continue to live on.
Here is a giant Western red cedar
From there, it was off to the 2.5 mile loop to Silver Falls
Ohanapecosh River through the gorge
I am from Washington State and the pictures here are awesome---beyond gorgeous!
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Saturday 13 March 2004 3:58pm MST 2004-03-13 UTC 2258
News briefs – most distant solar system object, Rosetta + occultation news, Hubble controversy & observatory drama
<Thursday|Tomorrow>
Cover: One year ago, Olivier Hainaut et al. used three of the 8.2m Very Large Telescopes at Cerro Paranal for three nights, 6-8 March, to image 1P/Halley [link|alt] by making 81 exposures of about nine hours combined, accumulating some 20,000 photons reflected from the inactive comet, which was (and is today still) outward bound from its 1986 perihelion, traveling in a retrograde orbit (i=162.3°) shown in the EasySky screen shot. Image ©Copyright European Southern Observatory, see 1 September 2003 news release for more about this, the furthest (27.26 AU) and faintest (magnitude 28.2) comet image ever. North is up and east is left, and the big streaks are stars.
News briefs – part 1/1 Major News for 13 March 2004
Monday announcement: NASA posted a heads-up to editors and reporters yesterday:
The discovery of a mysterious object in our solar system is the topic of a listen-and-log-on news briefing on Monday, March 15, at 1 p.m. EST [1800 UTC]. Dr. Michael Brown, associate professor of planetary astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. will present his discovery of the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun.
This may be the "as yet unannounced" Hubble Space Telescope discovery by Brown mentioned in an ABC News story that A/CC noted on February 4th.
Rosetta/occultation news: First noticed at Cosmic Mirror is that Denis Denissenko has posted occultation predictions for 2867 Steins, one of two Main Belt asteroids announced Thursday for visits by the Rosetta mission. The first prediction is only a month away, on April 9th, spanning a region devoid of occultation observers, but an event in August of next year will track across eastern Canada. And the third crosses Europe in 2007, about 19 months before the flyby.
Denissenko also has a page of predictions for "large and double Transneptunian objects," and a link to a 43Kb PDF preprint article on this subject.
Hubble controversy: The current state of the issue over servicing the Hubble Space Telescope was described at Sky & Telescope yesterday, "Gloves Come Off in Fight to Save Hubble," and at Space.com Thursday and yesterday. NASA headquarters has posted a 100Kb PDF white paper on the subject, and linked to Admiral Harold Gehman's comments, a PDF, on Senator Barbara Mikulski's Web site. Gehman, who heads the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, responded to a request for his advice by saying that "a deep and rich study of the entire gain/risk equation" should be made.
Observatory drama: Mt. Palomar had its first wildfire alert Tuesday ("Readings"), and yesterday the observatory was closed with a SWAT situation, as the North County Times told last night.
"I hope it ends soon," said Scott Kardel, the observatory's spokesman, as law enforcement officers crawled on top of the white, domed building to scan the area below.
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Horned Melon Films
WRANGLING THE BEAST
by Ben Mankoff
Co-Producer, Stationary
Last September I ran into an old roommate at the staging of a mutual friend’s new play. We got to talking and I learned that he (the roommate, Daniel Goldberg) and she (the playwright, Catherine Weingarten) had written a screenplay called “Stationary” which they hoped to produce before the end of the year.
Having my own cinematic ambitions, I did what every young person with few credentials and an expansive ego would do: I asked if I could help. Daniel (co-writer and director), turns out to be a really swell guy and he brought me on board.
It was a tiny production team with a wide range of experiences and interests, convening in coffee shops and empty art galleries to piece together a project that we believed in. In a way, we were each taking a chance on the people around us; there is risk involved in trusting others with your creative baby, or your career or your time.
My major contributions to the film came in the planning stages; I was involved in casting and equipping the project. But I was also present on set and saw how what was, for months, largely a mental exercise, could manifest and grow limbs and start to move as a real, tangible, occasionally frightening beast.
The cast and crew wrangled that beast like professionals (which, of course, they were) and today we have a trove of beautiful footage just aching to be cut into a film. We need to finish it, and that takes money.
In the same generous spirit with which Daniel took a chance on me, this film needs to be given a chance. That’s how films this size are made these days. When we recognize that we have to support other weirdos like us. When we, the community, take a chance on new stories because, God bless him, Harvey Weinstein is too busy to help out.
Make new art with us. Please give what you can.
Help Fund "Stationary"
IS MY MOVIE GAY
WATCH THE PRELIMINARY TRAILER FOR "STATIONARY"!
All content © copyright Daniel Goldberg.
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Reeds Lake Art Festival
Grand Valley Artists Annual Summer Party
When: Saturday, August 3, 5 p.m. buffet supper Come earlier if you want. We’ll have some sandwich “fixins” or bring a box lunch. Stay for the sunset over Lake Michigan: 9:05 p.m. Get all the detailson page 5 in the July Newsletter, located under the Newsletter tab at the top of this page.
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Photo Group Picnic August 17
Our Annual Picnic with the Photo Group will be Saturday, Aug. 17th starting at around 2:00. Burgers etc. will be around 5:00. It will again be at Mary Harbert's place on Lake Michigan in West Olive. So make your calendars. More info to come.
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DIA Trip August 10
Act fast to get in on this bus trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts for a day in the month of August to see Humble and Human: Impressionist Era Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts, an Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. with your GVA friends! This very special exhibit includes works by many of the famous artists of the 19th century who have so inspired our work today. There is a Pop Art exhibit going on during August, too. Your admission includes all the permanent exhibits in the museum.
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Box Factory! Get Your Submissions in by July 19!
This is a reminder to apply to the GVA Exhibit/Box Factory for the Arts in beautiful St Joseph. Submissions will close at midnight on July 19th. You will find all the details in the July issue of the GVA Newsletter on page 14! Just click on the the Newsletters tab at the top of this page to find the newsletter and learn more.
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GVA Gallery in August
FRIENDS is the theme for our August exhibit. And when I say friends I don’t necessarily mean friends in the conventional sense. We usually think of friendsas a relationship between people or perhaps between a person and a beloved animal. That of course is wonderful. But feel free to interpret friends as a metaphor describing another kind of relationship all together. Consider the possibilities. All 2D and 3D art is eligible, including drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, digital works, mixed media, etc.
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See Who's at Trinity!
Stop in at Trinity United Methodist Church on Lake Drive to see the wonderfully fun paintings by Cindy Wojciakowski, a beautiful assortment of work from Darlene Podpolucki, and four magnificent religiously themed oils by Michael Stewart. Trinity is open during regular business hours, closed on Fridays.
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Cobblepot's Big Score Game 1
9/29/2014 01:39:00 pm D&D
Game Master: Elijah
Game Edition: D&D 5
Players: Andrew, Dave
Starting Level: 5
Current Level:5
Quote of the Evening:
"Do you have any Salad?"
For JADE's very first 5th edition game, we decided to return Elijah's Anthropomorphic Setting. Elijah's very first campaign was a world full of anthropomorphic animals created for D&D 3.5. However, he was never very happy with how it turned out, and decided to relaunch the campaign setting as a small 5th ed adventure, from a much less heroic perspective
In Cobblepot's Big Score, we play as a group of Criminals under the Penguin Boss Cobblepot (Jeff). The goal is to pull off a heist where we have to steal a certain item from the king as he visits the town.
However, Jeff couldn't make it to last game, and thus Cobblepot was not there for the first game of Cobblepot's Big Score. So it was up to "fish-out-of-water" the Shark Monk Bruce "Sharky the Shark" McCoy (Andrew) and the Psychic collective of turtles; that is the Sorcerer and genetic anomaly Legion (Dave) to make their own adventure!
It was like a Saturday morning cartoon!
But what exactly would an Shark and four turtles do in a town of mostly reptiles and Mammals?
Scene 1 Trouble at the Festival.
Sharky and Legion stood outside the tavern where Cobblepot was spending his cut from their last job. As usual Sharky had been given very little (only 10gp) and Legion had been paid nothing. Cobblepot was known to go on these binges after a big pay out, leaving Sharky and Legion to their own devices.
The street outside the tavern was busy with people preparing for the festival which would be in two days. Rumour was that the Prince himself would be attending and the air was a buzz with tales and half-truths about His Majesty's coming.
Legion was enchanted by the bright banners of the festival and wanted to go right away, not understanding that it would not be on for a few days. Sharky on the other hand had never heard of a festival and was more interested in finding something to eat.
Ooooh! Colours!
Despite Sharky's hunger, Legion was insistent that they head over to the festival grounds, and convinced Sharky there would be games where he could prove his strength.
Intrigued at the idea of earning some respect for the McCoy tribe, Sharky agreed and followed Legion to the fair grounds.
FESTIVAL!
Of course, the festival was only just being setup and none of the games that Legion had promised were ready yet. Sharky was very confused by the whole setup, and decided to ask someone about it. He found a very strong looking dog who told them that the festival was not for a few days.
Sharky asked him why he was here, and the dog told them that he was going to participate in the archery tournament in a few days, and pointed over to some tents that had been set up at the back.
Legion and Sharky went back to investigate and found a small community of competitive archers training for the upcoming tournament. Most of the tents were open and unattended with most people huddled around the range.
Sharky looked at legion and told him to "investigate" the scene. Legion smiled and without saying a word cast an invisibility spell on himself. Sharky knew the drill: Legion would search the tents for anything of worth, while he distracted the on lookers at the range.
Knowing that archers have good strong arms, he head over to the range and called out a challenge. He would give 1gp to anyone that could best him in arm wrestling. No one answered.
Would you?
Sharky called out his challenge again, and finally someone answered his call. A hippopotamus rose and grunted in agreement. Sitting at a nearby table, the two wrestled with their right arms. The Hippo won.
Switching to their left arms the two tried once more, and again the hippo won. Grunting in victory, the hippo held out his hand and Sharky gave him the gold piece. The Hippo nodded and left.
Imagine it is a hippo instead of a cat.
While the Shark was arm wrestling with the Hippo, Legion was rifling through people's tents, and not finding much. None of the archers had much of value to their names, and it would seem that all of them kept their gold on them.
He was about to give up and return to Sharky when he found a chest in one of the tents. It was locked, and he had no way of opening it, but he could enter it with a Ghost Form Spell!
Casting that he floated through the seem between the lid and base and into the chest. Inside he found a coin purse with 3 gold pieces in it! He took the gold, cast another Ghost Form and left.
Deciding to stay in his Ghost Form, Legion drifted out of the tent: which proved to be a terrible idea. As his ghostly image wafted into the festival grounds, some one saw him and screamed: "GHOST!"
A crowd gathered, all screaming and yelling angrily. Some even rushed over with weapons in hand.
After being defeated by the Hippo, Sharky heard the commotion and knew exactly what was going on. Legion was in trouble.
He rushed over to the crowd and saw Legion in his Ghost Form. If he dropped the spell in the middle of the crowd, they would certainly kill him, claiming him a demon or a spirit.
Without breaking his step, Sharky ran into the middle of the crowd and shouted to Legion: "DROP THE SPELL!"
Legion Dropped the spell as Sharky ran through the crowd and grabbed him. He kept running as the crowded shouted in anger at him.
Legion Tried to turn the two of them invisible so they could disappear into the fair, but Legion's unpredictable Sorcerer's powers did something much different. The air vibrated and every thing's fur stood on end. Then with a SWOOOSH, Legion let forth a powerful blast of energy sending a helpless beaver archer flying up into the air.
Ever seen a beaver fly?
Sharky gave Legion a look of confusion, and the turtles shrugged. The moment was broken when an arrow pierced Sharky's back causing him to cry out in pain!
With the archers chasing them, Legion and Sharky wasted no time, and fled the festival winding their way into the back alleys of the town and out of sight.
Thinking they had left the scene behind, they rested for a moment, only to have their peace broken by the closing scream of the beaver archer who was returning from his flight. His body hit the ground with a bone shattering thud.
And with that, Sharky and Legion decided to move to another alley.
Scene 2 Need Food. Legion's Lettuce.
Sharky had legion pull the arrow from his back and the five rested for a moment. At this point Sharky was hungry and Legion admitted he was pretty hungry as well. So they headed over to the market in search of food.
Legion wanted salad, while Sharky was only interested in finding raw meat, so they went their separate ways; Legion to find a "salad merchant" and left Legion to find a butcher.
Legion wandered around the market, asking people our quote of the evening:
Finally someone directed Legion over to an elderly vegetable merchant. The turtles ran over to the stall and asked the Old Cat if she had any salad. She replied that she did, and asked how much he would like?
Legion thought about it for a moment and then asked how much 3gp would get him. The Cat was shocked! She had never seen more then a silver in her life! She told the turtles that they could buy the stall and she would retire. Thinking it over the Turtles agreed, and gave her three gold.
The Cat's Vegetable stall was now Legion's and the four quickly began devouring lettuce, until they grew bored. They asked the Cat if she would watch the stall while he went and looked for Sharky, in exchange for half of the profits. The Cat agreed and Legion went off to look for his friend.
Scene 3 The Bar Brawl.
Sharky's luck had not been as good as Legions. While Legion was becoming the Salad Baron, Sharky had found a butcher, but the Fox proprietor did not have enough coins to break a gold piece.
Sharky Figured that the tavern would be a good place to get some change, as well as make a quick buck gambling. So he returned to where he began his adventure and entered the establishment.
Cobblepot was no where to be found, but there was a group of tough looking mammals sitting around a table: just the kind of people would accept a challenge of strength. Thinking he could easily best one of them at arm wrestling, Sharky went over the table a issued his usual challenge.
A rather rude Badger accepted ad put his hand on the table. Sharky was not going to be beaten this time, and began using his training as a monk to focus to carnal rage into the challenge.
With a great cry the Shark slammed the Badgers hand against the table and he roared in victory; but his opponent was not so impressed. Sharky had almost broken the badger's arm. Enraged, the Badger swung a fist at him, hitting him in the nose.
Jerk.
Sharky returned with a furry of blows that knocked the badger to the ground unconscious. With blood on his hands, Sharky went into the red, and unleashed his carnal self, as several other animals attacked him. He dealt with each one, but by now there was a group of thugs surrounding him, trapping him in the corner of the room.
Sharky turned and grabbed the coin purse from the badger he had defeated, and then flung his unconscious body at the crowd. It knocked most of them down and we was able to barge and leap his way out of the tavern and into the street.
As he burst from the building, he bumped into legion, who he again scooped into his arms and fled into the alleys. This had thus far been a poor day.
Scene 4 Monopolizing. Sharky McCoy's Seafood.
In the back alley ways, Sharky was able to get his carnal rage under control. But he needed to eat immediately. Luckily, the coin purse he had taken from the badger had enough change for him to buy some meat from the butcher.
With his hunger satiated, He was able to pay attention to Legion who had been going on about his Legion's Lettuce franchise the entire time. The Turtles showed him the stand and Sharky was impressed. It seemed like a great idea! They could laundry dirty money through the legitimate business.
Using some of Sharky's gold, Legion hired a family of hares to look after the stall. The family was the Brantfords and they were grateful for the job offer.
Seeing the growth potential, Sharky decided to buy more business and used much of his gold to buy a fish stand which he quickly named Sharky McCoy's Seafood.
Nice sign...
The Brantfords again were hired to run the business, who Sharky Realized would also be the perfect scapegoats if anything went wrong. With their business secured, Legion and Sharky decided to secure some suppliers.
Scene 5 We Need More Salad. To Get a Horse. Bandits.
The cat woman's notes for her contacts were vague at best, but spoke of a farmer she met each morning outside the main gate. Sharky and Legion decided they would explore the country side and find a farmer, but they both realized they would need a horse if they wished to cover any ground.
They found a raccoon at the stables who was willing to sell them a horse, but in their purchasing of stalls in the market, Sharky and Legion did not have enough money. There was only one thing to be done. For years Sharky had kept the trophy of his first kill: a rare species of octopus, and figured that an Apothecary might be interested in acquiring it.
Though he did not get as much as he wanted for it, Sharky and Legion found an Apothecary who was interested in buying the trophy, and got just enough money to rent the horse for the day.
The five rode out of town and followed the road for an hour, until they were stopped by three men standing in the road holding crossbows.
Without heading to the bandit's demands, Sharky leaped at the thieves dodging their bolts, while Legion fought off a group who had attacked them from the rear.
After the first bandit fell, the fight left the others and the retreated back into the woods. However the commotion had scared off the horse and it was no where to be found.
Scene 6 A Town in Need.
Evening was falling as Sharky and Legion journeyed along the road on foot. They walked for hours until the darkness was scattered by the flicker lights of a small village.
The weary travelers entered the hamlet, and were approached by the towns spokesman: a squirrel with a worried look on his face.
He explained that bandits dressed as a performance troop troupe had raided their village earlier, taken most of their food, gold and two of their daughters! They would give anything to get them back!
Without hesitation, Legion accepted their offer and asked if they had a horse. The villager said they had found one earlier that day, that they could borrow, and brought out the horse they had lost during the battle with the bandits!
Reunited with their horse, Legion insisted they leave immediately, and they were back on the road again.
Scene 7 Rescuing the Daughters.
Sharky was trying to explain to Legion how unlikely it would be for them to just find the bandits in the darkness, when he was stopped short by a light shining out from the woods.
Sharky and legion crept silently into the forest and observed the camp, and there they were: a party of sleeping bandits and a troupe's carriage. One of the bandits was awake on watch, but his droopy dog eyes sagged heavily as the evening waned.
Using his hunting skills, Sharky quietly approached the watchman from behind and in a swift motion broke his neck. The dog never knew what him. Sharky then stood motionless in the camp in a ready stance, as Legion ran forth and began exploring around.
Probably the most bad ass scene of the night.
Using an invisibility spell, Legion investigated the trailer. He heard voices within and found the door locked. Playfully, the turtles knocked on the door. A slat slid nosily open, and the gruff voice of a cat asked who was there.
Legion did not respond, and waited for the slat to close. Once it had, he knocked on the door again. The slat slid open once more and an irradiated cat voice complained about hearing things before shutting it again. Giggling, Legion dropped his invisibility spell and signaled Sharky to come to him. the shark slipped over as Legion knocked on the door again. Once more the slat slid open, and with a powerful kick, Sharky burst the door down and flung into the room.
All Sharky could see was red as he slaughtered each bandit that dare oppose him, until finally he could no longer contain himself, and he feasted on the succulent flesh of his recent kills.
While Sharky ate, Legion found and rescued the performance troupe, who the bandits had robbed and tied in the back, as well as the village's missing daughters!
The troupe thanked them, introduced themselves as the Donlan Valley Mummers Troupe and offered to to take them to the village the following morning.
Scene 8 An Ungrateful Town. Cattle Rustling.
The party and the troupe rode back to the village the following morning, but they were not met with the cheers they were expecting. Instead the townsfolk were bitter and suspicious.
They would not give Legion or Sharky their reward, and told them they were no longer welcome. Sharky was infuriated by the insult, and Legion still felt he was owed.
The Troupe on the other hand was much kinder and told them that they could be found on the festival grounds in town. they asked if they wished to accompany them back to town, but Sharky and Legion had other plans.
Using another Invisibility Spell, Legion went around to the other side of the village, while Sharky stayed with the horse by the village's cattle. Once Legion was in position, he used a Fireball Spell to ignite a hay stack. It worked perfectly; the whole town came running to try and deal with it.
Your Hay. She Burns.
While the village was distracted with the fire, Sharky opened the gate to the cattle field, and charged at the cows. The beasts charged out of the enclosure as Shark rode along side them snapping his jaws to keep them in line.
Quote of the Evening runner up: "Man we did some straight up cowboy shit this game!"
Sharky drove the cattle around the village, picked up Legion and then drove the herd off back towards town with the villagers yelling and screaming behind them.
Scene 9 Selling the Cattle.
Out the front of town, the local mornings dealings were taking place. Farmers and craftsmen from all over the countryside had shown up to sell their wares; it would be the perfect place to sell cattle.
The five found the towns Cattle Commissioner and showed him the 25 head of cattle they had stolen. The Commissioner knew exactly what was going on, and rather then offering the standard 8gp per head, he offered 4gp.
Sharky understood and accepted the money. 100gp was not bad for a day's work!
Scene 10 Franchising.
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With four new Legion's Lettuce Stands, Sharky and the Turtles returned to the town with the intention of going to the docks, and securing a fish supplier.
And that was where we left off for the evening.
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Investors Group sues bank over investment company fraud
July 12, 2019 Venkat Raman
Gyles Beckford
Wellington, July 12, 2019
David Ross was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in jail (RNZ Photo)
A group of investors in Ross Asset Management are suing the ANZ Bank for the way it allowed the failed investment company to operate unlawfully.
The group says that the Bank either knew or should have known that Wellington Financial Adviser David Ross was operating a Ponzi scheme.
His company collapsed in 2012 and he was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in jail after admitting the fraud, which overstated client funds by $380 million.
About 700 investors were owed $115 million, and the liquidators have taken action to recover money from investors who got out early with large gains.
Apex Court dismissal
In April, the Supreme Court dismissed an ANZ move to stop the Financial Markets Authority (FMA), which had investigated the collapse, passing on information to investors.
“Since receiving the FMA material, we have sought our own independent analysis and legal advice. This confirms that we have a very good claim against ANZ and we are now proceeding with legal action,” group spokesperson John Strahl said.
The Ponzi Scheme
The Ross Asset Management (RAM) collapse was one of the biggest in the funds management industry. It operated as a Ponzi scheme, in which funds from new investors were used to pay out other investors, rather than being properly invested.
The investors’ group said that ANZ should have known Ross was acting unlawfully by not holding client funds in separate accounts as required by law.
“The ANZ did not require this and allowed the funds being deposited to be used for non-investment purposes, including paying RAM expenses, reducing RAM’s unauthorised overdraft with ANZ and also to repay other investors,” the group said.
Legal Action expected
The FMA investigation concluded that the ANZ bank might be open to legal action by the investors. FMA chief executive Rob Everett said it had done its job by allowing the investors to get to the stage of being able to take legal action.
“This matter raises important questions around bankers’ duties and we are pleased they will now be tested in the court.”
The action is being funded by a firm specialising in class actions, LPF Group, on a no-win no fees basis.
The group said that more than 200 people have signed up for the action.
In a statement, ANZ said it too was misled by Ross.
A spokesperson said the bank strongly denied the allegations and will be defending the investors’ claim.
Gyles Beckford is Business Editor at Radio New Zealand. The above story and picture have been published under a Special Agreement with www.rnz.co.nz
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Indonesia, Australia reach agreement on IA-CE:PA
07 , 2018 | Source: Antara News
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Marrison have reached an agreement on Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) at a meeting in Bogor on Friday.
"At the meeting I stated the Indonesian commitment to promoting bilateral relations between Indonesia and Australia. Australia is an important partner for ASEAN," Jokowi said after the meeting at the Presidential palace in Bogor on Friday.
Jokowi and Morrison witnessed the signing of a joint declaration of IA-CEPA by Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukito and Australian Minister for Trade and Investment Simon Birmingham and a Memorandum of Understanding by Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi and Simon Birmingham.
"We welcome expansion of relations of comprehensive partnership into comprehensive strategic partnership," Jokowi said.
The two leaders also discussed and agreed on the importance of compliance with international law and respect to the sovereignty of each other country.
"We also agree to cooperate and expand cooperation in security including in `cyber security`. We have strong commitment to collaboration in handling global and regional issues including terrorism," Jokowi said.
Indonesia is the first country visited by Morrison after he took over as new Australian Prime Minister on Friday replacing Malcolm Turnbull.
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The real truth about Ebola, from West Africa
Rural Africans who are dying from the deadly Ebola virus were reportedly injected with the virus through vaccination
Added by Inform Africa on October 29, 2014.
Saved under Africa Report, Breaking News
Tags: Africa Depopulation, Africans in diaspora, Africans on the continent, Ebola virus, inform Africans, Vaccine, west Africa
InformAfrica – You must have heard all the twisted lies and scaremongering about Ebola pandemic in mainstream media. But on InformAfrica, you become aware of the real truth behind this newly invented and patented deadly Ebola virus strain that is being injected in the bloodstreams of unaware rural West Africans as vaccines, by western organizations they are suppose to trust.
Ebola scare is a hoax to blind Africans from other western treachery.
Today, operation ‘depopulate Africa‘ is carried out under the disguise of preventing diseases through lethal vaccines that contain the virus itself, reducing hunger with dangerous GMO foods that damages the immune system — increasing mortality rate in Africa, addressing malnutrition through genetic mutations degenerating Africans, and fighting poverty on the continent with unfavorable foreign aid that further cripples the African economy and keep us dependent on the West.
TRUTH ABOUT VACCINES
The depopulation of Africa with questionable vaccinations is at large. Please inform your loved ones, especially those on the continent to stay away from vaccinations and the corporations enforcing them under the guise of “helping Africans”. The dangers of vaccinations are no doubt one of the largely unreported and increasing cause of high mortality rate in Africa. The vaccines contain the virus itself. Feel free to conduct your own independent research on this fact.
Vaccines are developed in four different ways, by using:
Live bacteria or viruses that have been altered
A dead bacteria or inactivated viruses
Toxoids (bacterial toxins that are made less harmful)
Parts of the bacteria or viruses
No one in their rightful mind would and should consent to having tons of bacteria and viruses injected in their bloodstream, no one. If our people are properly informed and educated on the dangers of vaccines, we may be able to kick Bill Gates and his lethal vaccines (biological weapons) out of Africa for good.
Post by InformAfrica.com | Information for Africa.
The real truth about Ebola virus brought to West Africa
The following revealing truth about Ebola in West Africa was posted on Facebook by Nana Kwame from Ghana, titled “Ebo-Lie“.
The post quickly became viral on the social network as more people became aware of the real truth behind the Ebola virus, that mainstream media like CNN and BBC, will never disclose since they are birds of the same feather with those that created and patented the virus to kill Africans.
Continue reading, and share the information with your loved ones so we all can better protect ourselves against foreign enemies in friends clothing:
Nana Kwame writes: People In the Western World Need to Know What’s Happening Here in West Africa. THEY ARE LYING!!! “Ebola” as a Virus Does NOT Exist and Is NOT “Spread”. The Red Cross Has Brought a Disease to 4 Specific Countries for 4 Specific Reasons and It Is Only Contracted By Those Who Receive Treatments and Injections From the Red Cross. That is Why Liberians and Nigerians Have Begun Kicking the Red Cross Out of Their Countries and Reporting In the News the Truth.
Now Bear With Me:
REASONS FOR EBOLA
Most People Jump to “Depopulation” Which is No Doubt Always on the Mind of the West When It Comes to Africa. But I Assure You Africa Can NEVER Be Depopulated By Killing 160 People a Day When Thousands are Born Per Day. So the real Reasons Are Much More Tangible.
Reason 1: This Vaccine Implemented Sickness Being Called “Ebola” Was Introduced Into West Africa for the End Goal of Getting Troops on the Ground In Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. If You Remember We Were Just Trying to Get Into Nigeria for “Boko Haram” #BULLSHIT But That Fell Apart When Nigerians Started Telling the Truth. There ARE NO GIRLS MISSING. Global Support Fell Through the Floor, and a New Reason Was Needed to Get Troops Into Nigeria and Steal the New Oil Reserves They Have Discovered.
Reason 2: Sierra Leone is the World’s Largest Supplier of Diamonds. For the Past 4 Months They Have Been on Strike, Refusing to Provide Diamonds Due to Horrible Working Conditions and Slave Pay. The West Will Not Pay a Fair Wage for the Resources Because the Idea is to Keep These People Surviving on Rice Bags and Foreign AID So That They Remain a Source of Cheap Slave Labor Forever. A Reason Was Also Needed to Get Troops On the Ground In Sierra Leone to Force an End to the Diamond Miners Strikes. This is Not the First Time This Has Been Done. When Miners Refuse to Work Troops Are Sent In and Even If They Have to Kill and Replace Them All, the Only Desire is to Get Diamonds Back Flowing Out of the Country. Of Course to Launch Multiple Campaigns to Invade These Countries Separately Would Be WAY Too Fishy. But Something Like “Ebola” Allows Access to an Entire Area Simultaneously…
Reason 3: In Addition to Stealing Nigerian Oil, and Forcing Sierra Leone Back to Mining, Troops Have Also Been Sent In to FORCE Vaccinations (Deadly “Ebola” Poison) Onto Those Africans Who Are Not Foolish Enough to Take The Willingly. 3000 Troops Are Being Sent In to Make Sure That This “Poison” Continues to Spread, Because Again It Is Only Spread Through Vaccination. As More and More News Articles Are Released Like the One Above From Liberia, Informing the Populous of the US Lies and Manipulation, More and More Africans Are Refusing to Visit the Red Cross. Troops Will Force These Vaccinations Upon the People to Ensure the Visible Appearance of an Ebola Pandemic. In Addition to This They Will Protect the Red Cross From the Liberians and Nigerians Who Have Been Rightfully Ejecting Them From Their Countries.
Reason 4: 3000 Troops….. Is Ebola Susceptible to Bullets?? Ridiculous. Last But Not Least the APPEARANCE of This Ebola “Pandemic” (Should Americans Not Catch On) Will Be Used to Scare Countless Millions Into Taking the “Ebola Vaccine” Which in Reality IS THE PANDEMIC. Already They Have Started With Stories of How It Has Been Brought Back to the US and Has Appeared in Dallas, How White Doctors Were Cured But Black Infected Are Not Being Allowed to Be Treated Etc.
ALL That Will Do Is Make Blacks STRIVE to Get the Vaccine, Because It Appears That the “Cure” is Being Held Back From Blacks. They Will Run Out In Droves to Get It and Then There Will Be Serious Problems. With All We Have Seen Revealed About Vaccines This Year You Would Think We Learned Our Lesson.
All I Can Do Is Hope So, Because They Depend Highly On Our Ignorance to Complete Their Agendas. Ask Yourself If Ebola Was Really Spread From Person to Person, Instead of Controlled Spread Through Vaccination – Then WHY Would the CDC and the US Government Continue to Allow Flights In and Out of These Countries With Absolutely No Regulation, Or At All? We Have Got to Start Thinking and Sharing Information Globally Because They Do Not Give the True Perspective of the People Who Live Here in West Africa.
They Are Lying for Their Own Benefit and There Aren’t Enough Voices Out There With a Platform to Help Share Our Reality. Hundreds of Thousands Have Been Killed, Paralyzed and Disabled By These and Other “New” Vaccines All Over the World and We Are Finally Becoming Aware of It.
Now, What Will We DO With All This Information?
Post by Jahmakehim December.
Bill Gates systematic bio-weapon agenda are disguised as vaccines used to reduce Africa’s population
Things to note about EBOLA
Is Ebola virus real or fake?
Yes its real, a new Ebola virus strain was recently invented and patented in the US. Governments of the African countries affected by the outbreak were reportedly given about $140million to allow pharma corporations and their agencies carry out Ebola experiments in rural Africa January this year through vaccinations, now people vaccinated are dying from it.
Is the Ebola virus transmitted or contacted through touching someone with the virus?
NO, several independent investigations coming from West Africa, revealed that the virus is transmitted through vaccinations, the Red Cross is accused of injecting unaware Africans in rural areas with the virus. They depend on the ignorance of Africans to carry out their diabolic ebola agenda.
Should Africans get vaccinations?
If you are perfectly fine and healthy, what do you need vaccination for? Africans are being actively deceived by western pharma corporations to get vaccinations for a new disease outbreak they themselves created and are spreading in their target locations on the continent through injections. Vaccinations contains the virus itself, why would you want to allow someone inject Ebola virus into your bloodstream under the pretense of prevention? Our body self-heals due to natural and strong immune defense in every African, always seek herbal remedies with no side effects!
Ebola is a biological weapon invented to kill and depopulate Africans on the continent. Many have seen how mainstream media is showing to the world – footage of rural Africans being body bagged in numbers and their dead bodies disposed off after being injected with the deadly virus in form of vaccine. These are the type of things mainstream media love to show to the largely brainwashed world: pictures of starving Africans, videos of disease infected dying Africans; but they never show you the Western corporations behind the pandemic.
Africans in diaspora, get a phone card and call to inform your loved ones on the African continent to refuse vaccine injections from blood-sucking U.S pharma companies experimenting on Africans. The vaccinations contain the patented deadly Ebola virus itself. If you don’t have Ebola or any virus, why get injections for it? Be inquisitive and always ask questions!
InformAfrica — Informing Africans on the continent and in diaspora
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International Skeptics Forum » General Topics » Religion and Philosophy
Is the Roman Catholic Church in Freefall?
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27th July 2017, 04:59 AM #161
Troublesome Passenger
Originally Posted by arthwollipot
I would caution against the assumption that everyone else's experience is the same as one's own. Even just going by the numbers, a majority of priests don't molest.
The Principle of Charity is dead in this thread, it seems.
Yeah, it's too bad the policy (unofficial or not) was to cover up these heinous crimes. Makes everyone look bad. Makes folks . . . uncharitable towards the abusers and enablers.
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Damien Evans
Up The Irons
Well, it's still the largest religious denomination in Australia, so I'm going to say no, it's probably not in freefall.
I'd wager at least 3.5 million of those 5 million haven't been to church since they were 10.
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Originally Posted by Oystein
Assuming Sydney as the destination, it's not that bad: 22 Mm (Mega meters) via L.A. vs. 16 Mm via Singapore. But still, you're right, 6 Mm is a lot of a difference.
Some years ago, I flew with my mother, then 80 years old, from Frankfurt, Germany to Auckland, NZ. The way to via Vancouver was 19.3 Mm, the way back via Hong Kong was 18.2 Mm - a negligible difference, and with two nights in both Vancouver and HK, we managed the jet lag great.
I underestimated the effect the distances AUC-SYD and FRA-ROM would have.
(Distances determined using http://tjpeiffer.com/crowflies.html )
Auckland is as far east of Melbourne as Moscow is of Paris.
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27th July 2017, 02:19 PM #165
Location: Brisbane, Aust.
Originally Posted by rjh01
I think the question about bringing perjury charges against Pell is rather academic. If he is found guilty then he could be facing a long prison sentence. If you spell not guilty then trying to prove a charge of perjury would be difficult.
Edit. October is just the date of his next court appearance, not the start of his trial.
The charge of perjury would not be about his own physical involvement in child sex abuse, but his evidence about the covering up thereof. Therefore I can't see how the result of his trial will effect the other.
Thanks for the info about the trial. These legal proceedings are confusing.
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5th August 2017, 06:37 PM #166
And so it goes on. It would seem the Catholic Church is only paying lip service to the ideal of caring for the abused. The actions are still consistently about caring for the church and it's assets.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-0...actics/8763302
In 2014, the church conceded under oath at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse some of its legal tactics were unfair "from a Christian point of view".
Why would bishops and archbishops use unchristian tactics?
Because they have saved the Australian arm of the Roman Catholic Church its cities of riches.
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6th August 2017, 08:02 AM #167
The Big Dog
Were any of the legal defenses improper from a legal standard, because I know that when I want an astute legal analysis I want it from a former "footballer."
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Penultimate Amazing
Originally Posted by The Big Dog
Oh dear. Not holding a christian standard, then.
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Originally Posted by abaddon
I notice the footballer failed to provide a source for that claim, and given what we know about the ABC and their "citation" methods in their anti-religion articles...
Well a skeptic would take that with a grain of salt.
That being said, I see nothing unchristian about raising legal defenses to legal claims.
You think it's an isolated case of bias against your church?
Think again.15 years and still avoiding paying compensation. The legal matters are put to bed. Where is the christianity in that?
aleCcowaN
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Location: stranded at Buenos Aires, a city that, like NYC or Paris, has so little to offer...
Cardinal George Pell is taking leave of his Vatican duties after informing the Pope he plans to return to Australia to fight historical sexual assault charges in court and clear his name.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-2...tralia/8664516
That's local news. If you intended the topic to be local, you failed to express it clearly [And even locally, there's a massive non sequitur between the thread's title and the piece of news in the OP]
The RCC is a political party which has being operating during almost two millennia. It has tens of thousands of political committees that celebrate gatherings at least once a week. Its central headquarters is an independent country itself.
Hence, saying it's in free fall is a ridiculous notion.
Horrible dipsomaniacs and other addicts, be gone and get treated, or covfefe your soul!These fora are full of scientists and specialists. Most of them turn back to pumpkins the second they log out.
I got tired of the actual schizophrenics that are taking hold part of the forum and decided to do something about it.
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Originally Posted by aleCcowaN
Well all news is local to some degree I suppose. The piece of news in the OP was about the third highest ranking person in the Roman Catholic Church. He just happens to be an Australian.
As has been uncovered by the Royal Commission into child abuse the Catholic involvement is massive:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-0...sydney/8242600
More than 20 per cent of the members of some Catholic religious orders — including Marist Brothers and Christian Brothers — were allegedly involved in child sexual abuse, a royal commission hearing in Sydney has been told.
Nearly 2,000 Catholic Church figures, including priests, religious brothers and sisters, and employees, were identified as alleged perpetrators in a report released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Regardless of the length of time the RCC has been around it can still plummet in a dramatic way.
What are you banging on about The Big Dog? Who is the former footballer .... Paul Kennedy?
Am not an expert on football and it's stars so this is news to me. Non the less I don't see why being a former footballer would disqualify you from being a person of some intellect - unless you were kicked in the head at some time.
The RCC is like the army or the police department: men may fall, but the institution remains untouched.
ahhell
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Sure but when was the last time a major world religion went away? Zoarastrianism, Manicheaism? It can happen but it rarely does, especially not without a conquest of some sort.
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rjh01
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Originally Posted by ahhell
It probably will be around for a long time. But its influence and following will decline, even more than other religions.
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Yes no doubt it will hang on in a diminished form but only be a shadow of its former self - well in the West anyway.
https://cruxnow.com/church/2015/05/1...-denomination/
A report released Tuesday by the Pew Forum finds that the total number of Catholics in the United States dropped by 3 million since 2007, now comprising about 20 percent - or one-fifth - of the total population.
And perhaps more troubling for the church, for every one Catholic convert, more than six Catholics leave the church. Taken a step further, Catholicism loses more members than it gains at a higher rate than any other denomination, with nearly 13 percent of all Americans describing themselves as “former Catholics.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/21/the_...r_the_country/
But now it appears that the Catholic Church is in a demographic free-fall, as it sheds adherents faster than any faith other than the mainline Protestant denominations, which have been in decline for decades. Nearly one-third of all American adults were raised Catholic, but a stunning 41 percent—four in ten of those who marched to the alter in their little white First Communion dresses and suits—no longer identify with Catholicism.
Someone else is using the term free-fall also.
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To answer that, we'd have to define "major" and "world" in the context of a religion. Of the three primary monotheistic religions, the Jews became a "world" religion primarily through the diaspora, and Christianity and Islam through conquest and active missionary endeavours.
Possibly the most recent religion that had a large number of active adherents or believers and subsequently go extinct was the Norse (Thor, Odin, Freyja and the lot.) For the most part they converted to Christianity.
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Originally Posted by Blue Mountain
Yes, if you're an unrepentant Eurocentric.
Looks like the % of Christians in the USA is falling at the rate of 1% per year. In 2014 71% were Christian. This means that around 2091 there will be no Christians left in USA. Though immigration will alter this figure.
The numbers you cite are a bit meaningless as they mix percentages with absolute numbers.
Edit. From the second link they give the % of Catholics dropping from 24 - 21% over 7 years. This means that Catholics in the USA will cease to exist in 49 years from 2014 which is 2063.
Last edited by rjh01; 8th August 2017 at 12:23 AM.
Looks like the % of Christians in the USA is falling at the rate of 1% per year. In 2014 71% were Christian. This means that around 2091 there will be no Christians left in USA.
You have there the typical non sequitur of randi/internationalwhatnots forum's: It's the period between "year" and "In".
That's also a failed induced inference, another means for manipulation this website should be fighting against and not promoting.
It's appalling to see how sin seems to be the part of religion that attracts people -both insiders and outsiders- into these discussions.
Besides, the existence of catholic priests abusing girls doesn't seem to cast so much attention, except to come through as "thorough", in the same way movies about Vikings cast one or two coloured people just to meet union requirements and some ill expectations of a bigot-by-political-correctedness public.
It's the both homosexual and paedophile the ones who have users flocking into these threads. That's very telling.
There's certainly no real evidence of any god and regarding the Christian, the misconstruction of the death of a real life saint by his ignorant foul smelling sidekicks into a false resurrection, plus an additional schizo who even never knew the saint but crossed paths with him in the windmill of his mind to later pontificate about the meaning of the saint's path in Earth, all leading to a Trinity and other artefactual developments, all to be sold to the gentile, this whole thing only makes Christianity into the longest lasting marketing campaign in history.
But in spite of that, there's no decline towards extinction either for Christianity or any other time tested religion, just because you can't phase out human instincts at will. Not yours, and certainly not other's. That's why from Joseph Smith to Hubbard and Moon, they continue to appear new outrageous developments that suck up from those instincts.
ponderingturtle
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But you need to punish those little perverts for seducing good priests.
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Point taken. Given that you're in South America, are you thinking of indigenous religions that have gone extinct because their followers either died out or were actively killed off?
The Inca Empire (some 12 to 20 million inhabitants) had its mythology imposed all over its domain with a great deal of syncretism. Christianity absorbed that and took advantage of that syncretism, that's why you have in my country the Pachamama festival, where "Mother Earth" has being absorbed by Virgin Mary, yet "pagan" traditions survive within.
Protestants and Evangelic tend to consider that a devilish papist contamination (thus, just for a cultural reflex, those even Atheists grown in the Bible Belt flock here to enjoy commenting on the pederasty of any Catholic priest).
On the whole, the RCC is more able to admit different cultural backgrounds -and less freedom to speculate about what the dogma is- than her Reformed counterparts, which only want to defeat and impose their different visions. That's why New Orleans, and not Boston, is the place for a Mardi Gras.
At first blush, it would seem that such a thing would be a good point for the RCC, no?
Well, no. That simply means that the RCC will say, do and accept anything in the quest for new marks.
It's the difference between Ebola and common flu. A virus like Ebola is bound to disappear in a few human generations even without modern medicine, just because it's so virulent it kills the host before it's successfully spread. That's why it's outbreak, another outbreak, another outbreak, extinction (unless it mutates into something less virulent). Common flu is a foolish virus which is so slow to get the host ill that it's already being spread from the very beginning. It leaves the host ambulatory, so they can get more people infected. And it's so clumsy using the genetic machinery of the hosts that it creates a lot of mutated copies, most of them a failure, a few of them changed exactly as it's needed to avoid the defences of hosts, giving birth to next year strains.
RCC is like the flu. Syncretism is the way to overcome the defences of invaded groups.
I can live with the Catholic flu. The Ebola Belt, with its fighting Darwin in the outskirts of science and other equally horrifying treats, I'm not so sure about that.
Dr. Keith
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Well put. I always admired how Central Americans preserved their polytheistic culture within Catholicism through the use of saints.
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But that's a region of week culture. Take a look at these figures and the viral expansion of Evangelic Ebola. Cultureless people -not European nor Indians, in spite of their 30/70 makeup, that is, less White than Obama; not Westerners nor aboriginal; speaking an extremely limited Spanish and having lost their original languages; in a nutshell: people who doesn't belong to anything- are an easy target for Pentecostal, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses who will in turn brainwash and reprogram them into fifth class Usians and have them ringing doorbells in search for new victims.
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Originally Posted by ponderingturtle
Yes it is mind blowing that some in the RCC have pushed this line. Desperation comes to mind.
Perhaps also why Catholicism has been so successful in it's recruitment in different cultures. Central America is a prime example and I have seen it in the hill tribes of Thailand also.
Seems somewhat contradictory however for a religion that claims to be "the one true church" and maintains the facade of being unchanging through time.
That's just the most a Christian denomination can match the Pepsi challenge.
This makes no sense at all to me. If you had said my post is a gross simplification of the facts then I would agree.
Oh, the o'le "it's OK because I did it".
Which of both parts of your doing you didn't understand?
Using linear trends in the mind of the uneducated folk is a book example of induced inference: "religious people dropped from 80% in 2000 to 70% in 2010 so by 2080 there will be no religious people", where the text in the quotations is the induced inference and that "so", the place where the non sequitur is committed.
The fact that you deceived yourself and/or are deceived by others in similar ways doesn't excuse you of the serious error you made in that assertion. You acted like an induced inference is normal reasoning and not just a pure piece of manipulation. And you did it in the public sections of a forum supposedly devoted to promote critical thinking and scepticism.
The slope of the trend line is unknown. So the simplest guess is to use straight lines. This would be accurate if the only people who are ever going to be Catholic are already Catholic. In reality all sorts of things complicate this picture. For example some children will become Catholic. Or maybe there might be a mass exodus, like they are exposed as tolerating abuse of children within their ranks. I did not bother to state that in my original post as I thought it too obvious.
It isn't even surprising it is their first line of defense.
Perhaps asymptotically tending towards yet never quite reaching zero.
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Actually, no. Straight lines might be the "simplest" guess in terms of the resulting calculations, but it's far from the simplest model of what's actually happening in cases like this. An equal number of members leaving the group every time period (a straight-line trend) would be reasonable in a scenario where the total number of members were only changing by a small factor over the whole time period. But when you're extending the trend toward extinction, the assumption of equal numbers (per unit time) leaving the group, simultaneously assumes an ever-larger fraction of them (per unit time) doing so. Until during the period from 2070 to 2080, in the example case, all of the remaining ones leave. (And then, continuing the trend, by 2090 there would be a large negative number of members, whatever that means.)
If you instead extrapolate based on a constant fraction of existing members departing per specified time interval, the resulting exponential decay function is much better behaved. The trend of 80% in 2000 to 70% in 2010 extrapolates to about 33.5% in 2080.
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The slope of the trend line is unknown. So the simplest guess is to use straight lines.
"The slope of the trend line" ... "so" ... "is to use straight lines"? It translates as "it's linear, so I'll consider it to be linear".
No. The simplest guess is considering it "exponential" -logistic, to be exact-. That if a trend line would help to predict values way out of its time span.
Telling that Christians are going to disappear by 2080 and telling that by 2180 a 200% of the population will be "not a Christian" are equally wrong. I suppose seeing Christianity vanished is a wish of yours, so when you arrived to 0 you stopped.
Linear trends are intuitive to people 8 or 9 years old, that's why they can learn the rule of three at school. Stopping there and having the rest of your life at that level is just some personal doing of which everyone should take responsibility.
Most of any other thing, in a website about scepticism everyone should put reason before personal expectations. I don't tell that to the hopeless people who flood this website with their epistemological hedonism. I'm telling you just because you usually do much better than this. I'd never imagine you being one of them. It's just that we, sceptical thinkers and non-Theists, hold ourselves to much higher moral and intellectual standards than those of Theists. Both Theists and non-Theist would be horrified just by the notion of killing someone. But non-Theists may be also horrified by the ability of Theists to self-servingly manufacture pet gods out of thin air. Don't stoop to their level. Don't allow any wish to perturb your reasoning.
ETA: ninja'd by Myriad (regarding the trends)
Yes there will always be some who will stick with the church no matter what. I would suggest even if the pope came out of the closet as a homosexual atheist, there would be a group stubbornly clutching their rosaries.
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Einstürzende Neubauten, “Lament”
Posted by I Die You Die | Nov 13, 2014 | Reviews | 0
The marking of a hundred years since the outbreak of World War I has prompted no small amount of reflection and analysis from across the globe. We imagine it’s in that spirit that those eminent Teutonic midwives of industrial culture, Einstürzende Neubauten, have positioned Lament not as “an official new Einstürzende Neubauten LP proper,” but as a document of a performance piece requiring “its physical embodiment, performed on or by founding member Andrew Unruh’s gigantic instruments and noise generating devices that visually evoke the horrors the work describes or embeds in the sounds they conjure from the filth and terror of the industrialised 20th century world at war with itself.” That said, EN have always prioritized live performance: the cover art for Perpetuum Mobile is simply a pile of trash on a turntable until it is seen in operation. So, this isn’t exactly new territory for these boys, and truth be told, neither are artistic renderings of the Great War as a catastrophic maelstrom into which the world sailed with a sense of fatalistic inevitability, with its trauma forming the twentieth century proper as we understand the era today. While we might be talking about yet another missive from the band who positioned themselves as witnesses to the collapse of modernity in their very name about that most modernist of topics, their method of integrating music and themes of wartime(s) amongst more recognizably industrial passages distinguishes Lament from previous Neubauten works.
Lament‘s blend of the familiar and the newly unearthed doesn’t just operate along a simple industrial/cover axis (though nearly all of its tracks contain some combination of both). While a sardonic revisiting of “God Save The King” feels like well-worn territory for acts like Neubauten, or especially Laibach (industrial’s unique capacity to satirize jingoism is a topic we’ve been discussing for several years), the early jazz of soldier and bandleader James Europe‘s “On Patrol In No Man’s Land” will likely be a fresh discovery for the majority of Lament‘s listeners. Similarly, Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” was a staple in our homes as the children of left-leaning boomers, but we weren’t aware of Marlene Dietrich’s German translation. There’s something appropriate about that most famous of anti-Nazi Berliners being revisited by a German band heavily invested in excavating their country’s guilt and history.
“The Willy – Nicky Telegrams” have a far less musical origin, but the end result is no less Neubauten. Telegrams passed between the Kaiser and Tsar on the literal eve of war using disarmingly familiar terms of address are recited overtop terse bleeps and bass strums. The addition of Auto-Tune to Hacke and Bargeld’s voices, which already have a robotic tick-tock quality, seems to symbolize both the imperfect nature of hastily tapped-out messages (no doubt punctuated with the heavily-laden word “stop”) in the mutually agreed upon but foreign language of English, as well as the inescapable march of a wind-up aristocracy to the precipice of global war.
That this is simultaneously exactly the sort of thing one might anticipate from the German collective, while also acting as something of a meta-commentary on themselves shouldn’t be overlooked. We expect Einstürzende Neubauten to act as elder statesmen for a certain stripe of art music, a role they fulfill by being charming and digestible and even somewhat lighthearted through the proceedings. But that perception of the band becomes yet another tool in their arsenal: kindly Uncle Blixa camping it up on “On Patrol In No Man’s Land” acts as the perfect counterpoint to Herr Bargeld’s stonefaced recital of Kurt Tucholsky’s “Die Rote Melodie”, recast in English as “How Did I Die?” The contrast and tension between cheer and despair as expressed through the lives and deaths of soldiers is palpable, and as intractable as the mix of strings, effects processing, and metallic percussion that make up these songs.
For all the myriad modes and ideas swirling through Lament‘s dusty trenches and ghostly battlefields, it’s when the record disconnects entirely from narrative history on the stunning three part title track that the biggest impact is made. The first part “Lament 1. Lament” is nothing but voices achingly arranged into an ever growing chorus, with “Macht Krieg” or “Make War” as its only discernible words. That the second, brutal segment “Lament 2. Abwärstsspirale”‘s pounding cannonfire drums are so briefly heard is appropriate, followed as it is by “Lament 3. Pater Peccavi”, wherein the voices of POW’s recorded to wax cylinder recite the Parable of the Prodigal Son over a heartbreaking arrangement of a Renaissance motet. A fairly literal reading would have it be about how a comparatively brief four year conflict echoes through the history that followed, but more broadly it serves as a kind of thesis statement: that World War I’s impact is still felt because it never really ended, and we’re still struggling with it’s cost a century years later.
Fascinatingly, Lament arrives at a time in Neubauten’s career when their origins as deconstructionists and avant gardists seems most distant. Many modern histories of EN treat their most experimental outings as relics of their past, mistaking the mellowing of their overall sound (a process that has lasted for some two thirds of their career – since 1993’s Tabula Rasa at the very least) for a softening of their most abstract leanings. While a concept LP about the post-history of the Great War isn’t necessarily a return to the beautiful annihilation of music and performance they’ve been celebrated for, there’s no doubt that Blixa and company fully understand the parallel between their subject matter and their own legacy. The perverseness of these noted deconstructionists turning in a historical transcript is as Neubauten a thing as we can imagine; the replacement of the monolithic ideas that shape our lives with glorious sound.
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Malaika, who is vacationing in New York along with Arjun, shared the same photograph on Instagram and captioned it: "Thank you Neetu and Rishi uncle for such a warm and lovely evening."
Actors Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora spent a "fun evening" with veteran stars Neetu Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor, who is undergoing medical treatment here.
Neetu on Thursday night shared a photograph on Instagram featuring herself along with Malaika, Arjun and Rishi.
She captioned the image: "Fun evening with our very own Ghar ka bacha (kid of the home) Arjun and the Lovely Malaika."
Rishi tweeted: "Thank you Malaika and Arjun for coming. Hope you got to see 'Rocketman' and lunch at 'Red Farm'.
The "India's Most Wanted" actor replied on her post saying: "Thank you for a lovely evening".
In April, Rishi's brother Randhir Kapoor had said the "102 Not Out" actor will be back home in a few months, amid reports that he was "cancer free".
The actor has been receiving a steady stream of his film fraternity friends like Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Anupam Kher, who ensure that they meet the couple on their visit to the Big Apple.
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Nokia Music Store launches – video review
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The Nokia Music Store that we wrote about in late August, has finally opened its doors.
A quick recap: designed to run on the company’s flagship multimedia handsets, the N81 and N95, as well as a Windows PC, the service offers individual songs costing €1 and albums at around €10, from a catalog featuring “millions of tracks” from major artists and independents. Music can be bought “over-the-air”, as well as being able to be purchased and “side-loaded” via a PC, with synchronization offered both ways.
A subscription-based service is also available through a PC, though, curiously, isn’t supported on a cell phone.
Here’s what we wrote when Nokia first announced it music store:
Like with Apple’s iTunes/iPod ecosystem, Nokia is now in a position to control the whole user experience, by designing both the software and hardware required to use its music download service, and this is obviously one motivation behind the company’s attempt to bypass the networks. However, a second, and perhaps, bigger reason behind…. [the] launch is that profits from hardware sales are falling, requiring the company to reinvent itself as one that provides a broad range of mobile services — and in doing so, will inevitably have to wrestle some power away from the carriers.
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By now, I’ve told the story of Eli’s Super Cake at over a dozen events, and hundreds of readers have eaten the cake themselves. More importantly, I have learned that when Eli has a recipe idea, I should just stand back and let him create. He does not approach his baking with the scientific precision of Lisa’s daughter, he just goes for it. And when the batter came together so beautifully, he looked up at me and smiled: “I think I have a knack for this.” I think he really does.
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Jun 27, 2013 By lisa
Yesterday, before we were even awake, the kids made us coffee and themselves French Toast.
Now I can rest assured that they can make breakfast in bed for whatever life partner they choose.
My work here may be done.
4 thick slices cinnamon challah bread
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (we like Penzey’s blend) or to taste
butter for griddle
In a shallow bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, and cinnamon.
Soak bread in egg mixture on both sides.
Heat griddle to medium, then lightly butter and cook bread, turning once, until egg batter is cooked through and bread is very lightly browned.
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One summer when I was a kid, I made it my mission to find the best strawberry ice cream. I ate strawberry ice cream in New York and Connecticut and Massachusetts and New Jersey. I can’t remember which was my favorite, whether it was Haagen-Dazs or Baskin-Robbins or the scoop from the wooden shack on the edge of a cow pasture, but it doesn’t matter: it was the journey, as they say, not the destination.
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Jason Day’s withdrawal at the API ignites debate on the implementation of weekly injury reports to protect daily fantasy sports users
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Jason Day’s withdrawal from the Arnold Palmer Invitational during his seventh hole of the day sparked a lively debate on Thursday, with many daily fantasy sports (DFS) and gamblers feeling cheated.
A plethora of angry DFS players aired their thoughts on social media after the withdrawal, with some requesting that the PGA Tour implements weekly injury reports, as the relationship between golf and gambling begins to heat up.
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The Australian called it quits during the seventh hole of his round, explaining to playing partners Ian Poulter and Rickie Fowler that he couldn’t continue due to the pain in his back. Day revealed after the round the significance of his injury, which involves an annular tear in his L4-L5 discs.
“I (aggravated) it last Sunday, and then got an MRI Monday which came back that I had an annular tear in my disc and then I’ve got ‘set problems’ as well.
“My back was sore when I was practising from Tuesday to Saturday (last week) and I was going to practise on Sunday, but I woke up and couldn’t really walk or sit in the car. I was on a dose pack to try get the inflammation out of it that didn’t get any better.”
The explanation had some questioning whether Day was right to tee it up in the first place, not just to protect those in the fantasy sports world but also for preventing first alternate Chase Wright an opportunity to tee it up, but Day had hoped that the injury would “loosen up” as his round went on.
Last week, Tour Chief Jay Monahan said to players at the Honda Classic
“We are aggressively and also carefully pursuing commercial deals in the U.S. gambling and daily fantasy spaces and expect to make announcements in the coming months. We see strong opportunities for commercial deals.”
But despite those opportunities and growing relationships with these DFS companies, in light of Day’s costly withdrawal for many of those gamblers, golf fans should not expect to see weekly injury reports like they do in the NFL and MLB in the near future, due to the players of the Tour being independent contractors.
Speaking to The Action Network, a PGA Tour spokesman stated
“For the foreseeable future, medical information is considered confidential. Players are not required to disclose an injury.”
The heated debate over Day’s withdrawal also involved Tour players, who were happy to share their view on the subject, with some holding strong opinions on the matter.
Kevin Kisner, co-chairman of the Tour’s Player Advisory Council, has little sympathy with those who lost money on Day’s withdrawal, stating to Golf Channel’s Will Gray.
“It’s nobody’s business. I mean, are we out here to gamble, or are we out here to play golf? I don’t really give a s*** about the DFS guys. You should have picked someone else. If he had shot 65 and he had a hurt back, those guys wouldn’t have said anything.”
Jimmy Walker had more sympathy and concern over those that could contain more inside information than others.
“I’m not saying that anyone did anything malicious, but yeah, it’s a bigger deal. There might have been a head-to-head (matchup) with Jason today, and if a few people know that he’s probably not feeling good, people need to know that. It’s a big deal. There’s a lot of money out there.”
As the PGA Tour’s relationship with gambling continues to evolve, it’s unlikely that the fiery debate will subside anytime soon. Whatever side of the fence you’re on though, the timeless words which Brandt Snedeker issued on Thursday afternoon are perhaps the most relevant, and a stark reminder to those DFS users: “That’s why they call it gambling”.
Tour Rundown: Moli-Moli-Moli-Molinari!
Morning 9: RIP Dan Jenkins | Rafa rises at Bay Hill | Phull Phil, Pt. 237
Gianni is a freelance writer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts as well as a Diploma in Sports Journalism. He can be contacted at gmagliocco@outlook.com. Follow him on Twitter @giannimosquito
Mar 9, 2019 at 1:55 pm
I could care less what DFS players think of some jock’s injury-like Jason Day. No sports player knows when he/she is going to get injured.
Jason Day, don’t pay a whit of attention to their whining.
FkKisner
I don’t bet or gamble – but Kisner is an absolute b1tch.
Maybe I should play on Tour, I would be a shoe in to miss the cut each week and gamblers would love me as a sure thing…
Imagine betting on sports. Lol.
I Man
Nobody on tour could care less about people gambling on their sport, nor should they. If you aren’t prepared to lose, don’t make the bet. Worst thing the PGA Tour could have done .
…and now that WRX writes about it, we’re supposed to think it’s an actual issue. Just because people say shit doesn’t make it important.
Phil D. Snuts
Mar 8, 2019 at 12:20 pm
Fantasy sports lmao. Get a grip people
HacknGolf
As a DFS player there are certain rules:
1) Don’t pick Jason Day
2) Don’t pick Kevin Na
3) Don’t pick Danny Lee
4) Don’t pick John Daly
If you stick to those rules, you avoid 99% of WD’s
You forgot Tiger
anyone who cant own the fact that the guy they picked WD’d is truly a cuck and sucks at gambling. In Sports gambling every outcome is out of your control. Take your losses like a man and realize these guys play for a living, and your some idiot who lost a 50$ entry fee and will be over it in about 4 hours time
Gianni is a beast!
It’s gambling, what do the people betting expect? A sure thing? Like assuming when you go to Vegas you’ll win, yea right.
Kisner would be wise to keep his mouth shut and let folks presume he’s a fool rather than open it and remove all doubt.
JugHead
People crying about losing money gambling… Sounds about right in this day and age. Gotta side with Snedeker and Kisner on this one.
Thomas A
Feeling bad about GAMBLERS losing money? It’s called gambling for a reason. You lost, tough s**t.
Exactly! If they’ve got money to throw away on sh*t like this – zero sympathy.
Mizuno MP-20 SEL: Leftys rejoice!
Callaway launches technology-packed Epic Flash hybrids
Callaway Epic Flash Star line: Light and launchable
Hey you southpaws, I promise I didn’t just flip an image of an MP-20 to wind you up… This is a real deal!
Say hello to the Mizuno MP-20 SEL (Special Edition Lefty) made just for you.
So what makes these SEL’s special? You may remember from the MP-20 piece I referenced the “MP-20 family” and how Mizuno spent a lot of time analyzing set makeup data to fine-tune each club in each model to maximize performance from both an individual set perspective, and to combo. They took all of that data and flipped it on its head, or at least hand, to create a set combining the most requested clubs just for left-handed players.
The MP20 SEL is a combination of 5-PW MP20 (blades) with HMB 3, and 4-irons. All the flow, copper and tech from the right-handed models combined into one. Without getting too far into the logistic of this, it has to be said that unless you’re a maple-syrup drinking, hockey-playing Canuck (don’t worry its not an offensive term) where around 25 percent of golfers play left-handed the global golf population that plays left-handed is still below 10 percent. Mizuno wants to do everything they can to offer an MP design for lefties, and as the data demonstrated, this was the best option to fit the most players.
For more information on the entire MP20 line up check out the full piece here: ( INSERT MP20 LINK )
Morning 9: Nothing runs like a Frittelli | Royal Portrush takes center stage
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com; @benalberstadt on Instagram)
Good Monday morning, golf fans.
1 Scottish Open: Wiesberger nabs second W of 2019
(Image above via Wiesberger on Instagram) EuropeanTour.com report…”Bernd Wiesberger…beat Benjamin Hebert in a twilight play-off at the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open.”
“The Austrian entered the final day at The Renaissance Club with a two shot lead but found himself trailing after Hebert carded a stunning closing 62 to set the target at 22 under.”
“Wiesberger had edged back ahead with two to play but bogeyed the 17th in a 69 before a par on the third play-off hole handed him a sixth European Tour title.”
Full piece.
2. Nothing runs like a Frittelli
AP report…”While the rest of the leaders faltered, Dylan Frittelli surged to his first PGA Tour title.”
“Frittelli won the John Deere Classic on Sunday, closing with a 7-under 64 for a two-stroke victory over Russell Henley. The South African earned a spot next week in the British Open, finishing at 21-under 263 after the bogey-free final round at TPC Deere Run.”
“One of eight players within two strokes of the lead entering the lead, Frittelli was looking forward to the tournament’s charter flight to Royal Portrush.”
“I’m sure it’s going to be a fun flight,” Frittelli said.
Indeed. Full piece.
3. Goose is loose at Senior Players
AP report on Goosen’s win at one of the low-key best venues for watching professional golf…”Retief Goosen birdied the final two holes to win the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship on Sunday at Firestone Country Club for his first PGA Tour Champions title.”
“The 50-year-old Hall of Famer from South Africa broke a tie for the lead with a 15-foot putt on the par-4 17th and made a 10-footer on the par-4 18th for a 2-under 68 and a two-stroke victory over 65-year-old Jay Haas and Tim Petrovic.”
4. Kim outduels Thompson
AP report…”I’m very happy to win, especially this tournament, because Marathon has a lot of history,” Kim said.
“With five birdies in the middle of her round, Kim pulled away from Lexi Thompson in their head-to-head duel at Highland Meadows Golf Club outside Toledo, Ohio.”
“She played some amazing golf,” Thompson said. “There was a stretch there, mid-round, where she stuck every shot.
“Had under 5 feet [for birdie] about four times in a row. So, it was a very well-deserved win by her.”
5. If only Tony Romo played playoff football as well as he does the American Century Championship…
(Kidding, Cowboys fans)
Golf Channel’s Adam Woodard…”Tony Romo is the man to beat in Lake Tahoe.”
“The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current CBS NFL analyst has staked his claim as best celebrity golfer by defending his title at the 2019 American Century Championship, winning with a score of 71 points. Former MLB All-Star Mark Mulder (61) finished second, followed by tennis Olympic medalist Mardy Fish and another former MLB All-Star Derek Lowe (57). Actor Jack Wagner rounds out the top five with 55 points.”
6. *Points to Collin Morikawa* You get a tour card!
Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…”A week after Matthew Wolff earned his PGA Tour card by winning the 3M Open, Collin Morikawa locked up membership for next season.”
“The 22-year-old Cal product, in just his fifth pro start, tied for fourth Sunday at the John Deere Classic to collect 122.5 non-member FedExCup points and run his season total to 456.5. With just three weeks left in the regular season, that number, which currently would slot Morikawa at 88th, will assuredly be more than No. 125 in the final standings, meaning Morikawa can count on earning his card for the 2019-20 season.”
7. Portrush to center stage
Golf Channel’s Will Gray…”Much has changed since The Open last visited the coastal links of Royal Portrush. It’s been 68 years, in fact, since Max Faulkner scooped 300 pounds for winning the tournament despite never breaking 70. But that remains the only time the oldest major in golf was held somewhere other than England or Scotland.”
“That is, until this week. Long viewed as one of the best courses in the world, Royal Portrush now has a chance to shine in front of a global audience like never before.”
“And chances are, she’s going to put on quite a show.”
8. In a similar vein…
James Corrigan at The Telegraph files his look ahead…
“Yet things change, as do politics, finance, perception and even dusty old men in blazers, and here we are in Open week. Everywhere you walked in Portrush on Saturday, with a big wheel spinning and looking down on families eating ice creams, and the brave dipping their toes in the grey ocean, it was clear that this was not a normal weekend. For, as the doors swing open, Tiger Woods is turning up on the Sunday morning and, no, that is not an everyday occurrence.”
“Perhaps Graeme McDowell summed it up best in a spectacular blog post on the European Tour website. “It’s been amazing to see the Open Championship evolve in the sleepy little town where I was born,” he said. “For anyone who has never been there, Portrush is on the very northern tip of the island of Ireland and is a very raw, beautiful, rugged landscape which feels very remote. To see an Open being staged there is mind-blowing for many of the local people.”
9. Fun yields win for Frittelli
Good bit from Cameron Morfit going a level beyond the game story for PGATour.com…”It was mentality clarity,” Frittelli said, when asked to explain the difference at the Deere.
“With his attention divided and his career flagging, the 29-year-old with the prescription glasses found himself feeling stressed as this season wore on. His European Tour membership was running out, and he found himself in danger of losing his PGA TOUR card, too. That would mean going back to the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, where nothing is guaranteed except for the fact that it would preclude his playing in some big overseas events.”
“The clock was ticking, and Frittelli had to find a way to tune it out. Enter sports psychologist Jay Brunza, who helped Frittelli finally accept that he couldn’t affect outcomes, at least not positively, by obsessing over them. When he three-putted the 14th hole after driving the green Sunday, he not only forced himself to slow down and not overreact, he smiled.”
“I think I was the only one on the course who smiled after a three-putt,” he said.
Tour Rundown runs toward Open with Frittelli, Kim, Goosen victories
Ronald Montesano
Something quite brilliant was in the air this week on the world’s golf tours. A new course debuted in Scotland, South Africa stood tall with two champions, and the world anticipated a return to a legendary, northern course that has not seen an Open Championship since 1951. The American tours are drawing to a close, and plans for 2019-2020 are firming up. Five events caught our attention this week, from Gullane to Toledo, from Iowa to Colorado. Plug in your charger and settle in for a nice read of this week’s Tour Rundown.
Scottish Open chalice rests in Wiesberger’s hands
Interesting stories envelope the Austrian golfer, Bernd Wiesberger. After a many-month layoff to rehab a wrist injury this season, 2 victories have come his way, including last week’s Scottish Open. The first 3 playoffs of his European Tour career all ended in defeat. In 2011, 2014 and 2015, he lost in extra holes at the Johnnie Walker, the Lyoness, and the Irish Open. Since then, he’s 2-0 in extra time. During the days leading into the 2016 and 2018 Ryder Cups, the 6-time Euro champ always seemed on the edge of breaking through to the European squad, but tailed off in the stretch run. On Sunday, under great pressure, he broke through for his finest triumph to date.
Soft ground and zero wind made The Renaissance Club an easy target during its championship debut. Wiesberger took advantage in round two, posting a course-record 61 to seize the lead. He held the top spot after 54 holes, placing all pressure squarely on his shoulders as round 4 began. It didn’t help that England’s Andrew Johnston had signed for a 62 before the Austrian pegged his opening tee shot. It also didn’t help that Benjamin Hebert of France was in the midst of his own 62, climbing the leaderboard. Ultimately, the duo of Wiesberger and Hebert would trade counters through the closing holes. After the Austrian holed a gutty, 7-feet effort at the last for a spot in the playoff, Hebert’s sound game betrayed him. He bogeyed the 2nd playoff hole, when par would have won, then 3-putted the 3rd go-round to finish 2nd.
As consolation, Hebert, Johnston and Italy’s Nino Bertasio earned the final 3 spots in this week’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
That putt has sealed it!
It's play-off time in Scotland ????#ASIScottishOpen #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/cDikRJ6pUY
— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) July 14, 2019
@ScottishOpen @EuropeanTour @Renaissancegc @BWiesberger
John Deere Classic is Frittelli’s 1st PGA Tour victory
The 3rd weekend of July redefined the careers of its tournament winners. Dylan Frtitelli has long been a quality golfer, since before his days at the University of Texas. Frittelli found himself uncertain of his status for the 2019-2020 campaign. His major-tour memberships were at risk, and a return to the triple-A tours was not his number-one comfort blanket. Everything changed on Sunday, in the middle of the American continent, when Frittelli surged past 3rd-round leader Andrew Landry with 64. As Landry fell to 3rd spot, Frittelli reached 21-under par. His work wasn’t finished, however. After a 4-under opening nine in round 4, the kind that gets you into the top 10, Russell Henley continued to make birdies. He made 6 more coming home, including a marvelous one at the final hole. Henley reached 19-under, claiming 2nd spot for himself. Frittelli didn’t falter. He made 4 at the par-5 17th, one of the few holes Henley failed to birdie in his march to the green. Ultimately, the win was vindication, security, and an unexpected trip to Royal Portrush for this week’s Open Championship. Breathe easy, Dylan.
A victorious Sunday for @Dylan_Frittelli. ????
His 93.75% (15 of 16) Scrambling performance this week was the best of any PGA TOUR winner this season. pic.twitter.com/iF2morLs57
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 15, 2019
@JDCLASSIC @PGATOUR @TPCDeereRun @Dylan_Frittelli
Sei Young Kim takes 2nd win of LPGA season at Marathon Classic
Sei Young Kim offered an LPGA marketing tutorial on how to pronounce her name (So Young!) a season or two ago. On Sunday, the 26-year old Korean golfer earned her 9th LPGA title by 2 strokes, over Lexi Thompson of the USA. Kim made 7 birdies over her first 15 holes, establishing a healthy lead as the tournament headed for home. Bogey at the 16th reduced her margin of victory to 2, but also served to secure trivia on the week: Kim’s scorecard’s were 64, 65, 66 and 67. A hand that would do some damage at the card table, also worked well at the Toledo LPGA stop. Thompson nor anyone else ever threatened the front-runner on day four. Thompson had too many bogies (2) and not enough birdies (also 2) on the outward nine, to mount an early challenge. 3 more birdies plus 1 additional bogey through the 16th, brought her even with Stacy Lewis for 2nd spot. Thompson closed fiercely, with birdie at 17 and eagle at the last. Her torrid finish made the final score appear closer than actuality. In truth, it was the Sei Young show all day long, a fitting tribute to a stellar performance.
Sunday at the @MarathonLPGA saw barrage of low scores including @SY_KIM_lpga firing a 65 to win in Ohio.
HIGHLIGHTS ?? pic.twitter.com/CkxxJKd5fM
— LPGA (@LPGA) July 15, 2019
@MarathonLPGA @LPGA @HMGCgrounds @SY_KIM_lpga
Colorado Championship earns Ledesma a ticket to the show in 2019-2020
Argentina’s Nelson Ledesma had won on this level before. He triumphed at the LECOM in 2019, but that victory was not enough to propel him to the PGA Tour. In a campaign highlighted by higher, more consistent finishes, Ledesma’s victory on Sunday was enough to earn him a card on the golf world’s grandest dance stage. The walk home wasn’t easy on Sunday. Ledesma dueled with fellow southern-hemisphere golfer Brett Coletta the entire round. Ledesma went -1 on each of his 9s, but they could have differed more. On the outward half, the Platense was all over the place: 4 birdies, 1 bogey, 1 double. On the inward half, all pars until the last. Coletta might look back on Sunday and wonder, what went wrong on the par 5 holes. He doubled the first, bogeyed the 5th, and failed to birdie the 13th and 15th. A late birdie at 17 tied him with Ledesma, setting the stage for the 20-feet birdie putt that would settle the matter and send the champion to new heights.
Celebrate your work. ???? @NelsonLedesmaOk’s winning birdie @TPC_ColoradoHL … and epic hat-throw. ???? #LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/bTQ6ugwFvw
— Korn Ferry Tour (@kornferrytour) July 15, 2019
@TPCColorado @KornFerryTour @TPCColoradoChampionship @nelsonledesmaok
Senior Players Championship is Goosen’s 1st on senior circuit
There was a time, in the early 2000s, when a lead in Goosen’s hands was nearly as secure as a Tiger one. Then came the US Open of 2005, when his final-round lead simply went far, far away. Since those days, family, injuries and new challengers brought him back to the pack. Goosen won 4 more events on the European tour, never again on the US side of the water, until Sunday. Having followed Friday’s 62 with a Saturday 75, the South African found himself in 2nd spot, behind the 2019 story of the year, Scott Parel. This time, it was Goosen who hung on and the leader, that faltered.
Parel came out of the gate limping. He was plus-two through 14 holes in round four. Needing to make something happen to put pressure on his playing partner, Parel birdied the 14th and 17th holes. Unfortunately for him, sandwiched in between were another bogey and a double. He fell to a tie for 4th spot, 4 behind Goosen. In other groupings, Tim Petrovic and Jay Haas were making noise. Each closed to within 2 of Goosen, but neither had the firepower to gain any more ground. The pair tied for 2nd at 4-under par. As for Goosen, it was anything but steady or consistent. He had an eagle and 4 birdies on the day, including chirps at the final two holes, to seal the deal. He also had 2 bogies, along with a double at the 11th. It seems that excitement and thrills are part of the new normal for the formerly-unwavering champion. As long as the recipe results in victories, he’ll certainly cook something up.
Retief was nails when it mattered most. Top 3 shots from final round of Bridgestone @SENIORPLAYERS. @majimenez1964 made a deep ???? too. pic.twitter.com/edi0iP3fQl
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) July 15, 2019
@ChampionsTour @SeniorPlayers @BridgestoneGolf
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Gongol.com > Radio > Show Notes > June 27, 2009
"The United States has got to stand for the universality of freedom and the universality of democracy. It has to stand for it because it is right -- it is the moral thing to do -- but also because it is in our interest to do so." - Condoleezza Rice
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The death of Michael Jackson may be the first event to have nearly crashed the Internet. News sites, Google, Twitter, and virtually every other site that could have been slowed by the event seems to have been. Dan even discovered what the Twitter "fail whale" is all about.
This got us to thinking: First we had GeoCities (which, by the way, is being shut down this year), then MySpace, then Blogger, then Facebook, and now Twitter. With each step, it becomes easier and easier for people to put their thoughts (and in many cases, half-baked opinions) on the Internet for all the world to see. It should be virtually impossible to find any adult capable of dialing a telephone who can't set up an account on Twitter -- even if they don't really know what it's all about. This leads us to the issue of opinion exhaustion: Do we know too much about what everybody else thinks? Probably. If we aren't there already, we're certainly close to that point.
The Chinese government, meanwhile, is so threatened by this abundance of opinions -- something that's just a matter of annoyance here, but which there poses a threat to the government's ability to rule -- that it's trying to censor every use of the Internet from within its borders. This, in the long term, is going to be catastrophic for the Chinese economy. Dissent is a good thing. Legions of people who are forced to think alike aren't likely to produce great new innovations.
We were asked by a father hoping to buy a computer for his daughter whether he should buy a laptop with Vista or Windows XP. Brian says Vista, Dan says XP. The difference of opinion is linked to the upgrade to Windows 7 when it's released soon. Dan thinks XP will be an easier change. Brian argues that we over-estimate the likelihood of any upgrades we're going to make to our own computers, and that it's better to go with the latest available edition of an OS than to try to remember to upgrade later and deal with the hassle.
Steve Jobs got a liver transplant earlier this year. Was it preferential treatment because he's rich? He got the transplant in Tennessee, rather than his home state of California. The answer is likely something pretty close to "No," since the guidelines for who receives a transplant like that are pretty hard to get around. Fortunately, though, liver regeneration may be more likely than we as a society have thought. The faster we can make progress on making replacement organs in the lab, the better off we'll all be. Synthetic blood would be a huge help, too.
A caller asked what to do about her computer, which has been on the fritz since a lightning strike at home. It's a good lesson in some very valuable knowledge: Whatever you do, make sure that you run some sort of a backup that isn't located on your computer itself. DVDs can work, though Brian recommends using a portable hard drive. And make sure you're using surge suppressors. These are essential steps from our basic checklist for computer security.
The news of the House decision to approve cap-and-trade regulations on our greenhouse gas emissions could hurt the US economy by making energy much more expensive. Perhaps fortunately, our competitors are hobbling themselves in different ways. China may be permanently hampering its own ability to innovate by crushing dissent through even tougher censorship of the Internet within its borders. Our dissenters and contrarians have been people like Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates -- people who have gone on to create great things that make other people better off. Innovation, by definition, doesn't come from thinking between government-approved lines.
Keywords in this show: cap and trade • China • data backups • dissent • Fail Whale • Gates, Bill • GeoCities • greenhouse gases • innovation • Jobs, Steve • lightning • liver transplantation • opinion exhaustion • organ regeneration • security • synthetic blood • Twitter • Windows 7 • Windows Vista • Windows XP
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Good Mood Bad Mood
Anti-Depressants & Side Effects: Being Positive Doesn’t Always Mean I Agree!
In recent days a friend told me that sometimes I am too negative when it comes to the contributions of psychiatry and psychology to the care of those who struggle with worry and sadness. And, I must admit that I often find myself telling readers about medications and therapies that really do not seem to work well. One subject that my friend said that I was out of balance on was the side effects of anti-depressant medications. He said that biblical counselors over emphasize the side effects and under estimate the benefits of taking these medicines.
Well, I value my friend and his opinion. But, if medicine is going to be effective and helpful, our opinions about it must be founded in scientific fact. This week I read an article that dealt with the incidence of side effects among patients who take antidepressants.[i] To start with the positive, the study looked at the incidence of side effects in 1829 patients living in New Zealand. Eighty percent of the patients reported that they were helped by the medication.
However, the patients also reported that they had side effects. The authors noted that “while the biological side-effects of antidepressants, such as weight gain and nausea, are well documented, the psychological and interpersonal effects have been largely ignored or denied. They appear to be alarmingly common.” The side effects reported were significant.
In the 18 to 25 year age group, half reported suicidal feelings and in the total group one third reported suicidal feelings. Sexual difficulties were reported by 62%, and feeling emotionally numb by 60%. Other adverse effects included not feeling like myself in 52%, a reduction of positive feelings in 42%, caring less about others in 39%. Withdrawal effects were reported in 55%. [ii]
So, there it is the positive and the negative. The negative looms larger perhaps than my friend or any of us were aware. Side effects with the current crop of antidepressant medications are frequent, troublesome and sometimes severe. The author, Professor John Read said, “Our finding that over a third of respondents reported suicidality as a result of taking the antidepressants suggests that earlier studies may have underestimated the problem.”
I have no way of knowing whether or not biblical counselors overestimate the side effects of antidepressants. No one has done any research about it. I do remember once when a representative of an antidepressant manufacturer came to my office and told me that a new medication had almost no side effects. I did not laugh out loud, but I did chuckle inside. Somehow I think like Professor Read that the side effects of antidepressants have been minimized.
On the other hand we do know by research that the benefits have been over estimated.[iii] Whenever a patient considers taking any kind of medicine there are two important things they need to know. How effective is the treatment. In real numbers how often does this medicine cure the disease? And, equally important, in real numbers how often do patients suffer side effects? With that kind of information we can make decisions to take or not take medicine based on scientific fact not on emotion.
[i] Psychological side-effects of anti-depressants worse than thought. ScienceDaily, February 25, 2014.
[ii] Adverse emotional and interpersonal effects reported by 1829 New Zealanders while taking antidepressants, Psychiatry Research, 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.01.042 John Read, Claire Cartwright, Kerry Gibson.
[iii] See chapters 1-6, Good Mood Bad Mood, Shepherd Press.
Charles D Hodges Jr. MD
I have been counseling people with mood problems and other family issues for 25 years.
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The Undies
Crossover Appeal
On Female Infertility, 'Avengers: Age of Ultron', and That Scene
It has come to my attention that there is a war raging right now in the nerd community over whether or not it's okay that Joss Whedon put a scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron where he explicitly makes Natasha Romanoff infertile. So take this as my explanation of this battle, specifically an explanation of why, though I have no objection to female characters being infertile and dealing with their infertility on camera, this scene rubbed me way the hell the wrong way.
There are a bunch of reasons, honestly, and they all sort of nest together like those oh so topically appropriate matryoshka dolls. But here is what they all come down to: I have no inherent problem with Natasha as a character being presented as infertile, nor do I have any real problem with her thinking of herself as a monster as a result. My issue with this scene, and therefore with the characterization of Natasha in all of Age of Ultron is in the timing of it. Namely, that these are the only five minutes of character development that Natasha gets in the entire film, and all of them are about this one topic that has never come up before and I doubt will ever come up again. That's my problem, in a nutshell.
See, one of the bigger issues with Avengers: Age of Ultron as a film is that it spends so little of its very long runtime actually developing the characters. Most of the film is taken up with action sequences, that, unfortunately, lack an emotional gravitas. Namely because we don't care about the people getting beat up. The rest of the film is spent setting up other Marvel properties, which leaves the barest minimum of space in which to actually spend time with our heroes.
As it stands, some of the heroes get short shrift. Steve and Thor get almost no development at all, while Tony gets the barest nod to his previous films. Clint and Bruce, then, probably get the most, and it's sad to say that Natasha's five minutes still put her in better standing than a lot of the team.
We have to go into this understanding that part of the criticism of "that scene" and how Natasha's infertility is handled comes from time constraints and the way the movie was made. There just isn't enough time set aside in the film to do this topic justice. And female infertility, especially of the sort that is so emotionally traumatizing as to cause Natasha freaking Romanoff to break down in tears when she mentions it, is far too complex a subject to be covered in so short a time.
So there's that.
But there's also the fact that, as characters go, Natasha isn't really the one I would pick for a big emotional story about her inability to have biological children. And that has to do with how she's been set up in the previous films. In Iron Man 2, we meet Natasha, but she spends most of the film undercover as "Natalie Rushman", a pseudo-competent assistant to Tony Stark who's mostly just there to keep him busy and not dead. She plays herself as a sweet sorority girl, and so there's really nothing in that movie that gives us a real indication of who she actually is.
The bulk of what we know about Natasha as a person comes, then, from Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, movies where she has a much larger screen presence and is, presumably, acting as herself. And the stuff we know about her from these two films really doesn't indicate more than a passing interest in having children.
In Avengers we know Natasha mostly as a deeply pragmatic, honestly terrifying woman. Her introductory scene proves to us that not only is she extremely physically capable, she's also brilliant. We meet her as she's conducting a "reverse interrogation" on a Russian mob boss, and the tactic works so well that she later uses it on the God of Lies and Tricks himself, Loki. Aside from that, her experience in the film is mostly down to her supreme badassness in battle and the really funny snarky comments she makes in the background. Also her relationship with Clint, which is cute, but, again, gets about five minutes of screentime.
It's not until Captain America: The Winter Soldier that we get a real understanding of who Natasha is when she's not on duty, and even there the revelation is muddled by her own admission that Natasha really has no interest in being her "authentic self". As she says to Steve, "The truth is a matter of circumstances. It's not all things to all people all the time, and neither am I." The Natasha we meet in that film is one who uses emoticons in her text messages, makes stupid dad jokes, and is generally a huge dork, but she's also a Natasha who feels incredibly young.
Like not literally young, since we don't actually know how old she is, but young and rather fragile emotionally. We get the impression of a woman who never had the chance to grow up at a normal pace and now finds herself trying to retrace her steps and gain her maturity as best she can. Natasha comes off as the sort of person who needs a few years to just let herself figure everything out, and who's been going on empty for so long she doesn't think she'll ever get it. In other words, Natasha in this movie doesn't seem like the kind of person who gives two craps about whether or not she's going to have kids someday. She seems like the kind of person who wants to know how to wake up without nightmares.
Which brings us to Avengers: Age of Ultron, and here we are presented with a very different Natasha. Even before we get to the scene at Clint's farmhouse - and don't worry, we're getting there - Natasha's characterization is markedly different than it was in the previous two films. Here she is mostly consumed with her pursuit of an older man (Bruce) and trying to enter into a relationship with him. And I'm actually fine with that conceptually. Bruce is a really compelling character, and while I miss Betty, I think he and Natasha work pretty well together. I'm fine with that.
What I'm not fine with is how it takes Natasha's story, which up until now has been about a severely traumatized woman trying to find herself and figure out who she really wants to be, and turns it into a much more generalized "girlfriend" role. See, in a world where women in action movies are almost exclusively girlfriends and wives, with the occasional daughter thrown in, Natasha was a breath of fresh air. She wasn't anybody's love interest, she was just herself. She was competent and cool and kickass, and her narrative relied on no one but herself.
The problem with her characterization in Avengers: Age of Ultron, then, is not so much that she's involved in a romance and concerned about her ability to have children, but rather how this is all we know of her in the film. This is the only storyline she has in the movie, and that's the issue.
So. Getting to "that scene", the major beef I have with it is not Natasha's infertility itself, but rather that her infertility becomes, due to time constrictions, the only issue she meaningfully grapples with in the entire film. And I have some big issues with that.
For starters, it plays into the idea that women essentially are our biology. When Natasha calls herself a monster, she is falling into the trap that says that women are defined by whether or not we have a functioning uterus. And while it is completely understandable that a woman with Natasha's history would see it this way, it is unacceptable that Bruce doesn't comment on this or make some remark showing how Natasha's forced sterilization is different than his accidentally murdering thousands of people.
Because in that scene, Bruce is explaining to Natasha why they can't be together. Namely, because he's a monster and he doesn't think she would be safe. This is, for the record, a pretty reasonable objection. Bruce has shown in the past and in the film itself that he is not particularly good at controlling the Hulk. And while this does seem slightly contrary to his emotional development in Avengers, whatever. He's an out of control killing machine. And oh by the way, he can't give Natasha a normal life because he's infertile and they couldn't have kids.
This last part feels very much tacked on to his argument, especially since, before the arrival at Clint's farmhouse and the revelation of Clint's children and hyper-fertile wife, I don't think we've ever even seen Natasha in the same room as a child.
We're given no indication that children are something Natasha wants up until this scene, and yet, following Bruce's explanation of why his history of accidentally murdering entire cities makes him a monster, Natasha lets loose with an explanation of why agreeing (under brainwashing) to let herself be forcefully sterilized when she was eighteen is a reason why she's a monster and they should be together.
I hope that at this point you can see why for so many people, myself included, this moment was one giant needle-scratch.
It felt contrary to everything we knew about Natasha by now, and it also felt very weird for the tone of the movie. And what's worse is that I actually think this has the potential to be a really compelling plotline. Natasha's infertility is established in the comics, as is her abusive backstory in the Red Room.
Natasha was raised as a child soldier and assassin in a secret governmental program, was brainwashed, and has had her memories messed with so many times she's not exactly sure what the truth is. All of this and the revelation that her "graduation ceremony" was a hysterectomy (or oophorectomy, we don't actually know) makes for really compelling sad material. In other words, this story would be great...in a two hour long Black Widow movie.
But as a five minute subplot in a larger ensemble film, it falls flat and becomes, frankly, insulting. In a society where women are valued disproportionately by our reproductive capabilities, this scene is genuinely harmful. It contributes to a view that sees infertile women as less than human, or at the very least, deserving of shame. And the fact that Bruce simply accepts what she's said as monstrous and never contradicts her or explains why it wasn't her fault because she was eighteen, under duress, and brainwashed, makes it all that much worse.
Frankly, even just setting the scene as a moment between Natasha and Clint's wife, Laura, would have been better. Still too short and not dealt with in enough grace and understanding, but better. Because then the scene would have been about Natasha and her reckoning with her past as she looks at her best friend's perfect family and beautiful children. It would have given Laura something meaningful to do, and could have even let us have a moment where Laura affirms that just because Natasha will never be a biological mother doesn't mean she has lost at right to call herself a human. That would mean a lot coming from Laura, I think, at least based on the relationship they hint at.
Instead, when she has that conversation with Bruce, it makes her moment of deep character development, the only one in the film, actually about their relationship, not her. And that's really frustrating.
Someone also pointed out (and I really wish I remembered who - let me know if you know) that in all of the hoopla about this issue, people are ignoring the really obvious subtext, which is that apparently making a woman sterile is the most evil thing you can do to her. Which is a weird standard. I mean, yes, forced sterilization is really bad, don't get me wrong, but the person pointed out that this argument, that the worst thing the Red Room ever did was sterilize Natasha, is akin to arguing that the worst thing HYDRA ever did was give Bucky Barnes a vasectomy. Which they might have. Who knows?
And even still, I think this argument can be expanded, because Bucky Barnes actually likes kids. We know implicitly from his discussion of the old neighborhood and from comics canon which gave him four younger sisters, that Bucky really liked children. Moreover, he probably considered having his own children someday. But most of all, because we have a sense of who Bucky was before HYDRA took him, the loss of his ability to have biological children would represent a permanent loss of who he was before they took him and of his ability to have a "normal life".
But with Natasha, we've never had any of that. We've never had any indication that Natasha wants a "normal life" or babies or any of that. So while her infertility and sterilization are undoubtedly traumatic memories and definitely something she is understandably deeply upset over, it's surprising to hear her talk about it like it's the worst thing that ever happened to her.
Again, though, I want to stress that my real issue isn't with the fact that Natasha is infertile or even with how it happened. I actually think that the whole strategy makes sense: of course you would want to make sure that your little assassin children can't reproduce. It's horrible but it makes sense. And, though painful, it's easy to see why Natasha would view this as making her monstrous.
It does not, however, excuse the film for bringing this topic up and then leaving it behind like it doesn't matter. Five minutes is not enough time to deal with the ramifications of Natasha's pain. Five minutes is not enough time to get past this.
Female infertility is a topic which really should come up more in pop culture. It's real and people don't like talking about it. So in that sense, I appreciate that we now have a superhero who is openly infertile. I would love an entire Black Widow solo movie that deals with this and the other undoubtedly numerous experiences she had in the Red Room that she is now trying to work through.
But in the other sense, the sense where everything that happens in a movie like this reverberates out into the culture, it's deeply problematic that of all the five minutes of character development we could have gotten, what the writers and producers and everyone chose is five minutes of Natasha expressing how she's a monster for not being able to have babies. These are her only five minutes. That's why we're pissed.
Still, it was nice seeing Ruffalo and Johansson go head to head in some serious ACTING moments.
Labels: actor: mark ruffalo, actress: scarlett johansson, char: natasha romanov, media: movies, title: avengers 2, topic: body horror, topic: motherhood, topic: superheroes, writer: joss whedon
TGnome May 20, 2015 at 1:08 PM
I do not disagree with anything you are saying in general. However, I think that in the film what she actually says is, "Like you Bruce, I cannot have children." Then, separate point, "I am a monster, because of my upbringing and all the people I murdered in my job as an assassin." I don't think she ever says, "I am a monster because I cannot have children." I do agree that the writing here is not entirely clear, but since Whedon and the Russo's have done such a good job with her character up to this point, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Coolness,
TGnome
Deborah Pless June 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM
I can appreciate that you're more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. But I'm not. If ever there was a scene that needed to be handled with the utmost grace and intentionality, it's this one. And they blew it.
Edward May 20, 2015 at 2:58 PM
My interpretation of the scene was always that Natasha sees herself as a monster because of how easy is for her to kill compared to Banned, who hates that part of himself.
I think her wording of that is what is causing all the polemic.
Right, but like I said above, you can't be unclear in your wording in scenes like this. They are still guilty of creating bad stereotypes, even if it was unintentional. Their "good intentions" do not absolve them of sending harmful messages.
So take this as my explanation of this battle, specifically an explanation of why, though I have no objection to female characters being infertile and dealing with their infertility on camera, this scene rubbed me way the hell the wrong way.
I mentioned on your earlier post that I have my own problems with this scene, so this isn't disagreement with you, but I will say one thing in its defence: it comes right after Nat is psychologically smashed by Wanda Maximoff hitting her with her memories of the Red Room. Her *first* lines convey it much better - when it's being an Avenger she characterises as the dream she woke up from, not Wanda's illusion - the Red Room is so monstrous, Nat can't see its products as anything but monsters.
Which all squares with:
Natasha really has no interest in being her "authentic self". As she says to Steve, "The truth is a matter of circumstances. It's not all things to all people all the time, and neither am I." The Natasha we meet in that film is one who ... feels incredibly young.
I think she sees it that everything in her beyond the Red Room is because of Hawkeye bringing her into SHIELD - that while she probably wouldn't phrase it this way, he pretty much saved her soul. Hence her closeness to him, her loyalty to SHIELD, her misery when she learned it was compromised, and her hurt when she finds out she wasn't on the shortlist of people Nick Fury trusted.
She got her soul back, but sold it again almost immediately, has it back again after Winter Solider, and now needs to explore it. Only she got kicked in it instead.
Bruce is a really compelling character, and while I miss Betty, I think he and Natasha work pretty well together. I'm fine with that.
Maybe. There's a progression in their relationship which is consistent with them falling for each other, but which I'd personally find more interesting without the romantic angle. Namely faith. In Avengers Assemble, hers are the eyes through which we first and most see Bruce: she's the first to see him change, so it's through her we see what a terrifying physical presence the Hulk is; and yet later, she calmly says they need presence again. Likewise, circumstance means she's the one who most embodies Bruce's fear of what SHIELD may do or try to do to him; yet later, the Hulk fights beside her.
And then in Age of Ultron they have a faith in each other they didn't before. She approaches the Hulk without fear, and the Hulk is reassured and calmed by her presence. It's a nice thing to see for both characters, but adding love makes it seem... too easy, maybe.
I do think that's a nice framing of the scene, but I also think that these scenes represent choices made by the filmmakers, and I don't love their choices. So the timing makes total sense - of course she would be thinking about her infertility right after being mind-whammied - but I hate how they did that scene.
The idea that Nat thinks of her "soul" being something she gained once Hawkeye recruited her is very interesting to me. In general I find her fractured sense of self fascinating and I want more story about that!
I definitely agree that their relationship would be just as powerful if not more if it were platonic and just about their growing faith in each other. I don't think that would fix every problem I have with the film, but it would help. Romantic love does seem too easy and frankly very reductive. Not a good representation of the complexity of real relationships.
Someone also pointed out ... that in all of the hoopla about this issue, people are ignoring the really obvious subtext, which is that apparently making a woman sterile is the most evil thing you can do to her.
I don't know who said it, but it's an excellent point. And relatedly, almost the exact conversation could have happened without it. I mean Bruce has plenty of reasons besides sterility why he can't have a normal life. And Nat could just have easily responded with how the Red Room stripping and remaking her psyche over and over pretty much closed that door for her too. Or with how she was *in* control when she killed her victims.
Frankly, even just setting the scene as a moment between Natasha and Clint's wife, Laura, would have been better... Because then the scene would have been about Natasha and her reckoning with her past as she looks at her best friend's perfect family and beautiful children.
Whether she wants children or not, the loss of the choice can still hurt her. In the wake of Wanda's illusion, Laura must seem like the opposite of Nat in so many ways: she's a good person, whole in herself, loving, and worth loving, all the things Nat can't see in herself. And fertility is something that fits better into that comparison than one with the Hulk.
Exactly. Just one more reason we need one. (From the perspective of hope, it did cross my mind that Julie Delpy is a pretty big name to cast for that role, if they never intend to use it again).
So while her infertility and sterilization are undoubtedly traumatic memories and definitely something she is understandably deeply upset over, it's surprising to hear her talk about it like it's the worst thing that ever happened to her.
Or the worst thing she *is*.
[Something I'd like to see on the subject of Natpain: she has a "World's Coolest Auntie" mug the Barton kids made her; and she keeps it hidden away in a box where no one will ever see it, because otherwise it could give the family away. That's her life]
YES! There are so many better things this conversation could have focused on. Natasha's really dark past and history of being an assassin for hire would be great material for a "monsters" conversation. I'm not against the topic, just the framing it in parallel to her infertility.
Natasha and Laura were probably the relationship I was most curious about. What does Laura know about Nat's past? Was she the one to first sit by Nat's bedside when she got out? How much of Natasha's recovery and deprogramming happened at that farmhouse and how much in SHIELD headquarters? I really really want to know.
Julie Delpy! I didn't recognize her. That is promising, as is the idea that they could make a miniseries for Netflix...
[Headcanon accepted. Though I actually prefer to think that she just keeps the mug at their house. It makes her feel good inside to have a special mug, and they're the only ones who would appreciate it anyway.]
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Hyundai Motor to dump LG Chem for China's battery subsidies
Hyundai Motor's Kona Electric / Courtesy of Hyundai Motor
By Nam Hyun-woo
Hyundai Motor will use Chinese firm's batteries in its electric SUV scheduled to debut in China later this year. The company plans to take advantage of Beijing's electric vehicle (EV) battery subsidy policy to promote local manufacturers, industry officials said Sunday
According to the officials, Hyundai will use batteries made by China's Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) for the upcoming electrified version of the Encino, which is the Chinese version of the Kona.
Hyundai has been using LG Chem batteries for the Kona Electric, produced for the Korean and European markets, but decided to power the SUV with CATL batteries to benefit from the subsidy.
"The move seems to be a response to the Chinese government's prolonged policy of giving subsidies only to those who work with home players," one of the officials said. "Though the Chinese government says it will phase those subsidies out completely after 2020, Hyundai Motor decided to embrace Chinese batteries early in a bid to avoid uncertainties."
Since 2016, Beijing has been offering a subsidy for the purchase of EVs excluding those powered by batteries made by Korean companies, in a bid to boost local manufacturers.
This has helped China become the largest EV market in the world, but came alongside a "virtual sales ban" for Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors' vehicles due to price differences.
The Chinese government has pledged to scale back the subsidies and phase them out completely after 2020, and provided cuts guidelines in March, but Korean EV manufacturers and battery makers remained concerned over uncertainties surrounding these.
In April, the Chinese government announced Chinese EVs using batteries produced by LG Chem and Samsung SDI had passed preliminary approval for subsidies worth nearly 10 million won ($8,390), but the firms failed to make it onto the final list.
"Though the Chinese government said it will scrap the subsidy policy, a replacement regulation could be implemented," said an official at a Korean carmaker.
Beijing's new requirements for carmakers to meet new energy vehicles (NEV) quota this year is another reason why Hyundai Motor decided to use CATL batteries and speed up the introduction of the Encino.
From this year, carmakers in China will be required to earn NEV credits equal to 10 percent of the number of their non-NEV sales in China. This means a company selling 100,000 cars in China has to earn 10,000 credits, and different points are given to each car depending on how eco-friendly it is. The percentage will rise to 12 percent next year.
If the company fails to meet the requirement, it has to fill the shortage by purchasing the credits from carmakers that have surpassed the 10 percent minimum. Last year, Hyundai and Kia each sold 4,100 and 4,383 eco-friendly vehicles in China, which account for 0.5 percent and 1.2 percent of their total sales, respectively.
"Global carmakers including GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and others also use CATL batteries for their EVs in China," the official said. "Time was running out for Hyundai to sell EVs in China and it seems that the company decided to embrace Chinese batteries for that reason."
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Jewish World Review Nov 4, 2011 / 7 Mar-Cheshvan, 5772
Political tipping point is coming
By Jay Ambrose
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It's hooey all over the map, mainly from President Barack Obama, but from Republicans, too, and the tipping point cometh if there's not some give someplace soon, starting with the White House. The politicos there have great compassion, at least for their chief, seemingly putting his re-election over national recovery.
Thus it was that Obama made it sound like Congress was loath to pass trade treaties with Colombia, Panama and South Korea that would add thousands of jobs and billions of dollars to the economy. Truth, anyone? While Congress was eager to get going, the president had been sitting on these treaties for almost three years, looking over his shoulder at some union friends who didn't like them one bit.
From their perspective, there was reason to gripe. While trade gives a lot, it also can take away. Almost inevitably, some people will be left at least temporarily jobless by major exporting, importing and investment initiatives.
But the only way to keep everything in place forever is to stagnate -- no more new technology, no new trade, no growth, no net job gains, just limp-along status quo, if you're that lucky. For the economy, the treaties were going to mean an overall boon, and they probably still will. But the delay has had South Koreans fighting over ratification while Colombia has entered deals with China, meaning somewhat fewer opportunities may flow our way.
Nevertheless, Obama did climb out of bed one morning and sent the treaties to Congress for action. Now he is finally getting serious about our debt, isn't he? If we don't reduce it over the next 10 years -- substantially, with spending cuts at the heart of it -- the chances for a turnaround are somewhere between meager and zilch, and it will be his leadership that left us wanting.
He's got to know that, especially since he once shrugged his shoulders at his own debt commission's recommendations, putting forth a totally inane, irresponsible budget that even he quit defending prior to the Senate voting it down 97 to 0. Members of that commission were at it again before Congress the other day, saying that, at a minimum, we had to reduce deficits by $4 trillion and come up with some bold moves to accomplish that end.
Not the least of them was flattening the federal income tax and reducing the corporate tax. At the same time, we'd get rid of many deductions (aka loopholes) for both tax systems, a reform raising revenues to accompany a start on revamping Medicare and Social Security. It's a grand compromise that ought to bring everyone to the table, except that too many Democrats and Republicans are scooting their chairs backward.
Ultimately, either they care about America and are prepared to do something, or they ought to return to private affairs. The same goes for a president who seems to think repeating the word "infrastructure" over and over again will win him the mama-and-apple-pie vote. Maybe we should spend more on roads and bridges and maybe that will put more people to work, but the reason infrastructure is such a mess is that we've repeatedly had the same kind of klutzy pork spending that kept Obama's trillion-dollar stimulus from stimulating much of anything.
One conservative suggestion is yes, let's spend more, but let's take the money from some of the silly, pointless projects out there and let's make sure this money is directed wisely. Yes, let's do that -- a good way to get the Republican votes you want, Mr. President. If that's too much to ask, could you at least abandon ethanol subsidies and mandates that contribute to high food prices while a record 45.8 million Americans are on food stamps? Or maybe get rid of that health-care program scaring businesses from expanding?
I guess not. Is that the tipping point I see?
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Friday March 26, 2010 5:09 PM (EST+7)
Hamas says 'defensively' attacked Israeli troops entering Gaza
Read more: Gaza, Gaza Strip, Khan Younis, casualty, clashes
GAZA, March 26 (Reuters) - Hamas said its gunmen fired on Israeli soldiers who crossed into the Gaza Strip on Friday during a clash which Palestinian witnesses said inflicted at least one military casualty.
Hamas, Gaza's ruling Islamist movement, has largely held fire since its costly 2008-2009 war with Israel, though other factions have chafed at the de facto truce.
An Israeli army force raided 500 metres (yards) into Palestinian territory, and was confronted by our gunmen, said Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Hamas armed wing. This was our work, but was carried out for defence.
Witnesses said Friday's exchange of fire began when an explosion, possibly caused by a anti-armour rocket fired from the nearby Palestinian town of Khan Younis, hit an Israeli army patrol on the central Gazan border.
Backed by tanks, the troops fired back at their assailants and entered Gazan territory, the witnesses said. Such pursuits are common practice for the Israelis, who try to maintain a buffer zone within the border fence off-limits to Palestinians.
The witnesses said that, during the fighting, soldiers stretchered away a wounded comrade and helicopters came to the scene, apparently for medical evacuations.
Abu Obeida's statement did not make clear who might have carried out the initial ambush on the Israeli patrol. There were no other claims of responsibility, nor immediate word of Palestinian casualties.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was aware of an incident under way in the area. She did not offer more details.
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No Man's Land - Review
Wyndhams Theatre, London
Written by Harold Pinter
Directed by Sean Mathias
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart
Every once in a while the theatrical planets align to create a pairing of such fine actors that it may well be unmatched for a generation. So it is with Harold Pinter's absurdist gem No Man's Land, a work that’s always best played by starry knights. Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud first created Pinter’s curious curmudgeons during the National Theatre's residency at the Old Vic in 1975. Today the honours fall to Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart who again re-unite to lead an evening of theatre that remains as perplexing as it is entertaining.
In their twilight years Hirst (Stewart) and Spooner (McKellen) chance upon each other in a pub on Hampstead Heath before retiring to Hirst's nearby mansion. We learn that both men have literary achievements of varying pedigree, but while the wealthy and patrician Hirst still exudes an air of the virile masculinity that that made him an accomplished ladies’ man in years past, Spooner, the shabbier by far, is a down on his luck gay poet who spends his time earning a few bob collecting glasses in another local pub and spying on clandestine homosexual liaisons on the Heath. As the alcohol flows, the bleakness of their respective no man's lands of old age gradually emerges.
It wouldn’t be Pinter without a sinister undertone, injected here by two younger men, Foster and Briggs (Damien Molony and Owen Teale respectively) who also reside with Hirst. Quite what or who they are isn’t defined, though the suggestion that they are poised to prey upon the old man's wealth is never far away.
Amidst this cocktail of comedy and conspiracy, Pinter's prose is a delight. Hirst hates the "solitary shittery" of his decline, whilst Spooner is threateningly taunted as a "minge juice bottler". The bravura of the text is as timely as Stephen Brimson Lewis' exquisite costuming, with the 1970s so perfectly defined that the play could almost be a fusion of Derek and Clive mixed with The Sweeney.
Acclaimed on Broadway (though one wonders how American audiences have ever managed a text so steeped in London's geography and vernacular) Sean Mathias extracts power as much as pathos and frailty from his leading men. There's a hint of Shakespeare in the play's nosings too. Consider in act two how a vulnerable Lear or Gloucester could be being channelled - with the younger men's brutality (think here of Regan’s Cornwall) merely being hinted at.
For lovers of theatre, drama does not get better than this, especially with both McKellen and Stewart having evolved into latter day screen giants. Freed from the close-up confines of film and TV work the pair are unmissable, with an electrifying chemistry in their interaction
No Man's Land may ultimately remain as unfathomable as Pinter intended, but no matter. Much like a generous measure of one of Hirst's malts (and a 40 year one at that), this production offers performance and dialog and oh, those glorious pauses that merit being swirled around in a heavy glass, savoured and carefully contemplated.
Runs until 17th December
Photo credit: Johan Persson
Posted by Jonathan Baz at 13:25
Labels: 5*, Damien Molony, Drama, Harold Pinter, Ian McKellen, John Gielgud, No Man's Land, Owen Teale, Patrick Stewart, Ralph Richardson, Sean Mathias, Stephen Brimson Lewis, Wyndhams Theatre
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I lost most of my records of published predictions but some which could be rescued are being reproduced here. Those days I got correct horoscopes of politicians and reasonably truthful feedback from them which was gave me a very high percentage of successful predictions. These days I am out of touch and mostly avoid politicians.
K.N.Rao.
The punning of a court jester annoyed a king so much that he sentenced him to death. Later, taking pity on the man, he told the jester that he would be excused if the stopped punning.
“No noose,” said the irrepressible jester, “is good news!”
Exactly the sentiment of my tribe, I must say. With Saturn and Ketu in opposing each other in Meena and Rahu and Mars in settling down in Kanya, no news can be good news...
In the good old days when Imran Khan played cricket, no one called him handsome. In fact, Imran himself had stated in an interview that his elder sister often referred to him as an ugly duckling. He transformed into a swan when an Australian women’s magazine published his photo and described him as the sexiest cricketer of the world.
Since then, Imran has been in demand with eligible, aristocratic English girls. One ill-informed English girl actually decided to enhance her eligibility by assuming the name Sita. But she did not know that, for Imran, neither Lord Rama nor his consort Sita are objects of worship.
While Imran is being pursued by Sita, Dilshad Begum has begun haunting Nawaz Sharif.
And suddenly, both Pakistani and American democracy are awfully similar - troubled as they are by the Kamini (women) syndrome. India, on the other hand, faces the Kanchan (scams) syndrome.
In the absence of Imran’s horoscope, it is difficult to say if he will be able to emulate his rather lucky World Cup victory in real life. Or will Sita destroy him?
The Makar Sankranti horoscope (14 January, 1997) does show women causing some swings.
It is clear, though, that Benazir Bhutto has entered a lean period. She needs a strong security cover.
The Kamini syndrome will take an uglier turn in the US. I have insisted all along that the judiciary in India and the US will change the course of politics. President Clinton does not appear to be safe at all. His enemies will unleash a fierce campaign to malign him.
It is strange that a permissive society like the US should take such a keen interest in sex scandals. But that has been Kamini trend of US politics. The real problem, though, is the terrible spell of domestic violence, which will continue without respite for the rest of the year.
The Indian government faces a difficult future. I will be surprised if it does not come out with an unpleasant ordinance to curb both the fluctuating stock exchange and the law and order situation within a month. The attempt of certain foreign elements to disturb India deserves serious attention.
I had stated in an earlier column that communism was not dead. The recent military and economic pact between China and Russia is the beginning of a much needed counterbalance to the US dominance in world politics.
As I have insisted earlier, Yeltsin does not appear to be safe. If not deposed, he will have to deal with physical ill-health.
The present period could be a bad time for Yeltsin, since the Makar Sankranti horoscope shows a rather violent power struggle in Russia.
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It Was Big While It Lasted
Air Date: Week of March 5, 2010
Not too big too fail. (Photo: Tricky)
Safe Climate Campaign’s Dan Becker mourns the passing of a big car. The Hummer finds its eternal parking spot in that big lot in the sky.
YOUNG: Well now, it is with deep emotion that we note the passing of a true giant in the automotive field. Dan Becker has this appreciation:
[MUSIC: Ray Davies “Funeral March” from Wurlitzer And Church Organ Music (Cavendish Music 2009)]
BECKER: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bid farewell to a legend, one whose demise has been recorded around the world; such was the impact of this icon. One of massive strength, it left behind a vast mark – some would say gash – on our planet.
General Motors’ Hummer has died. But it will continue to spew its fumes – and spread global warmth – for years to come. The Hummer was born in 1992, the offspring of an M1A1 Abrams tank and – it is rumored –Beelzebub. Too big for its garage, it was raised in a driveway in Kokomo, Indiana. Eventually, it moved to the wide-open spaces of Scarsdale, N.Y. But throughout its life, it was misunderstood, got no respect, and often not enough gas.
The Hummer did what most cars do, but oh so much more. It drove through big puddles. It dropped kids at school. And like the true truck it was, it hauled lattes home from Starbucks. It had but five seats, just like the Prius. For all its hulk and bulk, it carried a modest trunk. Still, the Hummer managed to generate conflict even among the most conflict-averse. I remember the time an auto reporter called to say he was taking the Hummer for a test drive. He looked down at the car stopped next to him at a red light. There sat five nuns. Each blessed him – with a one-finger wave.
Over its lifetime, the Hummer’s greatest success was excess: Excess gas consumption –10 miles per gallon – and excess pollution. Some people hated the Hummer, but at heart it was just a big garbage truck that dumped into the sky. The Hummer will be missed – especially by the world’s oil cartels who benefited from Hummer’s success and became its close drinking buddies. Many petro-tyrants recall their late nights together when a well-lubricated Hummer would regale them with his adventures, like the time he emitted more carbon dioxide in a day than the entire nation of Slovenia.
The Hummer was predeceased by the Ford Excursion, affectionately known as the Ford Valdez. Survivors include Chevy Suburban, Ford Super Duty Pickup, Dodge Ram, Nissan Armada and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Services will be held in Federal Bankruptcy Court.
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"There's always been a question whether veterans and active-duty service members became ill as a result of that testing."
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(CBS)The Pentagon has admitted for the first time that chemical and biological weapons were tested on Navy ships in the 1960s, and said anyone who was harmed could be eligible for health benefits.
As first reported by CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales in 2000, the Pentagon conducted more than 100 of the secret biological warfare tests.
In two of those tests, code-named "Autumn Gold" and "Copper Head," more than a thousand U.S. sailors were sprayed with materials once thought to be harmless.
Two kinds of nerve gas and a biological toxin were sprayed on the ships, military officials said Thursday. Four tests in the Pacific from 1964 to 1968 used either the deadly nerve agent sarin, the nerve gas known as VX, or a biological toxin that causes flu-like symptoms, Defense Department statements said.
Sketchy records of the tests and ships' logs do not indicate any of those involved in the tests suffered serious health problems at the time, said Dr. Michael E. Kilpatrick, a Defense Department health official.
"We believe if anything catastrophic happened or if there were large numbers of ill people, it would be in the log," said Kilpatrick, who was involved in reviewing the records. "There's no indication on any of these tests that that had occurred."
Yet many of those sailors — some of whom claim they were subjected to the test without their consent and were never told what it involved — feel their health has been damaged.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has mailed letters to about 600 veterans who may have taken part in the tests, VA Secretary Anthony Principi said Thursday.
"There's always been a question whether veterans and active-duty service members became ill as a result of that testing," Principi said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's been controversial, so we were sending out letters to veterans to ask them to take a physical and to see if they are entitled to any benefits."
The Pentagon released details about six tests from a 1960s program to evaluate chemical and biological weapons and defenses against them. The Defense Department agreed two years ago to begin releasing details about the tests and contacting participants after pressure from Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and veterans involved in the tests.
"I'm somewhat alarmed by it," Thompson said. "It seems to me enough time has passed that someone over there should have known who was involved and what was going on."
The tests also used chemicals and bacteria meant to simulate weapons, as well as fluorescent or radioactive chemicals used as tracers, the Defense Department said. One type of bacteria used to simulate germ weapons was later found to cause infections, and a separate test where that germ was sprayed on San Francisco is believed to have caused an infection that killed a man.
The tests were among 113 conducted as part of a project called SHAD, or Shipboard Hazard and Defense. The Pentagon has acknowledged using chemical and biological simulants before, but has not admitted using the actual weapons agents themselves.
Sarin, the deadly nerve gas used by a cult to kill a dozen people in a Tokyo subway in 1995, was used in a 1964 test off the Hawaiian coast. Both sarin and a chemical simulant were also sprayed onto the USS George Eastman and injected into the ship's ventilation system, the Pentagon statement said.
Crew members wore gas masks during the tests, and those who worked most directly with the sarin wore chemical protection suits, the statement said.
Monkeys were used as test subjects during the exercises using nerve gas and were later "sacrificed" to determine whether they were exposed to the weapons, Kilpatrick said. Although records do not say how potent the sarin was, the fact that participants used protective gear indicates it was in a harmful or deadly form, Kilpatrick said.
Tests in 1964 and 1965 used VX, another deadly nerve gas. During tests in 1965, George Eastman was sprayed with VX and a simulant to test decontamination procedures. VX gas tagged with radioactive phosphorus was also sprayed on a barge to test decontamination procedures.
That second test used a compound that was 90 percent VX — "the most lethal nerve agent" and one that can linger for weeks, Kilpatrick said. But there is no evidence any people were on the barge sprayed with VX, which was towed nearly a half-mile behind a tugboat, he said.
A 1968 test used staphylococcal enterotoxin Type B — a poison produced by bacteria that causes flu-like symptoms such as fever, muscle aches, cough, vomiting and diarrhea.
During that test, the toxin was sprayed over five tugboats, the USS Granville S. Hall and parts of a Pacific atoll to evaluate how it could be spread from the air.
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Dot to Dot Nottingham – In Review
by Editor - June 14, 2012 0
Truthfully, when I first saw the line up for Dot to Dot festival, it’s fair to say that I was not exactly phased by it in the least – sceptical, you could say. Especially considering last year’s line up which was made up of artists such as We Are Scientists, Ben Howard and Ed Sheeran, I was a little disappointed. However, by the end of the night however, I was totally proven wrong.
The festival was spread out across nine different stages in and around Nottingham, and fortunately lacked in young hipster fan girls (bonus). Despite the foul weather, Do to Dot had a contagious almost infectious vibe throughout the day, and everybody’s spirits seemed to be raised high – though this might have had something to do with the continuous use of alcohol!
When I arrived at Rock City’s Main Hall, I managed to catch the last song from upcoming alt/folk band, Parks. Parks had a respectable crowd, and definitely had me tapping my foot, even if I did only manage to catch the last song, Fall In Line.
The next band, Bastille, a bunch of South Londoners, were equally as good, with talented musicians and a unique vocalist. I wasn’t exactly sure of what I was in for with this band, but I can definitely say that I’ll be buying their music and adding it to my collection. Bastille had an admirable stage presence, starting with a song named ‘Icarus.’ Bastille’s music is almost hypnotizing; I love it. In total they played five songs, including two covers, and definitely left the crowd buzzing.
Due to the fact that it was raining outside, I decided to stay in Rock City for a while, whilst waiting for Hyde and Beast over at Rescue Rooms. Fortunately for me, I was able to witness Lucy Rose live, who attracted one of the biggest audiences of the day.
Across at The Bodega, funky indie rock band from Brisbane; Last Dinosaurs were setting the standards high and earning the credit that they deserve. Last Dinosaurs are definitely a band to look out for…they are certain not to become extinct.
Back at Rock City Main Hall, it seemed as if almost everybody had gathered inside for upcoming artist from our very own Nottingham, Jake Bugg. Bugg, still only a teenager, has built himself an admirable fan base. He started off by playing a few folk songs that had the crowd going wild and seemed to be keeping their attention as I headed over to Jongleurs.
Over at Jongleurs, things didn’t seem to be going too well for band 2:45, who were having continuous sound problems. Despite the technical difficulties, 2:45 still managed to keep their heads held high, and continued throughout their set, ignoring the rude comments and screeching microphones. Credit to them!
Back at Rock City, the crowd had seemed to have gathered vastly for Dog Is Dead, which turned out to be one of the standout performances of the night. Previously seeing Dog Is Dead at last year’s Splendour Festival, I was quite excited to see them again at Dot To Dot, but even with it being my second time seeing the band, I was still shocked as to how flawless they were. The band started off by playing their very popular Two Devils and ended with the crowd pleaser; Glockenspiel Song.
Headliners, The Drums danced the festival to an end with their quirky moves and rhythmic songs, whilst over at Jongleurs, Pulled Apart By Horses had the crowd screaming with pleasure.
Pulled Apart By Horses definitely did themselves justice, with such an unforgettable, wild set. What I loved most about Pulled Apart By Horses’ set was that the band themselves looked as if they were enjoying what they were doing, throwing themselves into the audience and telling not so funny jokes, for the rest of our amusements.
All together, the festival was an amazing way to see the best new talent that is out there and with such a cheap ticket price it is a real bargain; enjoyable despite the miserable weather that was spread out across Nottingham. With a load of new bands to listen to up my sleeve and performances that left me feeling exhilarated, I definitely went to sleep with a smile on my face.
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December 24, 2011 April 2, 2012 Maria
For Christmas this year women in Britain can access the morning after pill for free with a consultation over the phone.
Vulgar is one word that was used in the article to describe this campaign by The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS). It will encourage promiscuity is another criticism laid against this campaign; especially for teenage girls.
BPAS said the service was vital at a time when many surgeries and pharmacies would be closed and because chemists’ shops charged up to £25 for the emergency contraceptive, too expensive for some women.
It kind of resembles the theory behind having injecting rooms for drug addicts. Sure, some are skeptical because it is seen as encouraging drug use, but with a medical officer on hand who will have information on how the drug addict can kick their habit or help them if they overdose isn’t a bad thing right?
To me this is the same thing. Supplying the morning after pill may be seen as encouraging promiscuity but if the problem is rife, maybe the first step is a band-aid effect. Stop unwanted pregnancies and the next step is education about contraception, safe sex, making better choices. But if you don’t know who these girls are, how can you teach them? Sure the school system, should be all over this, but there’s nothing like a one on one conversation.
Interestingly, an Australian survey found that people turn to sex to help with stress; Christmas is a particularly stressful time of year.
So stress coupled with Christmas merriment leads to babies in September/October. I posed a quick question on Twitter about which month most babies were born and @Babytastes a child health nurse said that she receives the most birth notifications in October. Now I’m not saying that December is full of unplanned pregnancies, but the BPAS feel there is a need to have the morning after pill made available for free.
Sticking with the contraceptive pill theme, a conference was recently held in Dakar, Africa to discuss family planning where About 40 per cent of pregnancies in the developing world are unintended and nearly half of those end in abortion, most of which are unsafe. Complications kill an estimated 47,000 women a year – 13 per cent of all deaths in pregnancy and childbirth.
And researchers from Melbourne University have suggested the THE Catholic Church should supply nuns with the oral contraceptive pill to reduce their higher risk of ovarian and uterine cancer.
Women who did not have children faced a higher risk of breast and endometrial cancers as they experienced more menstrual cycles than women who stopped menstruating during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Okay, I’ve had 4 kids so that’s good for me right?
But for those of you who have had a planned pregnancy, hold your horses.
An article in The Sydney Morning Herald said most couples assume having children will make them happier. But time and again researchers find parents are no happier than childless couples. More often children seem to bring unhappiness.
Um….yes I have been stressed a little bit because of my children. Maybe I should have more sex to help that.
And an article out of the United States says WASHINGTON — Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children’s infancy and pre-school years, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association.
What about mothers who work at home?
And our own working mother icon Ita Buttrose recommended that women should demand nannies and housekeepers as part of their salary package to keep their careers on track.
I like the sound of that Ita.
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Group protests Bible Clubs in Wood County Schools
Jess Mancini
Special to The Times
jmancini@newsandsentinel.com
PARKERSBURG — A national organization supporting the separation of church and state says there are constitutional violations in Wood County Schools.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation said Thursday it has received reports schools have allowed teachers and outside adults to facilitate religious instruction during the school day in elementary schools.
The foundation in a release said The Warehouse Church in Parkersburg and teachers created Bible clubs. The church created the clubs earlier this year and students were recruited during lunch time, the foundation said.
“The Bible club, ‘Generation NXT,’ has openly admitted that teachers and principals ‘have stepped up to either start or join a NXT Club in their School!!!'” The clubs take place during the school day during lunch period on Tuesday and that “9-to-11-year-olds have reportedly been targeted as participants in the Bible groups,” the foundation said.
“Based on the reports we received, Generation NXT promotional materials and the capacity of elementary school students to create, organize and implement an in-school religious organization, it is apparent that adults have abused their position to proselytize within your schools,” a letter dated Nov. 16 to Wood County Schools Superintendent William Hosaflook from Patrick C. Elliott, senior counsel for the foundation, said.
Hosaflook, who is looking into the claims, said school personnel follow the law. Student-led activities, such as gathering by the flagpole to pray, are permissible, he said.
Also followed is the federal EqualAccess Act concerning activities after school, he said. Groups and clubs can use the facilities after school hours, Hosaflook said.
“They just have to follow some guidelines,” Hosaflook said.
The Equal Access Act allows students to initiate religious organizations in secondary schools, but is not applicable to elementary schools, Elliott said.
“Elementary school students are simply not able to operate a religious organization on their own,” he said.
A comment from the Warehouse Church was not immediately available.
The foundation, which is suing the city of Parkersburg over the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer prior to city council meetings, has litigated other cases around the country, according to Elliott.
“The district cannot allow non-school persons to treat schools as a recruiting ground for their religious mission,” the letter from Elliott said. “It demonstrates an unlawful preference not only for religion over non-religion, but also evangelical Christianity over all other faiths. This practice alienates those non-Christian students and members of the public whose religious beliefs are inconsistent with the message being endorsed by the school. A school’s assistance in this practice constitutes ‘a utilization of the tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to spread their faith.'”
The foundation told Hosaflook that the district must immediately cease Generation NXT gatherings in elementary schools and requested that he conduct a “comprehensive review of religious groups within all your schools in order to ensure compliance with the law.”
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AP source: Clinton camp helped fund Trump dossier research
Eric Tucker | The Associated Press
Published on Oct. 25, 2017
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund political research into President Donald Trump that ultimately produced a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
The revelation is likely to fuel complaints by Trump that the dossier, which the president has derided as “phony stuff,” is a politically motivated collection of salacious claims. Yet the FBI has worked to corroborate the document, and in a sign of its ongoing relevance to investigators, special counsel Robert Mueller's team — which is probing potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign — weeks ago questioned the former British spy, Christopher Steele, who helped compile the claims in the dossier.
The dossier, which circulated in Washington last year and was turned over to the FBI for its review, contends that Russia was engaged in a longstanding effort to aid Trump and had amassed compromising information about him. Trump has repeatedly dismissed the document as false and in recent days has questioned on Twitter whether Democrats or the FBI had helped fund it.
Trump has also attacked the findings of the FBI, NSA and CIA that Russia waged a large-scale influence campaign to interfere in the election. The FBI and the CIA have said with high confidence that the effort was aimed at hurting Clinton's candidacy and helping Trump. The NSA found the same with “moderate” confidence.
The person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential client matters, said the arrangement was brokered by Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Clinton campaign and the DNC, and his law firm of Perkins Coie.
The deal began in the spring of 2016, when the firm was approached by Fusion GPS, the political research firm behind the dossier, and lasted until right before Election Day, according to the person. When Fusion approached Elias, it had already been doing research work on Trump for a client during the GOP primary. The identity of the original client has not been revealed.
It's unclear what Fusion GPS had dug up by the time law firm hired it in April 2016. According to a copy of the dossier published by BuzzFeed last year, the earliest report from Steele dates to June 2016, two months later. It was not immediately known how much money Fusion was paid or how many others in the Clinton campaign or DNC were aware that the firm had been retained.
Elias did not immediately return an email seeking comment, and representatives of Fusion GPS declined to comment. The Washington Post first reported the arrangement.
Clinton campaign officials did not immediately comment, but in a statement, a DNC spokeswoman said chairman Tom Perez was not part of the decision-making and was unaware that Perkins Coie was working with Fusion GPS.
“But let's be clear, there is a serious federal investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, and the American public deserves to know what happened,” the statement said.
Former Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said on Twitter that he regretted not knowing about Steele's hiring before the election, and that had he known, “I would have volunteered to go to Europe and try to help him.”
“I have no idea what Fusion or Steele were paid but if even a shred of that dossier ends up helping Mueller, it will prove money well spent,” he wrote in another tweet.
According to a letter obtained by the AP Tuesday night, representatives of Fusion GPS reached out to the firm in early March 2016 to express interest in continuing research on Trump it had begun "for one or more other clients during the Republican primary contest."
At that time, the Clinton campaign was looking toward the general election and was pivoting attention toward Trump, who was emerging as the Republican front-runner. The person said Trump, by virtue of his extensive international business dealings, was seen as a natural target for complicated opposition research abroad.
Perkins Coie then engaged Fusion GPS in April 2016 “to perform a variety of research services during the 2016 election cycle,” according to the letter.
The dossier created a political firestorm in January when it was revealed that then-FBI Director James Comey had alerted Trump to the existence of allegations about him and Russia. Since then, Trump has repeatedly attacked it and Republicans in Congress have worked to discredit it, even issuing a subpoena to force the disclosure of Fusion GPS's bank records.
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Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning Author: Julia Menard-Warwick
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Based on participant observation in a California English as a Second Language family literacy program, this ethnographic study examines how the complexly gendered life histories of immigrant adults shaped their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of increasing Latin American immigration to the United States. Through outlining the connections between (gendered) identity work and language learning, this study builds theoretical and empirical justification for teachers to negotiate classroom practice with each community of learners, responding to students’ individual goals, histories, and lives outside the classroom.
The monograph makes an important contribution to understanding adult immigrant learners' agency and heterogeneity in the restructuring of their gendered identities and their decisions on their education in early 21st century California. First, this research fills in the gaps in second language acquisition research which largely overlooks learners' identities, goals, trajectories and larger contexts of learning. Second, the study contributes in important ways to the language socialisation paradigm since it documents how the personal and family history of adult learners constitutes an important part of the social context of any educational endeavour. Besides, it questions previous findings about the divergence of immigrant children's socialisation from mainstream socialisation at schools. Last but not least, it accounts for the diverse gendered practices and ideologies within the transnational communities of practice in which informants participate through an analysis of the ESL classroom and home literacy practices.
- Spanish in Context 9:2, 2012 - Maria Rosa Garrido, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Humorous and irreverent, embarrassed and frustrated, angry and grateful, the participants in Menard-Warwick’s study emerge as real people on the pages of this engaging and compassionate book that privileges immigrants’ voices and experiences. Investigating the complex interplay between gender, class, ethnicity, and immigration status, Menard-Warwick revitalizes the inquiry into the relationship between gender, power, and second language and literacy learning and makes important connections between sociolinguistic theory and adult ESL teaching practice.
- Aneta Pavlenko, College of Education, Temple University, USA
Author Biography:
Julia Menard-Warwick is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics department at University of California Davis, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in areas such as language pedagogy, second language literacy and technology, and language and gender. Before beginning doctoral studies in 1999, she taught ESL for ten years at a community college in Washington state (USA), and for one year at a university in Nicaragua. Her on-going research focuses on language pedagogies, bilingual development, cultural identities, and language ideologies in both US and Latin American contexts.
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Ma Thanda stands at her husband's tomb looking for an answer. Meanwhile, Po Po Po, an organizer of students' protests, is still affected by one of the bloody raids in Myanmar for years. Following the attack on their comrades-in-arms in March, riot control authorities brought doubtful accusations that could put them in jail for nine years. Burma will be holding the country's first lawful elections in half a century.
However, the government's hard-liners are running their own secret campaigns to shut up dissent. East 101 encounters harassment, arrest and imprisonment of Myanmar's activist forces, throwing Myanmar's walk back towards democracy.
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Waelone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, were apprehended on December 12 after being asked to supper. Members of the relatives said they had said that they were almost immediately apprehended after receiving some papers from the officials they had met.
"After the 30-minute trial, they detained us and took measures against us because we were trying to expose the truth," Wa Lone said to investigators when he and Kyaw Soe Oo were taken out of the courthouse and back to Insein-Parc. Mr Khin Maung Zaw, a counsel who represents the two lawyers, said the allegations fall under section 3.
No. 1 (c) of the UK Law on Trade Secrecy from the Spanish Colonies. This law goes back to 1923, when Myanmar, then called Burma, was a provincial government of Britain-India. Part 3 includes the entry into forbidden places, the taking of pictures or the treatment of confidential formal documentation that "could or should be of direct or indirect use to an enemy".
Earlier, the Ministry of Information had quoted the riot squad for "having been detained for having important and confidential intergovernmental documentation relating to the state of Rakhine and the Rakhine intelligence forces". Prosecutors turned against an appeal for deposit, said the reporter's attorney, Khin Maung Zaw. He said the tribunal took it into account and will rule at the next hearings on January 23.
Goverment has said that two policemen were also detained for investigating under suspicion of violating official secrets act. She didn't give any more information about the detained cop. Some 30 reporters were in front of the courthouse, most of them in grey as a symbol of protests against the arrests of the two.
Some had the messages "Journalism is not a crime" or "Release the detained journalist now" on their T-shirts. Kyaw Soe Oo hugged his spouse in the courthouse and detained his daughters for a few inches. I' ve never made a single error; I've never done anything wrong," Wa Lone said before the judge.
Then the two jounalists came and handcuffed out of the yard. Desperate Kyaw Soe Oo's relations lamented and attacked him when the two jounalists were expelled from a group of reporter after the heard. We should be able for our fellow Members to be able to go back to their places of work to report on what is happening in Myanmar.
He said, "We believe that it is essential to have enough free movement and we are still calling for the immediate releases of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. Zaw Htay, spokesperson for the administration, refused to respond to the allegations, but said that the two had their prerogatives under an autonomous legal system. Goverment officers from some of the world's most important countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, and leading representatives of the United Nation have demanded the journalists' releases.
United Nations monitors and several ambassadors, among them the Netherlands, Australia and Great Britain, have been on trial. "In order for a democratic system to be successful and thrive, it is essential for the journalist to be able to do his job. France's State Department demanded a declaration on the immediate freeing of reporters and free entry of the press into the state of Rakhine.
The former US Presidency Bill Clinton has insisted that they be released immediately by saying on Twitter on Monday that a free media is crucial to a free economy and that the imprisonment of journalist everywhere is inadmissible. During much of the 90s, Clinton was US presidency when the United States pushed Myanmar's then ruling Myanmar army to remove democratic master Aung San Suu Kyi from years of home inmate.
Japoney wants to bring the issue of the two journalists to the Myanmar authorities on appropriate occasions, which includes a recent meeting of Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono this coming weekend, Japan's Head of Cabinet Yoshihide Suga said in Tokyo. Aung San Suu Kyi won an elections in 2015 and became Myanmar's first civil administration in more than half a century-been prevented from becoming the country's first ever presidential candidate by the beginning of 2016.
They deny that their arrest constitutes an assault on the freedoms of the media.
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Mark Ronson And King Princess Make Breaking Up Sound Like A Good Time
'Pieces Of Us' is a feel-good track about a bad situation
Mark Ronson and King Princess have brought a new dimension to heartbreak in "Pieces Of Us," their new collaboration from Ronson's forthcoming album Late Night Feelings. It's dreamy, glossy, and, most importantly, optimistic. It's not your typical down-in-the-dumps music to soundtrack shredding up old handwritten love notes. But then again, when has Ronson's music ever sounded typical?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_moMkP7cUk
Break out your fanny packs and roller skates — we're taking it old school. "Pieces Of Us" sounds like it's pieced together from the zombified parts of '80s pop, then injected with sharp jolts of electricity. For a song about a breakup, it's decidedly uplifting. Synths rage on like a fresh fire in the woods, fingers snap and figurative heads (maybe even adorned with mullets), smile and nod to the dreamy soundscape.
Ronson provides quite the sonic feast for a voracious King Princess to tackle. The singer's wounded words about the scraps of a relationship left after a split cut deep. The pair together show that although breakup sucks, it doesn't have to sound like it does too.
Late Night Feelings hits shelves on June 21. The album of breakup hits will feature the previously released songs, "Find U Again" with Camila Cabello, the title track which features Lykke Li, and "Nothing Breaks Like A Heart" with Miley Cyrus. The LP follows his 2015 album Uptown Special.
Listen to the wonderfully funky sounds of heartbreak in "Pieces Of Us" above.
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Engine With NO Road Name!
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Brakeman Hal
Toot should forgive US, Willie!
WE act like the Dominant Continent, and snidely refer to Australia as the land "Down Under".
This is Baloney!
Every region of the Earth's surface is "Down Under" depending on the observer! Toot can rightly call the North American continent "down under" and he would be right!
Toodles, Mate!
Sirfoldalot
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Maybe so -- Spelling was not one of my stronger subjects. How nice of you to call it to my attention!
TRY this one----
This Wikipedia article gives this explanation for the origin of the word gee-gee:
The Chester Racecourse site was home to the famous and bloody Goteddsday football match. The game was very violent and, in 1533, banned by the city, to be replaced in 1539 by horse racing. The first recorded race was held on February 9, 1539 with the consent of the Mayor Henry Gee, whose name led to the use of the term "gee-gee" for horses.
TOOT must be older than I thought?
You're welcome, Sherrel, as long as you're not angry at my correcting you...
Water off a duck's back, HAL.
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Sirfoldalot said:
Didn't know that Sherrel, seems gee-gee was the name all parents gave to horses when pointing them out to their off-spring when I was a toddler. just goes to show how far flung some of these silly names get.
Hmmmm...
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Review: The Diamond Throne by David Eddings
The Diamond Throne by David Eddings - Sparhawk, Pandion Knight and Queen's Champion, returns from a long spell of exile to find his native land overrun with evil and intrigue - and his young Queen grievously ill. Indeed, Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within the year.
But as Sparhawk and his allies - who include Sephrenia, he ageless sorceress, and Flute, the strange and powerful girl-child - seek to save Ehlana and the land, they discover that evil is even greater and more pervasive than they had feared...
Truly a gem of epic fantasy from the modern master of the genre, The Diamond Throne will delight existing legions of Eddings fans - and gain him further devoted myriads of enchanted readers. From the blurb.
I've been having trouble with reading lately, with nothing quite grabbing my interest or seeming to have inconsequential problems in relation to what's going on in my own life. So I decided to pick up The Diamond Throne by David Eddings, the first in the Elenium trilogy, and re-read series I knew would allow me to escape my own head and bring me comfort.
After the death of her father, Queen Ehlana is now on the throne, and so Sparhawk, Pandion knight and Queen's champion, returns from exile to serve his Queen. Only upon his return he finds Ehlana ill, on the verge of death, and kept alive through sorcerery, encased in diamond on her throne. Primate Annias of Cimmura has named Ehlana's bastard cousin Lycheas Prince Regent, and has a firm hold on him and his hands in the royal coffers, plotting, scheming and bribing to make sure he's elected as Archprelate of Elenia when the current Archprelate Cluvonus dies. It's a race against time to find a cure for Ehlana and stop Annias, but a cure is hard to find. The more Sparhawk and his companions search, the more they unearth about how far Annias has gone and that evil is stalking the land, and Sparhawk, once more.
Oh, how I love these books! It must be over ten years since I last read this trilogy, and so, although I remember the general story arc of the series, I had forgotten the finer details of each individual book. So re-reading The Diamond Throne, apart from a few aspects, was almost like picking up a completely new book. I do love the intrigue and politics that Eddings is able to weave into his high fantasy, along with the magic and the fighting. Edding's truly knew how to write an epic story.
The Diamond Throne is very much a character led story, and the band of characters we have here are awesome. Sparhawk, our protagonist, is strong and sometimes ruthless, but he's got a good head on his shoulders and is deeply loyal to the Queen and his faction of knights. Kalten, a fellow Pandion and Sparhawk's childhood friend, provides most of the humour in this book, being one who doesn't take life too seriously. Kurik, Sparhawk's squire, is strong and dependable, a solid, responsible (ish) man. Talen, a young thief that falls into their company along the way, is so funny, sneaky and cheeky, but good at what he does. Berit, the novice knight who's heart is in the right place, but sometimes makes mistakes. The magical element of this story is that all church knights are taught the secrets of Stricum, the Styrics being a race that practise magic. Sephrenia, the Pandion knights tutor in the secrets, is a wonderful, wonderful character you can't help but love; small and motherly, she cares deeply for those around her, but is incredibly powerful! And then the mysterious, mute little Styric child they call Flute. She's adorable! And I'm really looking forward to discovering more about her (again!) in the books to come! And a few other knights from the other Church knights factions join them, who are also pretty amazing.
The Diamond Throne is 496 pages long, but from what I remember of the trilogy, it seems this is just starting the trilogy off. Saying that, though, a lot does happen in this novel, and I was gripped all over again. Such a fantastic trilogy, so looking forward to continuing it!
Published: 1990 (my copy)
Publisher: Grafton
David Eddings' Website
High Fantasy done well is so wonderful to read! I've heard of this series before, but never picked it up - maybe I'll have to change that.
Oh, do! I really loved this series - and mostly everything else Eddings has written! He's awesome!
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Describe the pharmacology of nitrous oxide
Describe the comparative pharmacology of nitrous oxide, halothane, enflurane, isoflurane, desflurane, sevoflurane, xenon and ether
Pharmaceutics Non-flammable but supports combustion. Produced by heating ammonium nitrate to 250°C. Potential contaminants include NH3, N2, NO2, and HNO3.
Stored as a liquid, such that the gauge pressure is only accurate when all remaining N2O is in the gaseous phase.
The filling ratio is the mass of N2O in the cylinder compared to the mass of water it could hold, and is 0.75 in temperate regions, and 0.67 in warmer regions.
Molecular Weight 44
Boiling point -88°C
Critical Temperature/Pressure 36.5°C / 72 bar
SVP (at 20°C) 39,000 mmHg
Blood:gas coefficient 0.47
Oil:gas coefficient 1.4
MAC 105 (MAC awake 68)
Mechanism of Action Several different mechanisms, including:
- Stimulates dynorphin release (acts at KOP receptor)
- Positive allosteric modulator at GABAA receptor
- NMDA antagonist
Metabolism < 0.01% hepatic reduction.
Resp Diffusion hypoxia due to second gas effect. Small ↓ in VT, ↑ in RR such that MV is unchanged.
CVS ↑ SNS tone, mild myocardial depression. ↑ PVR - beware in pulmonary hypertension.
CNS Powerful analgesic when > 20%, via endorphin and encephalin modulation, and on opioid receptors. ↑ CBF. Loss of consciousness common at 80%. 1.4x relative risk of PONV
GU Not tocolytic - useful adjuvant in GA caesarian section to reduce volatile anaesthetic use
GIT Expansion
Metabolic ↑ Homocysteine.
Toxic Effects More soluble than N2 means it will rapidly diffuse into air-filled cavities, increasing the volume of compliant cavities (PTHx, bowel), and increasing the pressure of non-compliant cavities (middle ear).
Prolonged use (> 6 hours) oxidates cobalt ion in vitamin B12, preventing its action as a cofactor for methionine synthetase, preventing DNA synthesis. This leads to:
- Megaloblastic changes in bone marrow
- Agranulocytosis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Possible teratogenicity - avoid in early pregnancy
Greenhouse gas.
Entonox
Entonox is a 50/50 mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen, used as analgesia in labor and minor procedures.
Entonox (50% O2, 50% N2O)
Pharmaceutics The gases dissolve each other and behave differently than would be expected from their individual properties. This is the Poynting effect.
Critical Temperature/Pressure Pseudocritical temperature of -6°C, below which it will separate into liquid 50% N2O (with some dissolved O2), and gaseous O2. This is most likely to occur at 117 bar, and can lead to delivery of a hypoxic mixture.
Delivery of a hypoxic mix is prevented by:
- Storing cylinders horizontally (↑ area for diffusion)
- Storing cylinders at temperatures > 5°C
- Using a dip tube so that liquid 50% N2O is used before the gaseous mixture
Peck TE, Hill SA. Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 4th Ed. Cambridge University Press. 2014.
Petkov V. Essential Pharmacology For The ANZCA Primary Examination. Vesselin Petkov. 2012.
ANZCA February/April 2006
Smith S, Scarth E, Sasada M. Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. 4th Ed. Oxford University Press. 2011.
Emmanouil DE, Quock RM. Advances in Understanding the Actions of Nitrous Oxide. Anesthesia Progress. 2007;54(1):9-18. doi:10.2344/0003-3006(2007)54[9:AIUTAO]2.0.CO;2.
Hendrickx, J., Peyton, P., Carette, R., & De Wolf, A. (2016). Inhaled anaesthetics and nitrous oxide. European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 33(9), 611–619.
Brown S, Sneyd J. Nitrous oxide in modern anaesthetic practice. 2016. BJA Education, 16(3), 87–91.
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George Burns (Comedian)
George Burns (1896-1996).Popular American Comedian & Actor,whose career spanned close to 75 years. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. Beginning at the age of 79, Burns' career was resurrected as an amiable, beloved and unusually active old comedian,(notably in the divine 1977 comedy Oh God!,as God) continuing to work until shortly before his death, in 1996, at the age of 100
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What I’ve Been Doing 5 March 2012 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]
March 5th, 2012 by Dan
I don’t think it’s possible for you all to understand how pumped I am for baseball to come back this year. It’s been a long, hard offseason, but spring training is off the ground and I’m super pumped.
Higher Ground – Vera Farmiga (and her sister Taissa) stars in this intelligent movie about a woman constantly seeking religion, but unable to arrive at the faith and two-way relationship she so desperately craves. It’s beautiful and slow and it’s fantastic work by Farmiga.
What’s Your Number – Oh, the things we do for love. Seeking something to watch together, Tiffany and I stumbled upon Anna Faris’ ill-received romantic comedy that is simultaneously all about slut shaming and also about finding love before your friends continue to slut shame you. I’m injecting way more importance into this light, breezy romantic comedy than it deserves. As far as these types of movies go, you could find worse. It’s alright.
The Walking Dead – So tired of the non-zombie plots. “Waaah waah, I’m suicidal! Waaah.” Pretty sure they’re setting up a mega-swarm headed to the farm. Not sure.
Life’s Too Short – The tumor stuff was predictable, but funny. I don’t think the Johnny Depp stuff was half as good as the Liam Neeson stuff from last week.
Parks and Recreation – Ginuwine jokes, haha. Oh man, the part where he read out the image URL for Leslie’s campaign poster! The water fountain visual gag was also hilarious.
Up All Night – The stuff with the godparents reminds me of David since Eric just had his baby. Steven Pasquale was pretty hilarious in his Army vet role.
Justified – Not every episode has to be super exciting/awesome. Still some good acting in this episode, but not as sharp as the rest of the season has been.
Archer – “You make me sound like some kind of chubacabra, but for dicks.” Pretty good ep.
Portlandia – The Eddie Vedder tattoo stuff was brilliant. About 1/3 of the Battlestar Galactica sketch (featuring James Callis, Edward James Olmos, and (the real) Ronald D. Moore) was excellent as well, but it strongly relies on you knowing what Ronald D. Moore looks like (Hint: He’s not the guy who played Adama or Baltar and he’s not the guy with his name.)
Houston Astros at Washington Nationals – Stephen Strasburg’s curveball looked sharp. It was missing a little bit of placement, but otherwise looking great. Too bad Tom Gorzelanny came in and stunk up the joint. Still, baseball! Spring training!
Rhythm Heaven Games – Go out there and get your hands on Rhythm Heaven soundtracks. The music from these games is super catchy and fun and I’m pretty sure they include perfect versions of the songs that have all of the sound effects in them.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – I swear I’m making progress, guys. I really am! He’s actually working with Lisbeth now. It took half the book to get them there!
Devil Survivor 2 – Devil Survivor was one of the best DS TRPGs (or normal RPG or games) out there and DS2 is more of the same. New characters, broader setting…I dig it. So much so that it’s supplanted…
Ghost Trick – Used to have a steady slot in my DS, but I’ve sidelined it for a little DS2 action. Gotta finish it because I’m nearly done, but DS2 is sooo fun.
The Old Republic – Nothing like getting a little Bounty Hunting in, but the stupid TOR people haven’t announced the legacy stuff so I’m at a stalemate with getting more playtime in with Min.
Filmmakers Bleed
ghost trick
james callis
rhythm heaven
rhythm heaven fever
shin megami tensei: devil survivor 2
tom gorzelanny
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Newsletter Library Vietnamese
Message from the Rector
Journal of Fisheries Science & Tech.
International Academic Programs
Guidelines for Int'l Visitors/Students
FACULTY OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
The Faculty of Transportation Engineering (formerly the Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) was established in 2011. It includes three departments: the Naval Architecture Department, the Marine Engineering Department and the Automotive Engineering Department. The Faculty is responsible for training and researching in the area of Naval Architecture (such as Ship Design, Ship Building, Marine Engineering and Equipment) and Automotive Engineering, with a focus on Fishing Vessels.
The Faculty also takes a part in graduate studies (master’s and doctorates) in the field of Naval Architecture (since 1990) and Automotive Engineering (since 2010). Currently, the Faculty has over 1,000 students and over 40 experienced faculty members, of whom 80% have completed postgraduate education, including 5 Associate Professors and 5 PhDs.
The Faculty has cooperated with various famous universities throughout the world in the field of Naval Architecture, including Ulsan College (South Korea), NTNU (Norway), Australian Marine College (AMC), Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard, Oshima Shipyard (Japan), and Cam Ranh Shipyard. As part of these cooperative arrangements, many staff and students have had the opportunity to study abroad. Recently, the top senior students of our Faculty have received scholarships to study at Ulsan College, Korea.
These students have been particularly selected to accomplish a program from which they will receive diplomas from both universities (Nha Trang University and Ulsan College) and will be offered jobs at the Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard.
Department of Naval Architecture
The Naval Architecture department was established in 1998. It was formerly known as the Boat Division (from 1998 to 2006). In 2006, it was renamed the Department of Shipbuilding (until 2011). It has carried the current name since May 9, 2011. The staff has grown from merely five faculty members to a group of fifteen highly qualified faculty members, including two Associate Professors - PhDs, three PhDs, three research PhDs, one master and six engineers who graduated from Korea and Norway. Currently, the Department offers programs in Naval Architecture at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
The Department has recently increased investment in the following facilities: Division of practical shipbuilding technology, division of ship design, laboratory building and fishing vessels, division of practical welding of ships, division of Mechanical Engineering for fishing boats. In these areas, students have the opportunity to experience the work of a shipbuilding engineer, from reading designs, to lofting, expanding the shell and hull welding. Throughout the process, students learn to create an accurate ship model made of wood, composite, and steel material with fully detailed construction and outfitting.
The Division of Ship Design possesses over 20 powerful computers and equipment including plotters, projectors, and ship design software such as: Autoship, ShipConstructor. The Division also uses structural analysis software such as: MS. Patran, and Abaqus.
In addition to academic instruction, the Naval Architecture Department conducts scientific research. The Department has carried out a series of contracts for the Branch of Maritime Resource Protection in the local areas including: designing the traditional pattern of fishing vessel for provinces, surveying the pattern of fishing vessels for central provinces, designing high-speed canoes to travel by FRP, designing cruise ships and handing ship oil spills, reinforcing coracle stability, testing the quality of ships for thickness of the shell and the quality of the weld seam, and simulating and testing the impact of the load to the ship structure.
In addition, the Naval Architecture department has established relationships in close cooperation with the ship building and repairing facilities in the region and the country as Hyundai-Vinashin Shipyard, Cam Ranh Shipyard, Dung Quat Shipyard, Saigon Shipyard, PTSC Co. Ltd, Vietnam Register (VR), and Korea Register (KR). The Naval Architecture department also has an established exchange program with the University of Ulsan and NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology for undergraduate students. As part of this exchange, every year around 10 overseas students enroll in the program. Students participating in this program are able to find employment immediately upon graduating.
With the quality of the staff, facilities, research experience, and collaborative international relationships, the Naval Architecture department is equipped to provide students with an advanced learning environment that constantly strives to meet the changing needs society and the ideal conditions for working and studying.
Department of Marine Engineering
The forerunner of the Department of Marine Engineering, Nha Trang University was the Mechanical Engineering fisheries Department, which was founded in 1966 at the University of Fisheries. The Department was the first building as part of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the university. The Marine Engineering Department has spent 47 years growing and developing its staff. Today, the faculty consists of individuals who have Bachelors degrees, Masters degrees, and Doctorates. Nha Trang University strives to develop a multi-sectoral, multi-level learning environment.
While the Marine Engineering Department fits in the Mechanical Engineering discipline but with a specific focus on ships, the University leaders have identified this department as a vital part of the fishery industry because of the importance of developing new and better equipment and technology.
The Marine Engineering Department is responsible for training over 200 college and university level students per year. The Department also instructs vocational and technical workers and conducts training and retraining classes for fishery ship chief engineers and mechanical crews. We also provide opportunities for professionals to participate in postgraduate training in specialized ship equipment. The Marine Engineering Department have continued to take proactive steps to create a more competitive program by upgrading facilities, improving training, conducting scientific research and applying advance scientific research to production.
Department of Automotive Engineering
The Automotive Engineering Department was established in 2006. It was separated from the Marine Engineering Department – Mechanical Engineering Faculty. The Department takes responsibility for training learners to work in the automotive industry. The Automotive engineering department is responsible for training and researching in different areas within the industry, with a specific focus on fishing vessels.
The department also conducts Masters level instruction. Graduates of the program are capable of assuming a variety of responsibilities in component production and automotive assembly line of firms. They are also trained to be qualified to repair and maintain automotive parts, to teach and conduct research at colleges and vocational schools, and work in automotive businesses and agencies.
PhD programs: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Master programs (2 years):
- Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. These programs are offered to students with bachelor degrees with relevant backgrounds from other universities, technical institutes or colleges such as Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering; Machinery Engineering; Shipbuilding Technology and Marine Engineering.
- Transportation Engineering. These programs are offered to students with bachelor degrees with relevant backgrounds from other universities, technical institutes or colleges such as Automotive Engineering, Internal Combustion Engine,Shipping Engineering and Machinery Technology.
Undergraduate programs:
- Ship design
- Shipbuilding Technology
- Automotive Engineering
- Machinery Technology
- Internal Combustion Engine
- Marine Engineering
Short courses:
Upon the completion of the program, students are expected to acquire necessary qualifications in:
- Operating automotive technical services; mastering professional skills in component production and automotive assembly line technology.
- Controlling component production and automotive assembly line.
- Improving automotive techniques and technology for enhancing efficiency.
- Ship welding technology for high quality.
- Using modern software for ship designs.
- Simulation for ship strengths and ship structures optimization.
- Designing and building the specialized ships such as Underwater Vehicle, Hovercraft, Human Powered Hydrofoil, Catamaran etc.
- Designing the fishing vessel, high-speed craft, planing boats, etc. by new materials (composite, PPC, etc.).
- Using new materials (composite, PPC, etc.) in designing and building Catamaran for Marine Tourism.
- Researching on using CAD/CAM technology in ship design and shipbuilding. Computing for Strength of Ship Structure.
- Researching the safe standards and the model vessel suitable to the Vietnamese fishing fleet.
- Computing the strength of propeller blades by FEM.
- Copying propeller blades by REM.
- Manufacturing the propeller with a versatile mold by CNC miller.
- Programming to design and draw 3D seri B
– Wagenninger propeller.
- Designing and manufacturing of equipment for offshore fishing vessels.
- Automation of engine systems.
- Research on using alternative fuels for fishing boat engine.
- Improving the efficiency of operations of fishing boat energy equipment.
- Using new energy for automobiles such as Hybrid, solar energy.
Projects of the Naval Architecture Department
- Project Leader of the production test: Complete fabrication process technologies basket boats with composite materials capable of self-propelled and non-self-serving squid fishing offshore, MSc. Pham Thanh Nhut (1/2007 - 1/2009).
- Research design and testing fabrication of lobster cages with non-metallic materials for fishermen Song Cau district - Phu Yen, MSc. Pham Thanh Nhut (3/2006 - 3/2007).
Research at Nha Trang University
- Study the change of physical properties of FRP materials TiO2 and MgO additive exposure to diesel fuel (TR99-33-05), MSc. Huynh Van Nhu.
- Application of the numeral method to expanding the shell of ships. (TR2002-33-10), MSc. Huynh Van Vu.
- Application finite element method to study the stress distribution and deformation of steel structure bottom (TR2002-33-11), MSc. Tran Hung Tra.
- Research design boats Composite material aid for Vietnam's ships in international voyages 10,000 tons of, MSc Phan Tuan Long.
- Design Build process technology steel-hulled applications in shipbuilding practice at NTU, MSc Huynh Van Vu.
- Study vacuum solutions for composite materials production workshop area in south central, MSc. Huynh Van Nhu.
Research in the Ministry’s level
- Research writing software automates the theoretical ship’s line drawing according to the given coordinates and the design parameters (B99-33 to 27-TD), MSc Nguyen Dinh Long.
- The study determined the frequency of free vibration of the fiber reinforced composite panels designed for use in bottom fishing boats (B99-33-23), Nguyen Van Dat, PhD.
- Study of some mechanical – physical – chemical solutions in order to enhance the tribology and wear of Polyamid plastic used in shaft bearing. Principal Researcher: Le Ba Khang, Code B-2001-33-02.
- The study proposes some of solutions to help improve the quality of education comprehensively in University of Fisheries (B2002-33-13), Vu Van Xung, PhD.
- Study the automotive design of ship’s line to meet the diverse needs of current fishing vessels (B2004-33-36), Tran Gia Thai, PhD.
- Investigation of XADO industrial application in order to utilization efficiency of small power, high speed ship Diesel engine. Principal Researcher: Le Ba Khang, Code B-2007-13-19.
Projects for performance and technology transfer
The Naval Architecture Department’s contracts with companies are varied and numerous. They focus on the Department’s strengths in training and research. These include some of the following recent projects:
- Surveys and technical documentation for the type of fishing vessel and fish boats for the Department of Maritime Resource Protection used in local areas.
- Design of high-speed vessels, passenger vessels, fishing boats, glass bottom boats, boats to clean oil spills and FRP and wooden shells for companies.
- Investigation and analysis of vessel pattern and the influence of fishing and fishing equipment on fishing vessels in the central provinces of the Bien Dong Corporation.
- Non-destructive testing structure of hull for Z753 Shipyard. - Building tugboat model for Song Thu shipyard - Da Nang.
- Transferring software used in the design calculations and fabrication of ships such as: sea keeping calculation software, ship propeller design software, the strength and vibration of propeller shaft systems that have pillow software, the strength, vibration and duration of calculation software of complex structure in different materials.
Projects occurring between 2010 - 2013 (including new subjects recently approved)
- Transfer fishing vessel design, department technology to Nghe An extraction and protection of maritime resource, 2011.
- Design patterns for traditional fishing vessels of Binh Dinh province, 2011.
- Design patterns for traditional fishing vessels of Ninh Thuan Province, 2011.
- Develop process shipbuilding technology for Dung Quat Shipyard, the project of Petro Vietnam Engineering (PVE), 2012.
- Study design, fabrication model laboratory equipment due to the impact of major free fall on ship structural materials for training. Topic Scientific Research University Level 2012-2013.
- Study design and testing fabrication of submarine model for sea tourism in Nha Trang Bay. Topic of the Student Scientific Research University level 2012-2013.
1. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
- Leader of group: Associate Professor Tran Gia Thai
- Research goals:
+ Modern design of fishing boat models while honoring local traditional designs.
+ Design and fabrication of many kinds of specialized ships.
+ Optimization and automation in the design and fabrication of ships.
+ Applying new materials in ship building technology.
+ Focusing on improved ship hull structures and strength of ships.
2. Simulation in ship hull structures
- Leader of group: Huynh Van Vu, PhD
+ Optimization in ship hull structures.
+ Simulating the operation of ship hull structures.
+ Ultimate strength of ship hull structures.
+ Impact structures.
- Training Cooperation with Vinashin (Vietnam Ship building Industry Corporation)
- Training & Research in cooperation with many famous companies in Vietnam such as: PTSC (Petroleum Technical Services Corporation), Vinalines, Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard (Korean), Oshima Shipbuilding (Japan), STX (Norway) etc.
- Training & Research in cooperation with many University such as: Ulsan University (Korean), Department of Marine Technology in Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Australian Maritime College (AMC) etc.
- Exchange programs with both staff and students
- Cooperation in training
- Cooperation in research
- Cooperation in the organization of conferences at NTU or NTOU.
- Recommending candidates for Master or PhD course at NTOU, and some PhDs for postgraduate research programs.
- Organizing short training courses for staff of FTE in NTU/NTOU in the areas of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering - Inviting NTOU Professors to lecture on Master/PhD course in NTU.
- Cooperating on some projects such as fishing vessels (designing, equipment, new materials), new fuels for engines, reinforcement of the strength of ship design, using software for ship design (Autoship, Shipcontruction, Abaqus …)
- Organizing conferences for discussing new research results between two faculties.
- Cooperating to develop the researching of NTOU in Vietnam, especially in the areas of propellers
Visiting address: The Faculty of Transportation Engineering building, Nha Trang Campus, 02 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Mailing address: Faculty of Transportation Engineering, Nha Trang University, 02 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
E-mail: khoaktgt@ntu.edu.vn
Tel: +84.258.383 2071
Fax: + 84.258.383 1147
Website: http://www.ntu.edu.vn/khoaktgt/vi-vn/home.aspx
Dean: Mr. Tran Gia Thai, PhD.
Email: thaitg@ntu.edu.vn
Vice-Dean: Mr. Huynh Van Nhu, MSc.
Email: nhuhv@ntu.edu.vn
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Episode 121: Billy Graham, High School Activism, and Teachers' Strikes
In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the life and ministry of Billy Graham, youth activism after the Parkland shootings, and the West Virginia teachers’ strike.
Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:
Billy Graham, known to many as “America’s Pastor,” is dead. Niki referred to Kevin Kruse’s article about Graham’s early conservatism at Made by History and Anthea Butler’s HuffPost article about the limits of Graham’s racial progressivism. Natalia mentioned this Rolling Stone story about Graham’s role in encouraging homophobia.
High school students are shaping the national conversation about gun control in the wake of the Parkland shooting. Natalia referred to the East Los Angeles blowouts she wrote about in her book, and Niki discussed this article at The Root about the racialized media coverage of such activism. Niki also wrote about how corporations have been a part of America’s political battles in her column for U.S. News & World Report.
West Virginia’s teachers are striking. Natalia talked about the anti-union film The Lottery and recommended journalist Trey Kay’s podcast broadcast in collaboration with the West Virginia Public Broadcasting Center, Us & Them.
In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:
Neil shared this TIME article about the 1961 plane crash that killed the U.S. figure skating team.
Natalia discussed Dylan Gottlieb’s article “Rat Race” about urban marathons from the Past Present x Public Seminar vertical.
Niki commented on recollections of William F. Buckley ten years after his death.
Newer:Episode 122: Trump's Tariffs, Weight Watchers for Teenagers, and Disneyland WorkersOlder:Episode 120: Black Panther, Adam Rippon, and Plastics
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Mast Ships
llustration of the mast ships and the preparation of their loading. Ports in the ends of the ships allowed mast timbers to be slid into the ship without shortening them. These ports would be closed and caulked shut after the cargo was loaded.
From the book, New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow, by Samuel F. Manning, 1979. Illustrations courtesy of the author and illustrator.
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The King's Broad Arrow
A timber surveyor and his crew cutting the King's Broad Arrow mark into a large white pine tree, marking it to be reserved for the British Royal Navy.
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Felling a Mast Tree
Felling a white pine tree. Smaller trees have been cut and their boughs and trunks laid for a soft landing for the mast tree.
It's hard to imagine trees this size today, and even harder to imagine cutting them down without chain saws. It took sharp axes and strong men.
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The Codfish
Illustration of the Atlantic Cod from G. Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1887, Section I, Plates volume, plate 58A.
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Basque Whaling, 1575
Fishing for cod, the Basques found whales. For at least fifty years--to about 1600--Basque whalers prospered in the Labarador whale fishery, sending over 15 ships and 600 men a season. At 700 tons, these were many times larger than vessels like the Mayflower. One has been found in Red Bay, Labrador (the San Juan of 1565) and has been excavated.
On the Taking of Whales, Andre Thevet 1575 Library of Congress
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James Rosier, "A True Relation..." 1605
The title page shows the book's name to be "A True Relation of the most prosperous voyage made this present year 1605 by Captaine George Waymouth in the Discovery of the land of Virginia," 1605, by James Rosier.
This is the first extensive English account describing the residents of Maine.
Read more about James Rosier, "A True Relation..." 1605
Fort Point Hotel, Stockton Springs
Fort Point Hotel was originally built as the Wassaumkeag Hotel, and later also called Fort Point House and The Woodcliff. It was built in 1895 and burned in 1898. It was the largest resort hotel in the area, but the owners lost money. Its foundations are visible at the Fort Point State Park, also the location of the Fort Point lighthouse.
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Beals Wharf, Southwest Harbor
Tied up at Beals Wharf are the lobsterboat Ethel M. II and the sardine carrier Woiee. In 1955, there was still an active sardine canning industry; now the few surviving sardine carriers are used to carry bait. Woiee, built in 1918, was converted to a motor sailing ketch used as charter yacht.
Read more about Beals Wharf, Southwest Harbor
Playing Tennis at Union Hall, Searsport
Tennis was a popular sport a hundred years ago, as it is now. Costumes have changed. The tennis court was next to Searsport's Union Hall.
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Sunday School Class, First Congregational Church, Searsport
This photo of the Sunday School class was taken on the yard of the Jeremiah Merrithew house, next door to the First Congregational Church in Searsport. The brick building on the left was the Searsport Town Hall, built in 1845. This and the building behind it are now both part of the Penobscot Marine Museum.
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UFOTV Announces the Launch of Two Internet Companies -- "UGC Concepts" and "UGC Labs" -- and Establishment of "The Spirit Culture Preservation Project"
"UGC Concepts," a division of UFOTV, has been established to create new User-Generated Content (UGC) communities to mobilize artists and activists toward a common goal of raising the consciousness of the planet through fine arts, culture and technology. "UGC Concepts" will develop the ideas in an inspiring and creative think tank atmosphere. "UGC Labs" will provide all of the technology and technical support for all Spirit Culture Projects and all "UGC Concepts" Projects. "The Spirit Culture Preservation Project," and Spirit Culture, also include "Spirit Culture Home Video" and "Spirit Culture Global Media."
time wave - Novelty Theory
Venice, CA (PRWEB) May 12, 2008
UFOTV announces the launch of two internet companies -- "UGC Concepts" and "UGC Labs" -- and establishment of "The Spirit Culture Preservation Project".
"UGC Concepts," a division of UFOTV, has been established to create new User-Generated Content (UGC) communities to mobilize artists and activists toward a common goal of raising the consciousness of the planet through fine arts, culture and technology. "UGC Concepts" will develop the ideas in an inspiring and creative think tank atmosphere. "UGC Labs" will provide all of the technology and technical support for all Spirit Culture Projects and all "UGC Concepts" Projects. "The Spirit Culture Preservation Project," and Spirit Culture™, also include "Spirit Culture™ Home Video" and "Spirit Culture Global Media."
The opportunities posed by a unique set of closely guarded, conceptual and technical insights in "time wave - Novelty Theory" makes Spirit Culture, "UGC Concepts" and "UGC Labs" uniquely qualified for these endeavors. The creative possibilities open to us, and to you, are infinite.
Parent company UFOTV is a world wide media network and, as noted in its last press release, is long known for programming and media related to mystery and wonder. "The Spirit Culture Preservation Project," now in full swing, was originally conceived as an online presence designed to assist and mobilize artists, activists and the community at large toward a common goal of raising the consciousness of the planet through fine arts, culture and technology. This original vision has since been expanded to include Spirit Culture as a world wide media network and brand while maintaining its original vision - to mobilize artists and activists toward a common goal of raising the consciousness of the planet through fine arts, culture and technology.
Additional Projects currently underway that fall under Spirit Culture include:
1. "The Sacred Heritage Project" - Preserving Indigenous, Urban and Folk Art and Culture Through Technology!
2. "The Psychic Heritage Project" - Celebrating Creativity & Dreaming In Everyday Life!
"UGC Concepts" and "UGC Labs" are companies which science and industry of virtually all types can consult on the finer points of UGC concepts in practice. Our goal - to facilitate the creation of any user-generated content website that celebrates dialogue and creativity - and is looking for unlimited growth potential that is both educational and inspiring. So write, email or call "UGC Concepts" today - their services are now available to the public!
For more information about our technology, goals and services, please contact Tim L. Crawford at UFOTV & The Spirit Culture™ Preservation Project."
Tim Crawford
UGC Concepts, UGC Labs & The Spirit Culture Preservation
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Modigliani in Helsinki
Trump's Kingdom of Misrule
Elizabeth Kendall — February 17, 2017
Pulcinella © Nicola Prisco | Flickr
A Modigliani exhibition was ending at the Helsinki Ateneum, and P. and I had to see it before I left for New York. We met at 4 pm in front of the museum, a building with rows of arched windows, some held up by caryatids, and a peaked classical roof.
It’s wonderful to enter such a solid building, with windows already lit up yellow against the winter dusk.
To get to Modigliani you climb two flights of a wide stone staircase, holding onto the curved wood railings. Finland — wood and stone. They’ve even made a little Paris café up on the third floor, with tables and high-backed chairs with potted plants here and there. Maybe so that the ghost of Modigliani will feel at home, in a space that looks like the Paris of 1906, when he first moved there from Italy.
The café was lit up but closed.
Back home Trump would become president in three days. The day I would fly back.
Modigliani painted all his subjects with an oval head, long neck and narrow sloping shoulders. There were five rooms of them. Like they were all part of a family, last name Modigliani, or he saw them that way, although the angles of the heads and the mouths, some very little, gave them clear attitudes, different from each other’s.
He got this kind of stylization from Cycladic totemic figures and African masks, as did his friends Picasso and Brancusi. The museum helpfully puts examples in one of the rooms. I love these stylized faces with their features barely there, or else overdrawn. In my long-ago dark days in Europe, numb from my mother’s death, I lingered once in a Salzburg toy museum, where the faces of the homemade humans stared back cheerfully, impassively. A Salzburg poster still hangs above my bed: two white-faced wooden soldiers, quick black lines for eyes and mouths, feathers sprouting out of heads, mounted on red wooden horses with wheels for legs.
At the Modigliani exhibition I photographed one Cycladic head in a clear plastic box — it was just a white disc, mounted on a stem. No eyes or mouth, but you didn’t need them to know it was a face. In the photograph I’m a shadow holding up my iPhone behind the white face.
© Elizabeth Kendall
Modigliani even painted himself as one of the Modiglianis, a long reddish face mottled with green, and those horizontal oval eyes, long nose and tiny mouth, black skull cap, long neck sticking up from a white lace collar. “Self-portrait as Pierrot.”
In Italy in the Middle Ages, a painted cart arrived in town, pulled by a donkey. Townspeople ran to the Square to see the same old story, yet again. The same characters: the Master, the Master’s Daughter, the Servant, cunning or sad, wearing those clothes, equivalents of masks — black cloaks, white suits, patched dresses. The players on the cart declaimed, danced, kissed, shouted, fought, made up. Commedia dell’arte.
When I look in the mirror, I see myself as forlorn. Does the mirror show one’s true self?
In France, Pierrot was the Servant, but the sad version, with drooping white sleeves and skullcap. He holds communion with the faraway moon. His trickster double and sometime enemy was Harlequin, with his suit of colored diamond patches and short stick. Harlequin scampers but Pierrot wilts. Pierrot is the one with the soul. Harlequin doesn’t have time to have a soul. He’s always in motion, always escaping. I would love to have a piece of clothing made of diamond patches.
Actually, several of my garments fit that description.
Obama is a Pierrot, I suddenly thought in front of Modigliani’s self-portrait. I could see him in those long loose white sleeves, figure drooping onstage. Purity, and melancholy, and a long face with a mobile mouth. In the story, Pierrot loves Columbina, the warm one, the down-to-earth one in the patched dress, but he never gets her. In our lives just now there was a reversal. Our Pierrot got his Columbina and kept her: she — Michelle — was wise enough to claim the melancholy one.
The villain was often Pulchinella, a blend of servant and master, he of the big stomach. He wore a big white blouse buttoned over the stomach and a belt buckled under it, from which hung a coin purse. Everyone understood that the coins made him callous and cruel.
In England Pulchinella became the puppet Punch, of Punch and Judy — those scary shows, supposedly for children. Punch has a long hooked nose curved over his jutting chin. He carries a stick as big as himself called a slap-stick. And pretty much all he does is hit people with his big stick. Especially his wife, Judy. He hits her over and over, in a frenzy. Of course Judy hits Punch back, with her own stick. But she has reason to! Punch has mislaid the Baby. Or even worse, he’s fed the Baby into the sausage machine!
Comedy of misrule.
We stepped from museum into dark winter night. Even in good times, a vague dread descends as one prepares to be flown across an ocean to another continent. My three-days-hence plane would fly into a tunnel of darkness. Into a kingdom of misrule.
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{RP} Ryme Chaos
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Banora, Munchin' on Dumbapples
Byron Parisi
Ryme City Police Department
No one wanted to sit by the FBI agent and her Gengar, it seemed. As soon as they had moved over to sit amongst the lobby's chairs, a full on crowd of people got up and moved away, leaving them with quite a bit of extra space where there had been none. The Gengar had made a snickering noise in response, but Agent Calder said nothing...and watching the way the Pokemon practically led her to a seat, Perry began wondering if there was something else going on with her. As bizarre as this was, he grew even more curious as the vapor haze seemed to shift away from them, moving out into the room before vanishing from sight.
Of course, he didn't have much time to think about it, however, as the phone rang and he had yet another call to deal with.
Rain Calder
Funny, it seemed even people here in Ryme City were wary of Ghost Pokemon. Rain had heard a number of people rise to move away from where they were sitting as she and her Gengar approached, an action she found almost amusing. Though she had learned how to interact with people, and even how to be somewhat comfortable around them, Rain definitely didn't mind the peace and quiet that spending time alone provided--especially given how rowdy things could get with her family back home. Besides, no one sitting close to her meant fewer questions, and that was probably for the best if she was honest. Once seated, she gave Nuala and Cerridwen free reign to explore and seek out what information they could find on their own, a request the twin Gastly gleefully fulfilled. Rain felt the temperature around her raise slightly as the pair darted away, and smiled a bit to herself. Nuala and Cerridwen had always been curious and a bit high energy, more like a pair of rambunctious baby sisters even though Azriel was pretty sure they were older than she was. They had always watched out for her, though, and Rain could hardly imagine working with any other Pokemon as her eyes and extended ears.
She wasn't sure how long it was before someone came to get her, but she heard a door open, followed by a surprised yelp from the young man working the desk before a deeper male voice called for her. "Agent Calder?"
"I'm here, sir," she called, pushing herself up easily and turning herself towards the source of the voice. It was only a moment before Azriel’s hand took up its usual position on her arm, turning her ever so slightly, adjusting before gently nudging her forward.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you in person, Agent Calder. I’m Chief Moretti,” the male voice offered, and Rain was surprised by the warmth in it. He sounded oddly friendly, though she could hear just a bit of that stress in his voice as well.
“The pleasure is mine, Chief Moretti,” she replied, allowing herself to offer the man a small smile before nodding her head towards her Gengar. “Azriel’s as well.”
“Agreed, a pleasure,” Azriel agreed, but Rain knew that to the Chief, it sounded like a “Gen, Gengar!”
Though she didn’t see it, the chief nodded in appreciation to the Gengar, and then gestured back to the door. “Why don’t we move to someplace a bit more comfortable? My office is just down the hall.” Of course he’d want to get down to business as soon as possible, and she allowed Azriel to lead her through the doorway and down the hall to the Chief’s office. Her partner carefully directed her to a chair as Moretti moved behind his desk. There was a snort as the Chief’s partner Houndoom lifted its head from the enormous pillow it was curled up on to see who had entered the room, but after a moment the dog Pokemon’s head dropped back down and it appeared to return to its nap.
There was the creak of an office chair as Chief Moretti sat down and let out a long, relieved sigh before addressing them again. “Really, I can’t thank you and your team enough for coming, Agent Calder. We’re at a loss here--it’d likely be far easier to figure out what’s going on if we had more manpower, or fewer incidents of battling or Pokemon going rogue, but...Ryme’s been such a peaceful city for so long, there’s never been a need for a larger police force.”
“Save for that incident seven years ago,” Rain murmured bluntly, and the Chief flinched.
“There wasn’t much we could have done about that. No one suspected--” She held up a hand and shook her head slightly.
“I apologize, we’re going to get off track. That’s not what I intended, and you certainly couldn’t have done anything yourself, you weren’t chief at the time. That happened, what? Two? Three years ago?” She’d come across the information during one of her many attempts to research the city and RCPD before her trip out, but she couldn’t quite remember the number of years Chief Moretti had held his position off the top of her head.
“I’m coming up on three years next month, but I won’t keep the position if this city’s in ruins,” he grumbled in reply.
“We’ll get this sorted out before the city’s reduced to rubble, sir. I assure you, Sinnoh sent you some of it’s finest, and we’re going to give it our all. What discoveries have you made so far? The media didn’t have much information to offer when I tried looking into it, and the case file we were sent didn’t have much detail in it either.” The Chief coughed uncomfortably, averting his eyes, and she felt Azriel tremble next to her in silent laughter. It was enough of an answer, and that didn’t inspire much confidence in her.
Nothing, then. Or close to it.
“The Pokeballs making their way into the city are being smuggled in by someone, or a group of someones, who are exceedingly good at covering their tracks. We’ve always had a minor problem with illegal battle rings, but it’s gotten far worse, and we can’t crash and contain them fast enough. Even when we do, we don’t have the prison space to hold everyone--even if we’re just trying to hold the people who aren’t registered trainers but have Pokeballs on them. A few of the Pokemon who’ve gone rogue have been either captured in those illegal Pokeballs or otherwise contained by Ryme residents and their Pokemon partners, and we’ve got them contained, but...we can’t figure out what’s happened to them. Initially, we’d planned to release them back into the public, but they’re still displaying signs of aggression and destructive tendencies.” There was a squeal of protest from his chair as the Chief leaned back in it and ran his hands through his graying hair. “We’ve got a few other high profile helpers here from other regions, including a young lady working on obtaining official professor status that came from Kanto that’s been here for almost a week. She’s working on a focus in Pokemon behavior, and while she’s been trying to work with the contained rogues for most of that time, she hasn’t made very much headway.”
Rain’s eyebrows rose above the frames of her sunglasses. “They’re still displaying aggression and destructive tendencies? Isn’t that unusual?”
“Unless they’ve been mistreated by humans, or particularly aggressive species, it is,” Azriel agreed, not waiting on Moretti’s reply.
“You know I know that,” she replied under her breath, earning them raised eyebrows from Moretti, but the man simply answered the question.
“It is, and as I said, our visiting helper is completely baffled. I can introduce you, if you’d like. Let you see with your own eyes what we’re dealing with.” It was then that Rain couldn’t resist letting out an almost delighted laugh of surprise. Chief Moretti gave her a look of utter bewilderment as the Gengar beside her began snickering as well.
“Chief Moretti, what did they tell you when they informed you I was being sent?” she finally asked him, reaching up to adjust her glasses where they’d slid down her nose.
“Just that a specialist in information gathering would be coming to assist us, and a name. Rain Calder. May I ask what it is that you find so funny, Agent Calder?” he asked, sounding annoyed now.
“Just that I won’t be seeing anything with my own eyes, sir. I’m blind. Azriel and I would love to meet with your visiting specialist, though, and try to make a few observations of our own, if possible. From what I’ve heard, I find it difficult to believe that all of this is mere coincidence.”
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Nathan Cole (Resident)
Nathan's Apartment, Hickory Street
It arrived in a nondescript package. Two syringes, one to turn him into a Cinccino for the next ten days, and the other to change him back when his investigation was done and he had done his part of the research study for Bill. The only thing Bill warned about in the instructions he included was Nathan needed to add a few drops of blood to the reversal serum before using the Cinccino syringe. That would program the reversal serum to work with his DNA structure to change him back when he was ready. Not doing that would have given him a lot to think about as he would be spending the rest of his life as a fuzzy gray and white chinchilla Pokémon because he had nothing to change himself back with.
After shopping for what he needed, he now had enough food and supplies for both himself and Kano for the ten-day period. He was also mindful of what the living situation would be like. Many of the essential things he needed were placed on the ground instead of being stored up high on shelves and in upper-level cabinets. Things that couldn't be moved, like the bathroom sink, had to have some way of getting up there, so he had bought a few small step ladders and placed them where he knew he would need them to get that accessibility. He also tied some string around the door handle when he was ready to leave. The only thing he would need to remember to have on him was his apartment key. He decided once he got into his Cinccino form, he could wear it like a necklace, but keep it hidden in the fuzzy white scarf he would have around his neck to avoid suspicion.
After following Bill's instructions and inserting a few drops of blood into the vial for the reversal serum, he put it in the cabinet below the bathroom sink. It was definitely something he couldn't afford to have get stolen or become lost.
Lastly, he planned on using his laptop to type his research reports out to Bill. He wouldn't be able to speak with him and writing might be challenging when he would have to work with paws instead of hands. After going through the papers that came with the package, Bill had some research feedback he was hoping to collect on a daily basis for all ten days, including getting the answers to such questions like:
How are you feeling today? Are you experiencing any illnesses or aches?
How are your senses reacting? Do you have any differences in the way you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch?
How are your mental facilities performing? Are you feeling any behavioral differences, having trouble recalling human memories, or have you noticed other unexplainable changes in cognitive abilities, such as clumsiness, forgetfulness, or mood changes?
Are you able to make use of all your appendages, such as wagging your tail, flapping your wings, etc.? Do they feel like they're functioning at full capacity?
How is your speaking ability? Are you able to converse with other Pokémon? Are you able to articulate English words in your Pokémon form?
Are you able to perform the moves as the Pokémon you have become? If so, do they have the same potency as a natural Pokémon (if it can be measured)?
And there were at least a dozen other questions that did a deep dive into the outcome of how well the serum was performing. Without a doubt, Nathan could see Bill had prepared this questionnaire for what he was hoping would be a whole series of study participants, but he could tell he didn't get the willing volunteers after all.
All the while, Kano was watching Nathan curiously as he was preparing all this. At the current time, it might have seemed strange, but it was going to make sense in a few minutes. Nathan then took the transformation serum, injected it into the vein in his arm, and then pressed the plunger down to get the serum into his bloodstream.
He was caught off guard at how quickly the serum worked. In mere moments, he found himself rapidly shrinking, bones suddenly reforming with disturbing popping and crunching sounds, and gray and white fur coating him from head to toe. He instantly found his shirt and pants becoming rapidly oversized and as a result, they were ripped in a few places because of the rapid transformation. The change in his eyes and ears caused him to go blind and deaf for just a flicker of a moment before his hearing and vision returned with the new Cinccino ears and eyes had now had.
Suddenly not having knees caused Nathan to stumble and land on his now gray-furred chest and even the white fur from the soft scarf around his neck landed a bit in his mouth. By the time he used his new paws to push himself up off the linoleum floor, he felt the long fluff strands wrap around his back and stream out from along his sides.
After getting back to his feet, he took a look around with his new eyes, suddenly seeing everything in his apartment from below and only from about a foot and a half from the ground.
It all suddenly felt so foreign and familiar at the same time.
"What did you DO!?" he heard a voice call out to him.
Nathan, still getting used to his Cinccino form, turned to look at Kano, who he figured would have really liked to know just what was going on. The strange thing he realized was while as a Pokémon, the ability to talk and communicate with them felt like natural instinct. But it wasn't just that, either. There were other natural instincts and tendencies that he suddenly felt influencing his thinking as well.
"It's only for a few days," Nathan told Kano, trying to keep himself thinking straight. "I need to find out why there are Pokémon going rogue. The only way I could do that was talk to them, and the only way to do that was do this."
For a moment, Kano wanted to interject to say that he could have helped with that so Nathan wouldn't have to go to this extreme, but then he realized why it wouldn't work. There was no real way to communicate beyond body language and Kano realized Nathan needed something far more than just that.
"I see," Kano nodded, looking a little ashamed he just didn't know how to speak English. But before long, he tried to crack a shy smile. "You look really good though! Almost looks and feels like you're my brother or something."
"It does, doesn't it?" Nathan couldn't help but agree.
But at the same time, he couldn't deny how cozy his new form felt. As he tried walking around, he couldn't get over how big his ears had gotten as well. And looking at himself in the mirror was surreal to him.
"I could, well, guide you if you'd like," Kano offered, feeling strange about offering this kind of help to what used to be his human companion. "Might be helpful since it sounds like these rogue Pokémon will be dangerous."
"That would definitely be a big help," Nathan agreed with him. "Some of it feels like it's coming naturally, but I can't be entirely sure."
It would be the first time any human to Pokémon companionship had this kind of interaction, but to Nathan, it felt like it would be a valuable experience. And if he was going to confront these rogues, not only did he need to look and talk like a Cinccino to try and get his questions answered, but he sure needed to know how to maneuver, behave, and perhaps even fight like one too if the situation suddenly became dire.
Making it double with Caite-Chan!
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Scenic 'the Void'
Kris Douglas(Resident)
Outside Kris Douglas’ Appartment, Roseli Avenue
Affected RPers: None
“I’m just saying, er--” Kris patted down herself, searching her pockets. “Oh, no, where are they, I--”
‘I have your keys, Kris’
“Thanks, Mint. Right. And there’s my phone. I was just-- what was I saying?” Kris glanced about at the busy sidewalk, suddenly becoming aware of the people and the noise. And their partners. Partners, right. She started walking again, Mint by her side. “But just-- what if? If there’s an, an earthquake or something, surely it’d be more convenient to get all the Pokemon out if you could just-- just scoop them up, right? People tend to die in housefires when they run back in to get their herdiers and growlithes and-- and instead they just scoop the dog out! Or fish. Do fish die in housefires, they’re in the watertanks-- or you could just put the fire out with a-- with a goldeen or--”
‘I don’t believe a growlithe would have anything to fear from a housefire. Don’t they have that ability?'
“Right, yeah, they do, don’t they. Right.” Kris lightly knocked their forehead. “But the earthquake thing, or hurricanes.”
‘If there were an earthquake, I don’t think people would have the forewarning to evacuate…’
‘But I’ll protect you, I can scoop you out with Teleport.’ Amusement was evident in the gardevoir’s telepathic bleedover, a smirk on her face.
“Heheh. Thanks, Minty.”
‘Of course, dear.’
“You always know what to say.” She licked her lips. “You wanna get a doughnut? Strawberry?”
‘Hee, certainly.’
Kris slipped their yellow headphones on, heading down the street again as a podcast played in their ears, Mint sweeping along quietly behind her as they entered the nearby bakery.
“Oh, hello again, Kris dear.” The owner smiled at her. “The usual?
“Hi there! Yeah, strawberry doughnut and peppermint hot chocolate.”
“Coming right up.”
“By the way, Minty,” Kris turned back to her partner as the owner went to prepare the order. “I was, was wondering something.”
‘Hm?’
“What do you think it’s like in a Pokeball?”
‘I truly don’t know. No one seems to have bothered to document it, to my knowledge.’
“Do you think it’s like falling asleep? Or in the Pokemon Storage System? What if you just fell asleep and got put in the PC and then you were taken back out and it’s like, years later, and everyone you knew was years older. Do you guys age in Pokeballs and PCs? There’s gotta be research on it, even if they haven’t been around super long there’s been things like Pokeballs for a while, right, there’s apricorns. There was a fairy tale about something like this, right? Falling asleep way long?”
‘Several, actually. And in mythology. Xerneas and Yveltal are said to hibernate for a thousand years each.’
“Oooooh, I wonder if anyone wrote a story like, modern retelling, Pokemon got locked in a Pokeball for a hundred years and-- oh, jeez, that’d be horrible. And cool. You could see the future!”
‘...And I’d never see any of my friends again.’
“Oh. Oh, jeez, sorry. And you’d just be… alone and displaced. Uh--”
‘It’s alright. I suppose the future would be quite fascinating…’
“Don’t Xatu see the future? You could ask a Xatu what it’s like!”
“Strawberry doughnut and peppermint hot chocolate?”
“Here!” Kris grabbed the order, handing the doughnut to Mint. “Hey, wait.”
The Gardevoir took the treat, biting into it.
‘Don’t forget napkins.’
“Napkins! Right! Also, don’t they have a bunch of the rogue Pokemon captured? Has anyone asked them why they’re rogue? Do they still, like, talk?”
‘I suspect if they did speak, they’d only be able to record ‘Garde, Gardevoir’.’
“Come on, Minty, you’re not the only telepath here.”
‘True, but I suspect the RCPD would be busier containing and neutralizing the threats than finding telepaths. They’re kept on their toes these days.’
“Right… But maybe… uh, maybe you could… Like, if we volunteered…”
‘Are you sure, dear? You’ve got quite a lot on your plate already. And there’s also--’
“Yeah… I don’t know. I’ll think about it?”
They stepped through the automatic doors.
‘Well. I’d be willing to ask them, if you asked me to, dear.’
“Or… if we found one?”
‘...If you asked me to, Kris, of course.’
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Sordid Lawsuit Scandal Threatens to Rip Neocon Infested AIPAC Apart
The lawsuit hinges around a former AIPAC lobbyist who was indicted for revealing state secrets.
http://www.alternet.org/world/148899
America's top Israel lobby is going through a process of discovery -- quite literally in the legal sense -- and has laid itself bare in this 260-page motion in the District of Columbia's Superior Court. Kudos to Antiwar.com's Grant Smith for flagging it.From the outset, AIPAC's former top employees Keith Weissman and Steve Rosen made clear they were not going to go down on charges of spying for Israel without a fight. AIPAC initially backed Rosen and Weissman when the FBI raided its offices in August 2004. But to the shock of many, AIPAC dropped the two llike a bad habit just seven months later, alleging the pair had not lived up to AIPAC's professional standards. Federal indictments followed.
And according to this tell-all deposition with Steve Rosen, AIPAC standards might have included viewing pornography at work with the consent of senior managers while also, as Rosen admits, using his work computer to solicit male sex partners from Craigslist.
Having spent several years in DC's Middle East policy circuit, I had several run-ins with Rosen who, I have to say, always struck me as more than your typical partisan hack. More Israeli than the Israelis comes to mind.
Keith Weissman was different. We both covered U.S.-Iran policy at the same time (2004); Keith for AIPAC, myself for Arab clients. I had met Keith prior to his arrest and have since wondered if we had dined next to a table of FBI surveillance agents. If you want to know what's happening in U.S.-Iran relations, who better to ask than AIPAC? They had way better access to senior policymakers than most. And Keith was introduced to me by a colleague as "someone from the Lobby who you could stomach dealing with."
Rosen has a far different reputation. I think his own testimony speaks volumes. Seems among the first places he ran upon learning of the FBI's case against him was to an Israeli Embassy official in DC (Rosen: "There was probably some reference to [convicted US spy Jonathan] Pollard, because that's the first thing that comes to mind in such a controversy." No doubt, Steve.)
Rosen says he met with Rafi Barak, the Israeli deputy chief of mission, at a local Bread and Chocolate, but upon hearing Rosen's straightened situation, all Barak wanted was the bill and to get the hell away.
After reading the exhaustive autopsy of AIPAC's darkest internal matters, it's hard to imagine how they got anything at all done. It appears their donations have sharply declined in recent years. Despite that they've managed to advocate for a U.S. war with Iran, promoted policies to foster an internal Palestinian war, spearheaded the narrative that collective punishment against the 1.6 million people of Gaza is humane -- all the while, it seems, they were engaged in their own bloody, civil war within the cubicles.
No wonder Josh Block, the AIPAC spokesman, emailed me a few weeks back to say he was quitting the Lobby to open his own private shop. From this side of the keyboard, there was no love lost.
It was AIPAC's Block, after all, who threw me out of their annual shindig in 2008 for daring to ask if AIPAC had gone too far with Rosen and Weissman. Seems I really did happen upon a touchy subject.
Though I wish I could claim otherwise, I had no way of knowing just how sensitive, and scandalous, it all really was
FrankRep
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Ex-AIPAC official threatens to uncover mass spying at Israel lobby (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/official-uncover-mass-spying-israel-lobby/)
Rawstory
A former foreign policy chief for the largest Israeli lobby in the US is threatening to provide evidence members of the organization regularly trafficked in classified US government information.
How the pro-Israel community supports its own (http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/11/19/aipac_donors_supported_ex_official)
Rich pro-Israel donors gave huge sums to support a former AIPAC official even while he was facing espionage charges
SpyTalk - Ex-AIPAC official got at least $670,000 from donors (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/11/ex-aipac_official_got_670000_from_private_donors.html )
AIPAC dirty laundry aired as former staffer sues for defamation (http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/news/aipac-dirty-laundry-aired-as-former-staffer-sues-for-defamation-1.325176)
AIPAC's Civil War (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/11/aipacs-civil-war.html)
AIPAC: Fighting for survival (http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/11/2010112083231771111.html)
With the flailing lobby distracted by a legal battle with a former employee, peace may just have a chance.
Power naturally corrupts.
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April 20 – May 19, 2012
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ABRACADABRA Installation view, 2012.
21 Rabbit. 2011
Enamel on panel
KM12 01
33 Bunny. 2012
Intermission. 2009
Enamel on 32 panels
Each panel: 35 x 35”, overall: 11’ x 22’
7 Rabbit. 2011
Big Rabbit 4. 2010
Rabbit. 2012
3 Gerbil. 2012
8 Dove. 2012
Four Panel Rabbit. 2010
Each: 46 x 46”, overall: 92 x 92”
10 Dove. 2012
Rosamund Felsen Gallery is pleased to present ABRACADABRA, an exhibition of new works by Kim MacConnel. This will be MacConnel’s 6th solo exhibition at our gallery. ABRACADABRA features works of brightly colored, high-gloss enamel on board. The exhibition is made up of large, multi-part pieces composed of small individual panels, grouped and aligned according to pattern and size. In addition, the exhibition will include a wide range of smaller paintings.
Through the use of patterning, bright colors, and careful attention to surface and material, Kim MacConnel has consistently referenced non-Western and non-art practices and concerns. In doing so, MacConnel advocates for an expansion and disruption of the norms of previously sanctified high art orthodoxy, even while using many of its tropes.
MacConnel's new work emerges from of a loosely defined set of rules that investigate the iterative process of making work under imposed restrictions. MacConnel begins with a handful of patterns and panel sizes upon which to paint. From within the finite number of combinations of pattern and size, MacConnel gets to work, hand-painting each pattern, without masking, often working on several pieces simultaneously. This part of the process is intuitive and without direction. Once complete, there are no two pieces exactly alike, the works varying in color and character. From within a limited set of constraints, seemingly innumerable configurations appear.
Kim MacConnel lives and works in Encinitas, California. Recent one-person exhibitions include Salomon Contemporary in New York, 2012, and Quint Contemporary in La Jolla, 2011. MacConnel is Professor Emeritus of Art at UC San Diego.
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Take one look at the announcement photo for Kim MacConnel's sixth solo show here and you'll know you're in for a riot of color. But not one without structure; MacConnel employs an approach that is equal parts systems and intuition. Each panel is divided into three or four columns, or vertical panes, within which slightly irregular triangles, parallelograms, half-ovals, and the like face off with their respective borders, whether negative and/or positive space. Given suggestive but ultimately minimalist titles such as "Bunny," "Rabbit," or "Dove," his latest bodies of work – including a mural-sized, multi-panel piece that was included in his retrospective "Collection Applied Design," at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (October, 2010 to January, 2011) – have ditched acrylic on canvas in favor of enamel on wood. Are they more finite? Probably. Sexier? Definitely (or maybe it's the other way around). MacConnel has never been shy about wielding palettes of unadulterated primary and secondary colors, though typically he balances in just enough sections of black and/or white to give one's eyes room to breathe; still, they're far from sedated.
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Well done heroes.
WHAT a joyous celebrations it was in Honiara, country and the region yesterday.
Its history in the making for Solomon Islands to hold Oceania champion New Zealand All Whites to a one all draw.
Never had there been any such score margin our national team have given to the New Zealand team.
To have a draw is just so exciting.
All Whites had been to the last world cup in South Africa and have had good experience.
They are a top class team which had undergone their preparations in South America.
But for our team, they spent it at Auki and that has paid off.
Prior to the match yesterday many fans have been longing for - either a win or a draw.
And that wish had come true. Its a draw.
This means Bonitos is now qualify for the next stage and will face Tahiti in one of the semi-finals tomorrow.
The man of the moment was Benjamin Totoro who scored the only goal for Solomon Islands.
After missing out of the match on Monday against Fiji, Totori had proved to the nation that the reason to bench him is no mistake.
Thumbs up to the coaching team to do that because it did pay off.
It was a satisfying match to see our boys playing a good and entertaining match which got so much praise from the local crowd.
As the tournament enters into the next stage, lets continue to support our boys.
Lets stand united and give the best support we can for our boys.
Credit should also go to the government for their timely support to the boys on Tuesday.
The result yesterday has no doubt keeps everyone talking and it would certainly put our soccer to the next level.
As a nation its something to be proud of and come tomorrow lets give the boys the same support again.
Go Solo Go!
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Day 97 equals Now! #97, which was released on 21st July 2017.
This is how the world looked in July 2017, the morning of the day Jodie Whittaker was announced as the new Doctor and hence the last day I was able to wear that T-shirt without it being out of date. I was planning to get some iron-on stickers for it, but then it got far too big for me anyway!
Last year’s summer hits were pretty good from what I remember. Let’s have a listen.
Track 1: Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber – Despacito
Gorgeous Latin summer tune, deservedly one of the biggest hits of the year.
Track 2: DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper and Lil’ Wayne – I’m The One
Repeated artist alert! We’ve only just had Justin Bieber on track 1.
This is an extremely irritating track with too many rappers on it, none of whom contribute anything good.
Track 3: Calvin Harris, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean – Feels
Great funk rhythm, great tune. Really like this one.
Track 4: Jonas Blue and William Singe – Mama
Track 5: Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson – Symphony
Gorgeous instrumentals – quite like this track.
Track 6: Little Mix and Stormzy – Power
This is one that was used in Zumba class last year – I love the vocals.
Track 7: Liam Payne and Quavo – Strip That Down
Repeated artist alert! We’ve already had Quavo on track 2.
I really like the rhythm on this one – it’s very danceable.
Track 8: The Chainsmokers and Coldplay – Something Just Like This
I find this tune insanely irritating, and the theme’s horribly twee.
Track 9: David Guetta and Justin Bieber – 2U
Repeated artist mega alert! We’ve already had Justin Bieber on both track 1 and track 2. Nobody needs that much Bieber on a Now! compilation!
This one’s a dull, forgettable tune.
Track 10: Harry Styles – Sign Of The Times
I really like the classic feel to this – there’s something about it that reminds me of the slower dramatic examples of glam rock.
Track 11: Shawn Mendes – There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back
Cheesy and annoying.
Track 12: Rita Ora – Your Song
I really like this one – great tune, great electro lines.
Track 13: Olly Murs and Louisa Johnson – Unpredictable
Excruciatingly boring tune.
Track 14: Bruno Mars – That’s What I Like
Great rhythm, great lyrics. Good stuff.
Track 15: Jason Derulo, Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla Sign – Swalla
I love this one! It’s really danceable, and the vocals are awesome.
Track 16: Katy Perry and Migos – Bon Appétit
Repeated artist alert! We’ve already had Katy Perry on track 3.
This tune is highly dull and generic. I’m starting to wonder how all these half-arsed attempts at tunes are becoming hits.
Track 17: Nick Jonas, Anne-Marie and Mike Posner – Remember I Told You
Another track that’s so boring I can’t concentrate on it.
Track 18: Lady Gaga – The Cure
A slower track from Lady Gaga, but I like the dramatic feel. Would have been even better if the lyrics had been about the Cure as in the band though!
Track 19: Camila Cabello – Crying In The Club
Love the atmosphere of this one, and the interpolation of the melody from Christina Aguilera’s Genie In A Bottle is done really well.
Track 20: Niall Horan – Slow Hands
The theme irritates me, and I can’t get on with the rhythm.
Track 21: Miley Cyrus – Malibu
Pretty tune – I find some of the lyrics a bit grating, but it’s got a nice summery feel.
Track 22: Ariana Grande – One Last Time
Originally released in 2014, back in the charts to raise money after the Manchester Arena attack. It’s a gorgeous tune, but I find the theme uncomfortable.
Track 23: French Montana and Swae Lee – Unforgettable
Good beat, but I’m not keen on the tune.
Track 24: Sigala and Ella Eyre – Came Here For Love
Another tune that I find really irritating.
Track 25: Maggie Lindemann – Pretty Girl [Cheat Codes X Cade Remix]
Annoying tune, but the theme is the real issue here – cloying and vomit-inducingly smug.
Track 26: The Weeknd – Rockin’
Forgettable and dull.
Track 27: Little Mix and Machine Gun Kelly – No More Sad Songs
Repeated artist alert! We’ve already had Little Mix on track 6.
Another annoying tune.
Track 28: Jax Jones, Demi Lovato and Stefflon Don – Instruction
I really like this one – great beat, great theme.
Track 29: Cheat Codes and Demi Lovato – No Promises
Repeated artist alert! We’ve only just had Demi Lovato on track 28.
Again, I don’t like the tune.
Track 30: Disciples – On My Mind
Great track – good tune, very danceable.
Track 31: J Hus – Did You See
Interesting track – I like the lyrics.
Track 32: Kendrick Lamar – Humble
Another interesting song – there’s some great lines here. I quite like this one.
Track 33: Future – Mask Off
I really like the melancholy tune on the backing track – it’s gorgeous.
Track 34: Kygo and Ellie Goulding – First Time
Twee, saccharine and bland.
Track 35: Martin Garrix and Troye Sivan – There For You
Another tune I just can’t get into.
Track 36: Rudimental and James Arthur – Sun Comes Up
Generic, annoying tune.
Track 37: Hailee Steinfeld – Most Girls
It’s a bit cheesy, but I quite like this one.
Track 38: Selena Gomez – Bad Liar
Good retro sound, even better retro video.
Track 39: Neiked and Mimi – Call Me
Nice feelgood tune, but the vocals are really irritating.
Track 40: Raye – The Line
Nothing exciting about this one.
Track 41: Fifth Harmony and Gucci Mane – Down
Repetitive and dull.
Track 42: Haim – Want You Back
Again, I just can’t get excited about this tune. I do like the retro tinge on the instrumentals though.
Track 43: JP Cooper – Passport Home
Too slow for me, and the theme’s very cheesy.
Track 44: Take That – Giants
Another boring tune.
Track 45: Artists For Grenfell – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Charity cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic to raise money for the victims of the Grenfell fire. There’s some interesting stuff in this version, especially the added rap by Stormzy at the start.
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Day 95, and we’re at Now! #95, which was released on 18th November 2016.
This is how the world looked in November 2016. Running was much harder when I was bigger (you can see the tailrunner just behind me, which means I was the last finisher out of several hundred people…again), but I’m a stubborn cow and I still went out and did it every week. (Photo by Maggie Davison at Newcastle parkrun.)
Time for some party season hits!
Track 1: James Arthur – Say You Won’t Let Go
I can’t stand this one! It’s so saccharine, and the theme just sits really awkwardly with me.
Track 2: Little Mix – Shout Out To My Ex
Great solid piece of pop – really like this.
Track 3: Clean Bandit, Sean Paul and Anne-Marie – Rockabye
The Christmas number one for 2016 – and, notably, the first Christmas number one since 1999 that wasn’t either a charity single or a talent show winner. It’s a good song – although I find the theme too cheesy – but really I like this one for the hilarious bit in the video where all the old dudes in the pub mime along to Sean Paul’s vocals.
Track 4: The Chainsmokers and Halsey – Closer
It’s a bit repetitive, but I quite like this tune. The lyrics are pretty daft though!
Track 5: Major Lazer, Justin Bieber and Mø – Cold Water
It’s an okay tune, but it’s a bit generic.
Track 6: Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj – Side To Side
Great piece of pop – love the rhythm on this.
Track 7: Sia – The Greatest
I find the chorus really grating, but the tune on the verses is okay.
Track 8: Calvin Harris – My Way
Nothing to do with the Frank Sinatra song. This one’s got an irritating tune, and is very repetitive.
Track 9: Hailee Steinfeld, Grey and Zedd – Starving
Cheesy, too slow, and the lyrics are a bit awkward.
Track 10: MO – Who Do You Think Of?
This is the girl group MO, not to be confused with the solo singer Mø who also appears on this Now! compilation (twice). This is a good, danceable pop tune – quite like this one.
Track 11: Neiked and Dyo – Sexual
Highly irritating tune, too high-pitched, awkward theme. Not a fan.
Track 12: Anne-Marie – Alarm
Repeated artist alert! We’ve already had Anne-Marie on track 3.
Great atmosphere, but again I’m not keen on the theme.
Track 13: Olly Murs – You Don’t Know Love
I quite like this one – there’s a nice ’80s tinge to the backing track.
Track 14: Mø – Final Song
Repeated artist alert! We’ve already had Mø on track 5.
Pretty tune though, quite like this one.
Track 15: Maroon 5 – Don’t Wanna Know
The tune is super irritating, but the video, which parodies the Pokémon Go phenomenon, is great.
Track 16: JP Cooper – September Song
The chorus for this rips off the chorus of Jealous by Nick Jonas, so whenever I get one or the other stuck in my head it usually turns into an unwelcome mash-up. The rest of the tune is just annoying.
Track 17: Shawn Mendes – Mercy
Too slow for me, but it’s an okay tune.
Track 18: Ellie Goulding – Still Falling For You
Dull, saccharine and irritating.
Track 19: Emeli Sandé – Hurts
Great tune, great atmosphere. Really like this one.
Track 20: Michael Bublé – I Believe In You
Too cheesy for me.
Track 21: Craig David – All We Needed
The official Children In Need single for 2016 – and it’s finally something that’s not a cover! I’m so glad the trend has finally shifted!
What I’m not glad about is that this track is super slow. The piano’s nice, though.
Track 22: Drake, Wizkid and Kyla – One Dance
This was number one for fifteen weeks in the summer of 2016, equalling the second place for longest-lasting number one held by Wet Wet Wet since 1994 for Love Is All Around. I found this really interesting – because I have clear memories of the Wet Wet Wet chart run from when I was nine, I was able to compare the way fifteen weeks felt as a child versus as an adult. It went a lot quicker as an adult, because time always does (I’m a firm believer in the theory that we are constantly subconsciously comparing intervals of time to our total life so far, which is why time just gets faster and faster as you age), but it also felt like I did and achieved more, probably because I was running and working so much during that summer.
Anyway, the track. It’s got a good beat, and the tune’s okay, but it certainly didn’t deserve to be number one for fifteen weeks. Thankfully it didn’t equal or beat Bryan Adams’ 1991 record of sixteen weeks for Everything I Do (I Do It For You), so that still stands.
Track 23: DJ Snake and Justin Bieber – Let Me Love You
Repeated artist alert! We’ve already had Justin Bieber on track 5.
This tune is almost unbearably irritating and cheesy. Not my thing at all.
Track 24: Fifth Harmony – That’s My Girl
The tune’s a bit annoying, but it’s got a good rhythm.
Track 25: Sigma and Birdy – Find Me
Too slow, but the atmosphere’s okay.
Track 26: Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha – In The Name Of Love
Pretty tune on the vocals, but the electro hook annoys me.
Track 27: Nevada, Mark Morrison and Fetty Wap – The Mack
This is the second ’10s cover version of Mark Morrison’s 1996 hit Return Of The Mack, after the one by Mann, Iyaz and Snoop Dogg in 2011 (which was also called The Mack). It doesn’t really add anything to the original.
Track 28: Tieks and Dan Harkna – Sunshine
It’s got a good beat, but the tune annoys me.
Track 29: Zara Larsson – Ain’t My Fault
Okay tune, but the theme is really problematic.
Track 30: Bob Marley & The Wailers, Lvndscape and Bolier – Is This Love
Semi-cover of the 1978 classic, with some dance rhythms over the top. It’s got a good atmosphere, but it can’t touch the original.
Track 31: Digital Farm Animals, Cash Cash and Nelly – Millionaire
Irritating kiddie-style vocals on the chorus, and the tune annoys me.
Track 32: Snakehips and Zayn – Cruel
Forgettable tune, boring vocals.
Track 33: Matoma and Becky Hill – False Alarm
Another bland tune.
Track 34: Galantis and Hook ‘N’ Sling – Love On Me
I’ve never been keen on the vocals on this one, which sound to me like someone is faking a Scottish accent.
Track 35: Charli XCX and Lil’ Yachty – After The Afterparty
Irritating tune, but I quite like the theme.
Track 36: Dua Lipa – Blow Your Mind (Mwah)
Good beat, annoying chorus.
Track 37: Louisa Johnson – So Good
Good solid piece of pop with a great atmosphere. Not keen on the theme though.
Track 38: James TW – When You Love Someone
Pretty tune, but it’s a bit too slow and acoustic-y for me.
Track 39: Wilkinson and Karen Harding – Sweet Lies
I find this tune very generic, and the beat is like every other dance track this decade.
Track 40: Craig David and Sigala – Ain’t Giving Up
Repeated artist alert! We’ve already had Craig David on track 21.
I quite like the tune and the tinkly instrumentals, but the chorus is kind of annoying.
Track 41: Charlie Puth – Dangerously
Good atmosphere, but it’s a little too high-pitched for me and the theme’s a bit saccharine.
Track 42: Offaiah – Trouble
Very repetitive tune, not keen.
Track 43: Christine & The Queens – Tilted
Good, interesting track. I really like the instrumentals on this one, and there’s something lovely and classic about the vocals.
Track 44: Lady Gaga – Perfect Illusion
I like the rock edge on this one.
Track 45: Niall Horan – This Town
Saccharine acoustic ballad, and I don’t like the theme. In short, it’s pretty much everything I dislike.
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Te Korowai o Wainuiārua one step closer to Treaty Settlement
Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 9:06 am
Press Release: Uenuku
On Friday the Chair of Uenuku Charitable Trust Aiden Gilbert and the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Hon. Andrew Little signed an Agreement in Principle (AIP) at Parliament.
Ahead of the signing Mr Gilbert said the mamae (hurt) felt by others going through the settlement process was the same for the tribes of Wainuiārua.
“The grief is the same and today I’m humbled, humbled because of the enormity of the kaupapa (issue).
“I’m reminded by our kaumātua and kuia of the tautoko (support) that has been necessary as we continue on this journey to the goal of redress for all of those who have and have handed down this rākau (challenge) but now passed.
“When we started off on this journey we looked around at all those who have been through this Crown process and we also acknowledge them for their taha (part) and their endurance.”
In reply, Minister Little acknowledged the importance of reaching such a significant milestone in the Treaty process for Wainuiārua.
“This is a significant day for you. It is also a very significant day for Aotearoa”, Minister Little said.
“The signing of your agreement in principle is an important turning point in the relationship between the Crown and Te Korowai o Wainuiārua on behalf of Uenuku, Tamakana and Tamahaki.
“By signing this agreement, we are committed to work together to address your historic grievances and raise the socio-economic situation of the hapu within your rohe.”
Included in the Wainuiārua agreement is an acknowledgement and apology from the Crown, cultural redress including a partnership agreement with the Department of Conservation and the vesting back of land within the Erua Forest Conservation area for the iwi to develop a ecosanctuary and tourism venture at Pōkākā.
The Wainiārua core area of interest mainly consists of Crown conservation estate including the Tongariro and Whanganui National Parks that are being settled separately.
A number of relationship agreements sit alongside financial redress of $21.7-million and cultural redress of $900,000.
Crown owned properties including 183-hectares of Crown Forestry land at Erua and the former 500-hectare Waikune Prison will be purchased.
National Park and Raetihi Schools and Police Stations along with the Landcorp farm Raurimu Station have been identified for potential transfer and leaseback.
Historically the Crown has had very little contact with the Wainuiārua tribes from the remote interior of the Whanganui District.
With negotiations continuing, Wainuiārua lead negotiator Chris McKenzie said discussions to confirm the historical account are yet to be finalised.
“Our kōrero is that first contact with the Crown occurred on 24 February, 1865 when the 68th regiment invaded Ohoutahi Pā.
“This first contact preceded one of the largest single Crown acquisitions in the North Island in 1886 being the Waimarino block followed by two other big blocks being Taumatamahoe and Whitianga.”
These three blocks totalled a combined 715,000 acres.
From the beginning of the twentieth century, the Crown disengaged again with Uenuku, Tamakana, and Tamahaki, except when it required the hapū to relinquish further tribal lands for public works purposes,” Minister Little said.
“Now, Uenuku, Tamakana, and Tamahaki are all virtually landless, this landlessness has contributed to many of your people leaving your rohe to seek economic opportunities elsewhere.
“Those who remain have endured difficult socio-economic conditions which must be rectified.”
The Wainuiārua negotiations team are now working towards finalising a Deed of Settlement with the Crown which they hope to initial by late 2019.
Find more from Uenuku on InfoPages.
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NEW GRANTS HELPING THE EAST BATTLE ICE ADDICTION
Metropolitan and regional community groups are playing their part to tackle ice abuse in Victoria, thanks to funding from the Andrews Labor Government through the Community Ice Action Grants.
Member for Eastern Metropolitan Region, Shaun Leane today launched the next round of grants, part of the Labor Government’s Ice Action Plan, to help curb ice abuse across Victoria, which affects everyone – from the breakdown of families and communities to increased hospital admissions and assaults on first responders.
The Community Ice Action Grants provide recipients with up to $10,000 each to create initiatives that will help prevent and reduce ice related harm in their own communities. Over the past three years, 38 grants have gone to services across Victoria including health services, sporting clubs and local safety committees.
The Victorian Budget 2018/19 invested a record $259.9 million in alcohol and other drug services. This budget includes ongoing implementation of the $87 million Drug Rehabilitation Plan released last year, and builds on the Ice Action Plan to help save Victorian lives and help people access treatment when they need it, where they need it.
As well as doubling the number of residential rehab beds in Victoria from the previous Liberal government, the Labor Government is cracking down on dodgy rehab providers, introducing new regulations which will require all private overnight residential withdrawal services to operate in a registered hospital.
Applications for the next round of Community Ice Action Grants are now open, with groups across Victoria invited to apply for funding to tackle ice abuse. More information about the grants can be found at ice.vic.gov.au/safer-communities.
Quotes attributable to Member for Eastern Metropolitan Region, Shaun Leane
“The use of ice is taking a terrible toll on our communities. Initiatives like the Community Ice Action Grants will support community groups to come up with their own ways to educate people on the dangers of ice.”
“Every local community is different, and we’re proud to be supporting groups to respond to ice through strategies that they think will work for their area.”
“We’ll continue working with great community groups to take action and make a difference to people trying to tackle their ice addiction.”
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Even from the plane it’s quite an impressive sight. The four monolithic pillars of the Øresund Bridge stand seven hundred feet tall, gradually eclipsing one another as the perspective shifts. In length, the structure runs just shy of twenty-six thousand feet, connecting the Swedish city Malmö with Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen - two locations central to the operations SonuoS Records co-ordinator Finn Albertsson.
“Malmö has a very creative scene when it comes to new and interesting labels and artists” he responds when asked about the music scene of his hometown. “It’s buzzing with talented people making wicked music, and this has been going on for quite a while with artists like Rivet, Minilogue, KAB, Bauri, S.D.L, or Düsseldorf by Night just to name a few. The audience in Malmö however is a tad more afraid of what’s new and experimental compared to the artists and the labels in this town, but then again neither artists nor labels want to make it big in Malmö alone.”
The same observation can be fairly applied to Albertsson himself both as a label owner and DJ, and is perhaps the reason why he makes the regular commute across the Øresund to neighbouring Copenhagen, where he performs as a resident DJ at Culture Box, a position earned deservedly through his unique approach to the art-form.
“I started to DJ with hard techno in the beginning of the 90’s but wasn’t any good at it really” he begins when asked about his his origins as a disc jockey. “Then in 1994 the drugs flooded the scene here in Malmö and the feeling was gone, no more natural joy just chemical. I began to play chill-out & ambient dub as it was called back then in ‘94. I had my own night ‘Almost no tempo at Tempo’ at at a restaurant named Tempo Bar & Kök every second Sunday for four years. Then I took a break from that for a while and then I had a club called ‘Chill out little square’ at the bar Röda Kran every Tuesday for some years.”
As potentially Copenhagen’s leading venue for electronic music, his residency at Culture Box has propelled Albertsson’s reputation as a DJ, the position handed to him by co-owner of the venue, Kenneth Christiansen. “I first met Kenneth in 2005 when we played at the same party in Malmö, somehow he had heard about me and asked for my email so that he could book me to play at Culture Box” Albertsson divulges when asked about how the residency came about.
“I played my first gig with Pete and René for their one year anniversary party, and to tell you the truth I didn’t connect the dots whatsoever, so I had my first gig at Culture Box with Substance & Vainqueur behind the decks in total oblivion! Had I known I would have been so nervous. Since then Kenneth has spoiled me rotten with great gigs, I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for him because after I started to DJ at Culture Box regularly I managed to get some really nice gigs in Malmö too thanks to Ulf at Kontra-Musik. Kenneth is a man with a very big heart, he’s the biggest facilitator in Copenhagen that I know of when it comes to taking new talent under his wings both with Culture Box and his labels to give them an extra push forward.”
Listening to Albertsson mix, the consistency with which he is able to express his diverse, yet selective taste is impressive; a factor also evident in the curation of the label. “SonuoS started late 2012 and got served to me on a silver platter by Jimi Disko from Subwax Bcn, who offered me the opportunity to start the label” he explains of SonuoS’ foundation. “He pays for everything and when the break-even is met from sales me and the artists involved in each EP share the eventual profit. Jimi has a very long history of running both a record store and labels all the way back to the early ’90s. He opened up Subwax Bcn in Barcelona together with Stefan Eriksen two years ago. Subwax has a string of lovely House and Techno labels of their own plus that they take care of a lot of other labels’ distribution.”
The selection of artists chosen to release on the imprint seems to have proved where its greatest success lies, Albertsson favouring musicians based on the quality of their productions rather than the recognition they have achieved previously. “I have always been curious since I was a little boy, so more or less daily I’m online searching record distributors and music blogs for something that will surprise me sonically” he begins when asked about sourcing artists for the label. “I love finding new, highly creative and interesting artists with their own unique sound and that goes hand in hand with what I like to DJ with too. It’s a bit of a thrill for me finding new artists with a personal take on music that doesn’t care about trends or being commercial. I’ve been listening to electronic music more or less since 1974 when I first heard Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ - I’m electronically damaged for life to put it mildly and always in search of something new.
The thing all the artists on SonuoS have in common is that they have their own sound and are highly creative in the process of making it - I like to set the standard high when it comes to artists being releases on the label. Sometimes I have to pinch myself because I can’tbelieve my luck being able to release so many fantastic artists.”
Each release comes backed with a remix to add an extra variation, and as Albertsson states, the decisions he takes picking remixers are never taken lightly. “I like to complicate things so for me so it’s not easy to pick a remixer for a SonuoS release. I want the remixer to make a totally different kind of electronic music than the original artist or work in a completely different way and/or have another approach to their music making so that the remix really sounds remixed.
I always listen to the original artists music a lot and then I try my level best to figure out who out there in the world of slow experimental electronic music could take it and give it a good stir and come up with something completely different but at the same time recognizable. I want the remixers to work hard and get a bit of a challenge and so far I’m pleased I must say.”
The carefully considered ethos around running the label even extends to the music’s tempo; submissions regulated between 35bpm & 80bpm. “As a DJ I start to beat mix at 35bpm and I never go faster than 80 bpm, and I want my label to reflect that” he reasons about the decision. “Let’s be clear, I’m not talking about a straight 4/4 rhythm - if for example a track is built up with a syncopated rhythm that feels like 120 bpm I calculate it as 60 bpm. SonuoS isn’t a house or techno label and never will be, but if people can dance to the releases I don’t mind. So far it’s only the Yves De Mey remix of Valanx ‘Daughters Of The Everfire’ and Plaster’s track ‘Circular Mechanism’ that feel fast, but in fact they are just very well crafted syncopations with a strong groove.”
With the next seven releases already finalised, it looks like this formula is working well, the fourth in the series written by a personal friend of Albertsson’s. “Fredrik Nilsson aka A.O.T is from Malmö too, living just a block away from me. I have known him for quite a while now; he’s always been making music but it’s only been two or three years now that he has decided to be serious about it. He’s not only very talented but also very productive having just released ‘The Echo’ on Vosnos Records, he’s going to release his Rundgång EP on SonuoS shortly, and he’s also got yet another 12” coming up on the new label ill. Not bad for a totally new artist I must say!”
Words by Straylandings
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